May 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM EDT
Neil Young Sends Trump An FU Over Springsteen Attacks

If ever there was a time for musicians (and anyone else) to publicly tell Trump to STFU and to stand in solidarity with Trump targets, this is it. In case you missed it, Felon 47 has been throwing quite the authoritarian temper tantrum after Bruce Springsteen criticized him on stage.

May 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM EDT
RFK Jr: Cutting Cancer Research Over Nonexistent DEI 'A Fun Game'

HHS Secretary and anti-vax zealot RFK, Jr had a hissy fit over being called to the carpet by Senator Tammy Baldwin because he took a sledgehammer to cancer research and other important grants and studies aimed at curing illnesses in the name of anti-DEI measures. For much of his testimony, Jr. refused to give coherent answers and claimed how much he loves research.

May 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM EDT
Big, Beautiful Budget Bill Cuts $500 Billion From Medicare

So this morning, a budget committee hearing that started today at 1 a.m. is making decisions that would cut $500 billion from Medicare: WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warned that the Republican budget bill would trigger more than $500 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go ('PAYGO') Act:

May 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM EDT
Covid Vaccines Approved Only For Those Over 65, Say Whack Jobs

The FDA announced yesterday that it will limit access to seasonal Covid-19 boosters for healthy Americans under 65 without clear evidence of clinical benefit - a policy that will make access difficult for people who are not high risk but want to be vaccinated against the disease. Via The Guardian: Top officials at the FDA outlined a new framework for approving Covid-19 vaccines, saying that the US would make the boosters available for Americans over the age of 65 and for adults and children above the age of 6 months with at least one condition that increases their risk of severe Covid-19.

May 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM EDT
Newspaper's Summer Reading List Has Fake Books Because A.I.

r/Chicago: An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading...Only five of the fifteen books listed as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season.

May 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM EDT
'I've Done Enough': The Blowback On Elon Musk Is Working. Keep It Up.

Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in the world, and he's also the most hated worldwide. It's a self-inflicted injury to the dipshit billionaire who bought the 2024 presidential election for the most corrupt president of our lifetime. Leon used DOGE to kill investigations into his businesses, and he brought in those lucrative federal contracts while threatening our safety nets. Elon Musk spoke at the Qatar Economic Forum 2025, telling Bloomberg's Mishal Husain, he's "done enough political spending."

May 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk Admits Trump White House Controls His Messaging

Last week Charlie Kirk admitted to Rep. Andy Biggs that he was waiting for his marching orders from the White House so he could proceed in promoting their propaganda on the House's big beautiful bill. Kirk and every other MAGAt in the media refer to the House proposal as the Big Beautiful Bill. That's not by mistake. A.I. Barbie Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt uses those exact words in her press briefings.

May 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM EDT
Trump's Insane Logic: Cutting Food Programs Makes It Cheaper

Trump met with House Republicans on Capitol Hill today to try to get his "big beautiful bill" passed, and when asked about Republican cuts in food assistance programs he told a reporter that cutting food assistance programs will make food cheaper. Stupid is what stupid does.

May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM EDT
SCOTUS Can't Take Case Because Five Justices Recused Themselves

The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a copyright dispute because it lacked a quorum after five justices recused themselves for their own book deals, a move that was cheered by ethics watchdogs. (It also explains the rationale for expanding the court.) Via Forbes: The Supreme Court said Monday it would not take up the case Ralph W. Baker, Jr. v. Ta-Nehisi Coates et al, a copyright dispute in which Baker alleged Coates' book "The Water Dancer" plagiarized Baker's book "Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead."

May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM EDT
FEMA Taking Their Sweet Time Assessing St. Louis Tornado Damage

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer pleaded with the federal government to help with federal aid following Friday's devastating tornadoes that destroyed large sections of the city's north side, but those pleas may very well be falling on deaf ears. As Spencer explained, all of the state and local politicians have already come to the city to assess the damage, but FEMA isn't expected to show up until Wednesday, and as the Columbia Missourian explained, even that may not make a difference for the suffering homeowners in the area:

May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM EDT
Eric Bolling: Biden's Cancer Reveals Deep State Jan 6 Conspiracy Theory

With the news of President Biden's prostate cancer, disgraced Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling is claiming the deep state used Biden to create the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol to make the right look like home grown terrorists. Only a depraved mind could come up with this scenario.

May 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM EDT
Jesse Watters Screams For Biden's Doctor To Be Subpoenaed

I tell you what Jesse, how about we subpoena Trump's doctors first? The dogpile over Biden's cancer diagnosis continues, this time from Fox's Jesse Watters on this Monday's The Five .