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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Trump FLIPS OUT after getting heckled at his own rally

            

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Trump flips out at rally protester calling him "pedophile protector"

Dementia Don is back on the campaign trail trying to salvage his party's midterm prospects, but he isn't quite getting the reception he was hoping for. His speech at a rally in Michigan last night was met with loud shouts of "pedophile protector" from someone in the audience, infuriating the wannabe dictator. But all he could muster in response was to yell, "Communist, he's a communist!" at the protester.

Uh, okay, Joseph McFarty, the 1950s called and want their witch hunt back. Maybe you should stop protecting pedophiles if you don't want to be called a pedophile protector! Just a thought.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Mitch McConnell's office issues bonkers statement about senator's health

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for the last 43 days, following a mysterious health episode at his Washington, DC, home in mid-June where he fell and was "briefly unconscious." A month and a half later, his office has released just two statements and two photographs, claiming the emaciated 84-year-old is hard at work in an undisclosed rehab facility regaining his full strength.

In a written statement earlier this week spokesman David Popp claimed, "The Senator continues to meet with staff regarding Senate and Kentucky business, including discussions on defense appropriations, foreign policy, the farm bill, constituent services and constituent federal grant requests. As the Senator continues to improve in rehab, we will be sure to keep you updated."

Obviously we cannot confirm or deny the veracity of that statement, but does this honestly pass the smell test for anyone? Does anyone believe the guy in the photo above is engaged in robust conversations about federal grants, foreign policy, byzantine farm legislation, addressing his constituents concerns, or anything else remotely related to his taxpayer-funded job?

Take Action: Tell Mitch McConnell: Disclose your health details or resign!


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Time is running out for Democrats with just 100 days left before the midterms

Red to Blue: There are 20 Democrats running to flip vulnerable red seats in the House, and their must-win races are the key to us retaking Congress and making Mike Johnson's majority nothing but a bad memory. All of these Democratic candidates are locked in close races in Republican-held districts, and every dollar might make the difference in helping the Democrats regain control of the House. The Democrats in these races are united by their desire to fight for hardworking families in their districts — not the billionaires bankrolling Republicans’ corrupt and divisive machine. With less than 100 days before the midterm elections, our time is running out. We need to raise every dollar we possibly can if we're going to beat the Republican Party's illegal gerrymanders. Will you make a donation that will be split between all the Democrats in these must-win races? Let's take our country back and WIN in November!


Trump DOJ’s own witness said Reflecting Pool had "substantial preexisting damage" before 67-year-old former Olympian touched it
The Trump regime's case against former Olympian and phantom "vandal" David Hearn was already paper thin, but news that the government's sole grand-jury witness testified that the Reflecting Pool surface damage was already present before Hearn leaned down from his bike to simply touch it should put this pathetic and wildly unethical fiasco to bed for good.

So thin-skinned is our wannabe dictator, he instructed his attack dogs at the DOJ to target a former frickin' Olympian to save face after his administration's botched efforts to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Hey, remember when Trump kicked and screamed for years about the Biden and Obama administrations "weaponizing" the Department of Justice?

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Trump’s pandemic preparedness team is just one person
Being totally unprepared and caught with their pants down worked so well for Trump's team in 2020, they're running it back, this time with a single, solitary person — and MAHA vaccine skeptic, to boot! — overseeing official pandemic preparedness for the federal government. What could possibly go horribly wrong again but even worse?


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Trump frustrated with RFK Jr. — thinks he isn't doing enough to cut childhood vaccinations
Donald Trump allegedly confronted Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this past May and pressed the roadkill collector on why he wasn't doing MORE in his official capacity to probe the nonexistent connection between vaccines and autism. Kennedy was reportedly taken aback, as his staff had previously been told to tone down anti-vaccine rhetoric ahead of the midterms.

Trump turned that directive on its head and reportedly expressed frustration with the pace Kennedy was moving to undermine long-established vaccine science.

A 35-year high in measles cases just isn't cutting it, people! We need more communicable diseases, and we need them now. Let polio, rubella, and mumps run free!


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BBC scores blow against Trump — as judge in defamation case orders president to turn over years of financial docs

In his $10 BILLION defamation lawsuit against the BBC, Donald Trump laughably claimed that specific editorial decisions made by the news organization in a 2024 documentary about his failed insurrection caused "massive economic damage to his brand value and significant damage and injury to his future financial prospects," an argument that was patently absurd even before news broke that he's profited more than $2 BILLION since returning to office.

Yesterday a judge ruled that BBC was entitled to years of Donald's various financial records to properly prepare for its defense, swatting down protestations from Trump's legal team, who definitely do not want their client's shifty business records pored over by a major media outlet with a very expensive axe to grind. Tsk, tsk. Don't file suit if you can't hang with discovery!


Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting before midterms
The wannabe dictator's ongoing efforts to thwart the will of the American electorate keep running into one legal brick wall after another, as judges bound to the rule of law continue to put the country ahead of Donald's political fortunes.

Undeterred by loss after loss in court, Trump is running his assault on mail-in voting up that tallest of flag poles — the Supreme Court — where he hopes the conservative supermajority will do his autocratic bidding.

The president issued a sweeping executive order in March calling on US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration to create a single, federal list of eligible voters and requiring the US Postal Service to only deliver mail-in ballots to people on that list.

Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia promptly sued, pointing out that the US Constitution explicitly grants states and Congress the authority to set election rules, not the president. At some point you'd think he'd bother to read our founding documents, or at least have them explained to him by an intern.


Kentucky governor demands proof of Mitch McConnell's capacity to serve as senator
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is losing his patience with his state's senior senator, Mitch McConnell, who has not spoken or appeared in public in 43 days since being hospitalized for a mysterious fall and a "mild" case of pneumonia in mid-June. McConnell's office issued just the second statement since the incident on June 14, along with a new photo of the emaciated senator flanked by his wife, former Labor Sec. Elaine Chao.

In a pointed letter addressed to the senator that was also shared with the press, Beshear called on McConnell to verbally address Kentucky directly and provide proof of his capacity to serve, or resign.

"Kentuckians are just asking you to be honest," Beshear said. To be fair, Kentuckians have been asking that of Mitch for the past 43+ years to no avail. Fat chance we'll see a change of heart from the 84-year-old now.


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RFK Jr.'s Summer Sh*t Show

         

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RFK Jr.'s Summer Sh*t Show

Americans want straight answers about the cyclosporiasis outbreak, but the nation’s top health official is too busy talking about orange juice and TikTok.


Jennifer Schulze is a longtime Chicago journalist. She’s on Bluesky @newsjennifer.bsky.social. Subscribe to her Substack, Indistinct Chatter

Going to the grocery store these days is a nightmare. Almost everything costs more than it did the week before, and now you also have to worry about whether explosive diarrhea-causing parasites are infecting the fruit and vegetables for sale in the produce section.

I went to three grocery stores near my home this week. At Trader Joe’s, which is like Disneyland for people craving a pre-mixed salad kit, I saw a fully stocked salad section but no shoppers in sight. At Jewel, a large nationally-owned chain, the produce aisles were also eerily empty, but the thing that really jumped out at me was the fire sale on all Taylor Farms products.

Taylor Farms is, of course, the mega produce producer linked to the outbreak. If you dare, you can grab a deeply discounted southwest salad for $2 or a head of lettuce for next to nothing. The same was true at Kroger-owned Mariano’s where I saw an entire wall of Taylor Farms salad products deeply discounted. But why were those products even in the store to begin with? Wasn’t there a recall?

I’m clearly not alone in being both curious and confused about the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has so far made over 12,000 people sick in 41 states. There are many unanswered questions including: Is the problem just lettuce or is it all greens? What about fruit? Is washing your vegetables enough or should you steer clear of all produce right now? Do I need to see a doctor if I get sick?

Americans who want answers have been Googling like mad. Since about June 20, searches for “explosive diarrhea and diarrhea parasite” have skyrocketed.

Explosive Diarrhea Is Big News

Local and national news coverage has been helpful in answering many of these questions about cyclospora while also keeping consumers up to date on the latest findings. Some standouts include The Guardian and Consumer Reports. This piece in The American Prospect details how the DOGE cuts to food safety programs and personnel figures into this mess.

The New York Times broke the story about Taylor Farms execs meeting with the White House to “try to distance the company from the outbreak.” Days later, the FDA announced a false positive test on Taylor Farms lettuce and things got even more confusing. Bloomberg does a good job unraveling that part of the story including the subsequent “apology” controversy. Wired is chasing the money and found that Taylor Farms has donated buckets of cash to Trump and MAGA groups plus funded food safety deregulation lobbying efforts.

Another terrific resource is Katelyn Jetelina of the Substack newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist. Along with regular updates, Jetelina and her team provide explainers and answers to top 10 questions including is local produce safer and can pets get this?

I also learned a lot from this NBC5 Chicago interview with an expert from IIT’s Institute for Food Safety and Health, who among other things, recommended buying your lettuce at the local farmer’s market.


Kennedy’s Distractions

While so many journalists and experts are covering this ongoing story, Trump’s government fired the talent that would have contained the outbreak. Now they can’t be trusted to provide information or to take steps to protect us. That includes the federal government’s top health official — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. — who’s no help at all in getting reliable information.

Kennedy has made only one public comment about cyclospora and it was misleading at best. At the end of a news conference about a completely different topic, Kennedy claimed the cyclosporiasis outbreak was “under control” (it’s not) and that DOGE cutbacks to food safety programs are not to blame (they are).

Instead of helping Americans understand the growing cyclospora outbreak, Kennedy spent the last few weeks talking about orange juice, peptide injections, dental fillings … and his new TikTok account. He only mentioned cyclospora because a reporter asked him about it, not because he deemed the problem serious enough to hold a press briefing. Despite both the actual risk and Americans’ growing concerns, neither Kennedy nor anyone from health agencies he oversees has bothered to address the American people directly on cyclosporiasis.

Some of the information we do get from the FDA and the CDC — two of the lead agencies dealing with food borne contaminates — has been just as confusing as what we’ve heard from Kennedy himself. Now Politico is reporting that a former FDA deputy commissioner is calling for an independent investigation into how badly Kennedy and his teams have mismanaged all of this. Frank Yiannas said “... it is starting to approach a catastrophic level in terms of how mismanaged it’s been on multiple fronts.”


The Outbreak Isn’t Under Control

Deborah Blum is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poison Squad, which details the beginnings of the country’s food and consumer safety protection efforts. I asked her what she made of RFK Jr.’s response to this new health crisis. She told me:

“Well, I do not think an HHS secretary should be saying that an outbreak is under control when it so clearly isn’t. CDC expanded its investigation from five states to nine today (Friday). Taylor Farms’ recall, such as it is, applies in 27 states but there have been illnesses in many more than that. More than 10,000 cases of cyclospora infections have been recorded and that’s undoubtedly an estimate as people with mild cases often don’t go into the medical system. We haven’t even identified all the produce involved yet. I don’t know how he says that with a straight face.

What he should be saying is that we’ve made this a top priority, we’re putting extra resources into it, we’re determined to figure it out. Your food safety is a top concern of this administration. Not that this would necessarily be true but it would be an appropriate public health response.”

Blum’s also not buying Kennedy’s claims that DOGE cuts to food safety programs have no impact on the government’s response to the outbreak. She said:

“This is the worst cyclospora outbreak in decades so I think that’s definitely part of it. The CDC’s FoodNet program that was slashed included proactive monitoring for cyclospora which is a big deal because as I’m sure you read, it’s a very difficult organism to isolate once it has entered the food supply. And all the food safety programs are severely understaffed at the moment.”

We are in the midst of the biggest measles outbreak since … oh wait, that’s the other health-related disaster Kennedy doesn’t want to talk about. Americans once could count on their government — no matter who was president — to monitor our food for pathogens, to issue timely recalls, to inform us on risks, to provide guidance on how to avoid those risks, and to offer the best medical counsel about what to do if we became ill.

Because Donald Trump put his faith in Elon Musk’s DOGE program and Robert Kennedy’s sniff-the-cocaine-off-the-toilet-seat leadership, America’s federal government no longer provides any of these benefits. Luckily, we can count on robust news coverage to help us navigate this sh*t show.


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Loser of the Year!

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December 8, 2025
Loser of the Year!

De Tocqueville said, “If men are to remain civilized, the art of associating together must grow and improve.” Calling the other side a bunch of Losers might, I admit, go against the spirit of artful association, as de Tocqueville intended.

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