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President Donald Trump and his supporters keep insisting that Spencer Pratt, Trump’s fellow ex-reality TV star, was robbed in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Yet according to Nick Catoggio from the center-right publication The Dispatch, Trump and his backers are really upset about something else — the fact that the election results reveal their increasing irrelevance.“It makes sense that a party of postliberals, paranoiacs, and grifters would believe that any election it loses has been rigged against it,” Catoggio wrote. “But Trump-era Republicans don’t a

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is getting bummed with President Donald Trump’s mixed messaging and embarrassing fabrications, especially when they keep producing cringe moments in U.S. invasion of Iran, reports Mediaite.Specifically, Ingraham was aggravated that Iranians were still able to strike U.S. targets when their military was allegedly destroyed, as Trump and his cohorts keep claiming. Ingraham was speaking with former State Department official Nathan Sales about the U.S.

Overcoming a series of scandals that experts feared would sink his campaign, former oysterman Graham Platner defeated Gov. Janet Mills in the Maine Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday.Platner entered the election with high hopes, as supporters embraced his economic populist message. Yet despite receiving high profile endorsements, including from the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Platner’s campaign was bogged down by a series of scandals. First it came out that he had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, which he claims he chose without realizing its fascist origins. Then it was revealed that he had made racist, homophobic and sex

An ex-prosecutor said that President Donald Trump’s lingering obsession with claiming elections were stolen reflects “ferrets” in his head having their way with him.“It is currently affecting what he does and government policy,” former deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman told conservative commentator Charlie Sykes on Tuesday. “It's not just a stray fit of temper.”Worse, prior to Sykes playing a clip of Trump storming out of his interview with NBC News reporter Kris

Billionaire Tom Steyer is officially out of the 2026 California gubernatorial race.Steyer lost to both fellow Democrat and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and a Republican, former Fox News host Steve Hilton. While Becerra was able to advance to the runoff relatively quickly after Election Night, Steyer and Hilton continued to face off against each other until Tuesday night.Working against Steyer was the fact that he would have needed roughly one-third of the remaining roughly 1.3 million votes, including from populous counties lik

President Donald Trump’s controversial America’s 250th anniversary includes a set of mobile museums carrying displays about the nation’s history and prominent figures. But one of the displays is angering the religious community because it falsely claims that Muhammad Ali disavowed Islam.“It is a stunning slight to the man — a beloved global icon, ambassador of peace, athletic legend, and cultural titan — and to Islam, a faith under siege by the Trump administration and others and for which Ali was a powerful envoy to mainstream America,”

President Donald Trump ally U.S. District Judge Ailleen Cannon dismissed the president's Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution in 2024, the criminal case involving Trump’s alleged stealing and misuse of classified state documents after his first term. Critics say Cannon unquestionably granted Trump a huge favor, siding with defense lawyers who said special counsel Jack Smith, who filed the charges, was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. In May, she then blocked the re

Hard-right groups have expanded their influence inside the Trump administration, a new report on hate and extremism by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds, according to The Guardian. A federal grand jury indicted the SPLC, a civil rights organization, on federal fraud charges earlier this year — months before the report’s publication.“2025 was a turbulent year marked by injustice, social upheaval and stark new threats from a hard-right movement rapidly establishing its power across institutions,” reads the

A self-identified pro-free speech Ohio state senator sent an Ohio gossip blogger to jail for sending a text message that compared the Republican to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini — and included a sexually explicit image of the Dreamworks cartoon character Shrek.“D.J. Byrnes—an Ohio blogger who runs a Statehouse gossip Substack called The Rooster—was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant at the Ohio Statehouse,” observed Reason’s Meagan O’Rourke on Tuesday. “Byrnes' arrest, according to reporting by Signal Ohio, likely stems from a picture he texted to state Sen. Jerry Cirino (R–Kirtland) on May 6. The offending image? A ‘digitally altered version of Shr

President Donald Trump is reviving the Lavender Scare, an infamous period in American history that began in the 1950s and led to the widespread persecution of members of the LGBTQ community.“A defining feature of the mid-20th century was the government-wide panic over communism, anarchism, and other leftist beliefs known as the Red Scare,” wrote ACLU Social Editor Hanna Stolzer on Tuesday. “However what many don’t know is that an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 government employees were fired or forced to resign during that same time perio