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Transcript: Trump Allies Trade Insults as His Latest Pick Rattles MAGA
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Pete Hegseth Is the Perfect Trumpworld Monster
The last time I saw Hegseth was in 2019. We were friendly from having crossed paths in cable news greenrooms over the years, and I was…
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Could New York Fight Fascism with Climate Policy?
It’s fitting that NYPA was founded by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1931, as Americans—and people worldwide—were struggling for…
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How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World
The second major turn is the neoconservatives’ fashioning of this new concern about the campus into a moral panic over “political…
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Time for Democrats to Get Out of the Bipartisanship Business
The problem, of course, is that the rug-pull always arrives too late for the conned to prevent. While we are waiting for these bills to…
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The Smarter Anti-Trump Resistance: More Facts, Less Outrage
I’ll get to that, but first, an admission: I confess I’ve been mystified by this lack of alarm. I’ve said and written many times that I…
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Trump Allies Rage at Each Other as Latest Pick Too Nutty Even for MAGA
Donald Trump’s top allies are already furiously at war with each other over the transition, according to The Washington Post. Meanwhile,…
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What Don’t the Democrats Get? Almost Everything.
I feel that a lot of what circulates in the liberal media bubble is shaped by the fact that most of the writers have never faced eviction,…
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Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Just Signed Up For
There’s still another unsettling consideration here. If and when Trump pardons the January 6 attackers, media commentary will exude a…
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Trump Cabinet Nominee Proposed Terrifying Role for Military
“America will decline and die. A national divorce will ensue. Outnumbered freedom lovers will fight back,” Hegseth writes. “The military…
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MAGAworld Is Having the Funniest Meltdown Over Losing Matt Gaetz
The vote passed the Republican-controlled board by a vote of 8–7. The new curriculum could be implemented in the state’s elementary…
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Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees
Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he’s getting an early start by goading his millions of…
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Another State Has Passed a Christian Nationalist School Rule
The vote passed the Republican-controlled board by a vote of 8–7. The new curriculum could be implemented in the state’s elementary…
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Well, Well, Well: Trump Gives up the Game on Project 2025
Trump has argued that the entire case should be thrown out after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, and this decision is…
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Trump’s Next Cabinet Appointment May Be His Most Corrupt Yet
Donald Trump is expected to appoint former Senator Kelly Loeffler as Secretary of Agriculture, CNN reported Friday. Loeffler previously…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is the Problem It Wants to Solve
The op-ed opens with a certain lack of self-awareness. “Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Tells Trump to Buzz Off
“This is wrong in itself,” Orbán told Hungarian state radio Friday. “So there is no other choice here: We have to confront this decision,…
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Nancy Mace’s Anti-Trans Stunt Is So Bad, She Lost Newsmax
Even Newsmax is turning its back on Representative Nancy Mace’s transphobic bathroom stunt. Speaking with Indiana Representative Erin…
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Could Matt Gaetz Return to Congress? Here’s What He Says
“This is wrong in itself,” Orbán told Hungarian state radio Friday. “So there is no other choice here: We have to confront this decision,…
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Donald Trump’s Other Big Victory
In that sense, we have come full circle. Trump’s 2016 campaign was a font of humor, even after he won the Republican nomination (because,…
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How Russia Stooge Tucker Carlson Tried to Insert Putin Into Congress
Tucker Carlson says he tried to get House Speaker Mike Johnson to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin before approving more aid to…
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Nancy Mace Launches New Grift With Ugly Anti-Trans Merch
Israel claims Deif was killed in August; if true, it no longer matters whether or where he is arrested. Netanyahu and Gallant are another…
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Trump Is Fuming at Reports on His Super Narrow Margin of Victory
The woman, who was 17 years old at the time, testified that the second sexual encounter, which has not previously been reported, included…
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Is Progressive Journalism Being Systematically Destroyed?
Without the right-wing media juggernaut, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president next year and wouldn’t have won in 2016. That said,…