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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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When Facts Become Fireable Offenses: DOJ Suspends Two US Attorneys Over January 6th Truth Telling
It takes a special kind of government dysfunction to turn a routine sentencing memo into a constitutional crisis. Yet here we are. Multiple outlets confirmed this week that two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were placed on administrative leave—mere hours after filing a memo that did the unthinkable: it described January 6
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Paramount Skydance Presents: The Invisible Hand of the Market (Now Playing in Your Severance Package)
In the golden age of corporate synergy, nothing says “bold new era of storytelling” like firing two thousand storytellers. This week, Variety confirmed what everyone in media already felt vibrating under their cubicles—the long-rumored Paramount-Skydance merger has completed its most time-honored ritual: the bloodletting. Roughly 10 percent of the combined workforce—around 2,000 people—will soon discover
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Trump Wants to Hear the Desert Scream Again: The Sound of Nuclear in a Country That Forgot What Fallout Smells Like
There’s a certain poetry to it, really. A president who once bragged about acing a dementia test now wants to bring back nuclear testing, apparently to prove he can still make something explode. In a pre-summit flourish that left even his own defense officials blinking through radiation metaphors, Donald Trump announced that he had directed
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The Missing Congresswoman: How Mike Johnson Turned a 42-Point Win Into a Hostage Situation
It takes a special kind of cynicism to lose an election by forty-two points and still claim victory through bureaucracy. Enter Speaker Mike Johnson, the man who can make “government by inaction” sound like constitutional originalism. Adelita Grijalva—daughter of longtime Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, former Tucson school board president, and newly elected congresswoman for Arizona’s
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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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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