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The Land Of The Free-Fire Zone: AMERICA’S NEW FEDERAL STREET THEATER

If the original American dream was that you could own a home, plant a tree, and not get gassed by your own government on a weeknight, that fantasy met its final act this month in the East Side of Chicago. A red SUV, a white SUV, a handful of agents playing Fast & Furious: Sanctuary
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Russia Doesn’t Find Tomahawks Amus: Trump’s War of Revelation

It begins, as all global crises now do, with a push notification and an open microphone. President Donald Trump, standing at a White House podium flanked by flags and self-importance, threatened to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine unless Vladimir Putin “ended the invasion immediately.” In Trump’s world, diplomacy is performance art—equal parts bluster, bluff, and
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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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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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Grand Juries & Grandstanding: The Imminent Indictment of John Bolton and the Weaponization of Justice

On the heels of a government shutdown, a stock market trembling under tariff scares, and a political climate so charged it could detonate, comes news that seems tailor-made for the age of rival prosecutions: former National Security Adviser John Bolton is expected to be indicted as early as next week. FBI agents searched his Maryland
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Tariff Tango: Trump’s “100% China Tax” Threat and the Market’s Murmur of Mayhem

If you ever wondered how quickly a global economy can go from “steady simmer” to “rolling boil,” welcome to the October 2025 edition. Beijing quietly dropped new export controls on rare earths. Trump responded by threatening a blanket 100 percent tariff on all Chinese imports beginning Nov. 1 (or “sooner,” depending on China’s mood). He



