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Edith Olmsted

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Trump’s Newest Beef Idea Is Guaranteed to Make America Sick

President Donald Trump has a new idea that’s pretty much certain to make Americans sicker—and it’s all thanks to Glenn Beck.

yesterday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Totally Bombs His Speech in Front of Artemis II Astronauts

President Donald Trump flew to Texas Friday to award the Artemis II team with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor—but still managed to make the...

yesterday 2

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Edith Olmsted

Pentagon Refuses to Identify Staffer Tracking Democratic Socialists

An internet troll on the Pentagon’s payroll has made a database to track Americans based on their political affiliation.

yesterday 3

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Uses AI to Support His Fantasy That Dolly Parton Liked Him

President Donald Trump is so desperate to cash in on the love for Dolly Parton that he posted a fake picture of the two of them together.

yesterday 3

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How Stephen Miller Used Natalie Harp to Manipulate Trump

Stephen Miller has figured out a way to use President Donald Trump’s new favorite aide to push his own agenda.

yesterday 4

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Trump Seriously Renames Lake Ontario as He Escalates Feud With Canada

Need any more proof that Donald Trump’s pettiness knows no bounds? The president signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as...

previous day 3

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Republican Governor Calls Out DOJ’s “Aggressive” Election Monitors

Wyoming’s Republican Governor Mark Gordon is sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s “aggressive” and “irregular” elections monitoring.

previous day 3

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Big Midterm Strategy Is About to Backfire

President Donald Trump wants you to pretend that he’s on the ballot in the midterm elections.

previous day 4

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Good Riddance to Karoline Leavitt, Latest in a Long Line of Clowns

So long Karoline Leavitt, we hardly knew ye—and what we did know, we didn’t like.

previous day 3

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Own Lawyers Can’t Deny He “Irrevocably Damaged” Kennedy Center

Donald Trump’s so-called renovations to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have done more harm than good—even his lawyers think so.

previous day 4

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Hugely Unpopular Trump Thinks Hyping Himself Will Win the Midterms

President Donald Trump wants to turn the midterm elections into a Trumpfest in what could be a massive gift to Democratic lawmakers.

wednesday 5

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Trump, 80, Appears to Forget That He Blew Up Canada Trade Talks

Does President Donald Trump even know how trade talks with Canada fell apart?

wednesday 5

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Trump-Aligned Board Threatens to Demolish the Kennedy Center

The Trump administration, in its ongoing effort to shatter previous world records for spitefulness, is threatening to demolish the John F. Kennedy...

25.08.2026 6

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Dolly Parton, Country Singer Who Crossed All Party Lines, Dies at 80

Dolly Parton, the award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and all-around all-star human being, died on Tuesday at the age of 80.

25.08.2026 5

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Is Farm Country About to Turn on Trump?

The Financial Times reported Tuesday that farmers in America’s Corn Belt region are facing their toughest economic crisis in 40 years. Last month,...

25.08.2026 6

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The “Woke” Painting That’s Driving the Trump Administration Crazy

President Donald Trump’s administration was so triggered by a “woke” painting that it had it removed.

25.08.2026 7

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Democrats Demand Answers on Jared Kushner’s Shady Albania Land Deal

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are expanding their probe of Jared Kushner’s alleged foreign corruption to include his suspicious...

25.08.2026 8

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Edith Olmsted

Today’s Strait of Hormuz Mystery: Where Did the Oil Go?

Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed last week that the United States helped move 15 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday....

24.08.2026 4

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Has Found a New Way to Sabotage the Asylum Process

President Donald Trump’s administration has come up with a new scheme that will gut due process for asylum applicants.

24.08.2026 5

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Edith Olmsted

Supreme Court Takes Step Toward Upholding Trump’s Mail-in Voting Ban

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the Supreme Court’s Monday shadow-docket decision to greenlight Donald Trump’s executive order...

24.08.2026 7

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Wants H-1B Recipients to Pay Through the Nose

Donald Trump’s administration has a new plan to turn the U.S. immigration system into a moneymaking scheme, ensuring that legal pathways to...

24.08.2026 6

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Alaska Just Has Too Many Dan Sullivans

Yet another Dan Sullivan has entered the chat.

24.08.2026 4

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National Guard Members on Their D.C. Deployment: Hey, This Sucks!

National Guard members are speaking out about their feelings of humiliation and frustration being involved in Donald Trump’s year-long federal...

24.08.2026 5

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Trump Pardons of Fraudsters Cost Victims Nearly $2 Billion

President Donald Trump is letting fraudsters off the hook at the expense of their victims, according to a new report from Democrats on the House...

21.08.2026 20

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Edith Olmsted

Navy in Talks to Rename Ship After Trump Instead of Black War Hero

The U.S. Navy has been quietly considering renaming an aircraft carrier that was set to honor Doris Miller, a heroic Black sailor at Pearl Harbor,...

21.08.2026 6

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Edith Olmsted

Natalie Harp’s Full Trump Letters Exposed—Revealing Creepy Obsession

Natalie Harp’s relationship with President Donald Trump is even more intimate than we thought.

21.08.2026 9

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Sean Duffy’s Travel Show Is An Ethical Nightmare

The second episode of The Great American Road Trip, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s recently released vanity project travel show, starts in...

20.08.2026 7

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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Thinks It’s Good That the Economy Is Bad

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants you to think that a weak job market is a good thing.

20.08.2026 7

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Food Safety Keeps Getting Worse Under Trump

In the last week alone, the U.S. Federal Food & Drug Association has recalled twelve different products—a rate four times higher than the same week...

20.08.2026 6

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Edith Olmsted

Darline Graham Just Made Her Disastrous Foreign Policy Gaffe Worse

South Carolina Senator Darline Graham has a baffling excuse for her humiliating debate performance—spoiler alert: It involves transgender athletes!

20.08.2026 10

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Why Did Natalie Harp Wait Over a Year to Get a Security Clearance?

Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, refused to seek security clearance for more than a year while working in the White House.

20.08.2026 20

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Trump Is Trying to Pretend He Didn’t Endorse Loser Cory Mills

Following embattled Cory Mills’s major loss Tuesday in Florida’s Republican primary elections, President Trump took to Truth Social to publicly...

19.08.2026 8

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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied

The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian...

19.08.2026 10

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Edith Olmsted

The Charlie Kirk Grift

Charlie Kirk’s former allies can’t stop fighting amongst themselves.

18.08.2026 10

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No, Trump Didn’t Actually Save Natalie Harp’s Life

Just a reminder: No, President Donald Trump did not save Natalie Harp’s life.

18.08.2026 9

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Trump, Who Says Mail-in Voting Is “Cheating,” Votes by Mail. Again.

President Trump, who has staunchly opposed mail-in voting as part of his delusions of mass voter fraud, voted by mail in Florida’s Republican...

18.08.2026 10

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Thanks to Iran, Trump’s Navy Is Falling Apart and Morale Is Sinking

The USS Benfold, a guided-missile destroyer, lost power for days while it was sailing with the George Washington carrier strike group through the...

18.08.2026 9

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No One Knows If Trump and Iran Are Negotiating Right Now

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday to deliver an update on negotiations with Iran—or lack thereof.

18.08.2026 10

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Embattled GOP Rep Doesn’t Deny Dating Teenager While In Congress

It’s not looking good for the disgraced MAGA Representative Cory Mills.

17.08.2026 10

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Islamophobia Is Taking Over Texas

Over the weekend, officials at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport abandoned plans to add additional foot washing stations used for an Islamic purification...

17.08.2026 8

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Trump Melts Down at Another Female Reporter

President Donald Trump lashed out at a female reporter Monday for asking about his decision to significantly reduce military coordination with South...

17.08.2026 7

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ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves Are Billed As “Low Optics” Tool

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would spend between $10 million and $20 million to...

17.08.2026 9

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Just Made up a New, Crazier National Mall Vandalism Incident

Surprise! President Donald Trump is the real National Mall vandal.

17.08.2026 4

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FDA Only Now Goes to Mexico to Investigate Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

It’s been more than a month since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration linked Taylor Farms to the deadly cyclospora outbreak, and yet the agency is...

14.08.2026 8

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Edith Olmsted

“No They’re Not”: Trump Reacts to Families Concerned About Sailors

President Donald Trump denied reports Friday of horrific conditions onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln—and suggested that the U.S. servicemembers...

14.08.2026 10

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Treasury Is Deleting an Anti-Corruption Database

Donald Trump’s Treasury Department doesn’t want law enforcement to be able to “follow the money.”

14.08.2026 10

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Trump Temporarily Drops Reflecting Pool to Freak Out Over New Vandals

Donald Trump is once again freaking out about vandals at a national monument. Here’s why you shouldn’t take his outrage seriously.

14.08.2026 10

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Trump Orders Navy to Spend Billions of Dollars Undoing Years of Work

President Donald Trump is about to waste billions of dollars to put old-fashioned technology on aircraft carriers.

14.08.2026 9

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Has Lost Nearly a Quarter of Key Drone Stockpile in Iran

The Trump administration has lost roughly one quarter of the country’s MQ-9 Reaper drones as part of the president’s ongoing war against Iran.

13.08.2026 10

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Lies About How Much His National Guard Deployments Helped Cities

The White House is trying to mislead Americans about President Donald Trump’s impact on crime rates—but the numbers aren’t adding up.

13.08.2026 9

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