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Why Trump Is Afraid of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and “The View”
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s program on CBS isn’t the end of entertainment shows with a political bent on network tv. In the latest edition of Right Now,…
Read MoreThe Trump Administration’s Iran Plan Is Even Crazier Than We Thought
But even if this was a Mossad-driven operation, it is still damning about America’s handling of the war itself. President Trump and the Pentagon made “regime change” a stated goal of the operation, albeit in a typically ambiguous and confusing way. Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth stated last month that “regime change has occurred” in…
Read MoreThomas Massie’s Defeat Will Tighten Trump’s Grip on the GOP
These election results are terrible for the country. Trump is an authoritarian using the presidency to enrich himself and punish his political enemies. The odds of Republican politicians taking any steps to rein him in were already close to zero, and these primary results will make GOP officials even more wary of crossing the president.…
Read More“Betrayal”: Trump EPA Rolls Back Key Drinking Water Protections
However, Trump added that while he has instructed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, and other military leaders to hold off, he wrote that he has “further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s…
Read MoreThe Democrats Just Laid Down Their Arms. Again.
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, takes a deep dive into the battery of corporations they call the “Low Wage 20”: 20 firms that currently employ 6.7 million people across the United States. The names are familiar—Amazon, Starbucks, FedEx, Walmart, and Tyson Foods are habitual malefactors—but their sins are growing…
Read MoreMAGA is Reeling as Trump Welcomes Chinese Students to the U.S.
“The assassination attempts make clear what Defendants have been explaining from the start of the case: Presidents need a secure space for significant events, which currently does not exist in Washington, D.C., and this Court’s injunction stalling this Project cannot defensibly continue. To ensure construction proceeds, and to conserve judicial resources, this Court should immediately…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump’s GOP Allies Admit He’s Toxic as Crushing Poll Hits
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 15 episode of the Daily 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. NBC News is reporting that some House Republicans privately admit that…
Read MoreRepublicans Aren’t Done Stealing Democratic Seats
Republicans in two more Southern states, South Carolina and Georgia, are moving ahead with plans to redraw their districts this year following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais last month. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is planning to call state legislators for a special session, local TV station…
Read MoreRNC Launches Sinister Plan as Trump Threatens to Send Troops to Polls
Other CEOs who are planning to travel with Trump include Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, as well as officials from Meta, Visa, Mastercard, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, GE Aerospace, Cargill, and Illumina. The group also included CEOs from major semiconductor manufacturers Qualcomm, Micron, and Coherent. As a…
Read MoreTrump Turns White House UFC Cage Match Into Massive Cash Grab
“The things that he says aloud, the way he just voices his interior monologue—there is something not exactly psychologically normal about someone who just voices their interior monologue—but it gives him an authenticity that no one else can possibly match,” Maher said. “I saw his interview with Norah O’Donnell after the shooting, the next day,…
Read MoreTranscript: These Democrats Have a Real Chance of Being President
Schmitt: Yeah, I was a little surprised when I saw how well she does in polls, but really shouldn’t be, because that’s just like the classic—I remember when I was a kid, every year Ted Kennedy would be at the very top of the polls, Al Gore for a while, people like that. I like…
Read MoreTrump Ballroom Suddenly Faces GOP Opposition in Surprise Blow to MAGA
But the Post poll suggests that the ballroom has proven to be one of those things that breaks through to lower-information voters in unpredictable ways. If it’s true, as Derek Thompson says, that the smartphone is imperceptibly, indelibly transforming our politics, the ballroom might illustrate the point: With those dramatic and shareable images of Trump’s…
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