Let’s just come right out and say it: the Republicans couldn’t do a better job of tanking the midterms if they were doing it on purpose.Is it possible they are? Or have they just inherited their president’s gift for doing the worst imaginable thing at the worst imaginable time?I’m talking about the …
Month: October 2026
Well over a dozen small trucking operators filed for bankruptcy over the past month amid soaring diesel prices, and an increasing number of truck drivers have been forced to adopt extreme cost-saving measures, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.“Out at the fuel bays, truckers spoke about cook…
HED: Trump DOJ investigating Nixon prosecutors is not AI slop without picturesI was 10 years old in 1974 when my great-great-grandmother turned 100. Richard Nixon, then president, sent her a congratulatory letter with his signature at the bottom. She gave it to me because even then I was obsessed wi…
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was bombarded with phone calls Saturday after President Donald Trump publicly shared what he said was the senator’s phone number, and the flood soon spread to payment requests after a journalist found a Venmo account linked to it.As flagged by The Washington Sun’s Oriana Gonzá…
MS NOW’s Jen Psaki flagged President Donald Trump’s increasingly noncommital and unconfident tone with Republican Senate candidates — including in states where Republicans definitely shouldn’t be losing.For starters, she said, he’s been repeatedly making such claims about Texas Attorney General Ken …
Donald Trump learned how to manipulate the media while instilling distrust in it directly from his Daddy Vladdy Putin. Beginning in 2015, when Trump ousted a Univision reporter from a press conference, what started as a simmer became a roiling boil that led to his petty, arbitrary, and unconstitutio…
A Republican senator on the outs has dedicated an entire book to criticizing the “MAGA morons” surrounding President Donald Trump, whom he predicts will trigger an election day disaster for the GOP that will last for years, a quietly released excerpt reveals.Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) does not pull his…
President Donald Trump’s allies can still be forced to give back corruptly gained money despite pardons, according to a former Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) aide.Amanda Carpenter, a writer and editor at Protect Democracy who once served as communications director for the Texas senator, laid out the strategy …
It occurs to me that we don’t know much about former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, beyond the obvious: lost a congressional campaign, pregnant to a rich guy she later married, stumbled as press secretary, especially at first, and then got out with a veteran’s sense of timing. The abo…
Fox Business’ Charles Payne was “nearly in tears” Friday after the Labor Department’s latest jobs report fell “far short of expectations,” independent journalist Aaron Rupar said.“The rate of growth has slowed dramatically, and that just exacerbates this inflationary situation because gasoline is up…