Trump’s latest Nobel Peace Prize rant shows how far gone he is
It’s true that we’re all sick of President Donald Trump. Also true: We can’t ignore him. He is the president of the United States, and he’s causing our nation and the world grave damage. We shouldn’t be looking away. He’s also the best surrogate for Democrats this November. While our party isn’t lighting it up with public support, gaining power will be the first step toward showing the…
Americans are sick of food making them sick
The Trump administration’s mission to Make America Healthy Again took a literally shitty turn, with a nationwide outbreak of diarrhea-causing cyclospora this summer—and new data shows the public is noticing the government’s mismanagement. A Gallup survey released on Thursday finds the public’s confidence in the government’s role in food safety at a new low. Just 47% of Americans have “a great…
Turn around
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Vance can’t define socialism—but he still wants you to fear it
Vice President JD Vance returned Thursday to his quixotic effort to make widespread fraud stick, this time going after U.S. universities and leaning into his racist othering of foreign-born workers. “Some of America’s most elite universities bring in foreigners again to undercut the wages of American residents,” Vance said, flanked by Attorney General Todd Blanche. But it wasn’t…
Trump has already cost Republicans a Senate seat in 2026
The midterm elections are 26 days away, but President Donald Trump has already cost Republicans at least one Senate seat. North Carolina’s open Senate seat will all but surely flip blue on Nov. 3, with polls showing Democrat Roy Cooper leading GOP nominee Michael Whatley by 10 percentage points, 50.7% to 40.5%, according to FiftyPlusOne’s average as of Thursday afternoon. Hell…
Trump thinks bombing Iran again will stop midterms massacre
Is this a real story? Because it’s so blindingly stupid, it can’t be real. “The White House has asked the Pentagon to develop strike options against Iranian targets that could be exercised ahead of the midterms, according to two administration officials,” The Atlantic reported Wednesday. “But those in favor believe that further action after months of uneasy peace could allow Trump to…
Trump debases science award by giving it to crackpot donor Musk
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will give the National Medal of Science to racist billionaire Elon Musk and a group of technology executives who have donated to Trump, his administration, or the Republican Party. In a statement, the White House said the Trump cronies were “incredible leaders in science and technology” and that they are “helping ensure America keeps…
Checking in with the MAGA faithful
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Trump keeps screwing over Ken Paxton
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is having a rough go of it in his bid for Senate in the Lone Star State. The morally bankrupt Republican is being plagued by a series of leaks from a GOP donor who doesn’t support his candidacy—including a fourth audio clip that dropped Thursday morning. Hundreds of millions in ad spending on his behalf has not moved Paxton’s numbers, as polls show he is…
Trump doubles down, only 26 days to the midterms … and more!
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This rural seat in Wisconsin has high stakes
A few weeks ago, I checked in with the Democratic nominee in a rural Wisconsin Assembly district, marveling at how Democrats had an opportunity to flip the kind of seat that has been trending red for the past few decades. Still, that district was ancestrally Democratic and has retained a enough progressive presence to make the flip more feasible. Could the same dynamics be at play in a…
Depression, anxiety plague Black women a year after being fired by DOGE
This story was originally published by The 19th and was in collaboration with MindSite News, Capital B, and The Nation. Darnese Foster remembers the day she learned she was fired from her federal government job. “I was off that Friday, which was Valentine’s Day. Then that Monday was the holiday,” said Foster. “I went to log in that Tuesday, I couldn’t get in.
Tom the Dancing Bug: Mark Zuckerberg presents ‘AI and U!’
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Centrist Democrats are afraid of expanding the Supreme Court
Oh boy, here we go with this shit. “Third Way, the center-left think tank, is urging moderate Democrats to back common-sense reforms to prevent the left from pushing court expansion, an unpopular position that could motivate the G.O.P. base and alienate independents,” reported Puck News. “Instead, Third Way executive Lanae Erickson is suggesting that Dems pass legislation that would place 18…
Beardos!
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Nervous GOP Senate hopeful abruptly bails on Trump’s tariffs
In a sign that Republicans aren’t doing nearly as well in Michigan as they’re projecting, GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers released a new campaign ad Wednesday to denounce President Donald Trump’s destructive tariffs. “Here in Michigan, we know that Canada is not our enemy. We need to end this tariff war—now,” Rogers says in the ad. “As Michigan’s senator, I’ll bring both parties together to…
Now Trump is trying to make Camp Donald happen
No matter how much distraction and ire he pushes into the public discourse, President Donald Trump can’t escape his plummeting approval ratings. Shadowed by a war he promised not to start and surging prices for citizens regardless of who they voted for, the legacy enveloping Trump’s second term in office is less golden and more gilded, at best. But the president has an alternative tactic for…
Trump declares he ‘can do whatever I want’—and dozes off
President Donald Trump held a sleepy press conference Wednesday, where he congratulated himself for showing restraint toward his perceived enemies and threatened to be a dictator—again. “I could have done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could have done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama,” Trump said. “And I certainly—even to…
Why are Trump’s ICE goons targeting a shopping mall staple?
The Zumiez clothing chain’s Pennsylvania stores were flagged by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as part of the Trump administration’s witch hunt for purported noncitizen voters, documents released on Wednesday reveal. Internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security unearthed by the group Democracy Forward show that Zumiez was singled out “for further investigation”…
How $50 blew up Kansas’ Senate race
Kansas’ Senate race seems to be slipping away from Republicans. Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton is now polling narrowly ahead of incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall with less than a month to go until Election Day. And a poll that Hamilton’s campaign released on Wednesday shows us why Democrats are in position to possibly win a Senate seat in the Sunflower State for the first time in 94 years.