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Things that made me laugh this week - 6/14/26
A double rainbow appeared at the Kennedy Center on Friday right before Trump's name was chiseled off another man's memorial
Jun 14 • Laura Bassett
U.S. is deliberately fumbling the World Cup
Locking fans, team staffers and even referees out of the country for the biggest sporting event in the world is embarrassing, insulting, and financially…
Jun 9 • Laura Bassett
Things that made me laugh this week - 6/5/26
+ a Brazil update.
Jun 5 • Laura Bassett
Hello from the worst place on Earth
How I accidentally spent my last day in the country at the Trump International Beach Resort: a Hotwire horror story.
Jun 1 • Laura Bassett
Trump sics DOJ on woman he raped
E. Jean Carroll was always the final boss in the president's revenge tour against women.
May 28 • Laura Bassett
Things that made me laugh this week
Nightcap's inaugural Schadenfreude review.
May 22 • Laura Bassett
The slush fund for insurrectionists is worse than you think
In addition to giving our taxpayer money to convicted child molesters, the IRS has quietly agreed to let Trump and his entire family off the hook for…
May 19 • Laura Bassett
New term for child-free women just dropped
"One in three Americans are under-babied," Dr. Oz said at an exceptionally creepy press conference at the White House today in which Trump called…
May 11 • Laura Bassett
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