Sandwich Guy: Not Guilty With A Side Of Freedom
In another stunning loss for Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a jury of DC residents found Sean Dunn, who threw a very dangerous and spicy footlong sub at [...]
In another stunning loss for Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a jury of DC residents found Sean Dunn, who threw a very dangerous and spicy footlong sub at [...]
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The [...]
The federal judge considering whether Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully installed by the Trump administration had ordered the Department of Justice to provide the “complete grand jury transcripts” in James Comey’s [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed playwright, author and poet, the first African to win [...]
It may be Halloween, but families have been feeling relentless price frights since Inauguration Day. Inflation remains stubbornly high, and President Trump’s tariffs continue to drive up the prices of [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late last night and announced that the time had come for his senators to pass a clean “continuing resolution” [...]
House Speaker Mike Johnson just said the quiet part out loud: Republicans see SNAP benefits as nothing more than political leverage in their government shutdown. Donald Trump has the power [...]
Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea that he knows he's prohibited from serving a third term. The Constitution's 22nd Amendment establishes [...]
See below for video and a few highlights from Sen. Mark Warner’s weekly press availability, held earlier today (bolding added by me for emphasis of key [...]
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The [...]
Kristan Hawkins' anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, was reportedly one of the organizations that urged the Trump administration to scale back its promises on IVF.Jose Luis Magana/AP Get [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: “Criminal” by Stew Stewart from the soundtrack of the new documentary Criminal, which we’ll talk about [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Generally, a common-law principle known as sovereign immunity prevents the federal [...]
“This post doesn’t name them for some reason, but the ‘broad spectrum of new media outlets’ include: Gateway Pundit, TPUSA, and LindellTV, per their announcements,” CNN’s Natasha Bertrand wrote. Gateway [...]
The DLCC invested six figures and is targeting 12 Spotlight candidates to protect the Democratic majority in the New Jersey Assembly WASHINGTON — The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) has [...]
As Donald Trump’s government shutdown approaches the one-month mark, Trump continues to throw Americans under the bus while giving a helping hand to Argentina — despite his claim that “nothing [...]
Judge Paula Xinis had reached her limit. She invited the lawyers of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to seek contempt of court sanctions against the Trump Administration. She’d “gotten nothing” from the [...]
A new CNBC survey makes clear that voters will overwhelmingly hold responsible Donald Trump and the vacationing House Republicans for the economic pain and harm caused by their government shutdown. The same [...]
See below for video and transcribed comments by Sen. Mark Warner from his weekly press availability, held earlier today. Bolding added by me for emphasis of [...]
FACT: U.S. public disapproves of Trump tariffs by about 63% to 35%. THE NUMBERS: Trump administration tariffs on goods from – Brazil 50% Venezuela 15% WHAT THEY MEAN: [...]
This article first appeared at Propublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.She desperately wanted to [...]
In his campaign for president, Trump promised to protect Social Security and Medicare. On paper, Social Security, which has its own revenue sources via payroll taxes and trust funds, is [...]
The point is not that there are zero examples of leftist protesters getting violent—as the Times notes, a handful of leftists are getting prosecuted for just that. Rather, it’s that [...]
Either disappointed about the Nobel or made an oopsie in his diap-diap, hard to tell.It is so very, very, very fucked up that on the day the Nobel Peace Prize [...]
In his latest piece for the Monthly, legal scholar Rick Kahlenberg wrote about the College Board’s shameful termination of “Landscape,” a college recruiting tool designed to identify promising students from low-income communities, regardless [...]
Americans across the country from Washington to Los Angeles have made it clear that they reject the Trump administration’s notion of “law and order,” with grand jurors refusing to return [...]
LARRY KUDLOW (FOX BUSINESS HOST): Just think of it this way. You have something like 750-800,000 jobs that are called "nonessential." All right? I've been through this a bunch of [...]
The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on this morning’s announcement that Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano will also serve as CEO of the [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ One feature of MAGA authoritarian planning is its ineptitude. Think back to January 6: yes, it was a coup attempt — [...]
President Trump’s decision to keep national parks open during the government shutdown may seem like an attempt to avoid blame for frustrating U.S. travelers. But conservation groups and park workers [...]
Well, guess what? It turns out that the latter project spans Washington, Oregon, and Montana, a state that voted pretty overwhelmingly for Trump. Montana’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, has hailed [...]
This Herblock cartoon (Washington Post, 3/29/50) is the first recorded use of the word “McCarthyism.”The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s [...]
New economic data shows consumer confidence plummeted more than expected to the lowest level since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” in April, as fears of recession rose to the highest level [...]
In his second term, President Trump has rejected the long-held tradition of regulatory independence by firing or attempting to fire officials at agencies charged with setting monetary policy, ensuring the [...]
Janelle Bynum is bringing her constituents’ voices with her back to Washington. After crisscrossing the fifth district for a series of town halls, Bynum knows what’s on Oregonians’ minds: costs are too [...]
It was not a good week to be an election fraudster. It started out when Kenneth Chesebro, the former Trump attorney who masterminded the fake elector scheme in 2020, added [...]
On Thursday, Donald Trump announced that he would be keeping his campaign promise of lowering pharmaceutical prices by … imposing a 100 percent tariff on all branded and patented pharmaceuticals [...]
Years of uncertainty around a possible TikTok ban in the United States may finally be coming to an end.The Trump administration is reportedly very close to finalizing a deal with [...]
In honor of Friendship Month and his stupendous speech at the UN, wherein he raved, bloviated and browbeat world leaders that their countries are "going to hell" but he's "really [...]
In the past 24 hours, we’ve been treated to a combination of first-term and second-term Trump. On Monday, the president agreed to a meeting with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries [...]
World Liberty is notably at the center of a scandal, as The New York Times revealed last week. In May, the firm secured a $2 billion investment from an Emirati [...]
After repeatedly promising that Social Security is “100% safe,” Trump administration officials are once again saying the quiet part out loud: They’re coming after America’s seniors. First, Treasury Secretary Scott [...]
While most of the attention this week was caught up with Donald Trump’s fascist attacks on freedom of speech, Donald Trump’s fascist mass deportation agenda continued unabated, with a new [...]
A legal theme of President Donald Trump’s second term is judges not being able to trust his administration’s statements in court. This theme has been especially pronounced in immigration-related cases, [...]
The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a crackdown on the left from President Trump and his allies. In [...]