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‘Not Life or Death for Us’: DC Officials Push for Budget Fix in CR or Out of It

“That language needs to be adopted by Congress,” he said of the forward-looking guarantee, “but the CR is not life or death ...

Republicans Could Stop Trump’s Tariffs, But Keep Voting to Make Themselves Powerless

If Congress wanted to push back against President Donald Trump’s tariffs, it could have done so at any time by voting to end ...

Texas Congressman Says Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a ...

Schumer Says Dems Will Demand a Halt to White House’s Spending Freezes After All

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday morning said Democrats want to make sure that “the process that we ...

New Supreme Court Term Will Go All In On Anti-Trans Panic

Sensing an opportunity, red states have passed a tranche of anti-trans laws, gunning to get some of them before the Supreme ...

Trump and Vance Use Kirk’s Killing to Announce Ominous Plans to Investigate ‘the Left’

Just as Miller claimed that there is some sort of nameless leftist network working in coordination to organize “doxing ...

Republicans Are Using an Arcane Oversight Rule to Permanently Dismantle Federal Land Protections

He and other Alaska politicians proudly dubbed themselves the “Corrupt Bastards Club,” after a federal investigation ...
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We Remain Adrift in an Ocean of Lies: 30 Hours After the Charlie Kirk Shooting

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Suddenly, the Tune Changes

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We Don’t Even Talk About the Guns Anymore

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Insiders Describe the Trump FBI Clown Show in Vivid, Buffoonish Detail

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Why the Spike in Black Unemployment Is an Alarming Sign of What’s to Come

Troubling and unusual unemployment numbers for Black Americans are signaling that the U.S. is on its way to a potential recession, economists tell TPM.