Plus, Trump’s old drawings resurface; inside the fight to save SNAP and Medicaid; Ari Aster’s none-too-subtle depiction of Covid hysteria; and more...
| The California governor is threatening to make a controversial tit-for-tat response if Texas Republicans redraw their state’s district maps to boost the GOP’s numbers in Congress. |
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The U.S. Immigration System’s New Dark Age |
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| Join us on July 23 to discuss how the Trump administration is using mass deportation to attack democracy. Just added: Ama Frimpong, legal director, CASA; the primary attorney on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia and birthright citizenship cases. This isn’t Trump 1.0—it’s something darker: a deliberately broken immigration system rebuilt to serve cruelty, exclusion, and the erosion of our democracy. We’ll look at the political and economic facts, their effects, and how we fight back. |
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| A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill before they are implemented. |
| The real potential scandal in the Schiff mortgage story isn’t his conduct. It’s Trump’s—and that of his bureaucratic loyalists. |
| The director’s latest is a none-too-subtle depiction of Covid hysteria, racial justice protests, isolation, and the rottenness of social media—and how they combine to rip apart the fabric of a small town. |
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| Why the president’s usual tactics won’t end the Epstein scandal |
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| Donald Trump says that couldn’t have possibly been his letter because he “never wrote a picture.” Well, here are just some of his many past drawings. |
| The Wall Street Journal published a birthday note Donald Trump once wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, describing the financier as a “pal.” |
| By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent |
| President Trump is in trouble. The Jeffrey Epstein files are killing him with the base. New polls show him cratering on many issues. And questions are mounting about his mental fitness due to a bizarre story he invented about his uncle and the Unabomber. At her latest briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt grew angry at reporters for questioning Trump’s unhinged responses to the Epstein mess. She also belittled a journalist who probed Trump’s mental state by asking about the Unabomber weirdness. We talked to Mark Jacob, author of the Stop the Presses Substack, who frequently dissects Leavitt’s gaslighting. He explains how the sycophancy of Leavitt and other Trump propagandists worsens at the most difficult moments, what the media gets wrong about Trump’s unfitness, and why Trump-MAGA pathologies are increasingly threatening our futures. |
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