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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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2025 Shutdown Chaos Broke the Jobs Report, and Now America Is Driving the Economy With the Dashboard Unplugged
When the government stops working, it also stops counting who is hurting, and calls that “temporary.” The federal shutdown this year did not just lock doors, pause permits, and turn “please hold” into a lifestyle. It reached into the country’s basic economic dashboard and started pulling out wires like a bored teenager under the hood
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Trump and MAGA’s Fake Outrage Over Charlie Kirk Rhetoric Takes Center Stage Amidst Tragic Loss of Rob Reiner
A national treasure, a grieving family, and a president who still thinks empathy is for losers. There are certain moments when a country quietly tests its own spine. Not in a grand, cinematic way, not with flags and speeches, but in the small, practical way a human being looks at another human being’s grief and
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Karoline Leavitt Turns the Briefing Room Into a Fact-Free Escape Room
The press asks for information, the podium offers vibes, and the real product is confusion with a patriotic label. There are two ways to look at a White House press briefing. The old way is as a daily information exchange, flawed but functional, where reporters ask questions and the government, at least in theory, answers
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Trump Flirts With Weed Rescheduling and Wall Street Immediately Smokes the Hopium
A CNBC headline, a market rally, and an entire industry watching the federal government like it’s a moody landlord who might finally fix the heater. Cannabis stocks and marijuana-focused ETFs just did that thing they always do when Washington coughs in their direction: they levitated. After a CNBC report said President Donald Trump is expected
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Congress Drops Epstein Party Photos Like It’s a Playlist and Calls It Oversight
A small, redacted photo dump, a much larger unseen archive, and a political system that treats transparency like a weapon and privacy like an afterthought. House Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee just did what Congress does best in an election-era adrenaline rush: released a limited batch of images from a vastly larger
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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Proves RFK Jr. and Trump Freedom Includes Airborne Particles
A holiday travel season, a church-centered cluster, and a virus that does not care about your Facebook degree in “doing your own research.” In the Upstate of South Carolina, public health officials are doing the thing we always swear we want government to do, quietly, competently, with clipboards and contact tracing and the slow dread
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Senate Filibusters Your Healthcare and Calls It Fiscal Discipline
Two 51-48 votes, two dead plans, and a whole lot of lawmakers acting like “imminent” is a decorative word that looks nice in press releases. The U.S. Senate just performed one of its signature magic tricks: taking a cliff, putting a warning sign next to it, posing for photos in front of the warning sign,
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The Ham Sandwich Walks Free: The Department of Justice Keeps Losing Arguments with Reality
The Justice Department keeps pulling the lever, and the indictment machine keeps blinking “try again” like it’s a broken arcade game with federal letterhead. There are a few sacred American traditions you can set your watch by, even if nobody can agree what time it is anymore. One is that a federal grand jury will
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Indiana Redistricting Meltdown: Trump Pressures GOP and the Map Refuses to Move
A rare intraparty “no” lands in the middle of the national gerrymander arms race, and suddenly everyone is pretending they just love local control again. Indiana’s Statehouse spent this week acting like a polite Midwestern family hosting a reunion while a brawl happens behind the deviled eggs. The fight was over House Bill 1032, a