Illinois Governor JB Pritzker blasted President Donald Trump after he threatened on Friday to target Chicago as the next city to send federal troops to, purportedly to fight crime, as he has done in other Democratic strongholds. Trump has deployed nearly 2,000 National Guard members in his current campaign in …
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The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, leading to condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and descendants of survivors of the WWII-era program. Fort Bliss, a military base headquartered in El Paso, is slated to be the site of the largest federal …
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald Trump’s forces have tear gassed a public school into submission. Or at least into fleeing its longtime campus. The local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) complex in Portland has become a near-nightly flashpoint this summer for local activists demonstrating against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign …
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On Friday, the FBI executed a search of the Maryland home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who left his first administration on bitter terms, only to become one of Trump’s more prominent Republican foes. Some sources are claiming the raid is part of a “national security …
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Behind closed doors at the swanky Sea Island Resort this past January, a Republican financial official from Kentucky claimed that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called her cell phone early in the morning in early 2023, “absolutely furious,” and threatened to oust her in the next election after she put …
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Before he was an outspoken critic of Trump, before he was even a musician, Jack White was an upholsterer. Growing up in Detroit, he began as an apprentice at just 15 years old, then opened his own shop, Third Man Upholstery, when he was 21. His music career took off …
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Ghislaine Maxwell understood the assignment. In her recent interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the convicted sex trafficker and former Jeffrey Epstein accomplice made sure to flatter Donald Trump as much as possible, while saying nothing that might make the president look bad, as she publicly seeks a pardon. …
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Donald Trump wants another criminal back on the streets. The president on Thursday morning called for Tina Peters — a convicted felon currently serving a nine-year sentence for crimes related to her effort to prove the 2020 election was fraudulent — to be released from prison, threatening “harsh measures” if …
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South Park is continuing to needle Donald Trump and his administration as Season 27 continues. Comedy Central shared a teaser trailer for Episode 3, which is titled “Sickofancy.” In the trailer, beloved character Towelie, the pot-smoking anthropomorphic towel, arrives in Washington, D.C. on a bus, where he encounters soldiers and …
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In recent weeks, California Governor Gavin Newsom has given his press office free rein to go full all-caps troll mode on X. Almost all of the account’s posts right now are mimicking Donald Trump’s distinct tweeting style, replete with condescending nicknames, weirdly formal phrasing, and multiple-exclamation-point bluster. On Monday, the …
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