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Donald Trump shares utterly unhinged AI video of Barack Obama arrest in Oval Office

Yes, the current occupant of the Oval Office is a fascistic, wannabe dictator with clear eyes on a definitely unconstitutional third term. But he is also a petulant, 79-year-old man toddler with the discipline and self-restraint of a teething puppy. We must take him and his existential threats to democracy seriously, but we must also laugh defiantly in his pathetic face.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump pulls desperate Epstein stunt

If you're wondering just how much the MAGA cult leader wants you to focus on literally anything besides the exploding Epstein scandal that definitely isn't going away, look no further than his Truth Social feed yesterday. Hoo boy, you can almost smell the sweaty panic through all the bronzer.

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Top scientist takes on the GOP's crusade of ignorance

Jasmine Clark for Georgia: Trump, RFK Jr., and the rest of their cronies in Congress have taken a chainsaw to our scientific research, public health, and climate initatives and are waging an all out-war on science and the truth. PhD scientist Dr. Jasmine Clark has had enough, and she's running for Congress in order to restore sanity to the government and make America a global leader in scientific development once again. Will you chip in to help jump-start her campaign and flip the House blue?


Trump wants to make offensive sports team names great again, threatens to block DC stadium if Washington Commanders don't comply
In these perilous and incredibly unpredictable times — with the threat of greater war spreading throughout the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and beyond, and with American democracy teetering on a knife's edge — it's comforting to know the president of the United States is laser-focused on what matters most: replacing corn syrup with cane sugar in soft drinks and urging professional sports teams to go back to using culturally insensitive and downright racist mascot names. The MAGA cult leader took time out of his very busy Sunday morning to thumb-smash on his social media platform: "The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ [sic] should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past." Can someone get this pickled fist-shaker a ball of yarn to play with or something?

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GOP rep worries about the "innocent" wealthy friends who flew on Epstein's "dadgum plane"
Yes! Won't someone please think of those poor, poor folks with bajillions of dollars who schmoozed with the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker during freebie trips on his "dadgum" private jet?! Okay, so dozens upon dozens of girls were sexually abused, raped, and trafficked. But what about the reputations of the obnoxiously elite who may not have committed the most heinous of crimes but just happened to be evil-adjacent?! Please, won't someone think of them?!


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GOP senator blames "radical" leftists for Trump's cankles

Tommy Tuberville, the world's dumbest American senator™ seen here counting to five, opened the hole in his face where words come out and said "radical" leftists were to blame for Donald Trump's recent diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency, not the 79-year-old, Big Mac-gorging con man's infamous, life-long aversion to exercise. Got it.


Migrants at ICE jail in Miami made to kneel to eat "like dogs," report alleges
If you had "migrants eat dogs" AND "make imprisoned migrants eat LIKE dogs" on your Trump's Heinous Bullshit Bingo cards this year, congratulations, or something.


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Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2 trillion a year by 2050, models show
A UK government-funded study shows that without concerted action, increased rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could lead to global annual GDP losses of $1.7 trillion over the next quarter of a century. The research, by the Center for Global Development thinktank, found the US, UK, and EU economies would be among the hardest hit, prompting sensible accusations that, like so much of Donald Trump's awful agenda, sweeping aid cuts are self-defeating.


Trump’s poll approval craters — even on his top policy issue
Well, would you look at that? Americans think Donald Trump’s heinous, cruel immigration crackdown has crossed the line. A CNN/SSRS poll released Sunday showed that 55 percent of Americans think that ICE raids are going too far. A new CBS News/YouGov poll also found 52 percent of Americans say that the administration is trying to deport more people than they expected. A majority in both polls — 57 percent in the CNN poll, 58 percent in the CBS News poll — said they opposed how the Trump administration was using massive detention facilities for migrants, while 53 percent of people told CNN they didn't want ICE’s budget to increase. None of this will dissuade the MAGA cult leader from changing course, of course, but it's a sterling reminder that decency is alive and mostly well in America. Let us not forget in 2026 and beyond!


ICE secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost his Green Card
Whew! Don't you feel safer already? It is so good to be great again.


Vance fleeing US, heading to the UK for next vacation after Disney trip chaos
An open call to all our British friends across the pond to please show our vice president all the respect he so clearly deserves.


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The USA, today

Angry storms, "heat dome" threaten to fuel dangerous weather week
Trump's ICE chief doubles down on arresting undocumented people with no criminal history
Buried in Trump’s awful budget bill passed by Congress is a new $250 fee on travelers to the US
Delta regional flight performed "go-around" to avoid colliding with a B-52 bomber
Off-duty Border Patrol agent shot in a Manhattan park in apparent botched robbery, police say
Alaska Airlines resumes operations after tech outage grounds all flights
Three men accused of sexually abusing children as young as three in an underground bunker in Alabama
Feds charge 3 current or former Louisiana police chiefs in an alleged visa fraud scheme
18-year-old college football star killed in shooting in Tennessee

The daily planet

Russia launches a major aerial attack on Kyiv hours before high-level talks on support for Ukraine
Israel launches ground assault on Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza
Syrian government starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in bid to end weeklong clashes
Lindsey Graham warns Vladimir Putin: Trump is about to "put a whoopin’ on your ass"
Pakistan authorities arrest 11 suspects over "honor" killing video

Hope...

Targeting an enzyme could rewire cancer cells to suppress growth by up to 77% for melanoma and colorectal tumors
New AI-designed paint for roofs could cool buildings by up to 36°F — slashing AC use and carbon emissions
Mushroom caskets offer an earth-friendly goodbye in North America’s first burial of its kind

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