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November 20, 2024
Lindsey Graham Has Disgusting Reason for Supporting Matt Gaetz
Lindsey Graham doesn’t think the accusations against alleged sex pest Matt Gaetz are disqualifying.
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November 20, 2024
Trump’s Latest Cabinet Pick Is Also Mired in a Sexual Abuse Scandal
Also, what does a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment know about education?
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November 20, 2024
Texas Cozies Up to Trump by Offering Him a Ranch for Deportation Prep
How sweet.
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November 20, 2024
Big Setback for Trump as GOPers Privately Tell Him: Matt Gaetz Is Done
With Republicans informing Trump that Matt Gaetz’s nomination looks unsalvageable, the author of a new piece on his “team of outlaws” explai...
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November 20, 2024
More Clues Emerge About the Ethics Committee Report on Matt Gaetz
Will one of these finally sink him?
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November 20, 2024
RFK Jr. Pushes One of His Wildest Conspiracies Yet in New Video
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems pretty on board with the “plandemic.”
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November 20, 2024
“Will It Be a Legacy of Horror or Something Else?”
The New Republic talks to White House staffers protesting the Biden administration’s continued support of Israel’s brutal, destructive wars...
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November 20, 2024
Trump Nominates a Fellow Scammer for NATO Ambassador
Donald Trump’s pick Matthew Whitaker once ran a toilet scam.
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November 20, 2024
Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Is Toast ... and His Team Knows It
Pete Hegseth’s nomination may already be sunk.
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November 20, 2024
Trump’s Election Can’t Help His Trash Stock—and Investors Are Pissed
Donald Trump’s social media stock value continues to tank.
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November 20, 2024
Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court
The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.
The New Republic
November 20, 2024
How Entertainment Mangled Public Discourse
Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.
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November 20, 2024
The Time-Honored Tradition of Blaming the Left for Democratic Defeats
This argument is particularly unconvincing this time around. And it doesn’t offer a realistic prescription for future success.
The New Republic
November 20, 2024
The Matt Gaetz Report Is Dead... For Now
The House Ethics Committee did not decide whether to release the report on Matt Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct.
The New Republic
November 20, 2024
Idiot Trump Accidentally Gives Democrats a Massive Boost
Donald Trump was so busy sucking up to Elon Musk that he accidentally made things easier for Senate Democrats.
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November 20, 2024
JD Vance Offers the Most Ridiculous Reason to Support Matt Gaetz
Trump "deserves" to have his cabinet picks confirmed, Vance insisted.
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November 20, 2024
Republicans Adopt New, Absurd Defense of Gaetz: The Past Isn’t Real!
Senator Kevin Cramer is getting philosophical in his attempts to contort himself into supporting Gaetz for attorney general.
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November 20, 2024
Military Not So Keen on Being Part of Trump’s Deportation Plans
A defense official speaking to The Intercept called the plan to have the military round up immigrants "absolutely insane."
The New Republic
November 20, 2024
Trump Is Done Pretending He Knows Nothing About Project 2025
Russ Vought is Trump's pick for the Office of Management and Budget.
The New Republic
November 20, 2024
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Reveal Secret Weapon to Wreck Government
Donald Trump’s chosen heads of efficiency want to weaponize the Supreme Court.
The New Republic
November 19, 2024
Protesters Urge Biden to “Fund Housing Not Genocide”
Several were arrested in the Capitol as they tried to persuade the Biden administration to stop arming Israel.
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November 19, 2024
Rudy Giuliani Launches Last-Ditch Effort to Have Trump Save Him
Rudy Giuliani is desperate to not pay that $148 million—and hoping Trump will bail him out after inauguration.
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November 19, 2024
Manhattan DA Concedes Trump Can’t Be Sentenced—but It’s Not Over Yet
The prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial aren’t willing to give up on everything after his historic felony conviction.
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November 19, 2024
Days After Trump’s Win, Putin Increases Chance of Nuclear War
Russian leader Vladimir Putin shows no signs of backing down in its war on Ukraine, regardless of what Donald Trump claims.
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November 19, 2024
Trump’s Latest Administration Pick Is a Quack TV Doctor
Make America Healthy Again indeed.
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November 19, 2024
Trump’s Latest Administration Pick Is a Quack TV Doctor
Make America Healthy Again indeed.
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November 19, 2024
Marjorie Taylor Greene Finally Had a Good Idea
Greene said that if the House releases Matt Gaetz’s ethics report, it should release every ethics report.
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November 19, 2024
JD Vance Subtweets Trump in Pettiest Fight—and Then Deletes It All
JD Vance has no idea what he’s doing, but he’s probably pissing off Donald Trump.
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November 19, 2024
Another Despicable Republican Announces Bid to Take Matt Gaetz’s Seat
Michelle Salzman wants to win the Florida representative’s seat after he suddenly stepped down.
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November 19, 2024
Media-Thirsty Nancy Mace Starts Vile Fight With Trans Colleague
Representative Nancy Mace proves yet again she’s a terrible human being—this time by picking a fight with the first trans member of Congress...
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November 19, 2024
Watch: Fox News Begs Trump to Give Up on Matt Gaetz Already
Even Fox News is asking Donald Trump to reconsider his extreme pick for attorney general.
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November 19, 2024
Donald Trump is Getting Sensitive, Classified Information Again
Trump—who is still facing federal charges related to mishandling classified information—has started receiving briefings again.
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November 19, 2024
Trump Wants Project 2025 Architect to Have Starring Role in Cabinet
Remember all those times Donald Trump pretended he had never heard of it?
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November 19, 2024
Is Anyone On Trump’s Team Actually Vetting His Nominees?
Trump's transition team was apparently unaware that Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host he nominated to lead the Department of Defense, has been...
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November 19, 2024
How to Do Escapism in the Trump Era
Eastern Europeans' "internal emigration" experiences under authoritarianism offer useful lessons about how to check out without isolating yo...
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November 19, 2024
A Hacker Just Got His Hands on Damning Evidence Against Matt Gaetz
It isn’t looking good for Trump’s attorney general pick.
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November 19, 2024
Trump to Pick GOP Billionaire to Run Commerce Department Into Ground
Donald Trump wants Howard Lutnick to serve as secretary of commerce. Here’s how much of a disaster that would be.
The New Republic
November 19, 2024
Randy Newman’s Genius for Political Irony
Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.
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November 19, 2024
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Should Eliminate Itself
The vanity agency the billionaire oligarch is getting from Trump probably won’t accomplish much beyond giving him and partner Vivek Ramaswam...
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November 19, 2024
Trump Is Bringing Neoconservatism Back
Far from “America First,” his foreign policy advisers largely believe in using military force abroad—at the risk of entangling the U.S. in m...
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November 19, 2024
Trump’s Ugly Threat to Bypass Senate with Gaetz Pick Takes Darker Turn
As Trump mulls recess appointments to ram through disastrous personnel choices like Matt Gaetz, an expert in congressional rules explains ho...
The New Republic
November 19, 2024
Trump Is Struggling With His Treasury Pick for the Dumbest Reason
He wants someone who’ll sell Wall Street on across-the-board tariffs. That person doesn’t exist.
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
The Case For Ignoring Trump’s Daily Rage-Bait
Responding to every stupid thing Trump does won't help win the coming battles. Climate advocates in particular need deeper forms of reflecti...
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
The Media’s Favorite Euphemism for Trump’s Acolytes
With the president-elect choosing his rogues' gallery of future appointees, the political press is really wearing out their go-to synonym fo...
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
Trump Is Testing the Senate. And Guess Who’s Going to Win That One?
On regular Earth, Matt Gaetz is an awful AG pick in every way. On Planet MAGA, it’s a signal from Dear Leader to senator that they better fa...
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
The True Threat to American Retirement
The wealthy don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better vision for old age.
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Throws Out Votes as Senate Recount Begins
The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court has ruled some votes cannot be counted.
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
Trump’s Department of Transportation Is Going to Be a Nightmare
None of the likely nominees to lead the department are remotely qualified.
The New Republic
November 18, 2024
Watch: Mike Johnson Offers Bonkers Defense of Trump Cabinet’s Morals
The House speaker had no actual defense for the nightmare people Donald Trump has picked.
The New Republic
November 18, 2024