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11 dispatches.
Rhode Island documented storm damage at ten times the federal threshold. Denied. New Jersey, four times over. Denied. Meanwhile, six red states got approved in a single week, with a Truth Social victory lap about $846 million the very day the denials landed. Snow doesn't check your voter registration — but apparently your president does.
It paid the largest known media defamation settlement in American history for airing claims its own stars privately called crazy. It won another lawsuit by arguing that no reasonable viewer expects facts from its biggest show. And now two dozen of its personalities run the federal government. At what point are we allowed to stop calling it news?
An anti-ICE protest in Texas turned violent — a police officer was shot — and the sentences ran to fifty, seventy, even a hundred years, one of them reportedly thirty years for moving a box of zines. The men who plotted to overturn an election and helped beat 140 officers at the Capitol? Pardoned. A tale of two justices.
We're told universal healthcare is a fantasy the country can't afford — right after conjuring a $300 billion fund to rebuild the nation we just bombed and $14 million to paint a reflecting pool that promptly turned green. Here's the math they'd rather you never do.
He promised an unconditional surrender from Iran, and — credit where it's due — he delivered one. There's just one glass-shard-in-your-heel detail: the party doing the surrendering is us. A field guide to losing while spiking the football.
The nonpartisan CBO projects Trump's proposed tax cuts would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. A familiar playbook: detonate the deficit, then blame the 'socialist spending' of the other side when the bill comes due.
It's a difference so fundamental it renders many conversations moot before they begin: one side asks 'what does the evidence say?' and the other asks 'what feels right to me?' A field guide to the epistemic universe where pawns move diagonally just because you want them to.
Harvard, treated like a rogue state in need of sanctions. Blocking international students doesn't protect American jobs — it pushes the brightest minds into the welcoming arms of rival nations, and forfeits nearly $38 billion in the process. Isolationism dressed up as patriotism.
Trump treated the global economy like a claw machine — jiggling the controls and hoping something valuable drops out. Spoiler: it mostly just shakes everything precariously, while someone close to the decision-making quietly buys low and sells high.
Rising gas prices weren't enough — now Trump's trade war is reportedly delaying the Nintendo Switch 2. Because nothing says 'greatest economy in history' like rationing your video game consoles until 2026.
Fresh off a golf outing, Trump has reportedly decided penguins are the key to... something. The 'penguin tax' is performative grievance dressed as policy — and, surprise, you're the one who pays for it.
