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It was quick, but here it is. The New York Times reports The Tetris Company, which owns the rights to the classic video game, denounced a Trump administration produced Tetris clone that has the player blocking people from crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. “Build the Wall, the White House version of Tetris, urges the player to ‘protect the border from the incoming horde,’ which is rhetoric that President Trump and members of his administration often use about immigrants,” according to the Times. “The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall,’” the company said in a statement, adding that “at Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.” With a dark warning, the Tetris Company added: “P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.” The White House rolled out the website Thursday featuring classic arcade-styl...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Ty Cobb was a member of President Donald Trump’s first administration legal team, so he feels he speaks with some familiarity when describing his old employer. This does not mean his familiarity is in any way flattering, however. While speaking with news journalist and podcaster Jim Acosta on Friday , Cobb actually had plenty to say about Trump’s character. He also had much to say about how badly that character is abusing a U.S. government system that was never designed to deal with an overtly corrupt cad. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts recently sided with progressives on the court in calling what Trump was trying to do with building a ballroom “probably illegal.” But even though Cobb mostly agreed that the National Trust for Historic Preservation did not have standing in trying to prevent Trump from building his controversial ballroom and charging taxpayers for the construction, he could see why Roberts probably wa...

President Donald Trump has retained an iron grip on the Republican Party despite the more than two dozen sexual misconduct accusations against him , as well as at least one report of sexual misconduct allegedly facilitated by the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein . He was even adjudicated to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. Now it appears that at least one other Republican politician is hoping that if Trump could politically get away with his proved and alleged sexual misconduct, he too can be forgiven. Yet a prominent local columnist does not want him to pull this off. "Maybe we all missed the fine print in State Rep. Fabián Basabe’s 2025 video promise to resign if sexual harassment allegations against him ever proved true. But almost two months after a civil jury in July appeared to do exactly that, Basabe is back to say (essentially): That didn’t count," wrote Miami New Times staffer B. Scott McLendon on Thursday . He added, "A former legislative aide an...

President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Ty Cobb, believes that the Republican will not stop fouling up the White House and other major American institutions "until he's gone." "Trump is like no other president," Cobb told MS NOW host Ari Melber on Thursday when asked about Trump releasing a $250 coin with his face on it. "The norms that previous presidents held close — trying to portray themselves as courageous, virtuous, honest — Trump makes no effort to uphold. In fact, he showboats his corruption and his vanity." He added, "This is defiance of federal law, and we're going to see more of it. We saw it recently with the Justice Department, which, at Trump's direction, fell into line and tried to extend executive privilege to private communications with private individuals — constitutionally absurd, of course, but done in an effort to insulate Trump and his circle of sycophants from the investigations that are virtually certain if Dem...

Inside sources in the GOP are seriously peeved that President Donald Trump and his family can't stop concentrating on enriching themselves long enough to get Republicans through the November midterms. Trump and Republicans are at risk in the upcoming midterm elections, due in no small part to regret from his own supporters, and even many Republicans who continue supporting him feel as if they are "walking the plank" on his behalf. Yet according to a recent report, Trump continues to focus on money-making projects instead of shoring up support from American voters — a fact that is worrying many of his fellow Republican politicians. "If voters experience Republican government as expensive groceries and gasoline, higher input costs and endless stories about rich people, special access and government extravagance, it becomes more difficult to persuade them that Washington Republicans are the tribunes of the forgotten man and woman," The Daily Mail's Mark Halp...

MAGA pollster Rich Baris has interviewed countless Trump voters to get a gauge on Republicans’ chances in November. But standing in the way of salvation for Republicans is the fact that the 2024 version of Trump stinks. “[I]f we're having an honest discussion, you could be a supporter of the president and you can still be honest. I don't just see what sycophants see: how that helps anybody. I mean, ultimately, it's my job to convey what people are telling me. And they wanted the old Trump back.,” said Baris, speaking with former George Bush speechwriter and Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller on Wednesday. Baris said Michigan and Georgia are effectively locks for Democrats in the upcoming Senate race, and the outlook looks scary in many “safe” districts thanks to a declining Trump 2.0, which is nothing like the Trump of his first administration. “People felt like,’ you know what? I think we might have had it a little bit better than we thought. Can we go back and have a redo?’ B...