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Hate Speech, Incorporated: How Social Media Turned Bigotry Into a Business Model
By 2025, it is no longer controversial to say that social media has become a sewer. What’s controversial is admitting that it was designed this way. The polite version is to call it “polarization,” “contentious discourse,” “a marketplace of ideas with some bad actors.” The honest version is that platforms like Facebook and X have
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Welcome to Visa Purgatory: Where Degrees Expire Before You Do
In late August 2025, while half the country was still coughing on wildfire smoke and the other half was adjusting to troops parked in their capitals, the Trump administration slipped in a bureaucratic bombshell. The Department of Homeland Security quietly proposed new rules that would gut the long-standing “duration of status” system for international students
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Katrina at 20: America Remembers, Forgets, and Repackages
Twenty years later, America still doesn’t know how to talk about Hurricane Katrina. Not because there’s nothing left to say, but because the event itself was already so saturated in meaning that everything since feels like a remix. The anniversary observances in New Orleans this August were equal parts solemnity and stagecraft—brass-band second lines echoing
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America’s Newest Crime: Fighting Fires Without Papers
On August 27, 2025, as the Bear Gulch Fire raged through Washington state—thousands of acres incinerated, towns choking on smoke, families evacuating with pets stuffed into backseats—the federal government identified the real emergency. Not the wildfire consuming homes. Not the climate that breeds a new inferno each week. No, the emergency was the possibility that
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The CDC Purge: When Science Got Fired by Press Release
In the latest American remake of Night of the Long Knives, the White House traded soldiers for scientists and staged the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez like it was an HR issue instead of a constitutional one. On August 27, 2025, less than a month into her tenure, Monarez was dismissed for the crime
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The Ellen Files: America’s Favorite Dance Host and the Ghost of Toxic Daytime
In the ever-growing genre of daytime television necromancy, few spirits rattle chains as loudly as The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It’s been years since the curtain fell, since the set was struck, since the pastel couches were loaded into some studio storage unit to gather dust beside Tyra’s smize mirrors and Dr. Phil’s paternal disappointment. Yet
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Bruce Willis, Dementia, and America’s Fear of Aging Out of the Script
Two years after the world learned of Bruce Willis’s frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis, his wife Emma Heming Willis sat across from Diane Sawyer in a primetime special titled “Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey.” The title was reverent, hushed, softened by violins. And there it was: Emma saying plainly, “His brain is failing him.”
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“Law and Order” or Martial Theater? Trump’s Crime Emergency in D.C.
On August 11, 2025, Donald J. Trump declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., and like every pageant he has ever hosted, it was less about substance than spectacle. With the flourish of a reality TV host in his twilight season, he seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department, flooded the streets with National Guard
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White House Chaos: CDC Director Fired After 27 Days as Top Scientists Resign in Protest
On August 27, 2025, a seismic crack split the already fragile floorboards of American public health. Susan Monarez, freshly sworn in as CDC director less than a month earlier, was abruptly ousted by the White House. Within hours, four of her top deputies—Debra Houry, Daniel Jernigan, Demetre Daskalakis, and Jennifer Layden—submitted their resignations, citing irreconcilable
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The Trans Violence Myth vs. The White Conservative Mass Shooter Reality
Let’s begin with the facts, because apparently we’re still living in the age where half-truths dressed up in ideological glitter can spread faster than the grief of parents who lost children in a church. On August 27, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time, a 23-year-old named Robin Westman opened fire through the stained-glass windows