Ruth Ben-Ghiat From the start of the Trump administration in January, I have been evaluating what this government is taking from the established autocratic playbook and what, instead, are the elements of innovation. Many things are familiar from the history of autocracy: military in the streets...

Freedom Party of Austria’s Harald Vilimsky and Alternative for Germany (AfD) MEP Markus Buchheit, vocal critics of EU climate policy in their respective far-right parties, met with James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute, one day apart in July in Tampa, Florida.

In a recent Instagram reel, a Brazilian influencer known as “Mylly Biologando” grins at the camera after inspecting a test tube filled with something bubbling and green. It’s a microalgae that could “transform the future” as a source of less-polluting biodiesel fuel, explains Biologando, whose....

DeSmog has won two awards for its work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action at the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Investigative reporter TJ Jordan was named an Emerging Journalist of the Year for coverage including... #Uganda.

As the Trump admin seeks to wipe away #environmental rules covering the #oil, #gas, and #coal industries, #fossilfuel producers and sellers are reassuring buyers that #carboncapture and storage #CCS could slash climate-altering emissions from a growing range of fossil-fuel projects... #ExxonMobil

As the U.S. braces for a surge in artificial intelligence #AI related electricity demand, the natural gas industry has a message for the public: #Fossilfuels must power the future’s data centers, the computer-filled warehouses where AI models like #ChatGPT primarily train and deploy. #Gas #Oil

#RobbyStarbuck — best known for opposing corporate diversity, equity and inclusion #DEI initiatives, particularly among brands popular with #conservatives — has a track record of denying the science of #climatechange. These views could seriously compromise the climate content accessed by....

William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift Bill will go live with Joyce Vance of Civil Discourse on Substack Thurs at 2:00 p.m. EDT to talk about all the DOJ chaos we’ve seen in the past week. We’ll send you an email as they get started and post the replay on the site afterwards.

Steven Beschloss This On-Target video by Mark Jacob and me examines the appalling assault on medical science in which #Trump and #Kennedy Jr. are blaming #Tylenol and #vaccines for #autism, in direct opposition to medical experts. They are specifically targeting the dangers of acetaminophen...

Mary L Trump These are indeed the times that try men souls, because an assault on one of us, especially one person in particular, is an assault on us all. This week we have learned that 3 horrors occurred at the U.N. Yes, indeed at the #U.N., Donald was the victim of triple sabotage.

Sep 24, 2025 We start this week with some news: we are suing ICE for access to its $2 million contract with a company that sells powerful #spyware. #Paragon sells tech for remotely breaking into phones and reading messages from encrypted chat apps without a target even clicking a link....

You may have noticed that the #universe is pretty big—in fact, possibly infinite. These immense scales offer a challenge for scientists who seek to model the #cosmicweb, a network of large-scale structures that link the universe and intersect at nodes where #galaxies accumulate into clusters.

(ICE) recently spent nearly 4 million dollars on #facialrecognition technology in part to investigate people it believes have assaulted law enforcement officers, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The records are unusual in that they indicate #ICE is buying.... #ClearviewAI

Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.

Internal #Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to #ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing employee concerns with discussion groups on ethics.

Multiple #Palantir and #Flock sources say the companies are spinning a commitment to "democracy" to absolve them of responsibility. "In my eyes, it is the classic double speak," one said. “We rely on the democratic process, on the individuals that the majority vote for to represent us, to.....”

The battle continues over Texas' new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public-school classrooms. The law requires the 10 Commandments to be displayed on posters sized at least 16 by 20 inches in all public-school classrooms. A lawsuit has been filed to keep it from happening

Chief Justice #Roberts’ 20 years on SCOTUS have been punctuated by a series of vivid episodes, from his confirmation hearings as he vowed merely to call “balls and strikes,” to his dramatic switched vote to preserve the Affordable Care Act, to his weeks presiding over the televised impeachment....

Katie Phang and Rachel Janfaza Conversations with Rachel are always fascinating. She conducts listening sessions with members of #GenZ about various topics like politics and culture. Her insights are hugely impactful for me because they open my eyes to how Gen Z is thinking and feeling ....

Death by assassination in American politics, in the politics of any country, is unfortunately, nothing new. It precedes and forecasts many of the major events of history. Caesar’s murder by senators in Rome in 44BC eventually ushered in the Roman Empire. Political assassination of Archduke...

Amid this year’s unprecedented redistricting wars, another troubling trend is taking shape. In the past week alone, #Ohio legislators introduced a bill to close the state’s primaries, while the #Texas Republican Party filed a lawsuit to do the same. This is no accident. In fact, it’s part of a....

Steven Beschloss There’s never a shortage of mad hattery & other outrages from the Trump regime. This latest video installment spotlights the “Sinister Case of the Halted Escalator.” Which, in the mad world of Trump, had to be dangerous sabotage & yet another reason to push the vengeance button.

Special operations airmen are ready for missions in support of #Trump’s controversial campaign against narco-terrorism groups.. #Maduro "The military threat against #Venezuela, the #Caribbean and #SouthAmerica must cease, and the proclamation of a Zone of Peace must be respected,” the letter read.

Kash Patel driven mad by media-savvy former #FBI agent In April, FBI #Patel promoted an #FBI agent named #StevenJensen to head the prestigious Washington field office. Almost immediately, Patel and his deputy director, #DanBongino, began to get heat from #Trump supporters online .... #MAGA

“I don't know how any free-market #conservative can rationalize this,” #Tillis told me in an interview about the tariffs. “Obviously there has to be a consequence for bad actors, but I think that we're manipulating markets that we shouldn't.” Tillis’ criticism amounts to shrugging... #tariffs

Nine months into the second Trump administration, Defense Secretary Pete #Hegseth’s effort to shrink and reshape the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has netted a reduction of more than 60,000 employees, or about 7.6 percent, comfortably reaching the 5- to 8-percent goal he set in March.

Bitcoin advocacy group pushing #Trump to stockpile massive amounts of #cryptocurrency and state-level efforts to do the same is run by fossil fuel operatives fighting to eliminate environmental regulations, including the author of the #Project2025 proposal to dismantle the EPA. #Fossilfuel #climate

Sep 25, 2025 #trump #politics #whitehouse During an event in NC, Vice President JD #Vance addressed the shooting at an #ICE field office in Dallas, calling the shooter a "violent left-wing extremist", and he blamed rhetoric from Democrats' for the shooting. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, #Trump and HHS Secretary #Kennedy Jr. claimed today that the government has uncovered two potential explanations for #autism. In a formal White House announcement they asserted that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy.....

The first serious flaw with this is that the designation doesn’t make a lot of sense: Antifa, to the extent that it exists, is made up of loosely affiliated anti-fascist activists. No budget. No membership list. There are no offices or headquarters. There are no staffers, leaders or board members.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s newly released annual poverty report shows that poverty remained flat in 2024. However, the Trump administration has already taken multiple actions that will raise costs for low-income families and push millions into economic deprivation in the years ahead....

Joe Perticone Director of the #OBM, made a threat that in the event of a govern shutdown next week, the administration would move to permanently fire employees across the federal government. #Vought’s warning echoed through the Capitol, even though it followed a familiar pattern of #manipulation.

When Israeli PM #Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the UN on Friday, it will be at the helm of a country that is increasingly being treated as a #pariah, even by some of its longtime allies. Western countries are outraged by Israel’s intensifying offensive in the #GazaStrip and several have...

Speaking over video after the US denied his visa, the #Palestinian leader told world leaders Thursday that his people reject the 2023 #Hamas attack on #Israel and pledged that the militant group would have no role in governing the #GazaStrip after war ends and must hand over its weapons ...

#EmergencyRooms are the last functioning front doors to American #healthcare. As an emergency medicine physician in one of America’s largest cities, I see firsthand how #insurance denials stall diagnoses, inflict needless suffering, and drive-up costs by pushing routine care into the most .....

TikTok's unique algorithm, which curates the type of content users see in their feeds, made the app’s For You page famous for its engagement-driven personalization that democratized virality and transformed online culture. #TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the deal.

After #JimmyKimmel reappeared on his show and spoke movingly and defiantly about #Trump’s failed effort to oust him, Trump lost it on Truth Social and threatened Kimmel yet again. What’s funny, though, is that Trump’s greed actually wrecked one of the biggest claims that #FoxNews and #MAGA..

President Trump’s upcoming #ballroom will be bigger than the White House. Recent renderings obtained by CBS News show that the ballroom—which Trump has been obsessing over for some time now—shows a #gaudy, #gold-tinged, 90,000-square foot building. The White House is only 50,000 square feet.

New Jersey’s only public television station, NJ PBS, is anticipated to shutter in just over nine months thanks to President Trump’s budget cuts. As first reported by The New Jersey Globe this week, WNET, the company that has operated the station for 14 years since former Republican..... #PBS-NJ

Now that #Disney and #ABC have bucked President #Trump’s authoritarian censorship regime and reinstated comedian Kimmel’s show, #MAGA personalities are in a seething fury. MAGA Fox News hosts: Kayleigh McEnany, Sean Hannity, Megan Kelly each lashed out at Kimmel's return.

Yet another #Trump nominee is facing scrutiny for their history of incendiary & racist social media posts. Jeremy Carl is a current senior fellow at #right-wing Claremont Institute who is up for a position at the State Depart in which he would head the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.

#Colombian President #GustavoPetro this week called for #criminal proceedings against #Trump, whom he compared to #AdolfHitler while speaking before the United Nations General Assembly. In his final speech he observed (according to a live translation from the U.N.) that the world is in a... #UN

#Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff, signaled how far he is willing to go to #criminalize dissent against #Trump in a social media post on Wednesday in which he implied that merely describing the president’s actions as #authoritarian is tantamount to a criminal offense. #NEWSOM

#OMB released a memo Wednesday night, telling federal agencies to prepare for mass layoffs if the government shuts down on October 1. #Vought—who co-authored #Project2025 helped push for the firing of tens of thousands of federal employees by the #DOGE, said agencies should consider firing...

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo The good news is the country didn’t erupt in violence. Our culture wars have been fought via keyboards, not in the streets. #Trump’s #authoritarian impulses have begun to catch up to him with some notable setbacks lately. And his uniquely unqualified and incompetent...

Every four years like clockwork, whether they win the presidency or not, Republicans trot out some variation of this map as a sort of security blanket, to reassure themselves that the US is—really, you guyzz!—a “red” nation. Trump’s insistence that he won in a landslide last year... #Grift

FL-R #GregorySteube is ultra-conservative Outstanding ratings from: - Turning Point USA #Kirk: 119th congress 90% - Conservative Political Action Conference #CPAC: 98% - Heritage Foundation, #Project2025: 95% Steube Voted: Yes - OBBB NO - Epstein Files No - Trans NO - USAID 2020 election denier

Once again, the #rapture is on the minds of many. For some, its serious business, while for others, it’s an opportunity to share a silly meme on social media. People have been predicting the Second Coming of #Jesus, along with the end of the world, for centuries. #ChristianBible

In February, President #Trump brusquely told Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy “You don’t have the cards” to defeat Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This week, he staked out a brand-new view of the conflict on Tuesday, declaring on Truth Social that #Russia is a “paper tiger” and claiming that..

GIFT The World Health Organization has joined the international pushback against the #Trump administration’s warnings that acetaminophen use during pregnancy leads to autism, saying Wednesday there is “NO conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link.” #WHO #Kennedy