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Protecting Workers From AI Is Easier Said Than Done

Editor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist:...

yesterday 0

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Emma Janssen

Rubio Tightens “Noose” Around Cubans’ Necks

Marco Rubio is slowly choking Cuba to death.

yesterday 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women

Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of...

yesterday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Allegedly Abusive MAGA Rep. Sued Daughter’s Daycare Over Her Bruises

Representative Max Miller blamed a daycare after his daughter was rushed to the hospital last year with bruises.

yesterday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country.

yesterday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

The GOP’s Midterm Convention Will Be the Worst Film Festival Ever

The focus of the GOP’s first ever midterm convention in September won’t be Trump’s dismal approval rating, how to end the war on Iran, or the...

yesterday 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Launches New Attack on Fed Governor Despite Supreme Court Ruling

President Donald Trump is reviving his campaign to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

yesterday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Outgoing Republican Senator Still Caves to Trump on Todd Blanche

Senator Bill Cassidy has decided to vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, despite butting heads with the Trump administration in recent...

yesterday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Interior Dept. Officials Are “Terrified” of Leaving Written Record

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro isn’t the only one fed up with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

yesterday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Trump May Not Help Struggling Republicans in the Midterms

President Trump correctly identified Americans’ mass dissatisfaction with the GOP—but doesn’t think that it extends to him.

yesterday 0

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Dealt Biggest Blow Yet as Judges Rule His Ballroom Is Illegal

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump must halt aboveground construction on his White House ballroom.

yesterday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Todd Blanche’s Nomination on Thin Ice Thanks to Lisa Murkowski

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she would not support acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to permanently take on...

yesterday 1

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Edith Olmsted

Fox News Struggles to Spin Yet Another Bad Jobs Report

Even Fox News struggled to put a positive spin on a dismal July jobs report, as the U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs that month.

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Malcolm Ferguson

Feds Lied About Journalist Arrested While Covering Anti-ICE Protest

The federal government provided false information in their attempt to prosecute independent journalist Georgia Fort, her lawyers say.

yesterday 0

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump-Backed Rep. Loses Primary After Republicans Redistricted Him

An endorsement from President Donald Trump wasn’t enough for Republican Representative Andy Ogles, who lost his primary election in Tennessee...

yesterday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: Angry Trump Unravels as Humiliating New Iran Leaks Hit

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 7 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Only Thing Left to Do About January 6 Is Remember

The January 6 prosecutions came to a quiet, unheralded end this week after a federal judge dismissed the final seditious conspiracy case against...

yesterday 2

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Matt Ford

Trump’s Plans for Head Start Could Leave Kids Behind

The Trump administration announced on Thursday plans to overhaul Head Start, the early education, nutrition, and health program which serves hundreds...

yesterday 2

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Grace Segers

Yes, El-Sayed May Lose. But Democrats Shouldn’t Try to Make It Happen.

The reaction so far among establishment Democrats to Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow win in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary has been surprisingly...

yesterday 2

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Michael Tomasky

A No-Bid Contract to Rat Out Immigrant Minors

I wrote in July about how Donald Trump, despite rhapsodizing about the virtues of competitive bidding (“it sharpens their game, makes them bid...

yesterday 1

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Timothy Noah

Jane Schoenbrun’s Love Letter to Teen Horror

“It’s not like years ago,” croons Michael Stipe on R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming,” the spare, piano-driven ballad that brings the band’s 1992...

yesterday 0

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Adam Nayman

Trump Rages Wildly at Hegseth as Leaks Reveal Humiliating New Blunders

A striking new Washington Post report reveals that Donald Trump privately raged at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, demanding to know why he’d caught...

yesterday 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Centrists Plan to Spend Millions Against Socialists After El-Sayed Win

Centrist Democratic lobbyists and strategists are preparing to go to “war” with the left following Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump-Linked Law Firm Chosen to Represent Immigrant Children in Court

Donald Trump’s administration is awarding a $150 million contract to give legal representation to immigrant children to a small Texas law firm with...

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Edith Olmsted

Mitch McConnell Finally Releases Health Update

Ailing Senator Mitch McConnell has been discharged from rehabilitation after being hospitalized nearly two months ago.

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s New CDC Director Promised Dystopian New Abortion Policy

President Donald Trump’s new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thinks the government should know if you’ve had an abortion.

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Edith Olmsted

MAGA Senator Blows His Lid Over “Degenerate Sociopath” Max Miller

MAGA world is unloading on Ohio Representative Max Miller.

previous day 1

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Will This Bill Save Social Security, or Kill It?

Editor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist:...

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Emma Janssen

Democratic Party Is Thousands in Debt on D.C. Headquarters

The Democratic National Committee is blaming a late property tax bill on a procedural issue, the latest in a sequence of blunders from the party’s...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump, 80, Proudly Misspells “Dumb” in the Middle of a Speech

Donald Trump can’t seem to get even the most basic facts straight.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Moves to Gut Education and Meals for Low-Income Kids

The Trump administration is plotting a sweeping overhaul of Head Start that could threaten childcare for more than half a million children across the...

previous day 1

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Edith Olmsted

ICE Detainee Died Days After Lawyer Raised Medical Concerns

Edwin López-Cornejo, the 39-year-old Salvadoran immigrant who died in an unknown “medical emergency” at the Delaney Hall immigration detention...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Gives Back Billions in Tariff Reimbursements—With More to Come

Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs have come back to bite him.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Freaks Over Report He Lost It With Pete Hegseth Over Missiles

President Donald Trump is crashing out about a report that he confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the U.S. military’s depleted munitions...

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Edith Olmsted

Rand Paul Successfully Gets Revenge on Anthony Fauci

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-5 along party lines Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

What Does Trump Actually Plan to Do With His Qatari Plane?

The $400 million luxury jumbo jet that the Qatari royal family gifted President Trump may not go to his presidential library after all.

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Malcolm Ferguson

Leaked Texts Expose Max Miller’s Habit of Holding Child’s Toy Hostage

Ohio Representative Max Miller has denied holding a little blue bunny hostage—but a series of messages shows the alleged abuser has a pattern of...

previous day 1

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Edith Olmsted

Transcript: Who Is Abdul El-Sayed? His Harsh Trump Takedown Is a Clue.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Man Who Tells the Truth Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the World to Hear

There’s no media outlet more hated by the current Israeli government, nor heralded outside Israel, than Haaretz, the longest-running newspaper...

previous day 1

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Jo-Ann Mort

How Donald Trump Made the World Safe for Kleptocrats

The first evidence of the sledgehammer the new Trump administration would take to America’s anti-corruption policies came just two weeks into his...

previous day 2

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Casey Michel

“Closing a Detention Center Is Rarely a Single Strike. It’s a Siege.”

The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” last year allocated $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build and run camps to lock up...

previous day 2

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Aaron Regunberg

Who is Abdul El-Sayed? His Harsh New Takedown of Trump Offers a Clue.

Democrats just nominated left-wing populist Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race. Yet his victory was razor close, suggesting he faces big...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

El-Sayed Faces Barrage of Racist Attacks After Michigan Win

Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is already drawing bigoted attacks from the right.

wednesday 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Deportations Turn Into New Horror With End of TPS for Haitians

Temporary Protected Status has officially ended for Haitians, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of being deported—even though the...

wednesday 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Todd Blanche Sends Chilling Message to Every U.S. Attorney

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche gave a chilling message to U.S. attorneys across the country at a press conference Wednesday.

wednesday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Tries to Pause His Own BBC Lawsuit to Hide His Finances

President Trump on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to stop the British Broadcasting Corporation from gaining broad access to intimate details...

wednesday 1

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Malcolm Ferguson

Transcript: What El-Sayed’s Narrow Win Tells Us About the Democrats

This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 5 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on...

wednesday 0

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

Trump’s NASA Official Not Too Worried as SpaceX Rocket Dents the Moon

One of Elon Musk’s wayward rockets seems to have crashed into the moon, but the Trump administration isn’t worried about it.

wednesday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Feds Arrest Armed Man at Trump Golf Course Ahead of His Visit

Authorities in California arrested a man who was walking around the Los Angeles area Trump National Golf Club on Sunday afternoon.

wednesday 0

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Malcolm Ferguson

Why Abdul El-Sayed Is the Favorite in November

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

wednesday 2

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Right Now With Perry Bacon