December 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM EST
Artist creates a way to hide Trump's face on new National Park passes

President Donald Trump's devoted MAGA loyalists aren't shy about trying to get his image into as many places as possible, from silver Trump coins to proposing that his image be added to Mt. Rushmore alongside famous images of Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced that America the Beautiful passes for national parks would include a Trump image. But according to SFGate report Sam Mauhay-Moore, Colorado-based watercolor artist Jenny McCarty found a way to cover Trump's face on the passes.

December 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM EST
An evangelical pastor known for very extreme views is gaining prominence with MAGA

For most of his life, Doug Wilson -- the 72-year-old pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho -- was a fringe figure even on the Religious Right. Wilson's Christian nationalist views were so extreme that he gained a reputation for being to the right of familiar evangelical fundamentalists like Liberty University's Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., the Christian Broadcasting Network's Rev. Pat Robertson, and Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

December 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM EST
'An act of evil antisemitism' as at least 12 are killed in terrorist attack in Australia

At least 12 people have been killed after two gunmen opened fire on a crowd at Bondi Beach at about 6.47pm on Sunday. Twenty-nine people were injured and taken to hospital, including two police officers. One of the gunman was among the dead. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. A crowd of more than 1,000 had gathered to celebrate the first day of the Jewish festival Hanukkah. Bondi Beach is in the Sydney eastern suburbs, the heart of the Jewish community. New South Wales police have declared the shooting a terrorist attack.

December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM EST
Jared Kushner is backing a 'hostile takeover' of US infrastructure: analysis

Salon reporter Sophia Tesfaye says "the speed and scale of Jared Kushner's re-emergence can't be overstated," and neither can his corruption. "In the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency, his son-in-law is casually consolidating economic and political power with staggering speed," said Tesfaye. "Kushner has positioned himself at the center of the biggest media merger in years and at the fulcrum of White House foreign policy, all while taking in multi-billion-dollar investments from autocratic governments."

December 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM EST
MAGA fans demand Trump address rising costs as 'the biggest thing'

The top priorities of MAGA adherents attending President Donald Trump's Pennsylvania rally were roughly in tune with those of the rest of American voters: Inflation. Conservative media company Right Side Broadcasting Network, known for their live stream coverage of Trump rallies and America First events, sent host Matthew Alvarez to Trump's Pennsylvania rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort on Tuesday to interview Trump fans waiting in line and inside the venue before Trump took the stage.

December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM EST
Busted: 'Mean-spirited' Trump allies hid collusion to inflate grocery costs

On Friday, a nonprofit forced the Trump administration to unseal a damning complaint lodged by the Biden-era Federal Trade Commission against Pepsi for colluding with Walmart to raise food prices across the nation. New un-redacted information claims FTC Chair Ferguson and his colleague Mark Meador (both Trump appointees) were hiding the mechanics of Pepsi's and Wal-Mart's price fixing. Pepsi is a "must-have" product for grocery stores, and Walmart is also massively powerful," reports BIG Newsletter writer Matt Stoller. Critics say Pepsi allegedly engages in price discrimination to maintain the approval of Walmart, its biggest buyer -- even going so far as to police prices at smaller rival stores. And it prepares reports for Walmart showing them their pricing advantages on Pepsi products.

December 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM EST
Ex-lawmakers rip 'cowards' in Congress for letting Trump walk all over them

New York Times writer Lulu Garcia-Navarro says Congress' approval rating is at a "dreadful 15 percent," and President Donald Trump's own polling is at dismal levels. Yet, Congressional Republicans can't seem to release their death grip on the unpopular president. Former lawmakers also accuse Congress of allowing President Donald Trump to walk over them and usurp power.

December 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM EST
Trump keeps bringing attention to his rapid decline

Donald Trump went out to give a rally for the first time in months, speaking this week in a swing district in Pennsylvania. The White House hyped it to be a speech on affordability, but he instead attacked "affordability" as a "hoax" and veered into his usual viciously racist attacks. Democrats couldn't wish for a better scenario.

December 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM EST
The movement that closed the MAGA mind goes back 70 years: analysis

Brookings Institution nonresident fellow and philosopher Laura Field says a 77-year-old book can explain the MAGA new right, and much of it deals with the rejection of truth. Author Richard Weaver wrote a book in 1948 that describes the basic contours of the New Right's closed philosophical approach. Field said you can hear the book's title, "Ideas Have Consequences," as a popular catchphrase among conservatives.

December 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM EST
'Not what they voted for': Why swing voters are leaving Trumpism in droves

New York Times writer E.J. Dionne Jr., says a great many Americans who helped put Donald Trump in office have absorbed what's happened since. "They may not be glued to every chaotic twist of this presidency, but they do pay attention and have concluded, reasonably, that this is not what they voted for," said Dionne.

December 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM EST
'Unmotivated donors' plague Republicans in pivotal southern state

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King is sounding the alarm on party donations heading into the mid-terms. "The usually low-key King posted a lengthy statement to social media, almost a manifesto, after Democrats managed to flip a Republican state House seat in Oconee and Clarke counties," wrote Atlanta Journal Constitution Senior Political columnist Patricia Murphy. "That unexpected special election loss followed two 26-point Democratic routs in November for a pair of statewide Public Service Commission seats, which Georgia Republicans have dominated for decades."

December 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM EST
Trump's favorite CNN pundit gets shut down in exchange over White House ballroom

One of President Donald Trump's most consistent defenders on CNN was recently confronted over his celebration of Trump's bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House. During the Friday episode of CNN host Kaitlan Collins' show "The Source," Collins discussed the lawsuit filed by a nonprofit group seeking to halt construction of Trump's proposed new $300 million ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States alleged that the Trump administration illegally shut the public out of the process typically afforded to them when historic buildings undergo significant renovations.