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Trump Broke America in 2015 and She Never Healed: Your Decade in One Grim Timeline.
Grief and fury arrived together, like relatives who cannot stand each other but share a last name. One sits with a box of tissues and tells you to breathe. The other opens a window and says jump or move. I remember the moment the country broke, not as metaphor but as sound, a brittle snap
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The Tucker Carlson Extremist Stress Test: How to Burn a Movement in One Interview and Call It Free Speech
If there were ever a competition for “most predictable outrage cycle in American politics,” Tucker Carlson would have the trophy, the lifetime supply of microphones, and a commemorative mug reading I Platformed a Fascist and All I Got Was This Engagement Spike. Because this week, Carlson gave airtime to Nick Fuentes, a man whose résumé
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Elon Musk and the Gospel of the Billionaire Brain Worm: From Flamethrowers to Neural Lace and Everything in Between
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Elon Musk is the next Da Vinci, and those who think he’s the world’s most expensive Reddit thread. After three hours on The Joe Rogan Experience, you can be forgiven for believing he’s both. Because when Musk starts talking, time stops being linear.
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The Golden Throne of Mar-a-Lincoln: When Optics Replace Government
It is a curious image of the modern presidency: the country in a government shutdown, the courts ordering the Department of Agriculture to raid emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat, and the Commander-in-Chief posting 24 glossy photos of his newly renovated Lincoln Bathroom, complete with black and white statuary marble, gold handles on the tub,
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Judicial Interference and Other Inconvenient Miracles: How Two Judges Just Fed America While the White House Starved It for Sport
Somewhere between the concept of governance and the art of extortion, the Trump administration decided that feeding 42 million Americans during a shutdown was “optional.” The Department of Agriculture, apparently moonlighting as a nihilist book club, announced it would simply stop issuing SNAP benefits when the clock struck midnight on the first of the month.
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Break the Glass, Save the House: A Field Manual for Democrats Who Are Tired of Being the Only Adults in a Burning Room
There is a moment in every family crisis when the responsible sibling realizes that being responsible is not the same thing as being effective. You can tidy while the kitchen burns. You can organize receipts while the roof caves in. You can stand there with your binder of excellent plans and watch a cousin rewire
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Welcome to the Feed, Citizen: Elon Musk’s Grok Will Now Decide What You Think
You wake up, open Twitter, and the first thing you see is a video of a toaster on fire subtitled “BREAKING: Free Speech.” You scroll. Next up: a paid post from a billionaire who just discovered poverty. You scroll again, and the same post appears, this time with AI-generated replies debating whether the toaster identifies
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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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When Facts Become Fireable Offenses: DOJ Suspends Two US Attorneys Over January 6th Truth Telling
It takes a special kind of government dysfunction to turn a routine sentencing memo into a constitutional crisis. Yet here we are. Multiple outlets confirmed this week that two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were placed on administrative leave—mere hours after filing a memo that did the unthinkable: it described January 6
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Paramount Skydance Presents: The Invisible Hand of the Market (Now Playing in Your Severance Package)
In the golden age of corporate synergy, nothing says “bold new era of storytelling” like firing two thousand storytellers. This week, Variety confirmed what everyone in media already felt vibrating under their cubicles—the long-rumored Paramount-Skydance merger has completed its most time-honored ritual: the bloodletting. Roughly 10 percent of the combined workforce—around 2,000 people—will soon discover