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President Donald Trump’s second-term clemency record makes one thing painfully clear: mercy is reserved for those with access, loyalty, or usefulness to him—not for the people who actually followed the rules laid out by the Department of Justice. While ordinary…
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X, formerly known as Twitter, just rolled out a new feature that reveals more information about each account—including where the user is actually based. And with one simple update, a truth many of us have known for years has been…
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For years, California stood as the gold standard for how congressional maps should be drawn—openly, fairly, and free from the grubby fingerprints of partisan operatives. Its independent citizens redistricting commission was held up as a national model, proving that a…
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There’s a bitter irony playing out across America’s farmland: many of the same farmers who loudly backed Donald Trump are now being crushed by the very policies they applauded. Trump promised to “stand up for farmers,” yet his trade wars…
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For all the drama surrounding a government shutdown, Congress has made one thing painfully clear: it’s unbothered by the consequences as long as those consequences fall on ordinary Americans. If a prolonged shutdown means people lose health care, that’s dismissed…
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Why Nothing Sticks to Trump (Not Even Epstein) By Heywood Reynolds It’s not that there’s just one thing wrong with Donald Trump, it’s that so much is wrong with him. And strangely, that might be the source of his resilience.…
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Donald Trump has done it again: labeling “Antifa” a terrorist organization, as if it were a centralized group with a hierarchy, a payroll, and a board of directors. Spoiler alert: it isn’t. Antifa isn’t a group. It’s not a club…
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Florida has decided to take public health into its own hands—by basically ignoring it. The state is moving to eliminate all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, including shots for chickenpox, hepatitis B, and certain bacterial infections. Because nothing says “innovation” like…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement loves to insist it’s just following the law, blind to race, treating everyone equally under the red, white, and blue. But if ICE isn’t looking at skin color to decide who to stop, detain, and deport,…
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Donald Trump has always seen himself less as a politician and more as a marketer. To him, governing is a branding exercise. A building isn’t complete until his name is slapped on it in gold letters. Why should government agencies…
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