April 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM EDT
GOP Rape Culture Is Alive And Well In Indiana

An Indiana Joint Committee was discussing a sex education bill. There was concern because Republican State Senator Gary Byrne amended the bill to remove the part about teaching consent. To worsen the problem, he admitted that he made the decision arbitrarily, without consulting with any experts, and tried to kick the can down the road, claiming that it was a local control issue: STATE REP ANDREA HUNLEY: What groups were consulted with in the removal of the section about consent? What groups?

April 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM EDT
Pete Hegseth Focused On Important Issues Like 'Fat People'

Another day, another WTF moment starring Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense. Call to Activism tweeted: "Pete Hegseth just said he will examine the promotion of 'fat' people to leadership positions in the military and seek to stop them."

April 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM EDT
Tax Breaks For Billionaires More Important Than Cops' Mental Health

The DoJ has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from services for mental health care for police officers (oh well, who needs that ?), to support programs for victims of crime and sexual assault, so that the Trump administration can give MASSIVE tax breaks to billionaires. Via Reuters: At least 365 grants from the Office of Justice Programs, the department's largest grant-making arm, were terminated late on Tuesday, said two of the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss details that have not been made public.

April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM EDT
GOP Rep. Lays Out Their Plan To Gut Medicaid And Blame It On The States

GOP Rep. Austin Scott gave away the game during an interview on Fox Business Network this Monday, while pretending their plan won't end up causing people to lose coverage. Here's the exchange with Scott and Mornings with Maria guest host Cheryl Casone:

April 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM EDT
Trump Spiritual Advisor: Women Should Submit To Men

Paula White, Trump's White House Faith Office, told Real America's Voice that a wife must submit to their husband's decisions and agree to do whatever they decide. Trump signed another executive order to 'bring religion back into America' and recreated the Faith Office initially brought into the White House by George W. Bush.

April 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM EDT
Fox News On Trump's Ukraine Peace Deal: No Concessions For Russia?

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume tells viewers that Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept a surrender to Russia as a peace deal and sees Putin as being the person who is hard to deal with. Special Report host Bret Baier began by playing video of Trump bashin g President Zelensky as being hard to deal with.

April 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM EDT
Guess Who's Approval Numbers Are In The Potty

President Donald Trump loves to crow about polling numbers, but he won't be boasting about new polling from Pew Research, which shows that the longer Trump is president, the less Americans approve of what he's doing. It may seem like Trump has been in office for 1,000 days but it is actually just shy of 100, and according to Pew, 59% of Americans disapprove of Trump's job performance so far. That is a 7 percentage point drop since February. Conversely, only 40% approve of how Trump is handling the country.

April 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM EDT
Hegseth Orders Makeup Studio Installed At Pentagon

They don't call them a Vanity for nothin'. Source: CBS News

April 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM EDT
Trump Still Stuck On 1913 Dementia Economics

Earlier today Trump reiterated his obsession with destroying the US economy by glorifying tariffs and glorifying America of over one hundred years ago. Trade deficits have no bearing stock markets on US economy, and our 401(k)s

April 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM EDT
Elon Musk Is About To Get His Own Town In Texas

Granted, the strip of land likely to be incorporated soon as Starbase, Texas, is small. But it's a start for the billionaire Nazi fanboy who clearly thinks he deserves to be the king of the country if not the world. It's pretty clear Musk plans to use this power to grab even more. From The New York Times:

April 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM EDT
Will Ron And Casey Go To Jail Over $10M They ALLEGEDLY Diverted?

I put off writing about this, because it's so complicated and my brain is on constant overload FOR SOME REASON. But it's sounding more and more like Ron and Casey might actually have to pay for their sins this time, so I thought you'd be interested! (It will be helpful if you watch the above video.) Via The Florida Phoenix: The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times obtained a copy of an early iteration of the settlement agreement between Centene and the state that confirms the $10 million "donation" Centene made to the Hope Florida Foundation represented the return of taxpayer dollars stemming from Medicaid overpayments.

April 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM EDT
Trump Trades Private WH Tour To Investors In His Bitcoin

The announcement called it "the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World," a chance to have "an intimate private dinner" with the Talking Yam at his members-only golf club in Virginia, followed by a tour of the White House. A seat would be reserved for each of the top 220 investors in $TRUMP, the cryptocurrency that El Cheatolini launched on the eve of his inauguration. Via The New York Times: In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family's efforts to profit from cryptocurrencies, a website promoting Mr. Trump's so-called memecoin announced on Wednesday that the coin's largest buyers would be invited to meet with him. The effort was, in effect, an offer of access to the White House in exchange for an investment in one of Mr. Trump's crypto ventures.