President Donald Trump on Friday morning implored Iran to “make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire,” hours after Israeli strikes killed several top Iranian military officials and targeted the country’s nuclear infrastructure. The strikes, which began Thursday night, came …
Read More »Kim Gordon Has Words for Donald Trump on Re-Recorded 'Bye Bye 25!'
Kim Gordon has re-recorded her single, “Bye Bye” — off her 2024 solo album, The Collective — especially for Donald Trump. On “Bye Bye 25!” she replaces her original lyrics with a list of all of the president’s favorite words: “intersex,” “Gulf of Mexico,” “climate change,” and “women,” among them. …
Read More »Trump's Military Crackdown Is Starting To Dent His Poll Numbers
As Donald Trump launched his militarized crackdown in Los Angeles, the president and many of his advisers were convinced that deploying troops to the streets of a major American city would be good politics for them. They maintain, three people familiar with the matter say, that immigration was one of …
Read More »Liz Warren Says Crypto Bill Creates a 'Superhighway' for Trump Corruption
The Senate is set to pass the GENIUS Act early next week, a controversial piece of cryptocurrency legislation that critics say will hand an undue amount of financial power to the tech industry. On its face the bill, which has advanced with bipartisan support, purports to offer a regulatory framework …
Read More »Trump's Big Bill Would Let Him Expand His L.A. Immigration Crackdown 'Everywhere'
Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” wouldn’t just force millions of poor people off their health insurance and food assistance to help pay for more tax cuts for the rich. The Trump tax bill would steer tens of billions of dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detention capacity, employee …
Read More »Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Really Screws the Poor
As the Senate debates the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s massive reconciliation package, the latest report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” is, in fact, a massive giveaway to the rich, at the expense of the poor. According to a CBO report released on …
Read More »Hamas Attacks Aid Group, Challenging Israel's Gaza Plan
An ambush allegedly carried out by Hamas on Wednesday killed at least eight Palestinian aid workers, with an unknown number of others taken hostage, according to an aid group. The apparent massacre makes clear that Hamas, even after a year and half of deadly military strikes carried out by Israel …
Read More »California Senator Handcuffed, Manhandled at Kristi Noem Press Conference
Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was dragged out of a Department of Homeland Security press conference, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by members of the FBI after attempting to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem a question on Thursday. “I’m Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the secretary,” the federal …
Read More »Trump 'Doesn't Speak With Precision,' Justice Department Tells Judge
A lawyer for Donald Trump’s Justice Department recently argued in court that sometimes the president just says stuff — and it doesn’t matter if what Trump says is or isn’t accurate, because his comments aren’t necessarily reflective of the government’s position on a given matter. During an April 30 court …
Read More »'No Kings': Millions to Protest Trump's 'Dictator-Style Birthday Parade'
Even before Donald Trump militarized his crackdown on pro-immigrant protesters in Los Angeles, a massive, nationwide demonstration was in the works for Saturday. The “No Kings” protests on June 14 have been imagined as a peaceful uprising to counter President Trump throwing himself a military parade on his birthday (which …
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