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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.…

So, you say you want a “civil war”? In the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, Republican elected officials and members of the Trump administration have led or followed denizens of right-wing social media in using the language of “civil war” to respond…

In 1922, Interior Secretary Albert Fall collected about $400,000 from two very rich oilmen, Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny, and granted them government leases to pump $100 million worth of petroleum from navy reserves in Elk Hills and Buena Vista,…

Kaitlyn Moser had been working in bars for about 10 years when she decided she needed a change. The pandemic had fundamentally altered the service industry, and she wanted to be better able to support herself and her son, who’s now 10 years old. Moser, who…

O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”“Four.”“And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?”In the days since…

The hour on the climate clock has always been late. By the time NASA scientist James Hansen delivered his landmark Senate testimony in 1988, bringing “the greenhouse effect” to public attention for the first time, the atmospheric carbon count had surpassed…

President Trump seems even more angry at the media than usual. His lawyers just filed a lawsuit against The New York Times that First Amendment lawyers are dismissing as a total joke. The suit, however, is also chock full of angry rants that appeared dictated…

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement report revealed that officials at Camp East Montana, the new detention facility at Fort Bliss, have already violated dozens of federal standards for immigrant detention since welcoming detainees in August, The Washington…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday was asked about how he’s profited off the presidency—and did not take kindly to the line of questioning.Ahead of Trump’s state visit to the U.K., John Lyons, an editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, asked…

Friends and family of Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin, say that the national narrative has not aligned with what they know about the 22-year-old from Utah.Speaking with independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, Robinson’s friends described…

404 Media has reported that in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s Justice Department deleted a study from its website stating that right-wing violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in…

Indiana Governor Mike Braun wants state legislators to get moving on approving a new congressional district map, to spare them from President Donald Trump’s wrath. Speaking on Fort Wayne’s WOWO radio Monday, Braun floated the idea of lawmakers returning…

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday seemed to throw a sidelong barb at Attorney General Pam Bondi for foolishly suggesting the existence of a “hate speech” exception to free speech.As the far right wages an ongoing crusade against people…

FBI Director Kash Patel is apparently not making child sex predators a priority at the bureau.Patel finished his latest—and potentially last—hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee kicking and screaming Tuesday, raising his voice to Senator Adam…

Two communities are reeling after two men, one Black, one white, were found dead hanging from trees in Mississippi just hours apart from one another. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a 21-year-old Black student, was found Monday morning on his campus of Delta…

FBI Director Kash Patel played defense Tuesday for Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking ring by claiming that not only did the disgraced financier have no client list—he had no clients at all. Speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,…

As Donald Trump embarks Tuesday on his second state visit to the U.K., demonstrators have spread an enormous banner depicting the president with notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein across a lawn outside Windsor Castle—where King Charles III is set to host…

The New York Times is fighting back after President Trump filed a massive $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the paper. “This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent…

In the wake of President Trump’s failed violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, a major target of his fury was Geoff Duncan. As the lieutenant governor of Georgia, Duncan was one of the few Republicans in the country who resisted Trump’s corrupt scheme to…

FBI Director Kash Patel published his own enemies list in 2022, but he doesn’t want to be held accountable now that he’s actually taken retribution against them.Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Patel plainly rejected that he had…

Kash Patel got slammed Tuesday for complaining that a Democratic senator’s question didn’t include the FBI director’s side of the story—while refusing to provide an answer.During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Ranking Democrat Dick Durbin asked…

President Trump has thrown his full support behind his administration’s hypocritical, McCarthyite censorship campaign.“What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she’s gonna go after hate speech? … A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” a…

The Trump administration’s censorship campaign has extended to the National Park Service.The White House has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits documenting American slavery, including a 1863 portrait of an ex-slave, often referred to as either Peter…

Attorney General Pam Bondi is earning scorn—even in the MAGA media ecosystem—for her uninformed claim that the First Amendment has a hate speech exception.Bondi made the distinction in a Monday appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, suggesting that hate…

The GOP has turned so hard on free speech that now even “libertarian” Rand Paul is calling for a “crackdown” on those using their First Amendment rights.“I was assaulted six, seven years ago, attacked from behind, had six ribs broken and part of my…

A New York state court on Tuesday dismissed all terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, with Judge Gregory Carro ruling they were “legally insufficient.”To meet the definition of…

Attorney General Pam Bondi accidentally revealed that she doesn’t have a clue how First Amendment law works in the United States—that, or she just doesn’t care. Speaking on The Katie Miller Podcast Monday, Bondi, who regularly pushes the legal limits to…

Donald Trump has once again turned to the court system to do his dirty work.The commander in chief announced a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Monday night, claiming that the paper had deliberately lied about MAGA conservatives and…

Now and again there comes a political…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. In…