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Keir Starmer’s Downfall Is the Only Reward for Simpering Centrism

As head of Labour, Starmer served his role ignobly: weeding out the Left and paving the way for the far right.

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30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest is likely only the start of the Trump administration’s efforts to...

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Establishment Democrats to the Dustbin of History

It’s increasingly clear that the energy is with the left wing of the Democratic Party — not the centrists, not the establishment.

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The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory

Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction in Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget.

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Chud the Builder Fantasized About “Race War.” Now He’s Charged With Attempted Murder.

Dalton Eatherly streams his racist provocations online. It was only a matter of time before the violence rhetoric entered the real world.

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Trump’s Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters — and How to Fight It

Trump’s indictment against ICE protesters in Minneapolis is part of an attempt to criminalize organizing as a “conspiracy.”

17.06.2026 8

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They Weren’t Convicted of Terrorism, But These Palestine Activists Got Sentenced as Terrorists Anyway

The case marks the first time that “criminal damage” convictions in the UK have been classified as terrorism.

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Indiana Banned Press From Executions for “Dignity.” It Actually Serves Repression.

There’s no dignity in secret executions.

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Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong — Before Bari Weiss Made It Worse

Scott Pelley describes Weiss’s horrific pro-Trump meddling, but he also shows how “both sides” journalism was already dooming our country.

11.06.2026 10

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The Real “Divide” Among Democrats Over Israel Is Between Party Leadership and Voters

Supporting Israel is now a fringe position among Democratic voters. Why does the media keep covering it like a 50/50 issue?

04.06.2026 10

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Stop Calling It a Ceasefire

How many acts of war must occur before the mainstream media accepts there is no ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran?

03.06.2026 10

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After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.

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Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who”

Rep. Jake Auchincloss urging Democrats to vote against the presumptive Maine Senate nominee exposes the limits of party unity.

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Ahmadinejad Is Still Bad for Iranians — and Still Great for Israel

A bombshell report shows how Israel and the U.S. never really cared about freeing the Iranian people.

20.05.2026 10

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The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”

Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life.

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Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund Is a Handout to His Hardcore Supporters

Putting January 6 rioters on the dole is a new kind of corruption — and it definitely won’t help the American working class.

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DOJ Escalates War on Trans Youth Healthcare With Criminal Subpoenas

We already know how high the stakes are for patients and their families — and rolling over now could hurt all of medicine.

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Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking

The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

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Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court

Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations as the government’s de facto censors.

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Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting Power After Supreme Court’s Blessing of Jim Crow

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee’s GOP rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

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Hasan Piker Is the Democrats’ New Man on the Trail, Whether They Like It or Not

Insurgent candidates like Bush are tapping Piker as a campaign surrogate — but they still face an uphill battle to winning.

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Clavicular and the Right-Wing Project to Radicalize Young Men

The popular streamer offers easy answers for why the world has left young men feeling unhappy and alone.

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Never Apologize

James Comey, Zohran Mamdani, and the lost art of doubling down.

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Graham Platner Handed Centrist Dems a Bruising Defeat in Maine

After throwing their support behind Gov. Janet Mills, party leaders are left doing an about-face on the insurgent candidate.

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We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can

Treating journalism like a casino will harm reporting — and erode democracy.

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How Trump’s America Produces Normie Assassins

The only extremism would-be assassins like suspect Cole Tomas Allen share is an extreme response to Trump’s deranging politics.

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Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press

By suing The Atlantic for defamation, the FBI director is leveraging one of Trump’s legal tactics to tamp down free speech.

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How the Lebanon Ceasefire Could Make It Harder to End the War on Iran

The deal is a welcome reprieve from Israel’s bombing — but separating Lebanon from the ceasefire with Iran sets a dangerous precedent.

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Don’t Trust the Lebanon Ceasefire When Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza

News of less violence is welcome, but with Israel promising to stay in Lebanon, we need to remember the Gaza “ceasefire” has meant continued genocide.

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The Forever Spoiler: Netanyahu Has Been Blowing Up Diplomacy With Iran for Decades

Israel’s vicious attack on Lebanon emerged as the biggest threat to the Iran ceasefire. That might be intentional.

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DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public

Killing the Presidential Records Act would allow private individuals to hold the keys to American history, forever.

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How the War Strengthened Iran’s Hand Against the U.S. and Israel

Survival of the regime alone was a victory — but its demonstration of control over the Strait of Hormuz may be a strategic game-changer.

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The Media Just Can’t Help Turning Iran Fighter Jet Rescue Into “Black Hawk Down”

Everyone reported the exact same story at the exact same time — and they all relied on the same liars who got us into this mess.

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Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War

By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.

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Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection At All

The Supreme Court ruling has far-reaching, terrifying potential consequences — and not just for trans youth.

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Trump's FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Really Serves One Powerful Man.

When you look at the fights FCC chair Brendan Carr actually picks, they aren’t local stories at all. They’re tailored for Donald Trump.

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Trump Wanted to Replicate His Venezuela “Success” in Iran. What Has It Even Looked Like?

Trump carried out regime change without a change in regime in Venezuela. Time will tell what that means for the country.

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What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research?

The destruction of parts of two universities in Iran fits with Israel’s M.O. of crippling countries’ ability to rebuild.

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ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily Lives

I had an ultimately harmless encounter with ICE at a TSA checkpoint. It was a preview of a new, more sophisticated way to terrorize people.

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The Regime Survives, Trump Has to Deal, and Iranians Are the Biggest Losers

Short of a full-scale invasion, it looks like Trump will need to deal with the Iranian regime.

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Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions

The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press.

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U.S. Oil Blockade Could Condemn Cubans to Die Without a Deal

The American oil blockade of Cuba has made conditions on the island dire, and reaching a deal has become a matter of life and death.

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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database

Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.

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Why We Have to Fight Back Against ICE Protesters’ Terror Convictions

Since his first inauguration, Trump has been throwing charges at protesters and seeing what sticks. He always failed — until now.

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Senate Dem Leaders Are Trying to Sink Graham Platner. Voters Aren’t Convinced.

Despite his high-profile controversies, Platner is still popular with Mainers. But leadership isn’t budging from its centrist pick.

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Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran

By rallying behind process-based critiques, the Democrats are refusing to stand against the war on moral grounds.

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I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.

My little horror movie review was introduced to prove a conception of antifa that — like many of the monsters we scream at in horror flicks —...

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It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention”

Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.

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Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.

Israeli bombing left cars in Gaza immobile and roads impassable. The assault on Iran has only spiked prices and worsened conditions.

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Surveillance, Propaganda, Intimidation: Dems Need to Wise Up That ICE Is a National Security Threat

DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections.

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