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Alabama newspaper AL.com reports A Birmingham-area grassroots group is hitting President Donald Trump hard over gas prices in one of his reddest Southern states.Their latest billboard features a likeness of Trump — complete with bright red MAGA hat — trying to use a gas pump for a phone while gasoline jets between his ears. The caption beneath the billboard features the common southern saying: “He Ain’t Right.”“You have to be able to laugh at it because right now, we’re powerless unless they enact the 25th Amendment,” said Bright Blue Dot organizer Joellyn Beckham, who designs mos

The Guardian reports a small West Virginia town is still trying to recover from becoming the face of white nationalism after a nonprofit selling “white replacement theory” and other conspiracies moved in and began flooding the internet with conspiracies.Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, residents learned Peter and Lydia Brimelow — owners of the controversial online publication VDare — bought property in the area in 2020.“Crit

MS NOW reports President Donald Trump is lashing out at prominent figures on the right who are revolting against mistakes he made in Iran, but Attorney George Conway says Trump’s problem is really with the massive MAGA hive mind finally coming to terms with reality.“The MAGA Republicans on the ground, some of them are already convinced [about Iran and Trump],” Conway told MS NOW hosts Jonathan Capehart, Jacqueline Alemany and Eugene Daniels. “Here's what's happened here. Trump creates his own reality. I mean, he's a dumba—— a

MS NOW “The Weekend” hosts Jonathan Capehart, Jacqueline Alemany, and Eugene Daniels report that President Donald Ttrump is losing one of his most prized possessions: Republican voters.“Almost everything they're saying about the economy is not true, wasn't coming true, wasn't true when they said it, and hasn't become true after months and months of waiting,” reported Daniels after an abusive round of news involving the president’s tumbling economy and consumer frustration with it.“Or one might say ‘a lie.’ Yes, a complete lie,” replied Capehart. “When you said that they promised that the economy wo

For much of his political career, dishonesty has been without cost for Donald Trump. He entered into national politics with the birther lie, claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., and that did not prevent Trump from winning the 2016 GOP nomination.His persistent false statements about crowd sizes,

Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller and Crooked Media writer Jane Coaston struggled to understand the intent behind First Lady Melania Trump’s Thursday press conference denying her ties to convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.“No one was asking about this,” Coaston told Miller. “I was kind of aware that there was an email, but I was like, you know, there's a lot of emails in there. … There are other people, other fish metaphorically to fry in his emails. No one was like, ‘let's really focus on Melania’s personal connection], but now I … I have so many questions.”Miller said the First Lady did

Trump’s rule for “flooding the zone” has been straightforward: Whenever the subject that everyone’s talking about becomes too uncomfortable for him — he changes it.Too much Jeffrey Epstein? Send federal agents to Minnesota to brutalize American citizens. Too much brutality by federal agents? Fire the head of Department of Homeland Security and start a war with Iran. War goes badly? (Well, we’ll soon find out.) So, why did Melania Trump hold a news conference? Standing at a lectern in the Grand Foyer of the White House, the first lady labeled as “lies” unspecified allegations linking her to Epstein, and said they “need to end today.”“The false smears about

The Washington Post reports Republican Congressional and White House staff are shocked at the level of rancor between Republicans and Democrats, which looks nothing like the spirit of bipartisanship from just a few decades ago.“You’re like, ‘Oh, my God, what the hell happened to us?’” said Jean Becker, who served as Bush’s post-presidency chief of staff for 25 years about the absence of civil dialogue.Former senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who did not seek reelection in 2022, told the Post that the demise of a middle ground has “fundamentally changed Congress and campaigns.”Blunt serve

Trump gas — like Trump shoes, Trump cologne, the Trump Bible, Trump shoes, Trump NFTs, Trump crypto, Trump resorts, Trump University, and everything else he’s tried to sell as a good deal — is turning out to be a ripoff. The average cost of gas tracked by the AAA was $4.17 a gallon yesterday. The station at the end of my street is selling it for over $5 now. If you drive a Mini-Cooper, as I do, which demands premium grade, you’re shelling out over well over $6.To put this in perspective, the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. the day before Trump launched his war was $2.98. Between then and today, the U.S. has experienced the largest increase in gas prices in 60 years.Despite the tent

In a world that feels like it just might fall off the edge, imagine how much better off we’d all be right now if Kamala Harris had been elected president in 2024 …Let’s explore the “what ifs” for the next few minutes and have a brief discussion at the end. What follows is an incomplete list featuring just some of the things that would have made America a far, far better place to live under a Harris administration, than it is right now under this ghastly, heartless regime that is taking a wrecking ball to our country, our rights, and the White House.It also doesn’t hurt to have a list like this at the ready to throw in the faces of the self-suffocating dummies who would still rather c