If the republic were the Titanic and the government’s end-of-year shutdown over health care the iceberg, Congress would be the first-class passengers already in the lifeboats — with their doctors aboard, their gold-tier coverage guaranteed, and the rest of the country left to drown in the frozen waters. What began …
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During an Oct. 15 press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump claimed that the people of Chicago, most notably “beautiful Black women,” are walking around the city in MAGA hats, begging for federal forces to rid the city of crime. “Please let the president in and we don’t …
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Thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariff wars, China has essentially stopped buying American soybeans, dealing a significant financial blow to American farmers. China used to purchase 54 percent of the U.S. soy crop, but since the Trump administration imposed punishing tariffs on the nation, China has all but ceased buying …
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The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent cult leaders, later to be turned into a true crime documentary one laments over with their …
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Massachusetts has a rich history of giving the middle finger to tyrants and bloated politicians, and the Dropkick Murphys have been providing the backing track to Boston’s antiauthoritarianism since the 1990s. Already an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, frontman Ken Casey is calling for the punk artists and musicians to …
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Stacey Abrams — the two time Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia — has a new mission: defending democracy and diversity, equity, and inclusion in equal measure. At a moment when Donald Trump’s administration has made a crusade out of stamping out DEI initiatives in government — even going so far …
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WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out in Washington, D.C., and cities across the nation on Saturday, to protest what they characterize as the increasingly authoritarian actions of the Trump administration. “We’re here representing normal people — regular, peaceful Americans — who are against what this administration is …
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An estimated 7 million people turned out to more than 2,700 “No Kings” anti-authoritarian protests across the country on Saturday, according to organizers. If estimates are correct, it would be one of the largest one-day protests in American history. Although the rallies were peaceful and even joyful, that didn’t stop …
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Christopher Landau was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s deputy secretary of state earlier this year, with a relatively strong amount of Democratic support and a reputation as a serious diplomat with bonafides. Now, Landau is creating memes on his official government X account about revoking the visas of a range …
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The video is slightly absurdist. Three ICE agents, clad in full tactical camouflage with their faces covered by black masks, seize a man dressed in a fuzzy giraffe onesie singing an anti-ICE cover of Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” The backing track abruptly cuts out as two agents …
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