When Donald Trump touted his new Florida immigrant detention facility, which he dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” he promised that it would hold “some of the most vicious people on the planet.” Records obtained by The Miami Herald show the majority of detainees have no criminal convictions. “It’s known as Alligator Alcatraz, …
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A Senate report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump cited “a cascade of preventable failures” by the Secret Service that allowed a would-be assassin to target him. The report, released Sunday by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, accused the Secret Service of denying several requests …
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President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy masked, armed federal agents to round up community members is one of the more horrifying features of his second term. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) brutal crackdown on undocumented migrants across the country has led many activists, members of the public, and Democratic politicians …
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Since the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump has been trying to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants born in the United States, in a direct challenge to the plain language of the Constitution. Now, he’s openly musing about attempting to take away the citizenship …
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The Pentagon deleted and reposted a video boasting about how President Donald Trump’s administration will increase its use of drone warfare. The first version featured the Metallica song “Enter Sandman” in the background. The second has no music. A Metallica representative confirmed to Rolling Stone that the use of “Enter …
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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, which this week praised Adolf Hitler and began using antisemitic dog whistles, said Saturday it would abandon its “Hitler fanfic.” But it lied about creating a nauseating sexual post about Linda Yaccarino, who was CEO of X Corp until Wednesday, when she resigned. The xAI chatbot, …
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The butterfly effect of a disgraced financier and convicted sex offender’s death continues to be felt years later, as the highest levels of Donald Trump’s second administration are embroiled in a bitter feud over Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged “client list.” “This fight is taking up way too much of …
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Andrew Schulz, the controversial comedian and podcaster who proudly voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, has apparently been shocked to learn that Donald Trump is not doing the things he promised to do. As if there weren’t a bounty of evidence out there already that this exactly what …
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This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. Major retirement systems in blue states — where many governors and attorneys general are fighting hard to counter extreme and likely illegal actions by the Trump administration — have invested billions of dollars in some of …
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has vehemently described the New York City subway as a hellscape, has been named to oversee NASA — putting him in charge of rocket ships that are far more dangerous than public transit. After Donald Trumppulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the …
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