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The Sheikhs of Idaho: How We Accidentally Let Qatar Build a “Not-a-Base” Base in the U.S.
There’s a new kind of foreign investment in America—one that comes with F-15s, a ten-year commitment, and a PR team insisting it’s definitely not a base. This week, the Pentagon proudly unveiled plans for a Qatar-funded “training complex” at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari pilots and their U.S.-made fighter
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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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The Great Halftime Faceplant: Turning Point USA Declares War on Bad Bunny (and Loses Before It Starts)
The Super Bowl halftime show used to be about pyrotechnics, wardrobe malfunctions, and the occasional left shark dancing off-beat. Now it’s a referendum on whether America can tolerate hearing a language other than English for more than three minutes. Welcome to 2026, where Bad Bunny will headline the official NFL halftime show—and Turning Point USA,
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Letters From the Border, Echoes in Rome: Pope Leo XIV vs. Operation Midway Blitz
If you want to know how power really moves in 2025, don’t watch the tank convoys rolling down Chicago boulevards or the ICE jackets fanning out across El Paso school zones. Watch instead the moment when a packet of handwritten letters from parish shelters in Texas and New Mexico lands on the Pope’s desk in
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When DHS Becomes the PR Department for Trump’s Enforcers: Zach Bryan, “Bad News,” and the Federal Trolling Tour
Country music has always had a rebellious streak—train lines, stolen kisses, dusty roads, heartbreak. But when your protest song provokes the Department of Homeland Security to scrap together a montage of ICE raids and set them to your chorus, you’ve officially crossed from troubadour to target. On October 8, 2025, Axios dropped a story that
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Trump’s Jail Talk: When Presidents Play Sheriff of Dissent
It starts, as so many American breakdowns do now, with a social media post typed out between the golf course and the motorcade. On October 8, 2025, President Donald Trump fired off on Truth Social that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “should be in jail” for “failing to protect ICE Officers.” He added, as a flourish,
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Pam Bondi’s Great Stonewall Revue: How to Say Nothing for Hours While Redecorating the Constitution
On October 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi finally got her Senate Judiciary oversight debut. The cameras rolled. The senators fanned themselves like gossipy dowagers. Bondi smiled that Florida-gated-community smile—the one that says I have seen the HOA bylaws and I intend to enforce them with prejudice. For hours, she spoke in what can only
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Remember the Alamo, Forget the Constitution: Texas Invades Chicago with the National Guard
It’s official: Greg Abbott has discovered a new frontier in hypocrisy. On a crisp October morning, Texans awoke to the news that their governor had dispatched National Guard troops—not to guard the Texas border, not to respond to a hurricane, not even to escort Ted Cruz home from Cancun—but to Chicago. Against Illinois’ wishes. Against
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The Supreme Court’s New Term: Now Playing, the Trump Cinematic Universe of Unlimited Power
On October 6, 2025, the United States Supreme Court flung open its majestic marble doors to launch the 2025–26 term, and the BBC wasted no time pointing out what the docket really is: a season pass to the Trump Expanded Universe, where executive power is both the script and the punchline. Forget your garden-variety disputes