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Former Trump financial advisor Larry Kudlow used every MAGA lie there is to describe Biden's economic policy before finishing by claiming it's racist against white people.

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of GOP chicanery from the weekend to cover during his Monday night monologue. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene may get her wish by having Mike Johnson step down as Speaker of the House in the near future. Speaker Hakeem Jeffries has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won a special election in New York's 26th Buffalo-based district to serve the rest of Brian Higgins' term. Kennedy defeated Republican town supervisor Gary Dickson, thus narrowing the House GOP's majority. This gives Democrats 213 seats in the House, compared to 217 for the Republicans.... Читать дальше...

A local TV anchor for Detroit's WJBK-TV tried to pin Donald Trump down for a source over the former President's claim about crime statistics in Venezuela. The anchor, Roop Raj, asked Trump for a source over his repeated claim of why there has been a 72 percent reduction in crime in the last year in Venezuela. According to the twice-impeached former President, it's because they sent all of their criminals to this country. This is reminiscent of Trump in 2016 claiming that Mexico "isn't sending their best" people. Читать дальше...

Julie Green is out with another off-the-wall prophecy and it's a doozy.

Judging just by the look on Trump's face, he's as puzzled by this one as the rest of us. If I had to guess, I'd say it was Tyra Banks or maybe Chrissy Teigen. Or perhaps another porn star that Trump slept with while Melania was pregnant.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed that it is legitimate to attempt to prosecute Barack Obama over his acts as President if Trump's bizarre immunity claim fails at the Supreme Court.

Hey there, procrastination nation! You know what today is? That's right, it's Anti-Procrastination Day. The day of the week when we're supposed to finally get around to all those nagging tasks we've been putting off.

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan featured Rachel Powell, the infamous Bullhorn Lady in his hour-long documentary “MisinfoNation: The Trump Faithful." We've done a few posts on her at C&L as well. On October 17, 2023, Powell was sentenced to 57 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release. (The good Christian grandmother had used an ice pick to break into the Capitol building and later assaulted police officers.) Powell began serving her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton on January 9, 2024. Читать дальше...

The evangelical Christian right MAGA movement has a hard time rationalizing their beliefs with actual scientific facts.

Sarah Matthews, a former Trump assistant press secretary, slammed Trump and the dissenting conservatives who still kiss his ass, saying “a lot of Republicans” that she has spoken to, including top elected officials, “will bash him privately, but many of them will not even say it publicly.” Via The New Republic:

The Justice Department said yesterday that it had recommended easing restrictions on marijuana in what would be a major change in federal policy. Yes, it will take a while and no, it won't make it legal, but it's movement. Via the New York Times:

As bad as the things he admits to are, the ones he won't admit are even scarier. Because it means he knows people will hate him for it, he just doesn't care. Mika Brzezinski talks about Trump's Time Magazine interviewL

Before there was Fox News, before there was Rush Limbaugh, before there was the sprawling rightwing ecosystem of fake news and vicious smears we so enjoy today, there was the National Enquirer.

You Might Notice a Trend: The threat of Trump's atrocities.

The Mahablog: The unwise men who need correction.

Dispatches from a Collapsing State: J.D. Vance, the right, and the center.

The Cottage: The great divorce, evangelical style.

Finally, for May Day (which is Labor Day or Workers' Day in some countries), Billy Bragg's version of "The Internationale."

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Yesterday, in making a pitch for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Bernie noted that “while it is critically important we do everything we can to defeat Donald Trump, it is just as important we work to elect progressives this November.” Amen!

The collection of mooks that make up the current MAGA roster is what many of us saw coming years ago. It's been a long death spiral, highlighted by "I'm not a witch" and "2nd Amendment solutions," "palling around with terrorists" and "s*thole countries."Most recently, a puppy killer.

Adolf Hitler, who rose to power on the backs of anti-Semitic scumbags, crackpots and German nationalist zealots finally ended his reign of terror by killing himself.

The second week of the Donald Trump criminal trial testimony began with a bang!