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X’s Algorithmic Hunger Games: When Your Feed Becomes a MAGA Mall
If you logged into X on October 9 or 10, 2025, you probably expected the usual feed: a few memes, your cousin’s dog video, maybe one of those cryptic subtweets from someone who still thinks “vaguebooking” works in 280 characters. Instead, what you got was a carnival barker’s megaphone of right-wing political content—accounts you never
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Chicago Judge Hits Pause on Trump’s Troop Show: Sovereignty on Life Support
When America elects a man who treats the Constitution like a napkin for his Diet Coke spills, you get weeks like this: federal helicopters dangling agents over Chicago apartment buildings, immigration patrols conducting fashion-police stops downtown, and the President attempting to cosplay Lincoln while importing National Guard troops from Texas as if Illinois were suddenly
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When DHS Becomes the PR Department for Trump’s Enforcers: Zach Bryan, “Bad News,” and the Federal Trolling Tour
Country music has always had a rebellious streak—train lines, stolen kisses, dusty roads, heartbreak. But when your protest song provokes the Department of Homeland Security to scrap together a montage of ICE raids and set them to your chorus, you’ve officially crossed from troubadour to target. On October 8, 2025, Axios dropped a story that
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America’s Great Sleepwalk Amongst Fascism: Snoring Through the Funeral of Democracy
The first rule of dying democracies is that nobody notices until the casket is already lowered into the ground. By then, the guests are too busy checking their phones to clap, or to care, or to even remember whose funeral they’re attending. America, it turns out, is the kind of family that shows up late
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Pam Bondi’s Great Stonewall Revue: How to Say Nothing for Hours While Redecorating the Constitution
On October 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi finally got her Senate Judiciary oversight debut. The cameras rolled. The senators fanned themselves like gossipy dowagers. Bondi smiled that Florida-gated-community smile—the one that says I have seen the HOA bylaws and I intend to enforce them with prejudice. For hours, she spoke in what can only
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The Supreme Court’s New Term: Now Playing, the Trump Cinematic Universe of Unlimited Power
On October 6, 2025, the United States Supreme Court flung open its majestic marble doors to launch the 2025–26 term, and the BBC wasted no time pointing out what the docket really is: a season pass to the Trump Expanded Universe, where executive power is both the script and the punchline. Forget your garden-variety disputes
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Abbott offering Texas Troops To Invade Portland and Chicago? Confederate Nostalgia in Combat Boots
It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that the way to solve your state’s problems is to march your soldiers into someone else’s backyard. And yet, here we are: Texas National Guard troops, under orders from Republican leadership, staging deployments into Chicago and Oregon. No invitation, no local mandate, just the swagger of
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Why “Be Civil” Is a Trap and How to Reclaim Argument Without Letting Authoritarians Win
There is a comfortable version of civic medicine that liberals love to prescribe: a warm sermon about niceness, a gentle chiding to turn down the volume, a plea to swap Twitter tirades for polite coffee with people you secretly loathe. It sounds virtuous, and in a vacuum it would be. But these are not normal
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Seven Holes and a Federal Lie: How ICE’s Brighton Park Shootout Exposed No “10 Car Attack”
On October 6, 2025, the Chicago Sun-Times reported what you might call a plot twist, if the plot weren’t someone’s bleeding arm. A federal magistrate judge in Chicago, Heather McShain, rejected prosecutors’ demand to keep Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, in jail while they await trial. Why? Because the government’s story