Newsbusters.

On Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus, co-hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz brought on Doctors Without Borders U.S. CEO Avril Benoit to promulgate some absurd theories on the war in Gaza.. Discussing the situation of humanitarian aid in the area, all the blame was on Israel as they ignored Hamas’s role in confiscating the aid for themselves, and the correction the Doctors Without Borders head suggested? Countries without borders.

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While there was truth to the claim that resources in Gaza were limited, and that there was indeed need for humanitarian aid, to place the blame solely on Israel’s restrictions in the war-torn region was a gross misrepresentation of the facts.

Of course, the segment did not so much as mention Hamas even once while discussing the humanitarian crisis, such as their confiscation of aid shipments at gun point.

Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda (Washington Post)

Exclusive: Private Probe of Alleged Epstein–Mossad Links (Jeff Stein/SpyTalk)

NPR Plays Up Bias! Trump ‘Endlessly Linked In Story After Story’ to Epstein

Johnson Blasts Massie and Khanna’s ‘Reckless’ Epstein File Discharge Petition

On Epstein, Democrats have Mike Johnson running scared (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Washington Post Admits: ‘No Evidence’ Trump Tied to Epstein Scandal

Trump in Rage Mode as Epstein Storm Refuses to Die Down (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)

What to know about the metastasizing Jeffrey Epstein controversy (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)

The Epstein Scandal Is a Democrat One: Here’s the Big Names

Trump Said He Threw Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago

You Must Read ‘Epstein Scandal Is a Democrat One: We Name the Big Names’

Trump Seeks Swift Deposition of Murdoch in Epstein Defamation Case

Trump asks for swift deposition of Murdoch in Epstein defamation case (Luc Cohen/Reuters)

PROPAGANDA: NBC Implies EU Deal Was Done as a Distraction from Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell files Supreme Court brief appealing Epstein conviction (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Targeting Epstein’s ‘sweetheart’ deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008 (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump says he turned down visit to Epstein’s island (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump: Name May Have Been Planted in Epstein Files by Dems

Trump seeks quick deposition of Rupert Murdoch in Jeffrey Epstein letter defamation case (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Trump Reveals Why He Fell Out With Jeffrey Epstein

‘We’re not shielding anything,’ Vance says of Epstein files (Hannah Demissie/ABC News)

Trump Gives Totally Different Answer Than White House For Epstein Split (Ryan Grenoble/HuffPost)

Trump Takes Break From $10 Million Golf Vacation To Put Forward New Jeffrey Epstein Explanation (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Is The Epstein Affair A Watershed Moment?

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Maxwell’s ‘Whole Truth’ on Epstein Will Disappoint

GOP Sen. Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein’s Plea Deal (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Speaker Johnson says all ‘credible’ Epstein files should be released: Full interview (NBC News)

Mullin: Epstein Prosecuted by Bush, Trump; Silence Under Obama, Biden

Some Republicans aren’t backing down from Epstein transparency push (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Johnson says Ghislaine Maxwell deserves life sentence over Epstein crimes, rejects potential pardon (Danielle Wallace/Fox News)

Trump’s MAGA allies zero in on Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein furor persists (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

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

Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of what might be in store for even well-funded targets of his retribution campaigns.

The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.

The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization’s fight to survive.

Media Matters for America was (and maybe still is) a tool of the Clinton machine, and specializes in muckraking fake news against Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular.

MAGA Inches Closer to a Ghislaine Maxwell Alliance (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew continues to carry water for the Left. I guess their Inner Fascist is never far from the surface.

Major MAGA Media Figure To Take Top Position at One of Doge’s Biggest Targets

Jonathan Turley.

“When the legend becomes fact…print the legend.” Those words from an editor to a young reporter in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” still appear to be the modus operandi of the media. That was demonstrated this week with the legend of Luis Leon after The Morning Call in Allentown, PA, printed yet another harrowing account of ICE agents “disappearing” an immigrant. According to a story quickly picked up by other eager outlets, the 82-year-old grandfather, a legal asylum holder, was roughed up and then deported to Guatemala. The problem is that there appears to be no proof supporting the story of the “family members” cited by the reporter.

According to The Morning Call, Luis Leon, a Chilean national, was trying to replace his lost green card at a local USCIS office when he was suddenly deported to the wrong country, Guatemala, and he ended up in a hospital with pneumonia. The story further recounted how Leon’s wife was kept in custody in brutal conditions for 10 hours before she was released.

Media, including The Guardian, eagerly picked up the story of another “disappearing” of an immigrant.

As the story went viral, a few people decided actually to look into the case and found that it not only made no sense but there is no evidence of such a deportation.

For its part, The Morning Call changed key facts but did not withdraw the story as a hoax.

Of course not. So what if it was false? It expresses a “deeper truth”, in line with the Narrative.

Read it.

A DEI training video produced by the BBC that purports to provide guidance on how to deal with ‘microaggressions’ in the workplace has gone viral because it’s so ridiculously hilarious.

The video is a perfect example of what deranged leftists believe the world is like, but in reality no one acts the way the actors in the piece do.

It’s like an episode of Ricky Gervais’ The Office, which pokes fun at stereotypes by having characters play up to them for comic effect.

Power Line.

President Trump has completed an epic six months, with accomplishments that dwarf those of almost any of his predecessors in the same time period. But liberals aren’t giving up hope: they remain convinced that the roof is going to fall in, at any moment.

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The Democrats hope for a deus ex machina in which Epstein’s ghost will somehow relieve them of their Trump nightmare. Which strikes me as delusional. As I keep reminding people, Epstein was a Democrat. His contacts were principally among Democrats, including Democrats in academia. The only politician–I emphasize, the only politician–known to have had a significant relationship with Epstein was Bill Clinton. (Someday, maybe we will learn what the blue dress and high heels were all about.) Donald Trump knew Epstein casually because of the Palm Beach connection, but Trump’s most notable act was kicking Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Maybe he caught on to Epstein’s corruption before any of the Democrats did.

In any event, there is little chance that any new investigation into the dead Epstein’s affairs will have any perceptible impact on Trump’s standing with the public. And the fact that the Democrats couldn’t care less about the fact that such an investigation is more likely to bring Bill Clinton into further disrepute (and possibly Hillary) shows how far that party has come.

Finally, what is the other reason why Times opinion writers think Trump had a “very bad week”? A “stinging SCOTUS dissent.” But wait! If it was a dissent, that means Trump won the case. In fact, he won the Department of Education issue in the Supreme Court on an 8-1 vote, with no other justices joining Ketanji Jackson’s “stinging dissent.”

This is how deep Democrats have to dig in their search for good news.

Newsbusters.

Status newsletter founder and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy interviewed NPR chief executive Katherine Maher on Sunday about the awfulness of what she saw (at least through Darcy’s paraphrasing) as a decision that was “politically motivated, structurally damaging, and devastating to rural communities where public broadcasting is often the last reliable source of local journalism….”

In journo-speak, of course, ‘Reliable’ means ‘pushes the Narrative’ and ‘Devastating to rural communities’ means ‘devastating to Cloud People influence among the Dirt People’.

As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else (Cleve R. Wootson Jr/Washington Post)

A QAnon-affiliated figure has hosted Trump’s VA secretary and at least four GOP members of Congress since May (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)  “QAnon-affiliated” is when they want to say MAGA but they can’t even pretend.

Washington Monthly, yet another fatuous Voice of the Crust.

Yeah? With what? What lever of power do the Democrats have in their hands, that they can ignore ‘negotiate’ and jump to ‘get tough’?

In late summer of a typical year, both parties in Congress are drafting bipartisan appropriations legislation that won’t get filibustered in the Senate and will keep the federal government open when the next fiscal year starts on October 1.

Yeah, both arms of the Uniparty get together to divvy up the swag.

This year is not typical.

Thank you, Donald Trump.

Congressional Republicans, at President Donald Trump’s behest, have unapologetically broken faith in the appropriations process by undermining a bipartisan agreement struck just four months ago.

As Democrats have done every time they could get away with it so long as I’ve been alive.

That deal kept the government open through the current fiscal year. Since Democrats can no longer trust Republicans to keep their word, they should abandon negotiations over Fiscal Year 2026 spending and let the Republican majority figure out how to keep the government open.

Democrats are fine ones to bitch about others not ‘keeping their word’. And, unlike Democrats, Republicans aren’t focused on keeping the government open; a lot of them would much rather shut it down.

Proglodytes have this annoying habit of talking as if they have power even when they don’t. I suspect that’s because, in their own minds, they still do; them not having power is no part of the fantasy world that they habitually inhabit.

Read it.

A CNN doctor who painted a dark picture of President Donald Trump’s health appears not to have practiced medicine since her residency, instead spending her career as a diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist. She is also an “apostle” of a church whose leader describes Trump as the “antichrist.”

Chris Pernell, a frequent television doctor on CNN and other news stations, warned last week that President Trump’s broadly unremarkable diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency could be more than it seemed.

In any case, it’s Trump’s problem, not ours.

How Trump Deflected MAGA’s Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

QAnon world roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)  I guess they got tired of typing ‘MAGA’.

MAGA-Geddon: It’s Been One Month Since Donald Trump Started ‘World War III’ by Bombing Iran

Newsbusters.

Here’s a rule of thumb: Anybody who thinks that the Federal Reserve isn’t innately a political entity should have his head examined. But the collective of prefrontal cortex-challenged geniuses on The Washington Post editorial board are acting as if this politicization only started when President Donald Trump started putting pressure on Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.

This gives new meaning to the term “headcase.”

The Post’s July 15 editorial was about as clear an attempt to drum up cheap scare porn as it gets. “Trump’s attacks on the Fed are worse than you think,” the editorial board cried. With Trump, it’s always “worse than you think.”

“Politicizing the Federal Reserve could unmoor inflation expectations and drive up borrowing costs.” “Unmoor inflation?” Really? And who exactly does the newspaper think was largely responsible for unmooring the 40-year high inflation crisis by arbitrarily overloading the money supply in the first place?

WIRED, a Voice of the Crust.

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

And because, as we all know, THERE WILL BE NO CANCER RESEARCH if the Federal government doesn’t pay for it.

Statists, assemble!

Newsbusters.

And why would they? After all, defending NPR is what all politically correct people do. Doesn’t even rate mention, it’s just normal.

After all, nobody they knew voted for Nixon….

Gabbard Feeds MAGA an Obama Conspiracy Amid Epstein Blowback (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

Desperate Trump Tries to Get MAGA Not to Care About Epstein (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)

A MAGA bot network on X is divided over the Trump-Epstein backlash (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Mika and MAGA!—Epstein Case Makes The Strangest Of Bedfellows

MAGA’s New Target: Trump (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)

The Foundry.

Or were White House staffers behind the unprecedented string of autopen signings?

In recent weeks, evidence has been mounting that the former president may not have been in the loop, which is, to be charitable, problematic.

Luckily for us, the folks at NBC News jumped into action with a story headlined, “Lead investigator into Biden’s use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature.”

In it, reporters Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona make an inane equivalence between lead investigator Rep. James Comer signing PDFs using a digital signature—a completely legal thing to do—and Biden allegedly allowing his staff to issue blanket presidential pardons for thousands of people without knowing the names or crimes of the recipients.

As anyone who works in an office can tell you, one of these instances is done for practical reasons. Unless you print, sign, and rescan every single letter you send, the only way to sign a PDF is to use a digital signature. The other signature was used to administer an awesome plenary constitutional power used by the president, and only the president.

It’s not just NBC News. Rather than investigating a possibly immense political scandal, many in the media pedantically focused on the “autopens.”

Straining at fleas and swallowing camels.

MAGA’s Epstein Fault Line (Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal)  Peggy Noonan is a great disappointment, having surrendered to the Narrative like the Kristol Krew and the RINO ‘conservatives’ at the New York Times.

The New Neo.

They won’t stop, they can’t stop, they don’t want to stop, and why would they? Salacious allegations get clicks, salacious allegations about Trump get more clicks, and salacious allegations about Trump and Epstein are especially hot right now.

Thus, we have this from the once-venerable Wall Street Journal: some sort of alleged birthday letter written in 2003 (yes, that’s not a typo) that is supposedly a compilation from many people, including a note supposedly from Trump with a drawing of a naked woman and some sort of suggestion that he and Epstein have “certain things in common.” If – like me – you don’t have access to the WSJ, You can find details here and here.

Newsbusters.

If Trump were acually a dictator all of these genetic mistakes would be in prison.

They don’t even try to make their lies realistic any more.

Read it.

Apparently the Narrative doesn’t bring in the bucks like it used to.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

A Crisis of MAGA Faith (The Bulwark)  ‘MAGA faith’, an invention of the Deep State.

Bring On the MAGA Revolt (Jake Lahut/Wired)  I guess ‘Trump supporters’ is too long to type. (Who has time for that?)

‘Superman’ Is MAGA Kryptonite (David French/New York Times)  David French must get awfully tired carrying water for the Left.

Trump, facing MAGA uproar over Epstein files, tries to shift blame elsewhere (ABC News)  I am MAGA, hear me roar, in headlines too wide to ignore….

Newsbusters.

The media’s desire to make themselves the main character in the story reached the Platonic level on Wednesday as CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane joined former moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, on his appropriately named podcast: The Chuck Toddcast. According to MacFarlane, he was diagnosed with PTSD after the first assassination attempt against President Trump, not because of the shooting, but because of the reaction of Trump supporters. Meanwhile, Todd thought this was a completely reasonable thing to claim.

MacFarlane recalled, “For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. This was—I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could, you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.”

A perfectly reasonable reaction, I think.

UPDATE: Sanctimonious Reporter Says He Got “PTSD” From Trump Assassination Attempt Because Of MAGA Supporters

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki sounded the alarm on The Briefing to warn against the Trump administration’s desire to “dismantle” the Department of Education. Despite fear mongering talking points, Psaki failed to generate any concrete opposition for the cuts and instead claimed essential programs would collapse.

Because, as we all know, education is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–and if the government didn’t shell out for education, NO EDUCATION WOULD HAPPEN.

Power Line.

Another blow to the tariff panicans today, from MarketWatch,

Wholesale prices are flat in June, PPI shows, and point to muted effect of tariffs on inflation.

In this instance, “muted” means none, zero, non-existent.

Here “PPI” stands for the producer price index, the wholesale version of the retail consumer price index, CPI. Yesterday, the CPI was published, which led the Wall Street Journal to lead with this Page 1 headline, printed above the fold this morning,

Inflation Picks Up to 2.7% as Tariffs Start to Seep Into Prices.

The Journal piled on with an editorial this morning,

Trump Tariffs Hit Consumer Prices.

The media narrative that was written back in early April had the Trump tariffs sparking Weimer Republic/Zimbabwe/Argentina-levels of galloping hyperinflation.

In anticipation, they went and cornered the market on those wheelbarrows that you would have needed to cart around the cash to buy a loaf of break.

But it never happened. And it’s killing them. It’s killing them dead.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

The point is that it’s not ‘happening to anyone’, it’s only happening to certain people, such as illegal immigrants and those who hang out around marijuana farms.

Newsbusters.

To the liberal media, everything was Trump’s fault. That’s exactly what CNN News Central executed on Wednesday when the Mendoza family was covered in a segment for moving to Mexico because President Trump was in office. This was the family’s way to fulfill a “self-deportation,” and Trump was the one to blame on CNN, rather than the father who came in illegally.

Julio Mendoza was an illegal immigrant from Mexico since he was 11, while his wife, Sasha, and kids were U.S. citizens residing in Pittsburgh. The Mendoza’s decided after seeing the news coverage of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, who’s an illegal immigrant arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that they should move to Mexico. CNN took this story and ran with it.

I guess his wife counts as two people. Have you ever noticed that you quite often see pictures of grossly obese black women, and sometimes pictures of grossly obese white women, but you never see pictures of grossly obese Asian women? Why is that?

Trump Tries to Put Down Epstein Revolt by Calling MAGA Rebels ‘Bad People’ (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Trump told MAGA to be quiet about Jeffrey Epstein. Fox News obeyed. (MSNBC)  That MAGA guy certainly gets around.

Trump Goes Off On His Own MAGA Base: ‘I Don’t Want Their Support Anymore!’ (Marita Vlachou/HuffPost)

Inside Trump’s Frantic, Failing Mission to Crush the Epstein ‘MAGA Rebellion’ (Rolling Stone)

Trump makes it personal with MAGA over Epstein (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Newsbusters.

Seriously, what is it with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s obsession with simping for Chinese communists just so he could “muh, get Trump?” Of course, he presents it the other way around: Trump is stupidly aiding the Chinese by being against “liberal” sources of energy. He’s doubling down on Beijing’s fake persona as the paragon of clean energy virtue to attack the green sludge subsidy cuts within President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The Five MAGA Factions Waging an Epstein Civil War (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)

Trump faces a MAGA rebellion over Epstein outcry (Adam Wren/Politico)

MAGA’s siege mentality shadows Trump’s “Golden Age” shadows Trump’s “Golden Age” (Axios)

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength (Paul Krugman)  For Krugman, ignorance is knowledge.

Maga stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes Trump over Ukraine arms shipments (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)

How Elon Musk’s X is fueling the MAGA-Trump split (Aaron Mak/Politico)

The MAGA blowup over Pam Bondi has been a long time coming (Politico)

Read it.

Gergen was a dyed-in-the-wool apparatchik of the Deep State, as David Brooks is increasingly becoming.

This was so obvious that Rush Limbaugh invariably referred to him as “David Rodham Gergen”.

Tucker Carlson leads MAGA’s worried warriors in questioning Trump (Allan Smith/NBC News)

MAGA media’s conspiracy theories put Trump in power — and now they’re coming back to bite him (Brian Stelter/CNN)

July 13, 2025 — This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

MAGA Demands Trump Use Teen Sex Accused Gaetz to Probe Epstein (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  Accused! That proves it!

The New York Times, paper of record of the Narrative.

Did you ever wonder why Leftists are so outraged by the prospect of anybody saving money on taxes?

Reminder: Companies, big or little, don’t pay taxes. They merely collect taxes. Taxes are, to a business, and expense, and wind up being included in the price of their product–or they go out of business. The people who actually pay the taxes are their customers. This fact of elementary economics is beyond the mental reach of the morons who commit ‘journalism’.

Newsbusters.

Caleb Howe at Mediaite reported that on Saturday’s Velshi, MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance said ICE agents wearing masks during enforcement actions could face “lawful” violence against them by people who mistake raids for a “kidnapping.”

As one would expect from a Trump-hating MSNBC pundit, Vance guessed that everything ICE was doing was based on zero evidence except for skin color: “You can’t simply racially profile or profile people based on their national origin and start pulling them off the streets.”

She stuck to routine MSNBC phrasing: “That, by definition, is a police state.”

Vance further insulted the people who have effectively sealed off the border as more loyal to Trump than the rule of law and the Constitution: “the people in charge are no longer the career officials with training who understand loyalty to the Constitution. These are quite literally people who understand loyalty to Donald Trump.” That’s rich coming from the Biden open-borders allies.

After the typical “anti-fascist” Canadian political science professor lamented the descending authoritarianism, Velshi then nudged Vance to claim ICE deserves whatever violence they receive.

UPDATE: ‘The View’ Host Declares Violence Against ICE Agents Is Part Of A Justified “Reckoning”

Newsbusters.

Thursday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which appears on taxpayer-funded PBS after airing on CNN International, veered even further left than usual with a glowing interview of Mr. Socialist himself, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Host Christiane Amanpour’s set-up for the interview, which launched the show, left no mistaking where she stood on Trump’s big bill: On the hard left.

My, what a surprise.

Unmentioned in any of this discussion is where the poor got all of this money that is being ‘transferred to the rich’.

Newsbusters.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the failed assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, a transcendent event in our nation’s politics and history that demands reflection. However, the anniversary of the shooting was mostly met with indifference on the legacy media’s Sunday political talk shows.

NBC’s Meet the Press didn’t touch Butler until close to the end of the show, as a subject matter for a panel discussion segment. What is striking about the discussion is that it was centered on the politics of the day and the state of the campaigns- as opposed to a reflection on political violence.

NBC would have you believe that the truest, purest victim of that day was the electoral aspirations of President Joe Biden and not the unmentioned Corey Comperatore, who gave his life in order to protect his wife and daughter from the assassin’s bullets- or, for that matter, the other two gentlemen who were wounded on that day. These three didn’t warrant so much as a mention on the NBC panel, which instead focused on that day.

The Narrative Media love to focus discussions on abstract notions of ‘violence’ rather than the specifics of who is being violent to whom. That way they can avoid any mention of the fact that most ‘violence’ in this country is perpetrated by leftist political activists and criminal elements among fashionable minorities.

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.”

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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.

Read it.

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.