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The Daily Beast reports Emmy Award-winning host W. Kamau Bell fears fellow comedian Nate Bargatze is going to take a financial hit for his alliance to President Donald Trump. Bell recently called out Bargatze in a Substack post as one of the many “nice white guy” celebrities who suddenly act “confused when they are judged for their own actions.” Bargatze recently got himself photographed with MAGA campions Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cheryl Hines, among others. A source close to the comedian told the Daily Beast that there was nothing “political” about being at the event “that he is merely a big UFC fan.” But Bell told Obsessed: The Podcast that he doesn’t believe that — and neither will many of Bargatze’s fans. “I’ll say this, his accountant doesn’t want him to be a MAGA comedian,” said Bell, predicting that Bargatze emerging right-wing product will ultimately “hurt Nate’s bottom line, because he’s bigger than every MAGA comedian.” “There’s nothing he’s going to gain from losing peo...
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Trump is 'in decline' and out of time as Republicans crash: GOP strategist

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Republican strategist and Bluestack Strategies founder Maura Gillespie warns Republicans are wringing their hands over the spectacle of President Donald Trump fighting old age while the party staggers into the mid-terms. “It will be hard for them to defend that aspect of it,” Gillespie told a CNN Friday panel , speaking of Trump nailing his name on everything in D.C. and broadcasting his face on news. “But I think for the president, who you know, he has long talked about his admiration for leaders who have full control over their country. I think he looks at his approval ratings, which are record lows, and that for someone who, like Trump, loves having power, loves appearing strong and powerful — he’s 80 years old. His decline is starting to really show physically, also cognitively … [with] some of his slurred speeches and things of that nature. And so, he's starting to realize the best way for him to make a legacy is to put his name on everything.” Plastering your image on public...
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Trump-voting county coughs up $300k to teacher removed over Charlie Kirk post

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Solid Republican Oglethorpe County, GA., agreed to settle with a school teacher it removed after she accurately posted that assassinated MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk was a gun enthusiast. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports High school English teacher Michelle Mickens was one of several educators across the nation who were removed from classrooms for a post related to Kirk’s 2025 death. In a lawsuit filed in October, she accused the Trump-voting county school system outside Athens of violating her right to free speech. After posting a quote from Kirk on her private social media account, school system leaders pressured Mickens to resign, according to the original complaint filed with the SPLCenter. The district agreed to pay Mickens $270,420 for “alleged emotional distress” and $17,080 to her attorney to cover legal fees, according to a copy of the settlement agreement obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request. Kirk was fatally shot while ...
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Critics mangle MAGA’s crusade to make the nation 'sad and pathetic' like itself

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Racism is an act of self-destruction, warns podcaster Wajahat Ali and independent reporter Joy Ann-Reid. But that destruction extends to everything around them when they manage to grab the levers of power. “I mean there's a big hole in the White House. The lawn where they built that ugly UFC ring is now brown. They've destroyed the Jackie Kennedy garden. [President] Donald Trump is supposed to be a builder but he physically destroyed D.C.,” said Reid. “And then that the poor pathetic little fair that he had, his little world's fair with the fake arch made of plastic. And they painted it. America right now is a laughingstock. I think we created 57,000 jobs last month. That is sad. It's a sad birthday.” But this is the mess that comes of a nation that “refused to acknowledge and uproot its dark sin of white supremacy,” said Ali. “We whitewashed our history books, made heroes of racist traitors, and decided to elect the most incompetent, corrupt vulgarian after electing ...
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Pardon fever engulfs GOP as Republican Gov. pledges to save indicted AG: report

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The Hill reports the Republican Louisiana governor has pledged to save Republican Louisiana AG Liz Murrill from a grand jury indictment for threatening local politicians on Thursday. Murrill (R) was indicted by a grand jury in connection with an investigation over alleged threats she made against New Orleans officials, former Judge Laurie White confirmed Thursday. “The grand jury has returned an indictment, it is now a criminal matter,” said White, who was appointed as a special prosecutor in the case, told reporters at a press briefing outside the courthouse. The grand jury returned its 16-count indictment following weeks of deliberation, charging Murrill with eight counts of malfeasance and eight counts of intimidation. Orleans Criminal District Judge Leon Roche subsequently issued a warrant for her arrest and set her bond at $25,000 for each charge — totaling $400,000. The charges arose from accusations that Murrill threatened local public officials in New Orleans, including Mayor...
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Jack Smith says he’s ready to hit Trump with new trial when his term ends

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith told MS NOW in a Thursday interview that he’s still prepped and ready to relaunch his case against President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents and his actions surrounding the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack . “After the Supreme Court grants Donald Trump immunity you filed a superseding indictment. You’re still ready to bring the case to trial, right?” asked MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace. “Yeah. Correct,” Smith confirmed without hesitation. “… We did what good prosecutors do and what you’re supposed to do. … we didn’t agree with the [court’s] reasoning of it, but we looked at the evidence we could no longer use and the evidence we could use … and in this particular case a lot of the evidence was him in his role as a candidate and we felt we could go for it.” Smith added that Trump’s chances of being prosecuted and convicted are still very good if his research is presented before a court of law. “We would not have gone forward with the case ...
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Trump's 'making everybody chumps': President torn apart by MS Now panel

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President Donald Trump’s corruption — from awarding no bid contracts to cronies to having his sons make tungsten mining deals with Kazakhsta n — is so brazen that “he’s making everybody chumps,” according to a panel of experts. “I think it’s so unprecedented that our laws don't really contemplate a level of corruption at the presidential level like this,” Brendan Ballou, the former Special Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, told MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday. “So we really have to develop laws around unjust enrichment, civil RICO, and so forth, in order to be able to attack some of this stuff.” Ballou added that Trump’s corruption, in addition to occurring in plain sight, has had important consequences in terms of US policy. “You think about the picture of the new Qatari-gifted jet that he received — it's now Air Force One,” Ballou said. “Well, shortly after he received that gift, he made a unilateral security guarantee to Qatar. So it...
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