Trump Pardons One of the Car Industry’s Biggest Scammers—Just in Time
President Trump on Thursday pardoned Trevor Milton, the founder of the bankrupt electric truck company Nikola who was sentenced to four years in prison for securities and wire fraud charges in...
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Elon Musk Deletes Post About Another Lottery Scheme to Buy Election
Elon Musk deleted an X post made early Friday morning offering two $1 million checks to Wisconsin voters attending a “talk” that he is giving in the state on Sunday amid a special election for a seat...
View ArticleTrump Was Asked to Define a Woman. It Went as Well as You’d Expect
In honor of Women’s History Month, Donald Trump weighed in Friday on an extremely inane question that plagues conservatives. During a press conference in the Oval Office, one reporter tried to lob...
View ArticleJD Vance Threatens Greenland in Visit Where No One Wanted to See Him
Vice President JD Vance spent his time in Greenland doubling down on the Trump administration’s threats to take the territory from Denmark.“Our message to Denmark is very simple,” Vance said at a press...
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Trump Suffers a Legal Blow on Fast-Tracking Deportations
A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting people to third countries. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy issued a temporary restraining order...
View ArticleTrump Celebrates as Another Law Firm Bends the Knee
Donald Trump has successfully bullied yet another big law firm into doing his bidding—but this time, Trump didn’t even have to threaten them.Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom agreed to a slate...
View ArticleTrump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner
Faced with expert opinion predicting that his tariffs will jack up prices for American consumers, President Trump has carefully considered a wealth of evidence surrounding this complex matter, and...
View ArticleSignalgate Can Teach Democrats How to Take Down Elon Musk
The second Trump era is something of an exercise in natural consequences. What happens if you put the most flamboyantly stupid goons in charge of everything? The results will neither surprise nor...
View ArticleTrump Text Fiasco Suddenly Worsens as MAGA Knives Come Out for Hegseth
President Donald Trump’s own allies are beginning to turn on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Politico reports. White House and Pentagon insiders are increasingly questioning Hegseth’s judgment, and see...
View ArticleThe Gaping Hole in the Center of the Abundance Agenda
America has a housing affordability crisis. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance, Yoni Appelbaum’s Stuck, and Mark Dunkelman’s Why Nothing Works argue to varying degrees that land-use...
View ArticleThe Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
Few environmental documentaries boast the star power of Common Ground, a forthcoming sequel to Netflix’s award-winning 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground, which presented regenerative agriculture as the...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Dystopian Vision That Explains Trump’s Canada Obsession
Trump’s obsession with Canadian annexation has quickly gone from an awkward joke to a serious security concern. With more tariffs due April 2, Canadian leader Mark Carney has said Canadians should...
View ArticleOf Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.
Here it comes: Wednesday is “Liberation Day,” when Donald Trump plans to announce the tariff structures that will save America. Politico reported over the weekend that no one in the White House has any...
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W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy
W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Knives Come Out for Hegseth
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 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 by...
View ArticleTrump Reveals He’s Not Joking About Becoming a Dictator
Donald Trump is “not joking” about running for a third term.In a Sunday morning phone call with NBC News’s Kristin Welker, the president insisted that he was very serious about potentially...
View ArticleElon Musk Says He Has No Clue Why People Hate His Guts
Elon Musk couldn’t help but complain about the immense personal cost of being the shadow president during a rally Sunday ahead of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election.“The radical left are saying somehow...
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Stunning ICE List Reveals Flimsy Way People Are Labeled Gang Members
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revealed that the prerequisites for deporting Venezuelan migrants to Nayib Bukele’s Salvadoran mega-prison are extremely arbitrary. Documents obtained by the...
View ArticleTrump Pulls a 180 on His Tariffs Threat—and Makes Things Way Worse
President Trump continues to pivot endlessly on tariffs, badly destabilizing the very market he claims he’s trying to balance.“On the tariffs that you’re planning … you’re expected to hit something...
View ArticleTrump National Security Adviser’s Latest Signal Defense Makes No Sense
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 Trump Just Break 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 Is Mad at JD Vance About Group Chat for Weirdest Reason
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 ArticleAgriculture Department Can No Longer Say “Safe Drinking Water”
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 Has a New “Buyout” Offer for Select Federal Workers
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 Brazenly Change Tune on Trump’s Tariffs
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 Has Dark Warning for Trump on “Liberation Day” 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 ArticleTrump’s Logic to Deport “Gang Members” Is Based on a 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 Lies Out Her Mouth About ICE Deporting 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...
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