Bondi bristles
Pam Bondi snaps at Congressmen. Over the course of five hours of testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave increasingly agitated responses to members’ questions…
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A breakable regime
Iran’s death toll: Hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran, as the government tries to crack down on what look like some of the country’s largest protests since…
Read more A breakable regimeIs the poverty line really $100,000?
Total falsehoods: “I want for people to recognize a great job that I’ve done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down,” said President Donald Trump…
Read more Is the poverty line really $100,000?Trouble in paradise
Trumpworld schism: On Friday night, MAGA Queen Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her resignation from Congress. “I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of…
Read more Trouble in paradiseDick Cheney dies
Rest in peace: Dick Cheney, vice president to George W. Bush, neocon extraordinaire, and rather poor marksman, died this morning at 84 due to complications of pneumonia, as…
Read more Dick Cheney diesA divided Fed
Dissent at the Fed meeting: For the second time this year, the Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates by a quarter point—the lowest level in three years. “This…
Read more A divided FedThe Gaza Split
Ceasefire or not? Yesterday, Israeli strikes killed 100 people in Gaza, claiming that the ceasefire had been violated, since Hamas has not yet returned the bodies of all the…
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Trump asks colleges to get serious: Yesterday, the White House sent 10-page compacts to nine of colleges and universities—Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University…
Read more How to fix collegeTrump’s Ukraine reversal
What just happened? President Donald Trump’s greatest bug—or feature—might be his flightiness, coupled with a certain showmanship, a bit of flair. What holds one day may not hold…
Read more Trump’s Ukraine reversalDid you ask the FCC if you can make that joke?
Jimmy Kimmel pulled off the air: Yesterday evening, ABC News (a subsidiary of Disney) announced it was suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show “indefinitely” following factually inaccurate comments he…
Read more Did you ask the FCC if you can make that joke?A taboo worth keeping
Call their employer? “If we want to stop political violence like what happened to Charlie Kirk, we have to be honest about the people who are celebrating it…
Read more A taboo worth keepingHuge immigration bust
Bust at an E.V. battery plant: “Immigration officials arrested nearly 500 workers, most of them South Korean citizens, at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery plant…
Read more Huge immigration bustA bad jobs report
Employers added 22,000 new jobs in August. For those paying attention, this is substantially below what had been forecast. Employers added 22,000 jobs in August, with private sector payrolls up…
Read more A bad jobs reportTrump changes his mind
A president who changes his mind: “It’s very insulting to say students can’t come here,” said President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House yesterday.…
Read more Trump changes his mindThe craziest deportation goals
Trump’s campaign promises, coming to fruition: “Until June, deportations had lagged behind immigration arrests and detentions,” reports The New York Times. “By the first week of August, deportations reached nearly 1,500 people…
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Brené Brown vs. Joe Rogan
Pick your poison: Over the weekend, depending on your political flavor, you could have chosen between listening to a comedian hurl insults on stage at Madison Square Garden as…
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Kamala’s fabricated Gen Z appeal
“kamala IS brat,” tweeted singer Charli XCX on Sunday, following Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension to the presidential nominee slot left vacant by President Joe Biden. Despite Charli XCX’s…
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Try, try again
Handouts to voters: Though his first attempt at student loan forgiveness was struck down by the Supreme Court in June of last year (Biden v. Nebraska), President Joe…
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A form of Navalny
Taking crazy pills: Former President Donald Trump said last evening that the civil fraud verdict that will force him to pony up $355 million for inflating his net…
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Hell hath no fury
Hell hath no fury like a Bill Ackman scorned: For those just tuning in, let me catch you up on the Harvard/antisemitism/plagiarism scandal that just won’t end. Back in…
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