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An Arkansas chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the conservative activist group founded by the late Charlie Kirk, is changing its name due to partially-unspecified complaints with the main organization."We are no longer focused on our guiding north star -- that is, fighting for conservative policy, principles, and values -- at least, that is how I have always understood it,” University of Arkansas chapter president Dino Fantegrossi said in a public statement. “It feels we have become consumed with metrics, creating viral cultural moments, and generally chasing releva

Now that President Donald Trump has invaded Iran, he has no choice to see it through to an absolute conclusion and permanently remove the ayatollahs — and one of his former top foreign policy advisers just wrote he is “already failing” to do this.“If the president wasn’t fully resolved to remove the ayatollahs, he should never have initiated so ambitious a military effort,” Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “Strikes on military targets alone won’t topple the regime. Instead, they must debilitate the institutions of state power, notably the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the basij militia. That would prove

Analyst and political commenter Joy-Ann Reid caused a small explosion on X after she dared to compare the hard right-wing fundamentalism of Iran to the hard right-wing fundamentalism of MAGA and President Donald Trump.Reid’s claim, which currently had 970 reposts by late Tuesday — many from furious Christian nationalists and evangelicals — states: “I’m not saying that [Iran] regime is not bad, but … our regime is not good.”“Our regime has secret police,

President Donald Trump’s Senior Adviser, Peter Navarro, once suggested that the Trump tariffs would generate $700 billion per year. Not so, says one researcher.Writing in Reason, Research Fellow Jack Salmon from the Mercatus Center takes issue with Navarro’s apparently inflated numbers.“At the time (of their announcement), I

One of the most influential conservative newspapers in America is urging President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans to abandon the SAVE America Act.“The decentralized nature of American elections is a source of resilience, and Republicans rightly opposed President Biden’s attempt to federalize voting rules on the lax California model,” wrote The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Tuesday. “Have they given up federalist principle? If 51 Senate votes are all it takes to limit mail ballots across the country and require voter ID, Democrats next time will use 51 votes to

Certified Broadcast and Consulting Meteorologist John Morales said he was thrown by President Donald Trump’s recent weather claims about Cuba.The Miami New Times reports Trump told reporters on Monday at the White House that Cuba is not in a hurricane zone, beginning his remarks that Cuba was a “beautiful island” with “great weather.”“They’re not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know?” Trump told reporters. “They won’t be asking us for money for hurricanes every week … I do believe I’ll have the honor of

Producer and columnist Steve Benen claims that President Donald Trump seems eager to prove his critics right.Writing in MS Now, Benen cites a laundry list of Trump failures in economics, the Iran War, his battles with perceived enemies, and his tariffs loss at the Supreme Court. He adds that Trump is “historically unpopular, at least in part because two-thirds of Americans are convinced that Trump simply has the wrong priorities.” “By any fair measure, 14 months into his second term, Donald Trump’s presidency is failing,” Be

President Donald Trump is denouncing Joe Kent, his former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, for resigning in protest over his invasion of Iran. Now a respected columnist is warning Trump’s critics that although Kent may be correct in opposing the Iran war, that does not mean he is on the side of anti-Trumpers.It just means that “it’s getting crowded under” the bus under which Trump keeps throwing people.“How does media ― legitimate media ― cover a story in which a bad person does the right thing?” wrote Bill Goodykoontz of the Arizona Republic. “File under: A stopped watch is right twice a day. And more chao

President Donald Trump’s powerful billionaire ally, X CEO Elon Musk, once impregnated a Trump fan and anti-transgender influencer named Ashley St. Clair. Now St. Clair is warning conservatives that the Trump movement is a “cult” which will “come for you next.”Speaking with gun control activist Cameron Kasky for the conservative website The Bulwark, St. Clair expressed regret for her past support of far right causes and urged accountability for conservatives who hurt other people."What I've realized since leaving is that ignoring the issues these communities were raising — the on

In its desperation to replace fleeing prosecutors and defectors, President Donald Trump’s DOJ is now loosening hiring requirements for federal prosecutors. Trump’s DOJ says new applicants no longer need have any attorney experience to get a job. They can be fresh out of college, and CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reid says Americans can probably expect predictable results. “They have redesigned this agency to try to pursue MAGA priorities and in some cases, pursue the president's adversaries. And they've lost a lot of people in the