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Laura Loomer takes outlandish MAGA feud with Marjorie Taylor Greene to the next level

Folks, we certainly did not think a public feud between two of the most thoroughly disliked and unpleasant MAGA personalities on Earth could possibly rival Kendrick v. Drake, but it's 2025, everything is upside down, and holy shit here we are. Truly incredible stuff. For those of you with stomachs on the steelier side, do yourselves a solid and dig in to Loomer v. MTG. This fight has everything: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, slut-shaming, insider trading, vulgar anatomical attacks, steroids, and even roast beef sandwiches.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans drop shock midterm announcement

Scared shitless at the prospect of having to actually defend Donald Trump's abysmal record and face the voters in the 2026 midterms, Republicans across the country are desperately ramping up gerrymandering efforts to carve out ever-more-friendly districts to cling to their razor-thin majority in the US House. Enter Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis just threw his, um, boots in the ring. Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down what's really going down in alligator town and what's at stake for the rest of us.

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Progressive veteran and career prosecutor quit his job to protest Trump. Now he wants to fight back

Ryan Crosswell for Congress: Ryan Crosswell served our nation in the US Marine Corps and then locked up criminals as a prosecutor the Justice Department. After Trump took over and began twisting the DOJ into his personal legal hit squad, Crosswell resigned and began plotting how to fight back. Now he’s running to flip one of the most closely divided seats in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. Once we retake the House, Ryan Crosswell can bring his years of experience prosecuting criminals to bear on team Trump — but he has to win first. Will you chip in to help kick-start his campaign?


After Trump deploys National Guard in DC, Jeanine Pirro declares, "This is just the beginning"
We call it fascism because it is fascism. Also, divorced from reality. The right can kick and scream about "horrific" crime in the nation's capital, but unlike the MAGA cult leader and his army of sycophants, the numbers don't lie.

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Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave
The party of FaMiLy VaLuEs™ strikes again! Republicans in the Show Me State — backed by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, of course — collectively gave their constituents yet another massive middle finger and repealed a sick leave mandate approved by 58% of the voters last November. When Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the legislation killing paid sick leave last month, he did so with horseshit claims that "out of state" interests had influenced the ballot measure and that mandating sick leave on employers would impose burdensome record-keeping. Click on through to the other side for a deep-dive into what's really at stake for Missouri workers teetering on the edge of solvency and homelessness and ask yourself if "burdensome" is a word Kehoe and his fellow Republican clowns could possibly ever comprehend.


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Trump delays China tariffs at the last minute and announces 90-day truce

TACO Tuesday is back, people! All hail President Business!


Trump taps Bureau of Labor Statistics skeptic and Heritage Foundation economist to replace leader he fired over grim jobs report
Donald Trump announced on social media yesterday he's nominating EJ Antoni, a right-wing economist from the Heritage Foundation who has openly criticized the Bureau of Labor Statistics data-collecting methods, to head that very department. After firing former BLS Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer for delivering very bad economic news he did not like in a classic shoot-the-messenger moment, the wannabe dictator proclaimed the economy to be booming and laughably promised that "EJ will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE." Uh huh. As honest and accurate as Donald's scorecard after a round of 18 holes.


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Trump’s Washington police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about urban crime
Hmmm. Donald Trump spinning wildly racist tales about "urban crime." Where have we heard this sort of rhetoric before?


MTG slams Fox News host who called her "an absolute lunatic with an IQ of a snail"
Marjorie Taylor Greene took a quick break from her withering and objectively hilarious feud with racist, right-wing gutter rat Laura Loomer to lay into Fox News bloviator Mark Levin, whom she dubbed a "psychopath" for his loyalty to Israel above all else. Levin, a former Reagan administration official and lawyer who now waxes pseudo-philosophically on Fox, branded the Georgia congresswoman "an absolute lunatic with an IQ of a snail" last week after she described Israel's conduct in Gaza as a "genocide." Levin also dubbed the QAnon rep a "Marxist-Islamist Jew-hater" and "complete embarrassment." You love to hate to see it.


Former youth pastor arrested after allegedly sexually abusing at least 6 teens
Still not a drag queen.


Musk’s Grok calls Trump the "most notorious" criminal in DC when asked about violent crime in the city
Something tells us a quick software update to Grok will imminently "fix" that little glitch. Or, perhaps, Donald will just pull the plug on more of Elon's billion-dollar subsidies. What a world.


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The USA, today

Goldman Sachs warns consumers Trump tariffs "pain" has only just started
DNC to help lead nationwide protests against Republican redistricting plans
Child among 3 killed in Austin Target shooting; suspect is detained
Musk threatens to sue Apple over OpenAI ranking

The daily planet

Trump says he will discuss "land swapping" with Putin at Ukraine war summit
Russia is "making movements" that indicate it is preparing for a new offensive, Zelenskyy says
China rams own warship while chasing Philippine vessel
North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work "like slaves" in Russia
Spanish town ordered to scrap religious festivals ban mainly impacting Muslims
Flames near Madrid as wildfires burn across Spain and Portugal

Hope...

Meningitis can now be quickly spotted in babies thanks to new non-invasive test to replace spinal taps
GoodGoodGood: In a new pilot program, Boston will give homeless young adults $1,200 in cash every month for two years
Just looking at someone sick may prime your immune system, study finds

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