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Trump’s Supposed Plan for $5,000 Checks Gets Even More Unbelievable
Trump’s treasury secretary now says taxpayer funds won’t be used at all, proposing a far-fetched idea.
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Republicans’ 9/11 Smear About AOC and Mamdani Instantly Collapses
One of Rudy Giuliani’s aides debunked the claim.
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Epstein Survivors Got Kicked Out of the Republican Midterm Convention
As did the journalist who had brought them as her guests.
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Admits It Messed Up From the Very Start
The contractor behind the repairs on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has confirmed what we all knew: Trump’s imaginary vandals…
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9/11 Workers Are Hiding From Trump’s ICE Raids
Donald Trump has put people who cleaned up Ground Zero at risk.
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Trump Whines About How He Can’t Give Himself Medal of Honor
He said this in front of an audience full of medal of honor recipients.
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Trump Admin Sued Over Plan to Send Armed ICE Agents to the Polls
The city of Denver has teamed up with multiple civil rights organizations to try to protect the midterm elections.
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Navy Secretary Casually Admits Iran “Blew the Hell” out of U.S. Base
The acting Navy secretary says Iran has in fact done quite a bit of damage.
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Trump Makes Bank on Oil as He Declares Iran War Has No End in Sight
Trump’s accounts made interesting trades at key moments during the Iran war.
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Trump team aims to drop race, sexual orientation, migrants from census
The Trump administration proposed major changes Wednesday to the decennial census, calling for elimination of questions on race, ethnicity…
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This Could Be the Biggest Issue of 2027. Dems Are Split on It.
Democrats need a unified AI plan. Instead, they have a bunch of competing proposals.
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Trump, 80, Spotted With New Mystery Bruises on His Arm
President Trump was sporting new bruises during a Labor Day golf trip.
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Trump Moves to Make It Easier to Bribe Public Officials
Donald Trump wants to roll back a key Security and Exchange Commission rule.
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Why Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Canada Is About to Backfire On Him
Trump’s latest threats to punish Canada could hurt a lot of American workers—including in states with big races this fall—even as they…
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Midterm elections head into the home stretch as candidates hit Labor Day events
Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. On…
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How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering
Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.
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This Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America
Countering the Trump administration’s hostility to labor has been a string of historic and sometimes surprising wins in blue cities,…
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They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.
The year 2020 changed everything—or so we thought.
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Appeals court maintains blockade on DHS using database to check state voter rolls
A federal appeals court has ruled to keep in place a lower court blockade on the Department of Homeland Security using its SAVE database…
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How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker
The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome.
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Ex-Trump Labor Secretary Went to Strip Club on Taxpayers’ Dime
Lori Chavez-DeRemer also pressured her staff to drink on the job with her, an inspector general report found.
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Gloria Steinem’s Life Between Art and Activism
Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your…
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Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc
This is what Republican voter disenfranchisement looks like.
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Fox News Isolated Maria Bartiromo for Weeks Before Firing Her
Bartiromo’s own staff was forbidden from speaking to her.