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Marjorie Taylor Greene Discovers Health Care Costs Money: A MAGA Swan Breaks Formation
If you’ve been wondering what happens when a political creature of pure MAGA instinct suddenly develops a pre-existing condition called “reality,” you need look no further than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent metamorphosis. NBC News reported on October 9, 2025, that Greene—yes, the same woman who once made headlines for chasing David Hogg through Capitol
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Liberty Vote or Liberty Lost? Why Dominion’s Sale to a GOP-Led Company Should Make Us All Nervous
On October 9, 2025, the Associated Press confirmed what election administrators had been whispering about: Dominion Voting Systems—the same company dragged through the mud with lies about 2020—has been sold. The buyer? Liberty Vote, a newly formed company led by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and founder of pollbook vendor KNOWiNK. The purchase
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Letters From the Border, Echoes in Rome: Pope Leo XIV vs. Operation Midway Blitz
If you want to know how power really moves in 2025, don’t watch the tank convoys rolling down Chicago boulevards or the ICE jackets fanning out across El Paso school zones. Watch instead the moment when a packet of handwritten letters from parish shelters in Texas and New Mexico lands on the Pope’s desk in
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When DHS Becomes the PR Department for Trump’s Enforcers: Zach Bryan, “Bad News,” and the Federal Trolling Tour
Country music has always had a rebellious streak—train lines, stolen kisses, dusty roads, heartbreak. But when your protest song provokes the Department of Homeland Security to scrap together a montage of ICE raids and set them to your chorus, you’ve officially crossed from troubadour to target. On October 8, 2025, Axios dropped a story that
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Trump’s Secret Messaging Ministry: When Truth Social Becomes the Oval Office’s Broken Pager
Once upon a time, presidents used secure lines, classified document systems, and the color-coded envelopes of official communication. Now, Donald Trump apparently prefers his cabinet to conspire via Truth Social direct messages. That’s not just sloppy—it’s a violation of everything grownups in government swear by. Using a public social app as a back-channel is like
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The Party of No Consequences: Why Approval Ratings Are a Dead Metric in a Dead Democracy
There was a time back when reality TV was still filmed in actual mansions and not in crumbling democracies that people used to care about approval ratings. Pollsters would trot out their little charts, cable news would plaster bar graphs across the chyron like an EKG of democracy itself, and voters would argue about whether
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Trump’s Jail Talk: When Presidents Play Sheriff of Dissent
It starts, as so many American breakdowns do now, with a social media post typed out between the golf course and the motorcade. On October 8, 2025, President Donald Trump fired off on Truth Social that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “should be in jail” for “failing to protect ICE Officers.” He added, as a flourish,
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America’s Great Sleepwalk Amongst Fascism: Snoring Through the Funeral of Democracy
The first rule of dying democracies is that nobody notices until the casket is already lowered into the ground. By then, the guests are too busy checking their phones to clap, or to care, or to even remember whose funeral they’re attending. America, it turns out, is the kind of family that shows up late
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The Art of the Pardon: Trump, Maxwell, and the Cult of Selective Mercy
October 7, 2025. Mark it. That was the day Michael Wolff—yes, the man who has made a career spelunking through Trump’s psyche like it’s a haunted mineshaft—announced to The Daily Beast that a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell could be coming “as soon as this week.” Not next month, not in a season finale cliffhanger, but
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The AI Boom’s Cisco Moment: Seventh-Inning Hype with Dot-Com Déjà Vu
If the stock market were a baseball game, investors in Nvidia and the broader AI trade would be screaming from the bleachers, “Relax, we’re still warming up!” But Lisa Shalett of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management begs to differ. In an October 7 Fortune interview, she invoked a metaphor that landed like a bucket of ice