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03 Sep 15:51 • John Amato

Republicans Are Turning On Pete Hegseth

The resignation of Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll over clashes with Pete Hegseth is starting to reverberate throughout the GOP. Driscoll spoke with Trump while resigning and told him that Hegseth's firing of many qualified and combat tested leaders was having a drastic...

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03 Sep 14:54 • Andrea Thompson

Apparently Trump Forgot What He Looks Like In Bonkers Rant About 'Very Obese' Friend

Trump made it abundantly clear to anyone watching that he quite literally can't do anything without making it super weird. During a Rose Garden dinner event last night, the sitting President of the United States went off on a truly bizarre, unhinged rant about his fat frie...

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03 Sep 14:09 • John Amato

James Comer Blames Ethics Committee For Failed Probe Of Democrat

Rep. James Comer blamed the Ethics Committee for dragging its feet to investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar for fraud and, with no proof, attacked her husband after Russian asset Benny Johnson begged him to prosecute the Minnesota Congresswoman. Rep. Omar has become a constant target...

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03 Sep 13:03 • NewsHound Ellen

U.S. Mint Is Selling Fake-Gold $1 Trump Coins For More Than $2 Each

It’s illegal to put the face of a living president on U.S. coins. But laws are no object for Make-Believe King and Real-Life Felon Donald Trump, especially when he has a scam to run. In this case, the scam is selling "$1 Trump Coins" with his face on the "collectible" coin. Trump and his posse of lickspittles seem to have skirted the law by dressing up the coins as a tribute to America's 250th birthday and putting his face on their front.

That doesn’t make the coins any less of a scam. Just like the Trump Watch scam, his Trump Phone scam, and Trump University, this latest scam is designed to rip off Trump’s own supporters.

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03 Sep 12:39 • Andrea Thompson

Republicans Are Humiliating Trump As They Snub His High Dollar 'Trumpapalooza' Event

The Republican Party as a whole is already painfully aware that they're almost guaranteed to get their asses handed to them on a silver platter in the upcoming midterm elections -- but, apparently, they don't seem to think that Donald Trump's help in that matter is worth a ...

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03 Sep 12:39 • Red Painter

FAFO: Vote For Data Centers, Get Recalled

The country has finally found something to unite them - no, it is not Dolly Parton. It is their hatred of giant, energy sucking, water draining DATA CENTERS. And politicians are finally wising up to it...well, most of them. One councilman in Missouri learned the hard way th...

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03 Sep 12:39 • NewsHound Ellen

Tarrant Co, Texas Just Voted To Close 92 Polling Stations For Midterms

Once again, Republicans are trying to win elections not by making constituents’ lives better but by rigging elections to stay in power. In this case, Texas’ Tarrant County commissioners voted to close 92 voting locations. That’s a roughly 30% reduction since the 2022 midterms.

It's easy to see why. “Historically a Republican stronghold, Tarrant County has emerged as a key battleground as voters narrowly supported Democratic candidates at the top of the statewide ballot in recent elections,” The Texas Tribune reported.

It also happens to be a crucial county for Democrats to win. Reporter Abby Livingston told MS Now Tuesday night, “It’s impossible for a Democrat to win Texas without winning Tarrant County.”

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03 Sep 12:09 • Tengrain

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Above, The Carpenters perform, Please Mr. Postman. Today we look at the mail-in ballot scheme. Lick it and stamp it, Hair Füror.

The Moderate Voice says that the mail voting rules are a shitshow.

Mock, Paper, Scissors says that their incompetence is our secret weapon.

Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the case that John Roberts is the worst Chief Justice in the history in the entire disreputable history of the Supreme Court.

Platypus Economics grades THAT MAN's tariff policies based upon their stated objectives.

Bonus Track: Notions Capital warns slatternly housekeepers! Atomic bombs will destroy you!

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03 Sep 12:09 • Brad Reed

Demented Donald Dreams Of 'Trump Strait'

More than six months after starting an illegal war with Iran, President Donald Trump is now threatening to rename the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure at the start of the conflict led to a global spike in energy prices. In a Wednesday social media post, Trump falsely claimed...

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03 Sep 02:57 • Steve Greenberg

A Postal Service That Bites

How are you voting for the midterms? I'll have my ballot dropped off. They'll cheat to 'win' by any means necessary. Let's come out in massive numbers against this regime.

Open thread.

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02 Sep 23:48 • Tengrain

No Judge Will Sign Off On This USPS Clusterf*ck

Hair Füror and the USPS are still trying to block mail-in ballots from states that refuse to release lists of voters to the government. Mostly Blue states, ’natch. As we’ve endlessly noted, those efforts are tied up in court, and even if somehow the 4th Reich gets what it w...

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02 Sep 23:48 • John Amato

Bessent Finds Someone Else To Blame For Rising Fuel Prices: Ukraine

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent partially blamed Ukraine for the high costs of fuel because they retaliated against Russian aggression and cherry-picked specific statistics on the economy to dupe the Fox News audience into thinking Trump's economy is humming. Bessent join...

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02 Sep 21:15 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Tony Romo Suspended After Drunk Driving Arrest, Conviction

On July 23, former NFL quarterback and CBS football analyst Tony Romo got pinched for drunken driving under the influence after he refused to do a blood test. After the incident, Romo went on Instagram and claimed ownership of the incident. He said that he had suffered bac...

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02 Sep 20:27 • Heather

Dennis Quaid: 'Everybody Is A Socialist Until They Get A Job, Right?'

Fox's Jesse Watters and wingnut actor Dennis Quaid made the ridiculous assertion that the only people pushing for Medicare-for-all are a bunch of lazy "socialists" who don't want to work. Quaid made an appearance on this Tuesday's Jesse Watters Primetime. While discussing T...

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02 Sep 19:24 • Conover Kennard

Trump’s Kennedy Center Renovation Now Includes Removing An Iconic Blue Sculpture

The Kennedy Center is removing one of its most recognizable pieces of public art: “Blue,” a large abstract sculpture that has stood on campus since 2019, The Washington Post reports. The sculpture, created by artist Joel Shapiro, was installed as part of the Kennedy Center...

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02 Sep 17:57 • Conover Kennard

'I Get It Now': Milo Yiannopoulos Says Deportation Left Him Weeping For An Hour

Milo Yiannopoulos says his recent experience with U.S. immigration authorities gave him a firsthand understanding of just how frightening and humiliating the detention process can be. Speaking with Piers Morgan, Milo described being arrested, shackled at his hands and feet,...

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02 Sep 17:03 • Andrea Thompson

Apparently Trump Thinks The Iranian People Should 'Fight' In His War... Against Iran

In what may be the most unhinged, insane thing he's said since launching his senseless war, President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform last night to express his frustration with not only "ABC Fake News'" reporting on his efforts to strike a deal with Iran, but...

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02 Sep 16:03 • John Amato

Scott Bessent: Democratic Voters Are Jealous Underachievers

Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attacked over half the voting population by claiming Democratic voters who support our social safety nets are overeducated, underachieving, under-earning, and jealous of those who want to go and work every day. This is absurd. Bessent...

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02 Sep 15:00 • Andrea Thompson

Irony Is Officially Dead After JD Vance Says The Antichrist Is 'Among Us'

Whatever shred of irony that was left in this mess of a presidential administration, JD Vance just murdered it. The vice president sat down for a podcast chat with Bryce Crawford and dove headfirst into a certifiably insane discussion that ranged from UFOs to prophecies of...

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02 Sep 14:18 • John Amato

Crazy Michele Bachmann: Gaza's Problem Isn't Starvation, It's Obesity

Former US Congresswoman and extreme evangelical nationalist Michele Bachmann claimed the real issue in Gaza is people being fed too much, causing them to be fat and obese. Bachmann was caught by our pals at Right Wing Watch downgrading the horrors within Gaza and blaming th...

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02 Sep 13:15 • NewsHound Ellen

Mike Johnson: ‘I’m Not Qualified’ To Do My Job Properly

Whiskey Pete Hegseth and his Mommywife could not be doing a worse job of running the Pentagon if they were foreign agents sent to destroy it. But the ever-spineless Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has publicly admitted that he doesn’t care, can’t be bothered and is not ...

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02 Sep 12:06 • Andrea Thompson

'City Will Die!': Trump's Cracked Psyche On Full Display In 3AM Truth Social Meltdown

I simply cannot be convinced that the sitting president of the United States is not actively in the throes of a serious mental health breakdown, and we're all just being forced to ride it out with him. In the most wee hours of Tuesday morning, Donald Trump uncorked one of ...

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02 Sep 12:06 • NewsHound Ellen

President Draft Dodger Threatens To ‘Totally’ Destroy Iran Again

Instead of trying to end his failed, unnecessary and spectacularly unpopular war against Iran, Donald Trump thinks he looks like a winner threatening nuclear war or something like it against the country. Early Tuesday afternoon, Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst told view...

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02 Sep 12:06 • Heather

Politics Girl Torches Trump Flack For Minimizing Loomer's Racism

Leigh McGowan, a.k.a. Politics Girl took apart trump flack May Mailman for pretending the reaction to Laura Loomer calling a bunch of Democratic women "ghetto black bitches" was "manufacturing racism." Phillip started the segment off discussing the latest racist diatribe fr...

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02 Sep 12:06 • Tengrain

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Above, Shania Twain performs, That Don't Impress Me Much. AI doesn't impress us much either. Yup, Fancy Autocomplete has entered the 2026 chat.

Futurism reports on the data center backlash.

Ars Technica tells us about how AI agents went rogue.

Adventus notes that even in Texas the wages of technology is death.

Queerty wryly observes that AI made strange bedfellows of MAGA and the LGBTQ community.

Bonus Track: Colossal traverses the emotional terrain of love and loss via water colors by kelogsloops.

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Fediverse, or on BlueSky. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).

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02 Sep 12:06 • Cliff Schecter

Hunter Biden: “I’m Not An Addict Anymore”

David Shuster asked Hunter Biden a question I ask carefully, because a lot of people in recovery have told me the same thing: that it never really leaves you. That there is always a compulsion underneath, always a pull, and the work is managing it. Is it a daily struggle fo...

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02 Sep 03:27 • John Amato

Hemingway's Old Man And The Sea Published

I came to this book later in life, but it still is wonderful.

On September 1, 1952, Life Magazine published the novella in its entirety and it sold over five million copies in just two days.

It was published as a novel in 1952 and won the coveted Pulitzer prize. He then won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954.

His life ended sadly as pain and depression overtook him because of massive health issues and he committed suicide in 1961.

Open thread.

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02 Sep 01:21 • David Edwards

Jim Acosta Aghast At 'Chunks' Of Reflecting Pool As Trump Says 'Almost Completely Fixed'

Journalist Jim Acosta filmed workers tearing chunks out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a day after President Donald Trump declared the landmark almost completely fixed. In a video posted to X on Monday, Acosta reported while standing at the edge of the drained...

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01 Sep 22:03 • John Amato

Did Mike Johnson Just Describe Trump By Accident?

In Tuesday's press conference, Speaker Mike Johnson attacked Islam, calling its followers liars, and then used that to justify Trump's -- who is himself a prolific liar of the worst kind -- inability to end the Iran war. Johnson always feigns ignorance to the press over the...

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01 Sep 21:00 • Ed Scarce

Justice For Heehaw: Baby Donkey Shot By Georgia Police

Hannah Israel set up a GoFundMe for legal fees, as a lawsuit is expected. The cops were on her property without a warrant, searching for a missing person at night. It's been reported they first tried to tase the baby donkey before using lethal force. The unidentified office...