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Something tells me Thanksgiving Dinners are super weird for the Trump family. Former Victoria’s Secret model Karlie Kloss just so happens to be married to Jared Kushner's little brother, Joshua Kushner, making her the sister-in-law of Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka. She al...

Pressed by The Times' Maggie Haberman on what the President knew about his sons' financial stake in the Kazakh mining deal he signed off on, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a tidy bit of nothing. As far as she understood it, the sons knew better than to touch anyth...

Trump's longtime teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, who has been with Trump since 2016, is believed to have made thousands of dollars betting on what the President would say on the Kalshi prediction market. Are you surprised? It's par for the course with Trump in the W...

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.

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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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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Right now, I'm figuring out what might be the best way to implement rss.chat standards in WordPress without reinventing everything that comes with WordPress. As I've been going through the elements, I've been thinking, "How would a consumer use this?" and this was one of my q...

Park festivals! World cup watch parties! Rock 'n' roll tees!

Thanks for reading this last month as we soft-launch what we’re now calling “The Brief.” I’m taking a week off...

Paul Krugman: “Donald Trump surprised me last night. I expected to hear lurid lies about the 2020 election. What he offered instead was mostly dreary innuendo that convinced nobody.” “Which is not to say that his speech was free of lies. Indeed, more or less every word he spoke was a lie, including ‘a,’ ‘and,’ […]

President Donald Trump addressed the nation Thursday night, giving a rambling 22-minute speech in which he cast doubts on the results of the 2020 election and also made a variety […]

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