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Acts of God, Sorted by Party

Rhode Island documented storm damage at ten times the federal threshold. Denied. New Jersey, four times over. Denied. Meanwhile, six red states got approved in a single week, with a Truth Social victory lap about $846 million the very day the denials landed. Snow doesn't check your voter registration — but apparently your president does.

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Equal Justice Under Law (Terms and Conditions Apply)

An anti-ICE protest in Texas turned violent — a police officer was shot — and the sentences ran to fifty, seventy, even a hundred years, one of them reportedly thirty years for moving a box of zines. The men who plotted to overturn an election and helped beat 140 officers at the Capitol? Pardoned. A tale of two justices.

· #ICE
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We Can Afford Everything but You

We're told universal healthcare is a fantasy the country can't afford — right after conjuring a $300 billion fund to rebuild the nation we just bombed and $14 million to paint a reflecting pool that promptly turned green. Here's the math they'd rather you never do.

· #Universal Healthcare
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Unconditional Surrender: He Delivered One — Ours

He promised an unconditional surrender from Iran, and — credit where it's due — he delivered one. There's just one glass-shard-in-your-heel detail: the party doing the surrendering is us. A field guide to losing while spiking the football.

· #Donald Trump
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The President's Preferred Painkiller

Trading Tylenol for tinfoil. The President declared an autism link based not on peer-reviewed data but on a feeling he had that morning. Then scientists in Liverpool published the definitive, evidence-based rebuttal. A case study in governing by gut.

· #Donald Trump
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The Real Cost of 'Making America Great Again': Our Children's Lives

Another Friday, another school shooting — this time through the stained-glass windows of a Catholic school. In a sane world it would be a national crisis. In this term, it's a line item, and the official response is to dismantle the very policies that were finally working.

· #Donald Trump
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The Grand Unveiling of the Obvious: Why One Party Just Doesn't Get Science

It's a difference so fundamental it renders many conversations moot before they begin: one side asks 'what does the evidence say?' and the other asks 'what feels right to me?' A field guide to the epistemic universe where pawns move diagonally just because you want them to.

· #Donald Trump

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