MAGA can’t accept what their California loss means for their future: analysis #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5Cwns
MAGA can’t accept what their California loss means for their future: analysis

President Donald Trump and his supporters keep insisting that Spencer Pratt, Trump’s fellow ex-reality TV star, was robbed in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Yet according to Nick Catoggio from the center-right publication The Dispatch, Trump and his backers are really upset about something else — the...

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Furious Trump cheerleader loses it on Fox over president’s lies #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5Cwol
Furious Trump cheerleader loses it on Fox over president’s lies

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is getting bummed with President Donald Trump’s mixed messaging and embarrassing fabrications, especially when they keep producing cringe moments in U.S. invasion of Iran, reports Mediaite.Specifically, Ingraham was aggravated that Iranians were still able to strike U.S....

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Controversial Platner pulls off political upset in Maine #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5CwoX
Controversial Platner pulls off political upset in Maine

Overcoming a series of scandals that experts feared would sink his campaign, former oysterman Graham Platner defeated Gov. Janet Mills in the Maine Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday.Platner entered the election with high hopes, as supporters embraced his economic populist message. Yet despite rec...

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Ex-prosecutor warns 'ferrets' in Trump’s brain biting deeper into the grey matter #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5CxQQ
Ex-prosecutor warns 'ferrets' in Trump’s brain biting deeper into the grey matter

An ex-prosecutor said that President Donald Trump’s lingering obsession with claiming elections were stolen reflects “ferrets” in his head having their way with him.“It is currently affecting what he does and government policy,” former deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman told conservative...

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Billionaire title becomes an anchor in California governor's race #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5CxQ5
Billionaire title becomes an anchor in California governor's race

Billionaire Tom Steyer is officially out of the 2026 California gubernatorial race.Steyer lost to both fellow Democrat and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and a Republican, former Fox News host Steve Hilton. While Becerra was able to advance to the runoff r...

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Trump and right-wing organizations smear beloved boxing icon with lies: report #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5CxMl
Trump and right-wing organizations smear beloved boxing icon with lies: report

President Donald Trump’s controversial America’s 250th anniversary includes a set of mobile museums carrying displays about the nation’s history and prominent figures. But one of the displays is angering the religious community because it falsely claims that Muhammad Ali disavowed Islam.“It is a stu...

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Trump DOJ demands 'action' against leaker who pilfered damning Jack Smith probe #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5CxJP
Trump DOJ demands 'action' against leaker who pilfered damning Jack Smith probe

President Donald Trump ally U.S. District Judge Ailleen Cannon dismissed the president's Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution in 2024, the criminal case involving Trump’s alleged stealing and misuse of classified state documents after his first term. Critics say Cannon unquestionably granted ...

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Hard right 'seized power' to spread extremist rhetoric under Trump: watchdog #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5CxF0
Hard right 'seized power' to spread extremist rhetoric under Trump: watchdog

Hard-right groups have expanded their influence inside the Trump administration, a new report on hate and extremism by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds, according to The Guardian. A federal grand jury indicted the SPLC, a civil rights organization, on federal fraud charges earlier this year — m...

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Republican received a text with Mussolini and Shrek — so he sent the sender to jail #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5ChDi
Republican received a text with Mussolini and Shrek — so he sent the sender to jail

A self-identified pro-free speech Ohio state senator sent an Ohio gossip blogger to jail for sending a text message that compared the Republican to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini — and included a sexually explicit image of the Dreamworks cartoon character Shrek.“D.J. Byrnes—an Ohio blogger who ru...

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Trump is bringing back a 1950s American form of persecution #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5ChEu
Trump is bringing back a 1950s American form of persecution

President Donald Trump is reviving the Lavender Scare, an infamous period in American history that began in the 1950s and led to the widespread persecution of members of the LGBTQ community.“A defining feature of the mid-20th century was the government-wide panic over communism, anarchism, and other...

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