Whirlwind YouTube video by Jesse Welles

New from Jesse Welles:

"Cosmic justice is a whirlwind,
It's a promise, not a threat."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm8T...

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

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And the horse she rode in on Kristi Noem is finally out at DHS, but her government career gallops on

New from Sam Bellamy at Fight the Fire: "And the horse she rode in on."

Kristi Noem is finally out at DHS, but her replacement is no improvement, and she isn't going away entirely.

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'Don't, don't, bop down the stairs' The majority of Americans think slow-walking Trump is 'erratic'

New at Fight the Fire:

"Sixty-one percent of Americans think Donald Trump has 'become erratic with age,' according to a recent Reuters/Ipos poll. Losing it, in other words."

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Lucinda Williams "The World's Gone Wrong" (Official Music Video) YouTube video by LucindaWilliams

Lucinda Williams, "The World's Gone Wrong"

She tries hard to ignore the news
Nothing makes sense and she gets confused
Between what is false and what is true
She worries they won't get through

'Don't, don't, bop down the stairs' The majority of Americans think slow-walking Trump is 'erratic'

New at Fight the Fire:

"Sixty-one percent of Americans think Donald Trump has 'become erratic with age,' according to a recent Reuters/Ipos poll. Losing it, in other words."

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The vanishing newspaper cartoonist - Editor and Publisher When Rob Tornoe sat down with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman, the conversation was less about one retirement and more about an extinction. Handelsman’s decision to put down his pen mar...

Walt Handelsman, a great cartoonist based in New Orleans, recently retired. Here, he talks about the almost complete demise of local newspaper cartoonists, despite the popularity of cartoons among readers.
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Spoiler alert: The giant loses Cartoon by Shields

The latest from Christopher Shields at Fight the Fire.

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Since we're getting dragged back to the 50's, I wrote a doo-wop song to match #fypシ #1950s #newmusic YouTube video by Earth To Eve

Earth to Eve's You Tube channel is worth a visit for some funny and powerful takes on the Trump regime.

Up is down, down is up
Shut your eyes
Don't be dumb
La di da, la di da.
What you see isn't real
Don't try to think or feel

'You have to take a stand' Al Green expressed what we all know - the State of the Union is not good

"Let’s pause for a moment to reflect upon the fact that we’re actually at a point where it’s highly relevant for a congressman to display such a sign at a State of the Union address.
Not just highly relevant but spot-on."

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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Exclusive | Epstein prison guard googled him minutes before his body was found — and made mysterious deposit days before his suicide: DOJ Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his suicide.

The New York Post, once Trump's favorite tabloid in the city:

"Noel googled 'latest on Epstein in jail' at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m."

Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI One officer said: “Dudes, you killed that dude.”

From the Miami Herald's Epstein expert Julie K. Brown:

"An inmate housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York told the FBI he overheard guards talking about covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s death on the morning he died."

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'Trump wants to pull us back into white supremacy' No kidding, Jesse Jackson clearly grew to loathe the racist in chief

Sam's latest: "The best that can be said about Donald Trump’s 'tribute' to Jesse Jackson is that the civil rights leader didn’t get the full Rob Reiner treatment. Of course, like most of us, Jackson probably would have preferred not to get any homage at all from the man."

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The firehoser Cartoon by Shields

New from Christopher Shields at Fight the Fire.

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And the horse she rode in on Kristi Noem is finally out at DHS, but her government career gallops on

New from Sam Bellamy at Fight the Fire: "And the horse she rode in on."

Kristi Noem is finally out at DHS, but her replacement is no improvement, and she isn't going away entirely.

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RFK Jr. tells all, still knows squat about medicine 'I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.'

RFK Jr. tells all, still knows squat about medicine - "I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."

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'You have to take a stand' Al Green expressed what we all know - the State of the Union is not good

"Let’s pause for a moment to reflect upon the fact that we’re actually at a point where it’s highly relevant for a congressman to display such a sign at a State of the Union address.
Not just highly relevant but spot-on."

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MAGA is afraid of a supposedly flighty waitress AOC's Munich appearance wasn't flawless - but was a damn sight better than Trump

Eek! Eek! The working class!

AOC's visit to the Munich Security Conference wasn't as bad as MAGA and Fox portray it - and she could have stayed silent and outperformed Trump.

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Pssst. Wanna bet Trump falls on his face? The Supremes let the orange one down, but will Lutnick's boys reap the reward?

New: "There’s little hope that the real victims of Trump’s nonsensical application of tariffs – that would be us, the consumer – will see a cent returned."

Plus, the Wall Street folks who could profit from Trump's failure.

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We beg of you: Down sit the boogie. Down. RFK Jr. and Kid Rock share a 'rock-out workout' video with a justifiably ungrateful nation

Sam Bellamy's latest, "We beg of you: Down sit the boogie. Down."

RFK Jr. and Kid Rock make a workout video for a justifiably ungrateful nation.

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The state of the Union:

It Is I Who Must Begin - Linda Graham The Czech playwright Vaclav Havel wrote this poem during the activist protests and uprisings that toppled communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989. He was the first democratically elected president of...

This ratfuckery wears on you. Remember: The trail is blazed.

“I suddenly discover
to my surprise, that
I am neither the only one,
nor the first,
nor the most important one
to have set out
upon that road.
Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost.”

Vaclav Havel

SollenbergER. -- Sam

Kash Patel Spotted Celebrating in U.S. Olympic Hockey Team’s Locker Room The FBI director has previously come under scrutiny for his frequent use of bureau aircraft.

Oh, no, the FBI flacks assure us, Kash Patel DID NOT fly to Italy to see the U.S. hockey team and pose for this photo. Not at all!
He was in Milan on OFFICIAL business, visiting a field office providing security. HAD to be there on our tax dollars.

The state of the Union:

The pernicious influence of Taco Tuesdays? Trump nominee contends America's 'white culture' is being erased

New at Fight the Fire:

"It’s bigoted claptrap, through and through, dressed up as high falutin’ scholarly research but only a few notches higher than a Klan Crayola missive."

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