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Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.
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Greg Sargent
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"Trump is like nuclear power. He produces a lot of energy and radiation. The trick [for his advisers] is to keep the cooling tower over the reactor, so it doesn't go into meltdown."
On the pod, reporter Marc Caputo is so good on MAGA-world's thinking about debate:
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid
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House Republicans don't want U.S. officials even acknowledging the Palestinian death toll in Gaza. My words: newrepublic.com/post/183200/...
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid
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First Jamaal Bowman, now Cori Bush: AIPAC has another Gaza genocide opponent in their crosshairs. My latest for @tnr.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/183165/...
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid
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Nikki Haley went to Israel on Memorial Day instead of commemorating fallen U.S. soldiers, and signed some bombs. My words for @tnr.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/182003/...
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid
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Biden's top donors seem to be pushing overwhelmingly pro-Israel, and even Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian views in some cases. My story for @tnr.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/181679/...
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Mike Johnson is pushing a new conspiracy theory right before the election, even as he says he can’t actually prove it’s true. newrepublic.com/post/181404/...
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Remember when Chuck Schumer gave that speech on the floor of the Senate against Netanyahu? Apparently neither does he. My latest: newrepublic.com/post/181268/...
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Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences.
Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations.
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This crime literally turned the 2016 election to Trump. Without it, polling shows and political scientists argue, Hillary Clinton would likely have been our president for at least four years.
From @thomhartmann.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1807...
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Donald Trump fired off an all-caps rant on Truth Social Friday about his presidential immunity Supreme Court case—despite sitting in the courtroom for his hush-money trial as the posts went up.
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This is a direct challenge to the MAGA worldview in multiple ways.
From: @gregsargent.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1808...
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During jury selection at Donald Trump’s hush-money trial on Thursday, a potential juror was excused for making an apt comparison: The former president reminded him of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. newrepublic.com/post/180819/...
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"Some people call what Weiss is doing a grift but I disagree: It’s not a grift if you are giving people what they paid for, and her customers are more than satisfied with the product."
From @anamariecox.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1807...
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Trump thrives on chaos and confusion, which he creates not because he’s a savvy political operator but because he’s a birdbrain who has no political beliefs or moral principles to speak of.
From @alexshephard.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1806...
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A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.
From @alexzfinley.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1806...
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Rural whites are being told to blame all the wrong people for their very real problems.Â
From @paulwaldman.bsky.social and Tom Schaller: newrepublic.com/article/1805...
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has personal reasons for wanting to defend the January 6 rioters: At least one of his staffers may have been among them. newrepublic.com/post/180579/...
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This is now beyond politics. Too many people are dying and starving.
President Joe Biden should stop immediately the shipment to Israel of weapons being used in its war in Gaza.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has reached a settlement with the pair, who were found to have violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act by a New York federal judge in 2023. Wohl and Burkman have been ordered to pay “up to $1.25 million” in the deal.
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Now they have to pay more than $1 million for a robocall scheme meant to discourage Black voters during the 2020 election.
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Far-right provocateur Jacob Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have a history of promoting conspiracy theories, unsuccessfully trying to frame public figures for made-up sexual assaults, and saying fraudulent things.
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At a multi-million dollar event in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump complained that immigrants weren’t coming from “nice” countries “like Denmark.”
From @hafizr.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/180524/...
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SEC laws prohibit the use of “manipulative and deceptive devices” to pump up stocks. The Truth Social posts in question could be seen as the former president trying to talk up his company to increase its stock price after a rough week.
From @hafizr.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/180479/...
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In a meeting with Republicans in the Empire State, the Kennedy campaign’s New York director said that “our mutual enemy is Biden.” newrepublic.com/post/180532/...
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Even as Judge Aileen Cannon's moves show she’s carefully disguising her advocacy for Trump, he is making it clear that he expects her to save him.
From @gregsargent.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1805...
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SEC laws prohibit the use of “manipulative and deceptive devices” to pump up stocks. The Truth Social posts in question could be seen as the former president trying to talk up his company to increase its stock price after a rough week.
newrepublic.com/post/180479/...
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Greg Sargent
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Important from Jamie Raskin: News of Trump's call with Saudi Crown Prince raises big questions about what Trump is promising right now to the Saudis that he'd do for them if he wins.
On the pod, Raskin tells me Congress should probe Trump-Saudi relationship👇
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A fundraiser in Los Angeles brought together classic environmentalists, Kennedy groupies, and new age hippies with a lot of money. newrepublic.com/article/1804...
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has some questions about Donald Trump’s $175 million bond insurer—mainly, if it can even guarantee the full amount if push comes to shove. newrepublic.com/post/180475/...
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The faux-centrist group’s attempt to mount a 2024 bid failed miserably—just like everything else they’ve ever done. Now let’s banish them from Washington.
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Greg Sargent
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Just awful: Trump has suggested he'd pardon the 1/6 inmates held in DC, but virtually *all* of them are charged with violently assaulting law enforcement, a new analysis finds.
On the pod, we dug into these findings with the analysis' lead author. Appalling stuff👇
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Big Tech and the Pentagon built the “wheelchair-to-warfare” pipeline—and left those with the most to benefit from the fruits of innovation behind. newrepublic.com/article/1793...
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Athletes are being caught in scandals, yes, but the bigger scandal is that the ease and prevalence of betting is driving a huge rise in addiction—and neither the leagues nor our politicians care.
From @alexshephard.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1803...
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If Truth Social has failed to succeed as a social-media platform, that’s probably because, like the Trump Shuttle, Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and the infamous Trump University, it’s really just a branding opportunity to score Trump a quick buck. newrepublic.com/article/1803...
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National Review magazine’s latest cover story worries that “the Left would foment widespread violence in the cities to punish nonviolent voters.”
From @timothynoah.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1802...
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Donald Trump asked Monday to adjourn his hush-money trial indefinitely on the basis of too much “pre-trial publicity.” newrepublic.com/post/180302/...
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Greg Sargent
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One of the ugliest features of Trump-MAGA politics is the use of disasters to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another.
We're seeing that now with the Baltimore horror. 1/
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As of this writing, Alex Jones has yet to pay the parents a penny of the more than $1 billion in damages awarded in the two suits, yet he’s raking it in grifting on vitamins and supplements. newrepublic.com/article/1802...
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Trump will have money. There’s no use pretending he won’t. But $400 sneakers and $60 Bibles are not signs of strength. They’re signs of weakness. Panic. Desperation. newrepublic.com/post/180257/...
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Representative Dan Meuser, a Republican from Pennsylvania, had an unusual take on the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge: it’s not the government’s job to fix it.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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This ER doc suing the FDA over mifepristone has been busy: fighting a malpractice suit in the death of a woman with a newborn; getting elected to the Indiana state lege; working with his lawyers in the mife case, Alliance Defending Freedom, to pass anti-trans legislation. New (and yikes) from me:
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Truth Social's overinflated stock value will sorely tempt the cash-poor Trump to sell off a significant portion of his shares—to Trump and Dump, that is, writes @timothynoah.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/1802...
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is attempting to stave off criticism of her recent effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, declaring that she wouldn’t be accepting any of the blame if the move ends in a legislative power flip. newrepublic.com/post/180194/...
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Now that Lara Trump, who once said that people should “get ahead by merit and merit alone,” is in charge, the Republican National Committee has a new question to determine the merit of all job candidates: Was the 2020 election stolen? newrepublic.com/post/180168/...
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Emily Tamkin
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For @tnr.bsky.social, I wrote about the Biden admin’s sanctions on West Bank settlers and the distance between a powerful symbol and a significant policy change
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Biden's recent executive order on violent extremism in the West Bank is mostly a symbol so far. But it could be a lot more than that, @emilyctamkin.bsky.social writes. newrepublic.com/article/1799...
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After Trump openly attacked Judge Juan Merchan and his family in a post on Truth Social, targeting the judge’s daughter in particular, he was slapped with a gag order in his hush money case.
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Donald Trump just lost another bid in his hush money trial, thanks to his idiot legal team. newrepublic.com/post/180151/...
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Justices seemed skeptical that this group of doctors had a legitimate case against the abortion pill. But Samuel Alito may give the anti-abortion movement more ideas. newrepublic.com/article/1801...
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