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Hunger as Policy: The Cruel Arithmetic of Trump’s SNAP Shutdown
It is an extraordinary thing to watch a government starve its own people on purpose. Not by accident, not by miscalculation, but by decision. That is what the Trump administration’s “SNAP half-payment plan” has become: the state using hunger as leverage, a quiet weapon dressed up in bureaucratic language. Officials call it “necessity.” Economists call
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The City That Wouldn’t Flinch: Zohran Mamdani and the Civics Test Nobody Studied For
There is a special kind of civic panic that arrives when hope polls above forty percent. It hums like a subway third rail, invisible until someone grounded enough dares to touch it. That, apparently, is the mood of New York City on the eve of its mayoral election, where Zohran Mamdani, a 32-year-old socialist assemblyman
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Democrats Don’t Need Better Candidates They Need To Give Them The Mic And Get Out Of The Way
There is a certain kind of strategy meeting that feels like a hostage situation with snacks. A windowless conference room, a lonely fern, a PowerPoint with too many gradient arrows, and ten people who confuse caution with wisdom. Someone says the word “authentic” while polishing a sentence that has never met a human mouth. Someone
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The Tariff King Goes to Court: Can One Man Tax a Nation by Proclamation?
There is something exquisitely American about watching a courtroom full of black-robed justices debate whether the President of the United States can wake up one morning, decide that toasters are a national security threat, and slap a fifty percent tax on them before lunch. That is, more or less, what the Supreme Court heard this
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Kash Patel’s $60 Million Date Night. Wait, Someone Would Date Kash Patel?
Every great American scandal begins the same way: with a man insisting it’s not a scandal. FBI Director Kash Patel, the latest maestro of taxpayer-funded romance, would like you to know that when he took a $60 million federal jet for a “date night,” it wasn’t corruption. It was patriotism. Because his girlfriend, a self-proclaimed
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60 Minutes of Trump Lies: The Interview, the Merger, and the Silence That Follows
A president in a gilded ballroom sells tariffs as salvation and testing as deterrence, a network in a deal cycle sells the interview as a moon landing, and somewhere between the wand and the wine glass the public is asked to accept the headline as the truth, not the truth as the headline. It begins
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The Great Gatsby 2: Trump’s Halloween Feast While America Starves
Every generation gets the Gatsby it deserves. In the 1920s, it was Jay. In 2025, it’s Donald. One spent his fortune chasing a dream across the bay. The other rented out an entire country and called it Mar-a-Lago. This week’s masquerade ball at the Winter White House wasn’t just a Halloween party—it was performance art.
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Unconfirmed and Unraveling: How Trump’s Revenge Cases Are Collapsing Under Their Own Paperwork
It turns out that when you try to prosecute the rule of law with people who have never been legally seated to uphold it, things tend to fall apart faster than a Truth Social IPO. The Justice Department’s two showcase revenge cases—one against former FBI Director James Comey and the other against New York Attorney
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The Tucker Carlson Extremist Stress Test: How to Burn a Movement in One Interview and Call It Free Speech
If there were ever a competition for “most predictable outrage cycle in American politics,” Tucker Carlson would have the trophy, the lifetime supply of microphones, and a commemorative mug reading I Platformed a Fascist and All I Got Was This Engagement Spike. Because this week, Carlson gave airtime to Nick Fuentes, a man whose résumé
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The Spreadsheet Is a Crime Scene: JPMorgan, Epstein, and the Fine Art of Looking Away
The modern banking system has a curious definition of morality. If you or I move a suspicious thousand dollars, the government freezes our account, our credit dies, and an algorithm red-flags us into financial purgatory. But if you’re Jeffrey Epstein, you can move a billion dollars through the world’s largest bank for sixteen years and