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Is Agnes Callard Making You Uncomfortable?
Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates, the philosopher forced by his fellow Athenians to drink hemlock in 399 BCE; she wants to be him. Entirely conscious of himself as an icon, Callard writes,...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Chaos Strategy Is Already Blowing Up in His Face
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleTrump Gutted Key Aviation Safety Committee Before D.C. Plane Crash
Last week, just days after his inauguration, Donald Trump eliminated the membership of a key committee that handles aviation security. And on Wednesday night, a passenger plane collided with a...
View ArticleTrump Targets School Funding in Disturbing “Indoctrination” Order
Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that would defund schools that teach kids about “critical race theory” or gender.The executive order “prohibits federal funding of the indoctrination of...
View ArticleTrump’s Trash Defense Secretary Is Ready to Go to War With U.S. Allies
After marketing himself as the peacemaker president, Donald Trump sure seems set on starting some new wars. During an interview on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime Wednesday night, Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump Is Already Pushing Conspiracies About Horrific D.C. Plane Crash
A crash between a U.S. Military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane late Wednesday elicited the first rift between official White House messaging and Donald Trump’s personal...
View ArticleSenior Republican Stops RFK Jr. Hearing to Shut Down Anti-Vax Comments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appearance Thursday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) sparked a terse discussion of vaccine safety, pushing at least one Republican to...
View ArticleFAA Leader Quit Before D.C. Plane Crash—Thanks to Elon Musk
The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Michael Whitaker, resigned from his position on January 20 after repeated demands from Elon Musk that he quit, leaving the agency without a...
View ArticleTransportation Chief Makes Unbelievably Dumb Claim on D.C. Plane Crash
Trump’s freshly appointed transportation secretary is doing a terrible job of inspiring confidence in his abilities, following the devastating aircraft collision at Ronald Reagan National airport near...
View ArticleTrump Is Now Blaming People With Disabilities for D.C. Plane Crash
Donald Trump is claiming that diversity, equity, and inclusion is to blame for the deadly collision of a passenger plane and a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.During a news conference...
View ArticleSenator Slams RFK Jr. for Refusing to Accept Science
Robert F. Kennedy’s virulent vaccine conspiracies got some members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, emotional on Thursday, with New Hampshire Senator Maggie...
View ArticleTrump’s Gaza Comment Had One Receptive Audience: The Israeli Far Right
President Donald Trump’s reckless statement last Saturday advocating for the ethnic emptying of Gaza has sparked widespread condemnation. At a time when delicate Gaza ceasefire negotiations were...
View ArticleTrump Blames D.C. Plane Crash on DEI—and Then Says He Has No Evidence
Donald Trump is suggesting that diversity, equity, and inclusion policies are responsible for the deadly plane crash near Washington, D.C., that is believed to have taken the lives of 67 people. The...
View ArticleTrump’s FBI Pick Refuses to Answer Perhaps the Biggest Question of All
Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s choice to run the FBI, pointedly refused to answer a question at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about using the bureau to go after the president’s enemies.Senator...
View ArticleDemocrats Protest Vote on Trump’s Budget Pick Over Medicaid Freeze
Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee boycotted a meeting Thursday to advance Russell Vought’s nomination to chair the Office of Budget and Management—but of course, Republicans still forged ahead...
View ArticleRFK Jr. and Bernie Sanders Get Into Screaming Match Over Big Pharma
Robert F. Kennedy attempted Thursday to score a cheap political point against Senator Bernie Sanders by accusing the independent Vermont lawmaker of being bought out by the pharmaceutical industry—but...
View ArticleFAA Report on D.C. Plane Crash Is Out—and It’s an Indictment of Trump
A preliminary report on Wednesday night’s plane and helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. contradicts Donald Trump’s favorite DEI scapegoat.An internal report from the Federal Aviation...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Struggles to Explain Past Quote on Vaccines for Black People
RFK Jr. had no good explanation during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for his past peddling of dangerous, anti-Black misinformation about how white people and Black people process...
View ArticleTrump’s War on the Media Has Found Its First Targets
Donald Trump is officially waging war on publicly funded journalism. In a letter to PBS and NPR, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced that he was launching an investigation...
View ArticleElon Musk Plans to Take Over GSA Next—With Disturbing Plan of Action
Elon Musk’s next target in the federal government is its buildings. The tech CEO and fascism enthusiast reportedly spent Thursday afternoon in the General Services Administration’s headquarters and met...
View ArticleAOC Rips Trump a New One Over Lies About D.C. Plane Crash
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday slammed Trump’s claims that diversity, equity, and inclusion caused the deadly plane crash that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C.—and is drawing...
View ArticleTrump Decides Presser on D.C. Plane Crash Is Best Time for a Joke
Donald Trump just will not take Wednesday night’s deadly aviation collision seriously. While signing yet another batch of executive orders on Thursday, the president was asked whether he planned to...
View ArticleTrump Just Made His Comments About D.C. Plane Crash so Much Worse
President Donald Trump made his declaration that the tragic, mid-air crash over Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people late Wednesday was the fault of President Joe Biden’s DEI policies before...
View ArticleAngry Trump Snaps at Journos who Harshly Expose His Plane Crash Drivel
After a passenger jet collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C., leaving no survivors, President Donald Trump went before the cameras and blamed Democrats and diversity, equity, and...
View ArticleHow RFK Jr. Helped Democrats Get Their Act Together
The Democratic Party is still recovering from the shock of Donald Trump’s reelection. There seems to be a crisis of memory: The early chaos of his administration was not just predictable, it was...
View ArticleThe Right Is Frothing Over a New Medication Abortion Study
When people talk about “the abortion pill,” they typically mean mifepristone, the first drug in the FDA-approved medication abortion regimen. Conservatives are currently lobbying both federal courts...
View ArticleThe Frustrations of Severance
The most compulsively bingeable show I’ve seen in the past few months is a game show for children. On Create the Escape, a group of kids imagines and builds an elaborate escape room—the kind you find...
View Article“A Mortal, Existential Threat”: Harry Litman on the DOJ Crisis
Harry Litman is one of America’s foremost legal commentators with his frequent cable news appearances, his Talking Feds podcast, and his popular Substack newsletter. Now he can add senior legal...
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Trump 2.0’s Deregulation of Chemicals Has Begun
Last week, Trump appointed two veterans of his first administration, Nancy Beck and Lynn Dekleva, to lead chemical regulation at the Environmental Protection Agency. Beck is a chemical industry...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Seethes at Journos who Expose his Plane Crash Drivel
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 31 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleTrump Change Causes Flood of Crude Spam Emails to Federal Workers
The Trump administration’s changes to its email settings has federal employees getting endlessly spammed with vulgar content.When Trump took office, he changed the email system so that every single...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System—at Any Cost
A top-ranking official in the U.S. Department of the Treasury is resigning after a fight with Elon Musk over a sensitive payment system.The Washington Post reports that David Lebryk, who has worked in...
View ArticleWe’ve Now Learned the Three Principles of Trumpism, and They’re Ugly
We’re nearing the end of week two of Trump 2.0, and several things are already manifestly clear. First and foremost, that the new Trump administration was more than ready to hit the ground running at...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard’s Chances of Becoming Trump’s Intel Chief Plummet
Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for director of national intelligence may be in serious jeopardy.Multiple Senate Republicans have cooled on Gabbard, dashing hopes that she’d receive the same warm treatment...
View ArticleTrump Is Already Trying to Start Another Trade War
President Donald Trump is warning a coalition of countries to find “another sucker nation” if they opt to move away from the U.S. dollar.The major countries in BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and...
View ArticleTrump’s FBI Pick Isn’t Confirmed, and the Purges Have Already Begun
Less than 24 hours after Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, tried to convince Democrats he doesn’t have an “enemies list,” six senior FBI leaders were ordered to retire or resign if they...
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Top Official Who Fought “Illegal” Trump Purge Now Being Pushed Out
On Wednesday, a career official at the U.S. Agency for International Development was placed on administrative leave after he undid an order from Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” to...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Tried to Hide He Settled for a “Misconduct” Accusation
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to senators late Thursday that there was at least one incident in which he settled a case over inappropriate behavior.The revelation came by way of a series of follow-up...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Wars Are About to Cost a Very Important Republican
Republicans’ new Senate majority leader, John Thune, is being forced to choose between his fearless MAGA leader and the constituents who chose him to represent their interests. Trump on Thursday...
View ArticleGOP Lawmaker Admits There’s No Proof DEI Caused D.C. Plane Crash
Republican Congressman Eric Burlison admitted Friday there was no evidence that diversity, equity, and inclusion policies were responsible for the deadly plane crash near Washington, D.C., earlier this...
View ArticleWhy Did the LA Times Edit This RFK Jr. Article to Be More Pro-Trump?
A social scientist who wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times has accused the paper’s Trump-friendly owner of bending his words to suit Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment to the Department of Health...
View ArticleRight-Wing Group Sends Trump Deportation List Over Palestine Activism
A far-right, extremist group has compiled a list of foreign students and teachers that it thinks should be expelled from the United States for protesting against Israel, and turned it over to officials...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean for Your Utility Bill
If the Trump administration is delivering anything to the working class so far, it’s overwhelming household costs: Come for the $16 eggs at the grocery store, stay for the eye-popping utility bills if...
View ArticleIllinois Governor Torches Trump Pardon Recipients With Major Penalty
Governor J.B. Pritzker is blocking any January 6 rioters pardoned by Donald Trump from working for the state of Illinois.In a statement released Thursday, the Democratic governor blatantly ignored...
View ArticleTrump Administration Issues Its Pettiest Order Yet—on Email Signatures
In perhaps the Trump administration’s pettiest move yet, multiple federal agencies are ordering federal employees to remove any pronouns from their email signatures by end of day Friday, according to...
View ArticleTrump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One
President Donald Trump has granted Elon Musk unprecedented power to carry out his war on the “deep state.” The justification for this is supposed to be that the government is corrupted to its core...
View ArticleDoctor Criminally Indicted Over Abortion Pill in Dark New Timeline
A New York doctor has been indicted for trying to provide a patient with abortion pills across state lines.Dr. Margaret Carpenter, her company Nightingale Medical, PC, and an unnamed third person have...
View ArticleTrump Is Now Begging Federal Workers to Take His “Buyout”
President Donald Trump is doubling down on his ultimatum to federal employees, sending yet another wretched email on Thursday that practically begs employees to take “deferred resignation” and leave...
View ArticleStock Market Plummets as Trump Announces New Tariff War
On Friday, almost immediately after the Trump administration announced that tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada will begin on Saturday, the stock market plunged.White House press secretary...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems
Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” deputies have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal information of millions of federal workers.Reuters, citing...
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