Trump completely disgraces himself during 9/11 memorial

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump disgraces himself during 9/11 memorial
While President Biden, who is fighting Stage IV cancer, stood tall and solemnly at the official 9/11 memorial, Donald Trump – who insisted on holding his own event at the Pentagon because he wasn’t allowed to give a partisan speech at the official memorial – promptly fell asleep the second he wasn’t in the spotlight. 25th Amendment please!

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Trump’s own contractor admits its shoddy work caused the problem at the Reflecting Pool — not vandals
Wow. We didn’t know that. This is the first we’re hearing of this.

Gina Hinojosa hits Greg Abbott where it hurts with BRUTAL new ad
Gina Hinojosa for Texas: Data centers are shaping up to be one of the biggest issues this election cycle — and Democrat Gina Hinojosa is NAILING the wildly corrupt Greg Abbott to the wall with a devastating new ad for accepting $20 MILLION from data center developers. “Greg Abbott is selling you out!” reads the final frame. It’s a powerful message sure to resonate with Texas voters, the majority of whom don’t want a data center anywhere near their homes. Will you chip in to help Gina get this ad on every TV screen and radio in Texas?

Republicans’ 9/11 smear about AOC and Mamdani instantly collapses
After spending a week absolutely screaming, crying, throwing up about the fact that Zohran Mamdani was going to attend the 25th anniversary memorial, the right-wing mediasphere was desperately searching for anything to criticize NYC’s Muslim mayor for. They found nothing, so instead, they made it up, creating a doctored video showing Mamdani laughing with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the recitation of names. It immediately went viral in Republican circles in an outburst of hysterical outrage.

Michael Ragusa, a Republican and former aide for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, debunked the video on Twitter, writing “I was standing next to them the whole time. The camera just caught her greeting him hello. Multiple other politicians were laughing and joking behind me. Republicans and Democrats. And for the record I am a life long republican who has been very critical of these two. I’m just sick of this fake news and people just saying whatever they want.”

Hate to break it to you, Michael, but “fake news and people just saying whatever they want” is literally all the right-wing has to cling to these days, as demonstrated by their Liar-in-Chief, Donald Trump.

9/11 widow delivers scathing message about Saudi Arabia during Ground Zero ceremony
A woman who lost her husband in the Sept. 11 terror attacks called out U.S. leaders to confront the Saudi Arabia government and demand that they “stop lying” about their role in the attacks while participating in the ground zero reading of names ceremony.

“How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role Saudi Arabia played in your murder?” Terry Strada said Friday after reading the name of her late husband, Tom Strada. Her call for accountability ignited loud cheers and applause from the typically solemn crowd. “For 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families,” she went on, speaking from a nationally televised podium with the ears of all four living former presidents in attendance.

Republican senator fires aide who used Nazi soldiers as Facebook profile picture
The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo. Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division.

Trump now wants to require his mythical $5,000 dividends to be spent in the US
“We don’t want you going to Canada to spend the money. We don’t want you going to China, to Germany” declared Trump. Somehow, we don’t think that’s a huge concern for the definitely real recipients of these totally-going-to-happen payouts.

Anthropic reportedly blocked possible attempts to make bioweapons using its AI
Anthropic released a paper Thursday that details how the company took action against several users of its AI models who were conducting research that could have led to the development of biological weapons. The report states that the cases it includes aren’t typical examples of misuse of its agents, and include everything from fake dating apps to surveillance systems to potential bioweapons.