Source: Heather Diehl / Getty The MAGA-controlled U.S. Department of Justice has, once again, failed to secure an indictment against the political rivals of President Donald Trump, as a federal grand jury has declined to approve criminal charges against Sen. Mark Kelly and the other five Democratic lawmakers whom Trump accused of “seditious behavior” that […]
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But now, everything has been put on hold. The news came as Trump used his Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum to triple down on his threat to seize Greenland (even though he mistook the territory for Iceland several times). Last week, Trump threatened to levy tariffs on eight European allies that oppose the […]
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Right-wingers have been doing the “Free Tina” thing for some time now. Peters is currently serving nine years in jail for granting unauthorized access to Colorado voting machines and being charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, two counts of conspiracy to commit attempting to influence a public servant, first-degree official […]
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First: I do not understand why the Democrats haven’t been shouting about Grijalva nonstop, making sure America knows how many days it’s been since her election, and why this is happening to her. They do it, sort of, in the same way that they do a lot of things, sort of. Senators Mark Kelly and […]
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At the crux of the lawsuit is that the Pentagon is engaging in viewpoint discrimination, which is generally forbidden by the First Amendment. Defense Department officials are not required to give out any press credentials at all, nor must they grant access to the Pentagon building itself. The CIA, for obvious reasons, does not have […]
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Republicans who have seen the video have insisted this was all lawful. Senator Tom Cotton, for instance, said it showed the two survivors attempting to flip a boat “loaded with drugs bound for the United States.” But if Smith’s account of the video is correct, that’s in doubt: The boat looked incapacitated, and the drugs […]
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Source: picture alliance / Getty In September, the Trump administration’s Pentagon unveiled a new policy that reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information unless it is pre-approved by the Department of Defense, or, as the department’s head, Pete Hegseth, affectionately calls it, the Department of War. (To be fair, in this instance, the department is engaging in […]
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The suit further argued that the punitive policy violated the First Amendment by seeking “to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done—ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.” Under Hegseth’s new rules, credentialed Pentagon reporters were required to pledge that they […]
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“John, we’re really looking at the data, the analyses here particularly out of Minneapolis, and other parts of the country where we’re seeing Somalia, there’s widespread fraud, particularly marriage fraud when it comes to immigration, we’re looking at criminality here,” McLaughlin said. Berman then repeated his question. “My question is, all of them? The president […]
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“John, we’re really looking at the data, the analyses here particularly out of Minneapolis, and other parts of the country where we’re seeing Somalia, there’s widespread fraud, particularly marriage fraud when it comes to immigration, we’re looking at criminality here,” McLaughlin said. Berman then repeated his question. “My question is, all of them? The president […]
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After promising Americans in July that his proposed ballroom would “be near but not touching” the White House East Wing, Trump completely razed the FDR-era extension in October, plowing forward without prerequisite approval from the National Capital Planning Commission or the express permission of Congress. Conveniently, Trump started demolition during the government shutdown, when the […]
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After promising Americans in July that his proposed ballroom would “be near but not touching” the White House East Wing, Trump completely razed the FDR-era extension in October, plowing forward without prerequisite approval from the National Capital Planning Commission or the express permission of Congress. Conveniently, Trump started demolition during the government shutdown, when the […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty In a continuing effort by MAGA loyalists to expand the Trump administration’s campaign against its political opponents, the Department of Defense has launched a “thorough review” into Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly over a video released last week. On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it’s opening an […]
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“Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian, I think it’s fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction,” Vance replied, before stating that the two were both “agnostic or an atheist” when they met. “Everybody has to come to their own arrangement […]
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Riley previously worked as a partner at McKinsey & Company, and completed a Ph.D. in social policy and an M.Sc. in contemporary Chinese from Oxford, according to her LinkedIn. She joined the ranks at DOGE and was assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services, where Politico reported she pushed for massive layoffs earlier […]
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries finally endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday. The Brooklyn native extended his support with less than two weeks until Election Day. Early voting in the Big Apple begins Saturday. “Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for […]
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Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Last month, the Defense Department reinforced the widespread belief that the Trump administration is a paranoid, free speech-defying, authoritarian regime by unveiling its new policy that reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information at all unless it was pre-approved by the department itself, and that all news outlets are required to sign […]
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“This post doesn’t name them for some reason, but the ‘broad spectrum of new media outlets’ include: Gateway Pundit, TPUSA, and LindellTV, per their announcements,” CNN’s Natasha Bertrand wrote. Gateway Pundit, which proudly announced its inclusion in the Pentagon press corps on Wednesday, is known for constantly spreading false information, from falsely accusing multiple innocent […]
Read MoreSource: Kevin Dietsch / Getty If the Trump administration was trying to discourage the public from believing it is a corrupt, authoritarian regime that is perpetually paranoid about too much unflattering truth getting out while it pretends to be transparent, it really needs better messengers than Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Last month, the Defense Department […]
Read MoreEgypt is categorized as “not free” by an analysis from Freedom House, a democracy advocacy organization that formed nearly a century ago to rally the world against the threat of Nazi Germany. Political opposition in Egypt is nearly nonexistent. Civil liberties that are currently taken for granted in the U.S., such as the right to […]
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As former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki following the revelation, this could pose “a big problem, legally and substantively” for Trump and the DOJ, giving Comey and the others mentioned in the message “viable motions to dismiss indictments.” Comey’s attorney is reportedly looking to dismiss the case for “vindictive prosecution.” His trial […]
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But her treatment does stand in stark contrast to the publishing giant’s recent history of documenting the country’s first ladies. Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden all appeared in Vogue while their husbands were president, sometimes more than once. President Barack Obama also graced the magazine’s cover three times, while President Joe Biden was […]
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“Epstein has a certain reputation obviously. I’m just curious, were some of the workers that were taken from you, were some of them young women?” asked one reporter. “Well, I don’t want to say, but everyone knows the people that were taken, and the concept of taking people that work for me is bad. But […]
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“Epstein has a certain reputation obviously. I’m just curious, were some of the workers that were taken from you, were some of them young women?” asked one reporter. “Well, I don’t want to say, but everyone knows the people that were taken, and the concept of taking people that work for me is bad. But […]
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“What do you now have that refutes” previous investigations into the matter, inquired a reporter. “I will encourage you, in my role as director of national intelligence—my job, again, I said when I came into this role, was to make sure we are telling the truth to the American people, and that we are ensuring […]
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According to a report from The Daily Beast, Senator Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece as tragedy struck his state. Over the July 4 weekend, flash flooding took the lives of at least 95 people in Texas, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic, an all-girls camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River. […]
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“[Democrats] allowed in 10 to 13 million illegal alien invaders into this country. They all must go home. All. Not some. All must go home. They must be deported. They must go home or we don’t have a country, OK?” he said. “We’re in for another summer of riots. They just kicked it off.… The […]
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“[Democrats] allowed in 10 to 13 million illegal alien invaders into this country. They all must go home. All. Not some. All must go home. They must be deported. They must go home or we don’t have a country, OK?” he said. “We’re in for another summer of riots. They just kicked it off.… The […]
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“As the state senator who represents her district and the daughter of Cuban refugees, who are now just as American, if not more so than Stephen Miller, I am deeply disappointed by these actions. And I will not stand down,” Garcia wrote on X last weekend. “I want to put myself on record: ‘This is […]
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Of the 1,461 arrests made as part of Operation Patriot, only 790 individuals—or roughly 54 percent—had criminal convictions or charges. Meanwhile, 277 detainees, or about 19 percent, had received final orders of removal or deportation, though it’s unclear whether there was overlap between those two groups. This disastrous sweep comes as the Trump administration sets […]
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