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When Disrespect Becomes a Death Sentence: How the killing of Renee Good reveals a country choosing power over law.
The story of Renee Good has been rushed through the public bloodstream as a tragic misunderstanding, a split second decision, an unavoidable outcome of chaos. That framing is not just wrong. It is a strategy. It exists to dull outrage, to compress accountability, and to normalize a level of state violence that should stop the
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Fox News Host Pete Hegseth vs War Hero Mark Kelly: Telling Soldiers to Obey the Law Is Not Sedition, It’s the Job
When loyalty tests replace doctrine and truth gets charged with misconduct. The Pentagon announced that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is seeking administrative punishment against Senator Mark Kelly for saying something that should have been so boring it barely registered as a headline. Kelly said service members should not follow unlawful orders. That’s it. No
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January 3, 2026, and the Day the United States Decided It Was the Government of Venezuela
Regime change, now with a press release and an IOU. On January 3, 2026, the United States woke up to a sentence that used to require months of debate, a roll call vote, and at least the pretense of international consensus. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had executed a “large-scale strike” on
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Epstein Files Transparency Act Meets DOJ’s Blackout Marker, and Congress Discovers the “Oops, All Redactions” Loophole
A statutory deadline, a disappearing website, and the federal government’s newest genre: partial compliance theatre. Congress did that rare Washington thing where everyone pretends the job still matters. They passed a law. They put a deadline in it. They specified what had to be released. They even limited the excuses, the usual ones about victim
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60 Minutes Pulled the CECOT Deportation Story, and CBS Just Invented the White House “Kill Switch”
When corporate consolidation meets political fear, the investigative segment becomes a ghost. There are two kinds of silence in American journalism. One is the ordinary kind, the necessary pause while reporters verify names, confirm documents, and wait for reluctant sources to stop pretending their phones are dead. The other kind arrives after a story has
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Trump Calls Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and the Iraq War Echo Starts Clearing Its Throat
When you rename a crisis, you also rename what you’re allowed to do about it. If you ever want to watch a government change the shape of reality without changing the underlying problem, pay attention to vocabulary. Not the boring vocabulary, not the kind that lives in briefing binders, but the kind that arrives with
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My Favorite TV Shows of 2025, Ranked by Vibes, Emotional Damage, and How Fast I Hit “Next Episode”
No particular order, because ranking art is how streaming apps turn joy into spreadsheets. Every year, television looks at America’s collective attention span, flicks it on the forehead, and says, “Come here, I made you something complicated.” In 2025, it felt like the medium finally admitted what we all already know, most of us are
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America’s Food Safety Is So Broken That Even the Experts Eat Like They’re Disarming a Bomb
When your dinner order starts to sound like a legal deposition, something has gone very wrong There is a moment, somewhere between opening a menu and making eye contact with the waiter, when modern Americans are expected to perform confidence. We scan descriptions of leafy greens and artisanal toppings, nod thoughtfully at words like fresh
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Bondi Beach and the Paperwork After the Sirens
A terror attack, a nation in shock, and the familiar moment when everyone realizes the system worked exactly as designed, which is to say too late. Bondi Beach is supposed to be the place Australia sends to the world as proof of ease. Sun, water, the soft promise that life can be simple if you
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Abraham Quintanilla, The Father Who Built the Selena Vault, Has Died and the Locks Are Still Warm
Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr. was the architect, the gatekeeper, the father, the manager, and the human perimeter fence around Selena’s life, and now that he’s gone, the argument over protection versus possession will keep pacing the room. Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr., Selena Quintanilla-Pérez’s father, longtime manager, and the engine behind Selena y Los Dinos, died