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Texas Democrats Defy Abbott Deadline—as Republicans Threaten Arrest
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to...

MAGA Melts Down After Jasmine Crockett Calls Trump a “Piece of S***”
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to...

Trump Finds a Brilliant New Way to Wreck the Tourism Industry
The day prior, the president had been informed that Sweeney is reportedly a card-carrying Republican. Then and there, he grew fond of her recent ad campaign. “If Sydney Sweeney...

Trump Issues Wild Threat to States That Boycott Israel
“This tragic moment has highlighted for the world the long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination,” reads the letter addressed to Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We...

GOP Representative Rushes to Block Texas’s Growing Redistricting War
“This tragic moment has highlighted for the world the long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination,” reads the letter addressed to Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We...

Trump Weighs In on Sydney Sweeney as if He Has Nothing Better to Do
Jonathan Thompson, executive director and CEO of the National Sheriffs’ Association, told NBC the move was “inappropriate behavior of a partner organization,” adding, “We’re all on the same boat....

Fighting Wildfires Is Hellish Work. It’s Even Worse Under Trump.
The administration’s claims about being well-equipped to fight fires are selective, at best. Of the estimated 4,000 U.S. Forest Service employees believed to have taken the so-called Department of...

When Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four?
On the main stage, Attorney General Pam Bondi has proven a singularly dutiful and hollow-eyed Trump soldier. (For Manson family obsessives, she’s probably closest to Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.) As...

The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic
Uh, no. Here are a few facts and figures, none of which appear in the article. Federal revenue from all sources in recent years has been around $4.7 trillion...

Trump Wants a Police State—But Even Some Cops Want Something Better
I left daily journalism in 1995 to write a book about racial politics, a matter with which I’d long been engaged, but Mancuso and I have kept in touch, and in...