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Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum: 20 Points, 72 Hours, and a Peace Plan Written in Smoke
The spectacle began at the White House: President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had unveiled a “Gaza plan”—twenty bullet-points in a scripted ultimatum: Hamas must return all hostages within seventy-two hours. Once that’s done (or claimed done), Israel would reciprocate with the release of 250 Palestinians serving life terms, plus some 1,700 Gazans detained…
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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…
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From Hypertext Dreams to Data Nightmares: Tim Berners-Lee’s Reminder That We Broke His Toy
The man who sketched the web on paper napkins at CERN now has to watch it shuffle around in stained sweatpants, working shifts for monopolies that surveil your cousin’s cat pictures and weaponize your grandmother’s political rants. Tim Berners-Lee, knighted not just for giving us hyperlinks but for unleashing the entire World Wide Web on…
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When the Supreme Court Pressed Snooze on $5 Billion: Democracy Aid Goes on Hiatus
On September 26, 2025, in a terse one-sentence emergency order, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to keep nearly $5 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid frozen—overturning a lower-court injunction and giving institutional blessing to what amounts to a year-end “pocket rescission” strategy. The effect: delay the money’s disbursement until it expires on…
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Disney’s Kimmel Imbroglio: Shareholders Su for Truth While Politics Invade the Boardroom
There are many ways for an entertainment empire to humiliate itself. Some settle for the small stuff: a blockbuster flop, a malfunctioning roller coaster, a streaming password crackdown that feels like a mugging. But every so often, a corporation aims higher—producing an operatic self-own so baroque it deserves its own tragic score. Thus we arrive…
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Government Shutdown or Trump’s Hostage Crisis? Why a Blank Check Is Signing Off on Fascism
Shutdowns are the cheapest trick in Washington’s self-destructive playbook. When the lights dim and federal workers line up for IOUs instead of paychecks, when parks shutter and inspectors vanish, it’s not governance—it’s hostage theater. And here we are again, staring down another government shutdown, a ritual that has grown so common it has its own…
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Tariff Tsunami: Trump’s Import Spike Crushes Farms, Homes & Health
It is not hyperbole to say that on one cheerful afternoon in late September, President Trump rolled out a tariff package that feels like a slow-motion economic apocalypse. Effective October 1, the administration slapped a 100 percent tariff on pharmaceutical drugs, 50 percent on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30 percent on upholstered furniture, and…
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South Park Season 27 Skewers Trump, Satan, Carr & Noem — It’s Political Satire on Steroids
South Park is back. And this season, it’s swinging harder than ever — not content to linger in the margins, the show has waded into naked deepfakes, Satanic pregnancies, face-melting governors, ICE raids that include dogs, CPC principal rebirths, and a nonstop blitz of Trump-era parody across every frame. If you’re keeping score, here’s your…
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DOJ vs. Soros: The Loyalty Test Disguised as Law
It begins, as these things always do, with a memo. Not a law passed by Congress, not a court case argued in daylight, but a crisp, bureaucratic directive—parchment as performance art. On September 25, 2025, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, Aakash Singh, quietly sent word to at least seven U.S.…
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Hegseth Summons 800 Generals to Quantico—Because Email Just Didn’t Feel Authoritarian Enough
What does it look like when a secretary of defense decides he wants to gather every general and admiral—flag officers from one-star upward—from across the globe and call them into a mystery meeting with zero explanation? In America 2025, it looks like a power play dressed in uniform. It looks like a dress rehearsal for…