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Trump Appointee Has Unhinged Plan for Purging Government Workers

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Edith Olmsted

Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With Change in Hiring Policies

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MAGA Republican Suggests Sickening Plan for L.A. Fire Relief

MAGA Republican Suggests Sickening Plan for L.A. Fire Relief
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Trump Bashes Canada as It Ramps Up Aid to Fight Los Angeles Fires

Trump Bashes Canada as It Ramps Up Aid to Fight Los Angeles Fires
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Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon’s Ruling Struck Down

Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon’s Ruling Struck Down
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“Free Speech” Haven Facebook Blocking Internal Criticism of Trump Ally

“Free Speech” Haven Facebook Blocking Internal Criticism of Trump Ally
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Rudy Giuliani Doesn’t Want to Go to Court for the Dumbest Reason

Rudy Giuliani Doesn’t Want to Go to Court for the Dumbest Reason
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Democrats Launch Desperate Bid to Block Trump’s Military Dreams

Democrats Launch Desperate Bid to Block Trump’s Military Dreams

Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested Tuesday that the Department of Justice scale back the...

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Matt Gaetz Isn’t Done Causing us Pain After All

Matt Gaetz Isn’t Done Causing us Pain After All

Former Representative Matt Gaetz is considering running for office again, just weeks after getting chased out of the last one.  Gaetz, the Florida...

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Tommy Tuberville Is Writing Fanfiction for Trump’s Military Fantasies

Tommy Tuberville Is Writing Fanfiction for Trump’s Military Fantasies

Senator Tommy Tuberville is so excited for Donald Trump to keep chasing the Panama Canal that he’s now imagining his own fantastical version of...

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You’ll Never Guess Who Tried to Interfere in the 2020 Election

You’ll Never Guess Who Tried to Interfere in the 2020 Election

A report from the inspector general’s office alleges that three senior Justice Department officials under Donald Trump had “partisan political...

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Trump Gloats Meta Changed Rules Because Zuckerberg Is Scared of Him

Trump Gloats Meta Changed Rules Because Zuckerberg Is Scared of Him

Donald Trump couldn’t help but gloat Tuesday that he’d successfully bullied Mark Zuckerberg into making a spate of policy changes at Meta that...

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Trump Struggles to Understand Appliances in Bizarre, Rambling Speech

Trump Struggles to Understand Appliances in Bizarre, Rambling Speech

Donald Trump delivered incoherent remarks Tuesday while railing against what he imagined were Joe Biden’s energy and water conservation policies....

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Mark Zuckerberg Rushes to Beat Elon Musk at Sucking up to Trump

Mark Zuckerberg Rushes to Beat Elon Musk at Sucking up to Trump

It’s official: Mark Zuckerberg is turning Meta into yet another propaganda machine for Donald Trump and the far right.  In a video statement...

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Trump Actually Seems Serious About Buying Greenland and Canada

Trump Actually Seems Serious About Buying Greenland and Canada

Donald Trump is somehow still harping on his vanity projects to acquire Greenland and Canada, and every day, the trolling feels more real. In a...

07.01.2025 2

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MAGA Rep.’s January 6 Commemoration Post Must Be Seen to Be Believed

MAGA Rep.’s January 6 Commemoration Post Must Be Seen to Be Believed

Representative Mike Collins has taken the Republican rewrites of the January 6 riot to new heights. “On #ThisDayInHistory in 2021, thousands of...

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Enraged Trump Scrambles to Get Out of Hush-Money Sentencing

Enraged Trump Scrambles to Get Out of Hush-Money Sentencing

Donald Trump is (unsurprisingly) trying to get out of his sentencing hearing for the 34 felony counts in his hush-money case. In a 17-page filing...

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Trump Insists He’s Not Scaling Back Plans to Wreck the Economy

Trump Insists He’s Not Scaling Back Plans to Wreck the Economy

Donald Trump may be planning to break one of his key—and most disastrous—campaign promises to implement “universal” tariffs on goods imported...

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Elon Musk’s Latest Obsession Has Gone Too Far for Even Nigel Farage

Elon Musk’s Latest Obsession Has Gone Too Far for Even Nigel Farage

Elon Musk is putting his nose in foreign politics yet again, but this time he’s setting a target on MP Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.’s...

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In Major Twist, Trump Will Face Consequences for Something After All

In Major Twist, Trump Will Face Consequences for Something After All

New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has ordered Donald Trump to be sentenced for the 34 felony counts in his hush-money case on...

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Get Ready for a Long, Ugly Vote for House Speaker

Get Ready for a Long, Ugly Vote for House Speaker

House Speaker Mike Johnson has a slim shot at keeping his gavel Friday, as dozens of Republicans reportedly remain uncommitted to supporting the...

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The Surprising Detail About Man Who Allegedly Exploded a Cybertruck

The Surprising Detail About Man Who Allegedly Exploded a Cybertruck

The man who allegedly detonated fireworks inside a Tesla Cybertruck in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, was reportedly a...

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Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Defends Petty Way He Censored His Critics

Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Defends Petty Way He Censored His Critics

Technocrat billionaire Elon Musk finally owned up Wednesday to restricting his critics’ X accounts. But the self-described “free speech...

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Struggling Mike Johnson Has a New Plan to Keep His Job

Struggling Mike Johnson Has a New Plan to Keep His Job

Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to make it a lot harder for his colleagues to get rid of him. House Republicans unveiled a new set...

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Trump Responds to “President Musk” Claims—and It’s Clear He’s Pissed

Donald Trump dismissed the “President Musk” jokes Sunday, and it was less than convincing. During his address at Turning Point USA’s...

23.12.2024 4

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Elon Musk’s Latest Tantrum Shows He Has No Idea What He’s Doing

Elon Musk is now threatening to get rid of Democratic lawmakers, but he has no idea who he’s dealing with … no, seriously he has no idea who...

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House Republicans Snub Trump and Finally Pass Bill to Avoid Shutdown

The House of Representatives finally voted to avert a government shutdown Friday evening, just hours before government funding was set to expire,...

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Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes He Has No Clue How to Govern

Elon Musk really hopes you don’t remember when he was cheering on a government shutdown … less than 48 hours ago. Shortly after a new “clean”...

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Trump’s Georgia Case Is About to Become a Huge Disaster

The Georgia appeals court’s decision to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the 2020 election interference...

19.12.2024 2

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Trump Roasted for Letting “President Musk” Call Spending Bill Shots

While Republicans are quickly falling in line over Elon Musk’s missives, Democrats are pointing out that the unelected billionaire bureaucrat may...

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Trump’s Georgia Case in Limbo as Fani Willis Disqualified

Georgia’s Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Thursday from prosecuting the 2020 election interference case...

19.12.2024 4

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Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown

House Speaker Mike Johnson appears to be getting cyberbullied by “efficiency” czar Elon Musk, over his continuing resolution. Johnson’s...

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Republican Rep. Kicks Off New Speaker Drama Over Spending Bill

It looks like House Speaker Mike Johnson might be at risk of losing his job. Republican Representative Thomas Massie said Wednesday that he would...

19.12.2024 4

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The Real Reason ABC Caved to Trump

Disney, which owns ABC News, agreed to pay a $16 million settlement to Donald Trump to avoid a messy lawsuit that the company believed would have...

18.12.2024 4

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MAGA Rep. Baffles Everyone by Dropping All Responsibilities But One

Indiana Representative Victoria Spartz has announced she will be stepping away from the “circuses” of doing what she was elected to...

17.12.2024 4

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CNN Reporter Roasted Online for Her Fake Syria Story

CNN reported Monday evening that it had wrongly identified a man who appeared in a video report claiming to be a long-term prisoner of former...

17.12.2024 2

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Trump Unleashes Dangerous New Attack on Media After ABC Win

Donald Trump promised Monday to launch a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register over a preelection poll that found Vice President Kamala Harris had...

16.12.2024 3

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Dr. Oz Exposed for Colossal, Multimillion Dollar Conflict of Interest

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the daytime television host Donald Trump has picked to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), may have a direct...

14.12.2024 6

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Why the Hell Did Biden Commute Sentence of “Kids for Cash” Judge?

Buried in the massive list of nearly 1,500 people whose criminal sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden Thursday is the name of a...

13.12.2024 10

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Mark Zuckerberg Desperately Wants to Get on Trump’s Good Side

Meta donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, marking CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s descent from the president-elect’s target to the...

12.12.2024 3

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Stunning Memo Exposes Which SCOTUS Justices Want to Keep Being Crooks

A few Supreme Court justices went out of their way to fight back against enforcing the court’s new ethics rules, The New York Times reported...

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Suggest Their Most Pointless Idea Yet

The government efficiency czars Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy seem to be mulling over a monumental change: eliminating daylight savings time. If...

03.12.2024 2

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RFK Jr.’s Old Business Venture Shows His New Water Stance Is a Scam

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has advocated to remove all fluoride from public water within the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency, once sold...

03.12.2024 3

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Trump Responds to Potential Trade War With Bonkers Joke

Donald Trump responded to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s warning that both Canadians and Americans might seriously suffer from the...

03.12.2024 4

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Here’s Who’ll Pay the Highest Cost of Trump’s Tariff War

Donald Trump’s tariffs will likely take the biggest toll on Texas, multiple economics experts told Newsweek. Last week, the president-elect...

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“Fight of Our Lives”: Jamie Raskin Moves to Shake Up Democratic Party

Representative Jamie Raskin launched a campaign Monday to replace Representative Jerry Nadler as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. In...

03.12.2024 10

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Even Trump’s Allies Hate His Disastrous FBI Pick

It seems that Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to transform the FBI into the president’s billy club, hasn’t quite won over all of the...

02.12.2024 2

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2,000 Mules Creator Finally Admits It’s Based on Junk

Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative filmmaker behind the election denialist fable 2,000 Mules , revealed that the data that underpinned his...

02.12.2024 4

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The Real Danger of Trump’s FBI Chief Nominee

Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI, is essential to the president-elect’s takeover, and will allow him to use the full force of the...

02.12.2024 10

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Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees

Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he’s getting an early start by goading his millions of followers...

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