A Political Explorer analysis found 78.7% of U.S. counties with rising food stamp use since 2010 voted for Trump in 2020. While Trump counties rely heavily on SNAP, he sought cuts to the program.

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean has been released by prosecutors in Ecuador.

How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?

Historically, however, these compromise agreements were possible because both parties could rely on the other to honor the agreement after it became law. But the Supreme Court’s decision in AIDS Vaccine suggests that, even if congressional Democrats and Republicans reach a deal where Democrats get some of the health care spending that they seek, Trump can simply cancel that spending after the bill ending the shutdown is signed into law. If he could cancel the foreign aid spending Congress authorized, as the Court just indicated he can, why couldn’t he cancel anything else the legislators agree to?

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

what’s so striking about the Kimmel case is how swiftly Nexstar (and ABC) rolled over. They didn’t even try to put up a fight to defend their own ability to control what goes on their airwaves. They instead apparently decided that fighting the government is costly and risky, putting licenses or even a valuable merger at risk, and that risking that isn’t worth it for Jimmy Kimmel.

This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.

trump is okay with political violence as long as it's coming from the right

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up.

The Bridgewater Associates founder told the Financial Times that “gaps in wealth”, “gaps in values” and a collapse in trust were driving “more extreme” policies in the US.

On the "Flagrant" podcast this week, Schulz explained that the major issues that caused him to break with Trump are the passage of his "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts that explodes the national debt, his ongoing funding of wars, and his administration's announcement that there was no "client list" for sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

"Everything he campaigned on, I believe he wanted to do, and now he’s doing the exact opposite thing of every single f---ing thing," said Schulz.

Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, four people familiar with the matter told CNN.

apparently this is somehow bad

"Trump is now friends with Carney. Carney is friends with Trump and Canada is screwed."

"I'll be an eight-year president, I'll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important," Trump told NBC's Meet the Press with Kristen Welker in an interview that aired on Sunday.

Trump, 78, has previously said that he was "not joking" about wanting to serve a third, or even fourth, term as US president.

He later said his statements were meant to troll the "fake news media".

His company, The Trump Organization, has been selling "Trump 2028" hats, fuelling armchair speculation that he may seek to remain in office after his second term ends in January 2029.

trump stays not winning legal cases on the overrreach of his authority. "the first judge to have reached a final decision on the merits" is a Trump appointee. looking forward to finding out if he's a secret left-wing activist judge.

In a week that could only be described as a judicial smackdown, President Trump’s latest batch of executive orders has been met with a resounding “nope” from multiple federal courts. It’s almost as if the Constitution still matters—who knew? First up, Trump’s attempt to require proof of citizenship for voter registration was blocked by a […]

Navigator Research's poll, conducted April 24 to 28 among 1,000 registered voters, found about 1 in 9 (11 percent) of respondents who voted for Trump in 2024 regretted having done so, another 16 percent do not regret voting for him but were disappointed.

“We’re taking care of their military. We’re taking care of every aspect of their lives, and we don’t need them to make cars for us,” Trump told Time. “In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.”