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The Republican reactions to Trump, ahem, being caught with highly classified nuclear weapons-related documents after asserting to federal agents he didn't have them continues, and as the facts worsen for Trump his pro-attempted-coup Republican allies ...

Russian TV news host Evgeny Popov had a pretty good idea of what the FBI found when they searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. On Tuesday's broadcast of 60 Minutes, Popov said the agents found a couple of matryoshka dolls, a portrait of Vladi...

Southern Nevada may look completely different much sooner than visitors and residents expected, as agencies like the Las Vegas Valley Water District set their sights on meeting goals laid out in a law targeting "non-functional" grass . Those types...

by Xenia Ellenbogen This story was originally published at Prism . Misinformation about reproductive health is always circulating. But since the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson struck down Roe v. Wade in June, disinformation about abortio...

The Republican Party is now obsessively inventing excuses for why the man who attempted to overthrow the government rather than abide his election loss is allowed to make off with whatever classified nuclear weapons documents he wants to, after the coup&#...

Black voters are the most stalwart constituency in the Democratic Party, but candidates cannot take them for granted. Media consultant Terrance Green joins us on this week's edition of The Downballot to discuss his career in politics communicating wit...

Like millions of Americans, I live in a voter suppression state. Tennessee Republicans have erected one barrier after another to prevent frontline, progressive, and Democratic communities from voting. And this month, I became one of the people they silenc...

Video captured by the independent media site News2Share shows supporters of former President Donald Trump armed with guns, waving confederate and American flags outside of the FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday. "We're here in support of T...

by Sakshi Udavant This article was originally published at Prism . After the pandemic upended the economy, fears of a recession rippled across the country. Economists sounded the alarm , and elected officials like Sen. Elizabeth Warren have questioned the...

California Judge Patricia Guerrero is making history, again. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that he is nominating Guerrero as the next chief justice of the California Supreme Court. She already made history this past March when she was unanimously ...

Russia continues to flood forces into the Kherson area in response to Ukraine's repeated declarations that it is just this close from launching its long-expected counter-offensive to retake its land. The whole situation continues to have the feel of a...

As a teenager in the '60s, music from Motown was an integral part of the soundtrack of my life. I'm hardly alone in this: Many folks much younger than I am grew up listening to their moms, dads, aunties, and uncles playing 45s on turntables, and t...

We begin today with Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Jacqueline Alemany, and Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post writing about the week that was for Number 45. The past week's events — which began with the raid and continued with Attorney G...

My oh my. It's been less than a week since federal agents raided Donald Trump's Florida beachhouse in search of classified documents that Trump stole from the White House, but Republicans have come up with a truly dizzying number of excuses and sm...

by Lajward Zahra This article was originally published at Prism It's 106 degrees Fahrenheit, the kind of heat that makes the air here in El Paso, Texas, feel like sandpaper. Sitting in the shade at one of Sun Metro Bus' 3,437 bus spots across El P...

There are now 221 Starbucks stores where workers have voted to unionize —but the company has only engaged in first bargaining sessions at three of them. Meanwhile, the National Labor Relations Board is handling hundreds of unfair labor practice char...

Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series encouraging the creation of face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet to socialize, support candidates, get out the vote, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive...

On Saturday, Democratic House Reps. Adam Schiff and Carolyn Maloney, as heads of the House Intelligence and Oversight committees, sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, asking him to "review potential damage to national s...

Kayleigh McEnany is the former White House press secretary under twice-impeached Donald Trump. She is best known for calling Donald Trump racist and not "a serious candidate" on Fox News back in 2015 before saying that she was tricked by CNN headl...

Major Hollywood studios are falling down on their so-called progressive values and ignoring the engine behind the TV and film industry—writers, directors, showrunners—who may need abortion care and want the studios to protect them. Deadline re...

The entire point of eliminationist rhetoric like the right's ongoing smear of the LGBTQ community as pedophilic "groomers" is never simply to "own the libs"—it's to create permission: permission to direct violence freely at t...

This article was originally published at Prism Members of the Shut Down Berks Coalition, immigrant families, and residents of Berks County, Pennsylvania, thought they had scored a victory on Feb. 26, 2021, when President Joe Biden's administration emp...

A member of the Salt Lake County Council is the latest example of why dudes should keep their mouths shut about abortion rights until they learn some basic anatomy. Dave Alvord decided to teach Vice President Kamala Harris a thing or two after she tweeted...

In the days since the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, Trump, and his GOP lackeys have trotted out excuse after excuse to explain away the trove of material seized from a storage room at his golf club: A politically mot...

Sesame Place is getting a much-needed diversity and inclusion makeover after a video went viral last month showing Sesame Place characters appearing to actively ignore and dismiss two young Black girls trying desperately to get their attention. Daily Kos&...

More than 100 Latino and immigrant workers who were targeted in a racially motivated immigration raid have won class action status following a decision this week from a Tennessee court. The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Southern Poverty L...

On vacation still, but checking in to provide an update on the on-the-ground tactical situation in Ukraine. I'll start at Izyum, and work my way around the front in clockwise direction. Izyum direction : No one is officially calling it yet, but it'...

Politico : FBI search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations A search warrant viewed by POLITICO reveals that the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for potential violations of the Espionage A...

It is Friday. Did anything of note even happen this week? [Looks through papers] Oh, yes. The FBI executed a search warrant, authorized by Attorney General Merrick Garland, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and removed approximately a dozen boxes from the pr...

The events of this past week may have been the most instructive in America's political history. Although it is not clear whether new revelations concerning Donald Trump's apparent mishandling or outright theft of classified American nuclear intell...

Black men in Georgia are being disproportionately impacted by the latest terrifying virus to hit the planet. Monkeypox, early data shows, is spreading fastest in Atlanta among Black men. "A few weeks ago, when this was circulating in Europe, this wasn...

California farmworkers are ten days into their 24-day march in support of legislation giving laborers more choices in how they can vote in their union elections. On Thursday, they received a blessing from Fresno's Catholic bishop as they completed the...

Termination proceedings were launched for one of two officers still employed with the Louisville Police Department when they were federally charged in Breonna Taylor's death last week, Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields announced last Thursda...

Ricky Shiffer was like a lot of MAGA "patriots," often proclaiming his willingness to die for Donald Trump. Like seemingly all Trump fans, he was outraged that the FBI served a search warrant on the ex-president's Florida estate, eager to decl...

The Department of Justice search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property indicates that the 45th president is under investigation for obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act. The Wall Street Journal was first...

The House passed the big climate change and health policy reconciliation bill in a rare August Friday session, coming off of recess to get the job done. Well, some of them came off recess. The rest voted by proxy, a COVID-19 pandemic measure that allows m...

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As conservatives work around the clock to figure out how to spin the alleged discovery of nuclear secrets illegally hoarded away in Donald Trump's Mordor lair Mar-A-Lago, many others point to Trump's history of casually bringing up nukes at every ...

Republicans spent the week demonizing the FBI following its search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents , and one of their followers responded, attacking an FBI office with an AR-15 and a nail gun. But it's not just the FBI in the sights of Republic...

After the news broke that the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago the FBI obtained a search warrant to hunt for pertained to classified nuclear secrets, it took about zero point zero seconds for the Russian government and its media mouthpieces to decide th...

Reports are flowing in Friday that former President Donald Trump is reportedly under investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act after he removed a number of classified and presidential records from the White House and stored them at his Ma...

Donald Trump is never subtle. Not in his policies, not in his lies. He makes his talking points simple, and he repeats them over and over. His supporters get those talking points well in advance, and the media dutifully follows along by quoting both Trump...

The armed man who was killed by law enforcement after attempting to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio, appears to have been motivated by anger over the FBI's search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property—anger that a host of Republican...

The Wall Street Journal has the scoop on Friday that FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home hauled away 11 sets of classified documents, including top-secret items that must be housed in federal facilities. A reported ...

The Republican Party and the right-wing propaganda machine pushed by a handful of billionaires must now come up with all kinds of subterfuge to cover the fact that Donald Trump seems to have clearly scuttled away classified, possibly Top Secret, nuclear s...

Donald Trump issued a new statement about the report that the FBI was searching Mar-a-Lago for classified documents related to nuclear weapons, and where his previous statement kind of sort of admitted it by suggesting that the FBI might have planted such...

Records obtained by an independent government oversight group show that Congress was nearly warned about the missing Secret Service text messages tied to Jan. 6 but in the end, that notice was stripped from a final report issued by Department of Homeland ...

Remember back when the presidential team of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney exploited the war on terror to push their vision of an imperial presidency, the "unitary executive" theory? The president, they argued, has ultimate authority over the whol...

For his storming of the Capitol and his attempt to obstruct proceedings on Jan. 6 while carrying a weapon, former Rocky Mount, Virginia police officer Thomas Robertson was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison on Thursday, with three years o...

By now you may have heard that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) served a warrant earlier this week to search and seize quite a few things from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property. You may have also heard that a lot of the things that were seiz...