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23 Jul 13:15 • John Amato

Trump Cites Ghost Poll Claiming Americans Support His War With Iran

Against the backdrop of a Washington Post/IPSOS poll showing 69% of Americans are against the Iran war, Donald Trump claimed a new poll came out, and Americans are not against his war with Iran. Demented Donald never cited what poll he was talking about, so it must be from ...

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23 Jul 12:36 • Andrea Thompson

ICE Agent Traps US Citizen In Parking Lot Then Threatens Her If She Doesn't Move

If there is one thing Donald J. Trump has been truly successful at throughout his time in office, it's emboldening the worst of the worst that this nation has to offer. He has stood behind podiums, sat within the reverence of the Oval Office, planted his feet on the ground...

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23 Jul 12:06 • Heather

Hunter Biden: Jake Tapper ‘A Complete And Utter A**hole’

Hunter Biden didn't hold back when asked about his feelings for Jake Tapper during an interview with Tapper's former colleague, Don Lemon.

Who can blame Biden after the hit job Tapper did on his father while he continually allows Republicans to walk all over him?

Via Mediaite: Hunter Biden Calls Jake Tapper ‘A Complete and Utter A**hole’ Who Is ‘Full of F*cking Sh*t’:

“Were you friends with Jake Tapper?” Lemon asked the younger Biden on Wednesday.

“No,” he responded, while acknowledging he’s known Tapper “for 25 years.”

When Lemon questioned his feelings about Original Sin, Biden didn’t mince words, explaining:

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23 Jul 12:06 • NewsHound Ellen

Rep. Ted Lieu Rips UN Ambassador Waltz: ‘You Should Resign!’

Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu is having none of the Trump administration’s efforts to hide the cost of his needless Iran war or President Draft Dodger’s boast about the number of troop casualties. On Wednesday, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Lieu laid into Mik...

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23 Jul 12:06 • driftglass

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Imagine this scenario. You're on your way to a meeting with some movie money people you're not looking forward to. They want the "fresh idea" you've been teasing them about for weeks, but now that the day has arrived, you've got nothing. So now you're in an elevator in a...

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23 Jul 12:06 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Former Canadian MP Responds To Trump's Threats Towards Canada

To distract from all of the Republican shitshows, Trump and company have been squealing about the invasion of smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Never mind that half of the United States is currently on fire; the Republicans are trying to put all of the blame on Canada. In...

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23 Jul 03:18 • Steve Greenberg

Stranded On A Ledge

Open thread below...

The Antifa Terrorism Threat Trump Keeps Railing Against Doesn't Exist

Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited representatives from more than 60 countries to Washington to hear an argument that many of them appear not to believe: that a transnational far-left terrorist movement called antifa threatens the democratic world. At the event, allies were asked to mobilize against that enemy despite nations like the Netherlands and Germany politely noting to their host that they cannot find evidence of any such group.

Bill O'Reilly Tells Trump To Take A Month Off Because He's Old And 'Hunching Over'

On the final segment of Bill O'Reilly's recent podcast, the former Fox News host and longtime friend of Trump told Donald to take a month off to recover from whatever is ailing him since he looks like he's struggling. When a Trump supporter admits Demented Donald's health i...

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22 Jul 21:12 • Conover Kennard

Tom Cotton Accidentally Admits Why Trump, Hegseth, And Rubio Shouldn't Leave The Country

Appearing on Fox News, Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton let the mask slip a bit, admitting the fight was never really about protecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Tom Cotton doesn't want you to think this is about Netanyahu. In fact, he'll tell you himself: it i...

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22 Jul 19:27 • Conover Kennard

Trump Claims Fallen Troops Spoke From The Grave 'Very Strongly'

Donald J. Trump told reporters and the world a story of speaking with the families of fallen troops, claiming — implausibly — that every single one of them made a point of telling him the U.S. can't allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. Of course, this obvious lie can't be f...

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22 Jul 19:27 • Heather

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Grills Hegseth On Administration's Lies About Iran

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand took our lying "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth through the wood chipper this Tuesday during a hearing on emergency funding to replenish the $80 billion this administration has blown through during this illegal war with Iran. It's been a while since I...

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22 Jul 18:03 • NewsHound Ellen

Paxton Refuses To Answer Question About His Apparent Voter Fraud

Texas’ Republican attorney general and U.S. Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, held a press conference Tuesday where sheriffs surrounded him without uniforms but in sheriff hats. If the weasely-faced Paxton thought that made him look more manly, and Democratic opponent James Tal...

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22 Jul 17:00 • Andrea Thompson

ICE Agent In Maine Shooting Threatened To Cut Ex-Wife's Throat In Horrifying Audio

Just days after ICE carried out yet another brutal execution, fatally shooting 25-year-old Colombian immigrant Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in the streets of Maine, newly unearthed audio reveals the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent involved in that murder openly ...

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22 Jul 16:03 • John Amato

Pete Hegseth Eviscerated By MTG Over Response To Service Members' Deaths

Pete Hegseth issued a incomprehensible and unsympathetic statement after two US service members "were killed in Jordan while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks." One of the two service members that was killed is Private Isabella Gonzales, 19, of C...

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22 Jul 15:09 • Andrea Thompson

Trump Proudly Boasts About The Number Of Americans Killed In His War

In yet another game of "How Many Batshit Posts Can I Make Before Someone Takes My Phone Away," sitting US President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social echo chamber with a barrage of late-night posts that should have been written in his diary instead, including a vague in...

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22 Jul 14:54 • John Amato

Jack Reed Rips Pete Hegseth For Using Biden As An Excuse: 'Gross Negligence'

Pete Hegseth got blistered in the Senate Appropriations Committee today by Sen. Jack Reed and others, who refused to hear his editorializing on Trump's greatness, instead exposing his gross negligence over the war and the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration is deman...

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22 Jul 13:00 • David Edwards

'Censure Her!': Jasmine Crockett Speaks Truth; Wingers Lose Their Minds

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called a House Smithsonian hearing "the Republicans' White Pride rally," and conservatives immediately demanded she be censured. Crockett spoke Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee's Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee — the...

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22 Jul 12:06 • Andrea Thompson

Cop Cars Flock McConnell's D.C. Hospital And His Team Won't Say A WORD

Questions, theories, and speculations are swirling yet again after a flock of Capitol Police cars has been spotted flanking a staff entrance to the hospital where Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is allegedly "recovering," a staggering 37 days after he was first ...

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22 Jul 11:36 • Ed Scarce

Steve Scalise Cuts An Ad For Olive Garden

Scalise's ad for Olive Garden's "Never-Ending Pasta Pass" has raised eyebrows. Source: The Independent A top Republican lawmaker made the case for sweeping election reforms by talking pasta. In a Tuesday interview with CNBC, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise was asked ab...

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22 Jul 11:36 • Ed Scarce

Laura Loomer Goes To Ukraine, Does A 180 On The War

For whatever reason, Laura Loomer is in Kyiv today, in what seems to be a PR tour of Ukraine. Posing for pictures later posted to Twitter, she visited a McDonald’s in the Lukyanivka neighborhood of Kyiv that was repeatedly damaged by Russian missiles. Source: Kyiv Post Lau...

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22 Jul 11:36 • driftglass

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Morlocks? We've got 'em! Because on this day in 1960 in my former stomping grounds of Chicago, Illinois, the citizens of the Windy City enjoyed an exclusive theatrical screening of the soon-to-be-SF-classic "The Time Machine". This movie was repeated frequently enough on...

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22 Jul 11:36 • Cliff Schecter

The DSA Vetting Disasters They Refuse To Address

Cliff sat down with his old friend Chris Peleo-Lazar on Hardball this week, and about ninety seconds in, the gloves came off. What starts as a question about the party’s latest round of intramural bloodletting turns into the most unsparing twenty minutes Cliff has delivered...

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22 Jul 03:03 • John Amato

Carl Sagan Schools Dennis Prager

The genius of Carl Sagan is well known.

In 1995, he joined Christian Nationalist Dennis Prager to debate science versus religion.

It wasn't a fair fight.

Here is the full interview.

Sagan's reasoning is magnificent.

The word "belief" is so important in science.

Evidence is the key.

Open thread.

Blanche Keeping Slush Fund For J6 Cop Beaters Very Much Alive

Donald Trump’s personal attorney cosplaying as acting U.S. attorney general wants you to think that his client’s taxpayer-funded slush fund is dead. But Todd Blanche’s response to a written question from senators considering his confirmation made it very clear he is only di...

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22 Jul 01:12 • John Amato

Trump Uncertain A Shifting Of The Earth Was An Earthquake In Venezuela

During a meeting in the Oval Office with Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, Trump claimed the US went to war with Venezuela and then described the devastating earthquake on June 24th like a toddler. Most of Trump's comments throughout were either lies, misquotes or exaggerat...

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21 Jul 22:00 • John Amato

Laura Ingraham Warns Trump: Wrap Up The Iran War Or Kiss The Midterms Goodbye

Fox News host Laura Ingraham implored Donald Trump to end the war with Iran if he and Republicans want to win the 2026 midterm elections. Even without Trump's insane war with Iran, I have predicted Republicans would have been crushed in the midterms over Trump's unconsciona...

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21 Jul 20:27 • Conover Kennard

'FAKE NEWS,' Says HHS, Of Meeting That Definitely Happened With Its $1 Million Donor

The Trump administration is denying any pay-to-play arrangement with Taylor Farms after federal health officials briefly reported—then walked back—a positive Cyclospora test tied to the company's lettuce, all amid a growing multistate outbreak. Progressive outlet MeidasTouc...

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21 Jul 19:06 • David Edwards

Frustration Boils Over As Republican Sasses Mike Johnson In Public: 'Don't Fall For It'

Republican frustration over President Donald Trump's priorities spilled out into public Monday as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took a direct shot at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Johnson wrote on X that the House was moving forward with the "SAVE and Protect America Act" —...

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21 Jul 18:18 • Conover Kennard

GOPer Ordered To Pay $450K For Harassing Male Staffers — Consulted ChatGPT In Court

A Leon County jury didn't buy whatever Rep. Fabian Basabe was selling. The Miami Beach Republican was found liable this week for sexually harassing two former male staffers, along with battery and defamation, and was ordered to pay them $450,000 in damages, Florida Politics...