Trump's crooked AG caught in huge Epstein lie under oath

Trump FCC officials caught accepting luxury gifts from Paramount and CBS

Top Stories for July 16:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Todd Blanche caught lying at his AG confirmation hearing
Donald Trump’s personal criminal lawyer and acting attorney general was challenged on the regime’s handling of the Epstein files — by a REPUBLICAN of all people — and predictably, he lied straight through his teeth.

Todd Blanche, who literally professed his “love” for the president in April when he was named acting AG, is and will continue to be just another sycophantic yes-man and attack dog for his client, Donald Trump; he has no business being an attorney at all, let alone the top law enforcement official in the frickin’ country.

Take Action: Demand Melania testify before Congress about Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein!

Border czar warns there will be more “bloodshed” unless Democrats “shut their mouths”
We call it fascism because it is fascism.

Take Action: Rein in Big Tech’s data center power grab!

The world’s biggest polluter is fueling our World Cup fun
Conservation Law Foundation: The World Cup is happening right now, in American cities baking in triple-digit heat — heat that climate scientists directly link to fossil fuel pollution. Ironically, the company currently bankrolling the biggest sporting event on earth is the single largest corporate polluter in human history, the Saudi Arabian oil company ARAMCO, which is solely responsible for 4% of ALL climate-change pollution since 1965. Add your name to tell FIFA to drop ARAMCO as a sponsor ASAP and stop allowing corporate polluters to sportswash their reputations!

The use of force has become a “default tool” for ICE officers, a new report finds
Surprise, surprise. The ACLU released a new report today that looked at more than 1,200 immigration enforcement operations involving ICE officers or law enforcement working with ICE across eight states, beginning when Donald Trump took office in January 2025 until the end of last year and found widespread use of force.

Nearly a third of the incidents included in the research involved the use of force or the threat of force. “You’re seeing the threat of using force and actually using it become the default tool for immigration enforcement agents,” Naureen Shah, the ACLU’s director of policy and government affairs for immigration said. The aggression, intimidation, and cruelty are the point.

Take Action: Don’t let Republicans gut animal welfare laws in the farm bill!

House Republicans resurrect Trump’s SAVE Act election theft scheme by trying to add it to spending bill
If at first and second and third you don’t succeed at upending democracy, try, try, try again to thwart the electoral process and appease your insatiable cult leader.

Take Action: Demand your members of Congress restore funding for public media now!

Secret Service reportedly “fed up” with JD Vance’s travel plans
Cosplay hillbilly JD Vance has already worn out his welcome with his Secret Service detail, regularly hitting them with spontaneous and incredibly expensive, last-minute travel plans for his family — including routine errands for his elementary-age kids that definitely should not require taxpayer-funded helicopter rides.

Agents have been stretched so much they literally minted “Bobcat OTR Survivors Club” commiserative coins to dole out to each other to, uh, commemorate their experiences — Bobcat being Vance’s Secret Service code name, OTR meaning “off the record,” the term used to describe hastily arranged travel plans that routinely force agents to cancel days off and quickly develop costly, new security plans to accommodate.

“They change everything,” one person familiar with the situation said. “They don’t stick to their schedules, and that costs shit-tons of taxpayer money.”

Kamala Harris and Mike Pence never put their details through the wringer like this, but then neither of them were bankrolled, molded, and programmed by a sociopathic, billionaire puppeteer completely detached from anything resembling normalcy.

JD Vance tells Joe Rogan than the public’s response to UFC fighter calling Michelle Obama a man was “totally disproportionate”
Everyone please be sure to check in with the vice president so you can determine the appropriate level of disapproval to voice the next time a knuckle-dragging guest of Donald Trump’s visits the White House and barks an incredibly offensive, sexist, racist joke on national TV, m’kay?

Lindsey Graham’s death upends crucial South Carolina Senate race
Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate The abrupt death of Lindsey Graham has completely flipped the script on the race for control of the U.S. Senate. Instead of Dr. Annie Andrews facing down a 23-year-incumbent in Lindsey Graham, she’ll be facing a yet-unknown Republican chosen at the last minute. We need to strike while the iron’s hot and make sure Dr. Annie Andrews’ pro-family, pro-workers, pro-public healthcare message is heard by the people of South Carolina BEFORE dark-money billionaires and Republican Super PACs flood the airwaves with lies and misinformation. Andrews won’t take a dime of corporate PAC money, so she is going to need our help. Will you chip in to help help Annie flip the critical seat blue and take back the Senate for Democrats?

“Scared shitless”: Republicans brace for Trump’s primetime speech
America’s wannabe dictator has been hyping tonight’s primetime speech all week, vowing to deliver “some really big news,” unsettling more than a handful of Republicans who would realllly prefer he stick to messaging on fixing the affordability crisis they made together.

Our money’s on a tired rehashing of his “Big Lie” hits, but one thing is certain — there will be detours. “The people I talk to are scared shitless,” said one former Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s not scared shitless about the text of what he’s going to say, it’s, what does he add to the text?”

JD Vance says Joe Biden eats ice cream “suggestively”
Paging Dr. Freud!

GOP lawmaker unloads on Trump “grifters” as US Mint starts making $1 Trump coins
Make America Grift Again.

Trump’s DNI pick refuses to directly answer who won the 2020 presidential election
Jay Clayton, Donald Trump’s latest nominee to become the nation’s top intelligence chief, repeatedly declined to say who won the 2020 presidential election during Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing, prompting a sharp rebuke from Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff (GA).

“You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election, but you ask to lead America’s intelligence community?” Ossoff said after Clayton repeatedly declined to give a simple, straightforward answer. “Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions?”

Ooh! Ooh! We’ll take this one! Yes, yes it most certainly is!