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July 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM EDT
'Make chickens miserable again': Trump's California feud taken to 'ridiculous new level'

Charlotte Observer columnist Stephanie Finucane is slamming the Trump administration over a "ridiculous, anti-chicken lawsuit" forcing Californians to buy produce from states that raise chickens, pigs and other food animals in tiny, constrictive cages. "Donald Trump has taken his feud with California to a ridiculous new level by suing us for being too nice to chickens," Finucane writes. "Apparently, his administration believes we coddle our egg-laying hens by allowing them to occasionally take a break from their duties -- maybe stand up and spread their wings -- rather than confining them in cages where they can barely budge."

 

July 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM EDT
'Deal with it like adults': DC insider smacks down Trump official's tantrum

Mary McCord, former principal deputy assistant AG for the Department of Justice, had choice words for the escalating spat between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Infighting among President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appointees is boiling over now that Bongino is threatening to resign in response to Bondi's handling of the alleged Jeffrey Epstein files. Earlier Friday Axios had reported Bongino took an early weekend after his argument at the White House with Bondi. Trump staff believed Bongino had already quit when he didn't show up for work that morning.

 

July 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM EDT
'A desperate lunge': Inside MAGA's hold on Appalachia and rural America

Retired Standard & Poor's Director Jim Branscome has a theory for why Appalachia and rural America clings to Trump, and it has everything to do with exploitation. "What our [greedy] milk cows taught me on [my] mountain farm, [Ecologist Garrett] Hardin elevated into a principle that explains much of what ails modern society," Branscome told Salon.

 

July 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM EDT
WSJ destroys key Trump talking point in scathing editorial

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board does not believe Trump is the big military spender he claims to be. The White House is touting its $1 trillion defense budget for 2026, but the board says Trump isn't talking about how much that really is when you add inflation.

 

July 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM EDT
'Say no a lot': Sarah Huckabee Sanders compares reporters to children

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders celebrated her family's legacy with the Trump administration and Iowa ties Friday at the Family Leadership Summit. Sanders is the former White House press secretary. Her father, Mike Huckabee is the current U.S. ambassador to Israel.

 

July 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM EDT
Trump's flip-flopping after his new plans 'backfire' are all part of the plan: psychologist

It was US president Harry S. Truman who, in the years just after the second world war, kept a little wooden sign on his desk which read: "The buck stops here!". It emphasised his willingness to accept ultimate responsibility for his decisions and actions as president, even the ones that didn't quite work out. This phrase has since become emblematic of presidential accountability and leadership. Truman wasn't interested in trying to pass the buck, not as a man and certainly not as president.

 

July 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM EDT
The most dangerous guy at Fox News is probably not who you think

I was listening to a spot on The New Yorker Radio Hour last week, hosted by Editor David Remnick. This show has been a go-to of mine for years -- a place I can find some safe harbor from the gathering storm in Washington. You might have your own opinion on Remnick, or none at all, but I think he's a smart guy, generally a great interviewer, and has been a part of some damn good journalism for most of my adult life. We are loose contemporaries, both from New Jersey, the same age, got our start as sports writers in the Garden State.

 

July 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM EDT
Trump's new assault is not a sideshow or a distraction -- it's the whole game

History rarely announces itself. It creeps in quietly, cloaked in the language of "law and order," "national security," and "patriotism." But every now and then, it screams. Last week, it screamed.

 

July 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM EDT
'We're talking about now!' MAGA congressman's whataboutism called out live on CNN

Infighting among President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appointees is growing increasingly bitter, with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino threatening to resign in response to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the alleged Jeffrey Epstein files. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) defended Bongino during a Friday night, July 11 appearance on CNN, and things grew testy when the MAGA congressman invoked former President Joe Biden.

 

July 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM EDT
'Dragging him back and drowning him': CNN data analyst maps out throughline of Trump conspiracies

Even before he launched his second presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump had a major fondness for conspiracy theories. Trump was very much a birther during Barack Obama's presidency, promoting the racist conspiracy theory that Obama was really born in Kenya instead of the United States even though Obama's birth certificate clearly showed that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.

 

July 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM EDT
Political neuroscientist pinpoints 4 psychological markers of extreme ideologues

Psychologist/author Leor Zmigrod is known for her expertise on extremism and rigid mindsets -- a topic she explores in her book, "The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking." In an interview with Big Think published on July 9, Zmigrod delves into the traits of rigid thinkers. And she lays out "four principal factors that correlate with someone holding extreme ideological beliefs."

 

July 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM EDT
'Bondi is not going': Ex-White House lawyer details 'specific reason' Trump isn't budging on AG

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Friday explained why President Donald Trump is likely to side with Attorney General Pam Bondi over FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, telling CNN's Erin Burnett it would be "a huge embarrassment" for Trump to fire his attorney general. Bongino is reportedly considering resigning over Bondi's handling of the "Epstein Files" after the Department of Justice and FBI "concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a 'client list' or was murdered," according to a memo detailed Sunday by Axios. Bongino -- who in the past has "fueled" conspiracy theories about Epstein's death and relationships with powerful individuals in government -- didn't show up for work Friday, Trump confidant Laura Loomer reports. And, according to Axios, "a source close to Bongino " said 'he ain't coming back.'"

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