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Chicago as Training Ground: A Federal Dress Rehearsal in Urban Camouflage
What is a city for, if not shopping, dining, living, and occasionally being transformed into a federal obstacle course? Chicago, always known for deep-dish pizza and mobster clichés, has now been recast as the Pentagon’s favorite indoor paintball arena. Only this time the paintball guns are real rifles, and the “players” are U.S. citizens unlucky
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Hollywood Reboots Its Own Resistance: Jane Fonda’s Anti Fascism Committee for the First Amendment Returns
The ghosts of the blacklist just got company. On October 1, 2025, Jane Fonda—the 87-year-old icon, activist, and daughter of Henry Fonda—took the stage again not to accept awards, but to launch a new front in a culture war over dissent. She resurrected the Committee for the First Amendment, originally conceived in 1947 to fight
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The Reboot Nobody Ordered: Make America Sick Again
It is 2025, and America has managed to drag an old virus out of retirement like a boy band on a nostalgia tour. Not the fun kind of reboot—no slick streaming revival, no “Measles: The Musical.” This is a disease revival, unwanted, unnecessary, and entirely predictable. The CDC’s latest report confirms 1,544 measles cases so
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Shut It Down (to “Save” ACA): Democrats’ Gambit or Political Pyrrhic Victory?
When the federal lights went dark at 12:01 a.m., they went dark not from incompetence but by design. On Day One of the shutdown, Democrats—led by Schumer and Jeffries—did something rare: they leaned into it. They embraced disruption as leverage. They would treat a government shutdown not as failure, but battlefield, by insisting that any
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Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats
The shutdown was supposed to be about budgets. Instead, it has become a bonfire of the civil service, and the match is being struck in Russ Vought’s hand. On the first day of the shutdown, he told House Republicans that mass firings would begin “in a day or two.” This wasn’t speculation. He described a
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If MAGA thinks the New Pope is Woke, Wait Till They Read About Jesus
Picture this: the White House is stressed, Chicago is festering under federal patrols, Republicans are fighting over funding bills, and in strolls Pope Leo XIV—America’s first pontiff—to disrupt the script. His declaration is simple and seismic: being “pro-life” cannot exempt cruelty toward immigrants. To sanction inhumane migration policy, he says, is to undercut life itself.
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Fascism Shutdown Theater 2025: America’s 12:01 Curtain Call
The clock struck midnight, and instead of turning into a pumpkin, the U.S. government simply turned off. It wasn’t glamorous—no fireworks, no champagne, just a cold 12:01 a.m. ET at which point 750,000 federal workers were told to “take an unpaid vacation” and the rest of us were instructed to marvel at how “fiscal discipline”
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Summoning the Generals: A Military Summit or a Coup Dress Rehearsal?
On September 30, 2025, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, something happened that will never feel routine. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presided over a convocation of roughly 700–800 of America’s highest military officers—generals, admirals, senior enlisted advisers—flown from around the globe on short notice. Why? To hear a plan: use U.S. cities
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Trump at Quantico: A Live Lie Broadcast—And the Camera Didn’t Stop Rolling
He stood before a sea of stars and bars and medals—generals, admirals, the brass elite—at Marine Corps Base Quantico. The optics were as cinematic as any rally: the uniforms glinting, the flags waving, the towers of power gathered in homage. Into that tableau walked Donald Trump, armed with a speech filled with rhetorical grenades. According
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Shutdown Showdown: When the Federal Lights Flicker, Standing Ground Might Be the Only Power Move Left
Washington, D.C. — the unfortunate date when “the lights go out” became literal again. After the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending bill, the White House ordered agencies to activate shutdown protocols at exactly 12:01 a.m. on October 1. Through memos from OMB and OPM invoking the Antideficiency Act, the chaos began: mass furloughs,