Crooks and Liars

Pete Hegseth dropped the world's most predictable Fox-to-Pentagon tantrum: "A note to the American media... endless stream of garbage... what side are you on... incredibly unpatriotic." Hegseth spent years in the media, turning every Biden briefing into a…

OMB Director Russell Vought, a key cog in Trump's reign of terror against the working class in the US, was turned into a babbling, dishonest, and disingenuous scoundrel during Rep. Becca Balint's questioning during the House Budget Committee hearing on the…

Rep. Jamie Raskin, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dave Min fittingly introduced the “Ban Presidential Plunder Of Taxpayer Funds Act” on April 15.…

Bishop James Massa, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a blistering rebuke against JD Vance's ridiculous attacks on Pope Leo.…

Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, scorched Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Justice, now led by his own former criminal defense lawyer, for asking a federal appeals court to vacate the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy…

A federal jury yesterday found that Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, operated as a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws, ending a closely watched trial in New York that could have far-reaching consequences.…

The Trump administration abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government…

This likely won't make any difference to the company in question, Explosive Media, as their videos are still wildly popular on other platforms.…

In a Fox interview that aired on Wednesday, President Donald Trump effectively admitted that the ongoing Republican campaign to rig electoral maps in their favor to avert a wipeout in this year’s midterm elections has been a spectacular failure.…

Above, Echo and the Bunnymen perform, The Killing Moon. Sometimes fate does have us up against our will, but not always.…

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GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee gave an unhinged interview on “The Benny Johnson Show” right-wing podcast Monday.…

During a TPUSA conference on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance lectured Pope Leo on theology, criticizing the Pope's disagreement with Trump's war in Iran and his interpretation of the gospels.…

On Wednesday, Donald Trump told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business that his relationship with Italy and every European ally that refused to aid him in his sneak attack on Iran has fractured our relationships, while still demanding Greenland.…

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a part-time theologian, while eyeing the Pope like he's reading the fine print on a vending machine, joined in with his party to bash Pope Leo. This should go down well, given that there are approximately 53 to 62 million Catholics…

In what will never be described as a meeting of the minds, Dr. Oz joined Junior on Junior's podcast. If that doesn't sound mind-numbing enough, their subject du jour was Dr. Jebus Trumpenstein himself.…

On the same day China was warning the US that "The Strait of Hormuz is open to us," while Reuters reported that traffic was barely affected on the first day of the blockade, Stephen Miller was blowing smoke up Jesse Watters' backside on Fox telling him how…

Donald J. Trump, fresh off his "greatest opening year in the history of the presidency," steps up to the mic in an interview with Fox News's Maria Bartiromo to declare with his full chest: "I had the greatest year... I ended 8 wars. The greatest economy…

Donald Trump continued his bizarre behavior of lashing out against even his allies over his Iran war when he denigrated Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for criticizing his attacks on Pope Leo.…

The New York Times hounded Joe Biden out of running for reelection not by running the occasional long-form piece hinting at senility, but by repeating those public "questions" again and again. So while I guess it's good that Peter Baker does run the occasional…

Treasury Secretary Scott babbled nonsense to the Institute of International Finance on global warming saying it's impossible to know how to deal with climate change because the planet is going through cycles, is mostly water and it's impossible to deconstruct…

You know that if Sen. Roger Marshall could think of any way to defend Donald Trump’s bonkers and offensive post depicting himself as Jesus, follwed by the equally bonkers claim that he thought he had depicted himself as a doctor, Marshall would have.…

Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger signed the national popular vote bill into law, joining an interstate compact with 17 other states and the District of Columbia. Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, states would assign their presidential…

Federal prosecutors want to wipe out the seditious conspiracy convictions of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who helped plan the Jan. 6, 2021, riots and led the charge into the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents filed Tuesday.…

We’re learning more about the monument Trump wants to build in honor of himself, a giant arch that American taxplayers happen to be paying for, although now no one is sure how much the thing will cost.…