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Sophia Tesfaye

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Why JD Vance is fighting the GOP establishment over Russia

The administration's Russia-Ukraine peace proposal opens up a new front in the GOP civil war

26.11.2025 3

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Social media’s reckoning may have arrived — thanks to Elon Musk

Foreign bots have long plagued X. Musk has introduced a potential fix

24.11.2025 6

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Trump’s White House wants to tell CNN, WaPo who to hire and fire

The Trump administration's effort to control mainstream media is expanding and accelerating

22.11.2025 10

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MAGA’s conspiracy theory fails to distract from Epstein

A conspiracy theory centering on Trump's attempted assassin fails to distract from the Epstein files

20.11.2025 10

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Donald Trump’s America First movement seems to be fracturing

Conservative criticism of the president is escalating — in potentially damaging ways

15.11.2025 10

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Republicans implode after stunning Democratic victories

MAGA can't win without "big daddy" Trump on the ballot

06.11.2025 10

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Trump returns to “60 Minutes” and CBS News — because of Bari Weiss

Will CBS News collapse under the weight of MAGA?

03.11.2025 4

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MAGA salivates at the chance to cut off food stamps

SNAP benefits are set to lapse — and the right is spreading tired, racist tropes about recipients

31.10.2025 40

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Tucker Carlson’s crash out is Charlie Kirk’s legacy

Everybody hates Tucker right now — and that’s bad for Trump

29.10.2025 10

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Elon Musk’s moon mission divides MAGA loyalties

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy might become a casualty in Trump’s new space race

27.10.2025 4

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Donald Trump’s wrecking ball hits his own movement

The entire East Wing of the White House is gone — and people are angry

25.10.2025 2

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Kash Patel and Vivek Ramaswamy get hit with a hard MAGA truth

The right’s anti-Indian hate problem can no longer be contained to the internet

22.10.2025 30

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Massive “No Kings” protests short-circuit MAGA’s mockery

MAGA reacts to “No Kings” by immediately proving protesters right

20.10.2025 20

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How the left can win on cable news

From Zohran Mamdani’s Fox News debut to AOC and Bernie Sanders’ CNN town hall, the limelight is finally on the left

17.10.2025 30

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Pete Hegseth’s press crackdown is backfiring

Even Fox News is fed up with the Pentagon’s new press restrictions

15.10.2025 2

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As podcast bros grow critical of Trump, sports bros step in

There's a notable shift on Trump taking place in the manosphere

13.10.2025 3

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Pope Leo takes aim at MAGA’s false gospel

The American Pope is confirming MAGA's worst fears

12.10.2025 30

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Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem’s shambolic ICE tour

Miller and Noem try to sell Trump’s troop takeover — but even Fox News is no safe space

08.10.2025 4

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From Dan Rather to — Bari Weiss? How far CBS News has fallen

The Tiffany Network has become a battlefield in the billionaires' war on journalism

06.10.2025 3

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Trump’s commerce secretary creates a big Epstein mess

Howard Lutnick calls Epstein "the greatest blackmailer ever"

05.10.2025 20

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Do Fox News hosts support political violence? Yes, no, sort of

Jesse Watters' comments about bombing the UN is just the latest example of a trend

01.10.2025 3

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Did Donald Trump get duped by Fox News?

The president is falling hard for AI slop — and outdated news footage

29.09.2025 6

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The art of the steal: Trump’s TikTok deal is not what it seems

If successful, the transaction will cement Silicon Valley's right-wing shift

27.09.2025 20

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“That backfired bigly”: Kimmel’s return is a defeat for Project 2025

Resistance through humor and public outrage still carries weight

24.09.2025 10

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Meet the White House reporter egging on Trump’s crackdown

Brian Glenn, Trump’s favorite correspondent, is on a crusade to crush free speech

22.09.2025 10

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Inside MAGA’s fight over Charlie Kirk’s legacy

Podcaster's memorial overshadowed by right-wing conspiracy theories

21.09.2025 10

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How Pam Bondi became MAGA’s patsy

The right needs a hate speech scapegoat

17.09.2025 30

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War or peace? GOP divided on the path forward after Kirk’s killing

Even a traumatic assassination can't stop the right's infighting

15.09.2025 20

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“They” killed Charlie: The right’s rush to assign blame for Kirk’s killing

Even before his death was confirmed, MAGA influencers were pointing fingers — and planning reprisals

14.09.2025 4

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White House spin on Epstein spirals out of control

Everyone except MAGA media is talking about the "wonderful secret"

10.09.2025 2

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Newsmax lawsuit shows Fox News is bigger than Donald Trump

With her lawsuit dismissal, Judge Aileen Cannon hands the network an important win

07.09.2025 60

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Conspiracy theories come back to bite Trump and haunt the White House

The president is alive — but questions are still being raised about his health

03.09.2025 5

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Fox News star’s jump to the Trump administration is backfiring

Jeanine Pirro’s failure to indict several high-profile cases shows the cracks in Trump’s DC takeover

31.08.2025 10

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Fox host offers bizarre response to network’s video debunking Trump

“Who’s telling the truth?”: Fox plays proof Trump lied and then asks viewers to decide

27.08.2025 2

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With Bolton raid, MAGA media confronts Trump’s war of retribution

The FBI raid on John Bolton draws blowback for its "gratuitous viciousness"

25.08.2025 2

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Fox News sees the power of Gavin Newsom’s trolling

That’s why the network’s stars are fuming

24.08.2025 6

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Megyn Kelly’s Beyoncé meltdown has nothing to do with Sydney Sweeney

The singer's success seems to have deeply disturbed the right-wing podcaster

06.08.2025 4

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The right-wing podcast wars just got really ugly

After Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens' conversation, the MAGA snake began to eat itself

04.08.2025 10

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No, Nate Silver: Epstein is not the new Russiagate

The numbers show the scandal is worse for Trump than you think

03.08.2025 20

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Right-wing media makes NYC shooting all about Mamdani

Blaming blue city violence conceals the trend of declining crime rates

30.07.2025 10

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Tulsi Gabbard’s failure to distract from Epstein saga is no flop

Her wild accusations haven't caught fire in the media. But Trump is still pleased

28.07.2025 10

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Too corporate to fight for a free press

Why Trump’s shameless shakedown of American media is so successful

05.07.2025 50

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MAGA's narrative warfare gets all mixed up by Rupert Murdoch

It sounds like 2003 on Fox News — but is MAGA listening?

20.06.2025 8

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MSNBC wants to host America’s “fun Saturday night dinner party”

A conversation with the new hosts of “The Weekend: Primetime”

02.05.2025 20

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Trump-appointed judge slams deportation of 2-year-old US citizen: "It is illegal"

The child's father filed to keep her in the U.S. before she was removed from the country Friday

27.04.2025 20

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"This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians": Putin defies Trump, escalates attacks

The U.S. has stopped sharing satellite intelligence with Ukraine

08.03.2025 6

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Good riddance to Washington's real power duo

Senate Democrats have started to say their goodbyes.  “Some of the happiest times I have had in the Senate were on Joe Manchin’s boat,” said Senate...

15.12.2024 20

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Trump's Madison Square Garden scandal: Is it too late to undo the damage?

After the 2016 election, once everyone recovered from the shock, the analyses of what happened started to gel into a conventional wisdom that...

28.10.2024 50

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