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Kamala Harris Still Doesn’t Have the Answers At the opening event of a book tour promoting her new memoir, it was clear that the former vice president doesn’t know where she—or her party—goes from here.

NEW: After nearly eleven months since Kamala Harris lost the presidential election, it’s still not clear what she thinks the way forward is for her party. Maybe she didn’t feel that was in her job description. Her fans didn’t seem to mind. newrepublic.com/article/2009...

A social media user—wrongly accused of posting negatively about Charlie Kirk—was suspended from his job alongside a tidal wave of threatening messages and phone calls, sending his mother and sister fleeing from their home.

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Does Pam Bondi Actually Know What the Law Is? The attorney general scrambled to contain the backlash to her bizarre comments on “hate speech.”

Bondi doesn’t have a clue how First Amendment law works—or she doesn’t care. trib.al/OqSv113

“We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech," she said. Except that there is no legal definition for hate speech in the U.S., so it's generally protected.

Without knowing the identity of the shooter, their politics, or what motivated them, far-right influencers are using increasingly disturbing rhetoric and launching into preparations for a battle against liberals. trib.al/d3CMo8I

“We have the truth. And the FBI knows the truth. The government knows the truth,” Robson said. “You may pull the wool over the sheep’s eyes, but we are the keys, we know who was involved.”

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Less than 24 hours after crying with survivors of the alleged sex trafficker, Rep. Nancy Mace offered a wild defense of President Donald Trump who has dismissed calls for more transparency on Jeffrey Epstein.

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i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.

Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet Donald Trump snuck an insidious change into an executive order on showerheads.

Read this. Read this. Read this. King shit. newrepublic.com/post/193852/...

Trump Press Sec. Dodges Key Question on Identifying “Gang Members” Karoline Leavitt fumbled when asked why deportee names haven’t been released.

"We have the highest degree of confidence in our ICE agents."

Meanwhile, ICE has openly admitted it has nothing on several of the noncitizens who were deported, and implied the lack of evidence was the very thing that helped the gov't assume their guilt.

White House Press Sec. Goes on Bonkers Rant When Asked About Tesla Karoline Leavitt stumbled when asked about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick shilling for Elon Musk.

Notably, Cabinet members do not typically endorse products, as the Code of Federal Regulations states that “public servants are generally barred from using their office’s platform to endorse companies and products.”

Karoline Leavitt Brutally Fact-Checked on Judge Who Blocked Trump Leavitt went on the offense about the judge who blocked some of Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.

As Trump’s lead propagandist, Leavitt attempted to paint the federal judge (who ordered the pause on massive deportations) as “a Democrat activist,” but unfortunately, she got her facts wrong: Judge Boasberg was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

Russia Asks Elon Musk to Sell Out Opposition Figures Elon Musk has access to sensitive information about dissidents and intelligence officials. Russia wants it.

Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, asked the U.S. Tuesday for a list of individuals and opposition groups in Russia who received money from USAID.

Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Butt More Than We Even Realized The Department of Justice ordered New York prosecutors to drop charges against the embattled mayor.

It seems like New York Mayor Eric Adams got exactly what he wanted from Donald Trump’s Department of Justice—and then some.

Mexico’s President Threatens to Sue Google for Bowing to Trump Google has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened Thursday to sue Google after it changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico in its maps, in compliance with Donald Trump’s superficial executive order.

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No, Trump Didn’t Block $50 Million in Condoms to Gaza Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted this was the reason for freezing Medicaid.

It seems that as one of Trump’s lead propagandists, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has already taken up one of his favorite tactics: making stuff up on the spot when backed into the corner.

Trump Melts Down Over Jack Smith’s Damning Report Donald Trump will not face any consequences from Smith’s investigation.

“Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide,” Trump added. “THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!”

Steve Bannon Is Pissed at Trump’s Newest MAGA Acolyte Bannon warned that Donald Trump’s newest fan boy “can’t be trusted.”

Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the MAGA movement, has turned his ire against yet another supplicant snake from Silicon Valley: Mark Zuckerberg.

Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon’s Ruling Struck Down Judge Aileen Cannon’s reign of error on Jack Smith continues to be thwarted.

An appeals court has denied an emergency motion from two of Donald Trump’s co-defendants to stop the release of a report on the president-elect’s felony classified documents case.

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for sociopaths and narcissists, politics is when you pretend to care about other people. rejecting politics is when you embrace your hateful, reactionary human nature.

The @nytimes.com should hire whoever wrote this headline. Seriously!

Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Defends Petty Way He Censored His Critics Elon Musk is under fire for supporting H-1B visas.

Technocrat billionaire Elon Musk finally owned up Wednesday to restricting his critics’ X accounts. But the self-described “free speech absolutist” doesn’t see anything wrong with it.

Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue News Outlets for the Dumbest Reason How dare people report that a Cybertruck was involved in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion?

Elon Musk might start suing news outlets that fail to clarify that the Cybertruck that exploded in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas did not simply explode, but rather contained exploding fireworks.

To quote Edith Olmsted on The New Abnormal podcast "Happy Government Shutdown Eve"

Elon Musk Is the Billionaire Grinch That Ruined Christmas The New Abnormal · Episode

Listen to Edith Olmsted about Musk

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If we're looking for billionaires to save us, we're lost.

Trump Announces Dangerous New Lawsuit After ABC Settlement Donald Trump is feeling emboldened in his war on journalism.

One journalist asked Trump about his ongoing defamation cases: “Could you see moving that to other people with individual platforms, social media influencers, people that—”

“Or newspapers, yeah.” Trump interrupted.

UnitedHealthcare Shooting Suspect’s Manifesto Finally Revealed Luigi Mangione laid out his motivation.

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, was discovered with a brutal manifesto in which he admitted to the crime and apologized for the “strife” he caused, but stated plainly that “these parasites simply had it coming.”

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man sitting next to me on airplane opened a bag of sour cream and onion chips while I was sleeping and it was like smelling salts