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Transcript: Trump’s Angry Tirades at UN Rattle Experts: “Really Crazy”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 24 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Editor’s note: Trump’s speech prompted alarm from many other...
Free Speech Is the Antidote to Political Violence
For two decades and more, anarchists and members of the Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW, had engaged in a wild set of bombings and assassinations, from Haymarket...
Shaping Our Future: Climate Policy and Economic Impact
Climate risk, Nurse emphasized, is a matter of “life and death” in her district, creating a “constant economic toll to our businesses” and “to our public housing residents, who...
Trump Pulls 180 on Ukraine That Putin is Sure to Hate
But the unprecedented reception did not inspire the Kremlin to budge on its peace terms. The superpower has instead insisted on receiving “international legal recognition” of its 2014 annexation...
FCC Chair Revels as MAGA TV Conglomerate Refuses to Air Jimmy Kimmel
With Jimmy Kimmel Live! returning to the air Tuesday evening, the Federal Communications Commission chair who jawboned ABC and companies that own its stations into censoring Jimmy Kimmel can’t...
Turns Out Trump’s Own Team Messed Up U.N. Escalator and Teleprompter
President Trump repeatedly blamed the United Nations for his teleprompter issues and a malfunctioning escalator in a spiteful Tuesday speech to the General Assembly. But it seems that both...
Man Stabs Himself After Being Found Guilty of Trying to Kill Trump
“I’ll have it done in 24 hours. I say that, and I would do that. That’s easy compared to some of the things,” he said in June 2023. A...
ICE Agents Held 5-Year-Old Autistic Girl as Bait to Arrest Her Dad
A Guatemalan family says immigration enforcement agents held their autistic 5-year-old daughter outside their home in Leominster, Massachusetts, last week in order to induce her father to surrender to...
Trump Responds to Statue of Him and Jeffrey Epstein Holding Hands
“I’ll have it done in 24 hours. I say that, and I would do that. That’s easy compared to some of the things,” he said in June 2023. A...
MAGA Rages Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return—and Reveals a Big Trump Weakness
The truth about this sleazy little game is that MAGA wants the best of both worlds. They wanted Trump and Carr to wield authoritarian pressure to bully networks into...
