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“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda
Midway through my watch of the new tech-satire series “The Audacity,” I received an e-mail from Google that I had received many times…
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Hundreds of applications, no jobs and AI competition: California's brutal tech work landscape
Laid-off tech worker Joseph Tinner has spent almost a year hunting for a job. It has been a depressing crash course on the sea change in…
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Transcript: Trumpworld Fractures over Protests as Brutal ICE Poll Hits
Because what’s actually happening is—and you can see this in Minneapolis—if there are social assumptions about diversity, about liberals…
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Trump Advisers Quietly Turn on Stephen Miller as Brutal ICE Poll Hits
After we recorded this episode, we noticed that Axios is reporting that anger is rising at Stephen Miller inside Donald Trump’s inner…
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Ukraine condemns 'brutal' Russian strikes ahead of second day of peace talks
Ukraine has condemned a fresh wave of Russian strikes overnight which killed one person and injured 23 others, as talks with the US aimed…
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Trump Press Sec. Goes Full Cult as Reviews of Davos Fiasco Turn Brutal
By now you’ve seen President Trump’s big speech at Davos. The slurring, the confusing of Greenland and Iceland, the nonsense about wind…
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In an Uneven Season, Sam Elliott Elevated ‘Landman’ With a Brutal, Funny and Horny Depiction of Being an Old Man
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from Season 2 of “Landman,” now available to stream on Paramount+. When we first see Sam…
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Americans Say Trump Is Failing on Nearly Everything, Brutal Poll Shows
A majority of Americans said that President Donald Trump’s first year back in office was a failure, according to a humiliating CNN poll…
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Transcript: Trump Tirades on Shooting Darken as ICE Polls Turn Brutal
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 14 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Trump Tirades about Shooting Get Darker as Polls Turn Brutal on ICE
PODCAST As new polling shows Trump is losing the argument over the Minneapolis shooting, the writer of a new piece on this horror explains…
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Brutal year for stock picking spurs trillion-dollar fund exodus
The last thing a diversified fund manager wants is to run a portfolio dominated by just seven technology companies – all American, all…
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CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees, Just Hours Before Airtime
About three hours before “60 Minutes” was set to air a program detailing “brutal and tortuous conditions” at a prison in El Salvador where…
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Bari Weiss Made a ‘Political’ Decision to Kill ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on the ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees: Report
Bari Weiss, two months into her post as CBS News‘ editor-in-chief, was responsible for spiking a “60 Minutes” segment on the “brutal and…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits
Press pool photographers now sort of make a point of photographing it every time he appears in front of them. And this has been going on…
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Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits Him Hard
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the world that the Kennedy Center has now been renamed after President…
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Mike Johnson’s Next Move on Health Care Is Absolutely Brutal
It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire—and Republicans are pissed. Speaking to…
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Republican Rep. Questions His Own Party—and Trump—in Brutal Interview
GOP Representative Brian Fitzpatrick sat down with CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday and directly criticized the recent policy decisions of…
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Trump Official Panics as Brutal Jobs Report Blames Trump’s Tariffs
The order banned citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia,…
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Gabrielle Henry: Miss Jamaica Likely to Remain in Hospital for Another Week After Brutal Fall from Stage During Miss Universe
Miss Jamaica, Gabrielle Henry, is likely to stay in the hospital for at least another week after suffering a brutal fall from the Miss…
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Epstein Tanks Trump’s Approval Rating to Record Low, Brutal Poll Shows
Donald Trump’s approval rating is at an all-time low for his second term, and the president has his old pal Jeffrey Epstein to thank—and…
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Epstein Survivors Weigh in On Brutal MTG-Trump Feud: Report
As President Donald Trump and Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud over Jeffrey Epstein boils over, survivors of the…
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Even ICE Is More Popular Than Congress Now, Says Brutal Poll
Those senators included Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, John Fetterman, and Tim Kaine, as…
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Transcript: Trump Spirals as Brutal New Data Shows Scale of GOP Losses
But you’re starting to see some people make a calculated dash—or maybe create an exit strategy—like Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s, you…
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Angry Trump Snaps at Media as Brutal New Data Shows Size of GOP Losses
Under questioning from reporters about last week’s GOP losses, President Trump seethed that worsening inflation on his watch—a driver of…