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The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here

The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here

Days into the new year, as stuffed suit Tony Dokoupil was readying to take the helm as the new anchor of the CBS Evening News, the network rolled...

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Felipe De La Hoz

Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right

Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right

Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be categorized, judged,...

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Molly Jong-Fast

How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool

How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool

When scientists and regulators need clear answers to health risks—such as whether Tylenol causes autism (it doesn’t)—they typically turn to...

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Benjamin Santos Genta

The Residents of Minneapolis Are Fighting for All of Us

The Residents of Minneapolis Are Fighting for All of Us

For as long as Donald Trump has deployed his ICE brownshirts in the “Democrat” cities he so despises, Americans have been out in the streets,...

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Jason Linkins

Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion

Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion

Following American politics these days forces one to read a dizzying array of bizarre social media posts by President Donald Trump and other...

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Matt Ford

Trump’s Newest Voters Are Abandoning Ship

Trump’s Newest Voters Are Abandoning Ship

A year ago, Donald Trump was riding high. The man who had lost the presidency four years earlier, then led a failed insurrection at the U.S....

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Alex Shephard

Machado Leaves With Petty Gift After Giving Trump Her Nobel Prize

Machado Leaves With Petty Gift After Giving Trump Her Nobel Prize

It looks like Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado traded her Nobel Peace Prize for a bag of Donald Trump merch. Machado was spotted...

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Edith Olmsted

Fox Airs Shockingly Deceptive Edit on Minneapolis Amid ICE Takeover

Fox Airs Shockingly Deceptive Edit on Minneapolis Amid ICE Takeover

Fox News host Laura Ingraham used a deceitfully edited clip of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in order to push the lie that he wants the police to...

16.01.2026 1

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Edith Olmsted

ICE Attacks Car Full of Kids, Leaving 6-Month-Old Baby Unconscious

ICE Attacks Car Full of Kids, Leaving 6-Month-Old Baby Unconscious

A 6-month-old baby was hospitalized after federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis struck a car full of children with a flash bang, before...

16.01.2026 1

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Edith Olmsted

It Seems ICE Murdered an Immigrant in a Detention Center

It Seems ICE Murdered an Immigrant in a Detention Center

It appears that ICE choked a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant to death in a Texas detention facility. A medical examiner told Geraldo Lunas Campos’s...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Press Sec Erupts in Fury at Media over ICE as Polls Spiral Again

Trump Press Sec Erupts in Fury at Media over ICE as Polls Spiral Again

After fielding a perfectly legitimate question about ICE abuses on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her temper. She...

16.01.2026 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Elizabeth Warren Is Right About the Democrats’ Big Problem

Elizabeth Warren Is Right About the Democrats’ Big Problem

Elizabeth Warren gave an excellent speech January 12 ( text ; video ) urging Democrats not “to sand down our edges to avoid offending anyone,...

16.01.2026 10

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Timothy Noah

Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Polls on ICE Turns Dire

Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Polls on ICE Turns Dire

Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. At a press...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Republicans Say Trump’s Greenland Plan Is “Dumbest Thing” Ever

Republicans Say Trump’s Greenland Plan Is “Dumbest Thing” Ever

At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to President Trump’s desire to take over Greenland....

16.01.2026 7

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Malcolm Ferguson

New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic

New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic

Renee Good was still alive when ICE agents were blocking a physician from tending to her. New records from emergency responders obtained by The New...

16.01.2026 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds

We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds

Next up for the very fine people of Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Maine. President Donald Trump, in his speech in Detroit Wednesday ,...

16.01.2026 4

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Michael Tomasky

Transcript: Trump Is Running a “Global Mafia”

Transcript: Trump Is Running a “Global Mafia”

This is a lightly edited transcript of the January 16 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show...

16.01.2026 10

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother

The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother

“Matters of great concern should be treated lightly,” intones the eponymous hero of Jim Jarmusch’s sublime Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,...

16.01.2026 3

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Adam Nayman

Trump Is Running a “Global Mafia”

Trump Is Running a “Global Mafia”

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can view a transcript here....

16.01.2026 7

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

Virginia Democrats Pass Major Amendment Amid GOP Gerrymandering Wars

Virginia Democrats Pass Major Amendment Amid GOP Gerrymandering Wars

Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature just got one step closer to victory in the battle against Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme. The...

16.01.2026 20

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Edith Olmsted

Americans Say Trump Is Failing on Nearly Everything, Brutal Poll Shows

Americans Say Trump Is Failing on Nearly Everything, Brutal Poll Shows

A majority of Americans said that President Donald Trump’s first year back in office was a failure, according to a humiliating CNN poll published...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Snubs Machado After Explaining Why He Took Her Nobel Prize

Trump Snubs Machado After Explaining Why He Took Her Nobel Prize

It seems that Venezuelan opposition leader Mar í a Corina Machado’s ultimate show of fealty to President Trump will get her nothing. Machado met...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn

Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn

In a startling development, some of President Trump’s advisers have suddenly realized that unleashing heavily armed government militias on American...

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Greg Sargent

Judge Accuses Trump, Rubio, and Noem of “Unconstitutional Conspiracy”

Judge Accuses Trump, Rubio, and Noem of “Unconstitutional Conspiracy”

A Reagan-appointed federal judge says the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian activists is an “unconstitutional conspiracy.” U.S....

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Still Only Has “Concepts of a Plan” for Health Care Reform

Trump Still Only Has “Concepts of a Plan” for Health Care Reform

Barely two weeks into the new year, Americans are really feeling the crunch. The enhanced subsidies that made the Affordable Care Act more...

16.01.2026 7

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Monica Potts

Kyrsten Sinema Sued Under Rare Law for Being a Home-Wrecker

Kyrsten Sinema Sued Under Rare Law for Being a Home-Wrecker

A new federal lawsuit alleges that former Senator Kyrsten Sinema had an affair with her married bodyguard, Mark Ammel, marked by drug use,...

15.01.2026 3

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Claims It Was Just a “Joke” That He Wants to Cancel Elections

Trump Claims It Was Just a “Joke” That He Wants to Cancel Elections

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped Thursday at a reporter who didn’t buy her attempt to dismiss President Donald Trump’s repeated...

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Edith Olmsted

NATO Countries Deploy to Greenland After U.S. Talks Fall Apart

NATO Countries Deploy to Greenland After U.S. Talks Fall Apart

NATO is rallying to protect Greenland from the United States. Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland have all confirmed plans to deploy...

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Edith Olmsted

Transcript: Mike Johnson’s Gaslighting on ICE Takes Truly Vile Turn

Transcript: Mike Johnson’s Gaslighting on ICE Takes Truly Vile Turn

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

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE

Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response to growing ICE violence is really something to behold. In one long, rambling answer, he blamed shooting...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

ICE Is Using a Terrifying Palantir App to Determine Where to Raid

ICE Is Using a Terrifying Palantir App to Determine Where to Raid

How are ICE agents picking where to commit their next act of wanton violence? Well, Palantir has an app for that! According to a user guide...

15.01.2026 3

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act to Stop Minnesota Protests

Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act to Stop Minnesota Protests

President Donlad Trump threatened Thursday to send the U.S. military into Minnesota, following the state’s second shooting involving a federal...

15.01.2026 4

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE

Trump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE

I don’t know who the next Democratic president will be. What I do know is that they’ll be forced almost immediately to decide an important...

15.01.2026 10

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Matt Ford

80 Democrats Move to Impeach Kristi Noem as ICE Terror Grows

80 Democrats Move to Impeach Kristi Noem as ICE Terror Grows

More than 80 House Democrats have co-signed articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The bill, introduced by Illinois...

15.01.2026 10

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Now Wants to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico

Trump Now Wants to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico

President Trump wants to put U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico to fight drug cartels, once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the...

15.01.2026 20

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Malcolm Ferguson

Venezuela’s Machado Presents Trump With a Nobel Prize After All

Venezuela’s Machado Presents Trump With a Nobel Prize After All

Donald Trump on Thursday finally got his greatest wish: to obtain a Nobel Peace Prize. He didn’t earn it, of course. Last year’s actual recipient,...

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Tori Otten

Karoline Leavitt Gets Hysterical After Simple Question on ICE

Karoline Leavitt Gets Hysterical After Simple Question on ICE

According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, anyone questioning her about ICE’s wanton killing of Renee Nicole Good—or any of their...

15.01.2026 20

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Malcolm Ferguson

Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy

Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy

The Trump administration will stop counting lives saved in its cost-benefit analyses of air pollution regulations, and instead will only consider...

15.01.2026 3

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Heather Souvaine Horn

Memo to Moderate Democrats: “Abolish ICE” Is Not a Fringe Position.

Memo to Moderate Democrats: “Abolish ICE” Is Not a Fringe Position.

How do we create liberal democracy in America? Notice that I say “create,” not “protect.” The old constitutional order is gone, and we should be...

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Toby Buckle

Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Backing Modern-Day Tuskegee Study

Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Backing Modern-Day Tuskegee Study

The Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding a heavily flawed vaccine trial in west Africa that is being...

15.01.2026 3

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Hafiz Rashid

ICE Shoots Another Man in Minneapolis as Crackdown Escalates

ICE Shoots Another Man in Minneapolis as Crackdown Escalates

ICE has shot another person in Minneapolis, raising tensions in an already inflamed atmosphere. The Department of Homeland Security said that an...

15.01.2026 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Washington Post in Uproar Over Jeff Bezos Reaction to FBI Raid

Washington Post in Uproar Over Jeff Bezos Reaction to FBI Raid

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has stayed noticeably silent after one of the newspaper’s reporters, Hannah Natanson, had her home searched by...

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Hafiz Rashid

Grave AI Recruiting Error Is Making ICE Even More Dangerous

Grave AI Recruiting Error Is Making ICE Even More Dangerous

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement used artificial intelligence to streamline its rush to add 10,000 more agents to its countrywide crackdown,...

15.01.2026 3

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Is Keeping Money From Venezuelan Oil Sale in Offshore Account

Trump Is Keeping Money From Venezuelan Oil Sale in Offshore Account

President Trump is keeping proceeds from the first sale of Venezuelan oil in an offshore bank account based in Qatar, according to reporting from...

15.01.2026 3

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Malcolm Ferguson

Amazingly, the Democrats Have a Shot at a Senate Majority

Amazingly, the Democrats Have a Shot at a Senate Majority

Democrats can’t ever seem to win federal races in North Carolina, but former Governor Roy Cooper is the strongest U.S. Senate candidate that the...

15.01.2026 2

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Perry Bacon

ICE’s Secret Programs to Spy on All of Us Exposed

ICE’s Secret Programs to Spy on All of Us Exposed

The brutality Americans are witnessing from Immigration and Customs Enforcement is just the tip of the iceberg: The agency is reportedly running...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump, 79, Falls Asleep in Weird Press Conference About Milk

Trump, 79, Falls Asleep in Weird Press Conference About Milk

President Trump once again appeared to doze off on camera during a milk legislation signing ceremony on Wednesday afternoon. The president’s eyes...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Joe Rogan’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump ICE Raids Hands Dems a Weapon

Joe Rogan’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump ICE Raids Hands Dems a Weapon

Ever since Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection victory, Democrats have been consumed in debate over how to do politics in the so-called “attention...

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Greg Sargent

DHS Picks Fight With Reporter Who Exposed ICE’s Shoddy Hiring

DHS Picks Fight With Reporter Who Exposed ICE’s Shoddy Hiring

The Department of Homeland Security attempted to discredit a journalist Wednesday and was quickly embarrassed. On Tuesday, Slate published a...

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Hafiz Rashid

ICE Agents Reportedly Asking Minnesotans Where the Asians Are

ICE Agents Reportedly Asking Minnesotans Where the Asians Are

ICE agents are reportedly asking Minnesota residents to tell them where their Asian neighbors live, as Vice President JD Vance’s promise of “door...

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Edith Olmsted