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One Year In, Trump's Data Center Order Is Costing Communities Dearly

Aug 25, 2026 · 6 min read
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Federal

Never Big on Facts, Ted Cruz Pushes a Debunked Miscarriage Stat

Ted Cruz claimed COVID vaccines caused an 82% miscarriage rate, then deleted the post. The real rate among vaccinated women was 12.6%. Among unvaccinated women, it was about the same. The thing that did raise pregnancy loss was catching COVID.

Aug 25, 2026 · 12 min read
A brass scale of justice tips violently out of balance: one pan holds a thin stack of papers while the other overflows with gold coins, set against a shadowed presidential seal carved in dark wood paneling.
Money

He Called the Bidens Corrupt. Then He Made $2.2 Billion in One Year.

Republicans spent four years calling the Bidens a crime family over foreign payments they never proved were illegal. Trump reported $2.2 billion in 2025 revenues, much of it from the same foreign interests he regulates.

Aug 14, 2026 · 9 min read
A vaccine vial and syringe sit on a presidential desk beside an executive-order folder and pen, cast in heavy shadow in a dim Oval Office setting.
Federal

The People Rewriting Your Child's Vaccine Schedule Admit They Have No Evidence

Trump signed an order to overhaul childhood vaccines, called the MMR shot "quite lethal," then admitted on camera he had no evidence — a one-word confession of unqualified policymaking.

Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Lauren Boebert learns what happens when you don't play the devil's game
Federal

Five Felonies, Thirty Months Later: The Boebert Case and the Retribution Question

Tyler Boebert's charges describe a video made when he was 18 and the girl was 17. The case sat for thirty months, then came alive after Lauren Boebert defied Trump on the Epstein files and mocked his defunding of Colorado. Coincidence deserves proof.

Aug 13, 2026 · 10 min read
A weathered, torn parchment copy of the U.S. Constitution lying on a dark marble table beside a gavel, lit by a single shaft of light
Rights

The GOP's Problem With The Constitution

Nancy Mace's call to bar Muslims from office joins a documented pattern: courts have repeatedly found Trump-era actions violating the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Ink-and-watercolor illustration of a handshake between two men in suits, one hiding crossed fingers behind his back, with a torn agreement falling to the ground in front of the Justice Department building
Federal

Sworn In Saturday, Breaking Promises by Monday: Todd Blanche's First Days as AG

Hours after being sworn in, AG Todd Blanche's DOJ issued a memo expanding Trump's executive privilege — after senators confirmed him on promises of restraint. His record with Ghislaine Maxwell suggested this all along.

Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Dark editorial illustration of a man in a suit unlocking a barred prison gate from the inside, opening onto a brighter space, with tipped scales of justice in shadow
Federal

Trump's Defense Lawyer Runs the DOJ — and He's the One Who Moved Ghislaine Maxwell

Todd Blanche, Trump's former criminal defense attorney and now attorney general, personally interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell — and days later she was moved to a cushy prison camp, against BOP policy.

Aug 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Let them eat frozen burritos!
Money

Let Them Eat Frozen Burritos: The Right's Answer to America's Grocery Crisis

A viral fight over a $20 burrito has split the GOP, with wealthy commentators telling struggling Americans to eat ramen and frozen burritos. The same voices spent the Biden years calling grocery prices a national emergency.

Aug 12, 2026 · 8 min read
Another Trump appointee proves he's not qualified for his job
Federal

The Fauci Texts Show Science Working. The NIH Director Calls That 'Shocking'

The GOP's release of 11 Fauci texts shows a scientist weighing evidence in real time. The Trump-appointed NIH director's "shocking" framing is the real story.

Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Meghan McCain wants in on the grift
Federal

Meghan McCain Wants Fauci Jailed Over a Text That Shows Science Working

Meghan McCain demanded Fauci be jailed over a 2021 text flagging a theoretical miscarriage risk. In 2021 she wanted him fired for delivering the vaccine too slowly, got both doses while not pregnant, then pivoted to selling an $89.99 vaccine "detox."

Aug 12, 2026 · 8 min read
Ink & Watercolor Editorial
Opinion

The Birth of the Americuck

From the Energy Department's messianic Trump fan art to RFK Jr. cold-plunging in his jeans, a savage field guide to the men competing to flatter, deify, and cosplay for one man.

Aug 12, 2026 · 10 min read
a military police officer guards the toxic reflection pool
Opinion

The Party of Law and Order Found Its Vandals at the Reflecting Pool

The administration blames a knife-wielding vandal for the Reflecting Pool's failed $14.7 million repaint. Its own court filing concedes the surface was already delaminating.

Jul 1, 2026 · 8 min read
Hunter biden vs Trump crime family
Opinion

Hunter Biden Never Had a Government Job. The People Cashing the Gulf's Checks Do.

Hunter Biden held no government job. Jared Kushner ran Saudi policy, then took $2 billion from the crown prince. By Republicans' own standard, the Trump family is the bigger scandal.

Jul 1, 2026 · 10 min read
JD Vance promotes book, minimizes crime
Opinion

The Vice President Is Touring a Book About His Faith. At the Nixon Library, He Explained Why Lying No Longer Costs Anything.

JD Vance is selling a memoir about returning to his faith. On the tour, he told a Nixon Library audience that Watergate was no big deal and the "deep state" took Nixon down. The contradiction is the story.

Jun 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Tulsi Gabbard tries once more to win the love of Trump
Opinion

The Intelligence Chief Who Ran Against Politicized Intelligence Spent Her Last Night Politicizing Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard built a brand on ending the politicization of intelligence. Her final act atop the intelligence agejcy was one more politicized document release. It did not earn Trump's affection any more than the last one did.

Jun 19, 2026 · 10 min read