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10 Oct 00:33 • John Amato

Friday Night Funnies: Karen Morgan 'After 50 You Just Stop Caring'

YouTube: "After 50, you just stop caring about the little things, and luckily Karen Morgan is 55 and over, caring about the little things."

Have a nice weekend.

Open thread.

FTC Chair Says Protecting White Men From Discrimination Is A Priority

During a press event discussing JD Vance's racist task force targeting fraud, FTC chair Andre Ferguson glorified Andrea Lucas, chairman of the EEOC, for rooting out white man discrimination in the workplace. Ferguson claimed that fraud is "a frontal assault on every instit...

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09 Oct 22:12 • RedStateRachel

Sen. Marshall Stiffs Kansas Baker For Campaign Cookies

Sen. Roger Marshall stiffed a Kansas bakery for cookies made for his campaign by refusing to pay a nearly $700 invoice. The owner of the Hutchinson, Kansas bakery said she tried for almost a YEAR to collect from the wealthy Senator. Marshall's net worth is estimated at $7.2...

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09 Oct 20:48 • John Amato

Rogers' Racist Attack On El-Sayed Backfires Spectacularly

During the Michigan Senate debate, responding to his support of all Middle East wars, including Trump's war with Iran, Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers despicably attacked El-Sayed's residence and called Egypt his home, when Rogers had stated his primary residence was ...

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09 Oct 19:48 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Vance Defines Socialism As Anything That Scares His Base

During a press conference, J. Divan Vance was asked to define socialism. Despite using the word daily, it was obvious that Vance didn't have a clue about what the word means: REPORTER: How do you define socialism personally, and why do you think socialist candidates are p...

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09 Oct 19:12 • Conover Kennard

Trump: I Didn't Say That Thing Everyone Heard Me Say Twice

First, Donald J. Trump suggested that Iran could “take out” two major American cities; then the White House scrambled to explain what he really meant; then the president doubled down and said those disturbing remarks again in case you didn't hear him the first time. And no...

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09 Oct 18:00 • Conover Kennard

Trump's Nobel Dreams Go Up In Smoke—and The Winner Twists The Knife

Donald J. Trump’s crybaby campaign to win a Nobel Peace Prize has hit another disappointing Impasse for the president. Despite repeatedly boasting about his alleged accomplishments and insisting he deserves the prestigious honor even amid a war he launched, Trump once again...

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09 Oct 17:09 • Andrea Thompson

Demented Donald Tries Really, Really Hard To Mansplain A 'Water Hurricane'

In today's breaking news: Hurricanes have water. In fact, one of a hurricane's most fundamental qualities is water. They come from the ocean, so... Yet it seems that Donald Trump is of the vehement belief that there is a fundamental difference between a regular hurricane ...

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09 Oct 15:48 • Karoli Kuns

Susan Collins Accidentally Spills The Scheme For 150K Laundered Donation

The best moments in debates are when one opponent forces the other to explain some shady, underhanded process that they've engaged in, and Thursday night was no exception. There's been extensive reporting on Susan Collins' laundered $150K contribution from Navatek, a compan...

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09 Oct 15:12 • Andrea Thompson

Mamdani Goes NUCLEAR After ICE Agents Shoot Into Car With 5-Year-Old In NYC

New York's beloved Mayor Mamdani just went NUCLEAR on Immigration and Customs Enforcement after agents shot a man in a car with a 5-year-old child in the vehicle. According to reports, ICE agents surrounded the vehicle in Marble Hill, in northern Manhattan, just after 4 p....

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09 Oct 14:15 • NewsHound Ellen

Vance Dodges Question On Kimberly Guilfoyle Corruption

Vice President J.D. Vance was asked about the bombshell revelations that Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a donor for $100,000 to pay off her credit card, in return for access to a Trump administration official. The vice president spent more than a minute saying that h...

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09 Oct 13:00 • Heather

Jon Ossoff Hits Mike Collins With Brutal Take-Down Over White Supremacist Ties

During their first debate for the US Senate seat in Georgia, incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff whacked his Republican challenger Mike Collins multiple times for his racism, and ties to Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, but this one was particularly brutal. MODERATOR: This ques...

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09 Oct 12:06 • Andrea Thompson

'I'd Do It Again': GOP Gov Candidate Does NOT Regret Pushing His Wife Into A Door

Late last month, The Daily Beast released a deeply disturbing report revealing that Colorado gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx spoke with a podcast host in 2021 and expressed disappointment that his wife had stopped combat training. He told the host his wife said she didn...

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09 Oct 11:24 • Heather

El-Sayed Whacks Rogers For Courting The 'Peeping Tom Vote'

The Michigan debate for Senate got heated when Abdul El-Sayed hit his opponent Mike Rogers for going after the "Peeping Tom vote," and being dismissive of privacy violations from big tech. This wasn't the first time El-Sayed used that line of attack against Rogers: ‘Fighting for the Peeping Tom Vote’: El-Sayed Calls Out PATRIOT Act Champion Rogers Over Privacy :

Amid an expanding assault on privacy by the federal government, Democratic nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has brought the issue of mass surveillance to the forefront of Michigan’s Senate race, attacking his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, for his longtime defense of the PATRIOT Act.

“Mike Rogers out here fighting for the Peeping Tom vote,” wrote El-Sayed, a former public health official, in a social media post on Monday. “Creepy stuff, Mike.”

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09 Oct 10:54 • Karoli Kuns

'Deeply Unwell' Hegseth Plans To Live Stream Firing Squad Execution

On Thursday, Secretary Pete Hegseth announced with peculiar vitriol that the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, would be televised. Live streamed, specifically. His excuse for this, as told to Jack Posobiec, was: “We’ll make sure that peopl...

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09 Oct 10:54 • Steve in Manhattan

Mike's Blog Roundup

Degenerate Art - killing zombie Trumpism (excellent overview);

d r i f t g l a s s - today in lifeboat news;

emptywheel - John Solomon confirms Blanche is FAR more abusive than Jack Smith;

Letters from an American - narco-terrorists? really?

The BradBlog - 4 weeks from the midterm elections.

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

Kremlin Threatens To NUKE NATO Over Kaliningrad

On this week’s World War Next, Cliff Schecter, putting on his former State Dept democracy promotion hat, is joined by Olga Lautman, expert on Russian propaganda and influence operations, and Jacob Kaarsbo, former Danish intelligence officer. They take a hard look at a Russi...

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09 Oct 01:06 • Karoli Kuns

A Moment Of Over-Dramatic Animals

After spending the day wading through the muck, this video made me laugh. I got my ‘26-27 COVID vaccine yesterday and needed something to distract me from the doldrums.

I hope you laugh too.

Open thread below…

Convicted Election Denier Tina Peters Wants Ballots Seized

President Donald Trump was advised by Tina Peters, a convicted former Colorado election clerk, to seize ballots nationwide, according to her attorney, who says Trump won't "relinquish control again." Kyle Clark, an anchor at Denver's 9NEWS, reported Thursday that Peters met...

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08 Oct 22:42 • NewsHound Ellen

Eric Deters: ‘Kimberly Guilfoyle Is A Wicked, Evil Person’

Eric Deters is the Trump donor Kimberly Guilfoyle pressured to pay off her $100,000 American Express bill in order to improve her chances for confirmation as the ambassador to Greece. That is just one reason the skanky Guilfoyle never should have been confirmed. But now tha...

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08 Oct 21:30 • Karoli Kuns

King Trump Decrees Anyone Using 'AI' To Be An Enemy

The King Has Spoken. In a Truth Social post, Grandpa Purple Hands has decreed that anyone using the term Artificial Intelligence instead of his chosen term to be an enemy of this administration. On his Orwellian Truth Social site, with absolutely no context, Mr. P*ssy Grab...

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08 Oct 21:30 • Conover Kennard

Trump Reveals What Melania Calls Him And It’s Not 'Donald'

Donald Trump’s Texas rally for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton took a decidedly strange turn when he went into a lengthy rant about Democrat James Talarico’s supposed eating habits. Trump repeated the claim that Talarico is vegan, despite Talarico denying it, and eve...

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08 Oct 19:15 • Conover Kennard

Newsom Has A Perfect Four-Word Response After Trump Doubles Down On His Threat

Donald J. Trump apparently wasn't finished talking about the possibility of Los Angeles or San Diego being attacked. After drawing widespread attention for suggesting that Iran could “take out” the two California cities, Trump doubled down on the remarks at a rally in San ...

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08 Oct 18:03 • Andrea Thompson

Research Project Linked To Russian Plague Lab Allegedly Got Almost $800k From RFK Jr.

A bombshell new investigation just dropped from animal testing watchdog White Coat Waste (WCW) that appears to show that the National Institutes of Health, headed up by none other than the infamous RFK Jr., awarded a total of $779,689 to the University of Illinois Urbana-Ch...

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08 Oct 18:03 • Chris capper Liebenthal

Van Orden Asked For Help And Found Jebus (Johnson)

Having ten different members of the Trump crime syndicate come to Wisconsin to stump for Drunken Van Orden apparently wasn't enough. On Wednesday, Speaker Jebus Johnson came to western Wisconsin to tell the crowd he considered the race one of the top five most important rac...

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08 Oct 16:27 • Heather

Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Trump Donor To Pay Her $100K Credit Card Bill

Another day, another Trump administration grifter makes headlines for their corruption. This time it's Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiance, now Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Kimberly Guilfoyle to Trump Donor 'Honey Please' Wire $100K To My Amex Account: Kimberly Guil...

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08 Oct 15:06 • Andrea Thompson

Senate GOP Declares 'Emergency' Over Obama 'Takeover': 'We Will Lose Big'

Midterm elections are rapidly closing in, and it seems Senate Republicans have been left shaking in their shiny shoes after former President Barack Obama threw his weight into the game. Yesterday morning, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent supporters a rathe...

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08 Oct 13:57 • NewsHound Ellen

Trump Can’t Stop Whining About Getting A Nobel Peace Prize

We can chalk up the Nobel Peace Prize as the zillionth Donald Trump priority he puts ahead of making life better for Americans. With no end in sight for his stupid war with Iran or the spiking gas and diesel prices that have gone along with it, President Cry Baby is once ag...

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08 Oct 13:27 • Ed Scarce

Are Republicans About To Pull Out Of Ohio?

It's hard to tell how much credence to give this, but the theory is that Ohio is too expensive and both Ramaswamy for Governor and Husted for Senate are underperforming expectations. The tens of millions the GOP are sinking into Ohio every week could be better spent elsewhe...

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08 Oct 12:06 • Andrea Thompson

EU Lawmaker Taunts Trump Over Naked, Gold Statue Of Him Displayed In Parliament

A massive and humiliating gold statue of US President Donald Trump has gone on display inside a European Parliament building, and one of Europe's lawmakers is daring Donnie to cry about it. The statue in question here, titled "Orange Plague" and also known as "King of Inju...