• Donald Trump says that 2026 will be the “year of affordability.” Adorable, really, like watching an arsonist promise to start a fire department. Because if there’s one thing Trump knows how to do, it’s drive prices up, gut safety nets, and then sell the ashes back to us as luxury condos. His administration’s latest slogan,

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  • By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com There’s a certain poetic justice in watching the self-proclaimed master of winning lose his composure. As Democrats notched key election night victories across several states, Donald Trump didn’t congratulate, didn’t self-reflect, no, no he detonated. “And so it begins,” he posted, as if democracy itself were a personal insult. HuffPost called

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  • Aaron Parnas, his every headline screams civil war, then none of them mean a damn thing. America doesn’t need more panic peddlers, it needs reporters who remember what truth sounds like. Damn I tried to stick up for the journalists when the white house kicked you out… Today a headline screamed across social feeds: “Internal

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  • Apparently, someone forgot to tell the self-styled emperor in residence that the White House isn’t Mar-a-Lago with better curtains, it’s the people’s house. Yet here we are again, the Trump administration, in a display of paranoid grandeur, has decided to restrict media access to the West Wing. The official line? Security. The real reason? Control.

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  • For years, the U.S. Department of Justice told Americans to trust the process. Turns out, the process was a performance and the script was written in bad faith. A new court ruling has finally confirmed what anyone paying attention during the Trump era already knew, the DOJ didn’t just manipulate the truth, it manufactured it.

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  • Denver Mayor Mike Johnson   For all his talk about compassion, Mayor Mike Johnston has done little more than weaponize it. He came into office vowing to end homelessness, restore dignity, and make Denver “a city that works for everyone.” What we got instead is a city bleeding cash, housing fewer people, and spending millions

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  •   “Every haunting begins with something left unfinished.” It always starts with silence  not the peaceful kind, but the kind that seems to watch you back. As October fades and the air bites with frost, we tell ourselves ghosts are metaphors. Memory tricks. Bad wiring. But there’s something older at play a hum in the

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  •   Why the Cleveland Torso Killer, Glasgow’s Butcher, and the Black Dahlia Murder May Share One Hand for Pragmatic Issues Just in time for Halloween, we thought it would be fitting to revisit three old, and by old i am talking the 1930’s old unsolved crimes. Some would lead you to believe that they are

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  • Every time someone from the Trump orbit sneers about “Europe’s open borders,” it’s projection, the diplomatic version of calling someone else drunk while you’re holding the bottle. If Europe actually had open borders, half of Hollywood would’ve relocated to Tuscany the moment Trump took the oath for term two. The other half would be flooding

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