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UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway
How do the Department of Justice, or the Department of Education, or Stephen Miller, or Donald Trump define DEI? They don’t. This allows…
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The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Three Victories in One Ruling
Trump’s third victory was over the separation of powers itself. Congress, which is controlled by Republicans loyal to him, is effectively…
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Trump Enters Meltdown Mode Over Iran for Pettiest Reason
Donald Trump erupted Friday after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared victory over Israel. In a defiant video statement…
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Trump Makes It Easier to Deport Haitians After Claiming They Eat Pets
In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday restricted lower courts’ nationwide pauses on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order,…
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Trump Throws Temper Tantrum, Launches New Trade War With Canada
In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday restricted lower courts’ nationwide pauses on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order,…
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Trump’s Fury Over Iran Failings Just Got Worse. Take Note, Dems.
As of now, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is the only one of the body’s 45 Democrats (and the two independents who caucus with…
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Ron DeSantis Sued Over Alligator Alcatraz
Two environmental nonprofit groups are suing to block Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s expedited plans to open “Alligator…
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Pam Bondi Struggles to Answer Key Question on Birthright Citizenship
In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday restricted lower courts’ nationwide pauses on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order,…
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California Governor Hits Fox News With Defamation Suit Over Trump Call
Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is so wildly unpopular that even Fox anchors have started bashing it. Fox Business host Liz Claman…
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Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ripped the court’s majority decision Friday upholding age-verification requirements for pornography…
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Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling
In dissenting opinions, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson excoriated the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling onbirthright…
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Sotomayor Rips SCOTUS for Causing Total “Chaos” in LGBTQ Books Case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor excoriated the nation’s highest judiciary Friday for ruling 6–3 to permit a group of Maryland parents to withdraw…
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Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Books Bans in Schools Are OK
Cue the book bans. The Supreme Court sided Friday with a group of Maryland parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor, ruling 6–3 to allow them to pull…
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Trump Treasury Secretary Makes Humiliating Admission About Trade Deals
Wall Street was right about the president: Trump always chickens out. Despite spending weeks fuming about the fact that investors had…
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Supreme Court Caves to Trump in Ominous Birthright Citizenship Ruling
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
Senate Republicans have no “big, beautiful” bill. It isn’t close to finalized. The Senate parliamentarian, combing through the details and…
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Republicans Forced to Remove Gun Deregulation From Budget Bill
The Senate parliamentarian has shot down another batch of provisions in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”—this time including one that…
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Trump Tries Insanely Desperate Ploy to Convince Iran to Negotiate
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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Even Fox Is Calling Out How Bad Trump’s Budget Bill Is
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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Transcript: MAGA Rage Takes Scary Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect
About 20 years ago, a neuroscientist named David Eagleman strapped a bunch of students into harnesses, hoisted them to the top of an…
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Democratic Governors, Why Are You Turning Your Backs on Workers?
Another Democrat, Maine Governor Janet Mills, vetoed pro-worker bills three years in a row: a labor whistleblower bill in 2021, a bill to…
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Meet the “Moderates” Trying to Make Trump’s Tax Bill More Regressive
In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached…
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Congress Won’t Act on the Iran Strikes. That Doesn’t Make Them Legal.
Indeed, there is little political will to repudiate the president, and even if there was, lawmakers would need to marshal a veto-proof…