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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Kristi Noem melts down after South Park mockery
After being portrayed — quite accurately, we should add — as a Botox-obsessed dog killer in the latest episode of South Park, Gestapo Barbie Kristi Noem complained, "It's so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. It's only the liberals and the extremists who do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can't. They just pick something petty like that." The cognitive dissonance is absolutely infuriating. Kristi is part of a callous, destructive political movement that considers women to have hit "the wall" the second they turn 25 and values them only for their physical attractiveness, which might help explain why the Homeland Security secretary aggressively transformed her physical appearance to secure her position within the MAGA hierarchy. And not for nothing, the cult's Dear Leader CONSTANTLY MAKES FUN of how literally everyone else looks, especially women! We'd drop a hyperlink in here, but there are literally too many instances to choose from!

Trump throws absolute fit in middle-of-the-night meltdown at ex-GOP official
Hoo boy, somebody at the White House might want to check the roof and see how Donald's doing. During a signature, wee-hours tweetstorm last night the MAGA cult leader shared his very articulate thoughts on former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan's decision to ditch the Republican Party and formally register as a Democrat, calling him a "total loser." Wonder what got Trump's hackles up in such a tizzy? Maybe it was Duncan's appearance on CNN last month where he hit the very big nail on its red-hatted head: "Donald Trump completely controls the entire GOP. The only example I can give that equates to it is like a rogue cult leader coming into a church and taking it over. He’s brainwashed them." Sounds about right.

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Black progressive launches bid to flip key city blue
Barbara Drummond for Mayor: Barbara Drummond has fought hard to keep the people of Mobile, Alabama, safe from Republican racism and discrimination. Now she’s going to continue her fight from the mayor’s office, working side by side with community leaders to strengthen neighborhoods, improve city services, and fight for the resources families and businesses need to succeed. Will you chip in to help put the city of Mobile back in the hands of a leader who actually cares about ALL her constituents?

Stephen Miller claims Washington, DC "is more violent than Baghdad": One of "the most dangerous places in the world"
Uh, correct? Have you even seen the heinous bullshit the people in charge of the federal government are doing these days?! It's a goddamn Orwellian nightmare perpetrated by criminal fascists hellbent on crowning a president king for life and making Project 2025 the law of the land! For the record, crime in DC is actually down 26% in 2025 after hitting a 30-year low in 2024. So, yeah, no.

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Doctors Without Borders report exposes shocking horror of Israel's murderous "food aid" scheme
Israel banned the UN aid distribution organization, UNRWA over baseless accusations of Hamas infiltration. It then replaced it with a private, militarized food distribution scheme through a newly created and incredibly shady group called the Gaza Humanitarian Fund that has been exposed as another cog in the meat grinder of Israel's all-out assault against the Palestinian people. Doctors Without Borders’ report has concluded: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing," and draws on medical data, patient testimonies, and first-hand medical witnessing to demonstrate that what has been branded as "aid distribution" is in fact a system of institutionalized starvation and dehumanization. Doctors Without Borders, otherwise known as MSF, has called for an immediate cessation of the GHF distribution mechanism and is urging states and private donors to refrain from funding what is essentially a death trap. "Children shot in the chest while reaching for food. People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points," said MSF General Director Raquel Ayora. "In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians...The GHF distribution sites masquerading as ‘aid’ have morphed into a laboratory of cruelty. This must stop now."

Jimmy Fallon hosts one of Trump’s favorite Fox News personalities for softball interview amid president’s cancelation threats
Listen, if feckless network television executives bending over backwards to appease Donald Trump are going to pressure late-night hosts to platform bigots and bomb-throwers from the right-wing mediasphere maybe everyone should just call it a day and ride off into the sunset in solidarity with Stephen Colbert. NBC forcing Jimmy Fallon to host, embrace, and lob softball questions at Fox News' gutter rat Greg Gutfeld is must-not-see TV. These clowns have their own airwaves to poison 24/7; there is no good reason to let those toxins spread elsewhere.

State Department removes anti-LGBTQ+ violence from human rights report draft
Great work, Marco & Co.! Everyone knows if you erase inconvenient information about marginalized people that doesn't comport with your barbaric world view, it simply goes away for good! Just like closing your eyes when confronted by a bear in the wilderness makes you invisible. It is so good to finally be great again!

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Don Jr. posts Photoshopped image of father throwing dildo off White House roof onto a women's basketball court
Seriously, this fuckin' guy. The meme is a reference to obnoxious fans — let's face it, probably Trumpers — hurling dildos onto the courts of recent WNBA games. Don Jr.'s throwaway and extremely lazy meme is a sharp reminder that these misogynist knuckledraggers only see women as sex objects who shouldn't be allowed to do anything without being reminded of it. They have never given a single fuck about the "integrity of women's sports," and their entire anti-trans athlete outcry is obviously just bad-faith bigotry.

InfoWars’ Alex Jones says he’s in a "conundrum" over Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files
Sentient neck vein and conspiracy barker Alex Jones is apparently struggling to come to terms with Donald Trump's incredibly curious dismissal of the "Epstein hoax," reacting with shock and dismay to the MAGA cult leader declaring the scandal, which he literally stoked for years, to suddenly be "total bullshit" — because he's directly implicated in it, of course. Jones noted, "I don't know what to say at this point. I am actually in a conundrum. I'm gobsmacked." Alex Jones not knowing what to say might just be the only positive in this entire ordeal. Regardless, Epstein ain't going away!

Nancy Mace melts down at reporter over simple fact check: "You're a raging Democrat"
Congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Nancy Mace lost it on a reporter who dared to fact-check her after the spotlight-chasing Republican held a town hall in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Wednesday. During the event, Mace laughably called herself "one of the most serious members of Congress" before pledging to ban "chemtrails" and remove fluoride from South Carolina’s drinking water (deadly serious, very mainstream). A short while later, Mace was called out by a reporter for taking credit for infrastructure funding she fought tooth and nail to reject during the Biden administration, prompting the following super chill and in no way alarming, unsettling response from the Republican: "You're very confused. And you're a raging Democrat, so raging leftist with that kind of questioning. And I would say as a woman, like, you might wanna think about how you view other women and how you treat other women the way that you question them, because women are gonna lead this country off the brink. And conservative women, the first female president of this country is going to be a conservative woman, not some liberal like you." Ooookay.