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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

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Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness The media has it wrong. Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.

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Trump Is Expanding His Thuggish War on Union Leaders First, they came for Lelo Zeferino. Now—amid the administration’s escalations in Los Angeles—the administration is prosecuting David Huerta.

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Newsom Calls Trump “Stone-Cold Liar” as California Threatens to Sue California Governor Gavin Newsom is furious about Trump sending in the National Guard to deal with protesters.

Newsom Calls Trump “Stone-Cold Liar” as California Threatens to Sue newrepublic.com/post/196276/... via @newrepublic.com Is he just now learning that Trump has no clue as to tell the truth about anything?

‘Nonsense and stupid’: Trump’s tariff war will cause global damage, says Grosvenor boss Policy will eventually right itself, adds Mark Preston, who heads Duke of Westminster’s property group

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Pete Hegseth, beset by leaks, clamps down on press inside Pentagon Defense secretary’s move outlined in memo seemingly punishes media for reporting on leaks inside department

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Netanyahu accused of slander after criticising Macron, Carney and Starmer Israeli leader’s antisemitism claim labelled defamatory as he is warned against pursuing a war without end

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FACT CHECK: Trump’s Oval Office drama: Unpacking the misleading claims about South Africa’s ‘white genocide’

US President Donald Trump dramatically ambushed President Cyril Ramaphosa with a multimedia presentation in the Oval Office encompassing Julius Malema, the MK party and farm murders. But how much of it was real?

Trump confronts South African president, pushing claims of genocide

Why does any world leader risk being ambushed in an Oval Office meeting with Trump?

Trump Threatens Republican Representative Exposing His Budget Lies Thomas Massie isn’t falling in line on the budget—and Trump is pissed.

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Trump’s IRS Pick Turns Into Babbling Mess as Senator Warren Grills Him Billy Long refused to answer one simple question about what the law says on the IRS.

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Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses newrepublic.com/article/1953... via @newrepublic.com

The Forgotten Dystopian Vision That Explains Trump’s Canada Obsession The president’s outlandish fixation on annexing Canada and Greenland makes sense when you understand his worldview. It’s pretty similar to one articulated in 1941.

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Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can't Have Personal Data Lee Dudek, Trump’s interim Social Security chief, says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data.

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Insanity

MAGA Brocasters Grow Suspicious of the Jews Joe Rogan and Theo Von, big-league hosts who elevated Trump, now playing footsie with antisemites.

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It’s not the Jewish people that are dangerous, it’s MAGA that is dangerous. Sure there are some bad apples, every group has some

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

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You can’t make this stuff up

What Was That? Grandpa Simpson visited the Justice Department on Friday, giving a speech that must have given even his handlers pause, a campaign stump speech delivered in front of the Seal of the Department of Just...

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The President Bush who started PEPFAR was George H.W. Bush, not the Bush currently living in Texas.

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

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‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law Even if the supreme court were to resist the president’s onslaught, it has little means to enforce its decisions

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Democratic ‘Tsk-Tsks’ Aren’t Equal to the Challenge Democrats need solutions, not silly placards

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March 8, 2025 Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.

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Trump Golf Weekends’ Cost To US Taxpayers Hits $18.2 Million Donald Trump has played golf at his own courses in Florida on six of the seven weekends since his second term began.

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The cost in less than 2 months

Opinion | The Thing That Could Be Trump’s Undoing Voters may resent egg prices more than damage to America’s democratic norms.

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Analysis | The many unpopular things Trump is doing right now His move to dismantle the Education Department is merely the latest example of initiatives that Americans seem to strongly oppose.

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Hundreds of US diplomats decry dismantling of USAid in letter to Rubio Officials say slashing of US Department for International Development leaves power vacuum for adversaries

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Pete Buttigieg Perfectly Skewers Trump’s So-Called “Mandate” The former transportation secretary really cut Donald Trump down to size.

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Trump Congress speech: The president’s plans for the rest of the world are truly unhinged.

Trump’s address to Congress was built on a foundation of lies The problem is not just that Trump lied throughout his national address. The problem is made worse by the apparent fact that he felt like he had to lie.

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Trudeau Grimly Warns the World That Trump Can No Longer Be Trusted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hit back at Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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