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JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos: Cut to Commercial The New Language of Transparency
It’s a rare thing to see George Stephanopoulos lose patience. The man has survived a decade of D.C. gaslighting and several hundred Trump surrogates without cracking. But on This Week, the famously unflappable anchor finally snapped. He’d spent five full minutes trying to extract a yes or no answer from Vice President JD Vance about
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Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog
It’s 2025, and in Portland, resistance now comes with a soundtrack and a splash zone. The city once branded a “war zone” by right-wing commentators has become something else entirely—a performance art piece starring inflatable amphibians, unicorns, and a surprising number of sharks. The Portland ICE facility—once the backdrop for grim standoffs and militarized optics—has
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$2 Trillion in Market Value and Trump’s Truth Social Post Walk Into a Bar
If the stock market had a safe word, it would’ve screamed it yesterday. In a single trading session, nearly $2 trillion in U.S. market value evaporated after President Donald Trump decided to use Truth Social like it was a nuclear launch console, announcing a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports and tighter export controls. CNBC
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Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice
On the heels of a government shutdown, a stock market trembling under tariff scares, and a political climate so charged it could detonate, comes news that seems tailor-made for the age of rival prosecutions: former National Security Adviser John Bolton is expected to be indicted as early as next week. FBI agents searched his Maryland
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Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud
In what can only be described as a collaboration between Law & Order: SVU and Real Housewives of Potomac, NBC News reports that Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward, have been arrested in Maryland for allegedly staging a home burglary to collect a fat insurance payout. Yes, you read that right. Another week, another
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The Sheikhs of Idaho: How We Accidentally Let Qatar Build a “Not-a-Base” Base in the U.S.
There’s a new kind of foreign investment in America—one that comes with F-15s, a ten-year commitment, and a PR team insisting it’s definitely not a base. This week, the Pentagon proudly unveiled plans for a Qatar-funded “training complex” at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari pilots and their U.S.-made fighter
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When Abbott Becomes the Paint Censor: Texas’ Rainbow Crosswalk Crackdown
In Texas, the fight for highways has become a battleground for identity. On October 8, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott issued a sweeping order: purge “political ideologies” from state and local roadways. He threatened to freeze city and state transportation funds and suspend TxDOT agreements if municipalities didn’t obliterate all nonstandard pavement — a threat directed
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Shutdown Roulette: Now Playing, “Will You Get Paid for the Work You Already Did?”
The United States government has perfected a kind of experimental theater in which the actors are unpaid, the audience is hostage, and the script is rewritten mid-performance by whichever lawyer has the best thesaurus. This week’s act: the White House Office of Management and Budget arguing, with the straight face of a man who has
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Remember the Alamo, Forget the Constitution: Texas Invades Chicago with the National Guard
It’s official: Greg Abbott has discovered a new frontier in hypocrisy. On a crisp October morning, Texans awoke to the news that their governor had dispatched National Guard troops—not to guard the Texas border, not to respond to a hurricane, not even to escort Ted Cruz home from Cancun—but to Chicago. Against Illinois’ wishes. Against