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Summoning the Generals: A Military Summit or a Coup Dress Rehearsal?

On September 30, 2025, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, something happened that will never feel routine. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presided over a convocation of roughly 700–800 of America’s highest military officers—generals, admirals, senior enlisted advisers—flown from around the globe on short notice. Why? To hear a plan: use U.S. cities
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The Alexa+ Trap: When Home Tech Becomes Soft Control

At precisely 10 a.m. ET, Panos Panay strode onto the Amazon stage and began the familiar dance: new gadgets, bolder claims, bigger vision. But this time the reveal looked less like a tech refresh and more like a domestic overlay. This wasn’t just about speakers and TVs. It was about claiming more of your life—how
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Federal Government Shut Down is Trump’s Trojan Horse

It begins at midnight, not with fireworks or ceremony but with lights flickering off in office after office, cubicle after cubicle, across the federal government. The hum of fluorescent tubes dies. The emails bounce back. The phones ring without answer. The federal government, the largest employer in the United States, goes into induced coma—not because
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Missouri First — Or Missouri Forever? Goodbye Democracy.

In Jefferson City, the Capitol passed a new gospel: Missouri First Map. The state’s governor, flanked by Republican legislators, signed HB 1 in a late-September flourish, after calling a special session, rushing through House and Senate votes, and locking in a mid-decade congressional redistricting that does less to reflect population and more to inscribe power.
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Fear and Long Guns on Michigan Avenue

Chicago has always thrived on theater. Jazz clubs, improv stages, opera houses, the permanent farce of city politics—this is a town that knows spectacle. But nothing quite prepared the Magnificent Mile for the latest federal roadshow: dozens of Border Patrol agents in tactical helmets, body armor, and long guns parading up Michigan Avenue like they’d



