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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Pam Bondi’s Justice Department makes absolutely crazy announcement

Trump's absolute trainwreck of an attorney general Pam Bondi announced that the Department of Justice would be releasing information related to...former-FBI Director James Comey's "failed investigated into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of highly classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State." Seriously. So desperate are Trump and his cronies to distract the public from all things Jeffrey Epstein, they are running it all 👏 the 👏 way 👏 back to... "BUT HER EMAILS." Ooh, ooh. Do the Moon landing next!

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"Go f*ck yourself!" Stephen Colbert hits back after Trump celebrates "The Late Show" cancelation

With ten months remaining before CBS shutters "The Late Show" and with exactly no fucks left to give, Stephen Colbert let loose on the MAGA cult leader in a hilarious opening monologue Monday night. Colbert, who has held the top spot in late night ratings for must of his tenure, promised to speak "unvarnished truth to power" in his remaining time on air before eviscerating the 800-pound gorilla not in the room but probably definitely in those pesky Epstein files. May 2026 is a long way off, folks. We're looking forward to seeing what Stephen does with the time left on the clock!

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Purple state Democrat Jonathan Nez takes on one of Trump’s most fanatical servants

Jonathan Nez for Congress: Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is launching his campaign to knock Freedom Caucus loony Eli Crane out of Congress. Crane, a man who calls Matt Gaetz "brother," is one of the most dangerous Republicans in Congress and a direct threat to our democracy: he still denies the 2020 election to this day and helped organize “poll watcher” goons to interfere in the 2024 election. Will you help make history by chipping in to elect the first indigenous congressman from Arizona and retake control of Congress from Trump’s GOP enablers?


Immigrants at Florida detention facilities faced life-threatening medical delays, report says
Immigrants at three Florida detention facilities have been deprived of critical medical care — including access to vital medications like insulin as well as timely treatments for life-threatening conditions, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. In one account, a man named Chauhan says he was denied all his medications, including for diabetes and heart disease, and that he collapsed days later. In another, a man named Brian says he was denied an inhaler and began spitting up blood. And in a third, a woman named Andrea recalls another detainee vomiting green bile, losing consciousness and being rushed to the hospital for gallbladder surgery after staff initially ignored her symptoms. The cruelty and inhumanity of the Trump regime's actions cannot be overstated, nor can they be forgotten. May the long arm of justice reach every complicit actor — including the wannabe dictator himself — in this unfolding nightmare if and when some semblance of sanity and accountability are restored to the American justice system.

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Jon Stewart hits Trump right in the "penis" with soaring defense of Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show host hit the proverbial nail squarely on the head, absolutely skewering CBS network executives for taking the path of least resistance to protect their imminent $8 billion merger (that requires the Trump administration's approval, of course) by "killing a show that you know rankled a fragile and vengeful president so insecure, suffering terribly from a case of chronic penis insufficiency." Stewart's eloquent, side-splitting defense of his pal Colbert — and his withering take-down of corporate America's fear of and pre-compliance with an insatiable, narcissistic boy king — is, truly, must-see TV.


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Police officer convicted in fatal Breonna Taylor raid sentenced to almost three years in prison

The Trump regime laughably recommended a ONE-DAY sentence for former police officer Brett Hankison, who blindly fired 10 shots into Taylor’s apartment during the botched, no-knock police raid that left the 26-year-old African-American ER technician dead. While none of the shots fired by Hankison hit Taylor, he was convicted in federal court for violating Taylor's civil rights. The convicted felon will serve 33 months in prison for his crimes — assuming Donald Trump does not intervene and issue yet another completely unwarranted and unconscionable pardon.


Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election
"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."


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Speaker Mike Johnson blocks House vote on releasing Epstein files until at least September
Well now, would you look at that? How incredibly convenient to kick this radioactive can down the road and beyond Congress' month-long August recess! 40-ish days to gaslight the American public with one mind-numbing distraction after another! Here's hoping Democrats set a calendar reminder to circle back on this one after Labor Day.


Alan Dershowitz says Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell "deserves" to be released from prison
Wow, what an odd thing for a man who has been credibly accused of receiving a "massage" from one of Epstein's underage victims, served on Epstein's defense team, and has otherwise defended the concept of having sex with underage girls to say.


Jeffrey Epstein accuser urged FBI to investigate Trump decades ago
An artist who first accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexual assault almost three decades ago has told The New York Times that she had urged law enforcement officials back then to investigate powerful people in their orbit — including Donald Trump. The artist, Maria Farmer, was among the first women to report Epstein and his partner Maxwell of sexual crimes back in 1996 when, according to a new interview with the Times, she also identified the MAGA cult leader among others close to Epstein as worthy of attention. Shocking.


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Lisa Murkowski got played on Trump's budget bill

You are going to be SHOCKED to hear this, but it turns out Donald Trump has found a way to get out of following through on the bribes promises made to Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski in order to secure her vote for his Big Shitty Awful Bill. "I feel cheated," Murkowski told The Anchorage Daily News. "I feel like we made a deal and then hours later, a deal was made to somebody else." Wow. Senator, was this your first time meeting Donald Trump? Are you honestly surprised that Donald Trump, the most lyingest liar who ever lied, would have lied about something to get what he wants? After hearing this news, the nation's bridge salesmen and wallet inspectors reportedly converged on Alaska to offer Murkowski some exciting investment opportunities.


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The USA, today

AOC’s Bronx office vandalized with red paint
Hunter Biden curses out George Clooney for pushing dad Joe out of race
Trump administration releases details of FBI investigation into MLK Jr.’s killing as his family insists James Earl Ray was not the shooter
Military bases in New Jersey, Indiana, to be expanded to detain immigrants
Trump White House removes WSJ reporter off trip as punishment for paper's Epstein bombshell

The daily planet

Gaza is "hell on earth" with doctors fainting from hunger, UN says, as 1,000 people estimated to have been killed seeking food
Gaza health ministry says 33 people dead from malnutrition in last 48 hours
Brazil court freezes Bolsonaro son’s assets as ex-president threatened with arrest over social media use
Japan plans first new nuclear reactor post-Fukushima
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, "Cosby Show" actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning
Arrests in China after more than 230 kindergarten children poisoned by lead paint in food

Hope...

GoodGoodGood: New research suggests dogs help people regulate stress even more than expected
Snake and spider venom produce hundreds of "promising" potential antibiotics
A major first in malaria care: newborn treatment approved for use in Africa

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