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Kristi Noem Has Chilling Response to Agent Calling Renee Good “B*tch”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem apparently has found some morsel of humor in Renee Nicole Good’s death.Noem flashed a small smile while speaking about Good’s killing during an interview...
Trump Vows to Seize Greenland “One Way or the Other”
“If we don’t take Greenland, Russia or China will, and I’m not letting that happen,” Trump said, adding that he would love to make a deal with Denmark to...
ICE Violence Surges in Minneapolis as Noem Vows to Send in More Agents
After the senseless killing of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has promised to send even more federal agents to...
America First? Trump Declares Himself Acting President of Venezuela
“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today,...
Trump Totally Changes Excuse for Why Renee Good Deserved to Get Shot
“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today,...
Trump Sends Dangerously Mixed Messages on Iran Protests
“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today,...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Rings Every Alarm Bell About DOJ Investigation
“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today,...
How the New Food Pyramid Fits Into the Broader Conservative Project
The Agriculture Department’s new-look food pyramid, released last week to accompany a new set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, appears more like a minimalist poster designed to be hung...
Transcript: Trump Explodes at GOPers as Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The...
Which City Will Donald Trump Bomb First: Tehran—or Minneapolis?
It’s worth asking how things came to this. We’ve done a lot of terrible things over the decades—installed dictators who imprisoned and murdered their people, armed death squads, and...
Generation X’s Lessons For the Second Trump Era
A military incursion into Latin America. A war to  control another country’s oil. A corrupt administration engineering spectacle (“We want a show”) to keep the public distracted. A visibly...
The Only Time Trump Makes News Is When He Tells the Truth
Indeed, as Kessler noted in his final Fact Check column, fact-checking is in retreat everywhere. Meta ended its fact-checking program shortly before Trump took office; Google threw in the...