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MTV Finally Turned Off the Music, and Let the Epitaph Roll
The channel that taught America how to watch sound signed off with a joke that stopped being funny decades ago. MTV ended its last remaining 24 hour music video channels by playing “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the same song that launched the network in 1981. It was meant to feel clever, full circle, maybe
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Democrats Need To Run On At Least $25 an Hour Minimum Wage or Admit the Economy Runs on Quiet Cruelty
A minimum wage that can’t buy rent is not a wage. It’s a suggestion with a time clock. America is in a strange phase of capitalism where we have decided inflation is a natural disaster but poverty is a personal flaw. We hold candlelight vigils for the price of eggs, then lecture full-time workers about
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2025 Shutdown Chaos Broke the Jobs Report, and Now America Is Driving the Economy With the Dashboard Unplugged
When the government stops working, it also stops counting who is hurting, and calls that “temporary.” The federal shutdown this year did not just lock doors, pause permits, and turn “please hold” into a lifestyle. It reached into the country’s basic economic dashboard and started pulling out wires like a bored teenager under the hood
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Trump and MAGA’s Fake Outrage Over Charlie Kirk Rhetoric Takes Center Stage Amidst Tragic Loss of Rob Reiner
A national treasure, a grieving family, and a president who still thinks empathy is for losers. There are certain moments when a country quietly tests its own spine. Not in a grand, cinematic way, not with flags and speeches, but in the small, practical way a human being looks at another human being’s grief and
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Bondi Beach and the Paperwork After the Sirens
A terror attack, a nation in shock, and the familiar moment when everyone realizes the system worked exactly as designed, which is to say too late. Bondi Beach is supposed to be the place Australia sends to the world as proof of ease. Sun, water, the soft promise that life can be simple if you
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2028: Democrats Need A New Deal For A New Era
By 2028 the Democratic Party must stop running as a cautious maintenance crew and instead offer an unapologetic governing vision that begins with abolishing the filibuster to enable majority rule, then moves swiftly into universal government-backed health care, aggressive antitrust enforcement, modern gun safety laws, and a rebalanced tax code that raises rates on billionaires…
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Karoline Leavitt Turns the Briefing Room Into a Fact-Free Escape Room
The press asks for information, the podium offers vibes, and the real product is confusion with a patriotic label. There are two ways to look at a White House press briefing. The old way is as a daily information exchange, flawed but functional, where reporters ask questions and the government, at least in theory, answers
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Trump Flirts With Weed Rescheduling and Wall Street Immediately Smokes the Hopium
A CNBC headline, a market rally, and an entire industry watching the federal government like it’s a moody landlord who might finally fix the heater. Cannabis stocks and marijuana-focused ETFs just did that thing they always do when Washington coughs in their direction: they levitated. After a CNBC report said President Donald Trump is expected
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Congress Drops Epstein Party Photos Like It’s a Playlist and Calls It Oversight
A small, redacted photo dump, a much larger unseen archive, and a political system that treats transparency like a weapon and privacy like an afterthought. House Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee just did what Congress does best in an election-era adrenaline rush: released a limited batch of images from a vastly larger
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Hillary, Kamala, Pelosi, Elizabeth, AOC, Klobuchar, and Jasmine Crockett: Left’s Favorite Sport Is Nitpicking Strong Women
The résumé is flawless, the vibes are “off,” and somehow the safe choice is always some guy who thinks subcommittee work is a type of sandwich. The modern American left has a recurring ritual that looks like accountability from far away and feels like sabotage up close. It begins when an accomplished woman steps forward