PRAGMATIC ISSUES

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  • Trump Administration Salutes With One Hand and Deports With the Other

    How Fox News and Donald Trump & Kristi Noem, Betray Veterans While Wrapping Themselves in the Flag There is a lie so deeply embedded in conservative media that it no longer needs defending. It is simply assumed. Repeated. Protected by silence. “We do not deport military veterans.” That lie was spoken calmly, confidently, as if…

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  • Help Wanted Become a Narcos

    Americans Are Joking About Working for the Cartel Because Washington, Trump, and the War on Drugs Made a Joke of the Country   America is losing a vibes war to the cartel. Not a shooting war. Not a border war. A vibes war. And TikTok comment sections are the battleground. Videos joking that the cartel…

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  • Trump’s Politico Interview Was a Warning.

      America Should Stop Pretending It Was Normal. There are presidential interviews. There are difficult interviews. And then there is the Politico interview with President Trump which played out like a masterclass in how to detach fully and confidently from reality while expecting the rest of the planet to clap. Trump appeared under the studio…

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  • The World Just Handed Trump a Participation Trophy and Called It Peace

    There is something painfully poetic about watching global leaders treat Donald Trump like a child who needs a quiet corner and a juice box. A former president who once declared himself the master of all diplomacy now receives a FIFA peace prize that resembles a toddler reward for not biting another kid. The world is…

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  • Netflix Cancelled Its Way Into Power. Now It HAS Warner Bros Too

    Hollywood is not overreacting. It is sounding the alarm because Netflix has a terrible pattern that stretches from creative abandonment to corporate carelessness. The company that just swallowed Warner cannot be trusted to protect legacy studios. It cannot be trusted with workers. It cannot be trusted with storytellers. It cannot be trusted with the fans…

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  • America Is Being Governed by a Man Who Cannot Be Bothered to Stay Awake

    There are failures of leadership that require long investigations. And then there are failures so blatant they photograph themselves. In recent weeks Americans have been treated to a gallery of images that no spin machine can bury. The president of the United States asleep. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Literally unconscious while meetings proceed around him.…

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  • The “Affordability President” Is a Fantasy. Trump’s Real Record Is Indifference

    There is something uniquely obscene about a politician announcing himself as the champion of affordability after years of watching people drown and calling it background noise. Donald Trump did not stumble into this claim innocently. He has seized it because his usual weapons grievance outrage spectacle are no longer enough. Voters are exhausted. The bills…

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  • Trump Didn’t “Dominate” the Press. He Collapsed in Front of It.

    President Donald Trump was at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night when Nancy Cordes, chief White House correspondent for CBS News, asked him an unremarkable question about the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. Cordes cited a Justice Department inspector general’s finding that Afghans who entered the United States after the…

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  • Trump Administration Caught Lying. If This Is True, It Isn’t a Scandal. It’s a Warning

    Some headlines demand outrage. Others demand brakes. The report circulated by Aaron Parnas alleging that the Trump Administration misled the public about a Washington, D.C., shooting suspect while concealing alleged ties to the Central Intelligence Agency belongs firmly in the second category. If true, this is not a fleeting scandal or a partisan food fight.…

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