Trump’s New York civil fraud trial rolls on after an appeals judge declines to halt it
Once again Trump's desperate effort to delay the inevitable was smacked down. “Yet another court denied his efforts to evade justice for his years of fraud. But Donald Trump lives in a fantasy world where money grows on trees and facts don’t matter," said NY AG Letitia James after the ruling came down. That is certainly true — but he is on a collision course with reality that no amount of posting, complaining, or suing will be able to avoid.

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Biden blames "negative" media for Americans' poor view of the economy
“You all are not the happiest people in the world, what you report,” groused the president to the media after yet another slew of polls showed that the public disapproves of his handling of the economy. He was vindicated just a few hours later when CNN splashed "Why the shockingly good jobs report is going to cost you" across their front page. The truth of the matter is that the public perception of "tHe eCoNoMy" is largely based on vibes, and corporate America is hellbent on souring those vibes out of frustration that efforts to raise interest rates are NOT creating mass layoffs — thus lowering the cost of labor and putting more pockets in the hand of the vampiric oligarchy.

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Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy SCREWED as GOP feud erupts
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa...

Rep. Jared Moskowitz calls for Palm Beach County to tax Mar-a-Lago at the rate Trump claims it's worth
Donald Trump, the most pants-on-firest lying liar in the country, has been vehemently denying that he overvalued his property at Mar-a-Lago as his fraud trial uncovers evidence of massive amounts of fraud. Trump has been actually claiming his property was worth just $18 million for tax purposes, so Rep. Moskowitz logically pointed out that if Mar-a-Lago was really worth the *$1.5 BILLION* like Trump says it, then naturally it should be taxed at a rate appropriate for such an absurdly valuable piece of property. The tax bill for a billion-plus property must be very high, but hey, Trump can afford it...right?

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Trump evokes Hitler with horrific comments on the "poisoning" of U.S. "blood"
In an interview that was largely whitewashed by the media as "escalating rhetoric," Trump evoked the words of genocidal mass murderer Adolf Hitler when he complained that immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country.” Trump is no stranger to pushing openly white supremacist conspiracy theories and rhetoric, and it's likely he helped inspire mass killings with his past words — and this is exactly the kind of horrendous talk that will inspire people to kill again. The nation needs to treat this with the severity that it entails, not hand-wave it away as "escalating rhetoric."

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Biden blames "negative" media for Americans' poor view of the economy
“You all are not the happiest people in the world, what you report,” said the president to the media after yet another slew of polls showed that the public disapproves of his handling of the economy despite yet another strong jobs report. He was vindicated just a few hours later when CNN splashed "Why the shockingly good jobs report is going to cost you" across their front page in a breathtaking display of fearmongering that shows they have learned absolutely nothing from the 2016 election.

Rhode Island mayor drops out of 2024 presidential race
Steve Laffey, whose campaign for the presidency was a bit of a laffeystock, declared that there was "no hope" for the GOP and that he'd be leaving the party. "You haven't heard the last from me. It just won't be, at least for now, as a Republican candidate for president, and it won't be as a Republican." That's very nice but...who are you again?

The Maui wildfires are just the beginning
Environmental Defense Fund: As wildfires ravage Hawai'i, over 5,000 heat records have been broken in just the past MONTH. It's painfully clear the climate crisis is here, and we need strong, decisive action to respond to it ASAP. Will you chip in to the Environmental Defense Fund and support their efforts to pass responsible climate policy?

Election denier and "MyPillow Guy" Mike Lindell confirms he's out of money, can't pay legal bills
Those gosh darn Democrats must have rigged the bank machines too!

Canada reckons with its history of honoring Nazi war criminals
The astonishing decision of the Canadian parliament to honor a former member of the Nazis' genocidal Waffen SS because he "fought against Russians" has pulled Canada's bizarre and uncomfortable history of having protected and even celebrated Nazi war criminals to the forefront of public discourse. Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, quite proud of their former professions, have been university chancellors and even prominent Canadian political figures, and there are a slew of monuments honoring Ukrainian SS units across Canada that still stand to this day. Like Confederate sympathizers here in the states, these attempts to rewrite history and whitewash the actions of monstrous killers cannot be allowed to succeed.

Putin offers up preposterous excuse for Wagner chief's death
The Russian leader suggested that his former chef-turned-private-army-chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who took his troops to Moscow and threatened to coup Putin and then died in the world's most predictable plane crash, was getting high on cocaine and playing with grenades on the plane before its demise. Nothing to see here folks! Just another mysterious end in a country where "falling out the window" is one of the most common causes of death for Putin's political rivals.

Kevin McCarthy denies reports he is considering resigning from Congress
The deposed and humiliated ex-Speaker capped off his Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad Week by fending off reports that he was going to retire early after making history for being the first House Speaker ever expelled from leadership. Instead, he declared that he was going to stay in office and even run for re-election. Guess there's no amount of humiliation that can overpower his relentless drive to gut the social safety net and funnel all our tax dollars into the pockets of the megawealthy.

Still not drag queens

Flashpoint update

Hope...

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