Trump's Wildly Fascistic Posting Spree Isn't Just a Distraction From Epstein  —  The president spent Sunday night posting content fantasizing about the arrest of Barack Obama and other Democrats  —  President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting FBI agents arresting former …

White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell … The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president's weekend trip to Scotland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told POLITICO.

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges  —  Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida  —  Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs …

Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family's opposition  —  The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.

Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says  —  The law will also “increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance” over the coming decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning  —  Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said.  Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department …

Gabbard Garbles 2016 ‘Russiagate’ Intelligence  —  FRIDAY'S MEMO RELEASED BY TULSI GABBARD, the director of national intelligence, claiming that the intelligence community “manipulated and withheld” key evidence in the “Russiagate” investigation in 2016—and her even more explosive allegation …

Scott Bessent calls for probe into ‘the entire Federal Reserve institution’  —  Treasury secretary is latest top Trump administration official to criticise the central bank  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for an inquiry into the “entire Federal Reserve institution” …

House Dems to force another committee vote on Epstein  —  Democrats will force another vote on releasing Jeffrey Epstein-related documents during a Rules Committee meeting Monday afternoon, pressing Republicans yet again on the matter before lawmakers leave this week for August recess.

My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats  —  Constipated.  Leaderless.  Confused.  A cracked-out clown car.  Divided.  These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late.  The truth is they're not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.

How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency  —  The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.  —  No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump's extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts.

ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC … The alleged shooter entered the country illegally in 2023 during then-President Joe Biden's tenure and had been arrested and released four times in the years since, Noem said.  She blamed the shooting on New York's sanctuary city policies that limit …

Why Colbert got canceled  —  Economics played a role.  Politics might have, too.  But mainstream liberal comedy has struggled between the death of mass culture and the rise of Trump.  —  There was a time not so long ago when going on TV with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert was pretty much the best thing I could imagine.

Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case … “She is a TOTAL DISASTER, which I say even before hearing her Ruling,” Trump wrote in the post to his social media platform, Truth Social.  “She has systematically taken over the various Harvard cases, and is an automatic ‘loss’ for the People of our Country!”

Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him  —  A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system.  —  Just now

Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal now has a judge — and it's not Aileen Cannon … Trump's new lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch seeks an even more audacious sum: $20 billion.  Trump says the newspaper defamed him by reporting last week that Trump …

JD Vance's Idyllic Vacation in Foreign A-List Hotspot to Be Hijacked by Protests  —  WE'LL BE WAITING  —  The Stop Trump Coalition said the vice president will “find the resistance waiting” on his English summer break, an ocean and almost 4,000 miles from DC.

Omar Fateh wins mayoral endorsement at chaotic DFL convention … - It's also the Minneapolis DFL's first endorsement in any contested mayor's race since at least 1997, per the Star Tribune. … - “We know the status quo are going to do anything and everything to maintain power,” he told his supporters.

VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City  —  The suspect is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic was apprehended at the southern border and released into the country under the Biden Administration

AOC's Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F-K AOC!’  —  Progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Bronx headquarters was vandalized by anti-Israel activists after she voted against cutting US funding for the Jewish state.  —  The office in Westchester Square …

Divorce, adultery allegations against Paxton jolt Senate race in Texas  —  In one of the biggest GOP primaries of the midterms, Sen. John Cornyn and his allies are attacking Ken Paxton over his personal life, and some backers are rethinking their support.  —  Firebrand Texas Republican Ken …

How Trump Killed Cancer Research  —  Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.  —  When donald trump moved back into the White House, the United States was years …

Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’ … I'm guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave.  —  Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich …

The Politics of Humiliation  —  When I was in middle school I went through a rough patch socially.  I was awkward, had hardly any friends, and was hence a target.  I can recall one instance where, returning to the classroom after leaving to use the toilet, a group of boys my age …

Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him’  —  Hunter Biden went off on actor George Clooney and other high-profile Democrats in an expletive-filled response to their calls for his father, former President Biden, to drop out of the 2024 election.