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  • Government Shutdown or Trump’s Hostage Crisis? Why a Blank Check Is Signing Off on Fascism

    Government Shutdown or Trump’s Hostage Crisis? Why a Blank Check Is Signing Off on Fascism

    Shutdowns are the cheapest trick in Washington’s self-destructive playbook. When the lights dim and federal workers line up for IOUs instead of paychecks, when parks shutter and inspectors vanish, it’s not governance—it’s hostage theater. And here we are again, staring down another government shutdown, a ritual that has grown so common it has its own

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  • South Park Season 27 Skewers Trump, Satan, Carr & Noem — It’s Political Satire on Steroids

    South Park Season 27 Skewers Trump, Satan, Carr & Noem — It’s Political Satire on Steroids

    South Park is back. And this season, it’s swinging harder than ever — not content to linger in the margins, the show has waded into naked deepfakes, Satanic pregnancies, face-melting governors, ICE raids that include dogs, CPC principal rebirths, and a nonstop blitz of Trump-era parody across every frame. If you’re keeping score, here’s your

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  • Hegseth Summons 800 Generals to Quantico—Because Email Just Didn’t Feel Authoritarian Enough

    Hegseth Summons 800 Generals to Quantico—Because Email Just Didn’t Feel Authoritarian Enough

    What does it look like when a secretary of defense decides he wants to gather every general and admiral—flag officers from one-star upward—from across the globe and call them into a mystery meeting with zero explanation? In America 2025, it looks like a power play dressed in uniform. It looks like a dress rehearsal for

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  • Watergate’s Dismal Sequel: Indicting Comey in Broad Daylight

    Watergate’s Dismal Sequel: Indicting Comey in Broad Daylight

    There was a time when “indicting a former FBI Director” would have been the kind of storyline you read in paperback thrillers at the airport newsstand, usually involving shadowy double agents, a safe house in Prague, and a protagonist who knows too much. Now it’s just Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia. A federal grand jury has

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  • Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script

    Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script

    It has become a perverse form of theater: a live criminal investigation, narrated in real time not by detectives but by hyperpartisan officials competing for the opening line of the news cycle. The vice president demands “civility”—then unleashes profanity. The White House leaps to blame before forensics dust a print. A former Obama speechwriter counters

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  • Apple Blinks at the Screen: When a $3 Trillion Company Gets Spooked by a TV Show

    Apple Blinks at the Screen: When a $3 Trillion Company Gets Spooked by a TV Show

    Apple has spent the last decade branding itself as the patron saint of courage.Courage to remove the headphone jack. Courage to sell you the same laptop three years running with one extra port. Courage to charge $19 for a cloth. But courage to air a scripted drama about violent online networks in the weeks after

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  • The Sniper, the Spin, and the Smell Test in Dallas

    The Sniper, the Spin, and the Smell Test in Dallas

    The truth is that political violence is always a tragedy. That should not need disclaiming, but in our era of algorithmic outrage, you practically have to lead with a notarized certificate of sincerity before you dare analyze an event. So let’s start there: what happened at the Dallas ICE field office was horrific. One detainee

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  • Trump Gives His Expert Medical Advice on Tylenol

    Trump Gives His Expert Medical Advice on Tylenol

    On September 22, 2025, the White House did something most of us reserve for Facebook comment threads and extended family group chats: it held a medical symposium based entirely on vibes. There, under the grand chandeliers, President Donald J. Trump—flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—announced that the real culprit behind autism might not

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  • Trump at the U.N.: When the General Assembly Became a General Farce

    Trump at the U.N.: When the General Assembly Became a General Farce

    There are speeches you remember because they alter the course of history. There are speeches you remember because they contained a moral appeal so clear that even enemies nodded. And then there are speeches you remember because the escalator broke, the teleprompter glitched, and the President of the United States called climate change “the greatest

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  • Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

    Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

    Disney can reanimate cartoon deer and resurrect billion-dollar franchises, but even they didn’t think they’d have to stage a primetime Lazarus trick for Jimmy Kimmel. Yet here we are. After an extraordinary two-week suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!—a late-night show that once got canceled only for recycling too many “Matt Damon” bits—Disney announced the show

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