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A new poll from UMass Amherst found that 47% of 2024 Trump voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein controversy.

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You can draw a straight line between the current frantic gerrymandering arms race and a mind-bendingly stupid decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The FBI searched the home and office of former Trump I national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in what is yet another example of President Trump abusing the powers of his office to target his critics … and Bolton in particular.

With one half of them beaming in from occupied D.C., @Kate_Riga24 and @joshtpm are back on the regular schedule to talk the capital takeover, budding Democratic resistance and Trump’s candid election rigging.

Much like the effects of Trump’s deep cuts to Medicaid funding on rural hospitals, defunding CPB is expected to disproportionately impact the very people the president purports to represent.

President Trump’s attack on yet another Black woman in public office gives away the game – if you were still harboring any doubt – about his corrupt use of mortgage fraud allegations to target Democrats.

When we're looking at how specifically states can stand up to Trump, their first response should simply be to say "no" and go from there, @joshtpm says.

“People are becoming more loyal to their political party than to the office that they hold,” Georgetown Law professor David Super said of congressional Republicans’ willingness to cede their authority to the executive branch.

The mass deportation agenda is just one part of a larger agenda in which white Americans are fronted as the real America and everyone else is second-class, unless they individually demonstrate in lavish ways a high enough degree of fealty to Donald Trump.

President Trump revealed Monday that he intends to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” before the 2026 midterms, adding explicitly that he thinks ending the practice will benefit Republicans.

A top antitrust lawyer fired by the Trump DOJ is not going quietly. In a speech yesterday in Colorado, Roger Alford accused two senior aides to AG Pam Bondi of corrupting DOJ’s usual process for dealing with antitrust lawsuits, the WSJ reports.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a critic of the vaccine court, calling it “biased” against compensating people, slow and unfair. He has said that he wants to “revolutionize” or “fix” this system.

Ed Martin admitted he’s using the pretext of clearly bogus mortgage fraud investigations to conduct an open-ended witch hunt into Adam Schiff and Letitia James.

Some troops surveyed said they no longer trust U.S. law as useful guidance, saying “Trump will issue illegal orders.”.

The clumsy Trumpian takeover of DC has been as comical as it has been foreboding, but things escalated overnight. AG Pam Bondi asserted a new level of authority over local police. DC officials immediately rejected her claims to power and sued to block her.

Nearly eight months after inauguration, the abstract picture of how the Trump White House laid the groundwork to overhaul federal data collection is becoming clear.

Both Warren and Murphy have argued that Dems can’t trust Republicans or the Trump White House to actually stick to any bipartisan gov't funding agreements or spend money how Congress allocates it.

The USAID debacle remains one of the most haunting aspects of the first months of the Trump II presidency. And the collective inability, unwillingness, and indifference of the courts to rein it in is a sobering sign of the limits of judicial power.

Jim Wilson wrote a book in the 1960s called “The Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism” that informs much of how this movement of Christian Nationalists is trying to accomplish its goals.

For Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the controversial facility is “an abomination to the whole concept of sovereignty.”.