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  • Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats

    Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats

    The shutdown was supposed to be about budgets. Instead, it has become a bonfire of the civil service, and the match is being struck in Russ Vought’s hand. On the first day of the shutdown, he told House Republicans that mass firings would begin “in a day or two.” This wasn’t speculation. He described a

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  • If MAGA thinks the New Pope is Woke, Wait Till They Read About Jesus

    If MAGA thinks the New Pope is Woke, Wait Till They Read About Jesus

    Picture this: the White House is stressed, Chicago is festering under federal patrols, Republicans are fighting over funding bills, and in strolls Pope Leo XIV—America’s first pontiff—to disrupt the script. His declaration is simple and seismic: being “pro-life” cannot exempt cruelty toward immigrants. To sanction inhumane migration policy, he says, is to undercut life itself.

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  • Shutdown Showdown: When the Federal Lights Flicker, Standing Ground Might Be the Only Power Move Left

    Shutdown Showdown: When the Federal Lights Flicker, Standing Ground Might Be the Only Power Move Left

    Washington, D.C. — the unfortunate date when “the lights go out” became literal again. After the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending bill, the White House ordered agencies to activate shutdown protocols at exactly 12:01 a.m. on October 1. Through memos from OMB and OPM invoking the Antideficiency Act, the chaos began: mass furloughs,

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  • Federal Government Shut Down is Trump’s Trojan Horse

    Federal Government Shut Down is Trump’s Trojan Horse

    It begins at midnight, not with fireworks or ceremony but with lights flickering off in office after office, cubicle after cubicle, across the federal government. The hum of fluorescent tubes dies. The emails bounce back. The phones ring without answer. The federal government, the largest employer in the United States, goes into induced coma—not because

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  • MAGA Lets Their Racism Show Towards Bad Bunny: Puerto Rico is part of the United States idiots

    MAGA Lets Their Racism Show Towards Bad Bunny: Puerto Rico is part of the United States idiots

    Let me start with the obvious: Puerto Rico is part of the United States. If you keep forgetting that, maybe read a map. But that fact seems to blow open minds like a shock collar when the MAGA brigade—provoked by Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl headline—whips out the same ugly refrains: “He’s not American.” “Latin takeover.”

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  • MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Idealogy: Fires, Bullets, and Quiet Denials

    MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Idealogy: Fires, Bullets, and Quiet Denials

    A Sunday service turned into a nightmare. In Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, a man drove a pickup into a Mormon chapel, sprung open fire with a rifle mid-worship, doused the building with gasoline, and watched as flame and lead collided. The local police rushed in. Within minutes he was dead. The dead and wounded, survivors

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  • Truck, Guns & Fire at Church: The Grand Blanc Massacre, the Vet Suspect, and America’s House-of-Worship Nightmare

    Truck, Guns & Fire at Church: The Grand Blanc Massacre, the Vet Suspect, and America’s House-of-Worship Nightmare

    The morning sun in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, had barely cleared the steeples when violence crashed into the sanctuary. What was meant to be a day of worship became an inferno of terror: a truck barreled into a church foyer, gunfire roared, gasoline ignited flames, and an Iraq-war veteran now lies dead among the debris.

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  • Grimace Check: Ariana Grande Asks the MAGA Crowd a Question They Can’t Ignore

    She’s been seen on stages and screens, warbling “thank you, next” and hitting falsettos. But this time, Ariana Grande raised her voice in a different key: political reckoning. Using Instagram Stories and a reshared post, she looked straight into the camera and asked: what did Trump voters actually get? Did promised relief for rent, groceries,

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  • The Coup That Wasn’t: Trump and the Fantasy of FBI Agents in the Crowd

    The Coup That Wasn’t: Trump and the Fantasy of FBI Agents in the Crowd

    It’s not just revisionism. It’s fiction masquerading as revelation. On a Saturday morning, the former president posted on his social feed that the FBI “secretly placed” 274 agents into the January 6 crowd—agents who, Trump implied, likely acted as “agitators and insurrectionists.” It was his best shot yet at reframing the riot not as mob

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  • Comey Indictment: The Court Is Now in Session and the Defendant Is Judicial Independence

    Comey Indictment: The Court Is Now in Session and the Defendant Is Judicial Independence

    Some weeks in Washington feel like episodes of prestige television: you think you’ve reached the cliffhanger, only to discover the writers had two more shocking twists lined up for the same hour. This was one of those weeks. First, the Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey, accusing him of lying to Congress and

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