Why won’t the AP tell the truth about J.D. Vance and the couch?
Sofa, so good? What does “fake news” mean in the post-truth era? Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and rebranding of it to X, was supposed to augur a new age of unfiltered information, to combat the...
View ArticleWho’s losing the oppo-dump veepstakes?
Oppo veepstakes: which of Kamala’s VP picks has the dirtiest laundry? Have you canceled plans this weekend? Are you a white dude for Kamala? You just might be in contention to be the Democratic pick...
View ArticleEric Trump blasts British foreign secretary for ‘clickbait’ comments
Donald Trump’s second son Eric made a visit to Scotland this weekend, for a round of golf and a rather interesting media interview. While Eric Trump insisted that the Trumps have “tremendous respect”...
View ArticleBiden declares war on… plastic
Hurricane Debby is barreling through Florida, America’s economy is crashing, US troops were injured in Iraq Monday and conflict in the Middle East is on the brink of a dangerous escalation — sounds...
View ArticleWant to buy Russia Today’s DC broadcast studio?
Axed-ios Axios announced in an email to staff this week that they are laying off 10 percent of their workforce — and to add insult to injury, the announcement was stylized like one of their editorial...
View ArticleHarry and Meghan lose yet another staff member
The Sussexes never seem to keep out of the news for too long, and this time they’re back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. It now transpires that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have...
View ArticleFormer Irish leader defends Olympic boxer from gender controversy
Well, well, well. Now Ireland’s former Taoiseach has swooped in to defend the Olympian at the center of a gender row. Leo Varadkar made a gushing Instagram post in support of gold medalist Imane...
View ArticleTrump campaign brings back Corey Lewandowski, the ‘MAGA Pete Davidson’
The Trump campaign just expanded its circle of senior campaign advisors to welcome five new operatives, including former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. With roughly eighty days until...
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The inexorable rise of the GOP swimwear models
In there like swimwear For any readers seeking evidence that, despite the election, we are in the heart of silly season, look no further than this week’s non-troversy concerning Republican...
View ArticleQueen Elizabeth called Trump ‘very rude’
Good heavens. As the 2024 US presidential campaigns pick up pace, some rather damning revelations have emerged about the impression contender Donald Trump left on Queen Elizabeth II. A new biography...
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After dark at the DNC
Chicago Big Little Lies season three is happening, says Young Sheldon Convention guests looking to play a game of IRL “Who? Weekly” were best off hanging out at the CNN-Politico Grill, which served...
View ArticleSteve Hilton wants to challenge Gavin Newsom for the chance to run California
This just in: Steve Hilton, former Fox News host and policy advisor to British PM David Cameron, wants to be the next media star to challenge California governor Newsom, Politico reports. Newsom’s...
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Will Kamala actually appoint a Republican to her cabinet?
Will Kamala actually appoint a Republican to her cabinet? A rare surprise in the otherwise routine Harris-Walz interview on CNN last night: when asked if she’d appoint a Republican to her cabinet,...
View ArticleWant to see RNC chair Lara Trump’s new music video?
The video begins with sirens, a firetruck and vivid kinetic typography spelling the words “hero.” Then, soulful piano music. Sigh. Cockburn really didn’t want to cry this afternoon. RNC co-chair Lara...
View ArticleHail Barron Trump, prince of NYU
Congratulations to Barron Trump, the Paul Atreides of Mar-a-Lago, on his enrollment at the private, excruciatingly progressive New York University this week. Barron has found his tribe immediately,...
View ArticleTaylor Swift turns mean girl on Trump supporter Brittany Mahomes?
Now we got bad blood? Billion-dollar pop star Taylor Swift almost had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Cockburn pulled out his binoculars at the Chiefs game Thursday and did not see...
View Article‘Trump is still Trump,’ says Piers Morgan
It’s less than sixty days to go until Election Day and the race could not be closer. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are due to debate tomorrow night in what could be one of the most consequential...
View ArticleSwift endorsement: Taylor backs Kamala after debate
Cockburn knew Taylor Swift was trouble when she walked in. Too much time in Hollywood (Cockburn saw it coming when she switched genres from country to pop), has turned the Tennessee Christian girl...
View ArticleWATCH: Five key moments from the Trump-Harris debate
On Tuesday night the former president Donald Trump and the current Vice President Kamala Harris faced off in Philadelphia for the first presidential debate since Joe Biden’s disastrous fall from grace...
View ArticleMelania Trump disgusted by assassination attempt in book promo
“The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,” Melania Trump, former first lady, said in a polished video on her social media pages Tuesday. The short reel was a promo...
View ArticleAzealia Banks flames Milo Yiannopoulos as they sever professional ties
Milo Yiannopoulos has fallen out with another Trump-supporting musical artist. The right-wing provocateur and one-time intern of Marjorie Taylor Greene had been teasing his intention to start managing...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Project 2025 problems
Project 2025 problems Despite Donald Trump’s best efforts, Project 2025 isn’t going anywhere. Its former director, Paul Dans, made the media rounds this week, where he attacked the leadership of the...
View ArticleWill Scotland ban Guinness glasses?
While British prime minister Keir Starmer is trying hard to ban fun, the Scottish National Party is hot on his heels. Now it transpires that, er, pint glasses with logos are proving too offensive for...
View ArticleSoftballs for Kamala at the National Association of Black Journalists
Vice President Kamala Harris met with the National Association of Black Journalists for an interview this afternoon. Instead of going back-to-back with Donald Trump for his explosive interview with...
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Inside Tucker Carlson’s ‘Zyn competitor’
The predilections of Pastor Robinson 2024 is proving to be an election year where so much seems to happen and so little seems to change. This week, for example, you might have found yourself alarmed...
View ArticleNigel Farage to cross the pond, again
It’s his sworn ambition to become prime minister of the UK by 2029. But is Nigel Farage perhaps spending a little bit too much time in the States? Barely had the Reform leader finished addressing his...
View ArticleDC bar Political Pattie’s gets hazed for being bipartisan
A new DC bar dedicated to crossing partisan lines, “Political Pattie’s,” has taken the “political” out of its name… though Cockburn will note the removal is “temporary.” Owners Drew Benbow and Sydney...
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New York mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal charges
Talk about making history: New York City mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a federal grand jury, the first sitting NYC mayor to face a federal charge while in post. Adams, who has served as mayor...
View ArticleEric Adams’s Turkey trot
“Brooklyn is the Istanbul of America,” now-Mayor Eric Adams told a pair of Turks on camera after they asked him for political favors in a cameo he made in a Turkish romcom. Now, in real life, Adams is...
View ArticleWatch: JustStopOil protesters attack more Van Gogh paintings
It didn’t take long for the eco-zealots to strike again. Just minutes after JustStopOil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for throwing Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s...
View ArticleDonald Trump on Keir Starmer: ‘I actually think he’s very nice’
After months of diary-juggling, British PM Keir Starmer finally got his meeting with the man who could be the next US president. The political equivalent of the Rumble in the Jungle happened last...
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Boeing workers fight for fair pay … on beach vacation
“When Boeing fails…. BET ON SPORTS! #STRIKE #IAM751 #NFL #MLB,” a striking Boeing employee recently posted on Facebook, geotagging a three-star hotel and casino in Washington State. Posts in a private...
View ArticleFifteen things we learned from Boris Johnson’s memoir
Boris Johnson’s new memoir Unleashed is to be published next week, and with the highly-anticipated account promising to be the “political memoir of the century,” Cockburn was rather interested in what...
View ArticleKarine Jean-Pierre spars with Peter Doocy while dressed as Batman villain
Another day, another spat between White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Fox News’s Peter Doocy. This time Jean-Pierre, dressed in an outlandish pinstripe suit, snatched up her...
View ArticleTim Ballard files lawsuits against women accusing him of sexual assault
Timothy Ballard, the founder of Operation Underground Railroad and subject of the film Sound of Freedom, has filed lawsuits against seven women who are accusing him of sexual assault: Celeste Borys,...
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The Gretchen Whitmer chip video IS the Democratic message for 2024
Early voting has started and the efforts to sway undecided voters are growing more unorthodox as we head toward Election Day. Donald Trump deconstructed the art of the dismissive nickname on Andrew...
View ArticleThe New York Times guide to ignoring Kamala’s plagiarism
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo found five instances of plagiarism in Kamala Harris’s book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer, he revealed in a Substack article Monday....
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Russell Brand lauds magical amulet keeping him safe from WiFi
Comedian-turned-“right-wing Christian influencer” Russell Brand has discovered a new stream of income: hawking enchanted objects. Brand appeared in a recent TikTok ad for Aires Tech, claiming...
View ArticleDonald Trump, king of comedy?
In spooky season, it’s only appropriate that the “joy” has been drawn out of the Harris campaign like a demon facing an exorcist. It may have found a new host in her opponent: former president Donald...
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AOC sets the stage for herself at Pennsylvania Harris-Walz rally
State College, Pennsylvania Cockburn wandered curiously up a bustling College Avenue in State College yesterday toward the State Theatre, where Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was set to take...
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Leaked files from group linked to UK’s Labour Party reveal plans to ‘kill’...
Donald Trump’s campaign has submitted an official complaint accusing Britain’s governing Labour Party of breaking US electoral law over the secondment of volunteers, just days after Nigel Farage...
View ArticleMeghan is ‘flawless about getting it all wrong,’ says Princess Diana biographer
They say all publicity is good publicity — unless you’re Meghan and Harry, that is. Despite their valiant efforts (including a search for a PR guru) the dynamic duo never quite manage to stay out of...
View ArticleNigel Farage claims Labour Party is ‘ludicrous’ to risk Trump relationship
Sir Keir Starmer’s lot have hardly had an easy start in government, what with the cronyism rows, freebie fiasco and frockgate. Now the British prime minister is dealing with a backlash from one of the...
View ArticleCan Kamala Harris answer a single question?
It’s official. Donald Trump is “like Hitler” and Kamala Harris — even though she does “pray everyday, sometimes twice a day,” can’t seem to answer questions. Her “joyful” campaign took a confusing...
View ArticleElection night plans… soirée or flee?
Clinton dips in the Lake You can’t teach the Big Dog new tricks… Bill Clinton cemented his reputation as the Harris campaign’s least helpful surrogate this week in an appearance where he branded Kari...
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Nigel Farage blasts UK ambassador picks for Trump 2.0
It’s the question all of Westminster is asking. If Donald Trump wins, who will be our next man in Washington? One person definitely not in the running is Nigel Farage, longtime friend and ally of the...
View ArticleJennifer Rubin’s resignation from the Washington Post is surely imminent
The non-endorsement is the new endorsement! Hot on the heels of the Los Angeles Times’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the presidential race, a controversial call made by the paper’s owner Dr....
View ArticleCNN boots commentator Ryan Girdusky for Hezbollah pager joke
Conservative commentator and 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky found his punditry gig at CNN to be short-lived after the network kicked him off air Monday for making a joke about Hezbollah’s...
View ArticleTim Walz had ‘passionate’ fling with daughter of CCP official
Good news. Contrary the speculation of the likes of Tucker Carlson, “Tampon Tim” is not gay… because he had a passionate fling back in 1989 with a woman from China. Bad news: he made the daughter of a...
View ArticleRevenge of the stenographers
Against Buttons-bashing It’s hiring season at the Manhattan Institute — Christopher Rufo this week announced that Christina Buttons and Hannah Grossman are joining its Logos Initiative team as...
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