Destruction
Audio0:00/260.945851× Trump’s return to office isn’t politics as usual—it’s something colder, faster, and far more dangerous. What we’re watching isn’
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Texas
This was a hard one. I poured hours into researching it and gathering citations, but writing it felt heavy and joyless, because it’s all so unbelievable. Thanks
Deficit
Funny thing about the deficit: it’s only a crisis when Democrats are in power. The moment a Democrat walks into the White House, Republicans clutch their pearls
What?
by Barbara Finnicum (I haven't figured out how to change authors. I will. In the meanwhile, Barbara wrote this). Please help me get my readers back
What's the plan?
the story of the site May 12, 2025 Writing is how I stitch meaning into a world unraveling at the seams. It grounds me—quieting the static, ordering
The Enemy
Enemy0:00/149.4185711× We have met the enemy, and it is us. Pogo said that in 1970. A cartoon possum nailed the dark heart of American life
a wretched situation
There was a time I felt proud of the United States. Not blindly, not without criticism, but with a sense that we were striving toward something better. Our
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The Doctor Has Left the Building
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a doctor. He’s a lawyer. And not the kind who reads medical journals. He’s the kind who sues vaccine makers,
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The Premise
The strategy is simple: start with a lie so big, everyone else ends up debating inside it. We’ve hit the part of the American story where facts
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