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The Hoax That Ate the House: Why a 427-1 Vote Feels Like Zero Accountability
The spectacle of Washington operating at speed, with overwhelming bipartisan agreement, is generally reserved for declaring war or giving tax breaks to billionaires. But this week, the gears of Congress ground forward with unnerving velocity to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act. After months of calculated stonewalling from the usual suspects in Trump-world, the House
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The Map Is Not a Bloodsport, But They Brought a Chainsaw Anyway: A Texas Takedown
The quiet, un-televised cruelty of American political mechanics often hides in plain sight, tucked away in the arcana of cartography and statute. It is, perhaps, fitting that the quietest, most surgical rebuke to Texas Republican political dominance did not come from a grand moral proclamation or a sweeping popular wave. It came instead from a
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The Bone Saw and the Trump Red Carpet: How to Wash an Autocrat in Public
The spectacle of a state visit, under ordinary circumstances, is meant to signal diplomatic strength and mutual respect. Under Donald Trump, however, it becomes a transactional performance, a public washing machine designed to scrub away the stains of documented atrocities. The recent arrival of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, for his first
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Nancy Mace and the Charleston Airport Meltdown: A One-Woman Soap Opera the Constitution Was Never Built to Withstand
The congresswoman who once wore a Scarlet Letter to protest being insufficiently seen has now discovered an even more reliable path to attention, and it involves screaming at airport cops about her BMW. There are weeks in American politics that unfold like chapters in a serious novel, quietly advancing structural themes and inching toward institutional
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Larry Summers, Epstein’s Budget Therapist, and the Elite Rot That Everyone Pretended Didn’t Smell
When the Democratic establishment’s favorite oracle turns out to be workshopping his love life with Jeffrey Epstein, maybe the problem isn’t “optics” but the ecosystem that thought this was normal. Every so often, a cache of documents drops that does not merely indict individuals but reveals the entire architecture of American elite culture as a
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When Border Patrol Starts Haunting Charlotte Church Lawns, You Know the Empire Is Fucked
Interior enforcement turns Charlotte into a stage set for federal theater, complete with smashed windows, masked agents, and a government insisting the chaos is for your own good. Charlotte is not a border town. Charlotte is not even near a border town. Charlotte is the sort of place where church volunteers trim hedges in the
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Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene Find Out That MAGA is Turning Out To Be Frankenstein’s Monster
Marjorie Taylor Greene built the flamethrower, aimed it for years, and is now stunned to discover it works in every direction. There is a particular sound that occurs when a political movement devours one of its own. It is not dramatic. It is not operatic. It is not even loud. It is a soft, wet
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Verizon Shrinks 20% of Workforce Because Economy is Booming
A corporate efficiency makeover that looks suspiciously like a disappearing act. The thing about telecom giants is that they love to talk about connection, yet the real connective tissue of their business is the quiet thrum of payroll software calculating who will still have health insurance by the time quarterly earnings hit the wire. Verizon,
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The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud
Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant
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CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER
The bishops finally found their voices again. Not the soft indoor-voice homilies that float above parish pews like incense, but something closer to a raised eyebrow from God. America’s Catholic hierarchy, after years of sounding like they were trapped between a Fox News chyron and a Vatican footnote, just dropped a “Special Message” on immigration