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Trump Treasury Secretary Makes Humiliating Admission About Trade Deals
Wall Street was right about the president: Trump always chickens out.Despite spending weeks fuming about the fact that investors had clocked him for repeatedly reneging on his tariff plan,...
Supreme Court Caves to Trump in Ominous Birthright Citizenship Ruling
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The White House communications...
How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
Senate Republicans have no “big, beautiful” bill. It isn’t close to finalized. The Senate parliamentarian, combing through the details and determining which provisions will need a supermajority to pass,...
Republicans Forced to Remove Gun Deregulation From Budget Bill
The Senate parliamentarian has shot down another batch of provisions in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”—this time including one that would’ve deregulated gun silencers and certain firearms.Being a budget reconciliation,...
Trump Tries Insanely Desperate Ploy to Convince Iran to Negotiate
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The White House communications...
Even Fox Is Calling Out How Bad Trump’s Budget Bill Is
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The White House communications...
Transcript: MAGA Rage Takes Scary Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The...
How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect
About 20 years ago, a neuroscientist named David Eagleman strapped a bunch of students into harnesses, hoisted them to the top of an imposing metal tower, and then, without...
Meet the “Moderates” Trying to Make Trump’s Tax Bill More Regressive
In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached fiscal responsibility and were reasonably tolerant of...
Democratic Governors, Why Are You Turning Your Backs on Workers?
Another Democrat, Maine Governor Janet Mills, vetoed pro-worker bills three years in a row: a labor whistleblower bill in 2021, a bill to provide farmworkers with collective bargaining rights...
