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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson described Friday how the financial crisis among American farmers has become a political crisis for the GOP ahead of the midterm elections. In his Substack Friday, the co-founder of anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, discussed how some of President Donald Trump's most loyal voters have been facing...
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Haley Robeson, a survivor of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of trying to "gaslight" her by claiming that the Trump administration had prioritized victims.Robeson spoke to CNN's Pamela Brown after Blanche announced that the DOJ was releasing around 3 million Epstein documents on Friday."As far as Todd...
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An uprising against MAGA pundit Scott Jennings is underway behind the scenes at CNN, according to a report Friday. CNN CEO Mark Thompson was apparently trying to "calm nerves inside the network during an all-hands meeting" on Wednesday after he was pressed on questions over why Jennings was not held to the same editorial standards as the rest of...
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When people ask why I'm still on Twitter (which I never call X, because that's just stupid), I explain that it's the only social media app I use where all of the Republicans in Congress post regularly. As a member of the indie media, it's imperative that I know what kind of messaging is coming from MAGA via Moscow, especially when the Trump regime...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter from ABC News, accusing her of being a "loud person" from a "fake" outlet.During an executive order signing event on Friday, an ABC News reporter asked Trump why he was suing the Internal Revenue Service."Who are you with?" the president snapped."I'm with ABC News," the woman replied."You're a loud...
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The FBI received a tip from a woman who claimed her friend was forced as a young teenager to perform a sex act on Donald Trump, according to newly released documents in the Jeffrey Epstein files.The Department of Justice published 3 million additional pages of documents related its investigation of the late sex offender and his trafficking network,...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) unleashed a fiery warning to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Friday. As a federal shutdown deadline was just hours away, Graham voiced his anger over the House voting against a law that would allow senators to sue the federal government — for potentially millions of dollars — if their data was obtained without their...
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U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett ruled that Luigi Mangione will not face a death sentence for the alleged murder of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.In a federal Manhattan court on Friday, Garnett dismissed two of the four criminal charges against Mangione that could have resulted in the death penalty.Mangione will now face possible...
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The celebrities missing from the red carpet glitz of the Kennedy Center's premiere of Melania says more about Trump's fortunes than who was there, a Guardian columnist wrote Friday.Most notably, Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife snubbed the event — a move that suggested second thoughts among the ultra-wealthy class largely...
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Police chiefs have growing concerns that ICE could be setting back nearly half a decade of building public trust in communities. That "fragile trust" has taken years to build following the killing of George Floyd and a number of public police brutality incidents in the U.S. and now local authorities have reported receiving "endless complaints" over...
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Weeks after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from dozens of United Nations organizations, the UN's chief warns that the UN is at risk of an "imminent financial collapse.”"The crisis is deepening, threatening program delivery and risking financial collapse. And the situation will deteriorate further in the near future,” UN...
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President Donald Trump confirmed Kevin Warsh as his pick early Friday morning to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell – who his administration has targeted with a criminal probe – but was immediately hit with fierce pushback from one GOP senator who vowed to block Warsh's confirmation."Kevin Warsh is a qualified nominee with a deep...
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that in a matter of hours, the Justice Department would be releasing a total of 3 million pages of files on Jeffrey Epstein, which will include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.The Trump administration has been under fire in recent weeks after failing to release all of the Epstein files in its...
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Ben Bergquam, a reporter for Steve Bannon's War Room, faced backlash on live television after attempting to report on protests in Minneapolis.While speaking outside of a federal building on Friday, Bergquam told Bannon that "you don't hear about people getting shot for the most part other than illegals."A nearby protester took issue with the...
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Republicans have signaled that President Donald Trump is "falling apart" and issuing desperate pleas for his MAGA followers. Salon's White House columnist Brian Karem described Friday how Trump's reactions to ICE's brutality in Minnesota has left Republicans questioning the president and calling out his "ineptitude.""It is apparent we've reached...
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The wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller celebrated the arrest of ex-CNN journalist Don Lemon with an obscene homophobic slur.Lemon was taken into custody and faces federal charges after covering an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.Katie Miller, who recently launched a MAGA-sympathetic podcast, shared an...
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Attorney General Pam Bondi sparked questions about the arrest of former CNN host Don Lemon with her announcement of federal charges related to a protest at a church in Minnesota.Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell stated that the journalist was taken into custody Thursday night in Los Angeles, a week after a magistrate judge declined to sign an arrest...
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There is one important difference between President Donald Trump's first and second administrations, and one former Trump insider believes it could bring down the White House. Olivia Troye, who worked on national security issues during the first Trump administration, joined Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz on their "The Court of History" podcast...
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A Minnesota woman who recorded Alex Pretti's killing by Border Patrol agents from her vehicle revealed Thursday that just prior to the incident, officers had threatened to drag her out of her vehicle and called her a misogynistic expletive, The Daily Beast reported Friday."Before the video even starts, several federal agents crossed the street to...
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Donald Trump's right-hand man took what should have been a major victory for the president and turned it into a potentially legacy-destroying embarrassment, a political specialist wrote.And the move may have earned deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a place among the worst presidential advisers in the history of America.The Rolling Stone's deputy...
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President Donald Trump's allies on the Georgia State Elections Board are considering using a new rule to take over elections in Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold, after the FBI raided the county elections board.An obscure rule in the state's 2020 election overhaul gave officials on the State Elections Board the power to replace...
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President Donald Trump's "obsession" with his election loss five years ago in Georgia could cost Republicans a chance to win back a Senate seat in the state, according to a new analysis.The FBI seized ballots and other records this week from an election hub in Fulton County, where Trump was indicted for attempting to overturn his 2020 loss, and...
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"There's an odor in the West Wing," and it's fear as Donald Trump's favorite tactic appears to have failed when it comes to immigration enforcement officers killing American civilians, according to a former GOP insider.Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who once said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the...
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Former CNN host Don Lemon's arrest in connection with a protest in Minnesota provoked shock and horror on social media.President Donald Trump has amplified calls for the broadcaster's arrest for covering a demonstration at a church led by a pastor believed to be a high-ranking local leader for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Lemon was...
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Multiple communities have hit back hard against the Trump administration as it seeks to expand its capacity to detain migrants across the nation, with at least one successful in shutting down an effort to turn a 26-acre warehouse into a migrant processing center, The Washington Post reported Friday.Immigration and Customs Enforcement is working to...
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President Donald Trump's administration escalated his ongoing efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss by raiding an office in the Georgia county where he was indicted for racketeering.The 79-year-old president has insisted the election was stolen from him and has faced charges in Fulton County and the District of Columbia for his efforts to...
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's fate will be put to delegates at the party's convention in Calgary on Friday. While those around him are confident he can avoid being turfed, the leader's loyalists are doing all they can to ensure he easily clears this must-win vote.
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An entertainment expert dismissed the multi-billion-dollar Melania Trump documentary as a "farce" hours ahead of its release.President Donald Trump joined the first lady Thursday evening at the rebranded Trump Kennedy Center for the Amazon MGM Studios film's premier, but journalist Segun Oduolowu told "CNN This Morning" that early indications...
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Broadcaster Don Lemon was arrested in connection with a protest against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota.The longtime CNN host was among dozens of protesters who rushed into a St. Paul church whose pastor appears to lead a local field office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Lemon was taken into custody...
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The continued chaos of the Trump administration immigration enforcement operations has fueled a "war” within the Department of Homeland Security that is still fiercely "ongoing,” and one that journalist Michael Scherer described Friday as "a divide between institutional MAGA and disruptive MAGA.”"For quite a while now, there've been two camps...
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As Congress scrambles to pass a funding bill by Friday night to avert a government shutdown, a "Lindsey-Graham-sized snag” has emerged that could upend the effort, Politico reported Friday.Last year's government shutdown – the single-longest in U.S. history – ended after lawmakers agreed to a temporary spending measure that would fund the...
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President Donald Trump tossed an endorsement to a Republican state senate candidate ahead of a special election seen as a bellwether for the midterm elections.The president backed GOP candidate Leigh Wambsganss in the Saturday special election runoff in the once reliably conservative suburbs of Fort Worth that has turned in to what the New York...
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As the Trump administration continues to face backlash over its immigration enforcement operations in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti, one Senate Republican revealed late Thursday he's been urging President Trump to dump Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and advisor Stephen Miller, or risk a "wave against Republicans” in the...
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Over on Threads, sierracascadia posted:"CNN BREAKING: Kristin Holmes reports Stephen Miller is saying 'there may have been a breach of protocol' and Noem is blabbering about how she was in touch with Trump and Miller for her talking points. Miller is saying that he got his information CBP trying to shove it down to Bovino! This f---ing clown show...
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Donald Trump's administration just took an action that "hints" about future ambitions for a total electoral takeover by Republicans, a former federal prosecutor said Thursday.It was recently reported that the FBI and DNI Secretary Tulsi Gabbard swarmed an election field office in Georgia, purportedly to investigate the 2020 election in which Joe...
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President Donald Trump smeared slain nurse Alex Pretti in an overnight social media post.New video shows an encounter between the 37-year-old Pretti and federal immigration agents 11 days before Border Patrol officers fatally shot him Jan. 24, and the 79-year-old president suggested that newly revealed footage suggested the Minnesota man deserved...
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Lawyers speaking to Raw Story said justice could still prevail in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two people shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis this month, despite the Trump administration's refusal to cooperate with state investigations.Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
If you've lost your mind, have no taste or scruples, and plan to waste your hard-earned money to see the new Melania Trump documentary, you should be ashamed of yourself.But should morbid curiosity win out, may I suggest stopping at an off-the-rack store to purchase a knockoff of the UFO hat Melania wore to her husband's inauguration, then pulling...
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Canada is the only Arctic nation that doesn't arm its coast guard fleet. The United States, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Russia all operate coast guard fleets that have the capability to defend themselves. The commander of Canada's navy says arming the civilian fleet isn't necessary unless there's a war.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets China’s President Xi Jinping, calling for a “more sophisticated relationship” - but can both nations achieve that amidst global uncertainty? Sam and Anne dive into the details, looking at who is on the trip and reflect on the “twists and turns” of the relations between the two nations. Back […]
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In his first interview since the death of his brother Tim, SA's Health Minister Chris Picton reflects on the profound emotional impact of the loss on their family, his reluctance to watch the CCTV footage, and his brother's inability to become an organ donor "because of the coronial process".
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Liberal MP Andrew Hastie told colleagues he would pull out of the Liberal Party leadership race on Friday. Hours earlier Opposition Leader Sussan Ley laid down a gauntlet for Nationals leader David Littleproud on another dramatic day for the Coalition.
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Ein Monat in 2026 und die politische Lage ist bereits verdichtet. In dieser Sonderausgabe spricht Gordon Repinski mit Mariam Lau (DIE ZEIT) über die großen Linien: Donald Trump und die neue Weltordnung, Europas wachsende Eigenständigkeit, die Lernkurve von Friedrich Merz und die strategischen Herausforderungen im Umgang mit der AfD vor...
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