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The MAGA Right’s Plan to Destroy the Fourteenth Amendment

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Jason Linkins

The Right’s Wildfire Lies Spread Faster Than the Flames

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Parker Molloy

Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon’s Ruling Struck Down

Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon’s Ruling Struck Down

An appeals court has denied an emergency motion from two of Donald Trump’s co-defendants to stop the release of a report on the...

yesterday 50

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Quest for Total Presidential Immunity Has Hit a Snag

Trump’s Quest for Total Presidential Immunity Has Hit a Snag

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Donald Trump infamously told an audience...

yesterday 30

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Matt Ford

Trump’s Plan to Shut Down Mexico Border Is His Most Dangerous Yet

Trump’s Plan to Shut Down Mexico Border Is His Most Dangerous Yet

Donald Trump, who sought to downplay the Covid-19 pandemic during his first term as president, is now trying to inflate the threat of a new disease...

yesterday 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Freaks Out Over Supreme Court Rejecting His Hush-Money Request

Trump Freaks Out Over Supreme Court Rejecting His Hush-Money Request

The Supreme Court shockingly slapped down Donald Trump’s request to block the sentencing for his sole criminal conviction, leaving him with few...

yesterday 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Stoops to New Low in Wild Rant on Los Angeles Fires

Trump Stoops to New Low in Wild Rant on Los Angeles Fires

Donald Trump is promising “unlimited water” to quell the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, but his plan isn’t exactly adding up. In an address...

yesterday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Bashes Canada as It Ramps Up Aid to Fight Los Angeles Fires

Trump Bashes Canada as It Ramps Up Aid to Fight Los Angeles Fires

Donald Trump gloated that the Americans “don’t need anything” from Canada, even as the Canadian government sent firefighters and supplies in...

yesterday 2

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Edith Olmsted

DOGE Is Officially in Action—and Causing Mass Confusion

DOGE Is Officially in Action—and Causing Mass Confusion

Elon Musk is already sparking chaos in the federal government, sending representatives from his Department of Government Efficiency to agencies...

yesterday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

We’ve Never Been Here Before: The Zero-Accountability Presidency

We’ve Never Been Here Before: The Zero-Accountability Presidency

So here we are, at another one of those Trump moments that by now can only be called boringly surreal: The president-elect was sentenced Friday in...

yesterday 60

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Michael Tomasky

Trump Criminally Sentenced in Historic National Embarrassment

Trump Criminally Sentenced in Historic National Embarrassment

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning in his hush-money case, after becoming the first president to be convicted of multiple...

yesterday 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

The 2000s and the End of American Optimism

The 2000s and the End of American Optimism

Over 35 years ago now, as the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse and President George H.W. Bush worked to secure a peaceful conclusion...

yesterday 10

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Paul M. Renfro

Trump Desperately Spins Criminal Sentencing in Hush-Money Case

Trump Desperately Spins Criminal Sentencing in Hush-Money Case

Trump is claiming victory after becoming the first convicted felon who will enter the White House. Judge Juan Merchan on Friday sentenced Trump to...

yesterday 7

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Malcolm Ferguson

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump-Alito Phone Call Draws Blood

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump-Alito Phone Call Draws Blood

This week, we learned that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke privately with Donald Trump to recommend a former clerk for a job. Jamie Raskin...

yesterday 4

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Transcript: Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump-Alito Call Nails It

Transcript: Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump-Alito Call Nails It

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

yesterday 2

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins

The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins

One so seldom has the opportunity to report good news about labor unions that when two good things happen in the space of 24 hours that’s a...

yesterday 3

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Timothy Noah

Trump Appointee Has Unhinged Plan for Purging Government Workers

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Edith Olmsted

Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With Change in Hiring Policies

yesterday 10

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Edith Olmsted

Judge Tears Into Giuliani as He Lands in New Heap of Legal Trouble

yesterday 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Elon Musk Helps German Far-Right Candidate Spread Absurd Hitler Lies

Elon Musk Helps German Far-Right Candidate Spread Absurd Hitler Lies

The leader of Germany’s nativist far-right party wants us to believe that Adolf Hitler was actually a raging Communist. Alternative for Germany...

yesterday 50

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Malcolm Ferguson

Corrupt Trump Opens the Door for International Bribes

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Malcolm Ferguson

Republicans Plan Deadly Cuts to Government as L.A. Fires Spread

yesterday 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

Biden Launches Hail Mary to Block Some of Trump’s Mass Deportations

Biden Launches Hail Mary to Block Some of Trump’s Mass Deportations

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will extend the temporary protected status of hundreds of thousands of South American...

yesterday 1

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Supreme Court Indicates It Has No Problem Killing TikTok

Supreme Court Indicates It Has No Problem Killing TikTok

The Supreme Court signaled on Friday that it is considering upholding Congress’s ban on TikTok until the platform separates itself from its...

yesterday 1

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

MAGA Republican Suggests Sickening Plan for L.A. Fire Relief

MAGA Republican Suggests Sickening Plan for L.A. Fire Relief

Republicans aren’t interested in providing disaster aid to Californians suffering from the devastating wildfires, unless those Californians are...

yesterday 0

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Edith Olmsted

Convicted Felon Trump Is Fundraising Off His Hush-Money Sentence

Convicted Felon Trump Is Fundraising Off His Hush-Money Sentence

Immediately after Donald Trump was finally sentenced in his hush-money case, the president-elect decided to try and make some money off it. On...

yesterday 0

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Hafiz Rashid

L.A. Is Burning. Will Insurance Companies Take Advantage?

L.A. Is Burning. Will Insurance Companies Take Advantage?

The day that Hurricane Andrew touched down in Florida in 1992, J.W. Greenberg—executive vice president of the finance and insurance giant...

yesterday 0

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Kate Aronoff

Trump Plans to Bring Back His Cesspit of Corruption in D.C. Hotel

Trump Plans to Bring Back His Cesspit of Corruption in D.C. Hotel

Donald Trump is looking to reclaim one of his most useful tools of corruption: the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Wall Street...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Hush-Money Sentencing Could Hit Him Where It Actually Hurts

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story

With wildfires raging in Los Angeles, Donald Trump unleashed some ugly and hateful tirades on Truth Social. He attacked California Governor Gavin...

previous day 40

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Every Senate Democrat Who Backed Most Radical Anti-Immigrant Bill Yet

Every Senate Democrat Who Backed Most Radical Anti-Immigrant Bill Yet

The Senate voted to advance a bill Thursday that would allow the government to detain undocumented immigrants accused of committing nonviolent...

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Hafiz Rashid

Republicans’ “Biden Corruption” Informant Reaches His Inglorious End

Republicans’ “Biden Corruption” Informant Reaches His Inglorious End

The star witness who falsely alleged that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter took a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced to six years...

previous day 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Conservatives Somehow Find a Way to Be Racist About LA Wildfires

Conservatives Somehow Find a Way to Be Racist About LA Wildfires

The right is blaming diversity, equity, and inclusion and “wokeness” for the response to massive wildfires in Southern California. Several...

previous day 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Secretly Spoke With Samuel Alito Before Asking SCOTUS for Favor

Trump Secretly Spoke With Samuel Alito Before Asking SCOTUS for Favor

Donald Trump appears to have a cozier relationship with the Supreme Court than previously thought. The president-elect reportedly had a private...

previous day 5

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Compare and Contrast: Los Angeles Fire Damage vs. Green New Deal Cost

Compare and Contrast: Los Angeles Fire Damage vs. Green New Deal Cost

The Los Angeles wildfires have so far claimed 1,300 structures and threatened 60,000 more, torching a total area larger than Manhattan. Analysts...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way

Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way

By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of...

previous day 5

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Greg Sargent

The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term

The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term

It would be a stretch to say that the “major questions doctrine” doomed Democrats’ chances of keeping the White House in the 2024...

previous day 7

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Matt Ford

A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada!

A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada!

After Donald Trump said he’d like to make Canada our fifty-first state, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a counteroffer: “How about if we buy...

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Timothy Noah

Transcript: Trump’s Ugly Eruptions Over Wildfires Hint at Darker Story

Transcript: Trump’s Ugly Eruptions Over Wildfires Hint at Darker Story

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Top New York Court Deals Trump Yet Another Blow on Sentencing

Top New York Court Deals Trump Yet Another Blow on Sentencing

The highest court in New York has declined Donald Trump’s request that they stop his scheduled sentencing in his hush-money case on Friday. Judge...

previous day 8

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Malcolm Ferguson

Elon Musk Finally Admits DOGE Is Going to Be a Total Bust

Elon Musk Finally Admits DOGE Is Going to Be a Total Bust

Elon Musk is reneging on his biggest DOGE promise. In a live interview on X Wednesday evening with political strategist Mark Penn, the billionaire...

previous day 5

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Malcolm Ferguson

Elon Musk Sets His Sights on Toppling Another World Leader

Elon Musk Sets His Sights on Toppling Another World Leader

Elon has zeroed in on his next political target: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The world’s richest man has been consulting with his...

previous day 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

As California Burns, Republicans Try to Help Trump Seize Panama Canal

As California Burns, Republicans Try to Help Trump Seize Panama Canal

While one of the most devastating wildfires in American history rages on in Southern California, Republicans in Congress have decided to focus on...

previous day 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Watch: Mike Pence’s Wife Snubs Trump at Jimmy Carter Funeral

Watch: Mike Pence’s Wife Snubs Trump at Jimmy Carter Funeral

It seems that Karen Pence still holds a grudge against Donald Trump for leaving her husband to the January 6 mob. Politicians past and present...

previous day 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

The Democrats’ Shameful, Immediate Surrender to Trump

The Democrats’ Shameful, Immediate Surrender to Trump

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act, which would allow Homeland Security to detain and deport undocumented...

previous day 4

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Ross Rosenfeld

Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn

Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn

A MAGA visit intended to make Greenland look pro–Donald Trump appears staged from the bottom up. The so-called tourism trip saw Donald Trump Jr.,...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.

Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.

The fires sweeping through Los Angeles are going to leave hundreds or perhaps thousands homeless. The speed at which the fires have spread has...

previous day 10

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Nicholas Slayton

Meta’s Dangerous Rule Change Has Unleashed Some Vile New Content

Meta’s Dangerous Rule Change Has Unleashed Some Vile New Content

Meta employees are protesting the company’s new content moderation guidelines, which practically amount to no content moderation at all. Some of...

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

John Fetterman Pathetically Brags About Planned Trump Mar-a-Lago Visit

John Fetterman Pathetically Brags About Planned Trump Mar-a-Lago Visit

John Fetterman will become the first sitting Democratic senator to visit Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate following the 2024 election, CBS...

previous day 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s and Musk’s Disgusting Response to California Fires

Trump’s and Musk’s Disgusting Response to California Fires

Republicans are using the devastating California wildfires as an excuse to score cheap political points against Democrats and Governor Gavin...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Merrick Garland Tells Trump to Screw Off on Jack Smith Report

Merrick Garland Tells Trump to Screw Off on Jack Smith Report

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that he will release some of the details from special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on...

wednesday 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

European Leaders Are Already Sick of Trump

European Leaders Are Already Sick of Trump

France is warning Donald Trump against attempting to annex Greenland, saying that the European Union would not “let other nations in the...

wednesday 8

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Turns to Most Trusted Ally to Bail Him Out: the Supreme Court

Trump Turns to Most Trusted Ally to Bail Him Out: the Supreme Court

Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in his New York hush-money case. The president-elect requested an administrative stay...

wednesday 6

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Ex–Trump Ally Torches Judge Cannon for Blocking Jack Smith Report

Ex–Trump Ally Torches Judge Cannon for Blocking Jack Smith Report

Even Donald Trump’s former allies don’t understand Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to block forthcoming details of special counsel Jack Smith’s...

wednesday 5

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Matt Gaetz Isn’t Done Causing us Pain After All

Matt Gaetz Isn’t Done Causing us Pain After All

Former Representative Matt Gaetz is considering running for office again, just weeks after getting chased out of the last one.  Gaetz, the Florida...

wednesday 3

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Edith Olmsted

Police Unions’ Damning Silence on Trump’s Plan to Pardon Cop Beaters

Police Unions’ Damning Silence on Trump’s Plan to Pardon Cop Beaters

Donald Trump has promised to pardon his January 6 rioters, telling Kristen Welker of Meet the Press last month, “Yeah, most likely, I’ll do it...

wednesday 10

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Melissa Gira Grant

Report: Fox News Helped Trump Cheat Before a Pivotal Town Hall

Report: Fox News Helped Trump Cheat Before a Pivotal Town Hall

A Fox News employee gave Trump’s team a set of questions in advance of an Iowa Town Hall in January, according to an upcoming book from...

wednesday 3

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Malcolm Ferguson

Rudy Giuliani Doesn’t Want to Go to Court for the Dumbest Reason

Rudy Giuliani Doesn’t Want to Go to Court for the Dumbest Reason

Rudy Giuliani is trying to get out of attending in-person trial proceedings, after being held in contempt of court, by pretending that his life is...

wednesday 30

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Edith Olmsted

“Free Speech” Haven Facebook Blocking Internal Criticism of Trump Ally

“Free Speech” Haven Facebook Blocking Internal Criticism of Trump Ally

Within hours of announcing Meta’s policy changes to return the company to its “roots of free expression,” the company has already begun...

wednesday 4

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Edith Olmsted

Report: AIPAC Spent a Record Amount on the 2024 Election

Report: AIPAC Spent a Record Amount on the 2024 Election

During the 2024 elections, the Israel lobby poured at least $45.2 million into winning candidates for Congress, the most by any organization in...

wednesday 6

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Hafiz Rashid

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May Have Committed Voter Fraud

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May Have Committed Voter Fraud

RFK Jr. is being accused of voter fraud.  Watchdog group Accountable.US alleges that the former presidential candidate and current Trump pick to...

wednesday 20

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Malcolm Ferguson

Los Angeles Officials Slashed Fire Budget Months Before Horrific Fires

Los Angeles Officials Slashed Fire Budget Months Before Horrific Fires

Los Angeles authorities have evacuated some 30,000 people as of Wednesday, as flames tear through the Pacific Palisades, threatening more than...

wednesday 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Tommy Tuberville Is Writing Fanfiction for Trump’s Military Fantasies

Tommy Tuberville Is Writing Fanfiction for Trump’s Military Fantasies

Senator Tommy Tuberville is so excited for Donald Trump to keep chasing the Panama Canal that he’s now imagining his own fantastical version of...

wednesday 2

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Edith Olmsted

Democrats Launch Desperate Bid to Block Trump’s Military Dreams

Democrats Launch Desperate Bid to Block Trump’s Military Dreams

Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested Tuesday that the Department of Justice scale back the...

wednesday 2

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Edith Olmsted

The Scariest Part of Trump’s Insane Press Conference

The Scariest Part of Trump’s Insane Press Conference

During a rambling press conference Tuesday, Donald Trump threatened that “all hell will break out” if hostages held by Hamas in Gaza aren’t...

wednesday 2

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: Trump’s Angry Rants to Media Show How Bad Things Will Get

Transcript: Trump’s Angry Rants to Media Show How Bad Things Will Get

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

wednesday 1

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad

Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad

At a press conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump uncorked a series of bizarre, angry, ramblings, signaling that things are about to get very, very...

wednesday 2

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Which Party Benefits from Zuckerberg’s Move? The One that Lies a Lot.

Which Party Benefits from Zuckerberg’s Move? The One that Lies a Lot.

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch ) announced yesterday morning that across their over-seven-billion-user-strong social media...

wednesday 2

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Thom Hartmann

Trump Wants to Use Terror Designation to Block More Immigrants

Trump Wants to Use Terror Designation to Block More Immigrants

Donald Trump is strongly considering classifying Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, CNN reported Wednesday. This designation would...

wednesday 3

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Malcolm Ferguson

The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person

The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person

It’s a chilling fact that the Project 2025 playbook written for Donald Trump’s administration is just a roadmap for the first 180 days. But based...

wednesday 1

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Susan Rinkunas

Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers

Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers

When Joe Biden leaves office on January 20, he’ll retire from public life having notched one unequivocal foreign policy victory. Shortly after...

wednesday 2

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Nicholas Slayton

Elizabeth Strout’s Plunge Into Sentimentality

Elizabeth Strout’s Plunge Into Sentimentality

Early in Tell Me Everything , Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, the retired teacher Olive Kitteridge reads all of the memoirs by Lucy Barton, a...

wednesday 0

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Linda Hall

“You Should Run for President”: Jimmy Carter’s Ad Man Speaks

“You Should Run for President”: Jimmy Carter’s Ad Man Speaks

On an unusually warm Washington winter afternoon, Gerald Rafshoon, spry and trim at 90, stood and watched as I carefully leafed through the pages of...

wednesday 2

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Robert Costa

One Democrat Thinks Trump’s Crazy Greenland Plan is Just Fine

One Democrat Thinks Trump’s Crazy Greenland Plan is Just Fine

Donald Trump’s crazy idea to annex Greenland to the United States seems to have an unlikely supporter: Democratic Senator John Fetterman....

wednesday 4

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Hafiz Rashid

House GOP Calls Opposing Trump’s Dumb Ideas “Un-American”

House GOP Calls Opposing Trump’s Dumb Ideas “Un-American”

Donald Trump’s acolytes in the House of Representatives are so jazzed about his forthcoming administration that they’re practically handing him...

wednesday 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Federal Reserve Thinks Trump is Going to Make Inflation Much Worse

The Federal Reserve Thinks Trump is Going to Make Inflation Much Worse

Officials at the Federal Reserve are worried that Trump’s policies will cause inflation to rise once again. Recent meeting notes included four...

wednesday 20

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Gloats Meta Changed Rules Because Zuckerberg Is Scared of Him

Trump Gloats Meta Changed Rules Because Zuckerberg Is Scared of Him

Donald Trump couldn’t help but gloat Tuesday that he’d successfully bullied Mark Zuckerberg into making a spate of policy changes at Meta that...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump to Face (Symbolic) Consequences for (Some Of) His Crimes

Trump to Face (Symbolic) Consequences for (Some Of) His Crimes

Donald Trump’s bid to halt sentencing for his felony conviction in his hush-money case in New York hit a setback Tuesday when a state appeals...

07.01.2025 9

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Hafiz Rashid

You’ll Never Guess Who Tried to Interfere in the 2020 Election

You’ll Never Guess Who Tried to Interfere in the 2020 Election

A report from the inspector general’s office alleges that three senior Justice Department officials under Donald Trump had “partisan political...

07.01.2025 4

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Edith Olmsted

Big Oil Has Enlisted Alabama in Their Fight Against California

Big Oil Has Enlisted Alabama in Their Fight Against California

The Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions each year but only agrees to hear a fraction of them. Sometimes this means the court overlooks...

07.01.2025 10

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Matt Ford

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Already Trying to Rename the Gulf of Mexico

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Already Trying to Rename the Gulf of Mexico

Marjorie Taylor Greene is unsurprisingly feeling empowered by Trump’s plan to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf of America.” Trump...

07.01.2025 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence

Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence

The once-immense landscape of Donald Trump’s potential criminal liability has been reduced to a small patch of turf defined by whether his...

07.01.2025 4

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Harry Litman

Amazon Has Found the Easiest Way to Influence the Trump Administration

Amazon Has Found the Easiest Way to Influence the Trump Administration

Amazon is paying Melania Trump a hefty amount of cash to produce a documentary about her. Puck reports that the media and retail giant is releasing...

07.01.2025 3

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Hafiz Rashid

This Is What Elon Musk Really Wants From Donald Trump

This Is What Elon Musk Really Wants From Donald Trump

Tesla is off to a bumpy start in 2024. Shares in the company fell 6 percent at the start of the year after it reported its first-ever annual...

07.01.2025 10

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Kate Aronoff

Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP

Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP

With a few big moves in recent days, Donald Trump is already showing how he’ll make life miserable for Republicans in Congress, particularly Mike...

07.01.2025 6

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Surprising Obstacle Standing in the Way of Trump’s Agenda

The Surprising Obstacle Standing in the Way of Trump’s Agenda

Trump’s biggest congressional obstacle may be MAGA diehards. Trump and the hard-right House Freedom Caucus have been politically misaligned of...

07.01.2025 2

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Malcolm Ferguson

The 48 Democrats Who Voted to Deport Nonviolent Undocumented Offenders

The 48 Democrats Who Voted to Deport Nonviolent Undocumented Offenders

If a bill that the House of Representatives passed Tuesday becomes law, undocumented immigrants arrested for nonviolent crimes will be targeted for...

07.01.2025 40

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Hafiz Rashid

Mark Zuckerberg Rushes to Beat Elon Musk at Sucking up to Trump

Mark Zuckerberg Rushes to Beat Elon Musk at Sucking up to Trump

It’s official: Mark Zuckerberg is turning Meta into yet another propaganda machine for Donald Trump and the far right.  In a video statement...

07.01.2025 1

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Struggles to Understand Appliances in Bizarre, Rambling Speech

Trump Struggles to Understand Appliances in Bizarre, Rambling Speech

Donald Trump delivered incoherent remarks Tuesday while railing against what he imagined were Joe Biden’s energy and water conservation policies....

07.01.2025 3

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Actually Seems Serious About Buying Greenland and Canada

Trump Actually Seems Serious About Buying Greenland and Canada

Donald Trump is somehow still harping on his vanity projects to acquire Greenland and Canada, and every day, the trolling feels more real. In a...

07.01.2025 2

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Sends Idiot Son on Futile Mission

Trump Sends Idiot Son on Futile Mission

Donald Trump Jr. paid a visit to Greenland Tuesday, flying to the territory on his father’s private plane, and seemed to give weight to the...

07.01.2025 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Crony Judge Bails Him One Last Time

Trump’s Crony Judge Bails Him One Last Time

Donald Trump has successfully blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the two federal criminal investigations into...

07.01.2025 1

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: Trump Drops New Hints on How He’ll Screw Over Mike Johnson

Transcript: Trump Drops New Hints on How He’ll Screw Over Mike Johnson

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

07.01.2025 1

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump’s Newest Deal is His Shadiest Yet

Trump’s Newest Deal is His Shadiest Yet

Donald Trump just announced a massive new deal with a man connected to a $600,000 payment to the FBI informant convicted of lying to the FBI about...

07.01.2025 3

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Malcolm Ferguson

Alan Hollinghurst’s Elegy for Britain

Alan Hollinghurst’s Elegy for Britain

It is hard to think of another living writer who produces structures as ebullient and dirigiblelike as Alan Hollinghurst does. His first novel, The...

07.01.2025 2

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Scott Bradfield

Donald Quixote Keeps Tilting at Windmills

Donald Quixote Keeps Tilting at Windmills

Read Trump’s lips: No new windmills. The president-elect took time out of his rambling press conference on Tuesday to remind everyone just how...

07.01.2025 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

Republicans Have No Clue How They’re Going to Pass Trump’s Agenda

Republicans Have No Clue How They’re Going to Pass Trump’s Agenda

Republican leaders in Congress are having a tough time figuring out how to pass Donald Trump’s agenda. Since Trump’s election, congressional...

06.01.2025 60

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs

Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs

Trump is caving on tariffs, and he isn’t even president yet. I’ve argued previously that the interests of the business lobby and the rich would...

06.01.2025 10

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Timothy Noah

MAGA Rep.’s January 6 Commemoration Post Must Be Seen to Be Believed

MAGA Rep.’s January 6 Commemoration Post Must Be Seen to Be Believed

Representative Mike Collins has taken the Republican rewrites of the January 6 riot to new heights. “On #ThisDayInHistory in 2021, thousands of...

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Edith Olmsted

Judge Torches “Preposterous” Rudy Giuliani in Brutal Ruling

Judge Torches “Preposterous” Rudy Giuliani in Brutal Ruling

Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt Monday for failing to comply with discovery requirements in his ongoing defamation case brought by two Georgia...

06.01.2025 3

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Edith Olmsted

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