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Trump’s Horrifying Removal of Man in “Error” Takes an Even Darker Turn

yesterday 4

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Gretchen Whitmer Fell Into Trump’s Tariff Trap

yesterday 0

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Jason Linkins

Transcript: Fox Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Spin as Tariff Panic Grows

Transcript: Fox Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Spin as Tariff Panic Grows

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 11 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...

previous day 20

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Gives us All Whiplash With Threat of New Tariffs—Now on Mexico

Trump Gives us All Whiplash With Threat of New Tariffs—Now on Mexico

Mere hours after the markets were slightly buoyed by a White House announcement that Donald Trump’s global tariff plan would see a 90-day pause,...

previous day 20

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Republican Has New Theory for Measles Outbreak—and It’s the Worst Yet

Republican Has New Theory for Measles Outbreak—and It’s the Worst Yet

A Republican lawmaker has a new wildly racist explanation for the deadly measles outbreak. During a CNN town hall Thursday, Representative Ryan...

previous day 10

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump Unveils Disgusting New Plan to Force Immigrants to Leave

Trump Unveils Disgusting New Plan to Force Immigrants to Leave

Donald Trump’s administration falsely declared more than 6,300 immigrants dead in an attempt to get them to self-deport, The New York Times...

previous day 10

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump Plans Potentially Deadly Cuts for Weather Research

Trump Plans Potentially Deadly Cuts for Weather Research

Next on the White House’s chopping block: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Trump administration is planning to close “all...

previous day 2

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Trade Rep. Fumbles Key Question on How Much Tariffs Will Cost

Trump Trade Rep. Fumbles Key Question on How Much Tariffs Will Cost

The Trump administration is desperate to convince Americans that Donald Trump’s trade war won’t affect their wallets. U.S. Trade Representative...

previous day 2

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Plan to Control Greenland Exposes Just How Clueless He Is

Trump’s Plan to Control Greenland Exposes Just How Clueless He Is

Donald Trump’s plan to acquire Greenland is very real, and it apparently involves convincing the country to hand itself over to U.S. control. The...

previous day 4

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Is Begging China to Make a Deal Over Tariffs

Trump Is Begging China to Make a Deal Over Tariffs

Donald Trump’s administration has been begging for a call from Chinese President Xi Jinping—despite Trump’s claims that his reciprocal tariff...

previous day 3

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump DOJ Fights Judge on Returning Man ICE Accidentally Deported

Trump DOJ Fights Judge on Returning Man ICE Accidentally Deported

The Department of Justice offered a flimsy excuse Friday for why it couldn’t comply with an order to present plans to return the Maryland father...

previous day 1

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Alina Habba Launches Alarming Investigation Into Democratic Governor

Alina Habba Launches Alarming Investigation Into Democratic Governor

Donald Trump’s former attorney turned interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey is threatening to prosecute the state’s governor. Alina Habba, following...

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Trade War Gets Dramatically Worse as China Hits Back

Trump’s Trade War Gets Dramatically Worse as China Hits Back

China has fired back at Donald Trump’s tariff hike with one of its own. The country raised tariff rates against the U.S. from 85 percent to 125...

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Measles Is Spreading, and RFK Jr. Is Praising Quacks

previous day 30

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Melody Schreiber

Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery

Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery

We don’t really learn anything new about Donald Trump anymore. He’s the same old liar and buffoon he’s been for 50 years. But sometimes we...

previous day 2

New Republic

Michael Tomasky

Trump and RFK Jr. Want to Make America Poisoned Again

Trump and RFK Jr. Want to Make America Poisoned Again

This weekend, The Guardian reported that the Trump administration is “quietly” planning to gut both federal and state regulations on PFAS, which...

previous day 50

New Republic

Heather Souvaine Horn

Why Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish

Why Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover,...

previous day 20

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens

Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens

After President Trump’s supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports; the trade war with China is...

previous day 10

New Republic

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice

The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice

The restaurant as we know it was invented in Paris around the late 1700s. Foreign visitors called the city’s restaurants the “most peculiar” and...

previous day 10

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Andrew Lanham

Um, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs

previous day 550

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Gets Devastating Review in Consumer Confidence Poll

Trump Gets Devastating Review in Consumer Confidence Poll

As Americans navigate Donald Trump’s deranged war on global trade, consumers have never trusted him less. Consumer sentiment has plunged for the...

previous day 7

New Republic

Marin Scotten

Democrats Are Embracing AI for the Dumbest Possible Reason

Democrats Are Embracing AI for the Dumbest Possible Reason

Donald Trump wants to save the coal industry. Earlier this week, he signed a rash of executive orders to reopen shuttered coal plants, subsidize...

previous day 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump Scores Massive Win as Judge Rules He Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil

previous day 8

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Greenland Commander Fired After Email Blasting JD Vance

Greenland Commander Fired After Email Blasting JD Vance

The U.S. military has fired yet another woman it disagrees with. Colonel Susan Meyers, the commander of the U.S. military base in Greenland, was...

previous day 3

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Marin Scotten

Karoline Leavitt Reveals Shocking Logic on Wrongly Deported Immigrant

previous day 4

New Republic

Hafiz Rashid

What the Supreme Court Got Wrong About Habeas Petitions

previous day 3

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Grace Segers

Five Big News Stories You Missed During Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash

previous day 3

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Marin Scotten

Manufacturing Workers Are Beyond Pissed at Trump Over Tariffs Whiplash

Manufacturing Workers Are Beyond Pissed at Trump Over Tariffs Whiplash

It turns out that Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policy is not popular with manufacturing workers. A new Washington Post poll of over 500 workers...

previous day 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Brags as Even More Law Firms Crumble to His Every Whim

Trump Brags as Even More Law Firms Crumble to His Every Whim

Five more major law firms have succumbed to President Donald Trump’s punitive threats as he continues his blatantly illegal intimidation of legal...

previous day 1

New Republic

Marin Scotten

Two Planes Just Collided. Trump Team Is Arguing With People About it.

Two Planes Just Collided. Trump Team Is Arguing With People About it.

The White House is now asking people in power to forget the evidence of their eyes and ears. Two planes bumped wings while taxiing on the runway at...

thursday 10

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s New Theory on Autism Will Make Your Head Explode

Trump’s New Theory on Autism Will Make Your Head Explode

President Donald Trump falsely suggested Thursday that autism may be caused by a “shot,” parroting his anti-vax health secretary.  During a Cabinet...

thursday 60

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump Humiliated With Montage of Headlines About Caving on Tariffs

Trump Humiliated With Montage of Headlines About Caving on Tariffs

The public reaction to Donald Trump’s tariff reversal has not been good. CNN’s John Berman decided to spew off a list of headlines Thursday morning...

thursday 9

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

“Trump Is Backing Down Again”: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip-Flop

“Trump Is Backing Down Again”: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip-Flop

President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos continues. He just announced a big reversal: For 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down, but a...

thursday 10

New Republic

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

There’s Still More to Learn About Anne Frank

There’s Still More to Learn About Anne Frank

To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The...

thursday 10

New Republic

Daphne Merkin

Marco Rubio Finally Admits Why Mahmoud Khalil Is Really Being Targeted

Marco Rubio Finally Admits Why Mahmoud Khalil Is Really Being Targeted

The Trump administration’s basis for seeking to strip pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil of his green card amounts to this: He didn’t do...

thursday 30

New Republic

Hafiz Rashid

Trump Brags About How Tariff Pause Made His Friends Even Richer

Trump Brags About How Tariff Pause Made His Friends Even Richer

Donald Trump is openly bragging about just how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his dangerous tariff gambit. After announcing a...

thursday 4

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet

Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet

Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his...

thursday 4

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump Is Dumb. Is Wall Street Even Dumber?

Trump Is Dumb. Is Wall Street Even Dumber?

President Donald Trump’s stupidity, incompetence, and self-delusion—all of which were on full display this past week, as he single-handedly pushed...

thursday 7

New Republic

Alex Shephard

Mike Johnson Reveals How He’ll Fund Trump’s Budget Cuts

Mike Johnson Reveals How He’ll Fund Trump’s Budget Cuts

House Republicans approved a budget Thursday, pushing Donald Trump’s dream bill closer to reality. With the budget framework in the rearview,...

thursday 2

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Can’t Stave Off Recession Even After Chickening Out on Tariffs

Trump Can’t Stave Off Recession Even After Chickening Out on Tariffs

Donald Trump may have reversed course on tariffs, but that doesn’t mean the economy has reversed course away from a recession. Some of the...

thursday 4

New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Does Trump Actually Know What’s Going on With the Budget?

Does Trump Actually Know What’s Going on With the Budget?

Donald Trump claimed that his party was “working nicely together,” just hours after House Republicans’ infighting forced them to delay a vote on a...

thursday 1

New Republic

Edith Olmsted

Trump Dealt Huge Blow in Central Park Five Defamation Lawsuit

Trump Dealt Huge Blow in Central Park Five Defamation Lawsuit

A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss a new defamation lawsuit from the Central Park Five. In a 20-page filing ,...

thursday 2

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Makes Startling Confession About Takeover of Panama Canal

Trump Makes Startling Confession About Takeover of Panama Canal

At the White House Thursday, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump admitted that U.S. troops have been deployed to the Panama Canal....

thursday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Finally Confirms True Extent of China Tariffs

Trump Finally Confirms True Extent of China Tariffs

Donald Trump’s tariff reversal Wednesday reduced duties against most countries’ imports to 10 percent—except China, which was instead being...

thursday 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Kicks Off Retribution Tour With Order Targeting His Critics

Trump Kicks Off Retribution Tour With Order Targeting His Critics

Donald Trump is taking revenge against two officials from his first term.   On Wednesday, the president issued directives stripping the security...

thursday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Elon Musk’s DOGE Gives Tesla Massive Helping Hand With Newest Purge

Elon Musk’s DOGE Gives Tesla Massive Helping Hand With Newest Purge

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly...

thursday 4

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Own Aides Keep Him in State of Delusion About Tariff Fiasco

Trump’s Own Aides Keep Him in State of Delusion About Tariff Fiasco

President Trump’s top allies and advisers know that when the going gets tough, the way to keep Trump from flying entirely off the rails is to...

thursday 2

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Transcript: Trump Tariff Cave Actually Reveals Weakness, Jeffries Says

Transcript: Trump Tariff Cave Actually Reveals Weakness, Jeffries Says

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...

thursday 2

New Republic

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos

President Donald Trump brought the stock market to the edge of a bear market (i.e., a sustained 20 percent drop) by imposing ridiculously high...

thursday 2

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Timothy Noah

Trump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions

Trump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions

The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest—it’s the right to speak truth to power. To call out...

thursday 2

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Thom Hartmann