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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Editor’s note: After we recorded, the AP posted a piece reporting that cattle ranchers are also opposed to Trump’s plan. “I love…

Nick Schutt grew up as a free-range kid in the tiny central Iowa town of Williams in the early 1980s. His parents were small-scale farmers, but when the nation’s steepest agrarian crisis since the Great Depression hit, they worked jobs in town to make ends…

It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and Solomon—fruit of an ancient covenant between Abraham and…

On Saturday, as millions of Americans gathered at more than 2,700 protests across all 50 states to demonstrate against what they see as President Donald Trump’s authoritarian overreach, the president had a response: He posted an AI-generated video of himself…

Donald Trump is a one-in-a-million American president who has detonated long-recognized national standards. Each week brings fresh hell: He’s urged the U.S. military to launch war games in Democratic cities to learn to battle the “enemy from within,”…

Not long after President Trump floated a $20 billion bailout for Argentina, he proposed importing beef from Argentina to bring prices down in the United States. This angered American beef producers and sparked a backlash from farm-state Republicans. But the…

The Department of Defense now requires department staffers to channel all communications with Congress through the Pentagon’s central legislative affairs office.A October 15 memo, obtained by BreakingDefense, marks a change in policy for the administration,…

Graham Platner, an upstart Democratic candidate running to challenge Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins, reportedly acknowledged that his skull-and-crossbones tattoo is a Nazi military symbol.Jewish Insider reported Tuesday that an acquaintance of…

Donald Trump is reportedly trying to loot the federal government to the tune of $230 million. That’s how much he’s demanding from the Department of Justice in compensation for past federal probes of his misdeeds, according to a Tuesday report in The New…

It looks like former CIA Director John Brennan is next up on Trump’s long list of political retribution targets. As the conservative magazine The Federalist first reported on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday referred Brennan to the Justice…

Republicans are still playing the blame game on the subject of political violence—even as a pardoned January 6 rioter attacks one of their colleagues.House Speaker Mike Johnson brushed off assassination threats against Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries…

Republican state senators in North Carolina have answered President Donald Trump’s plea to gerrymander the state’s congressional map so the GOP may maintain its tenuous U.S. House majority in 2026.The state Senate on Tuesday passed a Trump-approved map…

If what House Oversight Chair James Comer says is true, then shouldn’t Republican lawmakers be rushing to release the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein? During a press conference Tuesday, Comer suggested that there was far more significant evidence…

The White House is denying a TMZ report that Trump could commute the sentence of disgraced music producer and domestic abuser Sean “Diddy” Combs as soon as this week. The report comes days after Trump freed serial liar, convicted fraudster, and former New…

Thirteen Senate Democrats voted alongside Republicans Tuesday to instate a conservative judge to the Northern District of Alabama.The Senate voted 66–32 in favor of confirming Harold “Hal” Mooty III as a U.S. district judge. Donald Trump nominated Mooty…

President Donald Trump is facing backlash from American ranching groups after he said Sunday that the United States may “buy some beef from Argentina” in order to “bring our beef prices down.”Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed Tuesday that…

House Speaker Mike Johnson won’t stop lying through his teeth about Arizona Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva—and Democrats are calling him out. New York Representative Pat Ryan slammed Johnson Monday for using him as an excuse for delaying…

Before Russell Vought became the director of the Office of Management and Budget, he was Donald Trump’s side project.In the background of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, the Republican presidential candidate and the Project 2025 architect shared…

Three police officers in Fairhope, Alabama, took down and arrested a 61-year-old woman at the local No Kings protest for wearing a giant penis costume. In a statement posted on Facebook on Monday, Fairhope police said they responded to a complaint Saturday…

It looks like President Donald Trump’s administration is finally leaning into the fact that it’s staffed by witless bullies, after an aide for Pete Hegseth gave a moronic response to a reporter’s question about the defense secretary’s highly…

President Donald Trump’s hand-selected prosecutor reportedly voluntarily offered up information about sensitive grand jury matters while complaining to a legal reporter about a social media post.Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s former personal lawyer whom he…

Federal workers were told to stop documenting changes to the White House after images of the East Wing’s facade being torn down amid construction on President Donald Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom sparked outrage online.On Monday evening, a…

The MAGA crowd was appalled Monday as one of the Trump administration’s top officials dared to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights—and they weren’t shy about sharing their disgust.Diwali is celebrated by more than a billion people around the…

Republican Senator Ted Cruz warned his party of “political peril” in 2026 if the GOP doesn’t take the No Kings protests seriously. “Unquestionably we should take political peril seriously,” Cruz said on Monday on Bloomberg Television. “I think…

Paul Ingrassia—President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Special Counsel—may not be confirmed after his racist and antisemitic messages were unearthed Monday by Politico, leading some Republican senators to repudiate him.In the private text…

A Trump-pardoned January 6 insurrectionist was arrested last week for threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a chilling example of the right-wing political violence the GOP has been downplaying.CBS reports that Christopher…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 20 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 the…

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review a Second Amendment case that challenged a federal law forbidding drug use by gun owners, revisiting the history-and-tradition test in one of the most widely invoked gun restrictions in the country.The…

In 2014, the economist Thomas Piketty warned in his bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century that patrimonial capitalism, wherein inheritance is the dominant form of wealth acquisition, was making a comeback. The book is best remembered for the formula…

When he launched his campaign last week for a Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, Representative Seth Moulton made sure that one of his first moves was to announce that he is returning campaign donations that he received from individuals affiliated with the…