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  • When MAGA Meets Mellow: The Day the GOP Declared War on Weed and Lost a Turning Point Influencer to the Void

    When MAGA Meets Mellow: The Day the GOP Declared War on Weed and Lost a Turning Point Influencer to the Void

    Nothing says ideological clarity like Mitch McConnell banning hemp while a Turning Point USA ambassador swears off voting because Dad’s gummies are now contraband. Political eras usually end with a whimper. Occasionally they end with a thunderclap. And every now and then, they collapse in on themselves like a dying star made of irony, grievance,

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  • Verizon Shrinks 20% of Workforce Because Economy is Booming

    Verizon Shrinks 20% of Workforce Because Economy is Booming

    A corporate efficiency makeover that looks suspiciously like a disappearing act. The thing about telecom giants is that they love to talk about connection, yet the real connective tissue of their business is the quiet thrum of payroll software calculating who will still have health insurance by the time quarterly earnings hit the wire. Verizon,

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  • The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant

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  • Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”

    Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”

    When receipts finally pointed inward, the outrage machine swapped sirens for excuses. There is a particular silence that follows a scream. It is not peace. It is calculation. For years, MAGA’s media ecosystem trained its audience to chase phantoms through pizzerias and Instagram posts, to read secret codes on menus, to believe that a ring

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  • From Aloy to All-In: When Horizon Goes MMO and Mobile—and the Monsters Charge

    From Aloy to All-In: When Horizon Goes MMO and Mobile—and the Monsters Charge

    I have a confession to make: I love MMOs. Give me the dark parking lot of EverQuest, the regimented raiding towers of World of Warcraft, the sprawling social village of Final Fantasy XIV—I’ve sat through login queues, ignored dinner invites, and hasta-la-vida’d sleep for one last respawn. So when Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSOFT revealed

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  • Where Did the Money Go, Don? The Great Trump Tariff Refund Panic

    Where Did the Money Go, Don? The Great Trump Tariff Refund Panic

    It’s hard to take a “billionaire” seriously when he keeps losing count of his billions. But here we are again, watching Donald Trump tell the country that if the Supreme Court rules against his tariffs, America will owe “three trillion dollars.” Three trillion. By breakfast, that number will probably be six. By dinner, he’ll say

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  • The Great Trump MAGA Cleanse: When a President Uses the Pardon Power Like a Leaf Blower in a Crime Scene

    The Great Trump MAGA Cleanse: When a President Uses the Pardon Power Like a Leaf Blower in a Crime Scene

    The news broke like a dropped stack of subpoenas. President Donald Trump issued sweeping federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and dozens of false electors whose signatures still appear on documents that prosecutors occasionally hold up with tongs. Pardon attorney Ed Martin delivered the announcement with the weary

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  • Democratic Masterclass: How To Lose A Win In Washington

    Democratic Masterclass: How To Lose A Win In Washington

    The shutdown was a test of priorities. Democrats chose speed over substance, Republicans chose leverage over food, and the math of Rule XXII did the rest. The country just lived through a civics lesson that felt like a stress test. After forty days of a government shutdown that reached into kitchens, baggage claims, and clinic

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  • Health Accounts Are Not Health Care, They Are Just Thoughts And Prayers If You Get Sick

    Health Accounts Are Not Health Care, They Are Just Thoughts And Prayers If You Get Sick

    When politicians hand you a debit card instead of a health system, and call it innovation There is a special place in the American imagination where problems do not need solutions, they only need branding. Bridges do not need maintenance, they need ribbon cuttings. Schools do not need funding, they need mascots. And health care

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  • The Fifty Year Mortgage, Otherwise Known as “Homeownership, But Make It a Long Term Relationship With Your Bank

    The Fifty Year Mortgage, Otherwise Known as “Homeownership, But Make It a Long Term Relationship With Your Bank

    When vibes based housing policy meets compound interest and everyone pretends it is fine There comes a moment in every collapsing empire when someone proposes an idea so astonishing, so unintentionally revealing, that it deserves to be preserved in a glass case next to the artifacts of past civilizations that also tried financial innovation instead

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