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Admiral Overboard: How to Lose a War Before It Starts When You Bomb People Illegally
Admiral Alvin Holsey’s early retirement announcement landed with the subtlety of a depth charge. The commander of U.S. Southern Command—one of the most experienced and respected flag officers in the Navy—is stepping down two years early, just as the Caribbean simmers with covert operations, disputed maritime strikes, and the growing sense that the United States
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Top Secret, Do Not Forward: The Bolton Doctrine of National Security Scrapbooking
The federal government has finally located the one man in Washington who can make Donald Trump’s document crimes look like a Marie Kondo project. His name, once again, is John R. Bolton—a man whose mustache has seen more classified briefings than most senators. According to a newly unsealed federal indictment in Maryland, Bolton, the hawkish
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Trump’s Failing Ceasefire That’s Cosplaying As A Peace Plan
At the midpoint between “mission accomplished” and “please hold,” the Gaza ceasefire now lives in the liminal space where optimism is just fatigue wearing better clothes. Cameras caught the handshakes, the solemn statements, the flags arranged like theater props—but now the applause has faded, and the work has begun to creak under its own paperwork.
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When Democrats Are “Terrorists, Criminals & Aliens”: The White House’s Latest Dehumanization Exercise In Rhetoric
In the new normal of American politics, dehumanization is no longer a slip—it’s a strategy. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently told Fox News, and amplified across social platforms, that the Democratic Party’s “main constituency” is made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” The line exploded across headlines and digital chaos,
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Trump: The Mirror, The March, and the Misdirection
A field guide to déjà vu in a country pretending it has never read this chapter He tells a story about a wounded nation and casts himself as the cure, and the lights are bright because glare is a better costume than truth and the soundtrack thumps because rhythm is easier to remember than evidence.
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The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot
Every few years, America remembers that it is technically a democracy, dusts off its maps, and starts drawing lines like a toddler with too many crayons and not enough supervision. This week, that coloring session moved to the Supreme Court, where the justices heard oral arguments in the latest Voting Rights Act showdown out of
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The Great San Francisco Photo Op: Trump Plans His Next ICE Invasion
There are few things more American than a trial balloon floated before breakfast and litigated by lunch. This week’s episode comes courtesy of President Donald Trump, who told reporters he is “considering” sending National Guard troops into San Francisco. The comment, equal parts threat and theater, landed with the kind of bureaucratic thud that rattles
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The Hatch Act: The Law That Everyone Violates and No One Enforces
Somewhere in the dusty filing cabinets of American democracy, beneath the “Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law” mattress tags and the ghost of civics classes past, lies the Hatch Act. Passed in 1939, it was meant to be the firewall between government work and campaign work. The promise was simple: no mixing taxpayer business
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Kids Being Kids: The Vice President’s Guide to Radicalizing the Next Generation
There’s a certain point where a democracy stops pretending it’s fine and just sits down to laugh at its own obituary. We hit that point when Vice President JD Vance stood before cameras this week and called a leak of nearly three thousand pages of racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic messages from young Republican leaders “what
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Shutdown Theater: When Trump Decided the Government Works Better Without Workers
It takes a special kind of government to run a shutdown like a start-up.A federal judge just told the Trump administration—again—that firing thousands of workers in the middle of a shutdown isn’t “streamlining.” It’s illegal. But if you squint hard enough and forget about laws, ethics, and human beings, you can almost admire the logic.