Source: Jeremy Poland / Getty For the last six months, we’ve seen several Republican state legislatures implement rare, mid-decade redistricting efforts at the behest of President Donald Trump. While the GOP has largely been grossly submissive to Trump, a group of Republican state senators in Indiana displayed a surprising amount of backbone on Thursday after […]
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For nearly a year, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been President Donald Trump’s point person to carry out the mass deportation efforts that have descended on cities across the country. But while Noem’s tenure atop the nation’s centralized security services has made her one of the administration’s most visible figures, her time […]
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What happened The Senate Thursday failed to pass competing plans to prevent a sharp rise in costs for people who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act when subsidies expire at the end of the year. The Democratic proposal to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative each drew a […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty Look, y’all, I’ve warned you about this before, but it looks like I’m going to have to say it again: You people have GOT to stop stressing out your poor, probably demented president. And now you’re really hurting his feelings. I tried to tell you when President Donald Trump […]
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What happened A federal judge in Maryland Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego García from an ICE detention facility in Pennsylvania, ruling that the government was holding the Salvadoran immigrant “without lawful authority.” Abrego García, whose wrongful deportation to a notorious El Salvador prison in March became an early flashpoint in President Donald […]
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Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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What happened Indiana’s state Senate Thursday rejected a new congressional map 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats, in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign. The proposed gerrymander, approved by the state House last week, would have likely flipped the state’s two Democratic-held U.S. House seats, giving Indiana a 9-0 GOP delegation. […]
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Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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Topline House Democrats unveiled 19 new images from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday featuring President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and other high-profile figures—the latest trove of documents to be made public ahead of the Justice Department’s highly anticipated release of its Epstein files next week. President Donald Trump is pictured in an […]
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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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Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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Source: Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Oh. My. GOD. President Donald Trump is the most annoying kind of racist. There is no brand of anti-Black bigot that is as obnoxious as the anti-Black bigot who pivots to “Black friend” caucasity whenever it’s socially or politically convenient for them. And that’s all we’ve ever gotten from President […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump started the year having won the popular vote for the first time, made significant gains with voters of color and consolidated the support of Republicans on Capitol Hill, on the federal judiciary, […]
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Is this pervasive sense that we have to win the white guys so deep that the party is informally signaling: if you’re not white-guy-friendly—or really, if you’re not a white guy, [don’t run] in some ways? Segers: I do think there may be that underlying message. I also think that, for their part, women politicians […]
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The stakes couldn’t be higher this weekend as the UK and the EU attempt to win concessions from the US over a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. Depending on how the next few days play out, “in the very best scenario there could eventually be peace in Ukraine”, said The Times. But in the […]
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This is over the last couple of weeks. Trump said about Somalia there: “If you look at Somalia, they’re taking over Minnesota. We are not taking their people anymore.” Okay, that’s… there is nothing there about welfare fraud, about crime. It’s just, “We don’t like this country or anyone from it.” Another one: A reporter […]
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“‘Decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number,’” he wrote, quoting from No. 70. “The centralization of authority in the president alone is particularly crucial in matters of national defense, war, and foreign policy choices, where a […]
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Oh, but the Hunting Husbands would like a word. Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes is beefing with Owens, whom he has called, with unexpected gender fluidity, an “Uncle Tom.” Though Fuentes shares Owens’s hatred of Jews, he believes his Hitlerian views are intellectually superior to Owens’s: “Low-IQ antisemitism has a name, and its name is Candace Owens.” […]
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President Trump erupted Thursday in a wild rage on Truth Social in which he appeared to blame pollsters for failing to register his world-historical success. “When will Polls reflect the Greatness of America at this point in time?” he fumed, apparently mindful of the latest news of his cratering poll numbers. Notably, this comes just […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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The fight over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery is really a battle to decide who will control much of the news and entertainment Americans consume. So perhaps it is no surprise that President Donald Trump is wading straight into the middle of the fray between Netflix and Paramount Skydance. Trump’s assertion this week that […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]
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