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Inside The Trump-Epstein Emails And A Capitol Pressure Campaign
Stop arguing about vibes and name what is on paper, on tape, and on the bank ledger. There is a rule of political weather that never fails. When a storm breaks over power, the first response is fog. Statements get longer, memories get shorter, and a chorus of very serious people insists that nothing can
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Where Did the Money Go, Don? The Great Trump Tariff Refund Panic
It’s hard to take a “billionaire” seriously when he keeps losing count of his billions. But here we are again, watching Donald Trump tell the country that if the Supreme Court rules against his tariffs, America will owe “three trillion dollars.” Three trillion. By breakfast, that number will probably be six. By dinner, he’ll say
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Floating Into War: How the USS Gerald R. Ford Is Trump’s First Step Towards Venezuela
It should have set off every alarm instantly. A nuclear-powered supercarrier steaming into U.S. Southern Command’s zone under the pretext of “counternarcotics.” But if you look at the details it becomes clear this is not a fight against drugs. It is the opening act of war against Venezuela, dressed in the clothes of a patrol
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Congress Invents a Cash Prize for Being Investigated, Because Nothing Says Accountability Like Suing the Government for Doing Its Job
There is a special kind of American hypocrisy that blossoms only when senators learn that the law, the boring gray machinery of subpoenas and court orders, might apply to them. It is the kind of hypocrisy that smells like cologne, leather briefcases, and fear. And here we are again, watching lawmakers sprint down the Capitol
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The Great Trump MAGA Cleanse: When a President Uses the Pardon Power Like a Leaf Blower in a Crime Scene
The news broke like a dropped stack of subpoenas. President Donald Trump issued sweeping federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and dozens of false electors whose signatures still appear on documents that prosecutors occasionally hold up with tongs. Pardon attorney Ed Martin delivered the announcement with the weary
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Democratic Masterclass: How To Lose A Win In Washington
The shutdown was a test of priorities. Democrats chose speed over substance, Republicans chose leverage over food, and the math of Rule XXII did the rest. The country just lived through a civics lesson that felt like a stress test. After forty days of a government shutdown that reached into kitchens, baggage claims, and clinic
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The Fifty Year Mortgage, Otherwise Known as “Homeownership, But Make It a Long Term Relationship With Your Bank
When vibes based housing policy meets compound interest and everyone pretends it is fine There comes a moment in every collapsing empire when someone proposes an idea so astonishing, so unintentionally revealing, that it deserves to be preserved in a glass case next to the artifacts of past civilizations that also tried financial innovation instead
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End ACA Protections Means Cancer Care Becomes Optional And Bills Explode
Translate the slogan into math and law, and the promise to “send the money to the people” becomes a coupon for chaos with the patient protections ripped off the box. The pitch sounds generous if you hear it from far away. Cut out the insurance companies, send the money straight to you, terminate the bad
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The Shutdown That Ate Democracy’s Homework: A Love Letter to Gridlock, Delusion, and the Filibuster Fetishists
There is a certain kind of American absurdity that only blossoms when the government is closed, the airports are melting down, and someone in the Senate has started speaking of the filibuster as if it is a religious relic discovered deep beneath the floor of the Capitol. You can almost set your watch by it.
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Welcome to Senate Doomscrolling: Why 2026 Is a Democratic Nightmare and 2028 Is the Sequel No One Survives
In American politics, hope springs eternal, but the Senate map springs something closer to gastrointestinal distress. Democrats already understand the 2026 landscape is bleak. What they have not fully absorbed is that 2028 is worse, the kind of worse that makes you stare into the middle distance like a Victorian widow holding a folded flag.