It began, as most of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s public appearances do, with bad lighting, unchecked delusion, and the unshakeable smell of weaponized entitlement.
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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Let’s go back to June 2, 2024. That morning, Fox & Friends Weekend aired an interview with […]
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At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?
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Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishes President Donald Trump had attended. Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists speaking out against Trump’s sweeping tariffs. He […]
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The summer of 2021 was brutal for residents of the Pacific Northwest. Cities across the region from Portland, Oregon, to Quillayute, Washington, broke temperature records by several degrees. In Washington, as the searing heat wave settled over the state, 125 people […]
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If Trump Doesn’t Fix This Blunder, “People Would Die in Their Homes” Read Post »
As someone who is deaf, Sara Nović says, “the phone has long been my nemesis.” Nović, an organizer and author of the novel True Biz, has tried to call their representatives in Congress by phone—but they’ve been hung up on. When they started organizing earlier this year with fellow deaf people on issues like Donald […]
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A large crowd of protesters calling for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador, milled around the courthouse this afternoon where U.S.
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Sorry for the late-night update. Musk’s staffers are reaching out to leaders of nonprofit organizations, demanding to assign DOGE team members to any institute or agency receiving federal funds.
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In February, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an inside-the-beltway think tank, published a book-length study entitled Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy, edited by Gracelin Baskaran and Duncan Wood. The stud…
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Think Tank Report Makes Clear Minerals Are Key Drivers of U.S. Foreign Policy Read Post »
Eighty-eight.
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In one of the main Freedom of Information Act lawsuits involving Elon Musk and his team of analysts in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a federal judge accelerated the case timeline this evening—ordering DOGE to produce details about its…
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On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference of Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled. “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,” Biden said in a speech that ran just under 30 minutes. “That means making sure that more […]
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