Commentary
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Not smoke. Not patriotism. Fear. The kind that sets in when too many powerful people realize the paper trail might finally catch up to them. The administration is racing to redact the Epstein files like they’re trying to beat a storm surge with a thimble. Names blacked out. Pages sealed. Timelines “under review.” Transparency, apparently,…
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The President Who Thinks Americans Do Not Know What Magnets Are Yet Falls In Love With Every Strongman On Earth Including New York’s New Governor By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com The Setup America can put robots on Mars. America can build skyscrapers in months. America can run an entire nation off five minutes of engineering.…
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Congress Has One Last Chance to Prove It Isn’t Still the Same Cowardly Institution That Betrayed Us in the 80s I grew up in the eighties when adults pretended child abuse was a misunderstanding or a family matter or something kids “misinterpreted.” It was the decade where schools covered it churches hid it police departments…
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The Trump administration has unveiled a dramatic shift in national homelessness policy: major cuts to long-term housing in favor of transitional programs tied to work requirements, addiction treatment and behavioral accountability. To the casual observer — and frankly, to many of us exhausted by decades of failure — it sounds like the first rational…
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Trump and America Want Transitional Housing. The Idea Is Brilliant. The Infrastructure Is a Fantasy.
The Idea Is Brilliant. The Infrastructure Is a Fantasy. The Idea Is Not the Problem, the Capacity Is There is nothing inherently cruel or misguided about transitional housing. In fact, when done well, it is one of the most humane approaches available. It provides structure, expectations, community and momentum. It treats people as participants…
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Trump Wants the DOJ to Reopen Epstein But Only for Democrats The latest tantrum, we meant demand from the Trump administration arrived not through a formal briefing but through a blast of political theater amplified by loyal surrogates, the President wants the Department of Justice to reopen the Epstein investigation but only to pursue Democrats.…
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America woke up today to something between a political earthquake and a badly written soap opera rerun. The Epstein files are finally being pried open like a rusted lockbox that every powerful man in America swore had been “lost in the move.” And suddenly Donald Trump is out here on a runway looking like he’s…
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The latest stunt from Donald Trump’s ever-growing list of political tantrums is a demand to alter ACA subsidies in the middle of a government shutdown. The move is as strategic as throwing gasoline on a kitchen fire and then demanding applause for the brightness of the flames. He has taken a nation already staggering under…
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