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AlterNet@AlterNet · 43 m

Revealed: Officials informed that Trump program 'intended for white people' only alternet.org/trump-south-af…

AlterNet's tweet card. A Friday report from Reuters claims that a senior Trump administration official recently informed diplomats in South Africa that a refugee program set up by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 2 h

America could have avoided Trump's reign of terror with one simple task alternet.org/alternet-exclu…

AlterNet's tweet card. I am certain there has not been a time in my life that has stretched out any longer than the three decades that passed between July 23, 2024 and July 23, 2025.Just a year ago, Vice President Kamala...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 3 h

Three critical stories are getting buried by the Trump-Epstein debacle alternet.org/epsteingate/?u…

AlterNet's tweet card. The public conversation has become so distorted by the moral squalor of Trump and his lackeys that I fear we’re confusing what’s exciting with what’s important.“Epsteingate” is exciting. The story...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 3 h

One Trump court case will determine whether America will still have a democracy alternet.org/trump-harvard-…

AlterNet's tweet card. Oral arguments were heard this week in Harvard v. Trump’s cross motions for summary judgment. Summary judgment, or “judgment on the papers,” means both sides agree on the facts but disagree on how...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 4 h

We have to stop pretending this new surrender to Trump is normal alternet.org/trump-lies-267…

AlterNet's tweet card. The CBS merger deal illustrates everything that’s wrong with post-Reagan Revolution America. It’s not just another corporate merger: it’s a road sign on our accelerating march toward oligarchy,...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 4 h

Dear MAGA: You’ve been lied to for too long — and we’re here to help alternet.org/trump-maga-lie…

AlterNet's tweet card. Well, now we — and all of MAGA-land — have discovered that Donald Trump and all the senior law-enforcement officials around him have known since May that his name is in multiple places in the Epstein...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 13 h

'Didn't hold anything back': Ghislaine Maxwell gave up '100 different people' to Trump DOJ alternet.org/ghislaine-maxw…

AlterNet's tweet card. Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex trafficker, reportedly gave the Justice Department information on around 100 people during two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 14 h

Trump gives big promotion to official who said 'competent white men must be in charge' alternet.org/trump-big-prom…

AlterNet's tweet card. One official in President Donald Trump's administration just got a new job heading up a congressionally funded organization that Trump previously tried to eliminate.According to a Friday report in...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 15 h

'Stay out of it': Former Texas Republican lawmaker blasts Trump's effort to 'rig' midterms alternet.org/texas-republic…

AlterNet's tweet card. One former high-ranking Texas Republican state legislator is now coming out forcefully against President Donald Trump's latest push to drastically redraw congressional districts in the Lone Star...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 16 h

FCC chairman assigns 'bias monitor' to CBS — who reports 'directly to the president' alternet.org/fcc-trump-bias…

AlterNet's tweet card. As part of its agreement to allow an $8 billion merger between media conglomerates Skydance and Paramount, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has assigned a government monitor to CBS (which...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 16 h

'Whole thing reeks': Critics outraged at potential pardon for 'monster' Ghislaine Maxwell alternet.org/ghislaine-maxw…

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 17 h

Second whistleblower accuses Trump judicial nominee of telling DOJ to defy federal courts alternet.org/emil-bove-doj-…

AlterNet's tweet card. Emil Bove — who President Donald Trump has nominated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals — is now being accused by a second Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblower of instructing employees to...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 18 h

'Critical': 14 GOP senators call on Trump to stop withholding money from their states alternet.org/gop-senators-t…

AlterNet's tweet card. More than a dozen Senate Republicans have co-signed a letter urging President Donald Trump's administration to release health research grant money their states are counting on to find cures for...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 18 h

'Give me a straight answer': Swing state voters not buying Trump's Epstein deflections alternet.org/trump-polling-…

AlterNet's tweet card. The public is aware of President Donald Trump’s scandals, but a Nevada focus group suggests that’s only the start of his midterm problems.Every member of the 12-person group (who switched from Biden...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 19 h

Republican insiders reveal 'one of the main strategies' to fend off a blue wave in 2026 alternet.org/trump-gop-midt…

AlterNet's tweet card. Democratic strategists are hoping that President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will continue to be so unpopular in the months ahead that it will be a major liability for the GOP in the...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 20 h

'Like hiring someone to rob me': Trump ridiculed over new 'rebate' proposal alternet.org/trump-tariff-r…

AlterNet's tweet card. President Donald Trump says he is considering issuing rebate checks to consumers from the tariffs the federal government has collected. Rebates are a partial refund for the overpayment of taxes, or...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 20 h

Trump calling in a favor from a convicted child predator won't fix his Epstein problem alternet.org/trump-ghislain…

AlterNet's tweet card. Ghislaine Maxwell is a pedophile, a sex trafficker and a perjurer, and Donald Trump needs her to vouch for him. In an act of witness tampering as reality TV, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 21 h

'Not just racist but stupid': VP slammed for 'sleight of hand' while promoting far-right theory alternet.org/jd-vance-basel…

AlterNet's tweet card. Author Katherine Stewart says Vice President JD Vance is “polishing ideas from the far-right gutters with an Ivy League sheen,” particularly when it comes to smearing a pretty face over the racist...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 21 h

This MAGA Republican is making GOP even more worried about Texas Senate race alternet.org/hunt-paxton-co…

AlterNet's tweet card. In a Washington Post column published on the 4th of July, one of the most famous Never Trump conservatives in the United States — 84-year-old George Will — argued that Texas' 2026 U.S. Senate race...

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AlterNet@AlterNet · 21 h

Trump’s 2 biggest deals 'appear to be floundering' as he pushes major crises 'down the road': analyst alternet.org/trump-epstein-…

AlterNet's tweet card. National security analyst and author David Sanger says President Donald Trump is failing on many fronts while the Jeffrey Epstein scandal devours all.CNN "Situation Room" host Wolf Blitzer said hope...

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