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Trump sent extremely weird, creepy birthday letter to Epstein in 2003
Hoooooooooooooooooooo boy. As the furor over Trump's self-induced Epstein crisis reaches a fever pitch, the radical leftists at the, uh, Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal have uncovered a deeply weird birthday letter from Trump to Epstein from 2003. It includes a Sharpie-drawn (LOL) image of a naked woman with "Donald" written where her pubic hair would be and a third-person conversation between Trump and Epstein that includes him saying "we have certain things in common" 👀 and ends with "may every day be another wonderful secret" (👁️!!!) You know, just a normal thing you say to your friend who is the king of pedophile island. Trump has furiously denied the letter's authenticity, saying “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.” In fact, Trump has "wrote" MANY pictures in his life. The president has threatened to sue the Wall Street Journal in response, and we really hope he does. Bring on the discovery. Sorry Trump, Epstein ain't goin' away!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans carry out VILE LATE NIGHT Epstein scheme
House Republicans tried to pull a bait-and-switch on the American people by voting down, again, a Democratic amendment to force the release of the Epstein files but then passed their own non-binding resolution to make it look like they did something. But rebellious Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie made sure everyone knew the truth by tweeting out "Congress thinks you’re stupid. The rules committee passed a NON-BINDING Epstein resolution, hoping folks will accept it as real. It forces the release of NOTHING." Once again, the GOP is pulling out all the stops to protect Trump, who appears to be very prominently featured in the files detailing the crimes of a serial pedophile.

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Trump cuts off crucial lifeline for LGBTQ+ community
Seth Moulton: Rep. Seth Moulton, who authored the bill that created the LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline (988), sits down with progressive influencer JollyGreenGiant to sound the alarm about Trump's efforts to cut off this crucial lifeline for a community that desperately needs it. To make matters worse, the bigotry and destructive attacks of the Trump administration have sparked a 20% increase in calls to the hotline. Click here to watch this important interview!

Trump requests release of Epstein grand jury transcripts amid report of ‘bawdy’ birthday note
Realizing that at this point they have to give us SOMETHING, Trump announced on Truth Social that he has directed his Attorney General Pam Bondi to dispense another bucket of slop for the piggies in the form of "pertinent" Epstein grand jury testimony, which inevitably means heavily redacted and containing nothing new. The obvious goal is the hope that it'll shut us up for long enough for them to figure out some other kind of distraction, but if they think that we're gonna let this go, they are in for a very rude awakening indeed.

Florida sends shackled 15-year-old with no criminal record to Alligator Alcatraz
Mexican teen Alexis was pulled out of a car during a traffic stop and sent to Trump’s swamp concentration camp, which the state advertised as being for “the worst of the worst” criminal offenders and explicitly not to hold minors. Once again, ICE is willfully and deliberately ignoring its own internal guidelines in its relentless drive to terrorize immigrants.

Stephen Colbert’s "Late Show" canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
Just days after calling CBS’s $16 million settlement with Trump a “bribe,” Stephen Colbert, who remains one of the network’s most successful personalities has been told that this season will be his last. While the network argues that the move is purely financial, the show's viewership metrics tell a very different story, and it's clear that the corporate behemoth is once again rolling over for Trump and silencing dissent on his behalf. Also, if canceling Colbert really is a financial decision, then capitalism is even more broken than we thought.

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Cost of Obamacare expected to soar as subsidies expire and insurers hike premiums
"Trumpcare" is here, folks, and it's going to cost you an arm and a leg. Subsidies passed by President Biden are set to expire this year, and President Trump and the GOP did not feel the need to extend them in their Big Bullshit Bill of tax cuts for the wealthy. What the bill DID include is more hurdles for people who get their health insurance through the ACA, such as adding new paperwork requirements to renew coverage each year. Insurers that offer plans through the ACA are planning an average premium increase of 15% for 2026 — the largest increase in seven years, according to an analysis published Friday from KFF, a health policy research group. Some 4 million people are projected to lose their healthcare thanks to the subsidy expiration, which will then push premiums higher (what, did you think the insurance company was gonna eat the loss?). American healthcare is perpetually in crisis, and it's about to get a whole lot worse.

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Trump Justice Department seeks one day in prison for ex-officer in Breonna Taylor case
Welcome to Trump's America, where a policeman blindly mag-dumping ten bullets into someone's house carries...a one day prison sentence. Former Civil Rights Division official Samantha Trepel pointed out that the bullets missed a sleeping baby by about two feet and that DOJ's request was "transparent, last minute political interference into a case that was tried by non-political, longtime career prosecutors who obtained this conviction in front of an all-white jury of Kentucky citizens before a Trump-appointed judge.”

Neo-Nazi MAGA influencer Nick Fuentes turns on Trump: "Fuck you!"
In a surprise twist that shows just how much damage this Epstein scandal is causing amongst Trump's most loyal fans, Fuentes raged at Trump and declared that the "liberals were right:" “Fuck you! Fuck you! You suck! You are fat, you are a joke, you are stupid, you are not funny, you are not as smart as you think you are. If you watch my show, you know I’ve been very critical. I’ve never been this far. This just goes to show, this entire thing has been a scam. When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are gonna look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in American history. And the liberals were right, the MAGA supporters were had! When we look back in history we will see Trump as a scam artist." His words, not ours!