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Mary Geddry
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Forty days of shutdown, eight Dems cave, and Trump celebrates by pardoning the architects of his own coup. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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The Longest Shutdown Ends Where It Began
Eight Democrats cross the aisle, Trump redeems his disciples, and America mistakes exhaustion for governance.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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#SNAP is frozen, the ACA’s collapsing, and Mar-a-Lago’s serving snow crab. From Laffer’s napkin to Milei’s karaoke mic, America’s banquet of greed is in full swing. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #governmentshutdown #kakistocracy
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The Napkin and the Noose
How Laffer’s curve, Piketty’s math, and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago feasts turned America into a banquet for billionaires and a breadline for everyone else.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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When the present feels impossible to navigate, look backward. History is not a mirror-it's a map. Every rupture we face has its echoes, and every echo holds a choice: rebuild or repeat.
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Epstein’s buried billions, Trump’s Russian cash pipeline, two judges who actually did their jobs, and a #Canada that remembered how to build things.

America clings to nostalgia; the rest of the world moves on. #uspolitics #governmentshutdown #kakistocracy
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Palm Beach Noir: The Billionaires, the Judges, and the Nation That Moved On
Epstein’s buried billions still haunt the Justice Department, Trump’s empire rots from within, and Canada quietly reminds the world how grown-ups run a country.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Trump and Orbán’s “bilateral” was less diplomacy, more bromance. Zero crime, zero migrants, $950B in imaginary trade deals, and one very real crush on authoritarian power. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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The Budapest Bromance
Trump and Orbán hold a “bilateral” that’s really a mutual admiration society for illiberal strongmen, complete with imaginary trade deals and zero crime in fantasyland.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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A judge had to order him to feed 42 million hungry Americans.
The White House brags about a Walmart report and Trump stares blankly while the country burns. #uspolitics #governmentshutdown #SNAPbenefits

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The Hunger Games: Trump Edition
A president ordered by a judge to feed his citizens, an economy that only works in his imagination, and Epstein’s ghost haunting every gilded room.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Day 37 of the #GOVERNMENTshutdown, Trump’s starving the poor, the markets are melting, and #SCOTUS might finally say “enough.” #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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The Kakistocracy vs. The Constitution
Trump’s pirates, his plumbers, and the last sane adults in the room, the legal eagles saving America one injunction at a time.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Trump says he solved a rare-earth crisis “in 20 minutes,” wants his cabinet to sit like Xi’s soldiers, and blames Democrats for geology. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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State of the Delusion: Trump Declares Victory Over Reality
In a single speech, the former president ends rare-earth crises, bans mail-in voting, and demands his cabinet sit up straighter.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Democracy’s still breathing, barely. The shutdown burns $15B a week, Trump’s tariffs hit #SCOTUS, and The Big Short guy’s shorting AI. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Fiscal Responsibility, Now with Extra Arson
The $15 billion-a-week shutdown, the Supreme Court’s tariff circus, and why The Big Short’s Michael Burry smells smoke again.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Election Day edition: Cheney dies, Pelosi bows out, Schiff lays bare brutal ICE raids, Democrats fight to rebuild in VA/NJ/NYC, Buffett’s cash pile warns of market froth #uspolitics #electionday2025
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Crypt Keepers & Supermoons
Pelosi bows out, Cheney dies, the courts inch right, markets whisper caution — and the moon reminds us to breathe.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Trump spent 60 Minutes proving he doesn’t understand tariffs, nukes, or health care, but he does think he’s better looking than #ZohranMamdani. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Sixty Minutes in the Twilight Zone
Donald Trump’s CBS meltdown reveals a president who doesn’t understand tariffs, nukes, health care, or democracy, but does know he’s “better looking” than Zohran Mamdani.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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War without Congress, truth without press, and oil without limits, another day in Trump’s America. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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Oil, Lies, and Videotape
Inside the administration’s phantom war on “drug traffickers,” the media blackout around Epstein’s finances, and the steady unmaking of democracy, one OLC memo at a time.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#KashPatel used a $60 million #FBI jet to fly his 26-year-old girlfriend to concerts, then “foiled” a terror plot to distract the press. #KyleSeraphin called it exactly before it happened. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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Wag the Dog, Fetch the Jet
How Kash Patel turned a taxpayer-funded love story into a national-security press stunt—and proved Kyle Seraphin right in record time.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Trump’s throwing Gatsby parties while 42 million Americans wonder if they’ll eat. #SNAP’s collapsing, DOJ filings are vanishing, and the courts are the only thing still holding the line. He doesn’t give a damn, he never did. #uspolitics #governmentshutdown
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Breadlines and Ballrooms
A Jazz-Age masquerade for the ruling class, a can of lentils for everyone else, and a president who still “doesn’t give a shit.”
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November 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Two judges had to order Trump to feed America.
Let that sink in. #uspolitics #governmentshutdown
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Judges Order Trump to Feed America
The courts had to do what the president refused, keep 41 million people from going hungry.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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King Charles purges a prince for #Epstein ties while #Trump, an adjudicated rapist, shuts down the U.S. government to protect his own. One faces exile. The other demolishes the White House. #uspolitics #snapbenefits #governmentshutdown
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The Exorcism and the Possession
King Charles purges a prince, Trump devours a republic, and America spends Halloween haunting itself.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#Trump calls his Busan summit a “12 out of 10” while trading #tariffs for fentanyl, soybeans for headlines, and sanity for #nucleartesting. #uspolitics #authoritarianism
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Soybeans for Show, Fallout for Everyone Else
From Busan to the breadline, Trump’s performative peace, nuclear swagger, and the quiet war on hunger.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Trump just fired half of #ICE and replaced them with #BorderPatrol hardliners who think “chemical warfare” is a valid policing tactic. #uspolitics #authoritarianism
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ICE, ICE, Maybe: Trump’s Homeland Makeover Goes Full Police State
Trump’s Border Patrol coup turns immigration enforcement into chemical warfare
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October 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Big Tech’s buying indulgences.
The Fed’s bribing the market. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Arc de Grift
Trump crowns himself in gold, Big Tech buys redemption, and the Fed prints confetti while the rest of us eat tariffs.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Trump’s crowds are gone, his polls are tanking, and even #Canada is more popular than he is.
We look at what happens when an #authoritarian runs out of applause, from his flop in Asia to starving Americans at home.
#uspolitics #kakistocracy #tradewar
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The Empty Piazza
The would-be strongman stares out at a democracy that’s done applauding.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Two Navy crashes, a $130M “mystery donation” with #Epstein fingerprints, and Trump fist-pumping through Tokyo in a gold tie. Meanwhile, Jack Smith’s still outpacing the dimmest of the dullest, literally, the man runs triathlons. #uspolitics
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The Kakistocracy Can’t Fly Straight
Two Navy crashes, a $130 million Epstein-tainted donation, and a Justice Department wheezing behind Jack Smith’s endurance.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#Tariffs on allies, wars in Latin America, food aid frozen, and #Chicago fights back with orange whistles and rain-soaked courage. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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The Art of the Shakedown
Tariffs on friends, wars in new time zones, hunger as policy, and masked raids in the rain, the chaos presidency enters its baroque period.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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If Trump’s $350M vanity ballroom really costs $3,900 per sq/ft, either the chandeliers are made of plutonium, or the ballroom isn’t the point. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Bunker Boy’s Ballroom
When the math doesn’t add up, look underground. Trump’s golden monument may be less about dancing and more about digging in.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The Pentagon’s running on donations, Pam Bondi’s “watching” blue-state voters, and Trump’s getting roasted at the World Series. A lone woman in West Virginia and one very unflappable prosecutor remind us #democracy still has a pulse. #uspolitics #authoritarianism
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Crowdfunding the Pentagon and Other Tales from the Gilded Decline
The world’s richest nation takes anonymous donations to pay its soldiers, sends election “monitors” to blue states, and gets dunked on by Canada at the World Series, you know democracy’s having a week
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October 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#RonaldReagan’s ghost is warning us about #tariffs, the East Wing’s in ruins, and Trump’s calling chaos “strategic budgeting.” #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism

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The Gipper, the Grifter, and the Wrecking Ball
Ronald Reagan warns against tariffs from beyond the grave, Canada packs its bags, and Trump keeps demolishing America, one institution at a time.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM