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(Michael de Adder, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Morten Morland, The Times, UK)
(Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com, Netherlands)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(Steve Sack, @stevesack.substack)
(Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Clay Jones, claytoonz.substack)
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(Jeff Stahler, gocomics.com)
(Jesse Duquette, @misterjesseduquette)
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Excerpts from King Charles III's speech to Congress yesterday:
“The Founding Fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a cause. Two hundred and fifty years ago, or, as we say in the United Kingdom ‘just the other day,’ they declared Independence. By balancing contending forces and drawing strength in diversity, they united 13 disparate colonies to forge a nation on the revolutionary idea of ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ They carried with them, and carried forward, the great inheritance of the British Enlightenment – as well as the ideals which had an even deeper history in English common law and Magna Carta.
“These roots run deep, and they are still vital. Our Declaration of Rights of 1689 was not only the foundation of our constitutional monarchy, but also provided the source of so many of the principles reiterated, often verbatim, in the American Bill of Rights of 1791.
“And those roots go even further back in our history: the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances." [standing ovation]
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“I am mindful that we are still in the season of Easter, the season that most strengthens my hope. It is why I believe, with all my heart, that the essence of our two nations is a generosity of spirit and a duty to foster compassion, to promote peace, to deepen mutual understanding and to value all people, of all faiths, and of none."
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“In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when NATO invoked Article Five for the first time, and the United Nations Security Council was united in the face of terror, we answered the call together – as our people have done so for more than a century, shoulder to shoulder, through two World Wars, the Cold War, Afghanistan and moments that have defined our shared security.
“Today, Mr. Speaker, that same, unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people. It is needed in order to secure a truly just and lasting peace. From the depths of the Atlantic to the disastrously melting icecaps of the Arctic, the commitment and expertise of the United States Armed Forces and its allies lie at the heart of NATO, pledged to each other’s defense, protecting our citizens and interests, keeping North Americans and Europeans safe from our common adversaries."
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“Our common ideals were not only crucial for liberty and equality, they are also the foundation of our shared prosperity. The rule of law: the certainty of stable and accessible rules, an independent judiciary resolving disputes and delivering impartial justice. These features created the conditions for centuries of unmatched economic growth in our two countries..."
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Those are some elegant phrases Charles uses to implore America to turn back to the good, to reject America- first Trump fascism, and to stand for the rule of law and democracy here and everywhere around the world.
Operation Epic Epstein fury --
Good morning. Trump is making your life more expensive while he cuts taxes for the rich and builds himself a ballroom with your money. Have a great day.
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) April 29, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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major difference though between the IJA and USA today is that our leader is such an erratic senile narcissist that I'm pretty convinced he is not actually capable of coming to an agreement of any kind, and it's obvious to everyone bsky.app/profile/ship...
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) April 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Republican SCOTUS' "now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act" today --
With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
— Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) April 29, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Keystone Cop Kash's (second) Comey indictment --
I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...
— 8647 Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Ironically, Comey is now being tormented by the very man he enabled.
— Tea Pain (@teapainusa.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Another Trump Crime Family crypto scam --
Who are the saps that didn't recognize this would be a scam? ๐งพ www.benzinga.com/crypto/crypt...
— Pam Spaulding (@pamspaulding.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The more kneecapping in this fight, the better --
New in PN: Musk aims to kneecap OpenAI with Altman trollsuit "Musk & Altman are kicking the shit out of each other in a federal courthouse in Oakland. Two of the most destructive men on earth are claiming to be principled humanitarians, & Musk’s chaos monkey litigation strategy is on full display."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Trolling the Trump passport --
IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER!
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov) April 28, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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Bari's bad news --
New ratings data shows Tony Dokoupil’s “Evening News” sinking to historic lows, with veteran TV news executives telling us the network is a “sinking ship” and blaming its woes on Bari Weiss. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/tony-dokou...
— Status (@status.news) April 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Keep it up, Texas! --
[nods] www.texastribune.org/2026/04/28/t...
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) April 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Lovebirds --
This is just brutal
— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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O Buffalo (How Americans really feel about Canada) --
I will deny saying this during the AFC playoffs, but man, I love everything about Buffalo.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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... and Minnesota Nice (@normcharlatan) --
I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.
— Ian (@mplsnightmayor.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Talented Filipina-American Olivia Rodrigo has released a new single, the catchy "Drop Dead," off of her upcoming album, "You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love," out June 12. It's already climbed to #1 on the charts. She recorded the song in three video versions: one being a lively colorful trip from London to Paris, which is our song choice, and the others a simple, stripped down acoustic version, and a frothy TikTok-style presentation, all well worth viewing.
After Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about the declining Malignant Fascist's age compared to his much younger icy wife's -- days before the WHCD incident -- ABC's parent Disney Company was harassed by the FCC with an early review of its licenses for eight stations, in an obvious malicious retaliation by the FCC. Disney has responded that they will challenge any FCC moves to retaliate against Kimmel:
"We have received the Federal Communications Commission’s order initiating an accelerated review of the licenses held by ABC’s owned television stations. ABC and its stations have a long record of operating in full compliance with FCC rules and serving their local communities with trusted news, emergency information, and public‑interest programming. We are confident that record demonstrates our continued qualifications as licensees under the Communications Act and the First Amendment and are prepared to show that through the appropriate legal channels. Our focus remains, as always, on serving viewers in the local communities where our stations operate." (our emphasis)
The MF and his lackeys are determined to muzzle any humor that reflects badly on the MF, in a clear violation of the First Amendment's free speech guarantee. FCC chairman Brendan Carr (a.k.a. "Trump's little ferret") is a movement MAGAt zealot, who has targeted Kimmel before, and who initiated an investigation of ABC's "The View," apparently for offending the MF in their discussions of his incompetence and maliciousness. This is what authoritarians do: shut down any voice that is less than fawning about them, and stop mockery and humor aimed at them.
Interestingly, at the welcoming ceremony yesterday for King Charles III, the clownish MF stepped on his own argument against Kimmel, in comments delivered referencing his marriage:
"During his remarks welcoming King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House earlier in the day, Trump noted that his parents had been married for 63 years.
'That’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling,' Trump, who turns 80 in June, said to first lady Melania Trump, 56, who was sitting just behind him. 'I’m sorry. Just not gonna work out that way.'” (our emphasis)
We're sure the MF heard about that from Melanoma Melania later in the day, as it blew a hole in her faux outrage at the suggestion that her increasingly incapacitated husband might pass away before her. Stay tuned ... especially to Jimmy Kimmel.
(photos: Trump's little ferret and Kimmel/ John Lamparski/Getty Images, Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
If his cultist minions can put the Malignant Fascist's signature on the dollar bill, his graven image on a gold commemorative coin and on National Park passes, then why not on a U.S. passport:
The State Department is rolling out limited-edition U.S. passports to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence. The new passport designs, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, prominently feature President Donald Trump's image on the inside cover.
Mock-ups show Trump's image surrounded by the text of the Declaration of Independence and American flag along with the president's signature in gold. Another page features the famous painting of the founding fathers at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The passports, which are set to be released this summer, are part of the Trump administration’s broader "America250" celebration, which also includes a Grand Prix race on the National Mall in August and a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn in June. [snip]
A State Department official told Fox News Digital that the new designs will be available for "any American citizen" who applies for a passport when the rollout happens and will continue for as long as there is availability. The passports will only be available at the Washington Passport Agency, the official detailed.
The launch is expected to coincide with the 250th Anniversary in July, the official confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Here's the mock up:
That looks a lot like his mugshot, doesn't it?!
Proud to be an American, where you can be a deranged, would-be dictator, seditionist, felonious, adjudicated sexual abuser, pedophile-protecting pedophile -- and still get your image on U.S. passports! Of course, having the sitting leader of the country's picture on its passport is unprecedented here as well as in every foreign country.
So far, it looks like they're doing an initial run of 25,000, but it's unclear if you have to request one or not. But if you're getting or renewing your passport (as a certain Hackwhacker will be), make sure you get it done before July, lest you end up with one of these losers.
BONUS: This version is more true to reality:
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(Pedro Molina, Tribune Content Agency)
(Rick McKee, caglecartoons.com)
(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Milt Priggee, caglecartoons.com; context here)
(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Phil Hands, Wisconsin State Journal)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Peter Steiner, plsteiner.com)
Spreading hate and divisiveness? Censorship? (check it out, Dana Bash) --
— John Fugelsang (@johnfugelsang.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I talked to Jamie Raskin about his explosive exchange with CNN's Dana Bash. "The media should understand that the survival of the free press is at stake right now," he tells me. "There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.” New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2095...
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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I kinda forgot about this guy. Sent 3 bombs to CNN and eight years later CNN anchors were dressing up in tuxes and gowns to go celebrate the president that encouraged the bombings.
— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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You knew eventually that the Malignant Fascist would stick the taxpayer with the ballroom bill --
Lindsey Graham says they are going introduce legislation that’s going to authorize 400 million dollars to be spent on building the ballroom: We pay for it by offsetting it with customs fees. The sooner we get the ballroom built, the better it is for the country.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Trump is mired in an illegal war that's destabilizing the world while spiking inflation & immiserating Americans, a key part of the govt remains unfunded, & Rs who control Congress are fixated on...spending taxpayer $ for a vanity ballroom Trump vowed would be privately funded A complete clown show
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 27, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Reagan actually got shot at the same hotel and never asked for a ballroom
— Diedrich Bader (@diedrichbader.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Iran war fueled by the MF's untrustworthiness --
Ed Luce: The war’s most salient feature is that Iran has a strong incentive to keep it going. No matter how many times Trump offers a new golden age for the Middle East, Iran will find it hard to believe he will not flip back to regime change if things do not go his way.
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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Time for more happy horseshit from the MF about peace talks --
Oil prices surging past $100 overnight as the national average price of gasoline rises to $4.164/gal, just 0.3c away from a new multi-year high- more hikes are coming and for now, the national average may rise to $4.25/gal-$4.40/gal if nothing changes.
— Patrick De Haan (@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Things that go boom in Russia. Slava Ukraini! --
What do you know, a new fire broke out at the oil refinery in Russia's Tuapse.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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UK ambassador's remarks risk red faces back in London
— Politico (@politico.com) April 28, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Will Huckster Tuck run in 2028? MAGAts are split... ๐ --
Is Tucker Carlson eyeing a 2028 presidential run? | Arwa Mahdawi
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) April 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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Nero and the MF --
While Rome burned, Nero played the fiddle. Trump? He’s checking the ballroom acoustics.
— ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ (@sundaedivine.lol) April 28, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Electoral-vote.com's Andrew Tanenbaum gives us an update on one of the more recent Malignant Fascist grifts -- his crypto coin:
...The coin has dropped from its high of $73.00 to Friday's close of $2.20, a loss of 97% of its value since the top. If you bought $10,000 of $TRUMP at its high point, your "investment" would now be worth $300. Congratulations on your investment prowess. Maybe you are the next Warren Buffet. The performance of the $TRUMP coin is even worse than the deal the buyers of DJT stock got from its high point. It lost a mere 90.2% of its value. Trump stock and Trump crypto are enormously profitable, but unfortunately only for Trump and his buddies who get it for free. For the
rubesinvestors, not so much. But if you bought some way back when, you can be proud of helping Trump get $1 billion richer by fleecing his supporters.However, there is one thing we don't know. Has Trump already dumped most of his stash of $TRUMP coins? Maybe he has and that is why the price is now so low—a massive supply of product out there. On the other hand, maybe he was too busy to pay attention or was waiting for the price to go up. If the latter is the case and he still has most of the coins, then he took as much of a haircut as his fans.
Here's the graphic (click to enlarge):
We know that the Malignant Fascist's business and political model has always been "There's a sucker born every minute," and the charlatan's on-going efforts to fleece, extort, and con money from the pockets of his supporters and his supplicants is the one thing in his life that he's been completely and shamelessly transparent about. Frankly, it's hard to sympathize with (and just as hard to understand) anyone who, given his decades-long track record, opted to invest in yet another scheme meant solely to enrich this charlatan.
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Journalist David Rothkopf, in his "Need to Know" Substack, gives one of his five uncomfortable truths about Saturday night's events at the WHCA dinner:
"...[I]n one of the strangest twists in a very strange Saturday night in DC, Trump during and since his post-foiled-alleged-attack press conference and celebration of his own courage, suggested that the attack actually made building his monstrosity of a White House ballroom more urgent. His implication was that the only place he, as president, could be safe was in a fortified facility on the White House grounds. While this is an implicit attack on the competence of the Secret Service that has been defending presidents as they have traveled far and wide for decades…and while it minimized Trump’s own role in fostering the dangerous atmosphere in the US from which he would like to hide in his gilded bunker…it also reflects Trump’s twisted view of the world, the presidency, and of press freedom. This is another instance in which Trump illustrated his desire to be a king in the castle rather than a servant of all Americans living in 'the people’s house.' He wouldn’t have done well in the 19th Century when people could just wander up to and into the White House to call on the president without appointment. But it also suggests his authoritarian impulse to want to control all exposure to him. He wants events on his turf and terms. Never mind that the whole idea of the White House Correspondents dinner was that the 'fourth estate,' independent of the government, was hosting its own event to which the U.S. head of state might or might not be invited, that is was an event for and of the journalists who covered Washington. Never mind that it was a private function to which he was invited. With his orchestration of media take-overs by MAGA-loving oligarchs and his assaults on press freedom including his evisceration of the White House press corps and control of White House press events so that only shills are allowed to pose questions, Trump has demonstrated that he does not believe in the 'transparency' and 'freedom of speech' to which he mouthed lame tributes late on Saturday evening. Trump’s view of the presidency is that of a robber-baron or vulture capitalist who has conducted a take-over of the United States. His sense is that this is his country now, he owns it, he controls it, he deserves a cut of it and the government should support him and defend him in each of those desires and all of his activities..."
It's now manifestly clear that the most important thing to the Malignant Fascist right now is building that Golden Ballroom/bunker that he obsesses about, perhaps to relieve his soggy brain of bad thoughts about the Epstein-Trump files, the Iran fiasco, tariffs and the soaring cost of living, etc. His faithful legion of spineless lickspittles now wants to stick the majority of the cost of the Golden Ballroom ($332 million) on American taxpayers, after the Malignant Fascist promised it would be built with private donations extortion money from his pet oligarchs and cowering corporations. The only promise we want to see followed through on -- and a litmus test for any future Democratic presidential candidate -- is the demolition of any ballroom, triumphal arch, and/or facade that the Malignant Fascist orders built or puts his name on.
ICYMI, last night Jimmy Kimmel responded to the pearl-clutching and threats coming his way from the Malignant Fascist's menagerie of goons (including Melon) in the wake of his satiric "alternate WHCA dinner" skit last week and the real-life (and often ludicrous and revealing) events Saturday night. Plus, more golden ballroom bullshit. Brilliant.
BONUS: Comedian Brent Terhune gives us his "eyewitness account" of the events at the dinner from a MAGAt perspective.
Correspondents’ Dinner Eyewitness
— Brent Terhune (@brentterhune.bsky.social) April 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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MAGAt messaging after the correspondents dinner, media complicity --
"We should resist efforts by this administration and its MAGA minions to use Saturday night as an excuse to criminalize political dissent, silence legitimate criticism, and curtail our civil liberties. Such efforts got underway within hours of the shooting." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
— Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Just a reminder: Trump and his supporters are not opposed to political violence. They think it's fine if their side is the perpetrators and the people they hate are the victims. I go into that, and our age of chaos, in my latest for Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/white-hous...
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) April 26, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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But he can’t go anywhere so he needs a ballroom bunker fortress. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) April 26, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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This is the only type of thing Mike Davis ever says.
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) April 26, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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No modern president has glorified violence as much as this one
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Given this argument, I assume it's too dangerous for the President to go golfing anymore, right?
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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So many cowards to choose from.... --
Question: who's a bigger coward, RFK Jr, for leaving his wife Cheryl Hines in the dust as he runs from the shooting, or Stephen Miller, for using his pregnant wife as a human shield? #TrumpShooting
— Paulley Ticks (@tomadelsbach.bsky.social) April 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Another push to silence Jimmy Kimmel's satire. Pathetic --
fyi this is the kimmel comedy routine MELANIA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE. definitely do not like and share it or else the MOST UNPOPULAR FIRST LADY IN HISTORY will be mad. youtu.be/GRjKhsJc95o
— Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Trump embraces censorship, calls for comedian Jimmy Kimmel to be fired
— PatriotTakes ๐บ๐ธ (@patriottakes.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Didn't Melania's husband mock the Pope, post blasphemous content, threaten genocide, ridicule and threaten the press, and engage in an illegal, unwinnable war with Iran -- all of that in the past month? Very offensive, divisive, and hateful.
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Whiskey Pete isn't keen on flu shots for troops --
U.S. Military To No Longer Require Flu Shots https://theonion.com/u-s-military-to-no-longer-require-flu-shots/
— The Onion (@theonion.com) April 25, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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A cabinet full of sycophantic liars, drunks and morons: only the best and the brightest! And be sure to check the stock market as the criminal Malignant Fascist issues a deceitful, happy talk message about peace negotiations before the market opens for the zillionth time.
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The MAGAt party never misses an opportunity to use an incident as a lever to get their pet projects through. After the breach of security at the White House Correspondents Dinner, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is demanding that the National Trust for Historical Preservation drop its lawsuit against building of Malignant Fascist's grandiose ballroom for "security reasons," tweeting "It's time to build the ballroom." Concocting a "national security" justification for the MF's ballroom has been part of the attempt to blow through federal and local regulations and objections; it was never part of the MF's selling of it.
On the matter of funding for DHS, Putin-friendly Sen. Ron "Little" Johnson said on Fox that the Senate should "nuke" the filibuster and pass the funding bill in "a moment of national danger," presumably caused by an unstable shooter angered by the MF"s own rhetoric and rantings on Truth Social. The White House and funkies in the media are also blaming Dem "political rhetoric" for motivating the shooter's attack, as if their cult leader isn't the most inflammatory politician in U.S. history.
This is their strategy: take the initiative to push their agenda, no matter how unpopular or corrupt while people are still talking about the attack.
In the first few months of the cruel and unhinged Malignant Fascist's second term, his main donor, the ketamine addled megalomaniac from South Africa Elon Musk, was given the reins through "DOGE" to cut Government programs to pay for tax cuts for the hyper wealthy like himself. One of the most critical programs saving lives was the global H.I.V. program that has saved millions of lives worldwide, and the MF and Musk decided it deserved deep cuts. The African nation of Zambia had been making progress on fighting H.I.V. up until that decision. Now it's becoming a major problem there, and because the criminally sociopathic MF is behind it, it involves some evil extortion over mineral resources:
"During President Trump’s first month in office, his administration upended much of the flagship global H.I.V. program that had saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Zambia. The Zambian government went into emergency mode, desperate to ensure that people with the virus could continue to receive lifesaving medications.
But other crucial aspects of the program had to be scrapped — interventions that had helped stop the spread of the virus and protected the most vulnerable people, those like Mr. Kasekela.
Today, a pared-down system is operating on reduced U.S. support, and Zambia may lose that help entirely in the next few days. The Trump administration has set an April 30 deadline for the Zambian government to accept a new health funding agreement that is tied to giving the United States expanded access to the country’s mineral resources.
The administration says the deal would offer Zambia five years of funding and help to build a stronger system that gives the country more control. But if Zambia doesn’t sign, officials warn that Washington could cut off all of its H.I.V. aid, a situation health officials here say would be disastrous." (our emphasis)
The fight against AIDS worldwide was launched by former President George W. Bush, and has saved millions of lives through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PREFAR's operations have been severely affected by the MF's cuts to USAID, something that he and his fascist white supremacist ally Musk had to have known about.
(photo: The deadly extortionist)
