Andrew Weinstein

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You’re working harder. Your money is buying less. Donald Trump did that. And he doesn't care. Go vote.

Barack Obama did not hold back today. “He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory."

Every day brings a new low, and somehow the next day tops it.

Vivek Ramaswamy is an absolute ghoul with zero shame and zero business near power.

While Russia murders Ukrainians and helps Iran target Americans, Witkoff is busy groveling before Putin as if he’s forgotten whose interests he’s supposed to represent. It's a shameful, humiliating spectacle, unworthy of anyone speaking on behalf of the United States.

Three students and a teacher were killed in a school shooting in Oregon yesterday. In most countries, that would dominate national headlines. In America, it barely interrupts the news cycle. Just another day in a country numb to tragedy.

At this point, Donald Trump is delivering more strategic wins for Russia than its own military.

A $330,000,000 ballroom fund backed by hidden bank accounts, shell companies, and anonymous corporate interests is an open bribery scheme.

Donald Trump is doing everything short of firing the missiles for Vladimir Putin.

Grifting is only a fireable offense in Trump’s orbit if you forget to give the boss his cut.

When does the federal raid on Kimberly Guilfoyle happen?

Ukraine is taking on the machinery of foreign disinformation directly at the source. President Zelenskyy deserves our full, unwavering support for doing it.

Putin’s illegal, unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine has killed countless civilians and devastated an entire nation. Buying Russian diesel while Russia continues its war sends exactly the wrong message. The United States should be isolating the Kremlin, not helping finance its aggression.

Blaming Ukraine's president for U.S. diesel prices is the political equivalent of burning dinner and then deciding the smoke detector is the problem.

If the republic survives this era, history will record the Trump presidency as the most corrupt, reckless, incompetent, and damaging in American history. Every new scandal reveals that the bottom is always lower than we thought.

When the government turns punishment into a public spectacle, it's worth asking why. Intimidation? Desensitization? Political theater? Whatever the answer, this is being done with the full support of the president. Pay attention.

Sure, Donald Trump floated letting Iran wipe out Los Angeles and San Diego, but Kamala had an awkward laugh once, so really it’s impossible to choose.

Congress appropriated taxpayer dollars to honor officers killed in the line of duty. Donald Trump used that money for campaign ads. If you need a clearer illustration of who he is and what he values, you won't find one.

When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.

A free press is not a crime. Authoritarianism always starts by pretending it is.

Ignore the polls. Organize. Donate. Knock on doors. Register voters. Share your message. Fight for every vote as if you're ten points down. Complacency is not an option. The stakes are too high. Let’s do this.

When an agency like ICE builds an environment where red flags don’t matter, where violence is minimized, where accountability is optional, this is what it produces. What happened in Texas isn’t a one‑off tragedy. It’s a system functioning exactly as designed.

White House chief economist Kevin Hassett sparked outrage Sunday after he claimed the American economy was thriving, and boasted about his weekly trips to the grocery store to prove it.

If Joe Biden is still responsible for everything, then what exactly has Donald Trump been doing for the last year and a half?

$43 billion could house and feed every homeless person in America for years, but apparently war was the better investment.

I hope he lives long enough to watch every building he forced his name onto be renamed and I hope he has to sit in the front row when they’re all rededicated to Barack Obama or Joe Biden.

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

Replacing complex algorithmic guardrails with a "STRONG AND SMART" president. We are so doomed.

Yeah, but Kamala Harris laughed too much.

The damage from this presidency will echo for generations, and that’s the best-case scenario. If we want any chance of fixing it, the rebuilding starts at the ballot box this November.

Name one thing Donald Trump improved as president other than his family’s net worth.

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You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

Remarkable that the bone spurs serious enough to keep him out of Vietnam didn’t seem to hinder his supposed dash from Ground Zero on 9/11.

Donald Trump lies with the confidence of someone who’s never been burdened by the truth.

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. A disgraceful lie that disrespects the memory of every life stolen on September 11th.

JD Vance keeps offering new proof that his political character is defined by cruelty, opportunism, and a complete absence of principle.

To take a day dedicated to shared national grief and use it to take petty, sarcastic swipes at Joe Biden says everything you need to know about JD Vance. He isn't clever. He’s just mean-spirited, hollow, and painfully insecure. And he will never, ever be president.

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How are we "easily winning" a war we’ve supposedly won ten times over?

We didn’t fight a revolution so Donald Trump could plaster his face onto money like a personality‑cult souvenir.

Pete Hegseth’s conduct is flat‑out disgraceful and a grotesque collapse of basic decency. If we don’t call this out loudly, we’re telling the world there’s no line left to cross.