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Pegasus In A Flag Pin: How ICE Built a Dragnet For Your Phone, Your Doctor, and Your Feeds
They call it “discipline” and “modernization,” but it walks like illegal mass surveillance, chills speech like a gag order, and it is the biggest story no one on primetime wants to say plainly. I am not here to soothe you. I am here to describe a machine that has been assembled in plain sight while
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Making America Gaudy Again: Trump Dismisses U.S. Commission of Fine Arts To Green Light Mussolini DC Program
It’s official: Washington, D.C. has entered its Versailles phase. CBS News reports that President Donald Trump has summarily dismissed all six sitting members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts—the body that, for more than a century, has ensured that the nation’s capital doesn’t look like a suburban megachurch with delusions of grandeur. The firings
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Layoffs: Where Jobs Go to Die and Stocks Go to Heaven
There’s an old rule in politics: if you can’t fix the problem, fire the statistician. And sure enough, President Trump has done exactly that, sacking the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the crime of arithmetic. Because in this second-term economy, math itself has become subversive. Without the Bureau’s honest numbers, the government
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The Hunger Games: Trump Edition — How to Manufacture a SNAP Crisis in Three Easy Bureaucratic Steps
When the Trump administration announced it was freezing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for more than forty-one million Americans during the shutdown, the official explanation was simple: fiscal responsibility. The unofficial one was simpler: cruelty is the point, and hunger is a feature, not a bug. Now, twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., are
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America Wants This, Fox Sells That: The Real Majority vs the Minority Megaphone
Most voters back abortion rights, gun safety, paid leave, cheaper insulin, the Child Tax Credit, DACA, clean energy, and voting rights, yet a right-wing media machine keeps drowning them out on purpose. The Party With the Policies, the Party Without the Mic I keep a small superstition on my desk, a notebook where I write
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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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What If Jesus Voted? Immigration, Healthcare, and Feeding the Hungry Would Win
He said welcome the stranger, heal the sick, and give to the poor, which sounds a lot like policy priorities and not a Sunday slogan. I did not grow up with a theology degree. I grew up with casseroles at funerals, a choir that sang off key with conviction, and a rotating cast of adults
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Sudden Silence From Hunter Biden Outrage: How the Trumps Turned Public Office into Private Equity
America loves a good family business story—until it involves the government, a few billion in Gulf money, and a golf tournament sponsored by a monarchy. For years, the public has been treated to breathless coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop, that Rosetta Stone of speculation and projection. But while every congressional hearing and cable chyron has