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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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  • Genuflecting Giants: How the Right, the Media & Big Tech Bungled Their Own Catechism to Worship Trump’s Tiny Orbs

    Genuflecting Giants: How the Right, the Media & Big Tech Bungled Their Own Catechism to Worship Trump’s Tiny Orbs

    There’s a peculiar, humiliating ritual underway in Washington—and it’s not about crowns or scepters so much as knee-bends. The entire ecosystem of Republicans, big media empires, and corporations is tilting toward Donald Trump with a devotion that erases the very principles they once claimed as foundational. They weren’t just political allies—they were self-proclaimed guardians of

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  • How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

    How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

    It’s 2025, which means we’re back in the part of the American cycle where politicians stop pretending to govern and start designing the next democracy-themed escape room. The new blueprint—marketed, ironically, as Never Again 2020—isn’t a conspiracy theory or a master plan. It’s a step-by-step guide written in bureaucratic beige and marketed as “election integrity.”

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  • Shutdown: The First Hairline Fracture in the Blue Wall

    Shutdown: The First Hairline Fracture in the Blue Wall

    For three weeks, Chuck Schumer has performed the Senate equivalent of yoga on hot coals—keeping forty-nine Democrats in the lotus position while the government burns around them. It worked, until it didn’t. Axios dropped the news like a leaky ceiling tile: Georgia senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock quietly crossed the aisle on a Republican

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  • The People’s Propaganda: Beijing Declares America Dead While Measuring Its Own Pulse

    The People’s Propaganda: Beijing Declares America Dead While Measuring Its Own Pulse

    China has officially diagnosed the United States with “terminal democracy.” According to Chinese state media, America is “dying from within,” “a failed state,” and—if you believe the new string of editorials—just a few supply-chain snags away from the global hospice ward. The declaration arrived perfectly timed with the Chinese Communist Party’s closed-door Fourth Plenum, where

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  • Trump’s The Apprentice: Kremlin Edition

    Trump’s The Apprentice: Kremlin Edition

    It took three years, two wars, and one canceled summit for America’s Strongman-in-Chief to finally pretend to stand up to his idol—and even now, it looks more like performance art than policy. The White House has slapped sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two biggest oil arteries and the bankroll of Vladimir Putin’s imperial cosplay.

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  • The Red Scare Remix: Why “Democratic Socialism” Is Not Communism, and Capitalism Was Never Pure

    The Red Scare Remix: Why “Democratic Socialism” Is Not Communism, and Capitalism Was Never Pure

    There’s a certain irony in the fact that Americans can’t define “socialism” but they can sure yell it. It’s our national reflex: hear a policy that sounds vaguely public-minded, grab the nearest flag, and shout “Communism!” as if Khrushchev himself were hiding under your Medicare card. So let’s do something rare for this political century—define

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  • The Man Who Sued Himself: How Trump Turned “Equal Justice Under Law” into “Cash App Me, DOJ”

    The Man Who Sued Himself: How Trump Turned “Equal Justice Under Law” into “Cash App Me, DOJ”

    If late-stage empire ever needed a mascot, Donald Trump just nominated himself—and sent the bill to the Justice Department. According to The New York Times (and verified by outlets that still remember what fact-checking is), the President of the United States is currently pressing his own Justice Department to pay him $230 million. Not for

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