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Transcript: Trump’s Fury at Obama Unnerves Experts: “We’re in Trouble”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 23 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. In the last few days, we seem to have crossed a threshold.…
Read MoreYet Another Way Republicans Are Making Life More Expensive
Central banks charged with maintaining price stability, meanwhile, have been relatively slow to recognize the challenge climate change poses to that mandate. Wonkish conversations about central banks’ responsibility vis-à-vis climate change have tended to focus on systemic risks that climate policies could pose to fossil fuel assets on bank balance sheets (for example, how a…
Read MoreAn Altogether Different Kind of Abundance Agenda
To The New Republic editors, this collectivist faction that championed an economy of abundance was the “true opposition” to Franklin Roosevelt’s ruling coalition. In Congress, this left opposition included several dozen members of the House of Representatives, collectively called “the Mavericks” after Representative Maury Maverick (whose grandfather, Samuel, is where we get the term maverick,…
Read MoreTrump’s Rage at Obama Explodes, Unnerving Experts: “We’re in Trouble”
In the last few days, we seem to have crossed a threshold. President Trump is ratcheting up the authoritarianism and threatening to prosecute his enemies in a new kind of way. In a series of angry new rants, Trump accused Barack Obama and other members of Obama’s administration of serious crimes. He’s also calling for…
Read MoreColumbia Punishes Dozens of Student Protesters as It Caves to Trump
Introduced by Representative Thomas Massie, who has a habit of actually standing up to Donald Trump, the bill aims to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’…
Read MoreObama Breaks Silence and Slams Trump’s “Weak Attempt at Distraction”
Barack Obama is hitting back at the Trump administration for accusing the former president of treason. Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, last week shared documents that she misleadingly claimed proved that the Obama White House manufactured intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election “to lay the groundwork for what was…
Read MoreThe Surprising Bill Uniting MTG, Nancy Pelosi, Lauren Boebert, and AOC
Introduced by Representative Thomas Massie, who has a habit of actually standing up to Donald Trump, the bill aims to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’…
Read MoreTrump Pays Eye-Watering Amount to Build Biggest Immigration Camp Ever
Who, by Homan’s lights, is responsible for the rhetoric (and, in turn, the violence)? “I specifically mean members of Congress,” he said. “If members of Congress can compare ICE to the Nazis, that gives some of those people on the far left, the out of control people—it emboldens them to take action.” Homan’s tone policing…
Read MoreGOP Senator Falls for Obviously Fake Resignation Letter From Powell
Who, by Homan’s lights, is responsible for the rhetoric (and, in turn, the violence)? “I specifically mean members of Congress,” he said. “If members of Congress can compare ICE to the Nazis, that gives some of those people on the far left, the out of control people—it emboldens them to take action.” Homan’s tone policing…
Read MoreDoctor Denies Woman Prenatal Care Because She’s Unmarried
A Tennessee medical provider allegedly refused to provide prenatal care to an unmarried pregnant woman because it went against the doctor’s “Christian values.” Speaking at a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, last week, an unnamed 35-year-old woman claimed that she was forced to seek care in Virginia after her local medical provider effectively claimed religious…
Read MoreTrump’s Dumbest Lawyer Is Officially Out of a Job—Goodbye, Alina Habba
Federal judges in New Jersey have ousted Alina Habba as the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, refusing to extend the 120-day appointment President Trump gifted her in March. Trump appointed her as interim attorney, but to stay full-time, Habba would need to be approved by district judges or have the Senate confirm her position.…
Read MoreICE Is Begging People to Un-Retire to Keep Up With Trump’s Demands
“We recognize that the release of documents concerning the assassination of our father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has long been a subject of interest, captivating public curiosity for decades. As the children of Dr. King and Mrs. Coretta Scott King, his tragic death has been an intensely personal grief—a devastating loss for his wife,…
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