Rick Wilson: Why don't the MAGA hardcores understand how well and truly Trump is screwing them? Gas is $4.55 a gallon. Foreclosure filings are at a six-year high. Trump's approval is mired in the low 30s. He hasn't ended a war; he's threatening two more. The grocery bill that was supposed to crater on Day One has done the opposite. By every transactional measure, the measure we were all trained to believe decides elections, this administration is a failure in a saggy Brioni suit.
Garlic is not a substance that most people consider an aphrodisiac. It turns out that mosquitoes agree.
In fact, the new Yale study finds that garlic also functions as a de facto birth control for mosquitoes and other winged insects. It's an insight that could lead to eco-friendly pest control strategies. read more
The Republican-led Congress, faced with deepening economic discontent exacerbated by President Donald Trump's Iran war, is struggling to find consensus on any plan to address the cost of living with less than six months before midterm elections.
Alex Haley's book Roots is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County [Tennessee] Schools libraries. ... Roots is a multi-generational story following the descendants of a man sold into slavery in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a miniseries. There is a statue of Haley in East Knoxville.
A five-month investigation has named 13 previously unidentified victims of US attacks on boats allegedly carrying narcotics in a campaign that has killed nearly 200 people in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. ... [A] joint effort by 20 journalists led by the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) this week published the identities of 13 of those killed, some of whom showed no indication of involvement in drug trafficking.
Cuba's government said the country has completely run out of fuel oil and diesel needed to keep the lights on, with extensive blackouts sparking protests for the third day in a row this week.
Over 100 U.S. ambassador posts around the world are sitting empty in the Trump administration, a vacancy rate without modern precedent and one that some current and former officials warn is hamstringing U.S. diplomatic power abroad.
Honda Motor on Thursday reported its first annual loss since becoming a publicly traded company in Japan seven decades ago, as the costly retreat from its ambitious electric-vehicle targets plunged earnings into the red. The automaker reported a net loss of $2.7 billion for the fiscal year that ended March 31. Earnings were weighed down by more than $9 billion in restructuring charges and write-downs after a retrenchment of its E.V. strategy.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen issued a public callout to FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday, filling his end of a bargain the pair had made during a tense Senate hearing a day prior to both release their results on an alcohol abuse test.
Meet Chud the Builder, a mustachioed, cowboy hat-wearing 28-year-old Tennessee man whose real name is Dalton Eatherly. His internet alias combines the insult "chud"--basically slang for a low-brow right-winger--and a play on both Eatherly's profession as a construction worker and the children's show Bob the Builder.
Helen Lewis, The Atlantic: Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote. In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently. read more
According to International Business Times, more than half a million people ponied up, pouring an estimated $59 million into Trump Mobile's coffers. But no phones have arrived, the "made in America" promises have vanished, the launch date keeps sliding back, and this week, Moneywise.com reported on a quiet change made last month to the company's terms of service. read more
Charlie Sykes: [L]et's be clear here: What he said was obviously true. He really doesn't think about anybody. He really doesn't give a rat's ass about the average American. If you're not hanging out at Mar-a-Lago, you're invisible.
We've known this for a very long time, but it's become increasingly obvious as he indulges his obsessions with gilded ballrooms, reflecting pools, golden icons, and stuffing his own pockets with endless graft,
A large network of prominent regional newspapers has posted thousands of low-quality articles promoting gambling and prediction markets -- and is pretending it's journalism.
D/HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr is threatening to cut off federal funding for hospitals if they continue serving Jell-O or orange juice and wants patients to become MAHA informants using a complaints portal.
Ken Klippenstein: Two right-wing figures -- Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes -- have been named by the White House as possible domestic terrorists, according to the Trump administration's top counterterrorism official.
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