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"Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest, and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault" - Maga Supreme Leader

For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health Till death us do part

Border Patrol didn’t believe him. They, too, are paid not to believe people. The entire immigration purge has become a bounty-hunting operation, where immigration officers have quotas to meet and are paid per arrest, no matter if the arrest holds up.

Roaming Charges: America First, Americans Eventually

“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.” – Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man! Are you an American citizen if you were born

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Elbows Up

Post coup d'état prisoner being deported to the notorious Terrorist Confinement Center(CECOT) in El Salvador.

While Trump and his family are using the White House to make billions, we are tracking every cent. As of January 2026, our Committee’s analysis shows that these schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others.

Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth Tracker | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight

The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee

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Musk sits at a roundtable with his army of early 20s DOGE staffers, looking on proudly alongside Fox News’ Jesse Watters. The young men talk with easy, deluded confidence about how they will fix government as Watters jokingly refers to the notoriously anatomical nickname of one of the men.

Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”

He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.

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Greedy Sociopaths Rule! There was a time in the United States when the richest moguls embraced philanthropy in a cynical effort to keep the angry mobs at bay...The billionaire CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, recently went on a tirade about how charity is actually a “net negative on the world.”

Billionaire Coinbase CEO Boasts That He Would Never Donate to Charity

In a recent appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast, Billionaire Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called charity a "net negative on the world."

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The hostage episode began to seem inseparable from the deepening neglect of our country’s public lands. Whatever the Henrichsens’ personal motives may have been, the erosion of day-to-day management has made ruptures in the fragile relations among strangers in the woods all the more likely.

The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests

Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.

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The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer - or engaging in acts of bestiality. Today, those acts, which are mostly illegal across the country, are no longer automatic deal breakers for applicants to the FBI.

At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired

In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.

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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University published the research: since 1986, no more than 25 employers have been prosecuted in any single year and in the 2018-2019 period only seven cases were prosecuted and none of them involved going after a corporation.

Put the CEOs in Handcuffs: Trump’s ICE Is Arresting the Wrong People

There’s a simple solution to our “illegal immigration” crisis: put some wealthy white CEOs — who are inviting these often desperate people into the country and hiring them — into prison.

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There is, at present, no evidence that Trump intends to feed Americans wild mustangs. What we do know is that his administration announced an enormous influx of unusually cheap imported ground beef before providing basic answers about exactly where all of it would come from.

Trump's mystery meat problem

Cheap mystery beef, wild mustangs and the strange consequences of an opaque food system

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This week Trump’s EPA, largely run by former fossil fuel executives, is trying to make it even harder for local communities to find out how much and what type of pollution is in the air they’re breathing. They proposed eliminating federal public-participation requirements for data centers.

Big Tech Is Coming For Your Water, Your Land, Your Lungs, and Your Electric Bill

There’s a growing movement across America that’s turning conventional politics on its head. For example: — Mostly-Republican farmers in Nebraska are joining up with mostly-Democratic environmentalist…

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Hitler had built a massive ballroom in that nation’s capital, Berlin, called the New Reich Chancellery, with a massive Führer bunker complex under it. It was in that bunker where the generals and hangers-on continued to lie to Hitler about the war. It was in the bunker that Hitler killed himself.

Trump’s Inner Circle Panics Over “Natalie” as the Rasputin Parallel Gets Real

The people around Trump, according to reports, call it “the Natalie situation.” The word they’re trying to avoid saying out loud is “Rasputin.” In the past two weeks we’ve discovered that for quite…

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“[REDACTED] stated Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.” The victim would have been “approximately 13-15 years old when this occurred.

Handwritten FBI notes from Jane Doe 4 alleging SA by Trump leaked

From a leak on Reddit, Ellie Leonard’s substack has posted manually redacted copies of the handwritten notes of the FBI interviews with Jane Doe 4 who alledged that she was sexually assaulted by…

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“The Jew is the eternal instigator… behind attacks on the German people.” - Reinhard Heydrich “The murder rate is being driven by illegal immigrants.” - Elon Musk

The Trump base is a foundational American cultural phenomenon. The fault lies not in Ritt and Newman but that part of the audience itself. The part that responds to the “swagger” and confidence of a supposed “alpha male.” The part that thinks domination equals strength and decency equals weakness.

The 1963 Film That Predicted America In 2026

Maybe you’ve seen this film at some point in the last 63 years. It was the # 20 film in 1963 in terms of box office and won 3 Academy Awards. It’s “Hud” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057163/reference/...

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"Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history – around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event." - UK’s MetCast 4 Weather

Roaming Charges: Footprints Dressed in Red

A tyrant institutionalizes stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. – Gilles Delueze + The best

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“This is a gift to cartels, criminals, and U.S. adversaries that exploit shell companies to move millions through our financial system. Secretary Bessent should testify in front of Congress to explain his decision to put our national security at risk.” - Elizabeth Warren

Trump Deregulates Money-Laundering Industry

Drug-trafficking, sex-trafficking, and fraud get much-needed relief from burdensome rules created by anti-business Senator Marco Rubio

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Noem gets the statue she deserves.

Under Trump the US can’t even fight a minor war, involving no ground trumps, versus a much smaller, ill-equipped nation, for 5 months without emptying its arsenal of weapons and running out of money even though its budget is $1 Trillion (compare China ($336 billion) and Russia’s ($190 billion)).

Roaming Charges: History Hurts

“History is what hurts.” – Frederic Jameson It was 92 in the shade and we fled to the nearest theater to escape the heat and the shrouds of smoke from

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"Micro penis asshole" Penis‑size shaming is one of the last socially acceptable forms of body shaming in progressive spaces. But the insult still relies on the same mechanism as any other body‑shaming: mocking an inherent physical trait to diminish someone’s worth. So let's stop doing it.

Reminder, the only time Trump played a golf tournament where he couldn't cheat, the American Century celebrity tournament in 2006, he shot 52 over par in 3 rounds and finished in 62nd place out of 80 celebrities, then cheated on his wife with a pornstar.

Glorious Leader Again Wins His Own Golf Tournament: "It's Called TALENT, And I Have It, And They Don't!" - Joe.My.God.

“The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a score of 70, and am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m give...

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Republicans say “socialist,” “communist,” “open borders,” “crime,” “chaos,” and “they’re coming for your money.” Democrats respond with a twelve-point policy memo, three footnotes, two expert panels, and a link to a PDF nobody will read unless they are being paid by a foundation.

Why Democrats Are on Track to Lose the Midterms

That is not just a messaging problem. That is a power problem. Right now, Democrats are acting as if the midterm election will be a normal political contest. It will not be. The regime is not simply…

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Watching a bunch of billionaires attend the fight to kiss Trump’s ass was also no doubt very much designed to bring Americans together—because nothing speaks to the average American like a handful of plutocrats.

Trump’s birthday cage match was even grosser than you think

Trump’s birthday gift to himself was as tacky as it gets—but don’t sleep on how disgusting it was too.

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“[E]verybody’s afraid that the next administration, if we don’t win, we’re going to all be investigated and indicted.” - Todd Blanche

What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall

Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell. Back in February he stood up and declared…

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"We didn’t beat Democrats. We handed them a mirror and a magnifying glass and let them disqualify themselves over a flaw, a mistake, a misstep, a college newspaper article, a tweet. The [Platner] hit fell short. The woman at its center was a Republican operative, a DC MAGA apparatchik" - Rick Wilson

An operative’s look at the GOP hit job on Platner - and why it failed

I’m not here to defend Platner. As I don’t vote in Maine, I did not follow the primary campaign closely. However, Rick Wilson, that former GOP operative who worked to take down many Democrats…

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