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MAGA Rage at Mike Johnson Suddenly Takes a Dark and Dangerous Turn

Now that the House has passed military aid to Ukraine, MAGA personalities like Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson have joined Marjorie Taylor...

yesterday 30

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Who’s Afraid of Repealing the Comstock Act?

Conservative groups believe the United States already has a national abortion ban on the books, just waiting to be enforced: It’s the Comstock Act...

yesterday 20

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Melissa Gira Grant

Mike Johnson’s Cynical, Grandstanding Visit to Columbia University

Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson channeled Arthur Vandenberg as he adroitly steered desperately badly needed military aid to Ukraine around...

yesterday 4

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Walter Shapiro

Elon Musk’s Weird Excuse for Tesla’s Tumble: We’re Not a Car Company!

Elon Musk is prone to strange asides in all aspects of his life, but Tesla’s quarterly earnings call earlier this week found him in rare form:...

yesterday 3

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Kate Aronoff

How Paul Manafort Turned Trump Against Ukraine

This week’s passage of a military aid package to Ukraine means that Donald Trump’s efforts to block American provisions for Kyiv have, for the...

yesterday 1

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Casey Michel

Ron DeSantis Is Letting Religious Chaplains Roam Public Schools

It’s no big deal, he said. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last week signed a bill allowing religious chaplains into public schools, he insisted...

yesterday 7

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Adam Laats

Southern Autoworkers Call B.S. on Republican Anti-Union Agitprop

The UAW’s successful unionization effort last week at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee—the first successful unionization effort at a...

yesterday 2

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Thom Hartmann

The Jaw-Dropping Things Trump Lawyer Says Should Qualify for Immunity

Donald Trump’s lawyer pushed an outrageous line of thinking on Thursday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether the former...

yesterday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

The Supreme Court Might Put Trump Above the Law

Thursday’s oral argument in United States v. Trump might have been the most surreal session ever held in the Supreme Court’s 235-year history....

yesterday 0

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Matt Ford

You Must Read This Chilling Dissent in the Harvey Weinstein Ruling

Disgraced Hollywood producer and serial abuser Harvey Weinstein had his 2020 rape conviction overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday,...

yesterday 0

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Key Hush-Money Trial Witness Admits He Broke Law to Help Trump

Donald Trump’s old friend-turned-key-witness in his New York hush money trial blatantly admitted Thursday that he violated campaign finance laws...

yesterday 0

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Alina Habba Proves Once Again She May Be Trump’s Most Idiotic Lawyer

One of Donald Trump’s most visible attorneys just made another legal faux pax—but this time, the person most upset with her might be her own...

yesterday 0

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Not Even an Indictment Can Shut Rudy Giuliani Up

Arizona has indicted nearly two dozen of Donald Trump’s allies and affiliates for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including...

yesterday 0

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Bad Day in Court Gets Even Worse with E. Jean Carroll Loss

Donald Trump is going to have to pony up $83 million to E. Jean Carroll after all, after a judge  on Thursday struck down Trump’s latest attempt...

yesterday 0

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Hafiz Rashid

Bill Barr Might Be Wishing He Hadn’t Endorsed Trump After All

Donald Trump couldn’t resist throwing an insult at the latest high-profile Republican to endorse him: his former attorney general, Bill Barr. In...

yesterday 0

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Hafiz Rashid

Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working...

yesterday 100

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Timothy Noah

Even More People Were in on Trump’s Hush-Money Scheme Than We Knew

Donald Trump’s old friend David Pecker is still dishing the dirt on the stand in the real estate mogul’s New York hush money trial, revealing...

yesterday 7

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Uvalde Parent Obliterates Police Response to Texas University Protest

Uvalde parent Brett Cross has some words for Texas police, after their brutal crackdown on Texas university students protesting against Israel’s...

yesterday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Key Hush-Money Trial Witness Throws Trump Under Bus As Hard as He Can

During his testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial on Thursday, former tabloid magnate David Pecker wasted no time in blaming Trump...

yesterday 20

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Hafiz Rashid

The Grotesque Slander of Comparing Gaza Protesters to Neo-Nazis

This week, coverage of the campus protests and solidarity encampments at Columbia University reached a fever pitch. They have attracted statements...

yesterday 30

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Aubtin Heydari

Here’s Proof of How Much Trump Helped with Michigan Fake Electors

A Michigan state investigator revealed in court Wednesday that Donald Trump, his former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and his former...

previous day 30

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Is Livid He Has to Obey the Law in Hush-Money Trial

Donald Trump is still furious that he has to follow the same rules in his New York hush-money trial as every other U.S citizen—mainly, that he...

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Meet The Shady Firm Helping Trump Pay All His Legal Bills

Donald Trump is in the tank for 91 criminal charges and four criminal trials—but how he’s paying for all his legal counsel could also be putting...

previous day 10

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Failing Media Company Desperately Scrambles to Find Scapegoat

Donald Trump’s social media company has lost so much money that the CEO is asking Congress to look into what might be causing it.  Devin Nunes,...

previous day 40

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Hafiz Rashid

A Simple Fix for Texas’s Right-Wing Courts: More Judges

Judge James Ho has one of the best jobs in the world right now. Thanks to the quirks of federal case assignment rules and the winds of political...

previous day 6

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Matt Ford

Everyone Hates This Election

Every presidential election is billed as the most important of our lifetime. But in 2020, voters seemed to actually believe it. Amid the Covid-19...

previous day 6

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Alex Shephard

Watch: Tennessee Republicans Bully Through Extreme Teacher Gun Bill

Tennessee House Republicans have pushed through a bill that will allow teachers and staff to carry guns in public schools, causing the viewing...

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

If Biden Wants Young Climate Voters, He Should Back a Gaza Ceasefire

On Monday, Earth Day, Joe Biden highlighted several steps his administration is taking to make good on its climate goals: using $7 billion from the...

previous day 5

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Kate Aronoff

Trump’s Untethered 2AM Rant Seems Unlikely to Help His Gag Order Fight

Donald Trump must sense the walls closing in. At 2:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, the former president begged Republicans to step in and save him from...

previous day 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Don’t Be Fooled: Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Tacitly Boosting Trump

New polls this week served up a surprise: They showed Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential run pulling more support from Donald Trump than from...

previous day 10

New Republic

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Elon Musk Is Trying to Break Another Democracy

Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who is barred from seeking public office until 2030, held a grievance-laden rally Sunday in Rio de...

previous day 4

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Andre Pagliarini

Lost in the Five Stages of Grief

Early in the fifteenth century, an anonymous text on how to face death appeared. Titled Speculum artis bene moriendi (The Mirror of the Art of...

previous day 6

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Colin Dickey

George Santos Congressional Bid Ends Exactly How It Started: In Chaos

George Santos just pulled another fast one on… well, anybody who still believed in George Santos. The disgraced former lawmaker dropped his...

previous day 2

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Anti-Choice Lawyer Reveals Giant Hole in Logic in SCOTUS Abortion Case

The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in United States v. Idaho Wednesday—and it was not smooth sailing for the Gem State and its...

previous day 3

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

GOP Senator Shreds “Uninformed” Marjorie Taylor Green for Party Drama

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s futile fight to stop aid to Ukraine, and her weak attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, has not endeared her to fellow...

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Democratic Rep. Slams Columbia Protest with Outrageous Insult

While much of the ignorant takes about Columbia University’s pro-Palestine divestment protests have come from the right, Democratic...

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Republicans Are Rattled by the UAW’s Big VW Victory in Chattanooga

I can’t account for the mainstream press’s peculiar impulse to downplay the United Auto Workers’ important victory Friday at a Volkswagen plant...

tuesday 10

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Timothy Noah

Mitch McConnell—Yes, Really—Gives Sickest Tucker Carlson Burn

After a large bill approving aid for Ukraine and Israel passed the Senate Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stood triumphant—and...

tuesday 10

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Hafiz Rashid

The Latest Supreme Court Case on Abortion Is the Scariest One Yet

The Supreme Court will hear another abortion case on Wednesday, providing the nation’s highest court with another opportunity to ban the medical...

tuesday 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Supreme Court Wants Nothing to Do With Homelessness

The Supreme Court appeared to be split on Monday on whether an Oregon city’s ordinances that make it illegal to sleep outdoors in public spaces...

tuesday 4

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Matt Ford

Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court—With an Urgent Warning About Trump

If the Supreme Court takes its time in handing down a ruling on Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity for insurrection-related crimes,...

tuesday 9

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Greg Sargent

Judge Warns Trump’s Idiot Lawyer His Entire Credibility Is at Risk

An attorney for Donald Trump’s legal defense in his New York criminal trial took a serious misstep on Tuesday that resulted in a critical warning...

tuesday 7

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Hush-Money Trial Witness Drops Bombshell About the 2016 Election

A longtime friend of Donald Trump’s admitted on the stand Tuesday that their relationship had devolved into an orchestrated scheme to influence...

tuesday 6

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Ex-Giuliani Associate Exposes “How Things Work” in Trump Government

A former associate of Rudy Giuliani is still dishing out the dirt on the inner machinations of Donald Trump’s administration. Lev Parnas, a...

tuesday 2

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Mike Johnson Steps Smack Into a Major House Intra-GOP Foodfight

Another conservative appeared to be sour on House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday amid what has turned out to be a major party upheaval. Texas...

tuesday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

25 Political Influencers to Watch in 2024

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, that lavish, storied fundraiser held every April at the Washington Hilton to honor journalists covering...

tuesday 10

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The New Republic

Why Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fury Is About to Get Worse for the GOP

Now that Mike Johnson allowed Ukraine aid to pass the House on a broad bipartisan basis, an enraged Marjorie Taylor Greene is ramping up her...

tuesday 6

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump’s Bizarre Claim on Hush Money Trial Gets Brutal Fact-Check

Donald Trump claimed that a massive police presence has shut down traffic for blocks around the Manhattan courthouse where his hush-money trial is...

tuesday 8

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Hafiz Rashid

The Absolute Dumbest Things Republicans Said About Columbia University

Republicans have started commenting on the Columbia University protests staged in support of Gaza—and unsurprisingly, the comments have been...

tuesday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Media Deal Was Super Sketchy—and He Knew It

It seems Donald Trump didn’t want to leave any trace of certain conversations with a tabloid magnate just before the 2016 election. During...

tuesday 5

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Made a Shocking Promise to His Classified Docs Co-Defendant

Donald Trump allegedly asked his valet Walt Nauta to lie to the FBI about whether the former president was hoarding classified documents, promising...

tuesday 6

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Hafiz Rashid

The Liberating Frankness of the Divorce Memoir

Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital saint...

tuesday 10

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Laura Kipnis

Witness: We Were Begging Trump’s Entire Family in Classified Docs Case

A newly unsealed FBI interview with an unidentified Trumpworld character unearths some eyebrow-raising details regarding Donald Trump’s...

22.04.2024 40

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Rage at Hush Money Trial Is Already Backfiring On Him

This week, arguments begin in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, and he’s raging over the unfairness of it all. Amazingly, some are...

22.04.2024 20

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Suffers a Major Loss Just Minutes into Hush-Money Trial

Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided...

22.04.2024 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Issues Dangerous Warning to Followers Before Hush-Money Trial

Donald Trump extended a dangerous message to his Truth Social followers on Monday: descend upon U.S. courthouses. The post , which also lambasted...

22.04.2024 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

First Witness in Trump’s Hush Money Trial Could Wreck His Whole Case

“The people call David Pecker”—the former publisher of the National Enquirer and former CEO of its parent company, American Media Inc. Pecker,...

22.04.2024 4

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Most Devastating Hush-Money Trial Testimony Could Come from Trump

Just before the 2016 election, Michael Cohen secretly taped a phone conversation with Donald Trump discussing how he would pay off former Playboy...

22.04.2024 4

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson,...

22.04.2024 10

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Hafiz Rashid

AI and the End of the Human Writer

The most nauseating, addictive thing about writing is the uncertainty—and I don’t mean the  is-anyone-reading?  or  will-I-make-rent?  kind....

22.04.2024 5

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Samanth Subramanian

Did Trump Blow Up His Hush-Money Trial Before It’s Even Begun?

Donald Trump’s legal defense in his hush-money trial may be doomed before it begins. Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts for allegedly...

22.04.2024 10

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Hafiz Rashid

The Real Culprit in Our Housing and Homelessness Crisis: Wall Street

Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan, to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride...

22.04.2024 3

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Thom Hartmann

What’s Happening on College Campuses After Columbia University Protest

Columbia University tried to squash a pro-Palestine protest on their campus last week, but it hasn’t worked. In fact, it has prompted solidarity...

22.04.2024 8

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Hafiz Rashid

Sotomayor Asks One Damning Question in Supreme Court Homelessness Case

The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on perhaps the most consequential case on homeless policy in decades, weighing how far cities can go in...

22.04.2024 5

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Paige Oamek

How Religious Freedom Could Help Liberals Win the Abortion Rights War

Earlier this month, an Indiana appeals court delivered a great victory to two causes that often find themselves in opposition: reproductive freedom...

22.04.2024 20

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Charles Mccrary

The GOP’s Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True

Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the...

22.04.2024 60

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Walter Shapiro

Alina Habba Shows Up at Trump’s Trial and Suddenly Makes Things Worse

Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba should be more careful speaking. Habba, who is not representing Trump in his hush-money trial, still showed up...

22.04.2024 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Blames Wrong Person for Trying to Cause TikTok’s Downfall

Donald Trump took aim at Joe Biden on Monday for trying to ban TikTok, conveniently forgetting how hard he worked to ban the popular app during his...

22.04.2024 8

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Hafiz Rashid

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