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  • Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says

    Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says

    Somewhere between your tenth doomscroll of the morning and your third attempt to remember which war we’re supposed to care about this week, PBS quietly aired the most important documentary of the decade — Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 — and almost no one noticed, because there wasn’t a trailer trending on TikTok. It’s a film

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  • JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos: Cut to Commercial The New Language of Transparency

    JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos: Cut to Commercial The New Language of Transparency

    It’s a rare thing to see George Stephanopoulos lose patience. The man has survived a decade of D.C. gaslighting and several hundred Trump surrogates without cracking. But on This Week, the famously unflappable anchor finally snapped. He’d spent five full minutes trying to extract a yes or no answer from Vice President JD Vance about

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  • Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog

    Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog

    It’s 2025, and in Portland, resistance now comes with a soundtrack and a splash zone. The city once branded a “war zone” by right-wing commentators has become something else entirely—a performance art piece starring inflatable amphibians, unicorns, and a surprising number of sharks. The Portland ICE facility—once the backdrop for grim standoffs and militarized optics—has

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  • $2 Trillion in Market Value and Trump’s Truth Social Post Walk Into a Bar

    $2 Trillion in Market Value and Trump’s Truth Social Post Walk Into a Bar

    If the stock market had a safe word, it would’ve screamed it yesterday. In a single trading session, nearly $2 trillion in U.S. market value evaporated after President Donald Trump decided to use Truth Social like it was a nuclear launch console, announcing a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports and tighter export controls. CNBC

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  • Outbreak of the RFK Jr. and Russ Vought Virus: No CDC Employees Left To Treat It

    Outbreak of the RFK Jr. and Russ Vought Virus: No CDC Employees Left To Treat It

    If you ever needed proof that America has officially become a satire written by a malfunctioning chatbot, behold: the CDC accidentally fired itself during a government shutdown. Not metaphorically. Not “downsized for efficiency.” Literally—hundreds of our nation’s top epidemiologists, lab chiefs, and field investigators got layoff emails mid-pandemic prep because someone in Washington pressed “Send

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  • Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice

    Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice

    On the heels of a government shutdown, a stock market trembling under tariff scares, and a political climate so charged it could detonate, comes news that seems tailor-made for the age of rival prosecutions: former National Security Adviser John Bolton is expected to be indicted as early as next week. FBI agents searched his Maryland

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  • Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud

    Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud

    In what can only be described as a collaboration between Law & Order: SVU and Real Housewives of Potomac, NBC News reports that Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward, have been arrested in Maryland for allegedly staging a home burglary to collect a fat insurance payout. Yes, you read that right. Another week, another

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  • When the Speaker Calls Protestors “Anti-America”—and Then Wonders Why Democracy Is Dead

    When the Speaker Calls Protestors “Anti-America”—and Then Wonders Why Democracy Is Dead

    At dawn on October 10, 2025, House Speaker Mike Johnson went on Fox News and denounced the upcoming No Kings rally as a “hate America” event. He claimed it would be populated by the “pro-Hamas wing” and “ANTIFA people,” accused Democrats of selling T-shirts to support it, and ominously warned that the government would stay

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  • Portland, We Have a Problem: Trump’s “War on Antifa” and the Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal

    Portland, We Have a Problem: Trump’s “War on Antifa” and the Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal

    Somewhere in a Pentagon sub-basement or a Mar-a-Lago group chat, someone must have said, “What if we just did 2020 again—but meaner?” Because here we are, October 2025, and President Donald Trump has decided to reboot his greatest hits tour: the “War on Antifa.” It’s like the “War on Drugs,” but with fewer facts and

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  • X’s Algorithmic Hunger Games: When Your Feed Becomes a MAGA Mall

    X’s Algorithmic Hunger Games: When Your Feed Becomes a MAGA Mall

    If you logged into X on October 9 or 10, 2025, you probably expected the usual feed: a few memes, your cousin’s dog video, maybe one of those cryptic subtweets from someone who still thinks “vaguebooking” works in 280 characters. Instead, what you got was a carnival barker’s megaphone of right-wing political content—accounts you never

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