•   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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  • The Panic on the Tarmac Trump, Epstein, and Boebert’s Sudden Moral Awakening

    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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  • By Solin | Pragmatic Issues Everyone wants him. Not in the noble way you want a leader. In the same way you cannot look away from a reality show that should have been cancelled five seasons ago. The cameras cannot quit him. The headlines feed him. The microphones practically drool. America has fallen for its

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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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  • Chicago woke up to sirens again. This time it was not a school shooting or a freeway crash. It was immigration enforcement. Federal agents rolled into Little Village before dawn with their bulletproof vests, rifles, and scripted lines about public safety. A man opened fire on them from a black Jeep. No one was killed,

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  •   Mr. President, Is This About Guarding America or Guarding Your Agenda Donald Trump is clinging to his demand to kill the Senate filibuster. He says it is time to stop gridlock and start “getting things done.” That sounds noble until you realize that what he really means is “getting his things done.” He has

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  • Colorado’s Comedic Guerillas –  South Park’s Homegrown Boys Are Still Torch­ing Trump and Laughing All the Way to the Avalanche   By Solin for Pragmatic Issues   Somewhere high in the Rockies, between the smell of pine, skunkweed, and irony, two Colorado boys are still doing divine mischief. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of

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  • The Supreme Court just decided that feeding Americans is optional. In an emergency order Friday, the Court sided with the Trump administration and temporarily blocked full SNAP food-aid payments, a move that reads less like justice and more like a late-night impulse swipe on political Tinder. Let’s be clear. The administration illegally froze funding that

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