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AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked

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Kate Aronoff

Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty

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Grace Segers

Here’s the Deranged MAGA Propaganda Coming to Voice of America

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Ross Rosenfeld

The Trump Atrocity Happening in Plain Sight on the Media’s Watch

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James North

Mallory McMorrow Wants Power—and Yes, That Is a Good Thing

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Joe Lapointe

MAGA Rage Erupts as New Pope’s Views of Trump Prove Unexpectedly Harsh

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Sacks FEMA Chief One Day After He Tried to Save the Agency

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Melts Down Over Federal Reserve’s Five-Alarm Warning on Economy

Donald Trump threw yet another tantrum Thursday about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s latest alert that the president’s tariffs will cripple...

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Edith Olmsted

Vance Just Made Trump’s Dolls Comment Even Weirder

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s FBI Director Grilled on What He Thinks Fifth Amendment Says

FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be interpreting the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution how he sees fit, contradicting legal precedent.  At a...

yesterday 30

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Hafiz Rashid

John Roberts Sends Pathetic Message to Trump on Takeover of Courts

Chief Justice John Roberts offered a gentle rebuke of Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on the judiciary.  During a fireside chat Wednesday night...

yesterday 20

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Deports Two More U.S. Citizen Children After Tricking Their Mom

The Trump administration apparently deported two U.S. citizen children—ages 5 and 4—after surreptitiously luring their mother to an immigration...

yesterday 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: Trump Erupts as Top DOJ Pick Implodes in Huge Blow to MAGA

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

yesterday 10

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Exposes Own Idiocy With Comment About Looming Shortages

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it was “a good thing, not a bad thing” that he’d crippled the international economy, putting workers’...

yesterday 10

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Edith Olmsted

John Fetterman Explodes in Union Meeting—Freaking Out His Own Staff

Last week, Senator John Fetterman held what would normally be a friendly meeting with Pennsylvania’s largest teachers’ union. Representatives from...

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Deportation Plans to Libya Involve Some Chilling Threats

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Hafiz Rashid

The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is ... Not the U.S.

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Timothy Noah

Please Stop Trying to Get Kash Patel Fired

Last month, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin scored his 875th goal in the National Hockey League, surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s long-standing...

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Matt Ford

Trump Picks Incompetent Wellness Influencer for Surgeon General

Trump’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general is beyond unqualified. The president has selected Casey Means, a self-described “wellness influencer” from...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Sneaky Plot to Steal Your Data—and Weaponize It Against You

Over the first 100 days of his second administration, President Donald Trump, working in concert with Elon Musk’s DOGE proxy—which it still seems a...

yesterday 20

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Felipe De La Hoz

Trump Admits He’s Wildly Exaggerating Benefits of U.K. Trade Deal

Trump had a press conference Thursday to explain to everyone that the beautiful, spectacular trade deal that he’s made with Britain is actually...

yesterday 10

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Malcolm Ferguson

The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump

Following the Hamas October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, in which that group murdered approximately 1,200 people and took 251 more hostage,...

yesterday 10

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Eric Alterman

The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay

The radical libertarian city builders of the tech-bro set have an audacious new proposal: They want to convert Guantánamo Bay, host to the infamous...

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Laurie Clarke

RFK Jr.’s Ex-Running Mate Warns Someone Is “Controlling” Him

RFK Jr.’s old running mate thinks someone is controlling him—and it isn’t Trump.  Former vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan was both...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Erupts as GOPers Quietly Ice His US Attorney Pick, Enraging MAGA

President Donald Trump erupted on Truth Social this week when it became clear that MAGA loyalist and insurrectionist Ed Martin’s nomination for...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

We Just Got a New Pope—and MAGA Is Already Losing Its Mind

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Edith Olmsted

Meet the New Pope, Same as the Old Pope?

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Alex Shephard

The New Pope Doesn’t Seem to Be a Huge Fan of Trump or JD Vance

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Malcolm Ferguson

Foreigners Are Funneling Millions Into Trump’s Shady Meme Coin

Trump is selling himself–and his meme coin—to the highest bidder. And most of those top bidders appear to be foreign, according to Bloomberg . More...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Lawyers Warned DOGE Staffer About Shady Investments. He Fired Them.

A 25-year old DOGE bro oversaw the termination of lawyers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, just days after they warned him...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Dealt Massive Blow as Judge Blocks Executive Order on Libraries

Three federal agencies on Donald Trump’s chopping block have been saved by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. sided with a 21-...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Tulsi Gabbard Flips Out Over Report U.S. Is Spying on Greenland

Donald Trump’s quest to conquer Greenland is becoming increasingly serious. The intelligence community directed intelligence agency chiefs to...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Has a New Target in His Weird Renaming Crusade

Donald Trump made the “Gulf of America” so great again that he’s considering implementing a similar rebrand for another body of water—this...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Treasury Secretary Says Doll Shortage Is for a Good Cause

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a message for a hypothetical little girl worried that she won’t have more than two dolls because of Donald...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Rants About Young Girls’ Dolls Just Got Weirder and Darker

President Trump is suddenly very taken with visions of Barbie doll factories in America. On three separate occasions, Trump has defended his...

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Greg Sargent

Dem Governor Launches Plan to Counter RFK Jr.’s Autism Registry

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has a plan to protect autism-related data from RFK Jr.’s absurd plans to create a disease registry tracking autistic...

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Marin Scotten

Transcript: Trump’s Tariff Tirade Reveals How Badly He’s Screwing MAGA

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

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Plans Deportations to War-Torn Country With “Hellscape” Prisons

The Trump administration is planning to use a military plane to deport immigrants to Libya in a cruel, arbitrary escalation of its mass deportation...

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Malcolm Ferguson

How Trump Will Use “Anti-Christian Bias” to Entrench His Power

On April 22, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting of the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government.”...

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Katherine Stewart

Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters

Thanks to President Trump’s policies, a confluence of events is set to absolutely clobber rural America. First there’s Trump’s trade war. On...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running

On April 28, air traffic controllers responsible for as many as 20 flights into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport—some flying at...

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Kate Aronoff

Is Trump Now Using ICE to Take Revenge on CBS?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday raided a restaurant in Washington, D.C., owned by the husband of CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell....

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Marin Scotten

MAGA Launches War on Republican Senator Blocking Trump Nominee

The MAGAsphere is reeling as Republican Senator Thom Tillis seems likely to tank Trump’s nominee for D.C. attorney due to his legal and political...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Biden Gives Cringe Answer on Whether He Should Have Dropped Out Sooner

Former President Joe Biden doesn’t think the election would have been any different if he’d dropped out sooner. “I don’t think it would have...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Seth Rogan’s The Studio Isn’t Just a Celebration of Hollywood’s Past

The “TV is Art” team won. When I first started writing about television in the early 2010s, there was still something of a taboo about lavishing...

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Phillip Maciak

JD Vance Has Grim Warning for Russia on Ukraine Peace Talks

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that Russia was “asking for too much” in its negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. During a Q&A at the...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Gives Stunning Answer When Asked About Deportations to Libya

Donald Trump says he doesn’t know whether he plans to deport hundreds of immigrants to Libya, amidst reports that his administration will do so as...

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Marin Scotten

Trump’s Birthday Parade to Cost Eyewatering Amount—and Could Get Worse

Donald Trump is planning to pay $45 million to roll tanks down the streets of Washington, D.C., on his birthday. It was only a few months ago that...

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Edith Olmsted

Devastating New Poll Shows Trump Has Lost Key Support Groups

The numbers are in, and they don’t look good for the president. The Cook Political Report observed Wednesday that Donald Trump’s  poll numbers...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Libya Throws Huge, Dangerous Wrench in Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan

President Donald Trump is planning to send a planeful of deportees to Libya—but both of Libya’s governments say they won’t take them, The...

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Edith Olmsted