State of the Union 2026: A Night of Patriotism and Contrast
I stayed up past my bedtime to watch the State of the Union live. I wanted to see the room in real time, not filtered through highlight reels or cable commentary the next morning. Here’s…
The Bulletin
FRONT PAGE
Today’s intel, decoded for people who still think
Antifa Funding, Kash Patel, and America’s Endless “Coming Soon” Investigations
FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI has uncovered major funding streams behind Antifa. That sounds like the kind of headline that should carry real weight. The problem is that Americans have heard versions of…
JLR Investigates and the Evolution of Citizen Journalism
In Tucson, as cameras rotate and national outlets file their segments, one livestream keeps running. JLR Investigates has been on the ground covering the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie for hours at a time, offering viewers…
Thirty-Five Years Later, Ted Levine Is Sorry for Being the Villain
In 1991, The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars. Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actor. Best Actress. Best Screenplay. It became part of the cultural lexicon. Hannibal Lecter was crowned one of cinema’s greatest…
CNN Calls the SAVE Act “Jim Crow 2.0.” Scott Jennings Asked “How?”
Scott Jennings is a national treasure and a champ for sticking it out over on CNN. Night after night, he sits across from Democratic media puppets and forces them to defend whatever slogan the Left…
Sunday Side-Eye: The Week That Tried to Upstage the Super Bowl
SUNDAY SIDE-EYE: THE WEEK THE NEWS CROSSED THE GOAL LINE… AND THEN LANDED IN THE END ZONE OF ABSURDITY It’s Super Bowl Sunday — the biggest TV event of the year and basically a national…
From Ice House to Winter House: How Politics Froze the Olympics
There was a time when the Winter Olympics were about snow, speed, strength, and the thrill of watching athletes do things the human body probably shouldn’t be able to do on frozen surfaces. It was…
Epstein Files Fallout as the Clintons Testify and Scandal Fatigue Sets In
The latest release of the Epstein Files was billed as a major moment of transparency, yet what the public received was a confusing and poorly handled document dump that managed to overwhelm attention while exposing…
Bad Bunny, Shock Value, and the NFL’s Fake Promise of Unity
Commissioner Roger Goodell insists the Super Bowl halftime show will be about bringing people together. That line gets recycled every year. It never holds up. The league does not pick performers known for playing it…
Don Lemon Arrested, Celebrity Protests Heat Up, and Super Bowl 2026 Ad Hype Begins
It’s been a minute since we last did an Americanist Side Eye, and honestly, the news has been begging for it. Between Don Lemon’s arrest in Minnesota, celebrities staging protests, activists carving political messages into…