Crooks and Liars

After I broke my kneecap in a car accident 2023, I began listening to audiobooks on theoretical physics while rehabbing. The fascinating journey led me from trying to understand Einstein's famous E = mc² equation to now listening to Michio Kaku explain how…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) lashed out at Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) after he noted that cuts to agencies like the National Weather Service could leave communities unprepared for catastrophic events.…

For the first time since the Kennedy assassination nearly 62 years ago, the CIA has tacitly admitted that an officer specializing in psychological warfare ran an operation that came into contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before the Dallas killing. Via Axios:…

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he had "conflicting feelings" because some people lived after experiencing deadly floods in Texas over the weekend.…

Dalton Rice, the city manager of Kerrville, was called out by a reporter after he fled from a press conference about the deadly floods in Texas.…

Canadian-born Cynthia Olivera, 45, accompanied by her husband, Francisco Olvera, a US citizen, who waited outside, arrived at her June 13 green card interview in Chatsworth, Calif., only to be detained by ICE.…

The cult is strong with this one.…

Texas officials are pointing fingers at the National Weather Service for not accurately predicting the severity of the torrential rains that hit early Friday morning:…

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) argued that the government should be cut in response to the deadly flooding in Texas over the weekend.…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) snapped at Fox News host Shannon Bream after she told him that President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill was a net negative for Americans.…

They can never take responsibility for their own actions, so all they've got are lies and deflection. You want to gut the National Weather Service, you own this.…

MSNBC's Ali Velshi with a word of warning on where we're heading with the right's dangerous dehumanization of immigrants, and this boondoggle, so-called "Alligator Alcatraz."…

Trump signed his Big, Hideous Bill into law Friday evening in a ceremony held on the White House South Lawn, giving tax cuts to the wealthy while cutting Medicaid. Reforms have also been implemented in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),…

This newspaper report makes it sound like many levels of government coordinated to bring the statue to the Jefferson County Courthouse. In reality however, someone just placed an order to a factory in China. The exact same bronze statue is also on the…

Alicublog: Roy Edroso breaks it down, including the American dream.…

We saw Trump pull this crap earlier this week, floating the idea of deporting US citizens, now it's Steve Bannon's turn.…

I hope you all had a nice holiday despite the current circumstances. Here is your Sunday morning open thread. What’s on your mind this morning? read more

This song is one of the most played tunes at wedding and corporate party's off all time. It's good to be alive and fuck the rest. Open thread this July 4th weekend away. read more

[Above: The LA wildfires from five months ago.]…

by Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom…

Heavy floods swept through Central Texas early yesterday, killing at least 24 people and leaving authorities searching for at least 20 girls missing from a camp along the Guadalupe River. Via The Washington Post:…

Let’s be clear about one thing. A Democrat is a Democrat. We have neither the time nor the bandwidth to split policy hairs when the country is being burned to the ground. The only thing we need to know about any Democrat is that they’re not Republican.…

The first of many, no doubt. Troy Brunt of Community Hospital mentions that 56% of all rural hospitals are operating at a loss in his state. This will push many, if not all of them to close. "An analysis released by the Sheps Center for Health Services…

On the same day Donald Trump’s puppets in Congress passed his Big Bucks For Billionaires Bill (and life-threatening cuts for the rest of us), The New York Times published a very disturbing article that makes it clear Trump, via his Department of Justice,…

Armed with 51 caskets and a new federal analysis, faith leaders and people who would be directly impacted by U.S. President Donald Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill got arrested protesting in Washington, D.C. this week and pledged to organize the millions…