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  • America’s Newest Crime: Fighting Fires Without Papers

    America’s Newest Crime: Fighting Fires Without Papers

    On August 27, 2025, as the Bear Gulch Fire raged through Washington state—thousands of acres incinerated, towns choking on smoke, families evacuating with pets stuffed into backseats—the federal government identified the real emergency. Not the wildfire consuming homes. Not the climate that breeds a new inferno each week. No, the emergency was the possibility that…

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  • The CDC Purge: When Science Got Fired by Press Release

    The CDC Purge: When Science Got Fired by Press Release

    In the latest American remake of Night of the Long Knives, the White House traded soldiers for scientists and staged the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez like it was an HR issue instead of a constitutional one. On August 27, 2025, less than a month into her tenure, Monarez was dismissed for the crime…

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  • Chicago Doesn’t Need an Occupation, but Trump Wants a Backdrop

    Chicago Doesn’t Need an Occupation, but Trump Wants a Backdrop

    On August 28, 2025, while most of the country was still digesting the last “crime emergency” episode in Washington, the Trump administration quietly started drafting a sequel. This time, the stage is Chicago. The proposal: turn Naval Station Great Lakes—a training hub for sailors just north of the city—into a makeshift operations center for ICE…

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  • FEMA’s Katrina Declaration: When Disaster Response Becomes Highest National Performance Art

    FEMA’s Katrina Declaration: When Disaster Response Becomes Highest National Performance Art

    On August 26, 2025, something seismic occurred—not an earthquake, not a storm, but a different kind of tremor. Over 180 current and former FEMA employees—many anonymous—signed an Open Katrina Declaration, warning Congress and the FEMA Review Council that the Trump administration is unravelling decades of post-Katrina reforms. It wasn’t just a letter; it was a…

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  • Snoop Dogg vs. Pixar: When Buzz Lightyear Becomes the Boogeyman of Bedtime Questions

    Snoop Dogg vs. Pixar: When Buzz Lightyear Becomes the Boogeyman of Bedtime Questions

    Apparently, the real Infinity and Beyond is the number of awkward conversations grandparents didn’t plan for. The Scene: Snoop, A Podcast, and a Pixar Panic Attack On August 25–26, 2025, humanity was shaken to its core—not by a natural disaster, not by another billionaire announcing plans to colonize Mars, but by Snoop Dogg’s confession that…

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  • Trump’s Chicago Dream: Send in the Troops, Forget the Math

    Trump’s Chicago Dream: Send in the Troops, Forget the Math

    The problem with promising to “crack down on crime” is that crime refuses to follow your campaign calendar. It does not politely spike in the zip codes you need for next week’s rally. It rarely consults your polling numbers before deciding whether to trend upward or downward. Yet here comes Donald Trump, fresh off his…

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  • Siri’s Existential Crisis: Should Apple Buy Its Brain from Google?

    Siri’s Existential Crisis: Should Apple Buy Its Brain from Google?

    On August 22, 2025, Mashable (via Bloomberg) confirmed what iPhone users have suspected since the first time Siri replied “I didn’t quite get that” to a basic request: Apple still doesn’t know what Siri should be. After years of delays, vaporware “Apple Intelligence” rollouts, and corporate reshuffles, the company is reportedly in talks with Google…

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  • Deportation Roulette: Spin the Globe, Land on Uganda

    Deportation Roulette: Spin the Globe, Land on Uganda

    America has always had a gift for rebranding cruelty as administrative efficiency. On August 23, 2025, CNN reported the latest episode in our long-running tragicomedy of immigration enforcement: Kilmar Ábrego García—a Salvadoran man who’s lived in Maryland since 2011, married an American citizen, raised children here, and already survived one wrongful deportation—may now be deported…

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  • Not Perfect, Just Us: A 10-Month Love Story

    Not Perfect, Just Us: A 10-Month Love Story

    Dear Matthew, On the eve of ten months, I’m putting it all in writing, because love deserves a record—even the messy parts, even the parts where I am not the hero of the scene. I know it’s “just” a month-iversary. I know it’s supposed to be silly. But if I’m honest, I’d celebrate every Tuesday…

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  • Siri, Rebooted (Again): Apple’s Never-Ending Quest for AI Credibility

    Siri, Rebooted (Again): Apple’s Never-Ending Quest for AI Credibility

    On August 22, 2025, MacRumors published a guide that basically confirmed what anyone who has ever yelled “HEY SIRI” into a pillow already suspected: Apple’s voice assistant is being completely gutted. Again. The so-called “LLM Siri” overhaul won’t arrive until spring 2026—because nothing says innovation like promising to fix the thing you broke five years…

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