Screenshot of a tweet by Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) quoting White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claiming, "with a straight face," that gas prices have decreased over the past year since Trump took office. The embedded video shows Leavitt speaking at the White House briefing room podium, flanked by two officials, with a chyron reading "Text 'Truth' to 45470 for Updates from the White House."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell

7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in.
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Trump Yanks Millions From Catholic Charities Amid Pope Feud The organization has been helping unaccompanied migrant children for decades.

Violation of religious liberty. All Christians should be fearful of this administration and the lengths they'll go to silence dissenters. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-yanks-millions-fro...

Offshore Accounts For Me, TurboTax For Thee While shutting down free direct filing for everyday taxpayers, the IRS is letting the ultrawealthy hide billions of dollars in foreign accounts.

🚨YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: IRS data show 164 taxpayers with an average unreported foreign account balance of $1.3 billion were identified for examination - but only 12 were audited.

The agency didn't do more audits even after they discovered $39 million of taxes owed among the 12.

Trump’s Meme Coin Rallies as Investors Chase Mar-a-Lago Invites The price of President Trump’s meme coin surged more than 50% in 24 hours after its official website and X account said the coin’s top 297 holders would be [invited to an exclusive conference and gala...

This isn't being talked about enough:

President Trump is hosting a gala at Mar-a-Lago next week for the top 297 holders of his $TRUMP memecoin.

Not only is this blatantly corrupt, it's a national security threat.

Mike Levin: It should be a much bigger story that JD Vance flew to Hungary, stood on a campaign stage, and told voters to return a head of government widely documented for human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. Then, after his candidate lost, Vance said what had happened during the Hungarian campaign was “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I’ve ever seen or ever even read about.” Was he describing himself?

This one goes out in honor of US Senators that decide to PROTECT the Boundary Waters watershed 🌊🌊 (Looking at you Senator Ron Johnson to join this group) 🌊🌊

Like, for example, a Secretary of Defense citing a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction to promote wars of aggression.

Surprise tornadoes in Kansas prompt concerns about changes at the National Weather Service For much of Monday, the NWS didn't anticipate a tornado threat for Kansas City — then five hit that evening. Did a change in weather balloon launches leave forecasters in the dark?

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center did not anticipate a tornado threat for the Kansas City area, prompting concerns among some that ongoing changes to staffing and weather balloon releases at the NWS might be leaving forecasters in the dark about threats.

Why is Congress Not Being Briefed on Iran? Sen. Murphy demands oversight on the disastrous war of choice

Hegseth nor Rubio have shown up to Congress for a hearing on Iran.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social demands transparency: www.contrariannews.org/p/why-is-congress-not-be...

For the good of the nation and the world, it’s time we face the reality: The most powerful man in the world does not have the mental capacity to do the job. robertreich.substack.com/p/hes-losing-all-his-mar...

"[Trump's] not really a Christian of any sort because he represents and does everything we tell our children not to do. To be selfish, to have a lack of empathy, to hurt people without remorse, to steal, to lie, to rape. He's a bad man. So it isn't surprising that he has a problem with the Pope."

A headline from NBC News reads: In group chats and meetings, Republicans are privately petrified the Iran war could cost them the midterms

Privately? Republicans are petrified of Trump’s war.

Publicly? Silence.

In fact, Republicans just voted AGAINST our War Powers Resolution to end Trump’s Iran war.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Paying hundreds of dollars to TurboTax to file your taxes?

Know this: Trump took $1 million in donations from TurboTax— then killed the IRS’s free tax filing program.

What JD doesn’t understand is that bombing schools overseas while American families struggle at home IS a “matter of morality.”

Always follow the money.

THE POPE RESPONDS TO TRUMP: "Blessed are the peacemakers… I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way some are doing it."

The guy Christian nationalists are using to impose a theocracy on 🇺🇸 is beefing with the carrier of the actual message of Jesus

Trump’s “main character syndrome” has officially reached biblical levels. I’m not religious, but I know blasphemy when I see it. Depicting yourself as God isn’t just ego — it’s a slap in the face to everyone who actually practices their faith.

An apology is the bare minimum.

Trump is picking fights with the Catholic Church and the pope instead of doing anything to make your life better, lower the cost of living, or bring our troops home.

America deserves better.

“We have to get rid of this guy as soon as possible. Look at what he did with this war. Now he wants to go into business with the ayatollahs after threatening to basically nuke the country. This guy shouldn’t be in charge of a fucking ice cream stand”

BREAKING: House Republicans blocked a resolution to end Trump's war on Iran.

The Republican presiding gaveled out the session without even calling the measure to a vote.

Under our constitution, Congress has the sole power to declare war. Refusing to even hold a vote on it is shameful & cowardly.

The natural world is essential to human survival. Clean air, clean water and food production not to minimize mental health. This budget proposal is horrific 🌊🌊

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Stunning reporting here that shows U.S. troops were left exposed in a known target zone with virtually no drone defenses. Now the soldiers themselves are calling out the Pentagon’s version of events as false.

Hegseth and Trump keep lying to the American people about this war.

Trump and his family are profiting off of war while American families pay the price.

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1. They refuse to approve a War Powers Act resolution.

2. They haven’t conducted any public oversight hearings of high-level national security officials during the war.

3. They remained mute as Trump threatened genocide.

4. Now, they’re making excuses for an objectively terrible deal.

3 ships.

The Strait is not open.

Hardly anything Trump stamped his name on has been made in America, now that includes the steel being used to build his tacky ballroom.

So much for putting America first.

Me in 2019:

"Trump’s sociopathic tendencies are simply an extension of his extreme narcissism. Take the pathological lying. …. As Lance Dodes has put it, 'People like Donald Trump who have severe narcissistic disturbances can’t tolerate being criticized, so …