Trump concedes he probably not getting into heaven
Uh, yeah. We know, Donald.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: JD Vance lies on air, gets instantly humiliated by ABC News host
The vice president of the United States danced around a simple, straightforward question posed multiple times by George Stephanopoulos during an appearance on ABC's "This Week," playing equal parts coy and stupid for the better part of four minutes. Stephanopoulos was having none of JD Vance's bullshit and abruptly ended the interview. This is precisely how the mainstream media *should* deal with the Trump administration's incessant gaslighting. More where that came from, please.
Trumpers launch SECRET ATTACK on our voting rights
While the nation is distracted by Trump's attacks on our cities and ICE's gratiutious acts of heinous violence, right-wingers are working behind the scenes to make it harder for Americans to vote! Over 200,000 comments have been submitted by Trumpers to the Election Assistance Commission urging them to increase the documentation requirements for Americans to register to vote! This will create more obstacles and make it harder for new voters to exercise their right to a political voice. We need YOU to go to the EAC website and submit a comment telling them NO, we DON'T want to make it harder for Americans to vote! You can submit your own comment, or if you don't feel like it, you can copy and paste this sample comment into the text box:
I’m against requiring citizens to submit a passport, birth certificate, or other citizenship documents to register to vote! Only half of American citizens have a passport and 69 million American citizens don’t have a birth certificate with their current legal name on it, most of them women who changed their names when they got married.
The deadline is October 20th, so we need all the comments we can get before it's too late! Click HERE to make your voice heard!
Jim Jordan claims ICE agents are "doing the Lord’s work"
And the Lord sayeth: Drag thy zip-tied neighbor from her home and heed not the horror-stricken cries of her child. And show not thy face as you whisk her away without due process, for thou must terror tread on my darker-complexioned people, native-born and sojourner alike, with maximum disdain and intolerable cruelty.
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Trump takes aim at "corrupt" Adam Schiff as next target in his ongoing political retribution tour
Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, come on down! You're the next contestant on The Spite is Right! For daring to stand up for the rule of law and against a career con man's rampant criminality, you have been justly rewarded! The full might of a weaponized Department of Justice will soon come crashing down on your head, as America's authoritarian imbecile-in-chief has already declared you "guilty as hell!" in an accidentally-made-public letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding your indictment. Super normal stuff, folks. Nothing brazenly fascistic to see here!
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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law credited with saving rare whales
The Marine Mammal Protection Act, a landmark 1972 environmental law — signed by Richard Nixon, of all people, and credited with saving rare whales from extinction — is just the latest target in the GOP's crusade against the environment, common sense, decency, and literally anything that even remotely resembles a feel-good story. It's almost as if Republican leaders got themselves a ChatGPT Pro plan and are just asking the chatbot for new ways to "own the libtards." Seriously, there is nothing remotely sacred these MAGA ghouls won't gleefully piss on while enriching themselves and their corporate lobbyist handlers, including the planet.
Trump spends back-to-back weekends at his golf club as shutdown drags on
The federal government may be shut down and 750,000 employees furloughed, but hundreds of Secret Service, Air Force, Marine Corps, and White House Military Office personnel are as busy as ever shuttling America's wannabe dictator from green to green, all for the low, low price of a couple million bucks per round of 18 — covered by US taxpayers, of course. While hundreds of thousands of government employees have either been told to stay home or forced to work without pay, Dear Leader isn't letting a moment of leisure go unenjoyed, despite no sign of progress in the GOP-led government shutdown that has now entered its third week.
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JD Vance won't rule out Trump invoking Insurrection Act
America's wannabe dictator and his cosplay hillbilly sidekick keep hinting that they just might have to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 — which grants a sitting US president the extraordinary power to deploy the US military to put down an insurrection or armed rebellion — because damn it if those wily, costumed protesters in Portland aren't an existential threat to democracy! And don't even get us started on Chicago! Why, just this past Saturday more than 50,000 people — from 120 different countries! — were literally running through the streets of the Windy City just because! Listen, anyone who willingly runs 26 straight miles has obviously been radicalized, especially the ones from those "shithole" countries. Okay, okay, we know what you're thinking... Yes, violent crime in Chicago plummeted in the first half of 2025, before Trump needlessly sent in National Guard troops, but facts are (not) facts, and those goddamn Epstein files aren't just going to distract themselves, people!
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing "widespread dieback"
The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report that will almost certainly be met with a collective shrug from world leaders and captains of industry. The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also "on the brink" of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents, and the irreversible loss of ice sheets. Neat.
Karl Rove warns Trump that his latest National Guard gambit is bad politics
That's one way to describe it. Another would be "fascist." And not for nothing, if there's one thing Karl Rove knows, it's bad politics.
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