Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who recently trolled Donald Trump with a TikTok set to Taylor Swift’s “Actually Romantic,” will fight in court against the president’s deployment of his state’s National Guard to Oregon. “After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying …
Read More »Right-Wingers Melt Down Over Bad Bunny Headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny is at the peak of his powers. The Puerto Rican artist just finished a sold-out, month-long residency at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, and on Sunday DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS became the first album of 2025 to surpass 7 billion streams on Spotify. The NFL …
Read More »Eric Adams Drops Out of New York City Mayoral Race
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whose re-election campaign slogan promised “Always Delivers. Never quits,” announced he was ending his run Sunday with only five weeks left until election day. “Despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign,” Adams said in an eight-minute video posted to X, formerly …
Read More »What Is the 'Med Bed' Conspiracy Theory Trump Promoted?
Donald Trump posted a clip promoting new “med bed” hospitals. These hospitals, an apparently AI version of Trump promised in the video, would be “equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.” The video, which the president shared Saturday night on Truth Social, has since been deleted from his …
Read More »Trump's U.N. Escalator Meltdown and the Politics of Embarrassment
President Donald Trump came within a hair’s width of death on Tuesday, when an escalator at the United Nations headquarters briefly stalled in an act of intentional sabotage, leaving him exposed to the mercy of a theoretical assassin’s bullet. At least that’s how Trump’s supporters and right-wing commentators are imagining …
Read More »Migrant Detainees Shot in Attack at Dallas ICE Facility
Three individuals were shot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that “ICE law enforcement was not injured.” One migrant detainee was killed and two more are in critical condition, according to DHS. In a preliminary …
Read More »Kamala Harris Hails Jimmy Kimmel's Return: 'We Saw the Power of the People'
Kamala Harris praised Disney‘s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air during an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last night. “Talk about the power being with the people and the people making that clear with their checkbooks as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel,” Harris told …
Read More »Kamala Harris Acknowledges Campaign Mistakes, Slams Trump's 'Fragile Ego' on 'The View'
Kamala Harris returned to The View on Tuesday, Sept. 23, for the first time since she stopped by the show during her presidential campaign last year. That was the day she was asked what she would have done differently than Joe Biden, to which she replied, “There’s not a thing …
Read More »Schumer Refuses to Say Why He Hasn't Endorsed Mamdani
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to explain why he has so far refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani, who resoundingly beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor. “I know him. We have had a good relationship in the past. And we had …
Read More »Charlie Kirk Memorial Showcases the Union of Trump, Republicans, and Conservative Christianity
Donald Trump called Charlie Kirk “one of the brightest lights of our times” and the “greatest evangelist for American liberty” during his speech at the conservative activist’s public memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The event had the energy of a tent revival, several speakers observed. Kirk, the …
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