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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, August 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM EDT While polls indicate that a majority of President Donald Trump's voters remain steadfast in their support, a notable portion is beginning to express regret over their 2024 vote. In this context, a Facebook post by a self-identified MAGA voter went viral Saturday. She shared that, due to Trump's tariffs, she and her partner can no longer afford their imported medications. She began her post by expressing her frustration with Trump's ongoing tariff war, which has increased the prices of imported goods in the U.S. August 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM EDT In an article for The Guardian published Sunday, columnist Arwa Mahdawi highlighted a startling turn in the rhetoric of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a figure long known for far"'right conspiracy theories and divisive behavior. Greene, according to Mahdawi, has begun to speak a modicum of sense, as she turns on her own party. This dramatic shift has seen Greene lambasting the direction of the Republican Party and accusing male colleagues of mistreating women. August 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM EDT Former personal attorney for President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, said Sunday the president "doesn't care" if people think he is hiding something about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Vance said Vice President JD Vance lied about a meeting to discuss Epstein "because they can." August 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM EDT In an article for The Atlantic published Sunday, analysts Peter Wehner and Robert P. Beschel Jr. argued that one fundamental flaw of President Donald Trump, which voters can no longer ignore, is his glaring incompetence, a shortcoming they said is more politically toxic than corruption or authoritarian tendencies. The authors asserted that, in 2024, many Americans were willing to overlook Trump's felony convictions or his role in the January 6 Capitol attack, as long as they believed he could govern effectively. August 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM EDT Facing threats from Republicans who have called for her deportation this week, U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez has refused to back down. The progressive Guatemalan-American congresswoman from Illinois has become a punching bag in right-wing media this week after comments she made in Spanish were apparently mistranslated by The Blaze, which claimed she said: "I'm a proud Guatemalan, before I'm an American." August 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM EDT In an article published in Salon Sunday, retired U.S. Air Force officer and historian William J. Astore argued that under President Donald Trump, America has lost its moral compass and become a militaristic empire in precipitous decline. Drawing on deep convictions formed during his two decades of service, Astore emphasizes his belief that the United States must remain a "nation of laws" -- not ruled by special interests, oligarchs, or monarchs. August 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM EDT PsyPost reports a new psychological study has found that people who claim favorable views of President Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits""and lower on empathy and compassion. "Our findings suggest a link between malevolent personality and conservative political ideology, which in our study included positive view of Trump, and that persons with malevolent personality dispositions view political figures with malevolent traits favorably," said study author Craig Neumann, a Regents Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas. "Further, people who view malevolent political figures favorably also report less empathy for others and enjoy the suffering of others." August 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM EDT New York Times columnist say President Donald Trump may be about to lose the only advantage keeping his administration afloat. Investment expert Steven Rattner said economic numbers released before Trump angrily fired his Bureau of Labor chief showed "substantial deceleration" in job growth, not just for the last month, but revised down for the two prior months. August 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM EDT Former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul tells MSNBC he's alarmed by how quickly President Donald Trump keeps changing his mind about Russian leader Vladimir Putin as he prepares to negotiate an end to war in Ukraine. "I'm surprised by [his recent criticism of Putin] because if there's been one thing that Trump has been consistent with over the decades, really, it's been his admiration for Vladimir Putin," McFaul told the crew of MSNBC's 'The Weekend'. "The whole first term was all about how great Putin was. But I'm also worried about the erratic nature of the president of the United States today." August 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM EDT New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says Trump is imposing his "garish" rococo gold tastes upon more than just the local de'cor. "Trump has long been a human wrecking ball, but now his chaos has splattered onto the usually serene White House," said Dowd. "He's obsessively terraforming the place to be an extension of his attention-crazed id." August 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM EDT It appears that I must have missed a memo recently from Woke"'Liberal Headquarters. If I understand correctly, I was supposed to have melted down by now over an American Eagle ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. Something about my outrage over a beautiful woman with blonde hair and blue eyes making a joke about having "good jeans" -- a play on "good genes." August 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM EDT The Oklahoman reports the Aryan Freedom Network and other neo-Nazi groups may sit "on the outermost edges of American politics," but "several trends have converged since Trump's re-election". "[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we've been raising for years," said Oklahoma resident and neo-Nazi Dalton Henry Stout. "He's the best thing that's happened to us." |
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