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‘Weak-willed do nothing’: War Room co-host launches insult-laced attack on key Trump ally

A co-host on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast went after House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday – a central GOP figure that will be key to seeing through President-elect Donald Trump’s next agenda. “I think we need to watch out for something called autocratic breakthrough,” Maddow said in the clip, a concept she described as occurring when the party in …

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Senate Finance Chair says GOP push for Medicaid cuts spotlights 'real Trump agenda'

Raw Story

The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday that GOP plans to target Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance to help offset the huge cost of their tax agenda encapsulates the economic agenda of the incoming Republican trifecta led by President-elect Donald Trump, who postured as a working-class champion during the 2024 race. "You couldn't come up with a …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Transgender Awareness Week reveals a community in crisis

CNN

CNN — The 2024 presidential race brought unprecedented vitriol into the public sphere, leaving many transgender people feeling especially marginalized and vulnerable. November 13th-19th is Transgender Awareness Week, and CNN’s ‘Impact Your World’ is spotlighting ways to help trans people and their loved ones navigate these challenging times. “Many are feeling scared and angry and are looking for resources for …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Transgender Awareness Week reveals a community in crisis

CNN

CNN — The 2024 presidential race brought unprecedented vitriol into the public sphere, leaving many transgender people feeling especially marginalized and vulnerable. November 13th-19th is Transgender Awareness Week, and CNN’s ‘Impact Your World’ is spotlighting ways to help trans people and their loved ones navigate these challenging times. “Many are feeling scared and angry and are looking for resources for …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

We quit ultra-processed foods for 30 days... here's what it did to our energy levels, hunger and mental health

Daily Mail

Ultra-processed foods have been demonized for years for their supposed effect on our health, mental wellbeing and waistlines. Gavin Wren, a food policy expert in the UK, tried to quit ultra-processed foods for 30 days, but found that this gave him anxiety To eat more whole foods, he ended up buying an entire Halibut Forty-six-year-old Gavin Wren, a food policy …

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3 months ago

Gwyneth Paltrow's $65k-a-year-former school 'bullied out beloved bi-racial French teacher after headteacher's woke daughter made VERY petty complaint

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump insists he’s ‘not a threat to democracy’ in Dr Phil interview, suggests God wants him to save the world

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump attempted to clarify his previous remarks about …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

From electric vehicles to deciding what to cook for dinner, John Podesta faces climate challenges

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — John Podesta was two months into his new role as President Joe Biden’s top climate diplomat when he faced his first international crisis — what to serve for dinner. Podesta conceded that progress has been slower than expected on electric vehicles, but he believes there’s still momentum despite efforts by the political right to “demonize” zero-emission vehicles. “There’s …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

UK Prime Minister Sunak suffers further blow as another Conservative lawmaker defects to Labour

Associated Press

LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was accused Wednesday of leading a “chaotic” government as another one of his Conservative lawmakers defected to the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a looming general election. “Under Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have become a byword for incompetence and division.” Elphicke is the second Conservative lawmaker to defect to Labour in two …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

South Korea's opposition leader urges the president to accept investigation of wife, top officials

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — Emboldened by his party’s recent election win, South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung pressured President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept special investigations into allegations involving top officials and his wife, as they met Monday for talks on bipartisan cooperation. The meeting was their first since Yoon, a conservative former top prosecutor, took office in 2022 after …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

So much for moving to Europe: Trump's allies are plotting an EU takeover

Salon

It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. In retrospect, the departure of the United Kingdom from the EU in 2020 may prove to have been just a minor speed bump compared to what Europe faces with the war in Ukraine, the recent success of far-right parties in Italy and the Netherlands, and the prospect …

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11 months, 1 week ago

What a new president in Taiwan means for the island, China, the US and the world

Associated Press

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s incoming president is promising more of the same. “Xi Jinping has invested considerable effort and credibility in tamping down tensions with the West, both to lower China’s profile in an American election year and to buy space to deal with myriad problems at home.” U.S. RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY President Joe Biden has sent an unofficial delegation …

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1 year, 2 months ago

'Will try to kill people': Expert warns Trump is using a known tactic to pass down marching orders

Raw Story

A political analyst warned Sunday that Donald Trump’s followers “will try to kill people” as the former president’s violent rhetoric ramps up – and it's increasingly being normalized. Brian Klaas, an associate professor in global politics at University College London, told MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart that, while the nation apparently isn’t taking Trump’s threats seriously, a group …

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1 year, 5 months ago

What the Freakout Over Trans Women Breastfeeding Is Really About

Slate

A version of this piece originally appeared on Assigned. While the CDC guidance seems aimed primarily at supporting trans men and trans mascs who give birth after top surgery, it was presented by Fox as evidence that the CDC supports breastfeeding by trans women. As with many similar small controversies, a frenzy of activity among right-wing writers and anti-trans activists …

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1 year, 6 months ago

"Unfriending" America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me

Salon

"You've got a friend in Pennsylvania!" But as with any religious movement, the NAR's notion of what God requires is a matter of interpretation, and in this case God's intentions are said to be revealed through modern-day, mutually recognized apostles and prophets, some of whom lead vast networks of believers, whom they often call "prayer warriors." Apostle Kent Mattox identified …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Meet Russ Vought: Mild-mannered mastermind of the GOP's debt-ceiling power play

Salon

Russ Vought, former head of the Office of Management and Budget under Donald Trump, appeared on Steve Bannon's far-right "War Room" show on April 19. Vought was Trump's attack dog in fighting the power of the "deep state," and fully shared his antipathy to the civil service professionals, who repeatedly thwarted the president's will to seize total power. "To the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Sanjeev Sanyal On India's Independence: Armed Resistance Can't Be Termed As Random Acts Of No Significance

News 18

In his new book, Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom, economist and writer Sanjeev Sanyal paints a fascinating portrait of world that is unafraid of the gallows. The armed resistance to the British colonial occupation of India is at least as important as the non-violent movement. Sachindra Nath Sanyal was suspicious of the Khilafat Movement as …

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2 years ago

'I see good things about Hitler': Kanye West goes full Nazi on Alex Jones' show

Raw Story

Kanye West praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during an appearance on Alex Jones' InfoWars conspiracy broadcast. The rapper, who now goes by Ye, appeared on the right-wing conspiracy broadcast alongside white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a week after the pair met with former president Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and Jones attempted to give him a chance to walk back …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Lawyer: Heard was ‘demonized’ by Depp team, social media

Associated Press

FAIRFAX, Va. — Amber Heard was “demonized” by ex-husband Johnny Depp’s legal team and excoriated on social media during a sensational defamation trial that ended with a jury ordering her to pay Depp $15 million, Heard’s lawyer said Thursday. Elaine Bredehoft, one of Heard’s lead attorneys during the trial, said she believes the jury was influenced by a relentless barrage …

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2 years, 6 months ago

May 30, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

CNN

Damage at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Ukraine on Friday, May 27. “I have not been in touch with my husband or got any information about him lately,” said Anna Ivleva, the wife of Anton, a marine who was seriously wounded in Azovstal. And then his brothers-in-arms would send me texts that he was still alive.” Ivleva said Ukrainian government …

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2 years, 7 months ago

The Replacement Killers: How Trump and Tucker spawned a new breed of terrorists

Raw Story

He said he was “fighting for a dying race” and “fighting extinction” after his deadly rampage against Black people. He was caught before he could execute the next part of his plan: burst into a nearby synagogue and gun down “as many Jews as possible.” A troubled student who spent hours surfing the internet, he was inspired by websites that …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Republicans Criticize Biden For Not Starving Undocumented Immigrant Babies

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans criticized the Biden administration on Thursday for providing food to infants detained in its custody — effectively suggesting the babies should be starved because of their immigration status. “The Biden administration has been sending pallets of baby formula for illegal mothers and their babies while American mothers and babies cannot find baby formula,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor …

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3 years ago

Suspect in Waukesha parade carnage says he feels ‘demonized’

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing six people and injuring dozens, said Wednesday that he feels like he’s being “demonized.” Darrell Brooks Jr., in an interview with Fox News from the Waukesha County Jail, offered no details about a possible motive. “I just feel like I’m being monster …

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3 years ago

‘You should be hung!’ How Trump supporters drove two Georgia election workers into hiding

Raw Story

Former president Donald Trump and his supporters demonized and terrorized two rank-and-file elections workers in Georgia for months over a conspiracy theory alleging they had pulled fake ballots from suitcases at a ballot-counting center. In early December, Trump's campaign falsely alleged — based on a video that went viral in right-wing media — that the two Black women had pulled …

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‘Weak-willed do nothing’: War Room co-host launches insult-laced attack on key Trump ally

Senate Finance Chair says GOP push for Medicaid cuts spotlights 'real Trump agenda'

Transgender Awareness Week reveals a community in crisis

Transgender Awareness Week reveals a community in crisis

We quit ultra-processed foods for 30 days... here's what it did to our energy levels, hunger and mental health

Gwyneth Paltrow's $65k-a-year-former school 'bullied out beloved bi-racial French teacher after headteacher's woke daughter made VERY petty complaint

Trump insists he’s ‘not a threat to democracy’ in Dr Phil interview, suggests God wants him to save the world

From electric vehicles to deciding what to cook for dinner, John Podesta faces climate challenges

UK Prime Minister Sunak suffers further blow as another Conservative lawmaker defects to Labour

South Korea's opposition leader urges the president to accept investigation of wife, top officials

So much for moving to Europe: Trump's allies are plotting an EU takeover

What a new president in Taiwan means for the island, China, the US and the world

'Will try to kill people': Expert warns Trump is using a known tactic to pass down marching orders

What the Freakout Over Trans Women Breastfeeding Is Really About

"Unfriending" America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me

Meet Russ Vought: Mild-mannered mastermind of the GOP's debt-ceiling power play

Sanjeev Sanyal On India's Independence: Armed Resistance Can't Be Termed As Random Acts Of No Significance

'I see good things about Hitler': Kanye West goes full Nazi on Alex Jones' show

Lawyer: Heard was ‘demonized’ by Depp team, social media

May 30, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

The Replacement Killers: How Trump and Tucker spawned a new breed of terrorists

Republicans Criticize Biden For Not Starving Undocumented Immigrant Babies

Suspect in Waukesha parade carnage says he feels ‘demonized’

‘You should be hung!’ How Trump supporters drove two Georgia election workers into hiding