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SL Murphree
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Writer for The Articles of Unreason
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Housing isn’t unaffordable because of immigrants.
Housing is unaffordable because Wall Street bought the neighborhood and the President wants 50-year mortgages.

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#HousingCrisis #Economy #Politics #RealEstate #CostOfLiving #Homebuying #FinancialCrisis
JD Vance’s Viral Hannity Claim About Immigrants and Housing Is Not Backed by Reality
This man blamed the housing crisis on imaginary immigrants while Wall Street is out here shopping for suburbs like it’s Black Friday.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The U.S. is flirting with a war in Venezuela. Trump says he’s “sort of made up his mind,” which is exactly how a drunk ex decides to text you at 2AM.

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#Venezuela #ForeignPolicy #Trump #Geopolitics #LatinAmerica #Military #USPolitics #WorldNews #GlobalCrisis
Escalation in Latin America: Trump Hints at Military Action While U.S. Forces Mass Near Venezuela
At this point I’m convinced we’re being governed by a Magic 8 Ball.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A Purple Heart veteran was deported at 4am without warning.
His family still doesn’t know where he is.

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#Veterans #Immigration #ICE #MilitaryFamilies #Accountability #HumanRights #VetsDeserveBetter #News #Journalism #USPolitics #BorderPolicy
ICE Deports U.S. Veteran to Mexico After Pre-Dawn Transfer
Because nothing says “national security” like misfiling a citizenship form and then panicking about it fifteen years later.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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$220 million in “emergency” spending, a mystery Delaware LLC, and a political consulting firm with personal ties to leadership.
The math? Not mathing.

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#KristiNoem #DHS #Accountability #ICE #FollowTheMoney #Corruption
Kristi Noem and the Case of the Disappearing Taxpayer Money
How $220 Million in “Emergency Border Ads” Turned DHS Into a Campaign Production Studio With a Delaware Shell Company for a Doorbell
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November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Congrats to Paul Ingrassia for speedrunning “racist texts to deputy general counsel.”
The GSA’s latest hire is, a choice.

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#GSA #PaulIngrassia #GovernmentEthics #Accountability #CivilRights #Politics #Transparency #Oversight #FederalGov #CORRUPTION
Congratulations to Paul Ingrassia for Discovering the Hidden Speedrun Category: “Racist Texts to Deputy General Counsel.”
After withdrawing from consideration to lead a federal watchdog over racist group-chat messages, Paul Ingrassia quietly reappears at the GSA, with a promotion.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The walls are cracking in real time.
100+ Republicans ready to defy Trump over the Epstein files.
The loyalty cult just sprung a leak.

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#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #WhiteHouse #Politics #Substack #BreakingNews #ArticlesOfUnreason
Mutiny on S.S. Trump
The Epstein files weren’t supposed to surface again, not like this, and definitely not with the crew turning on the captain.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Everyone’s talking about Epstein.
Meanwhile, Trump’s been running America’s most successful lawsuit MLM for 50 years.
How he turned chaos into cash.

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#Trump #Politics #Corruption #LitigationNation #PoliticalTheater #FollowTheMoney
The Man Who Sued the World: How Donald Trump Turned Litigation Into a Business Model
Commentary — Articles of Unreason
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November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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From locker rooms to courts: the upcoming Supreme Court term will decide what “woman” means.

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#GenderLaw #TransRights #SupremeCourt #Equality #IdentityPolitics #CivilRights
The Court That Wants to Define Womanhood
How two sports bans became a constitutional inquisition into gender itself.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Everyone’s obsessed with the list.
But the real story is what’s behind it And what happens next.
The names are the bait. The system is the rot.

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#EpsteinFiles #RICO #Transparency #JusticeForSurvivors #CongressWatch #DOJ #Accountability
Beyond the List: The Legal Bomb Beneath the Epstein Files
America’s Next Scandal Might Be Its Own Legal System
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November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Tucker Carlson gave a white nationalist the mic.
Now the GOP's eating itself in public.
Think tank resignations.
Cruz calling him a coward.
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#MAGA #GOP #TuckerCarlson #NickFuentes #RightWingPolitics #Extremism #MediaWatch #AmericaFirst #CancelCulture
When the Fringe Becomes the Feed: MAGA Eats Itself on Main
Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes ignites a civil war on the right over antisemitism, nationalism, and who really holds the mic in MAGA media.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The new Epstein emails read like a ghost story told through redactions.
Trump, Maxwell, and silence that feels intentional.
Congress has the files. DOJ has the secrets.

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#EpsteinFiles #Trump #Accountability #DOJ #Congress #News #Politics
The Ghost Network: What the New Epstein Emails Reveal (and Don’t)
Inside twenty-three thousand pages of silence, redaction, and carefully unfinished sentences.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The Trump administration has filed three court appeals in ten days, not to fix the shutdown, but to stop full food stamp payments.
They are doing the work to keep families unfed.
WTAF.

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#SNAPBenefits, #HungerCrisis, #FoodInsecurity, #GovernmentShutdown, #SCOTUS
Court Order Keeps Food Aid Frozen While Congress Negotiates | Flipboard
Substack - Let’s call this what it is: a hostage situation disguised as fiscal prudence. The Supreme Court just told forty million people to hold tight, help is …
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November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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The GOP is turning your health-plan into a bargaining chip.
Demanding tougher abortion limits in exchange for keeping ACA subsidies.

Read how millions could pay the price.

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#ReproRights #HealthcarePolicy #ACA #HydeAmendment #WomenHealth #InsuranceAccess
Republicans Are Holding Obamacare Hostage and Women’s Lives With It
What they’re calling “Hyde protections” isn’t about protecting taxpayers. It’s about redefining what counts as care.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Trump just asked SCOTUS to erase his civil sexual assault conviction like it’s a typo.
E. Jean Carroll beat him in court.
Now he wants reality rewritten.

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#Trump #EJeanCarroll #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #LegalNews #Politics #Accountability #News
E. Jean Carroll Beat Him in Court. Now He’s Begging the Supreme Court to Pretend It Never Happened
Commentary on what happens when powerful men try to scrub court records like bad tweets.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The UK has cut off intelligence sharing with the US over Caribbean boat strikes.

76 dead. Allies are backing away.
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#CaribbeanStrikes #DroneWarfare #UKUSA #HumanRights #MilitaryOverreach #WarOnDrugs #IntlLaw #AlliesSayNo #ForeignPolicyFail
Target Acquired: How the UK Walked Away from America’s Boat War
76 people are dead. No trial, no arrest. Just silence. And now, distance from our allies.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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BREAKING: A Utah judge just tore up the GOP-drawn map, reviving the voter-approved reform behind it. A new Democratic-leaning district is on the line for 2026.
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#UtahPolitics #Redistricting #Gerrymandering #VotingRights #Proposition4 #Congress2026 #FairMaps
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Map, Revives Voter Reform Law
Proposition 4 crawled out of its grave, and the statehouse is probably already calling it witchcraft.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to end the shutdown, splitting their own party and surrendering leverage.

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#USPolitics #Shutdown #Democrats #Congress #PoliticalAnalysis #ArticlesOfUnreason
Shutdown Nears End After Eight Democrats Back GOP Funding Deal
A masterclass in how to lose a standoff with people who like standoffs.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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When 42 million Americans need a federal judge’s signature to buy groceries, something’s gone deeply wrong.
Here’s how SNAP funding turned into a courtroom hostage crisis.

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#CourtOrderedGroceries #SNAP #FoodStamps #GovernmentShutdown #FoodSecurity
You Shouldn’t Need a Law Degree to Eat: The SNAP Chaos, Explained
How 42 million people’s food money got turned into a hostage negotiation.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Ten years after Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage, Kim Davis tried one last time to undo it.
The Supreme Court refused to listen.
No hearings. No dissents.

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#SupremeCourt #Obergefell #KimDavis #MarriageEquality #LGBTQRights #CivilRights
Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis Appeal, Leaving Obergefell Untouched
The culture war’s loudest martyr finally hit a wall of indifference.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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New pardons just dropped.
Trump’s turned clemency into a loyalty program, points redeemable for freedom.

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#Trump #Pardons #Corruption #Politics #Democracy #JusticeSystem #Accountability #Scandal #Freedom #USPolitics
Trump Expands Presidential Pardons Amid Growing Backlash
Somewhere between monarchy and mob family, America found a loophole.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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ICE is looking into buying mega-warehouses once meant for shopping.
Now they’re for detention.
Streamlined.
Efficient.
Human suffering on scale.

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#ICE #Immigration #WarehouseState #HumanRights #USPolitics #LogisticsState #Detention #Dystopia
ICE’s New Plan: Unused Amazon Warehouses For Human Detention
Because you can always scale human suffering.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The USDA ordered states to undo food aid payments after the Supreme Court paused the full-benefit mandate.
The memo calls it “unauthorized issuance,” while families call it existential.
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#SNAP #USDA #FoodInsecurity #Politics #SocialJustice
The Petty War on Hunger
The day bureaucracy decided compassion was optional.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The U.S. called them narco-terrorists.
They’re fishermen, laborers, and a bus driver, all dead in missile strikes.

No drugs. No evidence. Just strikes and silence.

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#Venezuela #WarOnDrugs #Trump #HumanRights #ForeignPolicy #USPolitics #Accountability
69 People Killed in U.S. Boat Strikes Targeting Alleged Drug Smuggling Vessels
They were billed as narco-terror vessels. Turns out the dead were fishermen, taxi drivers and other first-time smugglers.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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ICE barred priests from giving Communion to migrants on All Saints’ Day.
The Pope’s response wasn’t political it was a reckoning.

The Pope, the Border, and the Body of Christ

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#PopeLeoXIV #ICE #Immigration #CatholicTwitter #Faith
The Pope, the Border, and the Body of Christ
The Gate That Wouldn’t Open
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November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Congress is still getting paid.
Federal workers aren’t.
SNAP benefits are frozen.
The government is shut down.
If you didn’t do your job, you’d be fired.

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#GovernmentShutdown #SNAP #Congress #NoBudgetNoPay #FoodInsecurity #PoliticalAccountability
Congress Isn’t Working—But You’re Still Paying Them
If You Don’t Work, You Don’t Get Paid. So Why Should Congress?
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November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM