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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, look! Squirrel!

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

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

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

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

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

The Washington Post, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

The Washington Post, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCOOP: Trump Moves to Spread MAGA Agenda to the States

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

The New Neo.

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

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

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

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

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

The Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters, in a target-rich environment.

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Many Democrat voters would have the same problem.

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

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

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

Judge Denies Justice Department Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts

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

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

Texas Dems: Halt Redistricting Until Epstein Files Out

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

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

Getting MAGA To Go Left on Israel

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

MAHA Vs. MAGA: Rift Grows Over Pesticides, Chemicals

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

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

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

Comer: DOJ to Start Sharing Epstein Files with Congress Friday

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

Jeffrey Epstein? Forget It

Behind the Curtain: Rising Democratic MAGA movement (Axios)

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

The Telegraph (UK).

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

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

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

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

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

Uh-hun. Sure. I believe that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

Israel courts MAGA influencers amid Gaza backlash (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

We Found It! The Flimsiest MAGA Conspiracy of All Time. (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Well, invented it, actually.

Bombshell New Report Casts More Doubt on Trump’s Epstein Claims (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Epstein Survivor: Would Be ‘Huge Error’ to Pardon Maxwell

First lady Melania Trump puts Hunter Biden on $1B notice over ‘false, defamatory’ Epstein comments (Brooke Singman/Fox News)

Oversight Chair: Bill Clinton Is “Prime Suspect” In Epstein Investigation  Surprising no one.

Jeffrey Epstein battle set to reignite in Congress (The Hill)

Trump Privately Dismissed Epstein Victims as ‘Democrats’ (Rolling Stone)  And therefore pro-pervert and presumably down for Epstein’s degeneracy.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a Voice of the Crust.

Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security’s X account appeared to reference an antisemitic dog whistle. And it wasn’t the first time that happened this summer.

“Which way, American man?” the department’s official page posted Sunday, over a political cartoon from 1936 called “Uncle Sam at the Crossroads.”

The post, a recruitment ad for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alluded to the phrase “Which way, Western man?” — the title of a 1978 book steeped in antisemitic conspiracy theories and explicit threats against Jews. As a social media meme, the phrase has been used to ridicule the “woke,” feminism and immigrants.

In its own X post Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League called the “Which way” reference “the latest problematic ICE recruitment post from the X account of the Department of Homeland Security.” The ADL cited several problems with it, including the reference to the 1978 book by William Gayley Simpson, whom the organization calls a “white supremacist and antisemite.”

Somehow, only Woke journalists can hear these ‘dog-whistles’. Doesn’t that make them the dog?

Bloomberg.

Note the weasel being a weasel.

• No “US” criminal records? How many have non-U.S. criminal records? A bunch, I’ll wager.
• “Criminal records”? Anybody who is here illegally is a felon ipso facto and liable to deportation, “criminal record” or not.

The Narrative Media take such hair-splitting pettifoggery to absurd levels, in the sure and certain knowledge that their moronic mobs will take it and run with it. “Burn the witch!”

Trump Weighs Marijuana Policy Shift as MAGA Allies Push Back

MAGA rails against “pothead” culture as Trump weighs weed reform (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage

Trump Nemesis Is Bringing Epstein Victims to Capitol to Push for Files Release (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Cuomo Denies Mamdani Accusation of Having Had Connection to Epstein

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CNN is a seemingly endless fount of dumb ideas.

Yesterday, we caught a CNN correspondent recommending that if Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist, instead of killing him, the IDF should have asked Al Jazeera to fire him!

Today, it was CNN contributor and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s turn. Criticizing Trump’s use of federal agents to supplement DC police, Garcia-Navarro said the real solution to “girl brawls” is to have “better social media policies and better money for schools.”

So, limit teens to 15 minutes a day on TikTok, perhaps? Yup, that’ll bring girl brawls and other crime by the city’s ‘yuts’ to a screeching halt! Assuming you could even enforce such policies: “Sergeant, we just tracked a girl at Union Station who’s been on TikTok for 27 minutes. Get a SWAT team over there: STAT!”

As for spending “better money for schools,” in 2022-23, guess which school district ranked #1 in the country in per pupil spending? Yup! And the returns on that lavish spending have been dismal. In 2024, two-thirds of students failed to read at grade level, and almost 80% failed to reach grade level in math. Entrusting even more money to the tender mercies of the teachers’ union isn’t going to fix the problem.

The New York Times, paper of record of the Deep State.

Sure you can–Democrats do it all the time. California and Illinois come immediately to mind.

Newsbusters.

They’re on a roll.

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Like ‘people of color’ (good) rather than ‘colored people’ (bad).

The PBS News Hour aggressively, almost amusingly avoided the term “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants in Friday’s story on President Trump’s call for a new U.S. Census that would not count illegal immigrants, a move that would change the recorded population of various states and perhaps result in fewer members in the congressional delegation of some states with high illegal-immigrant populations.

How D.C. crime became a symbol — and a target — for MAGA and beyond (Washington Post)

Trump Wants a Bureau of MAGA Statistics (Dominic Pino/National Review)

House Panel May Need DOJ to Compel Epstein Interviews

Massie, Khanna bringing Epstein survivors to Capitol (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  Leave no tear unjerked.

Comer: Bill Clinton ‘prime suspect’ in Epstein investigation (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A visual timeline (CNN)