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January 3, 2026, and the Day the United States Decided It Was the Government of Venezuela
Regime change, now with a press release and an IOU. On January 3, 2026, the United States woke up to a sentence that used to require months of debate, a roll call vote, and at least the pretense of international consensus. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had executed a “large-scale strike” on
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“Locked and Loaded” for Someone Else’s Streets, While Ours Are Still Cracking
When foreign policy becomes a midnight post and democracy is optional paperwork. President Donald Trump went to Truth Social and announced that the United States is “locked and loaded and ready to go” if Iranian authorities violently suppress the latest wave of protests spreading across the country. The phrasing was familiar, theatrical, and deliberately vague,
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Democrats Need To Run On At Least $25 an Hour Minimum Wage or Admit the Economy Runs on Quiet Cruelty
A minimum wage that can’t buy rent is not a wage. It’s a suggestion with a time clock. America is in a strange phase of capitalism where we have decided inflation is a natural disaster but poverty is a personal flaw. We hold candlelight vigils for the price of eggs, then lecture full-time workers about
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Trump Calls Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and the Iraq War Echo Starts Clearing Its Throat
When you rename a crisis, you also rename what you’re allowed to do about it. If you ever want to watch a government change the shape of reality without changing the underlying problem, pay attention to vocabulary. Not the boring vocabulary, not the kind that lives in briefing binders, but the kind that arrives with
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My Favorite TV Shows of 2025, Ranked by Vibes, Emotional Damage, and How Fast I Hit “Next Episode”
No particular order, because ranking art is how streaming apps turn joy into spreadsheets. Every year, television looks at America’s collective attention span, flicks it on the forehead, and says, “Come here, I made you something complicated.” In 2025, it felt like the medium finally admitted what we all already know, most of us are
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Bondi Beach and the Paperwork After the Sirens
A terror attack, a nation in shock, and the familiar moment when everyone realizes the system worked exactly as designed, which is to say too late. Bondi Beach is supposed to be the place Australia sends to the world as proof of ease. Sun, water, the soft promise that life can be simple if you
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Kristi Noem Shows Up to Oversight With a Script and Leaves With More Questions
The administration calls it law enforcement, critics call it a rights grinder, and Congress tries to remember it has a job besides yelling. The House Homeland Security Committee hauled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in for an oversight hearing and the whole thing played out like a courtroom drama performed by people who hate courts. Noem
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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Proves RFK Jr. and Trump Freedom Includes Airborne Particles
A holiday travel season, a church-centered cluster, and a virus that does not care about your Facebook degree in “doing your own research.” In the Upstate of South Carolina, public health officials are doing the thing we always swear we want government to do, quietly, competently, with clipboards and contact tracing and the slow dread
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The Ham Sandwich Walks Free: The Department of Justice Keeps Losing Arguments with Reality
The Justice Department keeps pulling the lever, and the indictment machine keeps blinking “try again” like it’s a broken arcade game with federal letterhead. There are a few sacred American traditions you can set your watch by, even if nobody can agree what time it is anymore. One is that a federal grand jury will
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Indiana Redistricting Meltdown: Trump Pressures GOP and the Map Refuses to Move
A rare intraparty “no” lands in the middle of the national gerrymander arms race, and suddenly everyone is pretending they just love local control again. Indiana’s Statehouse spent this week acting like a polite Midwestern family hosting a reunion while a brawl happens behind the deviled eggs. The fight was over House Bill 1032, a