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fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 days ago

Nearly 8 years later, Trump admits he called Haiti, African nations shole' countries

President Trump confirmed using the derogatory term 'shole countries' in a 2018 meeting and repeated insults about Haiti, Somalia, and other nations at a 2025 rally.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

Jimmy Kimmel Warns Trump Is Making the Same Mistake' as Biden

Jimmy Kimmel warned President Donald Trump that urging voters to ignore rising prices and advising cutbacks echoes Joe Biden's mistake and misreads public economic pain.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

CNN's Jake Tapper Calls BS On Trump Spox's Bandage Spin: Something About His Health They're Not Telling Us'

President Trump's hand bandages, bruising, swollen ankles, and a recent MRI have raised concerns about undisclosed health issues amid White House opacity.
#gerrymandering
fromThe Atlantic
1 day ago
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The Indiana Vote Is an Inflection Point

Indiana Republican senators' rejection of a Trump-backed redistricting plan constituted a significant intra-party revolt undermining Trump's authoritarian influence.
fromIntelligencer
2 days ago
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Indiana Republicans Defied Trump and Bomb Threats to Stop Pro-GOP Redistricting

Indiana Republican senators rejected a Trump-led gerrymandering plan, preserving two Democratic U.S. House seats despite threats, pressure, and national MAGA retaliation.
#redistricting
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 days ago
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Down in Flames': Trump Opponents Rejoice as GOP Gerrymander Attempt Fails in Indiana

Indiana Senate rejected a mid-decade redistricting push, with 31 senators voting against a map designed to give Republicans more congressional seats.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago
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Trump Rages at Indiana Republican SUCKERS' Who Revolt on Redistricting Push in MAGA Primary' Threat

Trump attacked Indiana Senate leader Rodric Bray for stalling redistricting that Trump says would give Republicans two extra House seats and threatened primaries.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy

President Trump's rapid consolidation of power has tipped the United States into competitive authoritarianism, where elections persist but the ruling party rigs the system.
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fromIntelligencer
3 days ago

MLK Day Out, Trump's Birthday In? All His Holiday Changes.

No new federal holidays have been created; federal holidays require congressional legislation, and presidential proclamations do not establish federal holidays.
fromAxios
3 days ago

Inside Kristi Noem's bitter feud with Trump's border czar

Kristi's doing a great job,
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

Fed Chief Reports Inflation on the Price of Goods Is Up Due to Trump's Tariffs

President Trump's tariffs contributed to higher goods inflation while the Federal Reserve cut rates by 25 basis points.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

Trump Admin Sued To Remove President's Face From Park Passes

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today to prevent President Donald Trump from replacing a beautiful picture of Glacier National Park with a close-up of his own face on the America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass, reads a press release. Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center, blasted the president's image being used on passes as his crassest, most ego-driven action yet.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days ago

Jake Tapper Confronts Jasmine Crockett Over Suggesting Hispanic Trump Voters Have Slave Mentality'

Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared some Latino Trump voters to a 'slave mentality' and later clarified she did not mean all Latinos.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now, as Trump demands?

Ukrainian law bans wartime elections, making a presidential vote during the ongoing Russian invasion constitutionally and practically dependent on external security guarantees.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they'd known sooner. Here's what they said

U.S. political trends mirror authoritarian playbooks as leaders consolidate power, private institutions comply, and restrictive migration measures are exported.
fromBusiness Insider
5 days ago

Trump says he just wants to 'do what's right' in the Warner deal

I know the companies very well. I know what they're doing, but I have to see, I have to see what percentage of market they have.
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fromJezebel
5 days ago

M-'Tea'-G Says the GOP Makes Fun of Trump Behind His Back

"I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me-constantly-for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started-excuse my language, Lesley-kissing his ass, and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time." She others are "terrified" of receiving the same treatment that she got, namely after Trump got "extremely angry" at her for pushing for the release of the Epstein files.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
6 days ago

The anti-trans movement is sadly going to outlive Trump's presidency - LGBTQ Nation

The anti-trans movement has grown independently, will persist beyond Trump, and will continue influencing policy even if some measures are reversed.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
6 days ago

New Poll Reveals Clear Democratic Favorite in 2028 White House Race

Gavin Newsom leads Democratic 2028 primary polling and is viewed as the party's most electable choice amid a sharp youth shift against Trump.
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fromVulture
1 week ago

Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) Fields Questions on Venezuela on Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live depicted Pete Hegseth as an aggressive hawkish caricature endorsing extrajudicial drone strikes while Trump appears indifferent and distracted.
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fromAxios
1 week ago

How Trump flipped America's race conversation

Political norms punishing racist or bigoted language have eroded, enabling increasingly explicit racial hostility from high-level officials and public institutions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit

Political leaders use lies, raids, and demonization to target immigrants and people of color, terrorizing communities and undermining public safety and civil rights.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Venezuela's Maduro breaks silence about call with Trump: It was respectful and cordial'

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro confirmed a respectful phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on November 21 as a possible step toward diplomatic dialogue.
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fromAxios
1 week ago

Trump's lawmaker pardon list stretches beyond Henry Cuellar

Trump has granted pardons and commutations to several former lawmakers and allies accused or convicted of corruption, while emphasizing alleged over-prosecution.
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fromAxios
1 week ago

What to know about Trump's claim that Biden's autopen-signed docs are now "null, void"

Trump declared Biden's autopen-signed documents null, void, and of no effect and threatened to invalidate them despite constitutional limits on overturning pardons.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The Last Criminal Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped

A Georgia judge dismissed the racketeering case against Trump and associates after a prosecutor found legal and practical weaknesses following the indictment.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Israel's prime minister requests a pardon during his corruption trial

Benjamin Netanyahu requested a pretrial presidential pardon to halt his corruption trial after President Trump urged the same.
fromFortune
1 week ago

Economist Paul Krugman says Bitcoin's crash shows the 'unraveling of the Trump trade' | Fortune

Krugman, who has made no secret of his contempt for cryptocurrencies (or for Trump and Trumpism), argues their rise is inextricably linked with the Trump administration's raft of friendly policies and actions toward crypto investors and exchanges. That includes calling for the creation of a government Bitcoin reserve, as well as signing an executive order in August to allow U.S. citizens to invest retirement savings in cryptocurrency, as well as other alternative assets.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

White House launches website to excoriate media for biased' stories

At the top of the page, the text reads: Misleading. Biased. Exposed. The feature names the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as media offenders of the week, accusing them of inaccurately portraying Trump's remarks about six Democratic lawmakers who released of video encouraging military members to not follow illegal orders. The controversy arose after Trump accused Democrats of seditious behavior, punishable by death on social media. He also reposted a statement including the words: hang them.
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fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Trump ally Troy Nehls joins growing group of lawmakers retiring from Congress

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a longtime Trump ally who recently split with the president, made headlines last week by announcing her plans to resign in January. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a Trump critic, told Axios he nearly resigned over the Trump administration's 28-point peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war. "I have made the decision, after conversations with my beautiful bride and my girls over the Thanksgiving holiday, to focus on my family and return home after this Congress," Nehls said in a statement.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Trump keeps insulting female journalists | Arwa Mahdawi

President Trump repeatedly used disparaging, misogynistic, ableist, and Islamophobic insults on social media against journalists and politicians.
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

NY Times Fires Back at Trump's Name-Calling and Personal Insults'

The Times's reporting is accurate and built on first hand reporting of the facts. Name-calling and personal insults don't change that, nor will our journalists hesitate to cover this administration in the face of intimidation tactics like this. Expert and thorough reporters like Katie Rogers exemplify how an independent and free press helps the American people better understand their government and its leaders.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Mark Kelly Mocks Totally Unqualified' Hegseth's Sedition Investigation: Can't Make This Sh*t Up!'

Senator Mark Kelly calls Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unqualified and condemns a Pentagon inquiry under the Uniform Code of Military Justice as politically driven.
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Top Trump Aide Coached the Russians On How to Butter Up Trump With Fake Flattery Leaked Transcript Reveals

SW: Yuri, Yuri, here's what I would do. My recommendation. YU: Yes, please. SW: I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you're just, you're really glad to have seen it happen. So I would say that. I think from that it's going to be a really good call.
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fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Democrats say FBI is probing them over video urging soldiers to defy unlawful orders

The FBI opened a counterterrorism inquiry into lawmakers after a video urging service members to refuse unlawful orders and sought interviews.
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Zelensky ready to meet Trump over Thanksgiving to finalize deal, top aide tells Axios

I hope the visit of President Zelensky will take place as soon as possible, because ... it will be help President Trump to continue his historical mission to end this war. Because [Trump] can say: 'Look, this is confirmed and agreed, our position with the Ukrainians. We support it, and we continue now to speak with the Russians.'
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fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas

Major MAGA X accounts claiming U.S. bases are operated from abroad, including Chile, Nigeria, Russia, eastern Europe, India, while Trump promoted several.
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