I'm not sure if he's simply a glutton for punishment or if there's some humiliation fetish going on inside that Adderall-riddled brain of his. Still, it seems Donald Trump cannot get enough public embarrassment. As if losing his shirt in his fight against paying E. Jean Ca...

J Divan Vance came to Milwaukee on Wednesday for an RNC fundraiser. But to stick the taxpayers with the cost of the trip, Vance stopped at the airport to talk to a small crowd about all the alleged fraud the Orange crime syndicate claims to be finding. Keep in mind that th...

During a presser at NATO this morning, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed the word "affordability" was a hoax, a phony word and that there is no inflation because Democrats made it up. Trump is obsessed with the word and with eggs. "Under the Democrats, we had tremendous infl...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has notched another cold-blooded kill into its belt this week after a Mexican immigrant was gunned down in the street like a stray dog in a small Texas neighborhood, leading to reignited protests, calls for investigation, and demands...

The Nazi tattoo should have been enough. Denying that it was a Nazi tattoo should have been enough. Refusing to remove the Nazi tattoo should have been enough. But no. Democrats lined up (mostly) behind Graham Platner. Then the credible assault allegations started rolling i...

A federal judge has ordered the release of the $5 million judgment E. Jean Carroll won in her suit against Donald Trump after a jury found he had both sexually assaulted her and defamed her by claiming she had lied about it.

Carroll had immediately asked a federal judge to order Trump to pay her after even the MAGA Supreme Court rejected his appeal, The New York Times reported. Trump’s lawyers have indicated they will appeal that ruling, albeit with some laughably pathetic excuses for not paying. So stay tuned on that front!

Trump’s lawyers have already requested a rehearing from the Supreme Court, according to The Times. While they were at it, they also asked SCOTUS to take up Carroll’s $83.3 million second defamation verdict against Trump, a guy who has boasted about sexually assaulting women.

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President Donald Trump was formally ordered by the court to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages after a Manhattan federal jury found him liable for battery and defamation. That infamous verdict was handed down in 2023, and Trump, unsurprisingly, has yet to fork out s...

Donald Trump once again revealed how out of touch he is and how little he cares about those of us struggling to make ends meet in the Trump economy while he has enriched himself to the tune of $2 billion, just in 2025.

After President Deal Maker shredded his own ceasefire agreement with Iran, oil prices quickly spiked 6% to their highest level in weeks, according to USA Today. Gas prices also ticked up and are now 65 cents a gallon higher than a year ago. As USA Today also noted, gas prices are likely to likely to keep rising, as they lag changes in oil prices.

But billionaire Trump, the guy who promised to lower prices on Day One, thinks spending $10 or more every time you fill up your gas tank is no biggie.

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Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte was confronted with being a toady and having no "self respect" when it comes to Donald Trump by the Danish press and he failed to refute those accusations. Rutte has publicly taken every insult, every threat, every rambling unhinged dia...

Above, Pet Shop Boys perform, Opportunities. I wonder how much money Hair Füror's Crime Syndicate made shorting the market this time?

Ian Welsh explains the "simple calculus of the US trying to open the Strait." Hair Füror and calculus?

I Fucking Love Australia also eff'ing loves Greenland.

Hullabaloo presents a Requiem For A Superpower.

Platypus Economics explains the hidden pattern in gas prices (and how to beat it).

Bonus Track: OK Star Wars and Space Nerds, we found the answer to the eternal question, "What would a rainbow on the fictional, two-sun planet Tatooine look like?"

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Fediverse, or on BlueSky. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).

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Irony or karma? She was campaigning on election integrity. Source: International Business Times A Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts has been thrown off the primary ballot after a state commission found that more than 1,200 of her nomination sign...

Republicans don't care about the outrageous corruption. November can't come soon enough.

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A firm linked to Elon Musk likely engaged in voter caging. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported, “Election officials in North Carolina and Georgia are warning about suspicious voter-registration mailers linked to Elon Musk.” I am sure it is no coincidence that Senate ra...

A federal appeals panel took a red pen to Ron DeSantis's Stop WOKE Act on Tuesday, handing the governor yet another lesson in constitutional law he apparently didn't attend. The 11th Circuit ruled 2-1 that the law's higher-ed provisions — which tried to muzzle professors fr...

A Nebraska Republican ran into an angry crowd when he tried to gaslight his constituents on Trump's megabill. At a Tuesday town hall, Rep. Mike Flood got an earful of boos while attempting to defend the "One Big Beautiful Bill" — and stumbled badly when a constituent presse...

CNN inadvertently included a tweet by the parody account, Rep. Jack Kimble, representing California's fictitious 54th district, in their list of Republicans who said they'd recently talked on the phone with the ailing Mitch McConnell for what seems the obligatory 20 minutes...

Democratic strategist Mike Nellis took a segment on Fox straight off the rails when he brought up Trump and Republican Congressman Max Miller who's accused of domestic abuse when they wanted to be talking about Platner. Nellis was a guest on this Tuesday's The Story with M...

Shale gas fracker who is now the U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, bemoaned the country trying to develop new clean energy sources to enhance and replace fossil fuels by past administrations in an effort to cover up Trump's terrible energy polices having major ramificati...

The Stable Genius was on a roll today, with his mental decline on full display while in Ankara, Turkey, for the NATO summit. We're way past the "imagine if Biden said this" point and straight into wondering how this man functions in society without a drooling bib. Presiden...

Less than a month after Donald Trump finally signed a formal ceasefire agreement with Iran in the unnecessary and illegal war he started with them this year, the US president has already declared that same ceasefire "over," branding Iranian leadership as "scum" and "liars" ...

Sometimes I am almost left speechless listening to craven Republicans on Fox News make the most ridiculous arguments to defend Trump's immorality, lies and crimes along with the entire GOP. Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell - if you can call him that - used one awf...

John Cameron, a J6 insurrectionist who had been convicted and sentenced to a handful of days in jail and three years of probation, took to Xitter to bemoan the difficulties one has being a domestic terrorist looking for love. I became single for the first time in twenty y...

It seems that every time we turn around now, we are left with far more questions than answers regarding the ongoing medical situation surrounding former Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. On the 14th of June, a full three weeks ago now, news broke that the 84-year-old senat...

After a Paris Appeals court found her guilty of embezzling the European Parliament, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced she will run for president next year.

Let Pen claims her "hands are clean" after the conviction a la Trump and said she plans to run no matter what after her election ban is up.

Outside of being convicted Politico reports Le Pen is leading the race in the first round of voting for the 2027 election.

"Le Pen and the National Rally were accused of embezzling nearly €3 million by hiring party staff under fake parliamentary assistant contracts."

Far-right candidates love being criminals.

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Once again, a MAGA accusation turns out to be a confession. Texas Attorney General and “voter integrity” maven Ken Paxton seems to have gotten his sleazy hand caught committing voter fraud. Or, at the very least, not following the laws he was elected to enforce. The latest ...

On this date in 1996, British girl group the Spice Girls release their debut single "Wannabe" in the UK. Note that this video was filmed all in one-shot (though there might be some Hitchcock-style trickery). As Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Mike The Mad Biologist: Oddly Enough, the HR Women Were Right About Platner.

The Fucking News says that the "Defenders of democracy should let democracy happen."

3 Chics Politico says, "Surprise, Surprise."

Left Jabs: Socialism is Still A Four-Letter Word.

Bonus Track: Street Art Utopia plays with statues.

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Fediverse, or on BlueSky. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).

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Donald Trump made $2.29 billion off crypto this year. The people who bought in lost $2.28 billion—they may as well have directly handed him their money. Many were working-class Americans who wanted the best for him, and couldn't afford the hit. Not that he gives a shit. Th...

Disturbing new reporting from the Wall Street Journal is shedding new light on just how fragile the United States' alliance with other world leaders has become under Donald Trump's unhinged authoritarian leadership. Since the beginning of Donald Trump's second term in offi...