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Last week President Trump promoted an AI-generated video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. When the backlash hit, Trump claimed he hadn’t shared the clip personally—that a staffer had done it by mistake, and that he only intended to…
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With the constant deluge of bad news, who’s to say if God might not be considering another flood, or at least a little well-aimed divine retribution? Open any newspaper or scroll any screen and the evidence piles up: wars that…
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By Georgia Chioni According to L. Van Duk, fashion is intrinsically linked to the idea that humans possess an innate sense of dynamism, and that learning itself consists in the discovery and development of this dynamism. When fashion is approached…
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By Katie Johntz What? Are you pilfering again?raidingthe icebox? cheating on some wife—tempting the sumptuous,sensuous woman who shelterson the outskirts of town? youwho want nothingother than not to be forced—enforced—notto be pressured in any direction? want not to be guidedaway from…
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The world watches aghast as the Iranian regime unleashes a brutal crackdown on civil protesters. With telecommunications blacked out and reliable reporting suppressed, the death toll is likely in the thousands — a grim testament to authoritarian violence. In this…
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I love Christmas, and I don’t even mind buying gifts… for some people. I actually have a decent eye for what others might like. But the second someone asks what I want for Christmas, my mind goes blank. Lately, I’ve…
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Donald Trump’s verbal attacks have always carried an especially sharp edge when aimed at women, particularly female journalists who dare to challenge him. His latest outburst—calling a Bloomberg News correspondent a “piggy” during an exchange aboard Air Force One—fits a…
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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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