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The Last WTF: Marc Maron, Barack Obama, and the Funeral for American Adulthood
There’s a particular tone you can hear only in the voice of a man who has seen the apocalypse, accepted it, and still shows up for soundcheck. Marc Maron has been that voice for sixteen years—equal parts therapy session, post-mortem, and open-mic confession booth—and on October 13, 2025, he turned off the mic for good.
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Trump’s The Art of the Steal: Biden Got 105 Israeli Hostages Released With First Ceasefire
In international diplomacy, plagiarism usually comes in subtler forms. A reworded communique here, a borrowed talking point there, maybe a flag repositioned in front of the podium to make it look like something new. But leave it to Donald Trump to turn global peacemaking into the intellectual equivalent of copying someone else’s term paper and
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When the Cult of Personality Goes Biblical: Trump as the Antichrist (From An Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Such Things)
There’s an old superstition that when the world begins to eat itself, a showman appears to tell it the apocalypse is just a ratings opportunity. Even if you don’t believe in God, hell, or horned beasts rising from the sea, you have to admit that Donald Trump’s recent “peace deal” in the Middle East reads
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Sugar High or Crash Diet? How Sorkin Says AI Is Fueling America’s Next Reboot: 1929 Stock Market Crash
You knew it would happen: someone on 60 Minutes lifting it all up, peering into the neon smog of 2025, and muttering, “I think it’s a bubble.” That someone was Andrew Ross Sorkin. As markets wobble after tariff threats, Sorkin told Lesley Stahl that today’s economy is being propped up by an AI sugar rush—hundreds
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Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies
Congratulations, America. We’ve finally done it. We’ve brought back a disease that modern medicine already defeated when bell-bottoms were still a gleam in disco’s eye. Somewhere, Jonas Salk is shaking his head in the afterlife, muttering, “I leave you people alone for sixty years and you start playing Oregon Trail again.” According to NPR, the
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Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says
Somewhere between your tenth doomscroll of the morning and your third attempt to remember which war we’re supposed to care about this week, PBS quietly aired the most important documentary of the decade — Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 — and almost no one noticed, because there wasn’t a trailer trending on TikTok. It’s a film
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JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos: Cut to Commercial The New Language of Transparency
It’s a rare thing to see George Stephanopoulos lose patience. The man has survived a decade of D.C. gaslighting and several hundred Trump surrogates without cracking. But on This Week, the famously unflappable anchor finally snapped. He’d spent five full minutes trying to extract a yes or no answer from Vice President JD Vance about
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Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog
It’s 2025, and in Portland, resistance now comes with a soundtrack and a splash zone. The city once branded a “war zone” by right-wing commentators has become something else entirely—a performance art piece starring inflatable amphibians, unicorns, and a surprising number of sharks. The Portland ICE facility—once the backdrop for grim standoffs and militarized optics—has
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The Courts Remind Trump: You Can’t Patrol Someone Else’s Streets
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t throw a parade for Illinois, but it handed the Trump administration a powerful timeout. On October 11, 2025, the court largely upheld Judge April Perry’s emergency order blocking President Trump from deploying National Guard troops into Chicago and the rest of Illinois—but with a twist. Yes, the
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Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice
On the heels of a government shutdown, a stock market trembling under tariff scares, and a political climate so charged it could detonate, comes news that seems tailor-made for the age of rival prosecutions: former National Security Adviser John Bolton is expected to be indicted as early as next week. FBI agents searched his Maryland