Posts by Kim Browne
White House Christmas Auditions Are Open. Do With That What You Will.
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this. But he’s been able to get away with this because the House Republicans are complicit. He’s been able to get away with…
Read MorePete Hegseth Brings in Worst Person Ever on Paranoid Hunt for Leakers
Far-right extremist Laura Loomer says that she is now working with the federal government to identify individuals within the Department of Defense who are leaking information to the press. Speaking with CNN in an interview published Monday, Loomer claimed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had personally turned to her for help quieting down the noise…
Read MoreMTG Has an Original Thought for Once in Her Life
MAGA isn’t MAGA enough anymore for Marjorie Taylor Greene, who seems as surprised as we do at her break with the party that gave her a pulpit. “I don’t know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to the Republican Party as much anymore,” she told The Daily…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren Backs Zohran Mamdani in the Best Way Possible
Please, won’t somebody think of the billionaires? Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren defended mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the wealthiest New Yorkers in order to make the city more affordable for working people during a CNBC interview Monday. Journalist David Faber repeated a common talking point about wealthy New Yorkers and businesses being “chased…
Read MoreWhen Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four?
On the main stage, Attorney General Pam Bondi has proven a singularly dutiful and hollow-eyed Trump soldier. (For Manson Family obsessives, she’s probably closest to Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.) As Bloomberg recently reported, Bondi has been covering for both Trump and Trump buddy and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein since 2011. From 2011 to 2019, as Florida’s…
Read MoreTrump Wants a Police State—But Even Some Cops Want Something Better
I left daily journalism in 1995 to write a book about racial politics, a matter with which I’d long been engaged, but Mancuso and I have kept in touch, and in 2019 I attended a dinner honoring him at a John Jay College alumni reunion. There, Mancuso spoke movingly, almost as if he were answering the cop who’d…
Read MoreOpec+ makes another large oil output hike in market share push
[LONDON] Opec+ agreed on Sunday (Aug 3) to raise oil production by 547,000 barrels per day for September, the latest in a series of accelerated output hikes to regain market share, as concerns mount over potential supply disruptions linked to Russia. The move marks a full and early reversal of Opec+‘s largest tranche of output…
Read MoreTrump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
The memo lays out the need to persuade top Pentagon officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed “for years to come.”…
Read MoreICE Recruiting Tactics Are Pissing Off Local Sheriffs Nationwide
Jonathan Thompson, executive director and CEO of the National Sheriffs’ Association, told NBC the move was “inappropriate behavior of a partner organization,” adding, “We’re all on the same boat. And you just don’t treat friends or partners like this.” Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida, told MSNBC, “We’re a force multiplier to help ICE,…
Read MoreJD Vance Praised Jobs Report That Trump Now Says Was a Hoax
“This case’s underlying question, then, asks whether parolees who escaped oppression will have the chance to plead their case within a system of rules. Or, alternatively, will they be summarily removed from a country that—as they are swept up at checkpoints and outside courtrooms, often by plainclothes officers without explanation or charges—may look to them…
Read MoreTrump Fires BLS Chief After Jobs Report Reveals How Bad Economy Is
Trump on Friday proved that fears about the president manipulating official data in his favor are founded, as he fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, due to a disappointing July jobs report. The bureau’s report, released earlier in the day, showed a marked slowdown in job growth. It also revised…
Read MoreCorporation for Public Broadcasting Shuts Down Thanks to Trump’s Cuts
“This case’s underlying question, then, asks whether parolees who escaped oppression will have the chance to plead their case within a system of rules. Or, alternatively, will they be summarily removed from a country that—as they are swept up at checkpoints and outside courtrooms, often by plainclothes officers without explanation or charges—may look to them…
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