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Text • Steve in Manhattan

Mike’s Blog Roundup

Balkinization - Milton, Mill, and (Maybe) Aristotle: on why hearing horrible speech makes you a better person;

Diane Ravitch’s Blog - nothing “Democratic” about the Third Way: Robert Reich;

Dispatches From a Collapsing State - Hasan Piker: how to avoid a debate you can't win;

Earthbound Misfit - failing a test of basic military leadership;

The Rectification of Names - Don the Builder.

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Karoline Leavitt's Trail Of Lies And Propaganda

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she will be leaving her job as President Donald Trump’s chief propagandist at the end of the month. For her taxpayer-funded salary of $195,200 per year, Leavitt has repeatedly lied, attacked, and defam...

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Friday Night Funnies: Desi Lydec

A couple of weeks ago, Desi did her thing. LYDEC: President Trump was down in Georgia yesterday, where he campaigned for Republican Mike Collins, and the GOP desperately needs Trump to give Collins a boost if they have any chance of keeping the Senate. So of course, Trum...

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DeBlasio Forces Hannity To End Segment Over Troy Jackson

Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio smacked down Sean Hannity's ridiculous attacks on new Democrats and made such a strong case for Roy Jackson that Hannity abruptly ended the segment. The only talking point Republicans have leading up to the midterms is to characteri...

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GOP Lawmaker Says Congress Needs To Do More For The Rich

Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman apparently got lost and ended up at an Americans for Prosperity event in Michigan. Or maybe he heard they were giving away bratwursts. Either way, while there, someone made a mistake and handed Grothman a microphone. What happened next is tha...

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Scott Jennings Refuses To Rule Out Replacing Karoline Leavitt

Trump spokesliar Karoline Leavitt announced she was leaving her job this week to spend more time with her newborn child and her family, and The New Republic reported that the reason she called it quits is that Trump would not stop calling Leavitt while she was on maternity ...

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Duffy's Son-In-Law Is As Stupid As Duffy Is

Nepo-candidate Michael Alfonso, Sean Duffy's son-in-law, went on Newslax to kick off his general campaign. All he managed to do was prove he was just as stupid and inept as his father-in-law. Alfonso said that his top priority was to make Northern Wisconsin more affordable ...

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Nigel Farage 'Triumphs' Over Count Binface In Clacton

If you haven't been following this sorry spectacle, the leader of the hard-right populist Reform Party resigned as the Member of Parliament for Clacton on July 7, 2026, to trigger a by-election. There was the little matter of an undisclosed £5 million gift in 2024 from Thai...

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Text • John Amato

Todd Blanche Admits To DOJ Employees He'll Be A Failure

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche gave a speech Thursday to the Department of Justice employees. He began by listing off his resumé to justify his appointment. Blanche didn't mention how he tried to cut a deal with Epstein cohort Ghislaine Maxwell to clear Trump...

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Donald Trump Is Still Secretly Whining About Elon Musk Hurting His Feelings

Donald Trump and Elon Musk got a divorce, and while they're back on speaking terms for the sake of the kids, Daddy Donald can't quit crying about his super hurt feelings behind closed doors. Throughout Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and well into the beginning o...

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Trump To Reporters: 'If I Go, You Go,' But He Wasn't On The Plane

The more time I spend on this story, the more repulsed I am of Trump's actions and cowardice. Trump also proves again that Israeli intelligence runs the White House. It's been reported that the Israelis claimed there was an Iranian assassination threat against Trump in Turk...

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Hugh Hefner Warned The FBI About Jeffrey Epstein -- They Ignored It For 15 Years

In perhaps one of the most ironic turns of events we've seen in a while, new court documents have now revealed that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who certainly was not known for treating young women with decency and respect, actually reported infamous child sex trafficker Je...

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Michele Tafoya, Minnesotans Are Furious At ICE Murders You Refuse To Condemn

Michele Tafoya, the Republican candidate in Minnesota's Senate race, is learning to lie like the rest of the Trump administration, spinning a laughable tale of woe for her state and claiming Minnesotans are embarrassed to admit where they're from. Every smear she used on Fo...

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Mike Lawler Embraces Max Miller Instead Of Shunning Him

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) made a fool of himself on CNN trying to defend his continued backing of Rep. Max Miller's campaign after multiple allegations of Miller's abuse against former girlfriends, his ex-wife and daughter. Lawler refused to return a $10,000 donation, while ...

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Trump's Current And Former DHS Heads Play Blame Game Over 'Gross Misuse' Of $500M

Mr. I Only Hire The Best's current and former Department of Homeland Security heads are currently engaged in a rousing round of the Blame Game as the pair point the finger at each other over a fleet of "barely used" jets that cost the American public a whopping $500 million...

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Kennedy Center Board Wants To Inscribe Trump’s Name On The Building

It’s yet another example of Donald Trump and his lackeys focusing on fluffing his vanity and the heck with the law, taxpayer money or improving the lives of everyday Americans. Trump’s tender ego just can’t handle a judge’s order that his name be removed from the John F. Ke...

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Canadian Petition To Have Hoekstra Removed As Ambassador

More of a symbolic protest than anything, as the petition couldn't be enforced. But it does send a message that many Canadians are fed up with Trump's representative in Canada and want him gone. Source: CBC The woman behind a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Tru...

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Mike’s Blog Roundup

Constant Commoner - FDR Democrats going back to our roots;

Counterpunch - Chomsky goes, Eisenhower stays;

Jack Hopkins Now - stop asking big Epstein questions; start asking small ones;

Tell Me a Story - clown’s spawn;

The Editorial Board - Hong’s defeat stunning only if you believe press's political fictions.

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SCANDAL: FL MAGA Senator SWIPED Millions From Kid's Medicaid

Florida Dem Party Chair Nikki Fried--the last Dem elected statewide in FL--joined me to share a huge, brewing scandal for their appointed MAGA Senator. It's a $10M question Ashley Moody can't answer.

A $67M Medicaid settlement was supposed to go to Florida taxpayers. $10M of it--meant for kids--went to the Hope Florida Foundation instead, ending up with 2 DeSantis political committees to fight a marijuana amendment. Moody signed off as FL AG. A grand jury issued a report Floridians aren't able to read. Current AG James Uthmeier's fighting its release in court.

And Ashley Moody is nowhere to be found demanding its release--b/c it implicates her in the fraud? I mean, in my experience, I've found innocent people totally try to cover things like this up. Fried just has one question: what did Ashley Moody know, and when did she know it?

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Sometimes Chyrons Are Funny

The story is an important one.

Donald Tump left his Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary, and Pee-Wee Goebbels on the decoy plane to die.

Wow.

Open thread.

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Gov Pritzker Calls Out Trump For Decoy Plane Scandal

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker went on CNN to talk about Trump using his own staff and White House reporters as human decoys while he slinked out the back into a waiting catering cart. Needless to say, Pritzker was not impressed with Trump's cowardice and disloyalty: Pritzk...

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Howard Lutnick Claims Trump's Tariffs Are 'Winning The Day'

Never mind that the U.S. lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs in July. Here's Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick blowing smoke up everyone's rears on this Thursday's Kudlow on Fox Business Network. LUTNICK: Well, I'm here for car week in Monterey and these 232 tariffs ar...

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Why Is Third Way Spending Millions For ‘War’ Against DSA?

It’s one thing to dislike Democratic Socialists of America and/or fear the movement’s ascendancy in Democratic politics. It's a whole ‘nother thing for a Democratic group to declare war against DSA while Donald Trump swings his corrupt wrecking ball to our country, our econ...

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Duffy Tries To Change The Subject To Biden — Reporter Isn't Having It

A reporter noted that many locals can't afford air travel and asked Duffy to address gas prices being about a dollar higher than a year ago. Duffy thanked the reporter for the question, then remarked that no one had complained about inflation under Biden, calling that stran...

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GOP Candidate Won't Say If He Wants Trump To Stump For Him

With the start of the general election, Wisconsin reporters are finally starting to ask Tom Tiffany questions that go beyond whether he likes Thanksgiving. Matt Smith of WISN-TV caught up with Tiffany and asked him a pointed question about whether he wanted Trump and his lo...

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Everyone Predicted Blanche Would Protect Trump's IRS Deal; He Didn't Wait A Week

Attorney General Todd Blanche wasted no time. The day after his swearing-in, his Justice Department filed a brief backing Trump's private lawyers in their effort to overturn a federal judge's sanctions order — an order that had put Trump's IRS settlement in serious jeopardy...

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Real Cost Of Trump's Kennedy Center Stunt Leaked

Yet another leak in the Trump boat has publicly exposed just how much Donald Trump's Kennedy Center fiasco is costing.

Axios has recently obtained a whopping 180-plus pages of internal blueprints that reveal the swelling price tag of President Trump's renovation and remaking of the world-renowned performing arts venue. Congress originally approved $257 million for the project, yet internal documents reveal that costs are on track to balloon to more than double, clocking in around $560 million so far.

Delta Consulting Group put together a two-slide construction assessment that they presented to the board of trustees, chaired by Trump himself. According to their assessment, the iconic venue's "state of disrepair is significant and escalating," resulting in the group presenting the board with two different options for repair.

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Todd Blanche Plays Dumb On Trump's Demands For New Reflecting Pool Witch Hunt

On Tuesday, the White House asked the DOJ to find another way to prosecute Olympic canoeist David Hearn for supposedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool after charges were dropped against him by Jeanine Pirro as reported by the WSJ. Trump was furious at his ...

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EXPOSED: JD And Usha Vances' Yale Friends Have A Secret Group Chat To Sh-t Talk Them

JD and Usha Vance may actually be the most insufferable couple to have ever graced the face of this earth -- and apparently, their old law school friends are trying to figure out just what in the hell happened to those two. Usha Vance is the first-generation American daugh...

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Brian Kilmeade's Meltdown: El-Sayed Likes Ted Lasso As A Coach!

Fox and Friends came up with laughable opposition research against Michigan Democratic nominee El-Sayed by flipping out because he likes Ted Lasso. The country is suffering under Trump's economy, the Iran war, energy costs, and rent costs. ICE agents murder US citizens and ...