With Trump now posting some lame AI slop on his fixation on renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, it's sort of fitting that there is something much better out there that he won't be reposting. via Demonflyingfox on YouTube. Though it came out on Friday, it already has several million views on various platforms.

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Smashing a champagne bottle in this fashion is extremely dangerous. The bottles are highly pressurized, causing a "bomb-like effect" with dangerous shards of glass. She's lucky she didn't get injured or lose an eye. Source: Facebook/Really American BREAKING: Susan Collins ...

The United States is locked in another Middle East quagmire, the American economy is shedding jobs, wage growth is decelerating, and the costs of essentials are rising, but President Donald Trump on Thursday took time to hold an Oval Office event for the signing of an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” as his damaging trade war with Canada intensifies.

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On Sunday Donald Trump vowed to report Meet the Press host Kristen Welker to the FCC because she rightly reported that Trump has had mixed results on his endorsements leading up to 2026 midterm elections. This is another blatant attempt to bully the media and undermine the ...

Trump's minion Stephen Miller found a new talking point and some numbers pulled out of his backside to demonize immigrants over. During a segment on this Friday's The Ingraham Angle on Fox while attacking Texas Senate candidate James Talarico for his statements about ICE, Miller made this absurd claim about the so-called costs for "fake asylum seekers."

MILLER: Did you know, Laura, the cost of adjudicating even one fake asylum claim is the same cost as providing free cancer treatment to one American citizen with pediatric cancer?

Every single fraud they abet, we could provide free cancer care to one American citizen.

INGRAHAM: Well, real help to Americans who need help, especially today.

First off, the notion that Republicans would ever offer some program for free cancer treatment, even for children, is ridiculous.

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Sen. Ted Cruz was asked about Trump's announcement that the US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves, and naturally Cruz is all-in with the pillaging. Cruz was asked by Meet the Press host Kristen Welker whether he believe...

MAGA Rep. Mike Collins, who is running against Jon Ossoff for the Senate in Georgia, pretends he just found out he's surrounded by white nationalists. The Ossoff campaign has rightfully been slamming Collins in recent weeks: Georgia senator Jon Ossoff slams racist posts all...

House Speaker Mike Johnson told a room full of GOP acolytes that the Republican midterm convention is not a desperate attempt to engage voters but a chance to remind them of President Donald Trump’s disastrous stewardship of the country. Johnson recalled a phone conversatio...

After two unvaccinated children in Pennsylvania died after contracting measles, HHS Secretary and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all but declared that’s a small price to pay for his so-called MAHA agenda.

Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany, a liar extraordinaire, hosted a “town hall” with Kennedy that provided him a forum to legitimize his deadly disinformation. It was also conveniently timed given that just two days earlier, Kennedy was caught lying to Congress about his lethal anti-vaccine activism.

Kennedy dismissed the two "so-called 'measles deaths.'" But clearly, he doesn't care. He sneered, “In 10 years, there have been three measles deaths in America. There are now about 1.2 million deaths every year from food-induced illness.”

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The propagandists on Fox were all-in with Trump's announcement that the US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves. Here's more on that from CNN: President Donald Trump said Friday night the United States has reached an oil...

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

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Ratt is still away on vacay, but he left this timely repeat behind for this week. As a parent and now grandparent, it's just appalling to me that my family is being put at risk by wingnuts believing in a thoroughly-debunked study from 20 years ago.

But really, why am I surprised. This whole week has been an exercise in living in Wingnut world, starting with the "renaming" of one of the Great Lakes, so that it is no longer Great.

WTF.

What's your WTF moment this week? I know, there's probably more than one but try to think of your WTAF in the whole fcking universe moment.

- Karoli

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I grew up a progressive rocker in the 70s, but I really dig something about the English explosion in the 80s.

Part of their success came from the advent of MTV in 1981, and the other part was that they had great hooks and inventive grooves.

Howard Jones was one of those dudes.

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"A noun, a verb, and trans kids. It's all Clay's got." Mike Nellis whacked right-wing hack Clay Travis for doing his best to distract everyone from Trump's disastrous presidency during a segment on this Friday's The Story with Martha MacCallum. During yet another segment wh...

On Thursday, Fox News host Bret Baier took umbrage when Trump attacked Fox News' Jonathan Hunt as a "flunky" over his report on the Iran war. Oh, the horror. Trump responded, "Jonathan Hunt of Fox News did a particularly inaccurate report on the Failing Islamic Republic o...

“Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a press conference earlier this week, while discussing Iran. In our history, no president or White House would deliberately hurt the global economy, right? However, some...

The Trump administration has been “secretly plotting” to give away a portion of America's public land in Yosemite National Park to a private developer with ties to Trump cronies. The developer wants to build a road into the park and develop two 40-acre parcels near the park...

As it happens, the FBI's new employee handbook has an "it's complicated" section. Kash Patel's bureau quietly rewrote its hiring standards in June, and the fine print reads less like a background check and more like a statute-of-limitations chart for bad behavior, as first ...

Donald Trump’s idiotic order to rename Lake Ontario, as well as his daydreaming about renaming the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, are sick and repulsive. But the jokes mocking him have been quite funny and enjoyable. Even better, they hit Trump where it hurts: at the heart of...

Only a very sick, narcissistic, and mentally disturbed buffoon would waste time having his staffers concoct a moronic list elevating himself to be the greatest President of all time when the country is mired in an out-of-control war with Iran, high inflation, crazy fuel cos...

Donald Trump's youngest son has always been a bit of a hermit. He's never been an overt fan of public appearances, and his mother, First Lady Melania Trump, has regularly described him as "shy." But what was once just a shy kid stuck in the cogs of his dad's massive public...

During Thursday's debate, Republican Congressman Jeff Crank was booed by the audience when he feigned not knowing Trump had just signed another executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America to punish Canada. During this segment, the debate host asked Democratic hope...

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

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In 2013, the courts ruled that Enbridge Pipeline 5 crossed the sacred land of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa and had to be rerouted. The rerouting project faced years of litigation as environmental activists and tribal communities expressed concerns that l...

I stumbled onto Raising Hope on Hulu and decided to watch an episode because Martha Plimpton was in it.

I was not disappointing.

Creator Gregory Thomas Garcia also developed My Name Is Earl

Jimmy Chance has a chance sexual encounter with serial killer and father's a baby and earns custody of his daughter Hope, after the mother is sentenced to death.

Garrett Dillahunt usually plays a heavy, but he's hysterical as Jimmy's father.

Add the great Cloris Leachman and Shannon Woodward and you have a can't miss cast.

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Much like 'Travel with Natalie,' there's nothing Trump and MAGA hate more than being reminded he's well past his due date. Source: Winnipeg Free Press An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America is “sad,” Premier Wab Kinew says....

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Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s health situation is becoming increasingly difficult to understand, largely because his team continues to provide very little information about the 84-year-old senator’s condition. It has now been roughly two and a half months since emergency ...

During a press conference, Liz Landers from PBS NewsHour asked Twinkle Toes Trump about the mail-in ballots, but Trump danced around the first question and flat-out ignored the second one: Landers pointed out that the Supreme Court ruled against mail-in ballots earlier this...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump's attempt to derail the midterm election by restricting mail-in voting. Judge blocks rule implementing Trump plan to restrict mail-in voting: A federal judge on Thursday blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing core p...