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15 Oct 18:54 • Conover Kennard

White House Insiders Tear New Press Secretary To Shreds In Leaked Texts

Donald J. Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, is already facing criticism from inside the administration after a rocky first appearance before reporters. According to the Daily Mail, leaked messages reveal that some of her colleagues were less than impr...

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15 Oct 18:12 • NewsHound Ellen

Trump Contractor Botched Lincoln Pool Way Worse Than We Knew

An inspection report commissioned by the contractor Donald Trump chose to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool last summer found that the blue coating applied to the bottom “failed in at least 85 places because of errors in the renovation,” as The Washington Post s...

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15 Oct 17:18 • Andrea Thompson

Trump Openly Fantasizes About Shooting 'Sleazebag, Scum' Leakers

We have now reached a point where the sitting president of the United States of America is standing on a stage and openly, proudly declaring his fantasies about shooting people whom he feels have wronged him by leaking secret information to the press. The deeply disturbing...

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15 Oct 16:03 • Conover Kennard

Katie Zacharia Blames Marine One For Her Bizarre China Answer

Newly minted White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia's first press conference was a disaster. But the news that's come out about Zacharia is even worse, including what she said herself.

Zacharia has said she's a lawyer, and Trump called her “an attorney," but it doesn't appear that she's passed the bar exam. On Tuesday, a reporter asked which state she passed the bar exam in; she twice replied, “When I moved to China.”

Q: You said Zacharia is an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? What state?

ZACHARIA: When I moved to China

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-13T15:38:52.280Z

That's just weird. Like, weird, weird. But she offered the New York Times an excuse for her dodgy answer. It was just a misunderstanding!

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15 Oct 15:30 • Andrea Thompson

Susie Wiles On Thin Ice And Her Potential Replacements Will Make Your Skin Crawl

According to a horrifying new report from POLITICO Playbook, Donald's current White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, is skating on particularly thin ice, as Donald's poll numbers continue to plummet and the prospect of an impending blue wave in November looms over his hea...

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15 Oct 14:18 • John Amato

Trump's Latest 2020 Fantasy: He Won By Millions, And COVID Stole It

During today's rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, Trump lied to his cult members by claiming he won the 2020 election by millions of votes and Joe Biden rigged it against him using COVID. Didn't you know Biden created COVID while Trump was in office and killed millions of peo...

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15 Oct 13:03 • NewsHound Ellen

‘You F*cking War Criminal!’ Pete Hegseth Gets An Earful

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth got a good dose of reality Wednesday as he tried to boast about his military mojo. First, the unqualified and unfit Hegseth was repeatedly interrupted as he touted his military’s “arsenal of freedom” and “drone dominance.” He was forced to ...

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15 Oct 12:21 • Andrea Thompson

Inside Whiskey Pete's Terrifying Push For A 'Christian Army'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has recently drastically reduced the number of religious affiliations recognized by the US military, and now higher-ups are heavily pressuring service members to choose from the drastically reduced list, or risk having one chosen for them -- l...

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15 Oct 11:48 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Oops! Independent Voter Delivers A Reality Check To Right-Wing Reporter

Bobby McNeily, a reporter for Real America's Voice, was doing a live interview outside before a Trump rally in Ohio. That's when he met a man identified only as Brian, who openly admitted he wasn't a Trump fan. McNeily then made the mistake of asking Brian what he was hopi...

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15 Oct 11:06 • Oliver Willis

Elon Musk Seems To Be Obsessed With AOC

Racist billionaire Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions of his personal funds in an effort to preserve the GOP’s congressional majority.

Through his America PAC, Musk has financed ads that have recently focused heavily on Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, transgender rights, and the domestic safety net.

Musk is the GOP’s biggest publicly identified donor in the 2026 midterms. In addition to his PAC, Musk has donated at least $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which works to elect Republicans to the Senate.

So far, Musk has reportedly spent $366 million to prop up Republicans. Millions of those funds have been spent on ads on Meta’s Facebook, which allows advertisers to target specific states and congressional districts.

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15 Oct 11:06 • driftglass

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1981, the product of $350,000 dollars and six weeks spent in the woods by Sam Raimi and his band of hooligans hit a few theaters in the United States. The Evil Dead originally opened in 15 theaters nationwide, grossing about $108,000 during its opening weeke...

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15 Oct 11:06 • Chris capper Liebenthal

J6 Terrorist Finds Out Trump's Pardons Aren't Universal

Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader and J6 insurrectionist, went to Poland, but when it was time to fly home, he found out the hard way that Trump's pardons aren't universal. British Airways refused to allow him on one of their planes due to British policy frowning up...

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15 Oct 03:00 • John Amato

Mike Flanagan's 'Carrie' Is Good

If you haven't had a chance, I suggest you tune in to the latest Mike Flanagan Stephen King adaptation of "Carrie," which arrived in time for the Halloween crush.

It's an eight-episode miniseries and has been very good so far, as I'm halfway through.

Horror Fuel: Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” is a Masterpiece

The Guardian: Carrie review – the teenage hell-raiser’s glorious return couldn’t come at a better time

I must confess a neighbor of mine did the sound design on the production.

Open thread.

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15 Oct 02:24 • John Amato

Even Hassett Can't Spin Away September's Inflation Disappointment

Economic advisor and constant media propagandist for the Trump administration, Kevin Hassett, said the rise in inflation in September was hopefully a "blip" but admitted the report was disappointing. This may be the first time this year Kevin Hassett hasn't tried to con, ca...

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14 Oct 21:51 • RedStateRachel

'Playing Politics': Elon Musk's Starlink Games Disrupted Ukraine's Military Operations

“Elon Musk and Trump are throwing Ukraine to the Wolves” was The Telegraph's headline this morning. Last night, Musk suddenly restricted Starlink from Ukraine’s military while America didn’t give Ukraine warning of Russian missile attacks.

Some international leaders believe Musk is playing a political game. Poland finances many of Ukraine’s Starlink terminals. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice about the sudden Starlink outage:

Deputy Prime Minister of Poland issues a warning to Elon Musk.

— Mary McNamara (@marymcnamara.bsky.social) 2026-10-14T07:47:43.780Z

Elon's Strategic Starlink Restriction

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14 Oct 21:21 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Trump Takes Another L In UAW Election

Shawn Fain, President of the United Auto Workers, has long been a thorn in Trump's side. So much so that Trump called Fain "a stupid person" and "a weapon of mass destruction" to auto workers. Trump called for Fain to be fired and even had his Justice Department launch an i...

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14 Oct 20:18 • Andrea Thompson

MAGA Rep. Threatens Journalists With Legal Trouble For Recording His Debate Crash Out

Maryland's staunch MAGA House Rep. Andy Harris has been desperately dodging in-person town halls since 2023, and now we know why. Harris went head-to-head in a debate with his Democratic opponent, Dan Schwartz, last night in Cambridge, Maryland, where both candidates were ...

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14 Oct 19:06 • Steve M.

Wingers' New Line On Talarico And Flu-Gazi: Our Bulls**t Rumors Are Fake, But Accurate

The non-Republican media believes that the GOP's disinformation about James Talarico's absence from the campaign trail is a disaster for the disinformationists. The San Antonio Current's headline is "Conspiracy Claim About James Talarico Mental Breakdown Blows Up in Right-Wingers’ Faces." The Daily Beast says, "MAGA’s Conspiracy About Dem Star Dealt Humiliating Blow." Rolling Stone says, "The Right’s Desperate Conspiracy Theory About James Talarico Goes Up in Flames."

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14 Oct 17:57 • Conover Kennard

'The Devil Wears MAGA': Guilfoyle's Secret Burn Book Has Trumpworld Panicking

The story of Kimberly Guilfoyle's grifty corruption, which resulted in her resignation in disgrace, has taken an interesting turn. If The Devil Wears MAGA ever becomes a miniseries, it would star Guilfoyle as the woman who knows where all the bodies are buried. Donald Jr. ...

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14 Oct 17:03 • John Amato

Fox Business Panics Over Inflation Report

On the Fox Business Network's Big Money in the Morning program, the panel were aghast at the latest inflation data, admitting inflation is outpacing workers' wages and worrying about an interest rate hike right before the midterms. Normally, they try to put lipstick on the...

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14 Oct 16:03 • John Amato

Fox News To Mike Johnson: Why Are You In Texas If You're Winning?

Speaker Mike Johnson was caught out when Fox News host Dana Perino challenged his assertions that the polls are wrong for the midterms, by asking why he's stumping in Texas if Republicans are winning. Perino began the interview by saying many insiders are saying the Republi...

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14 Oct 14:54 • Andrea Thompson

Guilfoyle Claimed Damning Texts Were AI In Pathetic Attempt To Save Her Cushy Job

It seems scandal-plagued and newly ousted former Don Jr. fiance turned former US Ambassador to Greece tried everything she could think of to save her cushy job inside the Trump Administration -- including claiming that those damning text messages were AI-generated, accordin...

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14 Oct 14:24 • John Amato

MAGNIFICENT FAILURE: Musk And MAGA Influencers' Talarico Smear

Republicans must have their own internal polling that shows Ken Paxton is lagging behind James Talarico with three weeks left before the midterms so they do what they do best: Create a lie, turn it into a conspiracy theory, then have it amplified through their millions of s...

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14 Oct 12:48 • NewsHound Ellen

MAGA Pastor Wants To ‘Appoint’ And ‘Anoint’ Politicians

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell doesn’t just claim to have the right but the God-given duty to pick and appoint U.S. government officials. “Preachers were always meant to pick the politicians, to anoint the politicians, and to appoint the politicians,” Sewell bizarrely claimed. “As...

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14 Oct 12:18 • Andrea Thompson

Where The Hell Is Mike Johnson's Wife's Money Coming From?

House Speaker Mike Johnson's wife, Kelly Johnson, runs a religious nonprofit that seeks to minister to young congressional staffers on Capitol Hill. But as much as Kelly loves to brag about all of the "Lord's work" she's doing, she's unsurprisingly pretty tight-lipped when...

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14 Oct 12:18 • Heather

Ossoff Makes Mincemeat Of Collins Over Epstein Files

During their second debate Tuesday, Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins tried to attack his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jon Ossoff, over a campaign donation from venture capitalist Reid Hoffman. Trump has called Hoffman a “sleazebag” and ordered an investigation into h...

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14 Oct 12:18 • NewsHound Ellen

New Video Shows Paxton Partying In Dubai With Fugitives And Mistress

If you can judge a man by the company he keeps, newly published video of Ken Paxton ringing in 2025 on a luxury high-rise balcony with his extramarital girlfriend and two guys indicted for millions in fraud and embezzlement tells you everything you need to know about why th...

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14 Oct 12:18 • driftglass

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1892, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was published. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought together twelve stories that had appeared in The Strand Magazine beginning in 1891, following Holmes’s debut in A Study in Scarlet in 1887. The collection helped turn Holm...

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14 Oct 12:18 • RedStateRachel

Anti-Data Center Candidate Being Hammered By Republicans

Kansas Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton gets more attention, but Kansas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cindy Holshcer needs support! Republicans are pouring $16 million into attack ads against the Democratic candidate, bashing her for wanting to implement "soc...

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14 Oct 01:42 • John Amato

VP Vance Smears Talarico With Homophobic Lies

We had Trump fantasizing about John Husted's ass and now we get this from JD Vance.

Vance stopped in Texas to stump for Ken Paxton and Republicans for the midterms.

The rally was parked in front of his Boeing C-32.

"Now, before we get started, I love you too, sir, in a totally platonic way, to be clear," Vance said. "I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

Racism and homophobia define the Republican Party.

Vance sounds like a teenager spewing gay insults in a schoolyard.

Open thread.

JD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-13T16:56:28.145Z