Senior Trump administration officials and White House aides had for weeks bragged about how the second Trump era was markedly more disciplined and well-oiled, and less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot shambolic, than the president’s first turn in office. Several of these officials noted to Rolling Stone that this assessment was due in part …
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As Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, some Trump administration officials have been privately gossiping among themselves, comparing the now-infamous national security breach in a Signal group chat to something out of the HBO political satire, Veep. These officials are getting it wrong. This ongoing mini-saga of the second Donald Trump era …
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MIAMI — On Friday night, former Social Security head Martin O’Malley faced some of the rage that Democratic and Republican members of Congress have been confronted with in recent weeks as the Trump administration ravages the federal government and threatens programs like Social Security. O’Malley was there to detail not …
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Illinois 9th District has only been represented by two people since 1965, and there hasn’t been a competitive primary since the race Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the district’s current representative, won in November 1998. “I wouldn’t be born for another four months,” deadpans Kat Abughazaleh, the TikTok-famous political commentator now …
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The day Andrew Cuomo kicked off his campaign for mayor of New York City, his lawyer Rita Glavin was asked about Cuomo’s efforts to obtain the gynecological records of one of the women who came forward to share stories of the former New York governor’s sexual harassment before he resigned …
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When Mike Russo entered Social Security Administration headquarters on January 31, he introduced himself to agency staff as a representative of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to court filings. Along with Akash Bobba, a 22-year-old former Meta and Palantir intern, Russo demanded sweeping access to data …
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has been marked by a campaign of autocratic, verging on fascist action to match the brazen rhetoric from his campaign. The president has sought to strip the citizenship of children born in this country by fiat, and declared the sexual identities of millions …
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Last month, unelected shadow president Elon Musk told President Donald Trump’s Cabinet that he and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, which the new administration has tried to dismantle. With a chuckle, …
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During the past two months of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s power grabs, it has been clear the second Trump administration is building up to a confrontation with the American courts system — one that would trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis. That moment of truth has arrived. On Friday, hours …
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At 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7, Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a change in policy that could easily bankrupt some of the program’s senior beneficiaries. The agency will now revert back to a more punishing policy that some Republican members of Congress previously publicly opposed — a …
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