Mike Waltz’s Latest Desperate Group Chat Defense Is Total Nonsense
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is grasping at straws to defend the fact that he invited The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat about bombing Yemen. During an interview on Fox News...
View ArticleDid Marco Rubio Just Brag That Trump Broke the Law on Deportations?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have just violated a court order stopping the Trump administration’s fast-tracked deportations. Rubio announced that a group of alleged gang members had been deported...
View ArticleTrump Insists Economy Not About to Explode as Banks Warn Differently
Banks are predicting a downturn for the American economy.Goldman Sachs raised its 12-month recession probability from 20 percent to 30 percent on Monday, reported Reuters. The banking giant also...
View ArticleMAGA’s Mad at JD Vance for Group Chat—But Not for the Reason You Think
Vice President JD Vance may have stepped in it with his fellow Republicans by questioning Donald Trump’s plan to strike the Houthis, NBC News reported Sunday. Earlier this month, Vance, and other...
View ArticleMike Waltz Used Signal for Plenty of Other Suspicious Group Chats
Mike Waltz has multiple Signal group chats in addition to the now infamous “Houthi PC small group” that he added a reporter to earlier this month, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.Two...
View ArticleLeaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say
Forget DEI buzzwords—the Trump administration’s government censorship ordinance is now infringing on language that will make it nearly impossible for agencies to do their job.A leaked memo from the...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Video on Wisconsin Election Sure Looks Like a Confession
Elon Musk’s own PAC may have just posted a filmed confession about buying votes in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election this Tuesday.The world’s richest man has poured nearly $20 million into the...
View ArticlePress Sec. Blatantly Contradicts Trump Defending “Third Term” Comment
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is insisting that the media is overreacting to Donald Trump’s theories about staying in office for a third term. Speaking with reporters on Monday, Leavitt seemed to...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating
Early last Tuesday, 25-year-old Alfredo Juarez Zeferino—a longtime farmworker union organizer who goes by the name “Lelo”—was driving his partner to her job on a tulip bulb farm in Skagit County,...
View ArticleTrump Press Secretary Freaks Out Over Questions About Deportations
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt flailed Monday when asked about the government’s shady system for classifying gang members. Desperate to dodge the question, Leavitt went on a tirade...
View ArticlePoll Shows Voters Want One Thing From Pete Hegseth After Signalgate
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s reckless treatment of classified information has left the majority of voters thinking that he should resign, according to a poll published Monday. A poll by J.L....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Looks Likely to Give Religious Groups Another Win
The Supreme Court appears likely to side with a group of Catholic charities over an exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance program, but the justices did not signal in oral argument on Monday...
View ArticleTrump’s Mass Purge Finally Hits Museums and Libraries
Elon Musk and DOGE just soft-fired everyone at the federal agency that supports local libraries and museums nationwide. All 70 Institute of Museum and Library Services employees were sent an email on...
View ArticleTrump Hit by Brutal New Polls on Econ as GOP Tariff Panic Goes Nuclear
President Donald Trump is set to announce that he’ll impose sweeping new global tariffs on imports, and congressional Republicans are already scrambling wildly to try to shield their states and...
View ArticleThink Medical Research Is Safe at Columbia? Maybe. For the Time Being.
On the morning after Columbia University’s interim president resigned last week, I turned by lifelong habit to The New York Times for my first read about a major news event. Much of the article...
View ArticleThe Right Wing’s New Plot to Force the Ten Commandments on Schoolkids
In 1978, Kentucky picked a fight with the U.S. Constitution. The state enacted a law requiring that a “durable, permanent copy of the Ten Commandments shall be displayed on a wall in each public...
View ArticleTrump Team Makes Stunning Admission About Deportations—and It’s Awful
The Trump administration has admitted that it mistakenly deported a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador due to an “administrative error,” despite the government’s repeated insistence that there...
View ArticleThe Shocking Reason Some GOPers Hope They Lose the Special Elections
At least some Republicans are eyeing a special election in Florida as their party’s getaway car from Elon Musk.Across the country and around the world, people are protesting at Tesla dealerships and...
View ArticleTrump DOJ Caves to Elon Musk With Wild Punishment for Tesla Protester
Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking 20 years for a Colorado man who allegedly firebombed one of Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships—in a blatantly political stunt to chase down dissidents. Bondi announced...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Launches Bloodbath at Health Department in Mass Layoffs
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mass firings have begun at the Health and Human Services Department. HHS employees started receiving layoff emails on Tuesday, just days after Trump signed an...
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Trump Is Back to Begging Federal Workers to Take His “Buyout”
The Trump administration is reviving its “deferred resignation” program as an incentive for federal workers in the Department of Housing and Urban Development to leave their jobs.The department...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Just Now Admitting That Trump’s Tariffs Will Suck
Republicans are finally admitting that Donald Trump’s tariff plan will hurt Americans.CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins probed Montana Senator Tim Sheehy’s thoughts on the country’s economic trajectory in an...
View ArticleLuigi Mangione Faces Death Penalty Thanks to Trump’s Attorney General
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered New York prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter. “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an...
View ArticleCory Booker’s Marathon Anti-Trump Senate Floor Speech Passes 15 Hours
Senator Cory Booker is in hour 15 of a Senate floor “filibuster” at the time of this writing. He started the marathon speech in protest of Trump at 7 p.m. on Monday. While technically not an official...
View ArticleEuropean Union Issues Grim Warning Over Trump’s Looming Tariffs
Donald Trump’s global tariff “Liberation Day” begins April 2—but European officials say that they have their own hand to play in the U.S. president’s trade war.“Europe has not started this...
View ArticleElon Musk’s New USAID Stooge Once Threatened to Gut a Girl
Jeremy Lewin, the newly appointed head of the remaining shreds of USAID, has a history of violent outbursts and making racist remarks, according to an exclusive report from Rolling Stone. Before Lewin...
View ArticleNow We Know Why Elon Musk’s DOGE Seized That Independent Nonprofit
It looks like Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is trying to award itself a $500 million building from one of the organizations it targeted.Wired reports that DOGE is trying to transfer...
View ArticleICE Logic for Deporting “Gang Members” Is Based on Total Lie
As the Trump administration continues to face mounting legal challenges to its mass deportation of alleged members of Tren de Aragua, who were identified over their supposedly incriminating tattoos,...
View ArticleDonald Trump Fell for Elon Musk’s Big Con
Wednesday is Liberation Day, and one person might be even more excited about it than Donald Trump is: Elon Musk. While much of what the president will announce from the Rose Garden on April 2 remains a...
View ArticleKaroline Leavitt Pulls a 180 After ICE Admits It Deported Wrong Guy
The Trump administration is continuing to lie about the Venezuelan nationals they deported on claims they were all Tren de Aragua gang members.Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked on Tuesday...
View ArticleTrump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs Are as Extreme as It Gets
Donald Trump’s planned “Liberation Day” Wednesday will bring outrageous tariffs of 20 percent on most goods imported to the U.S., according to officials who spoke with The Washington Post. Trump...
View ArticlePutin Suddenly Gives Trump the Middle Finger on Ukraine Peace Talks
Surprise, surprise: Russia has not turned out to be a reliable negotiating partner in ending the war in Ukraine.Peace talks between the United States and the world power have seemingly stalled, Reuters...
View ArticleThe Lawlessness Is the Point
If JD Vance were capable of shame, he’d be embarrassed by what just happened. After the news broke that President Trump’s administration admitted to deporting a Maryland man in “error,” Vance lashed...
View ArticlePress Secretary Suddenly Knows Nothing About Trump Tariff Comments
The White House’s lines of communication appear to be frayed or, at the very least, out of date.Just last month, Donald Trump practically threatened executives of America’s auto industry over a phone...
View ArticleHere’s Where Trump’s Cuts to Planned Parenthood Will Hurt Most
The Trump administration on Tuesday froze $35 million in family planning, sexual, and reproductive health funding.The “Abortion, Every Day” newsletter reports that the move, which targets funding under...
View ArticleNine House Republicans Torpedo Mike Johnson’s Plans
Nine House Republicans defected from their party on the parental proxy vote Tuesday in a direct rejection of Speaker Mike Johnson’s plans.The vote was for a bill regarding whether to allow new parents...
View ArticleTrump Finally Takes Revenge on CDC With Total Bloodbath
In a stroke of revenge for Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., thousands of employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost their jobs Tuesday. The “reduction in...
View ArticleWisconsin Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger in Supreme Court Election
Liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday, crushing Elon Musk’s attempt to buy yet another election.Decision Desk HQ called the race after just 36...
View ArticleTrump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Boils Over
By now you may have heard that the Trump administration deported a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error.” The administration is refusing to bring him back, and this case has extremely dark...
View ArticleGoing Clear
Did you ever go clear?— Leonard CohenI don’t know what it means, just that it costs a lot.But it reminds me of a frame of mind that visits meFrom time to time, in which the world seems mine aloneAnd...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going to Work How He Thinks They Will
The ostensible goal of “Liberation Day,” in which the Trump administration will impose steep, near-universal tariffs on imports, is to “make America the manufacturing superpower of the world once...
View ArticleForget Expensive Eggs. Here’s the “Bigger Picture” of Trump’s Misrule.
Over the last two and a half months, the Trump administration has purged the government of those it deems disloyal, fired tens of thousands of federal workers, enacted a fascistic immigration policy...
View ArticleOnly One Thing Explains Trump’s Tariff Madness
I’m starting to believe April 2 really will be Liberation Day. But instead of liberating us from foreign imports, it will liberate us from any lingering illusion that Trump’s tariffs are about anything...
View ArticleIn the Academy and the Legal World, It’s Time to Stay and Fight
When James Baldwin returned to the United States in 1957 from exile in Paris, he wished to join the growing struggle against 350 years of violent oppression with his feet on the ground, his eyes on the...
View ArticleTrump Reveals Real Reason for His Extreme Tariffs
Donald Trump just made the rationale for his tariff “Liberation Day” crystal clear: revenge.In a post on Truth Social late Tuesday, the president said that the tariffs were his administration’s “fight”...
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Elon Musk May Actually Have Screwed Himself in Wisconsin Election
Elon Musk came up short Tuesday when trying to buy a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court—and he has no one to blame but himself.In the state election, Judge Susan Crawford secured a whopping 55 percent...
View ArticleElon Musk Has Sudden Change of Heart After Wisconsin Election Defeat
Elon Musk is on X trying to convince everyone that it was voter I.D.—and not the state Supreme Court race that he spent millions on—that mattered most after conservative Judge Brad Schimel lost in...
View ArticleTrump Lawyer Seriously Explored Options for Third Term
Donald Trump has been looking at how to be president for a third term since at least October 2023. The Wall Street Journal reports that Boris Ephsteyn, who worked in the White House in Trump’s first...
View ArticleJudge Dismisses Eric Adams Case in a Way That’s Sure to Piss Off Trump
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently dismissed the corruption case against embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams, absolving him of his crimes while ensuring that his case will never be brought...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Must Be Dying Over Damning New Mike Waltz Report
If conservatives cared about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, then they should be up in arms over Mike Waltz.The national security adviser and his staff have been using Gmail to communicate, The...
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