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The Courts Remind Trump: You Can’t Patrol Someone Else’s Streets
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t throw a parade for Illinois, but it handed the Trump administration a powerful timeout. On October 11, 2025, the court largely upheld Judge April Perry’s emergency order blocking President Trump from deploying National Guard troops into Chicago and the rest of Illinois—but with a twist. Yes, the
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Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice
On the heels of a government shutdown, a stock market trembling under tariff scares, and a political climate so charged it could detonate, comes news that seems tailor-made for the age of rival prosecutions: former National Security Adviser John Bolton is expected to be indicted as early as next week. FBI agents searched his Maryland
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Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud
In what can only be described as a collaboration between Law & Order: SVU and Real Housewives of Potomac, NBC News reports that Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward, have been arrested in Maryland for allegedly staging a home burglary to collect a fat insurance payout. Yes, you read that right. Another week, another
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When the Great Shutdown Becomes the Great Purge: Welcome to the RIF Apocalypse
Week two of the federal shutdown was supposed to be grim but familiar—employees furloughed, services on pause, griping about microwave lines in the Pentagon cafeteria. But this week, the White House slipped a clause into the apocalypse: permanent layoffs, not temporary pauses. On October 2025’s midpoint, OMB Director Russ Vought dropped the bomb that “the
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Portland, We Have a Problem: Trump’s “War on Antifa” and the Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal
Somewhere in a Pentagon sub-basement or a Mar-a-Lago group chat, someone must have said, “What if we just did 2020 again—but meaner?” Because here we are, October 2025, and President Donald Trump has decided to reboot his greatest hits tour: the “War on Antifa.” It’s like the “War on Drugs,” but with fewer facts and
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Trump Administration’s New Favorite Hobby: Indicting Your Political Enemies (Now Featuring Letitia James)
Welcome to the new normal, where the Justice Department is not a neutral institution but a courtroom carnival that rolls through town every few months with fresh political headhunts. On October 9, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud
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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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Liberty Vote or Liberty Lost? Why Dominion’s Sale to a GOP-Led Company Should Make Us All Nervous
On October 9, 2025, the Associated Press confirmed what election administrators had been whispering about: Dominion Voting Systems—the same company dragged through the mud with lies about 2020—has been sold. The buyer? Liberty Vote, a newly formed company led by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and founder of pollbook vendor KNOWiNK. The purchase
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Letters From the Border, Echoes in Rome: Pope Leo XIV vs. Operation Midway Blitz
If you want to know how power really moves in 2025, don’t watch the tank convoys rolling down Chicago boulevards or the ICE jackets fanning out across El Paso school zones. Watch instead the moment when a packet of handwritten letters from parish shelters in Texas and New Mexico lands on the Pope’s desk in
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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