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A federal judge has thrown out criminal cases against former FBI chief James Comey and NY AG Letitia James, ruling a Trump-appointed prosecutor was unlawfully installed. Here’s why this matters for US justice and democracy.

US Senate Votes to End Shutdown: Why Democrats Are Furious With Chuck Schumer The Great Shutdown Sideshow: A Tragedy in Three Acts Well, the US Senate just pulled off a feat worthy of the Guinness Book of Dysfunctional Government: it ended the *longest government shutdown in American history*. And instead of a ticker-tape parade or […]

Demolition Before Permission: Trump’s White House East Wing Wipeout If you thought democracy was fragile, wait until you see what Trump does with drywall. In a headline that somehow manages to be both unthinkable and entirely predictable, the Trump administration has announced that the White House East Wing is getting demolished “within days.” Not so […]

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s National Guard Deployment in Portland: Why Democracy Won “Law serves democracy—not presidential ego.” 1. What’s Actually Happening in Portland (And Why Everyone Should Care) It started with a scare tactic—the Trump administration, desperate for some wag-the-dog distraction as legal, political, and reality-based fires rage on every front, decided the best move […]

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FBI Snags Would-Be Terrorists in Michigan Before Halloween: Trick or Treat, Meet the Feds A Real Monster Mash: FBI Puts Michigan Terror Plot to Bed Because Halloween isn’t frightening enough already, the FBI decided to upstage the season’s usual monsters with a real-life horror story—only this one had a happy ending. On October 31, 2025, […]

Hurricane Melissa Makes History: Cat 5 Unleashes Ruin on Jamaica, Science Shouts “Told You So” Let’s get right to the point: Jamaica just took a direct meteorological uppercut, courtesy of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 buzz saw with 185 mph sustained winds. This isn’t just another “busy storm season”—Melissa is now the first Category 5 […]

\ How Speaker Mike Johnson Quietly Finished Trump’s Coup \ Why the House of Representatives Is on Ice—and Democracy With It \ \ Let’s start with facts, not Fox News fantasies: Speaker Mike Johnson just helped Donald Trump grab more raw power than any recent president—not by storming the Capitol with a bunch of red-hatted […]