Crooks and Liars

Ten Dem Senators are calling for a congressional hearing over JPMorgan Chase’s decision to keep Jeffrey Epstein as a bank client for about 15 years. Via The Wall Street Journal:…

On Monday, The New York Times correctly reported that Donald Trump’s known signatures “closely match” the “Donald” signature on the lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.…

MAGA podcaster and Trump sycophant Benny Johnson downplayed the Wall Street Journal graphic of Trump's birthday letter to Epstein, claiming it's not out of the question that Jeffrey Epstein "forged" Trump's signature.…

Donald Trump defended Vladimir Putin once again after a multitude of Russian drones entered Polish airspace which is a violation against our NATO allies.…

The head of the Oakland County Republican Party called for a Michigan judge to resign over a Facebook comment she made following the shooting death of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. Death does not make a person less of a piece of shit, but…

It has not been a good 48 hours for FBI director Kash Patel, the unqualified Trump sycophant put in charge of domestic law enforcement.…

The tragic shooting death of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder, sparked MAGA social media influencers to call for "war," even though the facts aren't known yet, or the motivation. And even though Donald J. Trump spent last week openly…

The alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk wasn't trans or a left-wing zealot, but came from a Mormon family and grew up with guns, but Trump still found a way to blame "the left" by defending right-wing radicals because they support his agenda.…

Tyler Robinson, 22, has been identified as the Charlie Kirk shooter. Looking at his mother's Facebook page, he was raised in the stereotypical all-American white conservative family with a sheriff who has served for 27 years as his father. Tyler was immersed…

Never mind that Kirk attacked MLK and the Civil Rights Act, these clowns are now using Martin Luther King Jr. to try to deify Kirk. Here's the crap we're going to have to put up when these MAGA wingnuts aren't trying to bludgeon liberals into pretending Kirk…

We're not really allowed to talk about this these days, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate! Via ABC News:…

U.S. data reports U.S. workers filed 263,000 claims for unemployment benefits last week, the highest level since October 2021 and another sign the job market is cooling. Will the Wall St. Journal start calling them "lucky duckies" again? Via CBS News:…

Within minutes of the death of Charlie Kirk, Republicans all the way up to and including President Epstein, er, I mean, Trump, have been trying to fan the flames into their own Reichstag fire, blaming the left in general for violent political rhetoric while…

Senate Republicans invoked the nuclear option to fast-track confirmation of the Trump administration’s subcabinet nominees. Via the Wall Street Journal:…

Bloomberg News obtained a trove of more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account. They showed that Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein "were closer, in many respects, than either publicly admitted,” Bloomberg said. They also cast further…

Crooked Timber - a down-the-back-of-the-sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism;…

Yesterday was another brutal reminder of the country we live in. The one right-wing interests and Republicans have delivered to us. It was also a reminder of the country we could be if we have the courage to make it happen, ignored pinheaded protocols and…

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A far-right extremist, who also moonlights as a congressman from Missouri, took to the House floor on Thursday to condemn the Left as pure evil and blame them for the death of Charlie Kirk. People like Bob Onder get paid by the American taxpayer to stoke hate…

Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University…

During Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee markup, Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida trolled Jeffrey Epstein-apologist Republicans by calling for an investigation into Speaker Mike Johnson’s bizarre claim that President Donald Trump may have been an FBI…

The tragic shooting death of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder, was a terrible loss for his family, friends, and supporters. It never should have happened. However, there is a lot of noise, victimhood, and finger-pointing taking place. The…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a vote in the Senate on Wednesday to compel the release of the Epstein files. Only two Republican senators voted in favor of finding out which cronies and donors played a part in Epstein’s child sex-trafficking…

Donald Trump is the biggest purveyor of hate speech in the history of this country, as a political figure and president.…

Travis Clay, the host of Outkick, and a Fox News contributor went a scorched earth to Sean Hannity on the left after the Charlie Kirk shooting and received no push back from Fox News for his antics.…