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SL Murphree
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Writer for The Articles of Unreason
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Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to end the shutdown, splitting their own party and surrendering leverage.

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#USPolitics #Shutdown #Democrats #Congress #PoliticalAnalysis #ArticlesOfUnreason
Shutdown Nears End After Eight Democrats Back GOP Funding Deal
A masterclass in how to lose a standoff with people who like standoffs.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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When 42 million Americans need a federal judge’s signature to buy groceries, something’s gone deeply wrong.
Here’s how SNAP funding turned into a courtroom hostage crisis.

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#CourtOrderedGroceries #SNAP #FoodStamps #GovernmentShutdown #FoodSecurity
You Shouldn’t Need a Law Degree to Eat: The SNAP Chaos, Explained
How 42 million people’s food money got turned into a hostage negotiation.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Ten years after Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage, Kim Davis tried one last time to undo it.
The Supreme Court refused to listen.
No hearings. No dissents.

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#SupremeCourt #Obergefell #KimDavis #MarriageEquality #LGBTQRights #CivilRights
Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis Appeal, Leaving Obergefell Untouched
The culture war’s loudest martyr finally hit a wall of indifference.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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New pardons just dropped.
Trump’s turned clemency into a loyalty program, points redeemable for freedom.

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#Trump #Pardons #Corruption #Politics #Democracy #JusticeSystem #Accountability #Scandal #Freedom #USPolitics
Trump Expands Presidential Pardons Amid Growing Backlash
Somewhere between monarchy and mob family, America found a loophole.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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ICE is looking into buying mega-warehouses once meant for shopping.
Now they’re for detention.
Streamlined.
Efficient.
Human suffering on scale.

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#ICE #Immigration #WarehouseState #HumanRights #USPolitics #LogisticsState #Detention #Dystopia
ICE’s New Plan: Unused Amazon Warehouses For Human Detention
Because you can always scale human suffering.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The USDA ordered states to undo food aid payments after the Supreme Court paused the full-benefit mandate.
The memo calls it “unauthorized issuance,” while families call it existential.
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#SNAP #USDA #FoodInsecurity #Politics #SocialJustice
The Petty War on Hunger
The day bureaucracy decided compassion was optional.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The U.S. called them narco-terrorists.
They’re fishermen, laborers, and a bus driver, all dead in missile strikes.

No drugs. No evidence. Just strikes and silence.

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#Venezuela #WarOnDrugs #Trump #HumanRights #ForeignPolicy #USPolitics #Accountability
69 People Killed in U.S. Boat Strikes Targeting Alleged Drug Smuggling Vessels
They were billed as narco-terror vessels. Turns out the dead were fishermen, taxi drivers and other first-time smugglers.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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ICE barred priests from giving Communion to migrants on All Saints’ Day.
The Pope’s response wasn’t political it was a reckoning.

The Pope, the Border, and the Body of Christ

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#PopeLeoXIV #ICE #Immigration #CatholicTwitter #Faith
The Pope, the Border, and the Body of Christ
The Gate That Wouldn’t Open
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November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Congress is still getting paid.
Federal workers aren’t.
SNAP benefits are frozen.
The government is shut down.
If you didn’t do your job, you’d be fired.

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#GovernmentShutdown #SNAP #Congress #NoBudgetNoPay #FoodInsecurity #PoliticalAccountability
Congress Isn’t Working—But You’re Still Paying Them
If You Don’t Work, You Don’t Get Paid. So Why Should Congress?
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November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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BREAKING:
The Trump administration just asked the Supreme Court to block court-ordered food aid for 42 million Americans.

Hunger is now officially a political weapon.

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#BREAKING, #SNAP, #Shutdown, #SCOTUS, #FoodInsecurity,
Let Them Eat Shutdown
Trump Tries to Block Food Aid During Court-Ordered Payout
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November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The U.S. is carrying out military strikes in the Caribbean based on a classified list of 24 terrorist groups, but won’t tell Congress who they are

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#MilitaryOverreach #USPolitics #WarOnDrugs #NationalSecurity #Caribbean #HumanRights #Accountability
Trump’s Secret Kill List Has 24 Names. No One Knows Who They Are.
And neither do the people being killed.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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ICE wants to launch a national call center to track immigrant children.
They call it safety.
We call it surveillance.

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#immigration #immigrants #DACA #weareallimmigrants #ICE #Deportation #RefugeeRights #HumanRights #StopTheRaids
“For Their Safety”: ICE Wants a National Call Center to Track Immigrant Children
Because Nothing Says “Child Welfare” Like a Federal Hotline for Deportation
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November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Supreme Court just added a case that could unravel same‑sex marriage rights to its docket.

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#LGBTQ #CivilRights #SCOTUS
They’re Coming for Obergefell. Again.
And if you think they wouldn’t dare, read the playbook.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Record high: 66K detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, half without criminal records.
We’ve built a detention‑state.

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#Immigration #Detention #HumanRights #ICE #BuildADetentionState
Build-a-Detention-State™: How the U.S. Quietly Scaled a Mass Incarceration Machine for Immigrants | Flipboard
Substack - This week, ICE hit a new record. 66,000 people are now in immigration detention in the United States. The largest number in the agency’s history. Let …
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November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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How to make a trillionaire in 12 easy steps.
Elon Musk just locked in a potential $1 trillion pay package as Tesla stumbles.

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#ElonMusk #Tesla #Trillionaire #ExecutivePay #Capitalism
How to Make a Trillionaire in 12 Easy Steps (While Your EV Sales Tank)
Elon Musk just secured a $1 trillion pay package. Tesla's sales are down. Robotaxis don’t exist. And shareholders still clapped. Here's how to finesse a corporate fairytale.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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SCOTUS revives Trump‑era passport rule: nonbinary “X” markers paused and sex‑at‑birth now required.

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#LGBTQRights #TransRights #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Passports #IdentityPolitics #Nonbinary #CivilRights #GenderJustice
Supreme Court Lets Trump Erase Gender Options From Passports
The government regrets to inform you that authenticity is not federally recognized.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Rep. Nancy Mace warns about “breadlines in NYC.”
She helped make them.
In 2023, she voted to cut $186 billion from food aid.
Now she’s using poverty as a punchline.

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#SNAP #FoodPolicy #Substack #PoliticalTheater #PovertyPolicy
The Real Breadline Was the Cuts We Made Along the Way
Nancy Mace warned New York’s new mayor about breadlines. She should be worried. She voted to make them happen.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Pelosi stepping down isn’t the end of the gerontocracy.

📉 Term limits.
🧠 Cognitive tests.
🪦 Fewer crypt-keepers in power.

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#Pelosi #Gerontocracy #TermLimitsNow #Nepotism #BoomerCongress #PoliticsTwitter #AgeOfDecline
Pelosi Retired. Now Do the Rest
Pelosi's out. McConnell’s buffering. Congress is glitching and we’re all stuck in the loading screen.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Trump tied essential food aid to a political stunt.

After a judge ordered him to release SNAP funds, he said no.

Then came the “math error.”

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#SNAP #FoodStamps #Shutdown2025 #Trump #FoodInsecurity #USPolitics #HungerCrisis #SubstackWriters
Trump’s SNAP Judgment
He tied food aid to a political fight. 42 million people were the leverage.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The shutdown just hit 40 of the nation’s busiest airports.
✈️ 3.2 million passengers affected
🛑 FAA flight cuts start Friday
💵 63K essential workers unpaid.

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#Shutdown2025 #FAA #ThanksgivingTravel #Airlines #AirportDelays #FederalShutdown
The Shutdown Ate Thanksgiving
When the government grinds to a halt, so does your grandma’s flight.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A federal court gave the green light to dump radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River and called it fine

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#HudsonRiver #NuclearWaste #EnvironmentalJustice #EnergyPolicy #WaterPollution #NewYork
The Hudson Glow Up: America’s Favorite River Gets a Radiant Makeover
A federal court just gave the greenlight for radioactive wastewater to flow into the Hudson.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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We built AI to make rational decisions.

Now it’s hallucinating profits and buying its own hype.

Congrats, we automated the bubble.

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#AI #StockMarket #TechCrash #Investing #Finance #WallStreet #BigTech #Innovation
Congratulations, We’ve Automated the Bubble
Markets are tanking, CEOs are panicking, and somewhere an algorithm is still buying the dip.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A UPS cargo jet crashed near Louisville’s airport, killing 7 and injuring 11.
Investigators are still determining the cause.

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#Louisville #UPS #PlaneCrash #AviationSafety
The Louisville UPS Crash: What We Know and What We Don’t
A routine cargo flight turned catastrophe leaves investigators searching for answers.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Roberts’ Court said, “Sure, draw your own maps.”

Now it’s cartographic Hunger Games out here.

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#Prop50 #Redistricting #Gerrymandering #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #DemocracyInCrisis #USPolitics #Election2026 #HouseOfRepresentatives #StatePolitics
The Map Wars: How Roberts’ Supreme Court Unleashed America’s New Gerrymander Age
The Voting Rights Act died quietly in court. A decade later, the country’s carving up what’s left of the map.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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California didn’t reform. It retaliated.

Prop 50 wasn’t a policy, it was a power play.

🕯️ The Quiet Coup ↓
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#Prop50 #CaliforniaPolitics #TheQuietCoup #ArticlesOfUnreason #DemocracyInCrisis #PoliticalPower #Redistricting #California #TexasPolitics
The Quiet Coup
California just did what everyone swore it wouldn’t.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM