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Right-Wingers Think the New Orleans Attack Is DEI’s Fault
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” Trump...
Even Fox News Thinks New Orleans Conspiracies Are Getting Out of Hand
Fox News is pulling the plug on the right’s conspiracies about the New Orleans terrorist attack.Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones pressed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Thursday, asking...
MAGA Senator Decides Terror Presser Is Perfect Time for Weird Joke
Apparently nothing is above politics for Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, who chose a terrorism press conference for the deaths of 15 people as an opportune platform to make some...
Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Defends Petty Way He Censored His Critics
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.Last week, Musk began...
Trump Pushes Bonkers and Dangerous Conspiracy About New Year’s Attacks
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” Trump...
Struggling Mike Johnson Has a New Plan to Keep His Job
Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to make it a lot harder for his colleagues to get rid of him. House Republicans unveiled a new set of rules...
Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War
The talking heads were the kind of gimmick DARPA would have loved—predictive, creepy, imaginary—but when the agency was founded in 1958, in a panicked attempt to get the Americans...
How Renegade Juries Could Help Thwart Trumpian Misrule
Some of the earliest cases of jury nullification were sparked by the spirit of the American Revolution, would-be citizens pushing back against perceived overreach by the British monarchy. John...
Enshittification Comes to Washington
Agreeing to a debate on this topic is like agreeing to a debate about whether the Earth is flat. Even if there is no scientific evidence to support such...
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening
On those issues and more, Trump has, as a recent Times headline put it, promised the moon with “no word on the rocket.” On many issues, though, not only...
