Elle Cordova (@ellecordova): Rough Draft vs Final Draft
Matt Randolph (@mrglobaltoo): Shows us someone bought 3000 oil futures contracts right before the market closed Friday. Betting Trump was going to escalate this weekend. – Looky at what happened
Matt Rein: "After storms hit DC, the fences and black tarp meant to shield the reflecting pool from view have toppled over into the water." – Leaving me wistfully thinking, "If only other things had toppled over"
Meidas Touch: The US struck 3 Iran oil tankers in a major new escalation of Trump's war with Iran. CENTCOM says the strikes followed Iranian missile launches toward 2 US warships. And Trump is spending the weekend at Bedminster talking about Lake America
Ci James (@cijamestk): "The perception" skit
Katy Tur (@themomentwithkatytur): "When's SNL coming back" – President Trump Tours his WH destruction sites
When you concentrate on the lie so hard, you forget what century you're in.
Oklahoma ranks between 47th and 50th in the U.S. for education and Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin is the poster child for that stat – Trump admin is hell-bent on blaming Biden as some distraction for their misdeeds, today's date is Mon 8-31-2026
From The Archives September 2024: Q: How he will make childcare more affordable. – Trump: "It's a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kinda numbers that I'm talking about, that-- Because look, childcare is childcare"
Beware the Fearmongrels, my son! The Laws that bite, the ICE that catch! Beware the Repub turd, and shun The frumious Pandersnatch!
Buckingham Palace - The Royal Family says: "Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always love you."
Eyes Wide Open says: "Lmao! Byron Donalds did not just say this. Listen to the audience reaction." – Something tells me this didn't come out the way he meant. – "Top Of The Ticket Tour Florida" checks out
Senile old man in the White House makes Lake great again – Lake Ontario gets the "Sharpie"
Cody Dahler (@mrcodydahler): "So you don't know why Donald Trump's been having a week-long meltdown over the fact that we discovered he has an executive assistant called Natalie Harp who's so obsessed with him she chases after his golf cart..."
Can I get an amen. Truer words have never been spoken!
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday, called out President Trump and the potential "mystery" of why unnamed federal agents were monitoring key polling places on Tuesday in Michigan for the battleground state's primary elections.
Farmer in the Hell of his own making – Georgia farmer Patrick Shivers: "Looks like some of ya'll about to go hungry" – All workers deserve to be paid. It's likely H-2A temp ag workers aren't applying for fear of getting shafted and/or deported to Africa.
Bryant (@bryantthe4th): "I'm beginning to think after all this time after all these years that maybe Trump and the Trump Organization are not on the up and up."
Word on the Sesame Street is: One of these things is not like the others. One of these things doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the other. By the time we finish our song?
Status from Russian Wildberries logistics center in Samara: Your package may be delayed.
Tim Curry has escaped (1946-2026)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: "Intimidation will not work"
Jonathan Pie (@jonathanpienews): "US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants the benefits of being a state without being one, after trade talks collapsed. – He's got bored, hasn't he."
Clay (@what.inclaynation): Blue Angels snub black owned business "The Sewing Box", that has provided Flight Suits for 43 Years
Trump (@realdonaldtrump): "So now we have LAKE AMERiCA without the of."
When the shit hits the glam – Pete "Boogers" Hegseth and Scott "Swamp Fox" Bessent speak at Joint Base Lindsey Graham S.C. (Formerly known as Joint Base Charleston)
Leigh McGowan – Politics Girl (@iampoliticsgirl): "Oh really Mike?"
Time to Pattaya – The crew aboard the somewhat rusty U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln arrived in Pattaya, a Thai beach city, after nine months at sea.
CNN News Night with Abby Phillip (Aug 3) played a side-by-side video of Trump saying in the Monday press conference he was not aware of who the contractor was, and from the one on April 23, when he said he planned on getting his contractor on the job.
Bessent's attempts to prop the markets seem to be less of a finger plugging a hole in their cracked dike & more of a finger in every pie, but hey it's a mystery to me why "Trump D-day economics" would affect the price of oil or our ability to pay for it
Sen Mark Kelly (D-AZ) joins Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) at reelection event Tuesday (8/18/26) in Columbus, Georgia – What's not to like, Jon Ossoff continues getting under Trump's skin, while seeking reelection against GOP's Mike Collins
Trump's Sunday Night (8/30/26): "Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!" – Because posting AI slop videos is so much better than real life handing you your ass.
Trump referring to small children as "those beautiful little bodies", thinks he can protect them from the 'autism epidemic' by making them go to a doctor's office 5-times instead of 1. This from the administration that made 'measles great again'.
All In With Chris Hayes: Americans paid higher prices under Trump's tariffs – now major corporations are collecting billions in refunds while consumers are left holding the bag.
Fight for Progress (@fightforprogress.org): Bush's War on Terror VS. Trump's Iran War
Too Funny two Trump backed Republican candidates lost their Primaries. 1st–POS Andy Ogles in a "GOP newly redrawn district" got the boot. 2nd–Trump-backed House candidate in Michigan loses by double digits to an opponent who had dropped out.
Olympian David Hearn reflecting on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Case with CNN's Kaitlan Collins: "If it can happen to me, it could happen to anybody. Nobody is immune to this kind of government lawlessness, essentially."
Besides a rinse and repeat story of Trump's Iran War, since when does one determine the significant impact of a missile and allow it to pass through. Again missile capabilities don't seem to be destroyed and unclear which side wants to make a deal badly.
Vapidcass – The speaker says it plainly: "We need to do better for moms and for babies. And definitely for babies."
The Arena with Kasie Hunt: "You can easily waste 32 minutes, you know on Instagram like the rest of us, but he's running the country." – Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford: "This is sort of Marie Antoinette and let them eat cake kind of moment."
Natalie Harp is the close aide to President Trump most often seen with him and his traveling companion aboard the decoy plane. – She also compiles posts for the president to review and posts them on the president's Truth Social account late into the night
Trump: "We're making America healthy again." – CourierNewsroom Allan Piper (@apiper13 @piperama): "Oh, really? How's that working out?"
Tongue-in-cheek goodbye to Fox News Maria Bartiromo
Elle Cordova (@ellecordova): Data centers – "Massive new data centers are being built across the country whether we're ready for them or not."
United24 (@u24.gov.ua): Even where every day is a fight for survival, there is still room for care and love. On International Cat Day, we thank Ukraine's defenders for their strength, humanity, and big hearts, hearts with room for even the smallest lives.
Mr Global: "So he doesn't know where he is and he thinks gas is a dollar eighty-five a gallon. Yep. No problem." – Dementia Don wasn't in Iowa Tuesday. He was at his LA Golf Course for a fundraiser, then flew to Vegas to spend the night in a casino.
The G20 Finance Track meetings are being held in Asheville, NC, hosted by Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent. Of course Trump invited Russia, because he likes to get along with everybody, except maybe IDK, Canada and many other allies.
Trump's executive assistant is sus so you check in with the smart sibling. (@silentmiddlechild): "Hey Anthony, who's this Natalie Harp woman everyone's talking about?"
Trump: "I'm very good at flagpoles" – So, if anybody needs one (or two) some old fart at the White House is waiting for your call
Pullups Pasta Politics (@pullupspastapolitics): "This Indy 250 race is a total waste of money."
Morning Brew: Trump's tariff-free import of 300,000 metric tons of Mystery Meat
U.S. Senator (Georgia) Jon Ossoff: Trump doesn't want to do his job. He'd rather build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace, gifted by the emir of Qatar. – And super glue more gold crap on the Oval
Sarah Matthews reacts to Scott Jennings' outrage over Sen. Ossoff's "travel with Natalie" comment and the glaring double standard in his defense of Trump and all Republicans
Jason Kelce doing an Anti-Data Center ad with Liquid Death and Garage Beer speaks volumes and is a pretty clear signal to Democrats about where the public is on Al and Data Centers. – *Note tiny disclaimer at the end*
I regret to inform you Elon Musk has made a 6 minute Al video of himself as a superhero and it's the cringiest shit I've ever seen.
RFK Jr.'s phone says it best: "quack"
The Good Liars: Name one thing that Trump said he would do and then he did
Wonder of Science: An amazing solar display over the Swiss Alps, consisting of a 22° halo with sun dogs, a parhelic circle, along with a complex network of other rare phenomena, caused by sunlight interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Popeyed Pete Hegseth: Calls reports by families and sailors of worsening conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln completely misrepresented – "So I, as, as someone who's been, not been on a ship like that but been on long deployments, I feel it."