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Five Years Later, January 6 Graduated From Denial to Doctrine
How a pressure campaign became a pardon program, and why the transcripts matter now. Five years on, January 6 is no longer debated as a misunderstanding. It has been processed, sanded down, rebranded, and finally monetized as a loyalty signal. The most dangerous thing about the anniversary is not that people disagree about what happened.
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Happy New Year, 2026, and No I’m Not Reinventing Myself for You
New year, same spine, better math. Happy New Year, 2026. That’s it. No fireworks language. No spiritual confetti. No ceremonial shedding of skin for the benefit of strangers who will scroll past in half a second anyway. This is not reinvention theater. This is survival math. Life is getting busier in all the right ways,
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Democrats Need To Run On At Least $25 an Hour Minimum Wage or Admit the Economy Runs on Quiet Cruelty
A minimum wage that can’t buy rent is not a wage. It’s a suggestion with a time clock. America is in a strange phase of capitalism where we have decided inflation is a natural disaster but poverty is a personal flaw. We hold candlelight vigils for the price of eggs, then lecture full-time workers about
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CISA’s Acting Director Took a Polygraph He Didn’t Need, Failed It, Then Put the Calendar Under Investigation
National security, now featuring grievance management and the administrative leave of anyone who has ever touched a scheduling app. There’s a particular kind of chaos that only exists inside agencies that handle sensitive intelligence. It’s not loud. It’s not cinematic. It’s the quiet kind where people stop sending emails and start communicating through pauses, raised
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Epstein Files Transparency Act Meets DOJ’s Blackout Marker, and Congress Discovers the “Oops, All Redactions” Loophole
A statutory deadline, a disappearing website, and the federal government’s newest genre: partial compliance theatre. Congress did that rare Washington thing where everyone pretends the job still matters. They passed a law. They put a deadline in it. They specified what had to be released. They even limited the excuses, the usual ones about victim
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60 Minutes Pulled the CECOT Deportation Story, and CBS Just Invented the White House “Kill Switch”
When corporate consolidation meets political fear, the investigative segment becomes a ghost. There are two kinds of silence in American journalism. One is the ordinary kind, the necessary pause while reporters verify names, confirm documents, and wait for reluctant sources to stop pretending their phones are dead. The other kind arrives after a story has
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Trump Calls Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and the Iraq War Echo Starts Clearing Its Throat
When you rename a crisis, you also rename what you’re allowed to do about it. If you ever want to watch a government change the shape of reality without changing the underlying problem, pay attention to vocabulary. Not the boring vocabulary, not the kind that lives in briefing binders, but the kind that arrives with
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My Favorite TV Shows of 2025, Ranked by Vibes, Emotional Damage, and How Fast I Hit “Next Episode”
No particular order, because ranking art is how streaming apps turn joy into spreadsheets. Every year, television looks at America’s collective attention span, flicks it on the forehead, and says, “Come here, I made you something complicated.” In 2025, it felt like the medium finally admitted what we all already know, most of us are
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2025 Shutdown Chaos Broke the Jobs Report, and Now America Is Driving the Economy With the Dashboard Unplugged
When the government stops working, it also stops counting who is hurting, and calls that “temporary.” The federal shutdown this year did not just lock doors, pause permits, and turn “please hold” into a lifestyle. It reached into the country’s basic economic dashboard and started pulling out wires like a bored teenager under the hood
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Bondi Beach and the Paperwork After the Sirens
A terror attack, a nation in shock, and the familiar moment when everyone realizes the system worked exactly as designed, which is to say too late. Bondi Beach is supposed to be the place Australia sends to the world as proof of ease. Sun, water, the soft promise that life can be simple if you