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Why “Be Civil” Is a Trap and How to Reclaim Argument Without Letting Authoritarians Win
There is a comfortable version of civic medicine that liberals love to prescribe: a warm sermon about niceness, a gentle chiding to turn down the volume, a plea to swap Twitter tirades for polite coffee with people you secretly loathe. It sounds virtuous, and in a vacuum it would be. But these are not normal
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“Democrat Layoffs” and the Great Shutdown Purge
Day five of the shutdown, and the White House’s playbook just got darker. At 12:01 a.m. on October 1, federal funding lapsed. By October 5, director Kevin Hassett appeared on State of the Union to publicly warn: yes, mass federal layoffs could begin—if Trump deems negotiations “going nowhere.” He framed this as a conditional escalation,
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Speaker Johnson’s Imaginary Health Plan: How to Invent a Shutdown Crisis in One Sound Bite
The playbook is simple. Find a bureaucratic chart so boring it could put actuaries to sleep, then scream into a cable-news camera that it means “Democrats are shutting down the government to give illegal immigrants free health care.” If you’re lucky, you’ll trend on X by lunchtime. If you’re Mike Johnson, you repeat it on
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Lutnick, Loudmouth: How the Commerce Secretary Doesn’t Following The Epstein Trump Line
Let’s begin by acknowledging how truly absurd this feels. In the middle of a government shutdown, with climate projects canceled and agencies limping in partial darkness, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick chose today to step into a conspiracy swamp wearing clown shoes. As reported by ABC News, he publicly elected to call Jeffrey Epstein “the greatest
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When Apple Ditches the Goggle in Favor of the Invisible Lens
It began with a whisper, a rumor caught in internal memos and whispered hallway code names. Then it broke: Apple has paused its overhaul of the expensive, bulky Vision Pro headset and is reallocating staff toward a two-track glasses program. The $3,499 mixed-reality goggle is no longer the future—it’s the relic. The future is voice,
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Project 2025 Becomes Government Shutdown Gospel
It took exactly two days. Forty-eight hours into a shutdown that had already darkened laboratories, silenced grant pipelines, and furloughed three-quarters of a million civil servants, the White House finally dropped its pretense. What was once billed as a think-tank fantasy, a right-wing wish list too radical for the campaign trail, was suddenly elevated to
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Hollywood Reboots Its Own Resistance: Jane Fonda’s Anti Fascism Committee for the First Amendment Returns
The ghosts of the blacklist just got company. On October 1, 2025, Jane Fonda—the 87-year-old icon, activist, and daughter of Henry Fonda—took the stage again not to accept awards, but to launch a new front in a culture war over dissent. She resurrected the Committee for the First Amendment, originally conceived in 1947 to fight
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The Reboot Nobody Ordered: Make America Sick Again
It is 2025, and America has managed to drag an old virus out of retirement like a boy band on a nostalgia tour. Not the fun kind of reboot—no slick streaming revival, no “Measles: The Musical.” This is a disease revival, unwanted, unnecessary, and entirely predictable. The CDC’s latest report confirms 1,544 measles cases so
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Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats
The shutdown was supposed to be about budgets. Instead, it has become a bonfire of the civil service, and the match is being struck in Russ Vought’s hand. On the first day of the shutdown, he told House Republicans that mass firings would begin “in a day or two.” This wasn’t speculation. He described a
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If MAGA thinks the New Pope is Woke, Wait Till They Read About Jesus
Picture this: the White House is stressed, Chicago is festering under federal patrols, Republicans are fighting over funding bills, and in strolls Pope Leo XIV—America’s first pontiff—to disrupt the script. His declaration is simple and seismic: being “pro-life” cannot exempt cruelty toward immigrants. To sanction inhumane migration policy, he says, is to undercut life itself.