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Democrats Forfeit Shutdown, Filibuster Wins, Voters Get Empty Promises And Pain
If you start a fight you cannot win, you at least leave with a lesson, a villain, and a plan. Democrats left with none of the above and a press release that reads like surrender. I agree with Tim Miller and the Pod Save America bros on the core point. It was obvious from the
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Trump Tries To Probe More People Without Consent In Florida
There is a certain kind of breaking news alert that feels less like journalism and more like a smoke alarm that only goes off after the house is already engulfed. The latest comes from the Southern District of Florida, the federal jurisdiction that has spent the past decade juggling everything from Mar a Lago search
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Pardonpalooza: Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card For Those Who Helped Him Try To Steal the 2020 Election
There comes a moment in every political season when you realize the country is not being governed so much as improv’d, and the cast has decided to try audience participation. The latest spectacle arrived with a flourish of parchment and a press release drafted in what appears to be the disappointed sigh of the rule
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Greg Abbott Files for Reelection, Texas Should File for a Restraining Order
Greg Abbott has announced, with the confidence of a man who has never once been held accountable for the weather, the grid, the cruelty, or the highway-level carnage of his own governance, that he will run for governor of Texas again. Texans did not ask for this. Texans did not pray for this. Texans did
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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.