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  • Federal Government Shut Down is Trump’s Trojan Horse

    Federal Government Shut Down is Trump’s Trojan Horse

    It begins at midnight, not with fireworks or ceremony but with lights flickering off in office after office, cubicle after cubicle, across the federal government. The hum of fluorescent tubes dies. The emails bounce back. The phones ring without answer. The federal government, the largest employer in the United States, goes into induced coma—not because…

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  • Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban: The Divorce Heartbreak Tour We Never Wanted

    Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban: The Divorce Heartbreak Tour We Never Wanted

    I don’t know who put “Public Divorce” on this year’s marquee, but somehow it cast Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban as its centerpiece act—the tragic stars of a love story we all believed in. Their separation announcement hit like a meteor strike: stunning beauty in motion frozen mid-dance, two icons unraveling in public while fans…

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  • Missouri First — Or Missouri Forever? Goodbye Democracy.

    Missouri First — Or Missouri Forever? Goodbye Democracy.

    In Jefferson City, the Capitol passed a new gospel: Missouri First Map. The state’s governor, flanked by Republican legislators, signed HB 1 in a late-September flourish, after calling a special session, rushing through House and Senate votes, and locking in a mid-decade congressional redistricting that does less to reflect population and more to inscribe power.…

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  • Fear and Long Guns on Michigan Avenue

    Fear and Long Guns on Michigan Avenue

    Chicago has always thrived on theater. Jazz clubs, improv stages, opera houses, the permanent farce of city politics—this is a town that knows spectacle. But nothing quite prepared the Magnificent Mile for the latest federal roadshow: dozens of Border Patrol agents in tactical helmets, body armor, and long guns parading up Michigan Avenue like they’d…

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  • Dominion and Giuliani’s $1.3 Billion Secret Settlement: When Lies Pay and Democracy Gets the Bill

    Dominion and Giuliani’s $1.3 Billion Secret Settlement: When Lies Pay and Democracy Gets the Bill

    There’s a peculiar magic trick the powerful love: make a noise so loud it draws attention, then vanish the outcome so no one can reverse-engineer the fraud. Yesterday, a mammoth defamation case—one purporting to demand $1.3 billion from a man who spent years amplifying election falsehoods—ended not in a verdict or a sensation, but in…

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  • Citizenship: Now Just Another Executive Order

    Citizenship: Now Just Another Executive Order

    Imagine a world where being born on U.S. soil no longer guarantees U.S. citizenship. That world is now on the table, offered in polite legal briefs and grant requests to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration, having signed an executive order restricting birthright citizenship, is now imploring the highest court to rescue it, after lower…

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  • The Iowa Superintendent and the Deportation Squad

    The Iowa Superintendent and the Deportation Squad

    There’s a certain theater to American immigration enforcement. You can promise the nation you’ll go after gangs, cartels, hardened criminals, people who smuggle fentanyl by the ton. And then, one ordinary morning, you stage your victory lap by cuffing a school superintendent in Des Moines. Yes, a man who manages budgets, buses, and bell schedules…

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  • DOJ vs. Soros: The Loyalty Test Disguised as Law

    DOJ vs. Soros: The Loyalty Test Disguised as Law

    It begins, as these things always do, with a memo. Not a law passed by Congress, not a court case argued in daylight, but a crisp, bureaucratic directive—parchment as performance art. On September 25, 2025, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, Aakash Singh, quietly sent word to at least seven U.S.…

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  • Watergate’s Dismal Sequel: Indicting Comey in Broad Daylight

    Watergate’s Dismal Sequel: Indicting Comey in Broad Daylight

    There was a time when “indicting a former FBI Director” would have been the kind of storyline you read in paperback thrillers at the airport newsstand, usually involving shadowy double agents, a safe house in Prague, and a protagonist who knows too much. Now it’s just Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia. A federal grand jury has…

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  • Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script

    Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script

    It has become a perverse form of theater: a live criminal investigation, narrated in real time not by detectives but by hyperpartisan officials competing for the opening line of the news cycle. The vice president demands “civility”—then unleashes profanity. The White House leaps to blame before forensics dust a print. A former Obama speechwriter counters…

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