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  • Kids Being Kids: The Vice President’s Guide to Radicalizing the Next Generation

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

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  • Trump’s The Art of the Steal: Biden Got 105 Israeli Hostages Released With First Ceasefire

    Trump’s The Art of the Steal: Biden Got 105 Israeli Hostages Released With First Ceasefire

    In international diplomacy, plagiarism usually comes in subtler forms. A reworded communique here, a borrowed talking point there, maybe a flag repositioned in front of the podium to make it look like something new. But leave it to Donald Trump to turn global peacemaking into the intellectual equivalent of copying someone else’s term paper and

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  • San Francisco: Elon Musk Says Send in the Troops, but Make It Disruptive

    San Francisco: Elon Musk Says Send in the Troops, but Make It Disruptive

    In a city famous for kombucha, kale, and kombucha-flavored kale, it was only a matter of time before San Francisco’s billionaires decided the next great innovation would be fascism—but with better UX. On October 12, 2025, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the unthinkable: Elon Musk and Marc Benioff, two of the Bay Area’s most inflated

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  • Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Congratulations, America. We’ve finally done it. We’ve brought back a disease that modern medicine already defeated when bell-bottoms were still a gleam in disco’s eye. Somewhere, Jonas Salk is shaking his head in the afterlife, muttering, “I leave you people alone for sixty years and you start playing Oregon Trail again.” According to NPR, the

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  • The AI Bubble Is Eating the Economy Alive (and Still Asking for Dessert)

    The AI Bubble Is Eating the Economy Alive (and Still Asking for Dessert)

    There’s a fine line between innovation and collective delusion, and we are currently sprinting across it in a pair of $2,000 AI-branded sneakers financed at 22 percent APR. Fortune’s latest interview with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO Lisa Shalett reads less like financial analysis and more like a desperate intervention at an industry support group.

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