In a world where America’s most toxic rhetorical bombthrower is in the White House, Republicans now want to punish speech that goes too far… by his critics.

Trump: “I believe we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. In fact, nobody’s even questioning it.” In other news today, a concerned Fed lowered its benchmark interest rate on worries of a stagnanting American economy.

Lyin’ Ted Cruz falsely claims the Hortman assassin was a leftist. We have the video to prove him wrong.

Since MAGA Republicans need to take full political advantage of this assassination and spin it into a leftist problem, they’re busy sweeping the Hortman assassination and events like J6 under the rug and literally deleting a federal study proving them wrong.

Today Trump blamed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for not asking him to lower flags for Melissa Hortman. But back in June Trump openly refused to speak to Walz. Watch.

AG Pam Bondi falsely claims the assassin of Melissa Hortman was a supporter of Governor Walz. In fact, reporters found out he was a strong Trump supporter. We’ve got the video.

JD Vance in Munich in February: “Just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite.”

Sooner or later, they’re going to find the Kirk shooter. I’ll say here what I say after EVERY shooting: The motive is irrelevant to anything other than the crime itself. We can’t smear entire social groups because some nutjob that fits their demographic had access to a gun and was willing to use it.

Compare Nancy Pelosi’s respectful statement on the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk with Charlie Kirk’s snarky, disrespectful, innuendo-laden comments on the brutal attempted murder of Paul Pelosi (sound on). I’ll let this contrast speak for itself.

The 2026 federal midterm election is shaping up into a battle between the state legislatures for control of Congress, where the voters themselves become increasingly irrelevant to the outcome.

I’d look for the source of this claim, but I’m not a proctologist.

I’m sure Trump’s lawsuit against the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch will finally stop all the talk about Jeffrey Epstein.

I’m sure Donald Trump’s threatened lawsuit against the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch will make the Epstein scandal go away.

After a decade of Trump’s casual vulgarity infesting American politics, Republicans are suddenly concerned… because now a Democrat is talking back to them in their own vernacular.

I wonder with Tom Homan thinks of this guy.

She used George Stephanopolous’s choice of words.

Donald Trump is trying to use brute force to make a failed immigration system work.

Wall Street: The bigger the TACO, the more we profit. So let’s just not say anything about the new Trump tariffs until the very last possible moment.

MAGA is all about dividing America into an “us” and “them” - and then using government power to ruthlessly attack the “them.”

The stock market has been rallying despite Trump’s revived trade war threats, on the assumption he will TACO. But Trump may be learning precisely the wrong lesson, by convincing himself that tariffs really won’t hurt the market. www.axios.com/2025/07/11/t...

Defund this anti-American bullshit.

Smart churches would be well advised not to take the bait and avoid getting into the business of political endorsements. Politicization of religion is driving away the next generation from the church pews. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

Trump and Netanyahu are treating Palestinians like illegal immigrants on their own land - encouraging them to self-deport after turning their land into a pile of smoking rubble. Ethnic cleansing with a snappy sales pitch.

Trump and Netanyahu are treating Palestinians like illegal immigrants on their own land - encouraging them to self-deport after turning their land into a pile of smoking rubble. Ethnic cleaning with a happy face!

At a time when Trump’s ICE agents claim the right to go wherever they want without any restriction, I am reminded of the Third Amendment: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

To all the MAGA enthusiasts who think ICE agents can go wherever they want without question or resistance, I have a question for you: Do ICE agents have an unlimited right to enter YOUR house and arrest you for resisting them?

The Trump administration wants to convince you that this is what living in a free country looks like.

Indiana church tells an Indianapolis news station: “[LGBT people] are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands.” Gee, thanks for clearing that up.

“Red tape will cause millions of people to lose health coverage, some of whom will perish because they cannot access care. Republicans are not protecting Medicaid. They are voting to annoy their own constituents to death.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“The rules of global trade in the Trump era are just as hazy now as they were in early April, when the White House suggested ‘90 deals in 90 days’ that would ease the uncertainty.” www.axios.com/2025/07/07/t...

In response to the California fires in January, Donald Trump relentlessly bashed state and local Democratic politicians. Yet for some reason, Trump isn’t trashing state and local Republican politicians in response to the Texas floods. I wonder why…

“The problem for Trump is that just ‘okay’ is not good enough for American voters, who were deeply unhappy with the state of the economy last year and are actually unhappier with it today.” www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Dozens of children are dead. But at least Americans have fewer pointy-headed liberal government bureaucrats telling them what to do. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

“To some extent, Trump’s approach is typical of American leaders, who have routinely underestimated the true complexities of military tasks and assumed that a burst of overwhelming force will secure U.S. objectives and allow Washington to impose its version of peace.”

While Trump’s supercharged ICE is carrying out a mass deportation program most voters reject, “Mr. Trump’s politicization of the F.B.I. has left it less able to combat terrorism, foreign espionage, biosecurity threats, organized crime, online scams, white-collar crime, drug trafficking and more.”

While Republican politicians are dedicated to providing fan service to their voters no matter what they want, Democrats like John Fetterman casually diss or ignore their own voters.

Instead of just lazily attacking your own voters and constituents as unpatriotic, why don’t you ask them WHY they feel that way?

In retrospect, this was only the beginning of a very dark timeline.

If MAGA Republicans could only show the daughters of millions of hard-working but unauthorized immigrants even a fraction of the compassion they show to a handful of female athletes who finished second to a trans athlete.

De jure Speaker Mike Johnson hands over his gavel to de facto Speaker Donald Trump.

MAGA Republicans have just pitched a hanging curve right over the plate to the Democrats. If Democrats can’t make MAGA Republicans and the Trump administration deeply regret passing this bill come November 2026, they really are hopelessly pathetic.

Influencers who normalized Trump to many voters are now starting to shake their heads at his “insane” excesses. Rather than heeding these warning signals, Trump is stepping on the gas by supercharging the ICE raids that are making Americans increasingly uncomfortable.

If you thought this time Republican lemmings in Congress would FINALLY stand up to Trump, I’ve got a football for you.

The bad news is this monstrosity is likely to become law. The good news is the American voters will have their say next year.

The fact that Paramount believed federal approval for its planned merger with Skydance hinged on settling Trump’s flamboyantly frivolous lawsuit against CBS tells you everything you need to know about how Donald Trump has single-handedly normalized flagrant corruption.

The MAGA enthusiasm over “Alligator Alcatraz” shows that the America that thought Japanese internment camps were a good idea never really went away.

The Republican embrace of sadism for its own sake is testing my faith in humanity.

Hidden in the monstrosity that just passed the Senate is a provision that would prohibit Medicaid from reimbursing Planned Parenthood for ANY service, even if unrelated to abortion, and even in blue states. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It seems as though Donald J. Trump is popular with the Donald J. Trump Fan Club.

Donald Trump has figured out how to address climate change. He’ll just ignore it… and attempt to impose ignorance on the rest of us. www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...?