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Julianne Mcshane

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So What’s Next for MTG? Her Latest Social Posts Don’t Clarify Much.

So What’s Next for MTG? Her Latest Social Posts Don’t Clarify Much.

What will Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) do after her shock resignation from Congress in January, announced on Friday? Good question. President...

24.11.2025 10

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Bill Cassidy Is Still In Denial About RFK, Jr.

Bill Cassidy Is Still In Denial About RFK, Jr.

Back in February, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) went to great lengths to justify his decisive vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human...

24.11.2025 30

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The Feds Suddenly Want to Drop Their Charges Against a Woman Shot by a Border Patrol Agent

The Feds Suddenly Want to Drop Their Charges Against a Woman Shot by a Border Patrol Agent

Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month? Well, it seems that...

21.11.2025 40

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Inside the $4 Billion Industry Built on America’s School Shooting Epidemic

Inside the $4 Billion Industry Built on America’s School Shooting Epidemic

The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of...

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Don’t Be Fooled: Marjorie Taylor Greene Still Wants to Reconcile With Trump

Don’t Be Fooled: Marjorie Taylor Greene Still Wants to Reconcile With Trump

There was a time when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) compared President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ and called him “the greatest President of...

16.11.2025 2

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How Many Republicans Will Defy Trump and Vote to Release the Epstein Files?

How Many Republicans Will Defy Trump and Vote to Release the Epstein Files?

On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will finally vote on the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. If passed, the bill...

16.11.2025 2

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Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define

Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define

Megyn Kelly is known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim...

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Mike Johnson Will Finally Swear In His Worst Nightmare

Mike Johnson Will Finally Swear In His Worst Nightmare

More Epstein files could, in theory, be coming soon. That’s because, at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will finally swear in...

13.11.2025 30

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Distraught, Betrayed, and Mad as Hell: Your Takes on the Shutdown

Distraught, Betrayed, and Mad as Hell: Your Takes on the Shutdown

On Monday night, the Senate passed a bill that marks the first step towards potentially reopening the government after the 42-day shutdown. For...

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Newsom Keeps Teasing a Presidential Run

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) keeps teasing a potential presidential run…again, and again, and again. It began in earnest last month, when, in an...

09.11.2025 2

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Florida Takes On Planned Parenthood

In anti-abortion Republicans’ latest attack on abortion pills, Florida’s attorney general is suing Planned Parenthood for allegedly...

09.11.2025 3

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A Border Patrol Agent Bragged About Shooting Someone, Texts Show

An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court...

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I Checked in With Curtis Sliwa. He Still Doesn’t Care What You Think.

When Curtis Sliwa called me on Wednesday afternoon, the failed New York City Republican mayoral candidate sounded chipper, even a bit boastful....

06.11.2025 6

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“He’s One Of Us”: Muslim New Yorkers Greet Mamdani’s Victory With Pride

Timothy Rodriguez has lived in New York all his life. But the notion of a Muslim mayor never entered the realm of possibility for him. That changed...

05.11.2025 10

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Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids

For the second time in a little over a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles, California....

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Trump Brags He Could Invade Your City Whenever He Wants

In a wide-ranging Sunday night interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump put his desire for unchecked power on full display....

03.11.2025 70

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Obama’s Stumping for Democrats. Trump’s at Mar-a-Lago.

Where’s Obama, you ask? The better question may be, where’s Trump? Former President Barack Obama spent Saturday supporting Democratic candidates...

02.11.2025 3

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Report: Anti-Abortion Leaders Helped Tank Trump’s Promise of Free IVF

Anti-abortion advocates haven’t just played key roles in rolling back abortion rights in recent years. They also helped tank President Donald...

26.10.2025 10

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George Santos Is Already Back on Network TV

In a ridiculous social media post the day before he headed off to federal prison for what was supposed to be a more than seven-year sentence,...

19.10.2025 3

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Trump and Johnson Are Melting Down Over The Success of “No Kings”

Saturday’s “No Kings” protests were, as my colleagues chronicled, about as wholesome as you could imagine. There were inflatable animals. There...

19.10.2025 30

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So Much for Trump’s Promise of Free IVF

In the Oval Office on Thursday, several Cabinet members and advocates for in vitro fertilization (IVF) gathered to claim that President Donald Trump...

17.10.2025 20

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No One in the GOP Hitler Chat Was a “Kid”

Vice President JD Vance would like you to do anything but pay attention to those abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered...

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Appeals Court: Trump Can’t Deploy National Guard on Chicago’s Streets

The Trump administration has suffered yet another in its series of recent legal losses—this time over its attempt to deploy National Guard troops in...

12.10.2025 3

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The White House Is Already Walking Back Hundreds of Federal Layoffs

In Donald Trump’s second term, federal workers have gotten used to being fired and re-hired, and, in some cases, even fired again. As one...

12.10.2025 2

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As Troops Invade Chicago, Trump Threatens to Jail the Mayor and Governor

On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump did something he has done many times before: He called for his perceived political enemies to be jailed....

08.10.2025 2

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ICE Will Be “All Over” the Super Bowl

In the latest reminder that nowhere is safe, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to “be all over” the Super Bowl, according to...

05.10.2025 3

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“Authoritarian”: Trump Sending Troops to Another American City

President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to invade more American cities. On Saturday, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) announced that the Trump...

05.10.2025 5

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Americans Aren’t Buying Trump’s Shutdown Blame Game

As Democrats and Republicans trade accusations over which party is responsible for the government shutdown, new polling suggests that President Donald...

02.10.2025 3

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The Government Shutdown Means No Jobs Data—Conveniently For Trump

One of the many casualties of the government shutdown is the critical jobs report administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)—and much...

02.10.2025 30

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On Its 25th Birthday, Mifepristone Is More Under Attack Than Ever

Twenty-five years ago today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone for abortions. Now, the drug is more under threat than...

29.09.2025 10

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New York City’s Eric Adams Era Is Over

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that he will abandon his chaotic reelection campaign to run the biggest city in the country. The...

28.09.2025 3

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Elon Musk Urges Brits to “Fight Back” Against Their Political Enemies

Just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk joined other right-wingers in ratcheting up his rhetoric. In a bizarre, downright dystopian,...

14.09.2025 3

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That Fox Anchor’s Long History Of Having to Apologize For Awful Remarks

In yet another example of right-wingers calling for violence, a Fox News anchor this week suggested homeless people with mental illnesses should be...

14.09.2025 3

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Politicians Unite to Condemn Killing of Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk

Leading conservative activist Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after being shot while speaking to students at a university in Utah. He was 31 years old....

11.09.2025 8

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The Most Eye-Popping Parts of Kamala Harris’s New Memoir—So Far

Kamala Harris is back…with a vengeance. The first excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, about her history-making presidential campaign after...

10.09.2025 3

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Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks....

10.09.2025 3

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The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem to Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.

Speaking at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated one of his favorite falsehoods as of late: That his deployment of the...

08.09.2025 3

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Florida Surgeon General Admits He Banned Vaccine Mandates Based on Vibes

After his announcement this week that he would seek to eliminate “all vaccine mandates,” Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made one...

07.09.2025 3

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Let’s Review Trump’s Week of Massive Legal Losses, Shall We?

It was a week of so much losing. Over the past week, President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda have sustained one loss after another in the...

07.09.2025 4

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Laura Loomer Is “Basically a Cabinet Member at This Point”

Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration....

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Epstein Survivors Begged Trump to Release Their Files. He Called It a “Hoax.”

There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in a very divided DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the...

04.09.2025 20

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RFK Jr.’s Enemies List Just Got a Lot Longer

It hasn’t been a great week for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education,...

04.09.2025 10

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Leading Genocide Scholars Say Israel’s War in Gaza Fits the Definition

Leading genocide scholars have ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. In a resolution issued Sunday by the...

03.09.2025 20

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Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls

It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed,...

01.09.2025 20

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Right-Wingers Hope Taylor Swift Will Inspire a New Generation of Trad Wives

You could say that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce’s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and...

27.08.2025 3

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Trump Stays Silent on Gaza’s Famine

Two days after experts officially declared that a famine is unfolding in Gaza, President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the devastating new...

25.08.2025 6

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Trump Threatens to Invade More American Cities

President Donald Trump’s DC takeover has proven to be broadly unpopular among residents and seemingly counterproductive. But the president has never...

24.08.2025 5

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States Sue Over DOJ Demand to Hand Crime Victims to ICE

More than 20 state attorneys general have filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging the Trump administration is unlawfully seeking...

19.08.2025 30

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Laura Loomer’s Latest Victim: Visas For Critically Injured Palestinian Kids

Laura Loomer, the far-right provocateur and conspiracy theorist who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has proven to have...

18.08.2025 50

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Melania Trump’s Weird, Vague Letter to Putin

Melania and Donald Trump met Putin in Finland in 2018. Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix/ZUMA First Lady Melania Trump tends to be seen more often than she...

17.08.2025 3

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