May 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM EDT
Trump Has Commuted The Sentence Of Notorious Gang Leader Larry Hoover

Donald Trump still hasn't brought back make-believe gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison. But he just commuted the federal sentence of known and convicted gang leader Larry Hoover. Via The Guardian:

May 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
Trump May Pardon Men In Governor Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

Old Grandpa Whackjob has gone pardon crazy, letting the worst people avoid paying their debt to society, and he's still at it. Donald holds a grudge like no other, and so it comes as no surprise that he says he will look into potentially pardoning the men convicted in the failed 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democratic critic of his. "Will you pardon the people who are accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer?" a reporter asked.

May 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM EDT
Immorality And More

Open thread below...

May 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM EDT
Baldwin Isn't Fire, But She'll Keep A Simmering Heat On RFK Jr.

Earlier this month, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin confronted RFK, Jr, about the lead abatement program in Milwaukee and the work they were supposed to be doing for Milwaukee Public Schools, but the entire staff had been fired. RFK, Jr, lied to her face and denied that they had been fired and that he was working with them himself. Baldwin sat down with Matt Smith of WISN-TV's UpFront program to discuss the confrontation:

May 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM EDT
Dumbass Don's New Attack On Higher Ed: Gumming Up Student Visas

It's almost as if the Donald Trump administration hates America. After Trump's disgraceful and deranged Memorial Day rant on Monday, MAGA lackey and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued an order on Tuesday designed to further harm American colleges and universities that don't bend to MAGA ideology. Via The Guardian:

May 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM EDT
DoJ Files Anti-Voting Rights Lawsuit In North Carolina

The DoJ, which not so long ago protected our voting rights, filed a lawsuit yesterday against North Carolina election officials targeting the registration records of potentially hundreds of thousands of registered voters in the state -- in other words, the exact claims repeatedly used unsuccessfully by losing NC state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin. Via CNN: The new lawsuit alleges the North Carolina State Board of Elections violated the Help America Vote Act by failing to collect and record voters' driver's license numbers or the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. It pivots off of an argument made by a GOP state Supreme Court candidate who tried unsuccessfully to overturn his defeat to a Democratic incumbent.

May 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM EDT
Even Trump-Loving Mississippi Can't Get FEMA Aid

Donald Trump really hates giving money away - even when it isn't his money. FEMA seems to be a big target and he has cut off any funding to states, even ones that fully support him and are truly in need. Example: Mississippi. In March of this year, close to 20 tornadoes devastated the very red Trump supporting state. Seven people lost their lives and hundreds of homes were damaged or completely lost. Communities were decimated, utilities cut off, roads damaged, business and schools lost. Suffice to say, they desperately needed help from the federal government.

May 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM EDT
TACO Trump Whines When Asked About Wall Street Mocking Him

CNBC White House correspondent Megan Casella made Trump look weak and foolish when she asked him to respond to reports that Wall Street are calling him TACO, because he always chickens out on his tariff threats. This was an impromptu press conference after Jeanine Pirro's swearing-in ceremony, which he of course hijacked to talk about himself. "Mr. President, Wall Street analysts have coined a new term called the TACO trade. They're saying Trump Always Chickens Out on your tariff threats, and that's why markets are higher this week," Casella said." What's your response to that?"

May 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM EDT
Fox Host Wants CBS' Pelley Arrested Over Commencement Speech

Fox flack and former Trump spokesliar Kayleigh McEnany thinks CBS News' Scott Pelley should be arrested for the commencement speech he gave at Wake Forest University this month. I'm not sure what's more pathetic here. The fact that they're still this pissed off that 60 Minutes interviewed Mark Elias, who is one of the few people out there who has been fighting, and winning, to try to preserve what's left of our democracy these days, or listening to a professional liar like McEnany dare to say a word about whether anyone else in the media is a "journalist" or not.

May 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM EDT
Wall Street Traders Have A New Nickname For Trump, And It's Hilarious

Donald J. Trump always assigns nicknames to his perceived adversaries. Still, Wall Street traders have one for the co-president over his repeated tariff spasms, which make the market dive, then come back after he inevitably caves. Trump's nickname is TACO, an acronym for "Trump Always Chickens Out." Australian economist Justin Wolfers appeared on MSNBC , telling Nicole Wallace that Trump's tariff policy "nearly lasted one entire long weekend."

May 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM EDT
Trump Kills Free Markets, Threatens Apple With Tariffs

A heavily bronzed Trump demanded a single company, Apple, to make iPhones in the US or face punishment with high tariffs. Can you imagine if President Biden made the same demands to a private company?

May 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM EDT
Beloved Trump-Supporting Immigrant Pastor Is Finding Out

Tell me if you have heard this story. An immigrant comes to America illegally, but does all the right things: stays out of trouble, gets a job, has a family, pays taxes. He decides to support Donald Trump because he is one of the "good immigrants" and Republicans are only going to get rid of the "criminals, rapists, drug dealers and murderers" and you will be spared. Until you are not.