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.

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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 …

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 …

Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline  —  Public Law 119-21 as enacted on July 4, 2025  —  CBO estimates that Public Law 119-21 will result in a net increase …

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 …

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.

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 won't vote on Epstein matter this week  —  Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for the administration to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

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 …

Pam Bondi Grants Hillary Clinton Email Probe Request Amid Epstein Furor  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Justice Department has released documents related to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.  —  The Context

Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding  —  In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration's case against the school “cooked up.”  —  A federal judge grilled a Trump administration lawyer on Monday during a crucial hearing …

Why Colbert got canceled  —  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.  —  According to IMDb, I appeared on The Daily Show seven times, The Colbert Report three times, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert …

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 …

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

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.

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 …

Only Three Weeks Left to Register for LibCon2025  —  Space is filling up fast for ISMA's second annual ‘Liberalism for the 21st Century’ conference—so you should sign up now without delay  —  There are only three weeks left till our parent organization, the Institute for the Study …

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.

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 …

Michael Flynn floats ‘military trial for Obama’ despite presidential immunity  —  Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn suggested former President Barack Obama should face a “military trial” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused him of a …

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 …

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

Republicans are brazenly rigging the 2026 midterms  —  America can survive the Trump regime—but only if we stop pretending like this is politics as usual.  It's authoritarianism in motion.  —  In Alabama, a panel of federal judges found that Republican legislators intentionally weakened Black voting power.