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The Golden Throne of Mar-a-Lincoln: When Optics Replace Government
It is a curious image of the modern presidency: the country in a government shutdown, the courts ordering the Department of Agriculture to raid emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat, and the Commander-in-Chief posting 24 glossy photos of his newly renovated Lincoln Bathroom, complete with black and white statuary marble, gold handles on the tub,
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Break the Glass, Save the House: A Field Manual for Democrats Who Are Tired of Being the Only Adults in a Burning Room
There is a moment in every family crisis when the responsible sibling realizes that being responsible is not the same thing as being effective. You can tidy while the kitchen burns. You can organize receipts while the roof caves in. You can stand there with your binder of excellent plans and watch a cousin rewire
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Andrew is Now Prince of Nothing: How the Crown Did What Congress Won’t
Somewhere in the foggy precincts of Britain’s class system, King Charles III just did something extraordinary: he looked his brother in the face, stared into the abyss of Jeffrey Epstein’s fallout, and said, “Not in my house.” And then, with the unhurried precision of a man pruning a diseased branch, he cut. Prince Andrew, Duke
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Mayor of America: The Case for Pete Buttigieg, Competence’s 2028 Stand
Somewhere in the churning, meme-choked fog of modern politics, competence became uncool. Governing got rebranded as “deep state meddling.” And the people who actually know how to do things—like fix a bridge, regulate a train, or refund a plane ticket—got replaced by men who post. So maybe it’s time we talk about Pete Buttigieg. Because
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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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When Facts Become Fireable Offenses: DOJ Suspends Two US Attorneys Over January 6th Truth Telling
It takes a special kind of government dysfunction to turn a routine sentencing memo into a constitutional crisis. Yet here we are. Multiple outlets confirmed this week that two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were placed on administrative leave—mere hours after filing a memo that did the unthinkable: it described January 6
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Trump Wants to Hear the Desert Scream Again: The Sound of Nuclear in a Country That Forgot What Fallout Smells Like
There’s a certain poetry to it, really. A president who once bragged about acing a dementia test now wants to bring back nuclear testing, apparently to prove he can still make something explode. In a pre-summit flourish that left even his own defense officials blinking through radiation metaphors, Donald Trump announced that he had directed
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The Missing Congresswoman: How Mike Johnson Turned a 42-Point Win Into a Hostage Situation
It takes a special kind of cynicism to lose an election by forty-two points and still claim victory through bureaucracy. Enter Speaker Mike Johnson, the man who can make “government by inaction” sound like constitutional originalism. Adelita Grijalva—daughter of longtime Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, former Tucson school board president, and newly elected congresswoman for Arizona’s
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The Ceasefire That Fired Back: We’re Totally Surprised….it lasted this long
There are moments in history when language becomes so thoroughly mangled that it folds in on itself. This week, that word is ceasefire. Once a term for stopping violence, it now means “repositioning artillery for improved optics.” The latest headlines read like a tragic parody: Israel launched new strikes across Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin
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The Gospel According to Hypocritical Christians: How Trump and MAGA Baptized Greed and Called It Policy
There is a curious arithmetic in American Christianity, a kind of divine math that turns compassion into socialism, wealth into righteousness, and selective literacy into law. It goes something like this: when it comes to who sleeps with whom, suddenly the Bible is binding federal code, the Supreme Court is a Sunday school, and the