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President Donald Trump has weaponized the Justice Department so egregiously, he has literally destroyed an important pillar of American life, at least according to one conservative commentator.“President Trump's $1.776 billion weaponization fund to compensate January 6th rioters for their troubles is now (probably—perhaps mostly) dead,” The Bulwark’s Elliot Williams wrote on Sunday. “But that doesn’t mean that you should stop paying attention to it.”Williams pointed out that, despite Trum

President Donald Trump is attempting to compromise future elections by targeting election workers to gaslight America about his 2020 defeat, according to a Georgia election worker.“We are responding to ‘Fulton seeks to block federal subpoena targeting 2020 election workers, May 5,’” wrote Election Protectors United of Georgia’s Jon C. Greaves in an editorial for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that was published on Sunday. “As registered voters from Fulton County and beyond, we deeply value the selfless staff and volunteers who fac

I started in radio news as a teenage reporter at WITL-AM/FM in Lansing, Michigan, then the number one station in the capital city. I began reporting from the Capitol and City Hall, and was writing and reading the morning newscasts within a year.The station owner was a hardcore Goldwater Republican, our news director was a liberal but Libertarian-curious Democrat, and I was a long-haired anti-war hippie member of MSU's Students for a Democratic Society.I did the news there for years, and nobody ever told me how to spin it or what to insert or delete. I knew that I couldn’t bias it to reflect my own opinions: the news — accurate, factual, honest information — was sacred.It was also t

Democratic political consultant James Carville wants Maine voters to back Graham Platner despite the candidate’s flaws — and partly because of some of them. Platner is currently the likely Democratic nominee in Maine’s U.S. Senate race. If Platner wins the primary, he will face Republican Senator Susan Collins, who was first elected in 1996.“I understand he’s f—— up,” said Carville on his Politicon podcast. “Yeah, maybe we need a combat veteran right on that Senate floor, who is f—— up.”Carville berated Senator Collins by calling her “the most pliable me

Either the nearly 80-year-old Donald Trump believes a cognitive test is an intelligence test or he's lying about his mental health. I don't think there's a gray zone here. If it's the first, he's demented. If it's the second, he's hiding something (probably dementia). Either way, it's bad.It happens too frequently to ignore. The president brags about passing a cognitive test to the point where he seems to believe it's a measure of his IQ. In public remarks, he often puts special emphasis on the word "cognitive" as if to stress that it demonstrates his intelligence. Here's

The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence across society is causing a dangerous new form of extremism that is radicalizing individuals across the ideological spectrum, according to a new report from The Guardian.A pattern of alarming incidents suggests the threat is accelerating. A Texas man was arrested earlier this year with kerosene and a lighter near OpenAI's headquarters and Sam Altman's house, along with an a

One of the Republican lawmakers who stood up to President Donald Trump over his longtime friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein cursed out a Fox News journalist who accused her of an affair with another anti-Epstein Republican.“F--- you, first of all!’ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told a Fox News Digital reporter on Saturday when the latter brought up the allegations from a woman who claims to have been Massie's ex-girlfriend.The longtime MAGA supporter then added, “If you’re gonna bring me into this, like, the sexist stuff is like out of control. So there’s your clickbait that you were looking for.”Ma

The broadcast journalist who stood up to CBS News' increasingly pro-MAGA bias is now speaking out about his views on President Donald Trump and the First Amendment.Speaking with The New York Times in an interview released on Sunday, Pelley was asked about Trump referring to him as part of a gang of "stupid, crooked people that don’t care about your country.""Stupid? I can, I can take that," Pelley said. "Stiff? Yeah, probably. Don’t care about the country? I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has

The 2026 World Cup promises to be the planet’s most-watched sporting event. It’s also poised to generate its fair share of controversy.Taking into account the history of corruption in FIFA, the sport’s governing body, it would be hard to blame anyone who decided to ignore this year’s competition.However, some viewers of this summer’s tournament may face an additional dilemma. Political tensions are high in the U.S., where most of the tournament’s matches will be played. The Trump administration

Let’s start with some questions today, before we arrive at the answer.What if Kamala Harris had become president, promptly leveled the historic East Wing of our White House, and then spent each day like a petrified drama queen shrieking that taxpayers should purchase her a new ballroom?What if Harris had spent her time in office plastering her face and name on inanimate objects, while food prices she promised to lower spiraled out of control, and then belittled the people who dared mention this?I’m not done.What if Harris and her administration had spent their time attacking science and vaccines and then did nothing as Measles — MEASLES — made a deadly comeback across America? What if Harris had become president and picked silly and insulting fights with our NATO partne