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I fell onto the couch with a sigh, one hand on my still very full belly. Freddie looked up from his spot next to me, curled up on the furry blanket in the little nest I had made for him before we ...

Yes, your intrepid reporter braved the anarchist/ socialist enclave of San Francisco, widely known as ‘Baghdad by the Bay’. Known as a ‘wasteland’, ‘worse than the third world’ and ‘not America anymore’, the city I once lived in is now a ‘slum’, ‘trash...

Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...

Air National Guard airmen work clearing leaves and debris from McPherson Square Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2025. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

Washington Post: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations ...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...

Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social In a devastating new report —Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption — the House Judiciary Committee staff paints a portrait of a presidency...

The Atlantic published this story earlier today. www.theatlantic.com/... Volodymyr Zelensky, in the next phase of talks to end the war in Ukraine, intends to draw a red line at the most contentious issue on the table: the Russian demand for Ukraine’s...

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...

No end to tacky with Mango Mussolini US president Donald Trump fired the six remaining members of independent federal agency the Commission of Fine Arts, a group of architects and urban planners meant to review projects such as the planned triumphal...