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BBC Without a Head: A Public Broadcaster Tries to Walk a Tightrope While the Rope Is on Fire
There is a particular sound the British establishment makes when something goes wrong. It is not a gasp, or a groan, or even the gentle clatter of a teacup as it trembles in the saucer of constitutional decorum. It is the muffled thud of two top executives leaping overboard at the same time, followed by
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Chuck Schumer Shows He Holds His Caucus Very Loosely Pissing On Those That Voted For Them On Tuesday
The Senate has always been a place where courage checks its coat at the door and puts on someone else’s name tag. This week it walked out entirely, leaving a pile of garments on the floor like a supernatural event in a Christian melodrama about the Rapture. The only people missing from the supernatural metaphor
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The To Do List From Hell: Watching Project 2025 Move From Blueprint to Reality in Real Time
If you want to understand the moment you are living through, stop watching the melodrama and start reading the paperwork. America is not being remade through mystery or improvisation. It is being remade through a 920 page governing blueprint called Project 2025, a document that outlines, in clinical specificity, how to dismantle the federal government
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Operation Midway Blitz and the Federal Imagination Problem
When a crackdown starts to look less like law enforcement and more like a government sponsored haunted house Public safety is supposed to be boring. That is the entire point. Well functioning systems do not need dramatic lighting, surprise helicopter entrances, or senior officials narrating their own heroism. Which is why Operation Midway Blitz, a
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End ACA Protections Means Cancer Care Becomes Optional And Bills Explode
Translate the slogan into math and law, and the promise to “send the money to the people” becomes a coupon for chaos with the patient protections ripped off the box. The pitch sounds generous if you hear it from far away. Cut out the insurance companies, send the money straight to you, terminate the bad
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The Shutdown That Ate Democracy’s Homework: A Love Letter to Gridlock, Delusion, and the Filibuster Fetishists
There is a certain kind of American absurdity that only blossoms when the government is closed, the airports are melting down, and someone in the Senate has started speaking of the filibuster as if it is a religious relic discovered deep beneath the floor of the Capitol. You can almost set your watch by it.
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The Optimus Secession: Elon Musk Unveils the Robot That Will Replace Us, Rule Us, and Possibly Charge Us a Subscription Fee
A cyberpunk shareholder rave, a trillion dollar man, and a humanoid life form that will both eliminate poverty and make you its pet There are certain moments in history when you can feel the ground shift beneath your feet. The moon landing. The Berlin Wall. The first time someone uttered the phrase “live, laugh, love”
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Trump’s Hunger Games Presidency Hits the Supreme Court
When the most powerful man in the world fights for the right to starve his own people There are many ways a civilization can measure its decline. Breadlines. Infrastructure decay. Reality-TV personalities winning office. But there is something uniquely cursed about a United States president who refuses to pay out SNAP benefits during a shutdown,
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Trump Says “Everything Is Fine” As The Cost Of Living Sky Rockets And Jobs Disappear
When reality raises the bill, you can gaslight the country or govern for it. Doing both is not a plan. The country knows the difference between a sales pitch and a receipt. We have been stuck in the pitch again, the kind where a leader tries to hypnotize prices into behaving by announcing that they
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Trump The Commander in Chaos: How One Man With Thirty Four Felonies Is Selling Nigeria as His New Christian Reality Show
When a complex security crisis becomes a stage prop for a felon who cannot legally hold a handgun, but gets to command the largest military on Earth Let us begin this meditation in the American contradiction that keeps giving: a man with thirty four felony convictions cannot own a firearm, cannot pass a background check,