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  • Trump Tariff Tantrum: How “Make It Here” Became “Pay More There”

    Trump Tariff Tantrum: How “Make It Here” Became “Pay More There”

    It’s a strange feeling to live inside a macroeconomic cautionary tale while your grocery receipt doubles as documentation. From North Carolina’s Walmarts to Oregon’s farmers’ markets, the new national pastime isn’t baseball—it’s comparing the price of eggs like it’s insider trading. Somewhere between the auto aisle and the frozen section, America’s grand experiment in “decouple-by-diktat”

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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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  • Ceasefire on Tap: How Gaza’s “Pause” Turned Into a Sistema of Suspended Violence

    Ceasefire on Tap: How Gaza’s “Pause” Turned Into a Sistema of Suspended Violence

    There’s a baffling rhythm to modern war: the violence pauses, the cameras blink once, and the scoreboard resets—but nothing actually changes. On October 17, after Israeli officials claimed Hamas fighters killed two Israeli soldiers near Rafah and breached the U.S.–brokered truce, Israel launched what it called its heaviest wave of post-ceasefire airstrikes—targeting tunnels, weapons sites,

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  • Trump the Wannabe King and the Sludge: A Royal Flush from the Sky of Delusion

    Trump the Wannabe King and the Sludge: A Royal Flush from the Sky of Delusion

    Some men crave legacy. Others crave power. And then there are those who crave the cinematic experience of dumping digital sewage on protesters while “Danger Zone” blares in the background. Donald J. Trump, patron saint of grievance and green screen, has once again redefined leadership—not as the art of governance, but as a content genre.

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  • Operation Campaign Reel: The War That Started Because Trump Got Bored on a Yacht

    Operation Campaign Reel: The War That Started Because Trump Got Bored on a Yacht

    The Caribbean has always had a cinematic allure: turquoise water, tropical breezes, and now, apparently, a naval blockade that could double as the trailer for a Michael Bay reboot of Bay of Pigs. Since early September, President Donald Trump has pushed the United States to the brink of open war with Venezuela, cloaking the move

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  • Shutdown, Smear, & Scapegoat: How GOP Messaging Became the Crisis

    Shutdown, Smear, & Scapegoat: How GOP Messaging Became the Crisis

    There’s something theatrically grotesque about a nation grinding to a halt while its communications director snarls into a microphone that the party in control of half the electorate is really a coalition of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” On October 17, 2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt breathed those words on Fox

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  • Artillery Over the 405: America’s Longest Traffic Jam Turns Into a Military Parade

    Artillery Over the 405: America’s Longest Traffic Jam Turns Into a Military Parade

    There’s something quintessentially American about the sight of artillery fire streaking across a highway full of Teslas. It’s not just the juxtaposition of power and paralysis, of steel ambition and rubberized helplessness—it’s that we managed to turn an interstate into a battlefield metaphor without even noticing. On October 18, 2025, California drivers got front-row seats

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  • No Kings Day: America Remembers We Do Not Bow To Authoritarian Rule

    No Kings Day: America Remembers We Do Not Bow To Authoritarian Rule

    I woke to drums on my phone, not the kind that say war, the kind that say get dressed. Somewhere a sousaphone blared and a snare line snapped, and every clip in my feed looked like a country remembering how to count. A multi-city rhythm rose up from breakfast tables and bus stops and union

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  • The Crown and the Comb-Over: Trump’s Tragic Game of Thrones Cosplay Just In Time For No Kings Day

    The Crown and the Comb-Over: Trump’s Tragic Game of Thrones Cosplay Just In Time For No Kings Day

    There’s a certain poetry to watching a man confuse his own delusion for destiny. Donald J. Trump, reality television’s answer to a Greek tragedy, seems to believe he’s Daenerys Targaryen: the wronged ruler, exiled from his throne, fated to return on the backs of dragons—or in his case, a fleet of golf carts wrapped in

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  • Trump Justice Department’s Loyalty Program: Prosecuting Critics for Points

    Trump Justice Department’s Loyalty Program: Prosecuting Critics for Points

    There’s something almost admirable about the efficiency of it all. America’s justice system, once the weary guardian of impartial law, now runs like a Vegas rewards app for political vendettas. Axios’ reporting on the “enemies to defendants” scoreboard inside Trump’s Justice Department reads like dystopian fan fiction written by a disbarred screenwriter who found QAnon

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