3+ day, 23+ min ago  (233+ words) Was this deliberate by the Chinese? Given how they do things, where symbolism matters, it's quite possible. In August 1991, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake was broadcast continuously on Soviet state television for three days during an attempted coup d'tat…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (290+ words) That Whiskey Pete, he's an impulsive kind of guy. So his last-minute decision to cancel the deployment of 4, 000 troops to Poland caught everyone by surprise -- including Pentagon staff and European allies. This is just the latest example of an abrupt…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (542+ words) Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner testified before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel on Trump's fiscal 2027 budget request, with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand growingly increasingly frustrated when Turner kept pathetically pivoting to Joe Biden. Turner played the role of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (249+ words) A friend of Jeffrey Epstein was a VIP guest at the unveiling of a towering golden statue of President Donald Trump at his golf course in Doral, Florida. In a 2012 email published by the Justice Department, Pierce told Epstein that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (345+ words) Trying to hype the Trump job market growth after over a year of terrible weakness, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told Fox Business that almost all of the job creation under President Biden was from employing undocumented workers. This…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (148+ words) Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) faced backlash after he used the death of Nicole Brown Simpson to mock Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over the abrupt shutdown of Spirit Airlines. Republicans have blamed Warren for the airline's downfall because she blocked a…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago  (217+ words) Trump's gaslighting Press Sec wants us to believe Trump was going to be "delivering jokes and celebrating free speech" before the White House Correspondents' Dinner was derailed this Saturday. We all know what was actually planned, which was for Trump…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (250+ words) Based on new reporting from The Intercept, Kash Patel looks like he was an out-of-control drinker even in his youth. "Patel was twice arrested in incidents involving alcohol, once for public intoxication and once for public urination after leaving a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (274+ words) The midterms are right around the corner, and you can feel the panic from the right with the Trump economy in the shitter. Case in point: South Carolina Republican Tim Scott woke up this morning and chose delusion: 'Gas prices…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (269+ words) Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones suggested that Israel may have "staged" a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to influence American foreign policy. During his Monday show, Jones noted that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had said that…...