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How to Nuke a Rule: Trump, the Filibuster, and the Illusion of Process
When Donald Trump takes to Truth Social to explain constitutional procedure, it’s like watching a raccoon perform heart surgery. The confidence is unmatched, the tools are wrong, and yet somehow half the country insists he’s reinventing medicine. This week, Trump posted what might be his most nakedly authoritarian policy demand to date: “Republicans must use
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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
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The Missing Congresswoman: How Mike Johnson Turned a 42-Point Win Into a Hostage Situation
It takes a special kind of cynicism to lose an election by forty-two points and still claim victory through bureaucracy. Enter Speaker Mike Johnson, the man who can make “government by inaction” sound like constitutional originalism. Adelita Grijalva—daughter of longtime Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, former Tucson school board president, and newly elected congresswoman for Arizona’s
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The Gospel According to Hypocritical Christians: How Trump and MAGA Baptized Greed and Called It Policy
There is a curious arithmetic in American Christianity, a kind of divine math that turns compassion into socialism, wealth into righteousness, and selective literacy into law. It goes something like this: when it comes to who sleeps with whom, suddenly the Bible is binding federal code, the Supreme Court is a Sunday school, and the
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Congratulations, You’re the Plot Twist: How America Outsourced the Apocalypse to Itself
If you can’t see the connection between mass layoffs, record unemployment, AI automation, a government shutdown, SNAP benefit lapses, National Guard deployments, and the quiet rollout of digital IDs, congratulations. You are not “woke,” you are not “unbothered,” and you are not “staying out of politics.” You are the unpaid extra in a dystopian reboot
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Deportation Nation: The Purge of ICE and the Rise of Border Patrol Theater
Every administration has its signature moment of bureaucratic chaos—the thing historians will point to and say, ah yes, that’s when the clown car caught fire. For Trump 2.0, that moment has arrived in the form of a mass decapitation inside ICE, where up to a dozen field office chiefs are reportedly being removed or reassigned
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Trump Passed His Dementia Test and Is Thankful He Studied
Some presidents measure success by legislation passed, crises avoided, or wars prevented. Ours measures it by whether he can remember five random words in the right order. This week, President Donald Trump announced—again—that he “aced” his dementia test, a boast that feels less like an assurance of cognitive health and more like a cry for
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The Ballots Are Coming From Inside the Mailbox: Trump’s Latest Election-Rigging Hallucination Hits the Road
Donald Trump has logged on again, which means logic has logged off. His latest Truth Social rant claims that the 2020 election was “Rigged and Stolen,” that mail-in voting should be banned, and that California’s Prop 50 redistricting referendum will have “Millions” of fake ballots “shipped” in. He offered no proof, no evidence, no math—just
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The Doha Detour: How Trump’s Foreign Policy Became a Jet Lagged Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
By now, America’s allies have learned to read the signs. The tweet that drops at 3 a.m. Doha time. The “unscheduled meeting” that doubles as a refueling stop. The grinning photo op that becomes a tariff threat before the plane lands. Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy isn’t so much a doctrine as a recurring flight