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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison drew the predictably offensive ire of Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin during a Senate Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday. The MAGA stooge of a senator went red in the face as he tried to paint Ellison and his fellow Minnesota officials as responsible for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of President Donald Trump’s Immigra…

It’s been impossible to ignore the Nazification of official government social media accounts run by the Trump administration. It’s a sea of AI slop openly promoting white nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment. However, we don’t often get to put a name or face to the people who push this racist garbage, because our government is now a black box. Somehow, though, The New York Times learned that …

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change , the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations. The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that dete…

White House "border czar" Tom Homan on Thursday said the Trump administration is ending its lawless , violent , and deadly immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, saying that federal agents have already been exiting Minnesota and will continue to leave through next week. "I have proposed, and President [Donald] Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude," Homan said at a ne…

Now-former CBS News producer Alicia Hastey revealed in a memo announcing her departure from the network that under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, stories are being vetted for their ideological content, rather than for their newsworthiness. The memo further confirms the network’s shift to the right under parent company Paramount’s pro-Trump leadership. In Hastey’s memo , released Wednesday night, she…

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President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to just 40% in The New York Times’ polling average —an abysmally low number that marks the lowest level of his second term. Trump’s approval rating is so bad that right-wing pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports said that if Trump and former President Joe Biden were to face off in a rematch today, Biden would win. After all, multiple polls…

If you’ve been wondering what the right-wing push for so-called “intellectual freedom” looks like, it apparently looks like … assaulting a journalist? That’s what happened in Ohio earlier this week, when Luke Perez , a professor at the Ohio State University, physically attacked a journalist for asking a question he didn’t like. But Perez isn’t just any random professor. He’s part of the universit…

The arrests of two Black journalists for doing their jobs mark a new chapter of an age-old struggle for democracy, inclusion and unflinching truth that traces back to the pioneering journalism of Ida B. Wells. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main Not to be immodest, but I’ve always felt a certain connection with the trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells. We were born 100 years apart — 1862 and …

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Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday gave one of the most dreadful congressional hearing performances any Cabinet-level official has ever given, ranting like a lunatic and hurling personal insults at Democratic lawmakers rather than answering fair questions about the horrific conduct the Department of Justice has exhibited both under her watch and at her direction. If they tuned in, normal Ame…