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Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans Takes Dark, Unnerving New Turn

yesterday 50

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Greg Sargent

Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers

yesterday 100

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Jason Linkins

Trump Freaks After SCOTUS Trashes His Birthright Citizenship Arguments

Supreme Court justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum dismantled the Trump administration’s birthright citizenship arguments, so the...

previous day 30

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Resurrects His Beef With Taylor Swift in Weirdest Way Possible

Donald Trump has the presidency, but now he seems to want Paris Hilton’s crown. The president did very presidential things on social media Friday...

previous day 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

MAGA Loses Its Mind Over James Comey’s “8647” Instagram Post on Trump

An Instagram post from former FBI Director James Comey has drawn a massive backlash from the right, which is accusing him of calling for Donald...

previous day 20

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Hafiz Rashid

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem Wants to Turn Immigration Into Sick Game Show

The Department of Homeland Security is considering a barbaric pitch for a television show where immigrants compete for U.S. citizenship. The Daily...

previous day 20

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Edith Olmsted

Transcript: Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Criticism Worsens

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...

previous day 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

MTG Melts Down Over Report Trump Forced Her Out of Senate Race

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wants everyone to know that the president absolutely did not, under any circumstances, tell her not to run in...

previous day 9

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Tax Bill Falls Apart as He Spirals in Wild Online Rant

Donald Trump’s tax bill is no more. The House Budget Committee voted against the reconciliation bill Friday, with 16 members voting in favor of it...

previous day 9

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Is Doing a Good Job of Making Biden Look Bad

Imagine the news cycle that would have ensued if President Barack Obama had met with an ex-jihadist, whom the United States had labeled a...

previous day 7

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Alex Shephard

Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier

“Drain the swamp,” Donald Trump said many times—mostly in his first race in 2016, but also in 2020 and 2024. To a certain kind of low-information...

previous day 2

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Michael Tomasky

Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”

President Donald Trump has been growing angry over the criticism of his decision to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. He snapped at a...

previous day 3

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump’s Approval Rating Is Tanking in Just About Every Category

Once again, new polling has President Trump’s approval rating underwater on nearly every single issue. Just weeks after multiple polls showed him...

previous day 40

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Malcolm Ferguson

Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?

Homer Simpson, despite his many flaws, wants to do right by his family and—with the possible exception of his do-gooder neighbor Ned Flanders—his...

previous day 40

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The New Republic

New York Democrats Are Sabotaging Their Biggest Policy Success

To live under the rule of Donald Trump is to lurch from crisis to crisis—one day, a horrifying act of cruelty; the next, a brazen display of...

previous day 10

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Jess Coleman

House Republicans Want to Force States to Cut SNAP for Them

House Republicans are pressing forward with a plan to cut billions of dollars from a critical nutrition program by forcing states to shoulder more...

previous day 8

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Grace Segers

DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust

After months of baseless claims about “ extreme levels of fraud ” within the Social Security Administration—even going so far as calling it the “...

previous day 7

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Malcolm Ferguson

Are Some Dems About to Cave to Crypto? It Wouldn’t Be the First Time

Recently, Semafor’s Ben Smith reported a gossipy expos é on the rapidly dwindling number of tech oligarchs and talking heads who want to spend any...

previous day 3

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Jeff Hauser

The Inspiring Hacktivist Ethos of an Indian Art Studio

The first website launched by the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP was called “camputer.org.” Every time you visited the homepage, a...

previous day 2

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Devika Girish

Latino Voters Who Defected to Trump Are Beyond Pissed at Him

More bad polling news for President Trump: The same Latino voters who helped him beat Kamala Harris in November now strongly disapprove of how he’s...

previous day 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Steve Bannon Floats Worst Person Ever as Trump’s Successor

previous day 2

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Supreme Court Finally Does Something About Trump’s Deportations

previous day 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Judge Rules It’s OK to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People

previous day 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Envoy Relying on Netflix Documentaries to Figure Out His Job

Donald Trump has always boasted about hiring “the best people,” but his special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, was a real estate investor...

previous day 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Whines About How His Gift From UAE Isn’t Good Enough

Donald Trump complained about a gift he received from the United Arab Emirates by making a joke Friday morning during his visit to the country....

previous day 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy

Remember “a thousand points of light”? Accepting the Republican nomination for president in 1988, George H. W. Bush  celebrated  what he...

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Timothy Noah

Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements

The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill making its way through the House of Representatives is almost certain to cut Medicaid in a number of...

previous day 0

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Monica Potts

Trump’s Justice Department Is About to Charge a Member of Congress

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Hafiz Rashid

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Caves to Trump in Chilling Move

The largest organization devoted to survivors of sexual abuse is caving to Donald Trump and dropping support for immigrants, LGBTQ people, and...

thursday 40

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Hafiz Rashid

Second State Bans Fluoride in Water in Huge Win for RFK Jr.

Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Florida Farm Bill into law Thursday, officially banning fluoride from public water. The bill does not call out the...

thursday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

“We’re Cooked”: Republicans Are Freaking Out About Their Own Budget

The “big beautiful bill” that Donald Trump demanded from Republicans in Congress is facing opposition from Republicans in the House.  Since the GOP...

thursday 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: MAGA Senator Shockingly Admits GOP Screwing Trump Voters

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...

thursday 3

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

MAGA Senator’s Stunning Admission: GOP Is Badly Screwing Trump Voters

The House GOP is forging ahead with its massive domestic policy bill implementing President Donald Trump’s agenda, and it’s becoming clear that it...

thursday 2

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Supreme Court Justice Rips Into Trump DOJ: “Assume You’re Dead Wrong”

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan railed against the Trump administration’s attack on birthright citizenship during oral arguments before the court...

thursday 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Corruption Is a Huge Problem. But It’s a Hard Sell to Voters.

President Donald Trump’s plan to accept from Qatar a luxury 747 jumbo jet worth $400 million to use as Air Force One—and then transfer it to his...

thursday 3

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Monica Potts

My Palestinian Family Had a Home in West Jerusalem. Then Came 1948.

My father, George Kuttab, and his mother, our Tata Nazira Fatalleh, fled their neighborhood of Musrara in what is now West Jerusalem in May 1948,...

thursday 2

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Daoud Kuttab

How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent

The office of dictator was created in the early Roman Republic, when it granted a single person—a prominent and trusted citizen—immense power in...

thursday 2

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Ross Rosenfeld

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. There is nothing for you in the East. The irascible New York newspaper editor Horace Greeley said...

thursday 4

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Christopher Hooks

The Americans Who Quit the Church to Become Witches—Among Other Things

Jennifer Bauer has heartbreaking reasons for distancing herself from the church. Her mother had been acutely unhappy in her second marriage. When...

thursday 3

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Sarah Stankorb

Clinic

The letters and poems you wroteAre lucid and anythingBut evidence of madness.If by madnessWhat we meanIs a lack of meaning.Your poems and your...

thursday 1

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Cynthia Cruz

The Whole Shebang

                                   for N.C. My daughter says she wants “the whole shebang,”seizing my flip word like a shiny...

thursday 1

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Boris Dralyuk

Trump Justice Department Makes Insane Claim About Obeying Court Orders

The Trump administration’s blatant disregard for court orders is not winning it any favor with the Supreme Court. Justice Elena Kagan called out...

thursday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Missouri Voters Overturned an Abortion Ban. Republicans Ignored Them.

Missouri Senate Republicans have decided to work against their electorate. The state’s conservative lawmakers shut down a Democrat-led filibuster...

thursday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Walmart CFO Warns Trump’s Tariffs Will Cause Prices to Skyrocket

Walmart’s Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey warned Thursday that shoppers could begin to feel price increases on consumer goods as soon as...

thursday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Musk Used State Department to Force Another Country to Get Starlink

The U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk’s satellite internet business, according to a sweeping...

thursday 1

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Edith Olmsted

NYU Punishes Student Who Delivered Graduation Speech on Gaza

New York University is penalizing student commencement speaker Logan Rozos for condemning Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by...

thursday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Putin Pours Cold Water All Over Trump’s Hopes for Ukraine Talks

It looks like Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t traveling to Istanbul for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, dashing Donald...

thursday 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Goes on Weird Rant About Military Planes Not Being Pretty Enough

Early Thursday morning, Donald Trump took aim at how ugly he thinks some military planes look. Speaking in Doha, Qatar, the president went off on...

thursday 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case Has the Supreme Court Baffled

President Donald Trump wants to do a lot of things as president. A fair number of them appear to be either illegal or unconstitutional. To that...

thursday 7

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Matt Ford

Qatar Is Excited to Dump That Private Jet on Trump (It’s a Disaster)

The Qatari government used Trump to pawn off a hunking chunk of metal that it had been trying to get rid of for five years, according to reporting...

thursday 2

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Malcolm Ferguson