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Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. Fox News is at war with wildly popular children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel. Over the past week, the network took aim at the YouTuber with 21.5 million subscribers, warning viewers that her programming, which is geared toward toddlers… Source Powered by WPeMatico
A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Trump can’t make ‘super intelligence’ happen… Source Powered by WPeMatico
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. This week, Trump is out $5 million, his personal lawyers are still in trouble, and even his most dedicated believers are bailing out. It’s about time. President Donald Trump finally—FINALLY—formally gave up the fight in the E. Source Powered by WPeMatico
By Jonathan Shorman for Stateline Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm elections. Even a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision giving states access to a supercharged Department of Homeland Security computer program to verify voters’… Source Powered by WPeMatico
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | GOP strategist says Trump should hide until midterms are over… Source Powered by WPeMatico
A cartoon by Brian McFadden. Support my Patreon for early access and exclusives. Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, or at my website. Related | Trump can’t make ‘super intelligence’ happen… Source Powered by WPeMatico
House Democrats on Friday announced plans to invest in eight more House districts that they say are now competitive thanks to President Donald Trump’s sinking popularity, bringing the total number of seats the party is targeting for pick ups to 66. Trump won all eight of the districts the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says it will divert resources to by double-digit margins. Source Powered by WPeMatico
The Kennedy Center Honors have been forced to relocate from the historic venue for the first time—and it’s all thanks to President Donald Trump’s pettiness. This year’s ceremony will be held at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., after being evicted from its home as the board—composed of loyalists installed by Trump—voted to close the center instead of complying with court orders to… Source Powered by WPeMatico
So apparently FBI Director Kash Patel has gifted FBI employees with a report, snappily titled “Patel Report,” about all the times the bureau “fell short” in chapters of its history. The notion that the least-competent and least-qualified dude to ever helm the agency is here to tell everyone how it did badly in the past is ridiculous, but to be fair, it makes for terrific content. Source Powered by WPeMatico
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec was allowed to hold a one-on-one interview with Vice President JD Vance Friday, and the conversation was just as gross and blatantly racist as you’d expect. “What young men are kind of responding to is that there’s so many pressures now on that labor market that just didn’t exist when a lot of those tone-deaf Republicans that you mentioned… Source Powered by WPeMatico