Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Is Now Openly Spouting Antisemitic Rhetoric
Thanks to an anti-woke update, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot has become profoundly antisemitic.xAI, the corporation building Grok, updated the chatbot’s code over the weekend after the virtual assistant...
View ArticleDemocratic Bill Would Force ICE Agents to Unmask and ID Themselves
Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Alex Padilla have introduced a bill that would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks or concealing their identities during raids and...
View ArticleKBJ Rips “Senseless” Supreme Court Decision on Trump’s Mass Firings
In a 15-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling allowing President Trump’s mass government layoffs to resume.Trump in February issued an executive order...
View ArticleTrump Press Sec’s Fury at Media Over Texas Flood Exposes Worst of MAGA
At least 109 people have died amid devastating flooding in Texas. Distressingly, 27 deaths occurred at a summer camp for girls, and the toll continues to rise. This week, White House press secretary...
View ArticleThe “Undeserving Poor” Deserve Medicaid
In 2016, Charles Manson, then serving a life sentence for murdering or conspiring to murder seven people, developed a lesion on his large intestine, or possibly his colon or anus, that caused internal...
View ArticleAmerican Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good
When Rosalyn Sandri returned to teach English at her high school alma mater, she never imagined it would end in a forced resignation. Only three years after stepping into her Texas classroom, she...
View ArticleThe Ugly Politics of Jackson, Mississippi’s Ongoing Water Crisis
Three years ago, a man with white hair and a ruddy grin went around one neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, daring residents to drink the tap water. He’d buy you a drink, but only if you had a glass...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Press Sec Rages at Media over Floods, Exposing MAGA
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleGOP Senators Stunned by Terrible Rule in Budget Bill They Voted For
In the latest installment in “Dude, What Law Did I Just Pass?” some Republicans were shocked to learn of a provision in Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill that will tax gambling losses, HuffPost...
View ArticleGuess Who Forgot to Tell Trump He Was Pausing Ukraine Aid?
The president is not in control of his own government.Last week’s sudden pause on a weapons shipment to Ukraine was the handiwork of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who didn’t bother to inform the...
View ArticleRussia Reacts to Leaked Audio of Trump’s Unhinged Bomb Threat
Last year, President Trump told donors that he had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he threatened to “bomb the shit out of Moscow” if Putin invaded Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman...
View ArticleTrump’s Not-So-Genius Team Botched a Deal to Free American Prisoners
Due to conflicting efforts by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Richard Grenell, the Trump administration bungled a deal that would have freed 11 U.S. citizens and green card holders...
View ArticleTucker Carlson’s Wild Theory for Pam Bondi “Covering Up” Epstein Files
Tucker Carlson has his own rationale for the Trump administration’s mishandling of the Epstein files.Speaking with journalist Saagar Enjeti on Tuesday, Carlson offered several reasons why he believed...
View ArticleRepublican Representative Hits Shocking Low With Ilhan Omar Attack
On Tuesday evening, Representative Randy Fine of Florida, as is his wont, harassed a fellow member of Congress with anti-Muslim rhetoric—this time outright calling Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the...
View ArticleThe Sickening Living Conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz”
Behemoth bugs, no access to running water, and withheld legal rights are just some of the inhumane conditions detailed in the first reports from detainees at Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump...
View ArticleMTG Rips Into Pam Bondi After Sudden Flip on Epstein List
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ have “more explaining to do” regarding their dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein case.The MAGA representative made an appearance on the...
View ArticleElon Musk Has Disgusting Response to His Nazi AI Chatbot
The world’s richest man is having a good laugh about his suddenly antisemitic artificial intelligence program Grok. xAI, the corporation building Grok, updated the chatbot’s code over the weekend after...
View ArticleX CEO Steps Down After Two Years of Massive Failure
After two years of overseeing rampant conservatism, antisemitism, and general racism, X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down.“When Elon Musk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be...
View ArticleMAGA Representative Pushes Bizarre Claim About Trump Budget Bill
Wisconsin Representative Derrick “Little Bitch” Van Orden is trying to take credit for helping out hospitals he actively moved to defund, according to HuffPost. Van Orden, who cheered for the stripping...
View ArticleTrump Agriculture Chief Admits Deportations Have Caused a Big Problem
In an appearance on Fox Business on Wednesday, Trump’s agriculture chief, Brooke Rollins, revealed that the administration has no plan to fix the damage his mass deportations are inflicting on the U.S....
View ArticleTrump’s Commerce Secretary Will Get Rich Off These Budget Cuts
At least one person in the Trump administration stands to make a fortune at the National Weather Service’s deathbed.Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
View ArticleSenegalese President Resorts to Bribing Trump in Trade Meeting
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye used a tried and true method to curry favor with President Donald Trump: shameless flattery.“I know you are a tremendous golf player. Golf requires...
View ArticleTrump Humiliates Himself With Idiotic Question to Liberian President
Donald Trump humiliated himself Wednesday in front of several leaders of African states by revealing just how little he knows about their countries. During a meeting with leaders from Gabon,...
View ArticleTrump Crashes Out Over Question About Chaotic Ukraine Aid Pause
The president is not concerned that his underlings are independently intervening in American foreign policy without any authorization to do so.Speaking with reporters in the State Dining Room...
View ArticleTrump Asks African Leaders to Tell Him Who They Are
At the beginning of Trump’s Wednesday “multilateral lunch” event to discuss commercial opportunities with five West African leaders, Trump asked his guests to say “a few words to the press.” But as the...
View ArticleThe Epstein Files Anticlimax Is Exposing Trump for Who He Really Is
Donald Trump does not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Asked on Tuesday about his administration’s refusal to release files related to the dead financier who allegedly sex-trafficked underage...
View ArticleTrump Celebrates as FBI Opens Revenge Probe Into Comey and Brennan
The Trump administration is conducting a spiteful investigation against former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan as retaliation for their roles in the 2016 Russian election...
View ArticleTrump Sneaked Huge Gift for Peter Thiel–Backed Company Into Budget
A provision buried deep within Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill essentially earmarks funds for Anduril, the defense technology company heavily backed by apocalyptic prophet Peter Thiel. The...
View ArticleICE Official Reveals Disturbing Blacklist Behind Roundup of Students
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official revealed Wednesday that the agency’s efforts to deport foreign students for their purportedly “radical,” pro-Palestinian beliefs relies on Canary...
View ArticleAngry Trump Shocked to Discover Putin Has Humiliated Him: “Bullshit!”
It appears to be dawning on President Trump that he will not be ending the Russia-Ukraine war in one day as he promised during the campaign. Trump’s frustration at Vladimir Putin is rising: This week...
View ArticleClimate Disasters Are Catnip for Cynical Republicans
Days after flooding in the Texas Hill Country killed 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic—just a portion of the more than 100 already confirmed dead in Central Texas—Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleHow Extreme Can Democratic Governors Get to Stop Trump?
If there’s one thing that U.S. civics education hammers home the most—the one thing that grade school students first learn, which is one of the preeminent things international audiences know about our...
View ArticleWhistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case
Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia...
View ArticleThom Tillis Reveals Infuriating Reason RFK Jr. Was Confirmed
North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis revealed that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed because one senator decided to believe his lies. During an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake...
View ArticleGreen Card Holder in “Alligator Alcatraz” Details Inhumane Conditions
U.S. permanent resident and reggaeton artist Leamsy Izquierdo has revealed that conditions in “Alligator Alcartraz,” where he is detained, are as inhumane as advertised.“There’s no water here for...
View ArticleTranscript: Angry Trump Shocked to Discover Putin Is Laughing at Him
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleKristi Noem Delayed DHS Response to Texas Floods With Outrageous Rule
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is refusing to take responsibility after a report found that she personally instituted a rule that created obstacles in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s...
View ArticleJudge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order via SCOTUS Loophole
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order nationwide.Trump’s order, which seeks to deny automatic citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to undocumented...
View ArticleTrump Imposes Pointlessly Disastrous Tariff on Copper
Donald Trump announced a 50 percent tariff on copper, a move that is sure to slow production and make prices skyrocket. “Copper is necessary for Semiconductors, Aircraft, Ships, Ammunition, Data...
View ArticleTrump Picks Annoying Hooters-Obsessed Troll as U.S. Ambassador
A right-wing commentator who has possibly tweeted about Hooters more times than anyone is now Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Malaysia. “Mr. President, thank you for the honor of a lifetime. In...
View ArticleThe Little-Noted Trump-DOJ Move That Should Scare the Hell Out of You
Of the many ways that Donald Trump, abetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, has laid waste to the executive branch and ransacked civil society, one Trump target above all others requires our constant...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Nazi Bot Sexually Harassed X CEO Right Before She Quit
Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino suffered gross sexual harassment from none other than Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence bot, shortly before she abruptly left her position. Grok went rogue earlier...
View ArticleICE Agents in Despair Under Stephen Miller’s Impossible Orders
A new report from The Atlantic’s Nick Miroff finds morale at Immigration and Customs Enforcement is suffering as the agency, under the direction of President Trump and Homeland Security adviser Stephen...
View ArticleWashington Post Columnist Quits—and Rips Jeff Bezos on His Way Out
Former Washington Post writer Joe Davidson made sure to make his disdain for Post owner Jeff Bezos known in a scathing resignation letter.In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Davidson stated that he was...
View ArticleMahmoud Khalil Hits Trump With Blockbuster Lawsuit After Kidnapping
Mahmoud Khalil is suing the Trump administration for $20 million. The 30-year-old Columbia University graduate and green card holder, whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement took as a political...
View ArticleHarvard Abruptly Caves to Trump After Months of Fighting
Harvard just quietly dismantled its undergraduate school’s offices for diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the university’s ongoing battle with Donald Trump’s administration. The Faculty of Arts and...
View ArticleKen Paxton’s Wife Files for Divorce “in Light of Recent Discoveries”
Texas State Senator Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has long faced accusations of infidelity and corruption. Senator Paxton...
View ArticleJohn Fetterman Throws His Family Under the Bus to Suck Up to Trump
Senator John Fetterman has once again turned his back on undocumented immigrants with the rubber stamp from Donald Trump. “ICE performs an important job for our country,” Fetterman wrote on X Thursday....
View ArticleJoe Rogan Met Up With Trump Days Before Trashing His ICE Raids
Joe Rogan, podcaster and prominent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is souring on the administration’s immigration agenda.The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Rogan, who dined with...
View ArticleGreg Abbott Moves to Rig the Midterms Amid Texas Floods
Governor Greg Abbot is trying to further gerrymander Texas while his state recovers from some of the deadliest flooding in its history.On Wednesday, Abbot told state lawmakers to begin the...
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