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Self-Obsessed ‘Looksmaxxing’ Culture Subverts Traditional Masculinity

Feb 26, 2026Far Right

Consider what other ideologies aim to dissociate a person from their body to the point of physical mutilation.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Super Subbu’ On Netflix, An Indian Comedy Where A Man Is Sent To A Remote Village To Teach Sex Education To The Kids Of Traditional Parents

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Super Subbu’ On Netflix, An Indian Comedy Where A Man Is Sent To A Remote Village To Teach Sex Education To The Kids Of Traditional Parents

How do you teach sex education in a village that tied the last sex ed teacher to a tree?

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A simple way to cure America’s self-inflicted infrastructure paralysis

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A simple way to cure America’s self-inflicted infrastructure paralysis

Today, building the infrastructure necessary to maintain America’s prosperity often requires navigating a maze of permits, lawsuits, and regulatory delays. The power to block has systematically triumphed over the freedom to build. Yet our infrastructure paralysis is self-inflicted. Whether it is a natural gas pipeline, a transmission line, or mines for the building blocks of […]

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DHS Secretary Says Haiti, Syria Migrants Must Self-Deport Now

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DHS Secretary Says Haiti, Syria Migrants Must Self-Deport Now

Haitians and Syrians who lost Temporary Protected Status under last week’s Supreme Court ruling have no legal path to remain in the US and must leave now or face forced removal, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.

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MS NOW's Chris Hayes unmasks MAGA's new 'obsession' after major Supreme Court loss

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MS NOW's Chris Hayes unmasks MAGA's new 'obsession' after major Supreme Court loss

No sooner did the Supreme Court strike down President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, than MAGA politicians and pundits suddenly developed a fixation with "birth tourism" — the idea, grossly exaggerated, that there are thousands of women coming to America eight or nine months pregnant, intending to give birth and get American citizenship for their child.But there's a cynical logic at the heart of why they suddenly pivoted to this issue, MS NOW's Chris Hayes pointed out on Wednesday."The Supreme Court decided narrowly yesterday, way too narrowly, that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution means what it plainly says: if you're born in this country, you are a citizen of this country, you are American. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts," said Hayes. In response, he said, there has been a "bizarre, histrionic freakout on the right about the great scourge of — wait for it, wait for it — pregnant women racing to the U.S. to have babies."Hayes played a number of clips, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin discussing the matter, and White House strategist Stephen Miller even entertaining the idea of a ban on foreign pregnant women entering the country on Fox News."They have fully invented a moral panic about birth tourism, something that's just not happening in large numbers, especially not in our post-Dobbs maternal mortality rate world that eclipses that of every other peer nation," said Hayes.Nonetheless, he continued, the reason behind the fixation, and why even Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito harped about it in his "very weird, strange, actually morally repellent dissent yesterday," is that "they can't talk about the broader thing they want to do ... they want to talk about these edge cases."Their actual goal, as laid out clearly in the overturned executive order, is to "selectively strip American citizenship from literally tens of millions of people in this country, tens of millions," said Hayes. "Your friends and your family members and your neighbors and your doctors and your nurses and the guy that serves you coffee, right? To redefine what it is to be American. That's what they're after." - YouTube youtu.be

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White House rivalry complicates peace talks: 'Waiting to see if he self-destructs'

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White House rivalry complicates peace talks: 'Waiting to see if he self-destructs'

The Trump administration's effort to broker peace in the Middle East is being shaped — and at times complicated — by competing approaches from Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.A top Trump adviser described the two men as representing different instincts within the president's own thinking on the region, with Rubio leaning more pro-Israel and Vance more skeptical of Israeli positions, and one U.S. official told Axios the secretary of state has purposefully taken a back seat in the negotiations."He is waiting to see if Vance self-destructs," that official said.However, another senior U.S. official dismissed that take as "boneheaded and wrong," adding that "both Marco and JD are executing the president's will," and White House spokesperson Anna Kelly denied a political dynamic existed."There is one camp — President Trump's camp — and the entire administration is fully behind the president's efforts to ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon," Kelly said.However, their competing approaches could be seen across three separate but overlapping agreements – a June 17 memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran negotiated by Vance, envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner; a follow-up Vance-brokered arrangement with Iran on June 21 concerning Lebanon; and a peace framework between Israel and Lebanon, finalized Friday, that Rubio oversaw.Rubio's framework sought to limit Iranian influence in Lebanon, while Vance's earlier arrangement gave Tehran a role in shaping the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The contradiction grew confusing enough that negotiators from both Israel and Lebanon asked American mediators last week to clarify which track reflected actual U.S. policy. Hezbollah and its allies rejected Rubio's deal outright and called instead for the Vance-negotiated MOU to take precedence.Officials close to the process maintain that the apparent inconsistencies are not signs of dysfunction, with one adviser comparing Rubio and Vance to complementary tools rather than opposing factions, adding that Trump ultimately directs the strategy. A senior official added that the two men's portfolios diverge geographically more than ideologically, overlapping primarily in Lebanon.Insiders don't see conflicts over individual deals authorized through Rubio or Vance as an impediment for the president, and even suggested the competing approaches would be beneficial."This is all about moving toward peace – the more peace deals, the better," aid one senior administration official. "If Iran wants peace, there will be peace. If it wants war, there will be war."That official disputed the notion of conflict between the vice president and secretary of state."[They're] working in concert with each other," that senior official said. "It's not that one has the pro-Israel bucket and the other has the anti-Israel bucket. It's not how it works internally."

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Trump's crusade to kill mail-in ballots crushed by Supreme Court in a blow to his election obsession

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Trump's crusade to kill mail-in ballots crushed by Supreme Court in a blow to his election obsession

Mississippi is one of 14 states that allow for the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots, and the issue is one of major significance to Donald Trump.

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MAGA 'hard-liners' mount rebellion to push Trump's doomed voting obsession

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MAGA 'hard-liners' mount rebellion to push Trump's doomed voting obsession

Republican leaders are facing an uncertain path forward for their legislative plans, according to The Hill, after a contingent of "conservative hard-liners" mounted a "rebellion" to try and push for President Donald Trump's doomed voting bill."Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has an ambitious legislative agenda this week, but it’s unclear whether he can move those priorities forward as a group of conservative hard-liners demand action on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act," the outlet reported on Monday morning."Trump has been pushing hard for the passage of the SAVE America Act, a bill that would implement sweeping voting law reforms if passed, notably requiring individuals to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote. His obsession with the bill stems from his long-debunked claims that widespread voter fraud is being committed by non-citizens in the U.S., with critics warning that the bill would potentially disenfranchise millions of lawful citizens who lack easy access to things like their passports or birth certificates.Despite GOP leaders in Congress stressing to Trump that the bill lacks the votes to overcome the filibuster in the Senate, he has remained adamant that it must be passed, recently refusing to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill until it was done. As The Hill noted in its report, he has been joined in this crusade by some of his more hard-line GOP supporters."President Trump urged House Republicans last week to fall in line after conservative rebels brought most House floor activity to a standstill by threatening to oppose procedural rules unless the Senate passed the SAVE America Act," the report continued. "Because the House must adopt a rule before debating and voting on final passage of most legislation, the tactic effectively ground the chamber to a halt."The outlet added: "Whether Trump’s appeal will be enough to sway the holdouts remains an open question. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna(R-Fla.) wrote on social media last week that she had submitted an amendment to the House Rules Committee to attach the SAVE America Act to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signaling she is unwilling to back down.""This amendment to attach the SAVE America Act to the NDAA was filed last week and is now sitting in the Rules Committee," Luna wrote. "This is how to get my vote on a rule. But I am one of MANY."GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas was also adamant about the bill, urging his colleagues to "immediately pass HR2 (promised) to codify border security, a congressional stock trading ban, get SAVE passed, & fully fund defense with real pay-fors."Given the razor-thin GOP majority in the House, Johnson cannot afford more than a few holdouts at any given time, putting the chances of his other priorities moving forward in jeopardy.

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Ambassador Mike Waltz Weighs in On Iran and Strait of Hormuz “They Would be Wise to Take a Diplomatic Solution and back Away from This Obsession with a Nuclear Weapon” – (VIDEO)

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Ambassador Mike Waltz Weighs in On Iran and Strait of Hormuz “They Would be Wise to Take a Diplomatic Solution and back Away from This Obsession with a Nuclear Weapon” – (VIDEO)

Ambassador Mike Waltz was on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream to talk about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. The post Ambassador Mike Waltz Weighs in On Iran and Strait of Hormuz “They Would be Wise to Take a Diplomatic Solution and back Away from This Obsession with a Nuclear Weapon” – (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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