Trump FALLS ASLEEP on TV after turning NYC upside-down

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump falls asleep during NBA Finals Game 3
The president of the United States — who in recent weeks has told the American public a) he doesn’t think about their financial struggles even a little bit and b) dismissed complaints by actual fans priced out by $15,000 tickets, calling it “just the way life is” — spent millions of taxpayer dollars and turned Midtown upside-down so he could publicly sleep through Game 3 of the NBA Finals in person last night. A true man of the people.

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Netanyahu and Trump are at odds over the war they started together
Who could’ve possibly seen a falling out between these two self-serving sociopaths coming? It’s almost as if America’s imbecile-in-chief was manipulated into a catastrophic military conflict he had no business waging by a duplicitous war criminal keenly aware of the malignant narcissist’s susceptibility to flattery.

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Meet the Democrats who are going to reclaim our congressional majority!
Red to Blue: There are 20 Democrats running to flip vulnerable red seats in the House, and their must-win races are the key to us retaking Congress and making Mike Johnson’s majority nothing but a bad memory. All of these Democratic candidates are locked in close races in Republican-held districts, and every dollar might make the difference in helping the Democrats regain control of the House. The Democrats in these races are united by their desire to fight for hardworking families in their districts — not the billionaires bankrolling Republicans’ corrupt and divisive machine. Will you chip in a donation to be split among ALL these candidates to help kick the GOP out of the House?

Trump’s Knicks game excursion causes chaos in Manhattan and infuriates fans outside Madison Square Garden
If a deeply polarizing and historically unpopular president were to draw up a theoretical plan to piss off the absolute maximum number of residents in his hometown at once, it could not eclipse the clusterfuck Donald Trump managed to unleash on Midtown Manhattan yesterday leading up to Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

With the New York Knicks hosting their first Finals’ game in 27 years, fans were met with the most unwelcome news that the MAGA cult leader would be in attendance, leading to hours-long security lines, blocks completely walled off to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, restrictions on personal belongings allowed in the arena, “airport-style magnetometers,” and the unceremonious cancelation of a beloved watch party outside Madison Square Garden where thousands of revelers had planned on enjoying the big game.

Oh, also — the Knicks lost, and fans seem to have settled on a theory as to why.

World’s largest banks pledged $906 billion to fossil fuel companies in “unfathomable” increase in 2025, report finds
The world’s largest banks committed an astonishing $906 BILLION in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an “unfathomable” increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil, and gas production as the world continues to overheat, an infuriating new report has found. The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64 billion or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures, according to the coalition of environmental groups behind the new analysis.

So long as the rest of us remember our reusable bags and stick with paper straws we should still be okay, right?

Trump’s ex-Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino says he wants to deport nearly one-third of the people in the US
Former Border Patrol chief and current cosplay Nazi Greg Bovino, who was pushed out of the Trump regime earlier this year following the murders of two protesters in Minneapolis by members of the wannabe dictator’s anti-immigrant brute squad, is apparently exploring a run for president in 2028. His singular mission? To deport 106 MILLION non-white people living in the United States. His current campaign slogan? “Men Fight Back.”

Look, as proponents of gender-affirming care, we support Greg’s right to dip his li’l toes in the shallow end of the presidential waters. And as backers of the First Amendment, we also reserve the right to declare the jackbooted pipsqueak completely out of his racist mind.

Speaker Johnson claims “rigged” election accusations are “impossible to prove”
Impossible to prove, ever ready to proclaim.

“I would vote for a doorknob over Susan Collins”: Maine voters dismiss controversies surrounding GOP senator’s challenger
To be fair, a doorknob would offer up more pushback against Trump than the five-term Republican senator at this point. Perpetually concerned, but never enough to actually act, Susan Collins genuinely appears to have worn out her welcome among an electorate famous for its independent streak. Is Democratic newcomer Graham Platner an imperfect candidate? Of course. Will he put the people of Maine ahead of a party that long ago sold its soul to a vainglorious grifter? Absolutely.

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Mike Johnson has effectively ceded all power to Trump
A new report from Reese Gorman at NOTUS says that “it’s become a running joke among some Republican members” that “Speaker Mike Johnson has had to rely on President Donald Trump so much, Trump is actually the one running the House.” The MAGA cult leader even mocks Johnson to his face in front of House Republicans, joking in at least one meeting that “I have two jobs: being president and being speaker.”

Spinelessness has always been Mike Johnson’s defining feature, but this is veering on the edge of a constitutional crisis — to the point where Johnson has been telling legislators to get their bills approved by the White House before bringing them up for a vote. November CANNOT come soon enough.