So, the civil rights group and anti-hate watchdog, Southern Poverty Law Center, has been indicted by the DOJ for essentially paying an informant of an extremist group!!
How very fascist of the DOJ.
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The $250 million lawsuit by Kash Patel is SO ill-thought out on SO many levels. It's not only improbable THE ATLANTIC didn't get multiple sources & had lawyers block anything questionable, but this allows them to do discovery on-the-record under oath.
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If you missed "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver last night, the Main Story was on prediction markets. The story is about more than suspected corruption -- it's interesting, and the report is prime for some terrific humor.
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Philanthropist Connie Ballmer -- wife of the L.A. Clippers owner -- just donated $80 million to NPR. This comes after an anonymous donor gave them $33 million. It's far from making up for Trump/MAGOP cutting all federal funding, but a valuable start.
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Last Friday was notable, because there were THREE news stories on MAGAs regretting their 2024 vote for Trump -- including a billionaire CEO who was a Trump fundraiser & had spoken on CNBC about protecting American jobs & is now moving his factory to China.
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So, Trump proclaimed "The Strait of Iran is open!" It isn't. (And it's the Strait of Hormuz.)
He said we can add Iran to the wars he ended. It's only a ceasefire -- and one that's over.
He said there are new negotiations. Iran said, no, there aren't.
Dementia is degenerative.
On this NAKED LUNCH podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal & David Wild welcome famed chef & restauranteur Thomas Keller of The French Laundry & others. They talk a lot on food & his involvement with the films RATATOUILLE, SPANGLISH & mentoring 'Carmy' on THE BEAR.
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When brutal charges were made against Eric Swalwell, Democrats pulled their endorsements, pushed him to get out of the CA governor race & resign from Congress. He did.
When Trump was adjudicated GUILTY BY A JURY of the equivalence of rape, MAGOPs denounced the court & supported him for president.
Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
For today's Piano Puzzler, I thought I was wrong with my guess of the hidden song -- but to my surprise, I was right. That said, I was very wrong with the composer style.
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Well, finally! An issue that MAGOPs can run on in the Mid-Terms!!!
Roosevelt would have driven Trump and his gang out of Washington on horseback.
After destroying Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy of conserving and protecting public lands - including dismantling the US Forest Service - Trump and Republicans will now try to pimp out Roosevelt’s name for their corrupt purposes
On this Al Franken podcast, his guest is Kevin Nealon. They trade stories from working together on SNL, talk about how characters were created, discuss how the show has changed over the years and more.
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For fans of NORTHERN EXPOSURE who might not be aware of the excellent podcast that Rob Morrow & Janine Turner have been doing on the series, devoting a full podcast to each episode of the TV show with guests, here's more about it --
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Trump says he is in talks with the IRS (that he oversees) to settle a $10 billion lawsuit without a trial.
This, of course, would be MAGOP-sanctioned graft. The only positive is IF it goes thru, it would guarantee a massive avalanche MAGOP defeat in the Mid-Terms.
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TX restaurants are being pummeled by Trump's ICE crackdown. A conservative group wants to create work permits -- but not amnesty or path to citizenship.
To translate: we support Trump's policy that hurts everyone, but make an exception to help just us.
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P.S. I know that Trump's dementia has been normalized so much that we give such things a pass because saying "Imagine if President Biden said this" would be an endless loop. Well... it’s not normal.
Imagine if President Biden said this.
In his tweet today on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump called it as the "Strait of Iran."
This was either a typo, mental glitch or what he thinks is its name -- but even if just a typo, coming during a war & giving national "ownership" of the strait to Iran is awful.
P.S. In other news: Trump today cut funding to Catholic charities for migrant children.
It's likely unrelated to his petulance over the Pope, but what a horribly BAD look. And worse timing.
There are 70 million Catholics in the U.S. And more who understand cognitive decline.
Trump is okay with meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin. And okay with meeting China's Xi Jinping. And okay with meeting North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
But today, Trump said he won't meet with Pope Leo.
Today's article is on the most inexplicably insane things about Trump's war. But underlying it all is you don’t get points for ending a war that you started.
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Today's Adorable Animal Video is just a montage of a family's cat who loves music. But -- it REALLY LOVES music.
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Under Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been all but destroyed.
That means less oversight of shady financial actors — including the booming "Buy Now, Pay Later" industry.
Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra explains how consumers are paying the price.
Retired Gen. Jack Keane is a major Fox News Iran war hawk. Fox appears not to have disclosed that he sits on the board of multiple defense contractors.
"In fact, if the third of Americans who comprise his bedrock base of red-hatted MAGAs are held aside, the rest of the nation is now nearly unified in deeming Trump’s second term a failure, if not a disaster." — @schaller67.bsky.social
The Hennepin County DA's office in Minneapolis has filed charges against an ICE agent for pulling his gun on 2 motorists last year, after his explanation didn't match the video evidence. "You can't just point your gun," an attorney in the office said.
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The next time Trump says (again) that the Strait of Hormuz will eventually just open naturally, it's good to remember that that's almost *exactly* the same as what he said a month into COVID -- that COVID would just end, like a miracle.
It took four years and a million people dead.
Whenever Trump says (again) no one but him has ever ended a war -- at least one reporter should say politely as possible, to not start a temper tantrum, "By that standard, every war in history would still be going on."
Or just "How do you think WWI, WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam War ended?"
It shouldn't come as a shock whenever "JD Vance" says things that are knowingly & laughably untrue (like his latest that Trump supposedly hated his best friend Jeffrey Epstein) -- after all, when someone shows they have no moral center, that's the result.
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