Ever since 2012, when Donald Trump wrote a string of tweets about how Robert Pattinson should dump her, Kristen Stewart has occupied a curious space in the conservative imagination. It was being reminded of those comments, as she revealed in Rolling Stone‘s March cover story, that inspired Stewart to come …
Read More »Trump's NYC Criminal Trial Is His Final Showdown With Michael Cohen
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is here — and both his attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office are girding themselves for the man who could be standing between Trump and the first-ever criminal conviction of an American president: Michael Cohen. The hush money case, which revolves around Trump’s …
Read More »Trump and the GOP's Fascist Rhetoric Has Broad Appeal: Poll
Donald Trump’s fascistic rhetoric about how immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country, as well as the GOP’s embrace of the “great replacement theory,” are repellent to many Americans. But for a startling number of people, new survey results exclusively provided to Rolling Stone reveal, the message that immigrants …
Read More »Neo-Nazis Swarm Home of New England Governor
Dozens of Neo-Nazis demonstrated outside the home of Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Saturday night, in an intimidating display of hate. Members of the group NSC-131 — which seeks to create a white-only ethnostate in New England — marched Saturday night through the Boston suburb of Arlington, uniformed in …
Read More »'I'm Not Sure He Knows He's Alive': Donald Trump Bashes Biden at NRA Meeting
Billing himself as “the best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House,” Donald Trump addressed National Rifle Association members for the eighth time in his political career on Friday night in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — appearing as the keynote speaker of the NRA Presidential Forum, part of the …
Read More »They Came Here for a New Life. Now They're Trapped in O'Hare
I t’s just past 11 a.m. on Christmas Eve, and Angimar leans forward in a blue, perforated metal chair to examine her toddler’s diaper. The boy has been tugging at his legging pants, and his walk is now more of a waddle. Along with most personal-hygiene products, diapers are in …
Read More »Emails Reveal How Anti-Trans Doc Tried To Dupe LGBTQ Allies Into Participating
In June of last year, Nashville drag queen Veronika Electronika arrived at a studio space for what she was told was an interview on her views regarding the struggles faced by children in the trans community, and how the lives and mental health of LGBTQ+ people were being affected by …
Read More »Worst Responders: The Far-Right Extremists Mobilizing to Mass Shootings
The Justice Department released a 575-page report last month detailing law-enforcement failures that exacerbated the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The document identifies groups that were first to respond to the shooting, with one glaring omission: a citizen militia called Patriots for America. Shortly after the gunman …
Read More »Trump Plans to Make Ron DeSantis a 'Political Eunuch'
After a year of getting roundly humiliated by Donald Trump and failing to unseat him as the leader of the Republican Party, Ron DeSantis finally dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump’s bid to reclaim the White House. But while the former president publicly retired his “DeSanctimonious” nickname, Trump …
Read More »Let Trump Be Dictator for a Day, 74 Percent of Republicans Say
The Joe Biden presidential campaign is positioning the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy. But a new poll suggests that defending America’s constitutional system of checks and balances is no longer an electoral slam dunk. A startling 39 percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Republicans, think it’s a …
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