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Former President Donald Trump unleashed an all-caps post on Truth Social , which, of course, doesn't make any sense. Regarding his case in New York surrounding his (alleged!) hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels, no one knows what evi...

During Tuesday's opening monologue, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ranted that working-class whites are hated and vilified, and then categorized the trans community as a hate group against Christians. Carlson opened up by saying the youth of America enj...

Conservative and rabid homophobic commentator Stephen Crowder decreed that gay people have no right to have kids because they are trying to change his. No one wants to change his kids. Literally no one. I think that's what he said, anyway. They call h...

The famous actor from Star Wars is no stranger to Ukraine either. Last year he was made ambassador in support of Ukraine Army of Drones project , accepting the role from President Zelenskyy. Source: Associated Press "Attention. Air raid alert," th...

A Trump cultist protesting the Manhattan grand jury probe of her hero pulled a knife on a family with two small kids yesterday outside Manhattan Criminal Court. Via Politico: The man and woman with two children in strollers accidentally bumped into the Tr...

Looking battered and withered in his car, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell begged Real America's Voice viewers to buy his slippers. As usual, Lindell was on Bannon's Sedition podcast when he pitched his slippers. "We still have some of those all seas...

Following the Nashville shooting, President Joe Biden renewed calls for Congress to pass a ban on semi-automatic rifles. "It's ripping our communities apart," he said of gun violence after three 9-year-old students and three staff members were...

Dude who promotes mass murder is devastated and "utterly heartbroken" when mass murder happens in his district. Got it. Do better than this, Nashville. Source: Washington Post Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.), who represents the Nashville district wher...

On Fox and Friends , co-host Brian Kilmeade had a panel of Trump supporters on to discuss Monday night's Trump interview with Sean Hannity . Tammy Bruce hemmed and hawed her way through her opinion, saying Trump hasn't been as presidential as poss...

"Who among us has not longed for the day in which we can claim victory in the acclaimed 'catturd2' presidential poll," the MSNBC host joked....

Musk promised Twitter wouldn't become a hell-scape of hate. Researchers say he's broken his word....

Less than a week after the CEO of the app testified before Congress, the House Speaker said lawmakers would be "moving forward" with TikTok legislation. He did not say what bill would be proposed. Puck Silicon Valley reporter Teddy Schleifer joins...

Nicole Hockley, co-founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise, talks with Rachel Maddow about how enraging it is to see more children killed in mass shooting gun violence while basic gun safety initiatives are not being implemented, and exhorts people who care...

As promised, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood greeted suspect Richard Golden at the airport after he was extradited....

As the informal primary contest between former president Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis heats up, it appears that Republican primary voters have cooled a little on DeSantis. But in part 2 of this week's FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, they ...

In the midst of news about the possible indictment of a former president, some of the biggest news in the country has gone unmentioned on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Yes, we're talking about pop icon Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour. W...

"You can actually see his brain trying to turn the car around and his mouth was driving," John Leguizamo observed....

When one thinks about it, this kerfuffle in Florida about a school principal being fired because the kids were "exposed" to Michelangelo's David is a prime example of the cognitive dissonance that right wingers go through every day of their mi...

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy should have kept this one in the drafts....

A shooting on Monday has left at least three students and three adults dead....

Guns kill more young Americans than cars now, but it doesn't have to be that way....

In 2014, this guy was committing unspeakable war crimes in the Donbas. For that, Putin awarded him the Hero of Russia medal. Yesterday they got their revenge. As is often the case through the fog of war, the Ukrainians claimed to have killed him in a mili...

Senator Ron Johnson went on Fox Sunday Futures and spoke with Maria Bartiromo. These two reprobates started with a great display of patriotism by badmouthing Biden and listing the GOP talking points which is nothing more than a litany of all the things th...

GOP Governor Bill Lee, who signed those bills into law, would now like to offer his thoughts and prayers....

Last week, attorney Alan Dershowitz predicted that Donald Trump would be indicted and convicted over hush money payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. He said, "Even if he's convicted, he can run for president." Dersh has some campaign a...

City officials say it's safe to drink following a chemical spill and previous recommendations to use bottled water....

In the midst of news about the possible indictment of a former president, some of the biggest news in the country has gone unmentioned on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Yes, we're talking about pop icon Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour. W...

Israel's prime minister is backing down from his power grab for now. But Israel's crisis isn't over....

The 2023 men's NCAA Tournament has transformed into a bloodletting exercise for the sport's traditional powers. Of the 15 teams that claim at least two national championships, only eight qualified for the tournament at all, and only one advanced p...

The factors that lead to tragedies like Covenant School are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law....

Netanyahu said that he will delay his government's plans to overhaul Israel's courts amid massive protests and an unprecedented general strike....

The White House responded to the school shooting at The Covenant School, a private Christian school, in Nashville by demanding Republicans finally do something to help stop the epidemic of gun violence against children. The shooter is a 28-year old female...

Six people, including three children, died after the 376th school shooting since Columbine. We have learned nothing. Children are being slaughtered, and one side of the aisle (the pro-life side) doesn't care. This shooting occurred at a private Christ...

We're not exactly strangers to low-probability events here at FiveThirtyEight. But even for a month defined by uncertainty on the hardwood, this March dealt us an extra helping of disruptions to your scheduled programming. The first matchup of the men...

Dan Goldman, a freshman member of the Democratic side of the House of Representatives (and a former member of the impeachment team!), is still getting settled in to his office in DC. Getting a Congressional office set up is no easy task. From hiring staff...

Fox Business host Stuart Varney bashed Donald Trump's political future repeatedly this morning. Varney listed Trump's infatuation with January 6, impending indictments, and threats of violence against prosecutors, as alienating to independent vote...

On Monday morning, Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade remarked that Trump 'blew it,' making serious mistakes during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas. Kilmeade described the rally as insane and awful. "This is such an opportunity for Repub...

Former President Donald Trump didn't get much sleep last night, as he posted on Truth Social, even at 3:30 am. The one-term President seemed to have Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on his mind, as he called him Ron Dukakis (haha, what a knee-slapper), along...

Union negotiators for about 30,000 school support staffers in California's Los Angeles County struck a historic deal with the second-largest district in the United States on Friday after a three-day strike. Members of Service Employees International U...

Creative director of production for Turning Point USA Chris DeJosheph, who left the WWE in 2020 where he was known as 'Big Dick Johnson,' used to perform lewd acts onstage in front of families, including children. He also thinks that drag events a...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell declared that he is winning his battle to secure elections in the U.S. because "evil has overplayed its hand." During an interview with War Room host Steve Bannon on Saturday, Lindell revealed that he would speak at a cam...

A couple of remarkable videos seen this week on social media, ordinary French people going about their regular lives as protests rage in the streets over proposed pension reform and raising the retirement age to 64 from 62. "Many Internet users have s...

Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for "judicial overhaul" because he's facing three different corruption charges and he wants to appoint his own judges. A whole lot of Israeli citizens beg to differ, and they're out in the streets. Meanwhile, ...

One of the things that make it hard for people outside Florida to keep track of what's happening with Rhonda Santis's state is that most of their major newspapers are behind paywalls. Fortunately for us, my friend West Palm Wendy keeps me informed...

Ukraine's government yesterday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to "counter the Kremlin's nuclear blackmail" after Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. Via the Associated ...

Joseph Tacopina, an attorney for Donald Trump , argued on Sunday that the former president had been "ill-advised"; to post inflammatory rhetoric that could spur his supporters to violence. During an interview on Meet the Press , host Chuck Todd ask...