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It was bound to happen. We're now watching Republican congressmen react to Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office and saying "RUSSIA IF YOU'RE LISTENING" during an interview with George Stephanopoulos, literally inviting hostile foreign powers to attack the…

On Saturday, Glenn Greenwald saw a story in the New York Times about how the US is mucking around in Russia's power grid in a show of power:In interviews over the past three months, [current and former US] officials described the previously unreported…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a syphilitic lesion disfiguring Congress. He's burying liberal dreams, protecting a corrupt president, and he's never been happier. His wife, Elaine Chao, is also shady AF. Where do you even start with this guy?…

Look, it is your afternoon Nice Times at the Supreme Court! It is also your WUT and HUH Times, with Justices Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan and Gorsuch joining in an…

Arkansas Republican Senator and evil Pinocchio turned into a real live boy Tom Cotton appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" to discuss the…

Kudos to ABC News for drip-drip-dripping out George Stephanopoulos's batshit interview with President Batshit as slowly as possible, for maximum effect. We really did need a few days to absorb the president saying it was totally OK for hostile foreign powers…

Let the quitfiring begin! Donald Trump's own internal polls are shit, so obviously it's time to fire the pollsters. Last week, the New York Times reported that Trump is freaking out and using his ancient, unsecured cellphone to make late night booty calls to…

It's been a bit over two months since the last time Donald Trump said he was fixing to roll out a new healthcare plan, which went nowhere, so -- right on schedule! -- Trump is talking about rolling out a new healthcare plan that will also go nowhere, because…

A couple thugs accosted a family in Phoenix, Arizona, last month. They waved their penis substitutes and shouted obscenities and threats at Dravon Ames, his pregnant fiancee Iesha Harper, and their two young daughters. What's especially scary but not that…

For the last few years, the Trump regime has been trying to force undocumented children to act as baby incubators. On Friday, a federal court found once again that this incredibly fucked up policy is unconstitutional.In 2017, the director of the Department of…

We have decided to start recapping Bill Maher's Real Time. Because we hate ourselves.…

Morning Wonketariat! Here's some of the things we may be talking about today. Internal GOP polling shows Trump getting brutally crushed by Joe Biden in 11 states, so Trump denied his own polling that shows Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren beating…

It's Father's Day, which means it's time for Yr Dok Zoom and his son to go to brunch and check out the downtown Boise Father's Day Car Show so we can ooh and ah over the very same Corvettes 'n' Mustangs 'n' lovingly-restored classic cars that are there every…

There was a time, a few months ago, when everyone had written off Elizabeth Warren. Well, not me, because I am a fabulous genius, but lots of other people. The "very reasonable" talking heads on all the various news channels, the kind of people who used to say…

Suddenly, America is swimming in news about lead, that fun neurotoxin that's poisoned our children since the early 20th century, all for the sake of shiny home paints and no-knock gasoline. Prosecutors in Michigan shocked residents of Flint by abruptly…

Good news, everyone! We have a Democratic challenger for lousy Maine Sen. Susan Collins. Former Maine gubernatorial candidate Betsy Sweet announced her candidacy Thursday, and we confess we'd be more thrilled about it if she weren't a "former" candidate.…

Know what? We don't even have to type words to kick this top ten post off, and you know why? Because there are like 80-eleventy Wonkette toddler pics down at the bottom, and all you're going to do is scroll anyway. Oh, and you're going to read the stop ten…

Did you hear? The DNC has released the line-up for the double-header first Democratic primary debates on June 26 and 27! It's 10 candidates each night, because there are 20 of them who qualified, and you can look at the match-ups here if you'd like. Elizabeth…

Paging Don McGahn! Donald Trump just backed that orange MAGA bus up and ran your sorry ass over. AGAIN. Thank you for your patriotic service to the nation!The former White House Counsel is currently locked in a battle over his testimony with the House…

President Unloved And Unworthy Of Being Loved is having a birthday today. According to our quick back-of-the-napkin calculations, he is 148,467 in dog years, which is we don't know how many in people years, because we're not sure he's a "people." Because he…

Once upon a time, in the year 2000, the CDC declared measles "eliminated" — thanks to vaccines. Of course, that was seven whole years before the the former co-host of MTV's Singled Out decided to start going around telling everyone that those same vaccines…

Like that rash you get in the warmer, wetter months -- when you thought the cream your doctor gave you had taken care of, but still gives you an odd sense of satisfaction when you scratch it -- Joseph Dee Morrissey is back. A few years ago, Morrissey was a…

This morning, the Colluder in Chief called in to The Best Little Whorehouse in AM for one of those therapeutic "massages" he likes so much. For a little extra, they even let him do a Reverse Stephanopoulos, where he gets to dress up as a guy who didn't go on…

The WTF media moment of the week was this tweet from the supposed "top experts" in health at the "Today" show:…

If there's one thing Republicans hate, it's "social engineering" -- they really can't stand it when government tells We The People how to run their lives. Unless of course you're talking about poor people, and especially poor black people. In that case, plenty…

Kayleigh McEnany, the Harvard Law grad who now takes a paycheck for pretending to be extremely stupid for the Trump campaign, has thoughts on that little thing Donald Trump told George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office. You remember! (Because it was two days…

You might think rich people would hate the idea of raising taxes on the rich, but a new "millionaire poll" by CNBC shows that a large chunk of America's rich people are actually just fine with some proposals to increase their own taxes. In fact, 60 percent of…

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Morning Wonketariat! Here's some of the things we may be talking about today. For his birthday, Trump is asking foreign governments to help him win reelection in 2020. Congressional Republicans are shrugging off Trump's apparent attempt to commit another…

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