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Sleepy Don's dilemma: Napping in court could help Trump win the case, but it hurts him with his base

Toddlers are superior to Donald Trump in all ways, but they share one trait with the old man: A tendency to veer wildly between throwing tantrums or...

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Donald Trump was already a mess — now he's falling asleep during his own trial

"Study in contrasts" is an entirely inadequate phrase to describe the different experiences of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump over the weekend....

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Trump's right to fear Stormy Daniels — she could be a devastating witness

As a lifelong lover of the English language, I'm being slowly driven mad by one word that haunts the news coverage these days: "affair." It's the...

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Latest "masculinity influencer": Another dudebro guiding followers into deeper loneliness

Andrew Tate may be facing a mounting number of international charges for alleged sex crimes, but this doesn't mean we've seen the end of "masculinity...

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Kari Lake and her fellow Republicans can't run from Arizona's draconian abortion ban

As far as symbols of what the GOP intends for American women, the revival of an abortion ban that predates women's suffrage could not be more fitting....

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Trump busts the myth behind the MAGA rich

"Is Corporate America in Denial About Trump?" read a headline in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend. In it, staff writer Jonathan Mahler...

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Evangelicals won't be bothered by Trump's abortion gambit — they know he's lying

On Monday, with great fanfare, Donald Trump released his "plan" on abortion in a video posted to Truth Social. As with most things Trump says, the...

09.04.2024 40

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Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA

Men are punching random women on the streets of New York City. As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown,...

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"Screws up female brains": MAGA leaders are conditioning Republicans to back birth control bans

Charlie Kirk, the head of the MAGA propaganda behemoth Turning Point USA, recently unveiled a novel theory as to why young women tend to vote for...

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Evicted, arrested and being sued by the boss: When will MAGA learn loyalty to Trump ends in sorrow?

When I saw the news that the stock price of Truth Social went into freefall after the company initally went public for $8 billion, I immediately sent...

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Donald Trump acts terrified to face a jury. He should be scared

Donald Trump, as usual, is unhappy. Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump's first criminal trial in Manhattan, just expanded an already...

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Fake right-wing panic about "trans" Easter is part of Trump's push for Christian nationalism

Most Americans spent Easter weekend with traditional activities like church or egg hunts, or, for non-Christians, just enjoying the lovely spring...

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"Stand where he tells you to stand": Why the GOP is doubling down on misogyny in 2024

"Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do." This is the wedding night advice offered to...

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Lara Trump's Big Lie hiring: Republicans stick with loser strategy that failed them in 2020 and 2022

As with many news items in the Donald Trump era, we must file this under "shocking, not surprising": People who are being interviewed by the newly...

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Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up

Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles. Claiming the book contains...

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Of course the lawyer trying to ban abortion pills is married to Josh "Run For Your Life" Hawley

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the group that argued against the abortion pill before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, does not hide that its goal...

27.03.2024 60

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Trump loves to play the victim — NY appeals court bailout shows he's the most coddled person alive

As anyone who listens to him can attest, Donald Trump may be the most self-pitying person on planet Earth. Pretty much all the man does is whine and...

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Newly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli Babbitt

Nine people died as a result of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that Republicans pretend was a "normal tourist visit." Four rioters and five police...

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Trump's criminal cases are his campaign

"Hands off Trump Tower!" So reads a recent fundraising email from Donald Trump's joint fundraising campaign. Most of the email is an extended whine...

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Supreme Court grants Gov. Greg Abbott's wish to turn Texas into a far-right dictatorship

In his 2022 majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Justice Samuel Alito took great pains to argue that allowing states to ban abortion...

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White evangelicals embrace raunchy photos — yet they hate sex as much as ever

For those readers who have the self-esteem not to engage in the world of Christian right social media, let's just get this out of the way: It's heavy...

20.03.2024 40

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Trump's call for a "bloodbath" was literal — let's not waste time pretending it was ambiguous

When Donald Trump declared "If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath" during his rally speech in Ohio Saturday, two things were...

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Adult MAGA rage is making schools more dangerous for students

Last week saw national headlines regarding two tragic stories that illustrate how MAGA radicalization of adults endangers kids in school. First, a...

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RFK Jr. and Aaron Rodgers: How con artists exploit male insecurity for political gain

It's certainly a match made in hell: Anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that he's considering New York Jets...

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Trump's MAGA movement is causing Republicans in Congress to hate each other

It's wild what a few short months of actually getting to know a person can do to your opinion of them. That's what House Republicans seem to have...

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Trump's RNC purge: His obsession with "loyalty" is as dumb as it is evil

Donald Trump's infatuation with Adolf Hitler is both well documented and profoundly disturbing. What's often overlooked is how painfully stupid it is....

13.03.2024 10

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Republican women don't care about rape victims

It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump, who sexually abused her in the 90s and...

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Biden said Republicans oppose women's rights — Katie Britt's "tradwife" response proved him right

Politicians love to talk about their families, but in her Thursday night response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, Sen. Katie...

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"Tradwives" offer an alluring vision of right-wing Christianity — online warriors are fighting back

As social media stunts go, it's hard to top this one: Give birth to your eighth child at age 33. Then, just two weeks later, compete in a beauty...

08.03.2024 8

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Nikki Haley never had a chance — as Republicans' bonkers candidate for North Carolina governor shows

Wednesday morning, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley did everyone a solid by being brief in her remarks as she dropped out of the Republican...

07.03.2024 40

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Trump is degenerating before our eyes — MAGA voters don't notice or don't care

Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it's getting harder by the day to...

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"They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters": How Republicans bamboozle rural whites

It's become a tedious trope, the Beltway journalist who goes on a red state safari to ask Donald Trump voters if they still like Trump. It frustrates...

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Alabama's targeting of IVF is the Christian right's attempt to control motherhood

Former Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., gets a lot of glowing coverage simply because she occasionally criticizes Donald Trump in her fruitless presidential...

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James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren't fooled by Russian lies — they're complicit

Last week, the "whistleblower" that House Republicans were counting on to justify a long-planned impeachment of Joe Biden was arrested for lying to...

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Donald Trump may not believe in God, but he still plans to turn America into a Christian theocracy

If there were only some way to prove it, I would happily bet everything I own that Donald Trump does not believe in God. Not because he's carefully...

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"A man will say he's a feminist but he doesn't wipe the counters": Lyz Lenz on the beauty of divorce

The public discourse right now is being hijacked by one of those periodic temper tantrums over the existence of unmarried women. Mainstream media...

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New GOP conspiracy theory: Babies are getting abortions!

There are many questions that immediately crop to mind upon hearing state Sen. Bill Eigel, R-Mo., claim that a "1-year-old could get an abortion...

15.02.2024 40

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New documents underscore why the Supreme Court must let Jack Smith's Trump case move forward

Despite taking their own sweet time to render what should have been a five-minute decision ruling that Donald Trump is not immune from criminal...

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Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right

Of the many weird, cringeworthy, or confusing ads to run in the Super Bowl on Sunday, one stood out as especially eyeroll-inducing: a footwashing ad...

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MAGA media pushed "great replacement" theory to turn Republicans against their own immigration bill

By any reality-based measure, the collapse of Republican support for the recent immigration bill is bizarre. For years, Republicans have been...

09.02.2024 6

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Of course Trump's Supreme Court lawyer is the same guy behind Texas' sadistic abortion ban

The big news that kicked off this week was that the Supreme Court set Thursday to hear oral arguments over whether or not Donald Trump should be...

08.02.2024 6

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Booting Trump from the ballot is the best way to prevent a second January 6

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Thursday over whether or not Donald Trump should be removed from the ballot, as both the plain...

07.02.2024 30

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Trump's Mar-a-Lago co-defendant has a #MeToo problem

Even astute news consumers could be forgiven for missing the recent story about sexual abuse allegations against Walt Nauta, the "body man" for Donald...

06.02.2024 8

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Taylor Swift, Stanley cups and a brewing backlash to MAGA's sexist snobbery

Thursday brought people who are worried about the survival of democracy welcome polling news from Quinnipiac University: For the first time in...

02.02.2024 30

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Right-wing violence hasn't disappeared, it's just gone local

If it wasn't for the head of his murdered father's body, a video posted on YouTube by Justin Mohn Tuesday night would be indistinguishable from much...

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Why MAGA fears Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl

Well, that spiraled rapidly. On Sunday night, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens, in a win that cinched a Super Bowl spot for the...

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It's not that MAGA doesn't believe E. Jean Carroll — they just don't care that Trump abuses women

Not that she'll ever bring herself to use words like "rapist" or "sexual predator," but former Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., is ready to admit out loud...

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Greg Gutfeld's sexual obsession with AOC accidentally reveals the insecurities of the MAGA man

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is constantly being harassed by MAGA men, and so it's no surprise she understands what fuels them: insecurity....

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Don't let Trump's primary dominance deceive you — behind the curtain, the GOP is tearing itself apart

Keeping with his habit of being the worst person alive, Donald Trump reacted to his victory in New Hampshire's Republican primary Tuesday by being a...

25.01.2024 8

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The time for denial is over: Republicans are really nominating Donald Trump

Tuesday night's primary results from New Hampshire are going to be a shock to a lot of people's systems. For weeks, the Beltway press heavily hyped...

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