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What the Hell Happened to Meet the Press?
Once upon a time, Meet the Press was the temple of American political journalism — the place where truth met power and the weak in argument went to be humbled. It was where Russert pressed, Brokaw cha...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Keith Olbermann is right: Turn the Press on Its Head
Glasgow, Kentucky, just lost its elder care center because of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill’ as outlined in this Daily Kos article: www.dailykos.com/…. Seventy-six percent of the county voted for...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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When Small Packages Vanish: How Trump’s Tariff Overhaul Broke Everyday Trade
I travel a lot for work. Between airports, hotel rooms, and rental cars, I’ve learned that keeping my phone, laptop, and headset charged is a daily puzzle of tangled cables. So, a couple months ago, I...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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When Small Packages Vanish: How Trump’s Tariff Overhaul Broke Everyday Trade
I travel a lot for work. Between airports, hotel rooms, and rental cars, I’ve learned that keeping my phone, laptop, and headset charged is a daily puzzle of tangled cables. So, a couple months ago, I...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Eight Months In and the Frog Is at Full Boil
Over the past nine months, Americans have been living through what many call the boiling frog effect. One outrageous act follows another—an insult here, a threat there, an abuse of power that once wou...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Gov Cox Capitulates to MAGA and NBC's Welker Fails Again
Utah governor Spencer Cox built his reputation as a moderate Republican. He received initial praise as one who urged Americans to lower the political temperature. On Sunday, that reputation cracked. I...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Your Papers Please: SCOTUS’s March to an Authoritarian State
For those trying to keep track of how our democracy is being reshaped in real time, one of the best weekly guides is the Main Justice podcast. Its hosts walk through the decisions coming out of Washin...
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September 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Russia’s Economy Is Cratering — and Trump Is Still Putin’s Fangirl
Several Daily Kos writers have been sounding the alarm this over the past couple weeks: Russia is on the verge of economic collapse, and the Western world—if it acts smartly—has a rare chance to end b...
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August 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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If Trump Really Wanted to Be a Strongman, He’d Crush Putin
On Friday, August 15, 2025, President Donald Trump will meet—solo—with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a ceasefire in Ukraine. What’s alarming is that the proposed deal may demand Ukra...
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August 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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For Lease”: The Quiet Collapse of America’s Office Parks - Get Ready for "Too Big To Fail" 2.0
It started with a morning run. I was on a recent work trip to the Lansing, Michigan area, staying at a hotel nestled in a tidy suburban office park—the kind that was booming a couple decades ago, with...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Sorry Michelle, We Are Done Trying to Take the High Road
When Michelle Obama reminded the nation in 2016 that “when they go low, we go high,” it felt like moral clarity. But eight years—and the worst gerrymandering run in modern memory—later, that high road...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Dear Gaza: Trump’s Waiting for Your Thank You Note
By any moral standard, famine should be a moment for selflessness. For bold diplomacy. For leadership. But for Donald Trump, it’s yet another excuse to focus on himself. Standing in Scotland, far remo...
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July 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The Trump doth protest too much, methinks
Let me get this straight. As cries to finally release the Epstein files reach a national fever pitch—with even some MAGA hardliners demanding accountability—Donald Trump and his merry band of chaos ag...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Trump’s AG Picks Tell a Story: Were Gaetz and Bondi Chosen to Keep Epstein Buried?
When Donald Trump tapped Matt Gaetz for Attorney General earlier this year, many scratched their heads. Gaetz — a scandal-plagued former Congressman — had little in the way of legal credentials and wa...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Trump: If Rodney Dangerfield and Andrew Dice Clay Had a Baby—and Raised It on Fox News
Intro: Imagine Rodney Dangerfield and Andrew Dice Clay meeting in a smoky Atlantic City lounge in the 1970s. Rodney’s muttering “I don’t get no respect,” while Dice is chain-smoking and delivering rau...
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July 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Trump Built a Media War Machine. The Left Better Learn to Fight—or Keep Losing
In 2024, Donald Trump didn’t just win an election—he hijacked the national conversation. While Democrats were still drafting talking points, Trump’s army of podcasters, meme lords, sports personalitie...
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July 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Trump Sleeps, Lies, and Rambles: The Dangerous Double Standard in Media Coverage
Imagine President Biden standing frozen on a stage, unable to read the room while the world’s cameras roll. Imagine him dozing off during a major industry summit, or telling a wildly inaccurate story ...
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July 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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"Release What’s Credible”: Trump’s Code to Protect Himself from the Epstein Fallout
This week, Donald Trump made a curious public statement regarding the explosive Epstein files: he thinks Attorney General Pam Bondi should “release what’s credible.” At first glance, that might sound ...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Noem Lied. Texans Died: The Flood Disaster They’re Trying to Bury
In the wake of catastrophic flash floods in Central Texas this July, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s version of events has diverged sharply from the facts on the ground. On NBC’s Meet the Pr...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Lap Dog Charlie Kirk Capitulates: MAGA Fire-Starter Turned Apologist
For weeks, Charlie Kirk has been one of the loudest voices in MAGA world accusing the Biden administration of covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets. Kirk went full scorched-earth mode on the stage at ...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The Immigrant Myth Is Crumbling
Peeling Back the Onion of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric: How One Post Reveals the Crumbling Logic of the MAGA Right A meme has been making the rounds lately on social media — the kind of thing that tries to...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Kristi Noem Is Lying: Federal Agencies Have Always Helped—She’s Covering Up Her Attacks on FEMA
Today on Meet the Press, Kristi Noem claimed that deploying agencies like the Coast Guard or Border Patrol was a brand-new innovation—a deliberate pivot away from how the government operated in the pa...
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July 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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WHERE THE HELL IS FEMA!
Sorry all, this just in — I had to edit to this article. While listening to a podcast this morning, I found out that Kristie Neom is a more despicable character than I originally thought. It turns out...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The Epstein Files: Trump’s Deep State Circus Has Become His Benghazi
In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s emails and the word “Benghazi” were used like blunt instruments — repeated ad nauseam until they drowned out reason. By 2020, the same machine turned the “Hunter Biden lapto...
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July 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The Epstein Files: Trump’s Deep State Circus Has Become His Benghazi
In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s emails and the word “Benghazi” were used like blunt instruments — repeated ad nauseam until they drowned out reason. By 2020, the same machine turned the “Hunter Biden lapto...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM