Republicans launch investigation into Trump

Top Stories for August 31:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans in deep-red state investigating Trump regime
Republican officials in can’t-get-any-deeper-red Wyoming are formally investigating Donald Trump’s nakedly authoritarian interference in their state’s electoral systems, a cosmic disturbance foretold in Revelation signaling that the Apocalypse is indeed nigh.

Brian Tyler Cohen and Marc Elias discuss the ramifications of Wyoming’s Republican governor calling for a probe of the MAGA cult leader on the latest episode of “Democracy Watch.”

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Google Maps faces fury for caving to Trump
The brain trust at Google Maps caved to MAGA Daddy over the weekend, agreeing to go along with his ridiculous “Lake America” stunt — but only for users accessing their maps from inside the United States.

Users everywhere else will still enjoy a mapping algorithm that adheres to objective reality and see Lake Ontario, the name the lake has had since at least 1639. Interestingly, Apple Maps has thus far refused to play ball.

Heroes over at MapQuest have taken things a step further, letting users rename Lake Ontario whatever they want.

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Republicans throw our service members under the bus for Trump
The Hell Cats: While they wrap themselves in the flag and extoll the heroism of our service members, House Republicans have been gleeful collaborators to Trump and Pete Hegseth’s efforts to tear down the military and remake it in their own sick image. They’ve stood by and said nothing as Hegseth terrorizes LGBTQ soldiers, fires and denies promotions to Black and female leaders, and erases the history of Black Americans in the US military.

They’ve stood by and said nothing as Trump and Hegseth send our troops into a pointless war with no considerations for their safety — and then cover-up the casualty counts when tragedy strikes. It’s time to replace these fascistic yes-men with leaders who will stand up for our troops and put their best interests first because THEY’VE been there before.

Democrats Rebecca Bennett, JoAnna Mendoza, Cait Conley, and Maura Sullivan all know what it means to fight for this country. All four of them served in the military, and they’ve seen enough of Donald Trump and his MAGA insanity. If we want to flip the House this November, these candidates need our support! Chip in today to help elect the Hell Cats and flip the House blue!

Trump posts AI slop claiming Iran’s Kharg Island is being “blown to smithereens,” but gives no details
According to Donald Trump’s social media feed, Iran’s Kharg Island is currently being “blown to smithereens” by US forces. You can totally tell it’s definitely 100% true because the wannabe dictator’s announcement came in the form of a cartoonish, AI-generated slop video geared toward a target audience of 12-year-olds.

Neither the White House, Pentagon, nor Iranian state media made any announcements corroborating or refuting the president’s social media proclamation, another tell-tale sign of its veracity.

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Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America “immediately”
America’s 80-year-old nincompoop-in-chief apparently wants Canadian companies to teleport their headquarters across the border overnight as a precondition to continue doing business with the United States.

“Let all Canadian Companies that are doing business with America move to the United States, immediately. Many of them are Companies that moved out years ago due to stupid US Leadership. When you move back, there are no TARIFFS!” Trump wrote, mistaking his sharpie collection for magic wands.

For those keeping score at home, Canada is the United States’ second-largest trading partner with $900 billion in cross-border economic activity each year.

NBC News reporters recount harrowing story of attack by Israeli settlers
This weekend, Matt Bradley and an NBC News team were viciously attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. “We were interviewing a Palestinian woman yesterday named Aida Ahmed Abdullah — her home in the West Bank now occupied by Israeli settlers. As Aida took us closer to her home, masked young men in a gray car with Israeli license plates armed with sticks and stones rushed on the scene. They smashed our car windshield, hit our crew with clubs, and beat Aida unconscious. We were able to get her to an ambulance, and our team was treated for minor injuries,” recounts Bradley.

Israeli military police say they are “investigating” the incident but no arrests have been made, of course. Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has been rapidly escalating as the genocidal Israeli state reaches a fever pitch in its ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians.

And that’s not us saying that: former Israeli Army Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon told Ynet News that “eighty years after the Holocaust, ‘Mein Kampf’ in reverse. The master race is us.” Retired IDF General Ephraim Sneh said, “This is ethnic cleansing, to put it simply.” Asaf Agmon, a retired IDF Air Force general, sadly concluded that “once a society behaves this way, that society is doomed.”

House Democrat to launch challenge to Trump’s ridiculous “Lake America” order
Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan announced plans to introduce new legislation nullifying Donald Trump’s patently absurd renaming of Lake Ontario.

Dingell said she had accrued more than 100 signatures from fellow House Democrats in a letter to the president, urging the Trump administration “to change its diplomatic approach with our closest ally, Canada, and recognize the importance of the United States-Canada relationship.” Uh, good luck with that!

Lara Trump says Donald sleeps “three or four hours a night”
Well that explains A LOT of things, none of them reassuring. Can someone please slip granddad a sleep gummy?