1+ week, 4+ day ago (411+ words) President DOnald Trump attents an event to announce a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to reduce the prices of GLP-1 weight loss drugs in the Oval Office at the White House on Nov. 6. 2025. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Politico writer Kyle Cheney said President Donald Trump's grip on his party may finally be slipping, at least for a moment. "[T]he extraordinary rebukes and headwinds the president is now facing " much of it from within his own party " are revealing a GOP beginning to reckon with a post-Trump future," Cheney said, a move "crystallized after voters surged to the polls to support Democratic candidates for statewide races in New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia and Pennsylvania." Those elections "shattered expectations" in close contests, but Cheney said Trump wasted the aftermath "recycling old grievances, berating members of his own party and choosing sides…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago (163+ words) "He applies for asylum in December of 2024," Miller said. "Now, he goes through another vetting process involving that, and he's approved for asylum in April of this year, under the Trump administration." The new revelations sparked outrage on social media. Writer Wajahat Ali tweeted: "Why did Trump invite a man who shot the National Guard?" "Am I doing this right, MAGA? I am, right? I'm following your logic," he wrote. "So, yeah, Donald Trump should be blamed entirely." "The [alleged] shooter was granted asylum this year," observed Colorado State University political science professor Maria Isabel Puerta Riera. "WHY DID THE FBI LEAVE THIS OUT OF THEIR BRIEFING?" New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow wrote on X. "WHY DIDN'T KASH PATEL MENTION ANY OF THIS?" Researcher Arif Ammar noted that there are still "many questions" on the nature of the Wednesday…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago (469+ words) For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad. "Knack for steering the superpowers' Drop Site"s investigations into the Handala hack have included six major stories since late September, four of which have centered around "Epstein's work on behalf of Israeli military interests, particularly as it relates to his role in the development of Israel's cyber warfare industry." Drop Site reporters Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim (9/28/25) detailed how Epstein wielded his influence to expand Israel's cyber warfare industry into Mongolia. Drop Site wrote: In the same piece, Hussain and Grim quoted Epstein asking Barak to "wait until they could speak privately before Barak notified intelligence leaders of a deal" with Russian-Israeli oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, and to "not…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (492+ words) A new report in Newsweek says that although President Donald Trump has changed America in many ways, moderate Americans who the president has targeted in the past, are now changing Trump. "In a year obsessed with fracture, the Epstein Files Transparency Act produced legislative agreement: a left-right coalition large enough to end a monthslong stall. The bill moved after a discharge petition " one of Congress's bluntest tools " forced the vote," they write. But that rare political agreement and alignment wasn't the only interesting development to emerge in this highly divided partisan climate, they note. "Trump did remake American politics " on trade, on the border, on the judiciary " but the country's broad middle is now remaking his administration back," they write. This has been evident in several ways, Newsweek explains, including "near-unanimous votes to take down AI deepfakes; lopsided margins to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (805+ words) A right-wing media outlet's expos" on what it claimed was the likely identity of the January 6th pipe bomber has been proven to be more of a bomb than a bombshell, reports The Bulwark. The Blaze, founded by conservative commentator Glenn Beck, reported that "a female former Capitol Police officer who joined the CIA shortly after January 6th was 'a forensic match' for the individual caught on camera footage the night before." The report said that they used "gait analysis" to compare the walk of the ex-officer to the alleged bomber. Loyalists of President Donald Trump immediately picked up on the report, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who wrote on X that "a capitol police officer placed a pipe bomb at the RNC on J6," adding that the Blaze story was proof that Republicans would "all be in the gulag" if it…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago (414+ words) Latinos for Trump at 2016 RNC, Image via Wikimedia Commons / Picryl. A new Pew Research Center poll shows that 70 percent of Latinos disapprove of President Donald Trump's job performance, sending a loud warning to Trump and Republicans ahead of next year's much-anticipated midterm elections, The Daily Beast reports. "The Pew poll is a damning indicator of how voters could turn on Trump in his turbulent second term as immigration raids and inflation play out across the country," The Daily Beast notes. Mark Lopez, director of Pew's Race and Ethnicity Research, says this poll portends major red flags for Republicans. "There's no doubt that if people draw the connections to a particular administration or political party, this could have some political implications in coming elections," Lopez tells Reuters. Latinos comprise roughly one in five Americans " approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population, and their…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (504+ words) I'll tell you right, as God as my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison," Bannon told the crowd Wednesday at an awards event hosted by the Conservative Partnership Academy. This group offers training and certifications to aspiring right-wing ideologues working in politics and government. Bannon, who has already served time in prison for refusing to submit to a congressional subpoena related to his role as a top aide to Trump during his first term, included himself among those who might be targeted if Republicans lost power. In his remarks, Bannon said Tuesday's election results in New York City, Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere'where Democrats swept the GOP'should be seen as a warning to Trump's MAGA base, but called for an intensification of the agenda, not a retreat. Trump's opponents,…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago (504+ words) I'll tell you right, as God as my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison," Bannon told the crowd Wednesday at an awards event hosted by the Conservative Partnership Academy. This group offers training and certifications to aspiring right-wing ideologues working in politics and government. Bannon, who has already served time in prison for refusing to submit to a congressional subpoena related to his role as a top aide to Trump during his first term, included himself among those who might be targeted if Republicans lost power. In his remarks, Bannon said Tuesday's election results in New York City, Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere'where Democrats swept the GOP'should be seen as a warning to Trump's MAGA base, but called for an intensification of the agenda, not a retreat. Trump's opponents,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (462+ words) And yet, to the American people, Fox hosts said the opposite, relentlessly, and kept at it until the manufactured outrage crescendoed in the J6 attack. Fox is normalizing and selling Trump's police state In 2025, Fox is at it again, this time parroting Trump's false claims about immigrants, crime, and ICE. As Trump's masked agents commit widely documented atrocities in Democrat-run cities, Fox hosts call ICE protesters "domestic terrorists," while platforming false claims that ICE officers have "federal immunity" for their crimes. By ignoring (or encouraging) ICE brutality, while overstating threats against federal agents, Fox News is, once again, radicalizing viewers with falsehoods. Fox has an outsize megaphone Fox News is the most-watched news channel in the US. It has consistently led the charts in both total viewers and key demographics, over competitors like MSNBC, CNN, and broadcast networks such as ABC…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (751+ words) The MAGA movement that brought President Donald Trump back to the White House for a second term is "splintered on numerous fronts," as "an openly antisemitic, racist and misogynistic current is gaining ground around [neo-Nazi] Nick Fuentes," according to French newspaper Le Monde's Washington correspondent Piotr Smolar. "The MAGA world is devouring itself," Smolar writes. "The euphoria of Donald Trump's return to power has faded, and internal divisions, both ideological and personal, are now threatening the coalition that made his success possible." As the battle for the future of the movement Trump himself created begins, "those who know his authority is beginning to crack," he says, are looking to seize the reins. "This battle does not concern the diehard Trumpist faithful, who repeat his words like liturgy. It is not unfolding within traditional political circles, such as Congress. Rather, it…...