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A new analysis of U.S. Senate polls from 2018 to 2024 in Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio shows Democratic support was overstated by an average of more than 6 percentage points a little more than a month before Election Day.

Echelon Insights pollster Patrick Ruffini posted Wednesday on X that 93% of the polls examined overstated support for the Democratic candidate, with an average miss of 6.2 points 33 days before Election Day.

The average Democrat polling advantage in the three states this year is 6.6 points at the same point in the cycle.

Of course they are. Polls are not sources of information but rather tools of propaganda. This is plainly demonstrated by the publicity they receive by whichever side of a question appears stronger in the ‘poll’, as if a statistical trick were an invariable guarantee of the result.

Newsbusters.

In Tuesday’s OutFront, Erin Burnett once again dove into her, and the leftwing media’s, obsession with Russia’s apparent collusion in U.S. elections. With the November midterms now just weeks away, Burnett couldn’t resist piling on another claim: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to defend this election season from foreign interference was another ploy for Republicans to steal votes.

It’s no secret the liberal media has had it out for Trump ever since he won in 2016. With Clinton’s loss being a hard pill to swallow, the Republican and Russia conspiracy was born. Instead of acting like a regular loser, however, Democrats fed Americans the fantastical narrative that “Russia hacked the election” and literally stole votes for the Republican Party.

Burnett turned her segment into an electoral safeguard hate party when she bashed Hegseth’s order for the military to utilize intelligence and cyber capabilities to defend the election from foreign interference. Before her charade, Burnett admitted to this being “something the military has done in the past,” in which initiatives were rolled out in the past eight years during elections to counter foreign hackers.

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Fact: In 2005, Israel closed down all civilian Jewish settlements in Gaza, and withdrew all military units. Israel continued to monitor the borders of Gaza in an effort to keep out weapons. While successful in keeping out tanks, the Israeli’s were not successful keeping out rifles and small rockets. With two million Palestinian inhabitants, Gaza became completely self governing.

Fact: Through a combination of ballots and bullets, Hamas acquired political and governing control of Gaza in 2006. Despite millions in annual aid from the outside world, Hamas did not make Palestinian prosperity a priority. Hamas had two priorities: Indoctrinate the children of Gaza to hate Jews and Israel, and the construction of miles and miles of tunnels for the purpose of hiding, storing, and transporting soldiers and weapons.

Fact: On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded sparsely populated portions of Israel with the intention of avoiding Israeli military units as much as possible. Their objective was to find and kill / rape / torture / kidnap as many civilian men, women, and children as they could find before running back to Gaza. They kidnapped 251. They murdered 1,195. They held the captives in secret scattered locations and dared the Israeli Army to come and rescue them.

Fact: in the recorded history of urban warfare, no army has successfully minimized civilian casualties as well as the IDF. Minimizing civilian casualties was an unquestioned high priority for the IDF. Hamas, on the other hand, systematically used Palestinian civilians as human shields to protect themselves as they fought.

Fact: Gaza has never been able to feed itself. It has always been dependent on a daily parade of trucks for most of its food. Throughout the 30 month hostage rescue mission, Israel never prevented any food from entering Gaza. Starvation was never a concern for the people of Gaza. Hamas, on the other hand, routinely commandeered food trucks so that they could demand civilian cooperation by the threat of withholding food.

Fact: During the 30 month hostage rescue mission. There were civilian casualties and deaths notwithstanding extraordinary Israeli efforts to minimize such consequences. Gaza was and is a community of over 2 million. Fact: During the 30 months of alleged Israeli genocide, more babies were born in Gaza than civilians killed. When the hostage-release agreement was finally signed, the population of Gaza was higher than it was on October 7.

The accusation that Israel engaged in genocide in Gaza routinely comes from the mouths of American academics, American entertainment celebrities, Arab-American activists, far-left activists, and occasionally, Democrat politicians. American journalists routinely report and disseminate such accusations uncritically.

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Legacy media outlets have been spinning tall tales about Texas ICE agents in recent months, trying to stoke backlash against immigration enforcement. But they’re not telling the full story.

Of course not, They never do. They actively avoid it.

Two shootings of illegal aliens in particular have garnered extensive coverage: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, during July, and Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, during September. In both cases, mainstream media cast the men as innocent victims and questioned the agents’ use of force.

But the coverage failed to consider what actually led to the shootings in the first place.

Newsbusters.

With less than 40 days remaining until the 2026 midterm elections, the Elitist Media are in full rehab mode for some of the left’s more controversial candidates. The latest example: NBC’s Kristen Welker, doing a little image rehab for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Watch as Welker reassures viewers that El-Sayed is absolutely, positively, pinky swear totally NOT a communist.

Sure, I believe that. Regardless, he’s still a Muslim, which I worry about more than the prospect of his being a communist.

The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’ (Aram Roston/The Guardian)  Whenever the Narrative Media purport to tell you ‘The Truth Behind” something, you can be sure they’re just making shit up.

Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress (Associated Press)  They can’t say he doesn’t have the power, so they whine about it being ‘rare and contested’, as if that had anything to do with it.

Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump (Robin Wright/New Yorker)  Well, quit attacking ships and supporting terrorism and murdering Jews just because they’re Jews would probably be a good first step.

How the Trump Administration’s Election Plan Is Falling Into Place (Wall Street Journal)  Don’t you love how all of these TDS ‘journalists’ pretend they can read Trump’s mind about his ‘plans’ and ‘real intentions’ and God knows what else?

Lawmakers slam Trump’s move to cancel $810M in funding approved by Congress (Michael Birnbaum/Washington Post)  Spend that money! Buy those votes!

CBS Reporter Tries Making Pope’s France Trip About Trump  As they do.

Donald Trump Hit With 26 Articles Of Impeachment (Billal Rahman/Newsweek)  I doubt that he even noticed.

Trump says he approved new fuel economy standards, rolling back Biden-era rules (Amelia Lucas/CNBC)

Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  Guts! Wow, look at all those Clean Car Rules guts spread over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut….

‘The MAGA Flag Is in Tatters’ (New York Times)

Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King? (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Yet another Lefty ‘journalist’ who thinsk she can read Trump’s mind.

House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)  Democrats always have big plans, most of which involve spending other people’s money and persecuting people they don’t like.

A ‘Big Problem’: Trump’s War With Iran Drags Down Republicans in Midterms (Tim Balk/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

Poll: Trump’s MAGA loyalists don’t think he has an affordability problem (Jessie Blaeser/Politico)  Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps because he doesn’t.

Trump Promotes Criticism of Republican Who Broke With Him on Immigration (New York Times)  Goodness, how astonishing.

I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned (Daniel Dale/CNN)  Lie early and often to promote the Narrative.

Daniel Dale: An In-Depth Examination of Trump’s Lies  No in-depth examination of CNN’s lies, of course.

Newsbusters.

On Friday’s Morning Joe on MS NOW, the show continued misinforming viewers about the recent ICE shooting in Austin in spite of the fact that fact checkers like Fox News host Will Cain had already debunked some of the claims pushed by liberals.

Newsbusters.

Here a Crack. There a Crack. Everywhere a Crack Crack!

Yes, if Politico is seeing cracks (of the GOP variety) then you know it must be election season. And right on cue with a little over a month left until the midterm elections Politico is seeing huge cracks in the Republican party. In fact they are so insistent on GOP cracks that you almost get the sense they want Republican-inclined voters to get demoralized and neglect to vote this year.

For an example of how much Politico is desperately hyping the GOP Crack theme you need only to look at their Friday front page. The big crack headline at the top of that page (as of this writing) has a couple of Florida crackers, Gary Fineout and Kimberly Leonard, boldly declaring that things are so bad for the cracking GOP in Florida that they seem to need a life boat to rescue them from the inevitable: “‘We are hemorrhaging’: Cracks emerge in GOP’s Florida firewall.”

Just a couple of stories down, Politico’s Myah Ward and Erin Doherty gaze upon yet more emerging crack in “Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump’s coalition over deportations.”

Let us now watch the “Cracks emerge in GOP’s Florida Firewall,” or at least what the pair of Florida crackers desperately want us to believe is emerging:

Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump’s coalition over deportations (Politico)  The Crust love polls, especially those whose results they can jigger.

Duckworth: Trump’s Arch Could Threaten Air Safety

Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map (Jason Rosenbaum/NPR)

Senators Tell Trump to Uninvite Putin From the G20 Summit (Hamed Ahmadi/The Washington Sun)  Because, for politicians, virtue-signaling is more important than actually getting anything productive done. Your Tax Dollars At Work.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive) (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) Trump cooties!

White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

ABC Still Bashes Trump Over White House Media Bans and Iran At End of Xi Summit

Trump’s disruption to TV coverage during Xi visit frustrates Chinese officials (CNN)

Trump Is Predicting Midterms Success but Republicans Are Starting to Panic (Wall Street Journal)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee (CNN)

Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts (Joseph Pisani/Wall Street Journal) Spend that money! Spend that money!

White House Removes CNN From Planned Weekend Trip (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)

CNN ‘Barred’ From Trump Trip to Tennessee, React As You Would Expect

Trump posts map showing ‘Trump Strait’ off Iran, and other Mideast developments (MS NOW)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)  More about the latter than the former.

‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)

Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting. (Ilan Greenberg/Politico)

White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One (Erik Wemple/New York Times)

Poland to Pay Up to $4.4 Billion for Fort Trump, Report Says (Wojciech Moskwa/Bloomberg)

House Democrats Plan Broad Trump Oversight, Impeachment Possible  Possible? Almost certain.

White House TV pool appears to be back in operation, but CNN’s media analyst calls situation ‘fluid’ (Hallie Golden/Associated Press)

Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit,  as he so often does.

Newsbusters.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart’s Friday appearance on PBS News Hour provided a revealing look at the media’s Main Character Syndrome as he falsely declared that journalism is the job protected by the Constitution while taking a victory lap on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico returning to the White House. Meanwhile, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks was not completely useless. While he criticized Trump for the initial ban, he also criticized the media for being too friendly with Democrats.

Host Amna Nawaz and asked Capehart to juxtapose Trump’s actions with the fact that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was in town for a state visit. Capehart began incorrectly declaring, “Everything is upside down, Amna. One, covering the White House, access to the White House is a right. It is a public facility. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of our role of informing the citizenry. And so this is another example of the president sort of warping what it means to be in the White House, to be president of the United States.”

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In its rush to paint the GOP as Doomed in the November mid-term elections, Wednesday’s PBS News Hour not only made a full meal out of a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll showing lagging enthusiasm for the Republican Party, but interviewed former Kansas Republican Gov. Bill Graves who was apparently making big news by (once again!) endorsing a Democrat, this time one running against sitting Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.

RINOs gotta RINO.

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Here’s how you know The Atlantic is a Democrat Party organ: it dumps on a “mainstream media” outlet when it prints anything damaging to a Democrat. Everyone can read the “gift article” by leftist screed-demon Jonathan Chait under this headline:

Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently

A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.

Chait loves bashing female Republicans. He made Peltola’s fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin into a regular punching dummy (with his emphasis on “dummy”) and also penned a piece in 2013 titled “Michele Bachmann Retires As President of Crazyland,” so he’s not exactly pleading for the fairer sex, just for his favored party.

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Behold the most ludicrous argument unfolding after President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to deny White House press passes to Trump-loathing reporters. Somehow, the liberal elitists shamelessly claim they represent the entire American people in the briefing room, and not just their own pink-haired audience.

Indeed, most of them actually believe it.

See National “Public” Radio White House reporter Tamara Keith, who told a CNN interviewer about her job: “I’m doing it on behalf of the American people. I’m not doing it for me. Um, and by kicking people out, he’s kicking the American people out of the room. He’s kicking the American people out of the people’s house.” This ignores the many millions of people who voted for Trump—and against all the elitist media noise.

These reporters never represent all Americans when Democrats are the ones facing national scrutiny. Keith’s most memorable act of journalistic flattery came when Hillary Clinton seized the Democrat nomination for president in 2016. She wasn’t going to press Clinton about the scandal over her private email server to avoid media scrutiny when she was secretary of state, or any other troublesome topic. She was there to gush.

Selectively, of course.

Newsbusters.

Some incidents are considered much more newsworthy than others…especially if ICE agents are involved. Violent crimes by illegal immigrants are not considered newsworthy. This week, DHS released a list of criminal aliens they’ve arrested in Texas. You’ll likely never hear their names on national TV.

On Tuesday, new videos emerged shedding more light on the ICE shooting of Venezuelan illegal immigrant Wilber Garces Perez, Sunday in Austin Texas, including that a car chase, appears to have occurred after he had been stopped by ICE, leading to the shooting. Tuesday on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, both a report on the videos and a follow-up with Perez’s attorney, ignored obvious questions raised by the videos.

Tapper began the segment in a manner most sympathetic to Perez, describing the illegal alien as, “A 28-year-old Venezuelan man, Wilber Garces Perez. He was shot in the back by an Immigrations and Custom Enforcement agent or ICE agent on Sunday while the gentleman was driving DoorDash.”

After giving an update on Perez’s health status, Tapper noted that existing videos, “don’t shed much light” then presented two conflicting accounts of what led up to the shooting.

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As we saw once again this week, the most important story the Elitist Media will often cover is…the Elitist Media. Due to a combination of narcissistic coverage of the White House media ban and the usual stack of nonsensical filler, there are a multitude of important stories that were left off the network evening news. Here are a few of them.

Former Alaska congresswoman and current Senate candidate Mary Peltola was the subject of a recent article detailing her as an awful boss who addresses individuals with terms considered to be off-limits in the current discourse.

Watts Up With That.

The climate movement just got weirder.

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I’m struggling to get past the “Planetary Guardians” reference. Could you imagine introducing yourself to someone as a member of the “Planetary Guardians” with a straight face?

In brightest day, in darkest night
No grievance shall escape my sight; 
Let those who worship reason’s might
Beware my power: The Proglodyte!

ATQUE: Wrong, Guardian, If Humanity Can No Longer ‘Flourish,’ Someone Forgot to Tell Humanity

Delays in Covid shots for kids is latest bid by Trump officials to restrict vaccines (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian) I wonder what life is like for someone this stupid.

Federal judge is still weighing Trump’s ban of MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House (Fallon Gallagher/MS NOW) What possible role a judge can play in this escapes me. The President has total control of who gets into the White House, necessarily so.

The Source Behind The Ban (Oliver Darcy/Status)  The number of people in the Narrative Media who pretend that they can read Trump’s mind is one of the more entertaining aspects of TDS.

Press Group, Media Outlets Join Fight Against WH Ban  Of course they do.

CNN’s Erin Burnett Mocks TrumpTV While Network Censors Trump Speech

Democrats sue Trump admin to keep armed agents from polls during midterms (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)

‘Survival Mode Time’: Republicans Accelerate Their Break With Trump (New York Times) “Hey, maybe if we say it enough times, people will think it’s true.”

Commander in Cheat — Trump is proof that cheaters often win. — ? Paid (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)

POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access (Megan Messerly/Politico)  Cloud People think that they just need to get a judge on their side and everybody falls in line.

CNN, Politico, MS NOW journalists barred from White House after judge blocks Trump’s ban (Washington Post)

POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring access (Megan Messerly/Politico)

Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

‘Danger Sign’: New Polls Show How Much Republicans Have Turned on Trump (Rolling Stone)  They hope, they hope, they hope. Come and get your Narrative, right here.

WH Refuses to Budge After Judge Orders CNN, MS NOW, Politico Be Allowed Back in

Trump, 80, Mocked for Telling Choice of Clothing at Xi Jinping Meet (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)  The best of American High School ‘journalism’.

Bumbling MAGA Media Tries to Launch Their Own White House Pool (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Meyers Compares Trump Threatening Iran To Killing The Pizza Delivery Guy

Trump’s Retribution Campaign May Face Supreme Court Test (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  Retribution!

Jon Stewart Mocks Trump’s UN Speech With Spanish PM  Socialists of a feather snark together.

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One of President Donald Trump’s major focuses has been rooting out fraud across taxpayer-funded public services. Through their White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, Co-chairs Vice President JD Vance and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson have touted unprecedented efforts to expose and crack down on massive instances of fraud since February 2026.

Yet, despite the national implications and scope of Trump, Vance and Ferguson’s campaign against fraud, Google News implemented a months-long blackout of coverage of their key actions and accomplishments in its morning feed. Put into practice, the blackout means that millions of active Google News users are effectively kept in the dark about the White House’s actions against fraud.

The Trump administration has taken at least 51 key actions and victories against fraud since February, ranging from massive healthcare fraud takedowns to the suspension of billions of dollars in government funding. Yet, Google News featured none of them in its top 20 morning listings.

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When Bari Weiss was hired to lead CBS News last year, many of the network’s star reporters feared the centrist founder of The Free Press news site would turn the network into a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after he accused Weiss of “murdering the show.”

If the season premiere of “60 Minutes” is any indication, progressives have little to complain about. In a segment titled “The Pardon Economy,” veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl alleges that Trump has upended the way U.S. presidents have dispensed pardons for “100 years or more” by creating a “new system” that involves lobbyists and high-priced “pardon brokers.”

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To situate Trump in this “pardon lobbyists” narrative, Stahl links the White House to two convicted con artists who claim close ties to Trump without disclosing one critical detail: There is no evidence the two have ever succeeded in getting anyone a pardon. While their efforts suggest that some in Washington may be trying to capitalize on the narrative about Trump’s alleged corruption – inspired, in part, by questionable pardons he has issued previously – “60 Minutes” offers no concrete proof connecting the administration to these money-making schemes.

Stahl’s report also ignored the long history of wrongdoers paying exorbitant fees for lobbyists to get their pardons viewed by the Oval Office – most famously Bill Clinton’s brother, Roger, and Hillary’s brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham.

Newsbusters.

ABC’s The View was having abang up day on Tuesday. In addition to co-host Sunny Hostin bragging about being a holdout juror who kelp a killer cannibal out of prison, co-host Sara Haines grew emotional as she whined about Patrick Clancy divorcing his wife, Lindsay Clancy after she strangled their three children to death. Haines couldn’t understand at what point his “marital love” ended.

Haines’ hysterics began with her noting that so many other people in Lindsay’s life were there in the courtroom for her but Patrick wasn’t.

“They were able to see her as a sick woman who, and even though they too were mourning the loss of their grandbabies and their nieces and nephews,” she bemoaned.

Haines was bewildered by how Patrick’s “marital love [could] end so quickly” and was willing to leave the woman who killed his three children.

Growing more emotional, Haines shared her hope that her husband Max Shifrin wouldn’t leave her if she strangled their kids with exercise bands. “I would hope that my husband wouldn’t sit there and just move right along and like not care,” she said.

A proper husband would have made her dead as soon as he was capable of doing so. That she is still alive represents serious cowardice on his part.

MS NOW Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann Compares WH Bans to 1930s Nazi Germany  Of course he does. Notice that none of them compare anything to 1930s Soviet Russia or 1940s Communist China.

Trump says he’s renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’ (Violet Jira/Washington Post)

Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight (Alex Gangitano/Politico)

Susan Collins Was Target of Federal Bribery Case … Until Trump Gutted the FBI (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Gutted!

‘Drive Them Into Hell’: Trump Makes Wild Threats in Chaotic UN Speech (Jack Crosbie/Rolling Stone)

San Francisco Sues to Stop Early Access to Trump’s Truth Social Posts (Heather Knight/New York Times)

California Sues Trump Administration Over $111 Million Offshore Wind Buyout

Trump threatens Iran in UNGA speech (Irie Sentner/Politico)

9 minutes in GOP heaven, 1 week in hell (Politico)

Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at the United Nations (Linda Qiu/New York Times)

3 Leading News Outlets Say Their Sudden Banishment From the White House Is Unconstitutional (Jacob Sullum/Reason)

AI & The Same Old Politicized Hysteria

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

Fox News stars are going to new lengths to avoid bad news for Trump (Matt Gertz/MS NOW)

Bitter Much? Enraged by Ban, CNN REFUSED to Carry Trump’s UN Speech

The next generation of American scientists is fading away (Anjana Ahuja/Financial Times)

Hispanic Voters, Abandoning Trump, Are Transforming the Midterm Map (Nate Cohn/New York Times)

Trump TV is live. Here’s what it’s actually showing (Herb Scribner/Axios)

Trump’s focus on the press distracts Republicans from pocketbook issues ahead of Election Day (NBC News)

Trump’s White House media ban faces long odds in court, legal experts say (Jack Queen/Reuters)  Experts say! That proves it!

MAGA Festival Canceled Last-Minute as Dismal VIP Ticket Sales Exposed (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

World Liberty’s Crypto Ties Enriched Trump as Investors Lost Out (Bloomberg)

Trump’s Grip on GOP Slips as Midterm Election Anxiety Sets In (Bloomberg)

Ban Fight: CNN Gives Trump Dictator Label, Questioning ‘State of Mind’

White House Melts Down at CNN Host With Vile Slur (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  Vile slurs against Trump, of course, are just fine.

Trump’s last-ditch hunt for voter fraud (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  Well, they seem to be finding a lot of it.

Social Media Cooks Democrat’s Goose

The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

Trump Blasts CNN, MS Now Over UN Coverage

There’s growing concern that Trump may deploy the National Guard ahead of elections (Kat Lonsdorf/NPR)  I guess they don’t want to get caught.

Byron Donalds scrubs website of numerous references to Trump (John Pacenti/Tallahassee Democrat)  Running scared RINO.

Trump’s midterm woes deepen amid worsened economic backdrop: CNN poll (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Blocking Windmills? Banning Press? Building an Arch? Trump Cites National Security. (New York Times)

Daily Show Gushes Over Iran, Cuba While Warning Of ‘Rising Tide Of Authoritarianism’

It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

We’ll Tolerate Tyranny, But Not Rising Prices. (The Bulwark)

WSJ: HHS Shifted $12 Million to Fund RFK Jr. Security  With good reason.

Morning Joe Fears ‘Demolition of Democracy,’ Decries WH Bans with CNN’s Dana Bash  Dana Bash is certainly well-named.

Juvenile Kimmel Uses CNN Ban To Mock Trump’s Penis

Portrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in Despair (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump. We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now. (Wall Street Journal)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump Seeks Power Over Midterm Voting With Redistricting, Mail Ballots (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)

Hollywood Accuses California Of Folding To Trump On Paramount Merger

President Trump keeps casually accusing news outlets of treason (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Nothing casual about it. It’s obvious to the most ‘casual’ observer.

Benefits of Trump’s 2025 Tax Cuts Touted by Manufacturers in All 50 States

Preservation group launches legal defense fund as it battles Trump over ballroom and other projects (Jill Colvin/Associated Press)

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While the Democrat-pleasing “fact checkers” at PolitiFact aren’t throwing any “False” flags at wild-eyed Trump haters comparing the president to mass-murdering dictators (“Hitler to Stalin to Idi Amin”) over pulling White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, they did pull out the “Mostly False” card for a mostly true claim about Team Biden dramatically shrinking the press-pass list in 2023.

PolitiFact research analyst Jeff Cercone took after a TikTok video with 72,000 views from “Barbie Unfiltered 67” which said, “Biden changed the White House press pool and CUT OFF 440 reporters’ credentials, yet got ZERO outrage from the fake news media.”

The actual facts: Correct, and correct. Team Biden shrunk the list without almost anyone in the elitist media noticing. They only care about their own access.

Cercone admitted the numbers weren’t wrong, but were somehow Mostly False.

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As an example of the problem, in the article in The Guardian on the Church of England and the slave trade we are told that 45 clergymen can be traced who invested in the slave trade.[ii] The author seems shocked. But is this a large number or a small one? Pettigrew and Co. do not say. But do the maths: in 1550 there were just shy of 9000 Anglican parishes across England and Wales, and about a 1000 more in Scotland. In 1800 the relative numbers were 11,000 in England and Wales and about 950 in Scotland. What’s surprising is not how many Anglican clerics invested in the slave trade across 250 years, but how few. But they won’t tell you that in The Guardian, probably because they haven’t thought to make the necessary calculations.

Pettigrew accepts that ‘slave traders were a tiny minority of the British population’ but gives them ‘outsized influence on this golden age of British development’.[iii] Yet the scale of that influence is never calibrated, merely asserted. ‘Interest in human trafficking’ apparently ‘cascaded down the social hierarchy’ but the 13,000 named individuals include no agricultural labourers or early industrial workers who made up the vast bulk of British society. This is hardly surprising as the Legacies of British Slavery project at University College, London – a much better example of scholarship than this Register – has estimated that somewhere between 5% and 15% of the British elite derived wealth from slavery, a group that might be numbered as a few thousand only, therefore.[iv]

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The shareholders for the most infamous U.S. newspaper in circulation are holding it to account for the antisemitic and anti-Israel bile that has been replete throughout its reporting apparatus.

Shareholders launched a lawsuit against The New York Times alleging that the “paper has failed to meet its obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn’t.”

The suit, filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), was first revealed in a September 23 exclusive by The Free Press. It petitions the New York County Supreme Court to “ to force the Times board of directors to hand over internal records the company has refused to produce for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”

Newsbusters.

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Over at Salon.com, atheist Amanda Marcotte is in a state of joy over her belief that notorious biblical cherry picker James Talarico, could be an “existential threat” to the beliefs of Republican Christians during the course of his Texas campaign for the U.S. Senate.

It is no error or slur to label Marcotte as an atheist since she herself flat out admitted it. In fact her brand of atheism goes beyond merely tolerating religion to outright hostility of Christianity in particular as you can see in “Salon’s Marcotte: ‘Merry Christmas!’ Is Conservative Code For ‘F**k You!’.”

With an attitude like that you can read Marcotte’s Monday story, “James Talarico’s campaign could do lasting damage to the GOP,” with a huge grain of salt as she engages in the obvious pretense of somehow supporting Christianity but only in a very liberal cherry-picking way which nixes large sections of the Bible in order to reinterpret it as Socialist/Woke dogma much as her candidate hero has done.

Nobody does hate like proglodyte scribblers.

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Behold the most ludicrous argument unfolding after President Trump’s latest attempt to deny White House press passes to Trump-loathing reporters. Somehow, the liberal elitists shamelessly claim they represent the entire American people in the briefing room, and not just their own pink-haired audience.

See National “Public” Radio White House reporter Tamara Keith, who told an CNN interviewer about her job: “I’m doing it on behalf of the American people. I’m not doing it for me. Um, and by kicking people out, he’s kicking the American people out of the room. He’s kicking the American people out of the people’s house.” This ignores the many millions of people who voted for Trump – and against all the elitist media noise.

Newsbusters.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a document Monday debunking “lies spread by the mainstream media, far-left activists, and sanctuary politicians regarding the shooting of a criminal illegal alien” by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Austin, Texas.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the U.S. during the Biden Administration, was shot Sunday by an ICE officer who tried to arrest him, prompting a hailstorm of anti-ICE media and accusations, prompting DHS to issue a statement correcting the record.

“Sanctuary politicians and the mainstream media have wasted no time in spreading lies about an ICE officer-involved shooting of an illegal alien in Austin, Texas,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the statement.

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NPR’s galling pro-Palestinian bias showed itself again on Friday’s Morning Edition, with Muslim co-host Leila Fadel celebrating the YouTube children’s entertainer — and Hamas propagandist — known as Ms. Rachel, in “Ms. Rachel has entered her album era, and she is so happy about it.”

Babylon Bee.

In the latest escalation of his administration’s ongoing feud with the mainstream media, President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the White House had revoked the press credentials of longtime CNN correspondent Gríma Wormtongue.

Newsbusters.

The liberal ladies of ABC’s “bona fide news program” The View clutched their pearls on Monday in reaction to President Trump banning journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House. “Can you imagine if Obama had done this,” they shouted. However, we don’t have to imagine it because he did do that; and during the Biden administration, The View cast wanted Fox News shutdown and all their employees prosecuted for “recruiting domestic terrorists.”

Proclaiming that what she was about to say was “not hyperbolic,” Navarro insisted that what Trump was doing was “what communist dictators exactly do in places like North Korea and Cuba and Nicaragua and Venezuela. They censor and shut down the free press[.]”

She would go on to lead the show in once again violating ABC’s broadcast license by electioneering, and telling their audience to vote for candidates who would oppose Trump:

Newsbusters.CBS promoted Margaret Brennan’s interview with U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar as a followup to her video on immigration that dominated the news cycle. What CBS got instead was a complete undermining of the Elite Media’s First Amendment argument against the White House bans against CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

Watch as Brennan tries to engage Salazar on the media bans, collegially gets told to pound sand, before proceeding to blow the First Amendment argument into a million pieces:

Trump Says He’s Banning the ‘Free Press’ From His White House (The Bulwark)  I would not call CNN, MSNOW, and Politico ‘the free press’. Say rather ‘proglodyte propaganda press’.

News Outlets Express Solidarity After Trump Bars Some Reporters (Mack Liederman/New York Times)  Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’; call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)  The gaslighting is strong in this one.

California enacts new election safeguards against potential Trump interference in midterms (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

Newsom Signs Bills Meant to Prevent Trump’s Interference in Midterms (Laurel Rosenhall/New York Times)

MAGA Star, 39, Addresses Explosive Lesbian Sex Claims (Sarah-Jane Collins/The Daily Beast)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)

How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (New York Times)

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse (Laura Jedeed/New Republic)

RFK Jr.’s ‘Medical Freedom’ Comes With a Body Count (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Most freedom does. (Trump cooties!)

The Rust Belt Lawmaker Leading the Fight Against Trump’s Kennedy Center Plans (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)

The Greenland deal is a classic example of Trump’s bluff and bluster (The Independent)  And winning! Don’t forget the winning!

Poll: Most voters say Trump has hurt the economy as competitive midterm election looms (NBC News)  When campaigning, fake a poll.

RFK Jr.’s movement now has corporate sponsors (Amanda Chu/Politico)  A transparent effort to smear RFK by linking him to ‘corporate sponsors’.

Poll: Voters Blame Trump for Economy Ahead of Midterms  As if a ‘poll’ by NBC News would find anyone else to blame.

The Contract on America  Proglodytes live in the past much more than normal people do.

Newsbusters.

NPR’s Weekend Edition September 12 story by “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef once again only spied extremists on the right side of the ideological divide, ignoring worse activity on the left, and ridiculously implied that conservatives invented “doxxing” — revealing private information about a person online toward hostile ends — after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Newsbusters.

On Thursday, Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) released a campaign ad she taped outside the White House attacking President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, claiming she felt “betrayed” because he is targeting too many illegal immigrants without criminal records.

Needless to say, the left wing media latched on to this, and Friday on CNN’s Inside Politics, Dana Bash used the ad to confront Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in a nearly 22 minute long sit-down, but it was Mullin who schooled Bash on issue after issue. Here are some of the highlights.

Newsbusters.

When CNN’s Erin Burnett wants to offer up a hot take, she launders it through former Trump lawyer-turned anti-Trump doomsday prophet Ty Cobb. Earlier this week, Burnett welcomed Cobb to spread baseless conspiracy theories about the upcoming midterms, while in August, she invited Cobb to compare the Trump DOJ to a cast of Nazis. This Friday, Cobb was more diverse in his dictator analogies as he suggested Trump’s effort to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House was part of a Hitlerian, Stalinist, and Putinist dream to shut them down altogether.

Burnett began by putting the ball on the tee, “I want to go now to Ty Cobb. He’s a former Trump White House lawyer. Ty, from a legal standpoint, does Trump have any basis to ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico? And he says more to come from the White House.”

Newsbusters.

On Friday, ABC’s World News Tonight was the only network evening newscast to avoid the news of a U.S. deal with Denmark that would give the U.S. military rights to Greenland and bar adversaries like China and Russia from building bases on the island.

After all networks led with news of Trump banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, ABC was the only network not to shift to news of the Greenland deal. Instead, it decided to go back to bashing the lone holdout juror in the Linday Clancy murder mistrial.

Newsbusters.

While the elitist media continue their attacks and slurs on hard-working ICE agents, they have ignored the almost daily cases of illegal immigrants committing terrible crimes.

On September 16, family members of victims of illegal immigrants blasted Democratic lawmakers for their sanctuary city policies that have led to the deaths of their loved ones.

The refusal of the leftist media to report on these cases has pushed their narrative that the Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement is an “authoritarian” overreach, instead of a necessary response to the lax Obama-Biden years.

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My, what a surprise.

Rather ironic, since the NYC is owned and run by Jews.

Newsbusters.

Neither, apparently, is Eddie Glaude.

Appearing as a guest on the first episode of The Assignment with Antonia Hylton on Saturday, MS NOW contributor Eddie Glaude declared that Vice President J.D. Vance may be “tired of being called racist,” but that he is “not tired of being racist.” He also tacitly admitted that the liberal agenda on how to teach history is to provoke “judgment” against whites.

Hylton devoted a segment to reports that the Trump administration plans to return a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery next year. After noting that a disclaimer arguing against the Lost Cause was recently removed from where the monument used to be, she went to Glaude and asked why he believed the words were scrubbed.

On the liberal news network that has frequently accused the Trump administration of promoting white nationalism, the liberal professor began by claiming that not enough time has been spent accusing the Trump administration of promoting white nationalism.

Message: He’s white and therefore must be a racist.

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The first thing is the assumption that there is even such a thing as ‘capitalism’.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is not a publication most would be familiar with. It is meant as a repository of overviews of big topics in philosophy broadly defined, inclusive of political theory. As such, entries added to it are unlikely to generate strong responses by the experts deeply familiar with each individual entry. Every rule has exceptions though.

Recently, Chiara Cordelli, a political philosopher at the University of Chicago, delivered her “three years in the making” commissioned piece on “capitalism.” The piece went viral. The reason that it sparked such attention is that it read to many as basically a rehash of old online talking points spewed by more refined trolls. That is unfair but there is truth to the claim that there is no smoke without fire. It is indeed a boring “takedown” of capitalism.

Let me be precise here: the problem is not that the entry is critical of capitalism. There is nothing wrong with criticising capitalism, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman or classical liberalism. The problem is that much of the discussion does not pass even a modest ideological Turing test. An ideological Turing test asks whether one can state an opposing position so accurately that its proponents would recognise the argument as their own before one proceeds to criticise it. Here, too often, they would not.

The unique characteristic of using a name for something that doesn’t exist is that everybody gets to create his own definition—and always does.

Watts Up With That.

This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in August, 2026.

I would prefer the term ‘debunk’ rather than ‘fact-check’, but combatting the degeneration of our modern language is a rope I don’t have time to push.

Angry, Unglued Trump Accidentally Reveals His Contempt for MAGA Voters (New Republic) Greg Sargemt loses his shit.

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney makes public plea for Trump pardon (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)  Don’t hold your breath.

Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run (NOTUS)  OH NOES!

Morning Joe Clamors for Trump Era to Go to ‘Ash Heap of History’

Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump’s mail-in voting crackdown (Kevin Frey/MS NOW)  RINO Alert!

Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (New York Times)  I guess he does.

Dems Ask for Probe Into Trump Team’s Handling of Anniversary Data (Dan Friedman/Mother Jones)

Trump’s Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos (Mary Ellen Klas/Bloomberg)

Which Republican Senate Candidates Are Skipping Trump’s Convention? (Kellen Browning/New York Times) Let’s read some minds, shall we?

The View: Vote Democratic in Midterms or Everyone Will ‘Literally’ Die  As long as it includes the shrews on The View, I’m good with it.

Trump’s next trade weapon (Courtenay Brown/Axios)  Let’s try some mind-reading, shall we?

Democrat El-Sayed Hits Trump Efforts to Cast Him as Villain (Bloomberg)

At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him to Safety (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  A rather transparent lie.

Veterans group launches new campaign against Trump’s planned arch (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)

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Blame America First!

Hunter Biden To Launch Memecoin, Will Send To TRUMP Holders  Taking book on how long it takes for one of them to track him down and beat the snot out of him. (I’d be happy to chip in.)

CNN’s Cardona: Charlamagne Wasn’t Wrong — Blame Trump for Violence Aimed at Trump!

Republicans blast out ‘free tickets’ offer to save Trump from Dallas convention embarrassment (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump throws fuel on international feuds with Truth Social post bathing multiple countries in the American flag (Josh Marcus/The Independent)

Veterans and Democrats intensify fight against Trump’s planned arch (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Trump Tailspins as Leaks about GOP Midterm Panic Take Humiliating Turn (New Republic)

Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Trump signs order to remove endangered species protection for grey wolves

Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms (Daniel McCarthy/New York Post)  There is,  of course, no such thing as “Trumponomics”—that’s just another proglodyte smear-term ‘journalists’ in the Narrative Media can use as a stick in their TDS.

Trump won the battle over his awful arch. The next Democratic president can win the war. (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  If Obama had proposed it, of course, it would be touted as the greatest thing since the Lincoln Memorial.

Not satire: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks President Trump for pardon on “Good Morning America”  These people are crazy.

ABC Hosts Disgraced Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to Frame Hit Against President Trump

Trump Floats ‘New America’ Name for New Mexico  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….  Funny how the same people freaking out over Trump playing with them are the ones who spent Obama’s and Biden’s administrations attempting to erase the names of famous Americans and replace them with obscure members of Fashionable Minorities. Compared to those efforts, Trump is a piker. (‘Oh Hell No!’ Democrats Object to Trump’s Suggestion to Rename New Mexico (Jenna Monnin/NOTUS))

For Trump’s Former Fixer, a Tortured Path From ‘Rat’ to Reconciliation (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Of course, only Republicans are deserving of such obloquy.

John Eastman Was Disbarred—Larry Krasner Got a Laugh If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all.

BAD-FAITH FRAME: ABC’s Rachel Scott Repeats ‘No End in Sight’ to Iran War

Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Eric Schlosser/New York Times) Not difficult to find a ‘mystery’ to the New York Times.

As War Grinds On, Trump Relishes Renovation Projects (New York Times)

Trump should draw a clear midterm line between his record and the blue wave of weirdo Dems (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum has given up any pretense of being an economist and embraced his role as Leftist shill.

Trump’s colonialist Venezuela fever dream (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Noah Berlatsky loses his shit.

The federal government is falling apart (Thor Benson/madness)  As it habitually does.

Trump suggests renaming New Mexico amid torrent of online memes and taunts (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  The Gossip Girls at the Washington Poop are in rare form today.

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)  ‘Trans support’ IS totalitarianism, straight up.

Government Employees Fight Trump’s Reforms From Within the Executive Branch

It’s a tough time for unions in the age of Trump — cities and states can help (Terri Gerstein/The Hill)  A definition of ‘help’ that turns reality on its head.

Trump Threatens to Bar Sale of Canadian Bombardier Jets in US (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg)  Let the hand-wringing commence.

“We’re stuck:” GOP accepts Trump’s all-about-me midterms (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Iran Releases Footage Of Drone Swarm Attacks On Several ‘US-Linked’ Ships In Hormuz Strait

Democrats seek to counter RNC’s ‘Trump-a-palooza’ convention in Dallas (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Trump’s Embrace of AI Data Centers Adds to GOP’s Midterm Peril (Bloomberg)

Hegseth Appears to Mock Canadian Coast Guard over Pride

Biden-Appointed Judge Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Against New Jersey Law Restricting ICE Operations

In latest win for voters, appeals court rejects bid to revive DHS voter purge database, for now (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)  “Voters” here meaning, of course, “illegal voters”.

Inside AOC’s MAHA outreach (Will Steakin/Politico)

AI, ChatGPT, And Its Anti-Trump Propaganda

Capehart Claims Trump’s Smithsonian Battle Is About Destroying ‘Our Democracy’

The Rush-Job Presidency — Trump wants his ballroom and arch done while he’s in office. There’s a risk. (Janay Kingsberry/The Atlantic)

The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector. (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)

As Midterms Approach, Republicans Find There Is No Escape From Trump (New York Times)

Trump is running out of time as he tries to restrict mail voting (Washington Post)

Inside the Battle to Save One Pioneering General From Hegseth’s Purge (New York Times)

CNN edits headline after trying to blame Trump for landslide in Nepal

Why Does Canada’s Capital City of Ottawa Have a Street Named After President Donald Trump?  Not for long.

Donald Trump’s approval rating falls to all-time low in FT poll (Financial Times)  Calvin’s Dad has the same problem in Calvin’s polls. Doubt if he cares any more than Trump does.

RFK Jr.’s Sickening Measles Victory Lap (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Anything that sickens a writer for the Bullshitwark has my support.

House Dems plot Trump investigation blitz if they seize majority (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)  Of course they do. Plotting is all they’re good for.

Rep. Jamie Raskin says impeachment isn’t a ‘fetish’ for Democrats but ‘a critical tool’ (Megan Brand/NBC News)  Sure looks like a fetish to me.

Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball (David French/New York Times)  I like him already.

Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Has Voters Baffled. That May Be the Point. (New York Times)  It certainly baffles readers of the New York Times, who are (let’s face it) not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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Just like the networks spent months helpfully skipping over the Nazi tattoo on the chest of Maine Democrat Graham Platner, they have largely ignored radical leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. ABC and NBC haven’t found him, while CBS broke the mold with two stories.

The “PBS NewsHour” hasn’t mentioned Piker, although there was a mention on the PBS show “Washington Week with The Atlantic” on Aug. 14. The show’s host, Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg, volunteered: “The party has developed something of a Hasan Piker problem. This is a popular hard-left Twitch streamer who has said that America deserved 9/11, that Jews are inbred. He’s praised Mao. He’s praised Houthi terrorists and so on. Democrats are extremely worried about the presence of people like this who are no longer at the margin, who are creating, let’s say, loads of new ads, if nothing else, for Republicans.”

National Public Radio offered more coverage, but none of it dipped to the level of loopy detail that Goldberg did. “America deserved 9/11” never came up, or the Houthis, or praising Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong as a great leader. On the June 15 “All Things Considered,” Elena Moore, who covers young voters for NPR, tamely described Piker as “a leftist streamer who’s been stumping for progressive candidates. He’s got an audience of millions across social media, but he’s also, Ailsa, divisive because of his strong anti-Israel beliefs.”

Alejandro Betancourt, Trump’s Partner in Venezuelan Oil Deal, Has Faced Investigations (New York Times)  Just like a Democrat!

Feds bust LGBT podcaster, former Christian reality TV star for alleged threats to kill Trump (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News)

Feds bust podcaster Azariah Southworth in Los Angeles for allegedly threatening to kill Donald Trump (Ben Chapman/New York Post)

Judge Weighs Extending Block on Trump Mail Voting Rules  Indira Tawani—can’t get more American that that….

Vance Defends Friendship With Trump Critic Tucker Carlson (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)  They’re always SO SURPRISED that everybody isn’t as totalitarianly political as the Wokerati.

Elon Musk’s Midterms Play: Ken Paxton, Susan Collins, Socialist Scaremongering (Bess Levin/New York Magazine)  Hey, socialists provide a lot of scares to monger.

Trump Is Keeping Venezuela’s Dictatorship in Business (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  Will Saletan loses his shit.

Diesel prices hit all-time high as Trump administration brandishes energy policies (Politico) Rich, coming from the people who want to jack up gas prices with taxes to discourage the use of ‘fossil fuels’. They ought to make up their minds.

Judge Suggests Trump Mail-In Voting Rules Could Cause ‘Major Disenfranchisement’ (Zach Montague/New York Times)  Sorry, but the correct term is ‘disfranchisement’. Learn some English, Indira.

Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’ (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)  I guess only Haitians have nightmares.

ChatGPT Says Trump Is Greatest Threat to Democracy Since Hitler  I guess it’s a Democrat.

Donald Trump is acting like he *wants* to lose the midterms (Strength In Numbers)  The Left never lacks for mind-readers who always have a back-seat from which to criticize the driver.

Newsbusters.

During Wednesday’s OutFront, CNN host Erin Burnett was irked that the Trump administration had agents with the Department of Homeland Security examining voter rolls and removing noncitizens. While framing it as President Trump willing letting Americans be exposed to terrorism and sex trafficking, Burnett brought on Democratic New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who recently announced her state had registered thousands of noncitizens, to downplay the problem and claim Trump was trying to steal the midterms.

Leading into the segment, Burnett tried to claim there was no reason for the investigation at all and that the investigators were the ones who couldn’t be trusted.

“The agents are scouring voter rolls for non-citizens, despite a lack of evidence of any major fraud or any widespread fraud at all,” she proclaimed, despite the fact she was about to bring on a governor who admitted over 6,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in her state, with hundreds casting ballots.

“Documents also show agents are using personal information about voters, including partial Social Security Numbers, in their search,” Burnett said, trying to fear monger that the investigators were mishandling their sensitive personal information.

Of course, she omitted that fact that the Social Security Numbers the investigators were using were the ones the noncitizens illegally acquired in order to illegally register to vote.