Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses
Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their car at times. She didn’t think she could afford college, so she...
View ArticleWe Are Wittingly Fooling Ourselves About Trump’s Attack on Iran
Earlier this year, in an unexpected divergence from the long-prevailing foreign policy rhetoric of presidents from both parties, Donald Trump gave a speech in Riyadh criticizing interventionists,...
View ArticleThe Bear Offers Apologies—and an Uncertain Path Forward
It’s hard to know what’s scarier: the past or the future. In this fourth season of The Bear, we’ve seen characters go back and forth on this question. Some are gripped by anxiety about days gone by....
View Article“Shocking”: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Is About to Get Much Darker
In today’s episode, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg makes a crucial point: During months of debate about President Trump’s now-signed budget bill, there was very little public debate about what...
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Navigating the “Subversive Safety Net” in Venice Beach
“WE PROTECT US,” one of many slogans people turned to as they flooded the streets in the summer of 2020, reappeared this summer with new urgency: In Los Angeles, amid protests—call it community...
View ArticleE. Jean Carroll Speaks—and She’s Throwing Darts All Across Trumpworld
In the six years since she first wrote that real estate scion Donald Trump slammed her against a wall in the mid-’90s and fingered her in a department store dressing room, E. Jean Carroll has been...
View ArticleAre We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
One aspect of the Republicans’ big, ugly bill that didn’t get enough attention until Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elevated it over the last few days is the massive amounts of money it...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Editor’s note: Later in this discussion guest Simon Rosenberg makes a critical point...
View ArticleOld Man Trump Massively Fumbles Basic Question About His Own Tariffs
The deadline on Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations has been extended until August. Was anyone going to tell him? While taking questions from the press in Morristown, New Jersey, on Sunday, Trump...
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Deletes Post That Sounds Exactly Like Him
Elon Musk’s Grok AI delivered a now-deleted response about Musk’s connection to infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in first person, seemingly speaking directly for Musk—making it hard to take anything...
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MAGA Crashes Out After Trump Conclusion on Jeffrey Epstein
The Trump administration has severely deflated conspiracy theories surrounding the case of Jeffrey Epstein. MAGA world had long awaited the administration’s release of a client list purportedly...
View ArticleTrump Melts Down Over Elon Musk’s Newest Political Endeavor
Donald Trump is seriously crashing out over Elon Musk’s new political party. “I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party,” Trump told reporters Sunday evening. “We have a tremendous success with...
View ArticleTrump Creates Dozens of New ICE Facilities as Immigration War Expands
President Trump has been expanding his detainment center network for months, and now has the congressional funding to fill it.Bloomberg reports that since the inauguration, the Trump administration has...
View ArticleTrump Cruelly Strips 76,000 More Immigrants of Their Legal Status
Per government notices published Monday, the Trump administration plans to end temporary protected status, or TPS, for Honduras and Nicaragua. The move, set to take effect in early September, would...
View ArticleTrump Treasury Secretary Reveals Humiliating Detail About Tariff Talks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accidentally admitted that the White House was lying about countries begging Donald Trump for trade deals. Bessent made the startling admission Sunday as he tied...
View ArticleTexas Killed Bill on Siren Warning System Before Deadly Floods
The deadly flooding in Texas that took at least 80 people, including children, may have been avoided if the state legislature hadn’t killed a bill for an emergency siren alert system because it was too...
View ArticleTrump Announces New Tariffs in Bizarre Copy-Paste Letters
On Monday, Donald Trump announced new tariffs on five countries in letters shared to Truth Social that were identical in all but their addressees and rates. Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, and...
View ArticleEven Fox News Doesn’t Buy Trump’s Epstein Investigation Result
Fox News pushed back Monday on the Department of Justice’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein did not keep a list of clients, citing the head of that very agency, who’d claimed she’d seen the list.During a...
View ArticleTrump DOJ Lawyers’ Incompetence in Abrego Garcia Case Stuns Judge
A federal judge torched Department of Justice lawyers Monday for providing slippery answers on their case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was returned to the United States after being deported to El...
View ArticleRemember Trump’s Influencers on the Epstein Files? They’re Pissed
The MAGA influencers who victoriously walked out of the White House in February holding white binders titled “THE EPSTEIN FILES: PHASE 1” are now enraged at the Trump administration’s announcement that...
View ArticleTed Cruz Caught on Vacation as Texas Suffered Deadly Floods
According to a report from The Daily Beast, Senator Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece as tragedy struck his state. Over the July 4 weekend, flash flooding took the lives of at least 95 people in...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Sues Trump Over His “Big, Beautiful Bill”
Planned Parenthood is suing President Trump over a provision in his “big, beautiful bill” that effectively defunds the crucial service provider. “The prohibition specifically targets Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleStock Market Plummets as Trump Announces Tariffs Start Date
Stocks tumbled on Monday as Donald Trump unveiled new tariff rates for a number of countries, taking a few steps closer, once again, to the brink of a global trade war.Trump in early April paused a...
View ArticleThe Deadly Floods Revealed Texans’ Heroism—and Their Failed Politics
Texas novelist Billy Lee Brammer once described the rivers and creeks of the Hill Country around Austin as “running deep like old wounds, boiling round the fractures.” This past weekend, those wounds...
View ArticleTrump Accidentally Reveals Core Problem With ICE Fiasco, Angering MAGA
At a rally, President Trump declared that he now may be suspending deportations for farmworkers and other migrant workers. Trump openly admitted this will anger the “radical right,” by which he likely...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Say Who’s Really to Blame for the Flooding in Texas
In just 45 minutes, early Friday morning, intense rain caused sections of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas to rise by nearly 26 feet. Four months’ worth of rain dropped within hours. More than 100...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Vampire Presidency
President Donald Trump is America’s first rentier president. A rentier is a sort of capitalist parasite who extracts wealth from the economy without contributing to economic productivity. He is the...
View ArticleThe Secret Ingredient to Zohran Mamdani’s Success
Zak Khan wasn’t always the Gyro King of Brooklyn. He started out with a little halal cart down on Wall Street, in the Financial District, just after the September 11 attacks. But running a halal cart...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Blurts Out Awkward Truth About ICE as MAGA Seethes
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump Is Already Flipping on His Brand New Tariff Deadline
Donald Trump said he may fold on his new deadline for tariff negotiations … again.While sitting across the dinner table from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday evening, Trump was asked by...
View ArticleAlex Jones Breaks Down in Tears Over Trump’s Final Epstein Report
Even Donald Trump’s most sycophantic followers are turning on him over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files.Against the expertise of individuals who had worked on the case for decades,...
View ArticleSomeone Is Using AI to Impersonate Marco Rubio
Someone was using AI to impersonate the secretary of state. A State Department cable obtained by The Washington Post detailed that an individual, yet to be publicly identified, was using AI to send...
View ArticleMost Third-Party Efforts Are Jokes. Musk’s Might Not Be. Here’s Why.
I saw a lot of chortling after Elon Musk’s announcement last week that he intends to start a third party, the America Party. Chortle away if you like. But this effort, at least according to what Musk...
View ArticleTrump Forced to Make Humiliating Correction on Tariff Notice
Donald Trump’s team must have been in quite a rush to send out the president’s copy-paste “tariff letters” Monday because they somehow missed a glaring issue. A letter to Bosnia and Herzegovina...
View ArticleMAGA Loses It After Trump’s Sudden Flip on Ukraine Aid
Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine to combat Russia—making a lot of MAGA world livid.Seemingly shifting his stance from days earlier, when the president...
View ArticleTrump Burned Through Stockpile of Patriot Missiles at Alarming Rate
The United States doesn’t have the missile stockpile it needs for the Pentagon’s military plans.The country has only 25 percent of the Patriot missile interceptors left from its initial stockpile level...
View ArticleKristi Noem Guts ICE Oversight as Detainee Deaths Surge
As Donald Trump has rapidly expanded immigration enforcement, he and his administration have also begun stripping government oversight—and people are already dying, according to a report published by...
View ArticleMAGA Turns Its Full Rage on Dan Bongino After Epstein Memo
The MAGA base is still irate at the Trump administration’s decision to essentially drop the Jeffrey Epstein case. Trump made a dubiously timed Truth Social post on Monday praising FBI Director Kash...
View ArticleTrump Agriculture Chief Pushes Outrageous Plan for Medicaid Recipients
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday seemingly contradicted President Trump’s recent pledge to let immigrant farmworkers remain in the United States if their employers vouch for them....
View ArticleWisconsin Supreme Court Clears Way to Ban Conversion Therapy
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has cleared the way for a ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, deciding that a Republican-controlled legislative committee rule blocking bans on the practice was...
View ArticleTrump Offers Mind-Boggling Definition of the Word Skedaddle
Step aside Merriam-Webster, Donald Trump is once again slinging definitions. If only they made any sense. During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Trump lauded his own strike on three Iranian nuclear...
View ArticleTrump Blows Up At Reporter Asking About Jeffrey Epstein
President Trump responded to a question about his administration’s closure of the Jeffrey Epstein case—something that has enraged his deepest base for days—with dismissiveness and indignation. At the...
View ArticleMexico Sends Help as Texas Tragedy Grows After Deadly Floods
As flash flooding over the July 4 weekend took the lives of at least 109 people in Texas, Mexican emergency personnel have volunteered their services to ongoing response efforts.In the wake of the...
View ArticleElon Musk Drags Steve Bannon Into His Epstein Report Freak-Out
The world’s richest man is not happy with how the Trump administration is handling the Epstein files.Elon Musk has gone scorched earth on his ex-allies in the wake of a Department of Justice memo...
View ArticleTrump’s Claim on Ukraine Aid Raises Question of Who’s In Control
Donald Trump gracelessly dodged a question Tuesday about weapons shipments to Ukraine, revealing that the commander-in-chief has no idea about what’s going on with his own warchest. During a Cabinet...
View ArticleTrump’s New Tariff Threat Will Send Medication Prices Skyrocketing
President Trump wants to place a 200 percent tariff on your pharmaceuticals. “We’ll be announcing something very soon on pharmaceuticals, we’re gonna give people about a year, year and a half to come...
View ArticleTop Democrats Demand Release of All Epstein Files Naming Trump
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, along with 15 more of the 19 Democrats on the committee, demanded in a letter Tuesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi release “Epstein file”...
View ArticleElon Musk’s AI Chatbot Is Now Openly Spouting Antisemitic Rhetoric
Thanks to an anti-woke update, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot has become profoundly antisemitic.xAI, the corporation building Grok, updated the chatbot’s code over the weekend after the virtual assistant...
View ArticleDemocratic Bill Would Force ICE Agents to Unmask and ID Themselves
Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Alex Padilla have introduced a bill that would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks or concealing their identities during raids and...
View ArticleKBJ Rips “Senseless” Supreme Court Decision on Trump’s Mass Firings
In a 15-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling allowing President Trump’s mass government layoffs to resume.Trump in February issued an executive order...
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