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Trump gives middle finger and repeatedly mouths "fuck you" to Ford auto plant heckler, who has no regrets after getting suspended

Imagine if President Barack Obama flipped off a blue-collar factory worker — at his job site, no less — and repeatedly mouthed "fuck you" with cameras rolling and ask yourself how quickly the ENTIRE right wing — pundits, politicians, podcasters, and pulpit thumpers — would have called for his head on a pike outside the White House? Donald Trump has shattered all norms, exacted irreparable harm on the presidency, and engendered a caustic environment where maximum rage is the only viable response to anyone who dares to cross you. The heckler, it should be noted, has now been suspended from his job. Following his suspension, TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old line worker and member of the United Auto Workers Local 600 in Dearborn, told The Washington Post: "As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever... I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that." Not all heroes wear capes, people!


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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump smacked with terrible news on ICE

Several new polls point to an American public deeply uneasy with Donald Trump's response to the unconscionable killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent last week in Minneapolis. A staggering 80% of registered voters have seen the video footage of Good's killing and by a large margin feel the agent's actions were not justifiable. This bodes particularly poorly for the Trump regime, which has continued to inexplicably heap praise on the shooter while vilifying the victim as a "domestic terrorist." Donald's even losing his once-reliable podcast bros over the ongoing ICE crusade, with none other than Joe Rogan wondering aloud if we're all just supposed to accept living in a Gestapo-style police state where US citizens are gunned down for protesting or arrested for not having their papers on them. What a timeline.

Take Action: Tell Congress: It's time to defund ICE!


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Beloved Alaskan Mary Peltola upends the race for the US Senate with new campaign announcement

Mary Peltola for Alaska: Congresswoman Mary Peltola sent shockwaves through American politics when she won the only congressional seat in deep-red Alaska — now she’s running for the US Senate seat held by MAGA millionaire Dan Sullivan. With his approval rating in the dumpster at just 37%, a proven winner like Peltola with an Alaska First platform of “fish, family, and freedom” is just the candidate we need to flip this critical seat and retake the Senate. Will you chip in to help jump-start her campaign?


Six prosecutors quit DOJ over investigation order to target Minneapolis ICE shooting victim's widow
Six Minnesota prosecutors have resigned from the Justice Department over a politically motivated investigation into the widow of Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother of three who was shot in the face multiple times and killed by a belligerent ICE agent in Minneapolis last week for the crime of...trying to drive away from highly agitated ICE thugs demanding she exit her vehicle. Seriously. Among those who quit Tuesday was Joseph H. Thompson, who oversaw a Minnesota fraud investigation last year that has garnered increased attention from the Trump regime in recent weeks. According to The New York Times, Thompson, a career attorney with the DOJ, objected to senior department officials pressing for a criminal investigation into Good’s wife, Becca, as well as to the department’s unconscionable decision to shut out state officials from the investigation into Good’s killing. Thompson was also upset that Good’s shooting was not being investigated as a civil rights matter. Federal agents were already known to be investigating Good’s previous activism in a grotesque attempt to blame her for her own murder and exonerate the ICE agent who shot her, Jonathan Ross. And still nothing but crickets from the "Don't Tread on Me" crowd. Funny how that works.

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Thomas Massie says he votes with Republicans most of the time but draws the line at "taking up for pedophiles"
Truly shocking that this is a line that even needs drawing, but in today's GOP literally any unconscionable, deeply disturbing thing is possible.


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Anything less than US control of Greenland is "unacceptable," Trump says ahead of talks

It sure sounds like America's wannabe dictator is dead set on taking Greenland from Denmark by force and blowing up 75+ years of world order. But at least those egg prices have dropped though, right?

Take Action: Demand Congress stop Trump's illegal war!


Trump tells CBS News' Tony Dokoupil, "You wouldn't have a job right now" if Harris won
The Most Self-Interested Man in the World doesn't always tell the truth — okay, almost never — but when he does it's usually eye-popping, like telling the newly installed CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil to his face that he's a MAGA puppet who owes his professional success to the president. "If [Harris] got in, you probably wouldn't have a job right now... Let me just tell you, you wouldn't have this job, you wouldn't have this job, certainly whatever the hell they're paying you," Trump barked. Dokoupil, of course, was hand-picked by Bari Weiss, herself a Trump toady installed as editor-in-chief at CBS News — despite having zero experience in broadcast journalism — by father-and-son mega-MAGA-billionaire duo Larry and David Ellison, who run CBS' parent company Paramount Skydance. And not for nothing, the interview was pre-recorded, which means Dokoupil chose to air the incredibly cringy, unflattering footage of the wannabe dictator essentially shitting on his journalistic bona fides. Stay thirsty, Tony!


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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi sounds the alarm about Trump’s war powers in wake of illegal Venzuela raid

In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, prominent House Intelligence committee member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi gives the inside scoop on the Democratic response to Trump’s illegal and reckless attack on Veneuela and breaks down the critical importance of reining in Trump’s war powers ASAP. Click here to watch!


"Go fuck yourself!" Eric Adams loses It in heated airport throwdown with heckler
Boy, what it is with thin-skinned, criminally corrupt politicians taking the heckler bait these days? And can't a fella grift, scheme, and abuse the public's trust for self-enrichment without facing the wrath of former constituents he once pretended to serve? What's the world coming to?


RFK Jr. unsure how Trump is still alive while enjoying road diet of junk food and Diet Coke: "Pumping himself full of poison"
During an appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, the Health and Human Services secretary dunked on Donald Trump’s appetite for McDonald’s, candy, and near-constant Diet Coke in a candid trashing of the president’s diet. Kennedy told the wife of the country's most infamous white supremacist that Trump regularly pumps "himself full of poison all day long" with a diet of junk food, adding, "He has a constitution of a deity. I don't know how he’s alive, but he is." Wow, a diety you say? Definitely not a cult, nope. And not for nothing, if there's one thing Bobby Jr. should know it's pumping oneself full of poison and somehow managing to survive.


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Doom and doomer

Military official involved in lethal boat strikes feared they were illegal
Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin says she's under federal investigation after video about refusing illegal orders
Senate readies vote on Venezuela war powers as Trump pressures GOP defectors
US senators introduce bill barring Trump from annexing NATO territory
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for Somalis in US
Federal agents tear gas protesters in Minneapolis as Trump regime ratchets up threats of prosecution
Woman dragged from car by ICE agents yells "I'm disabled" in chaotic scene in Minneapolis

Iran on the brink

Trump tells Iranian protesters "help is on its way" as death toll rises above 2,500
EU Parliament boss calls for swift action against Iranian regime "on its last legs"
Iranian mass funeral in Tehran to include 300 bodies
Iran’s judiciary vows fast trials for arrested protesters despite Trump threats
Iran set to execute protester days after arrest as Tehran speeds up death sentences
Iran reportedly breaks diplomatic contact with US as tension grows

Hope...

Number of London homicides falls to 11-year low equating to record lowest homicide rate ever
Youth soccer club forms teams based on skill level — not sex or gender: "The kids let go of the binary"
NYC’s safest year on record: 2025 sees historic drop in shootings and violent crime

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