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Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is pretty hyped that she just got confirmation from the Department of Homeland Security that the agency “will not move forward with the proposed ICE facility” in Lebanon, Tennessee. Weird. You’d think that Blackburn would be all in on having an Immigration and Customs Enforcement mass detention facility in her beloved state, given how much she praised ICE agents a…

Health influencer Casey Means , President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, brought her inactive medical license to a Senate hearing Wednesday, where she promoted the feel-good propaganda about proactive health over reactive medicine—while dodging questions about science, medicine, and her habit of boosting treatments that coincidentally align with her brand and bank account. Democratic…

His Español may be “no bueno,” but his universal child care plan is, as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani put it , “muy bueno.” In partnership with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mamdani rolled out an expansion of the city’s free child care program last month. And with the deadline coming up on Friday, Mamdani promoted the program with the help of progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota brushed off CNN’s attempt to wring contrition out of her after shouting back at President Donald Trump during his ponderous State of the Union address Tuesday night. When Trump launched into a hateful attack on Somali communities—using it as justification for his heinous immigration operations in Minnesota—Omar fired back , “You have killed Americans.” “Sho…

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President Donald Trump, like all bullies, is also a coward, so it isn’t surprising that during a State of the Union address where he boasted and raged for hours, one word was notably missing : Minneapolis. You’d think that since Operation Metro Surge—the federal immigration operation that left two Americans dead in the city—was such a big deal, such a heroic endeavor, that it would have played a …

Republicans are in deep crap heading into this November’s midterm elections. 2025’s off-year elections were a warning sign for Republicans in the first year of President Donald Trump’s term, while special elections in the last month have turned into a flashing red alarm for the GOP. As such, you wouldn’t blame them for hoping that Trump would use Tuesday’s State of the Union address to refocus th…

On Wednesday morning, the brain trust at “Fox & Friends” was ready to drool all over President Donald Trump’s interminable State of the Union address . Naturally, they brought on Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Dow Jones' unofficial hype-woman . Bondi appeared about as prepared for the task as she was at responding to Congress’ questions about the Epstein files. Bondi droned through MAGA’s talkin…

Mainstream media outlets reacted to President Donald Trump’s meandering, bigoted State of the Union speech on Tuesday night with another round of stories seeking to normalize his abnormal behavior. The practice, called “sanewashing,” has been a feature of mainstream coverage of Trump since he became a political figure in 2015. The New York Times, for instance, referred to Trump’s behavior as mere…

Republicans are always quick to praise President Donald Trump, who, in their eyes, is the most perfect man on earth and can do no wrong. And yet, even for these sycophants, their responses to Trump's dark and lie-filled State of the Union address were utterly unhinged. Congressional Republicans declared that Trump's nearly two-hour speech—in which he bragged about how everything is great again an…

Locals filled a Bastrop County commissioners meeting earlier this week to push back against a proposal to memorialize bigoted far-right pundit Charlie Kirk . After County Commissioner David Glass proposed a “Charlie Kirk Corridor” in the up-and-coming tech hub neighboring Austin, over a hundred people aired their grievances until the motion was inevitably tabled. "I'm going to take a breath and h…