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Knesset on Monday, MSNBC contributors tag-teamed a critique of his actions against Iran and his international diplomatic capabilities. This included affirmation for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a failed Obama-era treaty that primed Iran for nuclear weapons capabilities.

After playing a few clips of Trump mentioning Iran, Ana Cabrera stand-in Erielle Reshef asked former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes about the impact of Operation Midnight Hammer (Click “expand”).

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It appears that ABC World News Tonight is fighting hard to reclaim the mantle as America’s most nakedly partisan legacy evening newscast. Another wildly biased shutdown item from correspondent Rachel Scott does little to inform viewers but everything to inflame them.

 

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Even in what you might call the mainstream liberal media, you’d have to look far and wide to find outspoken support for the often-violent, blatantly antisemitic, pro-Hamas student protesters that have plagued American colleges in recent times.

But look no further than CNN This Morning and its host, Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR. Last week, reacting to a poll showing a majority of Americans opposing sending more weapons to Israel, and supporting sending humanitarian aid to Gaza,

Johnson: ‘We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history’ (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  Because the Republicans haven’t caved. Kudos to Trump for passing out spines.

The Right’s Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections (Rolling Stone)  So secret that even Rolling Stone knows about it?

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: ‘We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today’ (Violet Miller/Chicago Sun Times)

Parliament Hands Out MAGA-Style Hats Before Trump’s Speech (Harry Thompson/The Daily Beast)

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’ (Gregory Royal Pratt/Chicago Tribune)

Pakistan PM Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Majority of The View’s Cast Refuse to Credit Trump for Ceasefire

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)

Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats (Caitlyn Freeman/The Seattle Times)

As the shutdown continues, Trump and his team advance plan for ‘Democrat-oriented’ firings (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP’s Steve Scalise gives away the game (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident (Jake Wittich/Windy City Times)

Trump Refuses To Let Go Of Macron During Aggressively Long Handshake At Egypt Summit (Graeme Demianyk/HuffPost)  SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT (Liam Knox/Bloomberg)

Washington state waters down child abuse law after pressure from Trump administration (Ja’han Jones/MSNBC)

Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report (Maya Yang/The Guardian)  Because, AS WE ALL KNOW,  the education of ‘specials’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump says immigrants are driving violent crime in Illinois, but ICE can’t find many who are (MSNBC)  Because pro-crime Democrats are hiding them. That’s what “Sanctuary Cities” are all about.

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda (Robert McCoy/New Republic)

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent (Meg Anderson/NPR)  No mention of the more violent tactics of the anti-ICE terrorists.

Fake TV President Martin Sheen Gives Real President Donald Trump Advice on Being Real President: ‘Start Being Human’ (Warner Todd Huston/Breitbart)

Trump has done the impossible in Gaza, and the media still sneer (Andrea Peyser/New York Post)

Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass (Tom Bowman/NPR)  Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

The small cracks of dissent emerging in Trump’s GOP (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  So small that only the Narrative Media can see them.

Jeffries slams GOP spending bill: ‘Gutting the health care of the American people’ (MSNBC)  Because, AS WE ALL KNOW, the health care of the American people is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump (New York Times)

Trump: Time Photo ‘Maybe Worst of All Time’

Quid Pro Presidency (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over–and It Quickly Backfires on Trump (New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Chuck Schumer Calls For “Forceful” Uprising Against Trump Administration

Colbert and Kimmel Hail Gaza Deal, But Mock Idea Of Trump Winning Peace Prize

Left-Wing Group Instructs How to Fight ICE in Chicago

America Needs a Mass Movement–Now (David Brooks/The Atlantic)  David Brooks has evidently tired of being the NYT’s Pet Conservative and decided to go full Woke.

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’ (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)  Not that they ever did.

Drug Runners Shifting Strategies After Trump Strikes

Biden, Blinken take credit for groundwork behind Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal (Fox News)  I’m sure they do.

RFK Jr. Adviser Has Shock Theory for Trump’s ‘Dementia’ and Cankles (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

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At CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, more colloquially known as the Thunderdome, we are often reminded that if it weren’t for double standards there would be none at all. So it is, now, with comparisons to terrorists made at the hallowed Table.

Consider this exchange, broadly over former President Barack Obama’s recent comments on the Marc Maron podcast decrying authoritarian creep (lol, someone get him a mirror), which end with Meidas Bro Adam Mockler comparing the election of President Trump to the election of Hamas in Gaza.

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Once again, the New York Times is coming to the defense of the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk.

Reporter-at-large Eli Saslow journeyed to Texas Hill Country for the latest epic, a 3,000-word sob story about a fired female firefighter, that got major, three-column play across the prime news real estate of Sunday’s front page: “She Hated Kirk. He Resolved to Make Such People Pay.”

And again left unmentioned: The left cancelling people’s reputations and getting them fired over far less offensive things during the Covid and Black Lives Matter-fueled hysteria of 2020. That phenomenon also overtook the New York Times, driving out opinion staffer Bari Weiss and former opinion editor James Bennet from the Times opinion page during that sinister “social justice” era, whose consequences we are still enduring.

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ince Hamas’s barbarism on October 7, 2023, one of the worst broadcast network correspondents has been CBS’s Debora Patta in sucking up to the Palestinian cause (read: Hamas). It was thus unsurprising her lead-off segment on Monday’s CBS Mornings actually gave equal time in the three-minute-and-24-second segment to the 20 living Israeli hostages and the nearly 2,000 Palestinians being released from Israeli jails for a slew of offenses, including some serving life sentences.

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The New York Times scrambled to run cover for leftist billionaire George Soros after a groundbreaking report exposing his pro-terrorism funding served as the pretext for the Justice Department launching an investigation into his Open Society Foundations (OSF).

The Times tried October 10 to attack the Capital Research Center’s investigative report showing that Soros had funneled at least $80 million into “groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence” both in the U.S. and abroad. The headline: “Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism.”

One heavily Soros-funded group, Al-Haq, is “a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank” that has been “long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization.” But The Times picked an obvious strawman and went to town with it by claiming the report “does not show evidence that Mr. Soros’s network knowingly paid for its grantees to break the law, which legal experts said would be necessary to build a criminal case.”

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As President Trump himself articulated on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the legacy, liberal media have been surprisingly respectful and tonally correct in expressing admiration for the peace deal between Israel and Hamas and capturing the emotion from Israelis as the 20 living hostages reunited with their families.

But in the middle of the night here in the U.S., one NBC international correspondent celebrated the Palestinian prisoners being released as “hostages” because some were merely “minors, doctors, nurses, journalists who have never been charged” but jailed by Israel under “administrative detention.”

Daniele Hamamdjian told senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson that the nearly 2,000 Palestinians being turned over from Israeli prisons are “freedom fighters” and “hostages” in the eyes of “many Palestinians”:

Jewish Chamber Defends RFK Jr. Over Circumcision, Antisemitism Claims

Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility (Violet Miller/Chicago Sun Times)

NY Times Blames ‘Conspiracy Theorists,’ ‘Right-Wing Influencers’ for Antifa Violence

Maduro Doubts Trump Will Do Anything in Venezuela

Trump’s 100% tariff threat sparks defiance from Beijing (Phelim Kine/Politico)

Democratic lawmaker decries strikes on Venezuelan boats as ‘illegal killings’ (Faith Wardwell/Politico)

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

Denmark Commits $4.2B to Arctic Defense, Backs Trump’s Security Vision

Trump’s claims about violence are falling apart in court (Aaron Blake/CNN)

J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists’ Questions. It Did Not Go Well (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility (Marcela Rodrigues/The Boston Globe)

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals (Axios)

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring (Washington Post)

Inside Trump’s “funny numbers” on mass deportations (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education (Cory Turner/NPR)

The White House and Republicans want to intimidate Democrats like me. They’ll fail. (Rep. Robert Garcia/MSNBC)

Republicans embrace hardball moves as shutdown enters Week 3 (Politico)

How Trump Is Making China Great (Paul Krugman)

Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government (Washington Post) And relieving a lot of strain from taxpayers.

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Obama rips concessions that businesses and others have made to Trump (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)

Trump Cuts Dem Federal Programs: ‘They Made a Mistake’  Nothing is more common than a dozen different government programs, each supposedly dealing with the same “problem” and each with its attendant plethora of bureaucrats who all naturally vote Democrat. Don’t think that this is by accident.

Vice President Vance Calls Out NBC News for Noting Bibi Boos, Skipping Trump Applause

It Turns Out, Americans Don’t Want a Police State (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin is so wrapped up in her own little fantasy world that she can’t tell what’s actually going on.

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance (Laura Acevedo/KGTV-TV)

Naked bike riders demonstrate against federal troops in ‘quintessentially Portland’ protest (Associated Press)  Tom Lerer: “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!”

Trump’s Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew succumb to Progressive Projectionism.

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)  Because, AS WE ALL KNOW, coal miners are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer. (Maybe they could hit up George Soros; I hear he has some loose funds available.)

Is America on the brink? Political violence isn’t new in America. But the reaction to it today feels different. (Sean Illing/Vox) Of course it does. “MOMMMEEE! Donald hit me back!”

Shutdown polls show Democrats’ economic messaging still falling flat (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico) Only the Democrat base is as stupid as Democrats expect everybody to be, and that isn’t enough any more.

Obama: ‘Inherently corrupting’ for a president to use military ‘against their own people’ (Max Rego/The Hill)  When Democrats won’t enforce the law, there is little choice.

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

Moment Heckler Interrupts Trump Knesset Speech

Donald Trump Heckled During Speech in Israel

People Who Have Been Calling For A Ceasefire For Two Years Denounce Ceasefire  (Babylon Bee)

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For those of you wondering how CNN’s brand has fallen so deep into the toilet, the strange attitudes divorced from reality of many who work at that network might offer one of the significant reasons.

An example comes in the form of CNN’s Science and Wellness writer, Madeline Holcombe, who wrote an overlong boring rant about her neurotic hangup with the ‘male gaze’ on Saturday, “After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back.”

The “male gaze” is back? If you even knew it ever existed as a major problem in the first place, then YOU are probably the one with the problem for even noticing. And one who has definitely noticed and can’t stop thinking about it is Holcombe who one could argue causes the male (and female) glaze — as in their eyes glazing over in utter boredom while attempting to read a rant that seems like entering an unending wormhole into an alternate universe obsessively concerned about something that never appears as a problem on the radar screens of normal people.

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nother Sunday has passed, and with it another cycle of omissive bias from the major legacy media political affairs shows. Two major political stories went undiscussed- both the ongoing fallout over the Jay Jones text scandal currently roiling the Virginia gubernatorial election, and the arrest of the Red Mass bomber exactly one week ago.

With regard to Jay Jones, the only Sunday show mention remains former Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short on the 10/5 broadcast of NBC’s Meet the Press. And this is an instance where he forced it on to the panel discussion, rather than something produced as a standalone segment on the show.

Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction (Daniel Dale/CNN)  “Face check” in Media-speak actually means “Narrative gaslighting”.

Rep. Claudia Tenney: Create Trump Peace Prize

Purge Politics: Jeffries Pledges Legal Retaliation When Democrats Take Power

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says (Zachary Schermele/USA Today)

‘CDC is over’: RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (Brandy Zadrozny/MSNBC)

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’ (Anthony J. Rivera/Washington Post)

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on (NPR)

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him (Antonio María Delgado/Miami Herald)

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC is facing another round of deep staff cuts (Brenda Goodman/CNN)

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities? (Maanvi Singh/The Guardian)  How stupid are the people who write for The Guardian?

Purge, Merge, and Surge (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  Since the author is evidently a Democrat, I would say “No”.

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists (Jennifer Rankin/The Guardian)  To The Guardian, there is no ‘right’ but the ‘far right’.

Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok (David Frum/The Atlantic)

Maga figures back Bukele’s call for Trump to crack down on US judges (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated (CNN)  Yeah, theu re-hired the ones they actually wanted to keep, avoiding lawsuits from those they wanted to get rid of..

‘Using us as political pawns’: federal workers reel over threats of firings and withheld back pay (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)  The Democrats certainly are.

Trump loves his tariffs. Too bad he’s wrong about them. (Glenn C. Altschuler/The Hill)

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. (Lydia DePillis/New York Times) “Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.” Yeah, getting rid of special treatment will have that effect.

Kilmar Abrego’s court victory could end Trump’s reign of retaliation (Nick Akerman/The Hill)

MSNBC Spreads Fake News That ICE Zip-Tied Children, Fox Debunk

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is a Democrat who was elected on her promise to prosecute “illegitimate” President Donald Trump. In other words, she was a super-charged partisan. But the partisan leftist media regularly dropped the (D) – and the E, as in elected. A low-information voter would think she was nonpartisan. That’s still happening.

In the breaking-news article online, you can see the D in paragraph 4, which begins: “In a statement, Ms. James, a Democrat who had won a civil case against Mr. Trump accusing him of fraudulently inflating the value of his assets…” But in the On Dead Tree version, it’s not there. How bizarre.

“This is a disaster”: Congress erupts at Trump’s shutdown mass firings (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Admin Not Giving up on Deporting Abrego Garcia to West Africa

Green group files Hatch Act complaints against HHS, Forest Service over ‘partisan’ shutdown messaging (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van (Brad Reed/Common Dreams)  I’d have paid to see that.

Portland Leftists Plan ‘Laser Tag’ Attacks On Federal Aircraft Saturday Night

Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….

RINO Alert! Sen. Collins Slams White House Over Schumer Shutdown Layoffs

Complaint: HHS Violated Hatch Act by Blaming Dems for Shutdown  ‘Blame’ is easily assigned: Who voted in favor of the budget and who voted against it, thereby shutting down the government?

James Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next? (New York Times)  Brennan. Clapper. Schiff.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (Heather Knight/New York Times)

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation. (Mississippi Free Press)  ODF.

Trump ‘in Exceptional Health’ Says White House Doctor (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)

CNN Host Boris Sanchez Giggles as Socialist Guest Mocks Noem as ‘Renowned Puppy Killer’

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders (New York Times)

Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)  They’re angry because they’re not getting their way. They’re used to Republicans caving in short order to Democrat demands.

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)  That’s what winning looks like.

Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy? (Ross Douthat/New York Times)  It is — bomb the living shit out of those who won’t get with the program, as the Iranians found out.

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. MAGA is the New Nigger.

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle (Steve Rose/The Guardian)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

For Trump, media manipulation is his show of force (Sarah Ellison/Washington Post)  And he’s running rings around you people.

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing (Peter Stone/The Guardian)  Remarkable how the Narrative Media are the only people who seem to have copies of this “authoritarian playbook”.

Portland mayor orders removal of police tape despite federal demand for perimeter at ICE facility, report says (Alex Nitzberg/Fox News)  Sounds like an insurrection to me.

ICE isn’t hiring the best people (MSNBC)  Neither, dare I say it, is MSNBC.

Trump’s Favored Prosecutor Is Moving at Full Steam (Wall Street Journal)  Apparently this is news to the bright sparks at WSJ.

Critics: Trump’s Columbus Day Proclamation Minority ‘Trolling’

Goldberg Claims Trump Proves America Is Still Debating Kingly Power

Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US–‘Betrayed’ (Mandy Taheri/Newsweek)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He sure gets around.

Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois (Mark Berman/Washington Post)

Trump’s ‘Divorced From Reality’ Depiction of Portland Ridiculed by Local Officials (Brad Reed/Common Dreams)

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Establishment media puppets that align with the Deep State interests have received coordinated messaging directives this past week, scripted talking points designed to advance ongoing informational warfare against the American public to obscure or downplay the very existence and activities of radical left group Antifa, which has been formally designated a domestic terrorist organization due to its repeated attacks on federal personnel, facilities, and other government assets.

“New talking point directive just issued,” journalist Tom Elliott wrote on X, accompanying a montage video showing leftist media puppets, from Jimmy Kimmel to Whoopi Goldberg, reading from what appears to be identical scripts in a coordinated misinformation and disinformation campaign. By now, the American people view the MSM not as news organizations but as a massive PR arm serving the interests of Deep State operatives.

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In another embarrassing and revealing moment for Western mainstream media and its many puff pieces on Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Regiment, Canadian national broadcaster CBC has aired a news report this week from “an elite training facility” of its 3rd Assault Brigade in Kiev, featuring a fighter with a swastika tattoo on his arm.

The footage, released Thursday, blurred out the swastika tattoo of one of the main military trainers interviewed, but failed to do so in the video’s YouTube thumbnail. Comments were turned off, with a note attached in the YouTube description which reads: “A tattoo of an offensive symbol has been blurred in this video.” Watch (officer with tattoo starts at :16 mark)

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Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon did us a great service late Monday by collating an exhaustive list of the most ridiculous meltdowns over CBS News announcing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief and that parent company Paramount SkyDance purchased her site, The Free Press.

By Wednesday, the Associated Press got off the sidelines to offer a cartoonishly whiny piece that, if published earlier, would have made the roundup in sneering a “polarizing” person taking over a “fact-based” network that has supposedly never had “an agenda.”

The headline was foreboding: “In CBS role, Bari Weiss goes from critic of mainstream news to one of its gatekeepers.”

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rant on Luigi Mangione (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

Trump and White House Busted Using Red State Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue (Block Club Chicago)  Strong as the temptation might be….

The authoritarian menace has arrived (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)  One guess as to who that might be….

Trump Deserves Nobel, Israel Says; But Norway Braces For Backlash Ahead Of Expected Snub

Man Accused of Starting LA Fire Wrote Anti-Trump Posts  My, what a surprise.

Alleged Palisades firebug posted anti-Trump screeds, blamed wildfires on climate change (New York Post)

Judge grants a partial temporary restraining order on National Guard deployment in Illinois: Live updates (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)

Blue city officers open to feds’ help fighting crime crisis as leaders spew ‘anti-police rhetoric’: union pres (Adam Sabes/Fox News)

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History (John Harwood/Zeteo)

Report: Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence

We Are The Cure For TDS

Trump: Obama Won Nobel Peace Prize for ‘Doing Nothing’   He was the Magic Negro. That’s all it takes.

Trump, the Self-Styled “President of PEACE” Abroad, Makes War at Home (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump’s invasion of Portland (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)

Court rulings, anti-ICE protests, Democrats: What the Trump administration sees as ‘insurrection’ (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)

Trump’s war on ‘antifa’ is both buffoonish and sinister (Paul Waldman/MSNBC)

Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic)

Trump Snubbed for 2024 Nobel, But Case Growing for 2025

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America (ProPublica)  ODF.

Republicans reject push to block Trump from using Qatari jet as Air Force One (Connor O’Brien/Politico)

The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew goes full Democrat.

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark) Nixon gave us the EPA and OSHA, which are still going strong with Democrat support, so I suppose that’s true.

Gov. Phil Scott says Trump’s national guard deployments are unconstitutional (Shaun Robinson/VTDigger)

MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

“People Are Not Fungible Commodities” – MAGA Spars With Peter Schiff On Immigration  That MAGA guy gets around.

I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)  An unimpeachable source?

The Beauty Queens of MAGA World (Joshua Chaffin/Wall Street Journal)  The WSJ seems to be striving to be the new Daily Beast.  Not Trump’s fault Democrat women are pretty much all butt-ugly.

MAGA Fury Erupts After Trump Misses Nobel Peace Prize (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

The insidious legal strategy Trump and Stephen Miller are using against their enemies (Andrew Prokop/Vox)  Insidious!

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump’s Admin Disappeared Them Anyway (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)  ‘Exclusive’ must mean ‘of the facts’.

The Justice Department’s Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James (Molly Roberts/Lawfare)  Still stronger than James’ case against Trump.

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic)  I’m surprised Pritzker could even pick it up, much less drop it.

Cool! It Really Looks Like Greg Abbott is Taking Orders From Libs of TikTok (Brian Gaar/The Barbed Wire)  I think it may be the other way around.

Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic) (1) She’s not Trump, (2) she’s female, (3) She’s ‘latinx’.

Comedian Passed Over for Daily Show: Trump Voters Are Inferior ‘C-Average Students’

The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade (Mark Lee Greenblatt/New York Times)  But not as many, of course, as the New York Times.

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Yup–everything going to shit under Democrat policies. (See? It’s in their name.)

This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning (Alice Speri/The Guardian)  For certain narrow values of ‘winning’.

Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’ (Faith Wardwell/Politico)

As the public sours on his economic performance, Trump tries playing make-believe (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Welcome to your world, eh?

Donald Trump deserved the Nobel prize, says … Vladimir Putin (Seb Starcevic/Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

‘They Gave Speeches’: MSNBC’s Sanders Credits France and Britain For Gaza Deal

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition (Faiza Patel/Brennan Center for Justice) Too late–they’re already criminals.

Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low (Joan Walsh/The Nation)

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Trump’s Quest for Unchecked Power: A Video Roundup (Landry Ayres/The UnPopulist)  Carefully edited, of course….

QUENCHED: Networks Ignore Alleged Palisades Fire Arsonist Was Anti-Trump Eco-Fanatic

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He’s not afraid to ask the soft questions….

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The shrill liberal shriekers of ABC’s The View have long been supporters of far-left rage monster and congresswoman, Katie Porter (D-CA). So it was no surprise that, during Thursday’s show, a majority of the co-hosts had her back during her run for governor even as she hemorrhaged support after a series of videos showed her abusing staff and a journalist. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, along with co-hosts Joy Behar and Ana Navarro, tried to save Porter’s campaign with a tourniquet of excuses ranging from being human to menopause to just being plain “smarter” than everybody else.

After playing a clip of Porter near the top of the show scream at a staffer to “get out of my f[bleeping] shot,” Goldberg tried to blunt the audiences shocked reaction by singing a line from the musical Hamilton: “I’m not giving away my shot, shot, shot!”

“Maybe she’s having a menopausal moment,” Behar chimed in defense.

I’ve never yet met a Democrat woman who wasn’t a potty-mouth.

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What in the Benjamin C. Bradlee is going on with The Washington Post editorial board? After shocking the internet by conceding that Obamacare was really just an expensive mess, the newspaper seems to have red-pilled itself hard again.

The Post once again tackled the ongoing political standoff between the GOP and Democrats over the Schumer shutdown, surprisingly chastising liberal lawmakers for being stubborn by continuingly voting down the Republican clean continuing resolution (CR). Then came a jaw-dropping admission from the liberal newspaper: “The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut.” But the newspaper even took it a step further: “If the last week has shown anything, it’s that the federal bureaucracy performs too many ‘nonessential’ tasks that do not have a direct bearing on the lives of most citizens.”

Can pigs fly? Are we living in a parallel universe? Are chimpanzees dropping in from the cosmos? The Left will cry “state-run media.” Finding this kind of hot take within the pages of one of the most anti-Trump newspapers in circulation is like finding a real conservative on the Nicolle Wallace show.

Of course, The Post played both sides by caveating its nod to libertarian economics: “At the same time, the government also performs many critical functions.” However, the newspaper’s open rebuke of the Democrats’ incorrigible grandstanding over Obamacare subsidies is a sight worthy of beholding.

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It is that time again, wherein CBS’s John Dickerson coughs up another pompous editorial from behind the anchor desk on CBS Evening News Plus. This one particularly pompous and lacking self-awareness, but perhaps mindful that there are only so many of these left before Bari Weiss fully takes over as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.

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Democrats and media outlets were quick to blame climate change and oil companies for the devastating Palisades Fire that ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year. But that narrative crumbled on Wednesday when federal law enforcement officials charged a man for deliberately starting the fire.

Federal prosecutors in California charged Jonathan Rinderknecht with one count of destruction of property by means of fire, a charge that carries a maximum time of 20 years in federal prison. “While we cannot bring back what victims lost, we hope this criminal case brings some measure of justice to those affected by this horrific tragedy,” said acting U.S. attorney Bill Essayli.

The charge—which Essayli said was informed by witness statements, video surveillance, cell phone data, and an analysis of fire dynamics conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—cuts against the narrative prominent Democratic lawmakers and media outlets pushed following the tragic event.

Newsbusters.

During Attorney General Pam Bondi’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley bewailed the newly unearthed fact of President Biden’s FBI investigating himself and eight other Republican members of Congress. MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports took the opportunity to fact-check and downplay the importance of the Arctic Frost operation, almost making it out to be routine.

There is no budget “deal” to be made — President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework … (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)

Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to ‘do something’ before shooting her, attorney claims (Anna Betts/The Guardian)  I’m sure he does.

2 Charged Over Instagram Threats to Federal Agent

Historian Files Suit Over Trump Library Site

Trump says he can pick and choose which feds get back pay. Republicans in Congress mostly disagree (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)

Miami real estate gift for Trump presidential library sparks lawsuit (Max Rego/The Hill)

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Trump’s off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP (Politico)

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration’s ‘authoritarian march’ (Associated Press)

Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)  I doubt that Pritzker ever did a pushup in his life.

Man With 200 Explosives And Leftist Manifesto Arrested Outside Supreme Court Event At Church: Police (Luke Rosiak/The Daily Wire)

MSNBC’s Ruhle Presses Cuomo on Sharing Donors with Trump  Trump Cooties!

In Chicago, clergy and faith-based protesters say ICE is threatening their religious freedom (Jack Jenkins/RNS)

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law (Emily Pontecorvo/Heatmap News)

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

Trump administration cuts federal support for disabled Americans facing homelessness (Emily Peck/Axios)  Because, as we all know, support for disabled Americans facing homelessness is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Are Trump’s voters turning against him? (Christian Paz/Vox)  Scott Adams’ Law of Headlines states that if a headline poses a question, the correct answer is invariably No.

Mass Layoffs Trump Is Threatening in Shutdown Fight May Be Illegal (Tony Romm/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope,

Why MAGA is outraged at Zach Bryan over ICE lyric (Herb Scribner/Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar (Kristen Gelineau/Associated Press)  Because, as we all know, feeding starving children in Mayanmar is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

What Civil Society Can Do to Beat Trumpism (Henry J. Farrell/New York Times)

Local Politicians Are Defiant as National Guard Gathers Outside Chicago (Wall Street Journal)  LEAVE OUR CRIME ALONE!

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  There’s that MAGA guy again.

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows (Dharna Noor/The Guardian)  And where was the analysis for Biden ‘picks’? or Obama’s?

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Democrat Claims Trump Crime Crackdown Is “The Very Same Thing” As The Rise Of Third Reich  Of course they do.

U.S. security guarantee for Qatar sparks jealousy and confusion (Colin Demarest/Axios)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies (New York Times)  Just like a Democrat!

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor (Wall Street Journal)  Both of whom have publicly advocated breaking the law.

Pritzker on Trump deploying troops to Chicago: ‘This is a man who’s suffering dementia’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

The TDS Is Strong With This One…

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations (Chicago Tribune)

Tech Giant AI Chatbots Take Partisan Stand, Blame Republicans for Government Shutdowns

At Oversight Hearing, AG Bondi Responds to Questions With Attacks Instead of Answers (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)  Entirely appropriate, since the ‘questions’ were also attacks.

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America (Jacqueline Sweet/Rolling Stone)  Who knew that the MAGA guy was a foreigner?

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP’s redistricting games (Richard L. Hasen/MSNBC)

Anderson Cooper Teams Up with Cory Booker to RIP ICE, ‘Deeply Corrupt’ Trump

Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Newsbusters.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel found a strange, new respect for Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman he has frequently dubbed “Klan Mom,” on his Tuesday show as he claimed a recent tweet from Greene proved his point that Republicans are lying about health care amid the government shutdown.

Kimmel claimed, “The reason the Democrats refuse to sign this budget agreement is because it will cause millions of Americans to lose their health care. Republicans deny this.”

What Greene omitted and Kimmel continues to omit is that the Obamacare subsidies being discussed removed the cap that limited recipients to those making 400 percent of the federal poverty level for what was supposed to be a temporary COVID relief measure. That means that even if the subsidies were to expire, a family of two making $84,600 could still be eligible. Meanwhile, while Kimmel is trying to say he is right because even Greene agrees with him, Greene is also the same congresswoman who made dire predictions that turned out to be false about what would happen if the U.S. involved itself in the Israel-Iran War back in June.

Newsbusters.

We at the Media Research Center have long argued that one of the most insidious forms of media bias is bias by omission: the exclusion of stories, or of key items within stories, that run counter to the ongoing media narrative. We cover those omissions as they happen, but they are usually limited to one high-profile story. But last night’s legacy evening news omitted THREE major items.

We begin with Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, and the media’s ongoing omission of his murderous text messages that have rocked that state’s gubernatorial election, which the national media usually look to and cover as a midterm bellwether. Our own Geoff Dickens has tabulated the scant coverage these texts have received and has rightly noted that “If Jay Jones were a Republican, he’d probably be a household name by now.” To date, no major Democrat has broken from Jones over these violent texts, most notably among these Senator Tim Kaine. Neither the texts, nor revelations that Jones was busted for driving 116 miles per hour, nor reports that he reported time spent at his PAC as court-ordered community service, nor his just-revealed alleged pining for police deaths, disqualifying for a Republican, drew any significant media scrutiny.

In other news, CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified and published an explosive report that further clarifies the extent to which then-Vice President Joe Biden engaged in corrupt practices related to his oversight of matters pertaining to Ukraine.

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Comedy Central’s Tuesday version of The Daily Show ended on a somber note as host-of-the-week Josh Johnson welcomed the founder and executive director of Black Girl Environmentalist, Wawa Gatheru, to the program to lament that under the Trump Administration, left-wing environmental groups are no longer being bankrolled by the federal government.

A solemn Johnson wondered, “There is all of this climate work that needs to be done and you would think that your greatest ally would be the government and the country. But unfortunately, we, you know, are here. And so, what do you do when you not only don’t have support, but there is active hostility towards climate science or climate activists?”

ProPublica, a Voice of the Woke.

Perhaps because the public schools suck, and the Department of Education hasn’t done a damned thing to improve the situation.

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Last week, I wrote about the left’s playbook of projection and deflection, wherein they ascribe their own sins unto their victims. This week, let us examine how the left tries to advance its radical agenda by redefining words and standards.

Today’s case study: free speech.

While the First Amendment of the United States Constitution recognizes and protects the God-given right to free speech, there has always been a reasonable, popular consensus that there exists material not suitable for young, impressionable children and that, alternatively, for adult consumption, cannot be banned. The left is endeavoring to rend this consensus.

Presently, the left equates the removal of age-inappropriate materials that sexualize children from public schools as “censorship.” As readers of last week’s article will recognize, such is a deflection and a projection from the fact the left has for years been banning, eliminating, and re-editing all manner of media, usually by “dead white European males” (though certainly not exclusively), from curricula for being contrary to the dictates of their “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) secular religion.

While one might expect leftists to recognize their own mendacity and hypocrisy, one would be sorely mistaken.

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Oh, ya think?

Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

“Civil War Rematch”!? Chicago Mayor Establishes “ICE-Free Zones” After Abandoning Border Agents Under Attack

WH Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’

Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)

A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

It’s Time for Soft Secession (Clara Jeffery/Mother Jones)  The Left Coast shall rise again!

Solar Groups Sue Trump Administration over Cancellation of $7B in Grants

Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner Fret Unbiased CBS Will Become STATE TV Under Bari Weiss

MAGA calls for Trump to overrule judges on National Guard deployments (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again.

White House: Trump is not talking to Democrats (Irie Sentner/Politico)

AOC Mocks ‘Short Troll’ Stephen Miller And Urges Dems to ‘Laugh’ at MAGA Men (Annie Bang/The Daily Beast)

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities (Chris Edelson/The UnPopulist) Pretty heavy lifting for a guy in his 80s.

Trump Says He’d Invoke Insurrection Act If Necessary

Speaker to Rep. Jeffries: Trump Obsession Makes It Worse

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, to Mixed Reactions (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire’ Before Judge’s Home Exploded (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

Trump Tells the Navy to View Half the Country as the Enemy (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Perhaps because they are.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said ‘Do something b–‘ before shooting (David Struett/Chicago Sun Times)

Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He’s not happy about it. (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

When He’s Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids (Karl Bode/Techdirt)

Exclusive: Trump official bypassed ethics rules in criminal referrals of Fed governor and other foes, sources say (Reuters)

Trump’s Plan — The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war. (Robert Reich) Robert Reich loses his shit.

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

MAGA Turns on Trump’s Top Lawyer (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)

Both CNN and MSNBC Cut Off Speaker Johnson As He Was Explaining Democrats and Illegals

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake (Slate)

AP Assembles the ‘Experts’ to Diss Trump As Too Nasty for Nobel Peace Prize

Stephen Miller’s Uncle Agrees That He’s a ‘Depraved Fiend’ (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast is well named.

No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants (Stephen I. Vladeck/New York Times)

Democrats are winning the shutdown (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  They hope.

Words & Phrases We Could Do Without (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Presumably she includes ‘truth’, ‘justice’, and ‘the American way’.)

Trump Teases Legal Action Against ‘Sleazebag’ Jack Smith  And I would encourage him to do so.

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump’s power to deploy National Guard, explained (NPR)  Getcher Narrative, right here.

Portland And Beyond –This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act … (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …)

FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

Legal Battles Rage Over National Guard Deployments To 5 States – What To Know

DHS: Illegal ‘Thug’ Arrested for $10K Hit on US Border Patrol Chief

Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown (Robert McCoy/New Republic)

The Supreme Court’s Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging (David Nakamura/Washington Post)

Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities (Reuters)

The Comey Indictment and Selective or Vindictive Prosecution (Ema Rose Schumer/Lawfare)  Oh, like what Democrats did to Trump for four years?

MSNBC, ‘Prosecuting Donald Trump’ Podcaster Baselessly Blame Trump for Fire at Judge’s Home

Chicago journalists, protesters sue Trump administration, alleging ‘extreme brutality’ (Faith Wardwell/Politico)

Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

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Monday’s Morning Joe brought MSNBC viewers a confounding explanation for the ongoing government shutdown by creating a political paradox: Republicans were completely at fault, but Democrats were preventing the shutdown from ending.

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Amid several attempts across the nation by left-wing extremists to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, CBS News Sunday Morning appeared to blame the actions of ICE for the attacks. CBS alluded to ICE being the source of the violence, twisted the story of a young illegal immigrant, and talked for a former ICE attorney all to allude to a false fact that ICE deserved the attempts to kill their agents. The reporter behind the segment even suggested it was a “David versus Goliath” fight.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, is now effectively the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in the nation. Some have cheered its growth. Others are wondering, when does more become too much?” chided host Jane Pauley as she introduced the segment which was delivered by correspondent Lee Cowan.

Though not explicitly calling it such, Cowan’s report essentially consisted of listing out the purported transgressions that caused ICE agents to deserve the attempts on their lives, even blaming them for the violence brought against them, and accusing them of racism.

How Chief Justice John Roberts Rewrote the Constitution and Helped Trump Return to Power (Lisa Graves/Zeteo)  More accurately, cleaned the barnacles and other accretions off of it.

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war (CNN)

CBS’s Margaret Brennan Enables Sen. Duckworth Smear of ICE as ‘Gestapo’  No, xhe Gestapo are the TSA.

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago (Sophia Tareen/Associated Press)  As, indeed, they need to be, considering the pro-criminal city and state government.

Newsom sues Trump administration over California National Guard deployment order to Oregon (Amanda Macias/Fox News)

‘Very difficult situation’: Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms (David Edwards/Raw Story)  Well, of course not–they have Trump Cooties.

2 Motorists Charged in Chicago, Including One Shot by Federal Agent (Julie Bosman/New York Times) “The account in the federal criminal complaint, which differs significantly from an earlier homeland security statement, says the motorists rammed officers’ vehicle and that an agent shot one when she drove her car at him.”

Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’ (Sonia A. Rao/New York Times)  Too late!

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon (Associated Press)

Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something (A.R. Moxon/The Reframe)  Polishing Narrative lies for fun & profit.

Strong-Armed by Trump, Netanyahu Embraces Gaza Deal as a Personal Win (Isabel Kershner/New York Times)

California, Oregon suing Trump in bid to stop troop deployment to Portland (Axios)

Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland for second time (Politico)

Trump faces more shutdown blame, but Americans remain divided: poll (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Newsom joins Oregon’s suit after Trump sends California National Guard to Oregon (Politico)

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)

Judge Again Blocks Guard Deployment as Trump Expands His Targets (New York Times)

South Carolina judge’s $1.5M beachfront home burned to the ground in possible arson attack just weeks after brutal decision against Trump administration (Melissa Koenig/Daily Mail)

State Terror, American Style (Paul Krugman)  Krugman is rapidly becoming a clone of Robert Reich. (The Mad King’s Television (Robert Reich))

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze (Miranda Jeyaretnam/Time)

Trump’s invasion — ? It’s PN’s fourth anniversary and we’re commemorating it this week … (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Trump’s DC takeover is working — in fact, it has already worked (Craig DeLuz/The Hill)

The Next Prosecution of Donald Trump (Eugene Kontorovich/Wall Street Journal)

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review)

We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency (Emily Bazelon/New York Times)  Conveniently, they all agree that Trump Sucks.

Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump (Troy Brynelson/OPB)  No mention, of course, of what the protesters are doing.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  As they did under Obama and Biden, just different targets.

Chicago police ordered to ignore Border Patrol agents’ plea for help while surrounded by angry mob of protesters (Chris Nesi/New York Post)

Police Unions Condemn Chicago Ordering Police Not to Help ICE Officers Under Attack

Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason)  And, once again, ‘libertarians’ like un with the Left.

We Found the ‘Enemy from Within’ (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s Deployment of Texas National Guard in Chicago (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Illinois Sues Trump Admin to Halt National Guard Deployment; FBI Arrests Border Patrol Ramming Suspects

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago (Sarah Lazare/In These Times)

Jane Goodall’s Posthumous Netflix Special Features A Stellar Burn Of Donald Trump (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

The Supreme Court v. Democracy (Elie Mystal/The Nation)

Chicago journalists sue Trump over “extreme brutality” at ICE protests (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Ocasio-Cortez tells supporters to ‘laugh at’ Stephen Miller’s ‘insecure masculinity’ (Lee Ann Anderson/The Hill)

The “Dual State” Theory Was Invented to Describe Nazis. The Supreme Court Could Take Us There. (Pema Levy/Mother Jones)  Funny how all of a sudden the Narrative Media are experts on “Nazis”.

Newsbusters.

Hold on to your britches because you’re not going to believe this one. The Washington Post Editorial Board just admitted that the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” one the most notorious pieces of Obama-era legislation foisted upon consumers by legislators and the liberal media as the saving grace of American health care, turned out to be an expensive mess.

The Post tried to play both sides of the fence in the ongoing government shutdown stand off with Republicans and Democrats, the latter of which demanded “Republicans agree to extend the Covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it.” Then The Post ran one of the biggest plot twists ever to hit American politics in the last 15 years.

“The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable.” Nope, your eyes didn’t deceive you. The architects of former President Barack Obama’s 2010 “signature achievement,” wrote The Post, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.”

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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.

Newsbusters.

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.

Newsbusters.

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

Newsbusters.

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.

Newsbusteres.

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)

Newsbusters.

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?”