Posts by Kim Browne
Transcript: Trump Threat to Unleash Troops Darkens as Brutal Poll Hits
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 23 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. President Donald Trump thinks he’s winning the political battle over his…
Read MoreTrump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Darkens as Brutal Poll Hits
Emboldened by a partial court victory over his use of troops amid immigration protests in Los Angeles, President Trump is now threatening to expand deployment to other cities. This is unnerving, given that his manufacturing of fake rationales for “emergency” decisions like these is getting worse. Yet it comes as striking new polling shows that…
Read MoreIf You Thought Donald Trump Would Never Do This, You’re an Idiot
Are you surprised? If you’re surprised, frankly, you’re a fool. You understand nothing about politics and international affairs, and you bought into obviously dishonest propaganda about who Donald Trump is. As of the morning of Friday the 13th, as fate would have it, it was about 90 percent likely that the president was going to…
Read MoreNew York’s Election System Isn’t Chaotic. It’s Democracy Done Right.
Here are some recent updates from the Democratic primary for New York City mayor: Several rival candidates, for the first time in the history of the nation’s largest city, have “cross-endorsed” each other. One of them, the democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, encouraged his supporters to give money to a more moderate opponent, Adrienne Adams. And…
Read MoreTrump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
On Thursday, President Donald Trump scored a temporary victory after an appeals court ruled that he can continue deploying the National Guard as part of his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV response to anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. The decision accepted Trump’s premise that conditions in L.A. permit him to take control of the guard—but it rejected his claim…
Read MoreThe Iranian Voices Missing From the “Regime Change” Debate
Mohammadi, who lives in Tehran but fled the city after Trump’s warning, acknowledged she could be arrested again for speaking out. “I know that war won’t bring democracy,” labor journalist and activist Sepideh Qolian, who spent two years in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, told The Atlantic. “The life that we wanted is the mirror opposite…
Read MoreThe Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves
In order to determine whether such an event can be attributed to climate change, researchers run complex models based on historical observations: one showing the world as it is and the other “an alternative world where there isn’t any human influence on the climate,” said Nicholas Leach, a physicist at at Oxford University who researches…
Read MoreTrump Just Expanded His Tawdry Empire of Scams
Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office may have been the longest, figuratively speaking, of any U.S. president in history. But we can also say definitively that they were the most disastrous, ever. His draconian deportations, destruction of the federal government, and insane tariff Tilt-a-Whirls have driven his approval numbers so low as to be…
Read MoreTrump Totally Trashes Tulsi Gabbard Over Iran Nuclear Intelligence
Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim that Tulsi Gabbard is wrong about Iran’s supposed nuclear capabilities. After disembarking Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, the president played dumb when confronted with a major discrepancy between his claims about Iran and what U.S. intelligence had to say. “So you have that Iran is…
Read MoreKetanji Brown Jackson Wants to Save the Supreme Court From Itself
“As previously explained, EPA is undertaking its own review of the 2022 reinstatement, and the agency may ultimately conclude in that process that California’s emissions standards have had a deleterious impact on American consumers and liquid fuel producers,” they told the justices in their brief. “But parties seeking to invoke the jurisdiction of the federal…
Read MoreTrump Suffers Highest-Profile Loss Yet as Judge Frees Mahmoud Khalil
The world is on edge waiting for Donald Trump to decide if he will order the U.S. military to attack Iran. And according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, everyone will have to wait a little longer—two weeks, to be exact. Leavitt revealed Trump’s decision-making timeline during a press briefing at the White House…
Read MoreTrump Seeks Revenge on Biden With Call for Special Prosecutor
The world is on edge waiting for Donald Trump to decide if he will order the U.S. military to attack Iran. And according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, everyone will have to wait a little longer—two weeks, to be exact. Leavitt revealed Trump’s decision-making timeline during a press briefing at the White House…
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