Why Is Elon Musk Tweeting About Me at 3 A.M.?
If elected, I would be the poorest member of Congress—and the world’s richest man just attacked me in a 3 a.m. tweet for supporting universal health care.You might have seen a clip of me on CNN last...
View ArticleICE Director Admits He’s Rounding Up People Without Criminal Records
Border czar Tom Homan once again admitted with complete confidence that many of the people arrested in recent ICE raids have zero criminal history. “[Does] everyone that has been arrested by ICE agents...
View ArticleWhat Was Dr. Phil Doing at the ICE Raids in Los Angeles?
Donald Trump’s ally Dr. Phil McGraw is back to making anti-immigrant propaganda for Donald Trump’s administration. The conservative television personality commonly known as “Dr. Phil” and a camera...
View ArticleKash Patel Threatens to Act on His Own to Crush L.A. Protests
The FBI says it will act on its own to squash the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests.FBI Director Kash Patel issued an ominous threat to the city and its residents late Sunday night, claiming that his...
View ArticleTrump Just Lost an Important Backer
The founder of Latinas for Trump is now denouncing President Trump.Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia, whose organization played a key role in expanding Trump’s popularity among Latinos, thinks that...
View ArticleTrump Crashes Out Demanding Praise as Newsom Threatens to Sue Him
Donald Trump still believes sending the National Guard into Los Angeles is a stellar idea.California Governor Gavin Newsom has already accused the executive order of being unconstitutional, and...
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JD Vance Threatens to Deport Menswear Guy Who Made Fun of Him
Vice President JD Vance is thoroughly committed to immigration authorities only rounding up the most violent criminals … oh wait, no it looks like he wants to go after the menswear guy from...
View ArticleTrump Greenlights Arrest of Gavin Newsom Amid L.A. Protests
Donald Trump just rubber-stamped the arrest of California Governor Gavin Newsom amid the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. While Trump arrived back at the White House from Camp David Monday, a...
View ArticlePam Bondi’s Brother Suffers Crushing Blow in D.C. Bar Election
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s brother is not popular with the D.C. Bar.Bradley Bondi was practically crushed in his bid to become the president of the D.C. Bar Association Monday, earning just a...
View ArticleSteve Bannon Is Terrified of the L.A. Protests
MAGA-whisperer Steve Bannon—while claiming that he’s “taken out” Elon Musk—believes the L.A. anti-ICE protests are the start of World War III. “We’re in the Third World War,” he told The Spectator in...
View ArticleTrump Is Deploying the Marines Against U.S. Citizens
President Trump is sending 700 Marines to Los Angeles, allegedly to help police—who have not asked for it—with protests that have occurred in downtown Los Angeles. This is an extreme escalation from...
View Article“Disturbing”: Trump’s Threats to Use Troops in Cities Just Got Darker
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered up the National Guard to deal with violence that broke out in Los Angeles amid protests of Trump’s immigration policies. This has angered California...
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
Early Sunday evening in Los Angeles, as the city was under siege by federal anti-immigration forces, aided by local law enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass was holding a press conference. Out in the streets,...
View ArticleScience Badly Needs Defending Right Now. It Doesn’t Need Your Belief.
American science appears to be in free fall. Donald Trump is eviscerating research funding, persecuting the universities on whose contributions countless scientific fields depend, and vastly...
View ArticleTrump’s Version of Federalism Is a Perverse Death Trap
As on many other policy questions, MAGA doctrine regarding the proper division of power between states and the federal government departs from traditional Republican ideology. For half a century after...
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The Tiny Border Town Getting Battered by Trump’s Tariffs on Canada
Nick Kiniski is selling.After four decades running Kiniski’s Reef—one of only three restaurants still operating in the tiny peninsula town of Point Roberts, Washington—the former professional wrestler...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Threats to Unleash Troops Just Took a Darker Turn
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 10 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 ArticleJohn Fetterman Spotted With Steve Bannon at Popular MAGA Restaurant
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was spotted Monday night chatting with Steve Bannon, according to Politico Playbook.Fetterman, who has displayed his own dramatic rightward shift, was reportedly...
View ArticlePentagon Rushes to Create New Rules as Trump Sends Marines to L.A.
Defense officials are working overtime to throw together guidance in the event that U.S. Marines—sent to Los Angeles Monday—are required to use force on civilians.The rare prospect is the design of...
View ArticleStephen Miller Behind Draconian Orders That Set Off L.A. Protests
Direct orders from Stephen Miller ignited the Los Angeles protests, leading to the precarious, highly militarized situation the city is currently facing. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that...
View ArticleLAPD Slams Trump’s Decision to Send Marines to City to Crush Protests
The president’s “law and order” agenda isn’t popular with the people tasked with enforcing it.The Los Angeles Police Department torched Donald Trump, revealing to the public that not only had the...
View ArticleTrump’s California Crackdown Is a Sign of Weakness
The Trump administration has a problem. For the last 10 years, President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration policies the center of his political agenda. He campaigned in 2015 on throwing out...
View ArticleWe’re Now at the Stage Where Criminals Are Impersonating ICE Agents
Police in Philadelphia are searching for a man who robbed a business while masquerading as a Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, according to Fox 29.A man wearing a tactical vest with the...
View ArticleIt Sure Seems Like One Key GOP Vote Regrets Appointing RFK Jr.
Senator Bill Cassidy promised the American people that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not make any changes to the vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when he cast...
View ArticleTrump’s Decision to Send Troops to L.A. Will Cost Jaw-Dropping Sum
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that the president’s plan to use the military against U.S. citizens will cost taxpayers a jaw-dropping sum.Testifying before the House Appropriations...
View ArticleMike Johnson Says Gavin Newsom Should be “Tarred and Feathered”
House Speaker Mike Johnson got draconian as he upped the ante on the Trump administration’s threats against California Governor Gavin Newsom.During a press conference with House Republican leadership...
View ArticleAmericans Hate Trump’s Plan to Unleash Troops on Los Angeles
The president’s decision to use the Marines on U.S. civilians in Los Angeles is not sitting well with the public.A YouGov poll released Tuesday morning indicates that the majority of Americans disagree...
View ArticleWorld Bank: Trump’s Trade War Could Destroy the Global Economy
Trump’s trade war won’t just cripple domestic markets—it will slow global gross domestic product growth to its lowest point in 17 years. The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report found that...
View ArticleTrump Issues Horrifying Threat to Parade Protesters
President Trump declared that anyone who protests his military/birthday parade—even peacefully—will be met with “very heavy force.” “We’re celebrating big on Saturday … if there’s any protest that...
View ArticleTrump’s Angry, Violent Outbursts Go Nuclear as Poll Delivers Bad News
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a direct promise to use “heavy force” on protesters who dare show up to his military parade this weekend. He made no distinction between peaceful and violent...
View ArticleTrump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness
With President Donald Trump sending more troops into Los Angeles amid protests there, a remarkable image has gone viral on social media. It shows members of the National Guard crowded into a...
View ArticleTrump Is Expanding His Thuggish War on Union Leaders
The arrest and violent manhandling of David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union of California, or SEIU, suggests that Donald Trump, that proud tribune of the working...
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Donald Trump’s Dirty Self-Dealing: The Audacity of His Rapacity
With painstaking planning and tenacious execution, Donald Trump’s return to the White House hit with an almost immobilizing impact, as he issued over a hundred executive orders, cut funds to vital...
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Yiyun Li’s Unsparing Memoir of Life After Two Sons’ Suicides
“There is no good way to say this,” begins Yiyun Li’s new memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow. It is what the police officers lead with after Li’s elder son, Vincent, takes his life, and it is the...
View ArticleNewsom Warns America: Trump Is Destroying Democracy
Democracy is “under assault” under Donald Trump’s leadership, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom.In a nearly nine-minute address to his state and to the nation Tuesday evening, Newsom warned...
View ArticleTACO Trump Announces Paltry Trade Deal With China
Donald Trump says he’s finally cracked a tentative deal with China—but why doesn’t it sound any good?Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday morning that a long-awaited trade deal had finally...
View ArticleRepublicans Plan to Ditch Trump’s Birthday Military Parade
Congressional Republicans aren’t sticking around to watch Donald Trump blow millions of taxpayer dollars on himself this weekend.Just seven of 50 surveyed GOP lawmakers are planning to actually attend...
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Elon Musk Crawls Back to Trump in Embarrassing 3 A.M. Post
Elon Musk has come crawling on his hands and knees back to Donald Trump.The antagonistic technocrat gave a public apology for his harsh words directed at his ally in the White House, in a post on X at...
View ArticleTrump Is Planning a Nationwide Crackdown Targeting Blue Cities
More militant ICE raids are coming to a city near you. The Trump administration is readying tactical ICE units known as “special response teams” to conduct large raids in five Democratic cities,...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Violent Outbursts Go Off Rails as Bad Poll Hits
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 11 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 ArticleMitch McConnell Grills Pete Hegseth on Russia in Damning Exchange
The Trump administration is losing its ability to hide its pro-Russia affinities.In a searing exchange with Senator Mitch McConnell Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the mental...
View ArticleICE Detains 9-Month Pregnant U.S. Citizen Amid L.A. Raids
In an instance of exceptional depravity, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a pregnant U.S. citizen just days before her due date, NBC News reported Tuesday.Cary López Alvarado was...
View ArticleTrump Just Got Some Bad News Before the G7 Conference
Trump’s chaotic, spite-filled policies on trade and aid have led traditional allies to look elsewhere and form stronger ties among themselves.The New York Times reports that traditional allies like...
View ArticleIn Defense of Confrontational Protesters
The protest of the protests has begun.Despite overwhelming evidence that the demonstrations in Los Angeles are largely peaceful, we’re nonetheless hearing the paternalistic refrain that protesters...
View ArticleHegseth Can’t Answer Key Question on Trump Power to Deploy Marines
Donald Trump ordered 700 Marines to Los Angeles, and the defense secretary can’t explain what authority enabled him to do so.In a terse exchange with Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin Wednesday, Pete...
View ArticleTrump Says He Has a Deal With China. He Really Doesn’t.
President Trump continues to tout loose, verbal agreements as “deals” as he struggles to close negotiations with China. “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME....
View ArticleU.S. Prepares to Evacuate Iraq Embassy as Netanyahu Ramps Up Threats
The American embassy in Baghdad is preparing to evacuate in a troubling sign for nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran, as well as greater regional unrest, according to Reuters.Three U.S. and two...
View ArticleBill Nye Asked RFK Jr. to Stop Texting Him: “Okay, No More”
The Science Guy™ is sick and tired of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his vaccine conspiracy theories.Months before Kennedy was appointed to run America’s public health policy, he was...
View ArticleTrump Treasury Secretary Suddenly Backtracks on Major Tariff Deadline
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that Donald Trump is again intending to move the goalposts for his global tariff policy.The United States is fast approaching the end of the president’s...
View ArticlePoll: Americans Really, Really Hate Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
A new Quinippiac poll shows that a majority of Americans are opposed to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, confirming public aversion to a budget bill expected to add $2.4 trillion to the deficit,...
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