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Angie Sullivan (L) and Jennifer Welch (R) speak onstage during a GLAAD Pride Month event on June 26, 2025 in Brooklyn, New York. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for GLAAD hide caption toggle caption Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for GLAAD For people who don’t like the Trump administration’s policies or how the Democratic Party has responded, there’s a good chance I’ve Had It has come across their social media feeds. It only takes a few seconds of listening to get a sense of who hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan consider their target audience — and the target of their ire. “Patriots,…

Politics / November 11, 2025 The alleged “compromise” is a boon for the GOP, and especially those who helped Trump dispute the 2020 election results. Ad Policy (Tom Brenner / Getty Images) Last night eight Democratic senators caved and voted for a bill to open the government without restoring the Affordable Care Act subsidies they’d promised to fight for. You might think Donald Trump would appreciate the olive branch, but you’d be wrong. That very same night Trump’s Justice Department announced a mass pardon for almost 80 individuals involved in Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election. This list included…

A tray of mail-in ballots is seen at King County elections headquarters on Nov. 5, 2024, in Renton, Wash. Lindsey Wasson/AP hide caption toggle caption Lindsey Wasson/AP The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case that could decide whether states can count postmarked mail ballots that arrive after Election Day — something that about 20 states and territories currently allow. Mississippi is one of those states, and in June, its top election official asked the court to hear a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee that argues the state’s five-day mail ballot grace period violates federal…

Ad Policy Protestors passing by the Google building during a rally for Palestine on October 4, 2025, in New York City. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images) Derek is joined by Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University, to talk about his book Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism. They discuss the Sheikh Jarrah uprising and the digital front of the Palestinian struggle, the difference between “digital apartheid” and “digital settler colonialism,” Meta’s censorship, the IDF Unit 8200–Silicon Valley pipeline, how AI and tech infrastructure are being weaponized,…

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Republican strategist Mike Ricci about the deal to end the government shutdown. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Senate is now voting on a bill that would fund the government through January, ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Late last night, a handful of Senate Democrats broke with their party and sided with Republicans on this bill. For more, we’re going to turn now to Republican strategist Mike Ricci. He worked with several congressional Republicans, including former speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, and he was on the Hill for government shutdowns in 2013 and…

Society / November 10, 2025 The disappearance of the platform is bigger than one newsroom. Ad Policy Teen Vogue’s dissolution signals a troubling shift: the slow collapse of platforms willing to publish the truth about harm and healing in America.(Phillip Faraone / Getty Images for Teen Vogue) When I learned that Teen Vogue had been absorbed into Vogue and its politics team had been laid off, it felt like another gut punch in a time of endless bad news. For nearly 10 years, Teen Vogue was an improbable home for some of the sharpest justice journalism in the country. While…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters while walking to his office on November 10, 2025 on Capitol Hill. Tom Brenner/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Tom Brenner/Getty Images North America On the 41st day of a record-long government shutdown, the U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 to approve a continuing resolution to reopen the government. The measure would fund much of the government through Jan. 30 and provide funding for some agencies through the end of next September. But the shutdown will not end right away. The U.S. House of Representatives must also pass the…

Economy / November 10, 2025 With the government shutdown now the longest in history, the neediest Americans are forgoing food, medical care, and other essentials to survive. Ad Policy People wait in line at a food bank in Miami, Florida, on the eve of the government shutdown.(Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Ordinarily, Sara Stone receives $280 a month in food stamp benefits for herself, her fiancé, and her three children. It’s never enough to buy all their food, but it helps her pay for meat and pantry staples, food “we would not otherwise be able to afford,” she said. But…

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa waves as he greets supporters outside of the White House, Monday, in Washington, following a meeting with President Trump. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the once-pariah state into a U.S-led global coalition to fight the Islamic State group. Al-Sharaa arrived at the White House around 11:30 a.m. and shortly after began his Oval Office meeting, which remained closed to the press. The Syrian president entered the building through West Executive Avenue, adjacent to the White House,…

Society / November 10, 2025 People who very much want to become pregnant could soon find their right to procreate restricted by criminal anti-abortion laws protecting embryos. Ad Policy Demonstrators at the Parkman Bandstand during the National Men’s March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood on November 1, 2025.(Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe via Getty Images) For over three years, anti-choice state lawmakers have been in a race to the bottom for the worst abortion law in parts of the country where abortion is already severely limited or outright banned. Earlier this year, South Carolina legislators took…