Source: Brandon Bell / Getty On Thursday, the City of Denver, two major Latino civil rights organizations, and a voting rights group filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from allowing armed federal immigration agents to serve warrants at polling sites, or patrol said sites at all, for that matter. According to the Washington […]
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Source: Brendan Moran / Getty We’re back for another round of Surviving Trump, our column that tracks and reports a round-up of President Donald Trump’s latest lies, expressions of bigotry, and displays of incompetence. It’s a tedious job, but not a difficult one. It’s like finding a needle in a needle-stack. Let’s get into it… […]
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Source: Pool / Getty Every once in a while, Vice President JD Vance seems to get a bit sensitive about him and his ilk being called racist, but he can never seem to express that frustration without ultimately proving his accusers to be absolutely correct. So, last week, on the second day of President Donald […]
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Source: Los Angeles Times / Getty The Trump administration just can’t take no for an answer, which, sadly, isn’t surprising considering the nature of President Donald Trump’s character. Yet another federal judge has blocked Trump’s executive order that creates significant restrictions on mail-in voting. The New York Times reports that Judge Carl J. Nichols issued […]
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Source: UCG / Getty A federal appeals court had to explain to the Trump administration that mass detention without due process is not just wrong; it’s Japanese internment camp wrong. According to Newsweek, in a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected the administration’s argument that millions of immigrants it […]
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Source: Maxwell England / Getty Diesel prices have hit another record, with the national average price surpassing $6 on Friday. NPR reports that diesel prices are currently $6.05, up from $5.85 last month and significantly higher than the average price of $3.70 this time last year. President Donald Trump promised no new wars and lower […]
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Source: A collage featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Angie Nixon. The progressives are coming in hot, baby—much to the chagrin of establishment Democrats, neoliberals (same thing), and those who apparently don’t worry about money. In the last year or so, there’s been a surge across the country in support of progressives mostly in places where […]
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Source: Stephen Waytek / facebook Given the current global political climate, a president who made racism great again, the richest man in the world making goo-goo eyes at the Third Reich, and that tool who was bounced from Fox News now giving platforms to Jewish hate, it “makes sense” that a white man who runs […]
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Source: CNN / via Aaron Rupar/X Video Y’all, we have got to stop acting like there’s anything normal or OK about the way President Donald Trump attacks reporters — especially women reporters, and even more especially Black women reporters — just for asking him basic questions any journalist should feel obligated to ask. And, when […]
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“Many women who did housekeeping were taken there. And then they got there and realized they were actually at Ground Zero, which, by the way, sometimes they were not told that that’s where they were going,” she said. It isn’t clear just how many undocumented workers were involved in these efforts, but estimates are between […]
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“Many women who did housekeeping were taken there. And then they got there and realized they were actually at Ground Zero, which, by the way, sometimes they were not told that that’s where they were going,” she said. It isn’t clear just how many undocumented workers were involved in these efforts, but estimates are between […]
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“Many women who did housekeeping were taken there. And then they got there and realized they were actually at Ground Zero, which, by the way, sometimes they were not told that that’s where they were going,” she said. It isn’t clear just how many undocumented workers were involved in these efforts, but estimates are between […]
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“Many women who did housekeeping were taken there. And then they got there and realized they were actually at Ground Zero, which, by the way, sometimes they were not told that that’s where they were going,” she said. It isn’t clear just how many undocumented workers were involved in these efforts, but estimates are between […]
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“Many women who did housekeeping were taken there. And then they got there and realized they were actually at Ground Zero, which, by the way, sometimes they were not told that that’s where they were going,” she said. It isn’t clear just how many undocumented workers were involved in these efforts, but estimates are between […]
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Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Another day, another legal loss for the Trump administration. A panel of appeals court judges has upheld a block against President Donald Trump’s executive order creating significant restrictions on mail-in voting. AP reports that the three-judge panel upheld the block Judge Indira Talwani issued last week. The block prevents the […]
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“The chaos factor is the real problem,” Earley, who has joined the court challenges, told the Democrat. “I’ve had voters tell me ‘I don’t trust anything anymore, so I’m just not going to vote.’ And so I say the only way that your vote doesn’t get counted is if you don’t try and vote.” If […]
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“The chaos factor is the real problem,” Earley, who has joined the court challenges, told the Democrat. “I’ve had voters tell me ‘I don’t trust anything anymore, so I’m just not going to vote.’ And so I say the only way that your vote doesn’t get counted is if you don’t try and vote.” If […]
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As Louisiana Solicitor General Ben Aguiñaga again laid out the state’s case this week, arguing that it did have standing to sue the FDA, he didn’t have to emphasize his indignation about the fact that people are still having abortions in Louisiana despite the state’s ban. But he did, repeatedly claiming that “it happens a […]
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You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free. Inside Washington Dems want to regulate AI. But will AI money divide them? Democrats are loudly demanding new artificial intelligence regulation after an Anthropic researcher publicly announced his resignation […]
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Terry Strada, the widow of 9/11 victim Tom Strada and the national chair of 9/11 Families United, rhetorically asked her husband, “How can it be 25 years, and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?” Strada’s remarks elicited spontaneous applause from the audience. (Trump was not in […]
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Nonetheless, Trump was convinced that his performance had outdone football itself. “The Republican Midterm Convention last night, in Dallas, was a major, sold out hit, far bigger, better, and more important than anyone thought possible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “It was really something, streaming all over the place, and really big numbers, […]
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‘Security clearances don’t determine whom a president can trust — they reveal risks the president may not know’ Brian O’Neill at The Conversation One of President Donald Trump’s “closest aides, Natalie Harp, worked in the White House for more than a year without completing the normal security clearance process,” and the “circumstances surrounding Harp are unusual, […]
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Nonetheless, Trump was convinced that his performance had outdone football itself. “The Republican Midterm Convention last night, in Dallas, was a major, sold out hit, far bigger, better, and more important than anyone thought possible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “It was really something, streaming all over the place, and really big numbers, […]
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Nonetheless, Trump was convinced that his performance had outdone football itself. “The Republican Midterm Convention last night, in Dallas, was a major, sold out hit, far bigger, better, and more important than anyone thought possible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “It was really something, streaming all over the place, and really big numbers, […]
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Nonetheless, Trump was convinced that his performance had outdone football itself. “The Republican Midterm Convention last night, in Dallas, was a major, sold out hit, far bigger, better, and more important than anyone thought possible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “It was really something, streaming all over the place, and really big numbers, […]
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Nonetheless, Trump was convinced that his performance had outdone football itself. “The Republican Midterm Convention last night, in Dallas, was a major, sold out hit, far bigger, better, and more important than anyone thought possible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “It was really something, streaming all over the place, and really big numbers, […]
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What happened Joseph diGenova, a former federal prosecutor and ally of President Donald Trump, resigned Thursday from the Justice Department, where he was leading a wide-ranging conspiracy investigation into Trump’s perceived political foes. DiGenova was hired in April, weeks after Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi amid his “repeated expressed frustration” with her “pace — […]
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Trump: “Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to […]
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Non-college working-class voters are more skeptical than more educated voters are. I say that not to praise or damn one group or the other. It’s just, I think, the reality. It stems from the fact, more glaringly true in this country with each successive generation, that for the educated class, things like opportunity and advancement […]
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After making jabs at the “fake news media” for always taking his sarcastic remarks and claiming that he actually wants a medal, Trump quipped “I’m only kidding” before adding, “Actually, I’m not kidding, I would like to…. I can think of no other thing.” Trump: We’re privileged to have with us 15 of the 16 […]
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After making jabs at the “fake news media” for always taking his sarcastic remarks and claiming that he actually wants a medal, Trump quipped “I’m only kidding” before adding, “Actually, I’m not kidding, I would like to…. I can think of no other thing.” Trump: We’re privileged to have with us 15 of the 16 […]
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