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MAGA freaks out as Fox News interviews Pete Buttigieg: ‘Why aren’t you defending Trump?’
MAGA loyalists were furious Friday as Fox News interviewed Democrat and Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg spoke with anchor Sandra Smith about tariffs, President Donald Trump and his second administration and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. MAGA social media users were livid over the conversation and made it known — even attacking Smith…
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Does Iran Have a Plan?
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy” is a military dictum usually credited to Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and more recently to the boxer Mike Tyson in the form “Everyone has a plan until he gets punched in the mouth.” The United States, in its war with Iran, is an unusual…
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A California arts activist’s story comes to life in ‘American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez’
There are many dedicated figures devoted to Chicano empowerment in America. But in the arts, playwright-director-impresario Luis Valdez — the migrant farmworkers’ son behind the defiantly consciousness-raising El Teatro Campesino and the historic hits “Zoot Suit”and “La Bamba” — holds a singular place, achieved with remarkable perseverance. It’s a trajectory that the immensely appealing, rollicking…
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What Is Joe Manchin’s New Independent Leadership Council?
Then-Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2024. —Andrew Harnik—Getty Images Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is embarking on a new initiative: a project called the Independent Leadership Council. The council—which the 78-year-old former senator is running with his daughter, Heather…
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Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
Editor’s note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can access the search tool directly here. This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. Amid tech companies’ ongoing efforts to vacuum up as much data as possible to train AI…
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Gretchen Whitmer endorses Haley Stevens for Michigan Senate seat
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in her state’s contentious Democratic Senate primary on Friday, wading into one of the highest-profile ideological battles within the Democratic Party. “As governor, I have one strategy: Get things done. And that strategy informs everything that I do, and that’s why I’m endorsing Haley Stevens for the…
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SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people — but one thing that it definitely isn’t is a get-rich-quick scheme. Since its debut on the public tickers back in early June, SpaceX shares have sunk from a high of over $225 to a dismal $110 today, as compounding failures and overvaluation fears…
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Gregg Araki, still L.A.’s homegrown punk provocateur, returns to remind us to be bold
At one of their earliest meetings before shooting “I Want Your Sex” (in theaters July 31), filmmaker Gregg Araki and actor Olivia Wilde got together at the historic Chateau Marmont, the ultra-hip hangout for entertainment’s cool crowd. Almost immediately, Araki began making fun of the shamelessness of the place, and before Wilde could feel self-conscious,…
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‘More competent at doing evil’: Experts warn Trump admin quietly rewriting its next scheme
President Donald Trump and his administration have been secretly trying to manipulate the Census rules to exclude millions of immigrants and steal congressional seats, according to a new report from The Bulwark on Friday. The Bulwark’s economics editor Catherine Rampell cited a “vaguely ominous but little-noticed regulatory filing” in June that could target immigrants, business…
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Alarming symptom that killed the Big Sur hiker after she stopped drinking
The death of Joanna Ruth Shields, the 37-year-old woman who was found along a remote Big Sur hiking trail in April, has cast a spotlight on a little-known but deadly affliction: alcohol withdrawal syndrome. According to an investigation by the the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, the Carlsbad native haddied of “probable alcohol withdrawal seizures due…