January 29, 2026 at 10:19 PM EST
Deep red state discovers new $200 million annual bill -- courtesy of Trump

Alabama Media Group reports state legislators are discovering a nasty new bill courtesy of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" this week as the Alabama legislative session is underway. "It's a matter of what can we do or should we do - or is there anything that can be (done) to prevent running into that $200 million wall?" said state Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, chairman of the Senate's general fund committee. "And right now I think that train's got the light on headed straight for us."

January 29, 2026 at 10:10 PM EST
Kennedy Center fires high-ranking staffer who worked there for a decade

Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts -- which is chaired by President Donald Trump and led by a board he personally selected - recently fired one of its most experienced staffers despite her 10-year history with the institution. The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Sarah Kramer, who was the Kennedy Center's senior director of artistic operations, has been fired as of Wednesday night. The auto-reply to messages sent to her professional email address reads: "Sarah Kramer is no longer an employee of the Kennedy Center."

January 29, 2026 at 9:31 PM EST
US dollar won't stop sinking under Trump assault: report

CBS News reports that unlike the luckier U.S. stock market, the U.S. dollar is "sinking fast." "The value of the greenback just hit a four-year low " against a basket of six other major currencies," reports CBS, citing info from the ICE U.S. Dollar Index. "While much of the decline has occurred over the past year, the dollar has slid more than 3 percent since mid-January, according to the index."

January 29, 2026 at 9:16 PM EST
Trump committing 'economic self-sabotage': analyst

One of the U.S. economy's biggest strengths has been effectively kneecapped by President Donald Trump's administration, according to a new analysis from The Bulwark's Catherine Rampell. In a Thursday essay, Rampell argued that Trump's policies during the first year of his second term have been "both disruptive and deeply damaging." She observed that the United States' previous dominance in the areas of research and development, medical research and other fields has since been decimated largely due to the Trump administration's impact on higher education.

January 29, 2026 at 8:13 PM EST
Unrepentant MAGA influencer suddenly 'not political' after slew of club bans

The Miami New Times reports Miami venue moguls gave MAGA influencer Clavicular [Braden Peters] a dressing down after he and far-right "manosphere" influencers Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, Myron Gaines, and Sneako celebrated and sang Kanye West's "Heil Hitler" at a Miami Beach club. "They're not really going for subtlety here," said Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller while reviewing the widely spread video of the event. "You can see, I think that's Gaines " just doing the full Nazi salute over and over again while they're videoing themselves [in a van]. Nick Fuentes is in the back looking a little uncomfortable and chuckling."

January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM EST
Gingrich calls on Trump admin to stop 'behaving like a mob'

As President Donald Trump's immigration polling numbers deteriorate and criticism of federal agents grows -- and following the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minnesota -- Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is calling for a national conversation about undocumented immigrants who pay taxes, have lived in the United States for years, and are good neighbors. Gingrich called on President Donald Trump to "open up a national dialogue," as he told Fox Business, saying that "this is about dignity," a quote he took from U.S. Rep. Mar?a Elvira Salazar (R-FL).

January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM EST
Two Trump Cabinet members bail on Melania film screening

First Lady Melania Trump's eponymous film is debuting this weekend -- but two of her husband's top officials are already giving excuses for not attending a viewing event. The conservative Washington Times reported Thursday that "Melania" will be screening for a select audience at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The First Couple will be in attendance for tonight's viewing, along with the president's Cabinet -- save for two members.

January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM EST
Trump's base could threaten this organization's control over the GOP: analysis

MS NOW Columnist Philip Bump says the powerful Trump cult may accomplish something where countless others failed: reign in gun culture and the NRA. It all began, he says, with a lie.

January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM EST
Epstein reporter reveals 'one of the most suspicious aspects' of his death

Before he died in prison, convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly attacked in his cell, extorted by his cellmate and slipped a handwritten note into a book. That's according to Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, who initially broke the story that led to the first arrests of Epstein and his chief accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. In a Thursday post to her Substack entitled "Why I don't believe Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself (Part 2)," Brown delved into Bureau of Prisons records about an apparent suicide attempt that took place not long after he arrived at New York City's Metropolitan Corrections Center in the summer of 2019.

January 29, 2026 at 3:42 PM EST
'Conservative Hollywood' dream 'in ruins' as eight-figure show staggers out the door

In early 2020, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing found himself inspired by the eagerness with which the MAGA community devoured Daily Wire documentaries, and he decided to build a conservative Hollywood in Nashville, according to Bulwark Editor Will Sommer. "Boreing's pet project was a Game of Thrones -style take on the King Arthur legend, called The Pendragon Cycle: The Rise of Merlin . And, for a while, the right's long-running dream of having more influence in entertainment seemed like it just might happen," said Sommer.

January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM EST
Georgia legal expert reveals end goal of FBI's Fulton County raid

Georgia lawyer Michael J. Moore fears that the FBI raid on the Atlanta elections office has an end goal of the federal government taking over elections. Speaking to Moore on Thursday, CNN host Pamela Brown cited President Donald Trump's posting spree in the early hours of Thursday morning during which he repeated the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats.

January 29, 2026 at 11:26 AM EST
Trump 'hellbent' on punishing Americans he still claims 'stole' the election: columnist

Amid the backdrop of an FBI raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election center and the president's social media promotion of a call for the arrest of President Barack Obama, The Bulwark's Andrew Egger says President Donald Trump is "hellbent" on punishing those he claims stole the 2020 election from him. "Trump's assault on our elections""once unambiguously his most outrageous crime""can now only rarely recapture our attention amid so many other scandals and disasters. It has somehow become, for us, a background matter," Egger notes. "When Trump, speaking for America on the world stage at Davos, proclaims that 2020 'was a rigged election' and promises that 'people will soon be prosecuted for what they did,' we're almost too numb to be scandalized."