Does Pete Hegseth have presidential delusions?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Iowa on Monday to campaign for Republican congressional candidates—a move that is both wildly unethical as a leader of the military and also a clear step toward a run for president, as Iowa is the first state on the GOP presidential primary calendar. Indeed, the Washington Post, citing unnamed “officials familiar with Hegseth’s thinking…
Disney abruptly finds its spine over Trump attacks
Disney, the parent company of ABC, sued the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday in retaliation for the Trump administration’s attacks on its First Amendment rights. The suit comes after months of complaints from President Donald Trump about programs on the network supposedly offering up a left-of-center point of view. The FCC previously ordered eight television stations owned by ABC…
Baby on board
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump’s airplane switcheroo proves he’s a selfish coward…
Whistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism probes targeting schools
A Trump administration task force created to combat antisemitism pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities despite government investigations that were rushed and incomplete or that failed to establish legal violations by the schools, a former Justice Department lawyer alleged in a whistleblower disclosure obtained by The Associated Press. The complaint alleges that the…
August 18: Harp hits a cord with Trump and friends
21 minutes agoWalter EinenkelGov. DeSantis-appointed arrested on child sex-abuse charges Miami-Herald: […] Copy linkShare on FacebookShare on XShare via email 32 minutes agoWalter EinenkelTrump “truths” out alternative-reality take on his war in IranCopy linkShare on FacebookShare on XShare via email 34 minutes agoWalter EinenkelJon Ossoff’s mere mention of Natalie Harp triggered bizarre right…
Trump’s private lawsuits are piling up
President Donald Trump may be one of a very select few plaintiffs who can say that the Supreme Court ruled against him twice in the exact same way in the exact same case. That’s because most people understand that the Supreme Court is sorta the end of the line and they don’t ask for a do-over. But that’s what Trump did with his endless attempts to get the verdicts in not one, but two…
My husband was kicked out of hospice for dying too slowly
A family’s guide to discharge, appeals, and keeping hospice care. By Kim Clark for KFF “No more operations,” he said. It was mid-January 2026, and my then-73-year-old husband, Mike Salmon, had just started bouncing back from a three-month ordeal of three operations related to aortic aneurysms, sepsis, and a terrifying descent into delirium tied to a stay in the intensive care…
Negotiations continue
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It’s not just Iran: War in Ukraine is also hurting GOP’s midterm odds
Throughout the 2024 election, Republican candidate Donald Trump confidently promised that if elected he would end Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his second term. But 574 days later, the war in Ukraine is still raging. And it’s unexpectedly an issue for Republicans in the fast-approaching midterm elections. Nearly four-and-a-half years after Russian President Vladimir…
Morale overboard
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Families of troops stranded on USS Lincoln slam Trump and Hegseth…
Welcome to Trump bank, his latest grift
Yes, the crypto scammer wing of the Trump family business, World Liberty Financial, now has a federally chartered bank thanks to a morally flexible President Donald Trump appointee, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould. What could possibly go wrong? You know, we knew this was coming for a while now, as World Liberty’s application had been kicking around for months.
Fox News ignores prominent doctor raising alarm on Trump’s health
A widely covered New York Times op-ed raising alarms about how the White House has hidden critical information about President Donald Trump’s health has received the blackout treatment from Fox News. In a column for the Times published last Thursday, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University who served as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s…
Attorney General Todd Blanche knows who his real client is
Attorney General Todd Blanche knows who his client is—and it’s not the American people. It’s not even the government. It’s President Donald Trump, of course. During his confirmation hearing, Blanche had that little slip-up where, when asked if he and Trump were friends, he went with “I’m his lawyer” before realizing how that sounded and shifting quickly to “Was his lawyer, and now I’m…
Watch Trump lose it over a question about his BFF Kim Jong Un
During a Q&A in the Oval Office on Monday, President Donald Trump crashed out—as the kids say—at CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes. Trump was finishing a long, rambling statement about his recent discussion with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un when he singled out Holmes for having the audacity to ask a question about whether the Korean leader asked Trump to end military exercises in…
In Florida, Wasserman Schultz sparks debate over what representation means in diverse districts
Sporting red-white-and-blue sneakers and a matching bedazzled manicure ahead of Florida’s primaries on Tuesday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz smiles and tells voters she is “running for reelection to Congress.” That’s true — with a caveat. Wasserman Schultz is seeking her 12th term by running in a new district after Republicans scrambled the state’s congressional map earlier this year.
Jon Ossoff calls out the ‘scandal piñata’ that is the GOP
Sen. Jon Ossoff held a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday, where he went after the abject corruption of the Republican Party, from President Donald Trump down to his GOP challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, who is facing multiple ethics investigations over alleged misuse of funds. “Speaking of crooks,” Ossoff began. “Now remember, Mike’s already under federal investigation for illegally funneling…
Stockholm syndrome
A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | ICE’s new body cam policy is predictably devious…
MIA Melania Trump wants you to think she’s a hero
First lady Melania Trump announced on Monday that she and an unnamed “representative” reunited a Ukrainian child with their family as part of her campaign to get Russia to stop abducting innocent kids in its war to take over Ukraine. “There is nothing more powerful than reuniting a mother with her child after an extended period of time. My representative and I are focused on helping…
Trump forgets he’s the one who vandalized the lawn
The crumbling, doddering, corrupt grandpa who is running the country into the ground is, by now, held together almost exclusively by spite. And one of the things that makes President Donald Trump the maddest is any hint that he might be at fault for the fact that Washington, D.C., looks like hot garbage. Trump just admitted that his pool guy screwed up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Trump betrays South Korea for his pen pal Kim Jong Un
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he planned to retreat from America’s longtime alliance with South Korea, adding that nation to the growing list of American allies that he has insulted and even endangered in his second term. On his social media account Trump praised his “very good relationship” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and said that he was ordering the U.S.