JD Vance Announces Investigation Into Nine Top Universities
Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that the Trump administration is targeting multiple universities that he claims “bring in foreigners to undercut the wages of American residents.” Vance...
View ArticleJD Vance Forced to Eat His Words Immediately After Trashing Microsoft
Vice President JD Vance was forced to eat his words in real time, accusing Microsoft of hiring too many foreign workers on the same day President Trump plans to award Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Midterms Tantrum Goes Too Far for Fox News
The president is making an enemy out of Fox News.The conservative media behemoth publicly defended its reporting this week, rebuking a wave of Republican backlash that began after host Martha MacCallum...
View Article“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly launched a 45-day immigration crackdown in California ahead of the midterm elections, instructing its officers to “go after anybody.”The so-called...
View ArticleTrump Official Hides Damning Report on Israel Killing Americans
American diplomats are supposed to represent the interests of the U.S. above everything else.David Milstein, an aide to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, was running cover for the Israeli...
View ArticleTrump Jokes Around as Supporter Attacks Protester at a Rally
President Donald Trump did nothing as one of his rallygoers attacked a peaceful protester.Trump struggled to get through his address at a campaign rally in San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday night as his...
View Article“Suck It Up”: Ken Paxton Promises Cuts to Federal Benefits
More audio of Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has leaked, this time featuring the embattled lawmaker telling people depending on federal benefits programs to “suck it up” and prepare for...
View ArticleTrump Straight Up Admits He Pardons People Because He Expects a Favor
When Donald Trump gives, he expects something in return.The revelation came amid an attack Wednesday night against Texas Representative Henry Cuellar, who Trump apparently believed should have become a...
View ArticleTrump Says He Really Does Want Iran to Bomb San Diego and Los Angeles
President Donald Trump clearly gets a kick out of imagining Iran destroying American cities. Speaking at a rally in San Antonio Wednesday night, Trump doubled down on the outlandish fallacy that anyone...
View Article“Call Me on Signal”: Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Jaw-Dropping Grift Exposed
Kimberly Guilfoyle begged a donor to send her $100,000 without leaving a trace as part of her pay-to-play grift—in the midst of her confirmation process last year to become U.S. ambassador to...
View ArticleElection Denier’s Lawyer Reveals Trump’s Chilling Midterm Plan
President Trump’s meeting with convicted election denier Tina Peters on Monday concerned some disturbing plans for the upcoming midterm elections.Peter Ticktin, Peters’s attorney, said that she...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleTrump? Diesel? ICE? Corruption? All of Those. But Mostly—Data Centers.
In short order, America’s data centers have come to stand in for a broad range of apocalyptic threats, from the climate crisis to the surveillance state to Trump’s kleptocracy.Data centers are an...
View ArticleReading Is Not Dying
It’s hard to write a case for reading. The challenge for writers who try it isn’t that reading is more abstruse than other subjects. And it certainly isn’t that arguments for reading can’t find...
View ArticleThis Is What Trump Panic Looks Like
Is this what panic looks like? President Trump has been barnstorming the country in recent days, as part of a tour that will take him across the United States until the midterms. His rallies, he says,...
View ArticleSamuel Alito’s Tortured Attempts to Explain Himself
Supreme Court justices write and publish books from time to time. Some, like the autobiographies of Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor, can be interesting to a general audience. Others are meant to be...
View ArticleTrump Polls Take Brutal Turn as Allies Grow Rattled: “Worse than 2006”
In today’s episode, nonpartisan political forecaster Kyle Kondik makes some critical points about Donald Trump’s approval rating. First, it may be so low that he’s even underwater in House districts...
View ArticleTrump Hit With Lawsuit for Using Taxpayer Money to Air Propaganda
The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration Wednesday, alleging that recent TV advertisements espousing the president’s political agenda were funded by taxpayers and thus violated...
View ArticleFlorida Does Trump a Favor He Doesn’t Actually Qualify For
Election officials in Florida have extended the state’s new voter registration protections to Donald Trump—even though he doesn’t qualify for them.The Palm Beach County Office of the Supervisor of...
View ArticleTrump Declares He Can Do “Very Bad Things” to His Enemies if He Wants
President Trump claimed that he can do whatever he wants to his political enemies“I could’ve done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could’ve done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could’ve done...
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