Authoritarian movements don’t spring up out of nowhere. They require a certain set of conditions on the ground, like a growing class of people who feel frustrated, disempowered, and out of place. They require major investment, above all in the disinformation and distraction that keeps supporters in line with a …
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After New York City MayorEric Adamswas indicted on federal criminal charges in September, the man soon embraced Donald Trump in an overt attempt to get the president to overturn his case. As Manhattan federal prosecutors readied to bring the bombshell indictment charging the mayor with destroying evidence and instructing people …
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Every regime’s enforcement mechanisms rely on threats and politicized intimidation. In the case of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s ongoing power grab, it’s involved young staffers with Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) barging into different federal agencies, departments, and institutes, demanding that security officials and other senior staff …
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first foray into international security policy hasn’t been going very well — and that’s outside of him reportedly inviting a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist overseas with him. According to a Thursday report from The Washington Post, in preparation for his first trip abroad as the Trump administration’s …
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams during an interview with Fox News on Friday denied striking a deal with the Trump administration to have criminal corruption charges against him dropped in exchange for an immigration crackdown in the city. The claim is a little hard to believe considering Adams was …
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Picture this. You risk everything for your country. Leave friends and family behind. Go overseas. Watch your friends die or have their lives changed forever. You come home. Adjusting isn’t easy. The nightmares keep you up. That old military injury never really heals. You work full-time, go to school, scrape …
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As New York City Mayor Eric Adams cozies up to Donald Trump and his immigration henchman Tom Homan, Comptroller Brad Lander is working to stop the president and his minions from ransacking the city’s FEMA coffers — even if it means jumping over Adams’ head to get it done. In …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ran a failed 2024 presidential campaign built on crank beliefs about medical science before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, was confirmed today by Senate Republicans as the president’s secretary of Health and Human Services. The position will allow him to inflict untold damage on …
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Donald Trump’s new executive order, titled “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative,” outlines exactly how Trump and Elon Musk plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and strip transitioning military veterans and their families overseas of the generous federal hiring incentives they …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the past three weeks systematically dismantling the federal government. They’ve done so under the guise of cutting waste and rooting out fraud, but the exercise has played out more like a mind-blowingly reckless publicity stunt rather than anything concerned with actually making the …
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