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Try as he might, President Donald Trump isn’t going to be successful in his rebranding of artificial intelligence. He can call it “super intelligence” all he wants, but that won’t change the fact that the majority of Americans hate it. While actually competent leaders push to regulate AI, tech companies seem to be moving at the speed of light—making it nearly impossible for any regulation to…

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On Oct. 11, 1991, law professor Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the contentious confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill accused Thomas, her former supervisor at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexually harassing her. Thomas was nominated by former President George H.W.

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This story originally ran Oct. 10, 2021. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 270 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. Sheer joy. That’s what happens when you put on salsa music…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Trump says Iran can ‘take out’ LA. New York Times feigns confusion.

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Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced last week that New York Attorney General Letitia James is assigned to investigate the handling of the Cornell University rape allegation, in which charges were not brought and a lawsuit is now…

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A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | Cornell rape scandal proves women’s safety is never the priority…

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When the socialists filed into the pews of a church sanctuary in Texas, there were far more than would have attended just two years ago. But that was before members of the Democratic Socialists of America were winning congressional primaries, and the acronym “DSA” became a fixture on television news chyrons. And before Democrats began arguing about whether to court or rebuke this movement…

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Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. This week’s injustice has both types of Trump judicial appointees: the kind that are unhinged zealots bound for Supreme Court glory and the kind who actually still do their jobs. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Ho…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Cornell rape scandal proves women’s safety is never the priority…

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By Dan Gearino for Inside Climate News On Sept. 21, President Donald Trump responded to rising public concerns about artificial intelligence with a post on Truth Social. “The same people that said, ‘We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,’ a name since ‘reborn’ to Climate Change, because the Planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead…

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President Donald Trump is tired but also busy trying to cover up the fact that his policies and approval ratings are terrible. The one thing he has going for him is that the GOP can’t abandon Trump’s sinking ship because his policies are their policies too. And it was all caught on video. Starting last week, C-SPAN began simulcasting MAGA mouthpiece Scott Jennings’ radio show…

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The Conversation is a weekly dive into the most popular stories on Daily Kos and what it tells us about the national political environment. Just weeks out from what will hopefully be a blue tsunami in the midterms, Republicans are in panic mode, and it makes for some of the most entertaining reading. I mean, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt crapping the bed in his attempt to “gotcha” former…

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The Texas attorney general’s use of a taxpayer-funded travel security detail stands out when compared with his predecessor and other state officials, our analysis found. By Zach Despart for The Texas Tribune and ProPublica In the summer of 2023, after he was impeached on charges of abusing his office for personal gain, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was suspended and barred from…

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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | Trump is forcing postal workers to spy on you…

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Remember Freedom 250? You are forgiven if you’ve already forgotten all the activities that were supposed to celebrate America, but pretty much no one attended because they were so tacky and low-rent. But hey, at least you’re apparently still paying for them! Wait, what? Yep. Despite all the explanations that “Freedom 250” was separate from the official “America 250” celebrations…

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A cartoon by Brian McFadden. Support my Patreon for early access and exclusives. Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, or at my website. Related | RFK Jr. is more concerned with ‘vaccine injuries’ than measles deaths…

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Better Know a Democrat is an interview series to give voters a closer look at candidates in competitive races across the U.S. Thanks to the Trump administration, Minnesota has become a petri dish of polarized political finger-pointing, incendiary racial generalizations, and what could likely pan out to be generations of trauma inflicted on its communities. But before “Operation…

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The White House announced Friday that right-wing commentator Katie Zacharia will serve as the new press secretary, filling the vacancy left by serial liar Karoline Leavitt. Zacharia is a perfect fit for the MAGA movement. Like many other figures hired for senior positions under President Donald Trump, Zacharia is a product of right-wing media, having appeared as a pundit on networks like Fox…

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On Friday, President Donald Trump made a Columbus Day announcement, unveiling a big statute to distract the public from his failures on foreign policy and the economy ahead of the November midterm election. As he rambled away about wars, his delusional greatness, and how terrible America was before he returned to office, Trump veered into his political party’s fixation with children’s gender…

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay took a comedic jab at President Donald Trump right after the decision to award her the prestigious honor was announced. Trump has been repeatedly passed over for the prize despite lobbying for it for over a decade. Walking out to applause at a conference in Nuremberg, Germany, Pillay said, “Thank you very much. If you clap a little bit more I may…

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