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Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice
On the heels of a government shutdown, a stock market trembling under tariff scares, and a political climate so charged it could detonate, comes news that seems tailor-made for the age of rival prosecutions: former National Security Adviser John Bolton is expected to be indicted as early as next week. FBI agents searched his Maryland
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Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud
In what can only be described as a collaboration between Law & Order: SVU and Real Housewives of Potomac, NBC News reports that Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward, have been arrested in Maryland for allegedly staging a home burglary to collect a fat insurance payout. Yes, you read that right. Another week, another
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Portland, We Have a Problem: Trump’s “War on Antifa” and the Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal
Somewhere in a Pentagon sub-basement or a Mar-a-Lago group chat, someone must have said, “What if we just did 2020 again—but meaner?” Because here we are, October 2025, and President Donald Trump has decided to reboot his greatest hits tour: the “War on Antifa.” It’s like the “War on Drugs,” but with fewer facts and
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Why “Be Civil” Is a Trap and How to Reclaim Argument Without Letting Authoritarians Win
There is a comfortable version of civic medicine that liberals love to prescribe: a warm sermon about niceness, a gentle chiding to turn down the volume, a plea to swap Twitter tirades for polite coffee with people you secretly loathe. It sounds virtuous, and in a vacuum it would be. But these are not normal
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Seven Holes and a Federal Lie: How ICE’s Brighton Park Shootout Exposed No “10 Car Attack”
On October 6, 2025, the Chicago Sun-Times reported what you might call a plot twist, if the plot weren’t someone’s bleeding arm. A federal magistrate judge in Chicago, Heather McShain, rejected prosecutors’ demand to keep Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, in jail while they await trial. Why? Because the government’s story
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Pentagon bypass 2.0: Trump’s Guard Swap to Portland, Court Orders, and a Coup in Blue States
Every once in a while, power shifts so quickly it looks like smoke. On October 5, 2025, reports broke that President Donald Trump had moved to federalize and send out-of-state Guard troops—specifically from California—to Portland, Oregon, circumventing a court order and two governors’ objections. Federal spokesmen claimed 200–300 California National Guard would deploy to protect
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Brighton Park Shooting, Tear Gas, and the Shutdown Spectacle: How DHS Turned Chicago Into a Border War Zone
The city was promised patrols, deterrence, maybe a few stern traffic stops. What it got instead was a rolling combat scene: Border Patrol convoys pinned in, a U.S. citizen shot, a neighborhood suffocated in tear gas, and a shutdown government still finding time to flex its muscle in Brighton Park. It is the latest installment
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The Clean-Energy Purge: Trump Axes Billions While Blue States Burn
Once upon a shutdown, the Department of Energy quietly became an executioner. In the first two days of October, with government stalled and Congress gridlocked, the Trump administration canceled roughly $7.56 billion in clean-energy funding—snatching away support from 223 projects across 16 Democratic-leaning states. Projects included caliber hydrogen hubs in California and the Pacific Northwest,
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Project 2025 Becomes Government Shutdown Gospel
It took exactly two days. Forty-eight hours into a shutdown that had already darkened laboratories, silenced grant pipelines, and furloughed three-quarters of a million civil servants, the White House finally dropped its pretense. What was once billed as a think-tank fantasy, a right-wing wish list too radical for the campaign trail, was suddenly elevated to