On a Thursday two years ago today, at exactly 10:10 in the morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs, the landmark case overruling Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise —almost two months earlier, a leaked draft of …
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Donald Trump continued his stump on the campaign trail on Saturday ahead of his rematch with President Joe Biden in the first presidential debate of 2024 scheduled for Thursday. Trump hit his usual marks, from attacking migrants and border complaints to touting his role in erasing women’s reproductive rights by …
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Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as Donald Trump‘s White House physician, recklessly speculated that President Joe Biden is using drugs to stay ‘alert’ and to help him ‘perform’ in the upcoming presidential debate. “I’m going to be demanding on behalf of many millions of concerned Americans right now that [Biden] …
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Sen. Lindsay Graham went on a fear-mongering rant about President Joe Biden’s actions to forgive student debt, calling the relief “beyond lawless and beyond dangerous.” The Biden-Harris administration has approved $167 billion in student debt as of the end of May, helping 4.75 million borrowers across the country. But Graham …
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A former Trump Organization vice president recalled a story of a time when Donald Trump once joked about Nazi “ovens” to Jewish executives in the room. Barbara Res served as lead engineer on the Trump Tower project and is author of Tower of Lies, a memoir about her 18 years …
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This week at a resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, delegates at the Republican Oarty convention quietly approved a platform with a retooled “Right to Life” plank. Journalists were barred from the proceedings, but reporter Logan Finney of Idaho Reports obtained the language ahead of the event and, reading it, it’s …
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The conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon donated $50 million to a super PAC supporting Donald Trump on May 31, the day after the former president was convicted in his New York hush money trial. Mellon has now given a total of $75 million to support the pro-Trump super PAC this election …
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As Donald Trump seeks a second presidential term, he has been promising major policy wins to donors while seeking their cash — and testing corruption laws in ways never before seen. In April, Donald Trump asked oil and gas executives to donate $1 billion to help his 2024 presidential campaign, …
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Louisiana’s governor has signed a bill requiring every classroom in the state to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, and Donald Trump is all for it. On Friday the former president — a serial fabricator and convicted fraudster who has said he doesn’t think adultery is a sin — …
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“Of course we aren’t fucking bluffing.” That’s the message one close Trump adviser and former administration official — who requested anonymity to speak candidly — wants to get across to the press and public, when asked about Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign vows of “retribution,” unprecedented force, and militaristic action. Indeed, …
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