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...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been such an awful Secretary of Health and Human Services, it feels like a zillion years since he faced questions about how his anti-vaxxism spread measles in Samoa. But thanks to new reporting by Associated Press and The Guardian, we now know that...

Donald Trump found himself very unhappy with a recent bit of reporting from Fox News on the state of the President's war with Iran, and rather than back into a corner and pander to the pathetic President, Fox's Brett Baier came out swinging. During a Fox News segment last n...

Fox News liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov lambasted Donald Trump for renaming Lake Ontario and the Fox News panel that continues to justify his temper tantrums that have global ramifications. During a panel discussion on The Five, the Trump supporters love that Demente...

According to a new report from the New York Times, President Donald Trump is planning to skip the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero in New York. The reasons behind his decision are even more pathetic and self-absorbed than I expected.

The Times' Maggie Haberman, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Dana Rubinstein, and Sally Goldenberg reported that for a time, Trump had indicated that he intended to attend the somber event in Manhattan. He even went so far as to make multiple advance visits to the site.

However, it seems that when he learned that he would not actually be allowed to make the entire event about himself, coupled with the fact that the ceremony was going to interfere with his scheduled golf trip the next day, he made the call to skip the ceremony marking this country's greatest tragedy altogether.

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MAGA creeps Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro attacked Canada for refusing to bow down to Trump's moronic tariffs so they've begun smearing our neighbor as "little Hong Kong" and a "subsidiary of China." These two scumbags helped orchestrate the insurrection on January 6, and...

In 2025, Elon Musk committed election bribery by offering two people $1 million to vote in the state supreme court race. The Wisconsin Election Commission voted 5-1 that it was likely that he committed a crime and referred the matter to a couple of district attorneys for t...

Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino just sat down for a new interview with Trump detractor Tucker Carlson, where he went full-fledged apocalyptic in his accusations against Donald Trump's inner circle, unabashedly claiming, "They want me dead." "The adminis...

A reporter from MS NOW went to the Iowa State Fair to do some person-on-the-street interviews. One of the people he spoke with was Shane Foot, a three-time Trump voter who was experiencing voter's remorse.

Foot told the reporter that he felt disappointed in Trump because he didn't bring down prices and said that he was "over the Trump thing, the Trump wagon."

The reporter then asked Foot what he would say to Trump if he could talk to him directly. Foot didn't hesitate in replying, "Stop the bullshit. Make America great again, like you said. That's what I would say."

I have bad news for Mr. Foot. Your disappointment is only going to get worse as time goes on. Just don't say that no one warned you.

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Donald Trump went on an insane rant about Canada as he signed an equally insane executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America. He was so proud of himself, he called in reporters. While he was at it, President Senile mused about changing the names of the two oceans ...

Mock Paper Scissors: Elon Musk won't face bribery charges.

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Canada and game theory.

Lawfare: Can the midterm elections be "stolen" on January 3rd?

Obsidian Wings: Wisdom from Jill Lepore.

Meditations in an Emergency: Remembering Dolly Parton.

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

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Joel Rubin ran Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders in 2020. Before that he was a career State Department officer under Bush, and a deputy assistant secretary of state under Obama. This month he published an essay arguing that the Democratic Party is turning against the Jews--and his old boss, Bernie Sanders, is responsible for recruiting them to the party. Joel booked an hour on Amped Up--but stayed for ninety minutes.

Squirrel Hill. Rubin's from the neighborhood. Tree of Life is around the corner. His parents were at services the night before the attack. He describes those who showed up for his family 5 years ago, yet now are bystanders, because the anti-Semitism's coming from The Left. There are perpetrators, victims, and the third group that decides it all--yet so many supposed allies have said nothing.

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When you combine Bob Fosse and Neil Simon, good things follow.

Stage Agent:

Sweet Charity follows the romantic trials and tribulations of Charity Hope Valentine, “a girl who wanted to be loved.” Charity is a taxi dancer, a dance partner-for-hire at a seedy dance hall in New York City. Though the job may be decidedly undesirable, Charity’s hopeful romanticism and unfailing optimism lift her out of her circumstances and help her reach for a life beyond.

One of the most famous shows by legendary director/choreographer Bob Fosse and with a laugh-a-minute script by the incomparable Neil Simon, every audience is destined to fall in love with Charity’s limitless spirit, as she lives life “hopefully ever after.”

The dance routines never fail to deliver.

Open thread.

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Brevard County's 2025 Deputy of the Year resigned rather than be fired after admitting he posed for a photograph investigators said showed him performing a Nazi salute. Deputy Michael Fultz, 24, quit in May as Sheriff Wayne Ivey prepared to fire him for "egregious misconduc...

It was reported that two people just died in Pennsylvania due to measles-related complications on Tuesday. Still, Dr. Oz tried to pump the brakes on the report to defend the Trump administration's attacks on vaccinations by claiming the two may have had another illness on t...

Sealant is breaking loose from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again, this time during the repair work that President Donald Trump promised would fix the monument.

Freelance photographer Joe Flood posted video of the loose sealant on X on Wednesday. Repair crews were at work on the liner on Aug. 18, according to the Washington Post. The basin has been drained for the work.

"Sealant is coming up in chunks at the Reflecting Pool," Flood wrote.

The pool has been drained and patched repeatedly since June, according to PBS News. The blue coating started peeling within days of the June refill, CNN reported. Algae turned the water green at the same time.

Prosecutors blamed the rush to finish before July Fourth in a court filing. "Hasty and botched work" resulted from that rush, the filing said.

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In the real footage of the fight, the goose ultimately prevailed over the eagle, which gave up and left. As one commenter astutely wrote, "If this isn't a metaphor for US trade policy, I don't know what is." Source: The New Republic The Trump administration has futilely pr...

A Florida grand jury has handed down a rather awkward verdict for the DeSantis administration: $10 million in taxpayer money was misappropriated and ultimately used for political purposes, CBS News reports. Gee, who didn’t see that coming? The catch? After finding what it d...

As if this story weren't horrific enough, it just took an even uglier turn. As we've discussed here, with Trump and Whiskey Pete failing our Sailors and Marines so miserably that we're seeing our troops throwing themselves off of the sides of aircraft carriers, which, of co...

Ivanka Trump has this pesky little habit of forgetting that her dear ole dad is a raging asshole. The heartbreaking news broke earlier this week that country music icon Dolly Parton had passed away at 80 years old, following a very brief battle with cancer. Tributes to Pa...

On Fox News, Trump's sycophantic AG Todd Blanche blurted out his true motivation to defend Trump's immoral and most likely illegal Executive Order 14399 by controlling how states use mail-ballots for federal elections. Blanche admits his new office's main purpose is to fun...

The President has once again inadvertently exposed his own pathetic insecurities in a new Truth Social post full of AI slop, declaring himself superior to George W. Bush and arbitrarily proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" about something that happened six months ago. Trump ...

When you think we've seen the worst from ICE, they top themselves. MS Now's Mika Brzezinski shared a video clip of Grace Stephanie Calero Cabanilla, 39, and her daughter, Giulianna Mía Carriel Calero, 19, being grabbed and arrested by ICE agents after they had been rushed ...

If you liked the toilet paper shortage during COVID, you’re going to love Donald Trump’s latest ploy to raise the prices of just about everything we need.

The guy who promised to lower prices “on Day One” is about to add toilet paper to the list of necessities whose prices he has caused to soar.

Thanks to the spectacular failure of President “Deal Maker” to make any kind of deal with Canada and his efforts to bully that country into bowing to his childish petulance, the cost of toilet paper is slated to spike 25-50%, according to The Guardian. Ditto for facial tissues.

“Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors” on Canada’s list of retaliatory tariffs set to start on September 8, The Guardian said.

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Donald Trump has spent his entire second presidential term absolutely plagued by incessant, humiliating leaks that have crescendoed with the suspension of three top Secret Service officials, including the agency's director of communications, Anthony Guglielmi, and a thoroug...

Petey Hegseth will probably need his Mommywife to help him cope with this now-public news: According to MS Now, “the number of service members seeking a formal discharge from the military as conscientious objectors has skyrocketed, according to two groups that help them fil...

Starbucks workers have been fighting with the company for years, first to be allowed to unionize and now to get their first contract. However, Starbucks has been pulling every dirty trick in the book and has refused to bargain in good faith. They are currently leaning heavi...

Press Watch: Normalizing Trump doesn’t just fail readers – it jeopardizes our future.

Dispatches from a Collapsing State: A crisis of meaning and purpose.

Other Words: Elon Musk's fortune comes from not paying taxes.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: People are losing food assistance, thanks to Republicans.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts: Remembering Dolly Parton.

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

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During a Q&A on Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani continued to deftly handle attempts to draw him into conflict and controversy.

“As the mayor, my job is to respond to the needs of everyone, no matter how they feel about me or whether they voted for me or whether they voted at all,” Mamdani replied when asked if he saw unaffiliated voters as a threat, noting that about 1 in 10 Trump voters also cast their vote for him in the mayoral race.

“And so to me, it’s not about classifying someone as whether they’re with you or against you. It’s about asking them, ‘What is it that you’re looking for from city government? What are the struggles you’re facing in your life and what are the ways in which we can actually help you with that?’” he continued.

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