Rep. Jasmine Crockett called out Project 2025 horrors in a congressional hearing on May 15. Once again, journalist Aaron Rupar watched the House Judiciary Weaponization Subcommittee hearing, so you don't have to.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
SCOTUS restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana yesterday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing an edge to Democrats less than six months before the November election. However, the three liberal justices dissented, pointing to problems down the line.Via the Washington Post:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMAGA Fox Business Queen Maria Bartiromo was upset that Rep. Mark Green had no evidence China is sending thousands of people across the US border to create a mini-army in America.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt's pretty safe to say that Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's commencement address at Benedictine College has not gone over well.
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Trump soiling himself in court again has even Laura Ingraham complaining.
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham has said the courtroom where Donald Trump is on trial for alleged hush-money payments smells "musty."
Fox News America's Newsroom co-host Bill Hemmer came up with a new excuse for Trump constantly falling asleep at his trial.
Diminished Don continues to cry that the courtroom is too cold and he's freezing, but Hemmer has a new view.
Back in 2020, Donald Trump's debate with Joe Biden was canceled due to Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis and refusal to appear remotely rather than in person. He seemed to want Biden to catch Covid.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Thornapple, Wisconsin is a little, podunk town in Northern Wisconsin, with a population of 711 people. But despite being set in the scenic Northwoods of the state, this little out of the way is in hot water with the federal government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share"Bad Faith" is a documentary about the rise of Christian Nationalism that is nightmare fuel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAs we reported earlier, President Joe Biden just demolished one of Donald Trump’s big attacks: that the president is so feeble, he’s afraid to debate Trump. Biden and the Trump campaign promptly agreed to terms and set the dates for two debates.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYesterday a barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into waters near busy shipping channels and closing the only road to a small neighboring island. Via NPR:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn a post just yesterday, I asked what the odds are that Lumpy will withdraw from the debates. And last night, Lara Trump spoke on Fox News to call the debates "rigged." And no one is surprised that she's giving Trump a way out.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
George Conway turned directly to the camera and addressed Donald Trump about why he will not testify in his election interference trial.
Trump's lawyers indicated they haven't made a decision about his testimony, but as Conway pointed out, he'd be shredded in about 3 minutes because, as one of Trump's prior lawyers pointed out, "he's an effing liar."
Elbridge Colby "is an American national security policy professional who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018 during the Trump administration," Wikipedia told me.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Georgia MAGA/QAnon/Klan Mom Marjorie Taylor Greene told traitor Steve Bannon (she's apparently a regular now on his show?) how furious she is that Speaker Johnson will not put forth a bill to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
GOP Trump lickspittle Tommy Tuberville saying the quiet part out loud, and proving once again he's one of the dumbest members of the United States Senate. As we discussed here, Tuberville made an appearance outside of the courtroom in Manhattan and whined that the prosecutors were causing Trump "mental anguish."
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBallot drop boxes have been popular in Wisconsin for decades. And like every other state, there was a tremendous surge in their popularity in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Then Trump came along with his Big Lie and tried to cast dispersion and doubt on drop boxes, saying they allowed tremendous amounts of fraud.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Fox News's Sean Hannity had an interesting take when a caller named John said he was wondering about all of the "corruption" in the Biden administration. Ironically, it's former President Donald Trump who is facing 91 felonies, 34 of the charges in New York City, where he is currently on trial.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
American YouTuber and Pro-Ukraine Vlogger Jake Broe thought raising money for NAFO's Sniffing Brigade would be a cool idea. Since Jake is an American based in Las Vegas and most of his viewers are also American he wasn't quite sure how much he could raise.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
On this date in 1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbade Jewish music. So our musical selection today is Spike Jones' classic eff-you to der master race.
alicublog: Sunday ‘Round-the-Horn: Two days late and a dollar short edition.
In an interview with ABC News, former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that Jan. rioters “came that close” to murdering Mike Pence.
“It’s important to me that we don’t forget that it did come that close.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Six years ago, Donald Trump, Scott Walker, Ron Johnson, Paul Ryan and others gathered in Racine County to make a lot of noise about Foxconn promising to build a giant plant there that would create tens of thousands of jobs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
After an Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people in late April, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, over an alleged attempt to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election, prosecutors in the state have tried for weeks to serve Donald Trump's former bug-eyed attorney with notice of his indictment.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Speaker of the House (barely) Mike Johnson told the press that his office, along with MAGA cultists James Comer and Jim Jordan, are seeking to interfere with the Special Counsel's case against Donald Trump in the secret documents case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUPDATE: That was quick. The two campaigns have apparently agreed to a date of June 27. Debate to be hosted by CNN.
There's a reason I'm quoting the New York Times.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
MAGA henchmen Steve Bannon and Mike Lindell are fuming at Speaker Mike Johnson, who was their golden boy when he became Speaker.
Now he is nothing more then swill at the bottom of a dirty bowl.
Recapping Michael Cohen's testimony during Trump's trial Monday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow simulated puking off-camera when Trump bragged about how the women wanted him at the golf tournament instead of Ben Roethlisberger.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn Tuesday, Biden announced an increase in tariffs on a variety of Chinese imports, including electric vehicles, solar cells, semiconductors, and advanced batteries, to protect strategic American industries from a new wave of competitors that the President said were unfairly subsidized by Beijing, according to the New York Times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDay 2 of Michael Cohen's Redemption Tour is over, and so far he has kept his cool, done what he needed to do and provided exceptionally devastating testimony about his former boss.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share