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  • Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot

    Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot

    If the last decade were a TV series, even the interns would be begging the showrunners for a hard reboot before cancellation. There comes a time in every long running series when the writers lose all sense of proportion. When the storylines pile up like abandoned shopping carts, when characters behave like they have been

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  • America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying

    America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying

    When the country insists it is ready for female leadership but recoils every time an actual woman steps up, someone eventually has to say the quiet part out loud. Michelle Obama walked onto the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sat down with Tracee Ellis Ross, and proceeded to set the national fantasy of

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  • The Schrödinger’s Scandal Strategy: Trump Says the Epstein File Is Both Fake and Also a Weapon

    The Schrödinger’s Scandal Strategy: Trump Says the Epstein File Is Both Fake and Also a Weapon

    When a president tries to call a scandal a hoax while simultaneously using it as a ghost pepper to burn his enemies. America has entered the kind of political funhouse where every mirror is cracked, every door leads back to the same hallway, and the tour guide keeps shouting that the haunted house isn’t real

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  • Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!

    Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!

    Tariff reversals, Venezuela war drums, and a Truth Social tantrum at Marjorie Taylor Greene all collide in the shadow of an Epstein scandal that refuses to die The problem with political improvisation, the real danger beneath the theatrics, is not that it looks chaotic from the outside. It is that it feels orderly to the

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  • Megyn Kelly Goes Full Pedophile Protector For Trump

    Megyn Kelly Goes Full Pedophile Protector For Trump

    When redefining pedophilia becomes a primetime hobby. There are moments in American media when you can almost hear the floorboards groan under the weight of a take so profoundly misguided that the English language itself tries to flee the room. Megyn Kelly’s latest contribution to the Jeffrey Epstein discourse produced exactly that sound, the slow

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  • The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant

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  • How To Gerrymander Like A Hypocrite: Trump Sues The Blue State, High-Fives The Red One

    How To Gerrymander Like A Hypocrite: Trump Sues The Blue State, High-Fives The Red One

    The moment the scoreboard tilts the wrong way, some teams tighten their laces and others make a beeline for the referee’s locker room. The Trump administration has opted for the latter, this time hauling the Justice Department along to pound on the door. In California, voters just approved a new congressional map under Proposition 50

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  • Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”

    Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”

    When receipts finally pointed inward, the outrage machine swapped sirens for excuses. There is a particular silence that follows a scream. It is not peace. It is calculation. For years, MAGA’s media ecosystem trained its audience to chase phantoms through pizzerias and Instagram posts, to read secret codes on menus, to believe that a ring

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  • Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts

    Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts

    An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,

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  • Trump’s Epstein Discharge Petition That Will Inevitably Go Nowhere

    Trump’s Epstein Discharge Petition That Will Inevitably Go Nowhere

    There are political weeks that feel like farce, and then there are political weeks that feel like the universe accidentally left the simulation running on “maximum humiliation” mode. This Epstein file discharge petition was supposed to be a simple procedural curiosity. A symbolic gesture. A legislative novelty item. Instead, it has become the rare bipartisan

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