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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1971, T Rex stood at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with 'Get It On'. This was the group's second UK No. 1, and it spent four weeks at the top of the charts. In the U.S., it was retitled Bang A Gong (Get It On). Power Station had a UK & US hit with their cover version of the song in 1985. Play it loud.

Show Me Progress: Are the Communists hiding in your closet right now?

Paul Krugman: Elon Musk, the New Hero of Populism.
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Politicus USA: Trump's Iran War Is Going To Get Republicans Blown Out In The Midterms.

Attention space nerds! Should Artemis IV astronauts actually land near the moon's south pole? Artemis II pilot says the lunar equator might be better.

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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Russia, China, Qatar, Iran ALREADY ATTACKING Our Elections

I had an incredible live convo with the brilliant Hen Mazzig today, who's written one of the most consequential pieces this year. On the reach, aims, strategies, tactics, and history of those aiming their propaganda at us on full blast. They fear we'll elect a real Congress...

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Friday Night Funnies: George Carlin 'Dumb Americans'

He is the best.

This is from his HBO special 'Life Is Worth Losing' (2005)

As a kid, I bought FM/AM record and wore it out.

Paste Magazine:

Even a lot of Carlin’s most ardent fans find this one to be too dark and morbid to work as a comedy special. But as a performance piece, a one-man show about all of human folly, it’s as close as we’ll get to any piece of modern philosophy. From the ecstatic Modern Man rant, to a passionately absurdist depiction of the end of times, this is as unfiltered and razor-sharp as it gets.

What would Carlin say watching Demented Donald's train wreck of a second term.

You know Trump would have sued him for being a meanie.

Open thread.

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Harry Enten: Even Republicans Are Blaming Republicans For Soaring Gas Prices

As the 2026 midterm elections become closer, now only 102 days away, Republican approval ratings on all of the major issues continue to drop like a rock. CNN's Harry Enten delivers the bad news. ENTEN: Republicans, if forced to choose between the Democratic Party and the...

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Tim Pool Joins Team Ukraine After Calling Them The Enemy

A few years ago, when Tim Pool was still a Kremlin asset being paid upwards of $400,000 a month to spew hate towards Ukraine and Zelensky, it was common for him to talk ad nauseum about how evil Ukraine were. However, cue ahead to 2026, the money from Russia having dried up...

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James Comer Whines That People Think Republicans Hate Social Programs

Rep James Comer lied to Fox Business viewers by claiming Republicans do not want to cut social programs; they only want to be the arbiters on who qualifies for them. Over 4 million people are no longer on SNAP since last July because of being unceremoniously kicked off the ...

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Mike Johnson Loses His Cool With House GOP: 'I'm Sick Of This Sh*t!'

House Speaker Mike Johnson's famously even keel apparently has a breaking point, and a closed-door meeting over a veterans bill found it. Multiple sources tell NOTUS that Johnson snapped at his own conference, declaring "I'm sick of this sh*t!" as Republicans tore into eac...

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Pentagon Quietly Drops Four Fallen Troops From Its Own Casualty List

The Pentagon's casualty website listed 18 American troops killed in the Iran war on Wednesday — by Thursday, that number had dropped to 14. We can't imagine why. According to three officials who spoke anonymously about internal discussions, the change came down to the admin...

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'What The Hell': Trump Has No Idea What He's Reading Off His Own Teleprompter

During remarks on Thursday, Donald J. Trump found himself tripped up by his own script. Rather than own the material, he immediately put distance between himself and the words coming out of his mouth, telling the room it was simply what he'd been handed to read. The Presid...

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Elon Musk Can't Handle Being Called Out, SNAPS On Camera In Fiery Interview

Elon Musk appeared to take a page straight from Donald Trump's playbook when it came to being called out in a face-to-face, on-camera interview. The world's first trillionaire sat for an interview with The Economist, where editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes held NO punch...

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Sen. Daines: Having Dinner With JD Vance Is Enough Oversight On Iran War

Sen. Steve Daines exposed his ignorance on the US Constitution, budgetary matters and Congressional oversight when he told Fox Business he will vote against an upcoming Senate bill to limit Trump's war powers claiming it violated the principles of the Founding Fathers. The...

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New Leak Exposes Trump's 'Expletive'-Ridden Tantrum Over His Own Humiliating Failures

Donald Trump effectively launched an illegal war on Netanyahu's behalf, then proceeded to fail at quite literally every juncture, and now he's pitching a massive fit about it behind closed doors as the masses make fun of him in public. According to an inside source who spo...

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Trump Wants Penn Station Named After Him

The NY Daily News is reporting that they acquired a letter sent to the Senate on Wednesday by Trump sycophant and nonexistent Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Duffy who demanded the nation’s busiest rail hub rename itself to Trump Station since the feds took over the red...

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Jesse Watters Threatens Us With A Good Time If AOC Elected President

Don't let the door hit you in the ass, Jesse. Here's Fox's Jesse Watters' response to a viewer's question during his show this Thursday:

WATTERS: Jonica, that's a new one from Tampa. "If AOC becomes president, are you moving to Paris?"

Didn't I promise I'd move to Paris if Kamala won? Sure, yeah, I'll move to Paris. No problem.

One more reason to vote for AOC if she decides to run.

AOC 2028...

bye @JesseBWatters pic.twitter.com/Mld2KUTdgs

— cjoan (@cjoan223817) July 24, 2026

So Watters will flee democratic socialism for the very place of the Paris Commune ?

— (((The Taiji Reporter)))??? (@TheTaijiNews) July 24, 2026

Like France would want a psychotic Nazi like him living there...

Don't let the door hit you in the ass, Jesse. Here's Fox's Jesse Watters' response to a viewer's question during his show this Thursday:

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'Detestable' McConnell's Hometown Paper Goes For The Throat In Ruthless Pre-Obituary

If Mitch McConnell has even a single functioning brain cell left to his name, sequestered away in a D.C. hospital surrounded by Capitol police, he spent this week reading his own obituary -- and it was far from flattering. As McConnell remains hospitalized for 39 days and ...

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Trump: 18 Troop Deaths Is No Biggie – Because Vietnam!

Even when he tries to pretend to care about the American military, Donald Trump, the Vietnam War Draft Dodger, lets slip how he really feels. In the wake of four servicemembers killed last week, Trump claimed to have been “very sad” during the dignified transfer of their re...

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Trump’s Botched 'Renovations' Damaged Another National Monument

Before he has fixed the damage he caused to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his crew has already damaged another national monument. In this case, it’s the German-American Friendship Garden on the National Mall. “The damage occurred after a contractor vehicle drove ov...

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It is common knowledge that Superman, the comic book hero -- that strange visitor from another planet, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men -- can never really be killed. However, on this day in 1987, when "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" (a double Ra...

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The Dem Civil War Is Spinning Out Of Control—Can We Stop It?

The Democratic Party is being torn between an establishment that too often refuses to lead and a DSA wing that too often treats ideological conformity as more important than winning. But millions of Democrats belong to neither camp. They want economic populism, reproductive...

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Desi Lydic Destroys Greg Kelly And The Iran War Propagandists

Desi Lydic continues to mine gold on The Daily Show whenever she recaps the lying idiots on Fox News, Newsmax, and within the Trump administration. Newsmax's Greg Kelly was her #1 target over the ever-increasing Not a Forever War memes. LYDIC: Yes, it's a little awkward...

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Running On Empty, But Full On Hate

They love to hate, so they’re actually happy about this: “It’s going to be a hate election,” a Republican tied to President Trump‘s political operation told Axios. “Voters have to hate the Dems more than they hate us. And we have material to work with.”There’s broad GOP fru...

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Tuberville: America Is Slipping Away, And The Cure Is Gitmo For New York's Mayor

Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville, arguably the dumbest m-therf-cker in politics, has never been shy about what he thinks of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He called him an "idiot" on election night. He said Mamdani's "allegiance is to ISLAM, not to America." When Mamdani ...

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FAFO: Despair As Russian Sellers Lose Everything In Wildberries Attacks

Ordinary Russians, largely removed from the war in Ukraine, have only recently begun to feel the effects of their collective acquiescence to Putin's war crimes. Along with Ukraine's attacks on Russia's oil refineries and its shipping in the Black Sea, we're now also seeing ...

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Ron Johnson Says He'll Govern The Budget By Conspiracy Theory

With the passing of Old Lady Graham, the gavel of the Senate Budget Committee fell into the tainted hands of conspiracy theorist Sen Ron Johnson. What could possibly go wrong? Let's have RoJo himself answer that question. He appeared on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo whe...

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Fox Creeper Jesse Watters Has Some Unhinged Dating Advice For Women

He just can't stop himself. Here we go again with Fox's resident misogynist, Jesse Watters: Fox News host Jesse Watters unleashed a bonkers rant aimed at young women, insisting a college degree is the fastest way for them to “kill” their love life. Watters, 48, launche...

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Trump Threatens Republicans: 'You Don't Want To See Me Cry'

Donald J. Trump has gone from threatening Republicans who don't fall in line on the SAVE Act to threatening to cry at a rally in Marietta, Georgia. Trump, 80, knows a blue wave is coming, and he's desperate. Documented cases of noncitizen voting in federal elections are ex...

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J.D. Vance Has A Leak In His Boat

It seems the leaks are coming from J.D. Vance's boat —or at least from his security detail. Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks on a knock-down drag-out rampage over "unauthorized disclosures" to the press that have left Donald and his people looking like a bunch...

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Trump Is Already Thinking About Starting His Next War

There seems to be no end to the number of people “pro-life” Donald Trump and his minions would love to kill. The latest locale is the West African country of Mali. The Washington Post got the scoop about the Trump administration’s deliberations over military action targetin...

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WH Used Keywords Like 'Diveristy' To Kill Grants That Defied Trump's Platform

The Trump White House just said the quiet part out loud in a series of signed stipulations in the federal court case, Thakur v. Trump, a class-action lawsuit launched last spring by University of California researchers that accuses the Trump Administration of mass-killing b...

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The Republican Stock Ban Bill Protects Donald Trump

Today there is a vote scheduled on the Stop Insider Trading Act, a GOP-led bill meant to curb insider trading in Congress but somehow excludes the Trump administration.

The lunatics in the House then attached a voter-identification provision to the measure, which would kill it from any Democratic support.

I will continually say, Trump's AI has told him and his staff the only way to win the 2026 midterms is to stop people from voting using the Save Act.

However, Trump's Congressional protection racket is in full swing here on CNBC as Rep. Brian Steil, Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, defends Trump not being included as some sort of perfection that is impossible to happen.

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