Dems in disarray? James Talarico sees an opportunity. “In my faith tradition, the wilderness is where new ideas and new leaders and new movements come forth. It's a time for experimentation and self-reflection,” he tells @nikkimcr.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

James Talarico Tests the Democratic Wilderness at the Texas Border

James Talarico, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, is connecting to traditionally liberal border communities disillusioned with the party.

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Trump's ballroom project, and the rest of his opulent overhaul of D.C., isn't just an affront to good taste — it's deeply un-American, writes @nikkimcr.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's D.C. Redesign Is a Betrayal of America's Founding Values

Donald Trump's ballroom project, along with his plans to overhaul much of Washington, D.C., are a betrayal of America's democratic values.

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If you're wondering if Americans are paying attention, they are. If you're wondering if they like what they see in Donald Trump, they Do Not. New polls reveal how vigorously Americans hate Trump’s job performance. by @ryanbort.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Polling Free Fall

Donald Trump's polling numbers have been steadily declining for the past year, especially when it comes to inflation and cost of living.

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It’s coming.

Red-Pilled Morning Show Host Stars in First Clip From The Onion's InfoWars Takeover

In exclusive first look at The Onion's InfoWars takeover, Jim Haggerty has rid himself of "corporate shackles" to helm "The Jim Haggerty Show."

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Trump read a Bible verse last night about asking God for forgiveness. Trump in 2015 on whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness: "I don't think so ... I don't bring God into that picture." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Long, Strange Relationship With Faith

Donald Trump's attacks against Pope Leo XIV didn't come out of nowhere. They're emblematic of his strange relationship with faith and the church.

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The difference between the Iraq war days when Jon Stewart warned a youngish CNN host that the reckoning was coming, and today, is that this time around Tucker Carlson cannot claim ignorance, youth, or inexperience.  My take on Tucker’s “apology” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tucker Carlson's Trump Apology Is Too Little, Too Late

Tucker Carlson apologized for his role in getting Donald Trump elected as he criticizes the president over the Iran war.

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JD Vance in 2020: “My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Catholics in Trump's Inner Circle Have Nowhere to Hide

Donald Trump's attacks on Pope Leo XIV are making J.D. Vance and Catholics choose between their religion and their fealty to the president.

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Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Also Trump: "God Bless the Great People of Iran!" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight,' Warns Nobel Peace Prize Hopeful

Donald Trump escalated his threats against Iran, writing that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if the nation doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz.

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One of the things that is just maddeningly grotesque about the current situations in Cuba and Iran is that Trump imposes mass suffering as a means of ego gratification

Patrick Iber@patrickiber.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Friends: somehow I got to write for Rolling Stone [?!], about Trump's inhumane pressure campaign in Cuba. "Castro’s ego was sustained by rebellion; the David who fought Goliath and won, no matter the cost to others. Trump’s ego demands that he be Goliath, and win, no matter the cost to others."

"The same country that produces pioneers who carry out 'one giant leap for mankind' produces leaders who want to bomb their fellow man 'back to the Stone Age.'" Read @macwbishop.bsky.social on Artemis II and Trump's war against Iran: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

American Greatness, American Barbarism

The Artemis II mission to the moon shows America's greatness. Donald Trump's war with Iran shows a country that is small, mean, and ugly.

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WOW. I mentioned AND used photos from these early February C-130 flights in my @rollingstone.com story last fall about the Coast Guard using search-and-rescue planes for ICE transfers. Had no idea the misuse of resources I suggested had already happened. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants

Donald Trump’s deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased the use of Coast Guard aircraft to transport immigrants.

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Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

- @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and I reported in June that Trump had been asking confidants about putting a statue of himself in the Kennedy Center or naming *parts* of it after himself www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... They’re going even further apparently. Cartoonishly culty

Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself

Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.

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Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 8mo ago

Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...

The way Trump is handling these meetings with his top lieutenants “definitely gives off Dear Leader vibes, like what you would see with Kim Jong Un or [Vladimir] Putin." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."

It was clear Sliwa would not be delivering his victory speech, and perhaps that’s why there didn’t seem to be even an ounce of anxiety amid the revelry. A dispatch from my night at Curtis Sliwa's election watch party: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

No One Was Sweating It at Curtis Sliwa's Boozy Election Night Party

Attendees at Republican Curtis Sliwa's election were unbothered that their candidate lost the New York City mayoral election to Zohran Mamdani.

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To be fair, he explicitly and publicly campaigned on this and then won www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Closing Pitch to Voters: I Will Let You Die If You Don't Bow to My Demands

Donald Trump's first term in office proved he's not bluffing when he threatens to base life-or-death decisions based on whether people support him.

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Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

"Logic isn’t necessarily going to be the weapon, it might need to be love. And then from that, you hope that they find some logic. But just yelling and berating people, done that for eight years." Read @nikkimcr.bsky.social's fantastic Q+A with Roy Wood Jr.: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Roy Wood Jr.: 'Logic Isn't the Weapon. It Might Need to Be Love'

Roy Wood Jr. talks about his book, 'The Man of Many Fathers,' doing comedy in a polarized country and what he learned in radio and on 'The Daily Show'

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NEW: Deputy Secretary of State Landau has created a meme superhero persona for himself, as he teams up with fringe anonymous X accounts to target foreign visa holders for Charlie Kirk speech. Meet: El Quitavisas. Me @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Please read this heartbreaking story from @timdickinson.bsky.social about a mom and her four kids who were taken by CBP and disappeared, and how a lawmaker and a friend mobilized to track them down www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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My latest for @rollingstone.com digs into Trump's $30 Billion in shutdown cuts targeting Democratic states and cities with painful cuts to public transit, energy, and fundamental civil rights protections. The pain will reverberate throughout the economy. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal. There is no playbook that we are using from the past that could work in the present, and so we’ve got to stand up." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress

Justin J. Pearson, a member of the "Tennessee Three," has announced a campaign to primary Democrat Steve Cohen and join the U.S. House.

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MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign. Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent. Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent

Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

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This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

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Portland is obviously personal to me. The president's fever dream of a 'War Zone' by the Willamette might be darkly funny, if the stakes for this city -- and the rest of the nation -- were not dead serious:

Welcome to Portland, Where Trump's Fever Dream Is America's New Nightmare

Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.

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Trump has set his sights on #Alaska as a test case for his disastrous “National Energy Dominance” agenda. For @rollingstone.com, I went to Alaska and met people organizing to resist Trump’s plans. “No one is throwing up their hands and saying 'he’s won.'” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

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"He was the movies, in all of their escapist and ennobling glory." Read @davidlfear.bsky.social on Redford: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Robert Redford Was the Definition of a Movie Star

Redford, who died at 89, was a groundbreaking environmentalist, the patron saint of independent film, an Oscar-winning director — in short, an icon.

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Lisa is the best and you should hire her (and Quincy and Lou) immediately

Lisa Tozzi@lisatozzi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Some news from me: I was laid off yesterday from Rolling Stone. Kind of in shock, but will be looking for a new gig. Here are Quincy and Lou

Incredible get for @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @zeteo.com. I cannot express how much I am going to miss working with @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social, two of the smartest and most compassionate colleagues I've ever had

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.

My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday. It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’ If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here: www.hbglibrary.com/titles/jonat...