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  • Paramount Skydance Wants to Eat Warner Bros. Discovery for Breakfast

    Paramount Skydance Wants to Eat Warner Bros. Discovery for Breakfast

    Cue the Mergers and the Popcorn America loves a sequel, even when it’s corporate consolidation. This September, barely a month after Paramount Skydance finalized its $8.4 billion deal to absorb Paramount Global, the trades are abuzz with whispers: now they want Warner Bros. Discovery. Yes, the company that just finished moving its things into Paramount’s

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  • America’s New Job Fair: Now Hiring Deportation Apprenticeships

    America’s New Job Fair: Now Hiring Deportation Apprenticeships

    The Trump administration has always treated immigration enforcement less like policy and more like a casting call. But now the casting call has become a crash program: 10,000 new ICE officers and 3,000 CBP agents by year’s end. Funded by a $170.7 billion “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the program is less about public safety and

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  • The Machines Won’t Kill Us—But the Shareholders Might

    The Machines Won’t Kill Us—But the Shareholders Might

    On September 6, 2025, Geoffrey Hinton—better known as the “godfather of AI” and now the reluctant Cassandra of our algorithmic era—delivered a blunt sermon to Fortune. AI, he argued, will not simply usher in a productivity boom or a Skynet apocalypse. No, its most reliable prophecy is more familiar: a massive rise in profits for

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  • The EV Jobs Miracle That Ended in Handcuffs

    The EV Jobs Miracle That Ended in Handcuffs

    On September 5, 2025, the largest worksite immigration raid in DHS history turned Hyundai’s much-hyped “Metaplant” electric vehicle complex in Ellabell, Georgia, into a live broadcast of American contradiction. About 475 workers were detained—most of them South Korean nationals—during a sweep that hit not just Hyundai’s $12.6 billion EV complex but especially the adjacent Hyundai–LG

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  • The Rose Garden Wasn’t the Only Thing Repaved

    The Rose Garden Wasn’t the Only Thing Repaved

    On September 4, 2025, President Trump staged what the official invite called a “White House dinner to celebrate American innovation.” What actually unfolded was a glossy loyalty ritual with better catering. The guest list read like a Silicon Valley shareholders’ meeting relocated to Washington: Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Arvind

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  • Love Isn’t a Rose Ceremony—It’s Tuesday at 2 A.M. Accept This Apple, my reimagining of Snow White, is available now.

    Love Isn’t a Rose Ceremony—It’s Tuesday at 2 A.M. Accept This Apple, my reimagining of Snow White, is available now.

    Read Accept This Apple and explore my Amazon author page. The Faeries Tell series has one unruly mission: keep the shine, fix the wiring, and invite everyone who’s been standing just off-camera to step into the light. Each book reimagines a “problematic” fairy tale through trauma-literate realism, queerness without spectacle, and modern logistics—because real magic

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  • Texas Bans the Candy Clouds: SB 2024 and the War on Vapes (But Not Really)

    Texas Bans the Candy Clouds: SB 2024 and the War on Vapes (But Not Really)

    Texas has a gift for declaring victory before the battle even begins. On September 1, 2025, the state flipped the switch on Senate Bill 2024, a law so sweeping, so meticulous in its micromanagement of vapor and smoke, that it reads less like public health policy and more like a paranoid parent’s diary. The law

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  • Cash Me Outside the Constitution: How the Presidency Became Trump’s Most Profitable Side Hustle

    The polite version says markets respond to policy. The honest version says markets respond to who writes the policy—and whether he’s already holding the bag you’re about to fill. On September 1–2, 2025, the Trump family’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial flicked its neon “OPEN” sign, listing the $WLFI token across major exchanges and conjuring

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  • Mariah Carey Finally Gets Her Moon Person: The VMAs Discover What the Rest of Us Knew in 1990

    Mariah Carey Finally Gets Her Moon Person: The VMAs Discover What the Rest of Us Knew in 1990

    Awards are a strange currency. They aren’t proof of greatness, only proof of consensus—or more often, proof that enough voters remembered to tick the right box after too many cocktails. But every so often, awards act as an accidental confession. That’s what’s happening on September 7, 2025, when the MTV Video Music Awards will finally

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  • Trump’s Executive Order to Federalize Elections: Democracy’s Paper Cut

    Trump’s Executive Order to Federalize Elections: Democracy’s Paper Cut

    The great thing about American democracy is that it’s supposed to be decentralized. States set the rules, counties run the polls, and federal courts swoop in every so often to remind Florida it cannot legally stage a coup in its public libraries. But Donald Trump, never one for details like the Constitution, has now declared

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