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Why everyone hates the Democrats right now, explained in 3 charts
If there’s one thing a large majority of Americans have consistently agreed on this year, it’s that the Democratic Party sucks. Unfavorable views of the party seem to keep rising with every passing month of President Donald Trump’s second term and that discontent has reached a new height this summer. More than 60 percent of […]
The US stopped showing up to disasters. The results are horrifying.
By the time the earthquake struck, flattening mud-brick homes across Afghanistan’s eastern mountains last week, many nearby health clinics had already been shuttered for months. Mushtaq Khan, a senior adviser for the International Rescue Committee, felt his building jolt from all the way in the capital, Kabul, on Sunday night. He woke the next morning […]
Trump’s presidency is a cash grab
According to Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president is a very generous man. “I am proud to be the only President (with the possible exception of the Late, Great George Washington) to donate my Salary,” he said in a Truth Social post. “My first ‘Paycheck’ went to the White House Historical Association, as we […]
SCOTUS tells ICE it can target people based on race
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles can indiscriminately target people for immigration stops on the basis of race and several other factors, the […]
Trump’s immigration raids are now before the Supreme Court
Editor’s note, September 8, 3:15 pm ET: On Monday, the Supreme Court decided Noem v. Perdomo in the Trump administration’s favor, by a 6-3 vote, with all six Republican justices voting with the majority and all three Democratic justices dissenting. The decision lifts a lower federal court’s injunction handed down in July that stopped federal […]