Trump’s green slime disaster suffers humiliating new blow

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Trump’s green slime disaster suffers humiliating new blow
Oopsie hazy. The company that worked on previous renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during the Obama administration turned down a request to supply its products for the makeover demanded by Donald Trump because it deemed the project “unfeasible.” New Jersey-based Sika USA declined the Trump regime’s offer because it believed completing the project by Donald’s July 4 deadline was not possible and warned that painting the pool’s bottom blue would create additional problems. America’s vainglorious grifter-in-chief then turned to Rhino Linings, a company primarily known for truck bed liners, and the, uh, mess is history.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump’s bluff gets called in ongoing pool debacle
More than a decade into our long, national, and occasionally comical nightmare, it is still somehow newsworthy that the most powerful person in the world could not tell the truth if his life depended on it. Speaking to reporters earlier this week, Donald had this to say about his ongoing Reflecting Pool debacle: “Somebody went in with a knife and cut it, they cut it up good. And then they cut a 200-, 350-foot slit in the form of lots of little slits. A real horrible stuff, and they destroyed the grass. We put a brand-new, big load of grass out there, and they destroyed it.” Even by Trump’s standards, this tall-tale telling really comes up short.

And after days of telling one version or another of his nefarious “vandals” story and repeatedly claiming that Interior Dept. staff had evidence of sabotage, wouldn’t you know it, a National Park Service official submitted a court filing that read: “On June 9, 2026, after the rehabilitation project was substantially complete, the US Park Police responded to an NPS report of damage to the reflecting pool, including a caulk over the foam sealant that was cut with a sharp knife or razor and destruction of delaminating surface material.”

Hard to distinguish, what with all the algae, but something smells really fishy…

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Trump launches new plot to seize voter data by holding mail-in votes hostage
Stand Up America: Trump and his Republican allies are hellbent on making the 2026 midterms as undemocratic as possible. His Postmaster General has now issued a new rule that require states to give the federal government the name and address of EVERY voter receiving a ballot, and give USPS the power to decide who can and cannot receive a mail-in ballot. We cannot allow them to get away with this. Make your voice heard and tell USPS to keep its hands OFF our votes! Text USPS to 63033 to submit your comment!

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump regime to revive aggressive anti-immigration policy as liberal justices issue blistering dissent
Conservatives on the Supreme Court once again leapt at the chance to hand in their gavels for a rubber stamp of approval as they paved the way for Donald Trump to choke the number of asylum seekers entering the US, creating a humanitarian crisis as thousands of people are forced to live in makeshift camps on the Mexican side of the border to eventually have their cases heard. “A guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks on the front door,” Justice Samuel Alito penned in one of his world-famous demonstrations of empathetic intellect, because applying for political asylum in another country is obviously just like going over to Jimbob’s for dinner.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent and said the majority’s decision “regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.” Pretty clear to see which side actually understands what America is all about…and which side is just phoning it in on behalf of Trump’s heinous white supremacist agenda.

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Majority of Americans say White House is not being truthful about Trump’s health
Truly shocking to learn that most Americans are choosing to believe their own eyes and ears over the breathless proclamations of “OMG, healthiest president eva, foreal!” coming from the Trump White House. Whether it’s the mysterious bruising on Donald’s hands, his swollen ankles, the constant nodding off in front of cameras, his trouble with stairs or simply walking in a straight line, or the frequent “routine” trips to Walter Reed, the 80-year-old grifter-in-chief just ain’t poppin’ quite like he used to. And let’s be honest, there wasn’t a lot of pep in that step to begin with.

JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be “12-hour news story” today
Vice President JD Vance took a victory lap over the rule of law at the Nixon Foundation, bragging that notorious criminal president Tricky Dick was a “victim of the deep state” and that Watergate wouldn’t even be a 12-hour story today. “The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy,” said Vance in a taunt to the rest of the country about how his administration commits 19 Watergates a week and never gets held accountable for any of it…yet. A top priority of the next Democratic Congress is to wipe the smirk off the cosplay hillbilly’s face and reestablish actual rule of law.

Democrats launch Living Wage For All Act, raising fed minimum wage to $25/hour
Look, the Democratic Party is obviously not without its faults and flaws, and the fight to form that ever-elusive “more perfect union” clearly continues, but take a moment to consider the economic platforms the two major political parties in the United States are actually offering voters.

Does the Republican Party’s maniacal obsession with gifting the wealthy, mega-wealthy, and obscenely wealthy evermore deficit-exploding tax cuts benefit the average American in any tangible way? Does showering corporations that already pay ZERO dollars in federal income tax even more gimmicks and loopholes to shield their riches and avoid paying anything remotely resembling a fair share do anything to alleviate poverty or improve the collective quality of life in the richest nation on Earth?

Or does the Democrats’ Living Wage For All Act, which would finally require a gradual raise of the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $25 per hour, strike you as a bit more egalitarian? Sure, quadrupling the federal minimum wage over the span of six years may seem like a radical increase, but only if you ignore recent history, basic inflation, or Congress’ abject failure to lift a damn finger over the past 17 years. The last increase to the national federal wage occured way back in July of 2009, when the rate increased from $6.55 per hour to $7.25. Since then? Crickets. Meanwhile, inflation has produced a cumulative price increase of 55% over that same period of time, meaning a dollar today only buys 64.5% of what it did in 2009.

With Republicans in charge of bother chambers of Congress and with a silver-spooned grifter squatting in the White House, we know today’s introduction of The Living Wage For All Act is simply the opening salvo in a very long slog, but the competing messages on offer from Democrats and Republicans could not be more stark. Let’s get to work, people!

Beloved Alaskan Mary Peltola drops love letter to Alaska in inspiring first TV ad
Mary Peltola for Alaska: US Senate candidate Mary Peltola is a native Yup’ik who has spent her entire life working for Alaska, and her genuine love for the state and its people flies off the screen. “When I think of an Alaskan, I think about somebody who has a genuine connection to the land and the people and the experience of living and growing and raising a family here,” says one man. “Every Alaskan I have ever known, no matter how young, no matter how old, no matter where they’re from, deeply understand the importance of making sure our kids and grandkids and all the generations after us have the same kind of abundance that we had. We can get back there if we’re all working on this together.” It’s the perfect message for a positive campaign that connects directly to voters and is even more powerful considering that incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan is a transplant from Ohio. Click here to watch her ad and chip in to help elect her to this must-win Senate seat!

FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House gets beamed out of agency
Gregg Phillips, the comically unqualified conspiracy theorist Donald Trump put in charge of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, has finally been ousted from the agency. Phillips downfall might have had something to do with the mind-boggling and admittedly hilarious teleportation claim he made on a podcast last year, which understandably took the internet by storm.

During an appearance on the “Onward” podcast, Phillips — who, again, the Trump regime literally put in charge of coordinating FEMA’s disaster response operations — had this to say: “I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House — this was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was. And they said, ‘where are you?’ and I said, A Waffle House.’ And ‘a Waffle House where?’ And I said, ‘Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.’ And they said, ‘That’s not possible, you just left here a moment ago.’ But it was possible. It was real… Teleporting is no fun. It’s no fun because you don’t really know what you’re doing. You don’t really understand it, it’s scary, but yet — but so real.”

Is it just us, or are we missing a real opportunity here? Imagine just how truly effective FEMA could become if we could harness Gregg’s supernatural powers to deliver disaster relief!

Tucker Carlson excoriates Trump: “Shut up, bitch! I don’t take you seriously”
The one-time MAGA darling’s exile in the wilderness is clearly going well.