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The Shutdown Is Sparing Trump Some Bad Economic News

The jobs report abhors a vacuum. A government shutdown prevented the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday from issuing its monthly report on job...

yesterday 30

Timothy Noah

The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without...

yesterday 0

Matt Ford

The Supreme Court Is Creating a King

Congress is barely functional these days. One reason is that Republicans control both chambers and are consciously ceding their power to President...

previous day 30

Matt Ford

There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.

In April 1942, Edward B. Rowan, the assistant chief for fine arts at President Franklin Roosevelt’s Public Buildings Administration, wrote the...

previous day 20

Timothy Noah

Apple Caves to Pam Bondi and Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps

Apple has taken down apps that alert people to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in their area after pressure from...

previous day 9

Malcolm Ferguson

Did Kash Patel Fire Someone for Displaying the LGBTQ Pride Flag?

As federal agencies trumpet blatantly political messages blaming the “radical left” for the current government shutdown, FBI Director Kash Patel...

previous day 8

Edith Olmsted

Chris Murphy’s Extraordinary New Takedown of Trump Should Wake Up Dems

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has taken a lead role in forcefully sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. He’s urged Democrats to use their...

previous day 7

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

GOP Senator Utterly Humiliates Himself Over Shutdown Polls

Republican Senator Roger Marshall humiliated himself Friday as his baseless claims that Americans blamed Democrats for the government shutdown...

previous day 5

Edith Olmsted

Mike Johnson Snaps When Shutdown Comments Thrown Back in His Face

Republicans are scrambling to downplay just how much enjoyment President Donald Trump is evidently extracting from preparations to fire federal...

previous day 40

Edith Olmsted

Poor Moms and Children Are Caught in the Crossfire of the Shutdown

With the government shut down and no clear resolution in sight, a critical federal nutrition program that assists low-income mothers may soon run...

previous day 3

Grace Segers

Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump

T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is the...

previous day 40

No Author

What Is Ezra Klein Thinking?

A lot of people on the left love to criticize Ezra Klein. I’m not one of those people. To be clear, I do criticize him, but I genuinely don’t...

previous day 20

Aaron Regunberg

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s tenth film, seizes our attention in the first of its 162 minutes and doesn’t let go until the...

previous day 10

David Klion

Chris Van Hollen Is Angry—at Trump, and at His Party’s Lame Pollsters

This is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation between Perry Bacon and Senator Chris Van Hollen on September 30 at Persuasion 2025 DC, a...

previous day 7

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Immigration Agents Handcuff Democratic Lawmaker at Hospital E.R.

A progressive member of the Chicago City Council was detained Friday after pressing federal agents about the due process rights of a detainee being...

previous day 70

Robert Mccoy

Trump Bizarrely Tries to Take Credit After Judge Blocks Funding Cuts

President Trump on Friday issued a self-congratulatory social media post, announcing the restoration of counterterrorism funds to New York—which...

previous day 30

Robert Mccoy

Trump Treasury Department Now Wants to Put His Face on Currency

Donald Trump might be getting his face put on a coin while he’s still president. On Friday, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, who heads the mint,...

previous day 90

Malcolm Ferguson

Team Trump Secretly Worried Dems Have a Point on Government Shutdown

The Trump administration’s projected strength during the government shutdown is belied by a nagging insecurity, reports The Wall Street Journal :...

previous day 3

Robert Mccoy

Trump Threatens “All HELL” If Hamas Doesn’t Give Him Control of Gaza

Donald Trump’s latest attempts to broker peace between Israel and Palestine include the threat of even more violence against Gaza. In a lengthy...

previous day 2

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Sure Picked Some Interesting People Not to Furlough for Shutdown

A third of the White House complex has been furloughed so far due to the government shutdown—but exactly whom the Trump administration has deemed...

previous day 2

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s New AI Video Mocking Hakeem Jeffries Is His Dumbest Yet

President Donald Trump’s obsession with posting AI slop to mock House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has reached a new low. Amid an ongoing...

previous day 2

Edith Olmsted

Report Exposes Chilling Details About Trump’s “Drug Boat” Attacks

President Donald Trump has offered a baffling legal justification for his extrajudicial military strikes on vessels the government claims are...

previous day 3

Edith Olmsted

Trump Just Gave Democrats the Ideal Albatross to Hang Around His Neck

President Donald Trump has finally told the truth about something. He’s embraced Project 2025 . Anyone who believed his disavowals last year during...

previous day 2

Michael Tomasky

On Day 3 of Shutdown, Trump Cuts Billions From Another Blue City

Russ Vought and the Trump administration’s shutdown revenge tour rolls on as they continue to make blue city residents suffer in an attempt to...

previous day 2

Malcolm Ferguson

ICE Building Social Media Surveillance Team to Hunt People Down

ICE may be watching your TikToks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team in an effort to...

previous day 2

Malcolm Ferguson

Top MAGA Influencer Keeps Voting in Swing State He Doesn’t Live In

MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec—who helped spread election fraud rumors in Pennsylvania in 2024—has been voting in...

previous day 40

Malcolm Ferguson

Protesters Violently Arrested as ICE Barbie Stages Photo Op

Just before 8 a.m. on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was spotted with a film crew on the roof of an Immigration and Customs...

previous day 2

Robert Mccoy

Fox Host Confronts Labor Secretary Over Trump’s Terrible Economy

During Friday media appearances, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer tried to dance around questions about the weak labor market under President...

previous day 1

Robert Mccoy

Democrats Got Something Really Big Done in New Mexico

In November, New Mexico will become the first state with no-cost childcare for all children, state officials announced recently. The program will...

previous day 6

Right Now With Perry Bacon

“Band-Aid”: Soybean Farmers Warn Trump Has Screwed Them Beyond Saving

Even a government bailout won’t undo the damage that Donald Trump’s tariffs have wreaked on America’s soybean farmers. The president reiterated...

previous day 20

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Republican Candidate in Virginia Caught in Tumblr Nazi Porn Scandal

You may recall the Nazi porn scandal that plagued the Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina last September. For the second year in a...

thursday 60

Robert Mccoy

Trump Accidentally Admits He Screwed MAGA Voters as Economy Dips Again

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unleashed a strange Truth Social rant declaring straight out that farmers are getting hurt because China is...

thursday 6

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

How Democrats Can Win Back Latinos—and the 2026 Midterms

The heat sweltered outside on a late August afternoon as Adelita Grijalva stood in the crowded dining room of Paloma Mexican Street Food restaurant...

thursday 2

Marisa Agha

Trump’s Bonkers Shutdown Email Goes Out to Even More Federal Workers

The copy-and-paste shutdown message broadcast by several executive branch agency chiefs earlier this week affected more parts of the government...

thursday 2

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Top DHS Official Threatens Bad Bunny Fans Over Super Bowl Show

Donald Trump’s political associates don’t want immigrants to feel safe at the Super Bowl. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be in...

thursday 1

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Openly Brags About Having a Project 2025 Creator on His Team

There was a time on the campaign trail when Donald Trump was trying to distance himself from Project 2025, but that has long since passed. The...

thursday 2

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

TrumpRx Could Let Government Steal All Your Data, Legal Expert Warns

President Donald Trump’s new scheme to transform the federal government into a pharmacy is already raising red flags for legal and health experts....

thursday 1

Edith Olmsted

Mike Johnson Caught on Mic Accidentally Admitting Trump Is “Unhinged”

House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted that President Donald Trump has become “unhinged” and “unwell” when confronted by a House Democrat on...

thursday 7

Edith Olmsted

Someone Changed Federal Workers’ Shutdown Out-of-Office Emails

Five civil servants working at the Department of Education told NBC News that their out-of-office messages had been altered with political language...

thursday 1

Edith Olmsted

Homeland Security Posts Unhinged AI Photo in Post on Immigration

The Department of Homeland Security has been accused of posting an antisemitic dog-whistle to online trolls—and even if that wasn’t the post’s...

thursday 2

Edith Olmsted

GOPer Quietly Admits Trump Cuts to Blue States Will Hurt MAGA Voters

Russell Vought plainly got a sadistic thrill while announcing Wednesday that as part of the government shutdown battle, he will inflict punitive...

thursday 2

Greg Sargent

Transcript: Trump Admits He Screwed MAGA Voters as Econ Dips Again

T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

thursday 2

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Karoline Leavitt Says It’s OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats

The Trump administration is doubling down on its shutdown ultimatum to Democrats: Surrender to our backward austerity bill, or we’ll rip more...

thursday 1

Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Pressures Schools to Sign Wild MAGA Pledge if They Want Funding

The Trump administration is making colleges and universities promise to stop being “woke” if they want to gain priority access to special federal...

thursday 2

Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Gives Himself Untold Powers With Drug Cartel Declaration

The president who promised an “end to endless wars” just rekindled one—the war on drugs. The New York Times obtained a confidential memo sent to...

thursday 2

Malcolm Ferguson

GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty

The GOP has gone fully mask-off as it brings the hammer of austerity down on Democratic voters as punishment for their senators not capitulating to...

thursday 1

Malcolm Ferguson

World Leaders Laugh at Trump for Bragging About Fake Peace Deal

World leaders laughed at President Donald Trump on Thursday, as Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama mocked Trump for repeatedly mistaking his country...

thursday 1

Robert Mccoy

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

A massive immigration raid at an apartment in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago tormented residents in the early hours of Tuesday morning....

thursday 1

Robert Mccoy

Scott Bessent Embarrassed on Air as He Tries to Deflect Farmer Crisis

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an eyebrow-raising claim about the soybean crisis on CNBC’s Squawk Box Thursday. In recent years, China has...

thursday 1

Robert Mccoy

A Grim New Report Shows How Pregnant People Have Been Policed Post-Roe

Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists did not stop when Roe v. Wade fell. They pressed ahead to ever more violent frontiers. In South Carolina this...

thursday 1

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The Shutdown Is Sparing Trump Some Bad Economic News

Timothy Noah

The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere

Matt Ford

The Supreme Court Is Creating a King

Matt Ford

There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.

Timothy Noah

Apple Caves to Pam Bondi and Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps

Malcolm Ferguson

Did Kash Patel Fire Someone for Displaying the LGBTQ Pride Flag?

Edith Olmsted

Chris Murphy’s Extraordinary New Takedown of Trump Should Wake Up Dems

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

GOP Senator Utterly Humiliates Himself Over Shutdown Polls

Edith Olmsted

Mike Johnson Snaps When Shutdown Comments Thrown Back in His Face

Edith Olmsted

Poor Moms and Children Are Caught in the Crossfire of the Shutdown

Grace Segers

Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump

No Author

What Is Ezra Klein Thinking?

Aaron Regunberg

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

David Klion

Chris Van Hollen Is Angry—at Trump, and at His Party’s Lame Pollsters

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Immigration Agents Handcuff Democratic Lawmaker at Hospital E.R.

Robert Mccoy

Trump Bizarrely Tries to Take Credit After Judge Blocks Funding Cuts

Robert Mccoy

Trump Treasury Department Now Wants to Put His Face on Currency

Malcolm Ferguson

Team Trump Secretly Worried Dems Have a Point on Government Shutdown

Robert Mccoy

Trump Threatens “All HELL” If Hamas Doesn’t Give Him Control of Gaza

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Sure Picked Some Interesting People Not to Furlough for Shutdown

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s New AI Video Mocking Hakeem Jeffries Is His Dumbest Yet

Edith Olmsted

Report Exposes Chilling Details About Trump’s “Drug Boat” Attacks

Edith Olmsted

Trump Just Gave Democrats the Ideal Albatross to Hang Around His Neck

Michael Tomasky

On Day 3 of Shutdown, Trump Cuts Billions From Another Blue City

Malcolm Ferguson

ICE Building Social Media Surveillance Team to Hunt People Down

Malcolm Ferguson

Top MAGA Influencer Keeps Voting in Swing State He Doesn’t Live In

Malcolm Ferguson

Protesters Violently Arrested as ICE Barbie Stages Photo Op

Robert Mccoy

Fox Host Confronts Labor Secretary Over Trump’s Terrible Economy

Robert Mccoy

Democrats Got Something Really Big Done in New Mexico

Right Now With Perry Bacon

“Band-Aid”: Soybean Farmers Warn Trump Has Screwed Them Beyond Saving

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Republican Candidate in Virginia Caught in Tumblr Nazi Porn Scandal

Robert Mccoy

Trump Accidentally Admits He Screwed MAGA Voters as Economy Dips Again

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

How Democrats Can Win Back Latinos—and the 2026 Midterms

Marisa Agha

Trump’s Bonkers Shutdown Email Goes Out to Even More Federal Workers

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Top DHS Official Threatens Bad Bunny Fans Over Super Bowl Show

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Openly Brags About Having a Project 2025 Creator on His Team

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

TrumpRx Could Let Government Steal All Your Data, Legal Expert Warns

Edith Olmsted

Mike Johnson Caught on Mic Accidentally Admitting Trump Is “Unhinged”

Edith Olmsted

Someone Changed Federal Workers’ Shutdown Out-of-Office Emails