George Bush Is Secretly Painting 'Ugly' Portraits Of Donald Trump As 'Art Therapy'

If there's one thing you can guarantee George W. Bush is not gonna do, it's publicly speaking out with any genuine conviction about pretty much anything -- including the current president, who is ripping the very fabric of this nation to smithereens right in front of our eyes.

But don't worry, George is coping in his own way.

Former Slate editor and CEO-turned-author Jacob Weisberg once compiled a set of bestselling "Bushisms" books that poked fun at the 43rd president's incessant history of verbal gaffes. Now, it seems Weisberg is taking aim at ole George once again, in his latest book, "Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era," in which he takes the former president to task for continuing to enable Donald J. Trump and his destruction of America-- not through his actions, but his blatant inaction.

In a new interview to promote his book with The Intelligencer's Michael Calderone, Weisberg didn't pull any punches for the 43rd president, noting that "There's sins of commission and sins of omission" and George W. Bush falls firmly into the second category, as he has stood by and idly watched as President Trump "dismantled USAID," the agency that helped to operate PEPFAR, the very same global HIV/AIDS program that Bush himself brought to life.

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Don Jr.’s Russian Wedding Gift Comes Back To Bite Him...HARD

A top Democrat in the House is investigating Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev's involvement in an expensive event he gifted Donald Trump Jr. to celebrate his wedding after a bombshell report, raising questions about the Trump family’s financial ties to foreign figures.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent letters to both White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Trump Jr. seeking records related to Kremlev and his involvement in the May celebration in the Bahamas, Axios reports.

According to the damning ProPublica report, Kremlev covered hundreds of thousands of dollars in event expenses, including one of the two private islands used for the celebration and a fireworks display. Kremlev is the president of the International Boxing Association, which receives financing from Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom, and he is known to have close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

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Trump Unleashes Furious Word Salad On Supreme Court Over Mail Voting

Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social to lash out at the Supreme Court in a sprawling post after the justices declined to allow new restrictions on mail-in voting to take effect before the 2026 midterm elections.

Trump’s 463-word screed included his randomly capitalized words and his typical juvenile “Dumocrats” slam, which sounds like something from a 4chan shitpost.

"Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM," he wrote.

Trump called the ruling a major setback for Republicans and argued that it would make election cheating involving mail-in ballots easier. He praised Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for dissenting, of course, while accusing other members of the Court of being unwilling to stand up to Democrats.

Trump also broadened his criticism to several other Supreme Court decisions, including rulings involving his administration's tariffs and his effort to restrict birthright citizenship. He claimed those decisions would cause enormous financial and legal damage to the country, arguing that the Court has repeatedly issued rulings that undermine his administration and harm the United States.

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Bessent's 'Furious' Reaction To Fraud Claim Poses 'Real Risk' To Economy: Experts

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has frozen out the news outlet that reported his own contradictory mortgage pledges, a campaign media figures warn could endanger the economy.

The account comes from a Sunday report by Semafor media editor Max Tani, based on interviews with reporters, editors and Treasury officials.

Tani reported that Bessent threatened Bloomberg News with retaliation last September, then spent a year carrying the threat out.

Several media figures Tani contacted warned that a hostile relationship between the Treasury secretary and the press corps could pose a "real risk" if the United States hits an economic crisis, Semafor reported.

The warning comes as high interest rates remain front-page news, according to the report, and as so-called bond vigilantes — investors who dump government debt to force a change in policy — test the Treasury's credibility. Those shut out are the outlets bond traders read.

The fight began with a telephone call last September, according to Semafor.

Bessent was "furious" that Bloomberg reporters Anthony Cormier and Zachary Mider planned to report that he had once agreed to occupy two different houses as his "principal residence" at the same time, two people familiar with the exchange told Semafor. He phoned Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait directly.

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OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

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AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance

The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.

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