August 8, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Yahoo News reports: Donald Trump has returned to promoting his own golf prowess, despite the growing debate over how much “help” he has had to achieve his victories. On Thursday, Trump posted a photo on his Truth Social account holding two trophies, writing, “Winning the Senior Club Championship, and the Super Senior Club Championship, last weekend at Bedminster.” Bedminster is …
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August 8, 2025 Fox News, State Television
The Daily Express reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters stirred up controversy on Thursday after floating the idea of a “mostly peaceful invasion” of Canada, which Trump slammed with tariffs earlier this year, prompting online backlash. During Tuesday’s broadcast of The Five, Watters addressed the ongoing debate over gerrymandering, suggesting that if Democrats were going to “rip up the rules,” …
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August 8, 2025 Idiocracy, Trump Administration
The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. is keeping up his streak as purveyor of unusual memes involving his father with a new Instagram post featuring Donald Sr. on the roof of the White House. The image, taken from a meme account on X called “Grand Old Memes” and which is at least partially AI-generated, shows Donald Trump on the …
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August 8, 2025 Politics, Trump Administration
The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine. “Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his …
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August 8, 2025 Completely Horrible People
REPORTER: “I noticed that one of the accomplishments, the things you were touting, was the I-5/I-26 interchange. But that funding came from the Inflation Reduction Act, which you voted against.” MACE: “Right.” REPORTER: “Is that an accomplishment then? That’s something you can tout?” MACE: “Absolutely I can tout that because I will often argue over how much money is spent, …
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August 8, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“When it comes to these local election of the New York City mayor, I mean, this is most important city in the world and its on the verge of electing an open communist who believes in blowing up buses and cafes as a sign of resistance called intifada and redefining that so that people don’t really know what it means.” …
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August 7, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Collider reports: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy takes place in the 32nd century, and features the first Academy class in over a century following a galaxy-spanning disaster, The Burn. It stars Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake, the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy and captain of the Athena; faculty members include engineer Jet Reno (Tig Notaro) and Admiral Charles Vance (Oded Fehr), both …
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August 7, 2025 Television, Trump Administration
GLENN BECK: “Well, I don’t know about you, I would imagine you’re far more busy than I ever have been, but when South Park did an episode — and Cartman played me the whole time —” KRISTI NOEM: “Oh, really?” GLENN BECK: “Yeah, oh yeah. It took me about a year before I even — I didn’t even know it …
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August 7, 2025 Racism, Trump Administration
Politico reports: The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to lift a judge’s order that limits immigration raids in the Los Angeles area based on broad criteria such as speaking Spanish or gathering at locations day laborers often congregate. Last month’s order by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong had effectively blocked what critics called “roving” immigration raids that …
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August 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday making it easier for everyday savers to invest their retirement funds in alternative assets, including private-market assets like private equity and real estate as well as cryptocurrencies. The order directs the Labor Department to work with the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to see which …
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