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Meta Does Not Get to Call This an Election-Season Glitch

One week before the midterm election, as Angie Nixon’s campaign was trying to turn Latino voters out in Osceola County, its Spanish-language Instagram account disappeared. The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate said @LatinosConAngie was taken down while her team was actively posting from an October 27 rally in Kissimmee. Instagram cited a violation involving “account integrity,” but Meta offered no specific public explanation. The page was back by Wednesday morning. The hours were returned. The lost moment was not. This is more than suspicious. It is not proof that Mark Zuckerberg personally ordered a Democratic campaign silenced, nor is it proof...

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Trump Blew Up the Better Deal and Came Back Calling Defeat a Win

Trump’s Iran posture now looks like the purest form of self-inflicted failure: wreck a functioning framework, escalate into a wider crisis, then come back asking the public to celebrate a thinner, looser arrangement as if it were proof of genius. We lost. Not in the cartoon sense where somebody signs a surrender document on camera, but in the real sense that matters in politics and statecraft: the United States appears to be moving toward a deal that is visibly weaker than the one it already had, after paying the price of blowing the first one up. That is not strength....

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The Coliseum on Pennsylvania Avenue

The crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to the President of the United States on the South Lawn of the White House while two men tried to knock each other unconscious inside a cage. A 600-ton steel arch — they called it “the Claw” — blazed so bright over Washington that it reportedly disoriented pilots on final approach into Reagan National. Sponsors including Crypto.com, Monster Energy, and Bud Light had their logos plastered to the Octagon. A Vietnam War veteran named Paul Romano, who works part-time as a rideshare driver, watched the whole thing from his car and told a federal judge...

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The Great American State Fair Is Not Looking So Great

Young MC, Morris Day, The Commodores, and Martina McBride Pull Out of Trump’s Great American State Fair *Update: Bret Michaels has backed out as well. If you have to trick people into standing next to you, the statement has already been made. The announcement came Wednesday. Freedom 250 — the Trump administration’s branding arm for America’s 250th birthday celebration — dropped the “first wave” of performers for what they called the Great American State Fair: a 16-day extravaganza on the National Mall, running June 25 through July 10. The lineup included Young MC, C+C Music Factory, Morris Day & The...