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  • Twenty-Four Years Later: What We Should Have Learned from 9/11 (But Absolutely Didn’t)

    Twenty-Four Years Later: What We Should Have Learned from 9/11 (But Absolutely Didn’t)

    The anniversary of September 11 rolls around every year like a fire alarm that no one bothers to silence anymore. We stop, we remember, we replay the grainy footage in our minds, and then—like a nation addicted to selective amnesia—we forget the one lesson we were supposed to have learned: unity. Not unity as in

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  • Charlie Kirk Assassination was a Travesty but Spare Us the Martyrdom

    Charlie Kirk Assassination was a Travesty but Spare Us the Martyrdom

    First, the only thing that should be easy to say I don’t condone political violence from anyone, toward anyone. A man was killed while speaking, a family lost their person, and that is a human tragedy before it is a headline. Full stop. It deserves grief, not grift. It deserves time to breathe, not instant

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  • One Day, Three Flexes: The Roberts Hold, Midway Blitz, and the Birthday Book That Wouldn’t Die

    One Day, Three Flexes: The Roberts Hold, Midway Blitz, and the Birthday Book That Wouldn’t Die

    The news cycle didn’t just turn over. It did somersaults, pirouettes, and then flopped onto the couch clutching its side. By breakfast, Chief Justice John Roberts had played human sandbag for Donald Trump’s freeze on nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. By lunch, Chicago was choking on “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration raids, a branding exercise

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  • The Birthday Book Blues: How Epstein’s Guest List Became Trump’s Latest Hallmark Special

    The Birthday Book Blues: How Epstein’s Guest List Became Trump’s Latest Hallmark Special

    America has always had a gift for taking the grotesque and wrapping it in party favors. We can turn a banking collapse into a Netflix documentary, a constitutional crisis into a coffee-table book, and now, Jeffrey Epstein’s rolodex into a “birthday book.” Imagine the scrapbooking aisle of Michael’s, but curated by Ghislaine Maxwell. This week,

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  • America’s New Job Fair: Now Hiring Deportation Apprenticeships

    America’s New Job Fair: Now Hiring Deportation Apprenticeships

    The Trump administration has always treated immigration enforcement less like policy and more like a casting call. But now the casting call has become a crash program: 10,000 new ICE officers and 3,000 CBP agents by year’s end. Funded by a $170.7 billion “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the program is less about public safety and

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  • Fox Succession: Billion-Dollar Blood Feud, Season Finale

    Fox Succession: Billion-Dollar Blood Feud, Season Finale

    Rupert Murdoch—still kicking at ninety-four, though now more embalmed than alive—closed the latest family cage fight over who gets to steer the Fox propaganda mothership into the next few decades. The result: a $3.3 billion settlement that removed Prudence, Elisabeth, and James Murdoch from the family trust like contestants voted off an island. Each walked

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  • Trump vs. Newsom and the Battle for America’s Caps Lock Key

    Trump vs. Newsom and the Battle for America’s Caps Lock Key

    The Washington Post unveiled what can only be described as America’s summer-long pay-per-view event: the cage match between President Donald Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Forget inflation. Forget foreign policy. Forget climate collapse. The real fight for America’s soul is happening on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, now better known as a

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  • The Man Who Shot Down Shots: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Public Health Hunger Games

    The Man Who Shot Down Shots: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Public Health Hunger Games

    The curtain was finally pulled back on the chaos at the heart of American public health. And behind it wasn’t a wizard, or even a bureaucrat in a lab coat. It was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—HHS Secretary, anti-vaccine crusader turned federal kingpin of medicine, and proof that if you complain loudly enough about mercury in

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  • The Cult of the Supporter and Why I Don’t Give a Damn About Trump

    The Cult of the Supporter and Why I Don’t Give a Damn About Trump

    Let me say it again for the people in the cheap seats: I don’t give a damn about Donald Trump. Not a single molecule of my being is interested in his daily diet of McNuggets, the awkward orange glow of his tanning bed addiction, or the bizarre way he insists on pronouncing “China” like he’s

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  • Trump’s Bruised Hand, Swollen Ankles, and the Press That Forgot How to Ask Questions

    Trump’s Bruised Hand, Swollen Ankles, and the Press That Forgot How to Ask Questions

    On September 5, 2025, media critic Margaret Sullivan delivered what should’ve been obvious but somehow wasn’t: the mainstream press is tiptoeing around President Donald J. Trump’s health. Days have gone by without a sighting. When he does appear, the ankles look like someone stuffed dinner rolls into his socks, his hand is bruised like a

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