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Trump tries to stick up The New York Times with a water gun

There are no MAGA heroes

It's about repression, not free speech

Kash Patel's FBI is a total mess

How MAGA is abusing Charlie Kirk’s death

Trump's lawyers won't stop lying in court

Reflections on Charlie Kirk's assassination

Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism

Trump dreams of making Chicago a colony

It's time for Democrats to show some spine

Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women

Yes, there actually is good news

Will Bunch on Trump's DC takeover as a prelude to dictatorship

Judge steps up to block ICE's kidnapping of Guatemalan kids

Potemkin village populism

RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode

Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers

Making Slavery Great Again

Alert the media: The White House is lying about Trump's health

Trump's flag burning executive order flames out

Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward

Trump's red state army threatens America's cities

Then they came for John Bolton

Trump’s targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence

Trump 2.0: The masks are off

Paul Krugman on Trump's economic house of cards

Russia, Trump is listening

Dan Bongino's babysitter

Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime

Gavin Newsom's moment

Trump’s summer of hate

David Roberts on Lee Zeldin and Trump's climate absurdity

"Competitive authoritarianism" and America's slide toward it

Trump's brownshirts deploy in DC

Trump isn't the solution to the "crisis of manhood," he's the problem

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.

The sordid origin of 'America First,' explained by a historian

Why Trump is trying to rig the midterms

Trump's Confederacy rises again

The GOP's gerrymandering frenzy is a sign of weakness

The cult leader's hold weakens

A stock trading ban for Congress is a no-brainer. And yet.

The looming Trumpcession

"A gift for China": Daniel Drezner on the fall of US soft power

Republicans are rigging the maps

Why Epstein has Trump crashing out

The kangaroo-fication of the courts

The conspiracy to free the world's most notorious sex trafficker

Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump

On Epstein, Democrats have Mike Johnson running scared

"There’s an appetite for change, and it’s not the kind of change Trump is building"

Why Trump can’t shake Epstein

SCOTUS's immunity ruling looks even worse now

DOJ slides into DMs of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Medicaid 'gamers' are the new 'welfare queens'

How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension DC)

CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward

Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein

The emerging coup

Goodbye, separation of church and state

Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ

Trump betrays his conspiracy-addled base

Disasters are for the greater glory of Trump

Checking in on Project 2025 with Don Moynihan

Wisconsin politics with Dan Shafer

An embarrassing exercise in economic and diplomatic futility

The worst chief justice of all time

Grassley launders new MAGA smear campaign against the FBI

The Republican budget is a climate horror

Trump gutted the weather service. Then Texas flooded.

A golden age for scammers

Fred Wellman on the MAGA-fication of the military

Republicans are quietly winning the political fight on guns

Abrego Garcia is a fake gangster. Trump and Bukele are not.

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows

Thom Tillis’s retirement is an ominous sign for the GOP

The MAGA mind virus

Bad news from SCOTUS, good news from NYC

Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets

States can step into the breach

SCOTUS clears the path for Trump's network of global gulags

The Roberts Court exists to give legal cover to bigots

Trump’s reckless Iran strikes could backfire spectacularly

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Can Dems win Iowa? with Laura Belin

Los Angeles unrest signals difficult choices ahead for cops

Republicans want unregulated AI. What could go wrong?

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

What happened to "states' rights"?

MAGA political violence claims more victims

The Trump/Musk fight is why we say "No Kings"

Trump's war on immigrants has boomeranged

We've reached the indicting the opposition stage of fascism

Republicans are trying to sell a bizarre fantasy on the economy

Trump's ludicrously sloppy legal rationale for occupying LA

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller

A felon in the White House is making crime legal

Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age"

Trump & Musk: Rapid unscheduled disassembly

The Trump admin's quiet (but deadly) attack on repro rights

Trump's war on cities

Will courts let TACO steal tariff power from Congress?

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state

Tesla Takedown takes down Musk

How the “pink tariff” hurts women

'Big Beautiful Bill' = big ugly nightmare

The Trump admin's mockery of the courts goes beyond defiance

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy

Trump's attack on Harvard hampered by his inability to STFU

Trump is withdrawing whiteness from white immigrants

Law for lawlessness

A cabinet of dunces

SCOTUS pumps the brakes on Trump's lawless deportations

DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman

Donald Trump and the power of the big (fake) number

Voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate

Matt Gertz on Trump’s safe space: Fox News

The bribe in the sky

The white rural reckoning

Martin's Out. Pirro's In. Incompetence Reigns.

Miller threatens to suspend habeas unless Trump can defy judges

The new pope is latest sign that the world rejects Trumpism

Nir & Rupar: Talking with Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard

Trump is making his first term grifting seem quaint

Trump demands wartime sacrifices. Good luck with that.

Maine fought the law, and Maine won

The Hope Florida scandal, explained

Mike Waltz and government by sycophantic clowns

Nir & Rupar: G. Elliott Morris on Trump’s drooping polls

Trump's brain is gone

Chronicling 100 Days Of Trump Chaos With Aaron Rupar & Ahmed Baba

Rick Wilson on Marco Rubio's great debasement

Trump demands states obey law he just announced via tweet

Trump's polling has already collapsed

Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation

Nir & Rupar: The art of the clip

Trump is killing the tourism industry

Lisa Murkowski reveals the ugly nature of Trump's rule

Laws are for the little people

Interview with Aaron Rupar, The Public Notice

Pete Hegseth: The made for TV sec def

How the Right-wing Dominates Media and Sanewashes the Trump Administration

Resistance is not futile

RFK Jr. is wrong about autism

Nir & Rupar: Justin Kanew of the Tennessee Holler and the fight for due process

The Declaration of Independence's warning for Trump

White guy DEI

SCOTUS puts constitutional crisis in America's Easter basket

RFK Jr. and the great discrediting of HHS

The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying

Nir & Rupar: Dems shouldn’t hand it to Trump on tariffs

Tom Suozzi on fighting MAGA in a district Trump won

Yes, they voted for this

John Roberts will save the judiciary if he has to burn it down

Trump tries to restore a grim era for American workers

How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick

Trump's tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult

Nir & Rupar: Judd Legum explains Elon Musk

"Elbows up," explained by a Canadian

Trump’s third term threats are not a distraction

Elon Musk is the autopen

There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump

John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him.

Nir & Rupar: Signalgate and special elections

All the laws flouted during SignalGate

Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian

Bondi demands Crockett apologize for aggravated mean to Elon

Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal

Trump's hostile takeover of big law

How #TeslaTakedown is bringing the fight to Musk

Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk are not your friends

Trump moves to destroy Columbia University

Trump defies judge to dump Venezuelans in Salvadoran slave jail

Playing a bad hand badly

Trump claims to be the arbiter of Jewish identity

Kevin Kruse on why Trump 2.0 is worse than he expected

Nir & Rupar: The Schumer cave

They're coming for the right to protest

Trump has united the free world against a grave threat

Turns out DOGE can't beat FOIA by shouting NOT AN AGENCY

Why Trumpers are turning on Amy Coney Barrett

MAGA's Big Lie budget

How DOGE is running back Musk's Twitter takeover

Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift

Ed Martin wages war on the rule of law from within

AG Bondi blames deep state for nothingburger Epstein files

How Trump's lawlessness is emboldening bad cops

Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants

Oliver Darcy on a cowed mainstream press

MAGA's Orwellian notion of "free speech"

Democrats should make Elon Musk the face of the GOP budget

EPA head Lee Zeldin wants to steal $20B of green

How Trump's lawyers are trying to make him a king

Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud

AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong

Watch David Nir and Aaron Rupar's live chat and Q&A

Elite lawyers sell out the rule of law

Unelected billionaire breaks laws to "restore" democracy

How Marco Rubio helped bury American soft power

Trump has already weaponized the Department of Education

The AP provides a model of effective press resistance

Linda McMahon is much worse than you think

Trump burns down financial watchdog agency to spite Liz Warren

Trump is assaulting his own legitimacy

Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship

The "cognitively irresponsible" presidency

Trump goes full colonialist

Trump declares flawless victory in pointless trade war

President-unelect Musk pushes US democracy to the brink

Trump's mobster media shakedowns

DCA crash puts Trump's appalling unfitness on full display

Trump "defends women" by terrorizing them

Trump's chaos governance failed once. He's trying it again.

The MAGA terror has begun

Trump's birthright citizenship EO is an attack on the rule of law

"A pact with the devil"

The shitcoin presidency

How TikTok is burnishing Trump's strongman image

The "find out" phase begins

Trump's honeymoon won't last

Jonathan Taplin on our new Trumpian oligarchy

Joe Biden's tragic presidency

Jack Smith reminds us of the futility of truth in the Trump era

Putin needs Trump's help more than ever

Trump's thuggish response to the California fires is a bad omen

North Carolina Republicans restart the steal

Watch David Nir and Aaron Rupar's live chat and Q&A

Taking Trump's imperialist trolling seriously (for a moment)

Merchan subtweets John Roberts ahead of Trump's sentencing

How Democrats should talk about Trump's corruption

No, Trump wasn't "confused" about the New Orleans attack

Jimmy Carter's anti-corruption legacy is being desecrated

Texas sues to impose bigotry on the rest of the country