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The Art of the Pardon: Trump, Maxwell, and the Cult of Selective Mercy
October 7, 2025. Mark it. That was the day Michael Wolff—yes, the man who has made a career spelunking through Trump’s psyche like it’s a haunted mineshaft—announced to The Daily Beast that a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell could be coming “as soon as this week.” Not next month, not in a season finale cliffhanger, but
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The AI Boom’s Cisco Moment: Seventh-Inning Hype with Dot-Com Déjà Vu
If the stock market were a baseball game, investors in Nvidia and the broader AI trade would be screaming from the bleachers, “Relax, we’re still warming up!” But Lisa Shalett of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management begs to differ. In an October 7 Fortune interview, she invoked a metaphor that landed like a bucket of ice
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Shutdown Roulette: Now Playing, “Will You Get Paid for the Work You Already Did?”
The United States government has perfected a kind of experimental theater in which the actors are unpaid, the audience is hostage, and the script is rewritten mid-performance by whichever lawyer has the best thesaurus. This week’s act: the White House Office of Management and Budget arguing, with the straight face of a man who has
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Abbott offering Texas Troops To Invade Portland and Chicago? Confederate Nostalgia in Combat Boots
It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that the way to solve your state’s problems is to march your soldiers into someone else’s backyard. And yet, here we are: Texas National Guard troops, under orders from Republican leadership, staging deployments into Chicago and Oregon. No invitation, no local mandate, just the swagger of
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Trump’s Bin Laden Time Machine: A Masterclass in Historical Fan Fiction
The thing about Donald Trump’s storytelling is that it is less history than it is improv theater. He does not so much recall events as audition alternate scripts, testing which version gets the biggest laugh, gasp, or cheer from the crowd. The fact-checkers arrive on cue, scripts in hand, to point out that the timeline
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Why “Be Civil” Is a Trap and How to Reclaim Argument Without Letting Authoritarians Win
There is a comfortable version of civic medicine that liberals love to prescribe: a warm sermon about niceness, a gentle chiding to turn down the volume, a plea to swap Twitter tirades for polite coffee with people you secretly loathe. It sounds virtuous, and in a vacuum it would be. But these are not normal
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Where Bullets Meet the Capitol: A Reconstruction of Montgomery’s Crossfire
In Montgomery, the night’s quiet cracks open, and gunfire bursts across Bibbs and Commerce, less than a mile from the state Capitol. Within minutes, chaos reigns: fourteen shot, including minors, two dead—one a teenager, one a mother. The city’s heart, at its most public junction, becomes a battlefield. It’s a tragedy with all the frightening
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Bad Bunny’s SNL Comeback and the 51st Season’s Cultural Cruising Missile
The moment Saturday Night Live returned for Season 51, it felt like an updated version of a political reset button. A bilingual monologue, a defense of art in a politically fracturing country, and a cold open so sharp it felt like glass in the face. Against the backdrop of shutdown fights, Pentagon sermons, and presidential
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Elon Musk Demands ‘Cancel Netflix’—Because Inclusion Is the New Taboo
Elon Musk, the self-styled “King of Free Speech,” is no stranger to drama. Yet on October 2, 2025, he lit a fuse that smelled less like free-speech fireworks and more like cultural annihilation. Via his X platform, with 227 million followers watching, Musk called to “Cancel Netflix.” His target: a clip from Dead End: Paranormal
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Rival Queens and Viral Warzones: Cardi B vs Nicki Minaj
Rap’s version of battlefield diplomacy rarely comes with ceasefires. On the night of October 2, 2025, the feud between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj flared anew—and not in diss tracks or stadium tours, but across social media, text threads, and half-deleted taunts. Cardi accused Nicki of being “on heavy drugs,” bipolar, schizophrenic, a “possessed drug