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The Obscene Wealth Issue

yesterday 10

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Michael Tomasky

MAGA Dimwit Pete Hegseth Accidentally Reveals a Dark Truth about Trump

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced striking questioning from Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday. She grilled him on whether he had...

yesterday 8

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

How the Billionaires Took Over

Donald Trump is America’s first billionaire president. He entered the White House in 2017 with a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes,...

yesterday 10

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Timothy Noah

The $1 Trillion Climate Problem​ Republicans Are Ignoring

For all the panic in Washington about inflation, the federal deficit, and the mounting cost of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the United...

yesterday 6

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Kate Aronoff

Transcript: MAGA Dope Pete Hegseth Implodes at Hearing, Exposing Trump

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...

yesterday 3

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Fringe Religious Movement that Schooled Vance Boelter

Early Saturday morning in New Hope, Minnesota, a local law enforcement officer passed a parked black SUV with police lights. She did not know the...

yesterday 20

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Elon Musk Rips “Snake” Trump Aide Behind Messy Feud

Elon Musk thinks White House presidential personnel director Sergio Gor is a “snake.” Gor, who is responsible for picking the approximately 4,000...

yesterday 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

How Much Do You Know About Wealth and Inequality in America?

The New Republic recently commissioned a poll asking Americans for their opinions on wealth distribution in the United States. In short, we found...

yesterday 7

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The New Republic

The TNR Wealth Poll: Americans Say Spread the Dough

When Senator Bernie Sanders took his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour to Missoula, Montana, in mid-April, he had one person in particular on his mind....

yesterday 2

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Ryan Kearney

Anti-DEI King Pete Hegseth Has Upsetting Plan for Juneteenth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the Pentagon to tone any commemoration of Juneteenth way, way down, in keeping with his anti-diversity...

yesterday 0

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Tori Otten

Trump Edits Tulsi Gabbard Video to Make Her Back Him Up on Iran

Donald Trump insists that Iran is on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, despite repeated statements to the contrary from his own...

yesterday 0

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Tori Otten

Karoline Leavitt Sets Unhinged Timeline for Trump to Decide on Iran

The world is on edge waiting for Donald Trump to decide if he will order the U.S. military to attack Iran. And according to White House press...

yesterday 0

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Tori Otten

ICE Gets Brutal Fact-Check on Absurd Reason Agents Wear Masks

Immigration and Customs Enforcement  and the Department of Homeland Security have claimed multiple times since May that there’s been a 413 percent...

yesterday 0

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Deliberately Leaves Two Key People Out of Iran Plan Convos

Two of the highest-ranking military Cabinet members have essentially been cut off as Trump teeters on the edge of joining Israel’s war on Iran,...

yesterday 0

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Press Secretary Ignores Two Key Questions on Iran Strike Plans

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she wouldn’t “engage in hypotheticals” when asked two major questions on Trump’s plans for Iran....

yesterday 0

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Malcolm Ferguson

Donald Trump Is Already Waging War: Against Blue America

Donald Trump is using the powers of the presidency—augmented with powers that the Constitution doesn’t give him—to make war on blue states and...

yesterday 0

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Harry Litman

Note to Democrats: War With Iran Is a Monumental Mistake

The first political demonstration I ever attended was against the Iraq War. I was in middle school when the invasion started, and I still have...

yesterday 0

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Aaron Regunberg

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?

I keep glancing at the date to make sure it isn’t somehow 2003 again. Even though it reads 2025, there seem to be constant reminders of the...

yesterday 0

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Yousef Munayyer

Thirty blocks

yesterday 1

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Jay Wickersham

The Major Claw

yesterday 0

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Ange Mlinko

Trump Lashes Out at Fox News Over Devastating New Poll

Donald Trump slammed a Fox News poll Thursday on Truth Social, accusing the network’s pollsters of being “always wrong and negative.” “The Crooked...

yesterday 0

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Gordon Ebanks

Trump White House Considers Dropping Nukes on Iran

yesterday 0

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s DHS Unveils Chilling Strategy to Avoid ICE Facilities Scrutiny

yesterday 0

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Tori Otten

L.A. Dodgers Stand Up to ICE in Stunning Move as Trump War Escalates

yesterday 0

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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

Federal Reserve Warns Trump’s Economy Is About to Get Whole Lot Worse

The Federal Reserve is forecasting aggressive stagflation for the remainder of 2025. Inflation is expected to go up to 3 percent, GDP growth is...

previous day 100

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Malcolm Ferguson

The Supreme Court’s Anti-Transgender Ruling Is a Tortured Mess

The Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that banned gender-affirming treatments for minors on Wednesday, giving states a free hand to restrict...

previous day 8

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Matt Ford

Trump Is Suddenly Raging at Tucker Carlson—and MAGA Is Deeply Rattled

You may have heard it said that Donald Trump won in 2024 in part by vowing to end “forever wars.” During the campaign, Trump ripped Democrat Kamala...

previous day 40

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Greg Sargent

Trump Doesn’t Like Stephen Miller Any More Than the Rest of Us

Donald Trump has reportedly given White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller one of his patented uninspired nicknames.  In an interview on...

previous day 10

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Edith Olmsted

Did Fox News Just Scam Trump into Embracing War with Iran?

President Trump appears dead set on joining Israel’s war with Iran. After a period of negotiations, Trump has now tweeted that he wants Iran’s “...

previous day 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Reveals His Amazing “Intelligence” on Iran’s Supposed Nukes

Donald Trump claimed to have intelligence Wednesday … but he doesn’t seem to know what he has intelligence about. As tensions continue to build in...

previous day 7

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Edith Olmsted

Billionaire Bill Ackman Wants War With Iran. Does Andrew Cuomo?

Billionaire Bill Ackman has spent the last few days trying to get the U.S. military involved in Israel’s war on Iran. “The parade was great. Our...

previous day 3

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Kate Aronoff

Transcript: Did Fox News Scam Trump Into Embracing War With Iran?

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...

previous day 2

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Ted Cruz Loses It After Embarrassing Tucker Carlson Interview on Iran

Tucker Carlson exposed Senator Ted Cruz’s complete deference to Israel by asking him some very basic questions about Iran. Cruz was unable to...

previous day 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Cruel and Costly Budget Bill Just Got Even Worse

Mencken! Thou shouldst be here at this hour. I didn’t start reading H.L. Mencken until middle age, partly because certain ugly aspects to his...

previous day 3

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Timothy Noah

Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir

Catherine Lacey’s fourth novel, Biography of X , which came out in 2023, is one of the most formally and intellectually interesting books of the...

previous day 3

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Lily Meyer

Trump Suffers Huge Loss in Efforts to Speedily Deport People

A federal judge just destroyed the Trump administration’s attacks on undocumented immigrants’ habeas corpus rights by upholding a 21-day notice...

previous day 1

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Edith Olmsted

Pete Hegseth Refuses to Answer One Easy Question About LA Protests

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clumsily dodged a question about where he’d draw the line on the use of federal forces against protesters. During a...

previous day 2

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Edith Olmsted

Supreme Court Strips Trans Rights in Gender-Affirming Care Case

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave a scathing dissent of the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday upholding Tennessee’s ban on...

previous day 2

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Gives Israel’s Netanyahu Massive Green Light on Iran and Gaza

President Trump took time on Wednesday to reaffirm his unwavering support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wars. “I said,...

previous day 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Grows Pissed at Tulsi Gabbard as Israel-Iran Conflict Worsens

President Trump is reportedly furious with Tulsi Gabbard after the director of national intelligence posted a professionally produced,...

previous day 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Josh Hawley Warns Trump Against Entering Israel’s War on Iran

Senator Josh Hawley has added his name to the short list of Republicans in Congress voicing their opposition to Trump’s current and potential...

previous day 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Fetterman Sides With Trump Over Fellow Democrats On Iran

Embattled Senator John Fetterman continues to express his bloodlust on behalf of Israel. Fetterman told Fox News that he would oppose Senator Tim...

tuesday 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Own Staff Don’t Think He’s Fit to Be President

Dissent against Donald Trump is bubbling within his administration—but people are too scared to act on it. Some White House staffers no longer...

tuesday 100

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Team Is Already Lying About Detention of NYC Mayoral Candidate

Masked ICE agents detained New York City Comptroller Brad Lander Tuesday. But rather than focus on the fact that federal agents are targeting...

tuesday 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump “Reamed Out” Pete Hegseth for Disastrous Military Parade

Donald Trump was not impressed by his multimillion-dollar military parade. The president reportedly “reamed” out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...

tuesday 60

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

TACO Trump Chickens Out on Major Immigration Flip

The Department of Homeland Security is reversing guidance sparing farms, hotels, and restaurants from immigration raids, less than a week after...

tuesday 30

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Disastrous Budget Bill Is Even More Expensive Than We Thought

Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase the total U.S. deficit by nearly $2.8 trillion over the next decade, according to a new...

tuesday 5

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Going to Weaken Outdoor Workers’ Heat Protections

The world is getting hotter, and workers need protection from the heat. But at a hearing Monday about a proposed heat regulation from the...

tuesday 20

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Timothy Noah

Trump Warns “We” Control Iran’s Airspace in Ominous Post

Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” Tuesday in a series of escalating threats on Iran. “We now have complete and total control of the...

tuesday 20

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Finally Says If He’ll Call Tim Walz. You’ll Wish He Hadn’t.

Breaking a long-standing presidential tradition, Donald Trump says he won’t contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after the assassination of...

tuesday 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling