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  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Science: The Senate Hearing That Doubled as a Public Health Funeral

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Science: The Senate Hearing That Doubled as a Public Health Funeral

    On September 4, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—yes, that Kennedy, now moonlighting as the nation’s Health and Human Services Secretary—sat before the Senate Finance Committee for a grilling so blistering it should’ve required SPF 100. What unfolded was three hours of bipartisan carnage, a hearing less about policy than about the collective horror of watching

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  • Jimmy Kimmel vs. The Delicate, Chubby Little Teacup

    Jimmy Kimmel vs. The Delicate, Chubby Little Teacup

    On September 2, 2025, Jimmy Kimmel returned from a two-month vacation and delivered a monologue so sharp you could butter your toast with it. He didn’t just dip into politics. He torched the President of the United States with the glee of a man who’d been storing up insults in a Notes app all summer.

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  • Trump vs. Harvard: When Federal Grants Become Campaign Props

    Trump vs. Harvard: When Federal Grants Become Campaign Props

    On September 3, 2025, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs did something rare in modern America: she called bullshit in a ruling and put the federal government back in its constitutional corner. Her decision ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in research grants to Harvard, a freeze that was less about academic

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  • From Chicago to the Crescent City: Trump’s Traveling Law-and-Order Roadshow

    From Chicago to the Crescent City: Trump’s Traveling Law-and-Order Roadshow

    On September 3, 2025, President Trump announced that New Orleans—yes, the city of brass bands, beignets, and waterlines nobody can forget—was next on his federal “law-and-order” tour. Fresh off threatening Chicago with “National Guard domination” and still basking in the glow of his unprecedented takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police force, Trump pivoted south, declaring that

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  • When the Music Stops: America’s Job Market Plays Musical Chairs with No Extra Chairs

    When the Music Stops: America’s Job Market Plays Musical Chairs with No Extra Chairs

    On September 3, 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did something rare: it delivered a plot twist. The newest JOLTS report showed that job openings slipped to 7.181 million in July, falling below the roughly 7.2 million unemployed Americans for the first time since April 2021. Translation: there are now more people looking for chairs

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  • Cash Me Outside the Constitution: How the Presidency Became Trump’s Most Profitable Side Hustle

    The polite version says markets respond to policy. The honest version says markets respond to who writes the policy—and whether he’s already holding the bag you’re about to fill. On September 1–2, 2025, the Trump family’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial flicked its neon “OPEN” sign, listing the $WLFI token across major exchanges and conjuring

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  • The Hypersonic Parade: Beijing’s Memory War in 4K

    The Hypersonic Parade: Beijing’s Memory War in 4K

    On September 3, 2025, Beijing decided history was too important to leave to textbooks—or perhaps too fragile. The 80th anniversary of Japan’s WWII surrender was reimagined as a Victory Day military parade so vast it made even the most overproduced Marvel finale look subtle. The setting: Tiananmen Square. The guest list: Xi Jinping, flanked like

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  • The 33,295-Page Transparency Illusion: Congress Dumps Paper, Not Truth, on the Epstein Files

    The 33,295-Page Transparency Illusion: Congress Dumps Paper, Not Truth, on the Epstein Files

    Transparency, we are told, is democracy’s disinfectant. Shine light on the secrets, cleanse the rot, and let citizens bask in the glow of accountability. On September 2, 2025, Chairman James Comer’s GOP-led House Oversight Committee took that adage and set it on fire, dumping 33,295 pages of Jeffrey Epstein–related records into the public sphere. Thirty-three

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  • Workers Over Billionaires: Labor Day as America’s Awkward Family Reunion

    Workers Over Billionaires: Labor Day as America’s Awkward Family Reunion

    On September 1, 2025—Labor Day— America finally remembered what the holiday was supposed to be about: not barbecue sales at Home Depot, not posting an “end of summer” bikini pic, but actual workers demanding rights. Thousands marched in hundreds to 1,000+ “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies nationwide. The very phrase carried its own absurd poetry. Workers.

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  • SNL at 50: The Joke That Outlived the Punchline

    SNL at 50: The Joke That Outlived the Punchline

    When Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975, the country had just watched Nixon resign, Vietnam collapse, and disco rise. The show was a weekly release valve, part sketch comedy, part cultural exorcism. It wasn’t supposed to last—it was literally called “Saturday Night” because NBC needed to plug a hole in the schedule. Five decades later,

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