Power Line.

As far as I can tell from my deep dive into the illegal immigration issue, the Feds really are concentrating their efforts on the worst cases. Yet, the typical media headline, this one from NPR, reads,

Sharpest growth in ICE detention population: people with no criminal convictions.

Obviously, this definition excludes any convictions having to do with the illegal immigration itself. By “no” they refer to convictions only in the United States.

And by using “convictions” they exclude a huge population of aliens charged with other serious crimes but deported before the local judicial system has run its course.

Illegal entry into the United States is a criminal act, as the name implies. But it is considered a misdemeanor, and usually prosecuted as a civil matter through Federal Immigration Court, a division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

If you return to the U.S. after being previously deported, that is a separate crime, a felony under U.S. law. For the past few weeks, I’ve been tracking such cases in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota.

I’ve been tracking 60 of the cases filed in the District since Pres. Trump began his second term. Which is admittedly a drop in the bucket considering there are easily more than 100,000 illegal aliens in Minnesota. The last rigorous study of the phenomenon (using 2019 data) counted only 81,000. Of those, the plurality are from Mexico. Add in illegals from El Salvador and Guatemala, and you have the majority.

Rep. Crockett Claims All Violence Comes from MAGA

Why You Should Fear a MAGAfied Fed (Paul Krugman)

Trump taps MAGA personality for diplomatic post, creates new test for Senate Republicans (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump’s challenges to MAGA base expose divisions (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Trump’s challenges to MAGA base expose divisions (Julia Mueller/The Hill)Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Awkward Truth about ICE as MAGA Seethes (The New Republic) First, fill your pot with MAGA; then put it on a low flame until you just get a few bubbles.

MAGA on “amnesty watch” as Trump weighs migrant worker protections (Axios) “Who’s that guy in the corner?” “Oh, that’s MAGA. He’s here to keep an eye on things.”

Donald Trump Warned of Move That Could ‘Break’ MAGA Coalition (Newsweek) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a “MAGA Coalition”–at least in the eyes of the Narrative Scribbler Coalition.

Who ya gonna call? NARRATIVE SCRIBBLERS!

Trump faces MAGA trust crisis over Epstein debacle (Axios)

MAGA’s Ugly Budget at Odds with Its Creepy Pronatalism (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)

Trump Taps Hooters-Obsessed MAGA Diehard to Be an Ambassador (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone)

Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump’s mass deportation plan (Regan Morris/BBC)

WashPost Welcomes a Clown To Insist Trump’s a Fascist, Not a Clown

Trump nominates ‘alpha male’ MAGA firebrand to serve as ambassador to Malaysia (Jacob Wendler/Politico)

Disaster: Liberal Goes Back In Time To Kill Hitler But Now Has No One To Compare People He Disagrees With To  (Babylon Bee)

Newsbuster.

Tuesday morning’s Kerr County, Texas press conference on last week’s apocalyptic floods flew off the rails because of the showboating antics of ABC and CNN’s reporters on scene — ABC with Matt Gutman and CNN with both Shimon Prokupecz and Isabelle Rosales — shouting at local officials (and, at one point, each other) and demanding heads roll for the death toll that crossed north of 100 people.

Rosales started things off, twice asking officials to “outline what specific discussions and actions were taken between the time the first flood emergency came in at 1:14 a.m. and then when the river first started flooding its banks hours later.”

…

Channeling Jim Acosta, Gutman jumped in: “With all due respect, sir, I think that the community here is asking these questions. What happened? When did it happen? Was it emergency manager awake at the time? Did they push the button to issue an emergency alert?”

Anytime a reporter blurts “with all due respect” out of nowhere, it’s a sign it is not, in fact, respectful or just asking question.

Leitha scoffed back, seeming to recall Gutman at past press conferences: “Sir, it’s not that easy when you — and you just push a button, okay? There’s a lot more to that. And we’ve told you several times.”

The Guardian, paper of record for the looney left.

As opposed to the Gaza population’s plan to exterminate every Jew they can get their hands on? That doesn’t involve ‘crimes against humanity, of course, Jews are (per the Koran) ‘dogs and monkeys’.

Hate to break the news to the AWFULs at The Guardian, but there is no humanity left in the population of Gaza.

The Times (UK).

Unfortunately, British newspapers are as bad as the American Narrative Media when it comes to accepting the statements of politicians at face value.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday (July 7) condemned reported federal immigration enforcement activity in MacArthur Park, calling it an effort to instill fear in the city’s immigrant communities.

Once again, the missing word is ‘illegal’. ‘Immigrant communities’ have nothing to fear so long as they are here legally. This is a vital distinction that Democrats MUST obfuscate in their campaign to portray the effort to get rid of illegals as being somehow aimed at all immigrants, which it is explicitly not.

“I do not believe that anyone was detained. Maybe they were. But then again, I don’t think the goal is to detain. I think the goal is to spread fear. I think that’s what it is. It’s to terrorize Angelenos. It’s the say to immigrants that are in our city of immigrants, that they need to stay home. They shouldn’t go to work. They shouldn’t go to school because we’re coming after you,” she said.

The Law of Liberal Projection tells us that Bass is compelled to think that ‘the goal is to spread fear’ because that’s why she would be doing it in their place. She is mentally incapable of perceiving any other motivation.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

The MAGA movement erupted in disbelief Monday after top administration officials said convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had not blackmailed elite figures, kept a “client list” or was murdered in prison.

*sigh* There is no ‘MAGA movement’. MAGA is a phrase created by Trump to encapsulate his approach to governance. The Left, obsessed with ‘movements’, is firmly convinced that everybody everywhere is part of some ‘movement’. Trump has supporters, true, and those supporters share his vision for America, but there is no ‘movement’ except in the sense that they all tend to proceed in the same direction–behind Trump (which can be difficult at times).

This leads to serious stupidity, like persisting in thinking Steve Bannon is somehow part of (and, even more stupid, somehow a spokesperson for) the ‘MAGA movement’ despite the fact that Trump threw him overboard a long, long time ago.

It’s a real head-scratcher how he people who spend their daytime hours wringing their hands over ‘conspiracy theories’ aren the chief generators of equally silly conspiracy theories on the part of the Left.

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Floods? Trump’s fault.

Drought? Trump’s fault.

Plague of insects? Trump’s fault.

Lost your job? Trump’s fault.

Didn’t get that raise? Trump’s fault.

Broke a nail? Trump’s fault.

Didn’t hook up that that hot guy last night? Trump’s fault.

Raped by a Muslim asylum-seeker? Trump’s fault.

All your friends gunned down at a party by a young black gang-banger? Trump’s fault.

Car run out of gas? Trumps fault.

Sunburn? Trump’s fault.

Dropped your phone in the pool? Trump’s fault.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Left.

Feminist ‘journalism’: Start off with a tear-jerking anecdote, and then pretend that it is a general rule that supports whatever your a-priori political agenda happens to be. (Season with a generous dose of schadenfreude for the alleged victims who, after all, only got What Was Coming To Them.)

Just because you vote for somebody doesn’t mean he knows that you did, or would care about you as an individual even if he did know. You are not Elon Musk. Your support is not that significant.

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Let this article be Exhibit A in the case against climate policy by fiat. And remember: when someone tells you fossil fuels are living off your tax dollars, ask them to show the receipts. Odds are, they’re pointing to a spreadsheet full of make-believe.

Newsbusters.

You have to love the humorless leftist media when President Donald Trump is fact-checked over his joking statement regarding alligators when he toured the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in Florida.

“We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison. Don’t run in a straight line. Run like this,” Trump said, as he moved his hand in a zigzag motion. “And you know what? Your chances go up about 1%.” AP felt they had to fact-check the joke:

Alligator experts suggest it is better to dash in one direction in the rare situation when the reptile gives chase, according to a website run by the University of Florida.

This was amplified by leftist websites like RawStory. They headlined it: “Trump’s guide to outrunning alligator gets fact-check — he wouldn’t make it far.”

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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major deportation victory on Thursday. On the same day, the GOP-led House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in a narrow 218–214 vote—legislation that paves the way for over one million deportations annually. Meanwhile, the first illegals arrived at “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, with outbound flights soon to follow. With these massive wins stacking up, Trump has secured yet another victory: the hearts of the American people, who overwhelmingly support this effort to restore national security.

Let’s start with news from the Supreme Court. In short, the nation’s highest court ruled that an activist lower-court judge had severely overstepped by attempting to block the deportation of eight criminal illegal migrants to South Sudan, despite a prior order from the high court authorizing the removal.

In a 7–2 decision, the Supreme Court sharply rebuked U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy—an appointee from the radical leftist Biden-Harris regime era—for defying its June 23 ruling, which permitted Trump officials to proceed with deportations of criminal illegal aliens to third-world countries. The majority held that Murphy lacked the authority to enforce a previous injunction that the justices had already stayed.

The Bulwark’s top editor shares how the anti-Trump site tripled its subscriber base in a year — and why it’s betting on YouTube (James Faris/Business Insider)  And there you have it. The whole point of The Bulwark is to be anti-Trump; and apparently that’s a profitable business model.

Dutch Artist’s ‘Shamed’ Lady Liberty Mural Targets Trump

Trump is Putting the American Dream Out of Reach (Adrianna Tomasello/Democrats)  The American Dream has been out of reach since the Democrats started pissing on the economy.

AOC Warns of ICE ‘Explosion’ After ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Passes (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)  OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!

BRICS Nations to Denounce Trump Tariffs  They can put tariffs on us, no problem, but God forbid we should put tariffs on them.

China sees Trump’s new law as ‘one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm’: analyst (Carl Gibson/Alternet.org)

Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. (Andrea Pitzer/MSNBC)  WE CONTROL THE NARRATIVE!

Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe (New York Times)  As opposed to Biden’s (and Obama’s) politicized FBI?

Congo Braces for HIV Surge After U.S. Funding Stops (Nicholas Bariyo/Wall Street Journal)  Because, as we all know, preventing HIV in the Congo is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump ramps up deportation spectacle with new stunts and ICE funding (Axios)

I’m Scared Children Will Die of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Perri Klass/New York Times)  Betcha any money that she supports ‘abortion rights’.

MSNBC’s Capehart Denounces Trump Keeping People ‘In Cages’—Ya Mean, Like Obama?

Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  ‘Critical’ means ‘we’re bitching about Trump doing stuff that we were prefectly okay with Obama and Biden doing’.

A Road Map for Undoing the Damage of the Big, Awful Bill (Jason Furman/New York Times)

What Trump–And the U.S.–Can’t Understand About Air Strikes (Phillips Payson O’Brien/The Atlantic)  But a scribbler for The Atlantic of course does.

Trump branded, browbeat and prevailed. But his big bill may come at a political cost (Seung Min Kim/Associated Press)

Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it. (Myah Ward/Politico)

The GOP’s Big Bill Is Massively Unpopular — If People Actually Know About It (Kevin Robillard/HuffPost)  I.e. they get steeped in the Narrative.

Trump White House calls out Smithsonian for pushing ‘one-sided, divisive political narratives’ (Jasmine Baehr/Fox News)

The Secret Police Are Here — While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls (Mike Brock/Notes From The Circus)  Guess he was asleep under previous Democrat administrations.

‘He likes the game too much’: Why Trump isn’t sweating his lack of trade deals (Politico)

The Head of NATO Thinks President Trump ‘Deserves All the Praise’ (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

Kamala Harris Sparks MAGA Meltdown With Fourth of July Post (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)  Projectile vomiting I can believe.

Newsbusters.

Last week, we reported on how PolitiFact threw a “False” flag at President Trump for calling New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a “communist lunatic,” despite contrary evidence, like his 2020 tweet in support of a communist mayor in India, suggesting that’s the kind of mayor New York needs. On Thursday, in reaction to a White House spokesperson, PolitiFact doubled down on its ruling, dismissing Mamdani’s clearly Marxist talk of seizing the means of production.

The distinction between a socialist and a communist matters only to another socialist/communist. Splitting hairs over political nuances on the Left are of no importance when the consequences for their victims are much the same.

CNN Is STILL Saying People Will Die Because Of BBB

.The Tragedy of Halting Weapons to Ukraine (Jake Sullivan/New York Times)

LA Sees Anti-Trump, Anti-ICE Protests Despite July 4 Crowd Concerns

Democrats, Animated By Loathing Of Trump, Are Driving Their Party To Self-Destruction

Iranian Leadership Issues Death Warrants for Trump, Netanyahu  Well, that’s gratitude.

Illegal Border Crossings Plunge to Lowest Level in Decades (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Judge Blocks Trump’s Order Barring Illegal Border Crossers From Claiming Asylum

Trump’s Lawfare Against the Free Press (Wall Street Journal)

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Bans Rainbow Crosswalks

Queens Driving School Busted For Running Bribe-for-License Scam For Illegal Immigrants

Media’s death by a thousand cuts (Sara Fischer/Axios)

What Are Republicans Thinking With Such a Reckless Bill? Maybe This. (Noah Millman/New York Times)  OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING>

Trump’s legislative win could make him a political loser (Christian Paz/Vox)

Trump’s Big Beautiful Debt Bomb (Paul Krugman)  Mark it well: The first time in hie life that Paul Krugman has ever been opposed to government debt.

Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)  Ah–ah–ah–ah yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Trump Is Bragging That He Planted the Elon Musk Drug Abuse Story in the New York Times: Author (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Live Updates: U.S. Hiring Remains Solid, Sign of a Resilient Economy (Sydney Ember/New York Times)  I guess the sky isn’t falling after all.

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump. (Mother Jones)  And Biden, and Obama…. Indeed, every Democrat President back to Wilson.

Trump Sparks Domestic Labor Renaissance: Native-Born Workers Surge To Record High As Foreign-Born Plunge

CNN commentator suggests investigating Trump children’s citizenship status (Lindsay Kornick/Fox News) Bring it on.

CIA Memo: Obama Team ‘Excessively Involved’ In Fueling Trump-Russia Narrative  My, what a surprise.

EPA Places 144 Officials on Leave for Signing Letter Trashing ‘This Administration’s Policies’  Weeding out the Deep State tools.

Journalist Up Late Trying To Decide Whether To Compare Trump’s Bill To Jim Crow Or Holocaust  (Babylon Bee)

Donald Trump is breaking US judicial system, says star litigator Abbe Lowell (Stefania Palma/Financial Times)

Noem Approves 17 Miles of Water Barriers for Rio Grande

Hakeem Jeffries Just Gave the Longest House Floor Speech in History (Tinashe Chingarande/NOTUS)  And it didn’t make a damned bit of difference. Dramacrats spend all their time on show and totally ignore effectiveness. “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!” – Tom Lerer, THE FOLK SONG ARMY.

This Is What Our Conservative Columnists Really Think of Trump’s Bill (New York Times)  Emphasis on the ‘our’. Cucks like David Brooks, David French, etc.

Medicaid, food aid recipients worry about safety net cuts in bill sent to Trump (Associated Press)  Because, as we all know, anybody who has ever received money from the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–is entitled to that amount (OR MORE) forever after.

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Since when is ‘Muslim’ a ‘race’?

The Foundry.

NPR anchor Scott Simon hailed Moyers as “one of the signature figures, along with Big Bird and Susan Stamberg, who helped build public broadcasting in the United States.” Simon added, “He won the most prestigious awards of our profession, some in bunches—more than 30 Emmys, 11 Peabodys, two Columbia-duPonts, plus many other honors for his PBS documentaries and interviews.”

Moyers was acclaimed by other leftists because he was a die-hard leftist. Objectivity was never observed. He crusaded on the public dime against those villainous conservatives. He won Emmy Awards just like the latest prizes to “60 Minutes”—for hating Donald Trump and laboring to elect Kamala Harris. They award having your “heart in the right place.”

Moyers was the “signature figure” of everything wrong with “public” broadcasting. He savaged conservatives and also lined his own pockets with revenues of his programs being sold on PBS Home Video. He used his PBS fame to sell expensive coffee-table books, just as Ken Burns does today. But the notable quotes were outrageous.

Moyers was a servant of JBJ, who famously said, as he was singing the Civil Rights Act, “Those niggers will vote for us for a hundred years.”

House Judiciary Exposes Corporate Collusion Against Trump, Free Speech

Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Trump’s Big Bill (Tony Romm/New York Times)  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Trump Seeks to Remake the World (Walter Russell Mead/Wall Street Journal)  Just like a Democrat!

Judge Orders Halt To Mass Layoffs At Dept. Of Health And Human Services

Trump administration wants to axe all of NOAA’s climate research (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, climate research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Trans swimmer Lia Thomas’ records revoked in UPenn deal with Trump admin (April Rubin/Axios)

Federal judge finds HHS mass layoffs likely unlawful (Joseph Choi/The Hill)

The Republican Policy Bill Will Cripple Obamacare (Larry Levitt/New York Times)  Good. “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan … if we approve of your plan; otherwise not.”

LA Mayor: DOJ Attempting to ‘Overturn Will of City’

The New President of the National Sheriffs’ Association Participated in the Jan. 6 Protests (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)  OH NOES!

Dept of Energy Scraps Rules Hindering New Projects

LA mayor: Trump administration lawsuit ‘an attempt to overturn the will of the city’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Mamdani slams Trump arrest threat: ‘If you speak up, they will come for you’ (Jared Gans/The Hill)  As Democrats do.

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept. (New York Times)  Just like a Democrat!

‘Demonizing Immigrants’: Latino Producer Digs Trump on Morning Joe  Crucial word not mentioned: ‘illegal’.

Senate Republicans Pass Trump’s Bill to Strip Health Care From Millions (Rolling Stone)  Because, as we all know, ‘heath care’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump Launches America’s Newest Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Judge blocks Trump from ending temporary protected status for Haitians (Frances Vinall/Washington Post)

Muskenfreude — When an oligarch confronts an autocrat, guess who wins? (Paul Krugman)

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp (Melissa Gira Grant/New Republic)  Like the ones Democrats opened for Japanese Americans.

Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is? (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  We can, but you never will.

Abrego Garcia is a fake gangster. Trump and Bukele are not. (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

The bottom line: The bill is cruel. (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump pick to run federal watchdog: A 30-year-old who once shared a 9/11 conspiracy video and has ties to a Holocaust denier (CNN)  And his mother dresses him funny, and ….

Reid Loses It, Claims DeSantis Is Building a ‘Concentration Camp’ For ‘Brown People’

An Ignominious Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew adds their two cents.

What the Supreme Court did to America while all eyes were on Trump (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Newsbusters.

A CBS News documentary blasted America’s supposed transition to a so-called “Gilded Age” of oligarchs to attack President Trump and the tech leaders who stood with him at his inauguration. As if CBS stood for Channeling Bernie Sanders. The problem: The documentary conveniently excluded any mention about the most notorious left-wing billionaires in U.S. politics that have used their cash to either try to buy elections or drastically overhaul U.S. policy over the years.

Coincidence? We think not.

Border czar Tom Homan calls for DOJ investigation into CNN over ICE tracking app (Heather Hunter/Washington Examiner)

‘Unacceptable’; Leavitt Blasts CNN for Hailing App ‘Encouraging Violence’ on ICE

Is an ‘Orgasm Cult’ Tycoon Looking for a Trump Pardon? (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  The best of American High School ‘journalism’.

Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day (Ellen Knickmeyer/Associated Press)  In which George W. Bush is revealed as just another Deep State tool. Finally, the truth comes out.

Team Trump Is Serious About Unleashing the Espionage Act on the Media (Rolling Stone)  And about time, too.

Supreme Court Rules Some Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Insist on Theocracy (Heidi Li Feldman/Slate)  Which they do, and which the Organs of the Left hate.

Trump Insults America–Again (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  The Atlantic insults Trump–again.

The Lawyer Who Became the Face of Trump’s Deportation Agenda (Michael Linhorst/Politico)

Young Men Who Elected Trump Just Realized They Scr*wed Up (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

Don’t Applaud Supreme Court Conservatives For Doing Trump Special Favors (Sam Bagenstos/Off Message)

The Supreme Court’s Pro-Trump Opportunism Is Now Undeniable (Kate Shaw/New York Times)

Media Forced To Admit Trump’s Tariffs Are Working As Revenues Spike

As the Republican megabill faces crunch time, Trump pushes a fraudulent claim about taxes (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Fascism in the USA Enters the Fifth & Final Phase (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)  This guy is about 100 years to late.

This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  This guy is about 150 years too late.

Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System (Luc Olinga/Gizmodo)  Something that only the mind-readers from Gizmodo can know, so they have to explain it to you.

Donald Trump’s big, beautiful act of self-harm (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change (Los Angeles Times) Good.

Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)  OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!

Samuel Alito Takes Pride in Gay-Bashing (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  As if anybody at The Nation had a clue as to what Alito is feeling; this is just name-calling.

J.D. Vance Dismisses Kicking Millions Off Medicaid: ‘Minutiae’ (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) Because, as we all know, anyone who has even gotten money from the Federal government–and the Federal taxpaywe–is entitled to receive that (or more) forever.

Inside Trump’s $75B ICE gulag nightmare (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says (Associated Press)

Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought (David Dayen/American Prospect)  At least she held out for top dollar.

I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It’s Gone. (Steve Herman/The Fulcrum)  And to keep the Deep State gravy train running. Now it’s stopped. Boohoo….

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

Researchers say! That proves it!

An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

Because, as we all know, preventing deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government (sorry, Bill Gates) and the Federal taxpayer.

UPDATE: ‘Millions will die’ (Power Line)

From the U.K. Daily Mail,

More than 14 million people could die as a result of Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts, a new study has found.

The US President’s administration announced it had slashed 83 per cent of programmes run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) shortly after he returned to the White House for a second term.

And now research published in the leading medical journal, Lancet, has predicted that 14 million people – 4.5 million of whom are children under the age of five – could die by 2030 as a result.

There are something like 195 independent nations on the planet, and not a single one, other than America, is capable of helping any of the others. No one. Not a single Euro, Yen, pound, franc, peso, etc., can be freed up to prevent mass genocide on a biblical scale.

Newsbusters.

And people like Mamdani (and those who voted for him) are what cause Islamophobic right-wingers to exist.

Trump Ushers In A Bleak Future For Our National Parks (Dave Jamieson/HuffPost)  Because, as we all know, parks are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump says there will be ‘temporary pass’ for migrant farm, hotel workers (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump says the administration is working on a ‘temporary pass’ for immigrants in certain industries (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)

Justices need to own the consequences of their injunction ruling (Washington Post)

Playbook: Can the GOP megabill hold together? (Zack Stanton/Politico)

Leaked Iran Call Further Shreds Trump’s Narrative: Report (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal (Washington Post)  Becauser, as we all know, children in Sudan are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

Leftists Insist Trump’s Children Be Deported After President’s Win On Birthright Citizenship  Then I insist that leftists be deported.

Canada Rescinds Tech Tax; Talks With US Back On  Trump wins again.

Canada will rescind a digital services tax to restart US trade talks (Luciana Lopez/CNN)

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States (Government of Canada)

Canada rescinds Digital Services Tax after Trump cuts off U.S. trade talks (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)

Bovard: Trump’s Iran Bombing Is The Latest In Presidential Absolutism  If there were such a thing as ‘Trump absolutism’, Bovard would be in jail.

How the reconciliation bill would change America (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Why We Couldn’t Sell America on U.S.A.I.D. (William Herkewitz/New York Times)

The real reason Republicans are rushing to pass the Trump megabill (James Downie/MSNBC) Only MSNBC has the necessary mind-reading skills to know the Real Reason.

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, ‘the nation’s health’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Thom Tillis’s retirement is an ominous sign for the GOP (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Certainly ominous for the RINOs.

This DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges sends an ominous message (Andrew Warren/MSNBC)  Lots of ominous going around thes days.

“Mind-Boggling”: Trump Voters Shocked at How Badly He’s Screwing Them (New Republic)  At least, that’s what they want you to believe.

This is what ICE is doing with the tax dollars you already provide it (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

Kathy Griffin Back With Severed Heads Video  Desperately seeking attention.

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  As compared to…:

The worst bill in modern history (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

US-funded Radio Free Asia halts Cantonese service in face of Trump’s funding cuts (Hans Tse/Hong Kong Free Press HKFP)  Becaise. as we all know, Cantonese radio is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

‘Completely Disrupted’: Fear Upends Life for Latinos in L.A. (New York Times)  Totally missing: The word ‘illegal’.

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship (NPR)

Iran attack could be the death knell for nuclear non-proliferation (Ankit Panda/Financial Times)  Let’s see if I’ve got that right: Bombing a country that is trying to develop nuclear weapons in order to destroy another country is somehow the ‘death knell for nuclear non-proliferation’. That’s like saying shooting people who are making guns is the ‘death knell’ for preventing the spreading of guns. Welcome to the upside-down world of the Woke.

Trump sent ‘explicit’ threat to cut funds from University of Virginia, senator says (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)  Another win for Trump.

Exclusive: White House Bible Study Teaches that Jews Killed Jesus (Jonathan Larsen/Jonathan Larsen’s …)  Oh, I’m sure there were some Jews involved in the killing of Jesus, if you just READ THE DOCUMENTS.

Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for civil offenses (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)  And abouit fargin time. We have clasped these vipers to our bosom long enough.

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans (Robert Reich/The Guardian)  Robert Reich loses his shit.

7 things everyone should know about Trump’s megabill (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  Step right up and get your Narrative, right here!

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Major Campaign Finance Challenge (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)  And the hits just keep on comin’.

How Trump Family Profits From President’s Scorched-Earth Civil War Fallout (Lauren Lewis/The Daily Beast)  At least, that’s what they want you to believe.

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk (Reuters)  This is God telling you not to break the law.

MSNBC Latina Contributor: Trump A Threat To The ‘Undocumented Community’  That he certainly is, just like law enforcement is a threat to the criminal community.

Senate Republicans Wound Filibuster To Pass Debt Bomb (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)  OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!

CNN Data Chief Hits Trump With Some ‘Terrible, Terrible, Terrible’ New Numbers (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)

Kristi Noem Secretly Pocketed Cash From Dark Money Group: Report (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Report! That proves it!

The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict “Chaos” & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material

How Trump’s big bill could leave states scrambling to cover federal funding cuts (David A. Lieb/Associated Press)  The gravy train is pulling into the station.

Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary city immigration policies (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

US revokes visas for musicians after band leads chants against Israeli military (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Saw that coming.

This July Fourth, my patriotism looks like two middle fingers – and that’s OK (Rex Huppke/USA Today)  Sounds like a prime candidate to have his visa revoked.

Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration To Fire USIP Board Members

Trump Fires Back at Dem Senator: ‘I Am Not Offering Iran Anything, Unlike Obama’

State Department Yanks Visas From Rap Group That Called for Murder of IDF Soldiers

‘A Constituency of Anti-Semitism’: North Carolina Democrats Pass Resolution Demanding Arms Embargo on Israel

Trump DOJ Sues LA Over Migrant Sanctuary Policies

Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)

Report: Driven by Tariffs, US Customs Revenue Exceeds $100B

Read it.

He’s foreign! He’s rich! He’s socialist! TRIFECTA!

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system (NPR)  They say that like it was a bad thing. And to them, it is: Any tool that makes it easier to determine whether an individual is a citizen is a finger in the eye for those who want to obfuscate that knowledge and make it easier for illegal immigrants to travel ‘under the radar’.

NPR Champions ‘Joyful Blowout’ of Drag Queens for Climate Activism  NPR’s mission appears to be to promote degeneracy wherever they find it.

Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing. (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)  But it’s always Trump’s fault.

To fight Trump’s funding freezes, states try a new gambit: Withholding federal payments (Adam Edelman/NBC News)  Works for me. Starve the beast.

CNN’s Stelter Argues CNN Questioning Trump’s Success In Iran Bombing Is Uber-Patriotic  The Seinfeld character speaks.

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data (NPR)  Because, as we all know, the U.S. Defense Department is TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE for providing weather data, and NOBODY ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD can do so.

A $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut Is THIS Close to Happening. Here’s What It’d Look Like. (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  God forbid that anybody who has ever received money from the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–should be forced to get by on less.

Trump goes scorched earth on Thom Tillis over “big, beautiful bill” (Justin Green/Axios)

The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)

Axios Explains: Inside ICE’s superpowers (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Appeals Court to Consider Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act (Alan Feuer/New York Times)

Cross the Courts Off the List (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)

“When is cancer political?” Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin’s layoffs, budget cuts (Ted Koppel/CBS News)  When it serves as an excuse to spend YOUR money.

Trump Lies Matter (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Sam Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Brings Disgrace Upon the Supreme Court (Slate)

The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  For the Left.

Appeals Court Puts Peace Institute Back in Trump Admin Hands

Trump adversaries see silver linings in his ‘monumental’ Supreme Court win (Politico)

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness (Matt Watkins/Slate)

DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions (Washington Post)

Senate Blocks War Powers Resolution to Limit Trump’s Ability to Strike Iran Again (Robert Jimison/New York Times)

Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling (Robert McCoy/New Republic)  Funny, I feel pretty safe.

Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Targeting Another Top Law Firm (Zach Montague/New York Times)

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA–and They Forced Him Out Anyway (Siva Vaidhyanathan/New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

With Supreme Court Ruling, Another Check on Trump’s Power Fades (Charlie Savage/New York Times)  My heart breaks for you.

PBS Claims Reaction To Socialist Mamdani’s Win Has Been ‘Hateful’  Socialists, ‘democratic’ or not, deserve all the hate they can get.

Trump Runs Up Supreme Court Winning Streak, Amassing More Power (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

The MAGA mind virus (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win (Russell Contreras/Axios) Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion with which no co-existence is possible. In a righteous world, they would be treated the way proglodytes treat Nazis.

‘Where’s our money?’ CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening (Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR)

Ignoring Substance, SCOTUS Permits Lawlessness (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew has gone full Woke, including the lies.

The Supreme Court Just Made America a Dangerous Place (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Chicken Little is alive and well in the Kristol Krew.

Home discomforts send Trump rushing to project image of global patriarch (David Smith/The Guardian)  High-school ‘journalism’ finds a home at The Guardian.

The Supreme Court’s Ban on Universal Injunctions Will Kneecap Americans Fighting for their Rights (Anthony Sanders/The UnPopulist)

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles (Karen Garcia/Los Angeles Times)

The Corporate Court: How the Supreme Court Just Declared Open Season on Your Rights (Dina Doll/Meidas+)

2 Lawmakers Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Newsbusters.

The stock market continues to go gangbusters, so MRC Business thought it would be worth revisiting one of CNN’s dumbest End-of-the-World predictions about the Trump presidency to date.

The Wall Street Journal reported June 27 that the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes both hit record highs after the open on June 27. The newspaper summarized that “investors increasingly discounted the economic threat posed by the trade war and Middle East instability.

The gains mark a historic rebound from April’s tariff-driven turmoil.” Specifically, the S&P 500 added 0.6 percent to 6,177.14 while the Nasdaq spiked 0.5 percent to approximately 20,218, as CNBC noted, which called the S&P 500 rebound from its April lows “remarkable.”

The timing is certainly remarkable, given that it was on April 22 when CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman went on an unhinged rant about the supposed destruction President  Donald Trump was supposedly unleashing on the stock market. “Trump’s stock market is throwing off some jaw-dropping statistics. How extraordinary? We’re now making comparisons to the Great Depression,” Goldman spewed, channeling CNBC Mad Money host and “Prophet of Oops” Jim Cramer.

Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump (The Atlantic)  This, of course, comes as a surprise to The Atlantic.

Trump Team Launches SuperPAC Focused Solely On Ousting Massie  “Judge, he needed killin’.”

ABC Shows Footage of ICE Arrest, Omits Clip Showing Attack on Agents

Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York (Ella Lee/The Hill)  The hunt for heretics and sinners.

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration (Wired) High-school ‘journalism’ comes to WIRED.

Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)

Scoop: Pro-Trump group unleashes first TV ad against Massie (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

PolitiFact Rushes In to Flag Trump (and Others) for Calling Mamdani a ‘Communist’  Which he is; that’s all ‘democratic socialist’ means.

Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census  One of the reasons that Democrats welcome the flood of illegals is that it boosts their census numbers for representation.

MAGA Rage Suddenly Takes Unnerving Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls (New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump administration eliminating warning period for fining those in the US illegally: Exclusive (Luke Barr/ABC News)

Trump’s secret police are terrorizing American streets (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  How secret are they? They’re so secret, even some hole-in-the-wall prog web site knows about them.

U.S. uninsured rates could resurge if Trump’s budget bill passes (NPR)  Gee, they may have to pay for their own insurance. The horror!

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months (Nikole Hannah-Jones/New York Times)

On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers (Edgar Sandoval/New York Times)  Sometimes the system works.

Trump Says He Would Bomb Iran Again ‘Without Question’ & Not Looking To Drop Sanctions Anymore.

A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  ‘Journalism’ is easy these days. Come up with a new name for Trump and get paid. Rinse, repeat.

Harvey Milk’s Name Is Stripped From U.S. Navy Vessel (Christine Hauser/New York Times)  Stripped!

Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)  The word they always leave out is ‘illegally’.

How Trump Lives With the Threat of Iranian Assassination (The Atlantic)  If Iran assassinated Trump, Vance would leave it a radioactive parking lot.

ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution (Andy Olsen/Christianity Today)  the word they always leave out is ‘illegal’.

Soboroff Omits Pepper Sprayed Man Threatened ICE With a Weed Whacker

Supreme Court Grants RFK Jr. Unprecedented Power of Key HHS Panel (Oriana Gonzlez/NOTUS)

RFK Jr. Axes All Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’  Let Bill pay for it himself. It’s not as if he’s going to leave that money to his kid.

Group suing over Trump’s birthright order seeks to convert case to a class action lawsuit (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure (Jack Rakove/Washington Monthly)  Only because the Wokerati are losing.

The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship reasoning reveals a startlingly myopic view (MSNBC)  Proglodyte Projection: Progs always accuse their enemies of what they are doing (or want to do).

Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Trump To Keep Throwing Money at EV Chargers

How voters in Trump districts helped Mamdani win the Democratic primary

In Powerful Dissent, Ketanji Brown Jackson Simply Writes ‘Wakanda Forever’  The life of an affirmative-action hire.

A Conservative’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump Is Desperately Trying to Bomb and Shitpost His Way to Peace (Rolling Stone)  Just like Rolling Stone!

Gabbard installs Trump ally and ‘deep state’ critic atop intel analysis hub (John Sakellariadis/Politico)  Apparently this comes as a surprise to the ‘journalists’ at Politico.

Intel Report on Iran Upends Victory Lap Trump Was Hoping for at NATO (New York Times)

Democrats fume at “unserious” Trump impeachment vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)  ‘Unserious’ is about the best description of Democrats these days that I’ve seen.

Court orders Trump admin to facilitate another deported man’s return from El Salvador (Associated Press)

Judge blocks Trump from withholding EV charger infrastructure funds (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

NBC Nightly News Whines About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Center

Trump Lashes Out at ‘Scum’ for Revealing Bombing Was Botched (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)  Of course, every writer for the Daily Beast is an expert on when a bombing was botched.

SCOTUS clears the path for Trump’s network of global gulags (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Congress Fights Back…Against Congress (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  Apparently not.

Donald Trump with Nato ‘all the way’ after questioning mutual defence pact (Financial Times)  Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, jerkin’ their chain, jerkin’ their chain….

Kari Lake heads to Capitol Hill after gutting an agency Trump hates (Politico) That doesn’t narrow it down much….

How much will you save or lose with Trump’s ‘big’ tax bill? (Washington Post)  I’m not going to believe that anybody who writes for the Washington Poop can count until they demonstrate that they can both read and write.

Trump: CNN, NY Times ‘Teamed Up’ to ‘Demean’ Iran Strikes  Of course they did. Who didn’t expect that?

McIver heads to court as watchdog group files complaint against Alina Habba (Ry Rivard/Politico)

Trump’s fragile peace in the Middle East (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times)  Peace is always fragile when the Religion of Peace is involved.

Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator (Sam Gustin/The Nation)

Trump administration is preparing to test budget law, U.S. officials say (Washington Post)

Exclusive: New Trump administration plan could end asylum claims and speed deportations for hundreds of thousands of migrants (Priscilla Alvarez/CNN)  Word that the Narrative Media will never use: ‘illegal’.

The Bombing of Iran May Teach an Unwelcome Lesson on Nuclear Weapons (Mark Landler/New York Times)  Unwelcome, that is , to the Deep State and their mouthpieces.

Democrats to ICE: Go Ahead, Arrest Us (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)  Works for me.

U.S. Department of Education Finds California Department of Education and California Interscholastic Federation in Violation of Title IX (U.S. Department of Education)

Ed Dept.: Calif. Violated Title IX With Trans Competition

Trump Admin Mulls Executive Orders Targeting Debanking

Judge: Trump Can’t Axe Union Bargaining for Federal Workers

Judge rules Trump can’t eliminate federal workers’ union bargaining (Ella Lee/The Hill)

National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office) (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

21 States Sue Trump Admin Over Clause Used To Cut Federal Funding

Meyers Attacks Trump For Taking Credit For Ending ‘The War He Started’

Trump’s Bombing Probably Set Iran’s Nuclear Program Back By Mere Months, Report Says (Sara Boboltz/HuffPost)  Report says! That proves it!

‘Talk about whiplash!’ CNN anchor shocked by dramatic Trump flip-flop (Jennifer Bowers Bahney/Raw Story)  Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, jerkin’ their chain, jerkin’ their chain…

L.A.-Area Politician Calls for Criminal Gangs to Attack ICE (David Strom/HotAir)  Crooks of a feather flock together.

Trial Date Set for Three Men Charged in Iranian Assassination Plots Against Trump, Dissident

DOJ Sues Every Federal District Judge in Maryland, Challenging Due Process Rights (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

CNN Proclaimed Iran Strike Would Cause ‘War Shock’ of ‘Surging Oil Prices’… It Didn’t Happen

‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it means (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  And what they say it means is ‘someone in this country illegally’. Too bad that Philip Bump is too busy losing his shit to learn how to read.

Democrats rage as Trump limits classified intel sharing with Congress (Axios) Well, if they wouldn’t leak shit….

NJ Rep. McIver says Trump ‘will not stop me from doing my job’ after federal charges  Apparently her job is breaking the law. (Well, she IS a Democrat….)

As U.S. braces for Iranian attack, a ‘brain drain’ weakens its defenses, former officials say (David Rohde/NBC News)

Trump calls for ending war after Iran’s retaliatory missile attack (Barak Ravid/Axios)

Trump wants to take out Iran’s nuclear program. His attacks may backfire. (Michelle Bentley/Vox)

Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties (Politico)

Supreme Court Lifts Limits on Deporting Migrants to Countries Not Their Own

Supreme Court allows Trump to swiftly deport certain immigrants to ‘third countries’ (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)

In win for Trump, Supreme Court lifts judge’s limits on deportations to third-party countries (Maureen Groppe/USA Today)

Supreme Court allows Trump to restart deportations to non-origin countries (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)

Supreme Court Hands Trump Huge Win On Deporting ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegals

Supreme Court allows Trump to resume 3rd-country removals without court-ordered due process requirements (Devin Dwyer/Reuters)

161. The Court’s Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case (Steve Vladeck/One First)

Breaking: SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

The Chaos and Cruelty of DVD v. DHS (Quinta Jurecic/Lawfare)

Jeffries fumes at Trump for blindsiding Congress on Iran strikes (Andrew Solender/Axios)  I’m sure he does. Let him fume. It’s good practice.

3 ways Americans could pay for Trump’s war with Iran (Eric Levitz/Vox)

Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters. (Oona A. Hathaway/New York Times)

CBS Teams Up With Dem to Clutch Pearls Over Iran Strike Legality

MAGA Doves Learn to Love The Bomb (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew are fully onboard the latest Bash-Trump Express.

AG Bondi Fends Off Dem Rep. DeLauro Over ATF-DEA Merger  DeLauro is almost a parody of an aging hippie AWFUL.

Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands (Associated Press)  The swine!

Murkowski leaves door open to scenario of caucusing with Democrats (Stef W. Kight/Axios)  That would be too honest.

The MTV Reality Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times)

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)  The swine!

What ‘Split’? 9 in 10 MAGA Voters Back Trump Strikes on Iran, Poll Shows

Democrats struggle to come up with a unified response to Trump’s Iran strikes (NBC News)

‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding (Ben Makuch/The Guardian)

The Shock-and-Awe Deportations Will Get Worse (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  We certainly hope so.

Geopolitical WrestleMania — To a POTUS stuck in the past, the Iran bombing campaign … (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

In a timeline of Trump’s decision to drop 12 of the reportedly 20 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

Trump’s “Mission Accomplished” moment (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

CBS Brings in Soros-Funded Group to Declare Trump Failed, Iran Now MORE Dangerous

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize over Iran-Israel ceasefire deal (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

Newsbusters.

The headline deck to the June 16 piece by Jesús Rodríguez for the Washington Post, a profile of the first transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, heralded the gush to come.

Soon after publication, the Supreme Court ruled against Strangio’s side in the case of U.S. vs Skrmetti, as the ACLU lawyer and trans man (biological woman) failed to persuade the court that a Tennessee law blocking doctors from providing what Rodriguez called “gender-affirming medical treatment” (i.e. genital mutilation) to teenagers was unconstitutional.

Rodriguez took the left-wing line that conservatives started the transgender culture war (“the political right had tried to use them as a wedge issue”), not the biological male trans-activists demanding access to women’s sports and women’s bathrooms.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

The right circumstances being that nobody in the actual Republican party believes her bullshit any more?

The Foundry.

When Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk goes to speak on campus and attracts a large following, that’s not the story—the story is how the Right conspired to open the door to his “extremism,” according to journalists presenting at an investigative reporting conference.

David Armiak, research director at the Center for Media and Democracy, and Kyle Spencer, a former New York Times contributor and the CEO of the Pro-Democracy Information Lab, coached a room full of 124 reporters and editors on “Tracking Right-Wing Influencers and Movements” at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference in New Orleans on Friday. Robert Downen, a Texas Monthly senior writer, moderated the panel. (The conference counted 124 attendees at one point in the panel, though people came and went throughout.)

Armiak recounted seeing Kirk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s library mall last fall. He saw Kirk “in the center of campus with frat bros all around him, you know, spewing anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ+ talking points” and campaigning for Donald Trump.

No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)  Because the Narrative Media will never, ever shut up about it.

Three ways Trump’s attack on Iran could spin out of control (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Betcha it doesn’t.

“It was a headfake”: Inside Trump’s secret orders to strike Iran (Axios)  More mind-reading from the Narrative Media.

Legacy Media’s Early Reaction to U.S. Bombing Iran Nuke Sites: SHOCK AND SQUAWK

Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message (Politico)

Trump’s team launches group to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (NBC News)

‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)

If You Thought Donald Trump Would Never Do This, You’re an Idiot (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  And thus qualified to write for the New Republic.

Trump Changed. The Intelligence Didn’t. (Shane Harris/The Atlantic)

“Deploying Additional Resources To Religious Sites” – Major US Cities On Alert After US Airstrikes On Iran

ICE will likely detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia despite judge’s motion to have him released (Laura Romero/ABC News)

IMF’s Georgieva Warns of Broader Risks From US Strikes on Iran (Bloomberg)

Iran strikes push Vance, a foreign intervention skeptic, into the role of salesman (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)

PBS News Hour Turns Library of Congress Firing Into Censorship, Assault on Democracy

Trump administration says U.S. does not seek regime change in Iran (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Shifting Views and Misdirection: How Trump Decided to Strike Iran (New York Times)  More mind-reading from the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Risky Gamble on Attacking Iran (New York Times)  You’d think that they were the conservatives, with their obsession with ‘risky schemes’.

Obama Bros Go Ballistic After Trump Bombs Iranian Nuke Program

Playbook: Mission accomplished? (Politico)  Trump and Bush: Two bashes for one!

‘Make Iran Great Again?’: Trump contradicts his top officials on potential regime change (MSNBC)

Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie (Mohamad Bazzi/The Guardian)  Bush and Trump! Two bashes in one! Written by a guy named Momamad! Trifecta!

Trump loves saying ‘You’re fired.’ Now he’s making it easier to fire federal workers (Andrea Hsu/NPR)  Most of whom it would profit the nation to fire.

Inside Trump’s Decision (New York Times)  More mind-reading from the Narrative Media.

Trump’s reckless Iran strikes could backfire spectacularly (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) Could! That proves it!

Iran’s Nuclear Dreams May Survive Even a Devastating American Blow (Mark Landler/New York Times)  Oh, proglodyte dreams always survive, despite reality’s best efforts.

Russia condemns U.S. strikes on Iran as unprovoked and unjustified (Washington Post)  Unprovoked? Iran has been technically at war with the U.S. since 1979. Unjustified? Oh, sure, leaving insane Muslim jihadists have nuclear weapons is TOTALLY justified….

Trump taunts Iran with prospect of ‘regime change’ after strike on nuclear sites (Financial Times)

Trump ‘wags the dog’ (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Last night, exactly a week after his military parade fizzled and more than five million Americans turned … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

A new war based on manipulated intelligence (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

The Worst Person at the Worst Time — The last thing I thought before I fell asleep last night was, “We are at war.” (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)  Mary Trump’s paycheck depends on bashing her family.

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing (David Gilbert/Wired)

Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump’s Travel Bans? (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)  Yup. Every DEI program ever.

H ere Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, if the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–don’t pay for it, NO SCIENCE WILL HAPPEN.

Putin Is Still Attacking Ukraine, But NATO’s Bigger Problem Is Mollifying Trump (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Fallout — Trump lied. Iran’s nuclear program wasn’t “completely and totally obliterated” So now what? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Trump’s war with Iran signals perilous shift from showman to strongman (David Smith/The Guardian)

BUNKER BUSTED: David Frum Claims ‘Trump Always Chickens Out’ Hours Before Iran Strike

Read it.

“Can’t deny.” Looks like CNN has fallen back on those words to cover those unfortunate situations where—much as commentators would like to diminish the accomplishments of the Trump administration or address inconvenient truths—pesky facts have made that impossible.

Read it.

I guess they missed that whole Ukraine thing. Down the Memory Hole!

Oh, and what happened after Biden threw away billions of dollars in Afghanistan. (But who’s counting? Not the Narrative Media.)

Oh, and all the lawfare against Trump. (Not a war, technically, I suppose, but it caused as many headlines as a Real War.)

The Washington Poop, the Paper of Record of the Deep State. “Good boy! Go on the paper!”

Because, as we all know, health care is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

Well, at least they didn’t say ‘decimate’.

The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era (The Guardian) Sid Blumenthal takes a Demcrat lunatic’s actions and twists it to make it All About Trump.

MAGA largely falls in line on Trump’s Iran strikes (Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Some lawmakers in both parties question the legality of Trump’s Iran strikes (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)

The Waste Musk Created (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)

Trump faces bipartisan blowback in Congress on Iran strikes (Andrew Solender/Axios)

With fateful decision, Trump gambles his presidency on war (Washington Post)

Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D. (New York Times)

This time, it’s Trump’s war (Joshua Keating/Vox)  We’ve been ‘at war’ with Iran since 1979. Listen to the mullahs. They know the truth.

Trump has opened a Pandora’s box (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

MSNBC’S Mohyeldin Suggests Netanyahu ‘Dog-Walked’ Trump Into Attacking Iran

Dems Demand Trump’s Impeachment After Iran Strikes  Of course they do. “But that trick never works!”

FIVE YEARS AGO: When the Left Rampaged, the Lib Media Blamed Trump

US inserts itself into Israel’s war against Iran with strikes on 3 Iranian nuclear sites (Associated Press)

GOP Provision That Makes Trump A King Breaks Senate Rules, Says Parliamentarian (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  I doubt that it was phrased that way, but of course Jennifer Rubin has to lose her shit.

America joined Israel’s war with Iran — and Trump is surrounded by a confederacy of dunces (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)

A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Bombing Raid (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  All of them childish.

Trump did not end wars, he just dragged the U.S. into Netanyahu’s war! (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean’s Report)  Popular delusions to the contrary notwithstanding, Trump isn’t dragging the U.S. into war; the U.S. has been at war with Iran since 1979 (or, rather, Iran has been at war with the U.S. since 1979, although the U.S. has been ignoring them for a long time). Unfortunately, too many in the Narrative Media have the memory of a squirrel. (National Security Expert on the Iran Strikes: Ending 50 Years of Iranian Hostility)

The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)  Dangerous for Iran, certainly. Dangerous for Democrats, quite likely.

AOC floats Trump impeachment over Iran strikes (Andrew Solender/Axios)  I guess she’s not confident of getting the necessary votes. How times have changed.

‘There Is No Intel’: Trump’s Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say (Rolling Stone)  Sources say! That proves it!

Playbook: Trump, Iran and the known unknown (Zack Stanton/Politico)  It takes four ‘journalists’ to construct at proper Trump-bash at Politico. Must be tiring work.

A mad king’s pointless war is where Donald Trump was always heading (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Trump’s War — Despite campaigning as the anti-war candidate, after just five months … (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)  Still lying after all these years.

Scoop: Trump launches MAGA PAC in effort to oust Rep. Massie from Congress (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  He’s been a pain in the ass for a while now. Let’s replace him with a Republican.

We Should Already Be Planning for Iran’s Response (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark) Oh, I’m sure we are.

Undaunted — Donald Trump is not content to merely adopt the language of fascism … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Without Trump to smear, she would have no job. How would you like that for your life’s work?)

Exclusive: ICE Agents Now Face 500% Increase in Assaults While Trying to Arrest Illegal Aliens (John Binder/Breitbart)

The Right Path to Regime Change in Iran (Foreign Affairs)  According to the Deep State.

Schumer and Jeffries Need to Step Up and Challenge Trump on War Powers (Peter Beinart/New York Times)

Psaki Genuinely Thinks Trump Makes Iran Decisions By Watching Fox News  And why not? Obama made decisions by watching the Narrative Media, so she presumes that everybody does it.

How Trump can offer Iran a way out (Richard Haass/Financial Times)  Leftists just LOVE to give non-Leftists advice.

Trump Checks Out Early For Golf Club as World Burns (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)  Because, as we all know, keeping the world from burning is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. President–and the U.S. taxpayer.

Colbert and Frost Smear ICE, Claim It Is Running a ‘Kidnapping Operation’

What children in poverty could lose from the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ (Cory Turner/NPR)  Hint: Handouts.

“Wake Up People!” Dave Smith’s Plea To MAGA On Iran  MAGA is the New Nazi.

The great MAGA split (Dominic Green/Washington Examiner)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

‘America First’ Is Dead — Worth keeping an eye on the strains growing between GOP appropriators … (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  And the Kristol Krew rejoices–they never put America first anyway.

Trump calls for special prosecutor for 2020 election, after again claiming fraud with no evidence (ABC News)  At least no evidence that ABC is willing to look at.

Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate 2020 election, reviving longstanding grievance (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)

Trump’s Big Bad Betrayal Bill is nothing but harmful. Rep. Chellie Pingree on how this disastrous bill impacts the people of Maine (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit–again.

Maga’s battle with Israel for Trump’s mind (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  MaGA is the New Nazi.

Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

A teen with no criminal background was deported by ICE, leaving his community aghast (NBC News)  Being here illegally is sufficient ‘criminal background’ to be deported. None so blind as they who will not see.

Trump’s Violent Cult and What to Do About It (Joe Vitale/The DSR Network)  I guess Trump startd those L.A. riots and those pro-‘Palestinian’ riots all by himself.

Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge (Los Angeles Times)  No, an illegal immigrant refuse. The Narrative Media keep refusing to recognize the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants.

Stephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second Term (Wall Street Journal)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Cross Calls First Lady Illegal and Stephen Miller Racist in 50 Seconds  As they do.

Nashville Mayor O’Connell Defends Doxxing of ICE Agents  A Democrat, of course.

Trump attacks Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)

Gen Z’s stunning partisan split (Erica Pandey/Axios)  Stunning because it’s not pro-Democrat. That always stuns the Narrative Media.

How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past (Erica L. Green/New York Times)  Unlike the Narrative Media, who think Black History is the only history that matters.

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party” (Public Notice)

Pakistan to Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Capehart Claims GOP is Afraid ‘Of Being Human’ on Political Rhetoric  Democrats are certainly not afraid of being stupid.

Trump turned soccer into a political battleground — and fans are fighting back (Roey Hadar/MSNBC)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

56,397 People Now Detained by ICE, Possibly Highest in History (Austin Kocher)  All it takes is a President willing to do his job.

MAGA star Steve Bannon plays outsized role in Trump’s Iran decision: Sources (ABC News)  The Narrative Media keep trying to drag Bannon into the MAGA movement. He hasn’t been a ‘MAGA star’ since Trump dumped him during the first term. C’mon, guys, try to keep up.

Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Is Hollywood’s Anti-Trump Blacklist Worse Than We Thought?

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran (Robert Kagan/The Atlantic)  Well, it appears the Kagan Kult is on board with the neo-con agenda.

Read it.

These people are seriously looney.

Newsbusters.

Washington Post journalist Evan Hill let his biases show in a dangerous way Thursday in a series of posts covering damages in Israel following Iranian bombing. While other reporters might show their bias through one-sided stories or fake news, Hill’s X posts could ultimately cost people their lives, all because he decided to share the precise coordinates of the Iranian missile strike.

Couric Yawns As Crockett Smears Trump Supporters As ‘Sick’ and Mentally Ill

Spain threatens to derail Nato summit over Trump defence target (Financial Times)

ABC: ‘Irresponsible’ Trump Puts Crockett in ‘Danger’ With Criticism

Thought Nobody Would Notice? AP Cherry Picks Own Poll to Bash Trump’s U.S. Military Parade

US judge blocks Trump plan to tie states’ transportation funds to immigration enforcement (Tom Hals/Reuters)

WH Rebuts Report Questioning Bombs’ Impact on Fordow

Focus groups: Latino Trump voters diverge on deportations but largely still back the president (NBC News)

Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)  Perhaps he’s sick and tired of black ingratitude.

‘Two Weeks’ Is Trump’s Favorite Unit of Time (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)  Can’t think of anything to write about? Find some way to bash Trump.

More than 13mn people in Africa could catch malaria owing to proposed US cuts (Michael Peel/Financial Times)  Because, as we all know, saving Africans from malaria is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

MSNBC Lib: Detained Dems ‘Getting Black People Treatment’ from ICE

Whoopi Goldberg says black Americans have it just as bad as people in Iran (Heather Hunter/Washington Examiner)

Court Lets Trump Keep Control of Guard Troops Deployed to LA

Trump Tax Bill Bails Out Private Equity’s Layoff Scheme (Luke Goldstein/The Lever)

Axios-Ipsos poll: Americans want to force presidents to share health records (Axios)  Isn’t it convenient that all these polls run by the Narrative Media just conveniently happen to support what the Narrative Media have been pushing all along?

Fox News Is Demanding War With Iran. Donald Trump Is Listening (Rolling Stone)  Rolling Stone is lying, and the Left is listening.

Barack Obama warns the U.S. is ‘dangerously close’ to slipping into autocracy under Trump (Allison Detzel/MSNBC)

Kennedy’s picks for vaccine advisory panel raise concerns about anti-vaccine bias (NBC News)

Experts Warn NOAA Cuts ‘Blinding’ US to Future Threats

Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s blowup exposes MAGA’s divide on war with Iran (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Handcuffed Democrats become symbol of Trump’s crackdown on dissent (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump Is Driving Off Investors and Threatening the Dollar’s Reign (Bloomberg)

The Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Decision Will Live in Infamy (Elie Mystal/The Nation)

Putin Agrees Ukraine War Wouldn’t Have Started Under Trump  The whole “Trump the warmonger” is getting rather threadbare.

As Trump pledges mass deportation, he’s creating more undocumented people (NBC News)

Bernie Sanders dives into a key House battleground Trump carried in 2024 with a new endorsement (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

We Can’t Bomb Our Way Out of This — After more than four decades of effort … (James M. Acton/New York Times)

Meyers Claims We’re Now Living in a ‘Police State’  He would, of course, favor a ‘police-absent’ state.

Marco Rubio, Velociraptor (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation (Alistair Kitchen/New Yorker)  And rightly so.

Republicans Threaten a Hospital Apocalypse (David Dayen/American Prospect)

Presidential Doomsday Plane’s Arrival in D.C. Raises Concerns

Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’ (Elisabeth Bumiller/New York Times)

Trump Denies WSJ Report on Iran Attack Plans

Playbook: Inside Trump’s thinking on Iran (Politico)  Mind-READER … da-DA-duh….

Donald Trump Rages At Reporter Who Refuses To Stick To ‘Positive’ Questions (Lee Moran/HuffPost)  That’s because Woke ‘journalists’ aren’t interested in actual news, but try to get a gotcha moment to use as a stick to beat him with.

Senator Padilla: This Is How an Administration Acts When It’s Afraid (Alex Padilla/New York Times)  So–enforcing the law and not letting Dramaocrat politicians get a way with anything constitutes ‘afraid’. I suggest that is is the Dramacrats who are afraid.

Knife-Wielding Illegal Alien Charged With Attempted Murder After Allegedly Attacking Trump Attorney in NY (Rusty Weiss/RedState)

MSNBC Legal Experts Rant at SCOTUS: ‘Any Transgender Minor Is Now at Risk’  Of what? Not getting special Woke privileges?

Black churches push back against Trump-fueled anti-DEI wave (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  WHERE IS OUR MONEY? WE WANT OUR MONEY!

‘He’s moving at a truly alarming speed’: Trump propels US into authoritarianism (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  If you’re looking for authoritarianism, check out your own Labour Party.

New York mayoral candidate arrested by Ice: ‘Trump is looking to stoke conflict, weaponize fear’ (Alice Speri/The Guardian)

Trump Insists MAGA ‘HATES’ Fox News After Embarrassing Network Poll (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  Apparently MAGA is some vast supernatural creature like the Pillsbury Doughboy in GHOSTBUSTERS. Funny thing, only Narrative Media ‘journalists’ can see it.

Is the U.S. about to be dragged into a war in the Middle East? Wendy Sherman on the Israel-Iran conflict (The Contrarian)  There is no ‘dragged’. The current regime in Iran has been a threat to world peace since I graduated from college fifty years ago, and has been a source of Muslim terrorism all that time. The Israelis (who are more threatened than we are) have been doing the heavy lifting for us, and if they need help to clean out this nest of snakes, it would be to our benefit to do so.

Carville: RFK Jr. ‘is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary, maybe in history’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Former ICE Chief Fahey: Dems Obstruct Enforcement

YUGE Win for Trump: Illegal Immigrant Population Has Dropped by 1 Million!

Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the Hook (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)

Democrats Chase Trump’s Laser Pointer On Immigration  As they do.

Americans Have Mixed to Negative Views of Trump Administration Immigration Actions (Pew Research Center)  According to our Democrat-heavy poll.

Poll Shows Trump’s Immigration Agenda Hugely Popular (Steve Cortes/The Daily Caller)

InsiderAdvantage Poll: Trump at 54 Percent Job Approval

US spies said Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon. Trump dismisses that assessment (Associated Press)  Because, as we all know, U.S. spies have always been totally right about everything forever.

FBI Director Kash Patel feeds 2020 election conspiracy theories with documents about unverified tip (NBC News)  Like everyone in the Narrative Media ever.

US judge blocks Trump passport policy targeting transgender people (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

NYC Comptroller Attempts To Block ICE Apprehension, Promptly Arrested  Smile for the camera, boys!

NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Latest Victim of ICE Violence (Whitney Curry Wimbish/American Prospect)

Senate reconciliation bill would give Trump ‘carte blanche’ to reorganize agencies, lay off feds (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)  OH NOES!

Breaking: Federal judge blocks Rubio’s anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Appeals Court Seems Likely to Keep Trump in Control of Guard in LA

Report: Nearly 70K Sign up for $5 Million Trump Gold Card That’s $35 billion off the national debt. Trump wins again.

We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President (David Rothkopf/New Republic)  Yeah, it might not turn into a disaster as it would under a Democrat. Can’t have that.

Federal Judge Upholds Trump Admin’s $400 Million Freeze On Columbia University Funding

A Disturbing Sign We’ve Accepted a “New Normal” From Trump (Sam Adams/Slate)  Disturbing!

Trump “Reamed Out” Pete Hegseth for Disastrous Military Parade (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)  Reportedly! That proves it!

Signs to police ‘negative’ history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. (Olivia Hebert/SFGATE)  Nervous!

Congress dodges preemptive confrontation with Trump over Iran (Axios)

Oil Prices Climb as Trump Calls for Iran’s ‘Surrender’ (Rebecca F. Elliott/New York Times)  Let’s just mention two things that are happening at the same time to suggest a connection without actually having to present any evidence that they’re actually connected.

Is Pursuing Regime Change in Iran Worth the Risk? (Jim Geraghty/National Review)  National Review burnishes its cuckservative credentials.

Inside the clashes between Trump and Gabbard (Politico)  As if anybody at Politico has any actual knowledge of anything ‘inside’ the relationship between Trump and Gabbard. More Narrative Media mind-reading.

Fox News’ Ben Domenech tells Ilhan Omar to buy a one-way ticket to Somalia (Media Matters for America)  See how long she’d last.

Inside Trump’s Shifting Stance on Iran (New York Times)  As if anybody at the NYT knows anything ‘inside’ Trump’s actions. More Narrative Media mind-reading.

Trump’s MAGA purity test (Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Conflict in Mideast causes battle within MAGA ranks — stay out or fight? (Washington Post)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump Makes More Monstrous Changes to the White House (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  Monstrous!

The immigrants caring for the nation’s elderly are losing their jobs (Emily Peck/Axios)  Notice the refusal to distinguish between ‘immigrants’ and ‘illegal immigrants’. Legal immigrants aren’t losing their jobs.

Images of Handcuffed Democrats Start to Pile Up in Trump’s Crackdown (Katie Glueck/New York Times)  Crackdown! Not mentioned: These people are breaking the law, deliberately, for a photo op.

Ted Cruz Absolutely Explodes in MAGA Civil War Gotcha Moment (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Appeals court seems poised to side with Trump on National Guard deployment in LA (Politico)

Playbook: Trump’s next move on Iran (Politico)  More mind-reading from the Narrative Media.

Trump Has a Nasty Secret Nickname for Stephen Miller, Biographer Reveals (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)  More high-school gossip from the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Bid to Bar Foreign Students From Harvard Threatens Kennedy School’s Lifeblood  Oh noes! We won’t be able to train more agents of the Deep State!

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Unemployment Claims Dip to 245K, Remaining Historically Low  Apparently some Americans are willing to do the jobs that Democrats won’t do.

Well, You Certainly Wouldn’t Call It Presidential Underreach (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Another Narrative Media mind-reader, indulging in their favorite game of Democrat Projection.

Verizon and Amazon cancel support for Juneteenth celebrations (Popular Information)  The Era of the Race Hustler is over.

Trump doesn’t have a foreign policy (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Another Narrative Media mind-reader, who think that we he likes is a law of nature.

Trump is Stumbling Toward Disaster (David Rothkopf/Need to Know)  OH NO THE SKY IS FALLING!

18 Thoughts On Trump’s Maybe Iran War (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  All of them taken directly from the Narrative.

Biden Judge Blocks Trump’s Two Genders On US Passports, But Supreme Court Says ‘No’ On Trans Treatments For Minors

Supreme Court Deals Another Major Blow To Transgender Rights (Lil Kalish/HuffPost)  By pointing out that there are no such rights. They have to make do with the same rights as everyone else.

Trump’s FAA pick acknowledges he doesn’t have a ‘commercial’ pilot’s license (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)  So what? How hard to they have to scrape the barrel to come up with some bullshit ‘qualification’ that scream about the candidate not having it? Why does someone need a commercial pilot’s license to run the FAA? Is the FAA expected to fly planes? You might as well expect the Chairman of the Fed to be a billionaire.

Reps. Nadler and Goldman barred from inspecting ICE holding cells in NYC (Arya Sundaram/Gothamist)  More Democrat attention whores.

Majority of Trump supporters against US military involvement in Israel-Iran conflict, poll finds (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)  Who cares? Trump doesn’t.

Russia tells US not to strike Iran, warns of nuclear catastrophe (Reuters)  Russia isn’t going to go to nuclear war on behalf of Iran, and only a moron thinks that they would. Somebody needs to tell Putin that he’s not dealing with a Democrat that he can bluff.

Newsbusters.

Bur not over the Ukraine war, apparently.

The Washington Poop, the Paper of Record of the Deep State.

And whose fault is that? Trump doesn’t have the therapy in his back pocket. If the NIH can’t (or won’t) give it to him, then that’s on the apparatchiks that Trump is trying to get rid of.

Fembot ‘journalism’: Start with a tear-jerker anecdote and pretend that it somehow expresses a universal principle that, oh look at that, just supports the chatterer’s preconceived political agenda.

Newsbusters.

Covering politicians getting themselves performatively arrested these days is not unlike watching an outbreak: first one patient, then another, until the whole town is infected. And as is the case with their outbreak coverage, the media are excessively hyping these performative arrests.

Case in point: ABC World News Tonight as they covered the stunt arrest of New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander, who attempted to obstruct ICE from arresting an illegal alien that he was escorting to and from immigration court. Here is that report in its entirety:

First off, you’ll note that although Katresky begins his narration of Landers’ arrest with the arm linking, the video shown by ABC omits that. Unless viewers also saw the original video of the arrest, there is the potential for confusion.This is by design. Compare this video featuring the full arrest in its context with what you saw on ABC.

This sleight of hand allows for an easier establishment of a persecution narrative, particularly as ICE prepares to conduct more raids in cities like New York.

Then there is the matter of Padilla. Katersky runs the comparison to Padilla’s Los Angeles crashout, attempting to establish parallels between the two. Padilla showed up to the Senate floor and delivered his emotional remarks. Katersky closes out the report by linking the arrests to an “uptick in ICE arrests in immigration courts.”

It sounds nice, but that’s not what happened. Lander got arrested for obstructing an arrest, and Padilla got busted for trying to crash a press conference in order to ask questions without first identifying himself. Once again, ABC gaslights its public: this time, in order to further fuel anti-ICE sentiment by casting these arrested politicians as Resistance martyrs. Buyer beware.

Read it.

As they do.

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday fired back at the mainstream media, accusing them of not properly portraying an illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested last week on suspicion of spitting on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Newsbusters.

MSNBC’s 11th Hour host, Stephanie Ruhle, kicked off Monday night’s show by saying, “So please remember, the truth matters, but only if you hear it, so let’s get started covering the truth.” A great quote from the leftist propaganda machine that was MSNBC. The joke wrote itself in this instance, because four minutes later Ruhle and her guests spewed biased rhetoric on President Trump and the entire Republican Party.

In a conversation with David Rucker of The Bulwark, Ruhle claimed she didn’t want to call the political violence normalized, and then in the same sentence called it far more prominent and prevalent? Leading to this exchange: