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Imara Jones is CEO of TransLash Media, and host of the award-winning podcast The Anti-Trans Hate Machine. Her reporting examines how media, politics, and disinformation shape anti-trans legislation and public discourse.

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President Donald Trump holds a rendering of the East Wing modernization as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One.

Federal judge orders halt to construction on Trump’s White House ballroom

Steve Benen

Democrats flipped another GOP seat last week. The reason isn’t what you think.

Ryan Teague Beckwith

Photoillustration of young person looking sideways at collage of Supreme Court building and justices. Trans flags are overlaid.

The timing of the SCOTUS conversion therapy ruling made it even worse

Imara Jones

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office.

Trump signs executive order targeting mail-in ballots. But it might have no teeth.

Erum Salam

After publicly condemning voting by mail as ‘cheating,’ Trump votes by mail

Steve Benen

The Supreme Court’s mail-in ballot decision could inject chaos into midterm elections

Jordan Rubin

Karoline Leavitt walks off the podium towards the left of the frame.

Pressed on possible war crimes in Iran, Leavitt offers the wrong answer

Steve Benen

Jaden Ivey bends over as he looks off the frame

MAGA evangelicals cry foul after Jaden Ivey cut over anti-LGBTQ+ rants

Ja'han Jones

The US Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court confronts Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship

Fallon Gallagher

In the background, boats sit in the water. In the foreground, people walk around a beige pathway.

Trump to address nation with ‘important update’ on Iran war Wednesday night

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Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer speaks during a press conference.

Comer’s excuses for DOJ fall flat as he concedes it ‘botched’ Epstein files

Ja'han Jones

The warehouse where the new ICE facility will be located in Williamsport, Md.; Rachel Maddow.

Why is Trump’s DHS wildly overpaying for ICE warehouse detention centers?

Rachel Maddow

People walk through the University of Pennsylvania campus.
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Judge approves Trump administration’s effort to obtain list of Jewish Penn employees
President Donald Trump speaks to journalists before boarding Marine One.

Rendering of future Trump library takes glorification agenda to a weird new level

Steve Benen

Donald Trump, right and in focus, sits at his desk. Elon Musk, left and out of focus, stands with his arms crossed.

Trump reportedly includes Elon Musk in phone meeting with foreign leader (again)

Steve Benen

Retired Army general: ‘Americans are going to die’ if Trump launches Iran ground operation

Allison Detzel

A silhouette of a man wearing a hat is seen during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

CPAC’s noticeable split over this key issue spells trouble for Trump

Zeeshan Aleem

Mike Davis; Ali Velshi.

The antitrust scandals brewing inside Trump’s DOJ

Ali Velshi

Pete Hegseth makes a gesture with his hand and face as Donald Trump And Marco Rubio listens looking down.

White House scrambles to change the meaning of ‘regime change’ (among other phrases)

Steve Benen

Marco Rubio; Elon Musk.

Rubio reportedly touts Musk’s X as a tool to fight ‘anti-American propaganda’

Ja'han Jones

A woman, seen at full frame, looks down at a binder she is holding open. Behind her are vaccine storage areas.

She once curbed a measles outbreak with vaccines. Experts call her new proposal ‘giving up.’

Will McDuffie

Kash Patel rests his face on his index finger as he looks down.

Ex-FBI agents sue, calling bureau’s firings politically motivated

Erum Salam & Fallon Gallagher

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson steps out alone, again – this time on ‘conversion therapy’

Jordan Rubin

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at a news conference.

Mike Johnson just gave voters another reason to doubt GOP governance

Hayes Brown

Rioters run toward the capitol building.

Eyeing a possible payday, Jan. 6 rioters file civil suit, seeking millions in taxpayer money

Steve Benen

Poll: Majority of voters say Trump is becoming more erratic with age

‘Smells like corruption’: Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

Crockett slams Johnson for blaming DHS shutdown on Democrats: ‘He’s a joke’

‘Not the political flex they think it is’: Nicolle Wallace on Trump’s tanking approvals over Iran

Lawrence: Even some Trump voters joined the ‘No Kings’ protests

‘Always have concerns with this president’: Pelosi airs midterms unease in exclusive interview

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Understand Today’s News

  1. A courtroom sketch illustrating Nicolás Maduro, his wife and their defense attorneys.

    Maduro’s legal case remains extraordinary. His judge literally said so in open court.

    Barbara McQuade

  2. Photoillustration of Tiger Woods' mugshot and a photo of him post-arrest juxtaposed with a photo of him at his prime, swinging a golf club.

    Tiger Woods is done. We should be too.

    Mike Wise

  3. Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas from below. She is looking up and holding out her arms; one hand holds a microphone.

    TLC’s Chilli will have a hard time convincing fans she isn’t MAGA

    Charles F. Coleman Jr.

  4. A person pushes a grocery cart filled with items including tomato sauce, bagels, broccoli florets and more. The photo is taken from the vantage point of the person pushing the cart.

    If anyone asks what a refugee kid on SNAP looks like, I say they look like me

    Rep. Derek Tran

  5. A person holding a tiny American flag out of the window of a car

    The No Kings protests are galvanizing Americans. But there’s something missing.

    Zeeshan Aleem

  6. An air traffic controller looking stressed at work.

    I’ve been an air traffic controller for more than 16 years. I have a simple question for Congress.

    Jack Criss

  7. Michael Flynn prepares to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

    Trump’s settlement to Michael Flynn could set a dangerous precedent

    Mary McCord

  8. In this aerial photo, a very long line of people can be seen waiting.

    How Democrats upended the GOP’s entire shutdown strategy with a simple choice

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend

  9. A woman, left, dances with a man. The lighting of the scene is very warm.

    A ‘Love Story’ that feels more like an invasion of privacy

    Jen Chaney

  10. Bill Maher holds a microphone. Light casts a shadow on one side of his face; the background is entirely black.

    Why Bill Maher receiving the Kennedy Center’s comedy award is eyebrow-raising

    Paul Waldman

  11. Donald Trump is s shouting into the microphone at night.

    The shameless way Stephen Miller and Kash Patel are responding to Trump’s disastrous poll numbers

    Anthony L. Fisher

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