Tax justice advocates this week are expressing hope that delegates at a United Nations summit aimed at drafting an international tax convention will take the "once-in-a-century opportunity," as one campaigner and researcher said, to place the common good at the center of the global tax system instead of individual and corporate greed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareApparently, these stories about Lumpy constantly falling asleep in court are getting to him, as he made clear today on Truth Social. And CNN, formerly known as "the most trusted name in news," helpfully went along with this ruse.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Lawyers, Guns and Money: When partisan hacks want to be philosopher kings.
Mock Paper Scissors: How Trump spends his non-trial days.
This article is raising the alarm about a disturbing failure of Facebook to enforce its own ban of paramilitary organizing -- in an election year, no less. Via Wired:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareKimberly Guilfoyle, Don Trump Junior's girlfriend and MAGA confidant tried to come up with a positive explanation to excuse South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for executing her puppy for no good reason.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
My Pillow conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell used to whine that his company was destroyed by lawsuits and people who wanted to silence the evidence he has that would overturn the 2020 election.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Julie Green is out with another off-the-wall prophecy and it's a doozy.
As Conover has written before, "To say that MAGA Prophet Julie Green is a thoroughly ridiculous person is putting it mildly -- but apparently, she has some dedicated Q-inspired listeners who find her credible."
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of GOP chicanery from the weekend to cover during his Monday night monologue.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBrent Terhune is back and he's talking about Governor Puppy Killer, aka Kristi Noem. He says that Puppy Killer did a good thing and saved countless lives because you can't have a little baby Cujo running around scooting on the carpet, chewing on a shoe you left out or doing other puppy things.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
You Might Notice a Trend: The threat of Trump's atrocities.
The Mahablog: The unwise men who need correction.
Mike Lindell was a great American success story, coming from nothing to owning a successful business. From being a crack addict to earning millions from his flourishing business. And then he threw it all away for Donald J.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Day 10 of the Donald Trump criminal trial wrapped up today and it featured a new nickname for Trump: Don VonShitzenpants.
Ok, so here is the recap. The day started with Trump's second gag order violation hearing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Watching this self-righteous ass get confronted with his own hypocrisy is a nice tonic to start the day. And that's it's delivered by Kaitlan Collins is even better.
Vance was pontificating about campus protests when Collins asked, "So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?" (I think you know where this is going, right?)
Vance said yes.
Rep. Jamie Raskin slammed the petroleum industry yesterday as he pointed to experts who described Big Oil’s “pattern of lying and evasion” that has “set the country back decades” in its ability to address climate change.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Giuliani, Trump's former henchman, lost a massive lawsuit for defaming two Georgia election workers and his creditors claim he's not being honest about the assets he has disclosed.
Giuliani keeps missing his filing deadlines, and his creditor's lawyers have been issuing subpoenas to get to the bottom of his nonsense.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed that it is legitimate to attempt to prosecute Barack Obama over his acts as President if Trump's bizarre immunity claim fails at the Supreme Court.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Marjorie Taylor Greene may get her wish by having Mike Johnson step down as Speaker of the House in the near future. Speaker Hakeem Jeffries has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Former Trump financial advisor Larry Kudlow used every MAGA lie there is to describe Biden's economic policy before finishing by claiming it's racist against white people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYesterday, in making a pitch for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Bernie noted that “while it is critically important we do everything we can to defeat Donald Trump, it is just as important we work to elect progressives this November.” Amen!More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Before there was Fox News, before there was Rush Limbaugh, before there was the sprawling rightwing ecosystem of fake news and vicious smears we so enjoy today, there was the National Enquirer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEven before he formally announced his campaign to be the Republican candidate to run against Senator Tammy Baldwin, Eric Hovde has been getting hammered on the fact that he is living large in Laguna Beach, California, so that he could do hands on management of his banks out west.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt's no secret that Senator Ron Johnson (Q - Moscow) is a Russian ass(et). We knew that in 2018 when RoJo and seven other Republican lawmakers spent the Fourth of July with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Former President Donald Trump knows that the right to choose for women is popular. He massively fucked up when he appointed justices to overturn Roe while trying to kiss his evangelical supporters on their collective hypocritical butts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Fox News’ Sean Hannity lobbed lots of softballs to South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem during her first on-air interview since the story about her shooting her 14-month-old dog broke, and even suggested that Joe Biden should have had Commander put down while helping her defend the indefensible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYou know what costs over $7 at Starbucks these days? A trendy oat milk latte. Not exactly the cheapest way to get your daily caffeine fix.
But here's an even better deal for budget-conscious progressives - a Crooks and Liars subscription for just $6.99 a month!
Judging just by the look on Trump's face, he's as puzzled by this one as the rest of us. If I had to guess, I'd say it was Tyra Banks or maybe Chrissy Teigen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A local TV anchor for Detroit's WJBK-TV tried to pin Donald Trump down for a source over the former President's claim about crime statistics in Venezuela. The anchor, Roop Raj, asked Trump for a source over his repeated claim of why there has been a 72 percent reduction in crime in the last year in Venezuela.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The war on gray wolves continues in Congress as it has for at least the last twenty years. Usually, politicians from rural districts where ranching co-exists alongside introduced gray wolves will cynically use this issue to get some attention and pander for votes, and that's what Boebert is doing here as she struggles to remain in the House of Representatives.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe collection of mooks that make up the current MAGA roster is what many of us saw coming years ago. It's been a long death spiral, highlighted by "I'm not a witch" and "2nd Amendment solutions," "palling around with terrorists" and "s*thole countries."Most recently, a puppy killer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAs bad as the things he admits to are, the ones he won't admit are even scarier. Because it means he knows people will hate him for it, he just doesn't care.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share