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The FBI’s New Most Wanted List: People Who Can Read the Employee Handbook
There is a specific, grim absurdity to the moment when the premier law enforcement agency of the United States transforms into a customer service department for a presidential tantrum. On any given Tuesday, the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division is generally tasked with disrupting bomb plots, dismantling sleeper cells, and tracking violent extremists who wish to do
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The Secretary of War vs. The Astronaut: Why the Pentagon Is Court-Martialing a Senator for Reading the Manual
The transition from a democratic republic to a reality television autocracy is usually marked by a change in the stationery. In the case of the Department of Defense, the rebranding has been less about letterhead and more about a fundamental shift in the metaphysics of the building. Under the stewardship of Pete Hegseth, a man
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INVALID Paperwork of Tyranny: When the Revenge Tour Trips Over the Help Wanted Sign
The central tragedy of the modern authoritarian is that eventually, someone has to fill out a form. You can stand on a podium and scream about retribution until your voice gives out. You can promise to rain fire and fury on your enemies. You can draft lists of traitors and fantasize about televised tribunals. But
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The Star-Spangled Bot Farm: How Elon Accidentally Doxxed the “America First” Foreign Legion
There is a specific kind of schadenfreude that tastes like champagne mixed with battery acid, and on November 20, 2025, the internet drank deep from the cup. For years, we have been told that the “silent majority” is rising, that the roar of the MAGA movement is the organic, thundering voice of the forgotten American
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The Bat-Signal for Partisan Hacks: Texas Begs Alito to Save the Gerrymander
The frantic energy currently radiating from the Texas Governor’s Mansion is not the result of a grid emergency or a sudden concern for the welfare of the state’s foster children. It is the specific, high-pitched frequency of political desperation. On November 20, the state’s leadership, spearheaded by Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton,
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The Red Scare on Pennsylvania Avenue: Why Trump Thinks Fixing the Subway Is a Bolshevik Plot
The intellectual architecture of the modern American right wing is built on a foundation of very specific, load-bearing misunderstandings, but none is quite as structural as their inability to distinguish between a democratic socialist and a Soviet commissar. To Donald Trump and the ecosystem that orbits him, there is no difference between wanting to fund
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The Orange Elephant in the Room: Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell, the “Hoax,” Getting Room Service?
The political theater of the last week has been a masterclass in the art of the pivot. We watched the Trump administration spend months fighting the Epstein Files Transparency Act with the desperate energy of a man trying to hold a door shut against a rising flood. They called it a “Democrat hoax,” a distraction,
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Stream, Scream, or Starve: Why the Warner Bros. Fire Sale Is About to Double Your Bill and Kill Your News
The carcass of Warner Bros. Discovery is currently twitching on the auction block, and the sharks are circling with the dead-eyed precision of algorithms that have already decided your subscription price is too low. It is a scene of grim corporate inevitability, a garage sale of American culture where the items on offer are not
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The Epstein Files: Trump Choose Your Own Political Adventure Where Reality Always Loses
The contemporary political narrative often moves at a speed that blurs the lines between fact and fabrication, but rarely does it achieve the dizzying, nauseating velocity of the Trump administration’s internal policy on the “Epstein files.” What began as a solemn promise of transparency quickly dissolved into a spectacular display of gaslighting, denial, and panicked
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The Hoax That Ate the House: Why a 427-1 Vote Feels Like Zero Accountability
The spectacle of Washington operating at speed, with overwhelming bipartisan agreement, is generally reserved for declaring war or giving tax breaks to billionaires. But this week, the gears of Congress ground forward with unnerving velocity to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act. After months of calculated stonewalling from the usual suspects in Trump-world, the House