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MAGA Has a New Tim Walz Conspiracy. There’s Just One Big Problem.
A MAGA influencer is trying to spread a nasty rumor about Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz. The issue is it reads more like fan fiction than facts. “DocNetyoutube,”...
Trump Insists He’s Not Cognitively Impaired in Incomprehensible Rant
At a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday, Donald Trump denied reports that he is showing signs of cognitive decline, attacking critics for singling out his mispronunciations. “They watch for...
Trump Copies JD Vance With New Racist Lie About Immigrant Children
Looks like Donald Trump has echoed JD Vance’s outlandish anti-immigrant smear … again. During his rally in Coachella, California, Saturday, Trump whined that the number of students from “illegal...
Trump Goes Full Dictator With Threat to Turn Military on U.S. Citizens
With less than 30 days on the clock, Donald Trump’s full attention is geared toward Election Day. But the specifics of his vision are veering into dangerous territory.Speaking with...
Trump’s Coachella Rally Went About as Well as You’d Expect
Thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters reportedly found themselves stranded Saturday night after the former president’s rally in Coachella, California.Attendees were bussed roughly five miles from parking to the venue...
You Can’t Measure Human Life in Dollars
It will take some time to know the full scope of the damage caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Early estimates suggest Milton caused between $30 and 50 billion...
Stop Trying to Understand the White Rural Voter
Many of Hochschild’s conclusions are sound but not particularly striking. She observes both here and in Strangers in Their Own Land that many of her subjects feel that others—minorities,...
The Media Has Three Weeks to Learn How to Tell the Truth About Trump
Donald Trump keeps getting worse and worse. Last Friday in Aurora, Colorado, he gave a speech that was both bonkers and fascist, asserting that the city—where crime is down...
The Insidious Legal Theory Behind the Abortion Rights Rollback
This is strikingly similar to the penalization schemes active in numerous states today, which often provide specific criminal and civil penalties for those helping others to get abortions—but expressly...
States Need to Do What National Leaders Won’t
In the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that no matter who moves into the White House in January, much of the vital work of greening the...
