Writing for The New Yorker, Jacob Weisberg argues that Bush's enduring refusal to directly condemn Donald Trump isn't principled post-presidential restraint, but a politically convenient silence that comes out of fear, family loyalty and a fixation on repairing his own legacy. Weisberg describes Bush as someone whose public values stand in stark contrast to those of Trump's, with his support for immigration, free trade, diplomacy, civic decency and global health. Yet, Bush has consistently avoided naming or even challenging the president, even after he issued startling cuts to Bush's long-running program to help reduce HIV/AIDS in Africa. Weisberg can't understand why, as the only living former Republican president, Bush is refusing to allow the GOP to be remade in Trump's image. Read more
Making Pete Hegseth the secretary of defense was always a huge gamble. A television host with little background in national-security or defense affairs, who topped out as a major in the National Guard, he was nominated based on the same qualification shared by most of Donald Trump's other appointees: loyalty. And now the price of that gamble is evident. The Pentagon is careening offtrack under a secretary of defense who is firing or forcing the resignations of officers and civilian officials, not because they are unqualified but because he believes they are insufficiently loyal to him, personally.
The Trump administration's decision to bring Russia back into the fold at a gathering of the world's leading economic officials is stirring fresh tensions with European allies who want to continue isolating Moscow over its war in Ukraine.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was in the room Monday for the first day of the U.S.-hosted G20 talks. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also held a one-on-one meeting with Siluanov on the sidelines of the summit.
Asked by reporters Monday about Russia's inclusion in the gathering, Trump defended the decision. "We like getting along with everybody," he told reporters. "One of the reasons that I'm so successful " that I get along with everybody."
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is resigning, the White House confirmed Monday, after months of friction with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A source familiar with the matter told CBS News that Driscoll had brought up to the Trump administration his concerns surrounding the Army's transformation efforts and the fact that Hegseth has pushed out some of the generals who were responsible for the transformation. Driscoll is the latest high-level military official to exit. Navy Secretary John Phelan left his role earlier this year, with Mr. Trump saying Phelan "had some conflicts with some other people."
Antisemitic symbols and gestures were displayed during a boxing event at Orlando's Kia Center over the weekend, drawing condemnation from members of Central Florida's Jewish community and people who attended the event. Video from Saturday night's event showed a fan holding a flag bearing a swastika following a boxing match between Paul Miller, known as "Gypsy Crusader," and Ben Azoulay, known as "King Azoulay." Read more
The cruel and inhuman monsters of the abominable Trumpf junta have filed an urgent appeal with the Supreme Court seeking the immediate removal of 29 active-duty service members who are transgender -- even before their case challenging the Pentagon ban goes to trial in January 2027 -- lying that the matter is somehow of "exceptional importance."
Transgender and LGBTQ+ servicemembers risk their lives for America, just like any other servicemember. Can you tell whether these three are transgender?
REYKJAVIK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Icelanders voted to stay out of the European Union, referendum results showed on Sunday, as they rejected a government push to reopen membership talks and sided with those who said Iceland's fishing waters were too important to risk. The Arctic island of 400,000 people has debated whether to join the EU for well over a decade and had initially been expected to narrowly back holding membership talks, but opinion polls this month showed views had changed. Read more
Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM radio talk show bleating at fellow far-right gorgon Jesse Kelly about FLOTUS Michelle Obama: "Just get a divorce ... . Like, the children are grown. Get a divorce ... She's not capable of loving [Barack Obama]. And how can he love just this steaming heap of nastiness? Like, no one's in love with a steaming heap of negativity ... ."
Megyn Kelly is not a good human being. If this strumpet ever looked in the mirror she would learn what the rest of the world already knows about her
VPOTUS JD Vance (R) -- a former US Marine and graduate of Yale Law School -- rallied a mob of MAGA voters in Michigan to support AIPAC pod-person Mike Rogers (R-MI) in his uphill senatorial campaign against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI): "We're about to celebrate the 25th year of 9/11."
Celebrate?
Skepticism is building that reelection-seeking Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and state public health officials have provided even minimal evidence to conclude that lack of measles vaccination played a role in the death of a newborn and another resident for whom the state has provided no information, including age or medical conditions. By using the phrase "measles-associated," officials can conflate death caused by measles with death while testing positive for the measles virus, as they did with COVID deaths for years into the pandemic. Read more
Indubitably, the ultimate disgrace to Judaism, hatemonger Ben Shapiro, braying on his vile podcast: "The West brings it upon itself. It is all blowback always and forever. And this is the prevailing view for people like [Dr Abdul] El-Sayed (D-MI). It is the prevailing view for [Hasan] Piker, for [Young Turk] Cenk Uygur, for Zohran Mamdani (D-NY), and now for a Democratic Party that has decided that they must fellow travel with these people and basically agree with them ... None of the people I just mentioned should be in the country. None of them."
Ben Shapiro is neither a good Jew nor is he a good human being. No question about it whatsoever.
US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegsbreath's pastor, faux Christian Doug Wilson, confessed that he would have fought for the Confederates during the US Civil War, then fails at rationalizing his untenable racist position during an exchange with pod-caster Mehdi Hasan. See comments section below for Doug Wilson's blither-blather.
These two white people are not good human beings
The U.S. Air Force football team will give a nod to the B-21 Raider by sporting special uniforms in its game against the U.S. Navy this October.
Pakistan says six to seven more Muslim-majority countries are interested in joining the Mecca Defence Pact signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Trkiye. Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar disclosed the information on Monday ahead of a meeting of the top diplomats of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Trkiye in Istanbul. According to Bloomberg, Dar previously said in a speech in the United Kingdom that work was underway to establish a framework to facilitate the accession of other countries to the pact. He did not disclose the names of the interested countries.
Kalshi has permanently banned George Santos from its prediction market platform after the former New York lawmaker failed to cooperate with the company's investigation into allegedly unlawful trades he made related to his attendance at the 2026 State of the Union address. A Kalshi spokesperson said Santos is being banned due to "his lack of cooperation" with its compliance department, which established "reasonable cause" to believe he had engaged in insider trading over his attendance at the address. Santos is the first person to receive a lifetime ban, the spokesperson confirmed. The prediction market also penalized him $71,356, a filing on the company's website shows.
Let me apologize in advance for what I'm about to do: treat the ICE arrests in Connecticut as a political and public opinion question. What they are, at a more visceral level, are manifestations of the Trump administration's gift for transforming a normal day into a tragedy. There's a special strain of internal ugliness that one needs to arrest a parent in front of his children at a school bus stop.
