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  • “You’re on Your Own, Kid”: The Chaos That Would Follow Killing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

    “You’re on Your Own, Kid”: The Chaos That Would Follow Killing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

    Picture it: You wake up tomorrow and the Affordable Care Act—the rickety scaffolding that keeps our health-care carnival from collapsing—has vanished overnight. No repeal-and-replace. No Medicare-for-All sequel. Just an empty folder where your coverage used to live, and a nation of 330 million people standing in line at CVS holding expired insurance cards and prayer

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  • Big Raid on Canal Street: When the Counterfeit Crackdown Looks More Like Occupation

    Big Raid on Canal Street: When the Counterfeit Crackdown Looks More Like Occupation

    There’s something disquieting about seeing dozens of federal agents—batons, rifles, zip-ties, armored vehicles—rolling onto a stretch of Manhattan known for knock-off handbags and street vendors, rather than insurgents. On October 21, 2025, in an operation that looked less like “intelligence-driven enforcement” and more like “military parade meets commerce,” ICE and a coalition of federal agencies

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  • Grift Nation: Inside the Cash Streams of a $0 Paycheck Trump Presidency

    Grift Nation: Inside the Cash Streams of a $0 Paycheck Trump Presidency

    He brags he doesn’t take a salary, then turns the presidency into a cashback card with no limit—platform settlements, sovereign “gifts,” crypto windfalls, donor dinners, family funds, and hotel invoices humming like slot machines—daring the country to mistake a press release for ethics. He wants the zero to glow like a halo. He holds it

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  • Fascism, ‘Woke,’ and $7 Lattes: How We Got Played While the Billionaires Cashed In

    Fascism, ‘Woke,’ and $7 Lattes: How We Got Played While the Billionaires Cashed In

    From immigration panics to crime bait, the outrage machine drowns out the boring policies that actually save you money. A love letter to boring policies in a country addicted to feelings “Kitchen table issues” sounds like a placemat you forgot to rinse. It lands in the brain like a PSA about flossing. Everyone nods at

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  • Make a Deal or Do Nothing: Trump Offered Ukraine a Vacation Plan Instead of Victory

    Make a Deal or Do Nothing: Trump Offered Ukraine a Vacation Plan Instead of Victory

    There’s something profound in watching the world’s guarantor of sovereignty sketch out the fine print of an occupier’s victory and call it diplomacy. In a charged White House session, Donald Trump pressed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept a cease-fire that freezes the war along current battle lines and floated a territorial swap handing Vladimir Putin the

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  • The Church of Selective Justice: Saint George of Santos and the Gospel of Trumpian Mercy

    The Church of Selective Justice: Saint George of Santos and the Gospel of Trumpian Mercy

    There are miracles, and then there are Trump-era miracles — the kind that make you question if God outsourced justice to a reality show producer. George Santos, the man who lied about everything from his résumé to his existence as a mammal capable of shame, just walked out of federal prison after less than three

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  • Is America Replaying 1930s Germany? Trump, Fascism, and the Creep We Pretend Not to See

    Is America Replaying 1930s Germany? Trump, Fascism, and the Creep We Pretend Not to See

    I remember sitting in history class as a kid and staring at the photos they always brought out for the chapter on Germany, the ones with the flags and the straight lines and the faces that were either rapturous or empty, and thinking how did they let this happen. I was convinced there must have

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  • Admiral Overboard: How to Lose a War Before It Starts When You Bomb People Illegally

    Admiral Overboard: How to Lose a War Before It Starts When You Bomb People Illegally

    Admiral Alvin Holsey’s early retirement announcement landed with the subtlety of a depth charge. The commander of U.S. Southern Command—one of the most experienced and respected flag officers in the Navy—is stepping down two years early, just as the Caribbean simmers with covert operations, disputed maritime strikes, and the growing sense that the United States

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  • Trump’s Failing Ceasefire That’s Cosplaying As A Peace Plan

    Trump’s Failing Ceasefire That’s Cosplaying As A Peace Plan

    At the midpoint between “mission accomplished” and “please hold,” the Gaza ceasefire now lives in the liminal space where optimism is just fatigue wearing better clothes. Cameras caught the handshakes, the solemn statements, the flags arranged like theater props—but now the applause has faded, and the work has begun to creak under its own paperwork.

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  • The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot

    The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot

    Every few years, America remembers that it is technically a democracy, dusts off its maps, and starts drawing lines like a toddler with too many crayons and not enough supervision. This week, that coloring session moved to the Supreme Court, where the justices heard oral arguments in the latest Voting Rights Act showdown out of

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