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· 10h
Red state airport refuses to broadcast Trump admin’s video blaming Democrats for shutdown
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has declined to broadcast a video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lays blame on congressional Democrats for the current federal government shutdown. A spokesperson told ABC15 Arizona Monday that the move aligns with existing airport policy, t...
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· 11h
'He’s in trouble': Shock as pro-Trump network refuses to sign controversial policy
Conservative network Newsmax has announced it will not sign the Pentagon’s new press-access policy, joining a growing coalition of news organizations rejecting what they describe as unconstitutional constraints on journalism.Journalists at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and several other m...
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· 11h
House Republicans 'beginning to doubt' Trump’s 'government shutdown tactics'
The United States' federal government has been partially shut down since October 1, and as of Monday afternoon, October 13, a resolution appears to be nowhere in sight.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) continues to blame Democratic lawmakers, claiming that they shut down the federal governmen...
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· 12h
Rachel Maddow details 'horrific' ways lives are being 'ruined' during second Trump presidency
Although "The Rachel Maddow Show" only airs once a week, the liberal MSNBC host is keeping busy with a variety of projects — from documentaries to her podcast "Ultra." Maddow's most recent documentary is "Andrew Young: The Dirty Work," which focuses on the life of former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, ...
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· 13h
'No idea what’s going on': MAGA strategist rages at Trump over latest move
Steve Bannon, former White House strategist and prominent MAGA figure, sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s administration after it approved a deal to allow Qatar to build a facility at a U.S. Air Force base in Idaho. On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the project, to be loca...
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· 13h
'Planting manila folders': Eric Trump launches 'tin foil hat' theory against Jack Smith
An "angry" Eric Trump launched a new conspiracy against former special counsel Jack Smith, one of his father's perceived enemies, according to The Daily Beast.President Donald Trump's second son appeared on Fox News to promote his new book when he began to take aim at the former special counsel who ...
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· 14h
'Cast aside to die': Voters struggle in deep-red Trump country
Coal miners supported President Donald Trump and thanked him at the White House in April for "trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry," writes The New York Times, but now those coal miners say that Trump is failing to protect them from an incurable illness that's killing them.On Tuesday, do...
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· 14h
Johnson: Trump will stop firing federal workers when the government reopens
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday defended the administration’s Friday night firing of thousands of federal employees, contending that President Trump and Budget Director Russ Vought were compelled by the shutdown to act, and alleged firing federal workers will end when the shutdown does — explanations...
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· 15h
Why Trump keeps 'MAGA’s favorite scapegoat' around despite a 'growing pile of failures'
During the scathing opening sketch on "Saturday Night Live's" October 11 episode, host Amy Poehler (a former cast member) portrayed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a scathing parody of her clashes with Democratic senators during an October 7 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Another "SNL" alumn...
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'Growing disillusionment': Sports bros step in as podcasters abandon Trump in droves
As right-wing podcasters who helped get President Donald Trump elected start to retreat in their support of him, a new crop of "sports talkers, a constellation of the podcast bro ecosystem" are filling the void, writes Salon senior writer Sofia Tesfaye.Criticisms from the most popular podcasters —Jo...
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· 16h
This top Republican 'flunky is 'abetting' Trump's 'takeover': analysis
The Bulwark's Will Saletan says that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is worried that the United States could become a dictatorship, but he's "wrong about where that threat is coming from."At a press conference on Wednesday, Johnson warned that “a Marxist ideology [is] taking over the Democr...
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· 17h
'These guys seem very nervous': Officials blasted after lashing out at anti-Trump protests
Several senior members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet began the week Monday morning by denouncing the upcoming nationwide “No Kings” protests scheduled for Saturday. The demonstrations, first held in June to oppose authoritarianism and government corruption, drew millions of participants across...
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· 18h
'Stop whining': Critics crush 'baby' Trump for complaining again about snub
On his way to the Middle East to take a victory lap for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, President Donald Trump complained about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize again, saying the committe should have changed the rules for him, reports The Daily Beast.Trump and MAGA were livid when the prize...
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· 18h
'It's a gamble': Trump opponents may have a new potent weapon —but will it work?
During Barack Obama's presidency, many Republicans — along with quite a few libertarians and independents — brutally mocked progressives on college campuses as thin-skinned "social justice warriors" who used "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" to shield themselves from viewpoints they disagreed wit...
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· 19h
'Bombshell': Conservative legal scholar raises questions about core MAGA argument
Far-right supporters of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are aggressively promoting what is known as "unitary executive theory" of federal governance. The theory claims that presidents, under the U.S. Constitution, have sole authority over the federal government's executive branch and go...
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· 19h
'Entire world hates him': Critics erupt after Israeli politicians call Trump a 'terrorist'
President Donald Trump was briefly silenced Monday as two left-wing Israeli politicians yelled 'terrorist!" at him as he spoke to the nation's parliament following the release of the 20 living hostages held by Hamas as part of the ceasefire deal between the warring parties. According to The Jerusale...
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· 20h
'We've annoyed the average American': Obama issues a warning — and a solution
In stand-up comedian Marc Maron's final podcast, former President Barack Obama said that, while President Donald Trump is testing American insitutions to take a stand for the "nation's founding principles and values," Americans need to be jolted out of their complacency, reports the Los Angeles Time...
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· 20h
Breaking the rod: How the 'Christian parenting empire' misuses scripture
A new book has debunked many evangelical Christian parenting methods, including corporal punishment, arguing that they are not as biblically grounded or effective as their proponents claim. In The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families, aut...
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'Believe them': Trump admin sparks alarm with new threat
Vice President JD Vance sparked alarm on Sunday when he said that President Donald Trump was considering invoking the Insurrection Act under the pretenses of combating violent crime in US cities.During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Vance if Trump was “seriously co...
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