Trump Assigns His Former Defense Attorney to the ‘Find Charges to Bring Against Leticia James’ Beat

Former Trump defense attorney Lindsey Halligan was reportedly sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of ...

House Passes Funding Plan With No Concessions to Dems, Leaving Senate in Deadlock

The impasse the Senate is left with is similar to what happened last March: Senate Republicans, who are in control of the ...

Poor, Conservative School Districts Are Getting Hit Hard By the GOP’s Funding Freeze

Also frozen: free after-school care the district provides for about 250 children throughout the school year — the only ...

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 ...

‘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 for us.” He pointed to the CR’s inclusion of that language as evidence that ...
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State Lawmakers Are Getting Arrested at Detention Centers and Yelling at Masked ICE Agents. Good.

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Republicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension

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A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon

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