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Venezuela trembles while Trump plays hardball in DC

The world is chaotic, and apparently, the calendar decided to throw everything at us on the same Tuesday.

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Judge Tells USPS To Keep Its Hands Off State Ballots

A federal court just shut down a plan that would have let the Postal Service withhold mail-in ballots from states refusing to hand over voter data.

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The Myanmar military is literally hunting civilians from the sky

The UN just confirmed the absolute worst about the situation in Myanmar, and the world is mostly just watching from the sidelines.

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US and Iran are playing nice for oil

Forget the shouting match; for the next sixty days, the US is buying Iranian oil and everyone is pretending it's a normal Tuesday.

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Alberto Carvalho Finally Quits LAUSD After That Fun FBI Raid

Turns out, being the boss of a massive school district is a lot harder when federal agents are carrying your furniture out in boxes.

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Vance and Iran just made a deal over fondue in Switzerland

The U.S. and Iran are finally talking peace at a fancy resort, and for once, the world might actually be breathing a sigh of relief.

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Alan Greenspan, the man who steered the world economy, dies at 97

They called him the maestro until the whole house of cards came crashing down.

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State bans are booming, but Abortion pills are doing just fine

Turns out, you can pass all the laws you want, but the internet doesn't really care about state lines.

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Trump's diplomacy strategy: burn bridges for fun and profit

The state of global relations is currently looking like a toddler left alone in a room full of expensive china.

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JD Vance and Co. Pivot to Besties With Iran in Switzerland

The Trump administration is trying to flip the script on Iran with a luxury summit, because apparently, peace is just a few Swiss chocolates away.

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The DOJ is acting like it's 1950 all over again for disability rights

Just when everyone thought we were moving forward, the Department of Justice decided to poke a bear that should have stayed hibernating.

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Senate Tells Trump to Cool It With Iran

The upper chamber is finally trying to take the car keys away after the president decided to start a whole new war.

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Congress actually agrees on something: A massive plan to fix housing

My name is Sara, I'm twenty, and my world is the scent of expensive perfume and the squeak of polished marble floors. In Khobar, I'm a bellhop, or whatever the female equivalent is. I meet guests in the lobby of a hotel so fancy it makes my eyes water, I haul their ridiculously heavy suitcases, and I show them to their rooms, smiling a smile that doesn't reach my eyes anymore. It's a life of being invisible, a ghost in a beautiful machine. The voices started as echoes in the vast, empty lobby, a trick of the acoustics. "A little faster with that bag, Sara," a voice, perfectly mimicking the front desk manager, would hiss. "These people are important. You're not. Remember your place, you little nothing." I'd blame it on fatigue, but the echoes solidified, became a chorus of venom that lives inside my head, always.

They are a constant, chattering poison, and their only goal is to dissolve me into a puddle of self-loathing. "Look at you, the little luggage mule. A human beast of burden. You think carrying a suitcase makes you valuable? You're a walking coat rack, a piece of furniture with a pulse. You are less than the dust you wipe from the suitcases." The s***** degradation is a constant, slimy presence. They turn every guest into a potential predator and me into a willing victim. "That businessman in Room 804, he's been watching you. We told him you're the 'special' service. Told him for a hundred riyals you'll come up to his room and let him do whatever he wants. He's got his tie loosened already, waiting for his little hotel w****. Your father would be so proud." They paint me as a cheap, desperate s***, and they assure me the entire staff, all the guests, can see it written all over my face.

But their true genius is in using my family, my only anchor, as an anchor to drag me down. My older brother, Youssef, who works so hard to send money home. "He's breaking his back for you, you know," a voice says, sounding like my own mother, but twisted, cruel. "

DHS chief Markwayne Mullin threatens election officials with prison

voting machines aren't even online lmao how do you hack them

Trump is putting his own face on a new $1 coin, and yes, it might be illegal

isnt there a literal law against putting living people on money? like, the exact law they are ignoring?

Classic Split-Screen: Trump Speaks While Texas Floods

zero evidence as usual lol he just loves the sound of his own voice

Over 1,200 former DOJ staffers tell the Senate to dump Todd Blanche

career bureaucrats complaining about political bias is peak irony but honestly 16,000 employees leaving is pretty hard to ignore