A week after convicted felon Donald Trump won a second presidential term in the White House, the twice-impeached former president has already announced several key administration appointments and nominations. On Tuesday, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at the loyalists Trump has chosen to staff the White House and his …
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In the days following Donald Trump’s 2024 election win, Democratic politicians, journalists, and pundits have been searching for potential explanations for Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat. We have offered up some of our own. On Monday, Rolling Stone spoke with Michael Podhorzer, former longtime political director for the AFL-CIO, the …
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A month ago, billionaire Elon Musk warned that if Donald Trump won a second presidential term and gave him a role in government, Americans would need to “reduce spending to live within our means” and suffer “temporary hardship” in order to address the national debt. On Tuesday, the Tesla CEO …
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Donald Trump has picked Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to serve as the attorney general of the United States. The president-elect wrote in his announcement that the Florida congressman “has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice,” and that he will …
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Much has been made of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to purge the federal government of officials unwilling to be loyal to his agenda. He’s now positioned to make good on that promise during the next 10 weeks of his presidential transition. Though he’s denied it, this promise reflects the …
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Celebrated author and expert poster Stephen King dismissed the internet rumors that he’d been kicked off Twitter/X after insulting owner Elon Musk. On Wednesday morning, King addressed the speculation, quipping, “I see there’s a rumor going around that I called the Musk-man Trump’s new first lady.” Magnanimous man that he …
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In a historic and embarrassing first, an old Reddit meme may become an actual government agency in Donald Trump‘s second term as president, thanks to Elon Musk. Months before Trump’s reelection, the Tesla CEO and Trump megadonor was riffing on X (formerly Twitter) about a possible administration role in something …
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Donald Trump plans to choose Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his secretary of state, the New York Times reported on Monday. Four years after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, Trump has repeatedly stated that he will be returning to the White with a literal agenda to prosecute …
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Jon Stewart opened the latest episode of The Daily Show by jokingly declaring, “Welcome to the resistance.” However, he added that due to holidays and him only being on the late-night show on Mondays, it will be about “15 hours of resistance in total” over the next four years. The …
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Republicans are selecting their next Senate majority leader on Wednesday, to take power from the increasingly decrepit Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Will the next GOP leader be a thorn in Trump’s side, as the old-school corporate conservative McConnell occasionally was, or a MAGA fixer, greasing the skids to ram controversial …
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