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David Pecker Deflates as Trump Hush-Money Trial Testimony Grinds Ahead

As Donald Trump’s hush-money trial resumed on Tuesday, David Pecker arrived without the improbable smile he had when he first took the witness stand...

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Trump’s Bodega Visit Should Scare the Heck Out of Democrats

A cheery young Hispanic working single mom who should terrify the Democrats had just picked up her 1-year-old son from his babysitter on Tuesday...

18.04.2024 8

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Trump Is Still Paying Hush Money—to His Loyal Bean-Counter

A jury will decide whether Donald Trump is guilty of faking business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star. But the fact is that...

16.04.2024 10

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Iowa Governor Defies Feds to Scare Migrants and Endanger Kids

The latest instance of “Iowa Nice” as practiced by Gov. Kim Reynolds includes empowering the police in her state to arrest undocumented...

13.04.2024 20

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Godawful Pastor Cancels ‘Demonic’ Autism Awareness Week

The day before Easter, Pastor Matt Baker of the Trinity Christian Academy in Lake Worth, Florida, emailed the school community to inform them that he...

09.04.2024 20

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Already Managed to Screw Up the Eclipse

The prospect of Eagle Pass, Texas, becoming the first municipality in America to see the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, triggered visions in...

06.04.2024 40

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The Cynical Hypocrisy Behind Trump’s Visit to an NYPD Officer’s Wake

Anybody who imagines that Donald Trump is attending the wake of fallen NYPD Police Officer Jonathan Diller with genuine respect for those who...

28.03.2024 10

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He Built the Baltimore Bridge—Then Mourned Its Collapse

Just after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, John “Buddy” Cefalu turned on the TV news and watched the 1.6-mile bridge that he and 100 other ironworkers built...

27.03.2024 10

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‘California Forever’ Billionaires Accused of Tricking People to Sign Petitions

A young man was standing by a folding table with a pen and a stack of paper when Claudia Wilde emerged from the Target store in Fairfield, California,...

21.03.2024 50

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Oklahoma Schools Boss Starts Anti-Trans Shitfight With Chasten Buttigieg

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters spewed transphobia online on the same afternoon the state medical examiner reported that...

15.03.2024 20

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Ken Paxton Should Have Talked to Pol’s Ex Before Endorsement

This story contains descriptions and a photo of alleged domestic violence. Hood County Commissioner Jack Wilson received the Texas Medal of Valor for...

27.02.2024 40

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A Dead Non-Binary Teen and a School Boss’ Cruel Transphobia

Under a law signed two years ago by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, students can only use public school bathrooms that correspond with the gender...

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Trump-Loving Pol Wants to Execute Climate-Change Protesters

The “magenta pink” powdered tempera paint scattered by two climate-change activists on Wednesday posed no threat as it fell upon the helium-filled...

16.02.2024 20

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Here’s Why RFK Jr.’s Super Bowl Ad Was an Absolute Disgrace

12.02.2024 7

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Sorry, MAGA. Americans, Not Migrants, Are Smuggling Fentanyl.

In one 48-hour period last week, Customs and Border Patrol officers thwarted three separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the U.S. at the Paso Del...

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Even Moms for Liberty Are Tired of Moms for Liberty

The last three members of the Lehigh County chapter of Moms for Liberty met on Tuesday at the Starbrite Diner in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The...

08.02.2024 20

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Kristi Noem’s Office Grovels After Losing Lawsuit to Trans Advocacy Group

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem personally killed a 2022 state contract with a transgender advocacy group the minute she heard about it. “South Dakota...

06.02.2024 30

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Trump’s Lackeys Have Found Fani Willis’ Weakness

The racketeering case that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought against Donald Trump and 18 MAGA minions is so strong that the...

03.02.2024 6

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Court Monitor Bashed by Team Trump Praised by Everyone—Even Rudy

Four decades before her attention to factual detail as the court-appointed monitor in the Trump fraud trial prompted his attorney to compare her to...

31.01.2024 10

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NFL Player’s Mom Freed From Immigration Nightmare

Immigration authorities have freed an NFL player’s mother just a day after her plight was highlighted by The Daily Beast. Deon Jones, whose son...

29.01.2024 10

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NFL Player’s Mom Locked Up in Immigration Nightmare

Neville Hewitt, No. 43 on the NFL’s Houston Texans, was preparing for last Saturday’s playoff against the Baltimore Ravens when he received a two-...

27.01.2024 8

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Stuck in Florida, DeSantis Still Dreams of Commanding an Army

Fresh from failing miserably in an attempt to become our commander-in-chief, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday grandly declared himself ready to...

27.01.2024 10

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Trump Almost Sounded Sane. For Five Seconds.

After his huge victory in the Iowa Republican primary, the most divisive figure in American politics called for unity. “I really think this is time...

17.01.2024 30

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MAGA Shrugged When This Cowboy for Trump Was Booted From Office Over Jan. 6

What the MAGA world has been calling an outrageous injustice is really just constitutional karma. Donald Trump’s supporters are in a continuing...

14.01.2024 10

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Fani Willis’ Special Prosecutor May Be Her Undoing in Trump Case

In her absence, Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis’ office was represented at Friday’s hearing in the Trump RICO case by the very best and the very...

13.01.2024 20

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‘Qanon Shaman’ Demands the FBI Return the Horns He Wore During Riot

The “QAnon Shaman” has done his time and now wants the government to return the horned fur headdress that made him the most recognizable figure of...

07.01.2024 70

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Why Trump’s Court Dates Are His Biggest Campaign Events

On the third anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a “commit to caucus” rally in Newton, Iowa....

30.12.2023 9

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Donation Sparks Ugly New Battle in War Over Tech Utopia Plan

War has broken out again over efforts by a billionaire-backed company trying to create a new city in northern California amid fierce local opposition....

24.12.2023 9

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Rudy Is Now Broke, but He’s Been Morally Bankrupt for Years

By filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday, Rudy Giuliani triggered a stay on a federal judge’s order to begin immediately paying $148 million...

22.12.2023 6

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Billionaires Turn to Legal Bribery in Quest to Build Utopia

The tech billionaires seeking to build a shining new city in Northern California started with secrecy and pressure tactics. They are now resorting to...

21.12.2023 6

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How the Mom and Daughter Who Doomed Rudy Will Haunt Trump

So far, Donald Trump has escaped being held accountable for the racist threats and abuse suffered by a pair of Georgia poll workers as a result of his...

19.12.2023 30

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The Real COVID Crime is the Lies DeSantis’ Lapdog Spreads

One year and countless failed attempts at an actual smile ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis petitioned the state Supreme Court to authorize a grand jury...

18.12.2023 40

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Time-Wasting Congress Should be Probing This Postal Worker’s Death

As a Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has repeated a simple question to her colleagues...

14.12.2023 4

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Even This 12-Year-Old Knows Bridget Ziegler Is a Hypocrite

Twelve-year-old Tallulah Brand of Sarasota, Florida, was doing her homework last Thursday when she heard the last name “Ziegler” emerge from the...

09.12.2023 6

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Scandal-Scarred GOP Wife Hides Behind Her Screen at Disney Oversight Board

One member was absent from her usual seat at Wednesday’s meeting of the board established by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to punish Disney for opposing...

07.12.2023 10

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It’s Time to Run This Anti-Gay GOP Wife Out of Politics

Whether or not the allegations that Florida GOP head Christian Ziegler raped a Sarasota woman two months ago are substantiated, there will remain an...

05.12.2023 50

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Gay Board Member Attacked by Zieglers Slams Their Hypocrisy Amid Sex Scandal

A lesser person than Tom Edwards of the Sarasota County School Board would be gloating about the sex scandal threatening to engulf fellow member...

01.12.2023 7

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Is This the Most Bananas Book-Ban Proposal Yet?

Rutherford County in Tennessee is infamous for having illegally jailed thousands of juveniles over the course of two decades before a 2017...

26.11.2023 10

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Meet the Army Vet Protecting Women From Anti-Abortion Protesters

Dani Cook opened a multicolored umbrella to shield a toddler and his grandmother from the cameras of the right-to-life protesters as the two sat in a...

07.10.2023 4

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Tech Billionaires’ Sneaky Plan for an Utopian City Is Already Backfiring

The tech billionaires who hid behind anonymity and nondisclosure agreements for six years while buying 62,000 acres in northern California to build...

04.10.2023 1

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Texas Congressman Joined Musk Border Stunt Instead of Doing His Job

When he should have been in Washington, D.C., doing whatever he could to help prevent the crazies among his fellow Republicans from precipitating a...

29.09.2023 2

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The Troubling History of Gun Shop That Hosted Trump

Donald Trump could not have picked a more perfect gun shop to make a campaign stop. The Palmetto State Armory retail outlet in Summerville, South...

27.09.2023 40

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GOP Rep. Heroically Vows to Save Hot Showers—Gov’t Shutdown Be Damned

As he helped propel the government towards a shutdown, far-right Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles took a moment to announce urgent legislation to counter...

23.09.2023 8

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Joe’s Silence on Hunter Biden’s Gunplay Speaks Volumes

When President Biden makes the Rose Garden announcement of a new office of gun violence prevention, he will be speaking as someone whose son seems to...

21.09.2023 4

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Nutty Rudy Giuliani Insults His Lawyer With A Pittance

Maybe Rudy Giuliani is working on an insanity defense for the day he faces RICO charges down in Georgia, along with Donald Trump and 17 others. He...

20.09.2023 20

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DeSantis’ Attack Dog Wants to Lock Up Councilman Who Crossed Ally

Florida state Rep. Randy Fine, who is Gov. Ron DeSantis’ snarliest attack dog in the culture wars, has gone after drag queens, gay school children,...

09.09.2023 70

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