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Joe Rogan feels 'betrayed.' Millions of workers felt it first.
Read more . . . →Joe Rogan says he feels “betrayed” by Trump over the Iran war. Tucker Carlson went on air and apologized for “misleading” his audience. Eight of the fourteen bro-podcast hosts Trump campaigned with have turned against the war. Day 56 of a conflict the no-more-wars candidate started — he’s blockading Iranian ports and just cancelled peace talks because the flights were “too long.” These are the guys who handed Trump the keys. Rogan gave him three hours of softballs. Carlson gave him months of uncritical coverage. They sold the no-more-wars line to millions of people and now they’re doing the confused...
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Barron's Pen Pal
Read more . . . →The New York Times reports the president’s 20-year-old son has been corresponding with Andrew Tate since 2024. Tate is the accused rapist and human trafficker who got airlifted out of Romanian prosecution onto a Florida tarmac because the manosphere economy demanded his continued podcasting. This is who Barron looks up to. Of course he does. The whole administration is a manosphere group chat with nuclear codes — call women weak, call workers parasites, call due process woke, then tape a four-hour podcast about how a Bugatti makes you a man. The Tates weren’t downstream of the White House. They were...
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The Anti-DEI Loyalty Oath Just Became Federal Procurement Policy
Read more . . . →The Trump anti-DEI executive order kicked in yesterday. Every new federal contract over the micro-purchase threshold has to include a clause banning “racially discriminatory DEI activities” — language so vague it works as a loyalty test. Sign it or lose the work. The vagueness is the point. You can’t comply with a standard nobody will define, so you over-comply, sandblast your hiring page, and pray the auditors never ask. Higher-ed diversity officers sued in Maryland on Monday saying the order eats the First Amendment. They’re right and it won’t save anyone on the clock that matters. Contractors with payroll to...
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The Dead Don't File Takedowns
Read more . . . →Trump spent Sunday posting a four-minute clip of Frank Sinatra singing “My Way” on Truth Social — no caption, no context, just Ol’ Blue Eyes serenading him from beyond the grave like a hostage video the president filmed himself. Nancy Sinatra, 85 and done with this man, called it sacrilege in four words. She has said in the past that her father loathed Trump. She has said she will never forgive the Americans who voted for him. Neither statement has aged poorly. Grabbing a dead crooner’s catalog and waving it around like a trophy is the oldest move in the...
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HUD Workers Had to Build a Website to Do Their Jobs
Read more . . . →The people whose literal job is to investigate housing discrimination are being told they can’t investigate housing discrimination. HUD civil rights lawyers got fired for going to Congress with concerns that the agency was gutting fair housing enforcement. So they did the most American thing possible — they built a website. “Dear America” is a collection of anonymous employee letters from inside HUD, and the picture they paint is grim: if a case involves race, gender, or sexual orientation, you’re not allowed to touch it. The agency that exists to fight discrimination has been ordered to stop fighting discrimination. Meanwhile,...
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Trump Posted Himself as Jesus and Even His Evangelicals Said No
Read more . . . →Donald Trump posted an image of himself as Jesus Christ — not a supporter’s fan art, not a meme someone else made, from his own account — and for the first time in a decade, his Evangelical and Catholic base actually flinched. Major allies publicly called it blasphemous. The post got deleted. That’s the rarest thing in American politics right now: Trump backing down because the people who built his coalition told him he went too far. Here’s what “too far” means for this crowd. Kids in cages? Fine. Tariffs cratering the economy? God’s plan. Bragging about grabbing women? Locker...
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Mission Accomplished, Iran Edition
Read more . . . →Trump declared victory in Iran. Big speech, flag backdrop, the works. One problem — he didn’t accomplish a single thing he said the war was for. Iran can still attack its neighbors. The nuclear program is intact. And the regime is more entrenched than ever because nothing rallies a population like getting bombed by a foreign power. Zero for three, but the photo op looked presidential, so I guess that’s the bar now. This is Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner except dumber, because at least Bush waited a few weeks before the lie fell apart. Trump’s doing it live while the...
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'A Whole Civilization Will Die' Is Not a Foreign Policy
Read more . . . →“A whole civilization will die.” That’s a direct quote from the sitting president of the United States, on camera, about Iran. Not a warning — a promise. Iran froze nuclear talks this week and Trump’s response wasn’t to regroup or find another angle — it was to go on TV and threaten to erase a country from existence. This is what happens when your foreign policy is run by a guy who thinks diplomacy is losing. We went from “we’re open to a deal” to genocide cosplay in a single news cycle. Iran walked away from the table — which,...
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Trump Walked Out of His Own Supreme Court Humiliation
Read more . . . →Donald Trump sat in the front row of the Supreme Court to watch his executive order against birthright citizenship get torn apart, and he couldn’t even sit through the whole thing. He walked out midway through oral arguments — the constitutional equivalent of rage-quitting a multiplayer game you started. Then he went on Truth Social to call the country “stupid” for protecting the Fourteenth Amendment. The man tried to end a right that’s been in the Constitution since 1868 and got mad when the justices who can actually read told him no. Amy Coney Barrett — his own appointee —...
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28 Percent of Americans Support This War and Trump's Already Declaring Victory
Read more . . . →So we’re a month into a war with Iran that nobody asked for, 72 percent of the country opposes, and the president went on primetime TV to tell us it’s basically already won but also needs to keep going for a few more weeks. Pick one. You can’t “mission accomplished” your way through a conflict while simultaneously asking for more time and more money. Oil prices are through the roof, people can barely afford to fill their tanks, and the guy responsible is up there taking a victory lap. This is what happens when foreign policy is just content strategy...
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