Jon Stewart hit out at Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” on the latest episode of The Daily Show, immediately pointing out all of the things the so-called spending bill aims to cut. “It’s a lot of painful cuts on a lot of vulnerable populations,” Stewart quipped. “But, to be fair, …
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Over the Fourth of July weekend, President Donald Trump signed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” into law. You’ve probably heard that it contains deep cuts to Medicaid spending and other social safety net programs, and that millions of people are expected to lose their health insurance. It’s no secret that …
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The end to the Russia-Ukraine war DonaldTrump promised to secure on the first day of his presidency is nowhere in sight. On Tuesday, during a televised meeting of his Cabinet, Trump admitted that attempts to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin have produced little in the way of a truce, …
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On Monday, the Justice Department and FBI released a joint memo aimed at putting the saga of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to rest. It described how an exhaustive investigation had led to the same conclusions we’ve heard before: Epstein died by suicide in a prison cell in 2019 …
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President Donald Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines, urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The latest example came on Monday, when the Department of Health and Human …
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can resume mass firing of staff at federal agencies. On Tuesday, the court lifted an order from a lower court blocking the enforcement of a February executive order in which President Donald Trump laid out plans for large scale firings and …
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Billie Joe Armstrong celebrated the Fourth of July by criticizing the current president. During a concert at Rock Werchter in Belgium over the weekend, the Green Day frontman led the audience in a chant of “Fuck Donald Trump.” The punk band opened their set with “American Idiot,” during which Armstrong …
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At least 100 people have died, including more than two dozen campers and counselors from an all-girls Christian summer camp, in the floods that devastated central Texas over the July Fourth weekend. The deluge that ripped through the Texas Hill Country is already considered one of the deadliest floods in …
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Last week, Jon Bauman paused in the middle of a Zoom call with Rolling Stone, put on his glasses and glanced up at a TV screen in his home. “You and I are right now in the middle of the vote on the Big Ugly Bill,” he said as the …
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In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in turn, that he did not “have the …
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