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Where Did the Money Go, Don? The Great Trump Tariff Refund Panic
It’s hard to take a “billionaire” seriously when he keeps losing count of his billions. But here we are again, watching Donald Trump tell the country that if the Supreme Court rules against his tariffs, America will owe “three trillion dollars.” Three trillion. By breakfast, that number will probably be six. By dinner, he’ll say
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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
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We Learned Nothing From the 90s Internet Bubble: AI Is Going To Prematurely Ejaculate
There is something unsettling about watching the world’s most hyped technology industry behave exactly like every other bubble in history. You know the pattern: vast promises, endless capital, faith in new magical substance, followed by negligence of the plumbing, then collective shock when the bills hit. With AI right now we are already deep into
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The $100 K Trump Grift: How the H-1B Fee Doesn’t Solve the STEM Shortage, It Exports It
Picture this: the United States is a giant manufacturing plant filled with idle machinery, blinking warning lights and rusting gears. Somewhere, leadership is walking the floor with a cheery sign that says TALENT SHORTAGE. Meanwhile they close the door, raise the price for key workers, and then scratch their heads when the machines don’t run.
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Democrats Forfeit Shutdown, Filibuster Wins, Voters Get Empty Promises And Pain
If you start a fight you cannot win, you at least leave with a lesson, a villain, and a plan. Democrats left with none of the above and a press release that reads like surrender. I agree with Tim Miller and the Pod Save America bros on the core point. It was obvious from the
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Trump Tries To Probe More People Without Consent In Florida
There is a certain kind of breaking news alert that feels less like journalism and more like a smoke alarm that only goes off after the house is already engulfed. The latest comes from the Southern District of Florida, the federal jurisdiction that has spent the past decade juggling everything from Mar a Lago search
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Congress Invents a Cash Prize for Being Investigated, Because Nothing Says Accountability Like Suing the Government for Doing Its Job
There is a special kind of American hypocrisy that blossoms only when senators learn that the law, the boring gray machinery of subpoenas and court orders, might apply to them. It is the kind of hypocrisy that smells like cologne, leather briefcases, and fear. And here we are again, watching lawmakers sprint down the Capitol
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Pardonpalooza: Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card For Those Who Helped Him Try To Steal the 2020 Election
There comes a moment in every political season when you realize the country is not being governed so much as improv’d, and the cast has decided to try audience participation. The latest spectacle arrived with a flourish of parchment and a press release drafted in what appears to be the disappointed sigh of the rule
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Democratic Socialism Is Already in Your Pantry, Your Paycheck, and Your Potholes: A World Tour for Americans Who Still Think Norway Is a Marvel Villain
There is a particular genre of American political conversation that resurfaces every election cycle, usually somewhere between the moment a Democrat mentions healthcare and the moment a Republican begins sweating like someone asked him to define “GDP.” The conversation goes like this. One person suggests the United States might benefit from policies similar to those
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THE FORTY DAY SHUTDOWN THAT TAUGHT US NOTHING EXCEPT HOW FAST A SPINE CAN DISSOLVE
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles into the bones after a shutdown. Not the temporary kind that passes with a nap and a glass of water. The deeper kind. The kind that feels like a national hangover where the entire country wakes up at once and asks the same question in chorus: