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Blaise Malley

Blaise Malley is a national affairs fellow at Salon.

Pam Bondi speaks after being sworn in as US Attorney General in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

DC sues over Pam Bondi’s “hostile takeover” of the police

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Meta let its AI chatbot creep on young children

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Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., is seen outside a House Republican Conference speaker election meeting in Longworth Building on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“Liar!”: Republican heckled at first town hall in 8 years

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President Donald Trump holds a chart which reads "Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Overestimates Biden Jobs by Nearly 1.5 Million" in the Oval Office on August 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Economists stunned at Trump’s “completely unqualified” BLS pick: “Disastrously terrible”

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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Secret Trump order authorizes military strikes on drug cartels: report

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Kash Patel, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrives to testify during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Democrats accuse GOP of “weaponizing” FBI against Texas lawmakers

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Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol about the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, on Friday, June 28, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Clyburn blasts GOP proposal to oust him from Congress

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Demonstrators gather at the Capitol Reflecting Pool near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 17, 2025. (BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP lawmaker accused of backing “fascist machine” at raucous town hall

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President Donald J Trump, flanked by Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday, March 24, 2025. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Legal expert dismisses Pam Bondi’s Obama grand jury: “I’m not seeing anything”

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Donald and Melania Trump with the late Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s. Maxwell was moved Friday to a minimum‑security federal prison camp in Texas just two days after talking to the Deputy Attorney General. (Davidoff Studios / Getty Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell moved to minimum-security Texas prison camp

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Relief trucks move into Gaza during Trump envoy’s visit, as aid workers say the crisis has hit a "worst‑case scenario." (Ali Jadallah / Anadolu / Getty Images)

“Gaza is no longer livable”: Trump envoy tours aid sites amid famine

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The latest casualty to political sanitization is the Smithsonian's Museum of American History. (RiverNorthPhotography / Getty Images)

Smithsonian erases Trump’s impeachments from history museum exhibit

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Palestinians inspect the buildings destroyed or damaged after Israeli attack on Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on December 5, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Most Senate Democrats vote to limit arms sales to Israel

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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before departing the White House en route to Turnberry, Scotland on July 25, 2025, in Washington DC. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump says he’s “allowed” to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell

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"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

“South Park” skewers Trump, Paramount in season premiere

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Former President Donald Trump speaks with lawyer Todd Blanche before Trump's trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 14, 2024. (CURTIS MEANS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Epstein saga: Ex-Trump lawyer to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell

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Stephen Colbert takes part in a conversation with Paul Giamatti during the 2024 North To Shore Festival at New Jersey Performing Arts Center on July 26, 2024 in Newark, New Jersey. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Critics suggest Colbert firing was politically motivated

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order for pardons on January 6 offenders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s call to release Epstein transcripts panned as “desperate move”

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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during the news conference on President Bidens budget in the Capitol on Thursday, March 9, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Sen. Wyden presses DOJ to release Epstein bank reports to Congress

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People participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for US public broadcasters outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate Republicans defund public media

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Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" (Matt Wilson/Comedy Central)

Jon Stewart: MAGA in “open revolt” over Epstein files

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House Rules Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) listens during a meeting on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

House Republicans block release of Jeffrey Epstein files

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hands off a letter he sent to nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in the Blue Room of the White House on July 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Pathetic”: Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

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People visit the City of Sunrise booth at the Mega JobNewsUSA South Florida Job Fair at the Amerant Bank Arena on April 30, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s “resilient” economy hides cracks in job market

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