Federal agents keep deploying tear gas near kids. We have no idea what it does to their health.
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Exposure to chemical irritants can cause chest tightness, coughing and shortness of breath. For kids, there’s more potential for serious side effects.
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From the roof of the Immigration and Customs Enforce
4 years since Russia's horrific invasion of Ukraine
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On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
«Putin is the aggressor,” then-President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation that night. “Putin chose this war.»
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Supreme Court conservatives air their grievances in tariffs dissent
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The Supreme Court’s decision to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs is a hefty 170 pages long—but only a dozen or so pages constitute the actual opinion of the court, thanks to a fractured majority opinion.
Huge chunks of this monstrosity are
Women's Olympic hockey team tells Trump to go puck himself
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The U.S. women's Olympic hockey team declined President Donald Trump's invitation to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday, with a spokesperson for the team telling NBC News that they couldn’t attend «due to the timing and previously schedu
The right’s new favorite 'journalist' face-plants—again
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Leading Republican voices like Donald Trump Jr. are promoting a new “investigation” by conservative activist Nick Shirley which purports to prove voter fraud in California, but the core premise of the video was quickly debunked. The false allegation adds
The Recap: Kash Patel parties like an Olympian, and the state of Trump’s union is bleak
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Americans are pissed at the state of Trump's union
He’s just as popular as he was after Jan. 6.
Despite crises in US, FBI director chugs a b
MAGA will never understand what makes the Olympics great
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After a Winter Olympic Games of athletes celebrating each other as much as they did winning, the response from the Trump administration is equal parts disheartening and gross.
These are people who are functionally incapable of seeing the Olympics as an
MyPillow guy isn't losing sleep over scamming his donors
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You may already have forgotten that MyPillow CEO and all-around weirdo Mike Lindell has mounted a vanity campaign for governor of Minnesota. He’s got little chance of making it through even the Republican primary, but nonetheless, some suckers out there hav
How Trump's war on Democratic states could backfire
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President Donald Trump wants to hurt Democratic-controlled states by withholding infrastructure funds, but ironically, his moves could sink Republicans in key races in this year’s midterm elections.
On Monday, Trump went on yet another diatribe against th
CBS forces Colbert to pull segment—and he isn't doing it quietly
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CBS prevented late night host Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Monday night, the latest act of censorship from the increasingly right-wing network in coordination with the Trump administration
‘I am somebody’: Tributes pour in for civil rights icon Jesse Jackson
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday, at age 84. The famed civil rights activist inspired hope in generations of young progressives with his inclusive vision following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, and tributes to Jackson Tributes beg
GOP senator admits party headed for election fiasco as Trump economy fails
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Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is ringing the alarm that his party is headed for big trouble in this year’s midterm elections, singling out the ongoing failure of the Trump economy as a key factor.
In an interview with The Hill, Kennedy advocate
'I am a byproduct of immigrants': Bad Bunny halftime guest dishes on show's impact
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When Victor Villa arrived back at his taqueria in Los Angeles—just 24 hours after appearing alongside Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl halftime show—confetti streamers filled the air as his parents embraced him.
The owner of Villa’s Tacos was among th
'Resign or be impeached': Watch AOC wreck Pam Bondi on the world stage
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to command the world stage, providing at least one sane emissary from the United States amid the rise of Donald Trump’s chaotic, autocratic movement.
In a wide-ranging interview Sunday at Technische Universitä
You may soon need a passport to vote. Trump is making it harder to get one.
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Have you been feeling like you need to rush to get a passport in case the SAVE Act voter suppression jamboree becomes law? What if, somehow, President Donald Trump signing a piece of paper means that the provisions of the SAVE Act go into effect even without
Republicans bail on states’ rights so Trump can rig elections
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Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he thinks that the f
Trump’s calls to 'nationalize' elections has local officials bracing for tumult
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Some election leaders are preparing for the possibility of federal pressure.
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President Donald Trump’s calls this week to “nationalize” elections capped a year of efforts by his administration to exercise authori
The NFL's political power—and how Trump fumbled it
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President Donald Trump loves football, but football may no longer love him
Tennessee Democrat trolls MAGA's knockoff Super Bowl halftime show
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Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones spoke on the Statehouse floor Thursday, delivering what he called a "public service announcement for the Republican side of the aisle.”
Jones suggested that conservatives who are concerned about the much-a
Rubio says farewell to one of his many no-show jobs
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Marco Rubio is out of a job. Well, one of them at least.
You may have forgotten that, along with being secretary of State, Rubio was also serving as the acting U.S. archivist, which is easy to overlook given that he has, at various times, held eleventy diffe
The Recap: What it takes for the GOP to stand up to ICE, and Trump plays dumb
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23 years ago: Colin Powell lied to launch a bogus war
To think it used to be truly inappropriate to base political actions on lies.
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Trump is popular only in Elon Musk's racist online cesspool
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A new survey released on Thursday proves what many had long suspected: X, the social media network owned by far-right billionaire Elon Musk, is trapped in an ideological bubble far removed from the rest of the world.
The poll from The Argument, which was fie
MAGA poor sports unveil their awful Super Bowl halftime alternative
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Have you been waiting with bated breath to find out who would perform at Turning Point USA’s halftime show? Lo, these long months where we were promised that this alternative halftime show would be epic, but the lineup was a mystery until Monday, when we le
Let’s all laugh at Fox News anchor’s ridiculous take on ‘Melania’
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Former White House press secretary and current Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany went into full propaganda mode Monday, hyping first lady Melania Trump’s new documentary and adding to increasingly dubious stories about stellar ticket sales.
“My mom went to
The Recap: Kennedy Center gets a Trump makeover, and a Democrat special election win
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Shady new ad campaign paints ICE thugs as ‘friends and neighbors’
This will totally change the public’s mind about ICE’s handiwork.
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Republican megadonor Elon Musk spent the weekend trying to change the narrative about his interactions with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein after emails surfaced showing Musk arranging to attend a party at Epstein’s notorious private island.
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MAGA women think lip filler and having a million babies makes you hot
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MAGA folks are revisiting their beloved argument that conservative women have more children because they’re hotter.
“Conservative women are just factually more attractive than liberal women. It’s why more conservatives than liberals are having ba
'Go f-ck yourself': Hero cop calls out GOP stooge for Jan. 6 lies
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Former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone—who was seriously injured while defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack—told Republican Rep. Troy Nehls, “Go fuck yourself” during Thursday’s House committee hearing featuring forme
The Recap: Newsom won’t let up on Trump, and ICE says screw the 4th Amendment
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ICE goons to America: We don’t need no stinkin’ warrants
The lawlessness continues unabated.
Democrat shreds GOP's Trump worship: 'We too
Hey, Republicans: You can’t put the orange genie back in the bottle
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Congratulations, Republicans: Your mentally incapacitated president—who’s running the country without guardrails, constraints, or adult supervision—is burning through nearly a century of international goodwill, with consequences that will echo for decad
Check out Pete Buttigieg's scathing takedown of JD Vance
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Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. When asked by The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg whether he believed Vice President JD Vance to be a “fascist,” Buttig
