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Russia Joins G20 Summit After Trump Invite—Sparking Massive Backlash

Russia attended the G20 summit in North Carolina Monday, marking the first time that the nation has participated in the global economics meeting since...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Talarico Sounds Alarm as Texas Plans to Close Dozens of Polling Sites

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is sounding the alarm over potential voter suppression as Texas moves to shutter dozens of polling...

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Edith Olmsted

Cory Mills Is Ghosting His Staff and Suntanning With a Special Friend

Scandal-plagued Republican Representative Cory Mills has apparently gone “missing” from work after losing the GOP primary to TV reporter Ryan...

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump, 80, Zonks Out as His Team Brags He’s Fixed Health Care

America’s 80-year-old president cannot keep his eyes open.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

“Horrendous”: MAGA Shreds Trump for Cruel Post on Data Center Critics

“I regret ever supporting you.” “You have lost your mind.” “Horrendous messaging.”

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Hafiz Rashid

Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Building Tacky White House Ballroom

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to continue construction on his White House ballroom.

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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing

For Americans, it’s been a real tough summer for figuring out what foods are safe to eat.

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Edith Olmsted

Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Cut Them a Deal on Campaign Ads

Republicans want to air their TV ads for less, and they have the Trump administration’s support in asking the Supreme Court to allow it.

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Hafiz Rashid

Hegseth Builds Secret MAGA Influencer Army—on Pentagon Payroll

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is secretly building an army of veterans turned influencers.

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Edith Olmsted

Soaring Number of Mail Ballots Thrown Out for Lateness Under Trump

The U.S. Postal Service’s capability could be what decides the November elections.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

George Santos Just Made History—in a Bad Way

Disgraced former Republican Representative George Santos has become the first person to ever receive a lifetime ban from the prediction market Kalshi.

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Hafiz Rashid

“Backwards and Poor”: Trump Rips Americans Opposed to Data Centers

Anyone who opposes data center development is “backwards and poor,” according to America’s billionaire president.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Team’s “Unprecedented Fraud Crackdown” Exposed as Total Bust

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s so-called “major fraud announcement” was just another...

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Edith Olmsted

Is This the Sketchy Reason Why Pro-Trump Freedom Fuel Is So Cheap?

The question has baffled industry experts for months now: How has the Freedom Fuel Network, a pro-Trump private chain of gas stations, been able to...

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Posts AI Slop as Iran War Reignites

As the U.S. military campaign against Iran stretches into its seventh month, President Donald Trump has taken decisive action to keep posting stupid...

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Edith Olmsted

Pentagon Erupts Over Report on Secret Warnings Against Iran War

The Pentagon is scrambling to contain a leak from within the military’s top brass.Defense officials were left fuming after top military leaders...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

How Trump Uses Dormant Laws to Amass Power

Congress has spent the last two centuries passing laws. These laws often remain on the books, so to speak, long after their purpose has been fulfilled...

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Matt Ford

Trump Is a Liar. That’s Bad. But He’s Delusional—and That’s Even Worse

Here we go again. The new oil deal with Venezuela, Donald Trump bragged over the weekend, will “substantially lower” gas prices and won’t cost...

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Michael Tomasky

For Springfield’s Haitians, Ankle Monitors and Fear of Going to Church

Father Fritz sounded glum, and tired, as well he should have been. A native of Haiti and a naturalized U.S. citizen, Fritz—properly, the Reverend...

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Tim Feran

Democrats: Make Peace With Becoming a Little Radical

As I said a few weeks ago, I don’t really believe a lot of the hype about the Democratic primaries this year. I don’t think that the United States...

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Jason Linkins

New Hampshire’s Senate Race Leans Dem, but the State Is—Well, You Know

Of all the American political traditions we’ve lost in Trump times, one of them never got its moment of silence: “As New Hampshire goes, so goes...

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Virginia Heffernan

ICE Arrests Far-Right’s Cancelled Poster Boy Milo Yiannapoulos

Far-right political pundit Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE in Louisiana.

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Hafiz Rashid

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.

28.08.2026 3

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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...

28.08.2026 4

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Edith Olmsted

Three Trump-Appointed Judges Deliver Major Blow to Kalshi

A federal court has dealt a serious blow to prediction markets, ruling that Kalshi can’t block the state of Nevada from regulating its platform.

28.08.2026 3

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Hafiz Rashid

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.

28.08.2026 4

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Tries to Bribe White South Africans to Come Here

The Trump administration has made it abundantly clear that refugees are not welcome to the United States—unless they’re white South Africans.

28.08.2026 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Casually Threatens to Take Over Two More Countries

President Trump has his sights on taking over two Pacific island countries: Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.

28.08.2026 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Dem Demands Criminal Probe Into RFK Jr. Over “Trail of Dead Children”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s myriad lies are finally catching up to him.

28.08.2026 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

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.

28.08.2026 4

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Edith Olmsted

What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents. They both passed...

28.08.2026 8

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Greg Sargent

Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates

It’s been at least 75 days since Senator Mitch McConnell has been seen in public. Yet on Thursday—despite McConnell supposedly being weeks into an...

28.08.2026 2

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

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.

28.08.2026 6

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Edith Olmsted

Texas Dems’ Leader Pulls No Punches: Abbott, Paxton Are “Full of Sh--”

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign...

28.08.2026 2

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Emma Janssen

How Did the World Get to Be Held Hostage by Two Malevolent Cretins?

Today is the six-month anniversary of President Trump’s war in Iran, which as any non-brainwashed human can see has been a failure in every sense....

28.08.2026 3

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Michael Tomasky

Trump Wants to Give Away a Piece of Yosemite National Park

President Trump wants to give part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

28.08.2026 6

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Plans to Ditch 9/11 Ceremony for the Most Selfish Reason

President Trump won’t commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York because he wouldn’t be allowed to make a...

28.08.2026 4

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Accidentally Wrecks GOP Midterm Message in Dumbest Self-Own Ever

This week, Donald Trump aggressively highlighted a long screed from a MAGA influencer that sharply criticized the GOP for failing in all kinds of...

28.08.2026 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Transcript: Trump Wrecks GOP Midterm Strategy in Dumbest Self-Own Ever

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The 1915 TNR Debate That Predicted the Ills of the Billionaire Class

In December 1915, Jacob Schiff sent an irritated letter to Walter Lippmann. Among the country’s most powerful financiers, Schiff was head of the...

28.08.2026 4

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David Conrad-Pérez

Pete Hegseth Is Too Egotistical to Know How Incompetent He Is

A flurry of reports from various media outlets is revealing how the unqualified secretary of defense is damaging national security with his...

28.08.2026 4

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Brynn Tannehill

Meet “the Ultimate Climate Solution”

Millions of oat-milk drinkers around the world are about to learn that a supermajority of people want stronger climate action. Oatly, the world’s...

28.08.2026 5

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Mark Hertsgaard

Dolly Parton’s Fight for Working Women

Back in 1972, some colleagues and I were sitting in a circle on our lunch hour talking about our jobs. We talked about low pay, unequal pay, training...

28.08.2026 2

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Ellen Cassedy

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...

27.08.2026 5

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Edith Olmsted

Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race

Six percent of Texas’s voters—over 1.2 million people—have had their voter registrations suspended, and many might not even know about it.

27.08.2026 8

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Invests in Defense Contractors as He Wages War in Iran

While Americans pay the price for President Trump’s war in Iran, he appears to be cashing in on it.

27.08.2026 5

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Sophie Jager

Trump’s Iran War Somehow Makes Missile Shortage Even Worse

The Iran war has gravely exacerbated the U.S. military’s advanced missile interceptor shortage in Europe.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Mistake That Progressive Candidates Keep Making

You can watch this video above. You can read a transcript here.

27.08.2026 3

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

West Point Professor Fired for Refusing to Lie About Climate Change

A science professor says he was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, for refusing to ignore the human causes of climate...

27.08.2026 5

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: The Mistake That Progressive Candidates Keep Making

This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 26 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on...

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Right Now With Perry Bacon