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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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  • Arctic Frostbite: How Trump’s DOJ Turned Revenge Into a Branch of Government

    Arctic Frostbite: How Trump’s DOJ Turned Revenge Into a Branch of Government

    Some scandals melt under scrutiny. Others freeze time itself—like Operation Arctic Frost, the FBI’s now-infamous 2022 election-interference investigation that asked a few telecom companies for call logs and somehow got rebranded as the new Watergate. The facts were simple enough: the Bureau, approved at senior levels by Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Lisa Monaco, used

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  • Demi Lovato Finally Made a Pop Album Without a Trigger Warning, and the Critics Don’t Know What to Do With It

    Demi Lovato Finally Made a Pop Album Without a Trigger Warning, and the Critics Don’t Know What to Do With It

    Pop critics love pain. They love a tortured confessional, a sonic therapy session, a bruised soul whispering about recovery under a single spotlight. The worse the heartbreak, the higher the Metacritic score. So when Demi Lovato drops It’s Not That Deep, a thirty-minute joy bomb of synths, sweat, and self-acceptance, you can almost hear a

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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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  • Democrats Don’t Need a Savior. We Need to Stop Suffocating Hope

    Democrats Don’t Need a Savior. We Need to Stop Suffocating Hope

    There’s a new morality tale making the rounds in political media, and this time it stars Graham Platner, the tattooed Maine oysterman who tried to run for Senate, briefly became a folk hero, and then turned into the cautionary example in Politico Magazine’s think piece about how Democrats keep “falling for fantasies.” Their argument: Democrats

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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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  • Zohran Mamdani: Building Bridges While The Ignorant Builds Walls

    Zohran Mamdani: Building Bridges While The Ignorant Builds Walls

    If you walked into Astoria today and asked what it looks like when a politician actually organizes for the people—not the patrons, not the press hits, but the ten-ants—they’d mention one name more than any other: Zohran Mamdani. Born in Queens, raised between Kampala and Doha, organizer-turned–New York State Assembly member, now casting a wide

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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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