NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — As the Beatles’ lyric goes: “Everybody had a hard year. Everybody had a good time. Everybody had a wet dream. Everybody saw the sunshine.” The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference held this week just outside of Washington, D.C., was exactly like that, if you’re someone who …
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, …
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At the first rally to kick off his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump played a bizarre rendition of the national anthem in which he himself recites the Pledge of Allegiance while a “choir” of January 6 rioters sing the national anthem. It would become a regular feature at his rallies. Some …
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Eric Adams and his lawyers insist there was no deal. In no universe, they’ve said repeatedly, did the Justice Department agree to drop the bribery case against the mayor of New York City in return for his cooperation on the Trump administration’s deportation agenda. But on Feb 3., in a …
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Multiple aid agencies have effectively ceased operations preventing the global spread of HIV and treating patients with AIDS in the wake of funding cuts by the Trump administration. That’s the result of Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appearing to take special aim at programs that …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration workers Friday night, amid a startling series of plane crashes and other air-related incidents in recent weeks. A few days later, the Trump administration is telling Americans not to worry, because they didn’t fire anyone too important. Musk posted …
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On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from the U.S. military. In the order, Trump declared that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service” — a transgender troop’s …
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Although Elon Musk’s quixotic purchase of Twitter, which he redubbed X, seems to have played a significant role in giving him full and unfettered access to the gears of government, one right-wing rich guy’s purchase of a media company did not result in his desired electoral outcome last year. Putative …
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Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are operating unconstitutionally, and their actions must be reversed. That’s the striking claim made in a lawsuit filed by 14 state attorneys general on Feb. 13 in federal court. The lawsuit runs 60 pages, detailing the chaos Musk and his DOGE …
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Authoritarian movements don’t spring up out of nowhere. They require a certain set of conditions on the ground, like a growing class of people who feel frustrated, disempowered, and out of place. They require major investment, above all in the disinformation and distraction that keeps supporters in line with a …
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