Trump Hosting Another 'Orgy Of Corruption' In Palm Beach To Push $Trump Memecoin President Donald Trump claimed he would “drain the swamp” upon being elected, but a new report on a lavish party to be held at his Mar-a-Lago estate contradicts the promises of reform embedded in that claim: The top 297 investors in his meme coin $Trump will attend an April 25th “conference” at the

$TRUMP memecoin listed at $76, now under $3 -- it's time to hook the rubes again!

No Deal: Why Trump's Negotiations With Iran Are So Unlikely To Succeed With the Iran ceasefire scheduled to end in two days, Vice President JD Vance has returned to Islamabad with his sidekicks Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to resume the abortive peace negotiations that have so far failed. While everyone should wish for success, we have little reason to anticipate ne

New: Trump and his are unlikely to negotiate lasting peace with Iran -- and this is why

Are The Republicans Actually Killing You? Probably, If You Live In A Red State When we look at data on life expectancy, that seems like a reasonable question to ask. We can argue over the causes and mechanisms, but it is an undeniable fact that people in states that are controlled by Republicans have much shorter life expectancies than people who live in states controlled by D

Red-state reality: Our friend @DeanBaker notes that life expectancy in GOP-ruled Tennessee is about the same as Mexico

Self-Abasement Theatre: The Curious Case Of Acting Attorney General Blanche Trump White House cabinet meetings are always opportunities for his appointees to humiliate and prostrate themselves before Dear Leader, but they usually keep the spectacle inside the West Wing. Last week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche brought the full Theater of Servility to the Justice Depa

Todd the Trump toady has a strange origin story -- told brilliantly by @ninaburleigh.bluesky.social

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Billions Squandered: New Report Details Absurd Waste Of Musk's DOGE Since retaking the White House, President Donald Trump and his team have forced hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of their jobs. Ostensibly, they did that to save money. Realistically, it seems to have hurt the economy.

LATEST: #DOGE saved America zero tax dollars and stupidly spent hundreds of billions. Devastating new study from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social

It's The Corruption, Stupid -- With Both Viktor Orban And Donald Trump The humiliating demise of Viktor Orban’s authoritarian regime is bracing news for endangered democracies, including our own, but America isn’t Hungary. Of the parallels that can be drawn between their despot and ours, the most salient may have been commented on the least – the overwhelming and unpre

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It's The Corruption, Stupid -- With Both Viktor Orban And Donald Trump The humiliating demise of Viktor Orban’s authoritarian regime is bracing news for endangered democracies, including our own, but America isn’t Hungary. Of the parallels that can be drawn between their despot and ours, the most salient may have been commented on the least – the overwhelming and unpre

LATEST: Joe Conason on the grotesque corruption that brought down Viktor Orban's mafia regime. Could Trump be next?

DHS Nominee Quizzed In Secret Session Over Bizarre 'Classified Mission' Claims Nominated to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) was caught in a "discrepancy" in his biography on Wednesday, which left lawmakers scratching their heads during his confirmation hearing. The decision was ultimately to go to a classified setting, where Mullin said he

Is Mullin a better DHS choice than fired Noem? Even GOP Senators aren't sure

'Conservative'? Wisconsin Court Nominee Stumbles On Basic Constitutional History In a recent interview, Maria Lazar, a conservative candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, appeared not to know basic facts about the Dred Scott decision, one of the most pivotal rulings in the history of American jurisprudence.

Dim jurist already on Wisconsin's Court of Appeals seeks a promotion. Uh, no

MAGA Debate Over Iran Conflict Degenerates Into 'Micropenis' Flame War Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News Host turned podcaster, is in the business of getting attention. This week, it worked. She got the attention of the President of the United States in her attack on fellow conservative talker Mark Levin, not to mention the support of fellow bomb thrower Marjorie Taylor

#MAGA opinion leaders are debating Mark Levin's junk, not Iran. Morons

Pardons, Sopranos Style: Indictment Of MAGA Lobbyist Exposes Systemic Rot A fixer is owed money. The client won’t pay. So the fixer turns to an enforcer: How far should I go? Do you want him hurt? A broken jaw? A missing finger?

Client bought a corrupt #MAGA pardon and didn't pay up? Break his legs

Trump And Rubio Using HIV Treatment Program To Extort Poor Countries Trump administration officials apparently felt that shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development and killing billions of dollars in foreign aid was too subtle and failed to convey the real depths of their depravity. So the president’s lackeys figured out a way to make their monstrous int

These "Christians" will let the world's poor die unless they submit to blackmail

Trump Administration Demands American Press Propagandize Its Iran War We are two weeks into President Donald Trump’s ill-conceived war of choice against Iran, and the president is already suggesting his administration should shut down news outlets for producing critical reports — or even consider treason charges based on spurious claims of collusion with America’s ene

So much for "freedom" as Trump's FCC threatens outlets over honest war reporting

Why America Is On Its Own: Slavery, Tariffs And Trump's Dire Strait Donald Trump is now pleading with other countries to rescue his war on Iran by helping to open the Strait of Hormuz — although Trump being Trump, his pleas for assistance take the form of threats. Regardless, help is not on the way. Germany, Australia and Japan have flatly said no, while Britain and

Trump repeatedly insulted and injured our allies --and now he's pleading for help

No Plan: Weeks Of Bombing Iran Have Brought Not Success But Global Chaos There are, as it turns out, a few small gaps in the Trump administration’s war planning and execution.

President #Bonespurs loves war but can't pay attention to policy or planning. The stupidity is disastrous.

Affordability Agenda: Would New Tax Cuts Proposed By Democratic Senators Help? Three Democratic Senators have recently proposed big new tax plans.

Democrats like Booker and Van Hollen propose a big middle-class tax cut -- but how would that really work for working families?

Rising Gas Prices Enraged Republicans Under Biden, But Not Any More When the price of gas skyrocketed in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, Republicans fell over themselves to blame then-President Joe Biden in hope of hurting his reelection bid as well as Democrats in the midterms—even though Biden was not at fault for the spike.

When Putin drove up #gasprices by invading #Ukraine, Republicans raged at...Biden. But now the GOP loves Trump's huge gas hike!

Dire Strait: Fox War Caucus Ignored Hormuz Peril During Month Before War It’s little wonder that President Donald Trump didn't seem to worry about the Strait of Hormuz in planning his war of choice against Iran: His Fox News advisers utterly ignored the possibility that Iran could respond by closing that critical shipping lane as they urged the president to launch the at

Why is #Trump's war so screwed up? He watches too much #FoxNews

Behind The World Crisis Are Trump's Unrestrained Egomania And Those Who Enable Him The global crisis that America and its allies now confront, as well as the multiple threats to our country’s prosperity, democracy, and security at home, arise from the same singular source: Donald Trump’s unshackled and rampant egomania.

Catering to Trump's bloated self-image exacts an enormous price

Trump Demands Passage Of Partisan Election Bill To 'Guarantee The Midterms' Politico reports President Donald Trump ordered House Republicans Monday to pass his huge partisan elections bill a third time with even more provisions, targeting mail-in voters and vulnerable minorities.

"Guarantee the midterms" is another way to say "cheat by suppressing votes"

Yes, Trump Is Seeking To Trademark (And Grift Off) America's 250th Birthday President Donald Trump’s second term is so chock-full of corruption and grift that it seems almost too small to mention that the Trump Organization, his private company, just applied for trademarks for “Trump 250” in conjunction with America’s 250th birthday.

Tacky merchandising is a way of life for this president (and his family of grifters)

Despite Zero Fraud, Trump's MAGA Candidates Demand End Of Popular Mail Voting President Donald Trump and Oregon Republican Christine Drazan have something in common: both want to curtail mail-in voting.

Why does #MAGA hate the way service members must vote? And disabled...and...

In Wartime, Trump's National Security Clown Show Endangers Us All The belated dismissal of Kristi Noem – Trump’s woefully unqualified and performatively ridiculous custodian of homeland security --- highlights the perils now faced by all Americans in an increasingly perilous world. Now that the United States is at war with a regime notorious for terror tactics, it

Would you hire these bozos to protect you? We're in jeopardy because #Trump did

Is Trump 'Bringing Back Religion Strongly' As He Promised Last Year? No Religion News Service writer Yonat Shimron recalls President Donald Trump actively courting Christian evangelicals during his 2024 campaign and as president in 2025.

Trump sells autographed Bibles, promotes crooked preachers and claims to be anointed by God. Not surprisingly, religion is declining in America...

In Texas, James Talarico's Primary Victory Sets Up A Real Senate Race There is something afoot in Texas.

Our friend kos.bsky.social explains how (and why) #Talarico won in Texas last night. An extraordinary Democrat!

At United Nations, Melania Trolls The World Her Husband Set On Fire As the Trump-provoked regional war expanded disastrously by the hour, the White House dispatched Melania to preside over the U.N. Security Council today. The Council is the U.N.’s principal organization responsible for safeguarding international peace and security. The chairmanship rotates monthly b

Our friend @ninaburleigh explains the deal behind Melania's #UN spectacle

Why Trump And His Minions Cannot Articulate A Believable Reason For This War A striking aspect of Donald Trump’s warmaking is the contrast between the orderly deployment of American military power and the chaotic disorder of its civilian leadership. From the Joint Chiefs of Staff all the way down, US forces are executing the presidential directive to attack Iran, while defen

Trump literally cannot offer any plausible rationale for this war. Which is why we suspect it's a very costly (and bloody) distraction from #Epstein.

'Protect Source': Where Are Missing FBI Interviews With Trump Accuser? Here at the Freakshow, like everyone else, we sift through the millions of pages in the Epstein files with an eye for the elusive Trump connection, some proof behind the long-circulating rumors about his participation in the frolics Epstein arranged for himself and his coterie of wealthy ogres.

Who made these #TRUMP files disappear? Why did the FBI interview the accuser FOUR TIMES and urge protection for her?

No Justification: Trump Won't Explain His Feckless And Bellicose Iran Policy Donald Trump’s interminably verbose State of the Union address delivered all the typical Trumpian tropes in an extended version, from his mendacious slurs against immigrants to his cosplay as super-patriotic commander in chief. He even riffed on his yearning to give himself a Congressional Medal of

The "Antiwar President" didn't bother to say why we're rushing toward war again

So Much Time, So Little Truth: Trump's Longest-Ever, Utterly Hollow Speech Well, that was exhausting — or would have been, if I had watched it. But I am not a masochist. I waited to read the transcript.

Krugman: Trump's speech was exhaustingly long -- with so many easily disproved lies