August 2, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
NBC News reports: Accompanied by the Israeli military, Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited an aid distribution site in southern Gaza run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where hundreds of Palestinians waited desperately behind barbed wire for food. “Incredible feat!” Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who accompanied Witkoff, said in a post on X …
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August 2, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“While we get slimmer, our wallets are getting fatter. We just made $150 billion in tariff revenue and wages are going up. And any panicking that gets in the way, Trump’s going to fire. Trump just pink slipped the labor stats commissioner for putting out fake job numbers for Joe and Kamala. Unlike Bidenomics, Trumponomics don’t need cooked up reports …
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August 2, 2025 Christianists, Hate Groups
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: One Million Moms has received numerous complaints regarding Jimmy John’s new “Spicy Summer Read” ad campaign, which introduces The Blade and the Brine, the company’s steamy romance novel. Jimmy John’s description of the book in its YouTube commercial states, “Things are heating up at Jimmy John’s with our ‘Summer Menu of Ultimate …
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August 2, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
CNN reports: Renderings provided by the White House depict a vast space with gold and crystal chandeliers, gilded Corinthian columns, a coffered ceiling with gold inlays, gold floor lamps and a checkered marble floor. Three walls of arched windows look out over the White House’s south grounds. The gold-and-white style closely mimics the Louis XIV-style main event room at Mar-a-Lago. …
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August 2, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Newsmax reports: President Donald Trump demurred on whether he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and former Republican Rep. George Santos, telling Newsmax he’s been asked to pardon only one of them to date. In a wide-ranging and exclusive interview with “Finnerty” host Rob Finnerty at the White House on Friday, Trump said he has the power to pardon …
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August 2, 2025 Crackpots, Idiocracy
“What has happened over the past 30 years is the whole system has devolved, and it’s become a quagmire for parents and children and the parents of children who are vaccine injured. These parents are desperate. In many cases, their kids are very needy. Some of these injuries are absolutely debilitating. And the system just simply doesn’t work. “And we …
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August 2, 2025 State Television, Trump cultists
“It reminds me of when President Trump would talk about Ashli Babbitt. Do you remember that? And he gained nothing, really, politically, from talking about that. I mean, he scored points with me and those who know the truth about Ashli Babbitt. “But there are a lot of folks — Republicans, even — a lot of folks did not want …
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August 2, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
AlterNet reports: Newsmax host Rob Finnerty asked Trump about Leavitt’s performance during her daily press briefings, and Trump complimented her skills as his administration’s chief spokesperson — as well as her looks. “She’s become a star. It’s that face, it’s that brain, it’s those lips, the way they move, they move like — she’s a machine gun,” Trump said, noticeably …
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August 1, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Deadline reports: “I’m voting for Stephen,” reads the billboard. Surprisingly, this is Jimmy Kimmel’s message of support his late-night peer Stephen Colbert, whose Late Show was unceremoniously canceled by CBS days after he was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Talk Series category. The tagline currently adorns one billboard in West Hollywood above a liquor store, but it’s clear …
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August 1, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: The National Restaurant Association, which represents more than 1 million U.S. eateries and food service providers, said Friday that tariffs could increase the cost of popular menu items like coffee and hamburgers as well as ingredients like spices. Michelle Korsmo, the president and CEO of the association, said restaurants operate on such tight margins that the …
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