President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the elimination of the Department of Education Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily [...]
President Donald Trump recently invoked a centuries-old law to justify the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador without due process. But one [...]
House Republicans can have $6,600 for supporting Elon Musk’s drive to impeach judges who place checks on President Trump’s lawless executive actions, as a treat. Musk has been championing talk [...]
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, home of fact-bending and scorn directed at liberals, has been doing some soul-searching lately. The Tuesday page had four pieces that could have run [...]
Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). This week on CounterSpin: In early February, when Rep. Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Rep. Maxine Waters were [...]
This majority-deciding victory builds on the DLCC’s streak of overperformance in special elections in 2025 WASHINGTON— Last night, DLCC Spotlight Candidate and Rep.-elect David Gottfried joined MSNBC’s The Last Word [...]
Americans’ 401(k)s are plummeting, unemployment is rising, and consumer sentiment is tumbling – all while Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary is desperately trying to downplay dire economic numbers by claiming he’s [...]
President Elmo had spent millions and millions of dollars to buy a presidency for his special pal, Felonia. He thought, literally, that he was king of the world. But now, [...]
The Senate voted on Friday afternoon to move forward with a Republican short-term funding bill and avoid a federal government shutdown. Ten Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. “Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That [...]
Several top corporate CEOs recently confided that despite their public shows of fealty to President Donald Trump, they are less than flattering of him behind closed doors.According to the Wall [...]
The House passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) continuing resolution 217-213, getting one step closer to avoiding a shutdown just days before the government is set to run out of funding. The [...]
In past few days, Trump has reversed himself on tariffs twice, warned Putin to lighten up on Ukraine, and reined in Elon Musk. This is in addition to countless lesser [...]
SHOT: Donald Trump spent his campaign lying to the American people about a new “golden age” and promising to “rapidly defeat” inflation on Day One… NBC: “President Donald Trump declared [...]
Donald Trump’s victory has prompted significant soul-searching among Democrats about the future of the party’s economic policy. The right and healthy response at a moment like this is humility, evidence-based [...]
Trump tells the press it's easier for him to deal with Russia to strike a peace deal as bombs rain down on Ukraine. Demented Don still says he trusts Putin [...]
President Donald Trump made the surprising announcement Thursday that his Cabinet secretaries do in fact run the government agencies they head — and that Elon Musk doesn’t. And though the [...]
Private companies hope to make a fortune off the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. Last Thursday, a day after the Trump administration announced plans for a massive new immigrant detention [...]
Joe Raedle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “DEI is dead.” At least that’s what the headlines scream. I [...]
The fact that President Donald Trump moved with lightning speed in signing dozens of executive orders and naming members of his Cabinet was no surprise to one House Republican, who [...]
Elon Musk (X, 2/26/25) gives his seal of approval to the new univocal Washington Post.“Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought [...]
The reaction on Fox to Trump and Vance's disastrous, dangerous, embarrassing shitshow with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has, as expected, been mainly glowing towards Trump and Vance, pretending Zelensky had [...]
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 Trump administration is laying off thousands of employees at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), just as tax season gets underway. These cuts will worsen customer service for millions of [...]
Shawn Thew/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, just before midnight, Donald Trump posted a grotesque AI-generated [...]
The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) has managed the press pool since the 1950s. While the group has faced its share of criticism, journalists and others also weren't buying Leavitt's [...]
Police in Washington D.C. reportedly tried to arrest a Republican member of Congress for an alleged act of domestic violence, but U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is apparently not signing the [...]
The shock and awe from Washington continued this week, but it got a little less shocking and a little less awesome. Voters have started to notice that Donald Trump’s agenda isn’t [...]
NBC News (2/4/25) put Trump’s unconstitutional attack on USAID in a Cold War frame.Are the corporate media outlets reporting on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover smarter than a [...]
Brittany Friedman, University of Southern California and Raquel Delerme, University of Southern California President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could [...]
‘Think about this the next time you’re stuck in traffic.’ Video screenshot, NBC New York on YouTubeOn Wednesday, feeling a little full of himself, and possibly wanting to Own The [...]
The Logoff is 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 Logoff. Today I’m [...]
The Trump Administration’s move to cut overhead funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants will have a devastating effect on research universities and hospitals around the country. It’s a misguided [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Everybody 'is critical’ to travel: Reaction to Trump admin firing hundreds of FAA employees05:43Now PlayingBREAKING: Delta [...]
In a scathing column appearing in the conservative National Review, Andy McCarthy — a Fox News contributor who serves as one of the network's legal analysts — charges Trump AG [...]
The fog of war is a good analogy for what has transpired the past few days in the federal workforce. After getting a favorable ruling to move forward, the so-called [...]
AP (2/4/25) concludes with Elon Musk describing his government takeover as a card game: “If we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.”Associated [...]
Trump has been in office for less than a month, and Americans are already sick of him and his billionaire handlers. New polling confirms Trump’s approval rating has dropped in [...]
This January, Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Meta, unexpectedly announced that the company would change its content moderation policies in response to conservatives’ claims of censorship. It would [...]
Monday, February 10, 2025 CNN: “‘This means that nobody is actually overseeing $18 trillion in consumer debt right now to make sure millions of Americans aren’t getting ripped off’” Over [...]
Donald Trump blew off Bret (of Fox News, of course) Baier's question about his promise to cut prices when he was sworn in, by refusing to address the question instead [...]
We think it’s a puppy. Could be an Ewok. A fluffy vole? Tiny bear? Who can say! Photo by Alvan Nee on UnsplashWhat havoc is being planned next by Presidents [...]
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an [...]
This week, sheriffs across the country said that they will not do the legally dubious work of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, even as newly sworn-in Attorney General Pam Bondi [...]
Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be director of the Office of Management and Budget. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, in the midst of Black History Month. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen [...]
President Donald Trump issued a long list of executive orders after returning to the White House, including a directive for federal workers to cease remote work and return to physical [...]
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version.Will The Judiciary Hold?Nothing about the last week in American politics [...]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio brought a warning to Panamanian leader José Raúl Mulino on Sunday: Immediately reduce what President Donald Trump says is Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or face [...]
NPR (2/1/25) investigates how a politician who surrounds himself with fellow billionaires can “work for the working class.” NPR‘s suggestion: tax cuts for the very wealthy.“Can Trump’s Second Act Work [...]