4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (189+ words) Welcome to The Contrarian’s newest feature, the Daily Jolt, a midday hit to give you updates on polling, court cases, campaigns, Donald Trump temper tantrums, MAGA debacles, and more. Enjoy your Daily Jolt! Democrats need to learn how to respond…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (444+ words) Under the false pretense of protecting the border and removing “the worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants, the Trump regime has unleashed a torrent of violence and lawlessness against hardworking immigrants. It has torn apart families, eclipsed previous administrations in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (776+ words) The Contrarian Allowing King Trump’s Illegal Ballroom The actual construction matters less than the Supreme Court undermining the rule of law. The Supreme Court took another major step toward letting Donald Trump act as a king by essentially saying no…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (463+ words) Oblivious to his own failure, which dwarfs George W. Bush’s premature declaration of victory in Iraq, Donald Trump stupidly mimicked the “Mission Accomplished” slogan last week in advance of the six-month mark of his disastrous, illegal, and hugely unpopular war. In…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (214+ words) Though Republican members of Congress remain too fearful of Trump to offer much opposition, the tide has been turning overseas, as other countries are less willing to concede to Trump’s ego and mercurial nature to stay in his good graces....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (110+ words) The Contrarian Norm and Karen Attiah on Victory in Wrongful Termination Case Against ‘The Washington Post’ In a huge win for the First Amendment and Contrarians everywhere, an independent arbitrator ruled today that The Washington Post wrongfully fired journalist Karen…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (412+ words) The administration is unilaterally reversing these principles and eviscerating congressional mandates by moving to politicize the workforce in ways not seen since the days of the corrupt and inefficient spoils system of the 19th century, when political loyalty, not competence, determined…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (606+ words) In October 2024, Israel’s war on Gaza had been raging for one year, and Poh Si Teng was in despair over what she saw as widespread indifference to the suffering of the Palestinian people. “Nothing was changing,” said Teng, then an…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (478+ words) Angie Nixon knows how to make one dollar stretch into fifteen. Last night, her $975k campaign beat a $16.2 million campaign, making the former single mom and union organizer the Democratic nominee for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. Nixon beat out Alex Vindman,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (246+ words) Imagine the U.S. government contracted with a private company to assemble a small team, fly it overseas, break into an office, and wreck enough of the operation to shut it down for months, perhaps for good. Washington would approve the target,…...