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Rolling Stone
26 days ago
The way Trump is handling these meetings with his top lieutenants “definitely gives off Dear Leader vibes, like what you would see with Kim Jong Un or [Vladimir] Putin." Read:
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It was clear Sliwa would not be delivering his victory speech, and perhaps that’s why there didn’t seem to be even an ounce of anxiety amid the revelry. A dispatch from my night at Curtis Sliwa's election watch party:
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No One Was Sweating It at Curtis Sliwa's Boozy Election Night Party
Attendees at Republican Curtis Sliwa's election were unbothered that their candidate lost the New York City mayoral election to Zohran Mamdani.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/curtis-sliwa-supporters-nyc-mayoral-election-1235460195/
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Asawin Suebsaeng
about 1 month ago
To be fair, he explicitly and publicly campaigned on this and then won
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"Logic isn’t necessarily going to be the weapon, it might need to be love. And then from that, you hope that they find some logic. But just yelling and berating people, done that for eight years." Read
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's fantastic Q+A with Roy Wood Jr.:
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Roy Wood Jr.: 'Logic Isn't the Weapon. It Might Need to Be Love'
Roy Wood Jr. talks about his book, 'The Man of Many Fathers,' doing comedy in a polarized country and what he learned in radio and on 'The Daily Show'
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/roy-wood-jr-memoir-daily-show-trump-1235425269/
about 2 months ago
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Jacqueline Sweet
about 2 months ago
NEW: Deputy Secretary of State Landau has created a meme superhero persona for himself, as he teams up with fringe anonymous X accounts to target foreign visa holders for Charlie Kirk speech. Meet: El Quitavisas. Me
@rollingstone.com
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Please read this heartbreaking story from
@timdickinson.bsky.social
about a mom and her four kids who were taken by CBP and disappeared, and how a lawmaker and a friend mobilized to track them down
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Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway
Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-cbp-disappears-portland-mom-citizen-kids-1235444180/
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Antonia Juhasz
about 2 months ago
My latest for
@rollingstone.com
digs into Trump's $30 Billion in shutdown cuts targeting Democratic states and cities with painful cuts to public transit, energy, and fundamental civil rights protections. The pain will reverberate throughout the economy.
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“Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal. There is no playbook that we are using from the past that could work in the present, and so we’ve got to stand up."
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Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress
Justin J. Pearson, a member of the "Tennessee Three," has announced a campaign to primary Democrat Steve Cohen and join the U.S. House.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/justin-j-pearson-tennessee-three-congress-1235442633/
about 2 months ago
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MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign. Great stuff from
@jsweetli.bsky.social
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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/viral-maga-social-media-accounts-rumen-naumovski-1235441739/
about 2 months ago
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Andrew Perez
2 months ago
In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine,
@swin24.bsky.social
and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent. Read it here and come follow our work at
@zeteo.com
, where we work now!
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'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent
Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-war-dissent-charlie-kirk-killing-1235440581/
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Batman or halo
2 months ago
This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.
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He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks
Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-disappearance-jon-ganz-1235438552/
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Tim Dickinson
2 months ago
Portland is obviously personal to me. The president's fever dream of a 'War Zone' by the Willamette might be darkly funny, if the stakes for this city -- and the rest of the nation -- were not dead serious:
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Welcome to Portland, Where Trump's Fever Dream Is America's New Nightmare
Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/portland-not-war-ravaged-trump-1235438405/?utm_source=edit-vip
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Antonia Juhasz
2 months ago
Trump has set his sights on
#Alaska
as a test case for his disastrous “National Energy Dominance” agenda. For
@rollingstone.com
, I went to Alaska and met people organizing to resist Trump’s plans. “No one is throwing up their hands and saying 'he’s won.'”
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Gillian Brockell
3 months ago
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for
@rollingstone.com
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ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-deporting-africa-military-flights-1235431848/
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"He was the movies, in all of their escapist and ennobling glory." Read
@davidlfear.bsky.social
on Redford:
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Robert Redford Was the Definition of a Movie Star
Redford, who died at 89, was a groundbreaking environmentalist, the patron saint of independent film, an Oscar-winning director — in short, an icon.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/robert-redford-dead-obit-tribute-1235428185/
3 months ago
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Lisa is the best and you should hire her (and Quincy and Lou) immediately
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Incredible get for
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
and
@zeteo.com
. I cannot express how much I am going to miss working with
@swin24.bsky.social
and
@andrewperez.bsky.social
, two of the smartest and most compassionate colleagues I've ever had
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Jonathan Bernstein
3 months ago
My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday. It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’ If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here:
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Asawin Suebsaeng
3 months ago
gonna just keep reposting this from
@ryanbort.bsky.social
@andrewperez.bsky.social
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Greg Sargent
4 months ago
Typically excellent from
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Josh Sternberg
4 months ago
"President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States" It should be noted that
@rollingstone.com
is as much corporate media as
@nytimes.com
yet is able to write in plain and clear language about what's happening. No euphemisms. No laundering bad-faith morons & weirdos
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Brutal stuff from
@swin24.bsky.social
on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him
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Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary'
Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/childrens-hosptial-chaplain-isolation-ice-deport-1235403224/
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Trump Fires Labor Stats Chief Following Weak Jobs Report
Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, following the release of a weak jobs report on Thursday.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fires-labor-statistics-commissioner-weak-jobs-report-1235398767/
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5 months ago
Tax dollars at work, baby!!!!!
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Team Trump Was on 'F-cking Warpath' to Kill Story About Salacious Letter to Epstein
Donald Trump's team was desperate to kill a Wall Street Journal story about Trump writing a salacious letter to Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-team-tried-kill-report-salacious-letter-epstein-1235388533/
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“They created conditions where there were really no better options. Hundreds of people left the country in the last month.” Great reporting from
@nikkimcr.bsky.social
on how Trump's BFF in El Salvador has been forcing human rights advocates to flee the nation
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Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime is forcing human rights defenders like the nonprofit Cristosal to flee the nation.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bukele-crackdown-el-salvador-human-rights-groups-flee-1235387840/
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Inside Trump's Frantic, Failing Mission to Crush the Epstein 'MAGA Rebellion'
President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-trump-failing-mission-crush-maga-revolt-epstein-1235387313/
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“Those two do not like each other,” one of the Trump administration officials adds. “It surprises me that there hasn’t been more reporting on that.”
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The DOJ's Epstein Memo Is Tearing the Trump Administration Apart
The Justice Department's memo on Jeffrey Epstein is causing a bitter rift among some of the most prominent figures in Donald Trump's administration.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doj-epstein-memo-tearing-trump-administration-apart-1235383924/
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Asawin Suebsaeng
5 months ago
Latest for
@rollingstone.com
from
@ryanbort.bsky.social
and me:
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Trump's Government Is a Den of Snitches, 'Freaks,' and Paranoid Tyrants
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-administration-government-employees-snitch-1235381036/
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Antonia Juhasz
5 months ago
Among it's myriad harms Trump's
#BigBadBill
adds $30 billion for ICE, enough to deploy 10,000 agents + $45 billion for construction and expansion of detention facilities and transportation.
@nikkimcr.bsky.social
@timdickinson.bsky.social
@ryanbort.bsky.social
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The Worst Parts of Trump and the GOP's Disastrous Tax Bill
Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is a disaster for immigrants, the environment, and the health care of millions of Americans.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-gop-big-beautiful-bill-worst-parts-1235378782/
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Asawin Suebsaeng
5 months ago
Go to
@rollingstone.com
if you want to see the Subscribe — print and/or online — buttons, they’re all over the place on the homepage and other webpages ❤️
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Supreme Court Hands Trump 'GIANT WIN' in Birthright Citizenship Case
The Supreme Court ruled that lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions on executive orders, like Trump's attack on birthright citizenship.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-case-1235373903/
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'The Onion' CEO on That Brutal 'New York Times' Op-Ed: 'Expect Us in Weird Places'
Ben Collins has overseen the comeback of a print edition of 'The Onion' over the past year and pledges that it will continue taking big swings
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/onion-ceo-trump-satire-new-york-times-1235370438/
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6 months ago
Trump’s Military Parade Was a Gross (Expensive) Failure
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Trump's Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure
Trump got the expensive military parade he wanted on his birthday, courtesy of Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and American taxpayers.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-birthday-parade-dc-failure-1235365040/
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This summer double issue also includes the print version of this:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
By
@ryanbort.bsky.social
@andrewperez.bsky.social
and me.
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New from
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and me. Thank you to the "bedwetters who would rather use the failing Rolling Stones as a therapy session to anonymously pontificate their feelings to the press, rather than help the president."
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Some Trump Officials Now Fear Elon's 'Burn Book'
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's falling out is worrying some administration officials considering what the billionaire has seen when the camera was off.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-burn-book-anxiety-trump-officials-1235361614/
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6 months ago
new this am from
@ryanbort.bsky.social
and me for
@rollingstone.com
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'We Are Taking Away Elon's Friends'
Team Trump is pressuring people who’ve been allies to both the president and Elon Musk to pick a side in the MAGA divorce proceedings.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-elon-musk-taking-away-friends-1235358405/
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@swin24.bsky.social
,
@andrewperez.bsky.social
, and I dove deep into Trump's taxpayer-funded ego trip:
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-dear-leader-bondi-noem-republican-propaganda-1235356187/
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“OF COURSE IM GONNA TESTIFY…”
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'Of Course I'm Going to Testify': Mike Lindell's Defamation Trial Is Going to Be Wild
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow owner and diehard Donald Trump supporter, says he is testifying at his upcoming 2020 election defamation trial.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-lindell-testify-2020-election-defamation-trial-1235351834/
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"What is habeas corpus?"
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Kristi Noem Flubs Question About Fundamental Constitutional Right
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wasn't able to define "habeas corpus," a basic constitutional right, during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-flubs-habeas-corpus-question-senate-hearing-1235343557/
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Read
@ryanbort.bsky.social
’s latest
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Trump's Plan to Kick Millions of Americans Off Medicaid, Explained
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are imposing massive cuts to Medicaid in order to fund tax breaks for the richest Americans.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/medicaid-cuts-trump-republicans-explained-1235341686/
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