Author name: Anna Merlan

“I know in my heart that med beds [sic] are real,” a woman named Pam wrote recently on TruthSocial, the social media site owned by Trump Media and Technology Group, and President Donald Trump’s favorite place to post. “I’ve been hoping and at the same time thinking it’s too good to be true,” Pam confided. “But […]

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After last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, hundreds of people gathered in front of Berlin’s American embassy to honor him with a candlelight vigil, at least one of them in a red MAGA hat. The group included several members of Germany’s far-right AfD party, including Beatrix von Storch, its deputy parliamentary leader. Von […]

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Last week, organizers for the “European Conference of Health and Human Rights” announced a change: Their keynote speaker, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had withdrawn after Estonian politicians reportedly called Kennedy a “quack” and “cuckoo.” It was the end of an odd saga. A month earlier, organizers announced Kennedy was […]

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The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]

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The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]

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In March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a woman they accused of drug trafficking and entering the country illegally. Standing in a parking lot, they photographed her, weeping, eyes half-closed in anguish, her arms cuffed behind her back. And then—in a cruel innovation specific to the Trump administration—the White House’s official Twitter account […]

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