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Trump Abruptly Drops His Threat of Economic Warfare Over Greenland

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After previewing his plans to acquire Greenland through economic warfare, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would not impose tariffs he had scheduled to take effect next month, citing work on a future deal regarding Greenland with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte.  That move came despite the unmistakable warning embedded in Trump’s rambling, complaint-heavy […]

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The Canadian PM’s Davos Speech Is Unmissable in a Time of “Rupture”

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President Donald Trump famously doesn’t like to read. And if his increasingly frequent public naps are any indication, his attention span is only getting shorter. But he did claim to watch what one historian praised as a “riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest” speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. And […]

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How Trump Is Using Violent Tragedies to Divide America

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Once again, the response was quick, fuming, and filled with falsehoods. On January 7, about five hours after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis fatally shot a woman in her SUV, President Donald Trump addressed the reckless killing in a social-media post: The victim, he said, “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over […]

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I Asked the Pentagon About Pete Hegseth’s Mentor. Then the Threats Started.

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Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.” […]

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Pete Hegseth Is Finally Getting Investigated

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In a rare instance of bipartisan alarm, Republican-chaired committees in the House and Senate announced that they have launched inquiries into an explosive Washington Post report alleging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a spoken order to “kill everybody” aboard a vessel carrying suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean. The occupants included two people who […]

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Kash Patel, the FBI’s Agent of Chaos

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. This week’s huge news has to be the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations, a story that intersects with what can only be called the slow public unraveling of Kash Patel’s tenure director as FBI director. Patel, as you might remember, had long crusaded for […]

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Law Firms Say Trump National Security Directive Poses Risk for Tax-Exempt Groups

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“Even the ‘indirect’ financing of ‘political violence’” could provoke liability, they warn.

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National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda

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The directive labels common beliefs such as “anti-capitalist” opinions as terrorism “indicators.”

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“Extremely Disturbing”: What Does Trump’s “Antifa” Executive Order Actually Do?

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It took only minutes after Charlie Kirk was pronounced dead for right-wing figures to begin calling for retribution. “More people will be murdered if the Left isn’t crushed with the power of the state,” Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, posted on X. Despite the motive remaining unknown, pardoned […]

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Trump Has Turned the National Guard Into Mall Cops. Cost? $1 Million a Day.

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When I went out to fetch lunch last Wednesday, three Louisiana Guard members were lounging outside the Mother Jones building, enjoying the perfect weather and watching dialysis patients spilling out of Metro access vans. The soldiers wore handcuffs on their belts and handguns strapped to their thighs, unaware that they were protecting some enemies of […]

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Baltimore’s Mayor Slams Trump Troop Threat: “What We Want From the President Is Very Simple.”

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President Trump is planning to ramp up his federal reach into local enforcement after first flooding the streets of DC with National Guard troops, and this week he promised to send troops to more cities—including Baltimore. Despite a federal judge ruling that Trump broke the law when deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles earlier […]

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Donald Trump Is Waging a Whole-of-Government Retribution Campaign

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The Trump administration’s campaign of vengeance against perceived political enemies escalated Friday morning when the FBI raided the home and office of former national security adviser John Bolton, a vocal Trump critic. That search follows Attorney General Pam Bondi directing federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into whether former President Barack Obama and his […]

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