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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Dan Bongino melts down on Fox News, feels like he’s dying inside at his new FBI job
Poor Dan Bongino is finding out that being the deputy director of the FBI is a lot harder than spending all day being a racist dirtbag on television. "The biggest lifestyle change for me has been on the family side," the former Fox News talking head complained. "You can't tell your audience, for years, 'go out and do stuff, talk is cheap,'" Bongino lamented. "Then when the opportunity comes to do stuff, 'I didn't mean me,' you know, 'I meant you.' You're a fraud. You don't sound like a fraud; you are one...I gave up everything for this. My wife is struggling. I stare at these four walls all day in DC by myself, divorced from my wife." You know what? Boo fucking hoo, Dan! It's hard to know what's more frustrating: seeing these loathsome people ostensibly get everything they've pined for in the lawless age of Trump or listening to them endlessly bitch and moan because they're working a real job for the first time in their privileged lives. And yeah, we know, this is a pointless exercise, but can you IMAGINE the right-wing response if a woman with a top post at the FBI had said this?

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Trump turns on "sleazebag" Leonard Leo, says Federalist Society leader who has literally stacked the courts with hundreds of right-wing judges "probably hates America"
The MAGA cult leader turned his wandering ire to — checks notes — uh, longtime ultra-conservative activist and Federalist Society Board Chairman Leonard Leo?! The man who literally helped a supremely unqualified Clarence Thomas navigate his Senate confirmation hearings in 1991 to join the high court AND led successful campaigns backing the ascension of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the same bench?! That Leonard Leo?! In a rant targeting the US Court of International Trade, which recently ruled against his stupid tariffs, Trump ratcheted up the rage to 11, thumb-smashing: "Where do these initial three Judges come from? How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of 'TRUMP?' What other reason could it be? I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real "sleazebag" named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions." Oh, schadenfreude, be still! Also, we can't believe we're saying this, but in a weird way Donald is actually, partially right. Leonard Leo IS a sleazebag! And he DEFINITELY has his own separate ambitions! What a world.

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EarthJustice takes the fight to Trump and his corporate polluters
EarthJustice: The real battle for our planet, for our environment, and for our public health takes place in the court room. While big corporations use their high-paid lawyers to get pollution rules relaxed, EarthJustice is on the front lines making sure they don't get their way. Our clean air, our clean water, and our green future hinge on EarthJustice's legal team winning big fights behind the scene — but they don't have the war chest of billionaires to do it with. Will you chip in to EarthJustice and help them in their mission?

Surprise! New "MAHA" report is full of junk science and fake studies
RFK Jr.'s office has released a new report on how to "Make America Healthy Again," and you will be shocked to learn that it's just a bunch of ChatGPT-manufactured bullshit. Kennedy claims the report is based on "gold-standard" science drawn from over 500 studies and other sources, but under the most cursory examination it turns out a lot of the sources don't even exist, which is a sure sign that his crackpot team used AI to write it. Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes was very surprised to find her name on a paper that she nor anybody else actually wrote — on a link that leads to nowhere. It's almost like this deranged conspiracy theorist and former heroin addict has no idea how to run a government health agency and is therefore literally cheating on his homework.

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Trump administration cancels $766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu
Having learned exactly nothing from his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu, which spilled from wild bird into cattle in the US last year, infecting hundreds of animals in several states. At least 70 people in the country have been sickened by bird flu infections, mostly mild — so far. The new vaccine, called mRNA-1018, used the same technology that allowed development and rollout of vaccines to fight COVID-19 in record time. Health & Human Services Secretary and human wrecking ball Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has, of course, expressed deep skepticism regarding mRNA vaccines, despite real-world evidence that the vaccines are safe and saved MILLIONS of lives. Folks, the inmates are running the asylum and needlessly putting the lives of millions at risk.

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Gunfire, deadly stampede and starving Palestinians: Israel’s aid plan descends into chaos
Starving Palestinians desperate for food say Israeli helicopter gunships and tanks fired around crowds gathered at a new food distribution site in Gaza, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial "aid" plan descended into chaos. Gaza’s health ministry said at least one person was killed and 48 wounded in violence on Tuesday when desperate crowds overran the site in Rafah, south of the besieged strip. It was set up by a US-backed foundation, military contractors, and the Israeli military whose soldiers reportedly opened fire. Hospital officials said that four people died in a separate stampede on Wednesday when hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in an equally desperate attempt to find food.

Trump administration revokes humanitarian parole of Mexican girl receiving lifesaving care in US, lawyer says
Taking unconscionable acts of inhumanity to new heights on the regular, the Trump regime has revoked permission for a 4-year-old Mexican girl who has been receiving lifesaving medical care from a California hospital to stay in the country, attorneys for the family said. The child, who suffers from short bowel syndrome, which prevents her from being able to take in and process nutrients on her own, received humanitarian parole in 2023 from the Biden administration and has been receiving life-saving, intravenous nutrition through a backpack she wears. According to her family, the child is not strong enough to survive without the treatment, which isn't available in Mexico. Folks, we've reached Deporting and Denying Lifesaving Care to Preschoolers on Donald's intolerable cruelty scale and we haven't even hit the five-month mark of Trump's second term. These monsters have so much savagery to spread still.

GOP bill seeks to rename Washington, DC's Metro the "Trump Train"
A Republican sycophant from Florida has officially thrown his name in the hat to compete for America's Greatest Ass-Kisser, putting a bill forward in the House to rename the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) the "Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access," or "WMAGA." Get it? Greg Steube, who almost certainly has never stepped foot inside a public subway train, is actually threatening to withhold federal funding for DC's Metro — which serves more than half a million daily riders — if it does not capitulate. For those keeping score, Republicans this year have already proposed carving Donald's face onto Mount Rushmore, printing $250 bills with the MAGA cult leader's mug on them, making the convicted felon's birthday a fucking federal holiday, and renaming Dulles International Airport after him. Nope, definitely not a cult.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she is "disappointed" that Trump is considering a pardon for men who plotted to kidnap her
Disappointing? Sure. Surprising? Not even remotely. Trump is trading presidential pardons for cash and favors at a truly historic clip, and the optics of freeing a group of MAGA men caught plotting to kidnap a Democratic governor are quite possibly too tantalizing to resist. If he follows through on this one, brace yourselves for a 2028 Republican National Convention speaking slot for one of these red-hatted ghouls.

Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris listening to billionaires over the working class
Bernie Sanders did not mince words in his post-mortem assessment of what went horribly wrong for Democrats in 2024. The Vermont independent squarely blamed Kamala Harris for her election loss to Donald Trump, saying she chose to cosy up to billionaires instead of addressing the real issues faced by working-class Americans. The former Democratic presidential candidate said while Joe Biden has faced plenty of criticism for the election loss, it was ultimately Harris’ fault. "A lot of the people are saying it was Joe Biden's fault that Kamala Harris lost the election … not true. It was the fault of Kamala Harris and her consultants," he said in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today program. "They did not run a campaign designed to speak to the American working class."

Trump says China "totally violated" tariffs pause deal: "So much for Mr. Nice Guy"
Get ready for yet another whiplash, global markets, because hot off a reporter asking Donald Trump about chickening out on tariffs comes a hysterical screed from the MAGA cult leader, claiming that China has "totally violated" the tariff pause deal and implied that more retribution would be on the way. As usual, it is unclear as to what the hell he was talking about, and the White House did not respond to requests for comment, because, well, they don't know what he's talking about either. This "duck season/rabbit season" on-and-off tariff nonsense would be funny if THE ENTIRE GLOBAL ECONOMY didn't ride on it.