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The Media Stopped Being Shocked By Trump — Now It's Just Impressed

Steve M. — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:05:00 +0000

Stephen Robinson asks, yet again, why the bizarre words and deeds of the aging Donald Trump aren't covered the same way Joe Biden's "senior moments" were:

This past weekend, Trump’s social media feed was a wellspring of lunacy. He posted more than 50 times on Saturday alone, hurling personal attacks at Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Rosie O’Donnell — one of whom was never actually president. He shared an absurd AI-generated image of himself as a New York Knicks player dunking on Gov. Kathy Hochul. He boasted about defeating “disloyal” Republicans in their primaries. He continued picking fights with the Pope. He attacked the judge who ruled that he couldn’t illegally deface the Kennedy Center with his name....

Yet Trump’s unhinged posts last weekend weren’t the stuff of front-page coverage at the New York Times or Washington Post....
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George Santos Threatened A Reporter? Maybe.

Red Painter — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:04:37 +0000

The George Santos Kalshi story keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Right after the story broke about Santos possibly being under investigation by the DOJ for insider trading on Kalshi, it appears that he may have threatened the reporter who reported the story first.

Bobby Allyn is the reporter involved in the very story he was reporting. Shortly after he dug into the Kalshi fiasco, Santos allegedly called Allyn from a blocked number. On the other end - a furious George Santos. The story broke the day before and Santos had been given notice about the pending story.

Santos, with his typical bluster and lies, told the journalist that his "lawyers have been calling the Department of Justice all day, and they can't find any investigation." Allyn wanted to record the call, but Santos refused. So, Allyn did what any good journalist does - he transcribed the conversation. Old school writing (or typing, as the case may be here). And what Santos said to him was shocking.

First, Allyn asked who Santos' lawyers were. He refused to disclose. But, he did say, rudely, "I'm George f*cking Santos, of course I have a legal team."

Then, like any good MAGA, he attacked NPR.

Trump Tells WI Farmers: ‘Your Life Is Much Better Than My Life’

Heather — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:42:54 +0000

Trump told the farmers that he's been bankrupting how great they have it during a roundtable event in Chippewa Falls, WI this Friday.

Trump appears with Van Orden, Tiffany at Chippewa Falls farm roundtable:

Trump’s visit is his first to Wisconsin during this year’s election season. First to take the stage on Friday were U.S. Reps. Derrick Van Orden and Tom Tiffany, signaling the importance of the 3rd Congressional District and the Wisconsin gubernatorial contest for Republicans this year.

Despite Trump’s waning approval ratings, Van Orden and Tiffany tied themselves to the president, effusively praising him.

Trump appeared on stage for the roundtable with both congressmen as well as U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, farm owner Ken Custer, Jake Leinenkugel, Olympic speed skater Jordan Stolz and Joe Thomas, a Hall of Fame former NFL player who played for UW-Madison and now owns a western Wisconsin beef farm.
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NJ Cop Charged With Stealing Photog's Camera Gear At Delaney Hall

Susie Madrak — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:42:37 +0000

A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and other equipment from a photojournalist who had been injured covering tense protests outside a Newark immigration jail. He has been suspended without pay, according to the AP.

Darryl Brown, a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, was caught with the missing items after the photojournalist used an Air Tag to trace her missing gear to his home, the state’s attorney general said Thursday.

The journalist, Angelina Katsanis, was on assignment for The Associated Press at Delaney Hall on Saturday night when she was struck in the knee by a wood beam during a clash between police and demonstrators.

As she hobbled to a medical tent to seek attention, Katsanis left behind her gear bag, which was marked with her name and contact information. When she was eventually allowed to return to the area — now in a wheelchair — the bag was gone.

“I checked my Airtag and the bag was already on a highway pretty far away at that point,” Katsanis recalled. “Right away, I had a feeling it was the police because they were the only ones with access to that area.”
As Katsanis sought treatment in a nearby hospital, the Airtag pinged to a home in Sparta, New Jersey, which was listed as belonging to Brown, according to the attorney general’s office. The device was later recovered on the side of a road, miles away from the home where it was initially taken.

Kennedy Center Speedruns Erasing Trump Like A Bad One-Night Stand

Conover Kennard — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:42:19 +0000

Donald J. Trump has spent his career slapping his name on everything that holds still long enough — buildings, golf courses, steaks, the occasional government program — but a federal judge has apparently decided the Kennedy Center has suffered enough. And this is happening before his birthday on the 14th.

Following a May 29 ruling, staff at the venue received a memo this week directing them to scrub Trump's name from, well, every fucking thing: email signatures, letterhead, signage, brochures, the website — the works. The deadline for full de-Trumpification is June 12. The center will revert to its original name, honoring an actual president who was, notably, a champion of the arts rather than a litigant against them.

Via Town&Country:

In February of this year, Trump announced plans to shut down the Kennedy Center for two years; Judge Cooper’s ruling also reversed that decision. In a post on Truth Social after the ruling, Trump criticized the judge, and said “we are going to be working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them so they can make a determination as to what to do with it… Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey.”
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Todd Blanche Promises To Protect Trump From Future Prosecutions

John Amato — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:42:04 +0000

Acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche made clear that he is putting up roadblocks to protect Trump from any future prosecution after he leaves office.

This is not the role for an Atty. General, but it is the role of a sycophantic groupie that wields the power of the DOJ.

Former Fox News host Katie Pavlich now has a show on News Nation, and she brought up a new conspiracy to wet their whistles on.

PAVLICH: You said this week that you believe President Trump absolutely faced prison if he hadn't won the election in 2024.

Democrats have been talking a lot about what they call Project 2029, their plans to prosecute the president, administration officials, ICE agents after the term is up, if they regain power either on Capitol Hill or in the White House.

Do you believe that's a possibility? And what can be done to prevent this kind of political retribution from Democrats?

BLANCHE: Well, do I believe it's a possibility that the Democrats will go after President Trump, his family, anybody that knows him, anybody that worked for him?

I think they've proven that to be true. And what can we do about it is we can just keep on exposing.

When we learn about the weaponization that happened for many years, we can keep on exposing it and putting roadblocks in place so it never happens again.

Trump was prosecuted and convicted by New York State.

Mike's Blog Round Up

Batocchio — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:02:01 +0000

driftglass: Old school/new school.

No Mister Nice Blog: If Democrats aren't closing the sale, it's for a glaringly obvious reason.

Crooked Timber: Pet Haidt.

Bark Bark Woof Woof: Pride month.

Balloon Juice: No permission slips this time around.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

A Zoo Buffalo, An Alien Probe, And Taco Tuesday

Cliff Schecter — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:01 +0000

David Shuster's Top AI Political Clips Of The Week is once again upon us. Let's just say this: one of them involves an albino buffalo; one of them is narrated like you’re watching prestige wildlife television; and one of them turns a very ordinary day of the week into the most damning two minutes you’ll see all month. Also, there’s a chorus. You will sing it. You will be a little ashamed of how fast you learn it.

It only escalates from there, which is a nice parallel to the cruelty, corruption, and incompetence of this President. The #2 clip drags a certain administration into a fashion-world showdown with a magazine whose name you won’t forget. At #1, from Canada, we imagine what happens when those demanding release of certain files meet someone with technology to get answers the hard way.

Watch the full countdown, read more about it at BAM, and see what a bucket of fried chicken has to do with it.

Anthony Head: RIP

John Amato — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Famed British actor Anthony Head, who portrayed Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Rupert Mannion of Ted Lasso, has passed away from complications with pneumonia.

He was 72 years young.

He had a long and distinguished career.

Open thread.

Trump’s Cabinet Fluffs And Flatters Him Every Six Sentences

NewsHound Ellen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:58:23 +0000

The New York Times did a deep dive into Donald Trump’s cabinet meetings. The results are disturbing but not surprising.

After reviewing every televised Trump cabinet meeting from February 2025 to March 2026, The Times found, "On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents.."

The Times also reviewed the 22 televised cabinet meetings in Trump’s first term. It concluded that he has been complimented far more in his second term cabinet meetings than in his first. That's even though he has since been convicted of 34 felonies and impeached for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and attack on the Capitol after he couldn't handle losing the 2020 election.

Interestingly, at least to me, The Times noted that while Secretary of State and (2028 presidential hopeful) Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe “packed their speaking time with praise,” others, such as Vice President JD Vance (who likened Trump to Hitler before deciding he was just fine being "Hitler's" VP) focused on attacking Democrats.

Alabama Sen. Tuberville In Trouble For Voting In Florida

NewsHound Ellen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:22:03 +0000

Once again, the accusation looks a lot like an admission.

As Raw Story reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville has championed Trump’s voter suppression legislation, known as the SAVE Act. He claimed that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election because of “rampant voter fraud.”

It turns out Tuberville has some serious ‘splaining to do on that very subject.

AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire has been digging into rumors that Sen. Tommy Tuberville is actually a Floridian and so ineligible to run for governor in Alabama. “Alabama law requires candidates for governor to have lived in the state for the last seven years,” Whitmire noted.

Now, Whitmire and AL.com have some very damning receipts.

Tuberville owns a 4,000-square-foot home in Florida, worth at least $4 million, Whitmire reports. He has owned it for nearly 20 years. In 2017, his wife and son bought a much smaller, much less valuable house in Auburn, Alabama, which Tuberville had claimed as his residence. He sold that home in 2023, according to Whitmire.

NY Times Omits Minor Detail In Platner Hit Piece

Ed Scarce — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:04:45 +0000

There are dirty tricks, and then there are coordinated attacks meant to move the needle in political races. The latest New York Times opus against Maine's Graham Platner is sort of more of the same from them, printing allegations and then "letting the people decide" their merit. Except in this case, these stalwarts of journalistic integrity [sic] omitted some rather salient details.

Nonetheless, that was not enough for Fifield, who was aghast this morning that her story featured in the paper of record didn't receive as much attention in the more skeptical mainstream press as she had hoped, saying to the New York Post, their "watering down bombshell story as ‘gift’ to the Democrat’s campaign.

In 2020, Heather Higgins, chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, where Fifield is a fellow, bragged, “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV, and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!”

Source: Zateo

Kevin Hassett Now Claims Wall Street Doesn't Understand Trump's Golden Age

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:15:03 +0000

Trump economic cut out Kevin Hassett attacked Wall Street for not understanding Trump's supposed golden age economy, which is in line with his criticisms of everyone who complains about the affordability crisis, skyrocketing inflation, and fuel costs.

Today's job numbers were much better-than-expected, but that didn't have the desired effect on the stock markets Trump longs for since rate reductions are now in jeopardy while treasury yields spiked.

HASSETT: Yeah, it's absolutely a blowout number.

And the thing that's most astonishing about it is, is we look at the forecast of everybody that surveyed at Bloomberg, and not a single person got this number right. That happens quite a bit. But the error from the top person to this number was about 50,000 jobs.

And so, you know, right now, Wall Street just doesn't understand that the Trump economy is really creating an economic golden age.

And another thing that is probably not going to make the headlines, certainly not in the fake news, is that the numbers keep getting revised up. So you remember under Biden, they kept revising the numbers down.

The only people who believe we are in a Trump economic Golden age are Trump, his officials, and spokespeople. Kevin Hassett constantly tells the viewers that anything negative about Trump and his economy is just temporary. It's been temporary for over a year now, with no hope of recovery any time soon.

Whistleblower Blows Lid Off DOGE Plot To Declare Millions Dead

Conover Kennard — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:57:04 +0000

The Trump administration came up with a dystopian idea (quelle surprise!), to reportedly cook up a plan to declare 2.7 million living people — among them U.S. citizens, legal residents, teenagers, and retirees — officially dead, The Washington Post reports.

The goal: weaponize Social Security's identity database to functionally delete people from the financial system, cutting them off from paychecks, bank accounts, and government benefits. You know, the kind of stuff living people tend to need to survive.

The scheme was exposed by Jeremiah Schofield, a 25-year Social Security veteran who actually had the audacity to look at the list. When he pulled a sample from the 2.7 million marked for fictional death, every single one of them was alive — including a widow receiving survivor benefits legally. At that point, agency lawyers gently noted that declaring living people dead might, technically, be against the law. Schofield agreed, refused to participate, and eventually left the agency in October.

DOJ: Trump Could Destroy Statue Of Liberty And Nobody Could Stop Him

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:56:30 +0000

Earlier today in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, Trump's DOJ presented a bizarre analogy to defend Trump so he can start rebuilding the White House ballroom that he destroyed without congressional approval.

Yahoo News reports, "In order to demonstrate Trump's supposedly far-reaching power to destroy and alter national monuments at whim, the DOJ lawyers claimed that if the president wanted to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty in New York, there would be no one with the standing to challenge him. "If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors—that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast—nothing can be done?" Judge Patricia Millett asked, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney. "I think that's right, yes," the government responded.

White House Melts Down As Sleepy Trump Gets Caught Napping On The Job Again

Conover Kennard — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:08:00 +0000

A video of 79-year-old Grandpa Trump with his eyes closed during an Oval Office "Beautiful, Clean Coal" event went massively viral, and the White House — demonstrating exactly the restraint and confidence you'd expect from a secure, well-functioning administration — completely lost its mind about it.

The Rapid Response account sprang into action after footage spread showing the 79-year-old president appearing to be slumped sideways and very much not awake during the proceedings. One post racked up over 8.2 million views, claiming he was "completely passed out at 3 pm," and preemptively trolled the White House by asking how long before they'd insist he was "blinking" at a very deliberate and presidential pace.

The White House then did the one thing guaranteed to make everyone forget about it: it took the bait.

"His eyes are literally open in the clip you posted, you dumbass mouth-breathers," the Rapid Response account super eloquently replied.

His eyes are literally open in the clip you posted, you dumbass mouth-breathers https://t.co/7VCNwVgQow pic.twitter.com/3zoCVEzsrY

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026
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Trump Obsesses On His Reflecting Pool While Americans Suffer

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:09:07 +0000

Donald Trump continues to ignore the plight of the American people as a result of his illegal tariffs and Iran war and instead focuses on his grandiose obsessions of destroyed ballrooms, renaming buildings and now reflecting pools.

Trump held court with the press for almost ten minutes to revel in his graphs outlining the new Lincoln memorial reflecting pool.

TRUMP: You're getting a first glimpse, but that's your size compared.

So those are compared to — those are among the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Sears Tower, Chicago.

So if you lay it on its side, you'd take two or three of them to fill it in because the width is very — almost 200 feet wide, and actually much more than 2,000, close to including everything.

It's about 2,500 feet in length to the end.

And it's going to be beautiful.

It was a great concept that never worked because they couldn't hold the water, and now they hold the water for a tiny fraction of the cost.

Trump most likely tried to change the name to the Trump Memorial reflecting pool. I can't confirm that.

Americans don't care about these remodelings and structure desecration taking place at the White House.

They want rents to become affordable, fuel and grocery prices to drop, and not to be priced out of healthcare.

Trump admitted he could care less about affordability issues and it's highlighted by his obsession with this pool.

John Bolton Takes Plea Deal On One Count Of Holding Classified Info

Susie Madrak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:34:08 +0000

Trump hates being the target of lawfare, but he sure knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him. That’s the story of John Bolton, his former national security adviser, who is agreeing to a plea deal essentially for the sin of writing a critical book about his time advising Mr. Trump.

The President has been determined to seek revenge against Mr. Bolton, who wrote his well-regarded memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” based on his 17 months running the National Security Council in Mr. Trump’s first term. Mr. Trump first tried and failed to block publication, then went to court to confiscate the royalties. He lost that fight, too. But on Mr. Trump’s return to office, his Justice Department charged Mr. Bolton with a coercive 18-count indictment for keeping diary notes on a home computer that included “national defense information.”

Bolton has now decided to plead guilty to a single felony count for retaining classified information. He will pay a $2.5 million fine, which is best understood as an attempt to deny Bolton the earnings from the book.

Democrat To Rollins: 'You Own Every Single Bit' Of This Economy

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:57:13 +0000

Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig became fed up with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is still blaming President Biden for the high cost of diesel fuel and failing farms, and pointedly told her that the Trump administration controlled all of Congress a year and a half ago, and "you own every single bit of this."

Craig began by admonishing Secretary Rollins for the 15,000 farms that failed and the $28 billion that was lost in the agricultural industry.

Rollins blamed the Biden administration for what she claimed caused a $42 billion agricultural trade deficit in the Trump administration. This is when Rep. Craig got testy.

CRAIG: Madam Secretary, I'm going to reclaim my time on behalf of family farmers.

ROLLINS: That was not the Trump administration. That was the Biden administration.

CRAIG: That's what it means in this building. You stop talking when I reclaim my time.

What's the national average of farm diesel right now?

ROLLINS: The national average of farm diesel?

Yeah, of diesel.

ROLLINS: Well, diesel has increased because of the Iranian conflict.

CRAIG: How much was it? How much is it right now?

ROLLINS: Well, before the Iranian conflict, it had gone way up. All inputs under the last administration increased about 40%.

That's what we inherited.

Gas and diesel prices had come way down when Trump took office, which Trump officials ignore.

Trump: 'If It Weren't For Me, There Would Be No Israel'

Chris capper Liebenthal — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:32:37 +0000

Trump, with his puffy eye and puffy hands, agreed to sit down with Miranda Devine of the New York Post. That should automatically tell you that he was going to be asked questions that were even easier than one of his cognitive tests. However, true to his nature, Trump wasn't able to handle softball questions without putting his foot in it.

When Devine asked him about people who claim that he was tricked by Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump responded by going on a rambling rant about Democrats, immigrants, and transgender people before really going off the deep end.

Well, they're just, you know, the enemy, they're just, you know, the Democrats, the UN, these are Democrats, these are people that don't know what they're doing. They want men playing in women's sports, and they want open borders so the world can pour into our country, and they want transgender for everybody, surgery, and they want transgender mutilization of our children.

No, these are just words, you know, that's all they do. They're, that's all they're good for is words like, I heard that the other day for the first time. I said, " He tricked me?

I mean, I'm the one that started it because, again, I don't wanna bore anybody, but I started because we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Now, that pertains to Israel because they probably would have been the first one to get hit. There would be no Israel. Tell you what, if there wasn't me, there would be no Israel right now.
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Cutting WIC Funds Is Still The MAGA Way, Amirite?

Susie Madrak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:24:13 +0000

As grocery prices continue to rise nationally, the House on Thursday passed an appropriations bill that would cut funding for a program that helps pregnant women and children purchase healthy foods.

By a vote of 213-210, the House passed an appropriations measure to fund the Agriculture Department among other agencies. The bill, which the Senate has yet to consider, aims to cut about 1.5 percent from overall federal agriculture spending in fiscal 2027, according to Republicans. Four House Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the measure, while five Republicans voted against it.

Under the legislation, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — more commonly known as WIC — would lose $141 million in funding for fruit and vegetable benefits for the nearly 5.4 million children and pregnant and postpartum women enrolled, according to an estimate from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

But wait! Rep. Andy Harris, who was a Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist and is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, said on the House floor that despite cuts, the $8 billion in remaining funding is sufficient to meet the needs of the program. Harris argued that Agriculture Department data “clearly shows” that WIC participation has been declining during the current fiscal year.

"No woman or their children will lose or be denied coverage.”

But here come the pointy-headed liberals, with their statistics and analysis and whatnot.

WHEE! Oil Prices Will Surge In Coming Weeks Due To Hormuz Backup

Susie Madrak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:54:53 +0000

The oil industry has warned the Trump administration that a Hormuz-sized hole in the world’s petroleum market is steadily draining inventories to levels that are likely to send global energy prices surging in the next several weeks, according to Politico.

Industry executives told senior White House officials and Cabinet members in recent weeks, the people said. The warnings came as recently as late last month as data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and other sources began showing that fuel makers were increasingly relying on oil and fuel from their storage tanks to replace products no longer arriving from the Middle East.

“We’re at dangerously low levels already,” said one industry executive who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations with the administration. “We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.”

Countries are drawing down supplies in their oil and fuel storage tanks to make up for the shortage of supply coming from the Middle East, but inventories are now running dangerously low and some companies and market analysts are sounding the alarm that a price spike could come later this month.

MO GOP Senator Big Mad CA Is Counting Their Mail-In Ballots

Heather — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:54:35 +0000

Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt had the nerve to pretend he cares about everyone's vote counting and election integrity while bitching that they're actually counting all of the mail-in ballots in California.

Here's Schmitt on this Thursday's The Ingraham Angle on Fox, accusing the state of rigging the election if his fellow Republicans Steve Hilton, who's running for governor, and Spencer Pratt, who's running for LA mayor don't wind up on top once the vote counting is finished.

INGRAHAM: As I was saying, a hearing on mail-in ballots as a general matter is one thing. But I'm talking about this process in California, Senator, which is perverse. The fact that we don't know — there are tranches of votes arriving tomorrow, we're told.

We don't know what Orange County's current ballot count is right now. Wouldn't anybody like to know that? I would. We're seeing the registrar — the county clerk video — but we don't know how many Republicans are there, how many observers are there.

Should the Justice Department send observers? I don't know. I don't know how this can work, but something's got to change.

SCHMITT: I do think there needs to be an investigation when we see this many irregularities. The broader context, Laura, is that it destroys Americans' faith in our elections.
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Mike's Blog Round Up

Batocchio — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:54:20 +0000

The Mahablog: The Democrats need a Project 2029.

The Debate Link: SovCit therapy.

Pharyngula: This man should just admit he wants to kill women.

Lawfare: The indictment of Raul Castro.

Jen Sorensen: The dangers of solar panels.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

Which Monopolies Are Bribing Trump For His $60M Cage Match?

Cliff Schecter — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:53:20 +0000

A new Tequila Talk, and we took on the "Bread & Circuses," UFC embarrassment that would've made the Founders cry at what their country's become. A truck company, crypto exchange, energy drink, and a media giant that needs Trump regulators to approve a $111 billion merger all chipping in for his 80th b-day cage match on the lawn you own. Trump needs you to look away from his ever increasing number of f*ck ups from Epstein to the Iran disaster.

Joe Walsh and I poured the tequila and followed the money: