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Winner of the 'First Dopey Trump Supporter to Be Pardoned in '25'

Jimmy Carter Believed in American 'Exceptionalism'

What Do You Want for Next Christmas?

Donald Trump Recently Learned a New Word: Groceries

Putin Wishes Ukrainians a Merry Christmas with Massive Missile Attack

The QVC Presidency: 'A Fragrance Your Enemies Can't Resist'

What Most Worries You About the Future?

A Dinner with an Oligarch: Best GD Ice Cream and Napkins I Ever Saw

The Newest Russian Fairytale

Darkness Is Falling Over the World

Elon Musk Shuts Down the Government

I Got a Bone to Pick with the Amish!

Trump Will Sue the Press into Submission

The Good Old Days

One Republican Refuses to Pass Law to Protect the Press from Trump

A Cowardly FBI Director Clears the Path for Trump's Takeover

Trump Is Handing the Country Over to a Wealthy Cabal

Trump Selling Bullet Proof Whiskey Glasses

Trump Calls for Arrest of Jan 6th Commission Members

America the Megachurch

Bullets Found at CEO Shooting Read: Deny. Defend. Depose.

'Denied Coverage!' UnitedHealthcare CEO Gunned Down on NY Street

What Is It About Palm Trees?

Trump Chooses Superstore Actor to Head Up the FBI!

Trump 2.0 Is Not About Trump

Trump's Backyard BBQ Administration

Welcome to the Freak Show

The 'Trans Ad' That May Have Cost Us Our Democracy

Family-Cycle Planning

Being 'Hungry' in Trump's America. What Will It Mean?

Was It Really Worth It?

A Trumpist Last Night Attacked Me and Challenged Me to a Fight

The Jan 6 'Wrongfully Imprisoned' Will Soon Be Among Us Again

A Meeting in a Kushner-Owned Building in NY Today Woke Me Up

The 'Bro-Culture' Has Prevailed

Tulsi Gabbard Picked to Lead US Intelligence Services

Want to Understand How Trump's Tariffs Will Hurt the US Economy?

Trump's Nominations So Far Proving His Determination to Destroy Our Institutions

Putin Reminds the Donald There Are Plenty of Ways for Demanding His Obedience

'Well, At Least My Stocks Will Do Better'

The Coyote Has Crept Out of the Bag

Men and Boys Are Fighting Back

It Has Begun

'Dear Sister Kathleen, It Turns Out You Were Full of Shit After All'

The Climate is Doomed

Is Now the Time for a Military Coup?

On November 6th, Putin Gave the Kremlin Staff the Day off

Do You Know Why Immigrants Love Trump?

Post-Election: I Am Working Through My Feelings

So This Is Who We Are

The Election Was Lost, If You Are Thinking About 'Getting Out,' Then Write Me Here

Welp, We Did It - Rather, They Did

What Happens Next If Kamala Wins?

Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ?

CNN Working Hard to Push Undecideds to Trump

Trump's 'Grab them by the P****' Comment Comes Back to Haunt Him

Look at What Trump Is Already Doing to Our Democracy!

Jews in 1932 Voted for Hitler, and They Paid for That Vote With Their Lives

Let Me Tell You a Bit About the History of Adolf Hitler

The Cult Is Voting Early and Already Causing Problems

Bezos's Rocket Company Meets With Trump

Preemptive Compliance: The Fourth Estate Is Caving In Expectation of Trump Victory

A Cliff Claven Moment on Republicans And Their 'Economic Expertise'

Trump Is the Everyman Who Hates the People Who Adore Him

29% of Republican Voters Believe They Will Resort to Violence to 'Save the Country'

We Need to Make a List of the Corporations Supporting Trump

Trump's Favorite Word: Tariff

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?!

FEMA Being Chased Out of North Carolina by Armed Militia

Simple Math Yet Again Proves to Be Too Much for MAGidiots

Black Men Hesitant to Vote for Kamala Harris Need to Pull Their Heads Out of Their Asses

Journalists Are Working Overtime to Crush Kamala's for Honest Answers to Questions

Say It Out Loud: MAGA Supporters Are F****** Idiots!

Bruce Springsteen, a Category 5 Hurricane and Racial Realism

Porn Enthusiasts Beware: Project 25 Will Put An End to Your 'Love Life'

Elon Musk Should Be Declared Persona Non-Grata

Republicans and World Trump Tell Us Why Trump is Unfit

A 35-Year-Old American Was Deported to Haiti by Trump

The Question Most Asked at Oktoberfest 2024

Another Year, Another Oktoberfest Begins

We Make the Takeover by AI Simply Too Easy

Teamsters Head Sean O'Brien Is a Punk!

They Call Her 'Ka-MAL-a' Because They Are Race-Hating Faux-Christians

Another Day Closer to the Election and All We Hear About Is Trump

It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes

Springfield, Illinois Is Suffering What All America Will Under Trump

Let's Not Get Ahead of Ourselves

There Is a Reason Donald Trump Supports Abortion for Incidents of Rape

Moscow Kills 50 Civilians with Ballistic Missiles

Trump Threatens Mass Arrests of Opponents

JD Vance Calls School Shootings 'a Fact of Life'

Ukrainians Feed Russians in Occupied Russia

Moscow Launched the Largest Missile Attack of the War the Other Night

What Are Parents (and Big Tech) Doing to Their Children?

I Was Once an Unknowing Idealistic Kid Who Thought I Had 'It' All Figured Out

What I Figured Out at My First Colonoscopy

We Are Not Over the Hump

SCOTUS 'Blocks' GOP Effort to Block Undesirables from Voting

She Has Arrived!

Donald Trump Is a Scab

The Difference Between the DNC and the RNC

Driver to Child: 'Go Ahead, Get In, I'll Give You a Lift Home'

Trump Just Can't Get Over His Hatred for Our Vets

As War Strides into Russia, the Majority Are Not Hearing the Message They Should Be Hearing

JD Vance Dresses in 'Drag' and the Right Looks the Other Way

Trump Has a Problem With Immigration Because…He's a Dumbass

Trump's Dangerous and Hateful Rhetoric Trickles Down to Every Level

On the Day Ukraine Crossed the Border, YouTube in Russia Vanished

The Nerve of Those Pesky Ukrainians!

70 Republican Election Officials in Swing States Preparing 'Not to Certify' Results in November

Trump Says World Leaders Won't Respect Kamala Because of the Way She Looks

'My Feelings Are Hurt.' When Did the US Become Such a Nation of Whiners?

Setting Aside the Rhetoric and Extreme Dislike, What Does 'MAGA' Stand For?

Trump Tells 'Christian Supporters' They Need Just Vote Once

JD Vance Is the Future of MAGA

Beware of this Summer's New Democratically-Transmitted Disease

MAGidiots Are Blowing Fuses Over Harris

The 'Leftish' Media Has Lost Any Sense of Proportion Regarding Trump and Biden

Republicans Willing to Accept Results of Election…if Trump Wins

At the MAGA Circus, Even Some of the Crazies Can Prove to Be Crazier Than Others

Part One: What a Trump Presidency Means for Americans Opposed to Him

Calling on Katie Johnson, the 13-year-old Allegedly Raped Multiple Times by Trump

The Facts Don't Add Up About Trump Shooting

Let's Get Back At It, Folks - Project 25!!!

Trump Almost Killed; Let's Take a Deep Breath and Draw the Right Historical Comparisons

Fresh Off of His Visit With Putin, Hungary's Prime Minister Orban Goes to Mar-a-Lago

Sleepwalking into a Fascist Nightmare

The $64,000 Question: Why Isn't the Media Covering Trump's Project 25 Promise?

It Will Be a 'Second American Revolution' that Will Be Bloodless 'If the Left Allows It to Be'

Barack Obama Is Meeting With Donors for Biden

Justice Sotomayor: 'The President Is Now a King Above the Law'

The August Surprise: Michelle Obama Agrees to Run for President on Dem Ticket

Biden's Performance at the Debate

Republicans Are Super-Duper Confident in the Worthiness of Their Platform

Birth Certificates, Emails, and Now Drug Tests - Trump Evolves

Lesson #1: How to Win Friends and Influence Cultists at a Trump Rally

58% of Undecideds Think Trump Is Better for the Economy

I Wish I Could Be a Part of President Biden's 'Brain Trust'

Trump's 'Stab in the Back'

Cultists in Congress Passing Bills to Honor 'the Great President Trump'

Nevada Republican Election Clerk Being Recalled by Trump Cultists

'We're Going to Come After You Whether It's Criminally or Civil'

Censorship: New Trump Movie Likely Won't Be Shown in US Theaters

The American Summer When Fascism Emerged From the Closet

Eric Trump Guilty of Gun Charges!

Reporter: 'People Need to Fight to Return the Country to Godliness'

Only He Can Save America

A Photo That Speaks 1001 Words

Trump's Message Is Authoritarian, Ridiculous, and the Winning Formula

Russia's Premier Economic Forum: Family Values and 'Life Without the West'

It's Only June, and the Level of Stupid and Right-Wing Rhetoric Is Already Wearing Me Out

When Does Getting Children Hooked on the Internet Become Child Abuse?

When Did 'Playing Hard to Get' Become Date Rape?

A Rape in 1989 Put Trump on the Radar of Racists and Woke Up Karma

MAGidiots and Trumps Call the US a '3rd World Sh*t Hole' Country

Trump Says 'They Came for Me and They Can Come for You'

Hillary Clinton Bangs the Gong AGAIN, but Few Will Hear Her…YET AGAIN

Can a Proper School Lunch Make a Difference

Don't Miss Your Chance to Get a Melania Trump Memorial Day Medallion

Hiding in Plane Sight: How the Right Uses 'Fair and Balanced' to Normalize Their Extremist Views

The Wrong President Dies Over the Weekend

Born on April Fools Day, Justice Alito Is Not Fooling Us About the Upside-Down Flag

The GOP Front-Runner Is in Court for Paying a Porn Star Hush Money

A Portion of an Apartment Building Collapses in Russia

Russia In All Its Glory Sends a Bus into an Icy River Filled with Passengers

It's Sheer Nonsense that Russia Plans to Invade NATO

The Myth of Russia's Victory Over Fascism 79 Years Ago

Columbia Law Students 'Traumatized' by Police Response to Protests

May 9th: Victory Over Russian Fascism Day!

If You Haven't Seen the Movie Civil War - See It!

Are You Willing to Fight in Ukraine?

As Unpleasant as It Was in 1968, so Too It Is Today: 'The War Is Unwinnable'

What Will Prove More Important: Abortion or the War in Gaza?

Houston? Do We Have a Problem?

They Are a Rare Breed of Disgusting, and All We Can Do Is Hope

Majorie Taylor Greene Epitomizes All That Is Stupid About…

Has Anyone Taken a Look at The Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025?'

'Once Upon a Time,' or perhaps, 'Close Your Eyes and Imagine'

Kremlin Threatens that Ukraine Could Become Our 'New Vietnam'

December 2020: Trump Whines Incessantly About Voter Fraud, and Russia Pulls Off Most Damaging Hack of U.S. Infrastructure in History

Trump Seems Surprised by His 'Day in Court'

As Trump's Truth Social Drops, Trumpist Retail Investors Want to Buy More!

Substantial Block of Americans Remember Trump as 'Being Good for America'

Mike Johnson Heads to the 'Southern Kremlin' to Get His Marching Orders

Russia's 'Foreign Agent Classification' Reminds Me of Nazi German's 'Enabling Act'

Fox News and Russian Pro-Putin TV Have Melded into One

Conservative Judge Lets White Supremacist Off Easy

The Case of the Missing City: Belgorod, Russia

Eat Your BBQ and Shut Up!

'Who Lost Ukraine?'

The Propaganda Prone Brain

Friend in St. Petersburg Labeled 'Foreign Agent' for Non-War Related Activities

White Republican Convicted for Voting Illegally 9 Times

Russia Reconfirms How Far Christianity Has Drifted From the Teachings of Christ

A Massive Ship Carrying Thousands of Containers Hits a Bridge

Russians Begin Outing Navalny Supporters as 'Enemies of the State'

After Two Years of War, Putin Finally Lets Us All in on a Little Secret

Russia's Primary Enemy: Truth

Putin Apologizes for Terrorist Attack at Music Hall

Moscow Firemen Were Prevented From Entering Concert Hall

The U.S. Warned Putin About Imminent Attack Last Week

Republicans and Right-Wing Media Grasping for Straws

U.S. Companies Violating the Human Rights of Ukrainian Citizens

In the 1930s, the 'America Firsters' Saw Little Reason to Stop

Lady Lindsey Graham Shamelessly Mocks Ukrainians in Kyiv

It Was a Nail-Biter, but Russian Democracy Prevailed

Trump's Rhetoric Goes to a New and More Dangerous Level

Believing There Is an Opposition Movement in Russia Is Naive

Muppet #2, Former Russian President Dimovochka Medvedzhonok, Wants Zelensky's "Pee-pee" in a Jar

Waylon Jennings, the Ultimate 'Outlaw,' Explains A Lot About MAGA

The Modern Version of Glengarry Glen Ross: A.B.M.

AI Is Making Advances So Fast It Is Already Expressing What It Means to Be Human

Republicans Shamelessly Politicize the Murder of a Young Woman in Georgia

It's Both Disgusting and Wonderful That Lara Trump Now Heads the Republican National Party

Trump Meets With Hungary's Mini-Putin and Receives 'Authoritarian Playbook'

The Simple Economics of the War in Ukraine Republicans Can't Understand

Major Companies in Russia Creating Private Armies a la Wagner

Trump and His Supporters Talk as If He Never Was President

A Lesson on How to Ring as Much as Possible Out Of Nothing

Am I the Only One Who Can Appreciate the Forest for the Trees?

A Times/Siena College Poll ID's Some of the Stupidest Americans in the Country

Trump Says His Re-Election Will Be 'Judgement Day' for Anyone Who Opposed Him

Today, It's Navalny, Tomorrow It Could Be Anyone in Russia

'Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged'

Will the Word 'Avdiivka' Be Met By a Standing Ovation at the Republican Convention This Summer

'The Soviet War Memorial to the Rapists' Is Located in Berlin

What Is Real?

The War with Russia Reaches the 10-Year Mark

The Kremlin Fears Navalny More in Death Than It Did in Life

The University in St. Petersburg Invited Me to Teach a Class Again

Navalny Died of 'Sudden Death Syndrome'

Poor, Poor Donald Trump

Political Repression Cannot Succeed Without the Support of the People

Putin Plays a Cat and Mouse Game with Navalny's Corpse

Russian Agents Prowl in the European Night 'Eliminating' Anyone Too Overtly Opposed to Putin's Terror

There Is a Massive Problem with Immigration in America

Let's Take a Vote: Dimachka Medvedev, Buffoon or Russia's Post-Putin Future?

Republicans Defeat Ukraine's Defenders in Adiivka

Russia's Official Response to Navalny's Death: Cowardice and Fear

South Florida Cubans Cost Al Gore the Presidency

If Time Travel Were Possible, How Bad Would the Jet Lag Be?

Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Estonian PM

Have You Ever Noticed How Republicans Seem to Screw Everything Up?

The un-Dynamic Duo: Trump and Putin Show Us Just How Smart Honey Boo Boo Really Was

The Dust Continues to Settle on Tucker's Putin Fiasco

Trump VP Hopeful Promises to Break the Law If Selected

To the NY Times and David Axelrod: Get On Board or Shut the F*** Up!

Trump 2.0

The Denouement of The Tucker Show in Moscow Results in Embarrassing Interview

It's Official: Boris Nadezhdin Denied Chance to Run Against Putin

How Does Joe Biden Beat Donald Trump?

Reagan Administration Official Suggests Carlson Should Be Denied Entry into US

Republicans Again Mock Us with a Sham Impeachment

Reality Check: The Super Bowl is a Biden Administration Psyop

If Only MAGA Voters Could Hear the Truth About the Economy

The War in Ukraine Gets Crazier

Trump's Mulligan Presidency

America's Descent into Fascism Can Be Blamed on This Little Fellow Here

The Texas Razor Wire Is A Lot More Than Just Razor Wire

Does the Kremlin Have a Problem on Its Hands?

Are You Prepared for a Post-Nuclear War World?

Putin Threatens NATO on Visit to Kaliningrad

As He Nears the Nomination, the Chaos Grows

I Am Antifa!

A Legitimate Opposition Candidate Arises from the Mist in Russia

Ronald Reagan's Republicans Are Starving Ukraine of Military Support

Trump Explains Why a President Needs to Be 'Above the Law

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Nominates Himself for A**hole of the Year

Russia's Law Against "Discrediting the Army" and So-Called "Fakes"

Ukraine Waging a New Kind of War Against Russia

Protests Are Growing in Russia's Bashkorto-whatever Region

Repeat After Me: 'MAGA People Are Nasty and Indecent'

February 2nd, 2017: Let His Record Speak for Itself

A Drone Makes It All the Way to St. Petersburg

I Just Applied to Be a Speech Writer for Trump

In Interview, Putin Says The War Is Helping Young Russians

January 23rd, 2017: Let His Record Speak for Itself

The Glass Is Half Something

What Happened on January 22, 2017: Let His Record Speak for Itself

Biden Is Old, but Trump Is Completely Nuts

Let the Record Speak for Itself: A Day-by-Day Recounting of the Worst Presidency in Our History

Trump Never Was (and Would Never Be) a Strong and Feared President

Before They Were 'Not-So-Bright' Trumpists, They Were Bush and Reagan Supporters

The 'Genius' of Fox News Makes Words Meaningless

World's #1 Language App Lays Off Humans and Replaces Them With AI

Fox News Suggests Sec Austin's Failure to Inform White House Empowered America's Enemies

Remember When Buffet Chains Were All the Rage?

A Bedtime Story for Trumpists

My Love Affair With Trees

Moscow's Naked Party Reveals So Much More Than Body Parts

Ashli Babbit Day is Commemorated in Columbus, Ohio

It's January 6th, 2021 All Over Again

January 6th Is to Trump What November 8th Was to Hitler

What Happens If Trump Runs and Loses Again?

Russian Are Obligated from Birth

Creeping Irrelevance

Pop Goes the Weasel (Or the New Counter-artillery Radar)

If You Can Pay, the Men Can Leave Ukraine

The Carnival Is a World that Has Always Scared and Fascinated Me

Putin Calls the US and West Russia's Real Enemy

Putin Is Absolutely Correct: Russophobia Is Real!

Mass Detainment of Illegal Immigrants in Russia Underway

Day 1 in the New Year: Russian Lunacy Continues, Belgorod, a Terrorist Attack?