Crooks and Liars

"In our democracy, voters have to have the last word, and the 2026 midterm election is approaching. Our election system is facing something new, something it hasn't ever faced before. For the first time, the federal government itself is a threat to the…

Leaked drafts of the State Department’s long-delayed annual human rights reports indicate that the Trump administration intends to dramatically scale back U.S. government criticism of certain foreign nations with extensive records of abuse. Via The…

Donald Trump is thinking about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs have reached out to Trump about a pardon!…

"The nut doesn't fall far from the tree," and all that. The daughter of Rep. Andy Biggs, one of Donald Trump’s biggest congressional cheerleaders, is running for a seat in the Arizona Senate, but she doesn't think women should hold office, or even be allowed…

Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents dropped nearly 20% in July—and according to Axios, the Trump administration isn’t happy about it.…

It's no deep dark secret that Rep Drunken Van Orden doesn't have very good people skills. He's sexually harassed two women while he was in the Navy, he screamed at a teen library aide, he screamed at teen Senate pages, and he physically assaulted a young…

Trump's FBI director Kash Patel has granted Texas Sen. John Cornyn's request to send the FBI into Illinois to find and arrest Texas Democrats for refusing to participate in the immoral quorum called by Gov. Abbott to redistrict the state before a census.…

Former Fox host, election denier and conspiracy theorist turned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, made her first appearance back on Fox this Wednesday, and it seems her office is having a bit of trouble with staffing.…

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan explained to CNBC that Trump's tariff policies are based on his whims and opinions rather than on data and there's choppy waters ahead legally from the courts on his tariffs.…

Treated with all the due deference and respect she deserves, which is none.…

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked NewsNation host Chris Cuomo after he posted a deepfake video of her, which was labeled as a "parody 100% made with AI." Cuomo later deleted the tweet that criticized Democrats, which included the fake…

South Park is just reaching its stride. Two weeks after introducing President Donald Trump as a Saddam Hussein-esque figure having a love affair with literal Satan, this season's second episode introduced Vance as Trump’s baby-faced servant, dressed and…

JD Vance’s security team had the Army Corps of Engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, via The Guardian:…

It cheers me to see Donald Trump’s base continue to fracture. But it cheers me even more to see the repulsive Candace Owens lose her smugness and whine about feeling betrayed by President P***y Grabber…

Above, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap performs, Young Girl. Yeah, it's time we talk about it.…

This guy has always been an idiot. Now Jesse Watters is trying to help him monetize it after the former Superman star announced he enlisted as an ICE agent.…

Normally, I just leave this as an open thread and let you go at it. But I want to highlight Steve Greenberg and his excellent cartoon above, which just won the Grand Prize in an Oregon cartoon contest.…

If there’s one person less qualified than Whiskeyleaks Pete Hegseth for evaluating personnel at the Pentagon it’s Laura Loomer. At least Hegseth spent some time serving in the military. Loomer is, essentially, a podcaster and social media provocateur.…

Nearly half of the initiatives laid out in Project 2025 — which is considered by many to be a blueprint for the second Trump administration — have already been implemented by the president, an ongoing analysis has found. Via The Independent:…

As a candidate, Trump spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in Western North Carolina. Things took a dark turn, and Joe Biden's efforts were hampered. Now, in 2025, the Trump administration sought to reallocate $4 billion in FEMA…

What a coincidence that the very same Sections of the Constitution that Republicans have all but openly declared invalid disappeared from the “Constitution Annotated” website maintained by Congress, now controlled by Republicans. Via Above the Law:read more

According to anonymous Trump sources, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell -- who is looking to be pardoned -- told Trump henchman Todd Blanche that Trump "had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern."…

When Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner last week, it was proof positive that he knows he’s incompetent and/or deliberately sabotaging the economy. Otherwise, he would not have been so triggered by one…

Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett claims on live TV that the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated data against Mitt Romney that turned the election for President Obama.…

When CNBC host Joe Kernen tried to correct Donald Trump's claim that he has a 71% overall approval rating, the president insisted that he has "the best poll numbers I've ever had." Even Trump's favorite pollster, Rasmeussen, doesn't show him with a 71%…