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The Shutdown That Ate Democracy’s Homework: A Love Letter to Gridlock, Delusion, and the Filibuster Fetishists
There is a certain kind of American absurdity that only blossoms when the government is closed, the airports are melting down, and someone in the Senate has started speaking of the filibuster as if it is a religious relic discovered deep beneath the floor of the Capitol. You can almost set your watch by it.
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Trump’s Hunger Games Presidency Hits the Supreme Court
When the most powerful man in the world fights for the right to starve his own people There are many ways a civilization can measure its decline. Breadlines. Infrastructure decay. Reality-TV personalities winning office. But there is something uniquely cursed about a United States president who refuses to pay out SNAP benefits during a shutdown,
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Trump Says “Everything Is Fine” As The Cost Of Living Sky Rockets And Jobs Disappear
When reality raises the bill, you can gaslight the country or govern for it. Doing both is not a plan. The country knows the difference between a sales pitch and a receipt. We have been stuck in the pitch again, the kind where a leader tries to hypnotize prices into behaving by announcing that they
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The Prosecutor Who Wasn’t There: Trump’s DOJ, James Comey, and the Case of the Missing Lawful Appointment
At some point, the Department of Justice stopped pretending to be about justice and started acting like a casting call for vengeance. This week, a federal judge finally noticed. In the Trump Justice Department’s long-running revenge play against former FBI Director James Comey, the court pressed pause—not on the facts, not on the charges, but
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The Morning After the Wave: Trump’s Truth Social Tantrum and the Art of Governing by Gripe
There is a sound that follows defeat, and it is not silence. It is the clattering of a smartphone in the small hours, the electronic cough of a man refreshing his own reflection. The morning after Democrats’ big wins, while New York was still sweeping up confetti and poll workers were still drinking reheated coffee,
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Hunger as Leverage: The White House’s Calculated Pause of SNAP During the Shutdown
Turning food aid into a bargaining chip, and calling it fiscal responsibility Here is the grotesque irony of the 2025 federal shutdown: the largest food-aid program in the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), serving roughly forty-two million Americans, was treated not as a lifeline but as a cudgel. When the walls came
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Competence Wins a News Cycle: The Week Democrats Made Normal Look Radically Blue
For once, America looked up from its collective doom scroll and saw something profoundly un-American by recent standards: functioning democracy. No coups, no indictments, no men in designer flak jackets shouting about tyranny from podcast studios. Just elections that ran, counted, and ended with results that made sense. Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s first
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The Night New York Chose Hope Over Fear And Turned Zohran Mamdani’s Microphone On
A working city ignored a presidential threat, shrugged at nostalgia, and handed the job to a 34-year-old borough organizer who treated power like a verb. The story begins the way most power stories do, inside a pressure chamber. A president raised the cost of defiance on a city he does not love. A former governor
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The Epstein Ballroom: How Trump Bulldozed the People’s House for His Corporate Coronation
There are many ways to announce the end of an era. Some presidents sign bills, others write memoirs. Donald Trump brought in the bulldozers. Last month, under the glare of work lights and the applause of donors, the East Wing of the White House collapsed into dust, making way for what the administration calls the
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Hunger as Policy: The Cruel Arithmetic of Trump’s SNAP Shutdown
It is an extraordinary thing to watch a government starve its own people on purpose. Not by accident, not by miscalculation, but by decision. That is what the Trump administration’s “SNAP half-payment plan” has become: the state using hunger as leverage, a quiet weapon dressed up in bureaucratic language. Officials call it “necessity.” Economists call