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Another Mass Murder of Children, While They Were Praying in Church–The Sadistic Absurdity of Trump–Democrats Can Learn From Our Best President and From Our Worst

Another Mass Murder of Children, This Time While They Were Praying in Church on Their First Day at School We begin with the latest gun massacre of young children in a church, shot down as they were praying on the first day at school. While Trump and Project 2025 are eliminating what little restrictions exist … Continued


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The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO in Trump’s Plot to Steal Greenland–Trump’s Anti-Semitic Conspiratorial Rant Threatening George Soros–Can We Endure Dictatorial Creep?

The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO Ally in Support of Trump’s Plot to Steal Greenland We begin with the Danish government, a NATO ally, summoning the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen to complain about American intelligence operatives in Greenland developing lists of Greenlanders who might support a U.S. takeover from Denmark and more … Continued


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Illinois’ Governor Pritzker Stands up to Trump–Trump Fires the First and Only Black Woman on the Fed–How the U.S. Should Deal With the Way the World is, Not How We Wish It To Be

Another Governor, Illinois’ Pritzker, Stands up to Trump While Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate are MIA We begin with another Democratic governor standing up to Trump while Democratic leadership in the House and Senate are AWOL and that is Illinois’ Governor Pritzker who bluntly told Trump to keep the military out of Chicago, … Continued


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Peter Stone/Osita Nwanevu

Trump Patrols the Streets of the Nation’s Capital as he Wages War on the Truth  We begin with Trump patrolling the streets of Washington DC tonight and how he has sabotaged independent sources of knowledge, flooded communications media with disinformation, and is rewriting history to conform to ideology rather than facts, including Trump’s counter-factual charges … Continued


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Protesters jeered at Vance, Hegseth, and Miller as they handed out cheeseburgers to National Guard troops at DC’s Union Station—where Miller dismissed demonstrators as “crazy communists”—before the show turned to GOP gerrymandering in Texas and Ukraine’s fight against a looming Russian offensive.

Protestors at DC’s Union Station Yell at Vance, Hegseth and Miller Who Calls Them “Crazy Communists” as They Bring Cheeseburgers to National Guard Troops We begin with Vance, Hegseth and Miller showing up today at DC’s Union Station with cheeseburgers for the National Guard troops only to be met by a cacophony of protest from … Continued


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David Andelman/Ori Goldberg/James Moore

Trump’s Pathetic Idea of Diplomacy and the Art of the Giveaway We begin with yesterday’s embarrassing display of pathetic amateurism at the White House where our ridiculously out-of-his-depth president had a roundtable discussion with seven world leaders and NATO heads who were present out of desperation to do damage control. Caught on a hot mic, … Continued


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Harold Meyerson/Julie Roginsky/Robert Stern

Trump’s Performative Takeover of the Streets of Washington DC as Its Residents Cry “Fascists”, “Pigs” and “Go Home”  We begin with the arrest of a Justice Department employee in Washington, D.C. charged with assaulting a federal officer with a sandwich after calling him and other agents “fascists.” With 1,650 federal officers on the streets having … Continued