Feckless Blowhard Delivers Brutal Self-Own At Moms For Liberty Event

As Kamala Harris gains momentum, Donald J. Trump continues his old playbook of using personal attacks to demean his opponent. At the annual event for Moms For Liberty, a conservative book banning, school board infiltrating group of Karens with their own set of scandals, the felonious former President droned on about his opponent while looking tired and sweaty.

The problem here, well, one of them, is that Trump doesn't seem to be aware that Biden is the current President and the felon is the one "we just had."

“I think she (Harris) would’ve been better off if she just did interviews, even if they weren’t great it would have been better … because now everyone’s watching and now we see, she’s defective,” Trump said about Harris's CNN interview which resulted in the network nearly doubling Trump's ratings for his last interview with CNN.

So, he went with "defective" because he's out of material.

“She’s a defective person," Trump added. “And we don’t need another defective person as president of the United States. We just had that."

We know he was trying to take a jab at President Joe Biden, but he broke the irony meter. He does that a lot! He, not Biden, is the former President. Words are hard.

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Bolt reportedly threatens legal action against Silverbear Capital

In the latest twist in Bolt’s aggressive fundraising efforts, the fintech company’s CEO appears to have made a veiled threat of legal action against Silverbear Capital, the investment bank whose involvement in the deal remains in some dispute. “We believe there was some internal miscommunication at Silverbear Capital, one of our lead investors, which has […]

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Bluesky tops app charts and sees ‘all-time-highs’ after Brazil bans X

A Brazilian court’s decision to ban X (formerly Twitter) seems to benefiting its rivals, especially Bluesky. The microblogging platform announced late Friday that it was seeing “all-time-highs for activity” with 500,000 new users joining in the previous two days. It’s also number one on the free iPhone app chart in Brazil today, ranking just ahead […]

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Dummy Trump Wants A Government Shutdown Right Before The Election

Mr. Big Brain made an appearance on Project 2025's Monica Crowley's podcast this Friday, and pushed for Republicans to shut down the government over the so-called SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote.

The bill was summed up here by the League of Women Voters, which opposes it:

The House and Senate introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to register to vote, even though voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify their citizenship status when registering to vote. It is already illegal for noncitizens to register and vote in federal or state elections. The bill’s requirement of a document to prove American citizenship to register to vote in federal elections is unnecessary and seeks to divide us. It also creates another barrier to voting.

Americans do not need MORE obstacles to vote. Instead of moving this legislation forward, Congress should protect voters in this critical election year by strengthening protections against discrimination in voting and expanding access to the ballot.

Xenophobia Has No Place in Our Elections. Tell your members of Congress to oppose the SAVE Act.

More voter suppression, so of course Trump and his MAGA enablers in the House are all for it:

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JD Vance: Trump's QAnon Misogyny Is 'Fun' And 'Jokes'

JD Vance told CNN's John Berman that when Trump sends out sexually explicit insults toward Kamala Harris, he's clowning around.

This is what the Trump campaign came up with to defend Dump's misogynistic and QAnon attacks? Fun and jokes?

Trump is a candidate who would rather be hateful and sexist as opposed to being stodgy.

Gotcha!

BERMAN: You were talking about Donald Trump's social media.

Would you describe his posts over the last 48 hours as lifting people up, quoting, reposting QAnon statements, reposting these misogynistic memes about Vice President Harris and Hillary Clinton? That's the kind of open discussion that you think is lifting people up?

VANCE: Oh, John, I think if you look at Donald Trump's full campaign appearances and, yes, his social media appearances, what you see is two things.

A guy with an agenda to lower prices and bring back American prosperity and a political candidate who isn't stodgy, who likes to have some fun and likes to tell some jokes.

I'd much rather have a candidate who's willing to go off script, who's willing to give every interview and is willing to tell some jokes.

I do think that's how you lift people up. A politics of boring scolds, telling people they can't laugh, that is not lifting Americans up.

That's how to tear us down.

BERMAN: All right, fun and jokes.

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Carta’s ill-fated secondaries business finally found a buyer

Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirmed.

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Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds

Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community's Mastodon server, for instance.

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