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17 Jul 12:12 • Steve in Manhattan

Mike’s Blog Roundup

Crazy Eddie’s Motie News - Jordan Klepper fingers the pulse of the Emmys;

Grasping Reality - Vance’s war on GDP is wrong and bad;

Naked Capitalism - Texas gets trampled by Trump’s DHS;

Need to Know - when you can’t tell the difference between right and wrong …

One Damn Thing After Another - investigating the Orient Express murder of Lindsey Graham.

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17 Jul 12:12 • Cliff Schecter

'What Can I Do To Defend Democracy?' Here’s Your Answer

What a conversation with Miles Taylor. Miles blew the whistle on Trump from inside his own administration as “Anonymous,” with a New York Times op-ed--and whose reward when Trump got back into power was an executive order investigating him Miles treason. Treason. For criticizing the president.

Most people would have taken the hint and gone quiet. When the executive order targeting him was issued, everyone in his life said the same thing: please don’t poke the bear. His wife said the opposite. Defy it, she said, because if Trump can sign one order that blows up a family’s life, he’ll sign a hundred more. She was right—a Reuters investigation counted 430 acts of revenge in his first nine months back in office. This is what authoritarians do. They lie. They demagogue. They target.

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17 Jul 00:03 • John Amato

OG Anunoby Wins ESPY For Best Play

As a lifelong N.Y. Knicks fan, this moment was insane.

In their conference final game one series against Cleveland, the Knicks pulled off a remarkable 22-point comeback with less than 9 minutes remaining, but being down by 29 to Wemby and the Hawks' defense of San Antonio, I thought there was no chance that would happen again.

Was I wrong.

The tip-in was more exciting than seeing Oz's routine at the ESPYs.

Open thread.

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16 Jul 23:42 • John Amato

Massie On Trump's Speech: How Can There Be Voter Fraud When We Won Elections?

Rep Thomas Massie was asked about Trump's Thursday night ridiculous voter fraud speech, and he told the Morning Joe panel earlier today that complaining about voter fraud is ridiculous since Republicans control the House and Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. T...

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16 Jul 22:03 • John Amato

'High-T Department': Hegseth's New Pentagon Program Tests Troops' Testosterone

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that he is authorizing a testosterone deficiency screening program for soldiers 30 years of age and older. Why, do you ask? He said it's because, "the modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting it requires and dema...

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16 Jul 21:09 • Conover Kennard

Judges Unanimously Pick A US Attorney. Trump Fires Him In Less Than An Hour

Roger Rogoff had the job for less time than it takes to watch a sitcom rerun. The federal judges of the Western District of Washington unanimously appointed Rogoff — a former King County Superior Court judge and 26-year prosecutor — to the US attorney post Wednesday morning...

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16 Jul 20:09 • Heather

Blackburn Pretends Trump's Fixer At DOJ Is Mr. Law And Order

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who's also running for Governor of Tennessee, heaped praise on Todd Blanche during an appearance on Fox this Wednesday as Blanche was being grilled by Senators in the Judiciary Committee over his nomination for Attorney General.

Never mind Blanche's plot to help Trump retaliate against those he considered his enemies in Minnesota, or the fact that 100+ judges were recently seeking his disbarment, and for good reason, or his attempts to aid and abet Trump with election interference, or his attempts to help bury the Epstein files, and on and on with the reasons this man has absolutely no business running the Department of Justice.

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16 Jul 19:42 • Conover Kennard

Border Czar Threatens More Bloodshed, Warns Dems To 'Shut Their Mouth'

Within a week of each other, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, became the third and fourth people killed by federal immigration agents this year — the latest sign that Donald Trump's aggressive deportation push has brought no...

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16 Jul 18:15 • NewsHound Ellen

Secret Service Agents ‘Fed Up’ With Vance Using Military Helicopters Like Ubers

A new report from MS Now reveals that the Vance family has been using military helicopters as if they were Ubers – except that it’s U.S. taxpayers footing their bills. The scoop came from “fed up” Secret Service agents tired of last-minute travel plans from the vice preside...

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16 Jul 17:30 • Andrea Thompson

Grandpa Needs An Ambien: Trump Goes Ham On Truth Social In Wee Hours Of The Night

Donnie Boy is clearly in desperate need of a glass of warm milk, an Ambien, or an exorcism after the sitting President of the United States went on a Truth Social bender for nearly 3 hours in the wee hours of the night, comparing himself to Lightning McQueen. It's certainl...

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16 Jul 16:18 • NewsHound Ellen

Blanche Pretends He’s Not Obstructing NM Epstein Investigation

During her confirmation questioning of Todd Blanche, Sen. Mazie Hirono asked Trump’s personal attorney, cosplaying as the acting attorney general, whether he and his team “will continue to cooperate with the New Mexico Department of Justice and help it get the information i...

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16 Jul 15:03 • Andrea Thompson

Inside Source: Officials Asked To Turn Over Phones At WH As Trump FUMES Over AF1 Leak

According to disturbing new reporting from CNN, the Trump White House has officially gone nuclear in an effort to suss out the source of the massive leak regarding the security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted airplane that President Donald Trump had intended to utilize...

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16 Jul 14:06 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Trump Insults Minnesota Again By Endorsing 'The Pillow Man'

Trump apparently felt that he hadn't done enough damage to the Great State of Minnesota and wanted to do some more. So he came out to endorse "The Pillow Guy" Mike Lindell, calling him “one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots” Trump did another post on Truth Social, but this time spent more time attacking the presumed DFL frontrunner, Liz Klobuchar, calling her crazy and corrupt: Naturally, Lindell had to go on his TV channel to humblebrag about how Trump based his endorsement simply on merit and not on being a fellow election denier or throwing money away left and right to support Trump and his Big Lie. The only problem is that Lindell is lying. He was begging Trump for his endorsement from the beginning. At least, that was what Lindell said: read more

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16 Jul 13:03 • Conover Kennard

Trump's CHIPS Act Story Just Keeps Getting Weirder: Now It's About Hiring Trans Bosses

Donald J. Trump somehow claimed that under the CHIPS Act, companies weren't eligible for funding unless they had a transgender person running them. So, in his telling, businesses went hunting for transgender executives to get the money. At this point, reporters covering Tru...

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16 Jul 12:12 • Andrea Thompson

Trump Spews Insane Gobbledygook When Asked Why The FBI Was At Lindsey Graham's House

In the wake of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death and FBI Director Kash Patel's subsequent social media post announcing the Federal Bureau of Investigation's involvement in the death, Donald Trump was confronted by a reporter in the Oval Office as to why t...

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16 Jul 11:42 • John Amato

Todd Blanche During Confirmation Hearing On Trump: 'I'm His Lawyer'

During Wednesday's Attorney General confirmation hearing, Acting AG Todd Blanche got tripped up on the very first question from a Republican Senator, immediately exposing his incompetence, sycophancy, and unqualified nature to be the permanent Attorney General under the Tr...

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16 Jul 11:42 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Ron Johnson Finally Found A Conspiracy Theory He Didn't Like

Earlier this week, Sen Ron Johnson, being the attention whore he is, went on Real America's Voice and told the host that he had heard that the controversial picture that popped up of Mitch McConnell was an older photo: Sen. Ron Johnson on Mitch McConnell: "I just heard fr...

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16 Jul 11:42 • Steve in Manhattan

Mike’s Blog Roundup

First Draft - the three faces of Todd Blanche;

God’s Spies - the need to dominate Asia is a Western obsession;

Joe.My.God. - NY enacts nation’s first moratorium on data centers;

Mike the Mad Biologist - why moderate democrats are losing to self-described socialists;

The BradBlog - Trump losing everything everywhere all at once.

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16 Jul 11:42 • Ed Scarce

Trump Administration Linked To Growing Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

As we've noted previously, the Trump administration's lax standards when it comes to public health have made disease prevention and epidemic management much more difficult. In this instance, cases or suspected cases have gone from 1000 to over 7000 in the last week. Electio...

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16 Jul 00:18 • Steve Greenberg

Pat Oliphant, Master Cartoonist

Open thread below...

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15 Jul 23:48 • Heather

Watters On Recent ICE Killings: 'We Have To Grow Up. Can We Grow Up?'

Fox's Jesse Watters did his best to downplay the recent murders by Trump's ICE thugs during yet another racist screed on this Tuesday's The Five. Here he is with a big assist by his fellow racist Martha MacCallum, blaming Joe Biden for ICE being out of control and basically...

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15 Jul 21:15 • John Amato

Hannity And Stephen Miller Call To 'Unleash' Middle East To 'Take Care Of Business'

I don't understand how Fox News viewers can believe any of this propaganda while they're seeing the cacophony surrounding the Iran war. Their viewers watch Trump change positions every single day, whether he is closing, then opening Hormuz, bombing and not bombing Iran, dec...

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15 Jul 21:15 • Conover Kennard

Trump Rolls Out $1 Gold Coin With His Own Face On It, Massie Has Thoughts

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled a new $1 gold coin featuring Trump's stupid face, dressing it up as a tribute to America's 250th birthday. One problem with that: federal law explicitly bars living presidents from appearing on U.S. coins, and the administration's ...

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15 Jul 19:18 • RedStateRachel

‘What Is Going On Here?’: Sen. Jon Ossoff Grills Jay Clayton In Hearing

Senator Jon Ossoff grilled Jay Clayton during a Senate hearing earlier today. Ossoff delivered a masterclass in questioning Trump's candidates who need Senate approval. The Georgia senator gave other Democrats a masterclass on how to hold the GOP accountable. Again. Jon Oss...

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15 Jul 19:03 • Heather

Ingraham Has A Fit, Says CNBC Is Full Of Socialists

Someone tell Ingraham the 1950s called and they want their red-baiting talking points back. You have to wonder if these people even hear themselves talk sometimes; they sound so stupid. Sorry Laura, but the business-friendly CNBC that has the likes of Joe Kernen fluffing Tr...

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15 Jul 18:39 • Conover Kennard

Blanche Touts Epstein 'Transparency' At Hearing, Somehow Keeps A Straight Face

Todd Blanche stood in front of the world and, with a straight face, told the country that the Trump DOJ has been more forthcoming with the Epstein files than any administration before it — Biden included. Funny thing to say soon after a federal judge ruled that Blanche hi...

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15 Jul 17:51 • Andrea Thompson

E. Jean Carroll Trolls Trump With Public Victory Lap Over $5.6M Payment

E. Jean Carroll did not go gentle into that good night. She toppled statues, took scissors to the closet full of Versace, cleared the contents of the desk top in one dramatic fell swoop of the arm, and kicked the trashcan over on her way out the door. Now, she's taking he...

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15 Jul 16:15 • John Amato

Trump's Last Gasp At Forcing The SAVE Act

In a flailing attempt to upend and steal the 2026 midterm elections, Trump is giving a speech Thursday night to continue promoting phony allegations of election fraud which he's hoping will force the Senate to pass his odious and draconian SAVE Act. Trumps presidency is on ...

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15 Jul 15:03 • Andrea Thompson

Trump Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ending War With Iran

As Donald Trump's illegal, Israel-fueled war with Iran continues to rage with no end in sight, the sitting President of the United States made it perfectly clear that negotiating an end to this insanity isn't even on his to-do list. In this administration's newest display ...

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15 Jul 14:00 • John Amato

Mike Johnson Feigns Ignorance On Latest ICE Killing In Maine

Mike Johnson and the House Republicans held a press conference Tuesday where yet again the worst Speaker of the House feigned ignorance on another tragic event caused by ICE agents. The 119th Congress is the least productive in history, yet every time there's a controversia...