Majority of Americans Disapprove of Trump’s Response to L.A. Protests
A clear majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s militant handling of the Los Angeles protests, and his approval ratings have firmly fallen into the red. Journalist G Elliot Morris...
View ArticleFar-Right Extremists Prepare Violence for “No Kings” Protests
Far-right groups are humming with talk of potential violence ahead of massive “No Kings” Day demonstrations that are expected to attract millions of protesters Saturday, according to The Wall Street...
View ArticleWhat the Democrats Must Learn From the People of Los Angeles
The only real surprise about the clashes in Los Angeles is that anyone is surprised by them. Of course Donald Trump, in an attempt to get his moribund deportation numbers up, sent masked goons to...
View ArticleThe AI Industry Is Ready to Get Rich off Trump’s Defense Department
“My request to all of you is: Please, become rich off selling to the United States Army.” This was Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s parting message at the end of his Exchange session at the AI+ Expo for...
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Trump’s Military Parade Was a Pathetic Event for a Pathetic President
Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best. A crowd that was well under the...
View ArticleTrump Erupts in Crazed Hard-Right Rant as MAGA Fury Takes Darker Turn
In a little-noticed rant, President Donald Trump furiously vowed on Truth Social that he will now carry out something called “remigration.” This idea is widely prevalent among global white...
View ArticleTrump Is Freeing Up Public Lands for Big Oil. It Doesn’t Want Them.
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion stating that Donald Trump can abolish two national monuments in California established by the Biden administration. In theory, doing...
View ArticleDemocrats, Get Off Capitol Hill and Go Get Arrested
The Democrats have taken a lot of heat from their voters lately, and rightly so. The party was miserably unprepared for the authoritarian abuses and destruction of Donald Trump’s second administration,...
View ArticleAmerica Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There’s No Going Back
Saturday was a surreal day in American politics, in ways simultaneously horrifying and heartening. The horrifying part was the news we all woke up to about the political assassinations (both attempted...
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Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing
Critics of multilevel marketing businesses like Amway and Herbalife make bold claims. Bill Ackman, an institutional investment manager who tried to take down Herbalife, once said of the company, which...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Erupts in Vile Hard-Right Rant as MAGA Fury Darkens
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 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 by...
View ArticleTrump Plots Revenge on the Biggest “No Kings” Cities
President Trump is calling on ICE to conduct even more raids and send even more agents into cities with some of the largest “No Kings Day” protests. “ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of...
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The Anti-Trump Movement Finds Its Rebellious Muse: Andor
The organizers of the No Kings protest in Austin, Texas, on Saturday were assembling a temporary stage in the shadow of our pink granite Capitol for drag queens and a group performance of the “chicken...
View ArticleTrump Manages to Make Israel’s War on Iran All About Himself
Donald Trump wants credit for being at the center of several geopolitical conflicts.In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, the president told his followers that he had been the singular solution for...
View ArticleMike Lee Flies off Rails With Disgusting Joke About Minnesota Assassin
Utah Senator Mike Lee is under fire for claiming, without a shred of evidence, that the man who gunned down Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband John in their home...
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Trump Accidentally Screwed Himself on Military Parade Crowd Size
Donald Trump’s military parade was an undeniable failure, but apparently, the small crowds may have been due to pathetic party planning. Amanda Moore, a journalist who spent 11 months undercover with...
View ArticleTrump’s Bonkers Immigration Goals Are Driving ICE Bankrupt
Immigration and Customs Enforcement may not have the cash to carry out Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.The agency is already $1 billion over budget and could run out of funds as soon as...
View ArticleRand Paul Shreds Trump’s Pathetic Military Parade
Senator Rand Paul slammed Donald Trump’s pathetic military birthday parade as un-American. During an appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press Sunday, the Kentucky Republican revealed that he was “not a...
View ArticleTrump Avoids Crucial Question on Israel’s War in Iran
The president is mulling over the possibility of throwing the United States into war with Iran.Speaking with ABC News Sunday, Donald Trump refused to answer whether the U.S. would wade into the...
View ArticleThe Trump Family’s Latest Grift Is a Cheap Phone That Might Not Work
The “Trump Phone” is coming this fall. President Trump’s son Eric Trump went on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria to discuss how the new phone can be used to “correct” a political sphere they think is...
View ArticleUnhinged Trump Order Lets VA Doctors Refuse to Treat Democratic Vets
Health care professionals at the Department of Veterans Affairs can now discriminate against Democrats, and it’s all thanks to Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive order. While medical staff are still...
View ArticleMark Carney Brutally Shuts Trump Down for Whining on Russia’s Behalf
America’s leader decided to open the international G7 summit with a long complaint, seemingly in support of Russia.Speaking before the global trade coalition, Donald Trump lamented that the group—which...
View ArticleTrump Wants to Ban a Quarter of the World From Traveling to the U.S.
The Trump administration is thinking about adding 26 more countries—most of them African—to his travel ban list. The Washington Post obtained a Trump administration memo that would give the 26...
View ArticleReagan Appointee: Trump NIH Cuts Represent “Racial Discrimination”
A judge appointed by Ronald Reagan just ruled that President Trump’s cuts to DEI-related equity research grants at the National Institutes of Health were both discriminatory and illegal. The Trump...
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From Los Angeles to Libby, Montana: How Americans Protested King Trump
Saturday was an extraordinary, and extraordinarily troubling, day in American politics. As President Donald Trump threw an unprecedented military parade to celebrate the U.S. Army’s (and his own)...
View ArticleCustoms Officials Deport Man for Reporting on Pro-Palestine Protests
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials reportedly told an Australian writer who was detained and deported upon his arrival in Los Angeles that he was being removed for writing about pro-Palestinian...
View ArticleMAGA Desperately Scrambles to Claim Minnesota Assassin Is a Democrat
Vance Boelter allegedly shot and killed Democratic Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Saturday. Hours later, conservatives were twisting Boelter’s political ideology to...
View ArticleJoni Ernst’s Sick Response to Medicaid Cuts Has Tanked Her Career
Will Iowa Senator Joni Enst call it quits after her humiliating defense of Donald Trump’s budget bill?Several Republican aides, consultants, and strategists told The Wall Street Journal that there was...
View Article“Sick”: Trump’s Violent Outbursts Worsen as Parade Fiasco Sinks In
After the horrific assassination of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, President Trump at first correctly stressed that such violence is absolutely intolerable. But then he uncorked a long,...
View ArticleTrump’s Going to Weaken Outdoor Workers’ Heat Protections
The world is getting hotter, and workers need protection from the heat. But at a hearing Monday about a proposed heat regulation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Elizabeth Milito...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Takes Up a Major Case on Anti-Abortion Clinics
Crisis pregnancy centers are back at the Supreme Court. The justices on Monday agreed to consider whether New Jersey can investigate anti-abortion clinics that seek to dissuade women from ending their...
View ArticleWe Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President
If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were six months ago. So is your family. So are your friends and neighbors. Virtually all of the most important parts of the...
View ArticleThe Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention
For many weeks now, Senate Democrats have been trying to home in on the right message against the Republicans’ preposterously titled Big Beautiful Bill. While the budget bill narrowly cleared the House...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Violent Outbursts Worsen as Parade Fiasco Sinks In
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 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 by...
View ArticleChaotic Trump Leaves Confused World Leaders Behind at G7
President Trump made a dramatic early exit from the G7 summit, seemingly to help Israel continue to bombard Iran and its nuclear facilities. “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign....
View ArticleTACO Trump Chickens Out on Major Immigration Flip
The Department of Homeland Security is reversing guidance sparing farms, hotels, and restaurants from immigration raids, less than a week after Donald Trump admitted just how destructive his sweeping...
View ArticleTrump “Reamed Out” Pete Hegseth for Disastrous Military Parade
Donald Trump was not impressed by his multimillion-dollar military parade.The president reportedly “reamed” out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the spectacle—which was advertised as a celebration...
View ArticleTrump Finally Says If He’ll Call Tim Walz. You’ll Wish He Hadn’t.
Breaking a long-standing presidential tradition, Donald Trump says he won’t contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after the assassination of Democratic state Representative Melissa Hortman. Instead, the...
View ArticleTrump’s Feud With Tucker Carlson Has Launched a MAGA Civil War
Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host stated that America’s involvement in Israel’s war on Iran will result in the “end of American empire,” suggesting that the move was...
View ArticleTrump Completely Brushes Off Tulsi Gabbard in Iran Comments
Donald Trump admitted that he’s ignoring what his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells him about Iran—he’s just going on vibes. The president sided with Israeli intelligence over the...
View ArticleCoward Mike Lee Runs Away When Asked About His Assassination “Joke”
Senator Mike Lee fled from reporters asking him about his deeply disturbing X posts making a mockery of the murder of Minnesota Democratic state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark,...
View ArticlePutin Gives Trump Middle Finger With New Attack on Ukraine
Hours after Donald Trump complained before the G7 that Russia had been kicked out of the global trade coalition, the Kremlin ordered air strikes on Kyiv that killed 15 people—including an American.In...
View ArticleTrump Warns “We” Control Iran’s Airspace in Ominous Post
Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” Tuesday in a series of escalating threats on Iran. “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth...
View ArticleTrump’s Own Staff Don’t Think He’s Fit to Be President
Dissent against Donald Trump is bubbling within his administration—but people are too scared to act on it.Some White House staffers no longer believe that Trump is fit to be president, according to...
View ArticleICE Agents Just Detained a NYC Mayoral Candidate
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was dragged from the hallways of a Lower Manhattan immigration court and detained by masked ICE agents on Tuesday. It is still unclear if...
View ArticleBig Chicken Mike Lee Deletes Minnesota “Joke” After Confrontation
Good news: Bullying works. Senator Mike Lee has deleted his three horrific social media posts mocking the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and the attempted assassination of...
View ArticleTrump Team Is Already Lying About Detention of NYC Mayoral Candidate
Masked ICE agents detained New York City Comptroller Brad Lander Tuesday. But rather than focus on the fact that federal agents are targeting American citizens, government accounts worked to add their...
View ArticleFetterman Sides With Trump Over Fellow Democrats On Iran
Embattled Senator John Fetterman continues to express his bloodlust on behalf of Israel.Fetterman told Fox News that he would oppose Senator Tim Kaine’s Resolution to Prevent War With Iran, which...
View ArticleTrump’s Disastrous Budget Bill Is Even More Expensive Than We Thought
Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase the total U.S. deficit by nearly $2.8 trillion over the next decade, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.Previous...
View ArticleIs Trump About to Get His Own Iraq War?
In 2016, two months before he was first elected president, Donald Trump identified the real problem with America’s invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t that it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths,...
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