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Lutheranism was born in 1517. But Luther himself did not want to break from the Catholic Church. Anglicanism was born in 1534. Henry VIII needed a divorce. Calvinism was born in 1536. Calvin did not agree with Luther about communion. Puritanism was born in the 1570s. Some folks thought Anglicanism was still too Catholic. Congregationalism was born in 1648. Robert Browne rejected the concept of clergy altogether. Methodism was born in 1785. But Wesley himself did not want to break from Anglicanism. Pentacostalism was born in 1900. Charles Fox Parham rejected denominations altogether. And I've left off a hundred more denominations: Anabaptists, Baptists, Quakers, Shakers, etc. What's my point? The basis of Protestantism is disunity, division and fragmentation.

One of the great group shots of "The Late Show" staff posing on stage:

thought this sh!t was AI, what we doing man

RESISTANCE: Senator Thom Tillis came clean and admitted to Politico he opposes Trump and the entire GOP agenda. The lame duck RINO says he'll spend his last months blocking everything the President wants. We're seeing the same behavior from Cassidy, Cornyn, and even Thune. The mask is coming off...

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will air its final episode tonight. CBS canceled Colbert's show at the request of the Trump administration.

Trump declined $10 billion he was statutorily entitled to under 26 U.S.C. § 7431 and converted it into a compensation pool for other citizens, so calling this a corrupt enrichment scheme is factually backwards. If anyone else got that award they would have taken it and ran. Joe Biden and every other Democrat out there. The fund’s text explicitly says “there are no partisan requirements to file a claim,” meaning Democrats, independents, and Republicans are equally eligible. The audit waiver is bound to pre-May-18-2026 conduct, not “perpetuity immunity forever” as the ridiculous media and out of job former attorney Liz Oyer claims. Biden pardoned Hunter for crimes he was actually convicted of and Jim Biden while Jim was under two active federal investigations, with an 11-year window and zero public-facing remedy and the same commentators called that defensible. Literally. So the Biden family could issue pardon for crimes committed and active investigations but Trump, who was actually agreed and is statutory entitled to this money set up a fund to help Americans who were victims of political persecution, and the demented media is calling it some kind of corrupt act? Of course that same demented media wants judicial oversight. Would that be the judicial oversight that consistently rules incorrectly in any case involving Trump and gets overruled sometimes 9-0 at the Supreme Court? Not one prior U.S. president has faced this volume of criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and unauthorized disclosure of confidential financial records simultaneously, so pretending this is a normal political cycle is dishonest bs. The Obama administration used the exact same Judgment Fund mechanism in Keepseagle $760M, no congressional appropriation and the press called that justice. But it was actually much worse because in the Obama case this settlement was made against the advice of career DOJ officials who thought they could win at court. Trump personally receives zero dollars, zero damages, and zero direct financial benefit from the settlement the only thing he gets is the audit waiver as protect protection so he won’t be targeted by the same Weaponized government should they ever get power again. Congress will never legislatively compensate Jan 6 defendants, FACE Act defendants, or dismissed-case targets, so the choice was this fund or no remedy at all for documented victims of politically motivated federal action. The media is very dishonest in this country and there’s a lot of experts who are even more dishonest. I am not an expert at anything except research and common sense. It is just basic common sense that when you have a president issue blanket, pardons for crimes that nobody even knows about that may or may not have been committed on his way out, and the media doesn’t bat an eye, but then you have a president who is actually wronged and who uses his settlement money to help those who are also politically persecuted smeared as corrupt the problem is the media.

One of the great group shots of "The Late Show" staff posing on stage:

Vikings used crystals to navigate uncharted oceans. Americans used their ingenuity to make sure Jeff Bezos never pays taxes. Progress amirite

Hot take but we literally tried to warn you that this is what happens when abortion access isn’t accessible.