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MTV Finally Turned Off the Music, and Let the Epitaph Roll
The channel that taught America how to watch sound signed off with a joke that stopped being funny decades ago. MTV ended its last remaining 24 hour music video channels by playing “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the same song that launched the network in 1981. It was meant to feel clever, full circle, maybe
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Democrats Need To Run On At Least $25 an Hour Minimum Wage or Admit the Economy Runs on Quiet Cruelty
A minimum wage that can’t buy rent is not a wage. It’s a suggestion with a time clock. America is in a strange phase of capitalism where we have decided inflation is a natural disaster but poverty is a personal flaw. We hold candlelight vigils for the price of eggs, then lecture full-time workers about
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Epstein Files Transparency Act Meets DOJ’s Blackout Marker, and Congress Discovers the “Oops, All Redactions” Loophole
A statutory deadline, a disappearing website, and the federal government’s newest genre: partial compliance theatre. Congress did that rare Washington thing where everyone pretends the job still matters. They passed a law. They put a deadline in it. They specified what had to be released. They even limited the excuses, the usual ones about victim
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Trump Calls Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and the Iraq War Echo Starts Clearing Its Throat
When you rename a crisis, you also rename what you’re allowed to do about it. If you ever want to watch a government change the shape of reality without changing the underlying problem, pay attention to vocabulary. Not the boring vocabulary, not the kind that lives in briefing binders, but the kind that arrives with
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My Favorite TV Shows of 2025, Ranked by Vibes, Emotional Damage, and How Fast I Hit “Next Episode”
No particular order, because ranking art is how streaming apps turn joy into spreadsheets. Every year, television looks at America’s collective attention span, flicks it on the forehead, and says, “Come here, I made you something complicated.” In 2025, it felt like the medium finally admitted what we all already know, most of us are
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America’s Food Safety Is So Broken That Even the Experts Eat Like They’re Disarming a Bomb
When your dinner order starts to sound like a legal deposition, something has gone very wrong There is a moment, somewhere between opening a menu and making eye contact with the waiter, when modern Americans are expected to perform confidence. We scan descriptions of leafy greens and artisanal toppings, nod thoughtfully at words like fresh
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The Game Awards 2025 and the Night One Game Ate the Stage
Eight trophies, one gravitational center, and an industry that briefly convinced itself this was destiny rather than appetite. The Game Awards 2025 unfolded like a formal ceremony that accidentally wandered into a single studio’s victory party and then politely decided not to leave. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 did not simply win big. It became the
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ISIS “Comes Back” Again and Trump Administration Pretends It’s a Plot Twist
Three Americans dead near Palmyra, serious retaliation promised, and the same old lie that a victory lap is the same as an ending. An ISIS-linked ambush near Palmyra in central Syria hit a joint U.S. and Syrian partner movement and killed two U.S. service members and an American civilian interpreter. Three additional U.S. troops were
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Karoline Leavitt Turns the Briefing Room Into a Fact-Free Escape Room
The press asks for information, the podium offers vibes, and the real product is confusion with a patriotic label. There are two ways to look at a White House press briefing. The old way is as a daily information exchange, flawed but functional, where reporters ask questions and the government, at least in theory, answers
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Kristi Noem Shows Up to Oversight With a Script and Leaves With More Questions
The administration calls it law enforcement, critics call it a rights grinder, and Congress tries to remember it has a job besides yelling. The House Homeland Security Committee hauled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in for an oversight hearing and the whole thing played out like a courtroom drama performed by people who hate courts. Noem