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April 7, 2026
What Happened to Tucker Carlson?
Chris Lehmann
The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head.
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April 3, 2026
The All Too Predictable Reason Trump Fired Pam Bondi
Chris Lehmann
The president has surrounded himself with cronies and sycophants. But even they keep failing to meet the level of servility he demands.
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March 30, 2026
The Bottomless Stupidity of House Republicans
Chris Lehmann
Somehow, they’ve managed to top themselves in the crisis over TSA funding. Who knew that was even possible?
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March 26, 2026
Trump's TV-Warped Brain Is Putting the World In Danger
Chris Lehmann
The president is experiencing the Iran War almost entirely through misleading video clips—and that's very bad news for all of us.
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March 24, 2026
The Senate Proves Once Again that It’s the World’s Most Useless Deliberative Body
Chris Lehmann
Despite denying the legitimacy of Biden’s election and making violent threats, Markwayne Mullin breezed through his Senate confirmation to become the new head of DHS.
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March 10, 2026
Everything Is Quiet in Trump’s Mind. The Real World Is Another Story.
Chris Lehmann
Trump’s press conference dedicated to stabilizing global markets was filled with delusions and wish-fulfillment fantasies about a peaceful, compliant planet.
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March 3, 2026
The Corporate Media Is Head Over Heels for the Iran War
Chris Lehmann
Donald Trump’s attack may be surreal, unjustified, and illegal. But that’s not stopping the press from turning the propaganda dial way up.
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February 25, 2026
The State of the Union Was a Rally for an Ailing Strongman
Chris Lehmann
An increasingly unpopular Trump lurched from plodding teleprompter readings to gothic MAGA fantasies in his long-winded speech.
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February 20, 2026
Trump’s Attack on the Supreme Court Was Unhinged Even for Him
Chris Lehmann
The president went on a wild rant alleging that the justices who struck down his tariffs were part of a vast global conspiracy to destroy him.
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February 17, 2026
CBS Surrenders to Trump
Chris Lehmann
The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment.
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February 11, 2026
Don’t Let Trump Fool You. The Economy Is Bad, and He Is to Blame.
Chris Lehmann
The Trump administration’s efforts to distract from the bad economy just divert attention from one dumpster fire to another.
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February 10, 2026
The Racist Lie Behind ICE’s Mission in Minneapolis
Chris Lehmann
It was never about straightforward enforcement of immigration law.
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February 4, 2026
Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime
Chris Lehmann
It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite.
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January 30, 2026
The Smug and Vacuous David Brooks Is Perfect for “The Atlantic”
Chris Lehmann
The former New York Times columnist is a one-man cottage industry of lazy cultural stereotyping.
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January 26, 2026
This Is the Perfect Moment for Democrats to Grow a Spine
Chris Lehmann
After the murder of Alex Pretti by federal agents, the least national Democrats can do is dismantle ICE.
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January 21, 2026
Trump Brings His Phony Populism to Davos
Chris Lehmann
Nothing says "I care about working people" like a speech to an audience of billionaires at an exclusive Swiss ski resort.
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