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DC is getting its own democratic socialist mayor
Trump said last week that he "won't put up with it" if Janeese Lewis George becomes mayor and threatened a federal takeover of the city.
 • Laura Bassett
Things that made me laugh this week - 6/14/26
A double rainbow appeared at the Kennedy Center on Friday right before Trump's name was chiseled off another man's memorial
 • Laura Bassett
U.S. is deliberately fumbling the World Cup
Locking fans, team staffers and even referees out of the country for the biggest sporting event in the world is embarrassing, insulting, and financially…
 • Laura Bassett
Things that made me laugh this week - 6/5/26
+ a Brazil update.
 • Laura Bassett
Hello from the worst place on Earth
How I accidentally spent my last day in the country at the Trump International Beach Resort: a Hotwire horror story.
 • Laura Bassett

May 2026

Trump sics DOJ on woman he raped
E. Jean Carroll was always the final boss in the president's revenge tour against women.
 • Laura Bassett
Things that made me laugh this week
Nightcap's inaugural Schadenfreude review.
 • Laura Bassett
The slush fund for insurrectionists is worse than you think
In addition to giving our taxpayer money to convicted child molesters, the IRS has quietly agreed to let Trump and his entire family off the hook for…
 • Laura Bassett
New term for child-free women just dropped
"One in three Americans are under-babied," Dr. Oz said at an exceptionally creepy press conference at the White House today in which Trump called…
 • Laura Bassett
Hantavirus humiliates RFK Jr.
News reports went viral today of Kennedy having gutted the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program, firing every full-time cruise ship sanitation inspector…
 • Laura Bassett

April 2026

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