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May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Team Scrambles for New Reason to Keep Abrego Garcia Deported
Donald Trump has repeatedly stonewalled on Abrego Garcia’s case.
May 6, 2025
Parker Molloy
How Calling a Child the
N
-Word Made One Woman $700,000
The Shiloh Hendrix GiveSendGo campaign exposes the right’s patronage system for public displays of racism.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Kristi Noem Gets Brutal Fact-Check on Deporting U.S. Citizens
There have been at least 12 documented instances in which U.S. citizens were caught up in Donald Trump’s deportations.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Supreme Court Lets Trump Move Forward on Cruel Trans Military Ban
All three liberal judges on the court tried to stop this.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Why MTG’s Own Party Is Terrified of Her Next Move
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s own party is terrified she might run for Senate.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Accidentally Admits He Hasn’t Made Any Trade Deals
Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Canada PM Gives Trump Middle Finger on Wild In-Person Statehood Pitch
Donald Trump pitched statehood to the man who was just elected by campaigning on rejecting statehood.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Trashes Canada Just Minutes Before Prime Minister Visits
Donald Trump continues to insist that Canada needs the United States.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Law Firm Deals Aren’t Working Out How He Hoped
Law firms that caved to Donald Trump are revealing they have ways to wriggle out of the deals.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Treasury Secretary Crashes When Asked Easy Question on Tariffs
Scott Bessent glitched as he tried to answer a question about the real costs of tariffs.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Own Words Come Back to Bite Him in Brutal Ruling
Judge Beryl Howell used Donald Trump’s own words against him when striking down his suit.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s Own Intel Agencies Destroy His Main Defense on Deportations
A newly declassified memo destroys Trump’s justification for using a wartime powers law to round up Venezuelan immigrants and deport them to El Salvador.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. Wildly Defends Terrifying Idea for Registry of Autistic People
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s idea was so bad that the Department of Health and Human Services walked it back.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Pete Hegseth Made an Order on Ukraine Trump Knew Nothing About
In the early days of Trump’s term, an order came from Hegseth’s office that sent national security officials scrambling.
May 6, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Trump Humiliated by Karl Rove’s Brutal On-Air Poll Warning
As the veteran GOP strategist dares to suggest Trump is losing ground big-time on immigration, an elections analyst looks at why Trump is faltering on his number one issue—and how Dems can capitalize.
May 6, 2025
Benjamin F. Miller
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Norman J. Ornstein
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Kavita Patel
May Is Mental Health Awareness Month. Guess How Trump Is Marking It?
Mental health is in crisis. We need more resources, not fewer. But what the Trump administration is doing amounts to targeted sabotage.
May 6, 2025
Magazine
Ross Rosenfeld
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
May 6, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Movie Tariffs Won’t Save Hollywood
American movies are dying, but not in the way Trump imagines.
May 6, 2025
Matt Ford
How Republicans in Congress Enable Trump’s Tyranny
GOP lawmakers in Washington have stumbled onto one neat trick to abet the president’s lawlessness—dismantle their own power.
May 6, 2025
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Trump Seethes as Karl Rove’s Harsh On-Air Poll Warning Deflates MAGA
As Trump bristles at the GOP strategist’s advice about his slippage on immigration, an elections analyst explains the hidden reasons Trump is losing ground on his best issue—and how Dems should proceed now.
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