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Trump’s Latest Administration Pick Is a Quack TV Doctor
Donald Trump has decided to nominate TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.Trump issued a statement Tuesday announcing the move, saying,...
View ArticleTrump Is Struggling With His Treasury Pick for the Dumbest Reason
Donald Trump doesn’t seem to give his Cabinet appointments much thought, often skipping the drudgery of FBI background checks and more informal internal vetting procedures. Is Tulsi Gabbard a Russian...
View ArticleBig Setback for Trump as GOPers Privately Tell Him: Matt Gaetz Is Done
In a blow to Donald Trump, Politico reports that GOP senators are privately telling him that Matt Gaetz has little chance of getting confirmed as attorney general. Yet these Republicans hope Trump...
View ArticleThe Time-Honored Tradition of Blaming the Left for Democratic Defeats
The Democratic Party is looking for a scapegoat for its disastrous 2024 election performance. As ever, no shortage of pundits and party operatives are punching left. Democratic Congressman Ritchie...
View ArticleTrump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court
President-elect Donald Trump has wanted to end birthright citizenship for almost a decade. He first called for its elimination in 2015, telling reporters on the campaign trail that he wanted to “test...
View ArticleHow Entertainment Mangled Public Discourse
I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, just...
View ArticleTranscript: Bad News for Trump as GOPers Tell Him Matt Gaetz is Cooked
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 20 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleLindsey Graham Has Disgusting Reason for Supporting Matt Gaetz
Senator Lindsey Graham doesn’t care what the ethics report on Matt Gaetz says; he doesn’t think alleged sexual misconduct should knock Donald Trump’s nominee out of the running for attorney...
View ArticleRapist Supporters MTG and Nancy Mace Accuse Trans Colleague of Assault
Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace are bringing out the rhetorical big guns to knock down Representative-elect Sarah McBride.Over the course of the week, Greene has accused...
View ArticleTrump’s Defense Secretary Pick Is so Bad His Team Is Making New Plans
Donald Trump’s transition team has begun quietly assembling a list of alternatives to Pete Hegseth, Vanity Fair reported Wednesday.The Fox & Friends host has been the subject of immense scrutiny...
View ArticleTrump Stock Gets Devastating Post-Election Blow as Insiders Sell Out
Even small-time investors are looking to peel out from their Truth Social shares as the stock continues to tumble in the aftermath of the election.Stock in Trump Media & Technology Group has failed...
View ArticleTexas Cozies Up to Trump by Offering Him a Ranch for Deportation Prep
The state of Texas is offering the Trump administration a 1,400-acre ranch to use as a camp for mass deportations. The Texas General Land Office’s commissioner, Dawn Buckingham, sent a letter to the...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Cabinet Pick Is Also Mired in a Sexual Abuse Scandal
Proximity to sexual abuse and scandal increasingly looks like a prerequisite for joining Trump’s upcoming Cabinet. President-elect Donald Trump made yet another surprising pick on Tuesday, naming...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Cabinet Pick Is His Crappiest Yet (Literally)
Donald Trump nominated former Attorney General Matt Whitaker to be the United States ambassador to NATO Wednesday. “Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot who will ensure the United States’...
View ArticleMore Clues Emerge About the Ethics Committee Report on Matt Gaetz
The cloud of sexual misconduct allegations hanging over Matt Gaetz’s head grows larger every day. ABC News is reporting that the House Ethics Committee has records of Gaetz paying two women over...
View ArticleWhite House Staffers Slam Biden for Potential “Legacy of Horror”
In two months, Joe Biden will leave office and, soon after, nearly everything he and his administration have accomplished will be undone. One legacy, however, will remain: the administration’s...
View ArticleTrump’s Pick to Lead Public Health Doesn’t Trust Public Health Experts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently refused to believe the evidence of his eyes and ears during the Covid-19 pandemic, ignoring the freezer trucks full of bodies in favor of baseless conspiracies.Donald...
View ArticleLindsey Graham Compares Matt Gaetz Critics to “Lynch Mob”
Lindsey Graham is trying to rally support among his fellow Senate Republicans for Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz. The South Carolina senator said in a statement Wednesday that he...
View ArticleMike Johnson Proves He’s a Huge Hypocrite With Comments on Trans Rep.
House Speaker Mike Johnson believes in equality and justice for all—but that purported belief is seemingly not getting in the way of an effort to ban Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first...
View ArticleMilitary Not So Keen on Being Part of Trump’s Deportation Plans
Donald Trump’s plan for using the military to carry out mass deportations is already drawing opposition from the Pentagon and even from at least one Republican senator. Several officials in the...
View ArticleJD Vance Offers the Most Ridiculous Reason to Support Matt Gaetz
JD Vance arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday with the bleak task of drumming up support for Trump’s would-be attorney general, Matt Gaetz. “Donald J. Trump just won a major electoral victory. His...
View ArticleIdiot Trump Accidentally Gives Democrats a Massive Boost
Donald Trump’s lame obsession with Elon Musk is actually helping Senate Democrats get stuff done. As the current Senate majority races to approve all of President Joe Biden’s pending judicial...
View ArticleMatt Gaetz Gets Huge Win on Ethics Report, but It’s Not Dead Yet
The House Ethics Committee did not agree Wednesday whether to release its report on former Representative Matt Gaetz.Committee Chairman Representative Michael Guest said that they had not decided to...
View ArticleElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Reveal Secret Weapon to Wreck Government
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are making it abundantly clear they will stop at nothing to slash the federal budget, even if it means weaponizing the Supreme Court in order to do so.In a Wall Street...
View ArticleTrump Is Done Pretending He Knows Nothing About Project 2025
Donald Trump has nominated a Christian nationalist with ties to Project 2025 to lead the Office of Management and Budget. CBS News reported Wednesday that Trump has chosen Russ Vought to lead the...
View ArticleRepublicans Adopt New, Absurd Defense of Gaetz: The Past Isn’t Real!
Republican senators are once again falling in line to support a man they’ve publicly and privately disavowed. But instead of Donald Trump, this time it’s Matt Gaetz. Gaetz was on Capitol Hill with...
View Article“Huge Mistake”: GOP Senator’s Surprise Takedown of Trump Draws Blood
This week, Donald Trump confirmed that he will use the military to carry out mass deportations. This prompted a surprisingly sharp response from GOP Senator Rand Paul, who denounced the idea as a “huge...
View ArticleA Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden’s most pro-worker policies: his...
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AI Scams Are the Point
Why does it matter how we talk about artificial intelligence? Some, mainly tech firms and their useful idiots, maintain we are about to immanentize the eschaton (which translates roughly as: dissolve...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Stealth War Against the Poor
Last week, Elon Musk’s America PAC tweeted a semi-comprehensive list of what the social media mogul held to be wasteful federal spending in 2023. Sadly, it illuminated only one thing, which is that...
View ArticleNancy Mace’s Anti-Trans Crusade and the GOP’s Endless Outrage Machine
On November 5, Sarah McBride made history as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. Just days later, I shared a nagging concern, writing: “There’s like a 99% chance that Marjorie...
View ArticleRegulations Aren’t Killing the Working Class—but the Red Tape Is
It has been more than two weeks since Donald Trump won his second term in office, promising to bring with him a flurry of policies aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. In the aftermath...
View ArticleTranscript: Republican Senator’s Surprise Takedown of Trump Shames GOP
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 21 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleMatt Gaetz Ethics Report May Still Get Released—Thanks to Republicans
Some Republicans might actually support a House resolution to release the Ethics report on Matt Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct. After the House Ethics Committee did not agree to release the report...
View ArticleDamning Report Exposes Horrific Accusation Against Trump Defense Pick
A woman identified as “Jane Doe” told police that she was assaulted by Pete Hegseth, a Fox News anchor nominated by Donald Trump to serve as secretary of defense, at a Republican women’s conference in...
View ArticleTrump’s Border Czar Issues Chilling Threat to Democratic Cities
Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s so-called “border czar” in charge of executing his massive deportation plans, made an eerie threat to double the number of ICE agents in sanctuary cities.During an appearance...
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Nancy Mace’s Ex-Aide Exposes Real Goal of Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill
South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace’s bathroom crusade is nothing more than a shallow stunt for attention, at least according to the lawmaker’s former communications director.Mace has spent the...
View ArticleTrump Mulls Putting His Life in the Hands of a Right-Wing Hothead
CNN reports that Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned conservative media B-lister, is up for consideration to run the agency for which he once worked. Bongino, who has periodically faced...
View ArticleAOC Savages Nancy Mace’s Cynical Transphobic Attack on Sarah McBride
Nancy Mace’s thinly veiled transphobia is getting old fast—just ask Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “What Nancy Mace, and what Speaker Johnson are doing, [is] endangering all women and girls....
View ArticleMTG Gets Key New Role With Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee announced plans Thursday to form a new subcommittee to work alongside the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the meme-based advisory group led by...
View ArticleMatt Gaetz Drops AG Nom—and May Accidentally Screw Himself in Process
Matt Gaetz rescinded his nomination to become Donald Trump’s attorney general on Thursday, writing in a statement that he believed his confirmation would become a “distraction” from Trump’s second...
View ArticleMatt Gaetz’s Venmo History Exposes Everyone He Allegedly Paid for Sex
The Justice Department’s three-year investigation into Matt Gaetz uncovered a web of payments to women who testified they were paid for sex by the ex-Florida lawmaker.Gaetz sent roughly $10,000 to at...
View ArticleThe 15 Democrats Who Voted to Give Trump Insane New Powers
The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act would allow the secretary of the treasury, a Cabinet position appointed by the president, to revoke a nonprofit organization’s...
View ArticleNobody Asked For This: An Anthony Weiner Political Comeback
On top of everything that’s gone wrong for Democrats in November, Anthony Weiner is mulling making a political comeback.The New York Times is reporting that the registered sex offender and...
View ArticleTrump Resumes His Endless War Against the First Amendment
Donald Trump is taking fresh aim at the press before he is sworn in for his second term, asking Republicans to block a federal shield bill that would protect journalists from federal investigators. The...
View ArticleTrump Goes Full Dictator in Latest Threat to GOP Senators
Matt Gaetz may be out of the running for attorney general, but Donald Trump still has plenty of horrific nominees he’s trying to push through Senate confirmation—and he’s threatening to unseat any...
View ArticleWatch: Trump’s Defense Pick Struggles to Explain Police Report
Donald Trump’s secretary of defense nominee, Pete Hegseth, is having a hard time defending himself.The Fox News star has been the subject of increased scrutiny after a police report from 2017 surfaced,...
View ArticleVladimir Putin Is “Gleeful” Over This Trump Cabinet Nomination
Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be the next director of national intelligence may not be making you happy, but it’s certainly making someone happy: Russian President Vladimir Putin. In Russia, the...
View ArticleHere’s How the Gaetz Nomination Fell Apart So Spectacularly
With his nomination to run the Department of Justice hanging in precarious balance, a timely news story finally proved to be the deal-killer for Trump loyalist Matt Gaetz. At issue was a second,...
View ArticleBibi Netanyahu Is Running Out of Vacation Options
With fresh arrest warrants being issued by the International Criminal Court on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have fewer travel options, as a handful of foreign countries have...
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