Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty The Super Bowl is right around the corner, which means it’s time for the yearly pregame interview with the president. A preview of President Donald Trump’s interview with NBC News’s Tom Llamas was released on Thursday, and in it, Trump spoke on several topics, including the growing backlash against ICE. […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty There is something deeply American about the idea of a suffering class. From the outset, America has maintained the unspoken Constitutional fine print that the poor must stay poor. That’s the logic behind gated communities, redlining, and predatory lending. It’s what emboldens residents to question Blacks about whether they […]
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Source: Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty According to reports, a new petition from convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has a striking revelation in it, alleging that there were more people involved in the late financier’s abuse who haven’t been charged. The news comes as many question the Department of Justice’s continued blockage of the […]
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Source: Arturo Holmes / Getty On Thursday, a Minnesota magistrate declined to sign a Department of Justice complaint charging journalist Don Lemon with reporting on a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday. According to CBS News, Attorney General Pam Bondi and several other legal officials with the Trump administration are furious with the […]
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Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Generations from now, the history books will be hilarious. At the very least, the chapters that cover the two presidencies of President Donald Trump will be a literal riot. If current and future historians record the truth of this era, the books will read like a series of half-satirical novels— […]
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As an alternative to the enhanced subsidies, which lowered the cost of monthly premiums for eligible ACA enrollees, Trump wants Congress to fund health spending accounts that people can use to buy health insurance. “The government is going to pay the money directly to you. It goes to you, and then you take the money […]
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Source: JIM WATSON / Getty Source: The Washington Post / Getty Two officials from the Trump administration have revealed that the entire East Wing of the White House is set to be demolished “within days,” marking a major escalation of the $300 million ballroom construction project that President Donald Trump announced earlier this summer, according […]
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Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty In today’s episode of This Is Fine. It’s Not Like The Government Is Shut Down Or Anything, our esteemed commander in chief is taking on the important tasks to save America economically and keep us safe from all that threatens us both internally and externally. Nah, I’m messing with you […]
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Source: MADISON SWART / Getty President Donald Trump and his passionately xenophobic and anti-immigrant administration would have us believe that it is their agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who are “under siege,” and yet, it is these masked agents who keep proving that their aggression towards undocumented migrants, potentially undocumented migrants, legal immigrants […]
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Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Welp, the U.S. government is on the precipice of yet another shutdown due largely to the inability of the two parties in our two-party system to get along — a condition that has likely been exacerbated by a White House administration led by a president who is observably content with […]
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Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Who would have imagined that Charlie Kirk currency would even be a conversation? Welp, we’re here. Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, and Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) are set to introduce legislation directing the U.S. Treasury to mint 400,000 silver dollar coins bearing the image of […]
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What employees are discovering, if they didn’t already know, is that free speech protections don’t always extend to private workplaces, especially when it comes to political speech. While other laws protect some speech, like the right to organize or blow the whistle about wrongdoing, many workers can be fired for anything they say on social […]
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Source: President Donald Trump was one of the first prominent figures to hop on social media and celebrate Disney and ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air “indefinitely,” but then it turned out “indefinitely” actually meant roughly four days, as ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel would be back on air than a week after his show was pulled, […]
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Source: Genaro Molina / Getty As soon as President Donald Trump took office in January, he made public colleges and universities one of his primary targets due to what the administration dubbed “illegal” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The Trump administration has made withholding federal funding one of its primary methods of getting schools […]
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Source: LUDOVIC MARIN / Getty Apparently, President Donald Trump has taken his MAGA-fied “America First,” anti-globalist schtick to — *checks notes* — the United Nations. That’s right, y’all; on Tuesday, Trump stood on stage before the U.N. General Assembly, and, for about an hour, rambled on with the same, stale anti-immigrant, anti-peace, and anti-clean energy […]
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Source: Bill Clark / Getty We previously reported that a group of cryptocurrency investors paid to have a golden statue of President Donald Trump holding a bitcoin erected in front of the U.S. Capitol — as if to gift America with a single graven image to symbolize just how far the nation has fallen into […]
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Source: kuarmungadd / Getty At this point, I think it’s safe to say the Trump administration wants the American public to die by any means necessary. Be it from climate change through its dismantling of FEMA, or disease through unnecessary vaccine restrictions, the Trump administration has made a habit of uprooting historical norms simply to […]
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Source: Genaro Molina / Getty It has been less than a week since Disney and ABC pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air for what was supposed to be an indefinite suspension over Kimmel’s remarks about the death of Charlie Kirk, which were actually remarks about how President Donald Trump and his MAGA sycophants don’t actually […]
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Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term seeking retribution against his perceived enemies. From lawsuits to attempted firings, President Trump seems more focused on using his executive power to go on a revenge tour than, you know, improving the material conditions for Americans throughout the country. President […]
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Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty In recent months, it’s become incredibly clear that Texas doesn’t actually value free speech or free thought. Texas A&M President Mark Welsh submitted his resignation on Thursday after facing pressure from several Texas Republicans due to his initial refusal to fire a professor for teaching gender content in a […]
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Source: OLIVER CONTRERAS / Getty Here’s a question: When did America become a cartoon? Like — we are so unserious right now. Apparently, South Park is actually a documentary. At this point, real life will be predicting future episodes of The Simpsons instead of the other way around. What the hell are we even doing […]
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Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Last month, President Donald Trump tried to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly supported the move, which is kind of funny, considering that documents reveal he once made similar claims to the ones they are trying to get Cook […]
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Source: Pacific Press / Getty President Donald Trump has spent much of his first year in office seeking retribution against his political enemies. New York Attorney General Letitia James has quite notably been the object of President Trump’s ire simply because she’s doing her job and holding him accountable for wrongdoing. She’s doing her job […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty Because of what happened yesterday with the Jimmy Kimmel show, let’s shine a light on hate speech and the history of the first amendment right. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a cornerstone of American democracy, enshrining key liberties that define the nation’s political and cultural […]
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Source: Drazen_ / Getty The Oklahoma Supreme Court has, at least temporarily, put a stop to the MAGA-humping madness that the State Department of Education is trying to implement as required learning . According to the Associated Press, the state supreme court has put a pause on new social studies standards for K-12 public schools that would require, […]
Read MoreSource: Design Pics Editorial / Getty In today’s episode of Trump Makes American History Easy On White People Again, the Trump administration has reportedly ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including the iconic portrait of a runaway slave’s severely whipped back, titled “The Scourged Back,” according to […]
Read MoreSource: The Washington Post / Getty Nothing says “we live in an authoritarian police state” quite like literally militarizing law enforcement by deploying the National Guard. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to deploy the National Guard to Memphis. AP reports President Trump announced the potential deployment during an interview with Fox […]
Read MoreSource: PATRICK T. FALLON / Getty According to President Donald Trump, the man who shot and killed controversial right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday has been found and taken into custody. After detaining and releasing at least two people for the killing, authorities have identified the man they now believe is […]
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Source: Horacio Villalobos / Getty A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can remain in her job after President Donald Trump attempted to fire her. According to CBS News, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb wrote in her ruling that “President Trump has not stated a legally permissible cause for Cook’s […]
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Source: Michael Thomas / Getty The GOP has made it abundantly clear that it intends to steal the 2026 midterms. Missouri is the latest red state to begin redistricting, with the state House approving a gerrymandered congressional map. According to the Missouri Independent, the state House voted 90-65 to approve a new congressional map that […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell asking him to address the unemployment rate among Black women after a recent jobs report revealed a significant increase. According to NBC News, Rep. Ayanna Pressley called Black women’s employment a “key metric of the health of […]
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