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The federal government is shut down, at least in part, because Democrats are attempting to reverse Medicaid spending cuts that were enacted earlier this year as part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Democrats are refusing to support a continuing resolution that would keep funding the government unless it restores those cuts.

ABC News is determined to help the Democrats make their case for reversing Medicaid cuts, even at the expense of whatever journalistic credibility it has remaining. To wit, “Good Morning America” aired a story by senior White House correspondent Selina Wang about “looming Medicaid cuts threatening the already dire maternal health system.”

The story claims that more than 5.5 million women already live in “maternity care deserts,” referencing a 2024 report by the March of Dimes, and argues that Medicaid cuts “could force more maternity wards to shut down.”

Almost everything about this story is factually incorrect or severely misleading. First, the factual errors. The March of Dimes report claims that 2.3 million women live in maternity deserts, less than half the 5.5 million asserted by ABC News. ABC may have calculated 5.5 million by adding the 3 million women identified by the March of Dimes who “live in counties with limited maternity care access” to the 2.3 million women who they say live in counties classified as maternity care deserts. Even then, ABC appears not to know its 123s because the sum of 3 and 2.3 is not more than 5.5.

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NPR president and CEO Katherine Maher amazed the House Republicans when she testified to Congress on March 26 that she’d never witnessed any liberal bias on NPR, and that “We have a responsibility to serve Americans across the full political spectrum in a trustworthy, nonpartisan fashion.”

Maher laughably claimed to the Washington Post on August 6 that NPR had no “affinity for one party or one perspective over the other,” characterizing the organization as ideological only in that it supports “democracy and the Constitution and the role of the press and the right of every citizen to seek and receive information.”

Wrong. We studied the guests appearing on NPR’s two-hour afternoon news show All Things Considered during the two-month period between July 19, 2025, the day after Congress rescinded taxpayer funding for NPR, and September 18, 2025.

Liberal/Democrat-leaning guests outnumbered conservative-Republican-leaning guests by an astounding disparity of 53 to 3 — and of those three, one was anti-Trump. The political partisanship was also more stark on NPR, with a 12-1 party breakdown of Democrats/liberal politician guests versus Republican ones.

WaPo Admits Internal DC Police Scandal Over Manipulated Crime Stats

Five weeks ago, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller announced that there was an ongoing DOJ investigation into whether Washington D.C. officials manipulated crime statistics – calling it a “massive scandal.”

One day after Miller’s late-August announcement, National Police Association spox Betsy Smith told ABC4 News in a little-noticed report that “Commanders and supervisors were having the initial responding officers write the report differently than what they were called to, or different than what they physically saw on the scene.”

And while the DC Police Department has been run by Democrats for decades – frustrated cops have been talking to the DOJ and have receipts, presented with a bow by D.C. Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton.

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Last Tuesday, September 30th, ICE agents conducted an overnight raid at a Chicago apartment complex, and arrested 37 illegal aliens from several countries. The complex was targeted because it was frequented by members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Two gang members were among those captured along with others with criminal records. But MSNBC’s Ali Velshi says that raid, and Donald Trump’s speech to U.S. Generals, later that day, will make September 30th be remembered as one of the darkest days in U.S. history.

Velshi just could not get over that illegals, many with criminal records, could be successfully rounded up in the middle of the night. He opened his Saturday edition of MSNBC’s Velshi by saying, “Quote, ‘we are under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.’ End quote. Now you’d be forgiven for thinking those were words describing Syria or North Korea, but they came from a witness describing a scene unfolding in Chicago this week.” He was quoting someone named Darrell Ballard, who spoke to the ABC affiliate in Chicago about the ICE raid. Velshi went on to repeat witness claims that residents were separated into groups and led into vans. He informed his audience that, “This came with a military style name. The Trump administration called it Operation Midway Blitz .” Oh my!

Stephen Miller accused of ‘incitement to violence against judges’ with new ‘purge’ comment (David McAfee/Raw Story)

Trump Plans to Deploy National Guard in Illinois, Governor Says

Trump Authorizes Sending National Guard to Illinois (Wall Street Journal)

Trump Authorizes Troops to Chicago as Judge Blocks Portland Deployment

Trump authorizes National Guard in Chicago as ICE, protesters clash (Washington Post)

Atlantic Magazine Praises Trump for Forcing Pfizer to Slash Drug Prices  Astonishing.

Wikipedia Is Liberal Media: Donald Trump Entry Pushes ‘Authoritarian’ SEVEN Times

Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland (CNN)

Federal judge halts Trump administration’s call-up of National Guard in Portland (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Oregon judge temporarily blocks deployment of the National Guard to Portland (CBS News)

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. (Anna Griffin/New York Times)

Judge Blocks Trump’s Portland Guard Deployment Amid Antifa Violence; ICE Targeted In Chicago Vehicle-Ramming Attack

Defying court order, Trump sends California National Guard troops to Oregon (Lia Russell/Sacramento Bee)

Governor Newsom to sue, urges Americans to speak out on Trump’s “breathtaking abuse of power” with cross-state Guard deployment (Governor of California)

Newsom Vows to Sue for Trump Sending Calif. Guard to Ore.

The Wisdom of SecDef Douchenozzle (Claire Berlinski/The Cosmopolitan …)

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest (Gosia Wozniacka/Oregonian)

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls (Dave Savini/CBS News)

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, any excuse to expand the eligibility of people for getting government (i.e. taxpayer) money is sacrosanct and untouchable.

Supreme Court will be forced to grapple with Trump in new term (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)  More accurately, forced to grapple with Trump’s ankle-biters.

Are We Really Headed for a Second Civil War? (John Avlon/The Bulwark)

MSNBC Hosts Lets Guest Smear ICE Agents as Trump’s Lawless ‘Gestapo’

Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the government shutdown drags on (MSNBC)

Pod man out: Trump’s support with influential podcasters is waning (NBC News)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

Bill Nye leads charge to save NASA science from deep Trump cuts (Delano Massey/Axios)  He’s not a scientist, but he does play one on TV.

Federal Worker Unions Ask to Preemptively Block Shutdown Layoffs (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)

Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks POTUS’ Latest Blue City Takeover (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Noem: Anarchists Put $10K Bounty to Kill ICE Officers

Laura Loomer Is Turning Against MAGA Stalwarts (Wall Street Journal)  Whoever that MAGA guy is, he’s stalwart.

‘They Need to Suffer’: Inside Trump’s War on Dissent (Rolling Stone)

‘They Need to Suffer’: Inside Trump’s War on Dissent (Rolling Stone)

Epstein Survivors Will Flood Capitol to Force Files Release (Adam Downer/The Daily Beast) “Flood the capitol”? I sincerely doubt that there will be any ‘flood’ involved, unless perhaps they bring a rent-a-mob with them–which is entirely possible if they are accompanied by Democrat political hacks.

Fact Check: Mike Johnson’s Biggest Lies About Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)  More accurately, “Narrative Check”.

Kristi Noem calls Chicago a ‘war zone’ after federal agents shoot woman (Olivia Empson/The Guardian)  Who was, memorandum,  armed and attacked ICE agents with her car. Of course, that’s not on The Guardian’s Narrative menu.

Trust In Media Among Americans Hits Record Low: Gallup Survey

Declining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Cause (Paul Krugman) Krugman is both a sympton and a cause of declining American education.

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after Trump administration says they threaten officers (Clare Duffy/CNN)

White House Keeps 45 DOGE Employees Working Despite Shutdown (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg)  The horror!

Trump spiritual advisory pastor to serve only 6 months after molesting a 12-year-old for years (Daniel Villarreal/LGBTQ Nation)  SCRAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Bezos’ Washington Post Hires New MAGA-Friendly Columnists (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)  That MAGA guy really gets around.

Get Ready for Bad Bunny’s Explosive Super Bowl Trump Protest (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

‘No Way’: Trumpworld Won’t Help Madison Cawthorn Attempt a Political Comeback (Reese Gorman/NOTUS)

Kimmel Disparages ICE, Says Super Bowl Presence Is About Tackling Brown People

Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Rep. Jeffries: Trump ‘Unhinged, Unserious’ Since Shutdown

MSNBC’s Ruhle Tries to Spin Comey Prosecution as Free Speech Assault

Welcome to the Era of “Kavanaugh Raids” (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)

Joy Behar Melts Down Over ICE Enforcing Immigration at Super Bowl

Government shutdown updates: Leavitt says Trump exploring cutting aid to Portland (ABC News)

Chicago and the Horrors of Carte Blanche (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

OutFoxed — On the “intelligence” that prompted Trump’s push into Portland. (Bill Grueskin/Columbia Journalism Review)

RFK Jr. adds to Team Trump’s pattern of punishing whistleblowers (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies’ extension: Survey (Surina Venkat/The Hill)

NBC’s Melvin Tells Speaker Johnson ‘We Can’t Get to’ ‘Misleading’ Claim About Illegals

The Supreme Court Is Creating a King (Matt Ford/New Republic)

Groups File Suit Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee (New York Times)

Unions, Employers Sue to Block Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants (Andrew Chung/Reuters)

Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected immigration status for thousands of Venezuelans (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)

Supreme Court lets Trump strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)

Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Deportation Protections for Venezuelans (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)

Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

My travels through Chicago: teargas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown (Oliver Laughland/The Guardian)

Fired prosecutor warns colleagues to resist giving in to Trump era ‘political interference’ (Politico)

First Circuit Rebukes Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order as Unconstitutional (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

They Radicalized Themselves (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

They’re Lying, Dividing, And Distracting. Don’t Believe The GOP’s Shutdown Hype (Gabe Ortiz/Combating Nativist Narratives)

Trump administration prepares to offer money to unaccompanied migrant teenagers to voluntarily leave US (Priscilla Alvarez/CNN)

Getting Away with Murder (David Cole/The New York Review of Books)

“Attack on Free Speech”: Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Covering Anti-Trump Protest (Democracy Now)

New York Magazine Irked that Jimmy Fallon Hasn’t Fully Embraced Trump Hate

The Sufferable Evil — Chicago and the End of American Liberty. (Mike Brock/Notes From The Circus)

Atlanta Spanish-language journalist deported (Tim Darnell/Atlanta News First)

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show (Andy Mannix/Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Chicago alderperson says federal agents handcuffed her at Humboldt Park medical facility (ABC7)

Newsom chides USC to ‘do the right thing’ for academic freedom and resist Trump compact (Los Angeles Times)

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say (Daniel Klaidman/CBS News)

Kennedy’s Ties to Ally Leading Vaccine Lawsuits Raise Ethical Concerns (Christina Jewett/New York Times)

Trump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low (New York Times)  The horror!

Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 (Zachary B. Wolf/CNN)  Well, he’d better hurry up, it will soon be 2026.

Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump (Washington Post)  Not as if they have a choice….

Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times)  The myth of the ‘non-partisan civil service’ is one of the most pernicious in the modern political fantasyland. Republican or Democrat, the civil service are statists first and last: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini.

Trump’s Boat Strike Cartel War Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense So Far (W.J. Hennigan/New York Times)  Well, it’s yanking your chain pretty effectively. That’s got to be worth something.

Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes (Tony Romm/New York Times)  And this surprises you?

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities (New York Times)  ‘Billionaire’ is the NYTs term to point out a candidate for the Two Minute Hate (unless it’s George Soros, of course).

There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won. (Timothy Noah/New Republic)  Not mentioned: The ‘New Deal masterpieces’ in question were paintings in the style later termed Soviet Realism.

Trump Goon Spills Bonkers Plan to Deploy 82nd Airborne to Blue City (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Did Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington work? It’s complicated. (Reuters)  ‘It’s complicated’ means ‘Yeah, it worked, but we don’t want to say that’.

MAGA wages campaign to redefine “hate” after Kirk killing (Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (I guess a bullet to the throat doesn’t fit the proglodyte definition of ‘hate’.)

How Maga cheerleaders have infiltrated the White House press corps (David Smith/The Guardian)  Didn’t know that MAGA guy had cheerleaders at his disposel. Very cunning.

The Terrifying New Memo Trump Could Use to Go After His Opposition (Tessa Stuart/Rolling Stone)  Nothing scares a ‘journalist’ like a terrifying memo.

CNN Pushes HARD to Blame Trump, Not Russia, for Greenland Military Exercises

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago (Siri Chilukuri/The Guardian)  And protesters doing the same, of course, but the Guardian can’t mention that.

Kash Patel’s Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  Trump cooties!

With a Democratic Party leadership vacuum, Obama steps up his criticism of Trump (NBC News)

Federal court blocks ICE from detaining unaccompanied minors once they turn 18 (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments (CNN)

Federal Judge to Decide on Alleged ICE Violations in Chicago

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In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, there were sickening statements made by both journalists and celebrities that either blamed Kirk himself or conservative rhetoric for his death.

Before Kirk’s death was even confirmed, MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd criticized Kirk for constantly pushing “hate speech” and added: “hateful words….lead to hateful actions.”

CBS Mornings host Nate Burleson pressed former GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy: “Not everyone took to his [Charlie Kirk] words or his rhetoric….They were offensive to specific communities….Is this a moment for your party to reflect on political violence?”

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann actually put the onus on the President: “Charlie Kirk is dead – as so many others are dead or threatened or wounded or living in fear – because there is a Donald Trump.”

The Hollywood Left also pushed the angle that conservatives were at fault. ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s spreading of this disinformation got him briefly suspended: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Sadly, the calls for the left to tone down their rhetoric (in the wake of the Kirk shooting) went largely unheeded as they quickly returned to their attacks on “authoritarian” Trump’s attacks on democracy.

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The synergy between the liberal late night comedy shows and the liberal news media was on full display on Thursday night as The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng each relied on their journalist compatriots on CBS and The Daily Show, respectively, to claim Republicans are, in Colbert’s words, being “stupid” and “fearmongering” by saying Democrats want to give federal benefits to illegal aliens in exchange for ending the government shutdown.

Colbert introduced a montage of Republicans making that point by declaring, “The sticking point of the shutdown negotiations has been healthcare. The Democrats want to restore some of the Affordable Care Act benefits that the Republicans cut earlier this year in the Big Beautiful Bill, or as the Republicans describe it.”

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The problem for Colbert and his friends is what is the definition of an illegal immigrant? According to Vance, the Biden administration waved a magic wand and gave millions of illegal immigrants legal status by designating them as parolees.

Top Oversight Dem calls for investigation over White House shutdown messaging (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger published a list of reforms for the heinously biased online encyclopedia, including calling for an end to what amounts to an effective blacklist of right-leaning media, as exposed by MRC Free Speech America. The response was swift.

Sanger posted his “Nine Theses on Wikipedia” on X Sept. 29 and explained them during interviews with independent journalist Tucker Carlson and Just the News founder John Solomon. Sanger denounced Wikipedia’s “perennial sources” list, which MRC Free Speech America exposed for effectively blacklisting right-of-center media sources while greenlighting a majority of left-of-center media sources. In response, pro-free speech advocates joined in condemning Wikipedia. X owner Elon Musk, for his part, praised Sanger’s theses, writing, “Some good suggestions from the co-founder of Wikipedia.”

In Court Filings, Oregon Police Slam Trump’s Portland Takeover (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Dallas Fed Respondents Turn Apocalyptic Amid Trump Push To Hammer Oil Prices

Trump Is Lying About Antifa to Justify His Authoritarian Crackdown (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting (MSNBC)

MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Is Named as Next Super Bowl Headliner (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast, as always, is concerned about this MAGA guy, whom only they apparently are able to see. (NFL chooses crossdressing leftwing activist from Puerto Rico to play Super Bowl LX Halftime Show)

Is Trump keeping all his promises? This MAGA couple doesn’t think so. (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)  Now there’s a MAGA ‘couple’. They’re breeding like flies.

Under Trump, US cedes its share of China’s beef market to Australia (Reuters)

With Portland, Trump’s Police State Is Getting Bigger and More Radical (Perry Bacon/New Republic)

Pentagon Pete’s ‘Manic’ Meltdowns Exposed by Aides (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s new tariffs will slam America’s already brutal housing crisis (Rachel Cohen/Vox)  I wasn’t aware that we imported houses from foreign countries. Well, you learn something new every day.

YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump (Wall Street Journal)  Still winning after al these years….

Trump Has Lost Credibility Worldwide, at Huge Cost (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)

Cutbacks at HUD come as Black homeownership falls (Emily Peck/Axios)  Because, as we all know, black homeownership is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Elon Musk’s latest power grab points in a clear direction (Tom Tugendhat/Washington Post)

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)  Evidently he had a good reason.

ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; ‘Unprovoked’ Attack Under Investigation (Mack Liederman/Block Club Chicago)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Why Trump’s Use of Military in US Is So Controversial (Bloomberg)

Fully MAGA-fied Christianity (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)  MAGA Is The New Nigger.

GAO: Trump Broke the Law by Withholding FEMA Funds

JB Pritzker Demands Americans Call Trump Exactly What He Is (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) “Mr. President”

Trump Administration Opens New Front to Strip Harvard of Federal Funding (Wall Street Journal)

Democrats Should Do the Honorable Thing and Refuse to Fund an Authoritarian Administration (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)

Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program (Katherine Hapgood/Politico)  Because, as we all know, housing the homeless is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Judge Halts Trump Plan to Cut Hundreds of VOA Jobs

National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda (Ken Klippenstein/Latest – Truthout)

Trump posts vulgar deepfake slam of Democratic leaders after White House meeting (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)

Oregon Governor Says There’s No Insurrection, Tells Trump To “Stand Down”

Trump’s Shortsighted Campaign of Vengeance (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

An American Friend: The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement (ProPublica)

Trump posts racist, AI-generated video of Schumer and Jeffries ahead of looming government shutdown (Kit Maher/CNN)

After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds (New York Times)

Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library (Patricia Mazzei/New York Times)  Like they did for Obama in Chicago?

Trump administration moves to defund inspector general watchdog group (Meryl Kornfield/Washington Post)

Trump says he’ll fire generals “on the spot” if he dislikes them (Colin Demarest/Axios)  Which he is entitled to do–he is, after all, the President.

Hakeem Jeffries slams ‘racist and fake’ video posted by Trump (Nicholas Wu/Politico)

Trump Refers to Racial Slur During Address to the Military (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

Targeting Tylenol Is Just Another Excuse to Blame Women for Everything (Katha Pollitt/The Nation)

Hegseth Summoned Military Leaders to Say “FAFO” in Disturbing Speech (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Trump says US cities should be ‘training grounds for our military’ in incendiary speech (George Chidi/The Guardian)  Incendiary!

CNN Whines About Kimmel Suspension but Ignored Years of Biden Censorship

Trump, 79, Admits He Struggles Descending Stairs (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)

Trump Press Sec’s Vile New Effort to Exploit Mormon Shooting Backfires (New Republic)

Hegseth to generals: Embrace MAGA military or quit (Colin Demarest/Axios)  Yeah, let’s put thtt MAGA guy in camo and see what he can do.

“It’s a war from within.” (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Fight Over Hidden Report on Trump Documents Case Goes to Appeals Court (Charlie Savage/New York Times)

Judge excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal (Politico)

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, the health of the world’s children is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

The View Decries Hegseth’s ‘Bizarre’ ‘Retro Vision’ of Physically Fit Military

Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine (Karl Bode/Techdirt)

Climate Doomsayer Michael Mann Resigns After Smearing Charlie Kirk as Head of ‘Trump’s Hitler Youth’

Trump and Hegseth’s plan for a MAGA military reset, told in 11 quotes (Herb Scribner/Axios)

Right-wing media run wild with the blatantly false claim that Democrats are shutting down the government to secure “health care for illegals” (Gideon Taaffe/Media Matters for America)

Trump is targeting the First Amendment rights of all Americans (The Contrarian) Just like a Democrat!

Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims to generals and admirals, some about the military (Daniel Dale/CNN)

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)

Behar Crash Out: ‘You’re Delusional’ to Think U.S. Will ‘Survive’ Trump

‘Disbelief’: Pentagon reporter can’t find one military official who liked Hegseth’s speech (Sarah K. Burris/Raw Story)

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown (NPR)  As NPR does with Republicans.

Legal Organizations Across the Ideological Spectrum Urge Court to Reinstate Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Attack on Academic Freedom (ACLU)

The other reason Democrats are taking Trump to the mat in a shutdown battle (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)

Judge orders Trump administration to preserve $233M in FEMA grants it attempted to pull from blue states (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump to Americans: “Go F*ck Yourself”; shuts down Republican-controlled government, increasing monthly health care costs by hundreds of dollars (Governor of California)

Labor unions sue OMB, OPM for ‘unlawful’ threats of mass layoffs ahead of shutdown (Faith Wardwell/Politico)

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  No, it wouldn’t.

Trump’s MAGA-fied military prepares for “war from within” (Zachary Basu/Axios)  MAGA–is there anything it can’t do?

Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)

Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds” (Chris Tye/CBS News)

Unions sue Trump admin over mass layoff plan during government shutdown (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Democrats Get Frantic Over Trump’s “Racist” Mexican Bandito Meme

The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew go full Democrat.

MAGA can’t expand its base — and Christian music tells us why (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte seems to hav a crush on this MAGA guy.

Trump Administration to Withhold $18 Billion for N.Y.C. Transit Projects (Matthew Haag/New York Times)

Not Just “Medbeds”: How TruthSocial’s Bogus Medical Claims Fool Elderly Trump Fans (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

The “Moral Monsters” Among Us (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew go full Democrat.

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump (Cathy Young/The UnPopulist)  Don’t hold it in, Cathy, tell us how you really feel.

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities (Washington Post)  Whose main job is passing out taxpayer money to Woke drones.

Newsbusters.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton uncorked a new Joe Biden scandal Tuesday with a slew of never-before-seen notecards the then-President was given to help him remember names and faces at events, including Hillary Clinton and Denzel Washington. This time, Colton also revealed ABC’s chief Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce has some explaining to do.

In this batch obtained exclusively as part of the investigation into the Biden regime’s use of the autopen, Colton revealed a notecard included Bruce’s name, face, and alleged questions at an April 26, 2023 press conference with the then-South Korean president.

The card included a thumbnail photo of Bruce, her name, outlet, and then two questions. The first concerned his reelection bid: “2024: How do YOU view the path forward? How do YOU think about YOUR place in history?”

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Progressive late-night television is dying. The signals could not be more clear with Stephen Colbert’s cancellation due to $40 million losses every year on productions costs. If Colbert is failing, then nearly all late night shows a failing. Many analysts have been speculating that Jimmy Kimmel was next on the chopping block.

During the second quarter, Jimmy Kimmel Live! averaged 1.77 million total viewers. That’s down quite a bit from 2015, when Colbert joined the late-night lineup and Nielsen says Kimmel averaged 2.4 million total viewers. The leftist comedian has become infamous in the past five years for his political hot takes and overt hatred of conservatives, just as the majority of late night hosts have gravitated to propaganda rather than entertainment. This has not helped their audience ratings.

Then, Kimmel threw himself into the middle of the public turmoil over the Charlie Kirk assassination. His ABC “cancellation” was short lived and the show was back in a week. Broadcast affiliates Sinclair and Nexstar decided to bring Kimmel back and his return garnered 6.5 million viewers. Democrats cheered as if they had just won a political victory, but reality is not kind to the delusional.

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On Sunday’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, CNN host Jake Tapper spent an hour mourning the six-day suspension of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel — a personal friend Tapper didn’t disclose — as dangerous for free speech, regardless of Kimmel’s vile comments about it on September 15.

Most disgusting was Tapper relegating the September 10 murder of Charlie Kirk to a supporting role, thus painting a narrative (via use of his time) that Kimmel’s suspension had more dangerous consequences than someone’s murder allegedly by someone who did so because of Kirk’s political views.

A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

Sen. Chris Murphy sends funds to anti-Trump organizing groups (NBC News)

How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left (pbump)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

GOP Strategists: Dems Will Pay for ‘Fascist’ Anti-Trump Language

Karoline Leavitt Says MAGA Shooter Just Hated Mormons (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He sure gets around–but, surprisingly, only among Democrats.

The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way? (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)  No, it’s not safe. That is the FACT that the Woke refuse to admit.

Stephen Miller: Donald Trump’s ‘prime minister’ executes his plan to reshape America (Guy Chazan/Financial Times)

MSNBC Lets Democrat Defend Violent Attack on ICE Agents, ICE Is ‘Terroristic’

Trump bashes Zohran Mamdani after Eric Adams drops out of New York mayor’s race (Erin Doherty/CNBC)

Lindsey Graham: FBI Misled Courts to Target Trump  Well, duh….

The week in Trump absurdities: from Turkey’s ‘rigged elections’ to ‘your countries are going to hell’ (David Smith/The Guardian)

What Is the ‘Med Bed’ Conspiracy Theory Trump Promoted? (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)  Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’; call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

CNN’s Jake Tapper Tries to Trip Speaker Johnson on Comey Indictment, Gets WRECKED

Trump confident ahead of Monday showdown, says Democrats’ position makes shutdown likely: “I just don’t know how we’re going to solve this issue” (Robert Costa/CBS News)

Trump threatens mass firings of federal workers if government shutdown isn’t averted, NBC News reports (Erin Doherty/CNBC)

Oregon sues to block Trump from deploying troops to Portland (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)  Of course they do.

Oregon sues to block Trump from deploying state’s National Guard in Portland (Politico)

Trump’s troop deployment to Portland, Oregon, faces immediate pushback in court (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Comey and the lessons of pre-capitulation (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Oregon Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment to Portland

A plan to send troops to Portland remains riddled with uncertainties (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)

Trump’s Plan to Send Troops to Portland, Oregon, Prompts Frustration (Anna Griffin/New York Times)

Oregon sues Trump administration over order to deploy troops in Portland (Washington Post)

Trump says he ‘would think’ DOJ is investigating former FBI Director Christopher Wray (NBC News)

Yet Again, Deep State Attacks DNI Tulsi Gabbard

OH, NOW IT’S A PROBLEM: The New Yorker’s David Remnick Laments the Indictment of James Comey (A brief example of James Comey’s dishonesty (Byron York/Washington Examiner))

On PBS, Steve Hayes Taps Brakes on Liberal Hysteria Over Comey Indictment

In Going After His Foes, Trump Sets a Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Do tell.

Small Businesses Wither Under Trump’s Tariffs: ‘It’s Hard to Breathe’ (Sydney Ember/New York Times)

“No one is safe”: Democrats fear Trump will prosecute them next (Andrew Solender/Axios)

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency (Coral Davenport/New York Times)  Woodrow Wilson.

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It. (New Republic)  Apparently truth is now determined by ‘polls’. Sorry, but the only ‘poll’ that counts is in November.

The U.S. is not a Functional Democracy (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit, and is apparently back from vacation.

Criminal investigation launched after feds fire pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter’s truck (CBS News)  I doubt that ICE is worried about ‘the Village of Broadview’.

Justice Department Loses a Third of Career Leaders Under Trump (Bloomberg Law)  A good start.

Again: Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? (Robert Reich)  Perhaps because it exists only in the fever dreams of people like Robert Reich.

Godfather Glop: CNN’s Tapper Analogizes Trump To Movie Mob Boss

Dems Outraged By Unprecedented Political Prosecutions Of People Not Named Trump (Babylon Bee)

The New York Times, the Paper of Record of the Crust.

For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views.

It’s all about feelings, compared to which facts don’t matter.

Newsbusters.

The New York Times reported on the death of convicted cop killer Assata Shakur, but remembered her now as a “Convicted Revolutionary.” The Black Liberation Army extremist was convicted for the murder of state trooper Werner Foerster in a 1973 shootout. She broke out of prison in 1979 and sought refuge in communist Cuba, where she died.

ATQUE: Leftists ‘Honor’ Cop-Killing, Black Militant Assata Shakur

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In a recent opinion column, former Univision anchor Jorge Ramos attempted to make sense of Charlie Kirk’s senseless murder. In the process of failing to do so, Ramos fell back on familiar tropes.

The Substack column, titled Charlie Kirk, Guns and the Internet, danced around the actual motive behind Kirk’s assassination. Instead, Ramos ascribed the murder to ideologically vague “extreme polarization” and “disinformation on social networks”, while also lashing out against the right to keep and bear arms.

To his credit, he did these things after unambiguously condemning the murder of Kirk. Such is the state of our political discourse that this even warrants mentioning, as opposed to being a normal thing that everyone assumes.

Guns don’t shoot themselves.

Misinformation comes from the leading purveyors of supposed information, when they get it wrong–as they habitually do.

Read it.

Bias? What bias?

Newsbusters.

After a Friday World News Tonight report on the possibility of a government shutdown, ABC might need to rename its network DNC because throughout the segment, host David Muir and White House correspondent Rachel Scott combined to utter the phrase “Democrats say” three times while never once using the equivalent “Republicans say.”

Muir kicked things off by declaring, “We turn next tonight to this potential government shutdown, now just five days away. The White House threatening mass firings of federal workers. Democrats say they’re fighting to reverse Medicaid cuts and to keep health insurance premiums from going up for millions. Democrats say the White House has refused to meet. Here’s Rachel Scott.”

Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Trump demands Microsoft oust president over Biden-era ties (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

Donald Trump’s US attorneys, unvetted by the Senate, move full steam ahead (Politico)

About those unconfirmed US attorneys (Politico)

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to withhold $4B in foreign aid approved by Congress (Politico)

The Charges Against Jim Comey Are Even More Bogus Than You’d Imagine (Slate)

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district (Maanvi Singh/The Guardian)

ICE arrests criminal alien serving as Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent; prior weapons charges and in possession of loaded handgun at time of arrest (ICE)

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order (New York Times)

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship (CNN)

Musk, Thiel And Bannon Mentioned In Latest Epstein Files From Oversight Committee (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)  OH, NO! TRUMP COOTIES!

U.S. preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, sources say (NBC News)  Sources say! That proves it!

James Comey’s Indictment–and the Danger of Political Prosecutions (Jed Rubenfeld/The Free Press)  Funny how this never came up when Obama and Biden were doing it.

False statement charge against Comey appears to center on Hillary Clinton email probe (CNN)

Trump’s attacks on Comey and leadership shifts in prosecutors’ office could undermine case, legal experts say (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

Scoop: Congressional trips cancelled ahead of potential shutdown (Axios) The horror!

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)  Terrifying!

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Curb Birthright Citizenship (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

Clarence Thomas Says the Supreme Court Is Coming for More Precedents (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Good. There are a lot of bad ones out there, starting with the case the imposed birthright citizenship.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)  Sounds like a step in the right direction.

Why the case against James Comey may end in humiliation for Trump’s DOJ (Politico) Or might not.

On NPR’s ‘Fresh Air,’ Ex-WashPost Editor Compares Kimmel Suspension to McCarthyism  Of course.

Justice Department Seeks Information on Georgia D.A. Who Prosecuted Trump (New York Times)

FBI fires agents who kneeled at protest after George Floyd’s death: Sources (ABC News)

Trump’s Targeting of Soros Foundations Sparks Fear and Defiance on Left (New York Times)  I would imagine that it does.

Economic anxiety grows under Trump, creating a new political liability for the GOP (NBC News)  Or at least that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Epstein calendar released by Democrats mentions Elon Musk, who denies visiting his island (David Ingram/NBC News)  Tentatively expected! That proves it!

Trump Displays Little Interest in Fostering Unity Amid Political Violence (Jeremy W. Peters/New York Times)  Neither do Democrats, but of course the NYT can’t be expected to mention that.

“The first domino”: Comey indictment sets MAGA retribution in motion (Axios)  You mess with the bull….

The Tax on Being a Girl — President Trump’s cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people. (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, providing ‘humanitarian assistance’ to girls around the world is TOTALLY the resposibility of the U.S. govenment–and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship (Associated Press)  Note the slanted phrasing. Your Narrative Media at work.

Trump’s fuzzy math (Josephine Walker/Axios)  Not to be confused with Axios’ fuzzy math.

‘Don’t trust Trump’: how UK health experts are fighting back against a war on medicine (Denis Campbell/The Guardian)

The real cost of Trump’s $100,000 visas (Vox)

F.B.I. Fires More Agents, Including Those Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)  And rightly so, since the demonstrated themselves to be Woke partisans.

An Ugly American berates the United Nations — and shames the rest of us (Chauncey DeVega/Salon)

“Extremely Disturbing”: What Does Trump’s “Antifa” Executive Order Actually Do? (Schuyler Mitchell/Mother Jones)

Hegseth’s mystery military meeting broadcasts a damaging message of U.S. instability (Claire McCaskill/MSNBC)  Much like the ‘journalism’ of MSNBC.

Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary (Michael Birnbaum/Washington Post)

Trump says he’ll send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities (Chris Megerian/Associated Press)

FBI Fires 15 Agents Who Knelt At 2020 George Floyd Protest  Note that they are all female.

Trump administration official physically assaulted at UNGA by ‘deranged leftist,’ White House says (Brooke Singman/Fox News)

Federal Grand Jury Charges Three Women with Following ICE Agent Home from Work and Livestreaming His Home Address on Instagram (US Department of Justice)

It’s Called America’s “Weirdest” City. But Just Wait Until You Hear What’s Going On in Its Coffee Shops. (Jacob Grier/Slate)

Protesters Chant ‘Shoot ICE’ in Suburban Chicago

Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities (Kit Maher/CNN)

John Roberts Wrote Trump a Permission Slip to Indict Comey (Cristian Farias/New York Magazine)

Newsbusters.

“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

That is supposedly the official logo of The Washington Post.

In the interest of accuracy, that logo should perhaps be changed to “Democracy Dies in a Washington Post Fairy Tale.”

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The United States depends heavily on physicians trained abroad.

Ask yourself why that is.

The key obstacle is the limited number of residency positions, which are essential for medical school graduates to become fully licensed physicians. Despite more students graduating from medical school, thousands of qualified graduates are unable to enter residency because the number of training slots has not kept pace with demand. This is largely due to a cap on Medicare-funded residency slots imposed by Congress in 1997, which has remained effectively unchanged for over 25 years and restricts hospitals’ ability to train more doctors.

Once again, government is the problem, not the solution.

Shanghaied? Reuters Praises Commie China’s Phony Climate Plans Just to Dig at Trump

Trump Personally Tried to Kill Story of His Birthday Letter to Epstein (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  If you ran across him wandering through newspaper offices with a gun, now you know why.

ICE Facility in Trump’s Chicago Crackdown Draws Complaints

Fed Unions Slam Plans of Mass Firings If Govt Shuts Down  Hey, they can work for free if they want to.

CBS, NBC Still Touting Kimmel’s ‘Amazing,’ ‘Huge’ Return ‘Doubling Down’ on Trump Hate

Trump Nominee Quietly Deletes Post Calling for Liberal’s Execution (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

Donald Trump Keeps Finding New Ways to Shock the World (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

CNN Panel: ‘No Evidence’ to Far-Left Motive in ICE Attack, Trump to Blame for Violence

Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought, and Shatters Norms in the Process (New York Times)  Said norms being “Democrats always get to win”.

World Leader Compares Trump to Hitler in Front of Entire U.N. (Robert McCoy/New Republic)  Why not? Everyone else is doing it.

4 Takeaways From Trump’s Securing of an Indictment Against Comey (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

FBI had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds, congressional source says (Steve Baker/Blaze Media)

FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’ (Just The News)

Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Texas ICE Shooting Hints at a Darker Story (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (Jennifer Rubin must be on vacation.)

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention (The Guardian)  They’re still ileegal, and still ipso facto felons.

Trump’s prosecution of a Democratic lawmaker is a test run for authoritarian rule (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  I guess black female Democrat politicians are above the law. Good to know.

‘Vulgar, Like Trump’: Critics Pan ‘Grotesque’ Image Of Planned White House Ballroom (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)

Trump Doesn’t Care If You Think He’s Corrupt (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Yup.

A Broad Wave of Firings Followed Charlie Kirk’s Assassination (New York Times)  Once the roaches crawl out they can be stepped on.

Trump Is Lying About Left-Wing Terrorism (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

As Trump orchestrates James Comey’s indictment, the corruption is the point (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal–Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law (Zach Everson/Forbes)

Power Line.

Yesterday Acting United States Attorney for Minnesota unveiled the first charge in what is expected to be a case involving a billion-dollar Medicaid fraud in Minnesota’s EIDBI benefit program. The defendant — Asha Farhan Hassan — is also the defendant number 76 in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case. She will plead guilty some time soon.

For some reason or other, Ms. Farhan is not described as a “Minneapolis woman” in the local media coverage of this monumental scandal. KARE 11’s Lou Raguse does not even mention the involvement of the Twin Cities Somali community in the ripoff. His story is “Feds charge first Autism Center fraud case stemming from Feeding our Future investigation.” (“Asha Hassan, owner of Smart Therapy Center, is accused of stealing $14 million in taxpayer money by bribing parents to enroll their kids for phony autism services.) I have posted the video below.

The Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, the Housing Stabilization Services fraud scandal, and the EIDBI autism benefit scandal have all taken place under the nose of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Walz too is conspicuous by his absence in the media coverage of these scandals.

The Dirty Move Republicans Could Pull to Keep the House (Steve Posner/The Bulwark)  If it weren’t for Trump, the Kristol Krew would have nothing to write about–or, even, to do.

MSNBC Cues Up Pritzker to Call Trump’s Crackdown on Crime ‘Authoritarian Rule’

Vance, Who Called Trump “Hitler,” Says Calling People Nazis Is Bad (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Judge: Trump Firing of IGs Unlawful, but Will Stand  You can’t make this stuff up.

Trump Official Gave Free Tickets to GOP Group to Heckle Black Artist (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) “Gay conservative”? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?

Trump calls for ‘triple sabotage’ investigation over UN escalator, teleprompter, audio issues (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Labor groups warn of ‘gaping hole’ in First Amendment if court OKs Trump’s anti-union orders (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)

Trump “Walk of Fame” trolls Biden with autopen signature in place of portrait (Jason Lalljee/Axios)

The Wildly Unqualified Lawyer Trump Just Named to Prosecute His Enemies (Mother Jones)

Inside the White House Struggle to Tame the Epstein Crisis (Wall Street Journal)  What crisis?

September 24, 2025 — Hours after delivering his delusional and offensive speech … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers (Wired)  Carefully curated by the Narrative Media, of course.

FCC’s Brendan Carr fails to cancel Kimmel (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  He never tried to ‘cancel Kimmel’. That was done by his employers and sponsors. These people just lie because they can’t help themselves.

America’s Zombie Democracy (George Packer/The Atlantic) Except that America is not a democracy,  and was never intended to be one except in prog dreams.

Epstein Investigator Taped Admitting Trump ‘Covered Up’ Files (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

Q2 GDP Revised Sharply Higher To 3.8%, Best Quarter In Two Years

Feeling Green? NY Times Nauseous Over Trump’s Rebuke of Climate Hysteria at UN

This Is Trump’s Best Troll Ever

Transcript: Trump Accidentally Wrecks MAGA’s Dumb New Jimmy Kimmel Lie (New Republic)

Democrats Go After Law Firms Doing Free Work For Trump, Warn Of Law-Breaking (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

It’s Watergate, Every Day (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Bill Kristol is off his meds.

Charlie Kirk, Martyrdom, and America’s Authoritarian Apostles (Alan Elrod/Liberal Currents)

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details (Wired)

House Democrat introduces articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (Joseph Choi/The Hill)  Apparently she wants her fifteen minutes of fame.

ANTI-ICE: MAGA’s Desperate Attempt to Create Another Reichstag Fire (Danielle Moodie/The Left Hook …)

For Trump, Data Is Often ‘Phony,’ Unless It Supports His Views (Linda Qiu/New York Times)  That’s because data that doesn’t support his views, especially from Democrats and the Narrative Media (but I repeat myself) IS often phony.

Newsbusters.

After Charlie Kirk was assassinated there was some nice-sounding talk about toning down the inflammatory political rhetoric, but some on the left didn’t get the memo. After Kirk’s memorial service, some internet-dwelling lefties compared Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s speech to that of future Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’s 1932 speech about Horst Wessel. Snopes’s Nur Ibrahim set about fact-checking this claim on Thursday, but couldn’t bring herself to give it a false label. Instead, she just observed how there are “rhetorical similarities.”

The problem was clear right away, as the first part of Miller’s speech Ibrahim chose to compare was when he said, “The day that Charlie died the angels wept. But those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts. And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand.”

That was supposedly comparable to Goebbels’s, “So our dead comrade Horst Wessel wrote, and we are fulfilling his prophecy. The others may lie, slander, and pour their scorn on us — their political days are numbered.”

The supposed parallels got even more tortured from there. Nur noted how Goebbel’s speech was called “The Storm is Coming” and then quoted Miller, “When I see [Kirk’s widow] Erika and her strength and her courage, I’m reminded of a famous expression: ‘The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength, and the warrior whispers back, I am the storm.’ Erika is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion.”

Newsbusters.

On CNN This Morning, former Obama DHS official and CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem tried to claim that Dallas ICE shooter Joshua Jahn couldn’t have had any leftist political connections. Her evidence: that he got the message on a bullet wrong:

She has developed a new niche: dismissing the political connections of leftist shooters. Earlier this month, our Alex Christy caught Kayyem doing that in the case of Tyler Robinson.

Now Kayyem is claiming that Dallas ICE shooter Joshua Jahn couldn’t have had leftist political connections.

Newsbusters.

President Trump’s designation of antifa as a domestic terrorist entity has the corporate media seething. In a vacuum, journalists expressing outrage at a president quelling domestic terrorism would probably sound insane. But for anyone familiar with the leftist press’s longstanding affection for antifa, the media’s response has been all too predictable.

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel got his job back with ABC but forgive me if I don’t care too much about his underwhelming, delayed apology to keep himself on air or his defense of “free speech.”

Kimmel was briefly suspended by ABC, which is owned by Disney, after he made a comment that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by somebody who was “MAGA.”

Some called this comment a “joke,” but it certainly didn’t seem like it. Though, in fairness, I can’t recall the last time Kimmel—an alleged comedian—actually said something funny. That was probably reason enough to pull the late-night comic with a laughably small audience for network television off the air.

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Another day, another act of left-wing violence. Another act of left-wing violence, another media cover-up for their left-wing terrorist foot soldiers.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the corporate media put an enormous amount of effort into a psy-op to make Americans believe the assassin was actually a Trump supporter.

While they did that, three more acts of left-wing violence took place: An attempted firebombing of a Fox News van, a shooting at an ABC News affiliate after Jimmy Kimmel’s well-deserved suspension, and, most recently, a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas.

That is all just in a two-week timeframe, and does not take into account school shootings, other attacks on ICE, assassinations or assassination attempts, and other instances of left-wing violence Americans have seen increase dramatically for the past several years.

The media are running the same playbook for the ICE attack.

Newsbusters.

This past Tuesday night, as many Jimmy Kimmel supporters and detractors watched his return to the helm of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they saw his monologue, and if they hung around past the first break, they saw the first skit.

That skit featured actor Robert De Niro, who was playing the role of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Carr has been accused of threatening ABC/Disney to dump Kimmel’s show, or face consequences. Kimmel ripped Carr in the first segment, quoting Texas Republican Ted Cruz who accused Carr of acting like a mob boss. So who better to play the role of a mob boss than De Niro, who has appeared in numerous mob-type movies. But there is something that I bet almost all of those watching Tuesday night’s show didn’t know.

Back in October of 2016, De Niro made a video to get out the vote, which included him calling then candidate Donald Trump, stupid, a dog, a pig, a bull-sh&t artist, you get the picture. But it didn’t stop there, De Niro added that he’d “like to punch Trump in the face.”

Ryan Routh Convicted at Trump Assassination Attempt Trial

Suspect in ABC Station Shooting ‘Politically Motivated,’ Left Note Warning Trump Officials ‘They’re Next’ (Kamden Mulder/National Review)

Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)  Perhaps they have more important things to do than to chase after the latest progressive fetish.

Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing (Politico)

Legacy media’s destructive addiction to describing Trump’s ‘winning’ (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)  Where? I haven’t seen any.

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands placed on National Mall (Joe Heim/Washington Post) “he work is the latest installation in Washington by an anonymous group of artists critical of the president.” No shit. (Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands removed from National Mall (Washington Post))

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn (David Cox/Wired)  WIRED used to be a tech magazine, but like most such orgs it’s now just a Voice of the Crust that indulges in politics.

Democratic lawmakers demand answers from TV station owners over pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show (Daniel Arkin/NBC News)  That “Democrat lawmakers” think this is any of their business reflects who the REAL fascists are in America.

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands appears on National Mall (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

76 percent of Americans say Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize (Scott Clement/Washington Post)  And, of the Narrative Media have anything to say about it (and they surely will), they’ll keep thinking that. You are what you read even more than what you eat.

On Covid and Autism, Trump Strays From the Science (Tyler Pager/New York Times)  The Science™ being, of course, what the Narrative says it is.

Trump’s UN Address Was a Tragedy of Shakespearian Proportions (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  Drama Queen Alert!

With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United States (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Calif., Brazil Ink Climate Deal as Newsom Jabs Trump

After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter (Edith M. Lederer/Associated Press)  Of course they do.

“Own goal”: How Gabbard damaged the Trump admin’s probe into ex-spy chief (Marc Caputo/Axios)

The Trump Murder Policy (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) Noah Berlatsky loses his shit.

The Pentagon, the Press and the Fight to Control National Security Coverage (David E. Sanger/New York Times)  Prior to the Wokening, journalists did this automatically. CNN started the rot during the Bush administration.

Trump Loses It Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return In Unhinged New Rant, Then Threatens ABC (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)  Ed Mazza loses his shit.

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War (Jeremy Kohler/ProPublica)  Just like a Democrat!

Dem’s Victory Sets the Stage for Trump’s Epstein Files Nightmare (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

‘Nativist hysteria’: Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee (Washington Post)

The Five Most Likely Motives Behind Trump’s Flip-Flop On Ukraine  Ah, ah,  ah, ah, yankin’ their chain, yankin’ their chain….

Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Tirades at U.N. Rattle Experts: “Really Crazy” (New Republic)

Trump’s U.N. speech was mortifying for America (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)  The Narrative Media must have gone on a hiring spree to find all these guys with Muslim names.

No President Should Have This Kind of Power (New York Times)  Except they didn’t care when Democrat Presidents had this power. Now that they are hoist with their own rope, they come whining along.

The World’s Brittlest Ego Meets the Globe’s Biggest Stage (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  If it weren’t for Trump, the Kristol Krew would have nothing to write about.

The Race Back to America for a Plane Full of H-1B Workers (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

After Trump targets H-1B visas, can India lure back skilled workers? (Washington Post)  ? Apparently not.

Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claim at UN that he has ended 7 wars (Associated Press)

Congressman Says He Doesn’t Trust the FBI to Objectively Investigate Dallas ICE Office Killings (Emily Kennard/NOTUS)  Because he’s a black Democrat, ,of course.

London Mayor Khan Calls Trump Racist, Islamophobic  You know, as they do….

Fawning MAGA Senator Pushes Trump to Seek Illegal Third Term (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  Wonder what the weather is like on their planet? (There’s that MAGA guy agin; this time he’s a Senator.)(Oh, it’s Lindsey Graham. Wide definition of MAGA these guys have. Next they’ll be calling Bill Clinton a conservative.)

Donald Trump’s attempts to expand presidential power push courts into uncharted territory (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  Although it wasn’t when the Presidents were Democrats….

Newsbusters.

In other words, they lied.

Newsbusters.

The Daily Show’s only use for Christianity seems to be using it against conservatives, and the latest installment in this ignoble tradition took place on Tuesday as host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed Sirius XM host, comedian, and occasional cable news talking head John Fugelsang to the Comedy Central program to discuss his new book on the matter.

Klepper simply asked, “So why write this book?”

Fugelsang replied that, “I wrote this book because I got tired of seeing my parents’ faith used as a cloaking device for meanness and bigotry and superiority. Jesus’s movement was about humility. It was about service to others. It was about uplifting the marginalized, not about total right-wing domination of the school board.”

Bloomberg.

Funny how it’s always the ‘journalists’ of the Narrative Media who can recognize these ‘pages’ from these ‘authoritarian playbooks’. Typically playbooks are restricted to the teams they play for.

Remember: If you hear the ‘dog-whistle’, then you’re the dog.

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Krugman is an ivory tower economist who would not see inflation if it jumped up and spit grapefruit juice in his eye.

Krugman ignores home prices as if they don’t matter. Not only were home prices going out of sight, they accelerated after after the Fed’s QE madness extended during covid.

Home prices are not in the CPI. Nor are property taxes. Nor is homeowners insurance. So yeah, strip all of that out as if only consumer inflation matters and you get jackass policy from the Fed coupled with jackass comments from clueless economists.

Krugman never addressed any of Bessent’s key points such as ” This harmful cycle concentrated national wealth among those who already owned assets. Within the corporate sector, large firms thrived by locking in cheap debt, while smaller firms reliant on floating-rate loans were squeezed as rates rose. “

How can anyone deny that? Nor can anyone realistically deny the Fed’s alphabet soup of tactics to bail out corporations at taxpayer expense.

Does Krugman deny inept Fed policy created a housing mess of high prices and people trapped in their homes?

He cleverly does not say. Instead, he posts asinine charts of purported inflation and also inflation expectations.

Krugman is not bright enough to know the Fed’s own studies (and common sense) show inflation expectations are irrelevant.

And that about covers it.

Newsbusters.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) just announced a seismic censorship shift, revealing that tech giant Google has renounced government collaboration and rampant censorship, much of which was exposed and condemned by the Media Research Center.

n a letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan on Tuesday, Google’s parent company Alphabet owned up to its infamous history of censoring disfavored speech, and even promised that YouTube would ease up on censoring political content. The tech giant also shockingly revealed that it had censored COVID-19-related content that did not violate the platform’s policies at the behest of the Biden administration.

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Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, on the final day of the party conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday (September 23), attacked far right opponent, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, for wanting Britain to follow in U.S. President Donal Trump’s footsteps.

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“Don’t let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain,” Davey told the party faithful adding that Farage wanted to destroy the National Health Service, roll back gun laws, buy fossil fuel from Russia and introduce fracking.

Davey warned about “dark forces” in British politics, saying: “Imagine living in the Trump-inspired country Farage wants us to become. Where there’s no NHS, so patients are hit with crippling insurance bills. Or denied healthcare altogether.”

On the contrary, I’d say: Don’t let Ed Davey’s Britain become Gavin Newsom’s America.

Exclusive: Trump’s letting Putin “embarrass” the U.S., Sen. Shaheen says (Dave Lawler/Axios)

ICE Barbie Dropped F-Bombs on ‘Screaming’ Call With DHS Officials After Embarrassing Stories (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Hundreds of stars sign letter defending free speech after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension (Mark Kennedy/Associated Press)  And not one of them had anything bad to say about Woke cancel culture.

Suspect detained after allegedly pointing laser at Marine One with Trump on board (Faith Wardwell/Politico)

Stephanopoulos Pretends Justice Department Was NEVER Politicized Under Democrats

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner (New York Times)

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence (Associated Press)

EPA reorganization sparks fears of ‘political interference’ (Politico)  The EPA has been political since Nixon established it.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Promotes Unproven Ties to Autism With a Common Painkiller and Vaccines (Alan Feuer/New York Times)

Unease grows at the Justice Department as Trump’s threats get even more blunt (Carrie Johnson/NPR)

Trump Drug Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Damning New Facts Emerge (The New Republic)

As Trump orders more deadly military strikes on civilian boats, Congress eyes next steps (MSNBC)

The United States’ Dirty War on “Narco Terrorism” (Just Security)

Getting Away with Murder (New York Review of Books) You might ask why a book review would publish such a political article. But it would be pointless; they are all Voices of the Narrative.

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn’t back him up (NPR) No, he doesn’t. He merely suggests that there may be a connection, and advises caution. This is the sort of lie-by-exaggeration in which the Narrative Media specialize.

Brendan Carr accuses Democrats of ‘distortion’ over Kimmel comments (Max Rego/The Hill)  Distortion is what they do.

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)

The flimsy evidence behind Trump’s big autism announcement, explained (Dylan Scott/Vox)

“He Never Took The $50,000” – White House Spox Says Biden’s Weaponized FBI Tried To Entrap Tom Homan With Bribe No matter. They’ll just lie about it. It’s what they do.

Did Trump’s deportation czar accept $50K in cash? (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Harris blasts ‘feckless’ billionaires bending to ‘tyrant’ Trump (MSNBC)

The MAGA Movement Is Ready to Dump Donald Trump. Here’s His Replacement (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  There’s that MAGA guy again. Wonder what he’s up to in the Narrative fantasy world today?

Conservative writer Bill Kristol took to social media today to say: “So many coverups. … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  Bill Kristol quit being ‘conservative’ when he realized that nobody was paying attention to him any more.

Behind the Curtain: The most unprecedented presidency in 250 years (Axios)  The Narrative Media Mind-Readers are on the march!

The Trump Vengeance Tour Is Coming to a Stadium Near You (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump’s new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous (Christopher Mathias/MSNBC)

‘Pay no attention’: global health agencies dismiss false Trump claim on everyday painkillers (Oliver Holmes/The Guardian)

The very specific way America could become authoritarian (Vox)  If Democrats were in charge?

America’s accelerating exit from itself (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds (Jon Henley/The Guardian)

Trump’s announcement linking Tylenol and autism is already doing major damage (Eric Garcia/MSNBC)  To pharma profits, perhaps.

The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA (Stevie Glaberson/Lawfare)

Trump’s crackdown on high-skill immigration will make Americans poorer (Eric Levitz/Vox)  Oh, Americans are richer by foreigners taking their jobs? I see.

How Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

Stephanopoulos Heckles Rubio, Argues He Killed Innocent People by Ending USAID

Fact-Checking Trump’s U.N. Speech (Linda Qiu/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

MAGA Rages Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return–and Reveals a Big Trump Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (There’s that magic MAGA guy again….)

Trump Hit by Devastating Polls on Issues That Won Him the Election (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Why Is the American Experiment in Trouble? Simple: A Demagogue Has Ignited the ‘Dark Passions’ of the People (Jonathan Rauch/The UnPopulist)

A New Count for Trump’s Next Impeachment: Practicing Medicine Without a License

‘Unserious and Ridiculous Demands’: Trump Cancels Budget Talks With Democrats as Shutdown Looms

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The revelation to the French public of the close ties between certain public service journalists and the Left by the conservative magazine L’Incorrect sent shockwaves through the small world of French media, the effects of which are still being felt. Under these circumstances, reform of public broadcasting is more urgent than ever, especially since a report by the Court of Auditors has revealed its catastrophic management and the financial drain it represents for the public purse.

In early September, L’Incorrect magazine published a recording made in a Parisian café, revealing a conversation between France Inter state radio journalists Patrick Cohen and Thomas Legrand and Socialist Party executives, leaving no doubt about the degree of collusion between these figures and their concerted strategy to use the public media to push their electoral advantage at the expense of the Right.

Since then, the journalists in question, and behind them the management of the public broadcasting service—Radio France and France Télévisions—have been struggling painfully to restore their reputation, between attacks on whistleblowers and denials of bad faith.

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Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic sitting in as moderator for Jeffrey Goldberg, and the topic was the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination.

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Asma Khalid, another regular panelist now with the BBC, at least summarized the offensive thing Kimmel actually said, though without noting its falsehood (Kirk’s killer was a recently radicalized leftist).

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Guest host Salama took it further, perverting the failure of universities to protect the rights of Jewish students, into a crackdown on “dissent,” as if being nasty toward an assassination victim and attacking Jews on campus were just examples of peaceful protest.

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The nation struggles to come to grips with this latest rash of political violence. One of these incidents involved the shooting of the lobby of ABC’s Sacramento affiliate. Shockingly, NBC was the only newscast to offer these new details.

Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)  Sources say! That proves it!

MSNBC’s Hinojosa Invokes Anne Frank, 9/11 Against ICE, Accuses Them of Murder

Trump Officials Didn’t Know If His Order To Prosecute Foes Was Meant To Be Secret (Rolling Stone)  Not that it would matter.

Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)

MAGA Melts Down Over Maher’s Shooter Take (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger (M. Gessen/New York Times)  And the country looks at you and sees a stranger as well. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it’s time to Make America into America Again (Fortune)  According to an academic.

How “Free Speech Culture” Is Killing Free Speech: Part One (Ken White/The Popehat Report)  Free speech for Democrats, that is.

Trump ramps up retribution campaign with push for Bondi to pursue cases against his foes (Meg Kinnard/Associated Press)

Adam Schiff, Tim Kaine Introduce Bill To Protect Caribbean Drug Traffickers From Trump Strikes

Amazon and eBay Sell Merch Calling for Trump’s Death

Trump To Designate More Leftist Groups As Terrorists  As, indeed, they are. He ought to designate the Democrat party as terrorists, but even Trump would shrink from that much truth in politics.

Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War (Chance Phillips/Liberal Currents) Did you know that there was a “Second Bank War”?

Hey, Let’s Undermine America’s Technology, Education and Research! (Paul Krugman)  Krugman is one of those tedious proglodytes who is firmly convinced that if the Federal government doesn’t do something, it won’t get done.

Why Democrats can’t match Trump’s gerrymander push (Natalie Fertig/Politico)  I suspect that incompetence has a key role.

California Bans Most Law Enforcement, Including Federal Agents, From Wearing Masks  All the better to doxx you later, my dear.

The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two. (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)  “Corruption” meaning, of course, Republicans.

Why Trump’s directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Which doesn’t differ in any significant way from every other ‘impeachment level scandal’ Democrats manufacture.

Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump? (John Cassidy/New Yorker)  Progs haves a hard time grasping the concept that not everybody thinks as they do.

Trump’s Expanding Mafia State (Steven Beschloss/America, America)

Turns out Republicans don’t care about free speech after all (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Just like Democrats!

Here’s How Much The Trump Kids Have Made Because Of The Presidency (Dan Alexander/Forbes)  Biden Crime Family? Never heard of it! Ten percent for the Big Guy? A mere myth!

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws (Debra Kamin/New York Times) Said “fair housing laws” dedicated to letting Fashionable Minorities get housing for free.

The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege (Matt Egan/CNN)  And it’s all Trump’s fault! But you knew that….

Trump’s new demands on Justice Department raise alarm among prosecutors (Washington Post)  Well, Democrat prosecutors, who are the only prosecutors who count.

Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges (New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

STEVE MILLOY: Rigged Report By National Academies Aims To Thwart Trump Energy Agenda

Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)  Or ag least that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst (Svante Myrick/The Hill)  From the Narrative viewpoint, that is.

Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent (Sam Meredith/CNBC)  Good luck with that. There are reasons they want to come here rather than remain in the Turd World.

Trump’s escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end? (Tom Jones/Poynter)  When the Democrats quit being fascists.

A Scandal Covered in Tahini (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew have completely dropped the pretencse that they are ‘conservatives’.

Hegseth’s purge of service members cheering Kirk killing comes under heavy scrutiny (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill) “They can’t do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!” — Otter, ANIMAL HOUSE

It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  It never was a ‘democracy’, but a constitutional representative republic, which Democrats hate and have tried to expunge for their entire lifetime.

Trump administration cancels annual hunger report after enacting historic cuts to nation’s safety net (Tami Luhby/CNN)  Since that report was just an excuse to throw good money after bad, that’s a feature, not a bug.

Trump Wants to Target Left-Wing Groups. Here’s How He Might Do It (Brian Bennett/Time)  It’s time for Narrative Media Mind-Reading, boys and girls! Get out your popcorn!

Top Goon — Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle. (Ben Terris/New York Magazine)  Best looking goon we’ve ever seen.

A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  And a lot of choleric media shills just don’t realize how popular Trump is; reality has no entry to their fantasy world.

Meme-ify Trump’s Failures (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Shell-shocked green movement searches for how to counter Trump (Zack Colman/Politico)  Unfortunately, getting their heads out of their asses doesn’t appear to be an option.

Join the ACLU and Over 400 Artists to Defend Free Speech (American Civil Liberties Union)  Or don’t. They haven’t got a case. (FCC Chair Defends Comments, Says Kimmel Not Suspended Because of Government Action)

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract (404 Media)  Good luck with that.

Trump’s Tax Cut Is Underwater. Can a ‘Refund Boom’ Save It? (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)

Trump’s immigration crackdown could stunt his blockbuster economic aims (Neil Irwin/Axios)  Or not.

How Should a DOJ Political Appointee Think About a Trump-Weaponized DOJ? (Jack Goldsmith/Executive Functions)  It’s payback time!

Open-Air Extortion Markets (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars (Ted Mann/Bloomberg)  That whining sound you hear is all of the Wokerati oxen being gored.

The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy (Matt Ford/New Republic)  And about time, too.

Trump to Redirect $2.4 Billion in California High-Speed Rail Aid (Sri Taylor/Bloomberg)  The winning never stops.

Supreme Court will weigh expanding Trump’s power to shape agencies by overturning 90-year-old ruling (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)

Man Arrested After Pointing Laser at Trump’s Chopper

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Arguably buried given it aired on Friday’s show, NBC Nightly News nonetheless offered a shocking full segment that conceded the truth there’s “growing support for political violence among the ‘younger, highly online, and ideologically left aligned’” that’s included support for Luigi Mangione, the assassination attempts on President Trump, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The piece tried to insert a disclaimer for their liberal base that “both sides are now radicalized,” but the tone was unmistakable.”

Anchor Tom Llamas set the table: “We turn to the rise of political violence in this country. Among young people who spend a lot of time online, support for violent acts is now growing.”

Correspondent Stephanie Gosk came out of the gate with the reality about the broad support for Mangione: “Soon after Luigi Mangione was accused of killing United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, the memes started celebrating the cold-blooded murder, treating the alleged killer like a hero.”

Network Contagion Research Institute’s Max Horder backed this up by refusing to join in the left’s troubling lionizing of him: “He’s become a symbol for this really enormous and radical and maybe unprecedented change in American culture.”

The Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Because that’s always worked so well in the past.

It’s really easy to figure out: There are evil people in the world, some of those people have economic and political power, and the people who are in charge are unwilling to take any action against them.

Ask me a hard one.

Who’s paying for the White House ballroom and what’s in it for them (Arden Farhi/CBS News)

MSNBC’s Glaude Decries ‘Monstrous’ Deportation Policy, MAGA ‘Monster’

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream (John K. Wilson/Inside Higher Ed)

The Trump Administration’s Chilling Efforts to Punish Free Speech (New York Times)

Trump is destroying America. Are his voters starting to realize that? (Jill Lawrence/History Keeps Happening)

Prosecution Rests on Alleged Routh Plot to Kill Trump

The Age of Monsters  We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the Ellison family … (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful (George Monbiot/The Guardian)

Trump’s Most Lethal Policy (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)

Donald Trump’s Most Authoritarian Week Yet (Rolling Stone)

Some Europeans Fear Trump Aides Want a Far-Right Takeover (Steven Erlanger/New York Times)

Kash Patel makes a mockery of Congress (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  Not a high bar.

Je Suis Jimmy (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)

With Calls for Retribution Over Kirk, Some See Rise of a ‘Woke Right’ (Jeremy W. Peters/New York Times)

Report: Biden FBI Snooped on 92 Conservative Targets in Trump Witch Hunt

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ABC’s indefinite suspension of late night “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel sent a shockwave across the media landscape. On Friday, CNN This Morning claimed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and President Trump’s reactions to the suspension constituted government pressure against First Amendment rights and were seemingly itching for someone to sue them.

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Former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams replied: “Yes, and that is the important thing when we speak about the First Amendment. It’s not private sector entities firing people for things they say, or for being indecorous, or even insensitive. It’s when the government says, ‘We do not like the things you are saying, and on account of the things you’re saying, we are taking action against you.’”

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Remember that blowout September 2024 jobs report the broadcast networks slobbered over in October just before the presidential election? Well, the government admitted last week to a big whoopsie in configuring the jobs numbers. Sure enough, ABC CBS and NBC were clearly not as keen on letting viewers know they just mindlessly swallowed up what the Biden administration spit out for political leverage.

In September 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated October 4 that a supposedly gangbusters-level 254,000 jobs were supposedly added to the economy, just in time for the election. An MRC Business tally found the lead ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows from October 4 and subsequent October 5 mornings shows spent a combined 13 minutes and 27 seconds (or 807 seconds) singing its praises.

But when the report was heavily revised, the networks sang a different tune. As it turned out on September 9, 2025, the BLS would heavily revise its benchmark jobs report, conceding it vastly overestimated the Biden era jobs growth in the 12-month period ending March 2025 by nearly 1 million jobs, completely undercutting the over-sensationalized pre-election reporting by the Big Three.