https://www.leftscoop.news Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:35:00+0000 en-us hourly 1 https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/new-ice-atrocities-expose-a-cruelty-machine-without-limits/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63176 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Elena Brooks ICE is detaining students, grandparents, asylum seekers, and people with minor citations while expanding detention camps, obscuring detainee locations, and sending immigrants to unfamiliar third countries where they lack language skills and resources. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trumps-white-house-press-ban-hilariously-mutes-his-own-helipad-speech/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63200 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Elena Brooks Trump’s ban on Politico, CNN, and MS NOW prompted major television networks to suspend pooled coverage, leaving his White House helipad ceremony without a working microphone and his remarks effectively inaudible. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/mamdani-plays-trump-like-a-cheap-fiddle-yet-again/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63197 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Julian Hayes Mamdani turned another meeting with Trump into discussions about 12,000 homes and 30,000 jobs, highlighted two student releases, and walked away with yet another burst of praise from a president who cannot seem to resist him. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/iowa-republicans-flee-trump-as-midterm-disaster-closes-in/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63179 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 LSN Staff A Marist poll puts Ashley Hinson 8 percentage points behind Josh Turek as Iowa Republicans suddenly demand an end to Trump’s war, despite their own voting records and warnings that their fuel proposals could backfire. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/ukraine-is-defying-trumps-humiliating-pleas-exactly-as-it-should/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63182 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Daniel Mercer Ukraine has continued striking Russian energy facilities despite Trump’s demands, exposing how little leverage he retained after cutting aid while he desperately tries to shift blame for rising diesel prices. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/what-paramounts-81-billion-settlement-means-for-movies-and-your-wallet/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63185 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Julian Hayes Paramount’s settlement promises domestic production spending, worker protections, and annual movie quotas, but analysts warn that its $81 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition could still reduce competition and hit consumers with higher prices. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/the-sickening-sameness-of-yet-another-ice-shooting/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63187 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Maya Bennett Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot through his car door while making a delivery, then moved into ICE detention with a bullet still lodged in his body as federal agencies assumed control of the investigation. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-losing-gerard-baker-sets-off-deafening-conservative-alarm-bells/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63191 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Elena Brooks Gerard Baker spent years accepting Trump’s character and political risks in exchange for promised results. Now the influential conservative columnist is questioning those results, criticizing Trump’s governing failures, and openly describing the surrounding movement as a cult. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/gavin-newsoms-goodbye-tour-kicks-into-overdrive/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63194 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Daniel Mercer As Gavin Newsom considers a possible 2028 presidential campaign, California’s term limited governor is promoting Hollywood tax credits and signing bills addressing military deployments, classic cars and the cultural legacy of lowriders. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/war-has-never-been-more-catastrophically-irrational/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63206 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 LSN Staff Trump’s Iran war and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have battered energy infrastructure, pushed oil above $100 a barrel, and exposed Norman Angell’s enduring dilemma: leaders keep launching wars whose costs are ruinous even when the folly is obvious. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-demolished-schools-strongest-shield-against-discrimination/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63205 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 LSN Staff Trump’s Education Department froze investigations, shuttered regional offices, and targeted Equity Assistance Centers, dismantling the federal infrastructure that helped students and schools resolve discrimination complaints before they became yearslong legal battles. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/macklemore-vs-the-billionaire-silencing-machine/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63211 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Daniel Mercer Macklemore’s removal from Ed Sheeran’s tour triggered artist resignations, falling resale prices, and scrutiny of the billionaire interests involved, while exposing how Live Nation’s sweeping power can shape performers’ access to America’s concert stages. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trumps-bogus-white-house-press-ban-sparks-first-amendment-lawsuit/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63087 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Elena Brooks CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are suing after Trump revoked their White House access, while television pool members, press advocates, and Barack Obama condemn the ban as a dangerous attack on the First Amendment. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/doge-bill-could-come-back-to-torment-vulnerable-republicans/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63112 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Maya Bennett A DOGE inspired bill could end funding for programs supporting veterans, medical research, housing and education, giving Democrats fresh ammunition against vulnerable Republicans who backed the measure and now face competitive elections. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/bill-maher-torches-macklemore-over-gaza-remarks-and-revives-infamous-2014-costume-watch/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63116 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Bored Trash Panda Bill Maher criticized Macklemore’s Gaza comments while revisiting the rapper’s controversial 2014 costume. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/texas-republican-turns-trumps-bogus-5000-promise-into-a-brazen-voter-con/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63106 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Daniel Mercer Texas Republican nominee Eric Flores used Trump’s unsupported $5,000 dividend promise to direct voters toward a donation page that says contributions will first help retire Flores’s primary campaign debt. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trumps-debt-disaster-has-an-obvious-fix-tax-the-rich-spare-the-safety-net/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63098 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Claire Sullivan The case for cleaning up Trump’s fiscal wreckage runs through wealth taxes, IRS repair, stronger federal staffing, and corruption crackdowns, not the familiar Washington ritual of cutting programs ordinary Americans depend on. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/heartbreaking-tragedy-cindy-crawford-and-randy-gerbers-son-presley-passes-away-at-27/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63118 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Bored Trash Panda Presley Gerber, 27, died Sunday at a rehab facility; his cause of death has not been released. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/environment-takes-center-stage-in-fierce-new-york-house-showdown/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63090 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Daniel Mercer Cait Conley and Mike Lawler are battling over clean energy, data centers, Indian Point and utility costs in a district offering Democrats one of their strongest opportunities to break the Republican House majority. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/kansas-governors-race-turns-into-a-brutal-brownback-reckoning/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63094 2026-09-22T23:34:24+00:00 Elena Brooks Kansas voters are weighing corporate subsidies and fiscal scars as Cindy Holscher targets Ty Masterson over data centers, a $2.7 billion public stadium commitment, and his central role in former Gov. Sam Brownback’s disastrous budget experiment.