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America’s New Hunger Games Begins, and the Prize Is Permission To Eat
Trump calls it “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but the only thing getting beautified is the balance sheet Congress cares about more than hungry families. The thing about austerity is that it never arrives dressed as cruelty. It shows up in a blazer, smiles politely, talks about discipline, and promises to fix the books. It nods
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Prestige TV, Claire Danes, and One Very Suspicious Neighbor Who Definitely Knows How to Wield a Metaphor
Netflix’s The Beast in Me proves that nothing says date night like grief, queer family trauma, a maybe murderer next door, and Claire Danes pacing her kitchen like she is waiting for ghosts to RSVP. There is a particular joy in prestige television that manages to be both a warm blanket and a sharpened blade.
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Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot
If the last decade were a TV series, even the interns would be begging the showrunners for a hard reboot before cancellation. There comes a time in every long running series when the writers lose all sense of proportion. When the storylines pile up like abandoned shopping carts, when characters behave like they have been
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America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying
When the country insists it is ready for female leadership but recoils every time an actual woman steps up, someone eventually has to say the quiet part out loud. Michelle Obama walked onto the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sat down with Tracee Ellis Ross, and proceeded to set the national fantasy of
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MAGA Should Remember That Loyalty Is A One-Way Door In Trump’s World
The pattern is not complicated, it is a shredder that activates the second anyone near him grows a conscience, a spine, or an audience of their own. There is a certain look people get when they realize the room they thought was a team is actually a stage. It is the look of a person
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Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!
Tariff reversals, Venezuela war drums, and a Truth Social tantrum at Marjorie Taylor Greene all collide in the shadow of an Epstein scandal that refuses to die The problem with political improvisation, the real danger beneath the theatrics, is not that it looks chaotic from the outside. It is that it feels orderly to the
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Megyn Kelly Goes Full Pedophile Protector For Trump
When redefining pedophilia becomes a primetime hobby. There are moments in American media when you can almost hear the floorboards groan under the weight of a take so profoundly misguided that the English language itself tries to flee the room. Megyn Kelly’s latest contribution to the Jeffrey Epstein discourse produced exactly that sound, the slow
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The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud
Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant
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Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts
An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,
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Trump’s Epstein Problem: The Dog That Finally Barked at 218 Signatures
Congress rarely moves with speed unless it is the speed of decay. But once in a generation, the planets align, a freshman gets sworn in on a Friday night, and the House of Representatives actually does something explosive by accident. This week, that accident arrived in the form of newly sworn in Representative Adelita Grijalva,