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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.
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The Lone Star Shake Up: Why Jasmine Crockett Should Make Texas Sweat in 2026
If you listen closely, you can already hear it. That low, metallic clank coming from somewhere beneath the marble floors of Capitol Hill. That is the sound of John Cornyn’s confidence dropping into the storm drain as Texans begin whispering an idea so dangerous, so electrifying, so beautifully unhinged that it deserves its own early
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The Optimus Secession: Elon Musk Unveils the Robot That Will Replace Us, Rule Us, and Possibly Charge Us a Subscription Fee
A cyberpunk shareholder rave, a trillion dollar man, and a humanoid life form that will both eliminate poverty and make you its pet There are certain moments in history when you can feel the ground shift beneath your feet. The moon landing. The Berlin Wall. The first time someone uttered the phrase “live, laugh, love”
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Trump’s Hunger Games Presidency Hits the Supreme Court
When the most powerful man in the world fights for the right to starve his own people There are many ways a civilization can measure its decline. Breadlines. Infrastructure decay. Reality-TV personalities winning office. But there is something uniquely cursed about a United States president who refuses to pay out SNAP benefits during a shutdown,
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Trump Says “Everything Is Fine” As The Cost Of Living Sky Rockets And Jobs Disappear
When reality raises the bill, you can gaslight the country or govern for it. Doing both is not a plan. The country knows the difference between a sales pitch and a receipt. We have been stuck in the pitch again, the kind where a leader tries to hypnotize prices into behaving by announcing that they
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Trump’s Newest Budget Airline: Governance by Hostage Situation
When starving people didn’t work, Republicans threatened to ground the planes, cancel the flights, and blame the weather Let us begin with the great civic mystery of our era. Why does this government, allegedly created to protect life, liberty, and a functioning transportation system, keep behaving like a discount airline CEO who learned management from
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Trump The Commander in Chaos: How One Man With Thirty Four Felonies Is Selling Nigeria as His New Christian Reality Show
When a complex security crisis becomes a stage prop for a felon who cannot legally hold a handgun, but gets to command the largest military on Earth Let us begin this meditation in the American contradiction that keeps giving: a man with thirty four felony convictions cannot own a firearm, cannot pass a background check,
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When the Courts Have to Tell the President to Feed People: A Shutdown Fable for a Starving Republic
There are countries where courts decide matters of constitutional doctrine, high-stakes mergers, or the limits of executive war power. And then there is the United States of America, where a federal judge now has to order the President to feed hungry people like he’s reminding a teenager to take out the trash. This week, Judge
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The Parliamentarian of My Heart: Crying at the AIDS Memorial While Nancy Pelosi Retires from Saving the Republic
A farewell love letter to the woman who governed like a mother of five who never had time for your nonsense I start this story the way all sensible political elegies should start: on my knees at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco, crying hard enough that a tourist couple asked whether I
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November 7th: This Day In Herstory, This Decade in Fury
There is a habit in American storytelling that treats progress like a moving walkway in an airport. Step on, move forward, arrive at the gate of equality with time for a coffee. The trouble is that our walkway is seasonal. It runs when people push the button and it stalls when cowards pull the plug.