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From War Crimes to Pardons: The Logic of the Cryptocracy
Strike against unarmed civilian boats and the pardon of Honduran President and narco-terrorist Juan Orlando Hernández appear to be in conflict. On one side, Trump orders air strikes on small boats they claim, without presenting evidence, are drug-smuggling vessels. On the other side, Donald Trump has vowed a “Full and Complete Pardon” for Hernández, a man convicted in U.S. courts of conspiring to ship staggering quantities of cocaine into the country. The contrast is jarrin
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2 days ago1 min read


Thanksgiving was America’s first social safety net
The Pilgrim’s survival during that brutal first year depended almost entirely on Native peoples. Indigenous communities shared food, farming knowledge, and life-saving techniques, essentially the 17th-century equivalent of SNAP benefits. Without this assistance, the colony likely would not have endured. When the Pilgrims arrived, they were not rugged frontier farmers but economic migrants: factory workers, wool traders, and laborers escaping rising costs, religious tensions
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Nov 251 min read


What MAGA Really Means by “Constitutional Order”: Obedience, Not Law
When MAGA Republicans invoke “constitutional order,” they claim to defend America’s founding principles. Their actions say otherwise. Project 2025 is MAGA’s ideological foundation, an unquestionable doctrine where loyalty to a leader eclipses loyalty to the Constitution itself. And It conveniently aligns with the interests of a new economic elite like Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel, who gain from a system that concentrates authority and weakens public accountability. Yet e
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Nov 201 min read


Trump’s Cruelty Is the Point: The $8 Trillion That Never Was
Trump could end the government shutdown today without a single vote from the House or Senate. By his own claim, his tariffs have raised over $8 trillion for the United States. Money that exists under his exclusive authority as the “unitary executive,” beyond Congress’s control. But if that were true, wouldn’t he release the funds right now? The shutdown would end. Health care costs wouldn’t have to rise. Families wouldn’t go hungry. Federal workers could return to their job
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Oct 301 min read
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