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  • Pam Bondi’s Great Stonewall Revue: How to Say Nothing for Hours While Redecorating the Constitution

    Pam Bondi’s Great Stonewall Revue: How to Say Nothing for Hours While Redecorating the Constitution

    On October 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi finally got her Senate Judiciary oversight debut. The cameras rolled. The senators fanned themselves like gossipy dowagers. Bondi smiled that Florida-gated-community smile—the one that says I have seen the HOA bylaws and I intend to enforce them with prejudice. For hours, she spoke in what can only

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  • The Supreme Court’s New Term: Now Playing, the Trump Cinematic Universe of Unlimited Power

    The Supreme Court’s New Term: Now Playing, the Trump Cinematic Universe of Unlimited Power

    On October 6, 2025, the United States Supreme Court flung open its majestic marble doors to launch the 2025–26 term, and the BBC wasted no time pointing out what the docket really is: a season pass to the Trump Expanded Universe, where executive power is both the script and the punchline. Forget your garden-variety disputes

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  • “Democrat Layoffs” and the Great Shutdown Purge

    “Democrat Layoffs” and the Great Shutdown Purge

    Day five of the shutdown, and the White House’s playbook just got darker. At 12:01 a.m. on October 1, federal funding lapsed. By October 5, director Kevin Hassett appeared on State of the Union to publicly warn: yes, mass federal layoffs could begin—if Trump deems negotiations “going nowhere.” He framed this as a conditional escalation,

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  • Operation Midway Blitz: Chicago as Stage Set for a Border War

    Operation Midway Blitz: Chicago as Stage Set for a Border War

    The federal government has never met a metaphor it did not try to literalize. If “war on drugs” produced tanks in Los Angeles neighborhoods, and “war on terror” created airports that feel like holding cells, then it should surprise no one that “immigration enforcement” has been rebranded as a campaign named after a Pacific naval

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  • “You’ll Still Be Paid”—But the Pentagon Says Nope: The Trump Shutdown Delusion

    “You’ll Still Be Paid”—But the Pentagon Says Nope: The Trump Shutdown Delusion

    At a Navy ceremony touting 250 years of might, President Trump looked out over ranks of sailors and Marines and vowed: despite the government shutdown, service members “will still be paid”—teasing raises and calling the promise ironclad. Watching that, one might imagine gold coins raining from the sky onto fatigued boots. But the legal landscape

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  • Pentagon bypass 2.0: Trump’s Guard Swap to Portland, Court Orders, and a Coup in Blue States

    Pentagon bypass 2.0: Trump’s Guard Swap to Portland, Court Orders, and a Coup in Blue States

    Every once in a while, power shifts so quickly it looks like smoke. On October 5, 2025, reports broke that President Donald Trump had moved to federalize and send out-of-state Guard troops—specifically from California—to Portland, Oregon, circumventing a court order and two governors’ objections. Federal spokesmen claimed 200–300 California National Guard would deploy to protect

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  • Speaker Johnson’s Imaginary Health Plan: How to Invent a Shutdown Crisis in One Sound Bite

    Speaker Johnson’s Imaginary Health Plan: How to Invent a Shutdown Crisis in One Sound Bite

    The playbook is simple. Find a bureaucratic chart so boring it could put actuaries to sleep, then scream into a cable-news camera that it means “Democrats are shutting down the government to give illegal immigrants free health care.” If you’re lucky, you’ll trend on X by lunchtime. If you’re Mike Johnson, you repeat it on

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  • Court of Maximum Ambition: How the Supreme Court Became the President’s Side Hustle

    Court of Maximum Ambition: How the Supreme Court Became the President’s Side Hustle

    The curtain rises on a new Supreme Court term, and the docket does not so much whisper “constitutional law” as scream “everything you thought had limits now up for grabs.” Imagine a roulette table where the chips are tariffs, citizenship, regulators, voting rights, sports teams, and campaign cash. The wheel spins, the croupier smirks, and

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  • The Guard Was Called (and Illinois Put On Notice)

    The Guard Was Called (and Illinois Put On Notice)

    The White House confirmed that the president authorized federalization of three hundred Illinois National Guard troops to “protect federal officers and assets” in Chicago. Governor J.B. Pritzker answered with fury, saying he had been handed a manufactured performance disguised as an ultimatum: activate the Guard himself or watch Washington seize control. The move followed a

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  • Brighton Park Shooting, Tear Gas, and the Shutdown Spectacle: How DHS Turned Chicago Into a Border War Zone

    Brighton Park Shooting, Tear Gas, and the Shutdown Spectacle: How DHS Turned Chicago Into a Border War Zone

    The city was promised patrols, deterrence, maybe a few stern traffic stops. What it got instead was a rolling combat scene: Border Patrol convoys pinned in, a U.S. citizen shot, a neighborhood suffocated in tear gas, and a shutdown government still finding time to flex its muscle in Brighton Park. It is the latest installment

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