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How Much Should One Person Get to Say?
I think James Talarico has Musk and Republican leaders scared shitless. A Democrat who can win Texas could teach the rest of his party a hell of a lot.
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What Does All That Money Actually Buy?
Campaign money can buy more than advertisements. I wanted to understand who gets heard, who helps write the laws, and what happens after the votes are counted.
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Old Money Is Older Than I Thought
I went looking for the oldest fortunes. I found a banker who financed an emperor, a Leonardo in an airline seat, and families with centuries of a head start.
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Fifty People Are Sharing Two Bucks
I thought I understood wealth inequality. Then I learned what owning the wealth lets you do, and what it means to be one of the fifty people sharing two bucks.
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Something Stinks in Appleton
A $75 million offer became a $495.6 million federal purchase. I want to see the appraisal.
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I Think the Ballroom Is Going to Cost Him
These people filled stadiums for him. Now they’re trying to afford groceries, and he keeps showing them his ballroom.
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We Voted. Here’s Why.
The record wasn’t good enough. Here’s how we voted, why we voted that way, and what we expect from the people we’re supporting.
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Cherry Picking: The Evidence You Left Off the Plate
A selection can contain true facts and still leave out the evidence needed to judge the conclusion.
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Jumping to Conclusions: Check the Missing Step
A possibility can justify a question without justifying a verdict. Match the strength of the conclusion to the evidence.
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I Think We Need Another Choice
I think we need a third political party. Maybe one that only needs to be around long enough to help fix the government.
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False Cause: Show the Connection
An event is not its own explanation. A causal claim needs evidence connecting the proposed cause to the outcome.
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Holy Shit, Elon.
Did Elon Musk just build the fucking Mach 5? I’m still taking Sparky. But that was fucking dope.
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My Mother Made Sure I Could Vote
A train ride south, an argument about Reagan, and a trip to the library. What my mother taught me about thinking for myself and using my vote.
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False Analogy: The Comparison Has to Carry the Weight
Two things can look alike in one respect and differ in the respect that decides the question. Check what the comparison actually proves.
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Another Successful Personnel Week
Five days in a job. A lifetime supply of reaction GIFs. How many personnel disasters before the performance review moves upstairs?
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Three Screens One Room
Three Xboxes, three screens, and years of family gaming. The machines that brought us together became part of a much bigger story about AI, art, and the people we love.
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The Doctor Sez: Go See “Digger”
A case for audacious satire, uncomfortable laughter, and a Tom Cruise performance worth the ticket. Introduced by George.
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Get Off His Back
A naked Donald Trump, holding a golf club and a little set of scales, sits on the shoulders of a frail man.
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In Our House, You Built Two
That was something you had to remember when you started pricing the perfect computer. The motherboard you wanted. The processor. Plenty of memory. A power supply you trusted to run everything you were putting inside the case.
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Apparently Mail-in Voting Is Fine Now
“Vote early, vote by mail or vote in-person on Election Day, November 3rd.”
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The Raid Started at Nine
People had jobs. People had kids. You went to work, came home, put your children to bed, and then logged in to try to kill something enormous with a bunch of other people who also had to work in the morning.
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The Future Was Sitting on a Pallet
In the late 1990s, a computer warehouse opened across the street from where I worked in Las Vegas.
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I Have Been Waiting for AI My Whole Fucking Life
I loved Spock. I wanted to be like him. I wanted to understand things, ask better questions, and follow an answer somewhere interesting. When the show encountered artificial intelligence, I wondered what it would be like to actually talk to
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Gloria Steinem and the Magazines in Their Lockers
A reflection on Gloria Steinem, the promise of equality, and the lives changed by a magazine.
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He Promised a Golden Age. Check the Receipt.
The economy is growing. The squeeze is real. The war is still going. The family fortune is booming. And while the country counts grocery dollars and dwindling missiles, Trump is renaming lakes and polishing marble.
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THE MOST DANGEROUS LIE IS MOSTLY TRUE
How real photographs, exact quotes and correct numbers become tribal propaganda.
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As All Good American Communities Usually Do
In 1950, Walla Walla called itself typically American because families brought their cultures and food with them. Seventy-six years later, the White House describes unauthorized migration as an invasion.
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This is exactly why we can’t have nice things.
A Republican construction worker and a Democratic schoolteacher have far more economic interests in common with each other than either has with the billionaire financing the advertising that teaches them to hate one another.
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Republicans Were Warned. Now Pay the Cover.
“About fucking time,” Mitch said when I arrived.
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THE ALGORITHM IS ARRANGING THE WORST BLIND DATE IN HUMAN HISTORY
Young men are being fed a poisonous definition of their own worth. They are told a man’s value is measured by his income, height, muscles, dominance, sexual conquests, and willingness to grind himself into dust.
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Fine. Let’s Talk About Communism.
Americans want healthcare, family time and government that answers to voters. Washington’s owners prefer a scarier noun.
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Trump Gave the Same Speech. The Voters Gave a Different Answer.
The rally kept applauding. Parts of the country may be quietly leaving the room.
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We Forgot What the Point Was
We built machines to save time. Work took every minute back.
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Can the Fucking Adults Please Enter the Room?
Iran attacks Americans. Trump bombs Iran. Iran attacks again. Every corpse becomes the justification for the next one while the people making the decisions continue calling themselves strong.
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Trump Has the Bombs. Iran Has the Clock
The United States can destroy far more than Iran can. Iran only needs to keep Trump from turning that power into a political victory as November approaches and the cost at home keeps rising.
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Trump Had a Mandate. He Spent It on Himself
He returned with the party, the Court, the cameras and a coalition built on prices and peace. Then he used the presidency to prosecute his past.
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America Is Waiting for a Confession That Will Never Come
Trump wants his impeachments erased. A growing number of Democrats want Congress to give him a third.
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Democrats, Please Don’t Save Trump
I recently heard a Trump supporter say something important.
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EDW: The Most Dangerous Lie Is That We Cannot Fix This
A broken calendar. A stack of Post its. Political chaos distilled into sarcasm because therapy cost money and memes were free.
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EDW: We Keep Doubling Down and Losing
How many times do we have to watch the same dumbass trick before we admit it is the trick?
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EDW: He Sold a Short War. Now He Is Selling an Almost Peace.
Reader warning.
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EDW: Leave the Bait. Govern the Country.
Trump wants the same game again.
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EDW: Trump Keeps Treating America Like a Real Estate Project
You can learn a lot by listening to Donald Trump when the script falls away.
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EDW: Your Stolen Public Inheritance
America is rich in public resources. Citizens get the gas bill while lobbyists get the rulebook.
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EDW: The System Does Not Need Us to Agree. It Needs Us to Stay Mad.
We write a lot about the chaos because the chaos is real. When a government pressures the press, leans on the courts, rattles allies, governs by social media outburst, and turns public office into a loyalty test, that deserves scrutiny.…
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EDW: America Pumps Record Oil. So Why Does Gas Still Hit You Like a Mugging?
Because oil is a world market, a refinery system, and a logistics business all at once. Too many politicians hand people one piece of that picture and call it the whole machine.
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EDW: Here’s a Wild Idea: Help People for Real
Every once in a while, Washington accidentally stumbles into an issue where the public is miles ahead of the politicians.
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EDW: The Supreme Court Finds a New Way to Say “States’ Rights” With a Straight Face
The Supreme Court just handed America one of those decisions that arrives dressed like constitutional restraint and leaves fingerprints all over the crime scene.
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EDW: Virginia Shows What “Rigged” Usually Means in American Politics
Trump is screaming that Virginia was “rigged.”
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EDW: If Rhetoric Matters, Then Trump’s Rhetoric Matters Too
Karoline Leavitt walked into that briefing and asked the country to believe two things at once.
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EDW: Treason Is a Constitutional Crime, Not a Mood
Trump’s April 24 reposts accused political rivals of treason. The Constitution sets a far narrower standard than a social-media allegation.
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EDW: “You Must Be a Liberal” Is Not an Argument
I have been doing this long enough now to notice the pattern.
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EDW: “Rigged” Is Easy to Yell. Gerrymandering Is Harder to Look At Honestly.
Trump is screaming that Virginia was “rigged.” Fine. Let’s talk about the version of “rigged” that actually exists in American politics and has existed for more than two centuries: gerrymandering. Virginia voters narrowly approved a…
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EDW: Yesterday It Was Progress. Today It’s the Power Plants. What Exactly Is the Strategy Here?
A few days ago, the White House was selling momentum.
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EDW Explainer: Why Wars Cost More Than the Bombs
Most Americans hear “cost of war” and picture the obvious things.
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EDW Follow-Up: The First Commandment Is Not a Suggestion
If you read our earlier piece on Trump wrapping himself in Jesus imagery, this is the follow-up. And it got worse.
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“We Have All the Cards.” Then Geography Dealt the Next Hand.
“We have all the cards. They have none.”
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EDW: The First Commandment Still Exists
I spent seven years in Catholic school. Religion class and 5 years in Sunday school. Gospel reports. Mass. Beatitudes. The whole drill. Enough time to remember something a lot of American Christians seem desperate to forget:
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The Bill Comes Due Slowly, Then All at Once
This is a forecast, not a verdict. The point here is not to prove that every domino has already fallen. The point is to look at the table honestly and ask what kind of presidency builds this many pressure points at once, then expects the…
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EDW: They Blew Up Iran’s Military. Did They Also Teach the World to Ask Tehran Permission to Move Oil?
What if the war destroyed exactly the wrong thing?
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EDW: Dead. Dead. Dead.
The room told on itself.
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EDW Research Memo: The Strait Story Is a Perfect Algorithm Scam
This Strait of Hormuz story is catnip for the algorithm because chaos sells better than clarity. One audience gets “Trump forced Iran to cave.” Another gets “the whole ceasefire collapsed.” Everybody gets a headline shaped like their team…
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EDW: “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”
Donald Trump has posted a lot of grotesque things. This one earns its own shelf.
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EDW: The Supreme Court Is Not Your TV Focus Group
Donald Trump was up after midnight again, doing what insecure strongmen do when institutions fail to applaud on cue: trying to bully them in public. At 12:57 a.m. on April 6, he wrote that it was “too bad” the Supreme Court could not…
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EDW: We Just Spent Part of Our Lives Listening to Trump “Talk Through” a War
There are many things I would like back from this administration. Some are abstract, like norms, shame, and the idea that the President of the United States should not sound like a man live blogging his own impulse control failure. Some are more personal.
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Ten years ago, Donald Trump promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years.
In 2016, he told The Washington Post he could wipe out the roughly $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years,” mostly by making better trade deals. Later, when people with calculators showed up, he backed off and said he meant…
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EDW: Captain Bonespurs Thinks Bullying Is Strategy
I want to ask a very simple question.
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If Pam Bondi Wasn’t Political Enough for Trump, Then the Job Description Is “Personal Weapon”
Reuters and AP described a departure following unsuccessful cases against prominent foes and months of scrutiny over the Epstein files. What does that tell us about the job?
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EDW: He Stayed for His Lawyer and Left for the Constitution
Donald Trump finally went to the Supreme Court the way he approaches most institutions: not as something independent, but as something that should be honored by his presence. On April 1, he became the first sitting president to attend oral…
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EDW: The President Tried to Sell a War Like It Was a Luxury Timeshare
Donald Trump’s April 1 address on Iran was not a sober wartime explanation. It was an infomercial with missiles. According to the AP transcript, he bragged that Iran’s navy was essentially gone, its air force was wrecked, its leaders were…
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EDW: Pearl Harbor Is Not a Punchline
I’m going to say it plainly: if the president’s answer to a question about warning allies before attacking Iran is a Pearl Harbor joke, that is not a joke.
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Most of us have taken history class. Most of us have watched enough headlines to know one uncomfortable truth about the Middle East: power can win battles, but it rarely “ends the story.”
So when I hear Washington talk about this war like it is clean, decisive, and controllable, I do not feel safer. I feel like we are being sold safety as a slogan.
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EDW: The Founders Didn’t Write a “Public Interest” Loyalty Test
The First Amendment is short for a reason. It does not say, “Congress shall make no law unless the government is annoyed.” It does not say, “unless we are at war.” It does not say, “unless a regulator thinks your coverage is a hoax.”
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EDW: America’s National Hobby Is Calling Each Other “Bad People”
A Pew Research Center survey across 25 countries asked a simple question: Are the morals and ethics of other people in your country good or bad?
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EDW: “Beat to HELL” Is Not Foreign Policy
This is the commander-in-chief narrating war like it’s a pro-wrestling promo.
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EDW: The Blank-Check Doctrine
Here is the trick they are trying to pull on the country, and it’s so old it should be embarrassing.
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EDW: A Feeling Is Not a Doctrine
The most revealing line in today’s reporter exchange did not come wrapped in a statistic or a briefing slide. It came wrapped in something far more dangerous, because it sounds human and therefore “relatable.”
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EDW Civics: Who Gets to Start a War?
A lot of Americans were taught a clean sentence in school.
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EDW: The Remarks That Tried to Be a War Plan and a Sales Pitch.
Listen to the March 2 Medal of Honor ceremony remarks slowly and you can see the engineering.
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The Fog Machine
We woke up today with the same headline written three different ways: “self-defense,” “preemption,” and “regime change.” On February 28, the United States and Israel launched what President Trump called “major combat operations in Iran.” That phrase is…
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That was the most ridiculous State of the Union I have ever watched, and it is not close.
Not because a president isn’t allowed to brag. Bragging is basically the opening hymn of American politics. This wasn’t bragging. This was a one-man stage show starring an invisible focus group.
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The State of the Union as Epistemic Sabotage
A State of the Union is supposed to be a ledger. It is the one night a president is expected to set theater aside and speak in the plain language of stewardship: this is where we are, this is what we did, this is what it cost, this is what…
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USA. 🇺🇸
Just watched Team USA beat Canada for Olympic gold in overtime, and I’m still buzzing.
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EDW | Tariffs: Who Pays, What They Are, and Why This Fight Matters
A tariff is not a magic wand. It’s not a vibe. It’s not a “fee” we mail to another country.
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EDW | The Dissent Laundering Trick
There’s a rhetorical move that shows up every time an autocrat-in-training loses a case: he doesn’t argue the ruling. He argues the losing opinion as if it won.
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When a Trump Justice Sounds Like Madison, We Should Listen
A 6–3 Supreme Court decision striking down a broad tariff program is not, at its core, a trade story. It is a constitutional story. It is the oldest American argument, the one we keep forgetting and then relearning the hard way: who gets to decide.
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Why we need Theodore Roosevelt energy right now
Public courage, public duty, and the case for holding concentrated power accountable.
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The Scientific Method Isn’t “Science People Being Smug.” It’s a Way to Stop Getting Played.
Most Americans don’t actually argue about facts anymore.
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The Founders Didn’t Build a Government for “Vibes.” They Built One for Checks, Facts, and Restraint.
I still can’t shake Attorney General Pam Bondi’s congressional testimony this week and had the same sinking feeling many of you did: not “my side vs. your side,” but something worse, the slow normalization of unseriousness in the exact…
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A Republic Cannot Run on Bargains, Secrets, and “Trust Us”
In the same week, Americans watched three different institutions behave as if the old guardrails don’t matter anymore.
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Breaking News: The “New” Price Was Already on the Menu
If you’ve seen headlines celebrating “TrumpRx” as if it’s a magical new cure for America’s drug prices, take a breath.
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America Pays Twice for the Same Drugs, Once at the Clinic, and Again in Washington
I ran a medical clinic for 11 years. I watched ordinary people walk in terrified they were losing their independence, because when your vision goes, your world shrinks fast. And I watched something that still feels like science fiction:…
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This week at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump didn’t just talk about faith. He turned faith into a partisan test.
He told the country, plainly: “I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat.”
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There’s a moment in every political cycle when you can feel the consultants’ souls leave their bodies.
You can practically hear the group texts go silent, then restart in all caps. Not because they’re shocked by the depravity, Washington is not a city that shocks easily, but because they recognize the specific kind of disaster that can’t be contained.
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The Economy Isn’t a Stock Chart. It’s a Paycheck, a Rent Bill, and a Cart of Groceries.
We’ve been trained to talk about the economy like it’s a scoreboard: the Dow, the S&P, quarterly reports, “consumer confidence.” Those things matter, especially if you own assets.
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I just read a federal court transcript out of Minnesota, and it’s one of the clearest “rule of law” documents I’ve seen in a long time.
Judge Jerry W. Blackwell didn’t hold a hearing about immigration policy. He held a show-cause hearing about government compliance, because the court had “so many issues with noncompliance” that it called everyone in.
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EDW Opinion: When a President Polices a Woman’s Smile, Democracy Gets Smaller
In the Oval Office on February 3, President Trump was asked a serious question by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: what he would say to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. It’s the kind of question a healthy country should be able to ask its leaders…
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EDW: A Republic of Laws, Not a List of Demands
We can all agree on something basic: people who commit serious crimes should be removed from our communities, citizen or non‑citizen. Public safety matters. Border enforcement matters.
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An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
Mr. President,
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EDW Opinion: Independents — You Don’t Owe Either Party Your Silence
If you’re an independent, you’ve probably heard some version of this your entire adult life: “You’re the reason everything is broken.” Or “Pick a side.” Or “If you don’t vote with us, you’re helping them.”
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Here’s what’s new, and why it matters.
In an interview Monday, Donald Trump urged Republicans to “take over the voting” in “15 places” and said they should “nationalize the voting,” claiming some states are “so crooked.”
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The Words Are the Weapon
There’s a reason so many independents have stopped watching the news.
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The free press is not a luxury add‑on to democracy. It is part of the load‑bearing structure.
The Founders did not protect the press because they expected reporters to be polite, or because they assumed every editor would be fair. They protected it because power lies, and because power, left alone, always tries to turn scrutiny…
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What the DOJ releases in the Epstein case matters. But how it’s released matters just as much.
Because “transparency” that re‑exposes victims is not transparency. It’s re‑victimization with a government seal.
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EDW Speculative Analysis: If the Footage Helped Them, Wouldn’t We Have Seen It Already?
Let’s separate facts from inference, because in a constitutional republic, credibility isn’t a vibe. It’s evidence, process, and restraint.
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I want to say something directly to ICE agents and their families, because if we’re serious about truth and justice, we have to be serious about human beings, too.
If you’re an ICE family reading this: I can’t imagine what it feels like right now.
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Painful Truth Medicine: I Helped Create the Political Mess I Hated
I’m going to say something that’s hard to admit, and I think more of us need to say it out loud.
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EDW: If There Weren’t Videos, What Would We Believe?
Here’s a question I cannot shake after Minneapolis:
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Marjorie Taylor Greene accidentally handed the country one of the clearest tests of whether we still believe in one rule of law.
She asked her followers to do a thought experiment: imagine a MAGA journalist filming a Biden‑era law‑enforcement raid… then getting shoved, disarmed, and shot… and then watching the White House rush to label it “domestic terrorism.”
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How to Amend the U.S. Constitution: A Short Civics Refresher (Article V)
A lot of people (across the political spectrum) say they want constitutional amendments, for elections, money in politics, term limits, rights, you name it. That instinct isn’t “wrong.” But it’s important to understand what an amendment…
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An open note to the Independents and the “I’m Done With Politics” crowd
If you’re an independent… or if you’re one of the many Americans who have quietly decided “I’m not watching this anymore” because the news is just yelling, outrage, and tribal rage, here’s the uncomfortable truth:
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There’s a pattern in American politics that is getting people hurt: leaders issuing a verdict before the investigation has even begun, and doing it in the loudest possible way.
Minnesota has now seen two fatal shootings involving federal immigration agents in January: Renee Good on January 7, 2026, and Alex Pretti on January 24, 2026, both U.S. citizens.
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The Leadership Moment We Missed in Minneapolis
On January 7 in Minneapolis, an ICE officer, Jonathan Ross, shot and killed Renée Good, a 37‑year‑old U.S. citizen and mother of three, during a federal immigration operation that had surged thousands of federal personnel into Minnesota.
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If a “Peace Board” Can’t Tolerate a Peaceful Speech, It’s Not Peacekeeping
At Davos, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that the rules‑based order is fading, that “going along to get along” won’t buy safety, and that “middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.”
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A Paper “Warrant” Is Not a Judge: Why the Reported ICE Home-Entry Memo Is a Line We Cannot Cross
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial in a functioning constitutional republic:
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Watching the Jack Smith hearing today, I kept thinking about one of the biggest differences between a democracy that functions and one that slowly stops functioning:
In a functioning constitutional republic, we settle disputes with evidence, process, and neutral rules. In a degrading one, we settle disputes with personal attacks, loyalty tests, and threats of “payback.”
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I’m going to say this as plainly as I can, especially for our friends in Europe who are reading along:
A lot of Americans love our NATO allies. We respect you. We’re grateful for you. And watching one person treat decades of partnership like a poker chip is breaking our hearts at EDW.
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Mugshots, Myths, and Manifest Destiny: The Press Conference That Made America Look Small
On the first anniversary of his return to office, President Trump turned the White House briefing room into a grievance rally, then brushed aside Greenland’s right to self-determination. Our allies heard the message clearly.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY — AND WHAT “LEADERSHIP” IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE
Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And I want to say this plainly: if our tribute is just a meme, a tidy quote graphic, and a quick “amen,” then we’re missing the point.
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If peace is conditional, you never deserved the Peace Prize
A functioning constitutional republic can disagree about policy. It can argue over trade, borders, budgets, and war. What it cannot normalize is this: the President of the United States treating peace like a personal reward, something he…
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Greenland by force would trade America’s biggest security asset for a map trophy
America can argue about almost anything. Border policy. Spending. Culture wars. Even what “strength” looks like.
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A Deal for People Who Still Love Each Other
I’m going to say something that will annoy people on both sides: I understand why so many of the people I love are conservative.
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I’m going to write this directly to the people on BOTH sides who feel a surge of anger the second someone says “middle ground,” “good faith,” or “we should come together.”
I see you. I understand the instinct. The stakes feel existential. You think compromise equals surrender. You’ve watched your side get mocked, lied about, ignored, and you decided: “Never again.” So when someone tries to lower the…
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The False Dichotomy is eating our country alive
Somewhere along the line, we let our conversations get hijacked by the laziest, most destructive trick in the book: The False Dichotomy. The “either/or” trap. The “pick a team or you’re the enemy” frame. It sounds…
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I keep seeing this talking point: “Democrats/liberals don’t care about the criminals ICE is removing.” I’m going to say this as plainly as I can:
That framing is a false choice.
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Wisdom Is the Awareness of Ignorance
An open challenge to all of us to pursue truth with courage
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I’m Pro–Law Enforcement. That’s Why I Want ICE to Show Its Face.
I come from a place that confuses people right now: I have deep ties to law enforcement, I respect the work, and I want every officer to go home to their family at the end of the night. I also have Trump-supporting in-laws and chosen…
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Civil Rights Didn’t “Treat White Americans Badly.” The Real Danger Is Treating Equal Protection as a Grievance.
President Donald Trump recently revived an old political story with a new level of bluntness: that civil-rights-era protections have left white Americans “very badly treated,” a form of “reverse discrimination” that kept some from getting…
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We’re told JD Vance feels “very, very sad” for a dead woman, sad not only because she lost her life, but because (wait for it) she’s allegedly “a victim of left-wing ideology,” “brainwashed,” and therefore somehow responsible for the bullets that ended her life.
That’s a remarkable new form of compassion: the kind where your empathy arrives pre-packaged with a verdict, a political diagnosis, and a tidy moral lesson about the dangers of “the far left.” It’s like sending condolences with a subpoena attached.
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Labels First, Evidence Later: The New American Instant‑Justice Kit
If you’ve ever wondered how a country can watch the same video and arrive at completely different “facts,” congratulations: you’re living inside the answer.
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When “Crooked” Becomes Policy: What Trump’s Minnesota Tirade Reveals
In a functioning republic, accusations are supposed to travel on rails: evidence, process, jurisdiction, accountability. Not vibes. Not insults. Not performative certainty. And not presidential declarations that reality is whatever the speaker says it is.
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The World Will Read America’s Venezuela Oil Plan as a Confession of Impunity
If the United States wanted to send a message that it can still project power in the Western Hemisphere, it did not need to sound like it was annexing a country’s revenue stream.
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The Pageant, the Boots, and the Part of Me I Don’t Want to Admit
Thursday night in Athena-Weston, in a grammar-school gym that smelled like winter coats and stale coffee, I watched kids shuffle across a stage in paper halos and tinsel. The singing was off. The cues were missed. A kid froze and then…
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The Algorithm I Blame Is Built Out of Me
I keep saying I want the truth.
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EDW | “You’re really on the side of…Starbucks?”
Here’s the moral puzzle of the week: a $37.2 billion coffee titan that just told investors the turnaround is “taking hold” and bragged about 62 straight quarterly dividends… versus the barista who pulls your double‑nonfat‑no‑whip while…
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EDW | Blockades by Post: Optics Over Order
A grown‑up government files notices, musters allies, and explains the plan.
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Smash‑and‑Grab Foreign Policy
We just seized a ship on the high seas, stuck 1.85 million barrels in our pocket for “safekeeping,” and announced a “total blockade” of sanctioned tankers: details to be provided once the lawyers stop blinking in Morse code. Caracas calls…
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Playground Rules for Presidents (and other adults)
Remember grade school?
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EDW | “The Boys on the Burning Deck”
(an introspective roast of a system that sets men on fire and sells them water by the thimble)
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EDW | The Missing Line on the Poll (and Why Your Inbox Won’t Shut Up About $5)
Behold: The Economist/YouGov asks America, “What’s the most important issue?”
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“Affordability Tour,” Day One: The president went to a casino to talk about prices and somehow declared victory over inflation, suggested we just buy fewer dolls, and then detoured into ethnography by epithet.
Because nothing says “lower grocery bills” like describing countries including Somalia, Haiti, and Afghanistan with slurs.
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EDW | “Follow the Money” (satire with steel‑toed boots) The House Always Wins (And It’s Their House)
They told you it was about freedom. It was about fees.
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EDW | Alliances Are Not a Party. Break that—and you break the alliance.
If your national‑security doctrine reads like a comment‑section fever dream (“civilizational erasure,” “patriotic parties,” warnings that “certain NATO members will become majority non‑European”), you’re not leading the alliance; you’re…
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EDW | Don’t Sign These Divorce Papers
There’s a blue house on Hawthorn Street with a lilac bush that explodes every May. One spring, the owner’s ex kicks in a side door, tears out the copper, drags a mattress into the east wing, and starts forwarding her mail. The neighbors…
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EDW | “The Algorithm Ate Your Neighborhood, Your News, and Your Vote”
(yes, this is an ADHD powered connect the dots rant with receipts)
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Government By Post (EDW’s Sledgehammer Remix)
Welcome to the United States of Make‑Believe Governance, where major policy now ships via exclamation points and a phone with 5% battery.
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The Only Winning Move
(Executive Dysfunction Weekly neighbors first, planet wide)
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When We Started Cheering for Failure
(EDW: neighbors first, no jerseys)
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Dispatch from Fremont Street (EDW comes correct)
We rolled out of Walla Walla with the windows down, pointed the hood south, and split the run with soft landings at Jackpot both ways, the kind of halfway stop that feels like tradition the second time you do it.
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The Bill for Our Little War
Open your eyes and read the receipt.
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Aisle Five, where $1.50 told on us
I watched a checkout turn into a hearing over a dollar fifty.
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The Great American Demolition Derby (and We’re All the Same Car)
I’m sick of it.
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Ceasefire for Civics
• Celebrating a death? No respect. • “Now we’re at war”? No use for it. • The real fight? It’s not Left vs Right; it’s war‑addicts on both sides vs the rest of us who still want a country.
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Breaking: Humanity Reaches Peak Dumbness—Experts Blame Wi‑Fi (and also us, but mostly Wi‑Fi)
An extremely rigorous investigation conducted from my couch
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The FCC’s New “Public Interest” Test: Agree—or Else
Jim Rutenberg’s NYT piece captures the pattern we’ve been warning about. Here’s why it matters. (EDW community forums edition)
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Don’t Ask Who the Shooter Voted For
The algorithm’s favorite question sells outrage. We choose solutions. (EDW community forums edition)
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The Costs of Bully Tariffs: If Russia, China, and India Tighten Ranks, What Breaks First?
Thesis: Tariff maximalism and weaponized finance are accelerating a structural re‑wiring of global trade. A Russia–China–India (RCI) alignment would not be a NATO‑grade alliance, but a transactional economic bloc (focused first on energy,…
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We Don’t Need Decluttering Tips. We Need De-Skimming.
Yeah, our houses are full of stuff. We buy it, store it, sell it, someone else buys it, stores it… repeat.
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Morning Thoughts from the Edge of the Storm
By Executive Dysfunction Weekly
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The Clueless Administration: Troops for the Photo, Talk for the Headlines
D.C., today: Boots, barricades, Humvees, and a president who thinks governance is costume design. Europe, yesterday: Careful statements, raised eyebrows, and a president who mistakes polite diplomatic phrasing for a standing ovation.
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Day one of Bass Canyon and we immediately got knighted by a medieval frat chapter in Modelo jerseys and cannabis heraldry. ⚔️🍺
These absolute lunatics from @FestivalLore rolled up looking like if Monty Python, a dispensary, and a Costco beer aisle had a threesome and raised the baby on bass drops.
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Troops in the Capital for a Photo Op
An imagined street scene frames a criticism of the August 2025 deployment. The initial Guard teams were unarmed, and their mission had a different legal basis from the federal direction of D.C. police.
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The New Deal, Deal, Deal, Deal
In Yellowjackets, people end up eating each other because they’re stranded in the wilderness.
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President Prevents Imaginary World War, Shocked at Lack of Applause From ‘Certain Persuasion’ Nobel Committee
WASHINGTON: In White House remarks with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan yesterday, President Trump proudly declared that he singlehandedly stopped a catastrophic World War III between Russia and Ukraine, a conflict that experts say existed entirely in his mind.
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Hey Dems, What’s the Plan?
Seriously, what are Democrats doing in Congress? On TV? On the campaign trail?
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The Truth About Tariffs: What’s Really Happening in America’s Economy
At her July 17 briefing, Karoline Leavitt highlighted flat June producer prices. Consumer prices had risen. What did those different measures actually tell us about tariffs?
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We live within a rigged game.
Wealthy and clever individuals manipulate our most precious asset (time) to benefit themselves. Money isn’t just currency; it’s a way to leverage the lives of others, to buy leisure and freedom at the expense of someone else’s sweat, stress, and lost hours.
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🧠 EDW – Executive Dysfunction Weekly 📣 Louder Than the Voices in Your Head 32 Years of Marriage Means Sometimes… You Gotta Stop Listening to Remember What You Were Gonna Say
Is anyone else old enough, married long enough, or just mentally running low on RAM enough to reach that stage in a relationship where…
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Back at it Again with Trump’s Diplomatic TACO Special
Oh, look who’s back on the menu: our all-time favorite diplomatic dish: TACO, short for Trump Always Chickens Out. Because no one, and we mean absolutely no one, enjoys chickening out quite like Donald Trump.
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Life is an endless cycle of becoming and letting go, a series of quiet revolutions happening deep within us.
We plant seeds, nurture them carefully, and watch with awe as they bloom into something extraordinary, only to find that true growth requires eventual separation, like a flower releasing its seeds into the wind, trusting they’ll find fertile ground elsewhere.
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🧴 EDW MOCK ALERT: Trump’s “Victory 45–47”: When Bully Pulpit Meets Body Odor
Now available: “Smell like a dictator while gutting healthcare.”
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Lessons from Japan: How We’re Failing Our Kids
I recently stopped by my local bank to deposit some leftover yen from my trip to Japan. The teller, friendly and curious, asked me what I remembered most vividly from the trip. It got me thinking and sharing, because what I remembered most…
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Wake the Hell Up: Why Bernie’s Fight Is Our Fight
I grew up in a union family. My father was a proud member of Local 103, the cable workers’ union, employed by the telephone company. I saw firsthand what a stable paycheck, good benefits, and union solidarity meant for a working-class family.
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Hey EDW Readers, I just posted a promotion for Michael’s new podcast, “Concealed Clarity.”
It’s his very first episode, raw, real, and refreshingly authentic. I highly recommend giving it a listen.
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The Democratic Party is facing a critical moment, and it’s time we listened.
I’ve lived in southeastern Washington and built strong friendships across northeastern Oregon: blue-collar workers, firefighters, police officers, nurses, electricians, and construction workers. These are hard-working individuals who love…
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🗞️ EDW Special: Attacking the Press Isn’t Strong: It’s Weakness
Let’s lay something bare:
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🥽 EDW Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: You Know Better. So What the Fuck Happened?**
Hey Mark,
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🧠 Executive Dysfunction Weekly: MAGA Isn’t a Movement—It’s a Mythology
To anyone still clinging to the idea that this is just about Trump, or just about policy differences, or just about the next election: wake up. You don’t defeat a political theology with bullet points. You don’t counter cosmic grievance…
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🎉 Happy Juneteenth! 🎉
Growing up in New Jersey in the ’70s and ‘80s, there were important chapters of American history that just weren’t taught, like the Tulsa Massacre or the Trail of Tears.
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🔥 Executive Dysfunction Weekly Presents: Passwords Are Breaking Our Brains (And Our Will to Live)
I’m standing at the intersection of frustration and despair, otherwise known as the Old Navy login screen. All I want to know is where my freaking package is. Just track the damn order. Why, Old Navy, why are you making me sign in? And if…
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The Enemies of Democracy Speak in Absolutes
This one’s been building for a while. And yeah, it’s gonna be long, because nothing real ever fits on a bumper sticker.
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🧔♂️ Executive Dysfunction Weekly Father’s Day 2025 We See You.
Today’s not about Hallmark. It’s about you.
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To every officer sweating in riot gear right now:
We see you.
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🚨 “They Don’t Want a Riot; They Want You to Riot”
How Trump is baiting peaceful resistance into authoritarian overreach
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Trump is angry.
Of course he is; half the country openly despised him, and millions wanted him prosecuted. Now he’s back in power, unchecked, his ego bruised and desperate for revenge. Trump’s behavior isn’t complicated. He’s narcissistic, aggressive, and…
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Up to $179 million for intimidation. Not democracy.
President Trump is deploying troops in Los Angeles and threatening force against parade protesters. This isn’t a celebration; it’s a spectacle of power wrapped in patriotism.
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Bernie Sanders is absolutely right: Trump is steering America towards authoritarianism, and we can prove it by critically examining his words and actions, without twisting logic.
First, consider Trump’s repeated attempts to undermine trust in elections.
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📣 Executive Dysfunction Weekly: Facts Aren’t Biased. Your Feelings Are 📣
Let’s set the record straight: Facts are not partisan. Truth is not negotiable. Yet, in today’s climate, simply stating verifiable facts (like reporting objectively documented attacks on judicial independence) has become labeled as “biased.”
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🛑 Executive Dysfunction Weekly: Are We Heading for an American Tiananmen Square? 🛑
In 1989, the Chinese government responded to peaceful protesters demanding democracy by sending troops and tanks into Tiananmen Square. The world watched in horror.
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🛑 Executive Dysfunction Weekly: Wake the Hell Up, America: Our Democracy is Burning! 🛑
President Trump just ordered 2,000 National Guard members into federal service for the Los Angeles mission, overriding state authority, and crossing a line we should never, EVER tolerate. This isn’t politics, folks; it’s a goddamn threat.
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🕹️ Executive Dysfunction Weekly: Reset the DKP, Billionaire Edition 🕹️
Forbes just released its 2025 Billionaires List. A record-shattering 3,028 names grace it, including 288 fresh-faced newcomers collectively worth nearly $680 billion. Entrepreneurs, investors, heirs (folks like rock pioneers, comedy…
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Make America Think Again: Why We Need Logic Class in the Age of Straw Men
The Golden Age of Gullibility
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⚠️ Executive Dysfunction Weekly: We Won’t Apologize: Our Democracy Depends On It ⚠️
We at Executive Dysfunction Weekly have repeatedly sounded the alarm about attacks on judicial independence.
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Trump Launched a Memecoin. And Yes, It’s Exactly as Absurd as It Sounds
By Executive Dysfunction Weekly
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📚 Judicial Review 101: A Sarcastic Primer for Those Still in the Back Row 📚
Oh, look who’s decided to join us: welcome, class!
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🚨 Sound the Alarm: Judicial Independence Under Attack 🚨
At Executive Dysfunction Weekly, we have never hesitated to shout from the rooftops when our democracy faces existential threats.
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BREAKING NEWS FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH:
In his latest visionary masterpiece, President Trump proudly unveiled an executive order humorously labeled “Restoring Gold Standard Science.”
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President Trump’s blatant grab for $1.1 billion from public broadcasters like NPR and PBS isn’t about fiscal responsibility; it’s a calculated attack on truth itself.
Trump’s White House accused NPR and PBS of spreading “radical, woke propaganda.”
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They Thought You Wouldn’t Notice: Peter Thiel, Trump, and the Quiet Takeover of Your Data
When Elon Musk stepped away from Trump’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), many breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the threat had subsided. But Musk’s exit wasn’t a retreat; it was a relay. The baton is now firmly…
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The latest absurdity exploding from Oklahoma’s so-called “education” board proves once again that irony isn’t just dead; it’s been run over, resurrected, and killed again.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters managed a masterstroke in the art of political sneakiness, slipping a blatantly partisan curriculum standard past the education board without full disclosure. Now, high school students in Oklahoma are…
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Executive Dysfunction Weekly Presents: We’re Still Screaming: Because “Corrupt Judge” Isn’t a Magic Get-Out-of-Court-Free Card
We’re done.
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The Judges Ruled. The Briefing Turned to “Judicial Coup.”
Welcome to 2025, where a Trump administration press briefing resembles a poorly-scripted authoritarian reality show rather than a transparent discussion of policy.
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The TACO Trade and the Tariff Tantrum: Welcome to Trump’s Word Soup Café
In a dusty corner of a Wall Street analyst’s notepad, a devastating new acronym was born:
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Purity Tests and Gunpowder: How Liberals Let Dragons Win
I recently did the unthinkable: I shared a picture of myself holding a gun in a liberal group chat.
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Trump Could Actually Unite America—No, Really, We’re Serious
Look, we all know Donald Trump desperately, achingly, craves being universally adored. Right now, he’s sitting at just under half the country (and that’s generous), but what if (stay with us here) he actually pulled off uniting the whole damn nation?
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Joey was seven years old the first time the angel appeared.
He stood by the rusty swing set at Sacred Heart Elementary in Jersey City, kicking gravel and watching ants march along cracks in the concrete.
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Trump’s War on the First Amendment: Judicial Rebuke of Constitutional Sabotage
President Trump’s recent executive tantrums against law firms and universities have finally met their match: Federal judges armed with the First Amendment and unwilling to entertain his authoritarian impulses.
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Sometimes we sit in the dark, scrolling helplessly through our phones, contemplating the bleakness of our collective dysfunction, when, like a beacon of sanity wrapped in savage humor, the Alt National Park Service shines through.
A reported EPA draft proposed repealing federal greenhouse-gas limits for coal- and gas-fired power plants.
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me, Obviously)
Ah, mistakes.
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EDW: Senate Circus Incoming – Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Faces the Music (NSFW)
Alright folks, gather around and grab your strongest drink (hell, grab two) because we’re diving headfirst into a Senate clusterfuck that’s poised to be more chaotic than a toddler hopped up on Mountain Dew at Chuck E. Cheese. Donald…
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The Trump Show: Bully, Hero, or Just a Billionaire’s Reality Game?
It’s late.
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Reality Out of Service Until Further Notice
A public service announcement from Executive Dysfunction Weekly
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Welcome to the mess.
This is Executive Dysfunction Weekly – a half-news, half-scream blog for those of us trying to make sense of modern politics with a broken calendar, a stack of Post-Its, and a deep, aching sigh. If you’ve ever felt like the world’s gone…
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How to Lose Friends and Influence People: The Authoritarian’s Edition
Welcome, aspiring autocrats, to your masterclass in modern authoritarianism!
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The System Isn’t Broken
It’s Performing Exactly As Designed
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Ad Hominem — the fastest way to end a conversation and destroy a relationship.
If you’ve ever walked away from a political conversation thinking, “We didn’t even talk about the issue,” there’s a good chance you just ran into one of the most common moves on the internet: the ad…
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The Straw Man
(How we turn real people into cartoons, then “win” arguments against the cartoon.) If you’ve ever said something like: “I’m concerned about the method, not the goal,” …and someone replied: “So you want open borders /…
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WHATABOUTISM
(“But what about…?”: the deflection move that turns every conversation into mush) If you’ve ever tried to talk about ONE specific issue and the reply is instantly: “But what about (your side / their side /…
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Hasty Generalization
(“They all…”: the shortcut that turns disagreement into dehumanization.) If you want to watch a conversation collapse in real time, listen for this move: “They ALL do that.” “That’s what THEY are.” “Every one of them…
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Moving the Goalposts
(“You proved it… so now the standard changes.”) If you’ve ever felt like an argument is a treadmill (where you keep providing answers, links, data, examples, and context, but the “win condition” keeps shifting), there’s a…
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Motivated Reasoning
(“I don’t believe facts. I believe my team.”) If you’ve ever watched two people see the same video, read the same document, and walk away more convinced than ever that the OTHER person is insane, welcome…
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“God Said So” Isn’t an Argument: How Moral Language Gets Weaponized (and how to answer without starting a war)
There’s a moment a lot of us are living through right now that feels uniquely hopeless: You’re talking about a policy, a video, a protest, or a tragedy. You’re trying to stay anchored to facts and…
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The Gish Gallop (When “More Claims” Replaces “More Proof”)
If you’ve ever walked away from an online argument feeling like you just got hit by a dump truck of talking points, you’ve met this tactic: The Gish Gallop = a rapid flood of weak, misleading…
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The Motte-and-Bailey (How People Retreat to a “Safe” Claim After Saying Something Extreme)
Here’s a logic trick that is everywhere online right now, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it: The Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy. It’s when someone makes a bold, provocative claim (the bailey), then, when challenged, retreats…
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The Loaded Question (When the Question Sneaks in the Verdict)
One of the most common ways people “win” arguments online isn’t by making a strong case. It’s by asking a question that smuggles in an accusation, so if you answer it, you’ve already accepted their framing.…
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Confirmation Bias (Why We “Find Proof” for What We Already Believe)
Here’s the quiet cognitive glitch that is doing more damage to relationships, politics, and even basic reality-testing than almost any other: Confirmation bias. It’s the tendency to notice, believe, remember, and share information that supports what…
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Cognitive Dissonance (Why Smart People Defend Contradictions Instead of Updating)
There’s a psychological phenomenon that is quietly wrecking our ability to talk to each other right now, even when we’re all staring at the same facts. It’s called cognitive dissonance. And once you understand it, you’ll…
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