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When the Speaker Calls Protestors “Anti-America”—and Then Wonders Why Democracy Is Dead
At dawn on October 10, 2025, House Speaker Mike Johnson went on Fox News and denounced the upcoming No Kings rally as a “hate America” event. He claimed it would be populated by the “pro-Hamas wing” and “ANTIFA people,” accused Democrats of selling T-shirts to support it, and ominously warned that the government would stay
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When the Great Shutdown Becomes the Great Purge: Welcome to the RIF Apocalypse
Week two of the federal shutdown was supposed to be grim but familiar—employees furloughed, services on pause, griping about microwave lines in the Pentagon cafeteria. But this week, the White House slipped a clause into the apocalypse: permanent layoffs, not temporary pauses. On October 2025’s midpoint, OMB Director Russ Vought dropped the bomb that “the
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Portland, We Have a Problem: Trump’s “War on Antifa” and the Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal
Somewhere in a Pentagon sub-basement or a Mar-a-Lago group chat, someone must have said, “What if we just did 2020 again—but meaner?” Because here we are, October 2025, and President Donald Trump has decided to reboot his greatest hits tour: the “War on Antifa.” It’s like the “War on Drugs,” but with fewer facts and
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X’s Algorithmic Hunger Games: When Your Feed Becomes a MAGA Mall
If you logged into X on October 9 or 10, 2025, you probably expected the usual feed: a few memes, your cousin’s dog video, maybe one of those cryptic subtweets from someone who still thinks “vaguebooking” works in 280 characters. Instead, what you got was a carnival barker’s megaphone of right-wing political content—accounts you never
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Trump Administration’s New Favorite Hobby: Indicting Your Political Enemies (Now Featuring Letitia James)
Welcome to the new normal, where the Justice Department is not a neutral institution but a courtroom carnival that rolls through town every few months with fresh political headhunts. On October 9, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud
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Chicago Judge Hits Pause on Trump’s Troop Show: Sovereignty on Life Support
When America elects a man who treats the Constitution like a napkin for his Diet Coke spills, you get weeks like this: federal helicopters dangling agents over Chicago apartment buildings, immigration patrols conducting fashion-police stops downtown, and the President attempting to cosplay Lincoln while importing National Guard troops from Texas as if Illinois were suddenly
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Discovers Health Care Costs Money: A MAGA Swan Breaks Formation
If you’ve been wondering what happens when a political creature of pure MAGA instinct suddenly develops a pre-existing condition called “reality,” you need look no further than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent metamorphosis. NBC News reported on October 9, 2025, that Greene—yes, the same woman who once made headlines for chasing David Hogg through Capitol
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Liberty Vote or Liberty Lost? Why Dominion’s Sale to a GOP-Led Company Should Make Us All Nervous
On October 9, 2025, the Associated Press confirmed what election administrators had been whispering about: Dominion Voting Systems—the same company dragged through the mud with lies about 2020—has been sold. The buyer? Liberty Vote, a newly formed company led by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and founder of pollbook vendor KNOWiNK. The purchase
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Letters From the Border, Echoes in Rome: Pope Leo XIV vs. Operation Midway Blitz
If you want to know how power really moves in 2025, don’t watch the tank convoys rolling down Chicago boulevards or the ICE jackets fanning out across El Paso school zones. Watch instead the moment when a packet of handwritten letters from parish shelters in Texas and New Mexico lands on the Pope’s desk in
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The Party of No Consequences: Why Approval Ratings Are a Dead Metric in a Dead Democracy
There was a time back when reality TV was still filmed in actual mansions and not in crumbling democracies that people used to care about approval ratings. Pollsters would trot out their little charts, cable news would plaster bar graphs across the chyron like an EKG of democracy itself, and voters would argue about whether