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Will You Watch 'You Can See Everything'?

Of all people, I was surprised to see Nathan Fielder at the helm of this documentary.

Fielder's comedy is an acquired taste, but its brilliance is not debatable.

Comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder has spent years exploring those same questions with his shows Nathan For You and The Rehearsal, but with his jaw-dropping feature debut You Can See Everything, he’s once again defied audiences’ expectations around what nonfiction can be.

Co-directed by Primetime helmer Lance Oppenheim and filmed by a small crew squeezed into various rental homes and offices, You Can See Everything begins as an unorthodox project to document Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes before she leaves her husband, Billy Evans, and their two kids to serve her federal prison sentence for defrauding investors.

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Blanche Insists Trump Wasn't Briefed On Omar Raid: Yeah, Right

During today's press conference, Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche claimed he didn't brief Trump on the search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, but then offered an excuse for why it may have happened, saying the president has a right to know what's on the front page of every paper in the c...

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FCC Chair Threatens Networks Over Election Polls

Trying to help Republicans in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, FCC Chairman and Trump henchman Brendan Carr claimed broadcast networks are promoting fake and suppression-type polls against Trump and the GOP. They threatened consequences if they continue. Broadcast and ...

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Judge Blocks Trump's Hunt For Noncitizen Voters Over Shoddy Data

A federal judge has put the brakes on the Trump administration's latest hunt for noncitizen voters, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security's investigation relies on flawed data that might ensnare American citizens who have every legal right to vote, The Washington ...

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Vance Uses Question About Starshield To Bash European Allies

Or at least, they used to be our allies. Vance proves once again which side of this war the administration is on. Here's his response to a reporter while leaving Ohio for another rally in Nebraska when asked about treasonous Trump and Musk slowing down satellite internet se...

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'Assman-In-Chief': Trump's Thirst For Men's Bodies Gets The Anderson Cooper Treatment

CNN’s Anderson Cooper had a little fun at Donald Trump's expense, compiling a montage of the president repeatedly admiring other men's physiques. The clips put Trump's unusual enthusiasm for his fellow men's bodies on full display, giving critics plenty of material to work ...

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Trumper Tells Fox People Voting In Person 'Got Screwed By People Voting Online'

This is what happens when watching too much Fox "news" and listening to Trump rots your brain. Prior to Trump making an appearance to campaign for Darline Graham in Clemson, SC this Wednesday, Fox's Jacqui Heinrich went out and talked to the people who had been standing in...

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Trump Nearly Foamed At The Mouth After Watching His Heckler Get Punched

We now live in a world where the sitting President of the United States of America unabashedly nearly foams at the mouth when watching someone get assaulted because they said something mean about him. Yesterday, Donald Trump held a midterm rally in Clemson, South Carolina,...

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Peter Navarro Begs Right-Wing Audience To Buy His Hate-Filled Fauci Book

Trump's economic con man who was a major perpetrator to the attempted coup of the government and the insurrection on January 7, Peter Navarro, claimed that the only way Dr. Fauci was going to go to prison was if Real America's Voice audience bought his ridiculous book. This...

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Ilhan Omar Breaks Her Silence In First Interview Since Horrific Raid By Trump's DHS

On Monday, October 12, at approximately 6 a.m., Minnesota Democratic House Rep. Ilhan Omar was the subject of a pre-dawn raid by the Trump Administration's Department of Homeland Security as part of the agency's blatant racism- and hatred-fueled criminal "investigation" int...

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JD Vance Glorifies A Pedophile Rapist To Defend Vivek's Disgusting Ad

VP JD Vance wasted no time at all defending Vivek Ramaswamy's horrific ad against his Democratic opponent Amy Acton, who was raped as a child by her stepfather, Cledith Arthur. Arthur then was arrested and indicted for the rape of his 12-year old stepdaughter by a grand jur...

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New Video: Ramaswamy Mocked Acton For ‘Complaining’ About Sexual Abuse

Vivek Ramaswamy has always been a disgusting person. Although I did not think it possible, he has outdone himself with his smears of his election rival, Dr. Amy Acton. As Red Painter explained, Ramaswamy is running ads against Acton, trying to paint her as a liar for report...

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Slimy Don Jr. Is Breaking From His Daddy Behind Closed Doors

In April of 2024, Donald Trump's eldest son and namesake took to X as Iran was actively launching a slew of missiles and drones at Israel and wrote, "Remember when they said Trump would get us into a full-blown war with Iran? Times like these should make us all realize how ...

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Epstein Lawyer, Accountant Sued In NM For Enabling Sex Crimes

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant were essentially co-conspirators in his sex crimes, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez.

A press release from the attorney general’s office states that attorney Darren K. Indyke and accountant Richard D. Kahn “held leadership roles” in Epstein’s entities. They “helped facilitate, finance, and conceal Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, including the abuse of girls and young women at Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County.”

Some of the shocking allegations in the legal complaint include: “Indyke repeatedly asked bankers at Deutsche Bank AG … how he could withdraw [large amounts of] cash from Epstein’s accounts without triggering an alert with the government, leading the bank to formally exit its relationship with Epstein in December 2018.”

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Mike's Blog Round Up

You Might Notice a Trend: The law as a weapon of fear.

Labor Politics: What evangelicals can teach us about organizing.

Informed Comment: Hegseth's "maximum lethality" doctrine makes us all unsafe.

Blue Virginia: With two weeks of early voting left, where are we in Virginia at this point?

Public Health Post: Is public health on the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections?

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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Witkoff Lavishes Praise On 'Humanitarian' Kidnapper Putin

America, that feeling in your stomach right now? You are feeling shame because Trump bestie and real estate mogul Steve Witkoff praised Putin as a “humanitarian.” U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff groveled to the murderous dictator and humiliated our country once again. The Guard...

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Is Consciousness A Controlled Hallucination?

Seth has some interesting ideas.

I'm enjoying his book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

University of Sussex professor Anil Seth explores the nature of consciousness, working at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy and AI.
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Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it.

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Trump's Message To North Carolina: Vote GOP Or Lose Lawsuit Money

During a Trump rally Tuesday night in North Carolina, demented Donald coerced the voters by claiming that if Republicans win in November, he will immediately settle all Camp Lejeune lawsuits, . Still, if they lose, "there's no money." This man has no shame. Trump blabbed o...

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Ted Cruz Brands El-Sayed A Terrorist In Racist Attack

Sen. Ted Cruz used unfounded rumors, unprovable assertions, and racist innuendo to unequivocally claim that Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and that, if elected to the US Senate would share classified information with terrorists. Cruz' racist and Islam...

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'Democrat' For Mike Rogers Paid 30k By Pro-Rogers PAC

To shore up their narrative that Abdul El-Sayed has a problem with Black Democrats, Mike Rogers bought himself a couple of Black Democrats. Fox News dutifully gave one of them, Melanie Rutherford, a platform this past week, probably after her check cleared from the Mike Rog...

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Donald Trump Repeatedly Lost His Shit With Reporters

Whether it’s a new poll showing his approval rating at a new low or the prospect of having his corruption, cronyism, and incompetence aired after a blue wave in the midterms, Donald Trump acted like a desperate, wounded animal during his Oval Office event on Tuesday. He rep...

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Miller Resurrects Reagan's Welfare Queens Myth

In one of the most feeble and egregiously blatant attempts to divide and conquer Americans just before the midterm elections, Stephen Goebbels Miller raised the specter of Ronald Reagan's welfare queens mythos: Exposed, they came here from Somalia, have been living here f...

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Trump Just Took His Thirst For Husted's Ass To Another Level

Earlier this month, Trump launched a rant at a rally to praise GOP Ohio Sen. Jon Husted's ass, and now he's doubled down. “I looked, and I watched up and down," Trump told the crowd at the time. "I looked at his ass, and I looked at the whole– and then I looked at his hand...

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WH Uses Anonymous X Account To Spew Sick Slur After Trump's Oval Office Tantrum

Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump had one of his trademarked Trump Temper Tantrums while sitting in the Oval Office, this time against the Independent's Andrew Feinberg, who was attempting to question the president regarding his plans for a sprawling, tacky golf c...

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Mike Waltz' New Big Lie: The Left Is Working With Iran

Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, introduced a new Big Lie on Fox and Friends, claiming the left and progressives are working with Iran and Cuba to sow discontent in the US before the midterms. It couldn't possibly be the wealth gap or income inequality that's stirr...

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Bush Family Scion Just Crossed Party Lines In CRUCIAL Midterm Race

James Talarico's Texas Senate campaign just got a financial injection from a notable figure that's going to send the MAGA crowd raging into their red hats. According to official records from the Federal Election Commission, Lone Star Rising, a Political Action Committee de...

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Trump Shrugs Off Russia's Treatment Of Ukraine As 'Fine'

Responding to a question about a trilateral meeting between Trump, Xi, and Putin, Donald Trump ignored Russia's recent attacks on Ukraine and told the press that Russia has been fine with Ukraine, so he'd be open to it. Russia hit Ukraine's "energy facilities, knocking out...

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Oz Announces Another Cut To California's Personal Care Services

On Tuesday, Dr. Oz announced another punitive cut to Medicaid funding for California. He said that they are deferring another $1.2 billion that was meant to pay people for the personal care work they provide to friends or family members. Oz falsely claimed that people are ...

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The Walls Are Closing In On Whiskey Pete As His Impeachment Becomes 'Inevitable'

According to a brutal new report from Punchbowl News, when it comes to the subject of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's potential impeachment, it is no longer a matter of "if," but of "when." As midterms grow closer and Democrats' chances of seizing control of the lower cham...

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FAFO: Black Trump Supporter Kicked Out Of Ken Paxton Rally

I will never stop laughing whenever I read the following headline: "(minority) Trump supporter shocked when they are kicked out event". Hello. You are the "other" to them. You are not desirable. You are the "token". You are only useful at the voting booth or on social media...