Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of the southeastern United States over the weekend. The category 4 storm has killed more than 100 people, leveled entire towns, and destroyed critical infrastructure. Nowhere has the devastation been more pronounced than in the Carolinas, where mudslides and widespread flooding have created apocalyptic scenes and …
Read More »Trump Says No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane at Peak of Hurricane Season
As communities throughout the southeastern United States reel from the impact of Hurricane Helene, Donald Trump is focused on blaming Democrats and ensuring his campaign capitalizes on the tragedy which has killed more than 100 people. On Monday, the former president traveled to Valdosta, Georgia, a community in the southern …
Read More »Conservatives Test Whether the Supreme Court Will Do Literally Anything They Want
If you are in the business of seeking out public information, it can be frustrating when an agency denies your public records request or refuses to waive any fees it might require before handing over documents. It’s normal to call up the agency and say, Hey! This is important! If …
Read More »Georgia's Young Climate Voters Could Help Push Harris Past Trump
Thisarticlewas produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. In 2020, Donald Trumplost Georgia to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast in the state, one of the closest races in that election. Since that time, the Peach State has seen …
Read More »Trump Suggests Giving Cops 'One Really Violent Day' to Stop Crime
Donald Trump held a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, at the Bayfront Convention Center on Sunday. It was his second consecutive appearance in a crucial battleground state this weekend, following Saturday’s speech in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin,where he called Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” while delivering …
Read More »How Politicians Made the Border Even More Dangerous for Asylum-Seekers
JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …
Read More »Opus Dei and the Moneybags Kid
In an excerpt from his new book OPUS: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church, author Gareth Gore examines the ties binding Supreme Court kingmaker Leonard Leo and Opus Dei, a radical organization on the fringes of the Catholic Church that is accused …
Read More »Trump Calls Harris 'Mentally Disabled' in Latest Anti-Migrant Rally Rant
Donald Trump is more than doubling down on spreading unhinged lies about the United States being “occupied” by migrants, apparently — as he claimed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on Saturday — in “hundreds of towns” throughout the Midwest. Trump continued to push the idea that if he doesn’t win …
Read More »Vance Links Up With Christian Extremist Who Called Harris a 'Jezebel' Practicing 'Witchcraft'
Fresh off an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s extremist election tour, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance is set to sit for a Pennsylvania town hall hosted by far-right Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau. Wallnau will be hosting Vance as part of the “Courage Tour,” a collaboration with the right-wing activist group Turning …
Read More »Trump Vows to Prosecute Google Over Negative Search Results
Donald Trump vowed on Thursday to punish Google for — in his mind — favoring Vice President Kamala Harris in results generated by its search engine. “It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made …
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