PeeWee Goebbels' Wife Really Doesn't Like Him Being Called A Nazi

Shame on CNN for platforming this nutjob in the first place. Abby Phillip already hosts one of the worst talking heads political panel shows on television due to the presence of Scott Jennings on there night after night. Her producers apparently decided that wasn't enough to drive viewers away and booked Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, as a guest on this Friday's show, and things went about as well as expected.

Miller is still very upset that podcaster Jennifer Welch said this about her husband during an episode where Phillip was a guest:

"What do you do when the racists are in charge, like they are now?" Welch asked.

"I mean, like Stephen Miller is a White supremacist. I mean, he is. And he's basically running the White House. They keep Trump busy with his decorating projects. He's got building the arch now. He's got his Oval Office design," she continued. "And then you have these real sociopaths that are real antisemites, true White supremacists like Steven Miller. And even though he's Jewish, he's like a Nazi Jew."

While discussing the influence of Nick Fuentes on the Republican party, things blew up quickly:

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Jeanine Pirro Lashes Out At Critics Of Trump's DC National Guard Deployment

U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, with yet another version of "everything is Joe Biden's fault" during an unhinged interview on Fox & Friends this Friday where she announced the suspect in the Washington D.C. shooting of two National Guard members would be charged with first degree murder:

Meanwhile, Pirro addressed criticism of Trump’s decision to deploy troops to Washington, saying Americans “should be grateful” that Trump is prepared to take such swift action to keep them safe.

“There’s a part of me that thinks that the left is disappointed that the National Guard didn’t shoot someone,” Pirro said.

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Supabase hit $5B by turning down million-dollar contracts. Here’s why.

Vibe coding has taken the tech industry by storm, and it’s not just the Lovables and Replits of the world that are winning. The startups building the infrastructure behind them are cashing in too.  Supabase, the open-source database platform that’s become the backend of choice for the vibe-coding world, raised $100 million at a $5 billion valuation just months after closing $200 million at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO […]

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Clueless Kash Patel Gives Presser Not Knowing Suspect Was In Custody

Once again. FBI Director Kash Patel embarrassed himself and the agency by leading the press conference in the aftermath of two National Guard soldiers being shot in Washington, DC, and vowing to bring the suspect to justice, and then not knowing a suspect was already in custody.

Patel was heavily criticized for his initial handling of the Charlie Kirk shooting, when he gave misleading information to the press, saying the shooter was in custody when he wasn't

Now, he is two for two.

PATEL: As you can see behind me, we have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies to prepare all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act.

We have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies to prepare all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act.

And make no mistake, they will be brought to justice.

Although heavy-handed, Patel sounded somewhat reasonable. Enter Jeff Carroll:

CARROLL: My name is Jeff Carroll.

I'm the executive assistant chief here at the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Open Thread: Nominations Open For The 2025 Crookie Awards!

It's time to nominate folks and events for the 2025 Crookies! From December 24 through January 1, we'll be highlighting the highs and lows, greats and awfuls, of the political year.

One caveat: We will not give one. single. award. to Donald Trump. He deserves nothing. He's a loser. So hey Donald:

The awards will go to both the Good Guys and the bad guys, and we need input from our readers!

Leave your suggestions in the comments. What was the biggest HAPPY surprise of the year for you? The worst public figure not Trump? Best Cable News moment? Favorite Crooks and Liars post? (yes, we're partial to this blog, and we prefer nominees for whom we have videos in our amazing archives.)

Let us know your nominees in comments, and thanks!

And please don't forget to include our blog in your holiday giving. This site doesn't operate without your support.

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Mike's Blog Round Up

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lawyers, Guns and Money: We regret to inform you of a minor editing error.

Darwinfish²: I thank you.

From the Smithsonian, more on the real history of Thanksgiving, the myths, five ideas to change teaching about the subject, and more native perspectives.

From Addams Family Values, the subversion of the Thanksgiving play (video).

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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This Thanksgiving’s real drama may be Michael Burry versus Nvidia

Is Burry the canary in the coal mine, warning of a collapse that's inevitable? Or could his fame, his track record, his now unrestricted voice, and a fast-growing audience trigger the very implosion he's predicting?

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Thanksgiving Day Football Open Thread

Today's games are as follows: Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 27, 2025)

1 p.m. ET: Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions (FOX)

4:30 p.m. ET: Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys (CBS)

8:20 p.m. ET: Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens (NBC)

Times shown are Eastern.

How are you celebrating today? What's your pick for the winning team(s)?

It's a Thanksgiving Day open thread, too.

We at Crooks and Liars are SO grateful to you, our readers and commenters. Thank you.

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Redwood Materials reportedly cuts 5% of staff after $350M raise

The battery recycling and cathode production company, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has started using recycled battery materials to create energy storage solutions for AI data centers.

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Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

Three London councils reported disruption, prompting officials to shut down phone lines and networks and activate emergency plans.

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Karoline Leavitt: 'Can't Have' Soldiers Asking If Orders Are Legal

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that the United States "can't have" soldiers questioning whether orders are legal after Democrats pointed out that troops have a responsibility not to follow illegal orders.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Leavitt said Democrats were giving "a wink and a nod to the 1.3 million active duty service members who serve in our United States armed forces and essentially encourage them to defy the orders of their commander-in-chief."

"Not a single order this president or administration has given to our military has ever been illegal, nor will it ever be," she insisted. "This administration respects and abides by the law."

"You can't have a soldier out on the battlefield or conducting a classified order questioning whether that is lawful or whether they should follow through. There must be a chain of command in our military."

Despite Leavitt's claim, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) states that service members can be liable for following unlawful orders like burglary, murder, assault, rape, and property destruction. The UCMJ also prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses."

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OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it

Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.

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AOC Questions Trump's Mental State

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped into Trump's mental state after he continually mischaracterized, lied, and called for the death penalty after several Democrats released a video reminding the military to not obey illegal or unconstitutional orders.

To be honest, the president's remarks are, I think, indicate a level of instability.

It's not just shocking, it's not just offensive, it's bizarre, it is erratic, it's volatile. And I think it indicates a mental state that we should all be questioning right now, whether that's emotional, mental, what have you.

It is not normal to make these accusations, it is not normal to invoke these kinds of threats of violence. And it's also not normal to also dramatically misquote, as Karoline Leavitt was doing, what these members of Congress said.

They made a very clear message to U.S. service members, which is that you do not have to obey an illegal order.

And I think that's an important message to reiterate, because this administration seems to be increasingly trying to go down that path.

AOC described Trump as not being stable.

Release your acuity test, Piggy.

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X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers.

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Mamdani Asked If He Still Thinks Trump Is A 'Fascist' And A 'Despot'

While the president changed his tune as to how he views Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Mayor-elect, on “Meet the Press” with moderator Kristen Welker, said that he still believes Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot." We agree!

"In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is, in fact, a fascist, a word that you've used in the past," Welker said. "You were about to answer, then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that's okay, you can just say yes, it's easier than explaining it. So Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?"

"And after President Trump said that, I said yes," Mamdani said.

"So you do?" Welker said as if that needed any clarification.

"And that's something that I've said in the past, I say it today," the mayor-elect said. "And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers."

"You've also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our democracy," Welker said. "You've called him a despot. "Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?"

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X’s new About This Account feature is going great

A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.

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Waymo gets regulatory approval to expand across Bay Area and Southern California

Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robotaxi company posting Friday that it’s now “officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State.”

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Trump’s Mamdani Bromance May Have Just Killed Stefanik Campaign

In case you missed it, Donald Trump fell head over heels on Friday for New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, the guy he once called a “communist lunatic,” had threatened to arrest, and vowed to cut off federal funding to the city if Mamdani won the November election.

That was so pre-White House meeting ago! Democratic socialist Mamdani so charmed Trump at the White House Friday, Trump said he now expects to be “a big help” to the future mayor and said they share some of the “same ideas” about affordability.

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Trump Admin No Longer Considers Nursing As A 'Professional Degree'

Donald J. Trump's Big, Hideous Bill contains a doozy. The Department of Education has excluded nursing from professional degree programs. A lot of what is in that travesty of a bill is a slap in the face of Americans, but I didn't think they'd take a shot at nurses, too, who were deemed "essential workers" when the COVID pandemic hit. And there is already a significant nursing shortage. This move will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education.

Via Blavity:

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” changed the definition of what is considered a professional program, as well as the eligibility to receive up to $200,000 in student loans, according to Newsweek. The Department of Education will now only consider these fields as professional programs: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology.

It means that physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists and audiologists are excluded from this list. They will no longer have access to the same student loans as they did before.

Via Nurse.org:

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years

The startup’s rapid growth suggests that enerprises are embracing AI agents.

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The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you can buy right now

We compiled all the hottest AI wearables currently available, including Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

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CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider’ who passed information to hackers

Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike denied it had been hacked following claims from a hacker group, which leaked screenshots from inside CrowdStrike's network.

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Mixup is a new, Mad Libs-style app for creating AI images from photos, text, and doodles

The new app lets anyone use Google's Nano Banana in a fun new way, with fill-in-the-blank AI "recipes."

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Warner Music settles copyright lawsuit with Udio, signs deal for AI music platform

The subscription service will allow users to make remixes, covers, and new songs using the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who choose to participate.

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Rising data center electricity use risks blackouts during winter storms

Data centers are driving record electricity demand, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation is warning that a sever winter storm could push the grid over the edge.

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Monarch Tractor sued over tractors that were ‘unable to operate autonomously’

The lawsuit is the latest problem to crop up for the startup.

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Fox News' War On Christmas: Don't Buy Granny Any Slippers

Fox News host Dana Perino highlighted the rising costs in America with Jade Warshaw, who painted a bleak picture for most Americans, and suggested that in order to budget for Christmas, don't buy granny any slippers.

In an outlier segment on Fox News, Perino focused on the affordability crisis and the challenges facing the US due to Trump's inflationary tariffs, and posted a graphic highlighting the worries of most Americans.

Warshaw, a co-host of The Dave Ramsey Show advised people to move into smaller apartments and dump their car if they have lengthy payment schedules.

"If you're living in an apartment, sometimes you have to go from a two-bedroom to a one-bedroom," Warshaw said. "These are things that I don't like telling people."

"It's the same thing, Dana, with car payments. We're looking at people whose car payments are $700 and $800," she continued. " If you can't pay off your car in the next 18 months, yeah, you need to consider selling it."

Didn't Trump promise Nirvana if he was elected president?

Perino then asked for a spot of advice for the holidays.

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Ford turns to Amazon to give used cars sales a boost

Amazon Autos, which kicked off last year with Hyundai, initially started with new cars. The deal with Ford pushes it into used car territory.

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Ramp hits $32B valuation, just three months after hitting $22.5B

In 2025 alone, Ramp has leapt from being worth $13 billion to $32 billion with new rounds every few months.

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'Just Sink The Boats': Trump Judge Implicated In Plot To Murder Alleged Drug Traffickers

New reporting suggests that Judge Emil Bove, a former member of President Donald Trump's legal team, spoke in favor of murdering people aboard alleged drug boats without proving they had done anything wrong.

While serving as acting deputy attorney general after Trump took office, Bove told the federal government's top drug prosecutors that the administration was no longer interested in intercepting boats carrying narcotics, multiple sources told NPR.

Since that time, the U.S. military has killed more than 75 people in boat strikes without providing any direct evidence to support the claim that they posed a threat to Americans.

During his February address to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Bove reportedly shocked attendees when he said the new policy should be to "just sink the boats."

"He said that we're not going to worry so much about interdictions, we're just going to sink the boats," one person who attended the conference confirmed.

"I looked around at others in that room when he said that, and jaws literally dropped," the person added. "The way people interpreted that was not, 'We're going to interdict and process the folks in the boats.' People took that as, 'We're just going to blow up the boats with people in them.'"

One former DOJ official who was present for the speech did not take Bove's remarks seriously.

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'Super Genius' Trump Can't Explain Why He Needed An MRI

File this one under the "imagine if Joe Biden did this" category. Trump was asked on Air Force One this Friday about his "perfect" MRI scan during a recent visit to Walter Reed, and the brain-addled Trump couldn't explain why he needed it or what they scanned.

He just kept insisting again how wonderful the results were before bragging, again, about acing a cognitive test that they give to dementia patients.

REPORTER: Can you tell us why you needed to get an MRI, understanding the results of this. What was it for?

TRUMP: Because it's part of my physical. Getting an MRI is very standard.

[...]

I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor. That's it.

I had an MRI as part of my standard yearly, or every I think they do it every two years, but I have a physical every year, and the result was outstanding.

[...]

I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well, and they said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen.

Now, the other thing I took is I took, as you know, a advanced, very advanced test on mental acuity, because I think a president should have to do that.

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Why Did Kash Patel Exempt Dan Bongino From Clearing Polygraph Exams?

ProPublica has the scoop on the waiver that allowed Bongino to get his top job without clearing a lie detector test. Two other top employees got similar waivers: Nicole Rucker, Kash Patel’s personal assistant, and Marshal Yates, the FBI liaison with Congress. ProPublica was able to determine that Rucker and Yates did not clear their polygraph exams.

However, ProPublica was not able to determine whether Bongino underwent a polygraph exam or what its results were. “It is possible Bongino received a preemptive exemption, a former senior FBI official with knowledge of the vetting program told ProPublica.”

What we do know points to Bongino having not cleared the exam.

One does not technically pass or fail a polygraph test, ProPublica’s article pointed out. “But a person is not cleared for approval if the examiner finds deception or is unable to reach a conclusion about the veracity of the answers given. Officials said that a person may not have technically failed the exams; the results could be deemed inconclusive, which would not meet the FBI’s standards for hiring or security clearances.”

When asked for comment, the FBI denied what ProPublica seemed not to have reported. “It is false that the individuals you referenced failed polygraphs,” wrote spokesperson Ben Williamson. He also claimed the article was “riddled with falsehoods.” But when asked to specify those alleged falsehoods, ProPublica got no response.

Oh.

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JPMorgan doesn’t want to pay Frank founder Charlie Javice’s legal bills

A lawyer representing JPMorgan said Javice’s legal team billed for expenses including luxury hotel upgrades, 24 hours of work in a single day, and cellulite butter.

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Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology.

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'Betrayed': Trump Kicks Off His Morning By Lashing Out At 'Traitor

Donald J. Trump's thin skin is on display again as he took to Truth Social to lash out at MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene again. On Friday, Trump pulled his endorsement for Greene after the Georgia Congresswoman refused to back down on the Epstein Files, which doesn't make him look guilty at all (wink wink).

This is, without a doubt, the wildest breakup in politics. Greene, who has overlooked Trump's staggering corruption, finally drew a line in the sand with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the now-deceased wealthy financier who trafficked and raped underage girls (also known as children), and had a longstanding friendship with the president, among other influential figures.

Pulling his endorsement wasn't enough for the Pumpkin Pol Pot. Dipshitler just can't let go of Marge.

"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was," Donald wrote. "Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

About 30 minutes later, Trump posted, "Marjorie “Traitor” Green is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!"

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Tesla releases detailed safety report after Waymo co-CEO called for more data

The new data, released Friday, finally addresses some of the biggest criticisms of the paltry "safety reports" Tesla's released for years.

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Oura Ring 4 Ceramic review: a colorful glow up

If you want a pop of color and style, then the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic might be the smart ring for you.

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Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’

Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

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Uber quietly pilots in-app video recording for drivers in India

Uber's in-app video recording pilot is currently live in 10 cities across India.

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Heads Up: Here's Mike Johnson's 2019 GOP Healthcare Plan

You may not remember that Mike Jesus Johnson was a member of the Republican Study Group, the largest and most extreme Republican caucus. Back in 2019, Mike Johnson was the chairman. Here's their 2019 healthcare plan. (The full link is missing, but here's a summary.)

As someone who already knows far too much about insurance, I can tell you there's not much difference today. Republicans will propose what they always propose: Plans that will increase our costs, lower coverage, and increase insurance company profits.

First up, this old favorite:

The proposal ... explains how Obamacare has distorted the job market with the employer mandate and how Medicaid Expansion hurt the vulnerable by extending the program to abled-bodied individuals without dependents that compete with traditional Medicaid recipients, such as poor, pregnant women, looking for care.

We already know this is bullshit. Next?

"Promoting the use of innovative healthcare solutions such as telemedicine, direct primary care, association health plans, and health sharing ministries."

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Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages

A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.

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Pardons Are 'Call To Interfere In Upcoming Elections': Ex-prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner argued that President Donald Trump had issued a "calling-all-insurrectionists" recruiting tool by pardoning people who participated in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Over the weekend, Trump pardoned scores of people accused of backing Republican efforts to overturn his 2020 loss, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and others who supported the scheme to use ballots of fake electors.

Many of those people continue to face state charges despite the pardons.

Kirschner took issue with reports that Trump's pardons were "primarily symbolic."

"These pardons serve as a recruiting call for people to interfere in the upcoming elections, both the midterms and the 2028 presidential race," the former prosecutor noted on Monday. "What do these pardons signal? If you are alleged to have committed crimes designed to interfere in an American election, Trump will have your back with a presidential pardon."

"Trump might as well post a job announcement: Election interference co-conspirators wanted," he said.

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AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says

Gamma is growing quickly, and profitably, its co-founder CEO Grant Lee says.

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Coward Mike Johnson Holds 6 Minute Presser; Refuses Questions On ACA

Mike Johnson fled his press conference after he spoke for roughly six minutes, with none of his usual colleagues beside him, and refused to answer any questions about health care and the ACA subsidies after the Senate agreed to reopen the government.

Since the government shutdown, Jebus Johnson's press briefings have been over 40 minutes, with a cadre of his House colleagues speaking to the press and blaming all their woes on the Democratic party, but not today.

Watch how he rushes off after thanking Senate Democrats and refusing to take any responsibility for the shutdown.

JOHNSON: This has gone on too long.

Too many people have suffered. It's long overdue.

That's the update I wanted to give you this morning.

There are probably lots of questions, but I'm going to get a lot of my own questions answered later today.

So stay tuned for more.

Thanks so much.

The usual loquacious Johnson was apparently mummified over the weekend. He refused to answer any questions from the press and fled like his pants were on fire.

Making Americans suffer has been part of their plan.

Is he nervous that some of his colleagues will force an Epstein files vote?

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Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love

After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X.

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Olivia Rodrigo Slams DHS's Use Of Her Music For ‘Racist, Hateful Propaganda’

It was perhaps unwise to use the music of an artist so closely associated with Kamala Harris. Olivia Rodrigo was not amused.

According to The Guardian, this is an actual statement to them from a DHS Spokesperson: “America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice.”

Instagram has since removed the soundtrack from the video.

Source: The Guardian

Olivia Rodrigo has criticized the Trump administration after one of her songs was featured in a government video promoting deportation efforts.

A clip posted on the official Department of Homeland Security and White House Instagram accounts encouraged undocumented immigrants to voluntarily leave the US. The video used a segment of Rodrigo’s song all-american bitch as its soundtrack.

Rodrigo, who is Filipino American, reportedly condemned the use of her music in a comment on the post, writing: “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.” The comment was later taken down, but not before screenshots were captured and circulated widely.

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Is Wall Street losing faith in AI?

A rough week for tech stocks might signal a loss of investor confidence in artificial intelligence.

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FAFO: A Trump Loving County Relies Heavily On SNAP

Yet another FAFO ends with the utterly predictable betrayal of Donald Trump hurting the very people that voted to put him back in the White House in 2024. This time it is Aroostook County, Maine, the northernmost county in the state. It borders Canada, has a population around 67,000 and voted to elect Donald Trump by a 26-point margin.

The county is almost 95% white and relies heavily on food stamps - in fact, 20% of the residents of the rural county need SNAP to feed themselves and their families.

Guess what? They are getting exactly what they voted for: no food. They are the waste, I guess. They are the ones that need to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps."

Or, as Republican Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana advised: ‘Stop Smoking Crack’.

Ok, back to Aroostook for some on the ground details on the residents that are impacted. SNAP gives benefits of about $29 million to about 170,000 Maine residents EACH MONTH. Food banks cannot make up even a fraction of that with donations.

The Boston Globe reports that "20 percent of the county’s roughly 67,000 residents get food stamps, surpassing the state and national rates. It’s among the oldest counties in the oldest state, with more than a quarter of residents aged 65 or older. Its residents also have fewer resources, with one of Maine’s highest unemployment rates and a median household income of around $54,000, about 25 percent lower than the statewide figure."

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‘Breaking Bad’ creator’s new show ‘Pluribus’ was emphatically ‘made by humans,’ not AI

If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by humans.”

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Hakeem Jeffries Rises To The Challenge On Fox News After Election Victories

Democratic Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on Fox News' Special Edition a day after the massive Democratic party sweep on Tuesday's election. He did a fine job of explaining what the Democratic Party is and what Republicans are failing to do without falling into the usual Fox News traps set by their hosts.

It's obvious Republican talking points went out focusing only on Zohran Mamdani's win after the Democratic Tsunami, conflating him with terrorists and trying to wrap him around the necks of the Democratic party.

Host Bret Baier did his part for their cause and Jeffries did not fall for this ruse and easily swatted it away..

JEFFRIES: That's what Democrats are all about at this moment, House Democrats in particular.

We recognize that America deserves better than where things are at right now, that we need to drive down the high cost of living. We need to fix our broken healthcare system, and we also need to clean up corruption across the board, in Congress, at the Supreme Court, and of course, as it relates to this administration.

BAIER: You've had Democratic socialists like Mamdani win, though, and there have been supporters, including yourself, who, who endorsed him.

But the Democratic Socialists of America, this is what their platform is, abolish mandatory minimums and cash bail, establish universal rent control, greatly reduce U.S. military budget, amnesty for all immigrants, full voting rights to non-citizens, and national popular vote for president.

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Clown Howard Lutnik Says SCOTUS On Trump's Side On Tariffs

In the alternate world of Fox News, Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik gleefully claimed to Sean Hannity, with no proof AND after attending the hearing, that the Supreme Court was on Trump's side and he will win the tariff case.

If an actual human being checked in on the hearing itself, the Supreme Court gave no actual indication that they are on Trump's side. It is rightfully said that tariffs are taxes, and Trump is usurping congressional authority.

Wearing a shit-eating dumb grin, Sputnik Lutnik characterized the lengthy court session as Super-Bowl-like and made some bizarre analogies to make his unfounded case.

LUTNIK: And there were fireworks all the time, but think of some of these questions, like Justice Kavanaugh says, imagine a meeting in the Oval Office with the president where, and this was his cross-examination of their lawyer, and he says, you've said he could embargo, he could cut off trade with any country.

And their lawyer said, I agree. He goes, imagine telling the president in the Oval Office, sir, you can blow up trade with this country. And he goes, that seems too much.

Can I put a tariff on them and do a little less? And they say, no, sir, you can't.

And Justice Kavanaugh says, that seems like a very odd donut to me.

I mean, how could you let that happen? It just didn't make sense.

The justices were on the president's side.

You're hearing it here from me.

President Trump is going to win this case.

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Boston's Michelle Wu Re-Elected With 93.23% Of The Vote

How popular is Boston's mayor, Michelle Wu? So popular, no one else bothered to run against her. And it's not for nothing that she was recently included in New York magazine's The 25 Young(ish) Democrats to Watch (besides AOC and Mamdani) as Democrats rebuild the reputation of their party.

Source: CBS Boston

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was re-elected to a second term in office Tuesday, as she ran unopposed in the 2025 election.

Wu, a Democrat, was initially going to face Josh Kraft, a son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. But after the mayor beat him by more than 48 points in the preliminary election in September, Kraft dropped out.

With 100% of precincts reporting Wednesday, Wu earned 93.23% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the city. More than six percent went to write-in candidates.

The mayor made national headlines earlier this year for her frequent battles with President Trump and his administration over immigration and crime.

"This year against the backdrop of a federal administration's chaos and cruelty, we faced a choice," Wu said Tuesday night. "Cave to the pressure, backtrack and change course, or double down on the values that founded our nation. That's what's at stake. That is what this election was about here in Boston."

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Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom

Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.

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Markwayne Mullin Joins The GOP Sgt. Schultz Caucus

Sen. Markwayne Mullin has the Republican standard answer to Trump's criminality down pat... "I see nothing!"

As we discussed here, Jebus Johnson pulls this stunt all the time, and did so again this week when asked about Trump feigning ignorance on his pardoning of a crypto billionaire:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) played dumb after President Donald Trump stated that he did not know that he had pardoned a crypto billionaire.

During a press conference on Monday, CNN's Manu Raju noted that Trump claimed to "know nothing" about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, even though the president had pardoned him after his company boosted the Trump family's crypto business.

"Last week, you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen & pardons. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?" Raju asked.

"I don't know anything about that," Johnson deflected. "I didn't see the interview. You have to ask the president about that. I'm not sure."

This Monday, it was one of the contestants for dumbest member of the United States Senate, Markwayne Mullin, took his turn during an appearance on Kaitlan Collins show on CNN.

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Sora is now available on Android in the US, Canada, and other regions

The Sora app is now available for Android users in the US, Canada, and Japan, among other regions.

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Pam Bondi Scrambles To Retroactively Appoint Comey Prosecutor

Attorney General Pam Bondi took the unusual step of trying to retroactively appoint Lindsey Halligan as Special Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after former FBI Director James Comey claimed that her appointment was not legitimate.

Following his indictment in September, Comey filed a motion to dismiss based on the claim that Halligan's appointment as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been invalid.

Halligan's appointment followed another interim U.S. attorney's refusal to indict Comey.

"The official who purported to secure and sign the indictment was invalidly appointed to her position as interim U.S. Attorney," Comey's motion said.

On Monday, Bondi suggested that Comey's indictment could not be dismissed because she retroactively appointed Halligan as "special attorney."

"On September 22, 2025, I exercised the authority vested in the Attorney General by 28 U.S.C. § 546 to designate and appoint Lindsey Halligan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia," Bondi wrote in an order dated Oct. 31.

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Jebus Johnson Gives Lamest Excuse Yet For Not Releasing Their 'Health Care Plan'

We all know they don't have a "plan" other than to allow the insurance companies to go back to denying coverage, or selling worthless junk plans that didn't pay for anything like they did before the ACA was enacted.

That didn't stop Mike Johnson from giving this lame response to Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent criticism over the ACA subsidies they're allowing to expire in their "one big beautiful" turd of a bill that passed earlier this year.

Here's Johnson proving Greene's point on this weekend's Fox News Sunday:

BREAM: So another thing that happened this weekend is open enrollment began for Obamacare. People are seeing a change in their uh premiums essentially if these subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year are not changed, renewed, handled in some way.

Last time you were here we talked about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who had some real frustrations about this. "Where is the Republican plan?" I know you two had talked. Well, she posted this on X this week.

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Fox Cuts Away From Obama As Soon As He Mentions Trump AI Video Pooping On Protesters

The station that endlessly covers all of Trump's insane rallies across the country from end to end cut away after just a minute of President Obama campaigning in Virginia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. The Fox Report host Jon Scott interrupted their coverage with "breaking news" that Obama was speaking, and this is all they showed before cutting away from the former president for to a commercial break.

OBAMA: They have not put forward serious proposals to lower housing costs or make groceries more affordable. They haven't improved our schools. They haven't made health care more accessible. They haven't shortened your commute or prepared young people for the future where AI might take their job.

And all the nonsense we see on the news every day, the over-the-top rhetoric, the fabricated conspiracies, the weird videos of a U.S. president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens, all of that is designed to distract you, from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

SCOTT: Former President Obama campaigning for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia.

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Trump's Venezuelan Boat Excuse So Bad It Makes 'Iraq Has WMDs' Look Bulletproof

After a briefing with the Arms Services Committee on Thursday about the Venezuelan boat strikes Trump has authorized, Rep. Seth Moulton told MSNBC that it was so bad they made "the case for the the Iraq War look like a slam dunk."

That is more than bad.

That is unconscionable.

MOULTON: The Democratic lawmaker also explained that the Trump administration pulled their lawyers from the briefing which were were supposed to explain the legal justifications for their drastic and most likely criminal actions.

We actually had a bipartisan briefing on the Armed Services Committee yesterday in the House, and I went down to Washington to hear it.

And I found their justification for what they're doing so flimsy that it makes the case for the Iraq War look like a slam dunk.

I mean, it was that bad. And by the way, at the last minute, they pulled the lawyers from the briefing.

So all the questions that both Democrats and Republicans had about exactly what you're getting to, what is the legal justification for this, what is the legal justification for the actions that this administration is making our troops take, they weren't there to explain it.

And I'll tell you, when I left that briefing, the last thing I did is I went up to the front of the room and I spoke to the admiral, who was by far the most impressive person there.

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Elon Musk wants you to know that Sam Altman got a refund for his Tesla Roadster

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X.

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