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The Nuclear Football is in the Hands of a Man Who Just Called a Reporter “Piggy”
If you want to know the exact moment the American presidency dissolved from a functioning executive branch into a chemically unstable mood ring, you don’t need to look at the nuclear codes or the classified briefings. You just need to look at Truth Social at 3:00 AM, where the Commander-in-Chief is currently debating whether it
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The Oracle of Failure: Larry Summers, the Epstein Emails, and the Poetry of Bad Judgment
For decades, Larry Summers has functioned less as a human being and more as a sentient institution, a kind of granite monument to the neoliberal consensus that simply refuses to erode. He is the man who is always wrong but never fired, the failing up champion of the Western world who managed to wreck the
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Larry Summers, Epstein’s Budget Therapist, and the Elite Rot That Everyone Pretended Didn’t Smell
When the Democratic establishment’s favorite oracle turns out to be workshopping his love life with Jeffrey Epstein, maybe the problem isn’t “optics” but the ecosystem that thought this was normal. Every so often, a cache of documents drops that does not merely indict individuals but reveals the entire architecture of American elite culture as a
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America’s New Hunger Games Begins, and the Prize Is Permission To Eat
Trump calls it “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but the only thing getting beautified is the balance sheet Congress cares about more than hungry families. The thing about austerity is that it never arrives dressed as cruelty. It shows up in a blazer, smiles politely, talks about discipline, and promises to fix the books. It nods
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Prestige TV, Claire Danes, and One Very Suspicious Neighbor Who Definitely Knows How to Wield a Metaphor
Netflix’s The Beast in Me proves that nothing says date night like grief, queer family trauma, a maybe murderer next door, and Claire Danes pacing her kitchen like she is waiting for ghosts to RSVP. There is a particular joy in prestige television that manages to be both a warm blanket and a sharpened blade.
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Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot
If the last decade were a TV series, even the interns would be begging the showrunners for a hard reboot before cancellation. There comes a time in every long running series when the writers lose all sense of proportion. When the storylines pile up like abandoned shopping carts, when characters behave like they have been
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Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts
An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,
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Trump’s Epstein Problem: The Dog That Finally Barked at 218 Signatures
Congress rarely moves with speed unless it is the speed of decay. But once in a generation, the planets align, a freshman gets sworn in on a Friday night, and the House of Representatives actually does something explosive by accident. This week, that accident arrived in the form of newly sworn in Representative Adelita Grijalva,
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CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER
The bishops finally found their voices again. Not the soft indoor-voice homilies that float above parish pews like incense, but something closer to a raised eyebrow from God. America’s Catholic hierarchy, after years of sounding like they were trapped between a Fox News chyron and a Vatican footnote, just dropped a “Special Message” on immigration
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Democratic Masterclass: How To Lose A Win In Washington
The shutdown was a test of priorities. Democrats chose speed over substance, Republicans chose leverage over food, and the math of Rule XXII did the rest. The country just lived through a civics lesson that felt like a stress test. After forty days of a government shutdown that reached into kitchens, baggage claims, and clinic