The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

I’m certainly glad they have nothing more important to write about — such as: What’s with all the lip filler, botox, boob jobs, nose jobs, buccal fat suction, and BBLs?

Feminist Activist Protestors Call Trump “Hitler of Our Time”

In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Indeed not, because when a Democrat says ‘unity’ it means ‘surrender to the Woke agenda’.

Trump’s travel ban keeps international students from coming to the US for college (Makiya Seminera/Associated Press)  Good. Maybe there will be more places for American students.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer (Jonathan Mahler/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, the ‘war on cancer’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government and the Federal taxpayer, and if the Federal government doesn’t pay for it, NO RESEARCH ON CANCER WiLL BE DONE.

Trump effort to target television drug ads could have massive implications (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, a ‘key revenue stream for media companies’ is FAR more important than doctors proscribing drugs that people don’t need.

The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  I bet you don’t know the REAL REASON, not being a mind-reader from The Bullshitwark.

How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System (Jonathan Mahler/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, NO CANCER RESEARCH WILL GET DONE wituout the current (Federally-funded) research system. WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror (Rolling Stone)

Everyone Is Talking About The Double Standard Between How Trump Responded When Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Vs. When A Minnesota Lawmaker Was Assassinated (HuffPost)  ‘Everyone’ in this case meaning everyone at the Huffington Post. You won’t find any mention of it elsewhere, even in the Narrative Media.

Trump is modeling Chinese state capitalism and there’s no going back (Long Le/The Hill)  ‘Chinese state capitalism’? Is that like ‘Soviet freedom of the press’?

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours. (Perry Bacon/New Republic)  Well, at least he didn’t call him Hitler.

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National Public Radio was very concerned Saturday about angry leftists losing their jobs for gleeful posts about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, even citing McCarthyism, in “Charlie Kirk critics are being targeted online and losing jobs” by Huo Jingnan, Jude Joffe-Block, and Audrey Nguyen.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Deranged Left.

That would probably explain why organizations like The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Poop, The Daily Beast, The Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post, The New Republic, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, Vox, WIRED, Gawker, Scientific American, the New Yorker, Variety, New York Magazine, and  the various deranged Wokerati web sites can no longer call Trump Hitler without the storm-troopers breaking down their doors.

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On Friday afternoon’s Deadline: White House, MSNBC was back to promoting incendiary rhetoric against Republicans as State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-Tenn.) appeared as a guest and claimed that President Donald Trump’s push to use the National Guard to cut crime is motivated by “white supremacist ideology” and asserted that ICE agents are committing “terrorism” in blue cities.

MSNBC contributor and disgruntled ex-Republican Tim Miller played the “fascist” card as he warned about an “authoritarian takeover” by Trump.

The MSNBC host followed up by reciting some of the high crime statistics of Memphis, leading Pearce to respond with the worn out liberal claims of crime being caused by poverty and access to guns.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated–but it’s still All About Trump.

You Won’t Believe How Trump Just Spun Charlie Kirk’s Death … Twice (The New Republic)

Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move (The Guardian)

Trump vows to punish critics after slaying of Charlie Kirk (The Washington Poop)

Trump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals (The New Republic)

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left? (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Trump’s lawyers won’t stop lying in court (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Trump Drug Boat Bombing Takes Darker Turn as Damning New Info Emerges (New Republic)

Left Cancels Ezra Klein for Claiming ‘Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way’

No, Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way (David Corn/Mother Jones)

Charlie Kirk Did Not Practice Politics The Right Way (Brian Beutler/Off Message) I guess the memo has gone out.

Lemon, Fanone Blame White Men for Political Violence after Kirk Death

FEMA employee placed on leave for saying flags shouldn’t be at half-staff for ‘racist homophobe’ Charlie Kirk (Fox News)

Gov. Josh Shapiro Puts Trump On Blast For ‘Dangerous’ Response To Charlie Kirk’s Killing (Marita Vlachou/HuffPost)

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire (Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana)

‘Why are yall sad?’ Teachers, firefighters, officials on leave or fired over Charlie Kirk posts (The Hill)

Meet the New Conservative Cancel Culture, This Time With Government Informers (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)

VOX: ‘Vicious’ Response on Right to Kirk Murder Is Call for ‘Authoritarian Repression’

The View Decries Attention Given to Charlotte Stabbing, Blame Trump

Kavanaugh says no one has too much power in US system. Critics see Supreme Court bowing to Trump (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)

Trump policies to ‘drag’ on economic growth, CBO predicts, offsetting megabill gains (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)

Secret Service employee who called Charlie Kirk racist, blamed karma for assassination is put on leave (Ryan King/New York Post)

Keystone Kash Kept Kirk Arrest Secret So Trump Could Spill on Fox (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)

CNN’s Audie Cornish Won’t Say Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder Merits Criticism

Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Grandma Says Family Is All MAGA (Amber Levis/The Daily Beast)

How MAGA is abusing Charlie Kirk’s death (Public Notice)

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning (Elizabeth Spiers/The Nation)

Dowd says MSNBC reacted to a right-wing mob in firing him for Charlie Kirk commentary (David Bauder/Associated Press)

Stephen King Apologizes for False Kirk ‘Stoning’ Claim

Streaming Star Hasan Piker Was Set to Debate Charlie Kirk. Now He’s Warning of a “Reichstag Fire Moment.” (Mother Jones)  These people have a Hitler fixation that won’t quit.

Retarded Or Evil? Leftist Arguments Justifying The Murder Of Charlie Kirk

NPR Turns to JERK Who Says Charlie Kirk Was a Racist Promoting ‘White Culture’ Against ‘Equity’

‘A Minute Silence For George Floyd But Not For Charlie Kirk?’ – EU Parliament Leaders Reject Request

Leftists Cheer For Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Then Falsely Claim He Is “Right Wing”

Pelosi: Democrats “Won’t Be Responsible” For Years Of Violent Rhetoric Against Trump

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The Claremont Institute has been located in Southern California since its founding in the late 1970s. From its perch in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, it has become a leading intellectual center of the pro-Trump right.

Without fanfare, however, some of Claremont’s key figures have been leaving California to find ideologically friendlier climes. Ryan P. Williams, the think tank’s president, moved to a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in early April.

His friend and Claremont colleague Michael Anton — a California native who played a major role in 2016 to convince conservative intellectuals to vote for Mr. Trump — moved to the Dallas area two years ago. The institute’s vice president for operations and administration has moved there, too. Others are following. Mr. Williams opened a small office in another Dallas-Fort Worth suburb in May, and said he expects to shrink Claremont’s California headquarters.

“A lot of us share a sense that Christendom is unraveling,” said Skyler Kressin, 38, who is friendly with the Claremont leaders and shares many of their concerns. He left Southern California to move to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 2020. “We need to be engaged, we need to be building.”

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Forget commemorating the thousands of lives lost on 9/11. The Economist is instead pushing readers to float the idea of socialism firmly being established as the left’s bulwark against Trumpism in New York. Talk about completely butchering your priorities.

In a crazy September 11 piece, the British magazine sought to downplay communist Democratic New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s affiliation with the radical Democratic Socialists of America party. In “Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists,” the outlet was giddy over the fact that they could “prove to be the left’s populist alternative to Trumpism.” For Mamdani, The Economist tried to help his illusory “centreward” rebrand of himself by distancing him from the DSA’s nutty platforms like defunding the police and closing jails.

How did the outlet achieve this? According to The Economist’s spin, the DSA “no longer officially holds those positions.” No, you didn’t misread that.

Protesters Call Out Trump as He Dines Out in Washington (Tyler Pager/New York Times)

Is the signature Trump’s? Epstein birthday book feeds speculation. (Matt Viser/Washington Post)

Melania, Please Talk To Donald About Epstein

Activists Protest Trump At DC Restaurant, Call Him ‘Hitler Of Our Time’ (Li Zhou/HuffPost)

How to Exploit Trump’s Weaknesses (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Usually this boils down to Make Shit Up And Act As If It’s True.

MAGA Melts Down at Secret Service Over Trump’s Humiliating Dinner (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Schumer moves to force Senate vote on Epstein files (Jordain Carney/Politico)  If Trump weren’t (putatively) involved, no Democrat would give a shit about Epstein.

Hey, Donald: The Red Carpet Didn’t Work (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

The real reason Trump will never fire RFK Jr. (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Mainsream media mind-readers are at it again.

Schumer moves to force vote on Epstein files release in brazen breach of Senate protocol (CNN)

Schumer to force a vote in the Senate compelling DOJ to release Epstein files (NBC News)

The Epstein Birthday Book Is Even Worse Than You Might Realize (Jessica Winter/New Yorker)

Reporter Suspended After Question About Charlie Kirk Enrages MAGA Congressman (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)  Is MAGA a ‘race’, like Muslim, in the lexicon of the Left?

Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Why Charlie Kirk Mattered So Much to the Right (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Yet more mainstream media mind-reading.

“This is existential”: MAGA’s siege mentality deepens after Kirk killing (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  Proglodytes don’t see individuals, merely functionally identical instances of a class. Therefore, ‘MAGA’ can have only one opinion, which is automatically shared by everyone that proglodytes label “MAGA”.

Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was (Joan Walsh/The Nation)  The term of the day is “despicable”.

Stewart Suggests ICE Heading To Chicago Is Like a Nazi Invasion

Far-right commentators echo Trump in calling for ‘vengeance and retribution’ for Charlie Kirk’s death (Tess Owen/The Guardian)

Rep. Moulton: If Serious About Violence, Trump Should Rescind Pardons

Democrat: Trump could show he’s ‘serious about stopping political violence’ by ‘rescinding’ Jan. 6 pardons (Tara Suter/The Hill)  Sure, rescind the pardon for Fauci.

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From the Associated Press (AP): Charlotte leaders criticized over killing of Ukrainian woman as Trump, MAGA target another Dem city.

From the New York Times: A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right.

From BBC News: Fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina ignites crime debate.

From The Hill: Duffy: Rise in public transit violence an ‘epidemic’

From Axios: Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.

I’ve mentioned a couple of times the horrific stabbing of that 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte NC light rail train last month. Until clear video emerged of the event, the murder remained a local news story.

But since then, left-leaning media first tried to ignore the story, then frame it under “Republicans pounce,” “crime statistics are dropping,” “the mental health crisis,” and other distracting narratives.

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Just like Democrats!

The Law of Progressive Projection states: “Progressives will always complain about their enemies doing what they do or what they would like to do if the roles were reversed.”

So there you have it.

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An MSNBC guest wildly speculated and floated the baseless idea on live television Wednesday that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk may have been struck by “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.”

During the segment, contributor Matthew Dowd said, “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration, we don’t know if this was an accident, we don’t know if this was a targeted attack. We have no idea … we don’t know any of the full details.”

Critics immediately blasted the comments as reckless, insensitive, and agenda-driven, noting that Dowd’s remarks were made while Kirk’s condition was still uncertain.

AP Frustrated that Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s New Book Barely Mentions Trump

The Smug Silence Of The Supreme Court’s Rulings For Trump (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)

Exclusive: Trump calls Epstein birthday message a ‘dead issue,’ declines further comment (Garrett Haake/NBC News)

Rep. Sherrill: Trump Isn’t ‘Leaving Willingly’ (Sabrina Jacobs/Democracy Docket)

House Democrats probe Trump attack dog Bill Pulte (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Oliver Wails At Trump Demanding Oversight For Anti-Semitic College Departments

Every Day, Another Grotesque Secret (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Bloomberg blasts RFK Jr.: ‘No serious scientist can hold CDC job’ under Kennedy (Max Rego/The Hill)

Supreme Court: Law Somehow More Fake Than Ever Before (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

GOP leaders shrug off Trump’s possible note in Epstein birthday book (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)

Legacy Newscasts Fret Over SCOTUS Ruling Allowing ICE Crackdown

How CBS News’ Trumpy new ombudsman fits into the right’s anti-media campaign (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

As the weird Trump birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein is released, MAGA media cling to their claims that it was a hoax (Jason Campbell/Media Matters for America)

Effort to Force a House Vote on Epstein Files Nears Success (Michael Gold/New York Times)

Photo of novelty check suggests Epstein ‘sold’ Trump a woman for $22,500 (Ramon Antonio Vargas/The Guardian)

Amy Coney Barrett Gives Least Reassuring Answer on Trump Third Term (Robert McCoy/New Republic)

‘He’s a nut’: Hill Republicans sour on Trump housing official Bill Pulte (Politico)

Retired generals warn of dire consequences of Trump politicizing military (April Rubin/Axios)

Can Trump Deflate the Epstein Scandal? (Ross Douthat/New York Times)

Trump Admin Returns Russian Dissident Asylum Seekers to Putin (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Vaccine Injuries, Violent Video Games, and Infertility Challenge: RFK Jr. Releases New MAHA ‘Strategy’ Report for Children (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)

Republicans Shrug at Epstein Birthday Sketch Apparently Signed by Trump (Annie Karni/New York Times)  Perhaps because it’s probably fake.,

Trump is taking America down a slippery slope where the military can kill anyone (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)  Let’s hope they start with MSNBC.

N.Y. Town Drops Order for Resident to Remove Trump Flag

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

Trump Gets Called Hitler on First Ever D.C. Restaurant Trip (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

The firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found.
BBC News has confirmed the identities of 10 members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club working in Gaza for UG Solutions – a private contractor providing security at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, where hundreds of civilians seeking food have been killed in scenes of chaos and gunfire.
We can reveal that seven members of the gang are in senior positions overseeing sites at the controversial aid operation backed by Israel and US President Donald Trump.

Duhn dunh DUNHHHHHHH…..

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light rail has taken a significant turn for the worse, with the release of video showing Zarutzka’s heartbreaking final moments. But the legacy media appear to be already running away from an inconvenient story.

ABC World News Tonight devoted a scant 16 seconds to this story:

Newsbusters.

Despite having only each covered it once Monday, ABC and CBS were back Tuesday to ignoring video released in the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, omitting it from their flagship morning shows, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings.

This return to a bias by omission came after Monday’s CBS Mornings broke the blackout on the lead broadcast network newscasts of this bloody, horrifying, and unprovoked attack while ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News arrived on scene later in the day.

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This leaves the total network coverage of the murder at just under six and a half minutes between ABC, CBS, and NBC, a paltry number compared to, say, the Daniel Penny case or even the Epstein files.

ALSO: North Carolina Republicans demand firing of judge who freed Ukrainian refugee’s murder suspect (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

ALSO: Ghoulish: Media Turn Charlotte Stabbing into Another ‘Republicans Pounce’ Story

ALSO: Rep. Moore: Dump Magistrate After N.C. Rail Stabbing

The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre (The Economist)

Trump Says Having ‘a Little Fight With the Wife’ Should Not Count as a Crime (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

‘Man has a little fight with the wife’: Trump downplays domestic violence at Bible event (David Edwards/Raw Story)

Trump shares video highlighting discredited theory linking vaccines to autism (Megan Messerly/Politico) They have to put ‘discredited’ in the headline so you won’t mistake it for news.

The Epstein Letter Is Real, and It’s Bad (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

“It was a kidnapping.” David Remnick introduces Jonathan Blitzer’s reporting on how the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. Plus: (David Remnick/New Yorker)

White House Melts Down Over Proof of Trump’s Gross Letter to Epstein (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

NBC Trumpwashes Their Coverage of Brutal Charlotte Stabbing

Trump Denies Epstein Birthday Drawing, but Signature Matches Personal Letters (New York Times)  These guys apparently never heard of Photoshop.

Playbook: Deny, deny, deny (Politico)

Trump and Johnson likely doomed in effort to stop Epstein files vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power? (Paul Krugman)

MAGA dreaming of greater power grabs (Axios)

Trump dreams of making Chicago a colony (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Boos of Donald Trump heard on ABC’s broadcast of US Open. Good (Nancy Armour/USA Today)

It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is (David French/New York Times)  It seems extremely foolish to listen to David French, Cuck in Chief.

Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off. (Wall Street Journal)

OBSESSED: CNN ‘Facts First’ Page Displays 32 of 32 ‘Fact Checks’ on Trump

ABC, NBC Use Sunday Night Shows to Defend Chicago, Whine Trump Wants ‘War’ on America

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  As Greg Sargent has been saying since 2016. You’d think he’d get tired by now.

New Democrat Script: Trump Is Sending National Guard To Cities In Order To Take Over Elections

N.Y. Village Orders Resident to Remove Pro-Trump Flag

MSNBC’s Jong-Fast: Trump Targeting Chicago Because It’s ‘Obama’s City’

Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Fear of Losing the Midterms Is Driving Trump’s Decisions (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

Baghdad Bessent — Sometimes events come along that are so remarkable, so epochal … (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump declares war on an American city. The news media tries to manufactures consent — but it isn’t working. (Jamison Foser/Finding Gravity)

Morning Joe To Military: Consider Disobeying Trump Order To Fire on Drug-Smuggling Boats

‘Chicago Braces’: PBS Sees City Afraid of Trump’s ‘Crackdown on Crime’ and Illegals

Understanding Trump’s Pivot to “Crime” (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

‘No Kings’ Unveils a Big New Trump Protest, and the Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

Project 2026: Trump’s Plan to Rig the Next Election (Ari Berman/Mother Jones)

The View: Trump Crime Crackdown About Literal ‘War’ Against Americans

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Kimberly Strassel at the WSJ editorial page seems to have succumbed entirely to RFK, Jr. derangement syndrome. In her WSJ commentary on the RFK, Jr Senate hearings blaming Kennedy for the confusion at the CDC, she jumped the shark. She has written only vituperative commentary about RFK, Jr, and appears to be now completely incapable of any rational judgment related to anything regarding him.

Epstein Made Me Dress Like a Sexy Nurse for Trump: Model (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)

‘No outreach’ to Epstein victims despite Trump’s vow to investigate, lawyers say (Victoria Bekiempis/The Guardian)

vTrump wants to make war on Chicago. He picked the wrong fight (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) [Trump: Cleaning Up Chicago, Not Going to War With It]

Trump’s War on Wind Has This Construction Crew Stuck 15 Miles Out at Sea (Wall Street Journal)

Newsom won’t stop mocking Trump — and Trump keeps taking the bait (Washington Post)

Conspiracy theories helped elect Trump. Now he can’t shake them. (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)

Trump Tramples Congress’s Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P. (New York Times)

Released Comey Memos Reveal Obama Admin’s Endorsement Of Russian Hoax

Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects. (Richard Fausset/New York Times)

Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover (Ezra Klein/New York Times)

Blackwater founder and Maga disciple Erik Prince pitching services in Ukraine (Ben Makuch/The Guardian)

Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited

The USTA’s censorship of Trump dissent at the US Open is cowardly, hypocritical and un-American (Bryan Armen Graham/The Guardian)

Trump is breaking Social Security (Nancy Altman/The Hill)

America’s Perón — Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. (Scott Lincicome/The Atlantic)

Donald Trump Booed at U.S. Open Men’s Final Match (Todd Spangler/Variety)  One of my father’s favorite sayings from World War II was “If you’re getting flak, that means you’re over the target.”

A decades-long peace vigil outside the White House is dismantled after Trump’s order (Associated Press)  Apparently there’s something sacred about a ‘peace vigil’ that has been ignored for four decades.

Donald Trump booed as first sitting President to attend US Open in 25 years — see photos  Maybe that’s why.

Trump’s US Open Visit Sparks Boos, Long Security Lines

Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match (David Waldstein/New York Times)

Trump Is Taking Credit for Infrastructure Projects Funded by Biden Legislation He Opposed (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)  Just as Senator Phil Gramm famously took advantage of programs for Texans that he opposed.

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Last year when I was asked to write a chapter for a US book on the incredible inroads and attacks on our civil liberties during the thuggish Covid lockdown years I decided, in part, to rank the worst offending groups. The lawyerly and doctorly castes were bad. They were woeful in fact. But the politicians as a class, the ones who ultimately made the calls, were worse – and there were very few exceptions to that generalised claim, as any Australian knows who looks for politicians who, say, resigned from Cabinet on principle (nada, zero) or who spoke up publicly and loudly against the massive authoritarian over-reach and aping of the policies of the Chinese Communist Politburo (a mere handful at most).

So I gave the silver medal for thuggish lockdown commitment and stalwart thuggery to the political class. However, in terms of letting all of us citizens down I reserved the gold medal for the journalists of the legacy media. As a class they exhibited no scepticism. No thinking for themselves. They were fearmongers and PR agents for the modellers, public health gurus, ‘nudge’ manipulators and politicos. Yes, there were some brave exceptions. But very few. What we got from the legacy media was a sort of attempt to play the type of media you’d see in George Orwell’s 1984, dealing in Big Brother doublethink. And all of that is on top of the verifiably huge drift towards the political Left of the legacy media over the last few decades.

Well, if you were hoping things would get noticeably better after the lockdowns ended, they haven’t.

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All this past month leftist journalists have been wailing about President Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy.

The likes of MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart and Ali Velshi feared that America was “sliding into autocracy” and questioned if the country could withstand the “internal demolition” carried out by Trump. Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran claimed Trump was the “man that we were warned about by the Founders.”

Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington D.C. was spun as an unnecessary “occupation,” and the type of tyrannical action that a North Korean dictator would take.

Sadly, the sickening attack on a Minneapolis church brought out – once again – the media’s hatred of gun rights and religion. MSNBC contributor Michael Steele sneered “I’m so beyond” the “nonsense” of “thoughts and prayers.” Former MSNBC and ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann blamed “Republicans, MAGA” and “Trumpists” for the shooting and urged that they must “pay for their crimes.” Comedian and one-time ABC’s The View co-host Rosie O’Donnell falsely claimed the shooter was a “Republican, MAGA person.”

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Tuesday’s New York Times led with a 2,500-word screed by science reporter William Broad. “Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science” took off from that headline and became quickly even more laughable, taking us back 400 years to the Inquisition. The prominent story was even illustrated with a painting of astronomer Galileo’s 1633 church trial for heresy for insisting the Earth moves around the sun.

“The war on science began four centuries ago when the Roman Catholic Church outlawed books that reimagined the heavens. Subsequent regimes shot or jailed thousands of scientists,” Broad boomed before continuing his screed.

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On the Wednesday edition of his eponymous NewsNation show, host Chris Cuomo took a rare swipe at his former employer, CNN and seemingly storied chief international affairs correspondent Clarissa Ward for giving attention to a dubious group of purported “scholars” who claimed Israel was carrying out a “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. Cuomo blew up the erroneous accusations by pointing to the facts on the ground and how the group weren’t actually scholars and broke their own regulations in order to reach their conclusion.

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Leftist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have been saying for decades that “conservative extremists” are the biggest domestic terror threat in the US. Of course, the ADL and SPLC have been oddly quiet when it comes to the multitude of leftist related shootings and terror attacks in recent years, including several transgender related mass shootings since 2018. These incidents don’t fit the progressive narrative mold.

You will likely never see a TV series based on government agents scouring the internet for left-wing extremists plotting potential mass killings, even though there is an endless gold vein of real life story material to be mined for such a show. Until Donald Trump took office this year, it’s highly unlikely that the FBI was looking into woke zealots with any seriousness.

The focus of Hollywood propaganda, the focus of government propaganda and the focus of NGO propaganda has long been the demonization of conservatives, red pillers, anti-feminists, militia members and “white supremacists” (essentially anyone against mass immigration from third-world nations). Overtly political productions are crushing Hollywood’s profit margins because they still operate on a model that treats the “right wing” as a fringe minority. In reality, the right wing is the majority.

Apple TV apparently still hasn’t gotten the memo, or, they’re releasing content today that they started shooting years ago and it’s too late to turn back. Their latest series, The Savant, is set to be released this month and the trailer has gone viral on social media, but not in a good way.

MAGA has won the war on science (Jill Lawrence/Los Angeles Times)  What, no photos of MAGA taking a victory lap? (Science must be pretty wimpy to get beat by a media smear.)

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)

‘Missing Minute’ of Epstein Video Released in Dump

Comer: Epstein Probe Uncovers ‘Some Additional Names’

Democratic senator pushes Treasury secretary to release Epstein reports (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)

House panel releases tranche of Epstein files as controversy looms large over Congress’ return to Washington (CNN)

Frantic Trump Tries to Kill Vote to Force Open Epstein Files (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

Massie: Trump ‘may be covering for some rich and powerful people’ in Epstein files (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Epstein victims join House members pushing for release of files at news conference (Washington Post)

Victims, Dems, Massie, MTG Rally for Epstein Transparency Bill

Epstein accusers put pressure on Congress to release the files (NBC News)

Epstein survivors float release of unofficial client list (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Trump calls Epstein files a distraction from his success as victims call for their release (Dan Mangan/CNBC)  As it obviously is.

Trump: Epstein Saga ‘Democrat Hoax That Never Ends’

Epstein survivors implore Congress to act as push for disclosure builds (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)

‘We know their names’: Epstein victims say they are making their own list (Gabriela Pomeroy/BBC)

Epstein Survivor: We Are ‘Creating Our Own List of Names’

Epstein accusers join lawmakers to push for full release of documents (Washington Post)

MTG threatens use of constitutional immunity to reveal Epstein associates (Jason Lalljee/Axios)

Epstein accusers ramp up pressure on Congress: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)

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Former MSNBC host and professional crazy person Joy Reid joined former colleague Katie Phang on her YouTube show that partners with the MeidasTouch Network on Tuesday to argue that the news media is not being tough enough when it comes to questions around President Trump’s health. In one specific instance, Reid went deep down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and claimed Trump was only “supposedly shot,” and she’s just asking questions.

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CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig turned heads on the August 29 edition of The Arena when he actually upended the media meltdown over Trump’s act supposedly being illegal. Honig noted that “there is some suspicious activity here that’s really problematic by Lisa Cook.”

Cook has been accused of falsifying bank records in order to secure more favorable loan terms. Honig, concurred, noting that “[n]ow, why would someone do all this? Because you get better interest rates. Because you get better tax benefits. That can be worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

In his estimation, Honig concluded that “the allegations on their face could be enough for a judge to say, ‘Look, I’m going to defer to the president on cause.’”

You know something’s up anytime you get an analyst from the TDS-afflicted CNN to agree with Trump on anything.

Newsbusters.

Because they are dishonest proglodytes, that’s why.

Trump keeps threatening to punish Putin. Here’s what’s holding him back (Holly Ellyatt/CNBC)

It’s Labor Day. And Trump Is the Most Anti-Union President in Decades. (Erik Loomis/New York Times)

The Most Communist President Ever (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)

Donald Trump is a globalist (Joshua Keating/Vox)

The Supreme Court has expanded Trump’s power. He’s seeking much more. (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)

MAGA declares war on the property tax  OH NOES! MAGA’S TROOPS ARE MASSING ON THE BORDER!

MSNBC, a Voice of the Crust.

It is not clear to me how the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is somehow involved with drowning.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Mr. Giuliani was riding in a Ford Bronco when a Honda HR-V hit his vehicle on a northbound section of Interstate 93 in New Hampshire, the state police said in a statement. The two vehicles hit a median and were heavily damaged, the police said.

The driver of the Honda was a 19-year-old from Concord, N.H., according to the police.

he Bronco was being driven by an adviser to Mr. Giuliani, Theodore Goodman.
That much is clear. The moments leading up to the crash are not.

Michael Ragusa, Mr. Guiliani’s head of security, said that the Bronco had been flagged down by a woman who was the victim of domestic violence. The former mayor called 911, waited for help to arrive, and then left, Mr. Ragusa said.

The state police confirmed the domestic violence incident, saying in a statement that it had occurred on a southbound stretch of the highway in Manchester, N.H. Troopers and fire officials who were assisting the woman saw the Honda strike the Bronco and rushed to help, the police said.

No good deed goes unpunished.

MAGA Radio Host’s Cancer-Stricken Wife Can’t Get COVID Shot Because of ‘Kook’ RFK Jr. (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)

Newsbusters.

New York Times has-been Paul Krugman had enough trouble trying to sell his bona fides as a serious economist without making himself look more foolish mucking about with issues beyond his imaginary expertise. Federal law as it pertained to the president’s ability to fire Federal Reserve governors is no exception. Krugman took to his unhinged Substack blog to kvetch August 26 over President Donald Trump’s so-called “illegal” act of firing Fed governor Lisa Cook on grounds pertaining to potential mortgage fraud.

“I’m not a lawyer,” wrote Krugman (no kidding), “but it seems clear that he does not have the right to summarily fire Fed officials, certainly on tissue-thin allegations of mortgage fraud before she even went to the Fed.” Apparently he’s never read Section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act, which gave the President power to fire Fed governors if “cause” was shown. In fact, the Federal Reserve Act wasn’t even mentioned once throughout his entire piece.

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.”