Reporter Stephanie Mencimer writes that she received a notice from the Internal Revenue Service claiming she underpaid her 2025 taxes, even though the agency had not credited payments she had already made. After two hours on hold, she gave up. A few days later, a recorded message about "high call volume" disconnected her. Her accountant said even dedicated lines for tax practitioners were not working, leaving serious issues unresolved with "no contact available at all." Mencimer said she "realized that the IRS was finally imploding." It's what everyone warned would happen when Elon Musk used his DOGE program to reduce the IRS by 25,000 people. It was about one-third of the entire IRS.
A little over four months before Election Day, the Texas Senate race to replace U.S. Sen. John Cornyn remains contentious, as a new poll shows the Democratic candidate has opened a 5-point lead over the Republican candidate.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have sought a judge's approval to dismiss with prejudice longstanding charges against the alleged mastermind of a $722 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. The Monday court filing follows Bloomberg Law's July 10 report that DOJ leaders in Washington had ordered the New Jersey US attorney's office to reverse course on a 2019 indictment that was nearing trial. Read more
Text messages, courtroom depositions, and body cameras revealed that ICE agents used racial slurs, including "wet" and "tonks," to identify people to brutalize while sweeping through Los Angeles last year
ICE and DHS are Amerikkka's Gestapo. There is no "fixing" or "reforming" the Gestapo other than completely abolishing these two sinister organs of the police state, starting by Executive Order on 20 Jan 2029.
Analyst Nate Silver said Sunday that Americans may be "moving on" from President Trump amid rocky political territory for the president and his party.
"It's kind of striking how, apart from Iran, most of the Trump-related stories this summer have been boring and dumb (reflection pool, White House Correspondents' Dinner) or kind of funny (FIFA), maybe we're moving on from him being the central figure in American politics," Silver said in a post Sunday morning on the social platform X.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Monday demanded more transparency from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who hasn't been seen in public since his hospitalization in mid-June. "As Governor of the state you serve, I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign," Beshear wrote in a new letter, which was obtained by CNN. Read more
Trump told a crowd in Michigan that the White House has ordered 250 Cadillac Escalades, the flagship sport utility vehicle in the luxury auto brand's lineup, for his presidential motorcade. Trump revealed the purchase in a speech delivered at a General Motors testing facility in the Detroit suburb of Milford. "The one and only Escalade," he said toward the beginning of a roughly one-hour-long address. "You know we ordered, I think, 250 Escalades, right? We ordered 250 Escalades ... . We look sharp in those Escalades." Read more
As I predicted during Democrat Zohran Mamdani's 2025 campaign to become NYC mayor, AIPAC would do everything they could to prevent him from winning, including resurrecting disgraced sexual predator NYS governor Andrew Cuomo to run against him. Mega-oligarch Michael Bloomberg wasted millions of dollars on failed negative ads. Now that the Muslim has become the successful Mayor of NYC, maniac AIPAC Jews and their proxies continue their slime campaign against him: Jared Kushner's deplorable plutocrat father Charles, Laura Lunatic" Loomer, John Fetterman (D-Israel), Jeffrey Epstein pal Alan Derskowitz, George Santos, ad nauseum. Randy "the Hebrew Ham Sandwich" Fine (R-FL) " an obese miscreant that a judge ordered to undergo rage therapy " just slandered Zohran Mamdani a "terrorist with blood on his hands."
Nasty-AIPACers attacking a US citizen who is a DemocratRead more
Unable to answer a simple question from a female reporter en route to a mob rally of MAGAts in Michigan, Dummkopf Trumpf insulted the journalist:
Audio only of POTUS meltdown
As early as October 2024, New Jersey lawmakers heard that some noncitizens were registering to vote through state Motor Vehicle Commission offices. The issue, county election officials said at a public hearing, appeared to be tied to the state "motor-voter" system, which can add residents to votor rolls when they do vehicle-related transactions. The commission offices' computer system asked in English whether users were U.S. citizens and eligible to cast ballots, and some people did not appear to speak or read the language well.
The Correspondents' Dinner Was a Black-Tie Surrender
The humiliation of the Tesla Weirdo is complete.
Just like what happened in March 2026 because of the US and Israel's irrational non-stop aggression against the people of Iran, another angry and frustrated Canadian fired shots at the US Consulate building in Toronto in the early hours to avoid casualties, all preceding ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's revolting despoliation of American soil today.
Israel making enemies for America worldwide, even in Canada
Two people were killed and multiple people, including a child, were injured in a shooting Sunday evening at a Seattle food festival, a block from the city's iconic Space Needle, fire officials said. The Seattle Fire Department said it responded to reports of a shooting at the Seattle Center just after 6 p.m. Read more
A series of water main breaks across Los Angeles in recent days is raising concerns about the city's aging infrastructure and whether more failures could occur. Crews continued working to repair the massive trunk line that ruptured Thursday in West Hollywood, leaving behind a large sinkhole on Sunset Boulevard. The break is the latest in a string of water main failures that have flooded streets, damaged homes and businesses, closed roadways and disrupted water service. In Studio City, an 8-inch water main failed, flooding a street and temporarily leaving about 60 customers without water while crews completed repairs. Read more
Soundtracks were a great way to discover bands before the Internet took over. We would hear a track or two in a movie, go buy the album, and share/copy with friends. Then we'd get curious about a particular band and set out to find more of their music. Sharing and enjoying music was a more tactile social experience compared to today's passive playlist sharing. That said, care to share a soundtrack or two that you really enjoy(ed)? Read more
