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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wants you to know that the GOP’s SAVE America Act promises to do far more than disenfranchise millions of eligible voters—it will also end the imaginary crisis of “men in women's sports.” “It is five of the most commonsense proposals that any party has ever put forward, and the American people overwhelmingly support this bill,” the propaganda princess …

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, which was touted as a way to grow the American workforce, has actually led to increased demand for immigrant farm labor. The development underscores the ongoing failure of the Republican Party’s approach to immigration, on both humanitarian and economic levels. As farmers have begun to see their labor force shrink thanks to raids targeting undocum…

President Donald Trump thought that his regime-change " excursion " in Iran would be quick . Do a little bombing, take out the supreme leader, and have the remaining leaders in Iran come crawling back to him to negotiate a more favorable power structure. But more than two weeks later, it's clear that Trump badly miscalculated . Iran fought back. It bombed both the United States’ and its allies' m…

A headhunter firm is putting out the word that if you are a fancy Wall Street investment banker, the Pentagon is open for business. Literally. Yes, the Pentagon wants you , Richie Rich, to come to work for Uncle Sam. Sure, it’s probably a pay cut, but what if a small temporary pay cut bought you incredible future political access? Because that’s what is on offer here. If one of these aspiring mas…

Unlike in Fulton County, Georgia, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of Maricopa County’s vote. By Jen Fifield for ProPublica Update, March 13: An FBI agent took more than three dozen hard drives and servers containing data from a partisan audit of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County from the Arizona Senate building on the morni…

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Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. Do you think your fellow citizens are principled people? If you live in the United States, you probably don’t. Most Americans (53%) rate their fellow citizens’ morality and ethics as somewhat or very bad, according to …

From using electric vehicles on set to showing less plastic on screen, the entertainment industry is rethinking how movies get made as the government pulls back on climate action. By Jessica Kutz for The 19th It started with crayons. When Sheila Morovati took her children out to restaurants she’d inevitably feel guilty that their new crayons, which often accompanied the kids menu, would be thrown…

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. When the price of gas skyrocketed in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, Republicans fell over themselves to blame then-President Joe Biden in hope of hurting his reelection bid as well as Democrats in the midterms—eve…

Andry Hernández Romero had dreams of coming to the U.S. and becoming a famous makeup artist or fashion designer. He wasn’t a political activist or a voice for LGBTQ+ rights before he left his small town in the state of Táchira, Venezuela, to come to the U.S. in September 2024. But today, exactly one year since the Trump administration illegally sent him and 251 other men accused of being violent …