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The DOJ has refused to hand over Epstein files after a judge's order. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to produce the unredacted documents or explain why it couldn't. The deadline was July 2. On the night of July 2, the DOJ filed its answer. It refused.

It asked for sixty more days and said it will appeal. The judge already found that Blanche conceded he was in violation of the law. So this is a constitutional crisis. Congress passed a law requiring release. A court ordered release. The executive refused both. Either there are consequences, or America basically has a king now.

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The distinction that I’m making here is less ideological than practical. The entire pseudo-civil war inside of the Democratic Party over “socialism” is a canard. Nobody really knows what socialism means, and the policy overlap between the socialists and the “progessives” is significant. What is propelling the popularity of the socialists in certain districts is less an upswell in Marx-reading and more the fact that these candidates are touting both policy positions and a fighting attitude that would solve the problems of the people. Medicare for All solves a problem; incremental improvements to Obamacare do not. Aggressive wealth taxes combined with aggressive promotion of mass unionization solve a problem; minor tax increases on the rich and “business and workers can thrive together” platitudes do not. Expanding the Supreme Court and imposing term limits on justices solves a problem; calling on the next Democratic president to appoint someone liberal does not. This list can go on and on and on. The point is that in each of these cases, the left-most position is the one that would actually make a significant positive material impact on the macro-level problem, whereas the incremental approach would mitigate the underlying problem to such a small extent that the average person could be forgiven for not perceiving the change at all. Instead of thinking of the differing approaches to these issues on a left-to-right or radical-to-conservative axis, it can be helpful sometimes to just ask: “What would it take to actually solve this problem, as opposed to just moving somewhat in the right direction on it?”

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“The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.

America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.” - Zohran Mamdani

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MAGA should rejoice he can’t run for president.

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Russia, the World's Second-Biggest Oil Exporter, Is Now So Desperate for Gasoline It's Importing It From India - National Security Journal

It's a humiliation few thought possible: Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter, is now importing gasoline. Ukraine's relentless st

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Ukraine has won a tactical victory against the Russian civilian population, and against Putin’s formerly bottomless war budget. More to the point, Russia does not have the defensive resources to keep Ukraine from destroying its refineries and fuel storage facilities.

Against the backdrop of this countrywide hardship, how long can Putin stay in power?

Slava Ukraini !

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“Moderates seem not to comprehend that it takes roughly the same amount of political capital to do a little bit of good as it takes to do a lot of good. It is almost as hard to raise taxes on billionaires by 5% as it is to raise taxes on them by 90%, because it is the direction that generates the opposition … If you’re going to have the fight, it might as well be over a change that would, if you win, solve the problem.”

Racking up those accolades...

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On June 23, 2026, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) outlined the “unprecedented corruption of [the] Trump White House” in the first 500 days of the president’s second term. “This is a national crisis,” Murphy said, “and we should start acting like it.”

“The pay-to-play schemes. The pardons for donors. The contracts for friends. The favors for Trump’s children. The use of inside information to make money. This is not a disconnected series of scandals. This is a system.

“Government is supposed to serve us. It is supposed to lower costs, supposed to protect our families, strengthen our schools, make life better for people.

“But Donald Trump believes that government exists to serve him—to make him richer, to protect his friends, to reward his donors.

“That is why he doesn’t have time for you. He doesn’t have time to solve real problems because he’s making money for himself and his friends.

“And he’s betting that the corruption will be so constant that we stop hearing it. That the outrage will just turn into exhaustion, and the exhaustion will just turn into acceptance.

“We can’t let that happen.

“Because once corruption becomes normal, it becomes permanent.

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They trained us to be supplicants. We petition power. We appeal to power. We protest, which is essentially asking power to notice our displeasure and choose to respond. The entire framework assumes we are outside the room where decisions happen, and the best we can do is knock loudly and hope someone opens the door.

To put it plainly, things have mostly gotten worse for a long time. It’s a sunk cost and we must evolve if we want to turn the tides.

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