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Transcript: Gavin Newsom’s Harsh Trump Takedown Nails It: “Wake Up!”
Sargent: And by the way, a lot of people might object to what we’re saying here by pointing out that, Well, don’t Democrats have to focus on what’s popular?...
Stopping Trump’s Dictatorship Is a Vital Message—and a Winning One
But those of us in the anti-Trump camp must do a better job of collectively telling a single story. The Democratic Party should name members who specifically focus on...
The Useful Idiots in the Media Abetting Trump’s D.C. Takeover
Less than a fortnight into President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. by the National Guard and an alphabet soup of federal law enforcement agents, Washingtonians have rendered an unsurprising...
Transcript: The Media Should Be Biased—Against Authoritarianism
Forde: My God we couldn’t in this country even get federal anti-lynching legislation passed. That was first passed not too many years ago. It’s extraordinary. But she played this...
Pete Hegseth Just Fired a Top General Who Pissed Off Trump
Inconvenient truths don’t go unpunished in the Trump administration.It’s a lesson that Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse learned the hard way on Friday, as The Washington Post reported that he’s...
Russia Bombed a U.S. Factory in Ukraine. Here’s How Trump Responded.
If another country were to bomb an American-owned factory on foreign soil, one might expect—at the very least—harsh condemnation from the sitting U.S. president.The anticipated response from a president...
Trump Seems to Want to Turn D.C. Into a Resort
President Donald Trump doesn’t just want federal control of Washington, D.C., he wants aesthetic control as well—and knowing the president’s garish style, it probably won’t be pretty.On Friday, Trump...
DOJ Releases Ghislaine Maxwell Transcript in Rush to Appease MAGA Base
The Justice Department released transcripts of its interviews with Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday, the Associated Press reported.The DOJ interviewed Maxwell as part of its scramble...
The Media Should Be Biased—Against Authoritarianism
The news media has a powerful role in democracy, even if it often doesn’t acknowledge that, says Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalism historian who teaches at the University of...
ICE Used So Much Tear Gas, a Public School Fled Its Campus
As Rolling Stone reported, in June, the fence of the school’s play area displayed a laminated message. Its reported content, which matches a statement Cottonwood posted to Facebook, denounced...
