Mel Baggers

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

Natalie showed him the speech.

The Heritage Foundation adviser who recruited 12 bishops to pray over Trump in the Oval Office claimed a Ph.D. from an Italian university that doesn’t grant doctorates. His listed bachelor’s school is a high school. A Vatican official called the meeting an insult to Pope Leo XIV.

New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on how Fox News is whipping viewers into a pre-midterm hysteria "These sorts of pseudo scandals germinate on the right, but if they can turn those stories into a major fixation for the mainstream press as well, then they do a lot more damage."

Here's to hoping that Melania wins next year's Nobel Peace Prize for her imaginary diplomacy. It would drive a jealous Donald even further around the bend.

Joe Mitchell gives Trump "the man of the century" award (that he just made up)

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

Couldn’t be that they just don’t like your politics

🚨 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Reports of Tennessee voting machines flipping Democratic/ @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social votes to Republicans/@marshablackburn votes 🤔 (Folks in Memphis have said the same)

This guy gets more deplorable by the day.

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

🧑‍🌾 UPDATE: Another “sOCiALisT” bailout handout for farmers getting crushed by Trump’s pointless trade wars and even more pointless actual war — just in time for the midterms. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

This is one of the most evil things I’ve ever seen in modern politics

A post from Putin’s puppet.

Trump is claiming that the US is running low on Tomahawk missiles because "Biden gave them all to Ukraine." The US has never given any Tomahawk missles to Ukraine. Not even one. Not ever.

Trump is once again focused today on the many difficult issues facing Americans.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😳 (Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party👇🏽)

RADDATZ: President Trump announced an energy ceasefire. Russia and Ukraine said there was no such thing. Were you involved in that? WRIGHT: This was President Trump encouraging Russia R: But was there ever a ceasefire? W: President Trump is always working to move them in the direction of a deal

Monsters

🤔 What the hell is wrong with Trump? 🤔 Trump gave a bonkers speech in Georgia that included Islamophobic bigotry, oddly sexual comments about men, crazed lies about teachers secretly trans-ing kids, and a variety of other insane rants Here's the lowlight reel:

NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The Talarico Ohio hoax story was pretty obviously timed to drown out this absolutely bonkers and very real Ken Paxton story. It kinda worked — but we don't have to accept it. Ken Paxton partied in Dubai 2 years ago with fugitive suspected fraudsters! Insane! Shout it from the rooftops!!

Regime wants to spend $335K of your $ on State Dept ads targeting white folks that apparently don't even want to come here... “There’s currently little research about why Afrikaners are not applying to request referral into the US Refugee Admissions Program,” the proposal reads." 🧾 t2m.co/JjwTiey

{gift link} wapo.st/4yiUDPx

It’s not just about affordability. Maybe for the first time since 1974, voters say their main concern heading into the midterms is corruption in government. Great to see.

Here's Trump admitting that the "Russian-Ukrainian energy ceasefire" was all his hallucination, not something discussed with Russia and Ukraine. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

It would in fact be sensible for investigations to be launched targeting Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for immigration fraud... largely because there are obvious and highly meritorious cases each time. Musk in particular is a notorious immigration fraud—having come to the US to study

Max Boot: While Witkoff and Kushner say they would not benefit from the Lukoil sale, the deal reeks of conflicts of interest at best and outright corruption at worst. It is emblematic of the de facto Trump Doctrine — mixing private and public interests to an unprecedented degree. wapo.st/47gE6Rf

WASHINGTON—Trump’s federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home over decades-old “immigration paperwork” her father filled out when she was a kid. No charges. Breaking DOJ norms. Over the cliff, folks.

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

It never occurred to Trump that he could buy it directly from South Korea — but then, he wouldn’t be able to help Russia.

Notice how Trump did not repeat this lie, one of his favorites, when his boyfriend Xi was here.

One in five American families fell behind on a loan or mortgage payment in the past year — up from one in eight in 2022 and the highest since 2007.

The NYPD (God bless 'em) has just released their surveillance videos, which show unequivocally that all the statements made by Markwayne Mullin about the Marble Hill shooting are false. But then we knew that. Let's give him a five-Pinocchios award for today's show. bsky.app/profile/reic...

Wasn't he just bragging yesterday that he could've gone after Hillary Clinton but he didn't want to?

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.

E. Jean Carroll told us this.

Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release.⁣ ⁣ Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished.⁣ ⁣ Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/an-agreement-to-agree-about-an-earlier

Employer health-plan costs are projected to surge 11% in 2027, the steepest baseline increase since 2003

He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

Barbaric.