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The Map Is Not a Bloodsport, But They Brought a Chainsaw Anyway: A Texas Takedown
The quiet, un-televised cruelty of American political mechanics often hides in plain sight, tucked away in the arcana of cartography and statute. It is, perhaps, fitting that the quietest, most surgical rebuke to Texas Republican political dominance did not come from a grand moral proclamation or a sweeping popular wave. It came instead from a
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The Bone Saw and the Trump Red Carpet: How to Wash an Autocrat in Public
The spectacle of a state visit, under ordinary circumstances, is meant to signal diplomatic strength and mutual respect. Under Donald Trump, however, it becomes a transactional performance, a public washing machine designed to scrub away the stains of documented atrocities. The recent arrival of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, for his first
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The Trump Justice Department That Forgot What Justice Means
When a federal judge starts using phrases like “disturbing pattern” and “extraordinary remedy,” you know the plot has wandered into banana republic territory with better-funded lawyers. There are weeks in American political life when the news arrives in polite increments, like a series of thoughtfully placed postcards. And then there are the weeks when the
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From Gaza Clips to Nazi TikTok: How the Algorithm Funnels Kids to White Nationalism
When Tucker Carlson sits down for a warm, fireside-vibe chat with Nick Fuentes and the discourse acts shocked, maybe the real scandal is how quickly the algorithm now ushers young people from “criticizing a government” to “maybe Jews don’t belong in America.” Tucker Carlson has always been something of a political weather vane, albeit the
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When Border Patrol Starts Haunting Charlotte Church Lawns, You Know the Empire Is Fucked
Interior enforcement turns Charlotte into a stage set for federal theater, complete with smashed windows, masked agents, and a government insisting the chaos is for your own good. Charlotte is not a border town. Charlotte is not even near a border town. Charlotte is the sort of place where church volunteers trim hedges in the
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America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying
When the country insists it is ready for female leadership but recoils every time an actual woman steps up, someone eventually has to say the quiet part out loud. Michelle Obama walked onto the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sat down with Tracee Ellis Ross, and proceeded to set the national fantasy of
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The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud
Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant
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How To Gerrymander Like A Hypocrite: Trump Sues The Blue State, High-Fives The Red One
The moment the scoreboard tilts the wrong way, some teams tighten their laces and others make a beeline for the referee’s locker room. The Trump administration has opted for the latter, this time hauling the Justice Department along to pound on the door. In California, voters just approved a new congressional map under Proposition 50
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CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER
The bishops finally found their voices again. Not the soft indoor-voice homilies that float above parish pews like incense, but something closer to a raised eyebrow from God. America’s Catholic hierarchy, after years of sounding like they were trapped between a Fox News chyron and a Vatican footnote, just dropped a “Special Message” on immigration
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Floating Into War: How the USS Gerald R. Ford Is Trump’s First Step Towards Venezuela
It should have set off every alarm instantly. A nuclear-powered supercarrier steaming into U.S. Southern Command’s zone under the pretext of “counternarcotics.” But if you look at the details it becomes clear this is not a fight against drugs. It is the opening act of war against Venezuela, dressed in the clothes of a patrol