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A former White House attorney is ringing alarm bells over Donald Trump’s declining mental health.Ty Cobb, an employee of the first Trump administration and a now outspoken critic of the president, told The Beat on MS NOW Tuesday that the recent shift in…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 21 episode of TheDaily 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. Over the…

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The Reverend Susie Hayward felt as if she had experienced the full spectrum of human emotion over the span of a week. As the minister of justice organizing at Creekside United Church of Christ in southern Minneapolis, Hayward has been deeply involved in…

The Supreme Court is running into a problem: There appears to be a gap between what the court writes in its opinions, and what the justices in the majority actually mean.Over the last year, the conservative justices have chastised lower court judges for not…

Over the weekend, President Trump sent a deranged text to Norway’s prime minister linking his failure to win the Nobel Peace prize to the possibility of taking Greenland by military force. That wasn’t a one-off: Trump said something similar in rambling…

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has stopped paying for immigrant detainees to receive health care—and isn’t planning on paying for months, independent journalist Judd Legum reported Tuesday.  ICE Health Service Corps, the entity that provides…

At a Tuesday afternoon press conference, President Trump was asked just how far he’d be willing to go to acquire Greenland. His response: “You’ll find out.”His apparent threat only further reinforces what has been feared for weeks—that Trump will…

Two employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have been misusing Social Security data. The Social Security Administration referred two DOGE employees to the Justice Department for being in contact with an advocacy group that hopes to…

It’s been exactly one year since Donald Trump returned to the nation’s highest office. To mark the occasion, the president secured quality time in front of some of America’s top journalists Tuesday to, apparently, do little other than to talk to…

ICE’s racial profiling and unconstitutional acts in and around Minneapolis are even ensnaring local police.Mark Bruley, the chief of police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, said at a press conference Tuesday with other area police chiefs that…

The Justice Department subpoenaed multiple Minnesota Democrats Tuesday, in what seems to be a clear retaliation against their resistance to President Trump’s aggressive door-to-door deportation campaign. The subpoenas reportedly didn’t cite a specific…

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins just made her viral “Let them eat chicken” moment so much worse.Rollins landed in hot water last week after she claimed that following the Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines wouldn’t force Americans to…

This is a lightly edited transcript of the January 16 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of The New Republic show Right Now. I’m…

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.President Trump’s approval is dropping across the country, even in states that backed him strongly in 2016 and 2020. That’s partly why Democrats…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning that the global order is in the middle of a “rupture.”Carney made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, and without mentioning Donald Trump by name, declared that…

A giant replica of President Trump’s unsettling birthday letter to his former friend and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein has been erected on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Sharpies lie in front of the statue, inviting passersby to sign the card.This…

Donald Trump would like the world to know that he is absolutely not obsessed in any way with the Nobel Peace Prize that he didn’t win.Speaking with reporters amid a Nobel Prize–fueled social media frenzy Monday evening, the president claimed that he no…

ICE agents believe they have the authority to interrogate anyone en route to a “target.”That’s what a senior agency official, Marcos Charles, told Cecilia Vega on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. Vega had asked Charles about how ICE has been carrying out…

President Donald Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 billion since reentering the White House one year ago, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Without a doubt, Trump’s biggest moneymaker has been his family’s various cryptocurrency grifts, which have…

Authorities are searching for a suspect in the shooting of Judge Stephen Meyer and his wife, Kimberly, who were targeted in their Indiana home on Sunday. Judge Meyer was wounded in the arm, and his wife in her hip. Both are in stable condition.Lafayette police…

Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” is already a farce, with many of the invited members having been accused of war crimes. Among the world leaders invited are Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who…

President Trump issued a flimsy, ill-defined proclamation on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 8:15 p.m., after hours of silence—and criticism from the NAACP.“Dr. King pioneered a movement that would go on to triumphantly reaffirm our national conviction that…

The president appears ready and willing to turn on some of America’s greatest allies in his quest to conquer Greenland.In a frenetic string of posts to Truth Social late Sunday night, Donald Trump skewered Britain and France, and released private messages…

The Department of Homeland Security appears to have just made up the craziest excuse for terrorizing a U.S. citizen with no criminal record. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were caught on camera Sunday dragging a elderly grandfather out into the…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 20 episode of TheDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Editor’s note: After we recorded this episode, Trump kept raging about protests in Minneapolis. He seethed about jailing Minnesota…

“We’re middle-aged,” podcaster Jennifer Welch says of herself and…

In much of rural Wisconsin, manure is everywhere. It’s in the ground, the drinking water, and the air communities breathe. The state is home to more than 300 concentrated animal-feeding operations, or CAFOs, which produce billions of pounds of manure every…

Iran may be closer to a revolutionary moment than at any point since 1979—but it is not yet in a revolutionary transition. The mistake many observers make is to treat visible unrest as evidence of imminent collapse. History suggests otherwise. Cycles of…