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Donald Trump is the luckiest guy in the history of authoritarianism. Look no further than the initial wave of reactions to Tuesday’s bombshell ruling on whether the former president can run for the White House again. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Trump can’t be placed on the state’s 2024 ballot because his role in the insurrection on January 6, 2021, disqualified him from future political office under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Texas’s lieutenant governor has threatened to take President Biden off his state’s ballot in retribution for the Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Donald Trump from that state’s 2024 ballot.

Stephen Miller claimed Wednesday that the United States is being overrun by immigrants and can only be saved by “massive” deportations.

Republicans are up in arms over Donald Trump getting banned from the Colorado presidential ballot, a sign of how much power he still has in the party.

Donald Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that his anti-immigrant rhetoric is being compared to Hitler’s—and then he showed how little that bothered him, repeating much of the same vile language.

The Colorado Supreme Court, in a bombshell 4–3 decision on Tuesday, ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from running for president again because of his engagement in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. There are complaints from MAGAland. But of course he engaged in insurrection against the United States—for God’s sake, we all watched it on TV! And then we learned, in rich detail from the House January 6 committee and witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson, all the ways in which he cheered the violence on. Читать дальше...

One year from now, we may once again find ourselves facing myriad right-wing activists and entities seeking to overturn the results of a presidential election. At the center may be the current speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican previously known to few outside the Christian right. When the 2024 election takes place, Johnson will barely have reached his first anniversary as speaker.

This March, news broke that the latest artificial intelligence models could pass the LSAT, SAT, and AP exams. It sparked another round of A.I. panic. The machines, it seemed, were already at peak human ability. Around that time, I conducted my own, more modest test. I asked a couple of A.I. programs to “write a six-word story about baby shoes,” riffing on the famous (if apocryphal) Hemingway story. They failed but not in the way I expected. Bard gave me five words, and ChatGPT produced eight. I tried again... Читать дальше...

It was approaching midnight on election night, and the networks had just declared that Democrats had won the presidential election. Donald Trump was outraged. He was furious. He refused to accept the result. He immediately took to Twitter to summon his supporters to action.

Opponents both domestic and abroad have come out in full force against Texas’s latest immigration law, which gives local judges the authority to deport immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Senator Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday criticized Donald Trump’s comments about migrants—for not being cruel enough.