Behold, the First Lady Melania Trump Opera House
While Cockburn has no quibbles with Melania, this move does bear a whiff of kowtowing to Dear Leader
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Thursday
Step aside Zohran, Eric Adams can make things cheap too!
The mayor goes looking for new fans
Wednesday
Why are the Macrons bothering to sue Candace Owens?
The President and First Lady of France have filed a 200-page complaint against a YouTuber
Tuesday
Greener pastures for ex-congressman Mark Green
Plus: Will Ghislaine Maxwell testify?
The man to save the Democratic party: Hunter Biden
Hunter, our next President, looked fit, clean and sober, if occasionally unhinged, in that garden setting
Friday
What really is Trump’s ‘wonderful secret’ with Epstein?
Plus: The President’s vein problem
Thursday
Trump makes America’s Coke pure again
Lost somewhere in the thunderous applause reverberating on X, a growl emerged from the Corn Refiners Association
Wednesday
The secret life of Agent Melania
The former Slovenian supermodel clearly has no great love for Vladimir Putin
Trayon White is DC’s Donald Trump
Despite being accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, the DC councilman still won reelection
Tuesday
Are you MAGA or in DRAG-A?
Plus: Why can’t Ghislaine Maxwell testify to Congress?
Monday
Biden attempts to straighten the record on his autopen
‘The autopen is, you know, is legal,’ Biden said
Musk’s chatbot stumbles again
No living human has had a week as tumultuous as Grok
Friday
Texas’s Hail Mary pep talk
Plus: Our newest ‘alpha male’ ambassador
Wednesday
The Trump administration is practicing Carmen Sandiego economic theory
Where in the world are the tariffs?
Tuesday
Kiss goodbye to the TSA’s oppressive shoe removal policy
Plus: An all-white party with Soulja Boy
Monday
RFK Jr. faces down M&M’s
Americans need to be as health and food conscious as Europeans for his food dye-banning plan to work
Friday
J.D. Vance’s summer plans in the Cotswolds, the ‘Hamptons of England’
The VP is looking to stay in the Cotswolds at around the time of the state visit
Wednesday
Is there hope for California, after all?
The deregulation bill is pretty good for California’s first recent attempt at being reasonable
Is Britain’s Rachel Reeves the new Hillary Clinton?
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer’s display of emotion has an American precedent
The Maine Governor’s cocaine problem
She didn’t take it (she’s now 77)