This is unreal.

I thought he was going to be blown off the staircase.

Can you imagine if Biden had looked like this? What would the media say?

Open thread.

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Tuesday's Michelle Goldberg column is about a proud Republican asshole named Brandon Herrera, who's running for a House seat with the support of prayerful invertebrate Mike Johnson: Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a ...

President Donald Trump funneled nearly $1 billion for a White House overhaul through a little-known maintenance account, including $70 million with no identified source, confidential records show. The Washington Post, reviewing confidential contracts and planning documents,...

Donald Trump sneaked off Air Force One in Turkey by hiding in a catering truck, then flying off in a different, less conspicuous plane. Late night hosts are already joking about the obese Trump fleeing in a catering truck. But he put a slew of others in mortal danger. As Th...

WH Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai claimed the media were crybabies for being upset Trump used them as a decoy to elude an improbable assassination attempt when he switched planes without the press corps being aware. Maybe Jeff Bezos will make a move about Trump's daring...

Jimmy Kimmel Live guest host Anthony Anderson had a suggestion for what they should have used instead of a catering truck to escape a potential assassination attempt last month, where he used the press and some of his cabinet as bait as he slithered away on Air Force C-32A.

ANDERSON: Just when you think you've heard every dumb thing there is to know about this President, he always finds a way to surprise you.

Apparently, after the NATO summit last month, Trump hid inside a catering cart to sneak out of Turkey due to security threats. And let's give it up. Let's give it up to the Secret Service. Do you know how hard it is to sneak a pig out of Turkey?

They even caught the presidential switcheroo on video.

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Speaking to reporters, Donald J. Trump rattled off a list of lies in under one minute. The lies told by the President are easily debunkable, but this is who Trump is. Trump declared the country is thriving, pointing to a "record" stock market and claiming his administratio...

It hasn't even been two weeks since Jeanine Pirro effectively spit directly in Donald Trump's eyeball by dropping the federal vandalism charges he was championing against former Olympian David Hearn for picking up a chunk of paint out of his ridiculous Lincoln Memorial Refl...

It’s easy to laugh at this latest childishness from President Cry Baby. But there’s nothing funny about how much power he and his lickspittles are willing to exert to satisfy his petty whims. As we have previously reported, Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum after Trump DO...

Special Envoy for Peace and private investor Jared Kushner -- otherwise known as the guy no one voted for who couldn't pass a security clearance check if his life depended on it -- has jetset his way around the globe at the exact moment everything he's touched has gone to H...

Ronna McDaniel has not lost any of her right-wing propaganda chops. On Tuesday she proved that by making five false claims about El-Sayed's campaign and platform in under sixty seconds. Republicans are freaking out over Trump's poll numbers and their chances in the 2026 mi...

Trans Secretary Sean Duffy is boasting that he solved the staffing shortage of air traffic controllers that he caused by firing thousands of workers a year and a half ago. There are a couple of things that need to be pointed out. The first thing is that Duffy is bragging a...

MyPillow guy Mike Lindell took his loss to Rep. Lisa Demuth, the speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, about as well as you'd expect. Lindell, a Trump-backed election denier, claimed there were irregularities. Irregularities in a Republican primary, you guys. L...

A horrifyingly chilling new video is spreading like wildfire on social media after a woman captured footage of a masked gang of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents approaching her car, with one agent pulling a gun on her, shoving it towards the window. The horrific ...

And she looked so lifelike, too. Almost human. Source: The Independent As President Donald Trump signed an executive order upending the federal guidance for childhood vaccines, social media was more focused on a woman standing behind him during the announcement repeatedly ...

Darwinfish² - sunsetting ...

emptywheel - from Flying Bribery Palace to failed leak investigation to catering truck;

God’s Spies - a record El Niño is nearly upon us;

Mock Paper Scissors - meanwhile, in Ohio ...

No More Mr. Nice Blog - your modern GOP: of cum trophies and prayerful invertebrates.

Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with ‘for MBRU' in the subject line). Steve in Manhattan is on Bluesky.

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During Ken Paxton’s telephone town hall, an intrepid caller confronted him on his Christian hypocrisy. “Hi, Paxton, it’s nice to meet you,” a woman began, in a sweet voice. “I’m just wondering: Why did you cheat on your wife?” There was a long pause. Finally, Paxton replied...

I had no idea Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly made their prison homes on the Rock.

Britannica:

On this day in 1934, Alcatraz welcomed its first civilian prisoners, a group of 14 from the federal penitentiary on McNeil Island, Washington. The move was part of the government’s efforts to combat the upswing in crime that had come with Prohibition, and Alcatraz was well fortified.

The idiot in the White House wants to reopen the prison.

US President Donald Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year. Located near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the site, also known as The Rock, was once regarded as one of America's most notorious prisons, but has served as a tourist attraction in recent years.

That will never happen.

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As also mentioned in this loony story, F-16s scrambled to intercept civilian aircraft that entered the temporary restricted airspace over the area. Source: TWZ or most golfers, the biggest hazards are ponds and sand traps. President Donald Trump, the target of frequent att...

Donald J. Trump took to his lyin' Truth Social account to weigh in on New York City's pied-à-terre tax — a levy on non-primary homes worth $5 million or more that a judge just temporarily blocked while a homeowners' lawsuit plays out. Trump, never one to let a court ruling ...

Crackpot Real America's Voice host Wayne Allyn Root told Trump to declare a national security emergency for the 2026 elections so that he can force through all of the draconian SAVE Act provisions on the public in an effort to steal the midterms. Frustrated that the Senate ...

President Donald Trump drew ridicule and alarm after claiming "nothing bad can happen" from his executive order to limit childhood vaccines. Trump signed the executive order Monday in the Oval Office, calling for the number of diseases vaccinated against to be reduced ...

A Trump-appointed federal judge green-lit a legal maneuver that could shield President Donald Trump's financial records from disclosure. U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman of the Southern District of Florida issued the ruling in Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit ag...

During a lengthy interview on Face the Nation, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was continually fact checked when he lied and said President Biden was at fault for eroding public trust on vaccines by the public at large during the COVID pandemic. The debate took off when ...

According to a new report from Zeteo, the Trump White House has already accepted the fact that a humiliating midterm loss is "all but written in the stars" for the Republican Party. Now, they're desperate to control the impending damage that they know will ensue once Democr...

CNN's Kaitlan Collins broke down the whole ruse on Monday's The Source, walking viewers through the timeline: Trump boarded Air Force One at 8:24 p.m., then slipped off it minutes later — out of view of the press corps who thought they were flying with him — and climbed int...

Given the rate at which Donald Trump humiliatingly and spectacularly fails at almost everything he does, you'd think he'd have grown a bit more accustomed to those failures being exposed. Yet here we are, decades into his series of never-ending f*ck-ups, and he's still losi...

Donald Trump continues his war on science and vaccines by signing an executive order breaking up the MMR vaccine into three separate shots given at different times. Demented Donald used no science, research or credible peer-reviewed studies to proclaim kids receiving multip...

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called it a "challenging time" after her son Tyler Boebert was charged with five felony counts of child sexual exploitation.

Tyler Boebert, 21, faces three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to court records.

All five counts are felonies alleged to have occurred on Jan. 1, 2024.

Tyler Boebert was released on a $10,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Garfield County District Court on Aug. 19, the Denver Gazette reported.

"I love my son. We take these allegations very seriously and pray for everyone affected during this challenging time," Lauren Boebert told the Daily Mail.

Tyler Boebert had previously been charged with child abuse in July 2025 after his toddler son got out of the congresswoman's home, Westword reported.

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Donald Trump seems to finally be coming to terms with just how monumentally he screwed up by launching a useless war with Iran that he now can't seem to find a way out of, as Iran makes a fool of him at every turn.

Despite his incessant claims that he would launch and end a war with Iran within a matter of days that would see the dissolution of Iran's nuclear capabilities, Trump's war with the country is now raging well into its sixth month, without so much as a semblance of an end in sight, leading the President to privately confess to his White House officials that he's considering abandoning the nuclear agreement requirement in an effort just to end this damn thing before it finishes ending him.

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