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If you didn’t see this earlier, enjoy! Will SNL also take a shot at the Trump Bible tonight? We’ll see.
by xaxnar
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 08:16 AM PDT
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The Late Show went live last night so Colbert could respond to the State of the Union. Watch and enjoy!
by xaxnar
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 06:58 AM PST
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It was a simpler time. We didn't then know the yet to be Former Guy was a rapist, tax cheat, real-estate fraudster, Russian asset, and eventually would be a twice-impeached but not removed insurrectionist. Of course, as Oliver points out with...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:33 PM PST
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I’ve been subscribing to Talking Points Memo for some time now, but lately I’ve really begun to appreciate the work Josh Marshall and his crew are doing. It’s even more valuable as the mainstream media increasingly fails to do its job and pushes faulty...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 12:40 PM PST
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Is CBS protecting sources or its exposure to something more risky relative to her work at Fox News. Catherine Herridge is widely respected as a journalist, and ethically, she's totally above-board. Utterly outrageous that CBS not only fired her, but...
by annieli
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 07:24 PM PST
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I’ve updated my post about the impending Trump trial about the Stormy Daniels sexual encounter and the 34 counts of falsifying business records with this video clip. I’m posting it here also because it’s that good. Stephen Colbert runs down all of the...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 06:06 PM PST
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Stephen Colbert had a great take on Trump’s fraud trial closing remarks, and more. It’s worth watching the whole thing. We can all use some laughs at this point — especially with the media obsessed with Iowa, horrible weather everywhere, and the start...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 10:17 PM PST
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In what is a breaking story, David Sirota from The Lever appeared on Democracy Now on January 9 to report to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez that the major subcontractor building 737 MAX bodies for Boeing was facing whistleblower complaints and...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 08:15 PM PST
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Via the BBC Abrielle Baldwin, 23, was shot in the chest by one brother while she had her 10-month-old son in a carrier, the Florida sheriff's office said. The brother was then shot by their other sibling, who pulled his own gun, Pinellas County...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 09:49 AM PST
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Norman Lear, television producer of such shows as All in the Family and Sanford and Son, has died. A visionary and progresssive voice that was willing to hold a mirror up to America’s face, Lear faced a multitude of challenges in his storied life. Born...
by Rule of Claw
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 06:36 AM PST
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ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl talks with Stephen Colbert about his latest book on The Late Show on CBS: �
by xaxnar
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 05:28 PM PST
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After Donald Trump echoed both Hitler and Mussolini in a Veterans Day speech, saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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UPDATE: Monday, Oct 2, 2023 · 6:42:34 AM +00:00 · xaxnar UPDATE: Digby has a link to a montage of 33 clips of Trump's ravings, all in one video. Bonkers as it is, what does it say that he’s still leading all of the other GOP candidates by double...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 07:52 AM PDT
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Details are sketchy so far, but a Scripps News report has this: During a campaign event in California, an armed man impersonating a U.S. Marshal was arrested when he tried to approach Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. In a social...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 10:38 PM PDT
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I referenced David Kurtz and the Morning Memo at Talking Points Memo earlier today . There were several other ...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Aug 03, 2023 at 06:36 PM PDT
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Watching the CBS evening news with Major Garrett, they report Trump’s reaction to the latest indictment is a new legal strategy: blame the lawyers. See, all he was doing to overthrow the election was because that’s what his lawyers around him at the...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 04:36 PM PDT
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What we shouldn't forget about GOP attacks on trans people, gays, teacher, librarians, liberals, etc A recent post by DIgby looking at “Moms for Liberty” is shocking — but not surprising. READ THE WHOLE THING. Digby is excerpting from a CNN report about how Activist moms spy on each other in culture wars over schooling. I’m going to pull out several...
by xaxnar
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on Mon May 22, 2023 at 07:04 PM PDT
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Next week, CNN will take a shot at normalizing American fascist movement leader and GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, a man who openly embraces murderous Nazis, Vladimir Putin, white supremacy, misogyny, religious bigotry, and political...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 08:28 AM PDT
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If you want a look at what conservatism has done elsewhere, there’s a scathing indictment of the Tories in England in The NY Times by Samuel Earle, a journalist who writes about politics and culture and the author of “Tory Nation: How One Party...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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If the American people have put Biden’s approval ratings for his job performance at less that desired levels, part of that is because Biden has been busy doing his job, instead of constantly promoting himself like the former guy. Doing, not talking in...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 08:44 AM PDT
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