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Because all they ‘know’ about it is what they read in the proglodyte media.

There’s no getting around it: Our “corporate media” is down on capitalism, and a new poll showing a growing disdain for the foundation of American economic thought shows the media tilt may be working — or the professorial tilt.

An NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters found that support for capitalism fell under 50 percent for the first time in seven years. The chilling shift “comes as some democratic socialists, like New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani, gain prominence in the Democratic Party,” NBC News national politics reporter Ben Kamisar wrote in his November 2 item. Only 44 percent of registered voters — a mere plurality — now view capitalism positively. Previous NBC News polls “showed slim majorities viewing capitalism positively.”

Just seeing what the American people are inundated with on a day-to-day basis by rich media hacks denigrating the very system that gave them their prosperity in the first place.

Newsbusters.

Two of the three major broadcast networks, ABC and NBC, attempted to depreciate the ongoing Islamic genocide against Christians in Nigeria during their morning programs on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump threatened U.S. military intervention if Nigeria’s government failed to stop the mass-slaughtering themselves, while also ignoring comments from Nigeria’s president being open for the military assistance.

The mainstream media started to pay attention to the atrocity only because Trump made it newsworthy. Both networks fixated on Trump’s guarantee to enter the region “guns-a-blazing” in the absence of swift action by Nigerian authorities over the last several months.

On ABC, Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce didn’t deny the existence of violence in Nigeria, but described it as a religiously-neutral phenomenon.

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The Trump administration has banned the media from an area of the White House they previously had access to after some reporters were discovered surreptitiously capturing video of sensitive information.

Officials revealed that reporters have also been found ‘spying’ on private, closed-door meetings in the White House and wandering into already restricted areas near the Oval Office, in order to “ambush” Cabinet officials after private meetings.

Newsbusters.

This past week, Fox News updated viewers on the search for domestic terrorists who ambushed immigration agents after they raided a marijuana farm by blocking agents’ vehicles and aggressively attacking them with large rocks, shown in a disturbing video that went viral during the summer.

As Fox covered a press conference by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in the aftermath of several key arrests, MSNBC not surprisingly ignored it since the network downplayed the violence and did not show the graphic video in the aftermath of the July 10 raid.

The optimal long-term outcome of the shutdown (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)  Progs live an an interesting fantasy world. I’m sure it’s more fun that reality.

The MAGA Right’s Antisemitism Problem (Dominic Green/Wall Street Journal)  Not just any Right, but the MAGA Right. See whether you can find the difference.

These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela (Washington Post)  This is the ‘big stick’ that Teddy Roosevelt was talking about.

Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds (Washington Post)  Yeah, that’s a real head-scratcher, all right….

PBS Plugs Jon Karl’s 4th Anti-Trump Book, Comparing Trump to ‘Breaking Bad’ Kingpin

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda (Tony Romm/New York Times)  Oh, and the Democrats aren’t? I see….

Trump’s MRI scan raises specter of secrecy in presidential health (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)

Trump’s Retribution Campaign Leaves D.C. Prosecutor’s Office in Crisis (Alan Feuer/New York Times)

Republicans re-up trans attacks on Dems that worked for Trump in 2024 (Washington Post)

Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership (Chicago Tribune)

We’re Norman Rockwell’s family. Trump’s DHS has shamefully misused his work. (USA Today)  USA Today has very little to do with Today and even less to do with USA. I would suggest that they get the beam out of their own eye before worrying about specks in ‘Trump’s DHS’.

MAGA’s war within: Right-wing purity tests (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again. MAGA is the New Nigger.

Supreme Court has expanded presidential powers under Trump. How far will it go? (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)  The Supreme Court has done no such thing. The expansive powers given to pervious Democrat Presidents (all in A Good Cause, of course) are merely hurting their butts now that they are being exercised by a Republican.

‘We’re not a violent city’: Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block (Heather Schlitz/Reuters)  Fooled me.

Trump can’t require proof of citizenship for voter registration, judge says (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

US judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship (Dietrich Knauth/Reuters)

US judge blocks Trump order requiring proof of citizenship to vote (Associated Press)

White House restricts media access in the West Wing (Aaron Pellish/Politico)

The White House thought the shutdown would be quick. Now they’re frustrated. (Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico lay out the Narrative for you.

NPR Only Sees ‘Danger’ in Trump Designating Violent Antifa as Terrorists, Not Antifa Itself

Correspondents’ Group Opposes New WH House Press Policy  My, what a surprise.

Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash (Amy Qin/New York Times)

Trump Is the Democrats’ Best Campaigner (Jonathan Martin/Politico)

Trump Marks Full Month Of Government Shutdown With $3.4 Million Golf Trip To Florida (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump (Chauncey DeVega/Salon)  Don’t hold it in; tell us how you really feel.

Nearly 42 million Americans lose their food stamp benefits (Politico)  That’s over 10% of the population. Think of that: Over 10% of the American population depends on government handouts.

Brooks Mourns Dems Are Focused On Obamacare Instead Of Threats To Democracy  Follow the money.

Trump isn’t acting confidently about the 2025 elections (Washington Post)  Of course, the WaPo is the sole judge of what ‘acting confidently’ means.

Under Trump, Becoming a U.S. Citizen Gets Harder (Madeleine Ngo/New York Times)  Hey, if it were easy, anybody could do it.

ICE and Border Patrol’s use of tear gas injures, sickens and tests the law (Washington Post)  Of course, the Narrative is that mobs of left-wing rioters ought to be able to do whatever they want.

J. D. Vance’s Bad Answer to an Anti-Semitic Question (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)

Obama Is Now Not So Sure America Can Survive Under Trump (Ethan Cotler/The Daily Beast)

Fury as Trump holds ‘tone deaf’ Gilded Age Halloween party as millions lose food aid (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)

2025 Is ICE’s Deadliest Year In 20 Years (Gabe Ortiz/Combating Nativist Narratives)  “Nativist” is the proglodyte smear-term for preferring your own country to others. The horror!

Trump tells Ilhan Omar to leave the country (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  I second that emotion.

Newsbusters.

“Bug-eye” Booker strikes again.

Last Tuesday, at a Senate hearing on political violence, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) lamented that Donald Trump, who he says has talked about punching people in the face, has never apologized for it. Well guess what, Cory Booker has said that sometimes he wants to punch Donald Trump, and I have yet to see an apology from him. Booker also falsely stated that Chuck Schumer had “apologized” for what many had perceived as a threat to Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Unfortunately, the media failed to point any of this out.

On June 22, 2019, Booker, appeared on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and informed the audience that “Donald Trump is a guy who you understand he hurts you. And my testosterone sometime, makes me wanna feel like punching him.” The macho man then bragged, “Which would be bad for this elderly out of shape man that he is if I did that. This physically weak specimen.” Booker has pretty much gotten a pass for his violent talk.

As for Schumer, he spoke at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 focused on a Louisiana abortion rights case. “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have unleashed the whirlwind, and you will pay the price…You won’t know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Two years later, in June of 2022, a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home. Schumer did say he regretted the words he used, but did not apologize.

Newsbusters.

CNN’s Abby Phillip swung by The Breakfast Club radio show on Tuesday to promote her book about Jesse Jackson and at one point argued that it’s a known fact that many voters and “especially white voters” apply a higher standard to black candidates. Phillip provided no evidence for her accusation.

Co-host Loren Lorasa led Phillip by wondering how Jackson’s failure to become president in the 80s impacted people like former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris, “How would all of that be different if he had been able to get in office and do what he was doing before he was voted president or not voted president?”

Phillip replied, “It’s really interesting. It’s such an interesting question. I mean, I think one of the reasons that Vice President Harris and Barack Obama have had to present a certain way to the American public is the perception that a broad swath of the electorate, especially white voters, won’t take a black candidate seriously unless they are very buttoned up, have the resume all lined up, the whole thing. And that’s accurate, right? That, like, we all understand that you kind of have to clear a higher bar in order to even be let in the door.”

If so, so what? Before I would vote for a black candidate, I would expect some assurance that he doesn’t hate white people, as far too many black candidates (and all Democrats, so far as I can tell) do. That doesn’t strike me as unreasonable.

Prodigal Son Returns After SNAP Benefits Expire (Babylon Bee)

In Toughest Survival Challenge Yet, Bear Grylls Attempts To Survive Weekend In Chicago (Babylon Bee).

Senators criticize Trump administration after Democrats were left out of a drug boat strike briefing (NBC News)

Noem rejects Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s request to pause immigration actions over Halloween weekend (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)

FBI official connected to Trump 2020 election investigation being pushed out, sources say (MSNBC)

Four ways Republicans pushed back on Trump this week (Axios)

Trump administration limits refugee admissions to lowest on record (NBC News)

In Trump’s GOP, the once-mighty tea party is hard to find (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)  Because it was totally ineffectual–unlike Trump–people gave up on it.

UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are ‘unacceptable’ (Associated Press)  The same U.N. human rights chief who oversees the schools in Gaza that train “Palestinian” children to hate Jews?

Oh SNAP: Judges Order Trump Admin To Use Emergency Funds For Food Assistance

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover (Washington Post)  Boycotted by the blue-hair crowd?

In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (New York Times)

Kamala Harris loses it, goes on expletive-laden rant about Trump’s donation-funded ballroom (Emily Crane/New York Post)

Democrats Condemn Trump Administration for Secrecy on Boat Strikes (New York Times)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pans Trump’s nuclear testing directive: ‘Weakness masquerading as strength’ (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Inside Barack Obama’s stepped-up plans to fight back against Donald Trump (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)

How Stephen Miller is turning the US state department into an ‘anti-immigration machine’ (Andrew Roth/The Guardian)

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween–and Parents Are Fighting Back (Meredith Shiner/New Republic)

Trump administration gave GOP senators secret details about strikes on alleged drug boats, leaving Dems on outs (ABC News)

‘Not a coincidence’: Report exposes Project 2025 plan to ‘silence voters’ (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)

Fear and loathing in Washington DC: Trump administration satirized in Halloween displays – in pictures (The Guardian)

Trump’s swift demolition of East Wing may have launched asbestos plumes (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)

In Late, Obscure Notice, DHS Turbocharges Trump’s Voter Purge Database, Evading Privacy Protections (Democracy Docket)

SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration (Dan Mangan/CNBC)  Using what for money?

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Sure, I believe that.

Trump Boat Bombings Worsen as New Horror Shakes Experts: “Alarm Bells” (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

In Big Win for Voters and Democrats, Court Blocks Trump’s Demand for Voter ID on Registration Form (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)

Judge Blocks Trump Order on Voter Citizenship Proof

HAUNTED: New Yorker Writer Uncorks at President Who ‘Wouldn’t Shut Up’

The Art Lovers Trash Trump From Ballrooms to Museums

Newsbusters.

As political scandals go, Arctic Frost makes Watergate look like relative child’s play. During the Biden Administration, the FBI may have investigated Republican elected officials and conservative organizations- doing so, in many cases, with invasive and secret subpoenas. The breadth and scope of this scandal is staggering. And yet, the legacy broadcast news continues to suppress this story, just as they’ve done with every other story that is a threat to the prospects of Democrats seizing or holding power.

Newsbusters.

On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish left little doubt as to which party’s approach to ending the government shutdown she favored.

She played clips of two senators commenting on the impending halt of SNAP [food stamp] benefits. First was Elizabeth Warren, claiming that President Trump “is telling 15 million hungry children: eat dirt.”

Then there was a clip of Republican John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, saying that “SNAP recipients shouldn’t go without food. And we’ve tried to do that 13 times. You [Democrats] voted no 13 times.”

Thune’s point was that Senate Democrats have voted no 13 times on a continuing resolution that would have reopened the government, thereby funding the SNAP program.

Did Cornish criticize Warren for her slanderous assertion that President Trump is telling millions of hungry children to eat dirt? Or did the CNN host point out that Democrats voted 13 times for continuing resolutions during the Biden administration?

Exclusive: Trump Administration Threatened Lawsuit Over Ohio Mail-In Ballot Deadline (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)

Colo. Sues Trump Admin Over Space Command Move to Alabama

“We Just Won”: Trump Gloats After Bill Gates Admits Climate Change Won’t End World

10 Arrested on Federal Complaints Charging Them with Committing Violence Against Officers and Property During Anti-ICE Rioting (US Department of Justice)

Block on Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment Stands As SCOTUS Takes Up National Guard Question (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Appeals Court Halts Daily Chicago Check-Ins for Border Chief

Trump DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

Biden’s Jack Smith ‘Enemies List’ Scandal Widens As 400 Republican Targets Revealed

The Fed Resisted Trump. Good. (Steven Rattner/New York Times)

Jury Acquits Man Accused of Soliciting Trump’s Murder on Bluesky (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)

Fmr Coast Guard Officer Who Threatened Trump Online Acquitted

Trump purposefully halting SNAP benefits, “weaponizing hunger,” Democrats allege (Josephine Walker/Axios) Trump’s not the one voting down the appropriations. That’s on Democrats.

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. (ProPublica)

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)

Americans have a secret weapon against Trump (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Can’t be much of a secret if Vox knows about it.

Republicans’ refusal to fund SNAP will hurt their own voters most. They don’t care. (USA Today)  Much the same could be said about Demcorats’ refusal to fund SNAP. No mention of that in USA Today, of course.

1984, Idiocracy version — Trump is like Big Brother if Big Brother were an incompetent buffoon. (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Keystone Kash Accused of Using $60M FBI Jet for Date Night (Adam Downer/The Daily Beast)

Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

Goldberg Thinks Trump Is Colluding with UPS, and Behar Can’t Sleep

Confused Trump, 79, Asks How to Walk Off Stage (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Our Homeland Security Department Must Think We’re All Certified Idiots (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  Well, I certainly think you’re all certified idiots.

ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas (Dell Cameron/Wired)

This Man Is the Face of the Future (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly white South Africans (Rebecca Santana/Associated Press)  The horror! The horror!

All It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept. (Carol Leonnig/New York Times)

One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)

Okay, Doomers: MSNBC Prophesizes Trump Economy Heading for Great 1929 Crash

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Wednesday was a grim day at CBS News as reportedly around 100 people were axed as part of long-rumored layoffs numbering 2,000 people across its parent company Paramount Skydance. The ranks of those let go were vast and deep with both remaining CBS Saturday Morning hosts shown the door, correspondents with decades of experience (and all women), its Race and Culture unit, and even two entire shows.

Most notably, CBS Saturday Morning co-hosts Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller were reportedly let go, along with their executive producer Brian Applegate. Miller had been with CBS since 2004 and Jacobson since 2018.

While the New York Post said the show will be “slated for a radical revamp,” The Los Angeles Times’s Stephen Battaglio reported Wednesday afternoon the show would live on with “a new format that will align it closer to the weekday show.” Either way, it was unclear as of Wednesday night whether a final episode will air of the current format.

America’s Obesity Crisis Solved As EBT Benefits Run Out (Babylon Bee)

Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants (Babylon Bee)

Furloughed TSA Agents Go Door-To-Door Offering To Grope People For Free  (Babylon Bee)

Judge extends order barring mass firings of federal workers during shutdown (Politico)

Clinton Judge Blocks ‘King’ Trump’s Ability To Fire Federal Workers During Shutdown, Indefinitely

Johnson Dismisses Trump 2028 Talk ??? But Applauds the ‘Trolling’ (Annie Karni/New York Times)

Judge rebukes Bondi and Noem over Abrego Garcia comments (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Blue states blame Republicans for looming SNAP shutoff on government websites (Politico)  Of course they do.

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy (Charlie Savage/New York Times)

States Sue Trump Admin To Try To Stop Suspension Of Food Stamps  The whole foundation of the modern Democrat party is that you can provide Free Stuff even when you don’t have money. Hoe_math calls this “Santa-ism”.

Trump has forgotten why he won in 2024 (Andrew Prokop/Vox)  Yet another mind-reader in the media reminds us of what the Narrative is.

WH Ousts Arts Board Poised to Review Trump Builds

Ahead of Xi meeting, White House aides worry what Trump will say about Taiwan (NBC News)  Except that they aren’t the President.

Chicago’s children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns (Claire Galofaro/Associated Press)  Except that they aren’t ‘Chicago’s children’, they’re the children of illegal immigrants that live in Chicago, which is ruled by the Party of Free Stuff.

9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges’ Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

Pentagon removes key protections for civilian workers, moves to fire with ‘speed and conviction’ (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, once you have a government job, you are entitled to it forever.

Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

Trump Says ‘Pretty Clear I’m Not Allowed to Run’ for Third Term (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg)  But he’ll still be yanking their chains until 2028.

Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power (Michael McFaul/The Atlantic)

Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations (Washington Post

The Empty Promises of Trump’s Imperial Presidency (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Oh, No! Trump, 79, Attempts Indian Accent on Asia Tour (Isabel Van Brugen/The Daily Beast)  The best of American High School Journalism.

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

The Government Is Closed. The President Is MIA. (The Atlantic)

MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump Isn’t Easing the Shutdown Pain–He’s Inflicting It (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)

Colbert Suggests It Will Take Years To Rebuild Democracy After Trump  When you realize that Democrats define ‘democracy’ as Democrat Rule, that makes perfect sense.

Democrats ramp up probes into Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom (Washington Post)

‘An Unprecedented Hunger and Health Crisis’: How the Big Beautiful Bill Could Devastate Vermont (India Nye Wenner/Rolling Stone)

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said ‘mob’ of ‘rioters’ carried out Jan. 6 attack (ABC News)

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump (Marcy Wheeler/Talking Points Memo)  There would certainly be no TDS.

Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President (Jake Lahut/Wired)

Some evangelicals are “quietly quitting” Trump and MAGA (Russell Contreras/Axios)

You Don’t, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump’s Hands (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Republicans Seriously Need to Stop with the Autopen Stuff (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  Saying the quiete part out loud.

Former senior DHS official Miles Taylor launches new web tool to plan protests against Trump administration (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)  Because they’ve been so successful in the past.

CBS Platforms Gavin Newsom Trashing Trump as an ‘Invasive Species’ Wrecking Everything

Newsbusters.

On Monday, MSNBC host and podcaster Nicolle Wallace welcomed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to The Best People for a truly surreal interview. Within the span of only a couple of minutes, Wallace would declare that no Democrat has ever compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler, then claim that if they did, it would be appropriate, and then sit back and listen as Pritzker did precisely that, all while claiming he wasn’t.

Pritzker’s conceit was to say that he wasn’t suggesting that Trump would throw people in death camps, but that what Trump is doing follows a similar authoritarian playbook to one the Nazis used to amass power. With that in mind, Wallace claimed that the Nazi comparisons are completely appropriate.

Will 9th Circuit Care That DOJ Lied Its Face Off In Oregon Invasion Case? (Law and Chaos)

Johnson backs Trump’s plans not to tap contingency dollars for food aid ahead of funding cliff (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)  The whole point of shutting down the government is to put pressure on the people who are holding out. In this case, that’s the Democrats. Food aid supports most of the Democrat base, so it would be foolish for Trump to mitigate that in any way.

Another shutdown consequence: Democrats can’t visit ICE detention facilities (Politico)

A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal–It Would be Dangerous (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)  Especially to statists, like most Democrats.

Psaki Pushes Conspiracy Theory: Trump Trying to Suppress Voters, Steal Election

Trump does not rule out seeking third term – but says he will not use VP loophole (Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBC)

Former DOJ officials say Comey case is vindictive, call for dismissal (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

ICE Barbie Deports Trump-Fanatic Cuban Immigrant to Africa (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

NBC Is the ONLY Legacy Nightly Newscast to Report Bondi Murder Bounty

When SNAP benefits run out, ‘people can die,’ say health experts (Sarah Todd/STAT)  Tell Chuck Shumer.

Behind the Curtain: The power to do almost anything (Axios)  It always frightens the Chattering Class when Trump acts like a Democrat.

The Coming Election Mayhem (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)

Doctor Identifies Possible Reasons for Trump’s Secret MRI (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  It wasn’t secret. If it were secret, you wouldn’t know about it.

Hegseth Is Waging War Against the Laws of War (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)

President for Life … in the normal course of history, the president of the United States … (J. Michael Luttig/The Atlantic)

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

The Hunger Games Begin (Paul Krugman)  All because of Democrats and their thirst for power.

These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom (Popular Information)

Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want (David Dayen/American Prospect)  More mind-reading in service to the Narrative.

Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Trump threatens to send ‘more than National Guard’ to US cities (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

Calling This Court “Supreme” Is Obeying in Advance (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)  Yeah. That’s what the name means. Got it in one. Good job.

The DOJ’s “election monitoring” is really voter suppression (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Yeah–it suppresses dead voters, non-citizen voters, fraudulent voters….

CNN Fearmonger’s Trump’s “Despot” Talk Of Third Term Is “A Serious Threat”

Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine (Reuters)  The envy is strong in this one….

Major Labor Unions Urge Senate Dems to End Shutdown

New Yorker: Trump Tore Down East Wing to Display Arbitrary Power over Presidency

The Administration’s Ghastly Game Plan for Savaging Abrego Garcia (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Who is still an illegal immigrant and ipso facto a felon.

Trump, 79, Wanders Off While Meeting Japanese Prime Minister (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic) Apparently he forgot to check in with The New Republic. A serious fault.

MSNBC hosts criticize owner Comcast for donating to Trump ballroom (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)

Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Suspending November SNAP Benefits (State of California)  If they don’t have an appropriattion, then there’s no money to pay.

Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan (Daniel Dale/CNN)

Newsbusters.

The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events, with brief clips of the Challenger shuttle disaster, the 9-11 attacks, and interviews with figures like Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton….and PLO terrorist Yassir Arafat?

Donald Trump Got Mad at the TV, So Now Stuff Costs More (Jeremy Schulman/Mother Jones)

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go out Nov. 1 (Adriana Gomez Licon/Associated Press)

‘King-like powers’: Chris Murphy says Trump prefers the government to remain closed (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)

MSNBC’s Soboroff Repeats Misinfo from the ‘Kids in Cages’ Smear

Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

Scott Bessent Claims He Feels Soybean Farmers’ Pain. He’s Worth $500 Million (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)  Two unconnected stateements.

Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to the People’s House (Collin Levy/Wall Street Journal)

Watch: Lunatic Arrested And Charged After Brutally Attacking Man In Inflatable Trump Costume

NBC’s Kristen Welker Presses Secretary Bessent to End the Shutdown  It’s not up to him; he’s not a Democrat Senator.

Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks (Nino Paoli/Fortune)

James Carville Wants “Walk Of Shame For Collaborators” Once Trump Leaves Office

Swalwell: Dem Presidential Hopefuls Must Vow to Destroy Trump Ballroom on ‘Day One’

Trump: I’d ‘love to’ run in 2028 (Politico)  Cue handwringing and tears on the Left. (Trump again declines to rule out unconstitutional third term (Avery Lotz/Axios))

ICE is out of control and beyond repair (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Gee, we used to think that when it wasn’t doing it’s job–at Democrat orders.

How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed (Washington Post)  Because it was still a nothingburger.

Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters (New Republic)  There’s that MAGA guy again.

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb. (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Yeah, that pretty much describes The Bullshitwark.

Leftist Commentator Compares Trump White House Renovation To 9/11 Attacks

29-year-old anarchist arrested for alleged $45K hit on Pam Bondi: FBI (Emily Crane/New York Post)

The Venezuela Boat Strikes and the Justice Department’s Golden Shield (Jack Goldsmith/Executive Functions)

Swalwell: Dem Hopefuls Must Vow to Raze Ballroom Day 1  Democrats just LOVE to waste money.

Wrecking Ball Politics: Swalwell Calls for Destructive Pledge from Democratic Presidential Candidates

Democrats unflinching in shutdown strategy, blaming Trump with millions at risk of losing food aid (CNN)

Anti-Trump Federal Employee Union Caves, Calls on Dems to Pass Clean Continuing Resolution  Money “trumps” everything.

‘This Is About Voter Intimidation’: Gavin Newsom Is Calling Out Trump’s Bid to Control Elections (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Largest federal workers’ union calls for immediate end to government shutdown (Erum Salam/MSNBC)

PBS Roundtable Falls Overboard on East Wing Demolition: ‘Shocking to the Conscience’

Trump admin warns 42 million Americans could lose food stamps as shutdown drags on (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

Trump administration pledges to ‘surge’ ICE operations after recruitment spike (Emily Hallas/Washington Examiner)

‘Damn, If He Isn’t a Dictator’: ABC News Claims Trump Not Leaving Ever

Venezuela Claims Capture of ‘CIA-Linked Mercenaries’ Planning False-Flag Attack  Sure, I believe that.

Minnesota man arrested after allegedly offering $45,000 for the killing of Pam Bondi (NBC News)  Not enough for a professional hit.

Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)

All the times Trump has promoted 2028 run with merch and rhetoric (Josephine Walker/Axios) Monetizing Democrat anxiety. It doesn’t get any better than that. Ah, ah, ah, ah, yanking’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

“A National Disgrace”: Largest Federal Worker Union Sides With GOP Plan To End Shutdown

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)

California will dispatch observers to watch DOJ’s election monitors (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)  Why not invite observers from the U.N.?

Largest Federal Employee Union Calls On Democrats To End Government Shutdown (HuffPost)

‘The View’ Warns That Trump’s Third-Term Threats Are No Joke (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)  Yeah, they are; Democrats just don’t have any sense of humor.

Trump’s Path of Destruction Is Far-Reaching (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Judge Rules Immigration Detention of Chicago Man with Daughter Battling Cancer Is Illegal

Venezuela’s Maduro: US ‘Fabricating a New Eternal War’

Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, ‘Get out of our city!’ (Chicago Tribune)

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments (Carolyn Stein/Chicago Tribune)

Ex-60 Minutes producer Bill Owens says bosses discouraged him from covering Gaza and Trump (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)

The Theory Behind Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy (Thomas P.M. Barnett/Politico)  The mind-reader from Politico will give you the Narrative.

Trump Humiliates Mike Johnson Behind Closed Doors (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing (Adam Gopnik/New Yorker)

How Trump Barreled Through D.C.’s Bureaucracy to Get His White House Ballroom (Wall Street Journal)

Judge rules immigration detention of Chicago man with daughter battling cancer is illegal (Associated Press)

In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President’s Policies Have Hit Hard (Pooja Salhotra/New York Times)

It Is Trump’s Casino Economy Now. You’ll Probably Lose. (Kyla Scanlon/New York Times)

Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out (Minho Kim/New York Times)

SNAP funding expiration set to hit 40 million people (Mike Lillis/The Hill)  Thank you, Chuck Schumer.

How Trump Demolished the White House East Wing (Kriston Capps/Bloomberg)

MSNBC Claims Trump Wants To Use Military As Private Army To Kill Americans

Miller Eviscerates TBS (Trump Ballroom Syndrome) Leftists

Swalwell demands 2028 Dem candidates vow to destroy Trump’s White House ballroom project (Fox News)

Trump’s $230 Million Heist Is Unconstitutional (Norman Eisen/The Contrarian)

Murphy: Trump trying to transition US to ‘something much closer to a totalitarian state’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Newsbusters.

Democrats have controlled most big cities for decades, if not half-centuries or more. Our Democrat-enabling media outlets don’t press mayors or governors when blue-city governance fails. They don’t present the ugly facts. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Illinois) showed up for an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier on Special Report on Thursday, and found himself struggling with the facts.

Baier began by discussing a Fox News crime map showing which of the top most populated U.S. cities have the highest murder rates. “Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?” he asked.

Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal (Eric Lipton/New York Times)

How the scope of Trump’s White House ballroom plans has expanded: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)

It’s supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they’re getting nothing (NPR)  Let’s blame Trump.

Republicans Keep Gerrymandering and I Keep Suing (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

DHS Is Billing Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids $5,000 (Isabelle Taft/The Intercept)

Dems Claim Trump Keeping Congress in Dark on Cartel Hits

Experts: War Dept Can’t Use $130M Gift to Pay Troops  Experts! That proves it!

At least 2 historic magnolia trees, Kennedy Garden appear to have been removed to make way for Trump’s White House ballroom (Associated Press)

The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela (The Atlantic)

House Democrats highlight impact of Trump’s Chicago deportations during emotional ‘shadow hearing’ (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)

Chicago Federal Judge Hauls Bovino in to Court (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Morning Joe: ‘Everybody’ Outside DC Finds Trump’s Ballroom Plans ‘Infuriating’

Border Patrol’s Bovino called to court after being accused of throwing tear gas canister in Chicago (NBC News)

Burnin’ Down the House — Before the orange cyclone hit town, Washington was a far more staid place. (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)  Maureen Dowd is still alive?

Newsom Says Trump Is ‘Rigging the Election’ With Federal Poll Monitors (Guy Marzorati/KQED)  And he’s encouraging crime by flooding the streets with cops and soldiers!

G. Elliot Morris on Trump’s dire polling (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  He means the polls that everyone is ignoring because they’re obviously fake.

Can anyone stop J.D. Vance becoming president? (Freddy Gray/Spectator)  I hope not.

How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House (Washington Post)

In Florida, Obamacare Price Hikes Pose an Outsized Threat (Patricia Mazzei/New York Times)  I guess that’s why they called it the AFFORDABLE Care Act — a typical Democrat lie.

Trump’s shutdown funding workarounds are on shaky legal ground (Emily Peck/Axios)

PBS Claims Redistricting ‘Race To The Bottom’ Is GOP’s Fault

These Judges Are Warning Us We’re on the Fast Track to Martial Law (Slate)

Leftist Musicians, Record Labels Meltdown Over Spotify Allowing ICE Ads

Trump Leaves Behind a Reeling Washington to Chase a Deal With China (New York Times)  Reeling!

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts (Hannah Harris Green/The Guardian)  The ‘health experts’ that change the Food Pyramid every five years? Those health experts?

Shutdowns began as a way to enforce federal law. Now Trump is using it to take more power (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)  Blame the Democrats. They’re the ones causing the shutdown.

Trump Is Actually Failing Fast–and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It (Virginia Heffernan/New Republic)  Actually, he seems to be winning every day. Wonder what the weather is like on her planet.

The Foundry.

Every once in a while, the “fact-checkers” at PolitiFact publish reader comments, and this one stuck out: “Your site seems to be mostly about Trump all the time,” read one comment. “How about a little less Trump, and write more about any other falsehood subjects?”

PolitiFact’s audience chief Ellen Hine acknowledged they’ve published over 1,000 “fact checks” on President Donald Trump—1,124, to be precise. But then she trotted out the false claim that their targeting is nonpartisan: “Without keeping count, we try to select facts to check from all sides of the political spectrum. At the same time, we more often fact-check the party that holds power or people who repeatedly make attention-getting or misleading statements.”

That “without keeping count” is an obvious excuse. Anyone who attempts to count what they’re doing will quickly realize they’re very partisan in their targeting—and in their ratings on truth and falsehood.

Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling in Long-Running Feud (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  Pristine!

Now Is Not the Time for Federal Judges to Be Removing ICE Skeptics From Jury Selection (Mike Fox/Slate)

Federal agents detain Little Village high school student, deploy tear gas in faceoff with protesters (Chicago Sun Times)

Man shot in ICE confrontation was a ‘respected and admired’ citizen journalist with TikTok following (NBC News)  Respected and admired for trying to ram a police vehicle? Must be a Democrat….

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker forms commission to document alleged abuses by federal agents (CBS News) A no-doubt-highly-paid commission chock full o’ Democrat cronies.

Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes (Robert Jimison/New York Times) Unexplained: Why he would need such authorization.

‘Chilling’: FBI shocks with visits to homes of innocent protesters under Trump’s orders (David Edwards/Raw Story)  Innocent!

CBS/YouGov Poll: Trump Opposition Spurs Prop 50 Support

Trump indicates he won’t seek congressional approval for targeting drug traffickers (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)  Unexplained: Why he would need such authorization.

Trump Administration Asserts Authority to House Migrants at All Overseas U.S. Bases (Carol Rosenberg/New York Times)

Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Trump, 79, Bizarrely Claims He Greenlit Deadly Pager Attacks (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  How does this guy know that he didn’t?

Trump’s run-in with D.C. protesters still haunts his team (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  Haunts!

Exclusive: Senate Dems move to condemn Trump’s Binance pardon (Stephen Neukam/Axios)

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling (Becky Bohrer/Associated Press)  Pristine!

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law (Charlie Savage/New York Times)  Now, this is no time to be talking about Obama or Biden….

King Trump turns US Treasury into his personal piggy bank (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

The Trump Supremacy — Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled … (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Police shoot at truck outside Coast Guard base during protests against San Francisco Bay Area immigration crackdown (Tim Fang/CBS News)

Undaunted ??? Despite the MAGA Supreme Court justices’ unending display of partisan hackery … (The Contrarian)

The risks of letting Trump become the military paymaster (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  Democrats brought this on themselves.

Transcript: Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare (New Republic)  In their dreams.

Here’s why Vanderbilt’s response to the Trump higher ed ‘compact’ is not enough (Lisa Fazio/The Tennessean)

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator (Will Freeman/New York Times)  Indeed. Democrats have been doing it for a century.

Is the Argentina Bailout a Glimpse Into the Future of the United States? (Ben Raderstorf/The Bulwark)  Supprting our friends, rather than undercutting them the way Democrats always do? I certainly hope so.

How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets (Bora Erden/New York Times)  How long before the Left starts calling them “camoshirts”?

Letitia James Case Shows Ruthlessness of Justice Dept. in Trump’s Grip (New York Times)  They’re not treating her any differently than she treated them.

A Republic, but Can We Keep It? ??? From the military and the Justice Department to the East Wing … (Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal)  Peggy Noonan has turned into another RINO. I expect her to go work for the Bullshitwark any day now.

AG Pam Bondi announces investigation into another Trump foe: Nancy Pelosi (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Sauce for the goose….

Three Days In Chicago: A City on the Brink (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

Garland Personally Ordered Anti-Trump Arctic Frost Probe

Jonathan Martin Admits Government Shutdown Is about Dems Defying Trump

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Says NBA Betting Scandal Is About Trump

Harvard Silent After Dean Defended Trump Death Threats

Donald Trump has built a regime of retribution and reward (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

Fetterman Criticizes Kamala Harris for Use of ‘Fascist’ Rhetoric Against Trump

How Trump Violated the Law to Pay the Military (Bobby Kogan/Lawfare)

Trump likely to name White House ballroom after himself, officials say (Katherine Faulders/Reuters)  The horror!

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Behind the Table podcast (The View’s podcast), Joy Behar recounted to host Brian Teta about her liberal activism during the Vietnam War. Inspired by last weekend’s so-called “No Kings” protests, Behar hyped how she used to rant to her students back when she was a teacher and encouraged them to draft dodge. She also whined about one girl who “snitched” and got her fired.

Behar kicked off the show by decrying how Republicans were dismissing the protests as “a big nothing,” according to her. To counter that, she tried to suggest five to 10 times the number of estimated attendees actually supported the protests.

Is every Democrat a self-righteous asshole, or do we just see the worst of them in the news?

Newsbusters.

I doubt that Kimmel knows what the inside of a church looks like.

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Call it industrial policy, state capitalism, old-fashioned socialism: It’s a bad idea. Across several recent administrations, the US government’s role in the economy has grown increasingly intrusive. The current White House has taken things to an extreme. It’s a tried-and-failed experiment that should be scrapped before it does any more harm.

Blame Democrats. I do.

Trump’s doing the best that he can.

Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act (Daniel Dale/CNN)

If It’s Worse Than Watergate, Why The Silence?

Trump says he’d have final say on money he seeks over past federal investigations into his conduct (Associated Press)

Bondi Slams Democrats’ Planned ‘ICE Tracker’

How Trump Played ‘Budgetary Twister’ to Pay Some Workers During the Shutdown (Tony Romm/New York Times)

CNN’s Cornish Strategizes With Portland Democrat: Any Reason Not To Use Violence?

Morning Joe Crew Slimes ‘Dark Underbelly of MAGA’ Republicans

Exclusive: Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

How Obama maneuvered behind the scenes to fight Trump on redistricting (Washington Post)

Trump Is Demanding Millions From His Own Administration (Matthew Cullen/New York Times)

Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances (New York Times)

Trump Admits Americans Didn’t Vote for His Military Crackdowns (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)

The US forces threatening Venezuela (Financial Times)

Democratic senator holds Senate floor for 13 hours and counting to protest Trump (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  Democrats can count? Who knew?

Krugman Accusing Trump of Losing ‘Touch with Reality’ Is Like Flat-Earther Mocking Astronaut

Homeland Security Won’t Stop Lying About Who Immigration Enforcers Are Arresting (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason)

Sen. Merkley’s Floor Marathon Targets Trump  Oregon produces some strange people.

Democratic senator protests Trump’s ‘grave threats’ in marathon overnight floor speech (Rashard Rose/CNN)

Demolishing the Presidency — A White House teardown ordered by a reckless child is the perfect metaphor (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina. Here’s $40B Trump’s Giving You. (The Bulwark)

Trump Ally Pushing Conspiracy Case Says Grand Jury Empaneled (Bloomberg)

Two Months of ICE Terror in Chicago (Emma Janssen/American Prospect)

My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit. (Alan Greenblatt/Politico)

Trump Is Screwing His Voters So Badly That It Shocked This MAGA Farmer (New Republic)  How does one become a ‘MAGA farmer’? Is there a test you have to take?

Driver arrested after ramming car into Secret Service property in Washington (NBC News)

Who is paying for Trump’s White House ballroom? (Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBC)

MAGA Media Keeps Thirsting for Left-Wing Violence (Will Sommer/The Bulwark) There’s that MAGA guy again.

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say (Daniella Silva/NBC News)  If they bled out, they would be dead, and couldn’t describe anything. This is more Narrative Media lies.

Man detained for protesting National Guard with Star Wars song sues (Joe Heim/Washington Post)

Of Kings and Palaces ??? Why Democrats should commit–right now–to restoring the old East Wing of the White House. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew are really getting into the Democrat habit of wasting money.

The DOJ Lawyer and Hardcore Election Denier Probing 2020 (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law (New York Times)

Devastating Poll Reveals How Much Americans Hate Trump’s White House Teardown (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast) A proglodyte poll will say anything that they want it to say. I don’t bear anybody objecting to Trump’s ballroom who isn’t a Trump-hater to begin with. (Deranged Democrats Go All In On “Trump Is Destroying The White House” Hoax)

New book details infighting behind Trump’s ‘obviously unqualified’ cabinet picks (David Smith/The Guardian)

Protest of Bay Area immigration crackdown met with apparent stun grenades at Coast Guard base (San Francisco Chronicle)

Newsbusters.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is so desperate to prove that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is not a communist that it sent Desi Lydic to interview Communist Party USA co-chair Joe Sims to insist that Mamdani is not, in fact, one of them. Of course, Sims had to propagandize as well as he lamented his movement’s “bad reputation” and that communism is actually all about freedom to do what you wish, which might have been the funniest moment on the comedy shows all year.

After a montage of clips of people calling Mamdani a communist, Sims asked, “You’re saying Mamdani’s a communist?”

Lydic insisted, “I’m not saying that. People are saying that,” which led Sims to again wonder, “Really? How come nobody told me? I’m the co-chair of the Communist Party.”

Just as you don’t need to belong to the Libertarian Party to be a libertarian, you don’t have to belong to the Communist Party to be a communist.

Newsbusters.

One of the more tiresome mantras of leftist media coverage is Trump allegedly paging through his “authoritarian playbook.” The media have their own protest playbook, as you could tell when leftists organized another mass protest titled “No Kings,” as if we’ve ever had a king.

The network newscasts slobbered all over this Saturday event, using very similar language. “Millions” took to the streets! A “massive” nationwide turnout to oppose “what they call creeping authoritarianism.” They sound like they’re reading a press release. “More than 2,700 rallies in all 50 states,” as “organizers estimate seven million people” turned out.

All of these newscasts carried no ideological labels – no “liberal,” no “leftist,” no “progressive,” and no whisper of extremism. You can tell from the crazy signs, like “Impeach Trump Again,” and also “Impeach, Remove, Convict, Repeat,” that these are some furious radical lefties.

Newsbusters.

Once again, the legacy network newscasts come together to suppress a story that would be national news had it involved a Republican candidate for office. The latest instance of selective media outrage involves the suppressed shortcomings of via Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner.

Report on Trump nominee’s “Nazi streak” text threatens Senate confirmation (Axios)

DHS Issues Warning After ‘No Kings’ Protester Calls for Killing ICE Agents

Trump-backed Gallrein officially launches bid to unseat Massie (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico)

Biden’s FEMA Denied Aid to Trump Supporters During Disasters: DHS Probe

What to know about Trump’s plan to build $250m White House ballroom (Al Jazeera)  Laying out the Narrative for the dimwitted.

Colombian President: World Should ‘Get Rid of’ Trump

Jon Stewart Calls Trump ‘Most Socialist President of My Lifetime’

No Kings and the Laws of Power (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Proglodytes love to rail against the “Republican will do power” but spend no time discussing the even greater Democrat will to power. I wonder why that is.

‘That punk’ is ‘going to want a security guarantee’: How Steve Bannon influenced Trump’s combative meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Benjamin Siegel/ABC News)

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners ??? and virtually no one else (Washington Post)

Ron Paul knocks ‘hysterical’ Trump ‘rant’ criticizing Rand Paul (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

No Education Department? No Problem, Trump’s Education Secretary Says. (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, any time the government gets involved in an area, it is entitled to be involved in that area forevermore.

The View Whines White House Ballroom Proves Trump Is ‘a True Nihilist’

Nobel Loser Trump Wins Richard Nixon Booby Peace Prize (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast represents the best in American High School journalism.

SNL Claims Trump Admin Officials Will Flee To Argentina, Just Like The Nazis

The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats (Jonathan Blitzer/New Yorker)

ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account (Steven Monacelli/The Texas Observer)

A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Some Trump critics fear they could be the president’s next target for prosecution (NBC News)  Hey, you mess with the bull….

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago (Jack Jenkins/RNS)

Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard’s National Intelligence Office (Jeff Stein/SpyTalk)

Watch: Colombian President Threatens To “Take Out” Trump

Trump fires another inspector general, raising fears about oversight independence (Sean Michael Newhouse/GovExec.com)

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors (The City)

What to know about the $250 million ballroom Trump is adding to the White House (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)  Laying out the Narrative for the dimwitted.

Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged (Ari Berman/Mother Jones)  As Democrats have done in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts, but somehow that doesn’t make it past the threshold for criticism.

Democrats call on ‘disengaged’ Trump to get involved to end shutdown (NBC News)  Why? He’s winning. They just want him to cave, has (historically) Republicans have always done. Not this time….

Newsbusters.

he New York Times came out with a story on rising car payment delinquencies that at first glance would make readers think it was President Donald Trump’s fault. But — as always — the devil’s in the details: This issue was a lingering carry-over from the Biden administration.

“Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments,” Times business reporter Sydney Ember’s October 20 headline read. She wrote that “Inflation and a tough job market are making it harder for some people to pay back the car loans they signed in better times.”

Sounds pretty bad, unless you’re a political opportunist looking to whack Trump with any political cudgel you can get your hands on. But the hidden plot twist would make anyone paying attention do a double-take: “The share of subprime auto loans that were 60 days or more past due reached a high of nearly 6.5 percent in January and has lingered near that level, according to Fitch Ratings.”

Hmm, who was president for most of January? Because it certainly wasn’t Trump. Ember never mentions Biden at all — of course —and proceeded to keep her story devoid of the necessary context.

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday, October 14, the cast of ABC’s The View whined on-air that Republicans didn’t want to come on the program to talk with them. According to co-host Joy Behar, Republicans were “afraid of us.” But after a clip of Behar’s suggestion went viral, Republicans and conservatives began to call out The View for repeatedly turning down their requests to appear on the show.

“I was going to say that I think we should have more Republicans on the show, but they don’t want to come on. They’re scared of us. It’s like Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she finds the Republican men afraid of powerful women,” Behar declared.

Newsbusters.

The trend of the late night hosts devolving from comedians into DNC talking heads continued on Monday as they gushed over the weekend’s No Kings protestors. According to them, the size of the crowds should discredit the idea they were actually quite radical.

On The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert excitedly wondered, “Do you feel that? Do you feel the vibe? It’s electric in here. You can feel the energy in this room because these folks are still high from the No Kings rally this weekend. That was beautiful! It’s a beautiful sight to see. On Saturday, 7 million people turned out in over 2,700 events in all 50 states.”

I doubt seriously that so many people were involved.

Read it.

Liberals always present themselves as smarter than conservatives. But even their attempts to “own” the conservatives can mangle the facts. On CNN‘s “NewsNight,” 22-year-old MeidasTouch Democrat Adam Mockler compared President Donald Trump to Hamas terrorists because they were both “elected democratically.”

Earth to Mockler: Hamas had one election and never allowed another. Trump won an election, then lost an election, and then won another election. America is a vibrant, contentious democracy. Meanwhile, Hamas marked its “peace deal” with Trump by executing people in the streets. Gaza fits all the Left’s constant talk of authoritarian demise.

“Public” radio is an ever-swirling cesspool of these wild-eyed authoritarian-conspiracy theories. They’re not QAnon—QAnon doesn’t have 1,000 stations that were until very recently taxpayer-funded.

Trump has constantly tested the boundaries of executive power, but all the comparisons to mass-murdering dictators just keep getting more ridiculous as democracy continues in America.

Popular Information, a Voice of the Crust.

Like most of the Narrative Media, this is mostly misinformation designed to distract people who are unaware of the “manosphere” from who really populate it.

Hint: It’s not Joe Rogan. It’s Not Theo Von. It’s not Andrew Schulze. It’s not Shawn Ryan.

It’s Rollo Tomassi, Mike Sartain, Fresh & Fit, Rich Cooper, Aaron Clarey, Rian Stone, and other’s who have inhabited that space since the millennium began.

The shutdown message lawmakers are hearing from constituents: ‘Keep up the fight’ (Kevin Frey/MSNBC)

‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)  Present company excluded, of course.

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

Shutdown Imperils Dozens of Head Start Preschool Programs  Which have been demonstrated to have exactly zero impact.

Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protesters (Lauren Aratani/The Guardian)  Trump says what we are all thinking.

MSNBC Struggles to Find Illegality with Government Stretching Dollars

CNN Anchor Whitfield Weirdly Questions Trump Making A ‘Deal’ To End War In Ukraine

Trump’s Plan To Remain on His Throne (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

BREAKING: Colombia’s President Petro Threatens To ‘Get Rid of Trump’

“A Nazi streak” — With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine, Ali Bianco and Rachel Umansky-Castro (Politico)

I don’t see any reduction in TDS (plus, MSNBC rebrands itself) (The New Neo)

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Donald Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality (Paul Krugman)

A rickety dictatorship

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  So subtle that everybody missed it.

Stage 5 TDS: Deranged De Niro Calls For Leftists To “Fight It Out” With “Nazis”

Steve Bannon and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Became His ‘Besties’ (Jonathan D. Karl/The Atlantic)  “man who has Trump’s ear”? Presumably the one that was shot….

Trump’s Venezuela operation expands in the dark (Axios)

Why many transgender Americans are preparing to flee the country (Vox)  Good riddance. Let them afflict somewhere else.

MAGA’s cancellation spree (Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again.

The Golden Age of Sh*tposters (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Such as the Kristol Krew at the Bulshitwark.

Rep. Malliotakis: Trump Made ‘Wrong Decision’ on Santos

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Ups The Ante As He Calls For A General Strike (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

Why protesters against Trump are wearing frog, chicken and T. rex costumes (Washington Post)  Because they never grew up and think that this stupid shit is somehow clever.

Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid (New York Times)

Trump boards AF1 quickly, using small stairs due to ‘increased security measures’: WH official (Fox News)

CNN’s Brownstein Says It Out Loud: Forget The Merits of Comey, James, & Bolton Indictments!

CBS News OMITS Palm Beach Tree Stand, Whines About Trump’s Poop Meme

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience (Eric Reinhart/The Guardian)  In other words, breaking the law.

Trump’s response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters’ point (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

FBI and Secret Service Discover Hunting Stand Potentially Linked to Assassination Attempt Against Trump

Trump’s revenge tour is putting the ‘petty’ in petty tyrant (Hayes Brown/MSNBC)

No Kings wasn’t cringe — Needing to seem cool in the face of authoritarian takeover is cringe (Jerusalem Demsas/The Argument)

Food Prices Could Go Even Higher After These ICE Raids (Patricia Lopez/Bloomberg)

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President (Andy Kroll/ProPublica)

No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump’s response. (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Don Lemon Urges ‘Black And Brown’ Americans To Arm Themselves Against ICE  Black and brown Americans don’t need to arm themselves against ICE, they need to arm themselves againsts Democrat crime.

Trump’s over-the-top reaction to the ‘No Kings’ events was proof of their success (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Civil Resistance Confronts the Autocracy (Paul Krugman)  More accurately, Democrat criminality confronts law enforcement.

Ten Million Dukes (Anthony Esolen/American Greatness)

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats (Washington Post)

Judge Grills Trump Officials Over Chicago Tear Gas Use  Would he rather they use bulliets?

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party (Miles Bruner/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew go full Dramacrat. [Long Live ‘No Kings’ (William Kristol/The Bulwark)]

The Tactical Frivolity of the Chicago No Kings Protest (Gary Shteyngart/New York Times)

MSNBC’s Capehart Agrees With Foul Mouth De Niro: Trump Won’t Leave Office!

With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Google Leans on Disgraced SPLC to Attack Trump Allies

Lawmakers bemoan Trump’s latest power grab: Troop pay (Politico)

The White House Joins BlueSky and Instantly Becomes the 2nd-Most Blocked Account ??? After JD Vance (Sean James/Mediaite)  They must be doing someting right. The Dramacrat party ought to change their symbol from a donkey to a blue-haired tattooed fat woman with her fingers in her ears yelling “LA LA LA LA LA!”

Judge Demands Answers on Trump Immigration Crackdown in Chicago (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)

Shutdown could halt SNAP benefits for millions, states say (Avery Lotz/Axios)  Thank you, Chuck Schumer.

How the Supreme Court placed ICE above the law (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

ICE Barbie’s Top Goon Accused of Illegally Revealing Child’s Rap Sheet (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

The View’s ‘Conservative’ Fears Democrats Won’t Harness Protest Energy

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship (Thomas Zimmer/Steady)

Watch: Liberal Boomer Paid-Protesters Caught Chaperoning At NYC ‘No Kings’ Protest 

Accountant arrested after ‘opening fire on MAGA supporter’ in dispute over Trump sign… as victim recalls bullets whizzing past his head (Laura Parnaby/Daily Mail)

News Outlets Won’t Describe Trump’s AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America (Samantha Cole/404 Media)  Aging boomer activists aren’t America.

Court Backs Trump’s Authority to Send National Guard into Portland

9th Circuit Rules for Trump, Potentially Allowing National Guard to Deploy to Portland (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

Trump claims ‘unquestioned power’ in vow to send troops to San Francisco (Dani Anguiano/The Guardian)

US appeals court lets Trump send troops to Portland (Dietrich Knauth/Reuters)

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It’s a question we have to ask too often: How stupid do the nation’s top journalists think we are?

The available evidence would suggest: Pretty stupid,

Newsbusters.

Twice in recent days, MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff downplayed the criminal record of an illegal alien a week after he flipped out because federal agents arrested him at a Chicago bakery while he was having coffee.

On October 7, Soboroff first brought the story to MSNBC during Chris Jansing Reports as he interviewed a witness to the arrest. As he played video of agents parked outside the bakery and chasing the men inside, the MSNBC reporter tried to portray the Trump administration as being dishonest about whom they are arresting.

‘No Kings’ protests against Trump bring a street party vibe to cities nationwide (Associated Press)  And all the senile hippy boomers come out to play….

NJ Residents Rip School Board Over Vile Texts Attacking MAGA Mom

Going Full Venezuela — No Kings day feels eerily familiar to me. (Quico Toro/Persuasion)

Morning Joe Admits Bolton Indictment Legit, But Claims It’s Still Trump Abuse

Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)

Ex-ICE director says Trump’s immigration crackdown putting agents in “terrible position” (Anna Schecter/CBS News)  Yeah, they actually have to do their jobs. They didn’t get a government job in order to actually work….

Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  By ‘allies’ I assume she means non-Americans, i.e. illegal immigrants.

Second “No Kings Day” protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  And by pretty much the same people.

Networks Grant Leftist ‘No Kings’ Protests 18 Times the Air Time as March for Life

Plan to Fire Artillery over a Highway During Vance Visit Irks California’s Newsom

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)  It’s all they’ve got.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal (Washington Post)  Sure, I believe that.

No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum (Sasha Stone/Free Thinking Through …)

Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level (David French/New York Times)

Trump posts obscene AI video after ‘No Kings’ protests drew millions nationwide: Live updates (The Independent)

No Kings protests held across U.S., overseas to demonstrate against Trump administration (NBC News)  I guess the British and the Saudis couldn’t participate. Pity.

Sanders at ‘No Kings’ rally: Mega-billionaires have ‘hijacked’ economy (Tara Suter/The Hill)  As opposed to mere millionaires, like him and Senator Umbrage. Where does he draw the line? He never says, and nobody ever asks.

Rand Paul: ‘All of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name’ (David Cohen/Politico)  Who cares what their names are? Does he mean that justice is different for people if you know their names? Is he going to start demanding the same due process rights for illegal immigrants as for Americans and legal residents. Is he going RINO on us?

When Could The Government Shutdown End And What Might Finally Force Breakthrough?  Republican supermajority in the mid-terms.

Trump jabs ‘No Kings’ protesters with AI videos of himself wearing crown (Zac Anderson/USA Today)  Ah, ah, ah,  ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

‘King’ Trump, 79, Dumps on Protesters in Bonkers AI Video (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Trump posts wild AI video showing him flying fighter jet, dropping sewage on No Kings protesters (Ryan King/New York Post)

Trump Vows to Make San Francisco ‘Great Again

Inside the quiet, yearslong investigation into John Bolton (CNN)

Mamdani, Jeffries and How to Beat Trump at His Own Game (Chris Hayes/New York Times)  Putting America first? That’s not a game Mamdani wants to play.

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters (Jenny Gross/New York Times)

Donald Trump Has Posted An AI Video Of Himself Dumping S**t On Protesters (Kevin Schofield/HuffPost)

FBI Probing Air Force One Sniper Stand at Palm Beach Airport

Secret Service discovers hunting stand with direct sight line to Trump’s Air Force One exit in Florida (NBC News)

Secret Service Discovers Hunting Stand Overlooking Trump’s Air Force One Exit  Guess they’ve started taking their job seriously again.

First Arrests Hint At How Billions In California Homeless Dollars Vanished Without A Trace on Newsom’s Watch

Swalwell: When we’re in majority, ICE masks coming off (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois (WLS/ABC7)

FEMA Cuts Disaster Aid, Leaving States Fending for Themselves (Scott Dance/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, disaster aid is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal tazpayer.

Donald Trump’s Dream Palace of Puffery (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Trump plans to leave his mark on Washington by building a Paris-like arch near the Lincoln Memorial (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Joe Rogan is unpleasantly surprised by Trump’s actions. He’s hardly alone (Aaron Blake/CNN)

How dozens of Trump’s donors have benefited from his second term (Financial Times)

The Smart People Can’t Accept Trump Isn’t Hamas or Hitler or Stalin

ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history (Matthew Wollin/Public Notice)

Donald Trump: America First globalist (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Trump Says $20 Billion Project Schumer Wants Is ‘Pretty Much Dead’ (Bloomberg)

Republican Frustration With Kristi Noem Has Reached a Boiling Point (NOTUS)

Joe Rogan Rips Trump for Setting a ‘Dangerous Precedent’ (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

Exclusive: Trump immigration plan may wipe out 15M jobs by 2035, study claims (Russell Contreras/Axios)

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS (Stephanie Armour/KFF Health News)

GOP senators worry about Trump, Hegseth shutdown moves (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First (Paul Krugman)

Universities Are Standing Up to Trump (Alan Blinder/New York Times)

Small businesses are being crushed by Trump’s tariffs and economists say it’s a warning for the economy (Gabrielle Fonrouge/CNBC)

Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns (New Republic)

The resistance reaches into Trump country (Waging Nonviolence)

Trump preparing to reopen Alaska wildlife refuge for oil drilling (Adam Federman/Politico)

Trump’s Very Own Basket of Deplorables (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball (Andy Kroll/New Yorker)

Propaganda Puppet Kimmel: Trump Is “Pretending There’s Chaos” For “A Military Takeover”

‘No Kings’ protests return as Trump ramps up authoritarian practices, organizers say (Safiyah Riddle/Associated Press)

The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration (Dan Holtmeyer/Liberal Currents)

“Outraged” Trump Refuses To Adhere To Global Carbon Tax On Shipping

Scoop: Warren pushes White House to release jobs report during shutdown (Courtenay Brown/Axios)

Putin Plays to Trump’s Ego as U.S. Wavers on Ukraine Aid (New York Times)

Trump Refiles His $15 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against The New York Times (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

Trump Pushes Indiana Lawmakers to Redraw State Maps (Tyler Pager/New York Times)

Trump Threatens Democrats As Government Shutdown Enters Third Week: Live Updates (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

What Trump Is Really Up to in Chicago, According to JB Pritzker (Dasha Burns/Politico)

Dear Mr. President, Americans Don’t Care Who Owns Donetsk, So Why Risk WW3 By Sending Tomahawks?

“I’m not a king,” Trump says ahead of nationwide No Kings protests (Josephine Walker/Axios)

MSNBC’s ICE-Breaker Jacob Soboroff Touts Fear: We May Not Have a 2026 Election

Fmr CNN Host Don Lemon: ‘Get a Gun’ in Case ICE Shows Up

Don Lemon tells Black, Brown citizens to carry guns in case ICE shows up (Fox News)

Trump Selfie Snub Triggered MAGA Civil War That Leaked Racist Young Republican Chat (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

PBS Host Geoff Bennett Prods Retired Justice Kennedy to Condemn Current Court

CNN Admits There’s Some Merit to Bolton Classified Info Indictment

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Greenlight Chicago Military Takeover (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Former WH Special Consul Cobb: Bolton Indictment Has Legal Merit

Trump admin cancels more than $11 billion in mostly blue state projects (Jason Lalljee/Axios)

Court extends restraining order to shield more feds from shutdown RIFs (Jared Serbu/Federal News Network)

White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)

Public Health Professor Warns Trump’s ‘Eugenics’ Policy Echoes Nazism (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force (ProPublica)

The Shutdown is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind. (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

Trump’s ‘peace through strength’ foreign policy confounds MAGA Republicans (Paul Kane/Washington Post)

Voting Rights Act faces a near-death experience at US Supreme Court (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)

How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree (Emily Peck/Axios)  Well, it looks as if the Narrative ‘journalists’ are not totally stupid.

PBS Whines Trump, GOP Won’t Buckle On Shutdown

With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department (Washington Post)

Venture Capitalist Ron Conway Resigns From Board Over Benioff National Guard Comments (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Senate Democrats tank military funding bill amid shutdown feud (Connor O’Brien/Politico)

Vulgar Pro-Hamas, Anti-Trump/Netanyahu Messages Broadcast at Pa. Airport by Hackers

Woman invoked Charlie Kirk’s killing while threatening immigration agents, US charges (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Trump’s Unilateral Spending Cuts Complicate Shutdown Deal (New York Times)

Harvard posts biggest operating loss in 14 years as Trump cuts bite (Dan Primack/Axios)

Multiple GOP congressional offices received flags with ‘optical illusion’ swastikas earlier this year (NBC News)

Chamber of Commerce Sues Over Trump’s New $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee (Wall Street Journal)

Pritzker: Stephen Miller ‘abusing the fact that Donald Trump has diminished capacity’ (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

President Trump envisions D.C. arch to mark 250th anniversary of U.S. (Anastasia Tsioulcas/NPR)

California AG vows to sue if Trump sends troops to San Francisco (Noah Baustin/Politico)

Trump’s Long-Awaited IVF Policy Falls Far Short of His Campaign Pledge (NOTUS)

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn (Lauren Gambino/The Guardian)

In Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois, Illegal Alien Is Working as a Sworn Police Office with Badge, Gun, and a Pension (Department of Homeland Security)

Inside Trump’s DOJ: Punitive firings, public scoldings and pressure to prosecute foes (MSNBC)  Sounds a lot like the Obama DOJ and the Biden DOJ to me.

Democrats Lay Out ‘Damning’ Examples of ICE’s Tactics in Chicago (Amelia Benavides-Col??n/NOTUS)

Newsbusters.

n what will hopefully be the first of many welcome changes at CBS News in this Bari Weiss era, senior vice president for standards and practices Claudia Milne announced Thursday she would be leaving the company after having played leading roles in what our friends at the New York Post noted were “some of the network’s recent controversial, woke reporting” in recent years.

For reference, the Post’s indefatigable media reporter Alexandra Steigrad explained the standards and practices unit at news organizations are “responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming,” so her departure marked the “the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss” was named editor-in-chief on October 6.

Steigard, as always, came armed with sources. She found one who said Milne “was part of the woke mob at CBS News” and thus “Bari’s first scalp” as she seeks to move CBS back towards the center.

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Fifteen journalists have agreed to the Department of War’s new press policy, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.

The department had set a Tuesday deadline for news outlets to sign a new Pentagon access policy or lose access to press credentials and Pentagon workspaces.

At least 30 news organizations, including Reuters and Newsmax, declined to sign the new policy, citing a threat to press freedoms and their ability to conduct independent newsgathering on the world’s most powerful military.

The last thing the “world’s most powerful military” ought to do is let “independent newsgatherers” anywhere near their facilities. One of the least effortful ways of gathering intelligence on one’s enemies is simply reading the product of “independent newsgatherers” who just can’t wait to show everybody how in-the-know they are, no matter whether or not it damages national security.

Reporters who signed the document include those who work for The Federalist, The Epoch Times, and One America News.

“After thorough review of the revised press policy by our attorney, OAN staff has signed the document,” Charles Herring, the company’s president, said in a statement.

Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on social media they found no new restrictions on the ability of journalists to report on or criticize the government.

“If the new guidelines result in fewer professional con artists and media hoaxers roaming the halls looking for new lies to peddle, so be it,” they said.

And that says it all.

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Episcopalians? Are they still around?

Despite overseeing a denomination that’s been cratering in support for its far-left views, celebration of genital mutilation, and downplaying the Word of God (among other things, making its Christian bona fides questionable), Episcopalian Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde was heralded on Thursday’s CBS Mornings for her new young adults book about bravery and her January scolding of President Trump at an inaugural interfaith service.

And, to make it even more palatable for the liberal hosts and viewers, Budde never mentioned God, His Son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, or any character in the Bible as examples of bravery. Rather, Budde and the co-hosts focused on her selections of Martin Luther King Jr. and Harry Potter.

“Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was brave enough to tell President Trump to welcome refugees to America. She’ll tell us why she is bringing that lesson of bravery to kids in a new book,” gushed featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers in one of two teases.

Of course, the interview itself began with the snippet of her homily ripping into the President from the National Cathedral pulpit as xenophobic.

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown (Janie Har/Associated Press)

Judge temporarily blocks firings by Trump administration during shutdown (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)0

Judge Extends Ban on Trump Deploying National Guard in Portland

Overthrow: Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Ops Targeting Venezuela’s Maduro  No beating around the bush.

Federal firings could reach 10,000 during shutdown, Vought says (Emily Peck/Axios)  Let’s get a head start on draining the swamp.

New York Magazine: ‘How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?’  Trump Republican, Biden Democrat. Seems obvious to me.

Trump is considering sending National Guard to San Francisco (Faith Wardwell/Politico)  I hope they make sure to wear a flower in their hair.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner (Wall Street Journal)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Trump tells CNN Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza ‘as soon as I say the word’ if Hamas won’t uphold ceasefire deal (Jake Tapper/CNN)

Judge Pauses Transfer of Florida Land for Trump Library

Trump vows federal ‘surge’ in more American cities to combat crime (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)

RINO ALERT! Murkowski Joins Democrats in Push for Federal Worker Back Pay

Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Democrats float a new shutdown demand: Reversing Trump’s mass firings (Politico)  Sounds as if they’re feeling the pinch right in their base.

NY Times Furious Trump Wants Balanced Refugee System

Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups (Wall Street Journal)

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules (Scott Nover/Washington Post)  That gets rid of a major pain in the ass.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of “Vanity Parade” (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)  The derangement is strong in this one.

The Hatch Act? Wassat? Who cares? (Robert Reich)  Certainly no Democrat, much less Robert Reich.

The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps (Nancy A. Youssef/The Atlantic)  Speed the day. Why we even have a “Pentagon Press Corps” escapes me.

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times)  The horror! The horror!

Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)  As they went after him. Quod abit circum venit circum.

When the Trump Guardrails Fall (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)

Special Counsel Jack Smith: Trump Persecution Was Not Political  Liar Liar Pants On Fire.

I resigned from the military because of Trump (Doug Krugman/Washington Post)  Sometimes the system works.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is on the way out – prez’s alpha-male greatness shines after peace deal (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto (Financial Times) That’s why he’s a billionaire, and you’re not.

Trump’s Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Extreme Leftist Democrat Crockett Claims Trump Had A Stroke And Cannot Function I’m sure he’d be able to whip your ass.

Top White House official selling Arlington home after activists write chalk messages on sidewalk (ARLnow)

Trump Rule Sidelines 6,000 Truckers Over English Tests  It frightens me that there were 6,000 truck drivers on the roads who can’t pass an English test.

Federal immigration officers in Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, judge says (Christine Fernando/Associated Press)  I’m not sure she has the authority to do that.

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  More guts!

San Francisco DA says she ‘won’t hesitate’ to bring charges against federal agents (Politico)  The magic words are Qualified Immunity.

Photo Shows Trump Backstage At Rally With Republicans In Racist Texts Scandal (HuffPost)  Trump! Backstage with REPUBLICANS! AT A RALLY! What is this world coming to?

Norwegian Nobel Socialists Snub Trump, Give Prize to Eco-Extremist Economist

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

Judge Blocks Trump Cuts, Restores $34M in NYC Anti-Terror Funds

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Just hours after 20 Israeli hostages were released from captivity, after being held by the terrorist organization Hamas for 738 days, an event made possible by Donald Trump’s peace plan, CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip featured Dr. Cornel West justifying the existence of Hamas, claiming that Palestinians in Gaza were under occupation, and comparing them to the Jews of Poland, and those who suffered as slaves in this country, and going after Donald Trump.

Phillip began the questioning with Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan, who expressed doubt about the likelihood that the the rest of Trump’s plan would be implemented, but acknowledged that it was a day for celebration: “What we can say it was a good day because today the guns went silent.” Next, Phillip turned to West, who in the past, on her very show, has compared the plight of the Palestinians to slavery in the United States, and has falsely claimed that Gaza was occupied by Israel prior to October 7th.

Phillip began with a ridiculous question about Trump, prefaced with her liberal point of view: “And look, everybody knows that Trump loves credit, but is it fair in your mind for more people on the left to actually give him credit for this? To acknowledge that, that perhaps he was the difference maker in this particular deal?” Then West went on his rant.

Cornel West is pretty much the poster child for Affirmative Action Hire.

Newsbusters.

On Monday night’s The 11th Hour, MSNBC’s very own Jason Johnson made the incredibly logical conclusion that everyone who was not in favor of fascism should be grouped under the same label as those who cause violent riots in the name of Antifa. This was in reaction to the Trump administration’s recent actions taken against the terrorist network.

Of course, Stephanie Ruhle’s stand-in, Antonia Hylton, couldn’t start without first minimizing the significance of the riotous clan: “It’s worth reminding viewers that Trump designated Antifa, which is not an actual organization, as a domestic terrorist group with an Executive Order…”

It’s atypical, shapeless (not formless), and hides amongst the shadows in-between incursions. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Newsbusters.

On Monday and Tuesday, brutal footage emerged of Hamas terrorists carrying out public executions of those they claim were disloyal and “collaborators with Israel,” just hours after the ceasefire went into effect as part of President Trump’s historic regional peace deal. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, ABC completely omitted this disturbing turn from their flagship evening and morning newscasts.

Instead, chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell eagerly peddled Hamas propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

Pannell declared on Tuesday’s World News Tonight that “[i]n Gaza, some of the nearly 2,000 prisoners taken by Israel and held without charge also reporting abuse.”

He then used video taped inside Gaza (likely from a local producer) of a man “detained for 20 months saying he was told his family had been killed. It was a lie.

“‘I was released, not knowing if my family was alive. It was a beautiful feeling to find them,’ he says…[T]his dispute about Hamas disarming and the return of bodies underscores how immense the challenges ahead are, but President Trump clear he wants a wider Middle East peace and that means solving Gaza once and for all,” he added.