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.

U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse  Because, as we all know, tracking Atlantic currents is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century  Because, as we all know, all of the Little People (the people not as clever as the author) will just be standing around waiting for Elon Musk to vacuum the cash out of their pockets without any choice in the matter. (Ignoring the Real Theft of the Century, the 2016 election.)

Rep. Sara Jacobs mocked Marco Rubio’s shoes in the Foreign Affairs Committee and he had the best response  “Sure, I may have bad shoes, but you’re UGLY, and I will go home and take these shoes off but you will be UGLY for the rest of your life.”

Trump Derangement Goes to Newark: The Anti-ICE Protest Industry

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

Except that it’s not ‘American capitalsm’ but rather ‘American semi-socialism’ that’s the problem.

Trump Throws 1 A.M. Temper Tantrum Over How Innocent He Is (The New Republic) Because, as we all know, Trump throws tantrums—just ask the Narrative Media.

The true meaning of Trump’s choice for America’s new top spy (CNN) Because, as we all know, you, the reader are too fucking stupid fo figure it out yourself, without us holding your and and leading you to the Narrative.

How Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies (ABC News) Because, as we all know, Trump is a crook, and crooks do that sort of thing. (Hunter Biden, call your parole officer.)

Jeffries: Democrats aren’t focused on Trump impeachment ‘at this moment’ (Justin Papp/CNBC)  Because, as we all know, they’ll impeach him when they get around to it. It’s what they do.

Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico) Because, as we all know, it’s not enough to submit to the Deep State, you have to say that you submit to the Deep State. You have to say ‘uncle’ to acknowledge that you’re beaten.

Trump loyalist Pulte gets oversight of vast U.S. intel (Josephine Walker/Axios)  Loyalist! Vast!

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, anybody who was convicted in the witch-hunt for Jan. 6 is ipso facto unqualified for anything anywhere.

NPR Plugs ‘Pride Month,’ Laments Trump Is Curbing Corporate Donations  Because, as we all know, it’s not that Trump doesn’t have Pride, it’s that he has the wrong kind of Pride.

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)  Because, as we all know, only Left-wingers are subject to dangers when they blow the whistle. (When the Right does it, it’s a ‘conspiracy theory’.)

Trump’s intel pick delights MAGA and shocks nation’s spies (Daniella Cheslow/Politico)  Because, as we all know, we MUST NOT shock the nation’s spies.

Leftists Try To “Cancel” Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rally

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts (Annika Hammerschlag/Associated Press)  Because, as we all know, observing the oceans and critical climate records are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Bill Pulte is Trump’s most dangerously sycophantic promotion yet (Hayes Brown/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, nothing Trump does is anything less than a disaster.

Newsbusters.

Insipid former New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman is batting a thousand with the level of maniacal things he’s spewed onto the internet within just a 24-hour window.

Krugman released a YouTube video of himself May 31 ironically calling President Donald Trump “mentally ill” before monotonously calling for a “thorough purging of the United States” tantamount to a “de-MAGA-fication” of the populace. He must have had some kind of inkling that what he said was cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs, because he had to assure viewers that he’s “not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the ‘de-Nazification’ that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.”

Hey Krugman, calling someone “mentally ill” while simultaneously calling for a “purge” of your fellow Americans you disagree with is some insane work. Worthy of note is that Denazification involved prosecuting “war criminals.” Is that what Krugman is saying should happen to his MAGA detractors? It seems like it.

MAGA is the New Nigger. Progs gotta have somebody to hate or they’re not happy.

Newsbusters.

The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times was graced with a profile of James Talarico, the elitist media’s newest hope to finally elect a Democrat in Texas: “Progressive Faith Powers Texas Democrat’s Run — Evangelicals See Threat in Talarico’s Pastor.”

The online headline and subhead was more provocative: “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? — Jim Rigby, a pastor who rarely uses the word “God,” is a key to understanding the Senate candidate trying to pull off something unusual in Texas.”

As usual, all concerns about mixing religion and politics evaporate once a Democrat seems in striking distance of winning a statewide seat in Texas.

The long profile by Ruth Graham (who covers religion for the paper) and Texas bureau chief J. David Goodman conveniently skipped over most of the theological complications that would render the pastor’s view, and by implication those of Talarico himself, contradictory and absurd.

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System (Eric Niiler/New York Times  Because, as we all know, climate and ocean research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Russ Vought is doing his part in the Trump administration’s war on scientific progress (Jessica Calarco/MS NOW)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Trump administration war on scientific probress. (Because, as we all know, scientific progress is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal governmnt—and the Federal taxpayer.)

Melania Named in Bombshell New Epstein Claims (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, any allegation against a Trump is ipso facto true, and any defense by a Trump is ipso facto fase.

Republicans go all in on toxic masculinity in Texas (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Because, as we all know, ‘toxic masculinity’ is what the Narrative Media say it is.

Trump Rages over Fresh Iran Humiliation as GOP Angst Grows: “Screwed” (New Republic) Because, as we all know, Trump rages when the Narrative Media say he rages.

Why young America is trending socialist (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  Becaise. as we all know, Young America is always trending socialist, concerning which a British Voice of the Crust is the eternally reliable judge.

America’s Bipartisan Birthday Commission Is Losing to Trump (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)  Because, as we all know, ‘bipartisan’ is anything that doesn’t agree with Trump.

Trump Appoints Loyalist Bill Pulte as Acting Spy Chief (Bloomberg)  The not-so-subtle innuendo is that he is unqualified except in his loyalty to Trump.

Cartoonish Paul Krugman Compares Trump Border Control to ‘Pogroms, American-Style’  The Man Who Has Never Been Right is an infallible guide.

Trump taps FHFA’s Pulte for acting DNI in latest radical personnel move (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Trump appoints Bill Pulte, unqualified loyalist who targeted his foes, as acting intel chief (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket) Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Roger Stone helped Trump choose an unorthodox new intel adviser (Shelby Talcott/Semafor) Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn on Him (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent, one of the TDS Five, loses his shit.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

“America Inc.” is, of course, one of the Left’s beloved smear-terms that sound as if they ought to mean something but really are just name-calling, like’ price gouging’ or ‘windfall profits’.

.Texas is steadily establishing itself as America Inc’s new centre of gravity. No state receives more business investment or is adding more people to its population. From 2020 to 2025 it created roughly a fifth of all net new jobs in the country. It is only a matter of time before Texas overtakes California as the largest economy in America.

In the early 2020s Texas was luring in remote workers fleeing high taxes, exorbitant house prices and bad policies in America’s coastal metropolises, while benefiting from the Biden administration’s subsidies for green energy and chipmaking facilities. Now the state’s dominance in energy—not just oil and gas, but also renewable power—has made it a major beneficiary of the data-centre boom. Meanwhile, its technology and finance ecosystems have been deepening. This summer it will ring in its first standalone bourse, the Texas Stock Exchange, joining outposts of the New York Stock Exchange (nyse) and Nasdaq already operating in the state. (Donald Trump has called the nyse’s new branch an “unbelievably bad thing” for his hometown of New York, even if his social-media venture was the first business to list on it.) The state’s appeal to yuppies is also growing with every stream of a country song. It seems there is no part of America with which Texas does not want to compete.

Needless to say, The Economist is not a fan; they’ll cover it, but with their noses pinched shut.l

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

This sprawling ancient metropolis in the jungle of Ecuador has revealed a unique form of urbanism found only in the Amazon. Sofia Quaglia visits the site for the story of this mysterious civilisation.

Of course, whenever a Narrative Media ‘journalist’ claims to be giving you The True Story, you ought to be especially on the lookout for The Agenda.

Naturally, being an instance of FemBot Journalism, it can’t start with anything except a Charming Anecdote before getting to the actual thing you came to read.

But persist—you may find an actual fact in the least likely location.

The American Mind.

Writing in 1833, Justice Joseph Story, one of the greatest jurists of the early republic, warned against a dangerously exaggerated conception of the freedom of the press. “There is,” Story observed in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, “a good deal of loose reasoning on the subject of the liberty of the press, as if its inviolability were constitutionally such, that, like the king of England, it could do no wrong, and was free from every inquiry, and afforded a sanctuary for every abuse; that, in short, it implied a despotic sovereignty to do every sort of wrong, without the slightest accountability to private or public justice.” This idea, Story held, “is too extravagant to be held by any sound constitutional lawyer.”

Story’s warning is as relevant today as it was when it was written almost 200 years ago. Much too often, the contemporary press is not content with the equal constitutional rights shared by all Americans. Instead, its members frequently assert special privileges that are not based on the Constitution. In some cases, they even claim a prerogative to do things that would land any ordinary American in serious legal trouble. This problem is illustrated by the recent remarks of A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, at an event sponsored by Yale Law School.

Oil Tumbles On Deal ‘Breakthrough’ As US-Iran Reportedly Reach MOU, Pending Trump’s Final Approval

Trump has no way out on Iran — This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

No Way to Make a Deal ??? The agreement that Trump wants to strike with Iran keeps eluding him. (The Atlantic)

Scoop: U.S. and Iran reach deal but need Trump’s final approval, officials say (Barak Ravid/Axios)

U.S. and Iran reach temporary deal ??? but Trump hasn’t signed off yet (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC

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ow’s that “Diversity is our Strength” thing going, Europe?

You will not be surprised that the world’s international “objective” news agency failed to mention a key detail in the motive for the attack.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surpised.

CNN, a Voice of the Crust, goes full Climate Panic.

“Scientists say”! That proves it!!!

Actually, they keep promising that coastal cities will be under water “any time now” and it never happens.

Let’s see: New York, Boston, Balimore, DC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, all under water—that sounds like a win to me.

ATQUE: Germany’s AfD Party Calls Debunked Climate Scenarios “Greatest Fraud in Human History”

Babylon Bee.

After yet another failed assassination attempt against President Trump yesterday, the national media has agreed to just start reporting when Trump wasn’t shot at.

Quillette.

Nicholas Kristof’s 11 May New York Times column (“The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”) and its accompanying video demonstrate the halo effect that protects many non-governmental organisations from the scrutiny they deserve. In addition to the testimony provided by security prisoners (suspected or convicted terrorists) released from Israeli prisons, Kristof’s essay relies upon quotes from unverifiable NGO reports or statements, and from a United Nations committee that recycles the accusations those statements and reports contain.

The NGO at the centre of Kristof’s essay calls itself the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med or EMHRM), which Kristof blandly describes as “often critical of Israel.” Registered in Switzerland in 2015, this Palestinian NGO has a mailing address in Geneva and an unknown number of staffers paid with funds from undisclosed donors. The publication of a 69-page Euro-Med report on 12 April was the source of Kristof’s accusation that Israel “employs systematic sexual violence” that is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.” The report was accompanied by an extensive public-relations campaign, which included promotion in Turkish-government-controlled news platform TRT, Qatar-linked propaganda platform Middle East Eye, and many other outlets that routinely promote invented or tendentious stories about Israel.

Newsbusters.

It’s only May, and Google is already hard at work interfering in the 2026 midterm elections and doing clean-up for Democrats embroiled in fraud accusations.

Google News completely ignored multiple fraud scandals plaguing Democratic Party politics in its top 20 morning stories in April, hiding important information from voters as the midterm elections ramp up. From the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to the FBI raids on largely Somali-run day-care centers in Minnesota to a Democrat congresswoman found to have taken $5 million from taxpayers, mum was the word from Google.

There was no lack of stories on each of the scandals, but Google News shut them all down, including those published by some of Google’s favorite left-leaning outlets. Even still, these left-leaning sources dominated Google News while right-leaning outlets were once again denied visibility.

Newsbusters.

Everyone on the Left is convinced of his or her own omnipotent power to read the minds of people they know nothing about.

Newsbusteres.

The Elitist Media’s network evening news collectively whined over the Department of Justice’s announcement of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund intended to redress the grievances of those who claim to have been targeted by the Biden Department of Justice. ABC saw this as an opportunity to doctor President Donald Trump’s January 6th speech, as did the BBC.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Newsbisters.

The Big Four News Apps follow a predictable script: elevate articles from left-leaning outlets, suppress their right-leaning counterparts, while giving prime real estate to some of the most radical news outlets on the left. Yahoo News typically pushes that script even further. In April, the news aggregator appeared to mask that pattern by flooding its platform with BBC content, but the underlying bias quickly resurfaced.

Yahoo News has a record of sidelining not only stories from the right but also center-leaning sources that may offer balance. Its strong preference for the most extreme outlets on the left — Salon, The New Republic and The Daily Beast — has resulted in it being scored by the Media Research Center’s Digital News Tracker as the second-most leftist of the Big Four News Apps over the November 2025 through April 2026 period.

The aggregator dramatically ramped up its publication of BBC stories in April — which is still technically classified by AllSides as centrist — in an apparent bid to offset its extreme left-leaning bias rating. However, this tactic failed to deliver true balance as Yahoo News sacrificed right-leaning stories to elevate the scandal-plagued BBC, even though the British broadcaster has shifted leftward since AllSides’ last evaluation in July 2024.

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An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 New York Times article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.

Quillette.

Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times essay “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” displays a corruption in the moral language used to denounce Israel. Ostensibly a report on sexual abuse in detention, its actual function is to turn Israel into an object of revulsion: a state reimagined as an agent of rape, humiliation, bodily degradation, and bestial violation. Abuse in prisons and wartime detention obviously ought to be investigated, thoroughly and without prejudice. No state, including Israel, deserves exemption from scrutiny. But Kristof’s column—printed in the opinion section rather than the news section of America’s paper of record—is not content to ask for scrutiny. It gathers anonymous and politically mediated claims and arranges them into a grotesque moral tableau. The obscene result demonstrates how sexual accusation can become a political cudgel.

Tim Graham.

Leftists in the media cannot stand the idea that Team Trump is coming to the defense of white males at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They believe white males should never file a complaint, given their centuries of massive white male privilege.

Last week, The New York Times reported scornfully on how discrimination claims by white men and Jews are “Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda,” according to their headline. In their view, the EEOC should always match the leftist agenda. It’s supposed to be a captive agency of the Left under every administration.

This week, the EEOC sued The Times for discrimination against a white male employee who applied for a deputy real estate editor position. Despite experience in real-estate journalism, he was excluded from the final pool of candidates, which was composed of a white female, a black male, an Asian female, and a multiracial female. The multiracial female won the job, despite a lack of experience in real-estate journalism.

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Editors across Wikipedia are going all out to salvage the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) reputation.

The biased, so-called online encyclopedia’s editors downplayed, hid and even deleted content about the recent grand jury indictment of the SPLC across Wikipedia. The SPLC – accused of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence” – was indicted on “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

While Wikipedia routinely elevates indictments against Republicans and right-of-center organizations, the website’s editors pushed news of the indictment further and further down the SPLC’s own Wikipedia page. Wikipedia editors ultimately buried the news in the 65th paragraph of the entry, making “Federal indictment” a small subheading of “Lawsuits against and criticism of the SPLC.”

By contrast, Wikipedia consistently includes indictments, charges or investigations against Republicans and organizations on the right in the introductory section of their Wikipedia articles, many times as high as the third paragraph. Wikipedia boosted legal attacks on the pages of The Trump Organization, Fox News, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, former Trump advisor Roger Stone and former White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

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Three days before a 31-year-old male stormed the White House Correspondents Dinner, hoping to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet, the New York Times published a 35-minute video titled: “‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why petty theft might be the new political protest.” In it, a Times editor interviewed two other members of the media aristocracy about the moral code shared by a large swathe of young Americans.

That code justifies theft—and even violence—when harnessed to a fashionably left-wing cause. None of the participants—podcasting celebrity Hasan Piker, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, and Times opinion editor Nadja Spiegelman—expressed alarm at the glorification of crime. They smirked and giggled through the discussion, betraying a breezy indifference to lawbreaking.

It was striking enough that the Times published the video after reviewing the final cut. The paper was not embarrassed by the participants’ ignorance and entitlement. Nor was it troubled, apparently, by their debate over whether the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “actually effective political action” or merely—and disappointingly—effective “political consciousness-raising.”

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Leave it to the Soros regime to make it seem to the public like an economically-shellacked enemy of the U.S. is somehow winning its war against President Donald Trump.

The liberal Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft — which boasts $2,025,000 in funding from George Soros between 2019-2023 — pushed an asinine claim by non-resident fellow Ian Proud April 28 headlined, “Iran and Russia are gaming the United States, and winning.”

Proud then fear-mongered that Trump was running out of time to end the world before the American economy goes belly up. Proud attempted to prop up Iran’s illusory economic firewall, which new reporting proves is false in retrospect: “Both [Iran and Russia] have as a source of their strength considerable natural resources from which they can generate cash flow to sustain themselves during stand-offs with the West.” But as even pro-terrorist outlet Al Jazeera admitted May 2, “Prices surge, jobs disappear as war strains Iran’s economy.”

Babylon Bee.

This is CNN.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump was rushed off stage after a shots were fired at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

The US president was appearing as guest of honour at the annual journalism gala in Washington, DC on Saturday before shouts of “down, stay down,” were heard.

Security officials quickly stormed Mr Trump’s table and evacuated him from the event, which was taking place at the Washington Hilton hotel.

Mr Trump was not hurt during the incident, and later posted on social media that a gunman had been arrested and that he wanted the dinner to resume.

Well, if the Narrative Media and the Leftist Fringe keep calling him Hitler, people are going to try to kill him.

UPDATE: White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman identified as California teacher after shocking shooting  My, what a surprise.

UPDATE: Here’s what we know about the California teacher charged with trying to shoot up the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

UPDATE: Man With Shotgun Fired at Secret Service, Officer OK

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The Atlantic has a well-documented history of publishing fake hit pieces about President Donald Trump and his administration, and one wonders how many more hoaxes they can run before they get in real trouble.

Its latest effort targeting FBI Director Kash Patel may be its most reckless yet — and this time, the bureau is fighting back with lawyers.

Newsbusters.

The elitist media are refusing to report on the heinous murders committed by illegal immigrants – probably because they don’t want to give any credence to the necessity of the Trump administration’s beefed-up enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

In just the last two weeks, we’ve seen four high-profile cases (some involving Biden and Obama-era illegals) who have committed horrific crimes. One of the cases involved a gruesome video of an illegal Haitian immigrant killing his victim with a hammer. It’s the kind of video that usually makes national news. Yet it’s only been covered by one of the broadcast networks (CBS).

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Lot of that going around these days.

To point out that the “FT is nothing more than the Guardian with stock prices these days”, a “once mighty publications fallen into the abyss of wokery” would be only to shoot the messenger bearing the familiar pink newsprint. Let’s now turn to the message itself, lest one stand accused of employing ad hominem tactics.

Newsbusters.

The same feminist rag encouraging mothers to publicly reject their children has another totally not life-ruining word of advice for married couples: Cheat on your spouse!

It will save your marriage, according to New York Magazine’s lonely and childless cat ladies at The CUT.

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We rescued an American soldier. It was miraculous. It was heroic. It was everything you want in an American story.

Except the retelling of rescuing a MAN didn’t consider the fact that a woman might exist in the same situation in an alternate universe.

No, it couldn’t. A woman would have surrendered to the Iranians.

Newsbusters.

National Public Radio recently aired two frankly sexist episodes of its race-based podcast Code Switch , hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby. The April 1 edition was titled “’Mar-a-Lago face’: MAGA’s aesthetic loyalty test.” Anti-Trump sexism is acceptable in “public” radio.

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, the panel on the Audie Cornish-hosted program started with more accusations of U.S. war crimes from panelist Sarah Fitzpatrick of The Atlantic and Kim Dozier, a CNN Global Affairs Analyst. Fitzpatrick said the US will be “turning off incubators for babies,” while Dozier claimed the US is about to violate the Geneva Conventions like Russia had in Ukraine.

I wasn’t aware that Russia was a signatory to any ‘Geneva Conventions’.

Furthermore, at the end of the hour-long morning show, a discussion ensued between Cornish and Fitzpatrick, which worried almost only about the “cost” of the rescue mission of a U.S. Military pilot.

In the opening salvo of the show, Cornish asked if the original “sense” of the U.S. and Israel’s desire to preserve the infrastructure of Iran had shifted, and Fitzpatrick turned to the “ramifications” of possible strikes.

Rival Nations Seize On Choke Points to Counter Trump (Ana Swanson/New York Times)  Nobody else; just Trump.

Trump’s Purge May Be Just Beginning (The Atlantic)

Always Stuck in the 1950s, Trump Courts His Own Suez (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)

Pam Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit. But Trump Wanted Her Gone. (New York Times)

What to Know About the ‘Massive’ Military Bunker Beneath Trump’s Ballroom (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

White House Scrambles to Wipe Trump Meltdown Footage (Annabella Rosciglione/The Daily Beast)

‘I Think It’s Time’: The Inside Story of Pam Bondi’s Ouster (Wall Street Journal)

Jim Acosta Whines Trump Is ‘Winning’ His War on the Press

Federal judge demolishes legal “basis” for Trump’s ballroom (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court? (New York Times)

What the Birthright Case Is Really About ??? Do we want to be the America of John C. Calhoun or Frederick Douglass? (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)

March Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Soar By 178K Most Since 2024, Blowing Away All Estimates; Unemployment Rate Drops

Liberal Group Warns That Trump Could Have Two More Supreme Court Picks (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)

Reeling from war in the Middle East, Trump reaches for a reset (Washington Post)

Pam Bondi’s firing won’t have the effect Trump desires (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)  As if anybody at the Guardian has a clue as to what Trump desires.

The six big events that have dragged down Donald Trump’s approval rating (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  The one that Rasmussen says remains at 51%? That approval rating?

When the Bond(i) breaks — Presented by Good morning and happy Friday. (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)

Whole Hog Politics: Bondi beached (Chris Stirewalt/The Hill)

Hegseth’s War on America’s Military (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

The bizarre reason Hegseth’s right-hand man is spreading damaging rumors about the Secretary of War (Steven Nelson/New York Post)

The Mythology of Pete Hegseth (Garrett Graff/Doomsday Scenario).

All the President’s Women Scapegoats (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Evangelicals widely backed Trump. Now pastors denounce his ICE crackdown after it hit their churches. (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)

Hegseth’s wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: “It’s insane” (Colin Demarest/Axios)  I guess it would be too much work to look up how many generals Marshal fired at the beginning of U.S. entry into World War II.

Trump wants the world to buy more US oil. He might regret it. (Mike Soraghan/Politico)  Then again, he might not.

Amanpour Parrots Regime Hacks About Trump’s Assault On ‘2,500-Year Old Civilization’  That civilization was destroyed by the Muslims in the 7th century.

Trump and the Myth of American Oil Independence (Joseph J. Schatz/Politico) America had oil independence until Obama and Biden screwed it up.

An Army Shake-Up in the Middle of a War (The Atlantic) This isn’t really a war; this is a beat-down.

Trump accused of running ‘misogynistic administration’ after Bondi dismissal (David Smith/The Guardian)  By people who hated both Bondi and Trump.

Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump (Victoria Guida/Politico)

Trump’s back-to-back-to-back setbacks (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  The guy after whom RUPAR was named.

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As NASA’s Artemis II mission — the first crewed flight around the Moon in over half a century — gets underway, some in the media couldn’t resist injecting race into humanity’s greatest technical achievement.

Instead of celebrating the engineering triumph and the daring crew pushing the boundaries of exploration, certain outlets fixated on skin colour and “representation.” This is the same crowd that claims to champion science, yet they reduce every milestone to identity politics.

A Sky News reporter declared that the Apollo missions to the Moon “didn’t represent humanity because ‘Apollo was all white men…’” highlighting how even lunar history must now be filtered through the lens of grievance.

I guess they couldn’t find a gay black woman to add that little bit extra.

Judge orders Trump to halt $400 million White House ballroom project, for now (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Judge Blocks Trump Ballroom Pending Congressional OK

Trump Blasts Order Halting White House Ballroom

BREAKING: Trump will sign sweeping order attacking mail-in voting (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

NPR and PBS Win Injunction Against Trump Order to End Funding (Daniel Seiden/Bloomberg)

Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges (Associated Press)

Dems Struggle to Criticize Trump’s No Tax On OT

A New Era of International Gangsterism (Peter Juul/Liberal Currents)

Trump’s gas prices problem (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Birthright Citizenship Shouldn’t Be Up for Debate (Michael Waldman/Brennan Center …)  Freedom of speech? What’s that?

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Appeals Court Stops V.O.A. Journalists From Quickly Returning (Minho Kim/New York Times)

CNN Poll: Trump’s approval rating on the economy hits a new low (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)  Among the people polled by CNN. (Rasmussen: Trump Approval Steady at 51 Percent)

Trump Eyes NATO Exit Over Iran Rift

Astroturf and selective outrage: The real story behind ‘No Kings’ (Jay Rogers/The Hill)

The Costs of a Political Science-Free Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner’s World)

Trump’s mixed messages on Iran perplex his own team (Axios)  What, you didn’t know that writers for Axios could read minds?

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Trump Motorcade Met With Middle Fingers on Way to Supreme Court (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)  Leftist class.

Spain hits back at Trump in escalating row over euthanasia (Milena Wälde/Politico)

Trump’s Antifa Terror (Julia Ioffe/Puck)

Trump’s Fateful Choice (The Atlantic)

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Now Plans to Gut, but Not Close, Consumer Protection Agency (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)  I would like to dance in its intestines.

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Obama Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restore Legal Status Of 985,000 Migrants Who Used CBP One App

Trump Presidential Library To Feature Solemn ‘Reflecting Pool’ Of Liberal Tears (Babylon Bee)

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This past Sunday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week for Christians around the world, a period that should be meaningful and joyous, but that was not the case in Nigeria, as dozens of Christians were reported to have been killed by gunmen, including in Gari Ya Waye community Angwan Rukuba, served by Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Jos. The targeting of Christians in Nigeria is not new or rare, prompting President Trump to threaten military action last November, unless their government did more to protect the community, but still the latest attacks were ignored Monday by the network newscasts.

The New York Times did report on the 12 deaths and multiple injuries in the mostly Christian city of Jos, while downplaying reports of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, which it’s more than ABC’s World News Tonight, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS News Hour and Special Report With Bret Baier could manage on Monday, which was not one word about the killings combined. After all it was a busy news night. ABC’s David Muir had to tell his viewers about the return of Celine Dion.

Trump Orders War Crimes. Then What? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Anonymous Artists Mock Trump With Giant Gold Toilet By Lincoln Memorial (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Trump approval just hit the 30s. Can his numbers get any lower? (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)  In the Narrative Media, you can count on it.

Raskin rips Patel over reported plan to release decade-old Swalwell files (Max Rego/The Hill)  My, what a surprise.

America Is Abandoning Morality (W.J. Hennigan/New York Times) Proglodyte morality, that is.

States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Newsom Blames Trump for High Gas Prices. But California Created Its Own Energy Nightmare.

Trump’s Tax Cut Delivers at Least $65 Billion Windfall to Corporations (Caitlin Reilly/Bloomberg)  Ponder the people who characterize being allowed to keep more of your own money as a ‘windfall’.

In Supreme Court Justices’ Histories, a Story of Immigration in America (New York Times)  The Narrative Media persists in refusing to distinguish immigration from illegal immigration.

Trump Secretly Admits Humiliating Defeat on Major War Aim (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) Must not be much of a secret if the high-schoolers at The Daily Beast know about it.

Trump says Strait of Hormuz is the world’s problem: ‘Go get your own oil!’ (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico) Sounds good to me.

Colbert: ‘Yes We Can’ Stop Fascism With Defecating Trump Balloon

Congress is a bastion of Republican bigotry (Mark Jacob/Stop the Presses)

Behind the scenes and in front of cameras, Hegseth serving as top cheerleader for military power in Iran war (CNN)

The Nonsense Case Against Birthright Citizenship (Mother Jones)

Trump’s Rage Erupts Over War Failures as Pope’s Harsh Rebuke Hits Hard (New Republic)

Federal judge orders halt to White House ballroom construction (ABC News)

Judge orders Trump administration to halt White House ballroom construction unless Congress OKs it (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Revoked Status of Migrants Who Used Entry App (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Judge halts construction on Trump’s White House ballroom (Washington Post)

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Halts White House Ballroom Construction (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Here’s how U.S. residents feel about Trump’s signature on American cash (Herb Scribner/Axios) Well, at least the ones chosen by Axios.

Federal judge temporarily blocks further demolition of the White House for Trump’s ballroom (NBC News)

Judge Orders Construction Stopped on Trump’s White House Ballroom (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Trump is flailing in Iran. Every word he says adds to the muddle (Ted Widmer/The Guardian)

Trump Rages After Judge Blocks White House Ballroom Construction (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone)

The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree (New York Times)

President Trump Tells EU Leaders to “Go Get Your Own Oil” from Gulf – In Interim, Welcome King Charles

Obama Judge Halts Trump Effort to End Parole for Hundreds of Thousands

Judge Finds Cutting Taxpayer Funding From NPR and PBS Violates First Amendment

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On Monday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW program’s co-host Jonathan Lemire claimed the Israeli military killed the Iranian Parliament Speaker, who had emerged as the apparent key negotiator and possible new leader in Iran according to the White House.

Around 10 minutes after his statement, host Joe Scarborough asked Lemire to clarify his comments, to which he clarified the report of the Speaker’s death may be untrue and shifted his tone to mention that the Parliament Speaker may have no power anyway, a flip from his original smug comments on negotiations.

A focus of the premier liberal morning talk program was on how a war with Iran would end through negotiations. David Ignatius, a columnist at The Washington Post, discussed many diplomatic options, but called the president “overoptimistic.”

And there was much rejoicing…. Except for the Narrative Media, of course.

Dozens Arrested for Failing to Disperse After ‘No Kings’ Rally in Los Angeles

“Worse Than the 1970s” ??? Donald Trump, it seems, has managed to outdo his first term’s mismanagement … (Ryan C. Smith/Liberal Currents)

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)

MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar. Nope. (Kristen Soltis Anderson/New York Times)  MaGA is the New Nigger.

They’ve Been Accused of Running a ‘Covert’ Operation in Greenland. It’s No Secret. (New York Times)

Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says (Reuters)

The left LOVES kings — the ones with (D) after their name (New York Post)

When ICE Blows Through Rural America (Emma Janssen/American Prospect)

The FCC chair is openly cheering the weakening of the press (Tom Jones/Poynter)

The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  Is Sid Vicious still alive?

This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms (David Gilbert/Wired)

New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13 (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s America and the Axis of Autocracy (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy (Paul Krugman  Paul Krugman spends too much time breathing his own exhaust.

The Trump-voting pastor Democrats think could cost them a chance at a Nebraska Senate seat (Andrew Kaczynski/CNN)

First Draft: Are These Trump’s Worst Poll Numbers… Ever? (Andrew Perez/Zeteo)

Major Airports Return to Normal as TSA Workers Get Paid

ICE Agent’s Heroic Act Saves Toddler at Airport, Counters Dems’ Dire Predictions

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall (David Smith/The Guardian)

NY Times Relays Anti-Trump Conspiracy Kookery (and 44 Photos) From ‘No Kings’ Rallies

This weekend, women in Handmaid’s Tale garb marched alongside protesters who want Trump to stop bombing the theocratic regime of Iran ?

The Trump Administration Comes for State Voter Rolls (Eric Columbus/Lawfare)

President Trump’s Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll (Jared Sharpe/UMass Amherst)

What ‘deadline’? — The “deadline” for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

What Are Your Obligations When Your Country Is the Villain? (Aaron Regunberg/The Nation)  Move.

Most say Trump administration has not done enough to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Survey (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Trump says White House ballroom plans include ‘massive’ underground military complex (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….l

‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying’: Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC (Nathan Taylor Pemberton/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope,,,.

Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  In proglodyte dreams.

MAGA’s latest campaign of cruelty targets immigrant kids’ education (Svante Myrick/The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger.

US military building ‘massive complex’ beneath White House ballroom project: Trump (Agence France-Presse) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Thousands rally across Utah in ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump (Samantha Moilanen/Salt Lake Tribune)

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for ‘revolution’ (Asra Nomani/Fox News)

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: ‘No work, no school’ (Raw Story)

No Kings protests draw crowds, with record number taking place across U.S. (Washington Post)

No Kings Protests Held Across the U.S.: Photos and Videos (New York Times)

No Kings rallies across Wisconsin draw thousands (Wisconsin Examiner)

A month into Iran, the GOP’s political reality sinks in (Politico)  The Narrarive Media’s ceaseless drumbeat of talking up Iran as a ‘problem’ for Republicans, a bid to get Republicans to panic, proceeds apace.

‘No Kings’ protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn (David Spector/New York Post)  It’s ironic that people who can’t tell the difference between a man and an woman think that they are the arbiters of what distinguishes a President from a King.

The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC (Vox)  Used to be, Democrats could depend on Republicans to play by the Democrat playbook for 90% of the time, which allowed them to focus on the remaining 10%. Trump threw that old playbook out, and Democrats have been playing catch-up ever since.

Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics (Michelle Boorstein/Washington Post)Used to be, Democrats could depend on Republicans to play by the Democrat playbook for 90% of the time, which allowed them to focus on the remaining 10%. Trump threw that old playbook out, and Democrats have been playing catch-up ever since. Hegseth learned at the feet of the Master.

Red flare for Trump: ‘No Kings’ rallies a show of political force (Susan Page/USA Today)  No, just an attempt to substitute noise for effective action. The Left depends on virtue-signaling and noisy crowds to give the impression that their support among the population is greater than it actually is. ‘They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!’ (No Kings protests across the world: in pictures (Pejman Faratin/The Guardian))

5 Takeaways From the ‘No Kings’ Rallies as the Midterms Heat Up (Tim Balk/New York Times)  Come and get your Narrative, hot off the press!