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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Pro-MAGA Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) joined the attacks on Coca-Cola after fringe conservatives claimed that the soft drink company was in a war with Jesus because a glitch did not allow a custom Christian message on cans. The Utah Republican posted twice this week as Coca-Co...

It's Monday evening and Max Miller has refused to drop out of the Ohio race...which means Republicans are going to have to carry him to (mid)term! Congrats! Just a recap: Max Miller is facing REALLY serious allegations of domestic violence and child abuse. There is also evi...

Bark Bark Woof Woof - take my wife … PLEASE!

First Draft - NOBODY is worse than Todd Blanche;

Froomkin - a moratorium on “Trump says …” headlines?

Joe.My.God. - NAS axes climate section from judicial reference manual;

Mike the Mad Biologist - for Vought and his theocrats women losing jobs is great!

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It’s a big primary day today, let’s dive into it!

• Connecticut: Generational change is on the ballot, with three younger Democrats challenging soon-to-be 80 years-old Rep. John Larson (D-CT).
• Minnesota: Sen. Amy Klobuchar wants to be Governor Amy Klobuchar.
• South Carolina: The replacement for late Senator Lindsey Graham is the race and appointed Sen. Darline Graham (Nordone —she returned to her maiden name for some odd reason) wants to be full-time Senator. She has 4+ opponents.
• Vermont: Gov. Phil Scott (R-VT) wants another 2-year term.
• Wisconsin: Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) decided he didn’t want a third term, and boy-howdy this race is a PIE FIGHT and will be the one to watch!

Our Pals at Electoral-Vote explain what’s going on in W-W-Wisconsin:

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This one nails it right on the head.

Open thread below...

- Karoli

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Chuck Grassley has been playing at this kindly, avuncular, benevolent image for so long, and it's served him so well (he hasn't had a really competitive race since Reagan was in power), that it's worth reminding people he's been one of the most destructive forces in the U.S...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has spent a year and a half getting away with plenty—controversial Iran operations, Signal chats that risked troops, mass firings, National Guard deployments to blue cities, and even renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War. R...

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week and discussed the rise of progressive Democrats. Karl started by trying to spark controversy by mentioning Hasan Piker, but AOC quickly took control of the conversation, shutting it down before it got tra...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy insisted Monday his son-in-law's congressional bid was winning "not because of me," even as federal records showed he had funneled $1 million to the race. His 26-year-old son-in-law, Michael Alfonso, is running in Tuesday's Republica...

On Sloppy Steve Bannon's "War Room," Peter Navarro launched into an unprompted tirade demanding that prosecutor John Crabb — who Navarro says was involved in his own prison sentence — be fired. In 2023, Crabb argued that Navarro "acted as if he was above the law," after de...

Twelve J6 insurrectionists, including Oath Keeper Roberto Minuto, have filed a lawsuit against the federal government for one million dollars each, claiming that the whole insurrection was "a trap" to give it "the appearance of a riot." According to the Ticktin Law Group,...

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform over the weekend with a less-than-humble brag about his "great poll numbers" -- which certainly isn't unusual for the Narcissist-In-Chief, if it weren't for the fact that these particular poll numbers are apparently i...

Fox's Maria Bartiromo took her turn trying to polish that giant turd that is the Trump economy. Never mind how average working Americans are feeling, her CEO buddies are telling her the economy is wonderful and the stock market is booming, so that means everything is going ...

President Donald Trump is clearly struggling to get past this Reflecting Pool ordeal after Jeanine Pirro all but spat in his face over it. In a new Truth Social meltdown over the weekend, Trump went full-blown crazy man in a wall of text that rivals War and Peace, claiming...

If Facebook is paying Nazis to post in Australia, you can damn well bet they are paying Nazis to post here: Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages and individual creators posted content that ...

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed hits the GOP's Islamophobia campaign head-on using two new ads. After winning the Michigan Senate primary, Aaron Rupar reportedEl-Sayed knew Republicans were going to hit him hard for being a Muslim and having brown skin. "That's ...

People have had a LOT of questions about Donald Trump's hair over the past several days -- after he showed up to a speaking event in Las Vegas with a headful of cotton candy-esque hair that was suddenly a putrid orange hue that seemed to match his skin tone without a hitch ...

Spineless Senator Bill Cassidy ran to CBS for some Republican rehab after his shameful vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General this week.

Cassidy was continually pressed by Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan about the concerns he had previously expressed on allowing Blanche to become AG, and Cassidy basically blew them off and pretended he's not fully aware of the damage this man is going to do to the department and the country in service of Dear Leader Trump:

MARGARET BRENNAN: You were emotional there. Your voice cracked. Why? And why do you think you're going to be criticized?

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How pathetic is this? Despite the fact that Fox's Maria Bartiromo opened the segment saying Paxton was coming off of one of his best fundraising quarters ever, and him going on the attack against his opponent for Texas Senate James Talarico for receiving money from out of s...

Annie Asks You - the crypto pump-and-dump scheme that funds corruption;

d r i f t g l a s s - the GOP’s two sets of books;

Seeing the Forest - everything is trickle-down now!

The Rude Pundit - the Fauci hearing is a moment for despair;

You Might Notice a Trend - who owns what when it’s all debt?

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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The attorney general of Michigan—the person who runs law enforcement in one of the two or three states that decides who wins the White House—says she won't walk into her own party’s nominating convention this month. Dana Nessel isn’t citing a scheduling conflict. She says she doesn’t feel safe.

“The threats that I receive are almost exclusively anti-Semitic threats,” she says. “People aren’t interested in the fact that I’m gay. They’re not interested in the fact that I’m a woman. It’s just been getting worse and worse and worse.”

A Democratic statewide official is telling you she'll to be chased, harassed, and shouted off stage by Democrats—and not for a vote or policy. But who she is. How the f*k are we not horrified by this? How's this become remotely acceptable in the Democratic Party--to where it's indistinguishable from Tucker Carlson?

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On August 9th, 1945 the US dropped the atomic bomb, code name "Fat Boy" on Nagasaki ordered by President Truman.

On 6th August 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by the first atomic bomb nicknamed `Little Boy, but the war was ended.

IWR:

Three days later, just after 11 on the morning of 9th August, a second atomic bomb nicknamed `Fat Man’ exploded above the city of Nagasaki. Although it was even more powerful than `Little Boy’, the destruction caused by this bomb was less than at Hiroshima due to the nature of the terrain (the original target had been the city of Kokura, but the B29 carrying the bomb had been diverted to Nagasaki because of heavy cloud cover). Nonetheless, over 2 square miles of the city were pulverised and some 73,000 people killed.

Open thread

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by Kayla Guo, Gabby Birenbaum and Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune August 5, 2026 ARLINGTON — Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico proposed a sweeping economic agenda on Wednesday that called for repealing recent GOP tax cuts for the wealthy and enacting univer...

Kevin Hassett, during a TV interview, had the spit take of the year. The subject was whether Hassett ever had to have difficult conversations with Trump: HOST: Mr. Hassett, you know, it's often that great leaders need to be ones who surround themselves with people who can...

A Wisconsin judge has ruled that absentee ballots are discriminatory, possibly opening the door for people with disabilities to vote electronically. Dane County Circuit Court| Judge Everett Mitchell ruled in favor of Wisconsin Disability Rights and the League of Women Voter...

Mike Rogers released this creepy video of him and his wife, looking like an angry HOA MAGA Karen, both of them seemingly offended that Michigan could soon choose Dr Abdul El-Sayed instead of these two rich, entitled Floridians. The obligatory Islamophobia and racism seem to...

Michigan nominee for the US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, hit back at Trump after he posted a nasty Islamophobic dog-whistle on Truth Social this weekend: President Donald Trump’s latest attack on a Democratic Senate nominee and his wife spurred a wave of rebuke on Sunday by cri...

But his boss has continually been telling us we already "won" since this evil debacle started.

VP JD Vance made an appearance on this weekend's Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany on Fox, and was asked by Trump's former spokesliar about how things are going with Iran. Vance proceeded to tell McEnany that we're "really in the middle of the war" they originally claimed was going to be over within days.

MCENANY: And there was big news that you were in the Senate this week. You went to a lunch with senators. Iran dominated the conversation. So I was hoping you could give us a readout of that meeting.

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