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Trump Really Did Try to Drag His Musk Feud Into Pure Revenge Territory

Trump Really Did Try to Drag His Musk Feud Into Pure Revenge Territory

As President Donald Trump’s bitter feud with Elon Musk spilled into public view last month, aides to the president reportedly launched a...

20.07.2025 5

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Mamdani Skewers Racist Critics With Delightful Video

Mamdani Skewers Racist Critics With Delightful Video

As Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who made history last month with his stunning victory in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor,...

20.07.2025 3

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Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning

Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning

On Thursday, Stephen Colbert, the beloved, sharp-tongued comedian and host of the Late Show, announced that CBS was cancelling the legendary...

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What $100 Billion in New ICE Funding Looks Like

President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, which seeks to inject plutocratic ideology and disdain for the poor into nearly every corner of...

03.07.2025 20

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The Cartoonish Cruelty of Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz

An abandoned swamp packed with predators. Generic rock music. A “one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.” That’s...

01.07.2025 6

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The Bezos-Sánchez Hangover

As the dust settles in Venice, where some of the world’s richest gathered to bless the union of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, I’m wondering what...

29.06.2025 4

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Elon Musk Rips Into Trump’s “Utterly Insane” Tax Bill Again

After a brief interlude, Elon Musk on Saturday resumed his public wrestling match with President Donald Trump, ripping into the president’s domestic...

29.06.2025 60

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Zohran’s Next Challenge: Another Disgraced (Former) Democrat

As certain corners of the political elite panic over Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York’s Democratic primary, the city’s...

26.06.2025 10

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The Feds Keep Detaining and Prosecuting Elected Officials Who Get in Trump’s Way

Of the many events marking the country’s slide to authoritarianism since Donald Trump returned to power, one of the most significant is the...

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The “Delicate, Beautiful, Tiny” Fascism of Kristi Noem

As quickly as condemnation poured in over the forcible removal of Sen. Alex Padilla from a Department of Homeland Security press conference on...

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Sen. Padilla Pushed to Ground, Handcuffed for Demanding DHS Not Lie

As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem talked about the need to apply constitutional rights to all citizens in a Thursday press conference, Sen....

13.06.2025 100

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What The Hell?

A day after videos emerged of ICE agents chasing after farmworkers across California, forcing immigrants to hide in fields, President Donald Trump...

12.06.2025 20

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Trump Is Lusting for Violence

With tensions still lingering after National Guard members descended into Los Angeles this weekend, sending protesters who had been demonstrating...

10.06.2025 200

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Kylie Jenner’s Plasticized Candor

“445cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!!!! silicone!!! garth fisher!!! hope this helps lol.” With an “lol” and a disarming number of...

09.06.2025 7

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The Trump White House Is a Giant National Security Red Flag

Imagine working as a White House communications expert when, on a brisk February morning, you look up to see a crew of unannounced Elon Musk...

07.06.2025 4

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The Trump-Musk Wrestling Match Is Far From Over

After a public wrestling match that featured ugly insults and Jeffrey Epstein accusations, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk appear to have dialed...

07.06.2025 5

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Elon Musk Says Goodbye With a Black Eye

During an official Oval Office event marking the end of his time working at the federal government, Elon Musk on Friday emerged with apparent facial...

31.05.2025 10

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“Well, We’re All Going to Die,” Says GOP Senator in Defense of Medicaid Cuts

The largest Medicaid cuts in US history, which, if signed into law, would sever healthcare for the poorest Americans in order to offset massive tax...

30.05.2025 8

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Elon Musk Made Your Life Worse

Elon Musk’s announcement on Wednesday that his “scheduled time” working for President Donald Trump is ending was instantly met with a mix of...

29.05.2025 10

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Trump Has Nothing to Do Today. So, of Course, He Posted.

Nothing is listed on President Donald Trump’s public schedule today. In theory, that could mean it will be a relatively calm day from our...

27.05.2025 4

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Does Kristi Noem Even Know What Habeas Corpus Is?

Days after the Trump administration threatened to attempt to suspend habeas corpus in an effort to bulldoze due process protections for its mass...

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Trump’s Slot Machine Spits Out Two New Orders

Much has been written about the cruel, and often unconstitutional, onslaught of executive orders that has come to define President Donald Trump’s...

05.05.2025 8

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The Pentagon Is Getting a New Glam Room

The Pentagon is finally undergoing a shake-up as concerns grow over Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: The Defense Department confirmed to CBS News on...

24.04.2025 20

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Tesla’s Deadbeat CEO Is Coming Back

Amid plunging stock prices and a staggering 71 percent profit drop, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pivoting back to his day job. “My time obligation to DOGE...

23.04.2025 7

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Just Do Something

When Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland announced this week that he would travel to El Salvador to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the...

18.04.2025 5

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How to Travel Abroad as the World’s Most Toxic Brand: American

Donald Trump’s convulsive tariff policy, which all but reversed course on Wednesday with the caveat that the same pain would return in 90 days,...

10.04.2025 10

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Eric Adams Isn’t Corrupt?

After all the public groveling and taxpayer-funded trips to Mar-a-Lago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears to have successfully prostrated himself...

03.04.2025 20

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Marco Rubio Is Quite Chuffed

Amid intense outrage over the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts student who was ambushed and detained by plainclothes federal immigration officers...

28.03.2025 10

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They Lied, Again

Amid efforts to downplay the extraordinary security lapse exposed by the Atlantic after Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally included in...

26.03.2025 5

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Gavin Newsom’s MAGA Drift Is Here

As Donald Trump wages an all-out war on just about every corner of American life, Democrats have appeared nothing short of comatose. Their struggle to...

06.03.2025 4

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Dr. Phil Wants to Sell You Mass Deportations

In the tumultuous swirl of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown—which has both succeeded in terrorizing communities across the country and...

19.02.2025 7

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How Much Boot Can These Bootlickers Fit in Their Mouths?

As the finishing touches settle on Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, Washington is swarming with members of this great nation preparing to kneel...

20.01.2025 40

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Do I Have to Feel Bad About Alcohol Now?

It wasn’t long ago when a daily glass of wine was considered safe, even healthy. The practice could confer onto someone a sense of sophistication, a...

13.01.2025 5

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Monsters of 2024: Anthony Weiner and Andrew Cuomo

Mother Jones illustration; Kent Nishimura/Getty; Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up...

31.12.2024 4

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Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Save TikTok

Jaap Arriens/AP Weeks before the Supreme Court’s emergency session that could determine the fate of TikTok in the United States, Donald Trump on...

28.12.2024 10

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Elon Musk vs. Laura Loomer: MAGA Clashes Over Immigration

Brandon Bell/AP Update, December 28: This story has been updated to reflect Donald Trump’s position on the H1-B visa program. Less than a month...

28.12.2024 10

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Hero of 2024: Patrick Stump

Patrick Stump, composer/songwriter of Marvel's "Spidey and His Amazing Friends" Mother Jones illustration; Matt Petit/Disney/Getty The staff of...

23.12.2024 4

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Hero of 2024: Amanda Petrusich

Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Amanda Peustrich The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past...

20.12.2024 6

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How South Korea’s Robust Protest Culture Shut Down Martial Law—For Now

Chris Jung/AP Back in September, amid simmering tensions between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and the country’s parliament, opposition...

06.12.2024 5

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Matt Gaetz Withdraws From Attorney General Consideration

Nathan Howard/AP Amid the escalating debate over whether to release a highly damaging report into allegations that he had sex with a minor, Matt...

21.11.2024 3

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Trump to Nominate Sycophant and Famously Bad Lawyer Matt Gaetz for Attorney General

Evan Vucci/AP Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken supporters in Congress, is the president-elect’s pick for attorney general, a...

14.11.2024 20

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“First Buddy” Elon Musk Is Already Pissing Everyone Off at Mar-a-Lago

Evan Vucci/AP Elon Musk’s election bets paid off the instant Donald Trump was reelected. But, even as the richest man in the world sits on the edge...

13.11.2024 2

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Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Sweepstakes Is Already in Legal Peril

Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO/AP Voters in swing states who received notice of a $1 million check from Elon Musk should know two things: Simple luck...

05.11.2024 20

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Trump Called for Placing Liz Cheney Before Guns “Trained on Her Face.” But What About “Garbage”?

Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP In the final stretch of an election season teeming with ugly moments, from the racist and vulgar to the sexist and...

01.11.2024 4

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Elon Musk Wants to Show Up at Your Front Door

Evan Vucci/AP What would you do if the world’s wealthiest man came knocking on your door? Ask for a buck? Let em’ in? Run from this clear...

11.10.2024 30

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Will Amnesia Help Boris Johnson Sell His New Book?

Thomas Krych/AP A spiral of lies and deliberate efforts to mislead parliament may have undone Boris Johnson’s premiership. But don’t expect the...

10.10.2024 10

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Princeton Praised a Professor for Winning a MacArthur. What About Its Probe Into Her Pro-Palestine Support?

Mother Jones illustration; photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Julio Cortez/AP As congratulations poured in for...

04.10.2024 9

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Melania Says She Supports Abortion. I Really Don’t Care, Do U?

Laurence Kesterson/AP Less than a week before Melania Trump is set to release her memoir, the former first lady appeared to break ranks. “Melania...

03.10.2024 5

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Kamala Harris Was Asked Her Toughest Questions on Gaza Yet

Matt Rourke/AP In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris was faced with a series of questions about her position on...

17.09.2024 3

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What Do Teens Think of Trump?

This collage is comprised of editorial stock photos and does not depict anyone mentioned in this article. Mother Jones illustration;...

12.09.2024 30

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