How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (New York Times)  If there were a Democrat President, of course, all would be fine.

Trump’s promise of an economic ‘golden age’ collides with reality (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  More accurately, the Narrative that Trump hasn’t brought any economic benefits collides with reality—like gas prices.

Trump slashes Medicare drug subsidies, cutting against affordability message (Mallory Wilson/The Hill)  Medicare drug subsidies don’t ‘cut drug costs’, they merely shift the costs to the taxpayers. That’s not what Trump promised to do.

Is MAGA Melting Down? — MAGA continues to be powerful, but we may be in the last months of the height of its powers. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

2028: Trump’s final act begins (Jim VandeHei/Axios)  Narrative Media mind-readers get a lot of mileage out of their fantasies.

Pre-Trump GOP is coming for Vance (Mike Zapler/Axios)  Sorry, Narrative, the Wall Street Journal hasn’t been ‘the standard bearer of traditional conservatism’ for at least a decade. Next, you’ll try to pretend that David French is a conservative … Oh, look: World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out (David French/New York Times)

Even Republicans in Congress can see how unpopular Trump’s immigration agenda is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Unpopular with whom? The Usual Suspects? It certainly seems popular with ‘Republicans in Congress’.

Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump administration is “flailing” in Iran and “has to try to figure out a way out of this” (Kaia Hubbard/CBS News)  Compared to what Biden and Obama did, he’s been pretty successful. Of course, a Democrat Senator can’t even hint at that….

MAGA Rep Accused of Wife Beating Streams Jaw-Dropping Attack on Her (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

Media shifts to more aggressively fight Trump in courts (The Hill)  Since their lapdogs the Democrats dont’ appear to be having much luck.

Did Trump Finally Find an Offramp for the Iran War? (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)  The ‘off-ramp’ has always been there; Iran has just refused to take it. You would think that a writer for the Wall Street Journal would be paying better attention….

Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules (Moriah Balingit/Associated Press) Wow, look at all those preschool standards guts all over the place…. Of course, as we all know, letting states set any standards is TOTALLY reprehensible. That would be (whisper it) democracy! Why, they might be Republicans! WE CAN’T HAVE THAT!

MAGA vs. Mullin (Politico)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

This Sleazoid MAGA Congressman May Just Have Turned a Red Seat Blue (Michael Tomasky/New Republic) MAGA is the New Jooz.

Let’s Talk About the Massive Parking Garage Trump Wants to Build at Dulles (Martin Austermuhle/NOTUS)  If a Democrat President had proposed it, of course, he’d be the new FDR.

Trump denigrates fellow golfers as lacking ‘talent’ as he boasts about winning trophy on his own course (Ariana Baio/The Independent) I guess Britain has high-school journalism as well.

Trump Gets To Keep Tax Immunity Under DOJ Deal With Republican Senators (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Iran denies Trump claim that new talks will start Monday after he called off attacks (NBC News)  Lucy with the football. I hope Trump has a plan.

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention (Jos?? Olivares/The Guardian)  I’d let them starve, but ICE can’t do that in this degenerate bleeding-heart world.

For Iran, Trump’s Reversal on Escalation Shows Who Has the Upper Hand (Erika Solomon/New York Times)

Trump’s Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (M. Gessen/New York Times)  Of course, the NYT assumes that The Future is Woke.

Senate Republicans see Trump as a growing political liability (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  He’s getting in the way of the Uniparty. Can’t have that….

Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief’s Tax Crimes (emptywheel)  Don’t hold it in; tell us how you really feel.

MS NOW Host Ali Vitali Frets Trump’s ‘Otherizing’ Illegal Alien Truckers, No Mention of Deaths

Trump’s Meddling in Justice Dept. Causes Problems of His Own Making (Alan Feuer/New York Times)  It’s All About Trump.

For Trump, the Year Is Always 2020 (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  Yeah, that’s when you guys pissed him off.

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief–and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (MAGA is the New Jooz.)

Lincoln Project’s Clout Fades in Trump’s Second Term

Sen. Warren Cites Trump in Push to ‘Scrap’ Debt Ceiling  We mustn’t let him keep us from spending money.

Dem States Sue to Challenge Trump’s Latest Tariffs He can’t tax American business. Only WE can tax American business.

MAGA Exiles Declare War on Trump: ‘He Betrayed Us All’ (Mary Papenfuss/The Daily Beast)

McGlinchey: Trump’s Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation  Who?

Newsbusters.

On Friday, as socialists continued their rise as a part of the Democratic Party through primary election victories, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took his own route with socialism claims of his own and instead claimed the Republicans were actually the socialists. He also seemed to minimize the actual rise of socialists in the Democratic Party, a topic his show has recently covered extensively, as he called the DSA “fringe.”

The conversation started at the very beginning of the premier liberal morning show as, between Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s bickering about who would lead the segment, Scarborough remarked, “Let’s start with the socialists… that nobody’s talking about.”

After Brzezinski agreed, Scarborough continued, “but everybody should be talking about it because socialists are taking over some of the most important companies in America’s economy.”

Joe Scarborough, who once pretended to be a Republican when it was profitable, has been fully assimilated by the Proglodyte Borg.

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The feminist psychological castration of men proceeds apace.

6 of the Wildest Details From the WSJ’s Trump Fundraising Report (Nia Prater/New York Magazine)  Here’s the playbook: 1. A Narrative Media ‘journalist’ cobbles together a menage of slur and inuendo about Trump; 2. Another Usual Suspect takes the first report as gospel-truth and proceeds to expand on it; 3. The rest of the Narrative Media pile on, just ‘reporting what’s in the news’. These people are shameless.

A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Coral Davenport/New York Times)  Note the statist assumption: Deregulating a program ‘upends’ it.

Florida Man Gets 2 Years for Threatening Trump  I’m willing to bet that he wasn’t a Republican.

Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts (Associated Press)  They’re just pissed that they didn’t think of it first.

The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China (Peter Jamison/Washington Post) If there actually is a “Trump country”, I want to move there.

MD Gov. Wes Moore: ‘Concerned’ Trump Will Interfere in Midterms  In other words, they’re worried that the election will actually be more honest.

He’s Making It Worse on Purpose (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  Nobody hates like the Kristol Krew.

Why Trump is at war with the International Criminal Court (Vox)  Because they declared war on him.

‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility (Eva Hartog/Politico)  Because, as we all know, earthquake ‘response’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (New York Times)  The Narrative Media would rather we didn’t have any arctic ships.

The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump (New York Times)  Actually, they’re fleeing the New York Times.

NBC Mourns Spanish Border Crisis Has ‘Been Seized On By President Trump’

Obama described Trump as an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr a ‘f****** moron’ in call to Fauci, diaries reveal (Erin Keller/The Independent)  I’m sure Trump would say the same about Obama and Obama Jr. (oops, my mistake—there is no Obama Jr.)

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Even mind-readers have to have something to work with.

How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound?

What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?

On – and on and on – went these and other questions from the American media as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu arrived at the White House for his latest meeting with President Trump.

There are multiple examples of this kind of media scrutiny of the President and the Trump White House, where minor details are over-interpreted and become major obsessions, as the two leaders met.

Newsbusters.

The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the Electoral College. However, on Friday’s PBS News Hour, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart agreed, “That’s not controversial.”

Not at PBS, that’s certainly true.

Moderator Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by playing a clip of Harris insisting, “We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the Court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”

Bennett was not interested in examining the radical aspects of those proposals. Instead, he wondered if it showed Harris was in tune with the Democratic base, “So that’s the thing. Democrats are saying they want a candidate who will fight for the things that Democrats say they care about. What do you make of that message?”

Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they’ve pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan” (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)

Trump Puts Immunity From Probes Over His Fight for Blanche (Bloomberg)

Trump’s ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something deeply unsettling about the president and his team (Holly Baxter/The Independent)  Yeah. He actually has original ideas, ideas that The Usual Suspects can’t wrap their mindes around.

Defying Trump, Cornyn Uses His Lame-Duck Power (Michael Gold/New York Times)  The RINO is strong in this one.

Inside Trump’s Senate playbook (Axios)  The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are SURE they have the inside scoop on what Trump is planning. ‘Delusional’ seems totally inadequate to describe it.

Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge (Politico)  The Narrative Media lament the disappearance of the traditional Republican Punching Bag.

Nine Things to Know About Trump Fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke (Wall Street Journal)  Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

Democrats Mobilize Over Fears Trump Will Deploy Troops to Polls (NOTUS)

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

Cheap gas won’t save Trump, now at a new all-time approval low (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Whistling past the graveyard….

Trump’s Iran strategy is working. His vice president’s isn’t. (Marc A. Thiessen/Washington Post)  Hey, we gotta find somebody to hate on.

Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near (CNN)  Wow, election security infrastructure (that guaranteed Democrats wouldn’t be caught cheating) guts all over the place. What a mess!

The Tate Brothers’ Should Be The Trumps’ Second Epstein Scandal (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Yeah, they couldn’t lie their way into making people believe that there was some connection with Epstein, perhaps they can lie their way into making people believe that there is some connection to the Tates. Hey, words are cheap….

Critics Say Historic Sites Are Endangered by Trump-Aligned Panel’s Plan (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)  “Trump-aligned” means “We can’t provide any evidence of a connection, so we’re just going to depend on smears and innuendo to see if people will buy it”.

In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing. (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal is corrupt and dangerous. Just ask Marco Rubio. (Sen. Edward J. Markey/MS NOW)

How a Lawsuit Seeking to Silence Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Actually Proved Its Point

We Now Have the Leading Charge in Trump’s Next Impeachment (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  But it doesn’t matter—we’d just make something up anyeway.

Newsbusters.

The spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci refusing to answer questions from senators by repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination was blatantly ridiculous. A man who never found a microphone he didn’t like was refusing to engage in defending his record. Then the elitist media that claim to be all about transparency and accountability rushed to his defense.

Sen. Rand Paul’s release of Fauci’s writings on his government computer revealed just how cozy the wily doctor was with the network news stars in 2020, from George Stephanopoulos to Chuck Todd to Jake Tapper. This was an obvious reason for the networks to bury the story of these writings.

It was all reminiscent of 2016, when Wikileaks dropped a pile of communications between Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta and other Democrats and political journalists. The networks discussed the leaked documents about the Clinton campaign vs. the Bernie Sanders campaign. But they weren’t going to discuss the chummy content between Podesta and the “objective” reporters.

Wikileaks exposed that in 2015, NBC’s Chuck Todd invited Podesta (among others) to their home for “Cocktails & Dinner in honor of” Jennifer Palmieri, another Clinton staffer, and her Democrat husband, Jim Lyons. Wikileaks revealed CNN asked the Democratic National Committee for questions to ask Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. What we’re never told is how cooperative the journalists were with the Democrat suggestions.

This is, in a word, collusion – a complete blur between journalists and Democrats, all seeking the same political objectives. But the media that claims to be all for democracy and transparency hide their inner chumminess in concocting the “news” product while pretending there is no secretive alliance.

You don’t need a ‘conspiracy theory’ if everybody involved knows what they need to do.

Newsbusters.

Of course they do. Muslims invading? Ho-hum….

Newsbusters.

CBS announced a new spate of 60 Minutes correspondents – including Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips – but the left-wingers obsessed over New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. The Daily Beast screeched: “Right-Wing Religious Zealot Unveiled as New Star of ‘60 Minutes’.”

I like him already.

That phrasing is comical — any tilt to the right is “desperate,” and the relentless leftist bias is “perfectly built.”

Just like Bari Weiss, the liberals throw “no real TV experience” — as if the newbie won’t be surrounded by veteran TV producers. Let’s guess if CBS recruited Trump-loathing columnist David French instead, they wouldn’t sweat the experience thing.

In the announcement, new executive producer Nick Bilton played up Douthat’s podcast at the Times: “A Ross interview—and he’s interviewed on camera Vice President Vance, Dario Amodei, Amy Coney Barrett, Hasan Piker and Ben Sasse among others—is a special conversation, expansive and probing and news-making.“

Then there’s the biggest Bari Weiss-haters on the internet, the team at Status.com. They turned to anonymous sources to trash the Douthat pick.

MS NOW’s Velshi Compares Trump, ICE to Nazis: ‘This Is Not Hyperbole’  No, it’s a flat-out lie.

Singer Humiliates Trump After White House Uses His Song (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast needs to learn the distinction between ‘bad-mouth’ and ‘humiliation’.

‘It’s a Joke, But It’s Not a Joke’: MS NOW Claims Trump Wants a 2028 Run

Trump Has Made Billions in Office. Will His Party Pay Politically? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)

A majority of MAGA supporters would still vote for a Republican candidate despite a scandal (Erin Doherty/Politico)  People realize that most such ‘scandals’ are Narrative Media lies.

How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America (Marc Fisher/New Yorker)  And returned the money to the people.

How Trump made America less popular than China (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring) Whatever happens, It’s Trumps Fault.

We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargemt loses his shit.

The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won. (Aaron R. Hanlon/New Republic)  There’s that MAGA guy agin. He sure gets around.

Trump’s Court Losses Leave Taxpayers Facing Millions in Legal Fees (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)  At least it’s not “Ten percent for the Big Guy.”.

Reality is a Communist Plot (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

It Doesn’t Get Much Dumber Than Trump’s War on ‘DEI Bike Lanes’ (Sean Woods/Rolling Stone)  On the contrary, there is nothing dumber than “they/them”.

What to know about Republican lame ducks defying Trump over Blanche nomination (Sammy Westfall/Washington Post)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis (Jeremy Konyndyk/Zeteo) Because, as we all know, treating diseased Africans is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer, including anybody who has more money than the Left wants them to have.

Trump has been dismantling post-9/11 counterterrorism protections, Senate report says (Ken Dilanian/MS NOW)  And Security Theater (and the parasites who feed off of it) is suffering. The swine!

Why Trump is Afraid of International Law (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Because he knows it’s totally politicized against him. Who doesn’t know that?

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community (Melissa Gira Grant/New Republic)  Yeah, it’s called ‘law enforcement’.

Trump, 80, Falls Asleep After Mocking Lindsey Graham at His Funeral (The New Republic) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Trump Crashes Into Reality (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)  Uh, no, merely the Narrative.

At Graham’s Farewell, a Glimpse Into Power in Trump’s Washington (Peter Baker/New York Times)  ‘Trump’s Washington’? Which Washington would that be? Not Washington state, which is reliably Blue. Not D.C., which is also reliably Blue. What is this ‘Trump’s Washington’ of which you speak?

Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, paying for drugs for those on Medicare is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right (Elisabeth Zerofsky/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Trump’s waning sway over the world (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  It’s all those Trump Cooties.

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway. (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Because, as we all know, coping with disasters is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

CNN Poll: Americans doubt Trump is paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The fake historian advising Trump’s anti-Smithsonian crusade (Popular Information)  And the fake journalists pushing the Narrative.

With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue (New York Times)

Alex Jones calls for immediate Trump impeachment (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

DHS Agents’ Raging Texts About ‘Stunt’ Targeting Newsom Revealed (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

Newsbusters.

One hand washes the other.

Newsbusters.

Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour & Company, welcomed author and activist Bill McKibben to Tuesday’s show to partake in the latest doom-and-gloom prognostications on the environment. According to McKibben, climate change is mostly former President Ronald Reagan’s fault and any additional blame should be directed at President Trump for engaging in “economic-self sabotage.”

Towards the end of their discussion, Amanpour invited McKibben to “Tell me your story about President Carter back in the ’70s. There was the oil crisis there, and he did all sorts of things, including putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. What did he tell people back then? Tell the American people?”

McKibben mourned, “What he told people was that the sun was, in fact, the future. And in his last budget, he put aside another R&D money that the plan was for America to be producing 20 percent of its power from the sun by the year 2000. Had we done that, we would live in a very different world today, a much cooler one, because this renewable revolution would have been pushed forward several decades.”

Lamenting Reagan’s election, McKibben continued, “Instead, of course, Ronald Reagan was elected over Mr. Carter, and he took down those solar panels from the White House roof. More importantly, he took that money out of the budget and locked us into this cycle of endless drilling for more oil that’s come to define not only America’s economy, but America’s politics.”

Newsbusters.

Not really knews, but a useful reminder.

Newsbusters.

The Elitist Media Evening News are continuing to do their level best to ignore the explosive details of both the Fauci Files and the Biden Tapes. None of the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS devoted any coverage to these two crucial and grossly undercovered stories.

The consensus national story on tonight’s evening news appears to be…the squirrel that disrupted play at Detroit’s Comerica Park between the hometown Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles. Here is that report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, July 28th, 2026:

As Bombs Fall in Iran, Trump Bombs in Washington (John F. Harris/Politico)

Trump Gutted the Kennedy Center. A Tour Guide Wants You to See It Anyway. (Elizabeth Williamson/New York Times)  Gutted! Kennedy Center guts strewn all over D.C.! Carnage unimaginable!

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Funny, I was under the impression that ‘governance by whim and meme’ was a Democrat habit.

A Tale of Two Speeches — The press’s responsible handling of Trump’s incoherent speech … (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism …)

Republicans worry about rising gas prices — but won’t blame Trump (Kevin Frey/MS NOW)  No, we blame Biden.

Why Trump’s team is letting some Republicans distance themselves from him (Vaughn Hillyard/MS NOW)  As if they had a choice. Democrats are totalitarians and so think the Republicans must be totalitarians too.

In Memphis, an ‘anti-crime’ task force quietly turned into an ICE crackdown (Kat Lonsdorf/NPR)  Note the assumption that rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants is somehow different from ‘anti-crime’.

Capitol agenda: Thune tries to focus as Trump fumes (Politico)

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Order In 23 Democrat-Led States, Setting Up SCOTUS Fight

Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. (New York Times)  The swine! How dare he not spend all of this Democrat money?

What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms? (Jeffrey Toobin/New York Times)  Fail to kill himself?

Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)

The Ellisons Discover the Hard Way That Trump Is the Anti-Midas (Mark Gongloff/Bloomberg)

Trump aid cuts put HIV response at risk, reports show (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, fixing a disease that is a problem only because homosexuals (3% of the population0 can’t be bothered take precautions is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump tries to sell an economy voters aren’t buying (Josephine Walker/Axios).

July 26, 2026 — From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  Because, as we all know, only Trump has ‘cronies’.

After Trump meltdown, Cracker Barrel bends the knee and replaces CEO (Quispe López/Advocate)

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New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tweeted on X on Saturday that it is time for the White House Correspondents’ Association to “rethink” its annual dinner with the president, after the event with President Donald Trump did not “advance” the cause of reporting “without fear or favor.” As if that motto isn’t ridiculous at this point?

“Have been a member of the WHCA almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did advance that cause,” Baker posted. “Time to rethink the dinner.”

He elaborated on that argument on MS NOW with Alex Witt over the weekend, noting the president is suing journalists and issuing subpoenas for their work. That’s funny, because his hero President Obama ordered more leak investigations into reporters than all previous presidents combined. But they were celebrating him at White House reporter dinners just the same. Friends and political allies make for warm dinners.

It gave The New Hitler a platform to mock the people who hate him. We can’t have that.

How Trump could undermine the midterms (George Chidi/The Guardian)  Where ‘undermine’ refers to Democrat efforts to steal the mid-terms.

Trump’s foreign policy enters its decadent, desperate end stage (Andrew O’Hehir/Salon)

Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’ (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  Old but still true.

I’ve visited the Smithsonian hundreds of times. Warnings aren’t needed. (Philip Kennicott/Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, what proglodytes believe is absolutely the truth.

Why Trump Has ‘No F*cking Way Out’ of His Failed Iran War (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

INEVITABLE: Brian Stelter Whines Over Trump’s Nerd Prom Speech

Trump Triggers Massive Leftist Hypocrisy On ‘Transgenderism’

The media’s anti-Trump bias was on full display at redo of White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)

Why even some Trump supporters are souring on his handling of the economy (Washington Post)

Elizabeth Warren Claims Crypto Clarity Act Would Help Trump… And ‘Criminals & Cartels’

Trump’s Iran Fallacy

Newsbusters.

Sunday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend staged a kvetchathon over President Trump ordering the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History warning visitors that the museum does not accurately reflect American history.

The panel repeatedly asked: Who gets to tell America’s history?

They never answered that question, other than to make clear they don’t want Trump doing it.

Jim Acosta Falsely Accuses Trump of Jailing Journalists

More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian) Because, as we all know, feeding children is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Fedral government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears (Samantha Pearson/Wall Street Journal)  Democrats in America aren’t the only ones stealing elections, and fearing getting found out.

Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

UK’s Burnham Would Call Out Trump If in Britain’s Interest, He Tells BBC  Good luck with that.

Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit. (New York Times)  Becaise. as we all know, nobody but Trump’s family have ever benefited from public office.

UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’ (Michael Savage/The Guardian)  Because, as we all know, ‘journalists’ never have to censor stories about the left over safety fears.

Nobody’s cashing in on the presidency quite like Donald Trump Jr. (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, every Trump is a crook—unlike Democrats. (Catherine Herridge Uncovers Shocking Revelations About The Biden Family)

Read it.

A Canadian intern at NATO military headquarters in Belgium was arrested for espionage. The name of the intern is Chinese, but to protect the Canadian government from embarrassment the nation the woman was spying for remains undisclosed. Go figure.

How Trump and His Allies Can Corrupt the Midterms (David French/New York Times)  One of the biggest laughs I’ve  had for a month of Sundays was an article in a Voice of the Crust labeling David French as ‘right-leaning’.  French is the poster child for Lenin’s concept of the Useful Idiot.

Dems Alarmed Over Possible US Strikes on Mali Terror Group  Terrorists, especially foreign terrorists, are a cornerstone of the Democrat base.

MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell Begs for International Investigation Against Trump  Because, as we all know,  Trump needs to be investigated, and who better to investigate Trump than foreigners?

Pentagon Pete Strips Fallen Heroes of Status as War Dead (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, anybody adversely affected by the current administration is ipso facto a Hero.

Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

DOJ Sues Milwaukee Over ICE Mask Ordinance  The proglodyte mob has an inalienable right to identify ICE agents for retaliation.

Democrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal Government (Nick Corasaniti/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, Democrats have an inalienable right to steal elections.

Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After April Attack Halted Gala

Angry Trump Openly Urges GOP to Rig Midterms as Brutal Fox Poll Hits (New Republic)  Because, as we all know, only Democrats are entitled to rig midterms.

MAGA’s “pasta pass” talking point is height of gaslighting (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Getcher Narrative, right here.

Trump-backed SAVE Act is newest effort to collect private voter information (Nathan Lee/ABC News)  Like “Are you a citizen?”

Trump’s Tariff Runaround Defies the Courts and Common Sense (Natasha Sarin/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, common sense is what the NYT says it is.

Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems (Jessie Blaeser/Politico)  Because, as we all know, gas has a ‘price problem’ under Trump even though gas is cheaper than under Biden. (Who are you going to believe, the Narrative Media or your lying eyes?)

Quagmire of the Vanities ??? Yesterday Donald Trump declared that the Iran war is going … (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Dinner with a side of ‘vicious’ (Politico)

Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)  Because, as we all know, “Why are you such a ricist?” is a perfectly normal question to ask a Heretic and Sinner. (WATCH: Elon Musk Verbally Smacks Pompous British Journalist Around)

‘We Are All Screwed’: Rosie O’Donnell Recounts Fleeing Trump’s America

PBS’s Updegrove Ups the Anti-Trump Insanity: Stacey Abrams’ ’10 Steps’ to Tyranny

Senior Navy official placed on leave after vowing to undo Trump’s policies in undercover video (Emily Hallas/Washington Examiner)

Trump accused of using forced labor as ‘convenient’ justification for tariffs (The Guardian)  Of course, if he hadn’t, they’d have bitched and moan about him not doing so.

MS NOW Gets ‘Triggered’ By GOP’s ‘Red-Baiting’ Of The DSA  It’s not ‘Red-Baiting’ if they actually are Reds.

ProPublica, a Voice of the Crust.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

But never abuses of power by Democrats or Democrat-controlled government. They save their ire for anything with ‘private’ attached to it. Only government employees can be trusted with the spending of ‘taxpayer dollars’.

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They take their jobs as Mouths of Sauron seriously.

The Guardian, Mouth of Sauron in Britain.

Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage.

But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s annual summit in Ankara this week seemed extreme, even by Trumpian standards. As commentators sought toexplain what happened, their usually capacious stock of Trump-fitting cliches was at risk of exhaustion.

“When the facts change, sir, I change my opinions What do you do?” — John Maynard Keynes.

Ah ah ah ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

The Telegraph (UK).

The Usual Suspects are, of course, screaming bloody murder. ‘Journalists’ have to learn that they have to obey the same laws as everybody else.

Washingtonian.

The paper’s opinion section frequently cheerleads the controversial server warehouses—but seldom mentions its billionaire owner’s business reasons for doing so.

I doubt seriously that the writers for the Washington Poop spend all that much time trying to figure out what to say that will please the paper’s owner. The best you can say is that they will hesitate to write something they think he won’t like.

Priorities USA Will Spend $30 Million To Define JD Vance and Marco Rubio (Elena Schneider/NOTUS)  God forbid people should make up their minds without the benefits of a Narrative.

Trump keeps bringing up the number 22 (NBC News)  No, NBC keeps bringing it up.

Why Trump has been attacking the Supreme Court, with 3 key rulings ahead (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)  Although not as much as Democrats and their lakeys in the Narrative Media.

How MAGA Undermined the Military (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

What if we covered Trump’s age the way we covered Biden’s? (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Because Trump is obviously senile the way Biden was. It’s not the age, it’s the incompetence.

“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/ProPublica)  Demcrats don’t like competition for power grabs.

Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats (Casey Michel/New Republic)  Kleptocrats like Democrat politicians?

The MAGA stars freaked out by their own movement (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Or at least that’s what they want you to believe./

Exclusive / ‘The president seems to revel in chaos’: Cornyn goes his own way (Burgess Everett/Semafor)  You want chaos? Try any Blue state.

Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show (Associated Press)  “Permitted”? Are they under the delusion that the DEA can stop all drugs if they only want to hard enough?

Trump is still haunted by Hoover’s failures (Zachary Basu/Axios)  Because, as we all know, the mid-readers at Axios know exactly what Trump is ‘haunted by’, even if he doesn’t.

Trump Is Melting Down and Threatening Jail Time Over Reflecting Pool Disaster (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  At least that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Transcript: Krugman on Trump Mental Breakdown and a Nation in Decline (New Republic)  The Man Who Is Always Wrong is right at home in the Narratie Media.

Not the Bee.

It’s for the children….

Not the Bee.

The folks over at the BBC, notorious for their objective and totally truthful reporting, took one look at the skyline of Houston and thought, “That can’t be right. Houston has mountains. We should add some mountains to this skyline.”

The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, voter fraud it TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE, so that CAN’T POSSIBLY be the reason.  But we mind-readers at the NYT will be happy to share what we know is going on in Trump’s supposed brain.

‘Humiliation’: Donald Trump battles claims his Iran deal is worse than Obama’s (Financial Times)  Because, as we all know, the Magic Negro couldn’t POSSIBLY have made a deal that was anything less than perfect.

Trump jokes he’ll blame Vance if Iran deal doesn’t work out (Julia Manchester/The Hill)  But we’re still trying to puzzle out what he REALLY meant….

JD Vance Is Going to Eat This Turd and Love It (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  That’s the Bullshitwark—always keeping it classy.

With Gushy PBS Approval, Eddie Glaude Likens MAGA to KKK With ‘Evangelical Twist’  MAGA is the New Nigger.

The right-wing media revolt against Trump’s proposed MOU with Iran (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)  Normal people believe it when they see it. The Narrative Media see it when they believe it.

Why Trump’s Iran agreement could be a tough sell for Republicans: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)  Because we say so. That’s good enough for you proles.

Trump’s pitch to voters: “I love the inflation” (Vox) Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at Vox know what even Trump doesn’t know.

Top Democrats demand Rubio briefing on Iran deal (Andrew Solender/Axios)  I guess they don’t believe the Narrative Media any more than the rest of us.

Why Trump is sabotaging his own nominee (Cameron Peters/Vox)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at Vox know what even Trump doesn’t know

Trump Demanded Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ He Got a Surprise Instead. (David E. Sanger/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, we mind-readers at the NYT know when he’s surprised and when he isn’t.

Trump’s Deal With Iran Opens New Rifts in G.O.P. (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at the NYT know what Republicans are thinking even when they don’t.

Trump’s SAVE Act obsession ties Senate in knots (Mike Zapler/Axios)

Republicans fear Trump is hurting their chances. He can’t understand why. (Politico)  Because, as we all know,  we mind-readers at Politico know what Republicans fear and what Trump doesn’t understand better than anybody else.

Trump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Peace Deal (Nick Wadhams/Bloomberg) Because, as we all know,  the mind-readers at Blooomberg know Trump’s red lines far better than he does.

How the stock market became Trump’s most favored adviser (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, we mind-readers at the Washington Poop know who Trump’s most favored adviser is better than he does.

Power and Geopolitics After Trump (Paul Krugman)  The man who has never been right even once in his life lays down the Narrative.

Everyone in Trump’s Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut (Wall Street Journal)  Thank God the WSJ has nothing more important to write about.

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Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  The war isn’t really over, of course, but mind-readers in the Narrative Media KNOW that he lost and KNOW that he doesn’t understand anything anywhere anytime.

CNN Spins Local Newsom Investigation as Trumpist Political Witch Hunt Because what else could it POSSIBLY be?

ABC Downplays Illegal Alien Ramming Car into ICE Agent as ‘Suspect’

Former Judge’s ICE Obstruction Conviction Upheld

Iran Found Trump’s Bone Spur (Bret Stephens/New York Times)

Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Risks Falling Short of Obama Version (Jonathan Tirone/Bloomberg)

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program (Nicole Santa Cruz/ProPublica)  Because, as we all know, providing food for children is TOTALLY the respoosibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

After draping White House in gold, Trump heads to ‘the real deal’: Versailles (Washington Post

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn–Time for a Global Response (New Republic)

MAGA hawk mutiny deepens Trump’s isolation on Iran (Zachary Basu/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Vance’s slick answers on ‘The View’ can’t hide his biggest problem for 2028 (Paul Waldman/MS NOW) He cant avoid TRUMP COOTIES.

Death rate in ICE immigrant detention centers more than doubles under Trump, Reuters analysis finds (Reuters)

Trump plan would fence park near White House long used by tourists, protesters (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Klepper Implies Trump Wanted German Chancellor To Get Him a Nazi Jersey

The Real Trump Resistance Doesn’t Need a Hashtag (New York Times)

Trump in Defeat — The president went to war triumphant and will likely leave greatly weakened. (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

The Next Step in Criminalizing ICE Protests Is Here (Spencer Ackerman/FOREVER WARS)

Rick Jackson’s Georgia win is an embarrassing blemish on Trump’s record (Politico)

The De-Trumpification Process Begins Now (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

GOP senator: Trump Iran deal ‘tremendous foreign policy blunder’ (Max Rego/The Hill)

O’Donnell Seeks Warnock’s ‘Spiritual Guidance’ Over UFC Fighter’s Michelle Obama Insult

The Telegraph (UK).

Pro-migrant campaigners boasted about how they had influenced a BBC children’s television show as part of an attempt to change Britain’s attitude towards asylum seekers, The Telegraph can reveal.

My, what a surprise.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Call up your favorite AI and ask it how many black males died of homicide committed by other black males in 2025.

I guarantee it’s more than 181, and possibly more than 782.

Newsbusters.

Saturday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend offered up a full-throated class-warfare kvetch over Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

Co-host Eugene Daniels grew visibly agitated as economist Justin Wolfers claimed Musk “bought” the 2024 election for Donald Trump with $250 million in campaign spending. Daniels declared the discussion made him “very angry” — not at Wolfers, but at the country for allowing it.

Wolfers argued Musk’s spending was enough to flip the election’s narrow margins in key states and left him with enough wealth to “buy” thousands more. Yet neither Daniels nor Wolfers mentioned that Kamala Harris’s campaign and aligned groups outspent Trump’s by roughly half a billion dollars, with Harris’s side topping nearly $2 billion compared to Trump’s roughly $1.45–1.5 billion.

Newsbusters.

It is, one might say, a completely American media routine.

Out there somewhere in this big country, some far left activist gets attention and the left leaning media loves it.

This has happened so often in American politics that there is no point in denying it.

Way back in the way back – the late 1940’s and early 1950’s – there was a seemingly up-and-coming rising star inside the castle of the American Left. His name was Alger Hiss. Hiss was perfectly credentialed. A Harvard Law grad, followed by jobs in various branches of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the successor Truman administration, holding this or that job in the Justice Department and eventually the State Department.

Eventually, Hiss was, as it were, “ratted out” by a State Department colleague named Whittaker Chambers. Ratted out as a Communist spy. Not good, and a decided attention-getter. All you-know-what broke out, very much in the public and drawing in the Congress. Alger Hiss became a household name, and, yes, was eventually convicted of being a spy and sentenced to several years in the federal pen.

Suffice to say, the American media of the day ate it up. So too did Republicans in the day, notably in that category a young California Congressman named Richard Nixon.

This piece of ancient history comes to mind as a new figure on the Left is increasingly the focus of today’s media. That would be a here-to-fore unknown Maine Democrat activist named Graham Platner. And with all the certainty of rain on on a cloudy day, today’s media has zeroed in on Platner. Platner being the Democrat candidate for the Maine Senate seat now held by Republican Senator Susan Collins.

Newsbusters.

When Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq on Friday, he became the first trillionaire in history. Later that night on HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher wondered if you could still be a good capitalist and believe in “some cap on wealth.” Eurasian Group President Ian Bremmer responded not by answering the question but by suggesting that Musk’s history-making day was a result of his donation to President Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Maher wondered, “Is it going to be, like, five people who have all the money in the world, and can you be a good capitalist? Here’s my question: Can you be a good capitalist, because I think I am, or a believer in capitalism and still think there should be some cap on wealth?”

Bremmer began his response by waxing poetic but not answering the question, “Well, you have to—Americans believe that people should be able to make it, they should be successful. It’s one of the things that really makes our country work. We don’t think necessarily that someone who’s worth 100 million, even a billion, maybe even a trillion is necessarily a bad thing where in many other countries they do, but there has to be opportunity for the average American and their kids to get there.”

Turning more negative, Bremmer recalled, “We saw Graham Platner came out immediately today, ‘There should never be another trillionaire.’ You know, you see Elizabeth Warren, you’ll see Rob Reich, ‘Every billionaire is a policy failure.’ That reflects the fact a whole bunch of Americans feel like they don’t trust their leaders. They don’t trust these elites.”

Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change (Reuters)  Because, as we all know, every judge knows more abcut what the Exccutive Branch ought to be doing than some silly President.

Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)

At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age (Annie Linskey/Wall Street Journal)  Come and get your Narrative, righ here.

RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)  Melts down! Well, maybe not, but that’s the Narrative and we’re sticking to it.

Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times) We hope we hope we hope….

Furious Lawrence O’Donnell Makes Secretary Rubio’s UFC Remarks All About Trump

CNN Locates Trump-Trashing ‘Fact Checker’ Daniel Dale on L.A. Vote-Counting Delays

Newsbusters.

Imagine being so mentally polluted (no pun intended) by your disdain for people who disagree with your climate fanaticism that you turn them into carbon footprint monsters in their obituaries? That’s exactly what leftist media outlets did writ large upon the passing of legendary former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond.

Outlets like Bloomberg News, The New York Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Australia-based Sydney Morning Herald all took aim at Raymond following news of his death at age 87. They all turned Raymond into Mother Earth’s archnemesis by making him the face of Big Oil and the so-called climate change denier movement.

Some even went as far as to compare Raymond to one of the most notorious Sith Lord villains in Star Wars. Never mind that the “unrelenting” Raymond’s life could be seen as one of America’s great success stories in turning ExxonMobil into the world’s most profitable company for a time, as The Wall Street Journal highlighted. But when do we expect the lefty journalists to purely celebrate anything Americana?

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Countries whose Wokerati ruling classes are more insulated from their real-people population are more apt to have Narrative Media that will more readily say the quiet part out lout.

MAGA Is Melting Down Over the Results From L.A.’s Mayoral Primary (The New Republic) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Move over, MAGA — it’s time to take America back (The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger.

This district judge just blocked Trump’s $100,000 application fee for H-1B immigrants because of course

President Trump Notes California Ballot Curation Likely to Eliminate Steve Hilton  Because, as we all know, Republicans have no business running for office in California.

EXCLUSIVE: Steelworkers Union Spent Millions Against Trump Agenda, Showing Gap With Membership

Clerical error inadvertently exposes shady donations to Jim Jordan and MAGA groups: report (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)  ‘Shady’ means ‘We didn’t find anything improper but we’re going to try to persuade you we did without being specific.’ Oh, and MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ walkout shows a presidency that’s already finished (Matthew Bartlett/MS NOW)  They hope they hope they hope….

Top DOJ prosecutor is latest to spread lies about California vote counting (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)  Telling the truth is ‘lies’ when you’re pushing the Narrative.

Judge tosses Trump bid to restrict renewable energy tax credits (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)

They Went to Jared — How Donald Trump’s son-in-law used his position to hop in bed with autocrats–and sell out America. (Casey Michel/Mother Jones)

Jared Kushner Makes Hunter Biden Look Like a Boy Scout (w/ Casey Michel) (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

‘Ruin a Good Thing’: CNN Hypes Hate of Trump Attending Knicks Games

CNN’s Cornish Likens Hegseth D-Day Speech to Language ‘Nazis Would Have Used’

Trump Wants to Call the Shots. But in Iran, He Keeps Hitting His Limits. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)

Trump hits back at Stephen A. Smith after ESPN analyst ranted he would blame president for Knicks defeat (Chris Bradford/New York Post)

He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him. (Annie Waldman/ProPublica)  Because, as we all know, the government is TOTALLY resposible for stopping people getting sick.

California’s “red mirage” feeds MAGA fraud frenzy (Zachary Basu/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant (CNN)  The mind-readers azt CNN are on the march.

Trump is becoming Jimmy Carter (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t (Reuters)

The Supreme Court Hasn’t Ruled On Birthright Citizenship. Trump May Be Deporting Newborn Citizens Anyway (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)  Because, as we all know, laws Democrats like aren’t really laws until the Supreme Court rules, and maybe not even then.

The Trump Administration’s Dubious Case for Work Requirements (Can We Still Govern?)  Because, as we all know, it’s a violation of our human rights to expect people to actully work.

‘TRUMP CURSE’: Furious Knicks Fans Blame President for Jinxing Team’s Winning Streak as They Lose to Spurs (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)  Nothing is so fringe that it can’t be blamed on Trump.

Newsbusters.

When the polls close on Tuesday night in Maine, it’s all but guaranteed that the man who has been accused of “toxic relationships” by three woman, sexting with women outside his marriage, referred to himself as a communist, called police officers “bastards,” said rural White Americans are racist and stupid, and sported a Nazi tattoo, Graham Platner, will be the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The liberal media, in an effort to get out in front of this Democratic disaster, have taken to equating Platner with President Trump and Texas GOP Senate nominee, Ken Paxton. That was the case Saturday on CNN Newsroom.

ATQUE: Platner Supporters Unfazed by Allegations of Misconduct (Eliza Collins/Wall Street Journal)

ATQUE: LA voting debacle reflects a democracy in crisis (Joel Pollak/New York Post)

Nicholas Kristof, a Voice of the Crust.

A quiz question: Which state does best at ensuring the well-being of its citizens, giving them health, education and hope?

The question lays bare Kristof’s life-long career as a Woke proglodyte statist.

How is it the duty of the state to give its inhabitants ‘health’, ‘education’, or ‘hope’? And you’ll notice that he pays no attention to things that most of us might be interested in, such as freedom, law enforcement, and opportunity.

It comes as no surprise that his answer is Minnesota, heartland of Somali fraud, male bathroom tampons,  and BLM riots.

Atlas Obscura, an impressively well-named site. (With thanks to VA Viper, a kindred soul.)

ONE DAY THIS PAST APRIL, the residents of Durham, North Carolina, saw the sky turn a peculiar but familiar shade of chartreuse. Enormous clouds of a fine, yellow-green powder engulfed the city. It looked, and felt, like the end of the world. “Your car was suddenly yellow, the sidewalk was yellow, the roof of your house was yellow,” says Kevin Lilley, assistant director of the city’s landscape services. Residents, quite fittingly, called it a “pollenpocalypse.”

Male trees are one of the most significant reasons why allergies have gotten so bad for citydwellers in recent decades. They’re indiscriminate, spewing their gametes in every direction. They can’t help it—it’s what evolution built them for. This is fine in the wild, where female trees trap pollen to fertilize their seeds. But urban forestry is dominated by male trees, so cities are coated in their pollen. Tom Ogren, horticulturalist and author of Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping, was the first to link exacerbated allergies with urban planting policy, which he calls “botanical sexism.”

In trees, sex exists beyond the binary of female and male. Some, such as cedar, mulberry, and ash trees, are dioecious, meaning each plant is distinctly female or male. Others, such as oak, pine, and fig trees are monoecious, meaning they have male and female flowers on the same plant. It’s easy to identify female trees or parts—they’re the ones with seeds. And yet more, such as hazelnut and apple trees, produce “perfect” flowers that contain male and female parts within a single blossom. But while both monoecious and male dioecious trees produce pollen, Ogren claims the latter are primarily to blame for our sneezes and watery eyes.

Nothing is too obscure to escape Politial Incorrectness.

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If a major Senate candidate abused a past girlfriend, isn’t that newsworthy?

If a major Senate candidate knowingly sported a Nazi tattoo, isn’t that newsworthy?

If a major Senate candidate, already under fire for his past remarks about rape, talked about raping intruders, isn’t that newsworthy?

You’d think so.

Yet in an extensive new article about Maine Democrat Graham Platner, The New York Times reporters penned over 1,000 words before revealing the detailed allegation of physical abuse. (There is a very brief mention of Platner being “physically threatening” in paragraph six.)

There are over 500 words before reporting that an ex-girlfriend says Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol.

And there are about 1,300 words before the revelation that Platner “said … a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them” and “He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” according to that same ex.

As anyone with experience in journalism knows, most readers generally won’t read a full article—or even most of an article, depending on how long it is. Most people are busy. That’s why journalists are taught to put the most important facts in the first few paragraphs of an article.

So it’s telling that The New York Times, a major outlet with employees most definitely familiar with journalism norms, decided that the opening paragraphs of its article should include sentences like “several women … [described] Mr. Platner as a fun and caring partner, and saying they felt safe with him,” but not the most explosive allegations of his former girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield.

Trump says ‘maybe we’ll never’ take down the UFC structure outside the White House (NBC News)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

MAGA isn’t sold on Trump’s face on the $250 bill (Josephine Walker/Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains.)

Trump Order Makes It Easier to Fire Agency Staffers At Will (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Rated ‘Not Qualified’ To Be A Federal Judge (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Said rating being by the A.B.A, a collection of Woke apparatchiks.

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers (Reuters)  Because, as we all know, no federal worker ought ever to be fired for any reason. ITrump makes it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers (Tami Luhby/CNN)) There’s an echo in here.

Trump Humiliated After Senators Pull Ballroom Cash (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast) Humiliated! Whether he actually is or not, he ought to be, so we’re going to treat it as fact.

Navy Vet Now Faces Murder Charge in ‘Trump House’ Death  They can’t get at Trump but any random Trump supporter will do.

House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran, in a rebuke of Trump (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)  He might even notice. (House Passes Dem Resolution to Block U.S. Military Action Against Iran In Narrow Vote)

House moves forward on new aid for Ukraine package, spurning Trump (Laura Kelly/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, Trump deserves to be spurned early and often.

Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show (Cate Brown/The Guardian) ‘Ties’ means we can’t prove any connection but we’ll suggest it as strongly as we an without taking a chance of being sued.

Trump Suffers Crushing Poll Defeat Against Sex Attack Victim (Olivia Ralph/The Daily Beast)  As if a poll (YouGov/The Economist) made by Wokerati for Wokerati had any significance.

House tensions erupt as Tlaib pushes Lebanon war powers vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)  I guess it’s not allowed to notice that she support’s America’s enemies every chance she gets.

New intel chief is a partisan warrior who has the president’s ear, sources say (NBC News)  Sources say! That proves it! (It’s not clear which is worse: that he is a ‘partisan warrior’ or that he ‘has the President’s ear’.)

Obscure Group With Trump Ties Plans to Route Funds to His Allies for Legal Fights (New York Times) ‘Ties’ means we can’t prove any connection but we’ll suggest it as strongly as we an without taking a chance of being sued.

Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist (Christopher Mathias/Talking Points Memo)  The talking point is that anybody who doesn’ t parrot The Narrative is a fascist, never mind that we don’t actually know what the word really means.

The hair-loss drug Trump took for years is now absent from his medical records (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  No nit is too small to pick when it comes to Trump and the Narrative Media.

Iran war powers rebuke shows how Trump is increasingly boxed in (Aaron Blake/CNN) Or at least that’s the Narrative that we’re going to push.

Bret Baier said over a year ago that the press had a duty to scrutinize Trump family corruption. He’s since given that topic 5 minutes of airtime. (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Because, as we all know, that’s the most important thing he had to talk about.

A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done. (Scott Waldman/Politico)  Because, as we all know,  weather researdh is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal tasxpayer.

This Is Why You Don’t Slash Humanitarian Aid (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, hukanitarian aid is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer. (Kristof LOVES spending other people’s money.)

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Left-leaning Condé Nast, through Wired, appears to be running narrative cover for the protest-industrial complex, gaslighting readers over efforts to impose real penalties on chaos and disorder stemming from protests and riots.

Wired reporter Ali Winston’s target is the Manhattan Institute. She appears to be upset that the Manhattan Institute is pushing for new state laws that make vandalism, blocking roadways, and trespassing during riots and protests felony offenses.