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  • Supreme Court Flirts with “Roe Treatment” for Gay Marriage — America Holds Its Breath and Its Vows

    Supreme Court Flirts with “Roe Treatment” for Gay Marriage — America Holds Its Breath and Its Vows

    Rights rarely vanish in a thunderclap. They dissolve in a drizzle of exceptions, carve-outs, and “reasonable accommodations” that turn the bold promise of equality into something conditional. Marriage equality is not under attack because it has failed — it’s under attack because it has succeeded, because it proved that queer love could be ordinary, visible,…

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  • Ken Paxton vs. The Great Texas Hide-and-Seek Championships

    Ken Paxton vs. The Great Texas Hide-and-Seek Championships

    Some states have political disagreements. Others have lawsuits. Texas, however, prefers its disputes served with an extra-large glass of iced tea, a dash of high drama, and a courtroom appearance that smells faintly of barbecue smoke and contempt of decorum. The latest entry into this Lone Star political rodeo? Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to…

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  • When the Bear Meets the Eagle in a Walmart Parking Lot: Trump, Putin, and the Art of the Ceasefire

    When the Bear Meets the Eagle in a Walmart Parking Lot: Trump, Putin, and the Art of the Ceasefire

    On August 15th, President Trump will meet Vladimir Putin in the most geopolitically neutral ground imaginable: Alaska. Not Geneva, not Vienna—Alaska. A location that says, “We could’ve done this at the G7, but we were both craving a halibut sandwich.”

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  • GPT-5 Has Entered the Chat (and Possibly the Will of God)

    GPT-5 Has Entered the Chat (and Possibly the Will of God)

    The launch of GPT-5 was not announced so much as revealed, the way ancient prophecies emerge from cracked temple walls or a Kardashian reveals a new product line—suddenly, everywhere, and without anyone asking if we were ready. OpenAI calls it the “most advanced AI model to date,” a phrase that lands somewhere between a tech…

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  • The 7% American Dream

    The 7% American Dream

    Mortgage rates are now brushing 7%, and the experts—those same people who didn’t see 2008 coming, who told us crypto was the future, and who still insist kale is delicious—are saying the days of historic lows are “probably over.” Translation: welcome to your forever rent. Seven percent doesn’t sound like much until you remember that…

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  • The Smart City Illusion: Where Your Trash Can Knows More About You Than Your Therapist

    The Smart City Illusion: Where Your Trash Can Knows More About You Than Your Therapist

    Let’s begin with a simple question: when did we decide that cities needed to be “smart”? Was there a moment—perhaps around 2015—when an exhausted urban planner looked at a pothole, a packed bus, and a man peeing into a parking meter and thought, If only this place had WiFi and LED lighting, everything would be…

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  • You Fixed Me: A Love Story with Blood Under Its Nails

    You Fixed Me: A Love Story with Blood Under Its Nails

    What if love wasn’t the cure, but the trigger? You Fixed Me is a romantic psychological thriller where tenderness turns lethal and desire doesn’t redeem—it devours. A sous chef with a fractured mind. A hospice nurse with too much hope. A final meal. A beautiful, brutal reckoning.

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  • Traditional Family Values: The Proposal Was a Lie—But the Applause Was Real

    Traditional Family Values: The Proposal Was a Lie—But the Applause Was Real

    A closeted Senate candidate proposes on live TV. His ex—the ghostwriter behind the speech—must decide if telling the truth is worth losing everything. A devastating queer political love story about optics, erasure, and survival. Read Traditional Family Values. #Booktok #AmReading #BookLover #BookWorm #BookTwitter #booksky #bookrecommends #2025TBR

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  • The Primary Buffet: Democrats Prepare to Feed Themselves to Democracy (Again)

    The Primary Buffet: Democrats Prepare to Feed Themselves to Democracy (Again)

    The 2028 Democratic primary isn’t officially underway, but if you lean in closely, you can already hear the clinking of silverware at the self-cannibalism buffet. A dozen forks, half a platform, and the unshakeable belief that this will be the year a candidate emerges who is both inspiring and electable, progressive and pragmatic, fierce but……

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  • The Gilded Ceiling: When Diplomacy Gets a Dance Floor Upgrade

    The Gilded Ceiling: When Diplomacy Gets a Dance Floor Upgrade

    It was the kind of announcement that arrived with all the subtlety of a gold-plated wrecking ball: Former President Donald Trump, against the backdrop of campaign chants and crystal chandeliers, declared that the White House—America’s most sacred secular shrine—will soon be getting a 90,000-square-foot ballroom. Because apparently, what the executive branch lacked most wasn’t decorum,…

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