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  • San Francisco: Elon Musk Says Send in the Troops, but Make It Disruptive

    San Francisco: Elon Musk Says Send in the Troops, but Make It Disruptive

    In a city famous for kombucha, kale, and kombucha-flavored kale, it was only a matter of time before San Francisco’s billionaires decided the next great innovation would be fascism—but with better UX. On October 12, 2025, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the unthinkable: Elon Musk and Marc Benioff, two of the Bay Area’s most inflated

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  • When the Cult of Personality Goes Biblical: Trump as the Antichrist (From An Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Such Things)

    When the Cult of Personality Goes Biblical: Trump as the Antichrist (From An Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Such Things)

    There’s an old superstition that when the world begins to eat itself, a showman appears to tell it the apocalypse is just a ratings opportunity. Even if you don’t believe in God, hell, or horned beasts rising from the sea, you have to admit that Donald Trump’s recent “peace deal” in the Middle East reads

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  • Sugar High or Crash Diet? How Sorkin Says AI Is Fueling America’s Next Reboot: 1929 Stock Market Crash

    Sugar High or Crash Diet? How Sorkin Says AI Is Fueling America’s Next Reboot: 1929 Stock Market Crash

    You knew it would happen: someone on 60 Minutes lifting it all up, peering into the neon smog of 2025, and muttering, “I think it’s a bubble.” That someone was Andrew Ross Sorkin. As markets wobble after tariff threats, Sorkin told Lesley Stahl that today’s economy is being propped up by an AI sugar rush—hundreds

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  • Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Congratulations, America. We’ve finally done it. We’ve brought back a disease that modern medicine already defeated when bell-bottoms were still a gleam in disco’s eye. Somewhere, Jonas Salk is shaking his head in the afterlife, muttering, “I leave you people alone for sixty years and you start playing Oregon Trail again.” According to NPR, the

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  • Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says

    Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says

    Somewhere between your tenth doomscroll of the morning and your third attempt to remember which war we’re supposed to care about this week, PBS quietly aired the most important documentary of the decade — Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 — and almost no one noticed, because there wasn’t a trailer trending on TikTok. It’s a film

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  • JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos: Cut to Commercial The New Language of Transparency

    JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos: Cut to Commercial The New Language of Transparency

    It’s a rare thing to see George Stephanopoulos lose patience. The man has survived a decade of D.C. gaslighting and several hundred Trump surrogates without cracking. But on This Week, the famously unflappable anchor finally snapped. He’d spent five full minutes trying to extract a yes or no answer from Vice President JD Vance about

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  • Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog

    Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog

    It’s 2025, and in Portland, resistance now comes with a soundtrack and a splash zone. The city once branded a “war zone” by right-wing commentators has become something else entirely—a performance art piece starring inflatable amphibians, unicorns, and a surprising number of sharks. The Portland ICE facility—once the backdrop for grim standoffs and militarized optics—has

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  • The AI Bubble Is Eating the Economy Alive (and Still Asking for Dessert)

    The AI Bubble Is Eating the Economy Alive (and Still Asking for Dessert)

    There’s a fine line between innovation and collective delusion, and we are currently sprinting across it in a pair of $2,000 AI-branded sneakers financed at 22 percent APR. Fortune’s latest interview with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO Lisa Shalett reads less like financial analysis and more like a desperate intervention at an industry support group.

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  • The Courts Remind Trump: You Can’t Patrol Someone Else’s Streets

    The Courts Remind Trump: You Can’t Patrol Someone Else’s Streets

    The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t throw a parade for Illinois, but it handed the Trump administration a powerful timeout. On October 11, 2025, the court largely upheld Judge April Perry’s emergency order blocking President Trump from deploying National Guard troops into Chicago and the rest of Illinois—but with a twist. Yes, the

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  • $2 Trillion in Market Value and Trump’s Truth Social Post Walk Into a Bar

    $2 Trillion in Market Value and Trump’s Truth Social Post Walk Into a Bar

    If the stock market had a safe word, it would’ve screamed it yesterday. In a single trading session, nearly $2 trillion in U.S. market value evaporated after President Donald Trump decided to use Truth Social like it was a nuclear launch console, announcing a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports and tighter export controls. CNBC

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