The Trump administration quietly retired a federal database that tracked billion-dollar weather disasters back in May. The database, maintained by NOAA, documented the most expensive storms, floods, wildfires, and other… Read More
The Pentagon just announced its shiny new press corps – and surprise – its mostly right-wing outlet’s that signed up for what amounts to a government-approved stenography program. Last week,… Read More
The news that Harvard, of all institutions, is cutting PhD programs due to budget issues is pure absurdity. This is a university sitting on an endowment that just ballooned to… Read More
Trump is pulling a Nixon – but somehow making it worse.
The administration is gutting the IRS Criminal Investigation division and installing loyalists who’ve already drawn up hit lists of Democratic …
Read MoreJD Vance wants you to believe the Young Republicans telegram scandal is just harmless banter from a college group chat. That would be a neat trick if these people were actually in college.
Peter Giun…
Read MoreYou’ve probably seen the footage by now of Trump and Netanyahu standing in front of cameras acting like they just pulled off the diplomatic miracle of the century. Trump got a standing ovation in the …
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I’ve written about the corruption behind Trump’s deportation scheme before – but there’s some new tea that is piping hot. When one of Trump’s own deportation contractors sues him, you… Read More
If you’re waiting on a package from another country – there’s now a chance it might just get thrown away before it makes it to you.
Trump’s war on the de minimis exemption is exactly what it looks li…
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Trump’s fossil fuel agenda isn’t about energy security or economic prosperity or any of the bullshit he spouts from the Oval Office. It’s about paying back the oil executives who… Read More
So, Trump spent two hours yesterday asking conservative influencers to snitch on Antifa members like he’s crowdsourcing a McCarthy-era blacklist. One guy brought him a burned flag and Trump acted… Read More
A two-year-old kid just starved to death in a Rohingya internment camp. His name was Hashim and his father Mohammed Taher held his lifeless body while the other 145,000 people trapped in those prison …
Read MoreThe Supreme Court is hearing arguments this morning about whether a Colorado therapist should be allowed to practice conversion therapy on minors – packaged like it’s some high-minded free speech deba…
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