The total eclipse crossing the United States on Monday is more than a celestial marvel. According to MAGA-minded “prophets” with dubious gifts of divination, the eclipse is a signal of God’s design for America, and another marker that former President Donald Trump is heaven’s “anointed” candidate. Julie Green is a …
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This article is being published in partnership with the watchdog group Documented. An organized and well-funded network of right-wing groups is spending countless millions attacking a bipartisan election reform that could threaten the MAGA political project. Ranked-choice voting — which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather …
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Maybe you’ve heard that conservatives are building a parallel economy. Rather than wait to stage another boycott when the next major beer or sneaker brand inevitably goes “woke,” you establish businesses that, from the outset, explicitly tout traditional values. Don’t like Bud Light anymore? Sounds like you need super-patriotic Ultra …
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Following Nikki Haley‘s vow to fight on with her campaign after hersecond consecutive defeat to Donald Trump in the GOP primary race, the former president threatened anyone donating to his Republican rival. A day after Trump’s win in New Hampshire, he took to social media to paint Haley as “very …
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Big Pharma has invested big money in the organizations planning what a MAGA policy agenda will look like in a new Trump administration. Not surprisingly, that policy playbook contains a major gift for the drug industry: a swift end to the Biden administration’s landmark program to allow Medicare to negotiate …
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This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Fargo, now available on FX and streaming tomorrow on Hulu. At the end of Fargo the movie, justice is mostly done. The kidnapping orchestrated by Jerry Lundegaard, and carried out by Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud, results in a lot of …
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A day after he walked out on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee hearing, Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to tax evasion in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles Thursday. He received a trial date of June 20. It was the first …
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Four years after sex offender Jeffrey Epstein‘s suicide in jail, far-right conspiracy theorists remain enamored with the notion that he is key to proving that prominent Democrats comprise a secret pedophile cabal. And, with court documents related to a civil case against his human trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell starting to …
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When last we saw FX‘s Fargo nearly three years ago, its creator, Noah Hawley, had taken the franchise away from its home turf, both physically and demographically. The fourth season roamed hundreds of miles south from the show’s usual Minnesotan stomping grounds for a story set on the mean streets …
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T ommy Tuberville’s Republican colleagues had finally had it with him. For months, the Alabama senator and former college football coach has blocked the confirmation of hundreds of senior military officers because he’s mad about a Pentagon policy that ensures soldiers have abortion access. The group of anti-abortion Republicans had …
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