Days ago, Kyle Rittenhouse — admired by Donald Trump and lionized by the far right for shooting three people at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, killing two — was in lockstep with the MAGA movement that supported him through the trial that saw him acquitted …
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As Democrats continue their rhetorical strategyof trash-talking Donald Trump, running mate J.D. Vance, and other “weird” and “creepy” conservative policymakers attempting to thrust the country into the dark ages, the former president has become increasingly furious at the messaging overtaking media outlets and internet memes. During a Thursday interview with …
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Simone Biles appeared to take a jab at former President Donald Trump and his recent comments about “Black jobs” following her gold medal win in the women’s gymnastics all-around final at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “I love my black job,” Biles wrote on Twitter early Friday morning in response to …
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HOUSTON — Addressing a cavernous auditorium filled with thousands of Black women decked out in royal blue and gold —the colors of Sigma Gamma Rho, a historically Black sorority holding its biennial celebration in Houston on Wednesday—Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged the ugly, unhinged rant that former President Donald Trump …
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Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance as his running mate largely as a signal of confidence in his own ability to retake the White House, but in the days following the Republican National Convention, Vance’s record has acted as anvil for the campaign — and a magnifying glass for concerns about …
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A MAGA congressman from Arizona is comparing GOP poll watchers being trained by the Trump campaign to SEAL Team 6 snipers, insisting that these “boots on the ground” must be prepared to counter a “desperate” opposition that will “do whatever it takes to hold on to power.” The congressman, Eli …
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As he entered the final stretch of the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump spent much of this month trying to disown the highly Trumpy, Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025 — to the point that he even got his fans to boo the initiative during a recent campaign rally. His protracted freakout …
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Former President Donald Trump’s appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists generated controversy as soon as it was announced — and went off the rails just as quickly once it started. Trump was more than an hour late to the Q&A alongside ABC News congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox …
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Leonard Leo, best known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is not happy about President Joe Biden belatedly proposing reforms to rein in an increasingly lawless, right-wing policy factory. “No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending …
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As Donald Trump scrambles to find a line of attack against his new 2024 rival — Vice President Kamala Harris — he’s falling back on his basest impulses. In a Monday radio interview with the conservative Sid & Friends In The Morning show, the former president repeated past assertions that …
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