Donald Trump’s deportation agenda has drawn its focus around Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the administration illegally shipped to an infamous torture prison in El Salvador — an action they admitted was a mistake, citing an “administrative error.” The Supreme Court has since ruled that the administration must bring …
Read More »'Democrats Lost Them': Here's Why 2020 Biden Voters Sat Out the 2024 Election
If you, like a lot of us, spend your days confronting each fresh horror this administration manufactures and marveling, “How the fuck did Americans let this happen again?” —well, we can help you with the “how” part, at least. Data from the 2024 voter file is finally coming in, and …
Read More »Trump Admin 'Tried Every Trick' to Scuttle Neil Young's U.S. Citizenship, Daryl Hannah Says
Neil Young’s efforts to secure American citizenship were repeatedly hindered by Donald Trump‘s first administration, according to Daryl Hannah. “They tried every trick in the book to mess him up, and made him keep coming back to be re-interviewed and re-interviewed,” said Hannah, who’s been married to Young since 2018, …
Read More »Judge Says There's 'Probable Cause' to Charge Trump Admin With Contempt
A federal judge has ruled that there is “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration in contempt over its removal of hundreds of migrants from the United States to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order to halt their deportation. On Wednesday, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge James …
Read More »Jon Stewart Breaks Down Where Trump Ranks on the Authoritarian Scale
President Donald Trump‘s refusal to return a Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador, desire to deport U.S. citizens, and attack of free speech at universities and media outlets prompted Jon Stewart to compare Trump to his authoritarian counterparts. In a game called “How Authoritarian Is We?,” Stewart dedicated Monday …
Read More »Trump Admin Was Set to Raid DHS Civil Rights Funds for His Anti-Immigrant Propaganda Ads
President Donald Trump’s administration used his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shutter the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which investigated allegations of abuse against migrants in the department’s custody. Recently, the Trump administration moved to raid the DHS civil rights office’s coffers …
Read More »Musk and Trump Are Increasingly Unpopular, New Polling Finds
President Donald Trump and “First Buddy” Elon Musk have made quite an impression on the American public as they continue to take a wrecking ball to Washington — and it’s not the good kind. New polling from the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals that after almost three months with Trump …
Read More »Trump Cozies Up to Putin as Russia Kills Ukrainian Civilians
Donald Trump doubled down on his pro-Russia strategy on Monday, deflecting blame away from Moscow for deadly ballistic missile attacks in Ukraine, while taking no action to ratchet up pressure on the Kremlin to implement the cease-fire the president repeatedly promised on the 2024 campaign trail. Trump has made normalizing …
Read More »Abrego Garcia's Wife Pleads for End to 'Political Games' Before Judge Slams Trump Admin
Lawyers from the Department of Justice clashed with a Maryland district court judge as they once again resisted compliance with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador. Ahead of the hearing, Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel: 'Now I See Myself More as a Place to Scream'
T he president and the richest man on the planet hate Jimmy Kimmel. You would think that would bestow on him a resistance status that at the very least grants a private office in the upper reaches of the Masonic Temple in Hollywood, where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is shot live …
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