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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—has been...

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Malcolm Ferguson

King Charles Lies to Epstein Survivors After Refusing to Meet Them

King Charles III—whose brother Andrew was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and has been accused of sexual misconduct—made no mention of the...

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Malcolm Ferguson

SPLC Says Trump Admin Knew About “Secret” Informant Program All Along

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accidentally jeopardized the Trump administration’s entire case against the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Deranged Trump Rants Edited Out of 60 Minutes Interview After Shooting

CBS News’s 60 Minutes cut out large portions of its interview with President Trump in which he rambled about his ballroom, how hot his Secret...

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Feds Descend on Minneapolis to Pursue Right-Wing Fraud Theory

Federal agents returned to Minneapolis to raid day cares early on Tuesday morning.

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Trump Leads MAGA War on Jimmy Kimmel After Press Dinner Shooting

The Trump administration is coming after Jimmy Kimmel—again.

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MAGA Defectors Convinced Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Was Staged

Right-wing commentators and conspiracy theorists have expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the attempted assassination at the White House...

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Melania Trump Attacks Jimmy Kimmel for His Joke Days Before Shooting

First lady Melania Trump is calling on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel for a joke he made well before any shots were fired at the White House...

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Supreme Court Hands Republicans Massive Win With Texas Voting Map

The Supreme Court has given the Texas GOP a gerrymandering victory—just one week after the Democratic gerrymandering victory at the polls in Virginia.

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Alleged WHCD Shooter Had Some Thoughts on Trump’s Christianity

The alleged White House Correspondent’s Dinner shooter critiqued the Trump administration constantly on BlueSky, and was particularly upset by the...

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Trump Sued Over Alarming Memo Allowing Officials to Delete Records

President Trump is being sued by two watchdog groups for an internal White House memo asserting that text messages between officials could be deleted,...

24.04.2026 5

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Kash Patel Scandal Gets Worse With Confession of Drunken Arrests

Just days into the fallout over The Atlantic’s reporting on his alleged drinking issues, FBI Director Kash Patel will now have to answer questions...

24.04.2026 5

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Malcolm Ferguson

Elizabeth Warren Warns Trump’s Plot to Take Over Fed Isn’t Finished

Senator Elizabeth Warren thinks that anyone celebrating the Trump administration ending its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is...

24.04.2026 5

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Malcolm Ferguson

Kristi Noem Lost Her Job—but She’s Not Giving Up the Home It Came With

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is still living in a waterfront home on a Washington, D.C., military base nearly two months after she...

24.04.2026 4

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Trump’s Latest Truth Social Rampage Proves He’s Hanging On by a Thread

President Trump went on a long, angry social media tirade Thursday night while the entire country was asleep, once again raising doubts about his...

24.04.2026 4

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Trump Commerce Secretary Flails Trying to Explain His Huge Epstein Lie

On Thursday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was once again confronted with his elaborate lie regarding his close personal and business relationship...

23.04.2026 3

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Trump, 79, Falls Asleep After Bragging That He’s Solved Health Care

Our nearly 80-year-old president appears to have nodded off during a meeting, for the umpteenth time.

23.04.2026 4

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Senate GOP Rams Through Plan to Cut Out Democrats and Bankroll ICE

Senate Republicans held a budget reconciliation “vote-a-rama” in the wee hours of the night to kickstart their Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

23.04.2026 7

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Democrats Are Pissed Another One of Their Own Has Died in Congress

Democrats are once again having hard conversations about their party’s gerontocracy, in the wake of Representative David Scott’s death on Wednesday.

23.04.2026 7

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Trump Allies Get More Power as Paramount Takes Over Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. shareholders on Thursday approved the company’s $81 billion sale to Paramount, in a massive merger that will seriously alter the media...

23.04.2026 5

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Trump Starts Nonsensical Conspiracy After Major Redistricting Defeat

President Trump is once again alleging voter fraud—this time, after his gerrymandering defeat in Virginia.

22.04.2026 4

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Trump Approval Tanks—With One Major Warning Sign From Republicans

Brutal new polling from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that nearly half of Republicans disapprove of President Trump’s...

22.04.2026 3

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Billionaire Investor Sues Trump Crypto Firm Over “Criminal Extortion”

Justin Sun, a Chinese national accused of fraud who invested $45 million in President Trump’s crypto firm after his election victory, is now suing...

22.04.2026 5

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Democrats Demand Kash Patel Take Alcohol Disorder Test

House Judiciary Democrats want to force FBI Director Kash Patel to take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test after The Atlantic reported that...

22.04.2026 8

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Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire as Peace Talks on Verge of Collapse

President Trump announced an indefinite extension to his ceasefire with Iran Tuesday as it became evident that peace talks between the two countries...

21.04.2026 9

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Trump and MAGA Freak Out as Virginia Votes on New Congressional Map

President Trump and his MAGA coalition are beginning to panic as the threat of a successful Democratic redistricting vote on Tuesday in Virginia looms...

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Hegseth Ends Flu Vaccine Mandate—Ensuring Everyone’s About to Get Sick

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn’t think soldiers living and fighting together in close quarters or aboard warships need to take the flu vaccine.

21.04.2026 7

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Caitlyn Jenner Begs Trump for Help Changing Passport Gender

Caitlyn Jenner, perhaps the most prominent transgender Trump supporter around, made a public appeal to President Trump, begging him to reconsider his...

17.04.2026 7

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Israel Strikes Lebanon After Trump Says Bombing Is “Prohibited”

Israel has technically already violated the 10-day ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, killing someone with a drone on Friday minutes after President...

17.04.2026 6

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Trump Judge Shuts Down DOJ’s “Fishing Expedition” for Voter Data

A Trump-appointed federal judge handed yet another loss to the Justice Department on Friday, striking down the department’s demand for personal...

17.04.2026 6

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Late-Night Republican Revolt Derails Trump’s FISA Surveillance Plan

GOP leadership tried and failed to force President Trump’s long-term Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) extension through the House in the...

17.04.2026 6

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Photo of Mystery Meat on U.S. Warships Goes Viral as Supplies Dwindle

U.S. soldiers stationed in the Middle East are getting fed mystery meat and single tortillas because of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

17.04.2026 6

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Trump Starts Making Up Things the Pope Said as He Breaks With Reality

President Trump seems to be in some kind of spite-induced fugue state regarding Pope Leo XIV—insisting that he isn’t fighting with His Holiness...

16.04.2026 8

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Minnesota Charges First ICE Agent With Felony Assault

The first Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been charged in relation to President Trump’s brutal Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.

16.04.2026 8

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Police Investigate Bomb Threat Targeting Pope Leo’s Brother

A bomb threat was reported at the Illinois home of Pope Leo XIV’s brother John Prevost on Wednesday night. This threat—which was eventually proven...

16.04.2026 8

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Hegseth Quotes Made-Up Bible Verse From Pulp Fiction

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quoted the fake Bible verse from Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue as Jules Winfield in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp...

16.04.2026 10

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RFK Jr. Flips Out Over His Own Quote on Re-Parenting Black Kids

Two years ago, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that Black children prescribed depression or ADHD medication should...

16.04.2026 9

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Pentagon Secretly Plotting Military Operations in Cuba Next

The Pentagon received direct orders from President Trump to prepare for a military escalation in Cuba, according to multiple reports this week.

15.04.2026 3

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Ticketmaster Acts as Illegal Monopoly, Jury Decides in Landmark Ruling

On Wednesday, a federal jury found massive entertainment company Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, guilty of holding a monopoly on “major...

15.04.2026 3

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Trump, 79, Forgets One of His Biggest GOP Critics Is Still in Congress

President Trump failed to remember that one of his biggest GOP critics—Representative Thom Tillis—is still a sitting senator, right before...

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Trump, 79, Makes Wild Error While Warning Supreme Court Justice Alito

During an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump was unable to remember when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died—once...

15.04.2026 3

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Fresh off AI Jesus Scandal, Trump Posts Another Crazy Jesus Photo

President Trump is once again posting boomer Jesus slop on Truth Social.

15.04.2026 10

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Democrats Formally File 25th Amendment Bill to Get Rid of Trump

Fifty House Democrats have officially filed legislation that would create a commission to jump-start the process to remove President Trump under the...

14.04.2026 10

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Swalwell and Gonzales Officially Resign Before Being Forced Out

Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell and Republican Representative Tony Gonzales both resigned from Congress on Tuesday.

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Trump’s Acting A.G. Says He Won’t Release Even One More Epstein File

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche claims that his department released every single Epstein file—and that if any weren’t released, it’s...

14.04.2026 7

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Pope Leo Issues Dire Warning on Democracy After Trump Attack

Pope Leo XIV warned on Tuesday that democracy risks becoming a “majoritarian tyranny” if not rooted in moral law.

14.04.2026 4

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Ted Cruz Refuses to Take the Pope’s Side Against Trump

Senator Ted Cruz refused to pick a side in President Trump’s petty tiff with Pope Leo XIV.

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Trump Creepily Lusts Over Married Woman in Front of His Grandson

President Trump took time out of a busy day playing golf at Mar-a-Lago Sunday afternoon to ogle at a married woman.

13.04.2026 7

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Malcolm Ferguson

States Struggle With Fluoride Crisis Thanks to Trump’s Iran War

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has caused a domestic fluoride shortage in yet another unintended consequence of a useless and unpopular conflict.

13.04.2026 5

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Growing Number of Democrats Call on Eric Swalwell to Leave Congress

Multiple House Democrats have called for the resignation of California Representative Eric Swalwell following serious sexual assault allegations...

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