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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oregon Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment to Portland

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

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

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

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

Yet Again, Deep State Attacks DNI Tulsi Gabbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

Guns don’t shoot themselves.

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

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Bias? What bias?

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

About those unconfirmed US attorneys (Politico)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Protesters Chant ‘Shoot ICE’ in Suburban Chicago

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

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

Newsbusters.

“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

That is supposedly the official logo of The Washington Post.

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

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The United States depends heavily on physicians trained abroad.

Ask yourself why that is.

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

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

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

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

ICE Facility in Trump’s Chicago Crackdown Draws Complaints

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Power Line.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Is Trump’s Best Troll Ever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Ryan Routh Convicted at Trump Assassination Attempt Trial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Calif., Brazil Ink Climate Deal as Newsom Jabs Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

In other words, they lied.

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Bloomberg.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And that about covers it.

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stephanopoulos Pretends Justice Department Was NEVER Politicized Under Democrats

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon and eBay Sell Merch Calling for Trump’s Death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man Arrested After Pointing Laser at Trump’s Chopper

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

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

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

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

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

The Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

Ask me a hard one.

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

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

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

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

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

Prosecution Rests on Alleged Routh Plot to Kill Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

Je Suis Jimmy (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

The growing chasm between MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans on Trump’s economy (Madison Mills/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Obama denounces White House after Kimmel’s suspension (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Obama responds to Jimmy Kimmel suspension and cancel culture (Sydney Topf/Washington Examiner)

Brendan Carr Isn’t Going to Stop Until Someone Makes Him (Makena Kelly/Wired)

MAGA Drummed Up B.S. to Take Down Jimmy Kimmel (Rolling Stone)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

What happened behind the scenes that led to Kimmel suspension (Elizabeth Wagmeister/CNN)

Do Not Underestimate How Dangerous The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Is (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)

Stephen Colbert defends Jimmy Kimmel, calls Trump an ‘autocrat’ (CNBC)  How unexpected.

Stephen Colbert Blasts ‘Weak’ TV Networks for Bowing to Donald Trump (Michael Boyle/The Daily Beast)

What’s really behind the Kimmel suspension (Riya Misra/Politico)  Nobody can read minds like a Narrative Media ‘journalist’.

Disney Pulled Jimmy Kimmel as Pressure Built on Multiple Fronts (New York Times)  Of course, It’s All Trump’s Fault.

A Government of All the Podcasters — The right-wing podcast-industrial complex is establishing … (Helen Lewis/The Atlantic)

Trump’s brazen attack on free speech (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him (New York Times)

States band together on vaccine recommendations in challenge to Trump administration (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)

Trump’s TikTok Dance Is a Constitutional Farce (Ankush Khardori/Politico)

Five of the strangest things Donald Trump said on his UK state visit (The Daily Record)

Undaunted — Dictators always fear comedians. (It’s no coincidence Ukrainian President … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism (Lydia Polgreen/New York Times)

Most Americans critical of Trump on crime, economy and other issues, poll finds (Washington Post)  Would they have published it if it hadn’t?

Renovations, royal parties and sports: Trump relishes the perks of being president (NBC News)  No Democrat ever did, of c course.

Trump’s moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent (Associated Press)  Mirror! That proves it!

Tearful testimonies at House Democrats’ ‘shadow hearing’ on immigration raids (Erum Salam/MSNBC) More Fembot ‘journalism’.

Is America entering a new era of McCarthyism? (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)

Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel moment (Washington Post)

The Dog that Caught the Kimmel (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Republicans Embrace Cancel Culture as Trump Targets The View (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)  Sauce for the goose….

The high cost of free speech (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket) “Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension shows us that nothing will ever satisfy Trump’s unquenchable thirst for power.” Not in Left Delusion World, for sure.

A Rogue Nation on the High Seas (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic) “Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.”

Americans are ‘deer in the headlights’ in face of Trump assault on free speech, Maria Ressa tells Jon Stewart (Jonathan Yerushalmy/The Guardian)

Trump Pressures Broadcasters Over Critical Coverage, Escalating Attack on Speech (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)

Trump seeks media self-censorship (CNN)

Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal ‘jawboning’ (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Networks Get on Fainting Couch, LIE Trump Orchestrated Kimmel Timeout

Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

The chilling reason the military is silent now (David Ignatius/Washington Post)  They’re on †rump’s side.

This is how Trump ends democracy (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

“Free DC!”: Screamfest During House Hearing As Tlaib Accuses Trump Admin Of ‘Fascist Takeover’

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Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was his own fault. The ABC late night host’s mean-spirited commentary disguised as comedy drove conservatives away. Kimmel was completely unconcerned with this development, but his desire to turn his show into a liberal echo chamber might prove to be his downfall because when he claimed that conservatives were desperately trying to “characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” ABC felt they had no choice but to take him off the air.

Donald Trump Has Made at Least One Thing Cheaper (The New Republic) Cocaine, in case you were wondering, although how Trump is responsible for this is on its face delusional.

Trump’s Anti-Immigration Campaign Has Made Cocaine Cheaper (The Daily Beast)  Apparently taking federal agents off of drug-busting and putting them on immigration-busting is the problem–and, of course, All Trump’s Fault.

Bill to nullify Trump’s union executive orders introduced by 48 senators (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)  Every Senate Democrat and RINO Murkowski, as you might guess.

Trump, 79, Rambles Through Error-Filled Windsor Castle Address (Adam Downer/The Daily Beast)

House Dem Drafts Impeachment Articles for Bondi, Patel  Virtue-signaling is all Dems have got left.

Media’s MAGA makeover (Axios)

Trump, allies seek to punish speech they dislike following Kirk killing (Washington Post)

Inside the Room Where CEOs Say What They Really Think of Trump’s Policies (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s anti-media blitz that led to Kimmel’s suspension is straight from a European strongman’s playbook (Brian Stelter/CNN)  Ask yourself how Brian Stelter became so familiar with a European strongman’s playbook. If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

NY Times CEO: Trump Using ‘Anti-Press Playbook’  Where do they get all of these ‘playbooks’ of which they complain?

Kimmel Suspension Under FCC Pressure Stokes US Political Divide (Bloomberg)  It wasn’t “under FCC pressure”, it was under pressure from the two biggest collections of their affiliate stations. Lies, damn lies, and Narrative Media.

Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled ‘indefinitely’ for joke about Charlie Kirk’s killer after FCC threat (Tina Nguyen/The Verge) It wasn’t “under FCC pressure”, it was under pressure from the two biggest collections of their affiliate stations. Lies, damn lies, and Narrative Media.

In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech (Kaye Wiggins/Financial Times)  No, they don’t. More Narrative Media lies.

Yeah. It’s Fascism. (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  No, it’s more Narrative Media lies.

CNN: ‘Wannabe Mob Boss’ Trump Brings Us ‘Dangerously Close to State-Run Media’  The “state-run media’ was NPR and PBS, and Trump pulled their funding. CNN lies even more than usual.

Censorship fears deepen after ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel over Kirk comments (Washington Post)  Sauce for the goose….

Jimmy Kimmel and the MAGA strong-arming of American media (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  There’s that pesky MAGA guy again….

Kimmel’s suspension confirms what many suspected after Colbert’s cancellation (Lili Loofbourow/Washington Post)  Yeah, it’s your turn on the griddle.

Let’s be clear: The Trump administration forcing Jimmy Kimmel off the air is bad. Very bad. (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)  For the ghouls, yes.

Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse than You Think It Is (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Did Trump come and drag him off the set on live TV? I must have missed that.

Vittert: Liberals Are ‘Drunks’ Who’s ‘Drug of Choice Is Trump Hatred’

What Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Says About the Trump Administration’s Crackdown Against Mainstream Media (Jim Rutenberg/New York Times)  It says nothing, because the Trump administration had nothing to do with it. It was the network affiliates who couldn’t stomach what Kimmel has become who did it.

Networks Mourn Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, ABC Falsely Claims FCC Canned Him

Newsbusters.

Several characters on Thursday’s CNN This Morning show would have you believe there wasn’t easy way to define Antifa, a left-wing extremist group President Trump recently promised to designate as a terrorist organization. This contradicted to previous CNN coverage of Antifa, which formally recognized the group and provided no doubt as to who they were and their intentions.

CNN host Audie Cornish set the stage for the table discussion by ascribing the militant left group an ambiguous connotation: “Antifa, though, I’ve just been hearing about for years, this kind of amorphous concept.”

Cornish, who’s been working in journalism for over two decades, should know better. If she could be given the benefit of the doubt, her opener could be interpreted as voicing a question the silent audience might have been asking behind the camera. But that’s not what was going on.

Newsbusters.

Monday’s PBS News Hour alerted its viewers to a new right-wing threat: Education videos: “Why critics are alarmed about the influence of PragerU’s educational videos,” the online heading read.

Liberal journalists love to describe their fellow liberals as “Critics.” As “critics say conservatives are wrong.” Or sometimes it’s simply “Experts say.”

“Alarmed” is a strong word, a promise that journalist Stephanie Sy’s actual report failed to fulfill. It’s noteworthy that it’s only PragerU’s right-leaning world-view expressed in the educational videos aimed at schoolkids would supposedly trigger “alarm,” not the decades of left-wing propaganda pushed at every level of education in American schools and universities.

The Telegraph (UK).

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show has been pulled following his “offensive” comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.

Disney’s ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after Nexstar Media, one of the biggest owners of television stations in the US, said it would no longer broadcast the show on local stations.

It comes after Kimmel, whose show has been on air for over 22 years, said that a “Maga gang” was trying to score political points from Kirk’s murder.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

CNN’s Kayyem Doubles Down On Downplaying Kirk Assasin’s Political Motive

Oklahoma Schools Were Instructed to Hold a Moment of Silence for Charlie Kirk (Sarah Mervosh/New York Times)

Kirk Suspect to Roommate: ‘I Had Enough of His Hatred’

ABC’s Gutman: Alleged Kirk Assassin’s Texts With Trans Lover Were ‘Intimate,’ ‘Touching’

Elderly Suspect In Charlie Kirk Assassination Tried To “Distract Police” From Real Shooter

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause (Ta-Nehisi Coates/Vanity Fair) Coates is just another race grifter,  like Lemon and Sharpton.

MAGA debates how to respond to Kirk’s killing (Myah Ward/Politico)  I guess MAGA is now a debating club. I wish they’d make up their minds.

Gov. Abbott: 100-Plus Texas Teachers to Lose Certification Over Kirk  Actions have consequences.

House Republicans threaten to cancel anyone who disparages Charlie Kirk (Washington Post)  Just like Democrats!

GOP Lawmakers Are Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Their Mouths On Political Violence (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Debunking the Left’s Series of Lies Following Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

And the Kirk assassination-related news keeps coming and coming and coming

Legacy Newscasts Still Avoiding Motive in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

The Media Aggressively Play Dumb on the Liberal Hate of Kirk’s Killer

Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk’s killing seeks to widen US divisions (David Klepper/Associated Press)  Apparently foreign news orgs are the only place you can find the truth about the Kirk murder.

After Kirk’s Death, Some Conservatives Blame Higher Ed for Political Violence (Ryan Quinn/Inside Higher Ed)

Trump administration says it will target far left groups for Kirk’s assassination. Prosecutors made no such link. (NBC News)

Kid Rock Blasts Mainstream Media As ‘Public Enemy Number One’ Following Kirk Assassination

Liberals Desecrate Charlie Kirk Memorial, Gloat Over Assassination | Tim Pool

Democrats Quit Party Over Charlie Kirk Assassination, Join GOP | Tim Pool

UGLY: Unglued CNN Panel Attacks Jennings for Tying Far-Left Hate to Kirk Killing

Kimmel, Colbert Push Misleading Study To Claim Violence Is Mostly On The Right

Dark days: The young Left increasingly embraces assassination culture (Joe Concha/Washington Examiner)  As they have been taught.

Critics Blast ABC Reporter’s Take on Kirk Suspect

Discord Scrutinized In Kirk Assassination, Used By Canadian Far-Left Networks To Circulate Political Target Files, Lawyer Says

Charlie Kirk’s killing is a tragedy — the ‘reckoning’ is a moral panic (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)

Cruz Confronts Collins For Trying To Obscure Kirk Killer’s Motive

America Is ‘Screwed’: The View Already Back to Using Inciting Rhetoric

The Killing of Charlie Kirk & the Online Alt-Right (Lily Conway/The Contrarian)  The “alt-right” is anybody to the right of Bernie Sanders.

Dilanian, O’Leary Reluctant to Attribute Robinson Ideology to Motive

Obama does what Obama does best: blame the right

Judge, OSU Medical Center Employee Face Scrutiny After Kirk’s Murder

‘This Is A Both Sides Issue,’ Says Side That Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Shot President Trump, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Assassinate Trump Again, Murdered Schoolkids In Minnesota, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro (cont’d)  Babylon Bee.

Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  No, he didn’t.

JD Vance’s ‘statistical fact’ on political violence is neither statistical nor a fact (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Just like MSNBC!

Donald Trump’s bruised hand hidden by Melania as they land in UK for state visit

Trump Goes Full Fascist After Simple Question on His Business Deals (The New Republic)

Images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected on Windsor Castle as U.S. president visits the UK (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

LAZY: Politico Plays Dumb on ‘The Nation’ Mag’s Connection to George Soros to Smear Vance

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (IndieCommerce)

Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents (New York Times)

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid (Stuart Anderson/Forbes)

Weaponized Scoops: New Russiagate Documents Expose Media/Government Collusion

University of California students, professors and staff sue the Trump administration (Olga R. Rodriguez/Associated Press)

After the far right’s march on our streets, Londoners must show Trump we reject his politics of fear (Sadiq Khan/The Guardian)  Khan has been the chief architect of turning London into Londonistan. He’s a socialist, of course.

Trump tries to stick up The New York Times with a water gun (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Behind the Curtain: GOP future foretold (Axios)  More Narrative Media mind-reading.

Fired by Trump, a Former Labor Official Warns Against Politicizing Economic Data (Tony Romm/New York Times)  Which the apparatchiks have been doing since Clinton’s day.

The third Red Scare (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  the “Red Scare” was right. There were Reds in the government, and they were betraying their country in favor of a totalitarian dictatorship.

Senate Democrat: Patel ‘was testifying really for an audience of one: President Trump’ (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)  And the Democrats were doing a performance as well, just not as good.

Trump Has Telling Reaction To Robert Redford’s Death After The Actor Called Him ‘Dictator-Like’ (Jazmin Tolliver/HuffPost)  It is difficult to take seriously the opinions of people who make their living pretending to be someone else. This includes Democrat politicians.

Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources (ABC News)  Because they weren’t doing their jobs.

Trump’s Economic Magic Trick Is Coming Undone (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Or so they would have you believe.

Sen. Ron Wyden: RFK Jr.’s narrative on children and chronic illness is ‘delusional’ (Ron Wyden/STAT)  Although not half as delusional as Wyden.

Fascism Scholar Sounds Alarm: We’re Now In ‘Next Phase’ Of Trump Authoritarian Playbook (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

CNN’s Audie Cornish Assembles All-Dem Panel to Pan Patel for Daring to Disparage Dems

Exclusive Focus Group: Trump Bleeding Latino Voters (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor – UK politics live (The Guardian)

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump (Nicholas Grossman/Arc Digital)  I guess he accidentally told the truth.

Journalists detained as ad van with Trump and Epstein picture ‘seized by police’ (Fiona Brown/The National)

Brian Stelter: Trump’s Suit Against the New York Times Is ‘Dangerous’ Stuff

LIVE: Protesters Rally Against Donald Trump During UK State Visit

Hundreds March To Protest Against Donald Trump’s Second State Visit

Channel 4 to Mark Trump’s U.K. Visit With “Longest Uninterrupted Reel of Untruths Ever Broadcast on Television” (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)  Guess they’ve never witnessed Prime Minister’s Questions recently.

“Identify, Disrupt, Dismantle, Destroy”: White House’s Stephen Miller Declares War On Radical Left Groups

Jasmine Crockett Warns Of Repeating History: ‘When I See ICE, I See Slave Patrols’ (David Edwards/Crooks and Liars)

Trump’s cherry-picked claims on political violence ignore his own rhetoric (Aaron Blake/CNN)

Geoff Duncan launches Democratic bid for Georgia governor, vows to ‘stand up’ to Trump (Samantha-Jo Roth/Washington Examiner)

Pam Bondi’s Ridiculous 24 Hours (Charles C. W. Cooke/National Review)

Under Attorney General Bondi, critics see a Justice Dept carrying out Trump’s revenge tour (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)

There are no MAGA heroes

JD Vance: No ‘Unity’ With Groups That Wanted Conservatives Dead

White House eyes multifaceted crackdown on liberal organizations after Kirk slaying (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Vanity Fair Again Adds More Fuel to MAGA-as-Nazis Fire

PBS Hints Trump Will Use Anger At Kirk’s Murder To Mess With 2026 Elections

PBS Hints Trump Will Use Anger At Kirk’s Murder To Mess With 2026 Elections

Maddow Claims Trump Wants to Use Kirk Murder to ‘Stay in Power Indefinitely’

Trump-MAGA Fury Drove a Georgia GOPer Into Exile. He Just Struck Back. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

House again votes to surrender tariff powers to Trump (Politico)

Newsbusters.

The president of the leftist magazine The Nation Bhaskar Sunkara was up in arms over Vice President J.D. Vance’s connection of his publication to billionaire George Soros during a recent TV interview. The reality: Vance was hovering over the target, and Sunkara was being blatantly deceptive.

Sunkara railed against Vance in an X post for saying Soros “funds” The Nation: “I’m not sure where he’s getting his information, but JD Vance is lying about The Nation magazine.” He continued, claiming unequivocally that “we’re not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation.”

Here’s the deception: Up until 2019, The Nation was directly affiliated with the nonprofit media outfit The Nation Institute, which had in fact received at least $1,349,000 from Soros’s organizations between 2004 and 2019, according to Foundation Directory Online data. In January 2019, it was announced that The Nation Institute was officially rebranding to become the Type Media Center to expand beyond its connections to the magazine.

White House Insists Stephen Miller Does Not Play with Dolls (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)  Scraaaaaape that barrel ..,,.

We Cannot Excuse Political Violence (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)

Trump Threatens Major Probe of ‘The Left’ Over Charlie Kirk Assassination (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

How Trump’s Provocative Economist Crashed the Federal Reserve (Wall Street Journal)

‘Holy S**t’: Trump’s Outrageously False Claim Gets Hit With Immediate Fact-Check (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’ (Michael Savage/The Guardian)

British TV Station to Air Marathon of Trump’s Lies as He Visits UK (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Newsday Apologizes for ‘Insensitive’ Kirk Political Cartoon

Trump’s Phase 2 now begins (Robert Reich)

Exclusive: How the Trump Administration is Breaking the Law and Wasting Taxpayer Dollars with Giant Banners of Donald Trump (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)

“Conservatism” Is Now Just a Domination Fetish (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Who is Fed nominee Stephen Miran, and why is he so controversial? (Rachel Treisman/NPR) Because Trump nominated him, of course.

Bezos’ MAGA Washington Post Fires Columnist Over ‘Unacceptable’ Charlie Kirk Posts (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s case against the Fed’s Lisa Cook goes from bad to worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation (Just Security)

‘We Know Where You Live’: Political Violence on Trial This Week Over Threats to Trump Voters

After Kirk Murder, Trump and Allies Vow to ‘Destroy’ Progressive Groups (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)