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Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her position as director of national intelligence.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry—who for some reason is serving as President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland—admitted Friday that the...
After Donald Trump launched his war on Iran, a spirited debate broke out among a small set of public intellectuals over an unexpectedly relevant...
If you’ve read anything about the Democrats’ “autopsy” of its 2024 election loss, which was released Thursday after being suppressed for...
President Donald Trump personally called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to voice his displeasure with the latter’s decision to pull U.S. troops from...
Representative Tom Kean Jr. has claimed he’s too sick to do his job in Congress—but he has apparently been perfectly fine traveling, approving...
Donald Trump just admitted that he was, actually, involved in the creation of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund.
Republicans are going all out to convince the American people that President Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for his MAGA allies is...
For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert entertained Americans as CBS’s Late Show host, leading more than 1,800 episodes. On Thursday, he hosted his...
I started reading the Democratic autopsy of their 2024 loss that was belatedly released Thursday, but I stopped on page eight, when I got to this...
The Trump administration floated banning voting machines in over 50 percent of the country by deeming Dominion Voting Machine software—used in 27...
This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 21 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on...
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon here. You can read a transcript here.
Over the last few days, everyone and their Mother Jones has been talking about Tina Peters, the convicted election fraudster, and whether Colorado...
The Supreme Court took the unusual step on Thursday of dismissing a case that it had already heard, handing a rare win to a death-row prisoner and...
Donald Trump calls climate change a “hoax,” a “scam,” and a “con job.” He has (twice) withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate...
Just a few weeks into Trump’s return to the White House, thousands of people made their way to a Manhattan park close to NYU Langone Hospital. The...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
Donald Trump just got hit with an absolutely crushing poll from Fox News. Disapproval of his handling of the economy is at an all-time high. His...
Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant has provided the House Oversight Committee with the names of three new alleged co-conspirators.
Republican senators oppose President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” so much that they’re going home early.
Ahead of a meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the White House sent a document to GOP senators on Thursday explaining why President...
Even members of Congress are taking the opportunity to cash in on Donald Trump’s slush fund.
When Republicans allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act to expire last year, most people predicted that...
The charges against the remaining “Broadview Six” protesters were dropped Thursday, in a win for anyone who has protested ICE activity under the...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is running into strong opposition from Republicans on Capitol Hill over President Trump’s $1.776 billion...
Donald Trump just illustrated exactly how close he is with his children.
The lawsuit filed against President Trump’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been assigned to a judge already on the president’s bad side.
The MAGA-verse is lining up for the Justice Department’s taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” payouts.
The Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 presidential election has finally reached the public—and it leaves a lot to be desired.
Thom Tillis, who has represented North Carolina in the Senate for more than a decade, is retiring at the end of the year, and in recent months the...
Nobody seems to know where Representative Tom Kean Jr. is.
Donald Trump just wants to let the kids vape.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is now vocally opposing President Trump after losing his primary election last week thanks to the president’s...
Mom is still alive!
I don’t know that I’ll watch Stephen Colbert’s final episode of The Late Show tonight, which will also be the final episode of The Late Show’s...
Angelo Carusone and Aaron Rupar share a distinction that we imagine many Americans would happily cede to them: They have likely watched more Donald...
The Trump administration set the stage for the largest heist in American history this week by creating an illegal fund of taxpayer dollars to...
Let’s don’t waste any time debating the legality of President Donald Trump’s IRS “settlement” (click here to read part one and here to read...
there was smoke coiling the sky, dust and rubbish
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
Republicans are starting to break with Donald Trump’s corrupt $1.8 billion slush fund. Vulnerable House GOPer Brian Fitzpatrick announced that...
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.
This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 20 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on...
Democrats are moving quickly to force congressional votes on President Donald Trump’s ridiculously corrupt slush fund.
Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will require U.S. banks to take a closer look at their clients’ citizenship details.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump has to comply with the Presidential Records Act, overruling an opinion from the Department of...
President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom, which would boast lavish golden interiors and is totally needed for, uh, security reasons, is beginning...
Donald Trump cannot be living the same reality as the rest of America.
In October 2005, days after Israeli forces killed a commander of the Hamas-aligned militant group Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...