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Humiliated Kevin McCarthy throws in the towel, sends the House home after losing another major vote
Republicans are reaching unheard-of levels of Being in Disarray after GOP hardliners refused to bring a Pentagon funding bill up for a vote, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown on Oct. 1. "This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. It doesn't work!" whined McCarthy to the media, while other members of the party texted reporters to say that the GOP caucus is in "f*cking chaos" and a "total sh*tshow." Republicans are entirely incapable of governing. Let's hope voters will remember this abject failure to fulfill the most basic requirement of their jobs come next November.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Rudy Giuliani hit with devastating new legal news
Fresh off the heels of another serious sexual assault allegation comes very bad news in Rudy's ongoing defamation trial. Will the shambolic Trump goon be able to grope his way out of financial ruin? Let's hope not!

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Extremist politicians are passing a new era of Jim Crow laws
Southern Poverty Law Center: Black people's voting rights are under siege in the Deep South as a wave of undemocratic and deeply racist laws seek to drag America back to the bad old days. The Southern Poverty Law Center is at the forefront of the legal battles to protect the rights of EVERY American to vote, but they need your help. Will you chip in to help them face injustice and fight back against the racist systems that continue harming our communities?

Trump calls on Republicans to shut down the government
The serially indicted "Home Alone 2" cast member, who presided over the longest government shutdown in American history when he somehow occupied the presidency, vigorously urged his servile cronies in Congress to shut down the government in hopes of "defunding the political prosecutions against me." Once again, the singularly selfish Trump is willing to do anything and everything to save his own skin, no matter the cost to the country and the tens of thousands of federal workers who will suffer during a shutdown.

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Clarence Thomas secretly participated in swanky Koch network donor events
The radical right-wing justice willingly put himself in the extraordinary — and extraordinarily unethical — position of serving as a fundraising draw for a deep-pocketed, ultraconservative network that regularly brings cases before the Supreme Court, including one of the most closely watched of the upcoming term. Thomas belongs nowhere near the nation's high court, a point he's proven time and time and time again. Enough already. Democrats should initiate impeachment proceedings the moment they retake the gavel in the House.

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F-35 fighter jets are only "mission capable" 55% of the time, new report says
Oh, great! So glad that we spent $1.7 TRILLION dollars developing this fighter jet that only works half the time, just like how we spent more than $100 billion on littoral combat ships that don't work, $13 billion on an aircraft carrier that can't launch planes, and $200 billion on a "future combat system network that was entirely abandoned because — guess what — it didn't f*cking work! Can someone please explain why the military gets a bigger and bigger budget every year when they seem incapable of producing anything that actually works!?

Rupert Murdoch writes absurd goodbye letter to employees of his company
Displaying all the self-awareness of a tardigrade, the 92-year-old right-wing propagandist wrote to his staff that “self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose. Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth." Dude...that is you! All of that is what YOU have been doing for the past 30+ years! Are you f*cking KIDDING?

McCarthy overlooks FATAL FLAW in his impeachment inquiry against Biden
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Big mistake.

Right-wing Mississippi auditor says several college majors indoctrinate students and should be defunded
Unsurprisingly, Republicans in Mississippi are taking aim at several social sciences and humanities college degree programs and tarring them as "indoctrination." The evil, wretched, ungodly subjects include, uh, "German Literature" (maybe any discussion of bratwurst is obscene?), Urban Studies (urban?! Scary!), Anthropology, Sociology, German Literature (Goethe outta here!), African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Women's Studies — basically anything that might have a student consider the perspective of someone who isn't a white, Christian, heterosexual, American male. Can't be having our students feel empathy or any kind of deeper understanding of people different than them!

McCarthy refuses to meet with Zelenskyy, claims he just "didn't have time"
Since the disgraceful GOP called it quits around 3pm yesterday, it's obvious they actually had plenty of spare time, but Kevin McCarthy is so whipped by the extremists dogging him on his right that he didn't dare bring the Ukrainian president before Congress. President Biden, on the other hand, warmly welcomed the Ukrainian leader and pledged another huge aid package for our embattled ally.

Elon Musk invaded ex-girlfriend's voice recording session with a gun
In a very telling and deeply embarrassing anecdote from an upcoming new biography, the billionaire man-child wanted to be in CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 so badly that he barged into the studio where his then-girlfriend Grimes was recording her voiceover lines and demanded he be given a role. To make his point he brought a 200-year-old gun with him and declared to the shocked studio guys that he was "armed but not dangerous." Grimes later gave the understatement of the century when she remarked that "he’s not good at reading the room." This clown shouldn't be in charge of a GameStop, let alone multiple multibillion-dollar companies.

Business bozo Dave McCormick announces run for Pennsylvania Senate seat
McCormick, who previously lost in the 2022 primary to Mehmet Oz, is a villainous hedge fund vampire of the most devious kind, having first worked for the "just lay everyone off and make everyone who is left work harder" McKinsey consulting company, then for the George W. Bush administration, and then as president of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. McCormick will be running to unseat Democrat Bob Casey, and unfortunately there is no MAGA bozo to knock him out in the GOP primary this time. It's time for us to get to work defending Sen. Casey's seat.