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Judge Blocks Trump From Using Shutdown to Fire Anyone He Wants
The Trump administration can’t fire federal workers while the government is shut down, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday…
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Half the Country Sues Trump for Using Shutdown to Slash SNAP Funding
Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration for failing to salvage SNAP benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown.…
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Trump’s New Rules Will Wreck People’s Credit
President Donald Trump’s administration is about to ruin a lot of people’s credit. A new interpretative rule set published Tuesday by the…
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Team Trump Finds New Front to Attack Biden: Reviewing His Pardons
The Department of Justice has begun reviewing all of former President Biden’s pardons, in an effort to delegitimize anything he did as…
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MTG Rips White House Staff—and Mike Johnson—in Private Republican Call
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is taking shots at Republicans’ lack of action in reopening the government, directing her ire at…
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Republicans May Lose Badly In Next Week’s Elections—Thanks to Trump
Right Now With Perry Bacon is a twice-weekly show about national politics with a focus on the radicalism of the Trump administration and…
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Chicago Judge Blasts Border Patrol Chief for Traumatizing Children
It seemed that Ellis tried to give the Border Patrol chief the benefit of the doubt when discussing the multiple blatant violations of her…
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Yes, Virginia! Democrats Actually Can Be Feisty and Cunning!
Sadly, Democrats may not be able to catch up to Republicans in terms of gerrymandering, even though the party is rightly trying to. Many…
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Mike Johnson Complains He’s Tired (the House Isn’t Even Working)
“I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab,”…
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TPUSA’s First Event Since Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Going Off the Rails
At least one speaker on Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest summit lineup has divided the conservative caucus. Tucker Carlson, the former face…
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Republicans Decide to Focus on Biden Autopen as Shutdown Stretches On
House Republicans have turned their focus back to former President Joe Biden’s “autopen” while regular Americans—particuarly federal…
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Trump’s Desperate Attempts to Meet Kim Jong Un Just Majorly Backfired
President Donald Trump’s feeble attempts to kiss up to yet another authoritarian leader don’t appear to be working. Ahead of Trump’s visit…
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Mamdani Forced to Explain to MAGA How Brown People Use the Word “Aunt”
Zohran Mamdani has been forced to explain what the word “aunt” means in South Asian culture. On Friday, the Democratic nominee for New…
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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for an investigation into former Barclays CEO Jes Staley and “all current and former U.S. banking…
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Pete Hegseth Meets With Troops on Korea Trip—Except Those With Beards
It’s not a good indicator for the economy under President Trump. The website Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts, estimates that 98,344…
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Trump’s ICE Leadership Purges Reveal His Real Deportation Goals
It’s not a good indicator for the economy under President Trump. The website Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts, estimates that 98,344…
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Loyal Trump Soldier Ken Paxton Sues Tylenol Over Autism Conspiracy
It’s not a good indicator for the economy under President Trump. The website Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts, estimates that 98,344…
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Trump Tells U.S. Troops He Hates Hot People—and Other Weird Stuff
It’s not a good indicator for the economy under President Trump. The website Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts, estimates that 98,344…
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Transcript: Trump’s Crazed Rant Over Cognitive Test Shows His Decline
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Trump’s Fury at the Ontario Ad is All About the Supreme Court
“High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars,” Reagan said in the remarks.…
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Trump’s Ballroom Defenders Have Adopted the “Abundance” Argument
t has become far too difficult to build anything in America. Prominent Democrats have become vocal this year in calling out their party’s…
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Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar…
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Amazon Plans Massive Layoffs After Nine Months of President Trump
“Republicans’ reckless decisions are causing prices on everything to go up, from groceries to gas—Wisconsinites cannot afford to pay even…
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California Reveals Plan to Fight Trump’s “Election Monitors”
“Republicans’ reckless decisions are causing prices on everything to go up, from groceries to gas—Wisconsinites cannot afford to pay even…