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Conservative suggests backup plan to keep Trump 'successfully flattered'
Conservative suggests backup plan to keep Trump 'successfully flattered'
Columnist David Mastio can’t gauge the specific inflation at your local grocery store, but he is confident President Donald Trump’s “flattery inflation is on the rise.”On Friday, FIFA president Gianni Infantino designated Donald Trump the orgaization’s inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize" winner on stage wi...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Conservative suggests backup plan to keep Trump 'successfully flattered'
Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts
Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts
The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American “neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox.“Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keat...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts
This Colorado city shows the way out of the MAGA nightmare
This Colorado city shows the way out of the MAGA nightmare
In an unhinged video this summer, Danielle Jurinsky, a former Aurora City Council member, blamed the Democratic Party for the firebomb attack on peaceful demonstrators in Boulder who called for the release of hostages in Gaza. Through tears, she angrily singled out Jewish leaders in the state, such ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This Colorado city shows the way out of the MAGA nightmare
This terrifying crisis was manufactured to distract from a massive new Trump scandal
This terrifying crisis was manufactured to distract from a massive new Trump scandal
Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not be a good test, that the world’s most mighty military power be prevented from waging war if a majority of Americans failed to find the alleged enemy on a world map?F...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This terrifying crisis was manufactured to distract from a massive new Trump scandal
The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump
The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump
The US has long sat at the centre of the global financial system, with the US dollar serving as the backbone of the world economy. Private investors rely on the dollar as a store of value in times of uncertainty.Governments and central banks hold dollars to manage the value of their own currencies a...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump
Woman aggressively arrested after speaking out against AI data centers
Woman aggressively arrested after speaking out against AI data centers
Public opposition to artificial intelligence data centers—and the push by corporations and officials to move forward with their construction anyway—were vividly illustrated in a viral video this week of a woman who was arrested after speaking out against a proposed data center in her community in Wi...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Woman aggressively arrested after speaking out against AI data centers
One of the first things to be done when sanity and legality are restored
One of the first things to be done when sanity and legality are restored
Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom — he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime.The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption. Google and Amazon are both chipping in with massive donations. They both jus...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One of the first things to be done when sanity and legality are restored
Inside Marco Rubio's diplomatic disaster
Inside Marco Rubio's diplomatic disaster
In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to US diplomats directing them to sell Trump’s immigration policies to allies who don’t want them. In a barely reported move, Rubio instructed American diplomats serving Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada to start “raising co...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Inside Marco Rubio's diplomatic disaster
Supreme Court’s decision on citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase
Supreme Court’s decision on citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase
The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will likely hand down a ruling next summer.In January 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order removing the recognition of citizenship for the U.S.-born children of both i...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Supreme Court’s decision on citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase
A very good chance the worst is yet to come — and Democrats are to blame
A very good chance the worst is yet to come — and Democrats are to blame
Somalis are garbage! Deport a college student during a trip home for Thanksgiving! Pardon the Honduran ex-president convicted of drug peddling! Kill survivors from an unarmed boat the Navy has bombed in the Caribbean! Turn against Canada, our number one ally! Threaten to take over Greenland! Sell ou...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A very good chance the worst is yet to come — and Democrats are to blame
Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday —and end it for MLK day
Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday —and end it for MLK day
“Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?”That’s what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported Thursday on the National Park Service’s recently announced free admission days for 2026.“That has be...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday —and end it for MLK day
'Very aggressive': Congresswoman says she was pepper-sprayed by federal agents
'Very aggressive': Congresswoman says she was pepper-sprayed by federal agents
U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) is accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of pepper-spraying her in her face while she was at a local Tucson, Arizona restaurant.Rep. Grijalva in a video on social media said she saw about 40 mostly-masked ICE agents at a restaurant she frequ...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
'Very aggressive': Congresswoman says she was pepper-sprayed by federal agents
'Final warning': MAGA gives ultimatum to Republican holdouts bucking Trump
'Final warning': MAGA gives ultimatum to Republican holdouts bucking Trump
Several groups affiliated with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement are now applying pressure to Republican state legislators in Indiana, who have yet to pass a heavily gerrymandered congressional redistricting map.Politico reported Friday that Turning Point Action — the electoral arm of slain MAG...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
'Final warning': MAGA gives ultimatum to Republican holdouts bucking Trump
Legal experts trash Supreme Court for 'really unnecessary' birthright citizenship case
Legal experts trash Supreme Court for 'really unnecessary' birthright citizenship case
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court dodged consideration of the constitutional right to citizenship allotted to those born on American soil. Rather than striking down the guarantees in the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that nationwide injunctions were the problem in this case. Now that ...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Legal experts trash Supreme Court for 'really unnecessary' birthright citizenship case
5 ways MAGA excuses Trump's 'childishness' and 'cruelty': analysis
5 ways MAGA excuses Trump's 'childishness' and 'cruelty': analysis
On the heels of Politico writer Jonathan Martin's scathing "exposé" of President Donald Trump as a "free-range" adolescent who has turned the presidency into an "adult fantasy camp," New York Magazine's Ed Kilgore offers five excuses MAGA makes to defend his behavior."Martin is just scratching the s...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
5 ways MAGA excuses Trump's 'childishness' and 'cruelty': analysis
Conservative historian reveals why America is about to enter a 'very dangerous situation'
Conservative historian reveals why America is about to enter a 'very dangerous situation'
During the United States' 2016 presidential race, historian/scholar and author Robert Kagan was among the conservatives who expressed his disdain for Donald Trump by leaving the Republican Party and endorsing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Kagan had a long resumé in right-wing politics, from se...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Conservative historian reveals why America is about to enter a 'very dangerous situation'
'All your fault!' Furious backlash as senator sounds RFK Jr alarm — after voting for him
'All your fault!' Furious backlash as senator sounds RFK Jr alarm — after voting for him
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a gastroenterologist who voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in February, isn't exactly garnering praise for his condemnation of Kennedy's latest controversial health recommendations.Cassidy, whose sup...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
'All your fault!' Furious backlash as senator sounds RFK Jr alarm — after voting for him
Trump: Democrats are plotting 'total obliteration' of Supreme Court
Trump: Democrats are plotting 'total obliteration' of Supreme Court
President Donald Trump is claiming that the top priority of Democrats is the “total obliteration” of the U.S. Supreme Court. His remarks came just hours after SCOTUS gave Republicans a 6-3 win along partisan lines, in the form of approving Texas’s redrawn mid-decade congressional maps that could hel...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump: Democrats are plotting 'total obliteration' of Supreme Court
Mike Johnson mocked for claiming he’s a 'wartime speaker' under Trump
Mike Johnson mocked for claiming he’s a 'wartime speaker' under Trump
Fears that Republicans will lose their small majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms intensified when Democrats enjoyed a variety of off-year election victories on November 4, from double-digit gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia to three Pennsylvania Supreme Cou...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Mike Johnson mocked for claiming he’s a 'wartime speaker' under Trump
Did Trump inadvertently pardon the J6 pipe bomber?
Did Trump inadvertently pardon the J6 pipe bomber?
CNN reports Brian Cole Jr., the suspect arrested in the nearly five-year investigation into who planted two viable pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the January 6, 2021 attack, was a supporter of President Donald Trump and a believer in his election conspiracy theories. And now, some cr...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Did Trump inadvertently pardon the J6 pipe bomber?
Trump’s own agencies are pointing fingers at each other to blame for arrest flubs
Trump’s own agencies are pointing fingers at each other to blame for arrest flubs
Two federal agencies under President Donald Trump are pointing fingers at each other after another major arrest flub. The Miami Herald's David Goodhue broke a story this week of a U.S. citizen being pulled from a car and detained. The woman was driving her boyfriend's car, and since he is an undocum...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trump’s own agencies are pointing fingers at each other to blame for arrest flubs
Marine Corps veteran: 'Hard for me to watch' Trump admin’s 'barbaric behavior'
Marine Corps veteran: 'Hard for me to watch' Trump admin’s 'barbaric behavior'
President Donald Trump's boat strikes and their accompanying drone footage "snuff films" are not just objectionable from a legal standpoints, according to one Marine Corps veterans, they are also a failing of moral leadership that are "wounding" the country's soul.Phil Klay is a celebrated author kn...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Marine Corps veteran: 'Hard for me to watch' Trump admin’s 'barbaric behavior'
Analysis details the 'selective outrage' of the 'miserably mad MAGA cult'
Analysis details the 'selective outrage' of the 'miserably mad MAGA cult'
The selective outrage of the MAGA cult is telling, writes Rebellious Magazine's Michelle Duster, who says President Donald Trump's supporters will exhaust themselves while everyone else builds a diverse future."Over the last 10 years, those who believe in empathy, equality, social progress and joy h...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Analysis details the 'selective outrage' of the 'miserably mad MAGA cult'
Trump’s approval with young voters in 'deep dark black hole'
Trump’s approval with young voters in 'deep dark black hole'
It would be an understatement to say President Donald Trump’s once positive approval among young voters is failing. CNN analyst Harry Enten said the better word for it is probably “collapse.”“Donald Trump put in the best performance for a Republican presidential candidate among young voters since Ge...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump’s approval with young voters in 'deep dark black hole'
'MAGA hates' key Trump alliance
'MAGA hates' key Trump alliance
Although the MAGA movement and much of the Republican Party are still quite loyal to President Donald Trump, there are some major divisions within his coalition. Trump aggressively reached out to Silicon Valley tech bros in 2024, enjoying strong support from Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk as we...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
'MAGA hates' key Trump alliance