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June 2, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Marco Rubio Admits RFK Jr. Has Been a Total Disaster on Vaccines
Rubio threw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. under the bus.
June 2, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Republicans Demand Trump Explicitly Kill His Slush Fund Plans
Republican senators want a real answer from the Trump administration about what’s happening with the Anti-Weaponization Fund.
June 2, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Top Republican “Practically Begging” Trump to Drop Slush Fund
Senator John Thune is worried that Donald Trump’s obsession with revenge is putting the midterms at risk.
June 2, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Ex-Trump Adviser Is Annoyed Republicans Had to Denounce KKK Leader
Oh, the horror!
June 2, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Endorses Missing Republican Representative for Reelection
Representative Tom Kean Jr. has been MIA for nearly three months.
June 2, 2026
Edith Olmsted
MAGA Freaks Out After Trump Ally Registers as Foreign Agent
It looks like Michael Flynn isn’t all that America First.
June 2, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Taps Housing Chief Behind Revenge Quests as Top Intel Official
Trump has named Bill Pulte has acting director of national intelligence.
June 2, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Throws 1 A.M. Temper Tantrum Over How Innocent He Is
President Trump is getting increasingly manic with his middle-of-the-night posts.
June 2, 2026
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Trump Rages Over His Iran Blunders as GOP Frets: “Screwed”
As Trump erupts amid fresh obstacles on multiple fronts, commentator Molly Jong-Fast discusses how much worse things can get in the final two and a half years of Trump’s term.
June 2, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
How Democrats Can Win the Crime Debate
Vera Institute president Insha Rahman says a “serious about safety” approach is better for Democrats than “tough on crime,” in terms of both politics and policy.
Video is available for this article
June 2, 2026
Chris Sellers
Commemorating Our History Under a Historically Ignorant President
There’s a word for Trump’s top-down, cookie-cutter constriction of American history and his far-reaching purge of any perceived deviations from its supposed “truth”: un-American.
June 2, 2026
Right Now With Perry Bacon
Transcript: How Democrats Can Win the Crime Debate
Insha Rahman, the president of the Vera Institute, says a “serious about safety” approach is better for Democrats than “tough on crime,” in terms of both politics and policy.
Video is available for this article
June 2, 2026
Perry Bacon
Are We Wrong to Assume a Black Democrat Is Best for Black Voters?
Why Debbie Wasserman Schultz has every right to run in Florida’s 20th congressional district, despite its large Black population
June 2, 2026
Katherine Stewart
The Rise of Right-Wing “Biblical Economics”
Right-wing money is supercharging the religious right’s push to literally get all up in our business.
June 2, 2026
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Trump Rages Over Fresh Iran Humiliation as GOP Angst Grows: “Screwed”
As Trump erupts amid fresh obstacles on multiple fronts, commentator Molly Jong-Fast discusses how much worse things can get in the final two and a half years of Trump’s term.
June 1, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
60 Minute
s Star Accuses CBS Chief Bari Weiss of “Murdering” the Show
Correspondent Scott Pelley confronted the show’s new executive producer in a contentious staff meeting.
June 1, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republican Governor Declares June “Fidelity Month” in Snub to Pride
Congrats to Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has proved there’s no one quite as boring as her.
June 1, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Plans to Drop $1.8 Billion Slush Fund After Major Court Loss
The Trump administration is reportedly giving up on the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
June 1, 2026
Edith Olmsted
The Minnesota GOP Just Hit a New Low
The state party chair limply defended Republicans’ decision to hold a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd in 2020.
June 1, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Federal Court Rules Against Hegseth’s Transgender Military Ban
The Trump administration illegally banned transgender people from the military, a federal court has ruled.
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