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When Democrats Are “Terrorists, Criminals & Aliens”: The White House’s Latest Dehumanization Exercise In Rhetoric
In the new normal of American politics, dehumanization is no longer a slip—it’s a strategy. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently told Fox News, and amplified across social platforms, that the Democratic Party’s “main constituency” is made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” The line exploded across headlines and digital chaos,
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Trump: The Mirror, The March, and the Misdirection
A field guide to déjà vu in a country pretending it has never read this chapter He tells a story about a wounded nation and casts himself as the cure, and the lights are bright because glare is a better costume than truth and the soundtrack thumps because rhythm is easier to remember than evidence.
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The Great San Francisco Photo Op: Trump Plans His Next ICE Invasion
There are few things more American than a trial balloon floated before breakfast and litigated by lunch. This week’s episode comes courtesy of President Donald Trump, who told reporters he is “considering” sending National Guard troops into San Francisco. The comment, equal parts threat and theater, landed with the kind of bureaucratic thud that rattles
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The Hatch Act: The Law That Everyone Violates and No One Enforces
Somewhere in the dusty filing cabinets of American democracy, beneath the “Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law” mattress tags and the ghost of civics classes past, lies the Hatch Act. Passed in 1939, it was meant to be the firewall between government work and campaign work. The promise was simple: no mixing taxpayer business
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Kids Being Kids: The Vice President’s Guide to Radicalizing the Next Generation
There’s a certain point where a democracy stops pretending it’s fine and just sits down to laugh at its own obituary. We hit that point when Vice President JD Vance stood before cameras this week and called a leak of nearly three thousand pages of racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic messages from young Republican leaders “what
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Shutdown Theater: When Trump Decided the Government Works Better Without Workers
It takes a special kind of government to run a shutdown like a start-up.A federal judge just told the Trump administration—again—that firing thousands of workers in the middle of a shutdown isn’t “streamlining.” It’s illegal. But if you squint hard enough and forget about laws, ethics, and human beings, you can almost admire the logic.
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Disarm or Disaster? The Gaza Ceasefire’s Tightrope Act
Welcome to “Peace as Spectacle, Round Two.” The ceasefire’s first act produced something concrete: all 20 living Israeli hostages were handed over, hundreds of Palestinian detainees released, IDF pullbacks commenced, and aid convoys began crossing. But now the sequel begins, with disclaimers: Netanyahu insists that Hamas must “give up its arms or all hell breaks
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The GOP’s Youth Wing Texted Its Soul—and the Screenshots Are a Horror Film
Once upon a time, “Young Republicans” conjured up an image of overeager poli-sci majors in red ties quoting Reagan and networking over light beer. You know, the overconfident debate-team archetype—annoying, yes, but largely harmless. Fast-forward to 2025, and Politico has dropped a leak that proves the next generation of GOP leadership is less “country club
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The Death of Facts: How Ring Wing America Replaced Reality with Programming
There was a time, not all that long ago, when America had one reality. It wasn’t perfect, but at least it was shared. We all tuned in to Walter Cronkite or Peter Jennings or Dan Rather. The evening news would come on, everyone would collectively lower their voices, and for thirty blessed minutes the country
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The Last WTF: Marc Maron, Barack Obama, and the Funeral for American Adulthood
There’s a particular tone you can hear only in the voice of a man who has seen the apocalypse, accepted it, and still shows up for soundcheck. Marc Maron has been that voice for sixteen years—equal parts therapy session, post-mortem, and open-mic confession booth—and on October 13, 2025, he turned off the mic for good.