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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 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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  • ICE Storm: Trump, Kristi Noem, and the Great Chicago Occupation

    ICE Storm: Trump, Kristi Noem, and the Great Chicago Occupation

    The Trump administration has a way of treating cities like wayward children—Chicago most of all. For decades, conservative politicians have invoked it as shorthand for chaos, crime, and everything wrong with “blue America.” To them, Chicago is less a place where millions of people live, work, and build lives, and more a stage for proving

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  • Trump’s Executive Order to Federalize Elections: Democracy’s Paper Cut

    Trump’s Executive Order to Federalize Elections: Democracy’s Paper Cut

    The great thing about American democracy is that it’s supposed to be decentralized. States set the rules, counties run the polls, and federal courts swoop in every so often to remind Florida it cannot legally stage a coup in its public libraries. But Donald Trump, never one for details like the Constitution, has now declared

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  • 107 Days Without Protection: Kamala Harris and the Trump Doctrine of Spite

    107 Days Without Protection: Kamala Harris and the Trump Doctrine of Spite

    On August 29, 2025, President Donald J. Trump did something both petty and perilous, which, to be fair, is his governing style. He revoked the Secret Service protection of former Vice President Kamala Harris—effective September 1—just as she prepares to launch her 107 Days book tour. The timing is not coincidence. It is choreography. Harris

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  • Welcome to Visa Purgatory: Where Degrees Expire Before You Do

    Welcome to Visa Purgatory: Where Degrees Expire Before You Do

    In late August 2025, while half the country was still coughing on wildfire smoke and the other half was adjusting to troops parked in their capitals, the Trump administration slipped in a bureaucratic bombshell. The Department of Homeland Security quietly proposed new rules that would gut the long-standing “duration of status” system for international students

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  • The CDC Purge: When Science Got Fired by Press Release

    The CDC Purge: When Science Got Fired by Press Release

    In the latest American remake of Night of the Long Knives, the White House traded soldiers for scientists and staged the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez like it was an HR issue instead of a constitutional one. On August 27, 2025, less than a month into her tenure, Monarez was dismissed for the crime

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  • Chicago Doesn’t Need an Occupation, but Trump Wants a Backdrop

    Chicago Doesn’t Need an Occupation, but Trump Wants a Backdrop

    On August 28, 2025, while most of the country was still digesting the last “crime emergency” episode in Washington, the Trump administration quietly started drafting a sequel. This time, the stage is Chicago. The proposal: turn Naval Station Great Lakes—a training hub for sailors just north of the city—into a makeshift operations center for ICE

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  • “Law and Order” or Martial Theater? Trump’s Crime Emergency in D.C.

    “Law and Order” or Martial Theater? Trump’s Crime Emergency in D.C.

    On August 11, 2025, Donald J. Trump declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., and like every pageant he has ever hosted, it was less about substance than spectacle. With the flourish of a reality TV host in his twilight season, he seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department, flooded the streets with National Guard

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