Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege U.S. Forces Kidnapped and Tortured Them As airstrikes and reports of torture under Ecuador’s U.S.-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site News they were blindfolded and held hostage for eight days.

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UnitedHealth Q1 '26 Earnings: Wall Street is in Love Again UnitedHealth tops expectations and boosts its outlook, sending shares soaring as Wall Street rewards a blowout quarter from the nation’s largest insurer.

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Rep. Robert Garcia: "Unfortunately, I have to announce that Democratic members will not participating. This roundtable is not a real hearing. It's set up to appear like one. We should be clear about why that's happening. Last week, Pam Bondi skipped a legally required deposition ... "

A Chilean Billionaire Rented a Mansion to Jared and Ivanka - Now His Mine Might Destroy the Boundary Waters & what Make America Beautiful Again did about it

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Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm And how I got permanently banned from X

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GET THE FUCK OUT A Message to I.C.E.

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four seasons total dumbfuckery: Donny blows up Iran negotiations with his own reckless mouth Dear Leader always makes things worse for himself

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Now Even MAGA Is Doubting Butler, PA: The Wall Cracks First Where The Mythology Lives Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Questioning Butler Is The Most Important MAGA Story Of The Week — And The One Nobody Is Naming Correctly

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Republican Drafts a Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it…

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What a complete foolish asshole.

They stole the Pope’s stone. Now they’re attacking the Pope PLUS: Join Scott MacFarlane and me TODAY at 12 pm ET on Substack Live

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April 20, 2026 Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that...

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Trump is in way over his head Early this morning, during what his official schedule called "executive time," the President of the United States stopped what he was doing inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to take an unscripted phone ...

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Gun violence, domestic violence, and the systems that fail us The Dose (April 21)

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Words & Phrases We can agree Iran has not agreed to anything

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The Vindication of Bidenomics Are we finally ready to acknowledge its successes?

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Kash’s Complaint As he said he would on Sunday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation case against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick this morning over a story that characterizes him as an incomp...

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Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."

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Whatever happened to expertise? As a writer, I haven’t spent very much time working for what we now call the mainstream media.

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Kash wants cash: Inside the FBI Director’s $250 million defamation lawsuit On Friday, The Atlantic published a story alleging that FBI Director Kash Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

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A reminder:

Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

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I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.

It was worth it.

Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying. 22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name

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Goodbye and Good Riddance, Madam Secretary of Labor You've disgraced yourself and a great department, and it's Trump's fault for nominating you in the first place

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The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran

AI, Artifice, And Authenticity The era of badly-automated homogenized engagement slop is upon us. I desperately want to believe there's a renaissance for authenticity on the other end.

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