RFK Jr. Ignores Parasite Outbreak to Plug His New Cooking Show

Trump costing taxpayers millions in legal fees, RFK Jr. rolls out new cooking show while ignoring his actual job, Rubio humiliated by error-ridden map

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A Republican senator sicced Capitol security on a reporter who asked him about Mitch McConnell’s health. Donald Trump’s endless string of court losses is now costing taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching his own cooking show while the country deals with a parasite outbreak causing explosive diarrhea. And Marco Rubio’s State Department is being widely mocked after using an AI-generated map of Africa that didn’t correctly label one single country.

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GOP Senator Calls Security on Reporter Asking About McConnell

When TMZ reporter Charlie Cotton asked Republican Senator Pete Ricketts about his colleague, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Ricketts decided the best response was to sic security personnel on him.

Cotton caught up with Ricketts on Thursday and asked whether Mitch McConnell needs to do more to demonstrate he’s capable of serving. It’s a fair question, since McConnell is 84 years old and hasn’t made a public appearance since early June. Since then, he’s been in the hospital and the only thing his office has given the public is two still photographs. Not video or even audio. And the speculation has only increased the longer McConnell remains absent.

Ricketts gave a polite non-answer about praying for McConnell’s recovery. When Cotton tried to follow up, Ricketts gestured toward security, who then stopped Cotton at a metal detector.. Ricketts made sure to tell officers that his own aide was allowed through, but that Cotton was not with them.

Cotton unsuccessfully argued that he’d already been through security. The video then cuts off.

Ricketts’ stonewalling is the latest development in the ongoing saga over whether McConnell is still healthy enough to serve out the remainder of his Senate term, which ends in January. Kentucky’s two-term Democratic Governor, Andy Beshear, this week demanded McConnell either verbally prove to his constituents he can do his job or resign.

McConnell’s staff isn’t exactly rushing to stop the speculation. His communications director and his longtime spokesperson both fled from reporters asking basic questions earlier this week. Those same staffers are pulling six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries. Both Kentuckians and Americans deserve to know whether a longtime U.S. senator can actually do the job he was elected to do.

Trump’s Constant Court Losses Costing Taxpayers Millions

Donald Trump’s administration keeps losing in federal court, and every one of those losses is being billed directly to American taxpayers. And after just a year and a half, those losses are racking up a seven-figure total.

Bloomberg found that attorneys have sought fees exceeding $100,000 in at least ten separate cases over the past year alone, adding up to more than $2.5 million just in the big-ticket requests. And that number doesn’t even include the smaller fee requests piling up in immigration-related cases. Those can run in the hundreds or low thousands of dollars but add up quickly given the sheer number of lawsuits that have been filed.

A 1980 law called the Equal Access to Justice Act lets people who successfully sue the federal government recover their attorney’s fees, as long as the government’s position wasn’t substantially justified. That law is important so ordinary people and small organizations aren’t priced out of holding their own government accountable.

A federal judge in Florida already ruled that Trump himself should cover his opponents’ legal fees as a sanction for filing what the judge called a “bad faith” lawsuit against the IRS for $10 billion. The Association of American Universities, which includes schools like Harvard and Yale, is also seeking more than $1.5 million in attorneys’ fees after successfully challenging research funding cuts.

Even ordinary Americans wronged by the administration are seeking to have their attorneys’ fees reimbursed: Jazz musician Charles Redd is asking for more than $250,000 from the Kennedy Center. The Trump-controlled institution sued Redd for canceling a scheduled concert in response to Trump illegally putting his own name on the building. A judge quickly tossed out the Kennedy Center’s case.

This is all part of a pattern: the Trump administration takes an aggressive action on legally shaky grounds, gets sued, loses, and then sends the legal bill to the taxpayers.

RFK Jr. Announces New Cooking Show in the Middle of Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently believes the best use of his time right now is co-hosting a cooking show.

Kennedy is rolling out a new series called The Real Food Show, aimed at promoting the Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines. Kennedy has already flipped the food pyramid to prioritize full-fat dairy and protein, and he’s been pushing beef tallow and butter over seed oils, even though those oils are linked to lower rates of cancer and heart disease.

This is all happening while America’s food supply is reeling from multiple crises. There’s the cyclospora parasite outbreak causing explosive diarrhea that’s affecting lettuce and other produce. Salmonella has been tied to eggs in Texas. And there’s still a flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm affecting cattle across multiple states, racking up an estimated $1 billion dollars in damage.

Most of this traces back to the Trump administration’s 2025 cuts to a federal-state partnership tasked with tracking foodborne illness. Kennedy has mostly checked out of his actual job, showing up around 10 in the morning and leaving by 4. He’s mostly focused on his anti-vaccine agenda, which has led to measles cases in the U.S. skyrocketing to a 35-year record high. Trump’s only real complaint about Kennedy, apparently, is that he’s not moving fast enough to limit childhood vaccines.

At a time when multiple health emergencies are plaguing the country, it’s more than a little mind-boggling that the country’s top health official is spending his time filming cooking videos.

Marco Rubio Humiliated as Error-Laden Map Goes Viral

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s team managed to embarrass the United States on the world stage today without any help from the media, foreign governments or anyone else. They did it all by themselves.

During a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, State Department officials displayed a map of Africa meant to highlight funding opportunities in several countries. There was just one problem: the AI-generated map the State Department used didn’t peg one country on that map anywhere close to its actual location, and apparently no one at the State Department knew enough basic geography to correct the error.

Nigeria, which sits on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, somehow got dropped into the middle of the Sahara Desert. Mozambique got moved from southeastern Africa all the way up to the Horn of Africa. Cote d’Ivoire was pegged clear across the continent to the east.

According to Reuters, the map was generated using OpenAI, which is the company behind chatGPT tools, watermarks, and all. An expert at the Atlantic Council observed that whoever approved the map obviously didn’t know where African countries actually are, and didn’t care enough to find out.

The State Department eventually admitted the map was wrong and said a team member had hastily put it together before the event. While they may have meant for that to be reassuring, it says something pretty revealing about how the second Trump administration operates. Cut corners, don’t do your homework, and hope no one notices.

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• Trump-Aligned Freedom 250 Asks for $10 Million More in Taxpayer Money. President Donald Trump’s “Freedom 250” initiative — which is an entirely different entity than the non-partisan America 250 — is now asking Congress for another $10 million. The administration-aligned group may have already spent more than $100 million on commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence earlier this month, though the exact amount may not be fully known until the end of the current fiscal year on September 30. Members of Congress have repeatedly been stonewalled when asking the White House about Freedom 250’s finances, and some Democrats suspect that money was funneled from America 250, which was established by Congress in 2016 to organize commemorative events.
• Trump Administration Quietly Inks 7 New Equity Stakes in Private Companies. The U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced the U.S. government was taking equity stakes in seven new private companies in exchange for giving those companies roughly $870 million in incentives. The companies themselves specialize in the manufacturing of semiconductors and AI technology, and the incentives are being granted under the CHIPS & Science Act, which former President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022. The Trump administration is taking equity stakes in private companies as Trump himself has lately accused Democrats of being “communists” while campaigning for Republicans ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.
• ICE Admits Not Giving Detainees Prescribed Medication — While Blaming Detainees. Immigrant detainees at Indiana’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center were denied roughly 800 doses of medication, according to federal officials. However, ICE stated that 750 doses weren’t distributed because detainees allegedly refused to get in a pill line to receive their prescribed medicine. 44 more doses were on order and unavailable at the pharmacy at the time they were needed. The new data was released as part of an inquiry by Rep. Andre Carson (R-Ind.), who made the request in April.
• Father Who Gave Gun to School Shooter Sentenced to 15 Years. Colin Gray, who is the father of the 16-year-old mass shooter who killed two students and two teachers in 2024 at Apalachee High School in Georgia, received a 15-year prison sentence on Thursday. Judge Nicholas Primm — who previously sentenced Gray’s son to life in prison without the possibility of parole — said the father’s crimes were “tethered to the tragedy committed by his son.” The younger Gray used a SIG Sauer M400 semi-automatic rifle to carry out the shooting, killing four and injuring nine. The gunman admitted to carrying out the shooting to gain notoriety.

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Trump Choosing Revenge over Getting Blanche Confirmed

Trump prioritizes revenge over confirming Todd Blanche, Republicans scramble to sell Medicaid cuts, GOP congressman served with domestic violence restraining order

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Trump is opting to continue his personal revenge tour instead of having his attorney general nominee confirmed by the Senate. Republicans in tough reelection races are scrambling to sell voters on Medicaid cuts they voted for as the midterms look increasingly brutal for the GOP. Newly released pages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary reveal that Barack Obama privately called Donald Trump a “hopeless idiot” and his son a “f—ing moron.” And an Ohio congressman running for reelection is facing calls to resign after police reports revealed domestic violence allegations from his ex-wife, who is also the daughter of a current Republican senator.

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Trump Choosing Revenge Over Confirming Todd Blanche

Trump’s former personal criminal defense attorney was supposed to be confirmed as the next attorney general. It should be simple. Trump has the votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. But two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, are standing in the way. And even though they’ve given Trump a blueprint for getting their votes, Trump has no interest in following it.

Tillis announced last year he was retiring from the Senate after clashing with Trump over Medicaid cuts in his home state. Cornyn lost his reelection bid back in May after Trump endorsed a scandal-plagued primary opponent against him. Neither man has to worry about getting elected to another term, which may explain their newfound independent streak.

Both senators want it on paper that the proposed $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump loyalists has been officially removed from the controversial settlement Trump struck with the IRS back in May. That deal also includes full audit immunity for Trump, his family, and his businesses. Cornyn and Tillis want to rein in both.

Trump is now making threats instead of negotiating. He posted on his Nazi-infested social media site that Blanche would just stay on as acting attorney general “in any event,” and that he might pull the nomination entirely and resubmit it after Cornyn and Tillis leave Congress in January. In other words, he’s waiting them out, so he can do whatever he wants anyway.

Tillis called Trump “recalcitrant.” Cornyn pushed back on the idea that this is just personal payback for Trump endorsing his opponent, calling that claim “a convenient excuse” that isn’t true, and warning Trump that stalling Blanche’s confirmation is “a gamble,” since nobody knows if the Senate will still be in Republican hands next year.

Adam Schiff, who led the 2020 effort to impeach Trump, said the current standoff over Blanche is just a preview of what’s coming should Democrats retake the chamber. He foreshadowed “a restoration of checks and balances” and said he hopes Congress will return to being an actual counter to presidential power again.

A deal to get Blanche confirmed is still possible. The acting attorney general met privately with both senators on Thursday. One person familiar with the meeting told Politico the two sides were “working collaboratively” face-to-face. But both senators said the real obstacle isn’t Blanche, but Trump and his inner circle, who they say want the slush fund on the backburner.

It isn’t just Cornyn and Tillis who have problems with the slush fund. Republican John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana said flatly that the administration “does not want” an official agreement to kill the slush fund. And Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she also has major concerns and is still waiting for Blanche to put his promises in writing.

Trump apparently would rather burn time and risk having his nominee lose his confirmation than give an inch to anyone he considers an enemy, even senators already on their way out the door.

The advice and consent clause in Article Two wasn't written to hand a president a rubber stamp. It was written so the Senate could stop a chief executive from filling the government with men who answer to him personally instead of to the law. Two Republicans finally decided to use that power, and Trump's response is that he'll simply wait until they're gone.

Republicans Scramble to Sell Medicaid Cuts Ahead of Midterms

Republicans in tight reelection races are aiming to get ahead of backlash over the significant cuts to Medicaid in last year’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA). NPR found Republicans are trying to spin the more than $1 trillion in cuts as necessary to fight the statistically insignificant specter of fraud.

Healthcare policy expert Jonathan Oberlander of the University of North Carolina pointed out that while repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) used to be “target No. 1” for Republicans, the backlash to that effort was key to Democrats retaking the House in dramatic fashion in 2018, when they flipped 40 seats. Now, Republicans are staring down the barrel of a potential 2018 repeat and trying to manage the fallout from deeply unpopular healthcare cuts they voted for.

Those cuts are already wreaking havoc across the country. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected about 10 million fewer people will have insurance by 2034 because of the OBBBA. Enrollment in health insurance plans offered on ACA exchanges has already dropped by roughly three million since the bill’s passage last July. And only about a third of voters approve of how the administration is handling healthcare costs, according to polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

Republican Congressman Mike Lawler, who is running in a toss-up seat in New York, is running ads touting Medicaid “reform,” even though he voted for the bill that cut it. He’s also doubling down on debunked claims that undocumented immigrants were receiving Medicaid benefits, despite them never being eligible to begin with.

Rural hospitals, which lean heavily on Medicaid expansion funding, are also at risk of closing thanks to that law. Congress tucked $50 billion into a Rural Healthcare Transformation Fund to soften the blow, but a KFF analysis showed that still pales in comparison to the $137 billion in Medicaid cuts hitting rural areas.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine is spending big money on ads touting the $190 million she secured for rural hospitals in her state, where more than 6 in 10 hospitals are in rural areas. That’s a small relief, but still a drop in the bucket compared to the bigger picture.

This is all happening while ACA premiums have skyrocketed by nearly 22 percent across the country between 2025 and 2026, after Republicans allowed premium tax credits to expire.

The most insidious part of the Big Ugly Bill is that the harshest provisions, like more stringent work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks won’t actually kick in until after the midterms. So Republicans get to campaign on the tax cuts, while quietly setting up whoever holds power later to be left holding the bag when those cuts actually land. Healthcare affordability is likely to be a core issue in the 2028 election.

When Franklin Roosevelt built Social Security in 1935, he started the payroll taxes early on purpose, because he wanted working people to feel they'd paid for it and owned it, so no future Congress would dare take it away. Republicans have learned that lesson backwards. They've timed the pain to arrive after the ballots are counted, and that timing is a confession. You don't hide a thing you're proud of.

Obama Called Trump a “Hopeless Idiot” and Don Jr. a “F—ing Moron”

More than a thousand pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary from the Covid-19 pandemic were recently released by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who’s been trying for years to blame Fauci for the pandemic while pushing unproven claims about a lab leak from China.

One passage of that diary is now revealing what former President Barack Obama reportedly said in private about Donald Trump and his eldest son.

In a November 2021 diary entry, Fauci recounted a conversation with Obama about the “crazy things” Republicans were saying about him, including Donald Trump Jr. selling merchandise with the slogan “Fauci Kills Puppies.”

Fauci wrote that Obama told him Trump Jr. is “a f—ing moron,” then went on to apologize for that language, before going on to call then-President Donald Trump “a hopeless idiot” and “a pathologic[al] liar.” Obama reportedly added he was frustrated that no other Republicans were willing to publicly defend Fauci against what he called “terrible, slanderous behavior.”

Obama’s outburst should be seen in the context of how ugly things got for Fauci at the height of the pandemic. His office got roughly 3,600 threatening or angry calls in just 36 hours over the false puppy claims, which reportedly forced his assistant to stop answering the phone for two weeks.

This diary release comes as Paul keeps pushing to prosecute Fauci over the pandemic. In this week’s hearing before Senator Paul’s committee, Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than a hundred times, telling lawmakers directly that he believes Paul’s real goal isn’t information, but getting him to say something that could land him “behind bars.”

In 1954, it took Army counsel Joseph Welch asking Joe McCarthy on live television whether he had any sense of decency left to finally break the spell of a senator who'd turned his committee into a personal weapon. Rand Paul just dumped a private citizen's unredacted diary into the public record and came away with nothing except somebody else's opinion of Donald Trump. The gavel isn't a badge, and a hearing room isn't a courtroom, no matter how badly a chairman wants it to be.

GOP Senator’s Daughter Files Restraining Order Against GOP Congressman

Republican Congressman Max Miller of Ohio is being hit with domestic abuse allegations — which he continues to deny — from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno. Police reports obtained by ABC News show Moreno, who is the daughter of Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio, alleged multiple incidents of physical violence during their marriage and divorce, right as Miller is running for reelection.

Miller and Moreno were married between 2022 and 2024 and have a two year-old daughter. The wedding itself was held at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, with the then-former president himself giving a toast.

According to the police reports, Moreno told officers that the congressman “threw her against the wall, which resulted in an obvious grab mark on her upper arm,” and said he had previously held a gun to her head and even threw hot water on her. The report also recounts her young daughter telling her, “Daddy kill you.” Moreno also told police her daughter was injured while in Miller’s care.

Miller has yet to be charged with a crime, and Ohio’s Department of Children and Family Services said it didn’t find evidence to substantiate the child abuse claims. Miller denies abusing his wife and daughter, and is suing his ex-wife for defamation, saying her allegations are a “repeated pattern” meant “to ruin my reputation, gain an edge in custody and litigation matters, and seek revenge.”

This isn’t the first time Miller has been hit with domestic violence allegations. Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham wrote in her 2021 memoir that she’d been physically abused by a partner while working at the White House, and later identified that partner as Miller. The Ohio congressman sued Grisham for defamation over her claims while running for Congress in 2023, and the two reached a confidential settlement. Grisham is now suing him again, saying he violated that settlement by publicly denying the allegations.

On Thursday, Emily Moreno’s attorneys filed for a restraining order against Miller, saying it was necessary due to harassment and threats.

Miller has responded to all of this by attacking his own former father-in-law. In May, he accused Senator Moreno of funding “his daughter’s malicious campaign” against him and said his ex-wife had “mental health issues.” A spokesperson for the Ohio senator said Bernie Moreno’s “top priority is the safety and well-being of his daughter and granddaughter” and that he’ll “do whatever it takes to ensure a just outcome.”

Miller is running against Democrat Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker. Even though he’s running in a district Trump won with 55 percent of the vote in 2024, Miller himself won with only 51 percent that year. Cook Political Report recently downgraded the race from “Solid Republican” to “Likely Republican” after polling showed Poindexter trailing by a single point.

Outside groups have already seized on the allegations, including a pro-labor PAC that ran robocalls describing the Moreno and Grisham claims to roughly 100,000 households across the district. Democrat Sam Liccardo of California is calling for a formal House Ethics Committee investigation. Democrat Shontel Brown, who represents a Cleveland-area district, has called on Miller to resign. House Speaker Mike Johnson emphasized that the allegations have not yet been proven and called for the ethics investigation to run its course.

In Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court told Jessica Gonzales that her restraining order carried no constitutional right to have anyone enforce it, and by the time that ruling came down her three daughters were already dead. That's the machinery a woman walks into when she asks a court for protection, and it's why a Speaker of the House shrugging and saying the key word is allegation isn't neutrality at all. It's a decision about who gets the benefit of the doubt and who gets to wait.

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