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Supreme Court just gave MAGA another big win

President Donald Trump’s political movement, which vehemently opposes transgender rights, just won another big victory at the Supreme Court.On Monday the Supreme

2026/03/03

'The aliens are on Trump’s side': Conservative ridicules MAGA for backing Trump on Iran

President Donald Trump’s new war against Iran is so controversial among his own base, a conservative commentator quipped that “the aliens are on Trump’s side.”“

2026/03/03

Trump returns to event that humiliated him into first presidential bid

President Donald Trump has boycotted the White House Correspondents Dinners since the start of his first term, but on Monday he announced he is abandoning that

2026/03/03

Truth already dead as Trump train wreck stumbles

On the third day of his illegal war with Iran, the bedraggled Donald Trump harrumphed in front of an overmatched podium in the East Room of a White House that is

2026/03/03

'Complete disaster': Citizens flood Trump with negative reviews over new policy

President Donald Trump’s decision to demolish the White House’s East Wing to construct a giant ballroom is receiving public feedback — and despite there being over

2026/03/03

Trump headscratcher has critics wondering 'what's in it for him?'

President Donald Trump influenced Paramount’s success over Netflix in purchasing Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) in large part because Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos

2026/03/03

Trump never meant a word he said

The list of reasons for the president’s illegal and unjustified war against Iran keeps growing. First, it was because Iran had nuclear weapons. (It didn’t.) Then

2026/03/03

Christian influencers are making a killing peddling submissive womanhood to audiences

Complexified host Amanda Henderson welcomed the co-hosts of the “Saved By The City” podcast, Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone, to talk about how Christianity for

2026/03/03

How Trump’s crusade against the truth actually reveals a great 'weakness'

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is a famous 1905 aphorism by philosopher George Santayana. Its meaning is that understanding history

2026/03/03

GOP senator fumbles on live TV when CNN rolls tape of Trump officials contradicting him

President Donald Trump has the loyal support of Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okl.), but in order to get it, Mullin has to say blatantly untrue things in public — and

2026/03/03