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  • The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA

    The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA

    It’s happening again. The right has discovered a thrilling new hobby: pretending the Fourteenth Amendment is optional. Apparently, “We the People” now comes with a disclaimer—“unless you’re Muslim, queer, left of Ronald Reagan, or pronounce your name with too many vowels.” Across talk radio, committee hearings, and influencer podcasts with the production value of a

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  • Trump’s Federal Eyes At Your Precinct Door, Brought To You By The People Who Keep Screaming Fraud

    Trump’s Federal Eyes At Your Precinct Door, Brought To You By The People Who Keep Screaming Fraud

    The first thing to understand is that the suit with the clipboard is not there for you. That’s the official line, of course. The Justice Department says the monitors are there to “protect voting rights,” “ensure transparency,” and “uphold the integrity of the process.” They’re being dispatched to six jurisdictions: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern,

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  • Trump Is The Speaker of The House and Mike Johnson Forgot How to Speak

    Trump Is The Speaker of The House and Mike Johnson Forgot How to Speak

    Somewhere between the Capitol dome and Mar-a-Lago, the People’s House misplaced its voice. The New York Times tried to call it “a portrait,” but it read more like an autopsy. Speaker Mike Johnson, the man theoretically third in line to the presidency, has kept the House out of session for most of the shutdown, spending

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  • The Recall Economy: How Deregulation Turns Your Pantry, Medicine Cabinet, and Nursery Into a Roulette Wheel

    The Recall Economy: How Deregulation Turns Your Pantry, Medicine Cabinet, and Nursery Into a Roulette Wheel

    There’s a joke that isn’t funny anymore: if you want to understand American politics, skip the speeches and read the recall notices. The speeches are for theater; the recalls are for people who eat food, put drops in their eyes, buckle a baby into a lounger, or charge a phone without wondering if the battery

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  • Trump’s Meme Administration: When the Government’s Group Chat Took Over the Country

    Trump’s Meme Administration: When the Government’s Group Chat Took Over the Country

    Somewhere between the press briefing room and a Fortnite lobby, the machinery of American governance appears to have been replaced by a collection of preteens armed with official seals, a ring light, and an unhealthy relationship with social media validation. The official feeds of the White House, DOJ, Pentagon, and assorted Cabinet offices now read

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  • Let Them Eat Nothing: The SNAP Shutdown and the Epstein Ballroom

    Let Them Eat Nothing: The SNAP Shutdown and the Epstein Ballroom

    The White House East Wing is gone, ground to powder and carted off in dump trucks so that a privately funded, ninety-thousand-square-foot ballroom can rise in its place. Somewhere between the marble sketches and the gilded drapery orders, the president found time to cut off food aid for over forty million Americans. Marie Antoinette said

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  • Trump sold who the Pentagon? Inside America’s First Crowdfunded Military Payroll

    Trump sold who the Pentagon? Inside America’s First Crowdfunded Military Payroll

    There’s something exquisitely American about a shutdown that ends with the Pentagon passing a hat. Somewhere between a bake sale and a Bond villain subplot, the Department of Defense just accepted a $130 million “gift” from an anonymous donor—yes, a literal donation—to help pay soldiers’ salaries while the government remains closed for business. President Trump,

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  • Happy One Year Anniversary: Love in a Car, Love from Afar

    Happy One Year Anniversary: Love in a Car, Love from Afar

    Happy one-year anniversary to the man who changed everything. A year ago, I couldn’t have imagined how deeply two souls could fit together until I met you. From those first late-night talks that stretched until sunrise, to our road trips through deserts and coastlines, to the quiet mornings where life feels simple and right—you’ve shown

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  • Divide, Distract, Deregulate, Disappear: Your Anger Was Focus-Grouped

    Divide, Distract, Deregulate, Disappear: Your Anger Was Focus-Grouped

    Culture-war noise keeps you busy while antitrust is gutted, noncompetes spread, and public money builds luxury towers. The Hand in Your Pocket Is Wearing a Cufflink The oldest magic trick in politics begins with a sigh and ends with your wallet. The sigh is theatrical, “What is happening to our great nation?”, and the wallet

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  • How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

    How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

    It’s 2025, which means we’re back in the part of the American cycle where politicians stop pretending to govern and start designing the next democracy-themed escape room. The new blueprint—marketed, ironically, as Never Again 2020—isn’t a conspiracy theory or a master plan. It’s a step-by-step guide written in bureaucratic beige and marketed as “election integrity.”

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