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Blaise Malley

Blaise Malley is a national affairs fellow at Salon.

Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Oklahoma education chief abruptly quits to join group planning to “destroy” teachers’ unions

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas speaks during a press conference following a shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2025. (ARIC BECKER/AFP via Getty Images)

Without evidence, MAGA blames Dems after Dallas ICE shooting

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters on September 23, 2025 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s “embarrassing” UN speech shocks critics

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Mahmoud Khalil speaks to the press (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

“The courts are being weaponized”: Democrats react to Khalil deportation order

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Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“You are part of the cover-up”: FBI Director Patel grilled in second day of House hearings

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Attorney General Letitia James sits in the courtroom for the civil fraud trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump in New York State Supreme Court on January 11, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump DOJ demands bogus “fraud” case against Letitia James

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)

“She should be put in jail”: Trump celebrates Willis’ removal from Georgia case

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Robert Redford attends Sundance Institute's 'An Artist at the Table Presented by IMDbPro' at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2020 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images)

“One of the lions has passed”: Robert Redford dead at 89

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Charlamagne Tha God during an interview on "My View With Lara Trump" at Fox News. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

“We are not free from consequences”: Charlamagne says Kirk knew “cost” of free speech

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Law enforcement officials, including members of an FBI forensics team, investigate near the crime scene where political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 11, 2025. (MELISSA MAJCHRZAK/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI seeks information on “person of interest” in Charlie Kirk killing

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Palestinians carry the aid bags following the Israeli army attack on Palestinians who had gathered to receive aid in the Zakim area in Gaza City, Gaza on June 22, 2025. (Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Members of US biker gang were hired at Gaza aid site: BBC

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National Guard members patrol carrying weapons with the U.S. Capitol Building in the distance on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

National Guard morale plummets over DC deployment

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Did you see the signature?”: Leavitt dodges questions about Epstein documents

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Donald Trump signs a document reinstating sanctions against Iran after announcing the US withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Mary Trump: “Definitely” president’s signature on alleged Epstein letter

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Democrats may already be signaling a retreat on Israel

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Vice President JD Vance speaks to the press following a tour of the multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center at the Wilshire Federal Building on June 20, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Vance says senators are “full of s**t” after RFK Jr. hearing

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The Free Press' Honestly with Bari Weiss (pictured) hosts Senator Ted Cruz presented by Uber and X on January 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

Bari Weiss close to taking top role at CBS News: report

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives for a court hearing at Thurgood Marshall Courthouse on February 19, 2025 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Trump team offered Eric Adams job to help Andrew Cuomo stop Zohran Mamdani: report

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on August 8, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida plans to ban all vaccine mandates

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Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., arrives to the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

House Dems move to censure Rep. Mills after alleged assault

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Attendees react during a congressional town hall meeting with Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), left, on March 13, 2025 in Asheville, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

“Some recognition that we’re in trouble”: GOP scrambles to rebrand Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

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Far-right activist Laura Loomer speaks to the media on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

“Dangerous precedent”: Top Democrat says extremist Laura Loomer canceled his spy agency briefing

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett meets with U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) on October 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images)

Barrett defends Dobbs decision in new book: “Right to abortion” not “fundamental to liberty”

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ICE officers and National Guard soldiers stand outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 8, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Judge rules Trump’s Los Angeles troop deployment illegal

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