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  • Trump America is Better How? Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead

    After the Strongman Reports emerging from the Middle East suggest that Israel and the United States may have eliminated one of Iran’s most powerful figures, a man synonymous with repression and state violence. Few will mourn the passing of a ruler whose authority rested on fear. The removal of brutal leadership is often presented as…

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  • Democratic Governors Should Show Up, Together

      If Democracy Needs an Invitation, It’s Already Dead There was a time when bipartisan meetings were dull by design. Beige rooms. Bad coffee. Elected officials with opposing views sitting together not because they liked one another, but because governing a country required it. Apparently, those days are over. The White House now plans to…

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  • “Obama & Michelle? I Didn’t See the Racism”

    How Power Pretends Not to Notice What It Normalises By Jayde   There are excuses, and then there are confessions dressed up as excuses. When a president says he approved the sharing of a video containing racist imagery of Barack and Michelle Obama but “didn’t see the part people don’t like,” he is not denying…

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  • The Silence That Governs

     America’s Leaders, Its Allies, and the Questions We Are Forbidden to Ask There is something profoundly wrong in a country where citizens are permitted to vote, taxed without hesitation, and buried with ceremony, yet treated as subversive for asking whether the people exercising lethal authority in their name are qualified to do so. This is…

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  • The 25th Amendment Is Not the Problem.

    America’s Leaders Are. The most damaging illusion in American politics is that paralysis is prudence. It is not. It is cowardice, rehearsed daily across municipal chambers, statehouses, and the federal government, and sold to voters as responsibility. The 25th Amendment exists precisely because democracies fail when leaders cling to power long after capacity, judgment, mental…

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  • A Presidency Mistaken for Power

      Donald Trump believes history bends to will. It does not. It bends to competence, restraint, and perception, none of which were present. There is something quietly pitiful about Donald Trump insisting that only death could stop him. It is the statement of a man who has mistaken noise for authority and longevity for inevitability.…

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  • ICE Is Not Law Enforcement.

    It’s a Political Weapon With a Badge.     There is something almost darkly comic about officials insisting there is “nothing wrong” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as its operations continue to leave bodies, lawsuits, and shattered communities in their wake.     The joke, of course, is not funny to the people on the…

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  • Trump’s ‘Peace’ Is Just Ego With a Passport

    Recently during an interview Trump spoke about peace. Donald Trump claims that he has ended wars and doesn’t need to confront Vladimir Putin because they “get along”. This is not diplomacy. It is a delusion, created from the mind of a very mentally ill man. And it is far more dangerous than open aggression.  …

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  • Kidnapping Leaders, Threatening Fates

    How Trump Just Taught the World That the Rules Are Dead   When a US president openly threatens a foreign leader with a “fate worse than Maduro’s,” he is not posturing. He is signalling the end of restraint—and inviting every strongman on Earth to follow suit. The Atlantic put it plainly and without euphemism: “Trump…

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