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Joe Kent’s Resignation Is Tearing MAGA Apart

If you were to invent a politician ideally suited to appeal to the MAGA base, you might come up with something like this: A classically handsome white...

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Joe Kent Resigns From Trump Administration Over Iran War

Joe Kent has resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran. Kent,...

17.03.2026 3

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Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Trying to Turn a Newspaper for Troops into Propaganda

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has come up with a plan to limit the independence of Stars and Stripes, the news publication for...

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FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

Amid surging oil prices and an unpopular war of choice in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening not to renew the...

15.03.2026 6

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New Details From Epstein Files Reveal Lutnick Had Years-Long Business Tie with Sex Offender

There’s more bad news for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Epstein files: Previously unreported documents show he hasn’t been...

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5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Congressman Cory Mills

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to more than a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills, watched hours of court testimony, and reviewed hundreds...

19.02.2026 10

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DHS Shot Her and Called Her a “Terrorist.” New Videos Show Something Different.

Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple...

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Mamdani Announces New Settlement Securing Backpay for Delivery Workers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday that his administration has secured a more than $5 million settlement with three delivery app...

31.01.2026 5

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How Greg Bovino Proved Too Openly Fascistic for Trump

Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who terrorized people across America in his Nazi-like trench coat, is being put out to pasture...

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“Garbage”: How Trump Used to Talk About Venezuelan Oil

Not long ago, President Donald Trump had a clear opinion of Venezuelan oil. Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, he called the country’s crude...

09.01.2026 7

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Cops Are Taught Not to Shoot Into Cars. ICE Keeps Doing It Anyway.

On Wednesday, a masked federal immigration officer killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother and poet, shooting her at point-blank range in her...

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The Moment That Made Mamdani

A little more than four years ago, Zohran Mamdani announced from a lectern in Manhattan’s City Hall Park that he was about to go on hunger strike....

05.11.2025 3

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How Dangerous Is It Really to Work for ICE?

The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that it needs to send the military into American cities because of the unique danger faced by federal...

29.10.2025 5

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Here’s What “No Kings” Looked Like Across the World

On Saturday, countless people gathered at “No Kings” protests in thousands of cities and towns across the United States and the world. Their focus...

19.10.2025 3

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George Santos Leaves Prison After Trump Commutes Sentence

Perhaps the most notable thing about President Donald Trump’s Friday decision to commute the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.)...

18.10.2025 4

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Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration is now reportedly considering...

17.10.2025 4

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“No Actual Plan”: Why the Ceasefire Does Not Mean Peace

Last weekend, President Donald Trump flew to the Middle East to celebrate a ceasefire his administration helped broker between Hamas and Israel, after...

15.10.2025 7

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How the Two-State Solution Became a “Big, Expedient Lie”

Former government officials rarely write good books. Whatever insights they may have acquired tend to be buried by self-justifying recriminations,...

01.10.2025 4

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A Reagan-Appointed Judge Just Wrote a Blistering Anti-Trump Decision

On Tuesday, William G. Young—a federal district court judge in Massachusetts and a Reagan appointee—issued a decision filled with obvious contempt...

01.10.2025 4

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Democrats Demand Answers on Third Country Deportations

A group of more than 60 Democratic legislators sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday that expresses “grave concerns” about...

25.09.2025 7

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The Shocking Rise of One of the Tech Right’s Favorite Posters

Jordan Lasker, an X user who goes by the username Crémieux, recently made news by providing the New York Times with hacked data that showed New York...

17.07.2025 5

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White House and DHS Share Image Apparently Created by White Nationalist

On Wednesday, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda poster on official accounts on X and Instagram. It featured...

14.06.2025 4

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Judge Calls Trump’s Deportation Operation Kafkaesque in Blistering Opinion

On Wednesday, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to provide the due process it denied to Venezuelans in March when...

06.06.2025 10

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Tufts PhD Student Released From ICE Detention After Chilling Arrest

Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released from an immigration detention center in rural Louisiana in response to an order from...

11.05.2025 5

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White South African “Refugees” Will Soon Arrive in the United States

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions from around the world. In February, Trump made one...

10.05.2025 5

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Trump Mistakenly Deported a Man to El Salvador. There’s Still No Plan to Bring Him Back.

On Friday, Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the Trump administration had failed to comply with a court order requiring it to...

12.04.2025 9

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Trump Posts AI Video of Ethnically Cleansed Gaza

On Tuesday, just before midnight, Donald Trump posted a grotesque AI-generated video on social media that depicts a future Gaza as his proposed...

27.02.2025 5

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This Marine Wanted to Help Fellow Vets. DOGE Fired Him Instead.

On February 13, Andrew Lennox, an administrative officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan, learned from an email that he had been...

26.02.2025 5

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GOP Activist Who Co-Hosted Podcast with White Nationalist Pushes Third Trump Term at CPAC

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a new group pushed for President Donald Trump to serve an unconstitutional third term.   The...

22.02.2025 6

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Trump to Put in Top Military Post Podcaster Fired from Space Force for Self-Publishing Book About Marxism

In 2021, Matthew Lohmeier, a lieutenant colonel in the Space Force and former Air Force fighter pilot, self-published Irresistible Revolution:...

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Elon Musk Keeps Boosting White Nationalists on X

In the three weeks since Donald Trump took office, Elon Musk has posted on X at the pace of an iPad-addicted child. During a roughly two-hour stretch...

11.02.2025 4

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Trump Calls for Ethnic Cleansing and Using US Troops to “Own” Gaza

The quotes from President Donald Trump’s press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do not do justice to the obscenity of the...

06.02.2025 3

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Trump’s Pick for Counterrorism Called for Arresting BLM Leaders as Terrorists

Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, completed 11 combat deployments during the...

05.02.2025 5

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As Elon Musk Warns of Persecution of Whites, Trump Says He Will Block Aid to South Africa

On Sunday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States would cut aid to South Africa because the country is “confiscating...

04.02.2025 4

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Trump Picks Torture Memo Author for Deputy Transportation Secretary

Two decades ago, while serving in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, Steven Bradbury wrote a series of memos justifying waterboarding...

30.01.2025 4

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Key Democrats Vote for Increasing Mandatory Detention of Immigrants

On Friday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would significantly increase the number of undocumented immigrants subject to mandatory detention...

18.01.2025 3

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The Ceasefire Deal Makes It Obvious: Joe Biden Failed

In the early days of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden took some time to congratulate himself on a job well done. For...

17.01.2025 8

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A GOP Congressman’s Campaign Finance Problem Just Got Worse

There are holes in Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles’ personal story. Some have been relatively harmless fabrications. Ogles claimed to be...

15.01.2025 5

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Democrats Could Give Republicans Vast New Immigration Powers

With Donald Trump less than two weeks away from taking office and promising an agenda of mass deportations, Democrats are poised to hand Republicans...

10.01.2025 4

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Hero of 2024: Dean Phillips, Kind of

Mother Jones illustration; Erin Hooley/AP The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year....

26.12.2024 8

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