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• Andrea Thompson

Stephen Miller's Wife Is Making A Mockery Of Him At Every Turn

Everyone loves to hate Stephen Miller these days, and apparently, that includes his wife. Following the news of Benjamin Netanyahu's best senator's passing, the White House deputy chief of staff took to X with a 550-word War and Peace-style post, honoring South Carolina's ...

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• David Edwards

ICE Quickly Cordons Off Dead Body After Agents Kill Another Person In Maine

ICE agents killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, Monday morning, then quickly surrounded the body while state and federal investigators rushed to the scene. Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-ME), who represents Biddeford, confirmed the killing in a Facebook post. The ...

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• Andrea Thompson

Trump Peddles Video Calling For 'Hardcore Communist' Like Mamdani To Be Deported

With midterm elections rapidly approaching and his congressional loyalists dropping like flies all around him, Donald Trump's desperation to dismantle, discredit, and vilify the burgeoning Democratic Socialism Party in the United States has reached a frantic fever pitch.

Yesterday, just as the news was breaking that South Carolina sycophant Lindsey Graham had succumbed to the pits of Hell, the sitting President of the United States of America reposted a video to his Truth Social echo chamber, in which far-Right extremist and pundit Michael Savage openly called for the US to criminalize and deport "hardcore communist bastards," pointing the finger at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the perfect example.

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• John Amato

Mark Levin Flips Out Over Democratic Social Programs' Popularity

Fox News pro-Iranian war gasbag Mark Levin spent almost 20 minutes in the opening of his Fox News weekend show, deriding democratic social programs and trying to fold it into communism because he's frightened of the popularity it brings against the fascist MAGA cult led by...

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• Chris capper Liebenthal

Trump's DOJ Working To Interfere With UAW Elections

The United Auto Workers union is about to have an election for its officers and executive board, with ballots going out to all of its members in August. Up for reelection to a second four-year term is UAW President Shawn Fain, who gained a lot of popularity for leading the ...

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• Andrea Thompson

Kash Patel Gives MAGA Tinfoil Hat Fuel With WEIRD Post About Graham's Death And The FBI

Embattled FBI Director Kash Patel just sent the MAGAs collectively scrambling for their tinfoil hats, corkboards, and red string after he published a bizarre post on X immediately following the news of South Carolina's biggest embarrassment and Israel's best senator, Lindse...

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• Chris capper Liebenthal

GOP Rep. Claims To Supports Bill He Didn't Vote For

From the start, Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has been promising to protect people's homes from Wall Street investors, among other things, if he is elected governor. However, that is a very dubious promise, since he can't be bothered to lift a fin...

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• Ed Scarce

Russians' Test Of New Anti-Drone Gun Goes Awry

I thought this was AI slop at first, as it's so ridiculous. The punch at the end seems authentically Russian, too. Source: International Business Times Russian troops testing a new anti-drone 'mobile fire unit' almost killed one of their own soldiers when a repurposed heli...

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• Steve in Manhattan

Mike’s Blog Roundup

Bark Bark Woof Woof - Charlie Pierce on presidential disability;

Roy Edroso Breaks it Down - maybe they’re not crashing the economy by accident?

Tell Me a Story - if you don’t have anything nice to say …

The Mahablog - justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo;

The Rectification of Names - demoralized.

Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with ‘for MBRU' in the subject line). Steve in Manhattan is on Bluesky.

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• Cliff Schecter

Lindsey Graham Is Dead—and So Is The GOP’s Margin For Error

Lindsey Graham spent Friday in Kyiv, shaking Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hand on his tenth wartime visit to Ukraine. He spent Saturday evening on the phone with Donald Trump. By Sunday morning he was dead at 71, and Trump was on Truth Social telling the world it “could’ve been hi...

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• Ed Scarce

Bison Launches Grandpa 8 Feet In The Air In Yellowstone National Park

The camera angle is a bit deceiving here, as the grandfather and his grandson were at least 100 yards away from the bull bison. They were in a campground, out for an evening stroll. This wasn't the usual dumb tourist story, like so many others. For whatever reason, known on...

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• Tengrain

A Proper Obituary For Lindsey Graham

They say you should never speak ill of the dead but I think you should always speak the truth of the dead. And the truth is Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC, writhing hotbed unbridled lust) was a terrible human being. If you want to be praised in death, you should live a praise...

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• Chris capper Liebenthal

GOP Candidate Warns Of New Threat: Trans Goats In Afghanistan

In Wisconsin's Seventh Congressional District, there are five Republicans and three Democrats running. One of the Republicans is Sean Duffy's son-in-law, who came up from Florida and moved into Duffy's basement just to run for the seat. Despite Duffy doing some unethical t...

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• Heather

Linda McMahon Pretends She Cares About Sexual Deviants Being Punished

I guess as long as it's a teacher and not her husband, she's fine with it. Education Sec. Linda McMahon (who like most in the Trump administration, has no business being in that job in the first place) made an appearance on Fox's Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany, a...

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• Heather

Spineless Reporters Let Trump Walk All Over Them On Iran

After the news of Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, Trump dialed it into NBC's Meet the Press for a lengthy interview, and when host Kristen Welker tried to ask him about CENTCOM saying they struck 140 Iranian military targets this Saturday, Trump got testy and told her he "didn...

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• Heather

Fox Host Brazenly Lies About ICE Murders Of Alex Pretti And Renee Good

These soulless ghouls continue covering for Trump's ICE thugs in the wake of yet another killing in Houston. Instead of talking about how ICE is suppressing witnesses to keep the truth from coming out, here's what viewers were treated to on this Saturday's The Big Weekend S...

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• NewsHound Ellen

Trump Melts Down Over Maggie Haberman’s Tame Remarks About His Mental Health

Maggie Haberman told MS Now viewers she did not “feel equipped” to answer whether Americans should be concerned about Donald Trump’s mental acuity. She said she and her co-author, Jonathan Swan, “see what you see, which is he is 80, which is that he is clearly - doesn't spe...

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• Chris capper Liebenthal

Vance Has A Cringe-Inducing Marie Antoinette Moment

J Divan Vance once again demonstrated how he has a complete disconnect from what's going on in the country with a Marie Antoinette moment. While Americans are struggling to make ends meet and having to choose between food, medicine, and gasoline, Vance is bragging about ho...

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• Ed Scarce

Is CNN On Verge Of Firing Scott Jennings After McConnell Claims?

Faced with the situation that one of their on-air personalities is just blatantly lying (instead of his usual casual lying), CNN has released a statement that sees them distancing themselves from Scott Jennings. Source: Daily Beast CNN says that it does not consider Scott ...

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• Heather

NATO Ambassador Calls Dropping 90 Bombs On Iran 'Peace Through Strength'

As we discussed here earlier this week, Trump blew off the spike in oil prices after he shredded his own ceasefire with Iran. And Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei pledged to take revenge for his father's death during his funeral earlier this week. Trump escalated ...

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• Tengrain

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Above, Jo Boxers perform, Just Got Lucky. Yup, economics is not science, it really is luck. The Master of the Universe don't want us to know that, btw.

Hullabaloo wants us to avoid the A Word.

The Thought Criminal wants us to use the L Word.

Liberals Are Cool declares that DOGE (Elmo and the Incels) was an illegal cyber attack.

The Daily Cartoonist covers the "I told you so" front.

Bonus Track: The Professional Left Podcast presents, Pump Up The Venom. This is required listening.

That's it for me curating Mike’s Blog Round-Up this week, it's been a slice! I hope to be return soon!

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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• Ratt

Looking For Signs Of Life In The Senate

Where's Mitch? This seems to be a problem. In the words of several on BlueSky, is he in the throes of "rigor tortoise"?

Any ideas, y'all?

- Karoli

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• Ed Scarce

Lindsey Graham Is Dead

Graham died shortly after returning from Ukraine, one of his many trips there. Source: CNN US Sen. Lindsey Graham, the longtime Republican from South Carolina and ally of President Donald Trump, has died “from a brief and sudden illness,” a spokesperson for his office told...

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• John Amato

C&L's Late Nite Music Club: Isa Briones 'Who's Sorry Now'

The great TV drama "The Pitt" just landed 25 Emmy nominations and is one of the best series since 2000.

13 recurring and guest actors were nominated for Emmy's, but one actress who wasn't nominated for an Emmy is also an excellent singer.

Welcome to Isa Briones.

She's excellent on the show as the doctor who busted Dr. Frank Langdon for stealing meds.

Open thread.

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• Chris capper Liebenthal

Gay Republican 'Shocked' By GOP Homophobia

Reid Rasner is an openly gay MAGA Republican candidate for Wyoming state representative. Rasner is suing his fellow MAGA Republicans because he is just shocked and appalled that they would be so openly homophobic. Rasner is suing former Wyoming State Senator Austin “Kit” Je...

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• Conover Kennard

Trump's CDC Stopped Monitoring A Parasite. Guess What's Spreading Now.

A nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea is currently underway, and it's tied to a parasite the CDC quietly dropped from federal surveillance back in July 2025. That timing lines up almost exactly with the Trump administration's broader gutting of health and science agen...

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• Heather

Kevin McCarthy Continues To Beclown Himself On Fox Over Platner

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's hypocrisy was on full display this Friday as he demanded apologies from liberals who supported Platner and "overlooked the womanizing" before the rape accusations. He made a fool of himself this Monday when he made the ridiculous claim ...

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• NewsHound Ellen

Trump Goon Subpoenas NYT Reporters Over Embarrassing Air Force One Story

Friday night, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, soothed Donald Trump’s ruffled feathers and petty, authoritarian ego by subpoenaing at least four New York Times reporters who had the audacity to embarrass President P***y Grabber. The offe...

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• Red Painter

Kristi Noem Divorcing Cross-Dressing Hubby To Spend Time With Her Side Piece, Probably

I am not one to kink shame. You do you, boo (as long as it is legal!). That appears to have been Kristi Noem's policy as well - until it became public. She denied that she knew about it, with her representative in March 2026 putting out a statement saying: “Ms. Noem is deva...

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• NewsHound Ellen

‘Prophet’ Claims She Opened ‘Heavenly Portal’ So Trump Gets ‘Intel’ From God

Right Wing Watch caught Donna Rigney explaining her “work.” She said that she opened a heavenly portal at both the White House and Mar-a-Lago. Now, Donald Trump will “easily be able to get intel from the Holy Spirit, that God was going to easily be able to give him wisdom f...