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USMNT Captain Tim Ream: Diversity Is 'A True Representation Of What America Is'

John Amato — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:56:45 +0000

Speaking to the media on July fourth before practice, USA Captain Tim Ream said the diverse background of the entire USMNT team is "a true representation of what America is."

ESPN reports:

The U.S. side is a mix of players born both at home and abroad, with some like Weston McKennie and Sergiño Dest the children of U.S. service members.

Ream said these backgrounds make for a unique blend of personalities and helped form a tight-knit group.

"First and foremost, it is special," Ream said about celebrating July fourth with the team," he said.

The USA soccer team is an amalgamation of what makes America so special. Trump, Stephen Miller, and his henchmen are doing everything they can to make America white again, but they will fail.

"It's a melting pot of people, of personalities, of characters, and like I said, it's a perfect representation of what the U.S. is and what it's about."

The White House is so racist, they've turned the word "diversity" into their own particular "n-word," and attempted to reverse actual racism to support overt racists.

It's sickening.

Good for Tim Ream.

USA FIFA Scandal: Trump Tells On Himself Again

RedStateRachel — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:33:04 +0000

Once again, Donald Trump tells on himself. The U.S. President claims the USA-Belgium match might be "rigged" if the USA team loses this evening.

Aaron Rupar reported on Trump's comments about the USA-Belgium match:

"If they beat us, they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, we'll say -- I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020, but I won't get into that."

Trump Called FIFA, USA Player Suspension Goes Away

According to Rupar, Trump admitted this morning he "asked FIFA to overturn the suspension of Folarin Balogun."

Yahoo Sports reported that Folarin Balogun, a player on the 2025 USA FIFA World Cup team, received a controversial red card penalty during the team's match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Balogun was suspended, and he wasn't supposed to set foot on the pitch for the USA-Belgium match this evening.

FIFA appeared to cave on its red card decision after Trump called. Who could have guessed that the organization that gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize would make a shady decision?

Hunter Biden Perfectly Unloads On Trump In Blistering Rant

Conover Kennard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:09:10 +0000

Hunter Biden used his Independence Day weekend the way the rest of us used it — grilling, relaxing, maybe watching some fireworks. Unlike the rest of us, he also decided to torch the entire Trump family business model in one Xitter post, and it was brutal.

"I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know Donald Trump and family did," Hunter opened, before getting right to the point: "250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months, the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur."

From there, Biden laid out the receipts: a massive Pentagon loan tied to a company Don Jr.'s firm bought into months earlier, an Army drone contract to a firm where Don Jr. sits on the board, a Pentagon robotics deal with Eric on the payroll as "Chief Strategy Advisor," a Kazakhstan tungsten stake backed by U.S. government support, and Jared Kushner's investment fund — seeded with billions from the Saudi crown prince.

Then he pivoted to his own six-year ordeal, laptop and all: "Me? They searched a laptop for six years—federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing."

He closed with the line everyone's quoting now — a question dressed up as a mic drop: does America belong to a family? Hunter says they've already given their answer.

Long live the king, indeed.

Trump Spirals Over Crowd Size, Forgets The Seats Were Empty When He Was Talking

Conover Kennard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:23:52 +0000

Channeling Sean Spicer, Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social to claim a massive crowd attended America's 250th anniversary, even though empty rows of seats were seen in video footage. We're unsure of why Trump didn't try to claim that eleventy bazillion people attended.

Still, he settled for a 422,000 figure, similar to his brag for the Great American State Fair kickoff speech last month when he called it "packed to the brim" and claimed 45,000 people attended, insisting "everybody stayed right until the end of my speech because they loved hearing about a truly successful America."

Trump's Truth Social recap of his July 4th "Salute to America" speech depicted a jam-packed National Mall — 422,000 people at peak, then 150,000 more who supposedly braved the lightning to come back for his remarks. But photos and reporting from the actual event tell a different story: empty bleachers, gaps in the crowd, and people still filing in through security while he spoke. Outlets couldn't verify either number. The cameras, unlike the president, don't round up.

"The Crowd at 7:05 in the evening was 422,000 people!" Trump falsely said so, since nothing has been released yet to verify his lie. "All were forced to leave because of the weather, the event was cancelled, and everyone was gone because of lightning."

'Code Red': Trump's Ego Fireworks Leave D.C. Fearing For Their Health

Andrea Thompson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:06:09 +0000

Donald Trump chose to put his fragile, maniacal ego on full display over the holiday weekend with a positively massive fireworks display meant to celebrate America's 250th birthday. However, it seems the ordeal only left countless D.C. residents stranded indoors as they waited for the acrid smoke to clear.

That massive fireworks show was originally scheduled for 9 pm. Still, it was ultimately rescheduled to take place after Trump's big speech, which didn't begin until after 11 pm due to an evacuation order following dangerously high temperatures that swept through Washington, D.C. this weekend, sending the city into a record-breaking 103-degree heatwave. As a result of all of the rescheduling, the fireworks display didn't wrap up until the wee hours of the morning on July 5th.

Visually speaking, the display was certainly spectacular, if not a bit overwhelming. Featuring something in the ballpark of a staggering 850,000 fireworks, launched from 20 different sites across the nation's Capital, lasting an entire 40 minutes, the pyrotechnics event was dubbed the "largest fireworks show in history" by the big man himself.

However, it seemed to leave D.C. residents worse for wear when it was all said and done, as the over-the-top display left the air thick with a blurry haze of acrid smoke that blanketed the D.C. skyline, obscured the big finale, and led to a "Code Red" warning about unsafe air quality for residents of the city.

'Biggest Grift Of All Time': Fox News Thumps Trump Businesses

John Amato — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:26:13 +0000

In a surprising segment, Fox News recapped a Wall Street Journal editorial detailing Trump's family business making billions of dollars while he is in office as the "biggest grift of all time."

WSJ made the title as innocuous as possible, but the meat is all there.

Fox News usually buries most negative information about Trump and his family but not this time.

DOOCY: We have seen 10-figure business deals breaking the Trump family's way for rare earth minerals and for cryptocurrency.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes, Assuming all of this is legal, it's still an unseemly display of using the presidency for family profit.

It's hard to believe the Trump boys would be able to do the same deals if dad wasn't in the Oval Office.

The main difference between Hunter Biden's foreign dealings and the Trump projects is that the Trumps are brazenly open about theirs.

It's the biggest grift of all time.

Donald Trump has turned the White House into his own ATM.

Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported about Binance, the crypto exchange.

Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture's new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion.

Its incarcerated co-founder then earned a presidential pardon.
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Mitch McConnell's Wife Makes Suspicious Move Days After His MAJOR Medical Emergency

Andrea Thompson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:25:00 +0000

It's been just shy of a month since Kentucky's least favorite tortoise was hospitalized after suffering a major cardiac event on June 14th that reportedly led to the Bluegrass State's biggest embarrassment being found unconscious on the floor, requiring CPR.

In the days and weeks since the news of Senator Mitch McConnell's medical emergency -- the most recent in what has been a long and ever-growing list of increasingly serious medical issues for the congressman over the past year -- Americans from coast to coast have been left with the burning question: Is Mitch McConnell finally dead?

To say that details surrounding the Kentucky KKKongressman's current condition have been sparse would be the understatement of the century. After audio of the 911 call to McConnell's home was first released by independent Capitol Hill journalist Desiree Townsend, the far-right Republican's team vaguely confirmed that the 84-year-old senator had been hospitalized, but the crickets we've heard from McConnell or his team in the days and weeks since have proven louder than the banks of the Ohio River at midnight in mid-July.

Trump Kicks Off July 4 Celebration With A John Birch-style Riff On Communism

John Amato — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:26:02 +0000

Speaking at the Mount Rushmore kickoff celebration, Trump decided the greatest threat to American civilization is the John Birch Society's signature conspiracy - communism.

The Republican party is so bankrupt of ideas they turned to the despicable John Birch Society for their talking points.

There are no communists in the Democratic Party. There are no communists in the DSA.

Trump is so ignorant about political philosophies he has no idea what the differences are between socialism, communism, capitalism, dictatorships, etc.

Since a few Democratic Socialists won their primaries, Trump hopes Republicans have found a lie to help them in the midterms.

TRUMP: Yet, as we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack a generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of communism.

There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success.

These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations.

Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty.

It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9-11.

We're not going to let this happen to us.

Americans are fed up.

Americans are angry.

Tiffany Is Bothered By Black Man Not Appreciating Slavery

Chris capper Liebenthal — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:52:35 +0000

Tom Tiffany, a white man running to be Wisconsin's next governor, is running an ad of a sound bite he gave at a sparsely attended event in someone's alley. In the soundbite ad, Tiffany says he has complaints about people like Mandela Barnes, a Black man who is also running for governor. You can already see where this is headed:

You know what really POs me? It's politicians like Mandela, Barnes, and others, and you're seeing it from the socialist left that trash America every single day. And they live off of America's birthright. What our founders gave this country, this great experiment that led to the most prosperous, great nation in the history of mankind, and they trash it every single day. Rather than creating a more perfect union, they want to destroy the union. That's what bothers me.

So what has Trump's Mini-Me so upset?

Four years ago, Barnes made comments at a campaign event about how awful it was that slavery was part of this country's founding and pointing out that Republicans were trying to whitewash it by banning the fact from being taught in schools. Radio squawker Dan O'Donnell, who would later go on to infamy for calling for Governor Tim Walz's assassination, took it out of context to rile up the GOP base against the uppity Black man who was running against Ron Johnson.

Karoline Leavitt Smoked For Trashing Her Own Generation, Damage Control Did NOT Help

Andrea Thompson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:18:27 +0000

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said some no-good, very bad things about her own generation in her recent interview with Fox News that ultimately left her scrambling to control the damage before her peers burned her at the proverbial stake.

Appearing on Jesse Watters' "Primetime," Leavitt went scorched earth on the younger generations of America, accusing Gen Z of "laziness" amid the Democratic Party's attempt at a "full-blown communist revolution" before stating with her whole chest that these "young kids" should just be sent to Cuba or Iran to learn their lesson regarding the value of a hard day's work.

Speaking on modern-day Leftist politicians like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Leavitt spewed, "This is not your granddaddy's Democrat Party. This is not the grand Democrat Party of JFK. This is a full-blown communist revolution that is taking over Capitol Hill right here in Washington, DC, just a few steps away from where we are sitting right now. The inmates are running the asylum. These are crazy people who are advocating against what I call the three Ps: prison, police, and private property. They don't want any of those things, and those are the ideals that founded this great country 250 years ago. But as President Trump says, communism is easy to sell. You just promise people free stuff until a few years later you're living in squalor with no free home, no free food. You're just sitting there with a whole bunch of communists looking around and saying, 'What the heck happened...'"

Ingraham, Lee Get More Egg On Their Faces

Chris capper Liebenthal — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:18:19 +0000

Karoli reported how Sen Mike Lee and Fox personality Laura Ingraham had spent an entire day trying to portray the white supremacist group Patriot Front as a bunch of Antifa cosplaying as white supremacists. Apparently, they felt that being white supremacists themselves made them the experts on identifying other white supremacists. Or something like that.

What Lee and Ingraham didn't mention is that these clever Antifa agents were so convincing, they tricked even Thomas Rousseau, the founder of Patriot Front, who led them marching all over Washington, DC.

.@SenMikeLee and Fox News host @IngrahamAngle both claimed the Patriot Affront march through DC on the Fourth of July was really an Antifa rouse.

That’s interesting. So Antifa dressed up in Patriot Affront uniforms and tricked the founder of Patriot Front, Thomas Rousseau, to… pic.twitter.com/pwkKhvx3eg

— Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) (@ColMoeDavis) July 5, 2026

There is something else that I'm curious about, however. Lee said that "real patriots" don't wear masks on their faces:

Mallory McMorrow Drops Out Of The Democratic Senate Primary In Michigan

Ed Scarce — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:18:11 +0000

Probably for the best. Recent polls have become increasingly grim for McMorrow.

Source: CNN

Mallory McMorrow dropped out of the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan on Sunday, narrowing the field to two as the party faces a crucial choice next month in picking a nominee to defend a must-win seat.

That leaves Rep. Haley Stevens facing Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate running from the Bernie Sanders wing of the party who is trying to extend the momentum progressives have seen in recent primaries across the country.

McMorrow’s exit ahead of the early August primary doesn’t just reflect her own struggles, but also an emphasis among many Democrats to stop El-Sayed, out of fear he would be a weaker general election candidate against former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican.

Today, I'm announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate.

And I'm doing it with a deep, deep sense of gratitude. For our thousands of volunteers, for everyone who donated what you could — building a campaign with zero corporate PAC dollars. For my staff,… pic.twitter.com/nGVymlpPXm

— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) July 5, 2026
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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Tengrain — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:02:02 +0000

Congrats! We have survived Hair Füror's 4th of July Celebration of himself.

The Field Negro: What was old is new again.

Cassandra's Grandson rounds-up highlights/low-lifes from the holiday weekend. The headlines tell a story.

Adventus asks a damned good question.

Eschaton argues that a "rookie mistake" is a ruse for something else.

Bonus Track: Miss Cellania presents the low-budget summer blockbuster that I would pay to see!

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Fediverse, or on BlueSky. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).

Republicans Are A Toxic Partisanship Machine

Steve M. — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:02 +0000

Mainstream journalists and pundits decry "toxic partisanship" in America without ever recognizing the fact that the Republican Party and its agents treat the generation of toxic partisanship as a primary goal. They wake up every morning, sip their coffee, open their laptops, and think, How can I make my audience hate Democrats and liberals today? Every news story must be recast so that their political enemies are the villains, while they are either victims or heroes.

So we had the neo-fascist Patriot Front marching through Washington yesterday, their faces covered by gaiters. Some of them carried Confederate flags. This was embarrassing to Republican commentators, so they agreed on the message that these marchers couldn't possibly be people from their side. Their only disagreement was over which hated group was responsible.

I call fake. Looks more like Antifa in costume. No one should be allowed to cover their faces pic.twitter.com/2NoBWHpkKT

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 4, 2026

Feds https://t.co/sOwAPseYPg
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Missioned Souls Cover Boston's 'Foreplay/Long Time'

Ed Scarce — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:00:01 +0000

It's been about a year or so since we featured this amazing family band from the Philippines. Here they handle Boston's demanding arena rock anthem with ease, capturing it almost note-for-note. And now they've announced their first tour dates in North America, in Texas beginning in September.

Source: Musescore

These young musicians from the Philippines, called Missioned Souls, tackle one of rock's most technically demanding tracks. In this note-perfect run of the Boston piece, they were joined by their parents.

Based in the Philippines, Missioned Souls comprises bassist Secan and vocalist Sheena, with their four children: 17-year-old Naces (keyboard), 16-year-old Neisha (lead guitar), 13-year-old Stacey (vocals and rhythm guitar), and 12-year-old ICE (drums).

And a snippet of their review.

Naces nails the triplet-driven right-hand figures that cascade through “Foreplay” with ease. It begins with a repeated pattern (Db-F-Db-Eb-Ab-C) that expands, eventually adding the left hand to reinforce the harmonic motion in a way that recalls the keyboard-driven accompaniment textures of Baroque music. Once the guitars and drums come in, it feels like a full-on symphony.
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An 18th Century French Philosopher Helps Explain The USA's Current Dilemma

The Conversation — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:30:01 +0000

By Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

As the 250th anniversary of American independence approaches, many people in the U.S. are deeply concerned about the country’s future.

A recent poll by Elon University found that 69% of respondents “believe the signers of the Declaration of Independence would feel more disappointment than pride about modern American democracy.” Confidence in public institutions is historically low, and the most recent Harvard Youth Poll indicates that just a quarter of 18- to 29-year-olds “feel hopeful about the future of America.”

Many are also afraid. For the 10th consecutive year, Americans reported corrupt government officials to be their single greatest fear, according to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, ranking above financial collapse or a loved one becoming seriously ill.

From Saints To Founders: The Long Road To Church-State Split

The Conversation — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:53:29 +0000

By Steven K. Green, Willamette University

The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released its report on June 26, 2026, on the state of religious freedom in the United States, declaring it to be under attack.

The commission was established in May 2025 to identify and report on “emerging threats to religious liberty, uphold Federal laws that protect all citizens’ full participation in a pluralistic democracy, and protect the free exercise of religion.” Despite those altruistic goals, from the beginning, the commission faced criticism that the composition and agenda of the body were slanted toward a conservative Christian perspective.

The commission conducted seven hearings over the course of a year, taking testimony from approximately 100 witnesses.

Doug Burgum Goes Off When Pushed On Reflecting Pool 'Vandalism'

John Amato — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:29:15 +0000

U.S. Interior Sec. Doug Bergum lost his temper when CNN host Dana Bash refused to buy into the multitude of lies Trump and his minions have spewed while trying to cover up for the shoddy work done by Trump's no-bid reflecting pool contractor.

BASH: I want to ask you about the Reflecting Pool, because we spoke about a month ago. And the $16 million no-bid contract to renovate the Reflecting Pool was something you called fantastic, and you certainly defended the expediting contract in order to try to get it fixed in time for July 4.

Now, of course, chunks of paint are peeling off the floor. The algae has returned. What went wrong?

Burgum's response refutes Trump's idiotic lie that vandals poured algae into the pool.

BURGUM: Well, the algae is all gone. I mean, that was a momentary thing. As they -- as it was being refilled, there was algae in the pipes. But the new technology, the nano-bubblers that have been installed, if you go down there today and look at it, it is completely clean and clear.

Burgum then got angry over Bash pushing back against the lies being told to the US public.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? Do you know?

BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was there was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been seven arrests. There was people literally trying to destroy part of a monument, the Reflecting Pool. It's not just a pool on the Mall.
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Trump Misquotes Declaration Of Independence During Speech At National Mall

Heather — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:28:25 +0000

As always, just imagine what the reaction in the right-wing media would be if Joe Biden had done something like this.

Trump delivered a venom-filled speech this Saturday for America's 250th anniversary:

President Donald Trump marked the 250th anniversary of the United States on Saturday with a campaign-style speech that repeated his calls for new voting restrictions, warned that "communists" could gain ground in the country and cycled through what he touted ‌as his achievements.

After a storm-related delay of nearly two hours, Trump appeared on the National Mall in Washington to deliver a speech that mixed broad appeals to patriotism with pointed attacks on perceived ideological threats at home and abroad. [...]

TRUMP WARNS OF COMMUNIST 'CANCER,' WHITE NATIONALISTS APPEAR

"We like to stop a threat like that immediately and before it begins. It's ⁠like a cancer – you've got to cut it out and you got to cut it out fast," he said.

The Republican president has in the past repeatedly referred to left-wing Democratic candidates who have won a string of primary elections as "communists," though he did not explicitly do so on Saturday.

And he managed to misquote the Declaration of Independence while he was doing it.

'Antifa In Costume': Famous Racist Denies Friendly Fascists

Karoli Kuns — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:27:57 +0000

Laura Ingraham, who rose to prominence by being an out-and-proud racist, is suddenly flummoxed by the Patriot Front march in Washington, DC on July 4th.

In the video she quotes, one unmasked person tells her he doesn't like Kash Patel because he is Indian. When the videographer points out that Patel was born in this country, the Patriot Front person apparently speaking for the group says no, Patel is Indian. When asked what he is, the white fascist boy says he was born American.

Yes, this is how stupid and hateful they are. Ingraham has the weirdest response.

I call fake. Looks more like Antifa in costume. No one should be allowed to cover their faces pic.twitter.com/2NoBWHpkKT

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 4, 2026

Huh. I've been wondering all day how many of those clowns were ICE agents. But I agree 100% with part of what she said. ICE agents should not be allowed to be masked and neither should these cowards. They should own their hate.

Response was swift:

Doug Burgum's Response To Patriot Front: Very Fine People On Both Sides

Heather — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:15:19 +0000

Why do these people always have such a hard time condemning white nationalists? We all know why.

As we discussed here, Trump's fascist friends showed up for his big party in Washington DC this weekend and marched throughout the city:

Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot ‌Front marched through parts of Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of Independence Day festivities planned for the evening that have been criticized as divisive.

The group posted on social media that it had arrived in the capital with about 400 members, and Reuters photographers saw hundreds of people dressed in Patriot Front outfits traveling on D.C. Metro trains.

Videos posted on various social media platforms and shared on Patriot Front's own Telegram channel showed the group marching to drummers near the U.S. Capitol and the Union Station transit center ⁠while wearing khaki pants and caps, blue shirts, white face coverings and sunglasses. Many were carrying the group's flag, Confederate flags, and variations of the U.S. flag, at times chanting "Reclaim America."
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Bribe Paying For More Pavement On White House Grounds

Lisa Needham — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:28:12 +0000

Are you having trouble keeping track of all of the ways that President Donald Trump is desecrating Washington, D.C., with his signature blend of shoddiness, cronyism, bad taste, and grift?

There are many, so we should all forgive ourselves for not catching his latest White House project: a new helipad.

Of course, like most things with this administration, we only learned about this by accident when people saw construction crews on the South Lawn.

Not to sound too much like “kids these days,” but listen, kids: There was once a time when adding something like a helipad to the White House would have been discussed well in advance.

The contracting process would have been transparent and lengthy enough to allow for actual bidders, not handpicked “donors,” we would know how much it was really going to cost, there would be construction permits, the normal district preservation groups would have weighed in—you get the picture.

Instead, we’ve got this.

This little project is ostensibly fully funded by a “donation” from Lockheed Martin. Did I mention that this is also not how things were when the government wasn’t run by having private companies bribe the president to cover the construction costs for his pet projects?

Everything Is Communism Now On Fox 'News'

Heather — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:28:03 +0000

Who knew Mitt Romney's healthcare plan is now a secret communist plot to get us to Medicare-for-all?

The red-baiting on Fox continues unabated. They've been attacking Democrats non-stop since a few members of the DSA won some primary races across the country, and this Saturday on a special weekend edition of Outnumbered, the propagandists on Fox — after attacking party leadership for not sounding more like John Fetterman (who does nothing but regurgitate right-wing talking points for Fox these days) — ridiculously asserted that the Democratic Party has always been radical, with cohost Lisa Boothe trotting out the tired Bill Ayers card and calling the ACA communism.

MCENANY: I would just say this — we need to reject this. John Fetterman said call this out. We heard JD Vance today state "Reject this." We heard the president say the same last night.

But to your point, Aishah, we need Hakeem Jeffries to say this. We need Chuck Schumer to say this. We need the leaders in the Democratic Party to be leaders... because I consider you my brothers and sisters — we think differently, but you are by and large rational and don't believe in this. You are catering to a political base. We need you to do what John Fetterman, JD Vance and Donald Trump have done and say "reject this" on America's birthday.

BOOTHE: But they're not going to, because they're afraid of what's happening on their left. They're afraid of getting primaried. They're seeing...

MCENANY: They want to win.
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Mike's Blog Round Up

Batocchio — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:32:01 +0000

Mock Paper Scissors: Happy Independence Day.

First Draft: A tale of three dollars.

Hullabaloo: Trump, accidentally correct, and still a menace.

Tom Engelhardt: The American way of war, war, war.

Roosevelt Institute: The good life agenda.

This Modern World: Swamp creature.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

Unhinged Fox Host Calls Talarico 'Demon In Human Skin'

Heather — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:30:01 +0000

Fox has absolutely no business calling itself a "news" network while spewing this type of garbage, but we all knew that already. If any of these people actually believe in God, they should be worried about lightening strikes after telling this many lies.

On this Friday's Outnumbered on Fox, during what basically amounted to an in-kind campaign contribution to the Paxton campaign for US Senate in Texas, cohost Emily Campagno made the outrageous statement that Paxton's opponent, James Talarico, was a "demon in human skin" while helping the rest of them lob false attacks on him.

Earlier in the segment, Lisa Boothe told the audience that Paxton had some "moral shortcomings," (sure Jan) adding that Talarico was just too "weird" because of all of the things they were about to lie or exaggerate about him.

As we've already discussed here, one of their latest lame attempts to smear him has been to try to paint him as gay or trans. Now their latest nonsense is to go after him for calling the flag "a complicated symbol," and for some out-of-context quote about Christianity.