Transcript: Trump AG Pick Drops Ominous Hint at What’s Coming in 2025
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 16 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 ArticleMike Johnson Caves to Trump in Getting Rid of One Powerful Republican
House Speaker Mike Johnson removed Representative Mike Turner as chair of the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday—reportedly at the behest of Donald Trump.Two senior sources told The Daily Beast...
View ArticleBiden’s Last Message to America Is a Dire Warning
President Joe Biden used his farewell address Wednesday evening to tell Americans to stay involved, stay informed, and beware of the ominous cloud of “oligarchy” that in his eyes is now forming.“I want...
View ArticleFox News Hilariously Messes Up Introducing Charlie Kirk
A live hot mic moment made it on air on Fox News Wednesday evening, when a disembodied voice let slip some unsavory language during the introduction of one of the network’s more controversial guests:...
View ArticleNetanyahu Already Twisting Gaza Ceasefire to Make Trump Cave to Him
Just hours after a ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas was seemingly agreed to, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suddenly trying to change its terms. The agreement stipulates that the...
View ArticleTrump Announces Troubling Blacklist for White House
Trump shared a “Do not hire” list for his incoming administration with some very familiar names on it—and some curious ones.“As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people...
View ArticleRon DeSantis Snubs Trump’s Pick for New Florida Senator
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed the state’s Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill the Senate seat vacated by Donald Trump’s nomination of Marco Rubio as secretary of state. The move,...
View ArticleTrump’s EPA Pick Flunks Science Quiz in Confirmation Hearing
Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, struggled to answer simple questions about science during his confirmation hearing Thursday.During his hearing before the...
View ArticleBiden Suddenly Scrambles to Save TikTok
President Joe Biden is suddenly looking for ways to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. market, despite the fact that he was the one to sign a law banning it in the first place.“Americans shouldn’t expect to...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Gives Trump the Finger With Inauguration Plans
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to skip out on Donald Trump’s inauguration, Politico reported Thursday.A spokesperson for Pelosi told Politico that she would be joining other Democrats...
View ArticleThe 61 Democrats Who Voted for GOP’s Latest Awful Immigration Bill
A stunning 61 Democrats on Thursday voted in favor of MAGA Representative Nancy Mace’s useless and antagonistic immigration bill. On its face, Mace’s so-called “Preventing Violence Against Women by...
View ArticleTrump’s Treasury Pick Leaves Glaring Gap in Answer on Cutting Medicaid
Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent won’t commit to not cutting Medicaid.In a heated back and forth Thursday with New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján, the hedge fund manager refused to specify where...
View ArticleMike Johnson’s Caving to Trump May Have Just Cost Him in the House
Representative Rick Crawford will be the next House Intelligence Committee chair, following his colleague Mike Turner’s unceremonious removal by Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday.Politico reported...
View ArticleTrump’s Treasury Pick Vows to Give Back to the Rich in Bleak Hearing
Scott Bessent, Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, made it clear during his confirmation hearing Thursday that he’s only interested in protecting the interests of the rich and powerful.The...
View ArticleGiuliani Will Finally Shut Up About Those Georgia Election Workers
Rudy Giuliani might’ve finally caught a break. After being sued for everything he had—his watches, his diamond ring, his Mercedes-Benz, his home, and $148 million—by defamed Georgia poll workers Ruby...
View ArticleGoogle Snubs EU Law Over Fact-Checking YouTube Videos
Google announced its intention Thursday to flout European Union standards for digital fact-checking, opting not to build an internal department to moderate and verify YouTube content despite...
View ArticleThe Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
For the first time in 13 months, a hush will fall over Gaza. Starting Sunday and for the next six weeks at least, soccer fans, sweet-sellers, and students will not be obliterated at random and for no...
View ArticleAntony Blinken Kicks Out Journalist for Asking Questions About Gaza
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held his final press conference on Thursday, during which he kicked out a journalist for asking questions about Gaza. Reporter Sam Husseini tried to ask questions...
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Trump and Vance’s Official Portraits Are as Ugly as It Gets
Donald Trump and JD Vance debuted new presidential and vice presidential portraits Thursday and, boy, are they weirdly sinister.Daniel Torok, the president-elect’s chief photographer, revealed the...
View ArticleTrump Names Three MAGA Stars to Serve as His Hollywood Ambassadors
Trump is appointing a group of aged action movie actors to serve as “ambassadors” to Hollywood.“It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a...
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ICE Warns Republicans’ Racist Immigration Bill Is a Total Bust
Republicans’ prized immigration bill, the Laken Riley Act, is apparently too expensive to implement, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A new memo from ICE has been circulating in...
View ArticleTrump Humiliates Nikki Haley in Epic New Rant—but Also Sends a Warning
This week, Donald Trump ranted that no one with ties to certain Republicans who have criticized him will get jobs in the new government. The inclusion of Nikki Haley among them got attention, because...
View ArticleThe Inimitable Weirdness of David Lynch
The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s 2022, barely coded biopic of his own artistic adolescence, ends with a young Sammy Fabelman (the Spielberg stand-in) granted an audience with his hero, the legendary...
View ArticleThe Hilariously Twisted History of the Supreme Court and Porn
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Supreme Court hosted one of the most unusual film clubs in America. Justices typically familiarize themselves with upcoming cases and petitions by reviewing the...
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What If the Los Angeles Fires Were a Turning Point?
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s widely acclaimed, Obama-praised climate novel, The Ministry for the Future, the climate crisis is already well underway when catastrophic rains drown Los Angeles in water....
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Epic Humiliation of Nikki Haley Contains a Warning
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 17 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 Loses It for Some Reason After FBI Shutters DEI Office
It isn’t enough for the FBI’s DEI office to be shut down—Donald Trump wants it gutted, and with receipts.“We demand that the FBI preserve and retain all records, documents, and information on the now...
View ArticleZuckerberg Sucked Up to Trump Adviser Before Changing Meta Rules
It didn’t take much to get Mark Zuckerberg to go along with Donald Trump’s aims.According to The New York Times, Zuckerberg met with Trump adviser Stephen Miller in late November and was told by Miller...
View ArticleSupreme Court Deals Major Blow to Free Speech With TikTok Ruling
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld Congress’s ban on TikTok, marking the end of the popular video-sharing platform’s presence in the United States.“There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Check Back in, Liberals—Trump 2.0 Will Be Far, Far Worse
After the election, nearly all my friends, those who are political junkies and those who are only casual users (and no, I’m not friends with anyone who isn’t at least a casual user, which is something...
View ArticleEric Adams Is Finally Bowing Down to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Eric Adams is in Mar-a-Lago today—and perhaps one step closer to that Trump pardon he’s been not-so-subtly angling for since November. In the midst of a reelection campaign and his own federal...
View ArticleBiden Just Gave Away Netanyahu’s Whole Game. And It’s Bad.
President Joe Biden shared a tidbit of one of his conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the war on Palestine, though the revelation didn’t leave either country in a...
View ArticleTrump’s Homeland Security Pick Is Happy to Start War on Disaster Aid
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem struggled to commit to giving disaster relief to all Americans during her confirmation hearing Friday, because it wasn’t exactly what Donald Trump had said. Senator...
View ArticleEven Neil Gorsuch Isn’t Sure a TikTok Ban Will Really Work
As the Supreme Court unanimously voted to uphold the government’s impending ban on TikTok, Justice Neil Gorsuch made an interesting observation in his concurring opinion.“Whether this law will succeed...
View ArticleTrump Has Frightening Reaction to Supreme Court’s TikTok Ruling
The incoming forty-seventh president doesn’t seem to believe he needs to abide by the law when it comes to following through on banning TikTok.Moments after the Supreme Court upheld Congress’s ban...
View ArticleWhy Did Biden Save Battle on Equal Rights Amendment for the Very End?
President Joe Biden has proclaimed that the Equal Rights Amendment is now the “law of the land”—with just days left in office.“We, as a nation, must affirm and protect women’s full equality once and...
View ArticleTrump Jr.’s Greenland Visit Suddenly Gets Even More Embarrassing
More details are emerging about Donald Trump Jr.’s trip to Greenland, and it’s looking a lot worse than previously thought.The Guardian reports that when Trump Jr. visited the upscale Hotel Hans Egede...
View ArticleTrump Pick Kristi Noem Stumbles Big-Time on One Simple Question
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was asked during her hearing Friday whether she was committed to stopping all threats to homeland security—not just the ones that push Donald Trump’s agenda on...
View ArticleOhio Governor Snubs Trump With Vance Replacement in Senate
Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted will take Vice President-elect JD Vance’s place in the Senate, Governor Mike DeWine announced Friday, in an apparent snub to Donald Trump.“This is an unusual...
View ArticleKristi Noem Roasted for Using Sketchy Crime Numbers to Fear-Monger
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of homeland security, got some heat for rattling off dubious statistics during her Senate confirmation hearing Friday. Michigan...
View ArticleRamaswamy Plans Troubling Next Gig After Failing at Everything Else
Failed presidential candidate and Trump disciple Vivek Ramaswamy is planning to run for governor of Ohio, according to The Washington Post. Ramaswamy, who is set to co-lead Trump’s Department of...
View ArticleTrump Has 100 Executive Orders Locked and Loaded for Day One
Donald Trump has a set of executive orders to carry out his disturbing plans ready to go as soon as he is sworn in as president on Monday.The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump is ready to bypass...
View ArticleRepublicans Reveal Dark Plan to Let Kids Go Hungry to Fund Tax Cuts
Republicans are looking to gut and slash federal programs in order to afford an extension to Donald Trump’s 2017 tax plan.The extension, which overwhelmingly benefits corporations and could add as much...
View ArticleTikTok CEO Tries Sucking Up to Trump After Supreme Court Upholds Ban
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a federal law that effectively bans TikTok, the social media platform’s CEO is trying to butter up Donald Trump.Shou Zi Chew posted a video to the...
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Trump Fans Are Pissed Over New Inauguration Plans
Donald Trump’s supporters were feeling a little left out in the cold Friday after the president-elect announced his inauguration ceremony was moving indoors due to predictions of severely low...
View ArticleBill Gates Becomes the Latest Billionaire to Bow Down to Trump
Another billionaire chooses Trump. This time, it’s the historically liberal Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “impressed” by the president-elect. “I had a...
View ArticleRepublicans Want to Punish Divorced People to Fund Tax Cuts
Republicans are considering removing “head of household” as an option for filing status on U.S. tax returns as part of their plan to extend Donald Trump’s 2017 tax plan.The House Ways and Means...
View ArticleTrump Just Handed Steve Bannon a Big Weapon in His War With Elon Musk
Republicans may not know it yet, but they’re in the process of handing Steve Bannon a powerful weapon to wield in his war with Elon Musk over visas granted to high-skilled immigrants. This could...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Wants to Sell You Some “Riveting Storytelling”
This week, The Washington Post unveiled its new internal mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” If that sounds like something generated by an AI trained exclusively on LinkedIn...
View ArticleShove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat
The most recent entry in the “good advice for Democrats” canon comes from occasional TNR contributor and Bulwark writer Jonathan V. Last, who wrote, “The job of the Democratic party comes in two parts....
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