Plus, Pete Hegseth cares more about culture wars than the war he helped start; the right wing of the Supreme Court has a suspect media diet.; did the Democrats just win a government shutdown gight?; and more ...
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Based on his new recruitment policies, Pete Hegseth cares more about winning culture wars than the real war he just helped start.
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His rage at NATO is actually an admission that he needs our allies’ help—and that he wants somebody to blame as his war goes from bad to worse.
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America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline.
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The recent oral arguments in an important voting rights case suggest that the right wing of the high court has a suspect media diet.
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The president has fashioned the U.S. into a petrostate, in which all roads lead to his own enrichment.
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A new lawsuit filed by state prosecutors lays bare the appalling reasons why there’s been no movement on the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings.
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Shockingly, his ranch there—where unspeakable things went on—was never so much as dusted for prints. At long last, that’s going to change.
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They didn’t get the ICE reforms they’d demanded, but they uncharacteristically held the line until the Republicans caved. That’s deeply meaningful to the party’s base.
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Has Donald Trump finally figured out that Stephen Miller’s fascist cruelties have become a niggling political liability for him? Well, maybe. A striking report in The Wall Street Journal suggests Trump may be moving to marginalize Miller’s influence. But Trump appears to think the difficulty can be cured by a few optical tweaks, when the real culprit is a deeper ideological one.
Trump wants to "lower the profile of his mass deportation effort," the Journal reveals. He wants voters to think the targets of these deportations are "bad guys," not noncriminal undocumented residents. He wants less visibility for ICE raids in cities, fewer public confrontations with local officials, and less public talk about "mass deportations," which, he now grasps, are hideously unpopular.
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As Karoline Leavitt’s praise for Trump goes wild amid fresh revelations about his decision-making, a former national security official details how his leadership failures explain what’s going wrong on the ground.
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
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