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Platner hurls expletive at Fetterman as he vows he's nothing like him
Oysterman Graham Platner, the ostensible Democratic frontrunner in this year’s Maine Senate race, used an expletive to describe a sitting Democratic senator that previously insulted him. “The Senate really is a place of - it’s a lot about...
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Trump's refusal to regulate tech puts us in a danger we often don't think about
President Donald Trump’s refusal to regulate AI could put Americans at risk of attacks from biological weapons. In an interview between CBS News contributor Chris Krebs and President Joe Biden’s former adviser Ben Buchanan (who now advises Anthropic),...
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Americans are fighting rapid technological change - with violence
The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence across society is causing a dangerous new form of extremism that is radicalizing individuals across the ideological spectrum, according to a new report from The Guardian. A pattern of alarming incidents...
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Inside the judicial revolt that exposed what Trump wanted buried | Opinion
Trump didn’t drop his $1.8 billion slush fund because of political backlash. Worshipped by the nation’s lowest IQ foot soldiers and propped up by tax-and-regulation-averse donors no matter his crimes, Trump doesn’t care about the midterms because he...
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The reason Trump keeps failing | Opinion
If you hadn’t noticed, Trump is failing. Iran is more dangerous today than it was when went to war on it, and energy prices are far higher. Trump’s brutal efforts to crackdown on undocumented people in the United States have generated a huge backlash,...
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Trump's cuts to this agency will cost families $500 a year: report
President Donald Trump’s changes to the Social Security program, implemented under the guidance of X CEO Elon Musk, will cost many families $500 a year. The new analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) projects that benefit...
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Republicans just gave Trump a 'shock defeat' in a GOP stronghold
U.S. President Donald Trump, in a recent series of GOP primaries, unseated one prominent Republican after another - including Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rep. Thomas Massie (RKentucky) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), none of whom will be competing...
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Trump's world may be falling apart because of the one thing he can’t change
A prominent political analyst argued on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration is falling apart because of the one thing he cannot change - his aging body. “He’s 80!” political analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles on...
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Trump in 'distress' over midterms - despite faking 'indifference': NYT analysis
U.S. President Donald Trump caused a great deal of anxiety among GOP strategists and Republicans in Congress when, during a Cabinet meeting in late May, he declared, "I don't care about the midterms." But New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni...
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How Trump bullied a Dem governor into releasing a convicted criminal | Opinion
Colorado Governor Jared Polis popped up on a Colorado Democratic Party Zoom call this week with black tape plastered over his mouth. While Polis dodged reporters’ requests for comment on what the hell he was thinking, he appeared to be smarting from...
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Trump’s 'White Trash Nation' torn apart by conservative
Conservative Dispatch writer Kevin D. Williamson says he speaks with experience when he calls the sordid antics of President Donald Trump the trashy things that they are - because Williamson knows white trash when he sees it. Williamson lived the...
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'It’s his fault': Analyst says 'totally fair' that Trump is trapped in his rotten economy
President Donald Trump is screaming behind his own eyes, and his misery over the state of his economy and voter dissatisfaction appears to be manifesting in the shrillness of his social media rants. But one analyst with access to the numbers sees...
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Evidence mounts that Trump is both physically and mentally incapable | Opinion
I do not wish Trump ill. While he hasn’t shown a shred of compassion for anyone other than himself, this doesn’t justify our lacking compassion for him. It’s also in the interest of America and the world that he be physically and mentally able to...
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Republicans send mixed signals after Trump topples another GOP veteran
Some Republicans fretting about the upcoming midterms on social media could not seem to squeeze into a comfortable position Tuesday night after incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) lost his seat to Republican challenger Ken Paxton. MAGA faithful...
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Trump's vendetta cases are imploding - and it all comes down to one thing
Since returning to the White House 16 months ago, President Donald Trump has used the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to target a long list of political foes. Some of them have been indicted on criminal charges by federal grand juries, including...
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The Democrats need to get over themselves | Opinion
Well, the much-ballyhooed autopsy on the 2024 election has arrived from Democratic National Committee’s headquarters, and it is a shame it didn’t stay buried in a trashcan in one of their offices deep inside the Beltway, and as far away from real...
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What created Trump's base is no reason to give his supporters a pass | Opinion
I keep hearing that one of America’s biggest problems is we’re “divided and polarized.” For example, New York Times columnist David French: “We’ve known for a long time that America is deeply polarized, and we’ve known the problem is only getting...
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Trump's catastrophic week exposes how out of touch he is with reality
Life finally man-handled President Donald Trump like it typically abuses Democratic presidents: with pushback and disappointment. But don’t expect to see this brand of ego acknowledge it, says Washington Post writer Luke Broadwater. “By pretty much any...
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Hypocrisy: Trump resorts to 'book cooking' Republicans accused Obama of doing
President Donald Trump is reportedly using the same “book cooking” to count immigrant deportations that he and Republicans denounced in his predecessor, President Barack Obama. “The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed...
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Trump's revenge tour will come back to bite him in the you-know-what | Opinion
Trump’s revenge tour continues. Republican congressman and Trump critic Thomas Massie lost Tuesday to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history (total cost was more than $32 million from combined campaign...
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Colbert didn't just entertain America - he redefined American patriotism
Stephen Colbert’s final episode as host of “The Late Show” on May 21, 2026, won’t mark the end of his career. But as a scholar of political satire, I think it offers a chance to reflect on the lasting impact of his comedy, which has spanned his work as...
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Ivanka Trump torn apart for not practicing what she preaches
In contrast to the snarky, combative attacks of her brother, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump often tries to put an intellectual spin on the MAGA movement. She will quote the Founding Fathers, or reference political philosophies in her social media...
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Follow the money: Trump stock purchases align perfectly with favors to drugmaker
President Donald Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that largely benefited the company. On May 14, the federal government...
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Bill Cassidy takes a not so subtle dig at Trump following election defeat
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy incurred the wrath of pro-Trump Republicans in Louisiana who rejected his reelection bid in Saturday’s party primary election. Instead, voters lined up behind Congresswoman Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming, who...
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Fox News' fraud exposed: Inside the real-time con that's hollowing out America | Opinion
Whenever a new poll comes out showing Trump’s abysmal ratings, public reactions follow a pattern. Public comments don’t question Trump’s di__s__approval rating. Rather, millions of people question the flip side: how does 38% of the nation still support...
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MAGA outrage after Fox host corners Trump on key America First policy reversal
In three presidential elections in a row, Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of hardcore American First isolationism. One of his American First positions has been a vehement opposition to citizens of China buying U.S. farmland. But Trump has...
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Those with Trump in China have something in common - and it's not the interest of America |…
Trump calls the entourage of 12 CEOs accompanying him to China an “incredible gathering” of America’s “Greatest Businessmen/women.” Well, it may be an incredible gathering. But to characterize them as America’s greatest business leaders - who are...
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Trump forcing each taxpayer to put '$100' in his pocket - despite a judge's orders
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is discussing settling his $10 billion lawsuit, potentially costing each taxpayer roughly $100 - and doing so despite a judge’s attempt to protect the public interest. “The Justice Department is holding...
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Trump attacks 'lowlife' NYT reporter after $13M revelation
President Donald Trump attacked The New York Times in a lengthy overnight post on Truth Social after the newspaper reported that the real cost of his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was significantly higher than he initially claimed. The...
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The truth about the debt Trump won't say out loud | Opinion
The U.S. national debt just crossed a once-unthinkable threshold on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II: It now exceeds 100 percent of America’s gross domestic product. As of March 31, our publicly held debt was $31.27...
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A Mother's Day reckoning on violence and survival | Opinion
Subhed: Evergreen, because over 100 years later, the personal is somehow still political My mom died from Covid in 2020, just after Mother’s Day. I couldn’t write about it until I could be honest about who she was, a feat complicated by my then-pending...
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Former Air Force chief tears apart Trump’s clampdown on Mark Kelly
Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is ready to go back to the battlefield over the Trump administration’s attempted clampdown on ex-military who risked their lives defending their country. “This week, I heard something that shocked me,” Kendell...
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Judge deals another blow to the Trump admin
President Donald Trump’s attempt to cancel more than $100 million in humanities grants was just overturned in court. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild over the government in determining that Trump and the...
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Trump 'painfully' confused as 'true weakness' exposed
President Donald Trump is "painfully, obviously baffled," according to a scathing new takedown from the New York Times, as he runs headlong into his "true weakness": people who cannot be bought or threatened into compliance. On Thursday, prominent...
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Inside Trump's operational blueprint no one was supposed to see | Opinion
Nikita Khrushchev famously said, “We will bury you” (“My vas pokhoronim”) to Western ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956. Seventy years later, it appears that Russia’s goal is being realized. Putin called Trump last Wednesday and they talked for...
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White House lawyers prep Trump team for worstcase scenario as approval plummets
In GOP circles, President Donald Trump's defenders often give him credit for injecting a great deal of energy into the Republican Party. Trump, even with his weak approval ratings in many polls, still excites his hardcore MAGA base. But with the 2026...
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Trump's Supreme Court has decimated our rights - but Republicans will face the reckoning | Opinion
Like you, my friends, I am dealing with a lot of grief and anger about the terrible state of affairs in the United States of America right now. I’ll be honest with you, the Conservative Supreme Court’s appalling decision to shove a knife in the heart...
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Defense official reveals alarming way US military learned about Trump’s troop withdrawal
An anonymous U.S. defense official revealed the branches of the U.S. military learned of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany “in real time,” without prior knowledge of the intended move, the AP reported Saturday....
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Trump's agenda is driving America off a cliff -and he can't pump the brakes | Opinion
The president's illegal and unpopular war against Iran is driving up the cost of gas so much that it seems all but certain that we're going to experience a inflationary recession. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, rose in March to its...
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It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Justice Alito is gaslighting us | Opinion
How do I explain what the supermajority of the US Supreme Court did this week to the Voting Rights Act? I'll put it this way. Six justices decided to pretend that racism no longer exists and that the history of racial discrimination no longer bears on...
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Trump's scheme to get $10 billion from the IRS just hit a big snag
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion, roughly two-thirds of the agency’s annual budget. Yet because there is a conflict of interest in a sitting president trying to pocket money from the government he controls, a judge presiding over...
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Trump missing crucial points in war operation: ex-Army commander
Two months have passed since the Trump Administration, with the help of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched Operation Epic Fury - a series of military airstrikes against Iran. President Donald Trump is saying that the United States'...
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$54.6 billion in secret Pentagon spending is funding warfare on Americans | Opinion
Ever think a drone could chase you down the street or fire a bullet through your living room window because you upset Trump, Miller, or their ICE thugs? If the answer is “that’s science fiction,” please read on: that reality may be only a few months...
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Even the right-wing underworld claims new DOJ indictment is nonsensical | Opinion
More than friendly to fascists both abroad and at home, the Trump administration is now seeking to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center -- historically one of the nation's most powerful and effective opponents of the Ku Klux Klan, American neo-Nazis...
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Trump family nabs cool $1B while crashing investors cry into 'champagne flutes'
Before President Donald Trump headed off to Washington, DC., on Saturday for the White House Correspondents Dinner he first had to face top investors in his Trump meme coin crypto scheme at Mar-a-Lago - just as his cryptocurrency is in freefall. But MS...
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