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Tulsi Gabbard Abruptly Quits After Increased Scrutiny Over Iran

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her position as director of national intelligence.

yesterday 5

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Greenland Envoy Gives Away Game on Renewed Push to Claim Island

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry—who for some reason is serving as President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland—admitted Friday that the...

yesterday 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Even Fox News Admits It: Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall

After Donald Trump launched his war on Iran, a spirited debate broke out among a small set of public intellectuals over an unexpectedly relevant...

yesterday 2

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Gaza Wasn’t the Biggest Omission in the Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy

If you’ve read anything about the Democrats’ “autopsy” of its 2024 election loss, which was released Thursday after being suppressed for...

yesterday 1

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Alex Shephard

Trump Called Up Hegseth to Scold Him on Surprise Troop Withdrawal

President Donald Trump personally called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to voice his displeasure with the latter’s decision to pull U.S. troops from...

yesterday 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Missing Republican Rep. Has Racked Up Some Odd Travel Expenses

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...

yesterday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Desperately Tries to Drum Up Support for His Slush Fund

Donald Trump just admitted that he was, actually, involved in the creation of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund.

yesterday 10

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

House Republicans Give Wild Defenses of Trump’s Shady Slush 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...

yesterday 2

New Republic

Malcolm Ferguson

Stephen Colbert Gives CBS and Trump Middle Finger With Last Show

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...

yesterday 3

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

There’s One Thing All Democrats Must Agree On, or They’re Dead in 2028

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...

yesterday 2

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Michael Tomasky

Trump Team’s Unnerving Plot to Ban All Voting Machines Exposed

The Trump administration floated banning voting machines in over 50 percent of the country by deeming Dominion Voting Machine software—used in 27...

yesterday 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Transcript: Why Trump Is Afraid of Colbert, Kimmel, and “The View”

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...

yesterday 1

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

Why Trump Is So Afraid of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and The View

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon here. You can read a transcript here.

yesterday 1

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

The Election Fraudsters Who Will Follow in Tina Peters’s Footsteps

Over the last few days, everyone and their Mother Jones has been talking about Tina Peters, the convicted election fraudster, and whether Colorado...

yesterday 1

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Gabriel Cohen

A Rare Win at the Supreme Court for a Death-Row Prisoner

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...

yesterday 10

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Matt Ford

Donald Trump, Accidental Environmentalist

Donald Trump calls climate change a “hoax,” a “scam,” and a “con job.” He has (twice) withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate...

yesterday 2

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Timothy Noah

The Texas Court Trying to Intimidate a New York Hospital

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...

yesterday 2

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Melissa Gira Grant

Transcript: Trump’s Panicky Plea to GOP after Worst Fox Poll Ever Hits

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.

yesterday 4

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms after Humiliating Fox Poll Hits

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...

yesterday 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Epstein’s Assistant Names Three New Abusers in Harrowing Testimony

Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant has provided the House Oversight Committee with the names of three new alleged co-conspirators.

previous day 2

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Republicans Flee Work Early to Avoid Voting on Trump’s Slush Fund

Republican senators oppose President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” so much that they’re going home early.

previous day 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Tells Republicans to Defend His Slush Fund by Lying

Ahead of a meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the White House sent a document to GOP senators on Thursday explaining why President...

previous day 2

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Finn Hartnett

Republican Rep. Wants to Steal From Americans via Trump’s Slush Fund

Even members of Congress are taking the opportunity to cash in on Donald Trump’s slush fund.

previous day 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Red Alert in the Latest Obamacare Enrollment Numbers

When Republicans allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act to expire last year, most people predicted that...

previous day 1

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Monica Potts

Feds Forced to Drop Case Against “Broadview Six” Anti-ICE Protesters

The charges against the remaining “Broadview Six” protesters were dropped Thursday, in a win for anyone who has protested ICE activity under the...

previous day 1

New Republic

Finn Hartnett

Senate Republicans in Uproar After Closed-Door Meeting on Slush Fund

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is running into strong opposition from Republicans on Capitol Hill over President Trump’s $1.776 billion...

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Calls His Son a “Person I’ve Known For a Long Time”

Donald Trump just illustrated exactly how close he is with his children.

previous day 4

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Perfect Judge Will Rule on Trump’s Shady $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

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.

previous day 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Worst People You Know Are Already Applying to Trump’s Slush Fund

The MAGA-verse is lining up for the Justice Department’s taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” payouts.

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

DNC’s 2024 Autopsy Is Out—and It Completely Misses the Point

The Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 presidential election has finally reached the public—and it leaves a lot to be desired.

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

“Stupid on Stilts”: Republican Senator Rips Trump’s Slush Fund

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...

previous day 1

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Finn Hartnett

Case of Missing Republican Representative Gets More Ridiculous

Nobody seems to know where Representative Tom Kean Jr. is.

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Turns Out a Massive Bribe Was Behind the FDA’s Vaping Decision

Donald Trump just wants to let the kids vape.

previous day 2

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Finn Hartnett

Trump Turns Senator Cassidy Into One of His Biggest Republican Enemies

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is now vocally opposing President Trump after losing his primary election last week thanks to the president’s...

previous day 2

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Hafiz Rashid

A Hospital Bed

Mom is still alive!

previous day 2

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Michael dickman

What We Have Lost With The Late Show

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...

previous day 2

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Phillip Maciak

Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real

Angelo Carusone and Aaron Rupar share a distinction that we imagine many Americans would happily cede to them: They have likely watched more Donald...

previous day 1

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Molly Jong-Fast

Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund Is a Criminal Enterprise

The Trump administration set the stage for the largest heist in American history this week by creating an illegal fund of taxpayer dollars to...

previous day 1

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Matt Ford

Trump’s IRS Deal Is a Massive Test for Congress and the Courts

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...

previous day 1

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Timothy Noah

Once

there was smoke coiling the sky, dust and rubbish

previous day 1

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Lawrence Joseph

Transcript: Trump Rages Wildly as Slush Fund Prompts Quiet GOP Revolt

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.

previous day 2

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Rages at GOPer in Crazed Tirade as Slush Fund Prompts GOP Revolt

Republicans are starting to break with Donald Trump’s corrupt $1.8 billion slush fund. Vulnerable House GOPer Brian Fitzpatrick announced that...

previous day 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

This Georgian Might Become America’s First Black Woman Governor

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.

wednesday 2

New Republic

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Transcript: Georgia May Elect America’s First Black Woman Governor

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...

wednesday 2

New Republic

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Democrats Move to Force Republicans on the Record on Trump Slush Fund

Democrats are moving quickly to force congressional votes on President Donald Trump’s ridiculously corrupt slush fund.

wednesday 4

New Republic

Finn Hartnett

Trump Ropes Banks Into His Immigration Crackdown With Wild Order

Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will require U.S. banks to take a closer look at their clients’ citizenship details.

wednesday 2

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Judge Grants Emergency Order to Block Trump From Destroying Records

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump has to comply with the Presidential Records Act, overruling an opinion from the Department of...

wednesday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Republicans Forced to Abandon Latest Tactic to Fund Trump Ballroom

President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom, which would boast lavish golden interiors and is totally needed for, uh, security reasons, is beginning...

wednesday 2

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Finn Hartnett

Try to Make Any Sense of This Trump Answer on the Future of AI

Donald Trump cannot be living the same reality as the rest of America.

wednesday 4

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Trump Administration’s Iran Plan Is Even Crazier Than We Thought

In October 2005, days after Israeli forces killed a commander of the Hamas-aligned militant group Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

wednesday 2

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Alex Shephard