Update 7/13/25: Yeah, this sure figures, doesn't it?
...and Farron Cousins tells us that the IRS under our ruling regime had told churches they can now endorse political candidates...and why am I not a bit surprised to find out that the lawsuit that initiated that moronic decision from the Trump gang originated in Texas...and I’m sure Cousins is right to point out that, on top of this, corporations will now be able to deduct contributions to those orgs that previously weren’t allowed to make any official endorsement (though I can recall campaign signs for “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey that just happened to be on the grounds of the golf course near my church, and those signs could be viewed easily upon driving out of the parking lot)...I don’t think Cousins is being melodramatic at all, unfortunately, and speaking only for myself, I can’t tell you how important my faith is, but if I EVER hear a religious figure endorsing a candidate (and seriously, what party would receive such an endorsement?), I’m going to have a very hard decision to make (the most outrageous example I can think of that came just short of endorsing a candidate, barely, was something I posted about here)...
...and I thought this guy on TikTok provided some important context in light of “Juneteenth,” which was a couple of weeks ago I know...yes, once Republicans under Lincoln were libs and Dems were pro-business conservatives, but that script has definitely flipped for the reasons noted in the clip (mildly NSFW/H also)...
Here is some very important American history for the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, Trump supporters. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/ITHMLPfRWp
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) July 10, 2025
...and Sam Black of More Perfect Union brings us an electrician in Maine who voted for Trump, and it cost him his job, with billions cut from the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck that would have gone to clean energy development...so many ways that last year’s election absolutely f’d this country, but though this doesn’t get a lot of attention, it is definitely a big one also (and maybe if our glorious fourth estate had decided to give a fraction of coverage to the Inflation Reduction Act, the infrastructure bill and the CHIPS Act as opposed to “Hunter Biden’s laptop,” we’d be in a very different place than the one we’re in now, and I’m definitely not letting the @DNC off the hook for doing a piss poor job of NOT selling the good works from “No Malarkey Joe” also)...and yes, we all knew about the immigration con (and for the zillionth time, Trump told U.S. Senate Repugs to kill the Murphy-Lankford bill), but it’s telling to me to see that what happened with the Palestinians in Gaza also resonated with the Maine man interviewed here...I’m not sure I can communicate how truly depressing it is to watch this (slightly NSFW/H as well)...
...and for a wholly other take on the utterly ruinous bill Cantaloupe Capone just signed into law, Michael Kosta of The Daily Show tells us that it looks like gamblers will have to pay taxes on losses...oh, and it will be easier to get gun silencers – just goes to show what happens when you put arguably the world’s most powerful economy (though AsiaPAC is ascendant of course) in the hands of a demented, narcissistic toddler...
...and Lawrence O’Donnell brings us the latest on Bronzer Beelzebub trying to distract The Great Unwashed from what was supposedly going to be the “big story” about the Epstein files (as if #47 would EVER let something like that get out)...party of me wants to laugh at Alex Jones, but part of me is cringing also, and oh yeah, let’s let The Swanson TV Dinner Heir have his say as well...and yeah, the “investigations” into John Brennan and James Comey are worth about as much as you can expect for the reasons O’Donnell notes (part of me is happy to see Comey go through the wringer because of the “BUT HER EMAILS!!!” garbage from 2016, but NOT to serve the whims of our contemptible Liar-In-Chief)...also, I don’t know anybody who goes after corporate media who actually works in corporate media like O’Donnell, and he deserves special credit for that (and Lawrence DEFINITELY is talking about this idiot without mentioning his name)...
...and kids, I’ll let Mr. Newberger have the last word for now...I’m not sure what kind of a musical someone could make out of Pumpkin Pol Pot 2.0 – at this point, I’d be willing to let John Waters take a shot if he were up to it...
...and I don’t know about you, but I need something to take me to another place, and this number from the "prog rock" era should do the trick.
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