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Fast Food Companies Raised Prices for Inflation. Forgot to Lower Them When Costs Went Down.
Fast Food Prices Have Skyrocketed. Inflation Doesn't Explain It. Between 2019 and 2025, something broke in fast food pricing. A McDonald's cheeseburger went from $1.00 to $3.69. That's a 269% increase...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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China is investing in basic research while Trump cuts $2.7B from ours.
When "Useless" Physics Becomes Your Daily Life Your phone works because of quantum mechanics. Your GPS works because of Einstein's relativity. The MRI that might save your life works because of nuclea...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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DOJ's "Oops" Moment: The Comey Indictment's Grand Jury Problem
Why the Comey Indictment Is Hanging by a Thread (And It’s Not About the Charges) The real problem with the James Comey case right now isn’t the politics. It’s the paperwork. More precisely: it’s how t...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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$1 Trillion Saudi Pledge: Believe It When You See It.
Saudi Arabia Just Promised $1 Trillion. The Track Record Says: Don’t Hold Your Breath. When Mohammed bin Salman sits next to an American president and tosses around numbers with twelve zeros, it’s not...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Dog Whistles and Deportations: What the BOW WOW Act Is Really For
The BOW WOW Act: Weaponizing “Dog Lovers” To Deport Migrants Republicans in Congress have discovered a bold new frontier in immigration policy: dog-based deportation. The so‑called BOW WOW Act — a Rep...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Facts Don’t Fail—We Do: How to Talk to People Who Believe Wild Things
Can You Actually Change Someone's Mind About the Moon Landing Being Fake? Spoiler: Yes, but you're doing it wrong. We've all met them. The flat-earther at Thanksgiving. Your cousin who's convinced vac...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Why ICE Stopped Embarrassing Agribusiness (and Started Chasing “Predators” Instead)
Deportations hit over 500,000 this fiscal year, according to DHS figures released in October.DHS News, Oct 27, 2025 That's a sharp climb from prior years. Yet the spotlight moved. Early sweeps through...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Halligan's Missteps: Why the Comey Case is Crashing
When a federal judge starts using phrases like “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” and flagging “fundamental and highly prejudicial misstatements of the law” by the prosecutor, the...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Polite Pickups in the App Age: Why "May I Meet You?" Rings Hollow Now
Bill Ackman, billionaire investor and self-appointed matchmaker, dropped a nugget of 1980s wisdom on X: Spot someone intriguing? Just ask, "May I meet you?" He swears it rarely flopped back then, cred...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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When Compassion Is Just a Show: The Tragic Cost of Political Indifference
Melania Trump wants you to know she cares about children. She's been working with Vladimir Putin to reunite Ukrainian kids with their families. She just announced a new executive order called "Fosteri...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I'm Done Pretending Turkey Tastes Good
It's Time to Admit It: Thanksgiving Dinner Is a Lie We Tell Ourselves Every Year Or, Why We Should Replace Turkey with Spaghetti Carbonara and Never Look Back Every November, millions of Americans gat...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Drug Testing SNAP Recipients: An Expensive Solution to a Problem That Doesn't Exist
Politicians love a good scapegoat. And right now, they're pushing to drug-test SNAP recipients every month—a policy that sounds tough on paper but crumbles under the slightest scrutiny. Let's look at ...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The Pre-ACA Insurance Scam Trump Wants to Bring Back
When "Buying Your Own" Means Buying Nothing At All: The Pre-ACA Insurance Nightmare Trump Wants to Resurrect The post says people can "buy their own, much better policy, for much less money." They can...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The DOJ Isn't Prosecuting Corruption Anymore. It's Committing It.
When Judges Can't Speak, Democracy Can't Breathe A federal judge just resigned after 40 years on the bench. Not because of age. Not because of health. Because he can't stay silent anymore. Mark L. Wol...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The $2,000 Check That'll Never Clear: Trump's Latest Promise and the Suckers Who Believe It
On November 9, 2025, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with another bold promise: "at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone." The funds would come from tari...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The President's Wine Aisle: How Government Stores Became Trump Organization Outlets
In a development that blurs the line between public service and private profit, Coast Guard Exchange stores—government-run facilities on federal property—are now selling Trump Organization wine and ci...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Why We're All Terrible Online: The Psychology Behind Digital Cruelty
You've seen it. Hell, you've probably done it. Someone posts something online and suddenly the comments section turns into a verbal thunderdome. People say things they'd never dream of uttering at a d...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Trump's Midnight Demolition: How an Old Developer's Trick Bulldozed the White House
The backhoes started Monday morning. By the time most Americans saw the photos, the East Wing of the White House was already rubble. Donald Trump demolished the entire 83-year-old structure to build h...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The Uncanny Absence of the Ordinary: Donald Trump's Lifetime of Performance
There's something deeply strange about Donald Trump that goes beyond politics. Strip away the controversies, the policies, the partisan warfare—what remains is a human being who appears to have never ...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Dr. Oz's Shifting Story: Who Really Called the Wife?
When the cameras stopped rolling in the Oval Office, the story started changing. On November 6, 2025, a pharmaceutical executive collapsed during a Trump press conference about weight-loss drugs. Dr. ...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The Letitia James Prosecution: When Revenge Masquerades as Justice
The mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James isn't just weak—it's a constitutional crisis dressed up in legal paperwork. After reviewing the 50-page motion to dismiss ...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The Pipe Bomber Story That Doesn't Add Up
On November 8, 2025, The Blaze published an explosive claim: they had identified the January 6 pipe bomber as Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer now working for the CIA. The story sp...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Trump is Homelander
How Trump's 2025 playbook mirrors Homelander's greatest hits Remember when fictional villains stayed fictional? Those were simpler times. Donald Trump's return to the White House reads like someone ha...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Prayers Won't Stop School Shootings
The Prayer Paradox: Why Faith Persists Despite the Evidence Prayer remains one of humanity's most enduring practices. Billions of people worldwide turn to prayer daily, convinced it works. They're wro...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The Human Cost of Mass Deportation: Inside ICE's Breaking Point
How Trump's enforcement blitz is burning out the very officers tasked with carrying it out Trump promised "the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history," and ICE has been turned into the blu...
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August 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM