Secretary of State Marco Rubio and UFC CEO Dana White signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday cementing a public-private partnership between the mixed martial arts company and the U.S. government.
Trump will likely financially benefit from this deal due to his investment in its parent company, TKO Group Holdings. While conservative media has sold this as “cage fights for diplomacy,” the…
The festival of football is finally here: the 2026 World Cup kicks off today, with the United States, Mexico, and Canada hosting the largest tournament in the competition’s history.
The buildup has been far from smooth, though. Ticket prices are eye-watering, raising concerns about empty seats at the stadiums. There are also fears that the heat will harm the players and that the tournament's…
Plus, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) answers our questions about the Delaney Hall protests.
Before this summer ends, members of the Utah State Senate will have four separate chances to “consider and render a decision” on appointments by Gov. Spencer Cox to the Utah Supreme Court. Article VIII of the Utah Constitution requires senators to cast those votes “based solely upon consideration of” each nominee’s “fitness for office.” But what does that mean?
The constitution answers in part.…
As U.S. House Republicans scrutinize one of the nation’s most prominent anti-hate groups, they will bring in a right-wing commentator who spent years villainizing LGBTQ+ Americans and their allies.
Tyler O’Neil, now a senior editor at The Daily Signal, was listed as the top witness at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center being held Wednesday. That’s largely…
President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency wants Americans to keep guzzling “forever chemicals” in their water.
The agency offered a formal proposal Monday to repeal Biden-era regulations on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, a.k.a “forever chemicals” because they linger in the environment for hundreds or even thousands of years.
If finalized, the proposal would…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…
Nate Blouin said that hiding the fact that he is a progressive Democrat to appear more moderate in Utah’s 1st Congressional District race isn’t what Utahns need — or want.
In a conversation with controversial online streamer Hasan Piker, Blouin said that voters want someone who doesn’t change their politics to match constituents — but they instead, “should be electing people who are, you know,…
Plus, the advantages and disadvantages of digital voting.
When French President Emmanuel Macron took to the stage at the Africa Forward summit yesterday, the audience may not have expected a scolding.
“Hey! Hey! Hey! I’m sorry guys, but it’s impossible to … have people … coming here making a speech with such a noise,” he said. “This is a total lack of respect.”
Macron’s harsh words directed at the crowd, somewhat ironically, come as he tries…
After the Labour Party’s disastrous performance in the local elections last Thursday, one that was fully expected, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is clinging onto his position by a thread. In a bid to shore up support, the PM delivered a “relaunch speech” in London on Monday morning, acknowledging voters’ desire for quicker change while reiterating…
In an interview with _The_ _New York Times_ last week, Tucker Carlson, once a Trump stalwart, called President Trump’s war with Iran “the single most foolish thing any American president has ever done.” The conservative podcaster no doubt was being intentionally hyperbolic, as his followers expect; it’s hard to argue that this military misadventure already qualifies as a more foolish decision…
The Trump family is not ashamed to bilk taxpayers in order to line their pockets.
Eric Trump appeared on Fox Business Thursday morning, openly celebrating a $24 million defense contract his company won—through business with his father’s administration.
The 42-year-old financier appeared on _Mornings with Maria_ to promote Foundation Industries, a technology company building futuristic warfare…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…
Tonight at 6 p.m. EST, US President Donald Trump will be featured in “America Reads The Bible,” reciting a verse from the holy book in the Oval Office. The week-long event will see five hundred people, including Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth , and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles , read the Bible in its entirety in a series of…
Congress debates reauthorizing Section 702 of FISA.
Mastodon announced they were awarded a €614k service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund to fund the development of new features and improvements, including end-to-end encrypted private messages.
Who’s the biggest nut job in MAGA? That question pretty much sums up the civil war that has broken out between Donald Trump and a growing number of right-wing influencers, media personalities, and other former loyalists who have criticized the president over his war on Iran—and sometimes questioned his mental state to boot.
On Thursday, the president hit back at these critics, specifically…
At least one Republican senator is finally speaking out against President Trump’s genocidal threats against Iran.
“I am hoping and praying that President Trump … [that] this really is bluster. I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that,” conservative Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson said on an episode of the _John Solomon Reports_ podcast released…
Once a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson has fully turned against him over the war in Iran, going as far as to liken Trump to the Antichrist on his eponymous podcast.
“Could there be a spiritual component to this?” Carlson said on _The Tucker Carlson Show_ on Monday. “Is it just a conventional escalation ladder in a badly thought out…
The post-WWII international order claimed universal principles while producing and protecting political arrangements that…
“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…
Winston Churchill titled the fourth volume of his history of the Second World War The Hinge of Fate because it covered a time period in 1942-43 when events and decisions created a turning point in the war. Looking back 80 years ago, it is arguable that 1946 was the hinge of fate for the post-World War II world. Events and decisions of that year set the course for the Cold War and, ultimately, the…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…
Amid the deadly, illegal, half-baked war the U.S. and Israeli governments are waging against Iran, Donald Trump has managed to stick to his morning routine of shouting nonsense on social media. At 7:23 a.m. on Monday, Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States had engaged in “VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS” with Iranian negotiators “REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF…
The Trump administration is once again suing Harvard University, contending that “for several years, Jewish and Israeli students endured a hostile educational environment” at the Ivy League school.
The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts federal court on Friday and first reported by _The Washington Post,_ alleges that students were stopped from entering campus buildings by “antisemitic…
Jürgen Habermas was among the leading thinkers of the German center left and its cosmopolitan Europeanism. But his thought also reflected the…
The president is leveraging his position as commander in chief for another moneymaking scheme.
An eyebrow-raising fundraising email was circulated Thursday by a Trump-affiliated super PAC, promising supporters a “National Security Briefing Membership” in exchange for their cash.
It was sent by the fundraising subsidiary of Donald Trump’s primary leadership PAC, Never Surrender, which emerged…
Conservative MAGA ideologue Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism.
On _Piers Morgan’s Uncensored_ , Schlapp was part of a panel discussion about the war in Iran and the bombing of the girls’ school that killed an estimated 175 people (nearly all young…
The 2026 Cricket World Cup illustrates how the sport is no longer insulated from politics. Its most lucrative rivalries take place at the intersection of…