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The $2.8 Billion Heist: How Kansas Taxpayers Are Buying a Stadium They’ll Never Own

Kansas's Legislative Coordinating Council approved $2.775 billion in public subsidies for a new Chiefs stadium in a 30-minute closed-door meeting—the largest stadium subsidy in American history. The Hunt family, worth $6.53 billion, will pay 40 percent of construction costs while retaining 100 percent ownership and all revenue streams. Eighty-three percent of economists oppose such subsidies, and Kansas's own failed STAR bonds projects predicted this disaster. The state will finance billionaire infrastructure while ranking 41st in education spending and leaving 150,000 residents without healthcare. Every $15 beer sold will remind taxpayers: they built the stadium, will eventually demolish it, but the Hunt family pockets every dollar.

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From Sundown Towns to HOAs: The Unbroken Line of American Housing Segregation

For over 130 years, American communities have employed evolving mechanisms to maintain racially segregated neighborhoods—from violent expulsions and municipal ordinances to racially restrictive covenants, federal redlining policies, and today's homeowners association governance. This investigation traces the direct, intentional line connecting sundown towns like Anna, Illinois and Kenilworth's explicit racial exclusions to modern HOA discrimination cases like Providence Village, Texas, where 600 predominantly Black residents faced displacement in 2022. Through comprehensive analysis of historical records, census data, legal cases, and academic research, the evidence reveals that while the vocabulary has changed—from posted signs warning "Don't let the sun go down" to facially neutral rental restrictions and credit requirements—the function remains identical: protecting white-only spaces and perpetuating a $3 trillion racial wealth gap rooted in government-sponsored housing discrimination.

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Merry Christmas Is Made in China

American Christmas has become almost entirely dependent on Chinese manufacturing—from the 87% of decorations to 80% of toys to the inflatable Santas on suburban lawns. This $1 trillion holiday celebrating family values and tradition reveals a stark gap between what Americans claim to cherish and what their purchasing choices actually prioritize: cheap abundance over domestic production, disposability over durability, and material expression over presence. The economic, environmental, and strategic costs of this dependence continue mounting, yet political will to change remains trapped by consumer unwillingness to pay higher prices for the very values they profess to hold dear.

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The Amnesia Killing Our Children

Adults born in the 70s, '80s '90s—the most vaccinated generations in American history—are now leading a movement to ensure their children don't receive the same protection that kept them alive. They attended schools where immunization was mandatory, benefited from herd immunity they now actively undermine, and never saw a classmate in an iron lung because vaccines worked. Now they share memes about "government propaganda" while their own vaccine scars fade on their shoulders—physical evidence of the system they reject. This selective amnesia isn't just ironic. It's lethal. As measles outbreaks surge across the United States and vaccination rates plummet, children are dying from diseases we'd already defeated. The danger isn't the vaccine. It's a vaccinated generation's willingness to doom the next generation because they've forgotten why those childhood shots were necessary in the first place.

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People Enabling Trump. Power, Policy & Consequence.

An investigation into the machinery of Donald Trump's second administration reveals how a core group of advisors—Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Susie Wiles, Dan Scavino, Karoline Leavitt, James Blair, and Vince Haley—are translating presidential authority into concrete policy through immigration enforcement, military operations, personnel control, and institutional reorganization. Miller's documented influence has produced more than 200 executive orders targeting immigration, while Hegseth faces bipartisan congressional scrutiny over a Pentagon Inspector General report finding he violated protocols by sharing classified information on Signal and over controversial Caribbean military strikes. Scavino now controls "almost all positions in government" through the Presidential Personnel Office. This examination of Trump's first eleven months back in office documents how loyalty-based staffing, agency reorganizations, and centralized decision-making are reshaping federal institutions in ways that may outlast this administration.