Skeets Of The Day

 

The Epstein-Trump files / the big tent Republican Party --

 

The Republican Party is a big tent, consisting of people who are pedophiles and people who protect them.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) July 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM

 

Corruption is Trump's card, and only he could mess up the World Cup #ETTD --

 

calling to do corruption on behalf of somebody they don't believe should be a citizen of the United States

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) July 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM

 

UEFA: “.. Football, like any other sports, relies on rules .. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.” www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 6:53 AM

 

Whatever happens now, the USA's entire World Cup campaign will be forever stained by Trump's interference.

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 9:18 AM

 

Trump heads to NATO summit to alienate allies, and please Putin --

This is a real Trump social media post from this past weekend. Instead of treating Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a valued ally, he ridicules her in a bizarre, sexist way. Trump uses the language of sexual harassment because he knows a lot about that.

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— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 8:50 AM

 

The bearded pygmy chameleon, JD Vance --

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) July 4, 2026 at 11:08 AM

 

Ten years ago;  thanks again, Comey! --

 

“It is hard to think of another single event in the last decade that has had such far-reaching and sweeping and unintended global consequences as Jim Comey’s press conference.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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— Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” (@ryanjreilly.com) July 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM

 

Trump decaying and dozing before our eyes -- 

Looking extremely alive, sir.

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— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 8:41 AM

 

Trump dozes during the fireworks show on July 4 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 6, 2026 at 8:22 AM

 

Trump erasing the true history of the United States --

 

Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations. He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:

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— Matthew Sheffield (@matthew.flux.community) July 5, 2026 at 10:26 PM

She still has a bright future in the Democratic Party --

Today, I'm announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate.

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— Mallory McMorrow (@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social) July 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM

 

Last undamaged oil refinery in Russia hit.  Slava Ukraini! --

 

🔥 Ukrainian Fire Point drones just torched the Omsk oil refinery — Russia’s last undamaged one. That’s 1,600 miles deep into Russia. Putin’s “invincible” empire is getting absolutely cooked from farther away than most Russians have ever traveled. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM

 

Belated Happy 250th Birthday, 'Murica! --

 

Happy 250th Birthday America!

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— Brent Terhune (@brentterhune.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 9:23 AM

 

 

Another "Timely" Call From Putin To Trump

 

As the Putin-stroking Malignant Fascist heads off to Ankara, Turkey, today for a NATO summit, it's worth noting that the MF was on a phone call with the Russian war criminal this weekend, supposedly to restart failed negotiations between aggressor Russia and victim Ukraine. You can be certain that in the 90 minute call, the Russian thug flattered him, prepped him with talking points favorable to Russia,  and did his best to undermine both Ukraine and NATO right before the meeting. From NBC News:

"President Donald Trump, speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin by telephone for nearly 90 minutes, offered to help find a solution ⁠to the Ukraine war, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public early on Sunday.

Ushakov said Trump made the offer during the call on Saturday, U.S. Independence Day, in the context of his participation next week at the NATO summit in Turkey. [snip]

Trump’s past attempts to broker a peace between Russia and Ukraine have failed to bring about an agreement.

Ushakov accused Kyiv ​and ⁠its European allies of 'counting on extending and ‌even escalating the conflict, and on terrorism against civilians.'

He was referring to Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russian targets, mainly linked to the oil industry, which have triggered fuel shortages in several Russian ‌regions.

Ushakov said Putin 'depicted the real situation on the battlefield where ‌the Russian armed forces are confidently advancing, liberating one locality after another.” (our emphasis)

The Russians know they're dealing with their useful idiot in the MF, giving him an Orwellian view of events, from their accusation of Ukraine hitting civilian targets and Russia sweeping through contested areas, both statements being the opposite of reality.  Putin's trying to paint NATO countries as the "aggressor" in advance of the summit, in order to poison the relations there more than they've already been poisoned by the MF's pro-Russia stances.  Putin's calls to the MF, timed for maximum damage to our friends and allies, have happened before -- for example, last fall when Ukraine was urging the MF to supply it with Tomahawk cruise missiles, and at least on one occasion with the coaching of pro-Russian real estate hustler Steve Witkoff, the MF's "peace" negotiator for Gaza and Ukraine. 

Today's Tomorrow Cartoon

 

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The unstable and mentally declining Malignant Fascist gets a visit from the ghost of Richard Nixon, who provides some advice that the MF ignores, being ignorant of history and full of the self-confidence of a fool.  Nixon's surprised that what he hid in secret recordings, the MF blurts out in social media.  The MF even gives Nixon's ghost his childish, projecting nicknames. 

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

 

The good:

The disclosure that Donald Trump made billions of dollars (largely in crypto) last year, is giving the Democrats an increasingly clear campaign message for the midterms: Trump is corrupt and stealing your money and doesn't care a whit that you can barely afford food. The two parts, his corruption and your financial stress, fit together well. People are going to connect the dots and assume that if Trump weren't so corrupt, they wouldn't be feeling so much pain. That is not strictly true in the sense that even if Trump were not in the crypto business, food prices wouldn't be lower. But it is also true that Trump's entire focus is on raking it in for himself instead of devoting ever last hour to working on getting prices down. He could do things to help lower prices—for example, making it easier to import cheap food from Mexico, but he is not interested. When pressed for details, Democrats could point this out.

Connecting Trump's corruption to people's pain is a good story for the midterms. But if Democrats capture either or both chambers of Congress in November, it will be a free-for-all next year. His 927-page financial disclosure (PDF) is a roadmap for Democrats to follow. It itemizes every financial venture Trump was engaged in during 2025. The suboenas will fly if Democrats get the power to issue them. Private and public depositions will abound. The biggest targets are the people around Trump, including family and cronies. They have no immunity from being called to testify. They can plead the Fifth Amendment, but in court of public opinion, that makes someone look guilty. If a representative asks someone: "Did you ever discuss a business deal with the leader of the U.A.E., Qatar, or any other country in the Middle East?" an answer of "Fifth" is a much weaker answer than "No."

World Liberty Financial, a project of the Trump and Witkoff families, has been a magnet for foreign investors. It probably has an accountant who could be asked under oath about who the investors and clients are and whether there are any potential conflicts of interest.

An investigation by the NYT has turned up the tidbit that Trump's sons and those of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick have ties to at least 14 companies seeking almost $9 billion in government funding for deals supposedly involving rare earth minerals. Talk about conflict of interest. The sons aren't going to get immunity (unless one is prepared to rat on the others), but them saying "Fifth Amendment" a few hundred times during a hearing is not going to look great. Democrats will be able to use footage of that in 2028 to show how corrupt the Republicans are. [snip]

Another area the Democrats are going to be interested in is the 21,000 securities trades Trump made while in office, some of them with curious timing. Could there be a pattern in which stock was bought, then some official announcement was made driving a stock just bought skyward, then a sale? Were there many purchases and sales in close proximity where the sale made a big profit just a few hours later? Computers are pretty good at detecting this kind of stuff. By way of contrast, Joe Biden made 13 trades during his entire presidency.

In short, the disclosure form is a veritable gold mine of areas for the House Oversight Committee to pursue if ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA) becomes chairman in January. Garcia is very aggressive and detests Trump. It could be quite a show. If Garcia is smart, he is already prepping for future investigations. His Long Beach-based district is D+18, so he doesn't have to spend a lot of time campaigning. Besides, his staff can start digging and planning now.

A theme for 2026, indictments for 2028.  Sounds good to us.

The bad:

... What do the study’s participants talk about? Their central concern is their own so-called "moral foundations." For them, any democracy is valid only insofar as it vigorously upholds "faith, family, freedom and place," as indicated in the study’s title. Since they believe their values are under relentless attack by the institutions of democracy, then democracy must be sacrificed. In this mindset, political opponents are not acting in good faith but are outright demonic. The study describes Maria from Michigan this way: "Her verdict on the Democratic Party as having dedicated its playbook to Satan and chosen the ‘platform of death’ does not leave room for normal civic constraints to apply.'"

It should be emphasized that these values mean their faith, not a non-Christian religion or no religion; their family (forcible family separation of immigrants or gay marriage don’t count); their freedom (getting vaccinated as a civic responsibility to protect the frail and immune-deficient is incomprehensible to them) and their place (typically small-town and rural, cities being dens of iniquity).  [snip]

Part of their rejection of democracy is the fact that they know they would be outvoted in a straight-up, ungerrymandered system: "Kyle (mid 20s, WY), a delivery driver, extends the logic: 'Every single small town would be outvoted by every single city. We wouldn’t be able to feed people cows. We’d all be eating seaweed.'"

The participants are similar to the authoritarian personalities that Canadian psychologist Robert Altemeyer studied for his 2008 book "The Authoritarians'': "They bring strong loyalty to their in-groups, have thick-walled, highly compartmentalized minds, use a lot of double standards in their judgments, are surprisingly unprincipled at times and are often hypocrites.”...

This is from an analysis of an opinion study (“Faith, Freedom, Family, Place: An Ethnographic Study of Conservative Americans’ Relationships to Democracy” by the Johns Hopkins Agora Institute and ReD Associates) of three Republican counties  -- in Michigan, South Carolina, and Wyoming.  The views the subjects expressed represent a not-insignificant part of the electorate that is hostile to democracy, hostile to diversity, hostile to Americans other than those in their homogeneous groups -- i.e.,  hostile to modern America.  We have to understand that while they inhabit the same country, they're hostile to its basic principles and un-reachable.  They're core MAGA and cannot be reasoned or bargained with.  They can only be defeated over and over and over again.

The ugly:

U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on behalf of American star forward Folarin Balogun, whose suspension was lifted in a decision that allows him to play in a World Cup match against Belgium on Monday.

Balogun, the American leader with three goals, received a red card for stepping awkwardly on the right ankle of Tarik Muharemović of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a 2-0 round of 32 win on Wednesday. A red card triggers an automatic one-game suspension.

FIFA announced Sunday that the suspension had been lifted, triggering praise from Trump and outrage from Belgium’s team.

Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino after the game asking FIFA review the red card, according to a person familiar with the call who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

“Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” Trump said in a statement on social media.

The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) said it was “astonished” and Belgium coach Rudi Garcia mocked FIFA’s action.

“I didn’t know that in the offices of FIFA the 5th of July was the 1st of April in Europe,” Garcia said through a translator in an April Fools’ Day comparison. “The Belgian federation does not defend itself, it does not protect the national team, She defends football in general, she defends her integrity, her ethics. I think it’s the first time in the history of the World Cup that there is this kind of decision.”

Garcia wouldn’t respond when asked about a possible appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport or whether he thought Trump impacted FIFA’s action.

“In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options,” the Belgian federation said in a statement..."

Irony alert:  Balogun is an American citizen whose parents come from one of the MF's "shithole countries" (Nigeria) that the MF wants to stop immigration from.  Regardless of your allegiance to our national team, and the foul that caused the red card, this smells to high heaven.  Belgium and every every competing country now has to wonder how much the MF's influence over the corrupt Infantino and his corrupt FIFA organization will tilt other matches.  (UPDATE:  Belgium is taking legal action against FIFA.) Having a host country, with its infamously corrupt leader cutting a deal with the head of FIFA (who notoriously gave the MF a "Peace Prize"!), is already raising hackles around the world.  Also, when the MF gets involved in anything, the ETTD syndrome kicks in, so ...

Across The Universe, Cont. -- Cosmic Construction Project

 

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From NASA/ ESA, July 3, 2026: In today’s Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope we are taken on a visit to a building site of significant scale. The project is a galaxy cluster named MACS J0553.4-3342, located in the constellation Columba (the Dove).

MACS J0553.4-3342 is situated at a redshift of 0.412. Redshift is a measure of how much the cluster’s light has been stretched by the expansion of the Universe over the course of its long journey to Webb’s mirrors; this unassuming number tells us that we are seeing MACS J0553.4-3342 as it was 4.4 billion years in the past. But for a galaxy cluster, this is relatively young. In fact, observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes show a cluster still in the process of being built.

MACS J0553.4-3342 is composed of two sub-clusters — roughly equal in mass — that are actively merging. The two subclusters have already slammed through each other and travelled over one million light-years apart, but they will eventually come back together again and again until they finally merge. The construction process is messy, and MACS J0553.4-3342 is filled with extremely hot gas that radiates powerful X-rays. Each subcluster is anchored on an immensely bright and massive elliptical galaxy, which are easily identifiable as the two brightest points in the centre of this scene with the largest glowing halos around them. The many smaller white elliptical galaxies are bound to one of the two subclusters by gravity, and will be incorporated into the final galaxy cluster. This image also features many foreground galaxies — spirals and dusty discs that are unrelated to MACS J0553.4-3342 — and prominent bright stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Even mid-way through its construction, the titanic clumps of matter swirling around in this galaxy cluster have built a device that is already very useful for us here on Earth: a gravitational lens. The extreme and concentrated mass in MACS J0553.4-3342 curves light with its gravity, similar to how a glass lens bends and focuses light. In this image you can see prominent orange, stretched-out arcs alongside each of the subclusters. These arcs are images of distant background galaxies, whose light has been warped by the galaxy cluster’s gravitational pull. The arc on the left side, three bright spots joined together, is actually three images of a single background galaxy! A forest of smaller arcs and lines are scattered across the image too; such a fantastic view appears in few other places in the Universe.

Look in the right spot, however, and this galaxy cluster turns from a distorting funhouse mirror into a precision scientific device. The gravitational lensing focuses light, magnifying objects and enhancing their brightness so if they lie in exactly the right place, background galaxies and even individual stars that would have been far too faint and distant to spot will be made visible. By carefully mapping out the mass of the cluster, researchers can reconstruct where and how strongly it distorts light from our point of view, then search for serendipitously-magnified distant objects to study. The arcs we can see in MACS J0553.4-3342 already show a few galaxies from less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

This image, taken with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), stems from a survey programme named VENUS (#6882). Astronomers aimed to create a collection of deep, high-quality images of massive galaxy clusters like MACS J0553.4-3342 across a wide range of infrared wavelengths, greatly expanding the area covered by Webb’s sensitive instruments. Researchers can then scour the clusters for distant and faint objects that have been brightened through gravitational lensing, from young galaxies and low-mass black holes to supernova explosions and individual stars. Gravitational lensing has been key to many of Webb’s most dramatic discoveries in recent years, and having many more examples of it allows us to systematically study the distant past and the evolutionary stages of the galaxies, stars and black holes we see today.

[Image Description: A galaxy cluster in deep space. It is filled with elliptical galaxies: small, bright white glowing ovals. The two largest elliptical galaxies, left and right of center, are bright cores that radiate light. Unrelated, distant galaxies are scattered around as red smudges and dots.Many of these are stretched out into red arcs and lines by the galaxy cluster’s strong gravity, creating multiple images in places. Numerous spiral galaxies and bright stars appear in the foreground.]

Credit:  ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, S. Fujimoto

Today's Cartoons

 

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(Bill Day, caglecartoons.com)

(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

(Ann Telnaes, anntelnaes.substack.com)

(John Darkow, Columbia Missourian)

(Bart van Leeuwen, Oedipoes.com, Netherlands)

(Christopher Weyant, caglecartoons.com)

(Paul Duginski, caglecartoons.com)

(Milt Priggee, caglecartoons.com)

(David Rowe, Financial Review, Australia)

(Joe Heller, hellertoon.com)

(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)

 (Ali Solomon Mainhart, @alisolomain)

MAGAts Seek Shelter: Irony Of The Week

 

The cruel, absurd irony is palpable:

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

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— Bo Thompson (@gaudipern.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 10:40 PM

Does anyone doubt that these deplorable rubes resented being sheltered by a museum dedicated to the people / culture they revile?  

 

Trump Watching Himself Watch Himself

 

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From a Raw Story report:

"A surreal moment unfolded on Fox News Saturday when a panel of hosts spent roughly a minute begging President Donald Trump to wave – only for cameras to catch him standing near-motionless, apparently fixated on the same broadcast playing on a television in front of him. [snip]

The broadcast Trump could be seen watching was delayed by around 50 seconds. Once it caught up to the moment the entire panel started pleading with Trump to wave, Trump – whose gaze appeared fixed on the television – stood near-motionless without turning around or waving." (our emphasis)

This is how the mentally ill and narcissistic Malignant Fascist spends much of his day: watching Fox and other propaganda outlets like OANN and Newsmax to get his daily dose of adoration.  Chauncey Gardiner, anyone?  The pathetic Fox panel seemed giddy to think that their cult leader, the senile MF, was watching them, urging him to wave to them to no avail.  Sad! 

BONUS:  

Monkey meets mirror.

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— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) July 5, 2026 at 8:58 AM

 

 

Mis-Quote Of The Day

 

"And as our Declaration of Independence tells us," Trump said, "we are all made in the image of one almighty god. And a communist will never say that." -- the Malignant Fascist last night in his "address" that was more about him than the semiquincentennial of our Nation. Then, of course, the Declaration of Independence never said it either.  

What the Declaration of Independence actually says is "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights..."  But, you would've had to have listened in class or cracked a book in your lifetime, unlike the Malignant Fascist and his white nationalist fascist goons, to know that.  Convenient that the "inalienable rights" part of the Declaration's language was also missing from the MF's mis-quote.

But, as we know, in Trumpworld, history is what you make it, and what you make it is a white Christian nationalist revision of the objective truth to suit your purposes.

A New "Strait of Hormuz"?

 

The Associated Press is reporting that a British military cargo ship came under fire today off the Red Sea coast of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels.  Some have threatened to use the Bab al-Mandab strait as a choke point for ships transiting the Red Sea to and from the Suez Canal.  From the AP's report:

"A cargo ship came under attack Sunday off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, the British military said, the latest maritime attack off the conflict-torn Arab country.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported the attack off the coastal city of Hodeida, which is under control of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

The UKMTO said the ship reported being “under attack by unknown armed assailants” 30 nautical miles (55 kilometers) southwest of Hodeida. [snip]

The Houthis have threatened to begin attacking ships again, though they have not been carrying out attacks. A Houthi spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The rebels previously fired drones and missiles at ships that pass by territory they control near the narrow Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea. Their attacks over the course of the Gaza war forced shipping companies to reroute vessels around the southern tip of Africa instead of through the Suez Canal at the northern end of the Red Sea." (our emphasis)

Russian war criminal Putin's little barking dog Dmitry Medvedev noted the Bab al-Mandab strait represents a potential "thermonuclear weapon" for Iran and its Houthi allies.  Remember that this all began with the reckless and violent Malignant Fascist following Netanyahu's cue in attacking Iran in February, triggering a conflict that has yet to be resolved.

(photo: satellite view of the Bab al-Mandab strait / Wikipedia)

 

Pay Up, Trump! (Again)

 

The Malignant Fascist should be able to afford $5.8 million for his sexual abuse (the judge later called it "rape") of E. Jean Carroll, given his $2.2 billion windfall in crypto and other ill- gotten gains last year:

A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s request for more time to respond to New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s demand for $5.8 million she won in a civil lawsuit against him.

Carroll asked a federal court in Manhattan on June 30 to order Trump to pay her the money she was awarded when a jury found him liable in 2023 for sexually abusing her and then for defaming her by calling her assault allegations a "con job."

The Supreme Court had denied Trump's request on June 29 to review the jury's decision in the case. Trump asked for more time to respond to Carroll’s request.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York denied the request in a one-sentence order July 4. Trump must now reply by July 7.

Trump had argued that his ’former lead counsel in the case, Justin Smith, left because of his confirmation as a judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump said his new lawyer, Josh Halpern, needs time to learn the case.

Carroll said in her June 30 court filing that the judge should direct nearly $5.8 million from Trump her way at this point, including interest that has been accruing while Trump pursued his appeal. Her lawyers argued in a filing that Trump was being “dilatory” and slow-rolling his defenses.

"But this is the end of the line," the lawyers said.  [snip]

In a separate case, a Manhattan civil jury also awarded Carroll $83.3 million from Trump in 2024 based on the conclusion that Trump defamed her in 2019 when he first denied her allegations. That appeal is still being litigated.

Pay up, you decaying blob of fascist flesh.

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Hundreds Of Masked Fascist Cowards Prance Around DC

 

They came.  They strutted.  They took the Metro home to their parents' basements:

Hundreds of masked men carrying banners, including the Confederate flag, marched through Washington DC on the Fourth of July, the 250th anniversary of the US’s inception.

The group appeared to be led by Thomas Rousseau, founder of the neo-fascist, white supremacist organization Patriot Front. Members of the group wore white masks and gathered in front of DC’s Union Station. They later marched towards Capitol Hill, WTOP reported.

Members chanted “Life, liberty, victory!” and “Reclaim America!” during the Saturday demonstration, according to video posted on social media.  [snip]

The white supremacist group’s gathering attracted some counter-protesters. In one video, a man with a bullhorn shouted at Patriot Front members: “Every single one of you justifies the fucking right to abortion.” ...

The jackals only show up en masse because they know they'd get their asses kicked otherwise.  Bunch of incel losers.

(Photo:  the march of the barely sentient / Mark Sherman via AP)

Today's Cartoons

 

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(Chris Britt, Creators.com)

(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)

(Paresh Nath, caglecartoons.com, UAE)

(Dennis Goris, @dennisgoris)

(Bob Englehart, caglecartoons.com)

(Michael de Adder, caglecartoons.com, Canada)

(Jeff Koterba, caglecartoons.com)

(Bart van Leeuwen, Oedipoes.com, Netherlands)

(Harley Schwadron, politicalcartoons.com)

(Milt Priggee, caglecartoons.com)

(Adam Douglas Thompson, New Yorker Magazine)

Skeets Of The Day

 

Most. Corrupt. President. Ever. --

Trump has 2.2 billion reasons to celebrate our nation’s birthday. I break down his 900 page 2025 financial disclosure so you don’t have to: open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

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— Frank Figliuzzi (@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM

 

JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

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— Eric Lipton NYT (@ericlipton.nytimes.com) July 4, 2026 at 6:34 AM

“Trump has always admired Putin and his ability to do whatever he pleases. Russia became his template for the America he wanted to create, a place riddled with corruption from top to bottom where the leader and a tiny band of oligarchs enriched themselves.”

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— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 6:38 AM

 

The loser Malignant Fascist's state fair flop --

‘I’m Mad at Trump’: Even Trumpers Can’t Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 8:16 AM

 

Just sayin’.

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 9:09 AM

The sick MF's hateful and deeply un-American speech on the eve of the 4th -- 

Yesterday, Trump gave a speech full of hate & paranoia & he hailed “American exceptionalism.” Guess what—before it was politically advantageous to take this position, he dismissed the idea of US exceptionalism & said it was “not a nice term.” I provide receipts: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 7:55 AM

Murderous South Afrikaner fascist promoting hatred again on his "X" platform --

 

Musk’s amplification of the movie “Citizen Vigilante” legitimizes violence against immigrants.

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— Victor Shammas (@victorshammas.com) July 4, 2026 at 5:07 AM

Polls (Fox!) on Iowa and Georgia Senate races looking good at this point --

 

Fox poll: Iowa registered voters Josh Turek (D) 50% Ashley Hinson (R) 46% "Extremely" motivated to vote Josh Turek (D) 56% Ashley Hinson (R) 41%

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) July 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM

 

Fox poll: Georgia registered voters Jon Ossoff (D) 56% Mike Collins (R) 43%

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) July 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM

Things in imperialist Russia that go "boom."  Slava Ukraini! -- 

Residents of St Petersburg enjoying the burning oil terminal in St Petersburg, Russia.

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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 2:43 AM

⚡️Ukrainian missile strike on Russia's Belgorod disrupts power, water supply across city, official says.

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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM

 

A message from the United Farm Workers on July 4 --

 

On #July4 we celebrate freedom, but it's also a time to reflect on the work still left to do. Throughout US history, not everyone has shared equally in that promise. Farm workers have always helped build this country, feeding our communities. They are part of our nation's story.

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— United Farm Workers (@ufw.bsky.social) July 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM

 

 

Trump's Graft Unparalleled In Western Democracies

There have been a number of stories in recent days of the Malignant Fascist's huge financial windfall in 2025, after the his 927-page financial disclosure form was released.  His crypto haul was $1.4 billion alone, where he got quick profits while investors / suckers lost nearly $4 billion.  Well, the MF has given the U.S. another distinction on its 250th birthday:  its President is now in a league with the corrupt tyrants in Russia and Turkey in terms of accumulating vast wealth while in office:

Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and billionaire mogul who died in 2023, is often considered to have set the mold for President Trump with his mastery of the news media, gilded taste and, above all, legislative maneuvers that drew accusations of conflicts of interest.

Mr. Berlusconi passed laws that appeared tailor-made to protect and benefit his family’s vast business empire. And his annual earning disclosures showed he had been paid tens of millions of dollars while serving as prime minister.

This week, new financial disclosures suggested that Mr. Trump has broken that mold by making at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses.

Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. No modern Western leader has ever publicly disclosed such big windfalls while in office.

The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.

His gains were all the more striking because the United States has long positioned itself as a standard-bearer for financial regulation, anti-graft measures and the rule of law. Yet his cryptocurrency earnings highlight an unusually glaring conflict: As president, Mr. Trump oversees the regulation of an industry that, as a businessman, he also greatly profits from...  (our emphasis)

We'll leave it there so you can read the rest of the article, with all the modern comparisons of self- dealing graft, at your leisure (but please read).   

As he falls back on his latest distraction, the moth-eaten Republican "red scare" tactic, the American people need to be reminded over and over again that the world- class- corrupt MF isn't helping them, he's helping himself -- to billions in graft and shady deals (and he'll get away with paying little or no taxes as he has in the past).  It can't be made clearer, because it's the one thing he's being proudly transparent about.