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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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Paramount Skydance Presents: The Invisible Hand of the Market (Now Playing in Your Severance Package)
In the golden age of corporate synergy, nothing says “bold new era of storytelling” like firing two thousand storytellers. This week, Variety confirmed what everyone in media already felt vibrating under their cubicles—the long-rumored Paramount-Skydance merger has completed its most time-honored ritual: the bloodletting. Roughly 10 percent of the combined workforce—around 2,000 people—will soon discover
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The Missing Congresswoman: How Mike Johnson Turned a 42-Point Win Into a Hostage Situation
It takes a special kind of cynicism to lose an election by forty-two points and still claim victory through bureaucracy. Enter Speaker Mike Johnson, the man who can make “government by inaction” sound like constitutional originalism. Adelita Grijalva—daughter of longtime Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, former Tucson school board president, and newly elected congresswoman for Arizona’s
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Pegasus In A Flag Pin: How ICE Built a Dragnet For Your Phone, Your Doctor, and Your Feeds
They call it “discipline” and “modernization,” but it walks like illegal mass surveillance, chills speech like a gag order, and it is the biggest story no one on primetime wants to say plainly. I am not here to soothe you. I am here to describe a machine that has been assembled in plain sight while
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Making America Gaudy Again: Trump Dismisses U.S. Commission of Fine Arts To Green Light Mussolini DC Program
It’s official: Washington, D.C. has entered its Versailles phase. CBS News reports that President Donald Trump has summarily dismissed all six sitting members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts—the body that, for more than a century, has ensured that the nation’s capital doesn’t look like a suburban megachurch with delusions of grandeur. The firings
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Layoffs: Where Jobs Go to Die and Stocks Go to Heaven
There’s an old rule in politics: if you can’t fix the problem, fire the statistician. And sure enough, President Trump has done exactly that, sacking the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the crime of arithmetic. Because in this second-term economy, math itself has become subversive. Without the Bureau’s honest numbers, the government
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America Wants This, Fox Sells That: The Real Majority vs the Minority Megaphone
Most voters back abortion rights, gun safety, paid leave, cheaper insulin, the Child Tax Credit, DACA, clean energy, and voting rights, yet a right-wing media machine keeps drowning them out on purpose. The Party With the Policies, the Party Without the Mic I keep a small superstition on my desk, a notebook where I write
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Deportation Nation: The Purge of ICE and the Rise of Border Patrol Theater
Every administration has its signature moment of bureaucratic chaos—the thing historians will point to and say, ah yes, that’s when the clown car caught fire. For Trump 2.0, that moment has arrived in the form of a mass decapitation inside ICE, where up to a dozen field office chiefs are reportedly being removed or reassigned
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The Forest Hills Compact: How the Left Finally Learned to Fill a Stadium Thanks To Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC
It takes a certain kind of political gravity to fill Forest Hills Stadium with hope. Not the campaign-slogan kind, but the kind that hums under the skin, the kind that makes people believe power might still be something they can touch. On a humid New York afternoon, tens of thousands showed up for Zohran Mamdani’s
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Freedom, Firewalls, and Freefall: How Trump’s Week in Power Looked Like a Season Finale Written by Kafka
There are weeks in American politics that feel like historical footnotes, and there are weeks that feel like the Constitution was left in a microwave. This one was the latter. By midweek, the Trump administration managed to detain a journalist, nationalize TikTok through a handshake with Xi, pay the military during a government shutdown, and