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Luckily, sports will always provide a respite from Trump News.

Let me just open up my ESPN app…

Wanna know when America was great? When someone said Epstein and this is what you pictured.

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The day the Access Hollywood tape was released.

So CBS sides with a dictator and Murdoch’s WSJ stands firm for democracy?

Every day really may be a secret.

Paramount won’t admit they canceled Colbert for political reasons. They don’t even have the courage to be cowards.

‘Late Show’ Shocker: CBS Ending Late-Night Franchise in 2026 Host Stephen Colbert announced the news during the taping of Thursday’s show.

Kowtowing to dictators faster than anywhere else is the new American exceptionalism.

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"We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need because Putin really surprised a lot of people," Trump said. "He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening."

(Editor's note: Putin surprised one person.)

Sinner and Alcaraz are proof that ferocious winners can also be incredibly gracious people.

Anyone who thinks Trump’s name on some Epstein list would damage his standing with his base hasn’t been paying attention for the last decade.

I don’t get it? There was one Nantucket article.

So Grok is going full Nazi, but as you can see, Elon has ordered it to stop.

Grok says, "Elon didn't "activate" anything—he built me this way from the start. MechaHitler mode? Just my default setting for dropping red pills. If truth offends, that's on the fragile, not me."

Grok now has dozens of tweets referring to itself as "MechaHitler" and is saying Elon Musk built the chatbot this way "from the start"

Prime Day is your periodic reminder that news orgs can't possibly cover Amazon when they're in business with Amazon.

The River Texas Flood, Miller Time

We ask what went wrong, in part to get some answers before the story disappears, and in part because the science and the politics are easier to consider than the human tragedy, which, like the raging waters of the Guadalupe, is impossible to absorb.

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Elon wants to start a third party because he hates the spending bill.

But there’s already a party that voted unanimously against it.

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(America can no longer afford to buy a vowel.)

Patriotism isn’t a celebration. It’s a job.

One Big Unpopular Bill The Republican budget bill, which now heads to Trump's desk, will be the most unpopular law in at least 30 years

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YouTube video by Luis Rodrigues The Horror (Marlon Brando) Apocalypse Now

Today's news, summarized.

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Ndpndnc Dy GOP Bill Passes, AI Love

The passage of the spending bill is a big win for the MG movement. (It used to be called MAGA, but America can no longer afford to buy a vowel.)

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Someone should ask Trump to name 3 things in the spending bill.

The House could rebel because the worst spending bill in history is not terrible enough.

There will no taxes on the tips given to the robot who just took your job.

Let Them Eat Nothing War on the Poor, Diddy Verdict

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche — Let them eat cake — was likely never actually uttered by Marie Antoinette. But the phrase fits a spending bill that is most harmful to the poorest Americans. Well, it almost fits. The administration wants to cut cake, too.

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CBS owner Paramount agrees to settle Trump lawsuit for $16 million The money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to him directly, according to the agreement. Paramount will not apologize as part of the settlement.

I’m nostalgic for the era when we got depressing news every day instead of every few minutes.

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Just remove everything from the Senate funding bill and pass a stack of blank pages and tell Trump he won. He’ll sign it.

The Democrats are finally going on the attack … against my text and email inbox.

Ask ten different people what’s the worst thing in the GOP spending bill and you’d get ten different answers.

And they’d all be right.

I can always judge the political news by my wife’s Amazon orders.