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President Donald Trump dedicated a moment of his 90-minute rambling speech at Tuesday’s Republican summit to insisting that he should be thanked for the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela Saturday. “You know, at some point they should say, ‘You know, you did a great job. Thank you, congratulations,’” he said . YouTube Video Trump praised the early hours operation, saying it was “amazing” a…

Senate Democrats condemned President Donald Trump’s nakedly imperialistic invasion of Venezuela during a press conference Tuesday, in which Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois compared Trump’s actions to former President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq. “Maybe Trump dodged a draft so many times that he isn't capable of understanding the lessons that the rest of us have learned from past conflicts that …

President Donald Trump forced Republicans Tuesday to sit through a daylong policy event at the Kennedy Center, in which he gave a 90-minute rambling of his half-baked greatest campaign hits . Whether bragging about how awesome he is at passing dementia tests or attacking transgender children, Trump’s torturous speech seemed driven by his desperate desire for an unlikely GOP win in the midterm ele…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being investigated by multiple governments around the world for its production of nonconsensual sexualized images , including photos of children. But despite the global uproar, senior Republicans have not commented on the issue—despite Musk’s role as a major donor to the GOP. On Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology…

The Trump administration is no longer even bothering to pretend that it isn’t targeting only blue states with funding cuts. Instead, the president and his goons are going for open warfare. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will be cutting off over $10 billion in funds to five states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. Those states will lose $7 bil…

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Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, who also serves as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, argued on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s talk of annexing the autonomous territory of Denmark isn’t imperialistic, actually. “This has Europe, a lot of people in Europe, talking about it almost being like [Russian President] Vladimir Putin in Ukraine,” conservative CNBC host Joe Kernen pointed…

Let’s say you committed some light treason by storming the U.S. Capitol five years ago. Would you be grateful for your presidential pardon and simply be on your way? Of course not. After all, you’d be as deep in the conspiracy theories and violent fantasies as President Donald Trump himself, so nothing will ever be enough. Why are those who prosecuted us not being prosecuted now? they ask. Why ar…

California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa has died at the age of 65, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday, praising LaMalfa as a “fierce … fighter for his state’s vast natural resources and beauty.” LaMalfa’s sudden and unexpected death is not only a tragedy for the GOP, but is about to become a major headache for Johnson and Republican leaders, as it brings the GOP's House majority down…

On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans are trying to pretend the insurrection and its aftereffects never happened—all while Democrats are revealing that rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump continue to commit crimes. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that a congressionally authorized plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who respon…

President Donald Trump's ill-conceived regime-change operation in Venezuela and threats to broaden his imperialist conquests is not popular anywhere, with both Americans and world leaders alike telling the wannabe strongman to stop threatening to take over sovereign nations. A Reuters/Ipsos survey released Monday night found just 33% of Americans support Trump's military operation in Venezuela. T…