Charlotte Clymer

This story is crazy.

It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists.

www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

I’ve lived in D.C. for nearly 20 years, and I have never seen this kind of Lord of the Flies panic on the National Mall.

(video credit: MikeCarterTV)

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Hey, look, Messi is great and clearly the greatest of all-time at soccer, but Serena won a grand slam while she was pregnant.

It is not a great look that some senior Democratic leaders have had time to put out statements on social media about how much they'll miss Lindsey Graham but haven't had time to talk about these latest executions carried out by Trump's gestapo in American streets.

Four conservative justices on the Supreme Court believe Folarin Balogun shouldn't be a U.S. citizen. Something to consider as he carries the U.S. team on his back in the World Cup.

Thousands of Trump supporters on the National Mall ordered to evacuate from the thunderstorm have sought shelter inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Y'all...

In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.

LOL, well, damn. Okay, Merriam-Webster.

Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments.

Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

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ICE will keep killing people as long as they think they can get away it and not a moment sooner than that.

They were baked in one of the hottest summer days D.C. has experienced in a long time, and now, they're being evacuated because of a thunderstorm approaching the National Mall and scrambling to find shelter.

It's as though the writers did way too much cocaine during this script meeting.

All I know is that if Chuck Schumer had been found unresponsive after a heart attack three weeks ago and his office were basically stonewalling on requests for his medical status and return to work, there's no way on god's green earth the story wouldn't be dominating political outlets.

Mayor Mamdani just delivered one of the best speeches I've ever heard reflecting on July Fourth.

Trump's birthday parade, Trump's Reflection Pool renovations, Trump's concert series, Trump's July Fourth state fair, Trump's July Fourth parade... all failures.

It's as though the National Mall is a Bermuda Triangle for the narcissistic projects of a dictator. Uncanny pattern.

I'm not one for speaking ill of the dead, but when you praise a really evil piece-of-shit in the wake of their death, don't be surprised when folks remind you of why they were a really evil piece-of-shit.

I would give anything for it to happen on the Fourth. A true healing moment.

It's important for us all to acknowledge these white supremacists aren't marching with masks and sunglasses in our Nation's Capital out of personal safety. They're masked because they're cowards. They lack conviction. They're gutless. They're timid. They're soft.

I want to be the first to congratulate the reporter(s) who are feverishly gathering intel on Mitch McConnell's status right now that will be published in a bestselling tell-all book in about a year.

I'm old enough to remember when prominent evangelical leaders in this country claimed hurricanes are God's punishment for homosexuality, and Republican lawmakers declined to condemn those claims.

I wonder what the National Mall being struck with a thunderstorm tonight means in their view.

I don't know how to explain to Donald Trump's Pentagon why every service member killed in war should be counted.

Graham Platner just posted a video claiming he "intends to withdraw" and that he's "suspending" his campaign.

I think he's lying. I think this is strategy. It's Nixonian. Let me explain.

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The Odyssey is on track to earn more than $84M over its second weekend, the most a Christopher Nolan movie has ever earned during its second weekend in release. More than $400M in nine days.

Audiences didn't get the memo that it's a bad movie.

You hate to see it.

My favorite over the past 24 hours is the type of far-left guy who has his arms crossed over his chest, clearly pissed, and is like: "Well, they had BETTER choose someone just like Platner to replace him."

Babe, that's not how this works. This ain't a restaurant. There is no menu present.

I'm supposed to believe the First Amendment is celebrated by our free press, and I'm also supposed to ignore that political journalists appear to be too frightened to defend their colleagues slandered in front of their faces by the sitting president at a black tie dinner.