Trump Has So Many Legal Battles, He Can’t Keep Them Straight Anymore
A new speech has provided even more insight into Donald Trump’s memory problems—indicating that the GOP presidential nominee is having a difficult time recalling who’s who among the major players in...
View ArticleTrump’s Abortion Gambit Proves He’s Bad at Politics
It’s been pathetic over these recent years to watch people impute certain skills to Donald Trump. Oh, he’s very smart politically. He’s charismatic. It’s all nonsense. It’s political commentators...
View ArticleYou’ll Never Guess Who Joined Taylor Swift on the GOP’s Psyops List
Conservatives are constantly bugging about all of the conspiracies against them. And now, they think their own speaker of the House is part of a “psyop.”At issue seems to be Representative Mike...
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Republicans Are Betting That Trump Got His Abortion Position Right
In the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion has become a defining campaign issue for Democrats and a thorn in the side of Republicans. The topic was once again at the fore...
View ArticleThe Shady Company Backing Trump’s Bond May Never Actually Pay Up
The financial backer covering Donald Trump’s $175 million bank fraud bond has already been revealed as a “king of subprime car loans” with sketchy business practices. But the financial situation behind...
View ArticleUh-Oh! Trump’s Lead Attorney in Classified Docs Case Quits.
Donald Trump has lost another lawyer—and the former president’s loss could be special counsel Jack Smith’s massive gain.Evan Corcoran left the Trump legal team some time in the last few months, CNN...
View ArticleLouisiana High Court: It’s Priests’ “Right” Not to Be Sued for Abuse
The Louisiana Supreme Court has decided to strip sexual assault survivors of an avenue of justice, ruling 3–4 that it’s the due process rights of priests and their enablers to not be held accountable...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene Can’t Stop Pushing Russian Propaganda
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t think Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine is a threat to the rest of Europe, and she wishes everyone would shut up about it. “This whole thing is the...
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Anti-Trans Missouri A.G. Can Now Access Trans People’s Medical Records
A St. Louis judge has ruled that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is entitled to Planned Parenthood’s transgender care records, ordering the nonprofit to turn over some of its most sensitive...
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Some Suggestions for Republicans’ Laundry List of Idiotic Bills
With all of the problems facing the country, House Republicans have decided that next week is the perfect time to do the laundry. And fix the air conditioning. And take a look at the fridge. Seriously,...
View ArticleKari Lake Is Trying to Make People Forget Her Real Abortion Stance
Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake is claiming she has switched sides on the abortion debate. After galvanizing her budding, far-right political career by fearmongering about the medical procedure,...
View ArticleTrump’s Classified Docs Co-Defendants Desperately Scramble for Exit
Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in his classified documents case requested Friday the charges against them be dropped, insisting they had no idea about the contents of the boxes they helped to move....
View ArticleTrump’s Weird Moment With Mike Johnson Reveals a Deeper GOP Sickness
Looking back, it’s clear that one of the more fateful moments in the evolution of today’s Republican Party came when Kevin McCarthy made his abject pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago three weeks after January 6,...
View ArticleThe Shady Right-Wing Threats to Keep Biden Off Some State Ballots
When the Supreme Court overturned a Colorado court ruling last month that had disqualified former President Donald Trump from the state ballot, the justices argued that it was necessary to avoid a...
View ArticleSurprise Evidence Against Trump May Wreck His Hush-Money Trial Defense
With jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial beginning this week in Manhattan, some have dismissed District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case as weak. Yet Trump, who is accused of falsifying...
View ArticleWe May Finally Get to Write: “Convicted Felon Donald Trump”
We’re finally here. This week, Donald Trump will sit in a courtroom and face criminal charges. The courtroom has not been kind to Trump this year: A Manhattan jury found the Trump Organization guilty...
View ArticleRepublicans Think Your Dishwasher Is Too Leftist
Republicans have yet to encounter a household object they won’t try to turn into a culture war. Veterans of hard-fought battles around gas stoves and hamburgers, House Republicans this week are...
View ArticleThe Scariest Unit in the Israeli Army Is Not an Elite Fighting Squad
It has long been true in political life, as the old saying goes, that the scandal is never what is illegal but what is allowed. Only now, six months into the Gazan nightmare, are we finally beginning...
View ArticleIt Wouldn’t Be a Trump Trial Without a Wild Rant Beforehand
Donald Trump had a few last words to say before entering the initial proceedings for his—and the country’s—first criminal trial of a former president.Jury selection in Trump’s hush-money trial began...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Ridiculed into Dropping “Appliance Week”
House Republicans announced early Monday they were dropping bills tackling home appliances, plans that had drawn widespread scorn, in light of Iran’s counterattack against Israel over the weekend.Last...
View ArticleGOP Rep. Desperately Begs New York to Acquit Trump in Hush Money Case
The Republican Party is all in on Donald Trump, so much so that at least one representative is trying to sway his legal proceedings.Ahead of the start of the Republican presidential pick’s first...
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Trump’s Completely Incoherent Gettysburg Rant Gets Flayed on Twitter
Donald Trump tried to recount some history for the crowd during a weekend rally in Pennsylvania—but he didn’t seem to know what he was talking about.“Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Just Dealt a Massive Blow to the Right to Protest
The Supreme Court’s inaction has effectively abolished the right to mass protest across three states, allowing a lower court’s ruling to seemingly infringe upon the Constitution’s First Amendment.The...
View ArticleYou Won’t Believe How Trump Spent Day One of His Trial. Wait—You Will.
For all of the insults Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans like to lob at President Biden over his energy levels, perhaps he should look in the mirror. As his hush-money trial in Manhattan started...
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Tesla’s Value Is Crashing Like a … Well, Like a Tesla
Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla announced Monday that it will be laying off more than 10 percent of its global workforce—at least 14,000 employees—following a catastrophic first quarter, in which...
View ArticleOnce Again, We Must Wonder What the Heck George Santos Is Doing
Former Representative George Santos has raised $0 in his campaign to return to the House, and he says it’s for a good reason: to stop people from thinking he’s a grifter.The New York Republican has a...
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Republicans Are Furious Over This Very Normal Thing in Trump’s Trial
Donald Trump’s MAGA disciples were left fuming after the first day of his hush money criminal trial… but all their heat boiled down to one detail: that the GOP presidential nominee was being held to...
View ArticleTrump Just Made the Weirdest False Claim About Hush-Money Trial Judge
Donald Trump had a strange claim at the end of the first day of his hush-money trial: He said that the judge had barred him from attending his son’s high school graduation next month.“It looks like the...
View ArticleWhy the Kennedys Are Suddenly Working to Destroy RFK Jr.’s Spoiler Bid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign is expressing confidence that he’ll appear on the ballot in all the key swing states, inspiring fears among Democrats that he’ll boost Donald Trump. But...
View ArticleCivil War’s Mystifying Vision of American Meltdown
In late September 2001, two weeks after 9/11, The Onion published one of its most memorable headlines: “American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.” “For nearly two full weeks,” the article...
View ArticleThere Is No “Moderate” Republican Position on Abortion
Arizona’s near-total abortion ban—an 1864 law recently deemed enforceable by the state’s supreme court, though not yet in effect—is rightly considered one of the most extreme bans in the United States....
View ArticleMy Night Among Bari Weiss’s Free Speech Warriors
At the first of the “American Debates” series, co-sponsored by Bari Weiss-founded Substack newsletter The Free Press and the libertarian Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, a...
View ArticleAnything Elon Musk Can Do a Bus Can Do Better
Tesla will reportedly lay off more than 10 percent of its global staff, according to the electric vehicle-centric news site Elecktrek. “There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” CEO Elon Musk...
View ArticleTrump Keeps Digging His Grave Deeper Over Hush Money Trial Gag Order
Donald Trump issued some fresh vitriol against Judge Juan Merchan Tuesday morning, clamoring once again for the gag order imposed on him to be removed, even though he seems to be willfully ignoring it...
View ArticleAlina Habba Reawakens Severe Doubts About Her Legal Education
Donald Trump’s lawyer is complaining that her client is being denied due process because he can’t attend all of his legal proceedings. Alina Habba slammed Judge Juan Merchan Monday night for not making...
View ArticleAnother Republican Signs onto MTG’s Effort to Oust Mike Johnson
House Speaker Mike Johnson just lost one more party member to the simmering Republican effort to strip him of his job.Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie announced on Tuesday that he had sided with...
View ArticleHow This Trump Prosecution Could Have Happened Years Ago
Congressman Jim Jordan wanted revenge on behalf of Donald Trump against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for bringing the election interference charges against Trump for which he’s now standing...
View ArticleComedy World Righteously Roasts Trump Over Gettysburg Gaffe
Speaking outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Donald Trump left everyone confused when he attempted to explain the Battle of Gettysburg, praised (and invented a quote from) Confederate General...
View ArticleWait Till You Hear What GOP Has to Say on Tom Cotton’s Latest Remarks
Senator Tom Cotton is doubling down on his calls for mass violence against protesters, suggesting online that the proper way for fellow citizens to handle a group of people peacefully exercising their...
View ArticleThe Shocking April Holiday That Mississippi Is Still Celebrating
In the year of our lord 2024, the Confederate States of America are still being honored in Mississippi. Continuing a decades-old annual tradition, Governor Tate Reeves declared April as “Confederate...
View ArticleDid Trump Just Admit to His Hush-Money Trial Crimes?
Donald Trump’s “bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all” philosophy may have just given his attorneys another headache.The former president is on trial in New York for allegedly...
View ArticleTrump’s Big Mouth Just Got Him in Trouble in Hush-Money Trial
Donald Trump was told off on just the second day of his hush-money trial by Judge Juan Merchan for speaking out loud in court. Jury selection proceeded on Tuesday, and at one point, Trump tried to say...
View ArticleWhat?! Alina Habba Compares Trump to Nelson Mandela
What’s the difference between Donald Trump and Nelson Mandela? According to Trump’s attorney Alina Habba, not much.On Tuesday, Habba claimed that repercussions for Trump—other than financial...
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Trump Gets Accidentally, Hilariously Roasted During Hush-Money Trial
During jury selection in a criminal trial, it’s important that prospective jurors be screened for any potential biases toward the defendant or prosecution. In Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, this...
View ArticleSmithsonian Institution Cracks Down on Drag Shows
The Smithsonian Institution is conducting an internal crackdown on drag events after Lonnie Bunch, the institution’s leader, told the House Administration Committee on December 12 that he would “look...
View ArticleFinally, Mike Johnson Makes His Move to Shiv Marjorie Taylor Greene
Here on the podcast we’ve repeatedly argued that Mike Johnson might ultimately allow a vote on military aid to Ukraine, even if it risks his ouster as speaker by MAGA forces in the House. Now that...
View ArticleThe Republican Plot to Roast Outdoor Workers
Republicans finally recognize the threat posed by climate change. The threat is that rising temperatures will tempt local governments to impose regulations to mitigate the health effects of extreme...
View ArticleWhy Attacks on Trump’s Age Will Backfire
As his attorneys and prosecutors barter over pretrial motions and potential jurors in the first criminal trial of a former president in American history, Donald Trump simply cannot keep his eyes open....
View ArticleThe Financial Aid Debacle Affecting Millions of Low-Income Students
Spring is a heady season for high school seniors. Many universities require accepted prospective students to commit in early May; graduation typically occurs a few weeks later. This year, however, the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court May Not Have Doomed the Right to Protest After All
The Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each year. It agrees to hear only a handful of them. The rest are denied without any explanation whatsoever. Occasionally, however, one of...
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