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The Deadly Floods Revealed Texans’ Heroism—and Their Failed Politics
Texas novelist Billy Lee Brammer once described the rivers and creeks of the Hill Country around Austin as “running deep like old wounds, boiling round the fractures.” This past...
Stock Market Plummets as Trump Announces Tariffs Start Date
Fox News pushed back Monday on the Department of Justice’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein did not keep a list of clients, citing the head of that very agency, who’d...
Ted Cruz Caught on Vacation as Texas Suffered Deadly Floods
According to a report from The Daily Beast, Senator Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece as tragedy struck his state. Over the July 4 weekend, flash flooding took the...
Even Fox News Doesn’t Buy Trump’s Epstein Investigation Result
Fox News pushed back Monday on the Department of Justice’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein did not keep a list of clients, citing the head of that very agency, who’d...
Trump Treasury Secretary Reveals Humiliating Detail About Tariff Talks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accidentally admitted that the White House was lying about countries begging Donald Trump for trade deals. Bessent made the startling admission Sunday as he tied...
Transcript: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Editor’s note: Later in this discussion guest Simon Rosenberg...
The Bear Offers Apologies—and an Uncertain Path Forward
But there are diminishing returns elsewhere. The big Berzatto episode doesn’t earn its run time—an hour and nine minutes!—and it fails to capture the chaos magic that made “Fishes”...
Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses
Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their car at times. She didn’t...
We Are Wittingly Fooling Ourselves About Trump’s Attack on Iran
Earlier this year, in an unexpected divergence from the long-prevailing foreign policy rhetoric of presidents from both parties, Donald Trump gave a speech in Riyadh criticizing interventionists, neoconservatives, and...
EPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”
On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a “declaration of dissent” against Administrator Lee Zeldin and the...
