CNN, the Communist News Network.

Because, as we all know, NOTHING can prevent mass shootings other than taxpayer-funded spending by the Federal government, which  is entirely and solely responsible for preventing such shootings..

The Washington Poop, paper of record of the Deep State.

In a dramatic shift from 50 years ago, Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly attended nonelite universities for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. At the same time, almost half of all Democrats graduated from an Ivy League institution or some other elite university for undergraduate or postgraduate work, a slight increase from the early 1970s.

That’s the key finding from a new research paper published by three leading political observers from the University of Arkansas, Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.

The trio put together a 50-year study of members of Congress and their educational backgrounds. They traced the arc from a time when both parties were dominated by figures who attended universities like Harvard, Yale, Georgetown or Stanford to today, when many Democrats still have elite credentials while very few GOP lawmakers attended such institutions.

That’s because ‘such institutions’ have turned into finishing schools for Democrat activists. This is a feature, not a bug. It used to be one could get a good education at ‘such institutions’ no matter your political views, but those days are long gone. Nowadays you can get straight As as a Grievance Studies Major, learning nothing useful, as long as you parrot the Narrative.

This is not news.

The Guardian (UK), a Voice of the Crust.

Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war

Experts say! That proves it!

The Left is always wringing their hands about ‘right-wing extremist attacks’ when all of the attacks are actually coming from bat-shit-crazy leftists.

Conservative Strategist: ‘MAGA Hunger Games’ Taking Place as Trump Health Slips (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

Leftists Misunderstand MAGA Vision for America

Newsbusters.

It’s probably safe to say that unless they were a serious Washington insider, most Americans had never heard the names of Center for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Until, that is, now.

Both Ms. Monarez and Ms. Cook are now in the media’s headlines because both have been fired by President Donald Trump. On the surface, the two have nothing in common. The CDC and the Federal Reserve are two considerably different institutions, with one, as its name indicates, focused on disease control and the physical health of Americans, while the other is all about the economy and American finances.

But in fact – not that you would know this from the liberal media – the CDC and the Federal Reserve do in fact have something very much in common. Both institutions are filled with federal government employees whose first loyalty is to left-leaning politics, the federal government and its bureaucracy – not to the elected President of the United States of the moment. Most particularly does this apply to President Trump, he the decidedly “Outsider” president who was merely elected by the American people. Not to mention – oh the horror! – Trump is a Republican and, worse, someone who never spent a professional day in Washington until elected President.

Newsbusters.

Keith Olbermann clearly needs some help. On his Thursday Countdown podcast, the former MSNBC and ESPN host unleashed deranged attacks on President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush, accusing the former of being behind the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and the latter of staging terrorist threats to get himself re-elected. The common thread, for Olbermann, is that Democrats need to come out and simply speak this “truth” in order to win.

I didn’t realize that Olbermann still had a platform anywhere.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Juan Carlos Dela Torre had already experienced one run-in with one of the roving crews of federal law enforcement agents who descended on Washington, D.C., this month. Then on Friday night came another.

He was standing on the sidewalk smoking a joint, which the officers grabbed as evidence of “consuming marijuana in a public space,” a misdemeanor in the district. The officers took him to a local police station, searched him and, they said, found a small amount of the stimulant MDMA. He was sent to jail.

“I’ve never seen this much police presence in my whole life,” said Mr. Dela Torre, 37, a massage therapist who has lived in Washington since 1994. “You guys are worried about some guy smoking a joint on the corner on a Friday night?”

Yeah, because if you get away with a small thing, next you’ll try to get away with a big thing. This is the Broken Windows Theory that Rudi Giuliani used to clean up New York City during his term as mayor. As Giuliani demonstrated, it works.

Newsbusters.

The New York Times devoted nearly 3,000 words Wednesday to a hostile profile of collegiate swimmer-turned-women’s sports activist Riley Gaines, painting her as rude and ruthless in her vengeance tour against transgender males competing in women’s sports.

Reporter Ruth Graham declared off the top in her headline and subhead: “Riley Gaines Finished 5th. Now She Believes Victory Is in Her Grasp; The former college swimmer has used her race against Lia Thomas, a trans athlete, to propel her career as an influential, and unsparing, activist.”

Graham set the scene of the tension-charged women’s swimming championship meet in 2022, where biological male Thomas and a then-unknown University of Kentucky swimmer named Riley Gaines tied for fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle, though the male swimmer was the one who posed with the fifth place trophy:

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

President Donald Trump’s surprise Anchorage summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin could have been a signature achievement for Steve Witkoff, the developer-turned-diplomat who facilitated the meet up.

But promised follow-up meetings between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have not materialized, ceasefire demands were dropped, threats of tough action have disappeared and Trump’s team has offered no clear road ahead.

Some frustrated U.S., Ukrainian and European officials say part of the problem is the go-it-alone style of Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy for peace missions and go-to negotiator on Ukraine. He has refused to consult with experts and allies, leaving him uninformed at times and unprepared at others, according to seven people familiar with internal discussions. Two said he misses the mark by viewing the conflict through a real estate lens, like a land dispute.

What puzzles Politico is also what is ‘frustrating’ these apparatchik officials: They are used to people in government doing things The Way They’ve Always Been Done, and neither Trump nor Witkoff are meeting expectations.

This is a feature, not a bug. Doing things The Same Old Way is what got us into this situation in the first place. Trump (and Witkoff, who appears to be on the exact same page as Trump) is an entrepreneur; entrepreneurs don’t go for small incremental advances, but look for some way to achieve the Big Win. The way you do that is to try something, and, if that doesn’t work, try something else. If you do that often enough, you’ll finally hit the jackpot. Politicians and creatures of the Deep State aren’t looking for the Big Win; they’re looking to avoid the Big Loss (or, indeed, any loss at all that will impair their Peer Group Rating among the other apparatchiks).

MAGA Takes Sick Victory Lap Over ‘Trans’ Minneapolis Shooter (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

MAGA’s Newest Meltdown With Trump (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)

Doug Casey on the Shadowy Forces Behind JD Vance’s Rise and Grooming as MAGA Successor

Newsbusters.

In what appears to be a perverse “don’t say transgender challenge”, the legacy newscasts went out of their way to mention that the coward who entered into the Annunciation Catholic Church and opened fire on an ongoing Mass was in fact a transgender individual. The networks were equally circumspect about divulging the shooter’s motives.

“The name of President Trump on the guns” is not even in the same tonal universe of what the shooter ACTUALLY wrote, which was “Kill Trump.” This deceptive description, paired with descriptions of the shooter as a racist antisemite, seeks to create the illusion of the shooter being a Trump supporter, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

Newsbusters.

With a long career in both the news media and the highest echelons of the New York Police Department (NYPD), John Miller has been one of the top media experts in everything from terror attacks to mass shootings like Wednesday’s massacre at Minneapolis’s Annunciation Catholic School.

It’s with that foundation that Miller beclowned himself all afternoon by watering down and dismissing the transgender shooter’s hatred of Christians, Jews, and President Trump (in addition to having attended the school and the shooter’s mother having recently retired from the school).

From one of his first hits to analysis just after 6:00 p.m. Eastern, Miller offered one mealymouthed excuse after another, declaring there “won’t” ever “be a specific motive” since the best explanation for the attack was that “he was in pain” and “hated everybody.”

The Independent (UK), a Voice of the Crust.

They mean it as a criticism, of course, snidely implying that Hannity was acting juvenile for leaving New Yawk just because he was getting ‘mean looks in restaurants’.

It’s pretty obvious that Hannity looked around, saw that NYC was becoming an increasingly hostile environment for people like him, and acted accordingly. He probably ought to have headed south when Rush Limbaugh did, and regrets waiting too long.

As Arthur Henderson likes to say, “Go where you’re treated best“. A reasonable position.

Newsbusters.

With the alleged shooter in Tuesday’s the massacre at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis having been transgender and filled with anti-Christian and anti-Semitic views plus calls for President Trump to be assassinated, the liberal media have stuck to their usual patterns with ABC calling for mass gun control and CNN ironically also smearing Christians for praying.

During the second ABC News Special Report about the massacre, chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce grew emotional on the verge of tears as she attacked President Trump and anyone who’s stood in the way of “meaningfully address[ing]” “gun reform,” seemingly ignoring the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act they celebrated at the time.

Bruce — who was the Biden administration’s chief apple polisher — dropped any pretense of facts when she seemed on the verge of sobbing when she smeared Trump for focusing on crime in Washington D.C. but not demanding “gun reform” (i.e. European-style gun control).

Newsbusters.

Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook may soon be out of a job following mortgage fraud accusations — but that has not stopped Google from propping up leftist sources in her defense, the Media Research Center can confirm

An MRC study found on Wednesday that Google almost entirely excluded right-leaning sources from search results related to President Donald Trump’s move to fire Cook. The embattled Biden appointee is under DOJ investigation for allegedly claiming two properties as her primary residence to secure favorable loans.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the richest of rich Americans pay an average tax rate of 34 percent, higher than any other cohort’s. In reality, as everyone has long known, they pay less than that. A new study by some of the country’s most preeminent economists has finally put concrete numbers to the disparity. The average rate that the richest Americans pay, they find, sits at just 24 percent. That number has fallen markedly in recent years and will remain low for the foreseeable future, thanks to Donald Trump.

Think about that. A quarter of someone’s income is taken from them BY FORCE so that government bureaucrats can waste it. Yet the author of this article doesn’t even blink at it; he’s more focused on being one of the crabs in the bucket bringing potential escapees back into the muck.

The new study is a technical feat, combining data on corporate earnings, private wealth, and individual tax payments. And it confirms that the country’s tax code is regressive, not progressive, at the very top. Every year, America’s richest citizens paper over their earnings with losses and use other creative accounting strategies to shelter their fortunes, as the tax code allows them to do. As a result, the country’s billionaires pay lower tax rates than many of its millionaires do. Indeed, they pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals.

Why this comes as a surprise comes as a surprise. The reason billionaires pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals is clear to anybody who looks at the tax tables: Middle-class professionals pay tax on wage income, which is rapidly regressive and tops out at 37%, while billionaires pay tax (when they pay tax) on capital gains and dividends, which top out at 20%. This doesn’t take any ‘creative accounting’ at all, just enough brains to perform some elementary optimization. This is the reason Warren Buffet pays tax at a lower rate then his secretary, which all of the hand-wringers and finger-pointers are either too stupid to find out or too evil to bother to mention.

The study, by the UC Berkeley economists Akcan Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman, examines the wealth of Americans on the Forbes 400—not the 1 percent or even 0.01 percent, but the 0.0002 percent, a group including Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Trump himself. As of this year, these individuals have a minimum net worth of $3.3 billion.

And are therefore the verbal whipping-boys of mere small-change millionaires like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Whenever a Democrat says “TAX THE RICH!” they mean “TAX THOSE RICHER THAN ME!”.

Republican Mike Collins caught on hot mic saying Trump is ‘in’ the Epstein files (Samantha-Jo Roth/Washington Examiner)

Newsbusters.

One reason that many Republican voters took a shine to Donald Trump in 2016 was the way he showed no respect to the national chattering classes of the Democrat-media complex. George W. Bush was a kinder, gentler Republican – and they compared him to Hitler. No matter which flavor of Republican was elected, the “objective” media savaged him.

We’ve reached the 20th anniversary of deadly Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed an estimated 1,836 Americans. But misinformation landed first. NBC and MSNBC tremendously hyped Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin’s Today show estimate of 10,000 dead in New Orleans.

Appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC anchor Brian Williams offered a sermon: “These were Americans, and everyone watching the coverage all week, that kind of reached its peak last weekend, kept saying the same refrain: How is this happening in the United States? And the other refrain was, ‘Had this been Nantucket, had this been Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, how many choppers would have–’” Then Williams was drowned out by applause.

Williams the serial exaggerator also claimed he could see bodies floating outside his hotel room in the French Quarter, but the New Orleans Advocate reported that the area had been largely spared in the catastrophe and experienced little flooding.

MAGA Candidate Torches the Quran in Deranged Flamethrower Ad (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Is Trump’s Declining Health Driving the MAGA Rush to Autocracy? (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)

Exclusive: Gloria Gaynor Donated Thousands to MAGA Republicans (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)

Trump’s 600K Chinese Students Claim Draws MAGA Backlash  You’d think taht MAGA is an obscure native tribe living in Appalachia.

Progs are amazing creatures. †hey can hear racist dog-whistles that even dogs can’t hear, they know more about ‘what Trump wants’ than even Trump does, and they are just full of advice for Republicans.

President melds a fractious coalition: The six factions of Trumpworld (Natalie Allison/Washington Post) And of course somebody who writes for the Washington Poop is the greatest living expert on “Trumpworld”.

President melds a fractious coalition: The six factions of Trumpworld (Natalie Allison/Washington Post)  Imagine the amount of work it must have taken to find the small town in the Aleutian Islands that can stand in for the rest of rural America in the undoubted heartbreak brought about by cutting off taxpayer money to PBS. (NY Times Travels To Remote Alaska To Shame GOP For Defunding NPR)

Young Voters Who Swung Right Are Already Regretting It (Nia-Malika Henderson/Bloomberg)  And if you believe that one, Nia-Malika will tell you another one.

Trump Repeatedly Praises North Korea’s Dictator in Meeting With South’s President (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)  Because trash-talking him has been so successful in the past.

The Bolton Raid Was Designed to Scare Us (Benjamin Wittes/The Bulwark)

House Panel Subpoenas Epstein Estate for Docs Including Birthday Book and Contacts

House Oversight subpoenas Epstein estate, including for any ‘client list’ (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)

House Oversight subpoenas Jeffrey Epstein’s estate (Kate Santaliz/Axios)

House panel to question former Trump official who oversaw Epstein’s plea deal (NBC News)

Democracy watchdog sues for files on Trump-Epstein relationship (Josephine Walker/Axios) “Democracy watchdog” means “Democrat activist buttinskys”.

Newsbusters.

On Friday, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was released from custody in Tennessee. He returned to Maryland where he was allowed to visit with his family.

On Saturday, the illegal immigrant truck driver — who allegedly killed three people by making an illegal u-turn in Florida — was denied bail and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and immigration violations.

Care to guess which story ABC, CBS and NBC chose to cover and which one was completely censored?

The case of the truck driver, who came to the U.S. illegally in 2018 via the Southern border, obtained a commercial driver’s license (CDL) in California and Washington, failed an English test and whose work authorization was rejected by the first Trump administration, has YET to be covered on any of the broadcast evening or morning shows.

However, an illegal immigrant case ABC, CBS and NBC can’t get enough of, is their favorite cause celebre of the year.

From Friday (August 22) evening through Monday (August 26) morning ABC, CBS, NBC spent 17 minutes and 21 seconds on the alleged wife-beating, human-trafficking, MS-13 gang member.

Oh, look! Squirrel!

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It must be extraordinarily difficult for leftist corporate media outlets and woke government weather forecasters to admit “record-breaking cold temperatures” or “unseasonably cool air” across parts of the Lower 48 – in August of all months.

August is the prime season when far-left climate NGOs and their political allies, amplified by their MSM propaganda megaphone, usually try to convince everyone of an alleged climate crisis….

MAGA knows DC takeover isn’t about crime — which is why they love it (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Funny how only Voices of the Crust know what “MAGA knows”.

Republicans, it’s time to give up the Epstein saga once and for all (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)  Hey, Republicans aren’t the ones beating this dead horse to mush.

Turley Says Maxwell Transcript Exonerates Trump and Hits ‘Hard in Washington’

The Washington Post, a Voice of the Crust.

Which disaster was exacerbated by the government ‘helpfully’ straightening out the natural curves of the Mississippi delta that otherwise would have absorbed a lot of the wave surge. And don’t get me started on Nagin’s fumbling. (Remember the buses that weren’t even used and then got soaked and essentially destroyed by the surge?) And the increases in crimes wherever the New Orleans underclass wound up. (Dallas was one such place. I REMEMBER.)

The Narrative Media depend on people who can’t remember more than two or three years back, and sometimes not even then. That works with Democrats, but not Republicans.

The Washington Post, a Voice of the Crust.

Slammed by pricier policies and climate-driven natural disasters, more and more Americans are exposing themselves to risk.

And the Narrative creeos in on little cat feet…. No, they aren’t ‘climate driven natural disasters’. They are Democrat elected officials driven natural disasters, for which California is the poster child. Government incompetence makes natural disasters worse when it doesn’t actually cause them. That drives insurance rates up, and then government tries to muscle them down again so that they will be ‘affordable’, but those government-imposed rates aren’t ‘affordable’ for insurance companies, so the companies quit writing insurance. So people wind up without insurance whether they like it or not.

Even if the government doesn’t drive insurers out of the market, non-rich-people can’t afford the new rates. So going without insurance is the only option. Or move… (Time to leave.)

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The NYT doesn’t shrink from assuming what you know, of course, since you (lowly reader) cannot possibly be as in-the-know as those exalted beings who write for the NYT.

Now, I think that the ‘typical college student’ is someone who hasn’t the intellectual capacity to handle college-level work (even in these degenerate modern times) and so ought not to be there, which is why we have a student-loan-debt problem.

The Blank Slate Wokerati think that the only barrier to everybody getting a college degree is finances, and if the government will just make sure everything is paid for, Utopia (defined as everybody being a college-educated Leftist) will inevitably follow. This program has led to enormous amounts of time wasted on worthless (i.e. incapable of getting one paid work) degrees, unsupportable levels of student loan debt, and skyrocketing expense levels for those who actually could profit from college study.

Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)

Epstein files released to Congress are mostly ‘recycled’ documents, Democrat says (Erin Doherty/CNBC)

Almost all the Epstein files given to Congress were already public, Democrats say (Emily Goodin/Miami Herald)

Justice Department gave Ghislaine Maxwell ‘a platform to rewrite history,’ family of Epstein abuse survivor says (NBC News)

MAGA Mainstay Nancy Mace Cancels Speech After Just Eight People Show Up (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

SCOOP: Trump Moves to Spread MAGA Agenda to the States

SKorea’s $150B MASGA: ‘Make America Shipbuilding Great Again’

The New Neo.

John Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor from April 2018 to September 2019. It seemed an odd choice, because Bolton is a hawk and Trump is a Jacksonian on foreign policy, which is not the same thing. Bolton had good credentials, having served under both Reagan and Bush, and had been Bush’s hard-nosed UN Ambassador for about a year and a half.

At a certain point Bolton openly turned against Trump – although I’m not sure he was all that supportive even from the start (here’s an article that claims to describe the downward trajectory of their relationship). But by the time he ended his tenure in the administration, Bolton was Trump’s enemy who wrote a book in 2020 excoriating Trump.

That’s not the issue. The issue is whether he leaked classified information. The proceedings against Bolton are framed by the left in this way: “the justice system is being turned on Trump’s political critics.”

Gee whiz, CNN; did you notice the lawfare against Trump and anyone with the temerity to support him? Did you notice the weakness of their cases? Do you remember “no one is above the law”? I suppose you think Trump’s enemies should get immunity from any prosecution, and a medal?

The real question is whether Bolton is guilty of leaking classified materials and whether his actions fit the definition of a crime, without gymnastics by prosecutors to make it somehow fit when it doesn’t.

The Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

As Jay Powell stood up to deliver what will almost certainly be his final address to the global economic-policymaking elite at Jackson Hole on Friday, a rival conference had just wrapped up in the same Grand Tetons mountain resort.

Headlined by Eric Trump, the speakers at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium touted what they believed to be the new frontier of money. Their number included senior officials in the Trump administration, tech entrepreneurs and influential Republican Senator Tim Scott.

Held at the plush Four Seasons hotel, the blockchain event was a stark reminder of the political, intellectual and cultural clash that the US central bank is now facing.

From Outsiders to a Movement, Trump’s MAGA Has Taken Over GOP

With MAGA’s help, Europe’s far-right marches into the mainstream (Zachary Basu/Axios)  For Axios, there is no right but the far-right.

Why the Epstein drama isn’t going away anytime soon (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)  Because the Narrative Media won’t let it go, that’s why.

Ex-Trump Ally Couldn’t Definitively Say He Isn’t in Epstein Files (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Pam Bondi tightens grip on Justice Department after Epstein files fallout (CNN)

Newsbusters, in a target-rich environment.

Just when you thought CNN had run out of things to blame on President Trump, CNN This Morning host sat down with The Atlantic staff writer Faith Hill on her The Assignment podcast to blame the Trump Administration for dating app fatigue.

As a general rule, both liberals and conservatives want their partner to share their values, but right away, Cornish only wanted to focus on one side of the political spectrum’s supposed toxicity. In the podcast clip, she asked Hill, “In what ways have political trends poisoned the dating well?”

Like Cornish, Hill only focused on one side of the relationship, “So, I think that we are in a very tricky political and cultural moment for dating. Just because, you know, men and women are kind of growing further apart in a lot of ways and especially among young people. And you see that young men are moving further to the right. Young women growing more progressive, and I think for a lot of women in particular, it can just sort of feel like, ‘This is not a time where I trust men. I feel respected by men. I don’t necessarily want to go out and meet strangers who are men.’”

Whenever two women talk, it’s All About Them. “No MAGA” is becoming common in “dating profiles” on such apps.

Newsbusters.

There are new details in the horrific story of the illegal immigrant trucker who is accused of killing three people in Florida due to his making an illegal u-turn.

Which was probably not illegal, or was at least customary, in his original Turd World country.

According to new reporting the driver had failed English and road sign tests.

Many Democrat voters would have the same problem.

This is despite those networks’ proclivity to cover awful traffic incidents, even when no one is killed.

And blame Trump, if available, or the nearest Republican, if not.

Texas Democrats plot to stall redistricting effort until Epstein files released (Asher Price/Axios)

Judge Denies Justice Department Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts

Judge denies Justice Department request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts (Larry Neumeister/Associated Press)

Judge Refuses To Release Epstein Files, Says DOJ Should Do It Instead Of Legal ‘Diversion’

Texas Dems: Halt Redistricting Until Epstein Files Out

Prince Andrew warned to ‘brace himself’ as bombshell Epstein files to be made public

MAGA isolationists brace for details of Ukraine security guarantees (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Getting MAGA To Go Left on Israel

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

MAHA Vs. MAGA: Rift Grows Over Pesticides, Chemicals

MAGA erupts after Israeli official charged in child sex ring flees U.S. (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Rep. Comer: Fmr AG Barr Sheds Light on Epstein Suicide

Justice Department Will Release Epstein Files To Capitol Hill, James Comer Says (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Comer: DOJ to Start Sharing Epstein Files with Congress Friday

Dan Bongino Suffers Fresh Embarrassment After Epstein Files Tantrum (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

Jeffrey Epstein? Forget It

Behind the Curtain: Rising Democratic MAGA movement (Axios)

Dems Consider ‘Blue MAGA’ Approach  Apparently Blue Fascism doesn’t work.

What I saw inside Pam Bondi’s DOJ Faux-MAGA lobbyists trample populism (Roger Alford/UnHerd)

Elise Stefanik Drowned Out by Furious Protesters: ‘Shame!’ (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)  Being shouted down by a leftist mob is apparently Our Democracy At Work. Good that we got that settled.

Newsbusters.

The legacy media provided ample coverage to the Texas House Democrats fleeing the Capitol in order to deny a quorum on efforts to redistrict the Lone Star State’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. But there was nary a peep from the legacies as the fleebaggers skulked back home.

The updated fleebagger saga did draw some coverage on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier.

There just wasn’t any time to cover this: not on ABC, CBS, or NBC. The guilty plea of Matthew Perry’s ketamine dealer was just too important to ignore, as was the price cut of weight loss medication.

That reality is what drove House Democrats back to Austin. And after the legacies did what they could to puff them up, there was simply zero time to cover this very important development within the ongoing political debate. Things are (D)ifferent now, you see.

UPDATE: Texas Democrats End 2-Week Walkout, Setting Up Vote On Congressional Map Favoring Republicans

The Telegraph (UK).

The BBC has admitted that a Gazan woman it claimed had died of malnutrition was being treated for cancer.

Over the weekend, the broadcaster reported that the 20-year-old, identified as Marah Abu Zuhri, died after she was evacuated to Italy for treatment while “severely emaciated”.

However, the Israeli military unit in charge of aid, known as the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, claimed shortly afterwards that she had been suffering from from leukaemia.

The corporation was accused of spreading “shocking misinformation” with the story, which was updated on Sunday to reflect the patient’s condition.

Following the criticism, the BBC issued a statement saying: “We were not initially aware that Marah Abu Zuhri was being treated for leukaemia.

Uh-hun. Sure. I believe that.

MAGA eager for D.C. patrols to spread to other cities (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

“The Anti-MAGA”: Blood-Soaked Bush Family Plots Revival Of Political Dynasty

Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy” (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

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Television network MSNBC announced it is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, adopting the shorter moniker MS NOW.

The move comes as Comcast prepares to shift most of its NBCUniversal cable channels into a new company called Versant, which will not carry the NBC brand or its iconic Peacock logo.

“This gives us the opportunity to chart our own path forward, create distinct brand identities and establish an independent news organization,” Versant CEO Mark Lazarus wrote in a memo to employees, The New York Times reported.

UPDATE: MSNBC Is Set to Change Its Name. It’s as Dumb as You Could Have Imagined.

Newsbusters.

One time-tested way to examine media bias is to see if the media label any indicted Democrat official as a Democrat. But with President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., highlighting blue city mismanagement, over ABC, CBS, and NBC’s Friday evening and Saturday morning shows, only CBS passed the test of identifying New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell as a Democrat, and even that comes with the caveats that it was only shown on the West Coast and online streaming airing of Evening News and provided the fewest details of the three networks.

Because the networks’ non-West Coast evening news slots were understandably taken over by special coverage of the Trump-Putin Alaska summit, that left West Coast and streaming audiences for traditional newscasts on Friday night. On CBS Evening News, host Maurice DuBois reported, “The mayor of New Orleans was indicted today on federal fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction charges. Democrat Latoya Cantrell, the city’s first female mayor, is accused of trying to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who was a city police officer.”

Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein (The Guardian)

Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein (The Guardian)

Trump and Epstein’s Twisted Race to Sleep With Princess Diana: Author (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

Newsbusters.

Tonight’s CBS Evening News attempted to instill in viewers a scary mental image of ICE agents bursting into Los Angeles schools in order to conduct immigration raids. In so doing, they omit a critical detail that would crumble the narrative they are attempting to craft.