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Trump Has Chosen the Lucky City for His Next Crackdown
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK — Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025 “Well, I watched that trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that…
Read MoreICE Is Detaining So Many People It’s Running Out of Beds
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK — Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025 “Well, I watched that trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that…
Read MoreMAGA Turns on Kash Patel Over Bungled Hunt for Charlie Kirk Shooter
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK — Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025 “Well, I watched that trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that…
Read MoreTrump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals
“That statement is basically a permission slip,” said Jared Holt, who tracks extremist activity for the online research group Open Measures. Holt means this in two senses: Trump’s statement offers permission to broader mainstream audiences to write off the importance of radical right-wing violence, and is also aimed at right-wing extremist activity itself. “It’s very…
Read MoreThe Media Is Totally Blowing Its Coverage of Charlie Kirk
The killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has resulted in a very intense debate about his politics and approach. In the latest edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon, TNR contributors Ana Marie Cox and Meredith Shiner say that the press is largely whitewashing Kirk’s actual politics, citing a column by The New York Times’…
Read MoreKash Patel Loses It at Own Agents Over Bumbling Charlie Kirk Probe
FBI Director Kash Patel unleashed a profanity-laced tirade on federal agents, as he cracked under the pressure of finding Charlie Kirk’s killer. The New York Times reported Thursday that Patel completely lost it during an online meeting with 200 agents involved in the manhunt for Kirk’s killer. One official recounted to the Times that among…
Read MoreTrump Drug Boat Bombing Takes Darker Turn as Damning New Info Emerges
Questions are mounting about President Trump’s decision to bomb a small boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing all 11 people on board. The administration says these were drug cartel members who posed a threat to the United States, but many legal experts have concluded the bombing might have been illegal or a war crime. And…
Read MoreAOC Shreds Republicans for Trying to Spin Kirk’s Death
The president also announced disaster aid to Kansas, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. In each post, he was sure to note that the funds were going to states in which he’s had electoral successes in the past. In North Carolina, for example, he wrote, “I WON BIG all six times” (six, that is, because he included…
Read MoreMAGA Is Already Blaming Trans People for Charlie Kirk’s Death
The president also announced disaster aid to Kansas, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. In each post, he was sure to note that the funds were going to states in which he’s had electoral successes in the past. In North Carolina, for example, he wrote, “I WON BIG all six times” (six, that is, because he included…
Read MoreTrump Wants to Decimate Public Land Protections … for Drilling
He notably failed to mention acts of political violence perpetrated by right wingers against the left—e.g., the June shootings of two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, which killed State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband; the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi, in an attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi (which Trump mocked); the January 6,…
Read MoreTranscript: Nancy Mace Explodes in Fury after Dem’s Takedown Hits Home
Sargent: Well, I want to get at the cruelty dimension of this, because I think it’s really important. I want to point out that unless you had prompted that reaction from Mace, her long diatribe on the floor would have passed entirely unnoticed, at least outside of right-wing precincts, right? Mainstream media barely registers it…
Read MoreTranscript: Why Democratic Leadership Is Clueless About Politics
Litman: They’re going to have to go through a full rebranding exercise the way the Democrats had to do after Obama and we saw how that works. It doesn’t go that well when you don’t have the unifying figure who can bring together unique parts of the coalition you need. Bacon: I see. Litman: I’m…
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