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In a blow to Donald Trump, Politico reports that GOP Senators are privately telling him that Matt Gaetz has little chance of getting confirmed as...
Republican senators are once again falling in line to support a man they’ve publicly and privately disavowed. But instead of Donald Trump, this...
Donald Trump has nominated a Christian nationalist with ties to Project 2025 to lead the Office of Management and Budget. CBS News reported...
Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace are bringing out the rhetorical big guns to knock down Representative-elect Sarah McBride....
Senator Lindsey Graham doesn’t care what the ethics report on Matt Gaetz says; he doesn’t think alleged sexual misconduct should knock Donald...
Even small-time investors are looking to peel out from their Truth Social shares as the stock continues to tumble in the aftermath of the election....
President-elect Donald Trump has wanted to end birthright citizenship for almost a decade. He first called for its elimination in 2015, telling...
The state of Texas is offering the Trump administration a 1,400-acre ranch to use as a camp for mass deportations. The Texas General Land...
Lindsey Graham is trying to rally support among his fellow Senate Republicans for Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz. The South...
I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking...
The Democratic Party is looking for a scapegoat for its disastrous 2024 election performance. As ever, no shortage of pundits and party operatives...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 20 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are making it abundantly clear they will stop at nothing to slash the federal budget, even if it means weaponizing...
The House Ethics Committee did not agree Wednesday whether to release its report on former Representative Matt Gaetz. Committee Chairman...
House Speaker Mike Johnson believes in equality and justice for all—but that purported belief is seemingly not getting in the way of an effort to...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently refused to believe the evidence of his eyes and ears during the Covid-19 pandemic, ignoring the freezer trucks...
Donald Trump nominated former Attorney General Matt Whitaker to be the United States ambassador to NATO Wednesday. “Matt is a strong warrior and...
Donald Trump’s transition team has begun quietly assembling a list of alternatives to Pete Hegseth, Vanity Fair reported Wednesday. The Fox &...
Donald Trump’s plan for using the military to carry out mass deportations is already drawing opposition from the Pentagon and even from at least...
In two months, Joe Biden will leave office and, soon after, nearly everything he and his administration have accomplished will be undone. One...
Proximity to sexual abuse and scandal increasingly looks like a prerequisite for joining Trump’s upcoming Cabinet. President-elect Donald Trump...
The cloud of sexual misconduct allegations hanging over Matt Gaetz’s head grows larger every day. ABC News is reporting that the House Ethics...
JD Vance arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday with the bleak task of drumming up support for Trump’s would-be attorney general, Matt Gaetz. “Donald...
Donald Trump’s lame obsession with Elon Musk is actually helping Senate Democrats get stuff done. As the current Senate majority races to approve...
Donald Trump has decided to nominate TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. Trump...
Donald Trump doesn’t seem to give his Cabinet appointments much thought , often skipping the drudgery of FBI background checks and more informal...
Asked about Israel’s horrific bombing of Gaza in an April interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Donald Trump laid out the message...
Donald Trump has angrily put Republicans on notice: He may bypass them with recess appointments to get his personnel picks through in a hurry. In a...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Elon Musk appears poised to play a major role in the next Trump administration. The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter formally...
The Senate is scheduled to vote on joint resolutions of disapproval to block weapons sales to Israel on Wednesday, and protesters have filled the...
Donald Trump’s team apparently missed that Pete Hegseth, the president-elect’s choice for secretary of defense, paid off a woman accusing him...
Donald Trump is now receiving intelligence briefings as president-elect of the United States. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Trump...
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Most musicians on the left write songs that lack a decent sense of humor about serious matters, whether past or...
In response to calls for the House Ethics Committee to release the results of its investigation into former Representative Matt Gaetz,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered Russia’s threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, indicating an escalation in tensions President-elect...
Donald Trump is expected to nominate billionaire Howard Lutnick to be secretary of commerce, according to CNN. Lutnick, the CEO of financial...
Rudy Giuliani is trying to get the date of his defamation trial pushed back so he can attend the inauguration of his former client Donald Trump. A...
South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace is still trying desperately to get on television, and this time she’s resorted to transphobic attacks...
Donald Trump repeatedly told America he had “nothing to do” with Project 2025. But now, he’s welcoming its architect into his Cabinet with open...
An anonymous hacker has obtained some very damning documents regarding Trump’s attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz, according to The New York Times....
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has agreed to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing for his hush-money case. But while his lawyers want...
It’s clear that Fox News is not into Donald Trump’s pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general—at all. A segment of the show on Tuesday morning...
The Retro Museum, tucked away on the second floor of a shopping mall in the Black Sea city of Varna, is a testament to the material culture of...
There’s a new bigot to know in Florida, and she wants to replace Matt Gaetz in Congress. Florida Republican state House Representative Michelle...
JD Vance deleted his social media meltdown calling a Donald Trump ally a “mouth breathing imbecile” Tuesday, after she scolded him for not showing...
President Biden may have secured a government program that funds semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, critical for electronics...
InfoWars may have been bought and sold out from under Alex Jones, but that doesn’t mean the conspiracy theorist is giving up the fight. A company...
The recount for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race won’t count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots, a major blow to voting rights. In an...
Donald Trump has announced that the next Federal Communications Commission chair would be Brendan Carr, the senior-most Republican on the FCC and a...
Donald Trump has sweeping plans for his second term, and they include slashing and gutting large parts of the executive branch. Speaking with Fox...
Yesterday’s “poison” is tomorrow’s presidential Cabinet meal. Over the weekend, key members of Donald Trump’s incoming administration...
Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he’s plotting to use the U.S. military to carry out his massive deportation scheme. The president-elect shared...
Old age has become a strangely tangled subject in the United States. Even after Joe Biden delivered one of the worst debate performances in recent...
The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career...
I’m taking bets that Matt Gaetz will indeed be confirmed as our next attorney. I know all the clever people say otherwise. NBC News, in a story...
Elon Musk is starting to clash with Donald Trump’s team on some of the president-elect’s key issues, especially tariffs. The Washington Post...
An authoritarianism scholar sounded alarm bells that Donald Trump’s incoming Cabinet nominees will do far more than usher a new conservatism into...
Donald Trump is going after Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, weeks after she published a preelection poll that found Kamala Harris had “leapfrogged”...
Donald Trump and his allies have characterized the 2024 election as an overwhelming victory—and a mandate for shock politics, mass deportations,...
Oklahoma’s state superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters, wants every teacher in the state to show a video message from him to their classes...
As destructive as the next Trump administration will be, it’ll be productive in one critical sense: creating lots of things to get mad about. For...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Now that Donald Trump will be the next president, Republicans are eyeing overhauls to safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps. The...
It’s not just Matt Gaetz. The Trump transition team is worried about another set of heinous allegations tanking one of its most important Cabinet...
Ron DeSantis just can’t seem to drop the wannabe Trump routine. The Florida governor will stage an Apprentice-style “extensive vetting”...
First came Matt Gaetz. Now The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, paid...
Matt Gaetz, the MAGA Republican congressman nominated to be the next attorney general, allegedly paid two women for sex, according to the lawyer...
House Speaker Mike Johnson didn’t even bother trying to defend the quality of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. During an interview on CNN Sunday,...
From cageside at UFC309 to side by side at the upcoming SpaceX launch, the Trump-Musk bromance knows no bounds. It’s been reported that Trump will...
The Trump transition team continues to float wildly unqualified people to serve in very important positions. Politico reported on Monday that the...
It is tempting, and perhaps correct, to be fatalistic about Donald Trump’s catastrophic reelection. The simplest, clearest explanation is that he...