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There’s a lot of bleak stuff out there right now, but here’s a bright spot: Kari Lake is out of her job at the Voice of America. But more than that, her destruction of the venerable institution was also reversed . In a little Saturday news drop, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Lake was never eligible to be the acting chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA’s…

A ground invasion of Iran and a possible military draft are controversial issues that remain “on the table” according to an interview with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that aired on Sunday. YouTube Video Leavitt made the remarks while speaking to Fox Business host and election conspiracy theorist Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo asked Leavitt about Trump’s possible plans for “troops on …

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Seven American service members are dead, dozens of Iranian children were murdered by a U.S. missile strike , oil is raining from the skies to poison the air for thousands of people living in Iran following an Israeli missile strike, and oil and gas prices worldwide are surging as the war has led to the blockade of a critical waterway used to transport oil. But hey, at least we have a new Iranian …

In the middle of a war where Anthropic’s “Claude” AI is playing a central role in attacking Iran while also simultaneously being branded a supply chain risk that the Trump administration will remove within six months, Defense Secretary Whiskey Pete Hegseth has decided that it would be a great idea to have a 26-year-old DOGE bro run AI for the Pentagon. Meet Gavin Kliger. Or, rather, let us reintr…

So it turns out that even packing the National Capital Planning Commission with cronies wasn’t enough to get President Donald Trump’s big, dumb ballroom approved. The NCPC was planning to vote on the monstrosity on Thursday, and it seemed like a foregone conclusion that it would sail through just as it did for the Commission of Fine Arts—which Trump also stuffed with sycophants. The East Wing is …

Conflict in the Middle East could have major repercussions for U.S. electricity and natural gas prices. Some states, like Pennsylvania, are particularly vulnerable. By Kiley Bense for Inside Climate News Russia’s invasion of Ukraine set off a global energy crisis in 2022, sending prices for oil and gas skyrocketing in Europe and the U.S. for months on end. Many Americans struggled to keep up with…

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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. You almost couldn’t design a more unpopular war. Not only do very few Americans support President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran last weekend, but our chief ally in the ongoing conflict, Israel, also faces its lowest f…

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ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. By Corey G. Johnson , Brandon Roberts and Al Shaw for ProPublica Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to bu…

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. Republican lawmakers spent the past week trying to defend their refusal to give congressional approval for President Donald Trump's poorly planned and ill-conceived war in Iran , insisting that it’s merely a "conflict…