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June 20, 2025

By Eric Alterman 

Despite the extremely stiff competition, it’s fair to say that Donald Trump may be about to win the historical contest to become the all-time “Bibi’s Lapdog” among American presidents. 

After repeatedly rejecting the idea of joining with Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and distancing himself when it finally happened, then reversing himself again to take partial credit for it, Trump appears to be ready to go one massive step further and turn the Israeli attack into a full-fledged American war.

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In today’s newsletter: The War on Terror never ended; Karoline Leavitt goes full North Korea; Donald Trump is already waging war against blue America; and much more.

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As Trump erupts over awful new polling and Karoline Leavitt goes full North Korea to inflate his ego, the author of a good piece on Trump explains how he’s badly wounding himself by waging war on blue America.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Two decades of foreign policy failure have led us to the brink of another catastrophic war in the Middle East.

By Jonathan Guyer

There’s a provision in the Senate’s “big, beautiful bill” that would make plaintiffs against the federal government post huge bonds to file lawsuits. And they’re proud of this crap.

By Thom Hartmann

Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

By Kate Mabus

Whenever lawmakers start carving up benefit programs, women raising children alone are always the first to feel the pain. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” follows in that grim tradition.

By Grace Segers

The National Guard in Los Angeles, the arrests of Democratic politicians, the prosecution of Vance Boelter—the aim is to create chaos in blue states and use it as a pretext.

By Harry Litman

Breaking News

A federal appeals court ruled Donald Trump could keep the National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

By Edith Olmsted

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