Month: July 2025

The tangled and tumultuous relationship between President Trump and media mogul Rupert Murdoch has taken a new, dramatic turn. Trump is suing Murdoch, his company News Corporation and the Wall Street Journal’s parent company. The suit was filed on Friday, following through on earlier social media postings from the president. Trump being Trump, he had…
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President Trump has voiced a desire to ignite a new “baby boom” in America, floating a $5,000 baby bonus and other policies aimed at spurring family formation. But the administration’s tariff policies are now undercutting that vision — even in the wake of a U.S.–China trade deal that brings some clarity to parents and industry, but not nearly enough…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced late Friday that the visas of Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, his “allies on the court” and immediate family members have been revoked over the ongoing “political witch hunt” against Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro.  “[President Trump] made clear that his administration will hold accountable foreign nationals…
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The conspiracism that propels MAGA has turned on its host.

“I’m a boomer mom. I’m no longer in contact with my eldest boomer sister, as she was so happy that Trump would not allow FEMA to help with our wildfires.”

Some top Democrats at the Hill Nation Summit on Wednesday paid grudging compliments to President Trump’s political moves as the party looks to learn from its November losses and chart a new path forward.  Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) lauded the Republican as a “very talented politician” despite their disagreements, while Rep. Jim Himes (Conn.), the…
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The “Parks and Recreation” star admitted he’s no “mathematician” before hitting the president with a brutal reality check.

The Bulwark’s Tim Miller said the community doesn’t like “being played for fools.”

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Friday bashed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. “Tulsi Gabbard is not competent to be the director of national intelligence,” he told moderator Peter Baker at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. “I believe she is trying to politicize the workforce and work product,…
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O’Donnell, a recent target of the president’s threats, sounded the alarm on the network’s stunning “Late Show” decision.

The president could be in for a rude awakening.

The Justice Department (DOJ) asked a federal court on Friday to unseal the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case.  Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed two different, almost identical, motions to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to release the transcripts of the man convicted of sex-trafficking minors…
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released a report alleging Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Gabbard asserted in a statement that former officials engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” and said her office was turning over evidence to the Justice Department for possible criminal referrals. “The…
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Bryson DeChambeau, a two-time U.S. Open champion, suggested Friday the Trump Organization’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland host the British Open.  “It’s one of the best golf courses in the world, and I’d love for it to be a part of the rotation,” DeChambeau told reporters, according to The Associated Press. “Albeit I haven’t played…
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Trump is waging a public war against elite universities. But he’s also begun a more subtle one that will hurt some students’ chance to attend at all.

Trump vowed to sue and claimed he had nothing to do with the lewd birthday letter.

The Writers Guild of America said it has “significant concerns” that the cancellation is another bribe aimed at Trump.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel slammed CBS on Thursday for ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “Love you Stephen. F‑‑‑ you and all your Sheldons CBS,” Kimmel, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” wrote in a Thursday post on his Instagram story.  The network announced Thursday that “The Late Show” will conclude in May 2026 after…
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The Trump administration announced Friday it helped facilitate a prisoner swap, securing the release of 10 U.S. citizens held in Venezuela in exchange for the return of more than 250 Venezuelan men the U.S. had sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador. The Venezuelan men have spent months in El Salvador’s most notorious prison, known…
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President Trump signed the first major cryptocurrency bill into law Friday, marking a key milestone for an industry that has found a crucial ally in the president.  He touted the GENIUS Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for dollar-backed digital tokens called stablecoins, as “a giant step to cement the American dominance of global finance…
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks “stupid as hell” for trying to rename military bases and resurrect honorifics for Confederate officers by using other soldiers as eponymous stand-ins. The Pentagon announced in February that it would partially restore the names of two military sites that were given new monikers…
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The Writers Guild of America East and West called on New York Attorney General Letitia James to launch an investigation Friday into why CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” accusing the network’s parent company of offering a “bribe” to the Trump administration. The guild, whose members include writers for the Colbert program, asked…
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Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). “I think we’re all in a bit of a state of a shock and also sort of reeling at the shortsightedness of it all,” Burns said…
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Ingraham on Thursday alluded to covering The Wall Street Journal’s latest report ahead of a commercial break, only to… not do that when she returned.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) warned that GOP redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State represent a “five-alarm fire” and urged Democrats to push back. “This is a five-alarm fire, what’s happening in Texas. Donald Trump has already said that if he does this to Texas, he wants to do this all across the country,” the…
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