Posts by Kim Browne
ICE Is So Out of Control, They Tried to Raid a Kids’ Baseball Practice
All the kids, according to Wilder, were born in the U.S. and are U.S. citizens, born to parents from Africa, South America, and Mexico. “It’s all about civics. If you don’t know your rights, they will trample on them,” Wilder told the Rag. The coach also expressed his shock and dismay at the amount of…
Read MoreTrump Rips Jerome Powell as Feud Shows No Sign of Cooling Down
Donald Trump said that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s disastrous response to the deadly flooding in Texas was good, actually, because she had been quick to get in front of a camera. During an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump defended Noem over reports that FEMA’s response was delayed by a policy she instituted requiring…
Read MoreTrump Border Czar Confirms Racial Profiling Is Now Law of the Land
Donald Trump said that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s disastrous response to the deadly flooding in Texas was good, actually, because she had been quick to get in front of a camera. During an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump defended Noem over reports that FEMA’s response was delayed by a policy she instituted requiring…
Read MoreJudge Rips DOJ Lawyers for Undermining Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
A federal judge shredded Justice Department lawyers Friday over their shoddily constructed case to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully removed to El Salvador earlier this year. During a hearing, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis once again proved that she doesn’t suffer fools as she torched the government’s lawyers for failing to produce an…
Read MoreNew York Republicans Unveil Bonkers New Anti-Zohran Mamdani Merch
For the low price of $45, New Yorkers can proudly display their racist attitudes against New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Despite establishment opposition, Mamdani clinched the city’s primary in June with 56 percent of the vote. The Ugandan-born Queens lawmaker’s rise in the Big Apple has not been without intense opposition: many…
Read MoreIndonesia detains Trafigura employee in 285 trillion rupiah graft case
[JAKARTA] Indonesia has detained an employee of Trafigura Group along with seven other suspects in a case involving oil procurement by state-owned Pertamina, widening one of the nation’s largest corruption investigations in recent decades. The Indonesian attorney general’s office (AGO) said late Thursday (Jul 11) that it had held eight suspects, and was pursuing another…
Read MoreTranscript: Stephen Miller Rages at Low Arrests—and Wrecks a MAGA Scam
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 11 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. Stephen Miller has been privately raging at ICE officials, demanding that…
Read MoreGreg Abbott Moves to Rig the Midterms Amid Texas Floods
Governor Greg Abbot is trying to further gerrymander Texas while his state recovers from some of the deadliest flooding in its history. On Wednesday, Abbot told state lawmakers to begin the redistricting process as he positions Republicans to maintain control of the House in 2026. This directive has come straight from President Trump, who is…
Read MoreJoe Rogan Met Up With Trump Days Before Trashing His ICE Raids
Joe Rogan, podcaster and prominent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is souring on the administration’s immigration agenda. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Rogan, who dined with the president on June 30, “has discussed immigration policy with Trump and pushed him to back off deporting workers who have not committed crimes.” In a podcast…
Read MoreJohn Fetterman Throws His Family Under the Bus to Suck Up to Trump
Senator John Fetterman has once again turned his back on undocumented immigrants with the rubber stamp from Donald Trump. “ICE performs an important job for our country,” Fetterman wrote on X Thursday. “Any calls to abolish ICE are 💯 inappropriate and outrageous.” But “Abolish ICE” has long been a slogan used by the exact kind…
Read MoreKen Paxton’s Wife Files for Divorce “in Light of Recent Discoveries”
Texas State Senator Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has long faced accusations of infidelity and corruption. Senator Paxton blamed the split squarely on her husband’s cheating, while the attorney general blamed the split on “the pressures of countless political attacks.” “Today, after 38 years…
Read MoreThe Little-Noted Trump-DOJ Move That Should Scare the Hell Out of You
Of the many ways that Donald Trump, abetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, has laid waste to the executive branch and ransacked civil society, one Trump target above all others requires our constant vigilance and hair-trigger sensitivity. That is federal elections—and the prospect that Trump will try to achieve in pseudo-legal fashion what he failed…
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