Better than 50% chance there is no FIFA Peace Prize next year and this was a one-off to make the orange toddler happy.

I’m setting the betting line that there will now be at least 25 different organizations that present Trump with a peace prize in 2026.

Does anybody else have a bottle ready?

There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”

Commentary: Mark my words. If Donald Trump sacrifices Ukraine, he will mimic Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 proclamation on his return from the Munich Conference: “I believe it is peace for our time,” writes Ron Grossman.

Kressly: So let’s talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces, and it can be spread through touch—from someone who is shedding the virus to someone else. So when we’re in situations where we can’t know 100% who is at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.

Donald Trump says he has ended eight wars since he took office in January 2025. But the US has only been involved in 6 peace agreements or ceasefires.

SCOTUS is nothing more than an arm of the GOP. Expand the Court. Impose term limits.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video. They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.

The Swedish government has proposed changes to the constitution that would allow revoking the citizenship of some criminal gang leaders, as part of its work to combat widespread organized crime. https://cnn.it/3KKug2j

Putin has been found “morally responsible” for the 2018 death of an English woman by a British government inquiry.

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic. Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

when your 20 year old space company is valued at 800 billion dollars and you're still blowing out shares to keep the lights on (and pay employees), you don't have a real company. hth this bubble popping will be spectacular

Great! Now how do the American people get back the billions we had to pay in higher prices everywhere?

BREAKING: A federal judge rules in favor of immigrants being held at Guantanamo Bay. @meidastouch.com

Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed during ICE raid

FOX: Year to date job cuts are up 54%. That seems like a troubling number. What's your take? HASSETT: The flow of jobs in & out is a little higher, there's a little more turnover. A lot of times that can happen because people feel like they're actually able to get another job if they leave this one

So the complaint against the alleged pipe bomber is based entirely on: 1) His height (5'6") 2) His purchases of components 3) His phone pinging the cell towers 4) A meal at a restaurant by scene of the crime No sneakers mentioned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Maybe it’s time to conclude that Mr. Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/vlad...

The Senate is set to vote next week on extending Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies for three years in a last-ditch effort to preserve them before they expire at the end of the year — but the plan is all but certain to fail.

Your grocery bills and expenses are lying to you, folks. Hassett will send you an email.

The Trump administration intends to formally submit plans for the new White House ballroom to a key planning commission later this month, moving to begin construction on the massive project.

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

It Sure Looks Like the Trump Admin Is Prepping for SCOTUS To Demolish Its Tariff Policy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/it-sure...

“Affordability” is not a scam when you literally campaigned on bringing down costs and most people are living paycheck to paycheck #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis

1. I’m HIGHLY skeptical of this whole thing. 2. No details or motive given. 3. Comes days after scathing reports showing Patel’s incompetence, corruption, and malfeasance. 4. He uses his statement to promote himself and claim a huge win to save his job.

This quote on the video is horrific: “The broader assumption they were operating off was that the drugs could still conceivably be on that boat, even though you could not see them, and it was still conceivable that these two people were going to continue their mission of transmitting those drugs.”

Himes: They posed zero threat to anyone in the region, and we killed them.

Can the #Trump Administration ban states from regulating #AI by executive order after the effort couldn’t get through Congress? No, it cannot. Even red state attorneys general would likely get in on the act to fight this. Check out my latest on @legalafmtn.bsky.social. youtu.be/bd4ifdFCfhU?...

Just to put this in some perspective, the group of current and former senior FBI agents and analysts who just put out the scathing report on Kash Patel and Dan Bongino’s clown show tenure at the agency ENDORSED TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT. That’s how bad tweedle dumb and dumber are.

The Trump admin is systematically firing immigration judges across the country for no reason other their above average grant rates. The goal is to transform an imperfect system which aimed for fairness into a rubber stamp mill, leaving only the “deportation judges” they want.

This is happening across the entire country; prosecutions are down because federal agents are rounding up migrants instead.

Officials in Congress and the Pentagon are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers in Latin America.

Besides displaying Trump’s stunning hypocrisy, openness to fulsome flattery, and indifference to serious US drug enforcement, the case of the now pardoned ex-president of Honduras shows how we should be going after drug organizations: extradition requests & criminal process, not bombing them to bits

Trump's net favorability rating has improved, and perceptions of his handling of the economy have also gotten better, polls show.

He was campaigning in Tennessee. That’s why he was too busy to do his job. bsky.app/profile/atru...

NYT: Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago): “This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,” and “It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”

Trump says we need to go after drug cartels. Meanwhile, he disbanded a DOJ task force that took them on. And he pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Trump doesn't care about drugs — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy. It's a power grab.

Sabrina Carpenter responds to the WH stealing her song to use as background music in a montage of ICE arrests.

Trump: "There's this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about -- 'affordability.' They just say the word. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. They just say it. 'Affordability.' I inherited the worst inflation in history ... the word 'affordability' is a con job by the Democrats"

Trump: "Now, some people will correct me, because they always love to correct me, even though I'm right about everything."

Trump: "Since last January we've stopped inflation in its tracks. And there is still more to do. There is always more to do. But we have it down to a very good level."

Hegseth: Trust me, bro. They’re all guilty. Who needs things like evidence, proof and trials. Those are woke.

Trump claims he's slashing drugs prices by "200 percent, 300 percent, 400 percent, 500 percent, 600 percent, 700 percent, 800 percent. Nobody has ever heard of it before."

A six-year-old federal program designed to help the smallest American businesses cut debt and get a fresh start has set a record for the number of cases filed, court data show

Trump: "The fat drug. F-A-T for fat people. Anybody use it at the table? Don't answer."