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Trump Administration Tells Federal Employees to Wear “Freedom” Pins—Or Else

The Trump administration is ordering National Park Service employees to wear pins promoting Freedom 250, a semi-private group that the president has...

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Trump Issues Fake Pardons For Fake Electors

Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned high-profile attorneys accused of joining in his plot to try to steal the 2020 election, along with dozens of...

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Report: Trump Demands Taxpayers Hand Him $230 Million

Earlier this year, Mother Jones published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” Examples included buying...

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Trump’s Military Occupation of DC Crashes Into Reality—Literally

Watch out, Chicago drivers. A recent collision of a red-light-running, 14-ton, mine-resistant armored vehicle with an SUV on Capitol Hill isn’t the...

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Ghislaine Maxwell Absolves Trump, and Everyone Else, in DOJ Interviews

Ghislaine Maxwell has delighted MAGA loyalists by asserting that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence...

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Donald Trump Is Waging a Whole-of-Government Retribution Campaign

The Trump administration’s campaign of vengeance against perceived political enemies escalated Friday morning when the FBI raided the home and...

23.08.2025 10

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Emil Bove and Jeanine Pirro Won’t Condemn January 6. GOP Senators No Longer Care.

Despite vociferous objections by Democrats, the Senate Judiciary Committee looks set as of Thursday to approve Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer...

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Stop Taking the Epstein Bait, Dems

MAGA world is melting down over the Justice Department’s recent conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein had no client list or history of blackmail, and that...

11.07.2025 10

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Republicans Just Passed “the Worst Bill in Modern American History”

Just in time for the nation’s birthday, House Republicans have passed the most regressive legislation in recent memory, a bill that’s expected...

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Trump’s Pardon Attorney Mulls Clemency for Fake Electors—Dead or Alive

The Trump administration’s new chief pardon attorney is considering a plan to grant clemency to dozens of so-called fake electors who aided Donald...

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Trump Has Dropped the Pretense of Ethics

Do Donald Trump and his family “actually give a fuck” about appearing to profit from his presidency? Evidence is mounting that they don’t....

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The Qatari 747 Is Just the Latest Mega-Donation Flowing to Trump’s “Library”

President Donald Trump insists that accepting a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar’s ruling family would not amount to a huge bribe....

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Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US attorney for DC, showed up at a community meeting at a police station to tout his efforts to...

09.05.2025 10

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RFK Jr. May Have Inspired Acting US Attorney’s Harassment of Medical Journals

Ed Martin, the acting US Attorney for Washington, DC, had recently been peppering medical journals with “vaguely threatening” letters accusing...

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Facing Corruption Allegations, Albanian Opposition Leader Hires Trump-Linked Lobbying Team

Sali Berisha—the allegedly corrupt leader of Albania’s opposition party—wants help from Donald Trump. And Berisha, or someone backing him, is...

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Ed Martin Isn’t Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer

Ed Martin pretending Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2020. Alex Brandon/AP Ed Martin, the far-right activist–turned–acting US...

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Far-Right Activist Tied to Jailed Chinese Fraudster Joins Team Trump. He’s Not Alone.

Miles Guo, an exiled Chinese billionaire best known for his ties to Steve Bannon, is in a Brooklyn jail awaiting sentencing following his conviction...

21.04.2025 10

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Corporate Chiefs Gave Trump’s Inaugural Committee $250 Billion. Benefits Abound.

Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised almost $250 million, much of it from donors who are seeking—and in many cases have already...

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Why Trump’s Embattled US Attorney in DC Is Talking About Russia

Ed Martin, the acting US attorney in Washington, who has earned some notoriety through attempts to use his office to attack political opponents of the...

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Democrats Grill Officials on Insider Profits From Trump’s Tariff Reversal

Leading Democrats are raising questions about whether insiders profited from the market swing that followed President Donald Trump’s sudden reversal...

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There’s One Thing Elon Musk Might Be Right About

Elon Musk is not always wrong. Musk’s prediction back in February that “some of the things that I say will be incorrect” was certainly right, if...

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Mike Huckabee Was Paid $50,000 to Visit Qatar

Mike Huckabee prepared for his Senate confirmation hearing to be ambassador to Israel by visiting the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens on...

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