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Resistance Cities Under Siege: Targeting Suggests “Feature, Not Bug” Fascism
What do Portland, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, and Memphis have in common? Not just good food, iconic skylines, or an endless supply of artists who never get paid on time. No, their shared distinction is more sinister: each is a bullseye on the Trump administration’s dartboard of dissent. If you’ve noticed that raids, patrols,
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Russ Vought, Shutdown Maestro: How the Ideologue Became Executioner
If ever a man wore his ambition like armor, it is Russell “Russ” Vought. In the span of a government shutdown’s heartbeat, the OMB director transformed from policy wonk to de facto czar of executive re-engineering. The BBC’s profile of him on October 3, 2025, paints Vought not just as the architect behind Project 2025,
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Midway Blitz: When Chicago Became a Raid Zone
Chicago has always been a stage. The Loop, the Magnificent Mile, the riverwalk—backdrops for theater, protest, commerce. But in early October 2025, that stage changed. Operation Midway Blitz, a Department of Homeland Security crackdown, escalated from dramatic waterfront patrols to door-kicking raids in neighborhood after neighborhood. It was as if someone had decided that Chicago
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Lutnick, Loudmouth: How the Commerce Secretary Doesn’t Following The Epstein Trump Line
Let’s begin by acknowledging how truly absurd this feels. In the middle of a government shutdown, with climate projects canceled and agencies limping in partial darkness, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick chose today to step into a conspiracy swamp wearing clown shoes. As reported by ABC News, he publicly elected to call Jeffrey Epstein “the greatest
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The Shutdown Kings: This Was The GOP’s Project 2025 Plan All Along
It is a curious thing to watch a political party hold every lever of government power—White House, Senate, House of Representatives, and Supreme Court—then turn to the public with the wide eyes of a hostage negotiator and insist that it is someone else’s fault they cannot govern. It is like inheriting the keys to the
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Project 2025 Becomes Government Shutdown Gospel
It took exactly two days. Forty-eight hours into a shutdown that had already darkened laboratories, silenced grant pipelines, and furloughed three-quarters of a million civil servants, the White House finally dropped its pretense. What was once billed as a think-tank fantasy, a right-wing wish list too radical for the campaign trail, was suddenly elevated to
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The $2.1 Billion Hold: How Chicago’s Subway Became a Political Pawn
When the federal government freezes $2.1 billion meant for Chicago’s transit infrastructure, it does more than delay train cars. It broadcasts a message: your city’s progress must pass Washington’s purity test. On October 3, the White House announced that funds earmarked for the Red Line Extension and Red & Purple Modernization were “put on hold
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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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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