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The Morning After the Wave: Trump’s Truth Social Tantrum and the Art of Governing by Gripe
There is a sound that follows defeat, and it is not silence. It is the clattering of a smartphone in the small hours, the electronic cough of a man refreshing his own reflection. The morning after Democrats’ big wins, while New York was still sweeping up confetti and poll workers were still drinking reheated coffee,
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The Blue Wave Broke: Prepare For Trump To Become More Unhinged
Some nights don’t end; they just change temperature. Tonight is one of those nights. Across America, the political map bled blue again. It wasn’t subtle, and it wasn’t polite. The “Blue Wave” that pundits dismissed as myth or meme arrived in full coastal fury. Suburban districts turned into crime scenes for Republican incumbents. Ballot initiatives
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The Epstein Ballroom: How Trump Bulldozed the People’s House for His Corporate Coronation
There are many ways to announce the end of an era. Some presidents sign bills, others write memoirs. Donald Trump brought in the bulldozers. Last month, under the glare of work lights and the applause of donors, the East Wing of the White House collapsed into dust, making way for what the administration calls the
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Problem Solved: When Math Teachers Became MAGA’s Latest Enemies of the State
In the country that once invented public education, the new national pastime is death threats. Last week, a group of math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona discovered that their Halloween costumes—a recurring staff joke shirt that read Problem Solved splattered with fake red ink—had been rebranded by the internet as evidence of moral
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60 Minutes of Trump Lies: The Interview, the Merger, and the Silence That Follows
A president in a gilded ballroom sells tariffs as salvation and testing as deterrence, a network in a deal cycle sells the interview as a moon landing, and somewhere between the wand and the wine glass the public is asked to accept the headline as the truth, not the truth as the headline. It begins
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Trump Broke America in 2015 and She Never Healed: Your Decade in One Grim Timeline.
Grief and fury arrived together, like relatives who cannot stand each other but share a last name. One sits with a box of tissues and tells you to breathe. The other opens a window and says jump or move. I remember the moment the country broke, not as metaphor but as sound, a brittle snap
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The Tucker Carlson Extremist Stress Test: How to Burn a Movement in One Interview and Call It Free Speech
If there were ever a competition for “most predictable outrage cycle in American politics,” Tucker Carlson would have the trophy, the lifetime supply of microphones, and a commemorative mug reading I Platformed a Fascist and All I Got Was This Engagement Spike. Because this week, Carlson gave airtime to Nick Fuentes, a man whose résumé
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Elon Musk and the Gospel of the Billionaire Brain Worm: From Flamethrowers to Neural Lace and Everything in Between
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Elon Musk is the next Da Vinci, and those who think he’s the world’s most expensive Reddit thread. After three hours on The Joe Rogan Experience, you can be forgiven for believing he’s both. Because when Musk starts talking, time stops being linear.
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The Spreadsheet Is a Crime Scene: JPMorgan, Epstein, and the Fine Art of Looking Away
The modern banking system has a curious definition of morality. If you or I move a suspicious thousand dollars, the government freezes our account, our credit dies, and an algorithm red-flags us into financial purgatory. But if you’re Jeffrey Epstein, you can move a billion dollars through the world’s largest bank for sixteen years and
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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,