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Tue, 06/30/2026 - 15:59

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We’re sure paying a lot for the ballroom we’re not paying for

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 15:00

In a bit of news that we all should have seen coming, President Donald Trump is using a secret no-bid contract—that means taxpayer dollars, y’all—to build his big, dumb ballroom. How much, you ask? Just a wee bit, hardly worth mentioning, really: $500 million. Honestly, this whole thing is like a greatest hits of how Trump has utterly corrupted the government. First…

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Kash Patel can’t stop screwing up

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 14:00

Poor Kash Patel. Talk about a dude who really, really isn’t cut out for his job. It’s not just that he’s woefully unqualified to be the director of the FBI. It’s also that he really, really isn’t interested in it. The man just wants to post on social media. But nearly every time he does this, it’s a disaster—a product of Patel popping up to show that, hey, guys, he does too matter!

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Tue, 06/30/2026 - 13:59

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Mamdani’s got Trump and Fox News big mad…

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‘60 Minutes’ loses another veteran reporter as CBS bleeds credibility

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 13:00

Another member of “60 Minutes” is making his exit from the once-renowned TV newsmagazine. The latest to call it quits? Veteran producer Henry Schuster. “It has been a great run at 60 MINUTES and what I got to do there was extraordinary. But I have been thinking about leaving for a while now and when the opportunity presented itself in February, I took it,” Schuster wrote on LinkedIn Monday.

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Megyn Kelly triggered over ‘Supergirl’ actor

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 12:00

Conservative pundit Megyn Kelly’s latest rage target is “Supergirl” actor Milly Alcock. During a recent episode of her podcast, the former Fox News host lit into Alcock for her physical appearance and defense of feminism, arguing that superhero films featuring women must have romance. “Milly Alcock is as loathsome as the girl [Rachel Zegler] who played in ‘Snow White,’” Kelly said. “We’…

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Ken Paxton jets off to Iceland at the worst time possible

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 10:30

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has come under fire for going on a European vacation, adding to concerns that he could lose his Senate race and flip the seat to Democratic rival James Talarico. The conservative Daily Mail posted video of Paxton in Dulles Airport boarding a plane en route to Reykjavik, Iceland, alongside conservative Christian influencer Tracy Duhon. Paxton is still legally…

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Trump deported them to Venezuela. Hours later, many were dead.

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 09:30

A deportation flight from the United States arrived in Venezuela last Wednesday, reportedly carrying 146 Venezuelans, including seven children, deported under President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration efforts. But just hours after their arrival at a hotel in La Guaira, twin earthquakes struck the area, leaving the number of surviving deportees currently unknown. The twin earthquakes…

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Shattered justice

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 09:29

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Supreme Court enshrines Trump’s racist bullsh-t into law…

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Supreme Court’s leader doesn’t care about the Constitution

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 08:01

Let’s get this out of the way: There is no world where you can square the Supreme Court’s inherently contradictory Monday decisions in Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook. On the one hand, President Donald Trump now has the power to fire the principal officers—think commissioners and chairs—of independent agencies, without even the remotest cause, further gutting the administrative state and…

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Remember the right-wing families who moved to Russia? Here’s where they are now.

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 06:30

Last August, we laughed at the travails of a group of Americans who decided MAGA America had become too liberal, packed up their families, and moved to the conservative paradise of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Predictably, things did not go according to plan. Let’s check in on our favorite anti-woke émigrés and see how they’re doing. When we last checked in on the Hare family…

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Police use of artificial intelligence grows as rules lag behind

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 06:00

Experts warn that AI-powered policing could expand surveillance and amplify bias. By Amanda Watford for Stateline Hundreds of people fill a downtown street for a protest, waving signs and chanting as they march past businesses and government buildings. Overhead, a police drone records video of the crowd. Nearby traffic cameras and license plate readers capture faces…

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The bulwark

Tue, 06/30/2026 - 05:30

A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Supreme Court enshrines Trump’s racist BS into law…

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