Newsbusters.

America has no reason for hope – and there’s no way the nation can escape hopelessness – CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl says in a fearmongering PBS special purporting to examine the boundaries of presidential authority.

Stahl is a panelist in PBS’s misleadingly titled How Much Executive Power Is Too Much? Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play – a transparently manipulative effort to vilify President Donald Trump by portraying the threat-to-democracy deeds of a hypothetical “President Powerton.”

Trump considers redirecting $3 billion in Harvard grants to US trade schools (Reuters)

What to Know About the Deportees the U.S. Is Trying to Send to South Sudan (New York Times)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Trump pardons Virginia sheriff convicted of federal bribery charges (Stacey Dec/ABC News)

Five Years On, NY Times Weeps: Noble BLM Has Given Way to Trump’s ‘White Grievance’

7 ways Republicans are split over Trump’s ‘big bill’ (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)

Within Pete Hegseth’s divided inner circle, a ‘cold war’ endures (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)

Trump’s China Tariffs Are Having a ‘Massive Impact’ on Small Business (Peter Eavis/New York Times)

Republican Crackdown on Aid to Immigrants Would Hit U.S. Citizens (New York Times)  It is an article of faith among the Woke that the minute someone receives a government benefit they are therefore entitled to that (or more) forever and ever, along with all of their Friends And Relations.

Harvard’s Laurence Tribe Delivers Unflinching Message To Foreign Students In Trump Crosshairs (Lee Moran/HuffPost)  Tribe is famous for twisting the Constitution in service of Wokery, which has of course made him the darling of proglodytes everywhere.

As Trump targets elite schools, Harvard’s president says they should ‘stand firm’ (NPR)  Easy for him to say.

Trump Chooses Memorial Day to Lash Out at Political Foes Rather Than Honor Fallen Heroes (John Moretti/Agence France-Presse)  I saw him do a lot of the later and not much of the former.

Dem Reps Aren’t Done Pushing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)  Of course. They’re a one-trick pony. It’s all they’ve got.

MAGA Erupts Over ’60 Minutes’ Correspondent’s Viral Warnings About Trump (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right regimes, billionaire investor warns (David Smith/The Guardian)  Like Roosevelt?

All Hail Our Rococo President! (Emily Keegin/New York Times)  The real reason they hate Trump is that he’s just so tacky.

Trump is withdrawing whiteness from white immigrants (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Proglodytes just can’t get away from their fetish about skin color.

Another Indefensible Trump Pardon (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

The hidden elitism of RFK’s MAHA movement is making America more unhealthy (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

This One SCOTUS Ruling Unleashed the Trump Chaos We’re Living In Now. Will John Roberts Do Anything About It? (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)  Don’t hold your breath.

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner (Kenneth P. Vogel/New York Times)

There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises (Carlton Reid/Wired)

Live updates: NPR and stations file lawsuit against Trump, arguing ending federal funding is illegal (Associated Press)

JD Vance and the Honky Tonk Man (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  The Kristol Krew specializes in name-calling.

Trump announces full pardon for Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery (Jared Gans/The Hill)

The ugly truth behind ICE agents’ masks (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Surely Trump’s Wacko West Point Commencement Speech Proves He’s Mentally Unfit to Serve (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  And of coursd we all take political advice from a gay fashion mag.

MAHA in Disarray: Leading Anti-Vaxxer Parts Ways with RFK (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  MAHA is the Next New Nigger.

Uncle Sam’s new message to young Black Americans: I don’t want you (Phillip E. Thompson/Washington Post)

Trump Court Pick Once Called For Bringing Back Literacy Tests In Elections (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Proglodytes, of course, are all for illiterate voters.

Bobby Jr. would like to give your baby COVID (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE)

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NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House (David Folkenflik/NPR)

NPR Sues Trump Over Order to Cut Funding (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)

Judge pleads with Trump administration for ‘reason over rhetoric’ in deportation case (Politico)  Talk to the Democrats.

Federal Judge Denies Putting ICE Agents at Risk

Corporate America’s retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs (Maria Aspan/NPR)  Ah, now we have it. It’s all about make-work government and corporate jobs. Discrimination is okay as long as the Correct People profit.

NPR Sues Trump Administration Over Funding Cut  Becuase, as we all know, once someone gets money from they government, they are entitled to that (or more) forever.

BREAKING: Leftist Snobs at NPR Sue Trump, Claim THEY Embody First Amendment

NPR sues Trump over executive order slashing federal funding (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

Hegseth’s Safe Space (Oliver Darcy/Status)

NPR Lawsuit Alleges Trump Funding Cuts Violate First Amendment

NPR sues Trump administration over executive order to cut federal funding to public media (David Bauder/Associated Press)

Judge Temporarily Blocks White House From Ending Congestion Pricing (New York Times)

Watch: Footage Shows Activist Judge Helping Illegal Immigrant Avoid ICE

Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Targeting WilmerHale (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Read it.

The Washington Poop was once one of the most read and profitable newspaper in the country.

Gee, I wonder what happened?

Newsbusters.

No, Obamacare forced people to buy coverage that they didn’t want or need (like abortion coverage for nuns) because that was what the Wokerati decided they ought to have. The Tea Party opposed it becuase Obama lied, early and often.

Newsbusters.

Paula Kerger, chief executive of the taxpayer-subsidized Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), recently told the New York Times, “In terms of the news, we work really hard to try to bring multiple viewpoints forward.”

But as the second Trump administration begins and PBS comes under unprecedented existential pressure from the administration for its liberally biased evening news product, a review of coverage of the first four months of Trump II proves the PBS News Hour still occupies a liberal bubble, and it’s sealed tight as ever.

Read it.

When truth hits Narrative, truth always loses.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Nothing highlights the poverty of the media-Democratic mind than its weary use of echo-chamber buzzwords.

Once Pravda-like instructions are sent out from DNC operatives, mindless media anchors mouth them in lockstep as gospel.

So, it was with the supposed “ambush” when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met Donald Trump. Trump indeed pressed his guest on a number of issues, from the decades-long targeted killing of white agriculturalists on their farms by black hit teams that have totaled somewhere between 1,500 and 3,500, depending on how one defines such targeted killings.

Jasmine Crockett: ‘It’s Time for Republicans to Question Trump’s Mental Acuity’ (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Mike Johnson Insists It’s ‘Moral’ to Throw People Off Medicaid (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

What Democrats Can Learn From Bruce Springsteen (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)

For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men (Erica L. Green/New York Times)  They should help everybody.

The pool’s open. Trump’s laid off the team that helps protect swimmers. (Sophie Gardner/Politico)  Because, as we all know, protecting swimmers it TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump’s Vision: One World, Three Powers? (Edward Wong/New York Times)  Maybe he just wants America to be great again.

Painter Jean: Casey Means, our next Wiccan Surgeon General  And the lies just keep on comin’.

Sunset Park after-school program upended by Trump’s AmeriCorps cuts (The Gothamist) Because, as we all know, after-school programs are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis (The Atlantic)

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder (Evan Osnos/New Yorker)  Worse than ‘Ten Percent for the Big Guy”?

What Pete Hegseth Gets Wrong About ‘Warfighting’ (Thomas E. Ricks/Politico)

Members Only: A New Trump Club, Ned’s Club and the Enduring Old Guard (Elisabeth Bumiller/New York Times)  Feminists hate it where there’s any place they can’t go, be it men’s clubs or men’s bathrooms.

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Democrats actively oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to arrest and deport illegal immigrants, despite the administration’s focus on those with criminal histories.

To support their opposition, Democrats frequently claim, almost as an article of faith, that illegal immigrants are less prone to commit crime. “The crime rate among immigrants is far lower than the crime rate among native-born Americans,” New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler asserted confidently. “So the whole issue is wrong.”

Being in this contry illegally is a crime in itself, so there is no such thing as a non-criminal illegal immigrant–some are just more criminal than others.

The Other McCain.

My two daughters are named Kennedy and Reagan, and one of my sons is named Jefferson, so I’m not against the trend of presidential names, but probably you shouldn’t name your daughter “Carter.” That was my first thought when I encountered the name Carter Sherman, who writes for the U.S. edition of the Guardian. Knowing my readership, I’m sure the commenters will engage in a spree of ad hominem remarks about Miss Sherman’s appearance, but while y’all will be slagging her looks, my concern is about the nature of her work. Mark Judge has a very interesting article about Miss Sherman and her forthcoming book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future.

There’s a certain hall-of-mirrors factor involved here: When Miss Sherman was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, she and her sorority sisters were interviewed by Peggy Orenstein of the New York Times, who was working on a book about young women’s sex lives. Orenstein, then in her 50s, was focused on the theme of “hookup culture,” and Miss Sherman says she and her Northwestern sorority sisters disappointed Orenstein’s expectations: “Frankly, we weren’t slutty enough.” So now Miss Sherman has written her own book, with its own preconceived conclusion, i.e., that “sexual conservatism” is the real danger to women, and I suppose her work is about as reliable as Orenstein’s, which is to say, not reliable at all.

The newspaper business was created by men for men: “Tell us the facts. Let us know what’s going on. Don’t take all day about it; we’re busy.”  The Fox News trope says it all: “We report. You decide.” It’s all about the story. Watch the film His Girl Friday to see how that worked.

‘Journalism’, however, is a pseudo-profession that has been taken over by the female mindset: Start with a heart-warming (or tear-jerking) story that sets the emotional tone for the propaganda that follows. Every ‘journalism’ student ever says the same thing in response to the question, “Why are you in journalism school?”: “Because I want to make a difference!” It’s not about the story, it’s all about me. (And that’s why it takes forever to get to the point; we are all the stars of our own movies. The selfie is queen.) Watch the film Shattered Glass to see thie modus operandi in action – or review the history of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to (and then revoked from) ‘journalists’ who made it all up to win the prize.

For the record: Miss Sherman would have been good-looking enough for any practical purpose (i.e. finding a good husband) prior to the distortions induced by the Kardashian Age.

A Convenient Piece of Junk Science (Keren Landman/The Atlantic)  ‘Junk Science’ is anything that doesn’t support the Narrative.

With $37 million and a jet, Trump’s presidential library takes off, Eric Trump as pilot (Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy/USA Today)

Europe’s Been Negotiating by the Book, but Trump’s Tearing It Up (Jeanna Smialek/New York Times)  Which is what he was elected to do.

JD Vance’s Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end (The Times)  You’ll notice the Vance quotation refers to culture, not actual genetic ancestry.

Trump Profits Like No Other President, as Outrage Is Muted (Peter Baker/New York Times) More than Biden? More than Clinton? Seriously? Seriously?

Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex (New York Times)  “This guy does deals that make money. We want him to make such a deal here.” Not hard to tell.

Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work–but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer (Joe Cirincione/New Republic)

How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

J. D. Vance Warns Courts to Get in Line (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)  This is news? Who doesn’t know that?

Trump Allies Look to Benefit From Pro Bono Promises by Elite Law Firms (New York Times)  After all, it’s All About Trump.

Trump the central planner (Emily Peck/Axios)  The Narrative Media keep projecting attitudes onto Trump because such characterize their enemies and so, since Trump is another of their enemies, he must believe them too. Trump is neither a conservative nor a libertarian, so to treat him as if he were means a constant round of surprises and bewilderment.

Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power? (Kate Shaw/New York Times)  I just don’t understand it! (Maybe because he’s right? But that would never occur to her.)

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Today in Democrat Lawfare

JUST IN: Judge Strikes Down Another Big Law EO (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

How Trump’s clash with the courts is brewing into an ‘all-out war’ (Zac Anderson/USA Today)  Yeah, and who is suing whom? Trump isn’t starting this war.

Read it.

Lefty activist CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins appeared visibly pissed off Thursday as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke of the media’s complicity in eroding freedoms during the COVID pandemic.

Kennedy noted that the likes of CNN acted as parroting mouthpieces for spreading false information, coercing people to accept lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

“You know, one of the big mistakes that you and many of your media colleagues made during COVID is to try to convince the American people that they should trust the experts,” Kennedy said.

Newsbusters.

en years ago this week, Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders formally announced his first bid for the White House. It was the most serious left-wing campaign since Henry Wallace in the late 1940s, with a platform that included massive new spending, oppressively higher taxes, and a crippling $18 trillion in new debt.

Which is why people voted for Trump.

By any definition, it was an extremist agenda. Yet while a similarly extreme far-right candidate would have faced withering criticism from the press, the establishment media celebrated Sanders for his “passion” and the “seriousness” of his radical ideas.

As they do.

Read it. And by all means watch the videos.

YouTube’s content rules apparently don’t apply to corporate media darlings.

Case in point: Wired (Publisher: Condé Nast) recently published a video walking viewers through the exact process of building a copycat version of the untraceable 9mm “ghost gun” allegedly used in the UnitedHealth CEO shooting by Lugi Mangione.

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Meanwhile, YouTube explicitly prohibits content that provides instructions on manufacturing firearms, including ghost guns.

Guns Are Bad, unless they’re used by the Woke, in which case it’s okay.

Bad news for Trump’s Golden Dome: He can’t build it without Canada (Politico) Bullshit. Yeah, we worked with Canada on NORAD during the Cold War, but they weren’t, and aren’t, necessary. We had a BMEWS base in Greenland that could be revived, to guard against Russia, and plenty of land in Alaska for BMEWS installations to guard against China and North Korea. Look at the map, and don’t believe the Narrative.

Belgian princess left in doubt about her Harvard future following Trump’s foreign student ban (Associated Press)  Belgium has a number of fine universities, and British universities would certainly welcome her. She just wants the Harvard brand. She could always go to Yale or Princeton, which would greet her with open arms. Or she could do what the other Eurotrash do and go to Brown.

Bessent Says Trump Administration Moving Forward on Harvard Tax Threat (Bloomberg)

What Are People Still Doing on X? (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)  It’s called ‘free speech’. No surprise that somebody at The Atlantic doesn’t recognize it.

RFK Jr.’s report had a surprise target: Your doctor (Chelsea Cirruzzo/Politico)

Hidden Threat to Democracy Slipped Into Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill (Sarah Ewall-Wice/The Daily Beast)

A Ludicrous New Supreme Court Decision Could Grant Trump Presidential Power Not Seen Since King George III (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  Of course we all depend on a gay fashion magazine for constitutional advice….

The Court’s ‘Make It Up As You Go’ Constitution (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

White House dismisses scores of National Security Council staff (Washington Post)  That’s a feature, not a bug.

Whitman College President Officiates Anti-Trump Lesbian Wedding Featuring A “Wusband”

MSNBC Portrays Trump As An Insult To Memorial Day

Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)  You can’t make this stuff up.

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Today in Democrat Lawfare

Judge strikes down Trump’s executive order against Jenner & Block law firm (Mark Berman/Washington Post)

Judge temporarily blocks effort to ban Harvard from enrolling foreign students (Susan Svrluga/Washington Post)

Judge Extends Order Blocking Trump’s Planned Mass Layoffs (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times)

Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over 60 Minutes Interview (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Trump executive order targeting Jenner law firm unconstitutional, judge rules (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

Read Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump (New York Times)

Politico: California AG considers suing Trump over new Apple tax

Newsbusters.

On Friday, ABC’s Selina Wang reported for World News Tonight the latest developments between the Trump Administration and Harvard. The latest battle is over Trump’s move to ban the school from enrolling foreign students, but based on Wang’s reports, someone might assume that Harvard is the only university in the country. At the same time, on NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell echoed Harvard’s claim that the move was an assault on the First Amendment while providing precious little from the Trump perspective.

Wang began by recapping that, “Today, a federal judge temporarily blocking President Trump’s move to ban Harvard from enrolling international students writing, ‘the university showed it would cause immediate and irreparable injury.’”

Newsbusters.

The national media use polls the way they deploy all kinds of facts. They very carefully organize things to make it look like their worldview is winning. Throughout these first months of the second term, they’ve presented Trump’s actions as chaotic and (they hope) politically damaging to Republicans.

So they may not notice polls that offer some good news. Let’s take the Real Clear Politics average of polls on whether the country’s going in the right or wrong direction. The numbers are more positive than anyone watching the networks would expect. It could be defined as voters stiff-arming the relentless media negativity.

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, ‘science funding’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal tazpayer. And, as we all know, without ‘Federal funding’, no funding will be available for ‘science’ anywhere anytime from anybody.

Trump Thinks It Was ‘Stupid’ Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He’s Making Up for It (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)  The simple fact is that nobody writing for the Rolling Stone has a clue as to what Trump actually ‘thinks’; all they know is the fantasies that they project onto him as a launching point for whatever hatred they want to throw his way.

The Republican Party’s Populist Betrayal (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

The Profound Inhumanity of ICE Raids (Margaret Renkl/New York Times)

The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king (Robert Reich) Robert Reich never got over the fact that being a Climton crony never got him the wealth and fame that he deserved. As long as the Narrative Media can depend on him for deranged hatred of Trump in particular and Republicans generally,  he will always get a platform.

Trump undermined Biden’s FEMA in North Carolina. Now the cleanup is lagging on his watch. (Zack Colman/Politico) Because, as we all know, cleanup after storms is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Charlie and the Ambassadorship Factory (Elizabeth Spiers/The Nation)  Apparently Trump Cooties are spreading far and wide. Not only must Trump be trashed, not only must his family be trashed, but anybody connected to him (‘linked’) must be trashed. It’s a moral imperative!

Trump Family Turns Presidency Into Most Lucrative Venture Yet (Bloomberg)

Disney CEO Told ‘The View’ to Temper Trump Bashing  Good luck with that.

Chicago Mayor Rips Trump as ‘Monster’  Of course he does.

Trump’s $600 million war chest: How he plans to wield his power in the midterms and beyond (Associated Press)  There is no possible way that anybody writing for the Associated Press has a clue what Trump’s plans are; all they can write about is what they guess his plans are, typically based on what they are afraid he’s going to do, or what they would do were they in his position.

Trump dines with top meme coin holders, shrugging off ethics concerns (Washington Post)  After all,  he doesn’t have the whole Narrative Media covering for him as the Biden Crime Family did.

Trump and Johnson’s Big Ugly Lie (Chris Lehmann/The Nation)

Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Apparently pointing out that another government is conducting racist genocide is a ‘mugging’. Good to know.

PBS Twists Democratic Shoving, Discrimination Into Trump Punishing ‘Political Adversaries’ Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Why Pete Hegseth leading a Christian prayer service at the Pentagon is so problematic (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

Supreme Court Kills The Independent Agency. Trump Is King (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

Judge says Trump has power to impose tariffs, but punts lawsuit to different court (Associated Press)

Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)

Republicans Pass Horrid Tax Bill Thanks to Democrats Dying in Office (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

The Party of ‘Denihilism’ — THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” is big, at over a thousand pages. (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)  I’ll bet they think they’re clever with that title.

Kristi Noem’s proud MAGA bimbo act builds on the legacy of Sarah Palin (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face (New Republic)  Greg Sarggent loses his shit.

Trump administration seeks to end basic rights and protections for child immigrants in its custody (Maanvi Singh/The Guardian)  A rather trandparent lie.

‘Say Good Bye To Grandma’: Kimmel, Daily Show Continue Attacks On BBB

Night of 220 $TRUMPETS (video) (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

A Permanent Stain on Our History (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  He’s talking about Trump, not student pro-Hamas terrorism and riots. In case you were wondering.

Kristi Noem’s Needlessly Cruel Diss to Deported Migrants (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)  Josephine may even cry.

Trump Resumes Effort to Destroy Economy (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) I’d be happy with him just destroying the Narrative Media.

CBS’s Pelley Gives Hateful, Pompous Commencement Speech Smearing Trump, MAGA

PolitiFact Declines To Give Schumer a False Label For False Claim About DOGE

Trump doesn’t understand business — his tariff tantrums make that clear (Chris Truax/The Hill)  If Chris Truax is such an expert on business, why isn’t he a billionaaire – like Trump?

Trump’s Lie about Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  And Greg Sargent’s lies are more grotesque yet.

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Federal judge blocks Trump admin moves to dismantle Dept of Education (Anders Hagstrom/Fox News)

Judge blocks Trump’s orders to dismantle the Education Department and fire employees (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)

Judge Blocks Trump Admin Plan to Gut Education Department

Judge blocks Trump bid to dismantle Department of Education (Politico)

Judge halts dismantling of Education Department, orders fired workers to be reinstated (NBC News)

Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department (Nicole Cohen/NPR)

Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling Education Department (Michael C. Bender/New York Times)

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking international students’ legal status (NBC News)

Judge says she is inclined to further pause layoffs at most major agencies (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)

Trump to sign more executive orders as courts continue to halt some of his actions (Washington Post)

HARVARD SUES TRUMP ADMIN OVER INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT BLOCK (The Harvard Crimson)

Judge extends order blocking Trump’s mass federal worker layoffs (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)

Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International Students (Stephanie Saul/New York Times)

Ousted head of Copyright Office challenges Trump administration in court (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Judge extends block on Trump’s DOGE plans for mass firing of federal workers (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students (Reuters)

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign student enrollment at Harvard (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)

Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from revoking Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students (NBC News)

Fired Copyright Office head sues Trump administration over removal (Andrew Limbong/NPR)

Read it.

The legacy media’s coverage of the recent arrival of 49 white refugees from South Africa shows a lamentable hypocrisy compared with its reporting on the previous four years of the mass release of illegal immigrants at the border, their mass parole, and lax enforcement of immigration and deportation laws within our nation.

Unlike the border influx, which was from 180-plus countries, this small group was comprised of Afrikaners—the descendants of Dutch and other Europeans who started arriving in South Africa in 1652. (They are also called Boers, from the Dutch word for “farmer.”)

For years, the media parroted the Biden administration’s line that the millions of people he let in—who skewed young and male—were all deserving of our refuge. They hardly questioned the dogma that every one of these millions was persecuted—and innocent of any crime himself—back in his home country. Yet a recent Washington Post article (along with many others) covering the arrival of the Afrikaners in the United States was highly skeptical of their asylum claims.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Oh, ya think?

Newsbusters.

Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS still have yet to utter a single word about the radical left-wing politics of the man who allegedly gunned down two Israeli embassy employees on Wednesday evening in Washington D.C. In the first 24 hours after the attack, across their live-streaming and flagship morning and evening news programs, all of these networks, as well as MSNBC, stubbornly concealed both the shooter’s political leanings — including his membership with the radical left-wing Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — from their audiences.

MRC analysts looked at all news coverage on left-leaning cable (CNN and MSNBC) and broadcast networks from 6:00 a.m. ET on Thursday through 8:59 a.m. ET Friday. Across all six channels, the only anchor, guest, or reporter to admit the alleged shooter was “left-wing” (or any similar terminology; see below for all search terms) was CNN’s Jake Tapper. Nobody else on CNN, let alone on MSNBC or any of the broadcast networks, cared to tie the attack to the political left.

Likewise, both the broadcast networks and MSNBC have completely hidden the alleged perpetrator’s PSL membership, once again making CNN the only network that even came close to doing its job of reporting the news.

Read it.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out on Thursday night at world leaders for spreading “Hamas’s propaganda” that Israel is starving Palestinian children, which culminated in the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

“A few days ago, a top U.N. official said that 14,000 Palestinian babies would die in 48 hours. You see many international institutions are complicit in spreading this lie,” Netanyahu said in a video posted on X.

“The press repeats it. The mob believed it. And a young couple is then brutally gunned down in Washington,” the premier said, referencing victims Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington on Wednesday night.

Hamas lies. That’s what they do. And the Narrative Media propagates those lies. That’s what they do.

UPDDATE: Amb. Danon: Forces at UN ‘Facilitating Terrorism’

Read it.

And the Narrative Media; don’t forget them.

Newsbusters.

Despite admitting that white people were having their land taken by the South African government as racial retribution, the leftist extremists of ABC’s The View opened Thursday’s show by arguing that not enough white people had been killed fast enough for it to be considered a “genocide” as President Trump said. According to their ghoulish hate, any suggestion otherwise was “false conspiracy theory.”

“THERE IS NO GENOCIDE!” moderator and racist, Whoopi Goldberg yelled as co-host Sara Haines suggested that over 1,300 targeted killings of white farmers were not enough to care about:

Newsbusters.

Status newsletter writer and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy showed Wednesday how hate rages through his veins and soul at conservatives and particularly at “right-wing media” because he argued this “irresponsible,” “dishonest machine” filled with “malicious” intent — which contain plenty of good and decent people — “do not deserve” credit for being out in front of legacy (liberal) media on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

The headline and subhead were cartoonishly filled with hate: “The Right’s Biden Revisionism; For years, right-wing media pushed a warped narrative of Joe Biden as a brain-dead puppet controlled by sinister, shadowy forces. Now they’re demanding vindication—but they do not deserve it.”

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.

The administration notified Harvard about the decision after a back-and-forth in recent days over the legality of a sprawling records request as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s investigation, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The latest move is likely to prompt a second legal challenge from Harvard, according to another person familiar with the school’s thinking who insisted on anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The university sued the administration last month over the government’s attempt to impose changes to its curriculum, admissions policies and hiring practices.

UPDATE: Harvard Loses Foreign Students for Promoting “Pro-Terrorist Conduct”

Tools of Renewal.

It is difficult to relate to people who live at mental extremes. It is hard or impossible to put yourself in the shoes of a schizophrenic, for example. It’s hard to understand a Palestinian who legitimately believes he should cut Jews up and send his proud parents videos of himself covered with blood. There are many such Palestinians, though. I can’t imagine myself in the mind of a person who thinks he is entitled to shoplift. It’s hard to identify with people who are so arrogant and dishonest they behave as though they suffer from delusions.

When you are care about others and you are pretty rational, it takes a lot of energy to maintain the understanding of how bad or crazy other people are.

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Naturally, this brings me to the subject of Jake Tapper. Not just Tapper, but the entire leftist apparatus, from rainbow-haired kids who think they have a right to punch people in red hats to journalists who call it “retaliation” when China increases tariffs in response to our retaliation for decades of abusing us.

Let’s see where the Narrative Media are stampeding today, shall we?

Judge Threatens DHS Officials With Contempt Over Migrant Removals To South Sudan (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

Judge Orders U.S. to Keep Custody of Migrants Amid Claims They Were Sent to South Sudan (New York Times)

US Accused of Defying Order by Sending Migrants to S. Sudan

Migrants deported to South Sudan in violation of court order, attorneys say (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)  Attorneys say! That proves it!

Trump admin deports Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order, lawyers say (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

U.S. put Asian migrants on deportation flight to South Sudan, lawyers allege (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)

National Science Foundation Ends 196 Grants To Harvard Amid Feud With Trump (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Cuomo, Singling Out Another Political Target (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Don’t lose sight of the pain Trump is passing on to American consumers (Jeff Nesbit/The Contrarian)

Massie Fundraises Off Being ‘Threatened’ by Trump

Marco Rubio Says No Judge Has Authority Over Him in Alarming Testimony (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds (Ben Leonard/Politico)

Trump Administration Live Updates: House G.O.P. Hunts for Votes on Policy Bill (New York Times)

Blue States Mount Court Challenge to Trump’s Tariffs

Enraged Democrats plan to “double down” on ICE visits (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Trump’s $4 trillion deficit bomb (Zachary Basu/Axios)

The controversy over Rep. LaMonica McIver’s criminal charges, explained (Niall Stanage/The Hill)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Musk Insults Interviewer for Daring to Ask About His Big DOGE Promise (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

A Liz Truss Moment for America? (Paul Krugman)

Trump’s Plan to Cap Drug Prices Doesn’t Exist (Rogé Karma/The Atlantic)

rhetoric’ (Washington Post)

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago (Chiara Eisner/NPR)  More to the point, it isn’t scaremongering and causing panic the way it was months ago.

Trump Is Waging War on the Future (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

The conspiracy theory that broke Dan Bongino (Philip Bump/Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.

Pope Leo XIV’s MAGA Brother Gets White House Blessing From Trump (Lee Moran/HuffPost)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  So holding lpoliticians to account for breaking the law is ‘politicization’? Say it with me: Nobody Is Above The Law. Not even Democrat Congresscritters.

Trump’s Newest Crackdown on Dissent (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)

Universities struggle to keep cancer research afloat amid Trump funding cuts (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, cancer research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

EU, Business Join to Stop “Romanian Donald Trump”  Maybe Trump is the New Nigger.

The Spanish Historical Lesson (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin demonstrates that she is as ignorant of history as she is of economics.

Budget office: Republicans’ megabill would give to the rich and take from the poor (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Only if you think all money belongs to the government. If you don’t, it lets the rich keep more of the money that creates jobs, and quits giving money to the poor who just spend it.

The GOP Tax Bill Ignores Decades of Economic Research (Kathryn Anne Edwards/Bloomberg)  Because it was wrong, and has put us in our current predicament.

US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan (The Guardian)  According to ‘immigrants rights advocates’, and they wouldn’t lie to us, would they?

The forgotten book that foretold Trump’s power grab (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Trump ambushes South Africa’s president with video footage in Oval Office (Avery Lotz/Axios)  Ambushed him with the truth by playing a clip of his people singing ‘Kill the Boer’. (Trump Confronts South African President Over Killing of White Farmers)(Trump Shows South African President Receipts of Genocide)

Trump’s big bill is terrible in all the normal Republican ways (Dylan Matthews/Vox)

Judge criticizes DOJ for ‘worrisome’ and ’embarrassing’ blunders in arrest of New Jersey mayor at ICE facility (Ry Rivard/Politico)

Trump illegally fired surveillance watchdog agency’s Democrats, judge rules (Alfred Ng/Politico)

Maybe I need a new post for Today in Democrat Lawfare.

Newsbusters.

As NewsBusters was first to report, in April, the Associated Press was sued for defamation by U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young with combined damages possibly reaching $453 million. In a Monday filing obtained by NewsBusters, the AP via their lawyer Charles Tobin (who also represented CNN during Young’s successful defamation trial against them) requested that the court dismiss the case.

Throughout the filing, the AP referred to Young’s accusations as “meritless defamation claims” and asked Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit (who also oversaw the CNN trial) to “dismiss this lawsuit with prejudice under Florida’s Anti-SLAPP statute, which protect ‘the rights of free speech in connection with public issues.’”

The Foundry.

Much has been made of The Associated Press getting the boot from the White House. It’s even sparked a protracted legal battle between AP and the Trump administration.

The AP’s sudden difficulty getting access to the president has been a long time coming as the news organization has drifted strongly to the left in recent years.

What’s equally important to note is the recent shift in AP’s funding model, which increasingly relies on donations from, in many cases, far-left advocacy organizations.

Take, for instance, a recent AP story on the budget reconciliation bill making its way through Congress and the inclusion of a $5 billion school voucher program.

The story is framed with the assumption that school choice policies are harmful.

The AP reporter called the inclusion of school choice policies in the bill an “unprecedented effort to use public money to pay for private education” and presented a somewhat lopsided case why choice in general is bad.

One of the sources of commentary criticizing the bill in the piece is Sasha Pudelski, advocacy director for the School Superintendents Association, a government employee union, and co-chair of NoVouchers.org.

The Talented Mr. Vance — J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. (George Packer/The Atlantic)

South Africa’s President to Challenge Trump on Afrikaner Refugees (John Eligon/New York Times)

Scoop: Vance decided against Israel visit due to new Israeli operation in Gaza (Barak Ravid/Axios)

Trump DOJ changes to civil rights division spark mass exodus of attorneys (Ryan Lucas/NPR)  Saves the effort of firing them.

Trump Has His Law Firms Right Where He Wants Them (Jeffrey Toobin/New York Times)

What you — yes, you — should know about interacting with ICE (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Never take advice frsom a rabid proglodyte ‘journalist’.

A Terrible Idea — Now is not the time to limit the ability of federal courts to enforce their judicial orders. (Erwin Chemerinsky/Just Security)

Brendan Carr stages a Trumpian show at the FCC (John Hendel/Politico)

Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? (Wall Street Journal)  No, because all of those people are already on the government dole.

Head of CBS News to Depart Amid Tensions With Trump (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Biden Cancer Diagnosis in Heartless Post (Troy Matthews/MeidasTouch News)

Republicans are raiding childcare funding – to push women out of the workforce (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)  Because, as se all know, childcare funding is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. They’ve long been a source of misinformation (Charlotte Kramon/Associated Press)

Papers please: Trump employs proof of identity tactic to monitor Americans (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)

‘Sesame Street’ Saved, Inks New Streaming Deal With Netflix (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

How Trump’s family-linked crypto deals are threatening a ‘Hunter Biden-style’ scandal at the White House (New York Post)

Transcript: Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Suddenly Get More Dangerous (New Republic)

The Real Threat of the Nonprofit “Terrorism” Provision in Trump’s Big Bill (Shirin Sinnar/Slate) Terrorism!

Lawyers seek to force Trump to return Guatemalan deportee (Nate Raymond/Reuters)  Good luck with that.

Supreme Court Backs Trump on Ending TPS for 350,000 Venezuelans

Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)

Trump threatens ABC News over Qatar jet coverage (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)

Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel protected status for Venezuelans for now (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)

Supreme Court Sides With Trump – Allows Removal Of ‘Protected Status’ From 300,000 Venezuelan Migrants

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed With Plans to Remove Temporary Legal Status for Venezuelans

Supreme Court Lets Trump Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans (New York Times)

Grounded by Bureaucracy: Trump’s Chance to Ditch the Feds, Commercialize the Skies

Judge Bars DOGE’s Ending of Institute of Peace

Appeals court allows Trump’s anti-union order to take effect (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)

Guess Who Democrats Blame For The Mexican Pirate Ship Smashing Into Brooklyn Bridge…

Federal judge overturns Trump’s efforts to take over and cripple US Institute of Peace (CNN)

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)

A Tiny Bank in Trump Tower Is Enriching the President’s Sons (Bloomberg)

Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke immigration protections for 350,000 Venezuelans (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

Scoop: First flight leaves U.S. under Trump’s $1,000 “self-deport” deal (Axios)

Rural Missouri Jails See Windfall in Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort (Jesse Bogan/The Marshall Project)

Whoopi Claims: No Biden ‘Health Cover-Up,’ Trump Could Be Deported

Trump’s FBI bosses are angering the MAGA media bubble they once stoked (Brian Stelter/CNN)

Leavitt: Trump Committed to ‘Obtaining Greenland’

Trump Admin Must Facilitate Return Of Another Wrongfully Deported Man, Appeals Court Rules (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

Republicans Are Making Their Politically ‘Suicidal’ Medicaid Cuts Even Worse (Rolling Stone)

Big, Beautiful Bullshit (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

Scoop: Schumer to seek vote on blocking Qatar’s gift to Trump (Stephen Neukam/Axios)

Another Abrego Garcia, and the Administration’s “Contrivance” to Keep Him in El Salvador’s Prison (Ryan Goodman/Just Security)

Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Bid to Revamp Institute of Peace

Trump Admin Assails Walz for ICE-Gestapo Comparison

350,000 people are losing protection from deportation (Patrick Reis/Vox)

Sources contradict Trump narrative about Qatar offering plane as ‘gift’ (CNN)  Sources! That proves it!

Federal Judge Boots DOGE Out Of Institute Of Peace After Armed Takeover (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Environmental Grant Funding (Amy Green/Inside Climate News)

Judge strikes down DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content (Paresh Dave/Wired)  Controversial!

The Supreme Court Has Officially Had Enough Of Donald Trump’s Excuses (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)

The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial (David Gelles/New York Times)  Denial!

The Inside Story of Trump’s Search for a New Air Force One (New York Times)

The Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Trump Goes Off Script And Says What He’s Really Thinking About Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis (Taiyler S. Mitchell/HuffPost)

60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley Tells College Grads: ‘Freedom of Speech is Under Attack’ By Trump Administration

Schumer Proposes Ban on Foreign Air Force One Planes

White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. (Washington Post)

Alien Enemies Act Deportations on Hold in California

Justice Dept. to Use False Claims Act to Pursue Institutions Over Diversity Efforts (New York Times)

Trump’s Pick to Lead I.R.S. Promoted a Nonexistent Tax Credit (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)

‘Dried out prune’? ‘Corrupt’ and ‘incompetent’? It’s getting nasty between Springsteen and Trump (David Bauder/Associated Press)

Donald Trump and the power of the big (fake) number (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Trump can complain all he wants – but he can’t stop his own economic mess (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

Words & Phrases We Can Do Without (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin votes for censorship.

New York Times: Trump’s Approval Still Up Because of ‘Lower-Information’ Voters

Donald Trump Drops Crude Line At Kennedy Center Dinner In Bizarre Rant About 2020 Election (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

Trumpism’s growing split: Bannon vs plutocrats (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  There is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’, and if there were Bannon would be no part of it.

The President Will Destroy You Now — One thing stands out amid all the chaos … (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Insider Advantage Poll: Trump Approval Up to 55 Percent

Trump tries to persuade, and threaten, GOP to support his budget bill (Washington Post)

Noem botches habeas corpus questions at Senate hearing (April Rubin/Axios)

Kristi Noem flunks an important test on the basic meaning of habeas corpus (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Democrats Are Greenlighting Trump’s Crypto Corruption (Chris Lehmann/The Nation)

Democrats Unveil DOGE BROS Act To Punish People For Meddling In Private Data (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

A Top Law Firm Said Trump Was Infringing on the ‘Rights of All Americans.’ It Runs a Scholarship That Excludes White Students.

DOGE sought access to Government Publishing Office (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)  I guess that comes as a surprise to some people.

Republicans keep clinging to Biden’s health to ignore Trump’s decline (Rex Huppke/USA Today)  He looks pretty active to me.

Kristi Noem Should Probably Know What Habeas Corpus Is (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Democratic senator says he has recordings of favors ‘promised’ by Trump’s IRS pick (Tobias Burns/The Hill)

ZMan reads the news.

Hannah Arendt coined the term “banality of evil” while covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. She noted that Eichmann was not the cartoonish villain one expected, given the accusations against him. Instead, he appeared to be a normal man who performed the tasks assigned to him, without having any ideological or emotional attachment to them. This led Arendt to argue that evil could be the result of the work of ordinary people who were not inherently malicious.

Her formulation turned out to be useful to generations of evil people who used this framework to accuse ordinary Americans of being evil, for the crime of living their lives as white people. That was probably why the line became so popular, but that does not strip it of its truth value. Human systems are capable of turning the ordinary acts of the people in the system toward evil ends, even though the people themselves may not be evil in the ordinary way we think of it.

This is the subtext to the broad indictment of managerialism. The fascists, understood through the lens of managerialism, created a ruthless machine, animated by ideology, that dehumanized their society. The Soviets were close behind in creating a communist machine that forced everyone into the moral framework of the ideology. Those who could not fit into the ideology were destroyed. This is what made fascism and communism evil. They mechanized and normalized brutality.

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CNN host Jake Tapper has been under fire since announcing he was writing a book about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the extensive “cover-up” to convince American voters they were too dumb to see what was happening with their own two eyes. Many have pointed out that Tapper, his network, and the mainstream media in general were active participants in the scandal. They neglected to report on Biden’s decline, allowed themselves to be cowed into submission by White House aides, and attacked anyone who suggested the president wasn’t fit to serve, which he was not. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again finally came out on Tuesday, further inflaming critics who are disgusted by what they see as Tapper’s attempt to profit by “exposing” an obvious reality—after the fact—despite helping to conceal that reality when it mattered most.

Tapper, renowned in political circles for his aggressively defensive response to criticism, hired Risa Heller, a crisis communications expert, to assist with the book rollout and teach the CNN host how to be “nicer” to critics. She has advised a slew of shady characters including Zoom masturbator Jeffrey Toobin, dick-pic peddler Anthony Weiner, and former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, the office romance maestro who gave Jake his seven-figure contract and turned him into an anti-Trump avenger. Early indications suggest Tapper might be heeding some of Heller’s advice. Last week he described “some of the criticism” of his Biden coverage as “fair,” acknowledging he didn’t do “enough” to cover Biden’s cognitive impairment. “I look back on it with humility,” he said, unconvincingly.

A comprehensive review of Tapper’s past coverage of Biden’s decline suggests that far more humility is required than the CNN host is prepared to convey, especially when viewed in light of the details recounted in Original Sin. CNN has claimed that Tapper “fairly and accurately covered” Biden’s entire career “through years of dogged Washington reporting.” The evidence laid out below in what some have described as the official “Tapper Dossier” shows otherwise.

Newsbusters.

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia confronting the radical black group MOVE in an incendiary assault that killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed a residential block. PBS News Weekend on Saturday marked the anniversary of with a dose of radical chic, omitting unflattering details about the bizarre urban enclave MOVE.

PBS spent six minutes and 40 seconds on this, even as they have ignored the Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson book on hiding Biden’s decline. There were no ideological labels, unless you count MOVE touting themselves in a clip as “revolutionary.”

 

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, is officially out. Prior to its release, bombshells were dropped about how Biden didn’t recognize longtime associates, even actor George Clooney.

So how much time did the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) devote to the recitation of Biden’s shortcomings long known by conservatives but suppressed by Tapper and his press colleagues?

MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening and morning news programs, as well as PBS’s News Hour from May 13 through the morning of May 19 and found they spent a grand total of 7 minutes and 16 seconds on the reporting from Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson.

Most of that coverage (6 minutes, 17 seconds) was aired on NBC. ABC only spent 37 seconds on the topic. CBS offered just 22 seconds on the Tapper book disclosures. PBS’s News Hour did nothing on the Tapper/Thompson book.

The broadcast networks swept it all under the rug just as they hid Biden’s decline before he dropped out of the 2024 race.

These networks have covered up their own cover-up.

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Amid running tensions with President Donald Trump and facing a lawsuit on alleged campaign rigging for doctoring a Vice President Kamala Harris interview, CBS News President Wendy McMahon is stepping down, according to reports.

“It’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward,” McMahon wrote in a memo, The New York Times reported Monday.

McMahon’s departure comes after”60 Minutes” Executive Producer Bill Owens recently resigned. She had allied herself closely with Owens, according to the report.

Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like (Washington Post)  Just like Joe Biden and the immigration laws.

Big Donald Is Watching You: Sliding into autocracy under Trump 2.0 (MSNBC)

Trump Shares QAnon Meme, Call for Military Tribunal of Obama (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)  “Q-Anon meme”?

Trump says he killed DEI. So why isn’t it dead yet? Cracks emerge in war on ‘woke’ (Jessica Guynn/USA Today)

Concerns rise over medical coverage losses from ‘big, beautiful bill’ (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  Concerns!

Virginia Dem: GOP tax cuts would be on ‘backs of millions of Americans’ (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)  On their backs!

Librarians take on MAGA in California beach town (Emily Schultheis/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Romanian Centrist Scores Victory Over Far-Right Trump Loyalist (Bloomberg)  “Trump loyalist”? In Rumania?

‘It’s Real Y’all’: People Are Sharing Their Tariff Receipts, And My Wallet Is Not Ready For What’s Coming (Megan Liscomb/HuffPost)

The Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump (Elizabeth Williamson/New York Times)

Vanity Fair Scribe Raises Trump Obsession with MARK TWAIN Biographer Ron Chernow

Schumer bizarrely claims DOGE may have been partly to blame for Mexican ship’s deadly Brooklyn Bridge mishap (New York Post)

Owner of Trump’s Qatari Air Force One Linked to Bob Menendez Corruption Scandal  Linked to! That proves it!

The argument’s over: Americans pay for tariffs (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)  When someone says ‘The argument’s over’, it usually indicates that one side is trying to shut down discussion.

The ugly truth about Trump’s big, beautiful bill (Andrew Prokop/Vox)

Elon Musk fades into the background (Politico)  I.E. the Narrative Media realized that nobody cared about bashing Musk.

The ugly truth about Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

New Video of Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Shows Trump Admin is Lying in Court (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

The White House, LLC (El Pais)

Critics say Trump’s religion agenda will benefit conservative Christians the most (Peter Smith/Associated Press)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Walz calls Trump a “tyrant” who abuses power and violates rule of law (CBS News) Like many Democrats, Walz has a string coming out of his back – pull the ring and his mouth spouts the latest party line.

How a tornado tested a Kentucky weather office that cut its overnight staff (Scott Dance/Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, tracking the weather is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists (Philip Oltermann/The Guardian)

Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)  So why wasn’t it distributed? This food didn’t just appear in warehouses when Trump was elected.

NY Times, Back on Censorship Kick, Frets Over Trump’s ‘Misinformation Research’ Cuts

Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions (Perry Stein/Washington Post)  This office was weaponized by Democrats when Trump was elected to his first term. Now that Republicans have their fingers on the trigger Democrats are suddently deeply concerned.

NIH Could Be Directed To Study ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

The $7 Billion We Wasted Bombing a Country We Couldn’t Find on a Map (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)  The fact that Kristof can’t find Yemen on a map says more about Kristof than on the American public.

Meet the small-business owner suing Trump over tariffs (Washington Post)   So she doesn’t really make anything, she just sells stuff made in China. Tariffs are certainly going to put pressure on these arbitrageurs.

The Coalition That Powered Trump to Victory in 2024 Is Starting to Fray (Wall Street Journal)  They hope, they hope, they hopw.

One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention (Ruth Igielnik/New York Times)  More to the point, they’re not believing Narrative Media lies.

America chose wrong. Sanders would’ve been a better president than Trump or Biden. (USA Today) America has ‘chosen wrong’ since Eisenhower. America dodged a bullet by not electing Sanders.

Donald Trump keeps declaring national emergencies. Why? (Vox)  Because Democrats have loaded the statute book with legislation allowing (presumably Democrat) Presidents to ‘declare an emergency’ and then rule by decree – which we say on display with Obama and Biden. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they have found a Strange New Respect for the separation of powers in the Constitution.

Trump Shares Unhinged Plan to Release ‘Terrorists’ On Justices’ Doorsteps (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

2M New Yorkers could lose health coverage under GOP’s ‘beautiful bill,’ estimates show  Because, as we all know, New York health coverage is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired (Dinah Voyles Pulver/USA Today)  Rather than soaking in the warm hot-tub of invincible government employment. Yeah, my heart breaks for them.

How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Because, as we all know, people are ENTITLED to having their medical care paid for by the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process! (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …)

Bruce Springsteen Again Calls Out ‘Unfit President’ Trump at Second Manchester Concert (Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone)  No doubt Trump is cut to the core by the disapproval by a superannuated musician.

Springsteen, Undeterred by Trump, Keeps Up War of Words From Foreign Stage (Wall Street Journal)  Such people suffer from the delusion that everybody cares what they think, or that it will change people’s minds. Neither is correct.

Exclusive: Al Green on Trump Impeachment Push–‘Don’t Wait’ for ‘Tanks’ (Peter Aitken/Newsweek)

Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  Democrats have been ‘cooking the books’ for decades. Why all of this hand-wringing all of a sudden?

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

I’m surprised to learn that they have military forces superior to that of Israel, who had been trying for 50 years to do that without success. Well, I wish them luck.

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I wrote some time ago about how figures like Anthony Fauci, Michael Mann, Susan Michie, also Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty etc. etc., from 2020 onwards played cups-and-ball with science and politics. Ah, you thought it was politics under this cup, but it was in fact science! If not ‘The Science’.

Newsbusters.

Jake Tapper has been blasted by conservatives for extreme hypocrisy for writing a book about the coverup of Joe Biden’s mental decline when, in fact, it was Tapper himself who was one of the perpetrators of that very coverup.

However, now Tapper is being slammed for writing that book for a very different reason by liberals. They are angry at Tapper for writing about Biden’s loss of mental cognizance because it detracts from their cause of slamming Donald Trump. Thus many of them now consider Tapper to be a traitor to their anti-Trump narrative as you can see chronicled on Friday in MSN with an article by Jesus Mesa, “Jake Tapper draws liberal outrage over new Biden book.

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Liberals considered Jake Tapper to have been an ally because he clearly demonstrated media bias in their favor. However, the urge to make a quick buck exposing a coverup in which he himself participated overrode his usual liberal leanings.

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The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund “research” on “misinformation.” This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of misleading or false information through various media channels.

Of course, if there were any genuine interest in studying the most egregious efforts to spread misinformation, media outlets like the Times would study themselves and their friends in the regime. After all, few organizations have been more complicit than the national American media and the US foreign policy establishment when it comes to spreading much of the worst propaganda in American history. I say “worst” because this propaganda has often been used in service to the worst ends: to gin up support for a variety of wars resulting in the deaths of thousands—sometimes even hundreds of thousands—of innocents.

Relatively recent media-regime partnerships in propagandistic misinformation include the “Russiagate” hoax, various efforts to obscure US meddling in Ukraine, and the nearly nonstop drumbeat of “news” stories over the past twenty years designed to push for regime change in various countries from Venezuela to Russia to Libya and to Syria—where the Assad regime, according to US design, was recently replaced by Islamist terrorists. And then, of course, there is the nonstop stream of misinformation designed to prop up the State of Israel and obscure its many war crimes. And let’s not forget the fictional “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq which the US presented to the United Nations as established fact.

The New MAGA World Order (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

151. The Supreme Court’s (Alien Enemies Act) Patience is Wearing Thin (Steve Vladeck/One First)

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns (Ken Dilanian/NBC News)

Trump Has Embarrassing Public Meltdown After Bruce Springsteen Diss (Ryan Grenoble/HuffPost)

Senate Democrats Poised to Enable Trump’s Crypto Corruption (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)

Thousands of experts and leaders are fleeing Trump’s government (Washington Post)

Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans Takes Dark, Unnerving New Turn (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Dark! Unnerving! Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Brooks Falsely Claims Trump’s Trip Undid ‘100 Years of Bipartisan Foreign Policy’  More accurately, 100 years of bipartisan foreign policy FAILURE.

Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers (Jason Linkins/New Republic)

Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan (James Downie/MSNBC)

‘Whom Shall I Fear?’ In South Texas, Two Bakers Face Trump’s Immigration Wrath. (New York Times)

The Neo-Anti-Vaxxers Are in Power Now — A new cadre of officials might deal in evidence … (Katherine J. Wu/The Atlantic)  Neo-Anti-Vaxxers!

MAGA world is performing over-the-top outrage over a photo former Federal Bureau … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump took Bruce Springsteen’s bait (MSNBC)

Media Covers Hillary Attack on Qatar Gift to Trump: Silent on Clinton Gifts

Vince Foster, James McDougal, Seth Rich: Trump Posts Wild ‘Clinton Body Count’ Clip

Trump’s Military Buildup at the Border Expands (New York Times)

Biden officials “awed” by Trump’s rule-breaking Middle East moves (Dave Lawler/Axios) ‘Rule-breaking’? What rule is he breaking? The rule that says U.S. foreign policy can’t ever be successful and can’t ever benefit the U.S.? That (Democrat) rule?

Trump’s birthright order gets frosty reception, but justices appear ready to limit nationwide blocks (Politico)

Trump Mocks France Because He’s Jealous of World War II Celebrations (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)  There is no occasion or proglodyte fantasy that will not serve as an opportunity to bash Trump in the Narrative Media.

Price tag for Trump’s military parade could reach $45 million (Olivia George/Washington Post) This is the parade scheduled for the Army birthday. The Narrative Media, of course, have to characterize it as Trump’s military parade.

Senate Blocks El Salvador Human Rights Report “The Senate on Thursday blocked an effort led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., to require the Trump administration to submit a report on the human rights record of El Salvador.” Funny, no Senator ever gried to force Biden or Obama to submit a report on the ‘human rights record’ of, say, Mexico or Iran.

Judge Tosses Charges Against Migrants Caught in Military Zone

There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms (Scott Cummings/New York Times)  Dark!

How Trump has made billions as president (Washington Post)  Just like a Democrat!

Kitchens Close to Avoid ICE at Steve Smith’s Broadway Bars (Eli Motycka/Nashville Scene)

Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’? (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

Hard data suggests tariff-driven inflation and recession fears may be overblown (Courtenay Brown/Axios)  I’m surprised they allowed him into print with that.

The Supreme Court May Pick the Worst Possible Case to Cede More Power to Trump (Slate)

RFK Jr. Insists He Hasn’t Fired ‘Any Working Scientists’ — After Firing Hundreds Of Them (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost) The key here is ‘working’.

How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent (Ross Rosenfeld/New Republic)

Hundreds of VOA employees set to be axed amid legal fight with Trump (Washington Post)

Newsom blames Trump  Always and everywhere.

G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest (Tony Romm/New York Times)  May! That proves it!

NJ agency won’t help resettle white South Africans, citing conflict over Trump policies

US Claim of State Secrets Privilege in Abrego Garcia Case ‘Inadequate,’ Judge Says

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

“An” original? How does that work?

Bought for $27.50 after World War II, the faint, water stained manuscript in the library of Harvard Law School had attracted relatively little attention since it arrived there in 1946.
That is about to change.
Two British academics, one of whom happened on the manuscript by chance, have discovered that it is an original 1300 version — not a copy, as long thought — of Magna Carta, the medieval document that helped establish some of the world’s most cherished liberties.
It is one of just seven such documents from that date still in existence.
“I never in all my life expected to discover a Magna Carta,” said David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, describing the moment in December 2023 when he made the startling find.

Not a “copy” but a “version”? What is the distinction?

What they found was a contemporary copy, not an original. The original would have the royal seal attached, with signatures. This is a copy of one of the confirmations issued by subsequent monarchs, in this case Edward I.

I wish these people would go back to school and maybe get some training.

Newsbusters.

The View’s racism was on full display during the Thursday edition of the unfortunately popular ABC News program. Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin bitterly lashed out at the white South Africans fleeing persecution and parroted the South African president’s denials. And while they denounced America as a racist and sexist country, moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended her and Hostin’s racism.

Hostin kicked off her racist ranting by whining that they had yet to mention President Trump taking in those South African refugees, getting tired groans from the liberal audience fed up with him. Without going over the evidence, Hostin parroted the denials from President Cyril Ramaphosa:

Newsbusters.

They’re not event pretending to objectivity any more.

RFK Jr.: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’ (Sudiksha Kochi/USA Today)

Sen. Wicker Critical of Qatar Gifting $400M Boeing Jet

Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) Proglodytes in ‘journalism’ appear to believe that anybody with a government job is entitled to keep that job no matter what they say or what they do.

Judge arrested by Trump administration cites Trump immunity ruling in defense (Jordan Rubin/MSNBC)

Bruce Springsteen Calls Trump Administration ‘Corrupt, Incompetent, and Treasonous’ (Jem Aswad/Variety)  And of course we all ought to take political direction from Woke musicians.

The Road to Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans (New York Times)  All you need to do is look at the crime statistics for South Africa to see what whites there are going through.

Judge: DOJ Canceled Bar Association Grants to Retaliate

Trump’s New Tax Cuts Could Shower Americans With Cash, for Now (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)  An odd expression regarding allowing people to keep more of their own money. Of course, for proglodytes, all your money belongs to the government except for whatever they graciously let you keep.

Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work (Molly Quell/Associated Press)

Anti-Israel Rutgers Center Teaches Students How To Thwart ICE

Trump is attempting to reform federal regulatory criminal law

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. (ProPublica) Unlike Hunter Biden, Musk can actually provide useful services.

Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted ‘Jews are dangerous’ (Benyamin Cohen/The Forward)

Playing with Economic Fire

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit (Jeff Stein/Washington Post)

Perks now, pain later: 12 ways Trump’s megabill pushes tradeoffs beyond Election Day (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)

The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump’s Qatari Jet (The Atlantic) MAGA is the New Nigger.

She covered human rights for VOA in Azerbaijan. Now she’s in jail. (Kelly Kasulis Cho/Washington Post)

GOP Tax Bill Seen Masking More Than $1 Trillion Hit to US Debt (Bloomberg)  The only time the Narrative Media give a shit about the debt is when they can smear Republicans.

‘A Moral, Ethical, Legal, Constitutional Travesty’ (Ankush Khardori/Politico)

Another Reason Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order is Unlawful (Just Security)

Fox anchor Bret Baier said media should “100%” scrutinize Trump’s family the same as Biden’s. He hasn’t come close. (Harrison Ray/Media Matters for America)

Senators predict passage of bipartisan crypto bill ??? without language targeting Trump (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)

The white rural reckoning (Tom Schaller/Public Notice) Anti-white racists at Public Notice are putting all their bile in a book.

Leslie Jones Goes On Profanity-Ridden Rant Against ‘Evil’ Trump Administration

The left tries to claim white South Africans aren’t worthy of refugee status (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Don Jr.’s Axel to Grind (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Trump Wants His Corruption to Be Public (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Lessons From the Newark Debacle (Paul Krugman)  Paul Krugman–reliably wrong 100% of the time.

‘Deeply creepy’: Enormous brooding banner of Trump now hangs next to Lincoln outside Department of Agriculture (Oliver O’Connell/The Independent)

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders (Maggie Astor/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, sexual assault hotlines are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

As Trump Declares “Golden Era” in the Arab Gulf, Gaza Burns and Netanyahu Threatens to Wipe Palestinians Off the Map (Jeremy Scahill/Drop Site News)  But not a word about Hamas and the PLO threats to wipe Israeli’s off the map.

Trump White House Sharpens Its Knives for Politico’s Owner (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Works for me.

Now ICE Barbie Wants Her Own Brand New $50M Private Jet (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Democratic Senators Remove Trump-Targeting Provisions In Push To Pass Stablecoin Bill

CBS Admits Trump’s Argument Against National Injunctions Has Merit

‘Most Transparent’ White House In History Keeps Majority Of Trump’s Remarks Secret (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Replacing US military support in Europe would cost $1T (Giovanna Coi/Politico)  But not to U.S. taxpayers, who would obviously save that amount.

Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty After Grand Jury Indictment, Claims ‘Judicial Immunity’ For Hiding Illegal From ICE

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)

Judge Dismisses ‘Trespassing’ Charges Promoted by Trump in Border ‘Defense Area’ (New York Times)

House Dems open investigation into Trump’s acceptance of $400 million jet from Qatar (Fox News)  Which hasn’t actually happened. But Democrats are never slow to investigate CrimeThink.

Stephen Miller re-emerges as an ‘untouchable’ force in Trump’s White House (NBC News)

Trump’s ‘Emergencies’ Are Pretexts for Undermining the Constitution (Ilya Somin/Default)

The quiet crisis facing immigrant families once protected by the Biden administration (Politico)  Quiet? With the Narrative Media shouting it from the housetops?

Rutgers Law School Center Hosted Seminars on Avoiding ICE  Training future lawyers on how to break the law. Sweet.

The rampant federal fraud that DOGE is largely ignoring (Ken Dilanian/NBC News)

Newsbusters.

Well, here’s a surprise: NPR’s “On Point” podcast, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and transmitting out of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, featured, on its May 5 show, an interview with author David Zweig highly critical of the hysterical and harmful reaction by the liberal “public health” establishment to the COVID pandemic.

What’s more, around the 26-minute mark, Chakrabarti herself revealed that an NPR higher-up cut off her pitch to do a story on 2020’s Great Barrington Declaration. That brief manifesto became a target of anti-science liberal hysterics for arguing against lockdown and social distancing as “producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” An unidentified colleague told Chakrabarti, “We cannot talk about it” for fear of spreading misinformation.

The Great Barrington Declaration was coauthored by Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University (now head of the National Institutes of Health under Trump, replacing Dr. Francis Collins, who sought to undermine Bhattacharya as “fringe”). Bhattacharya was notoriously targeted for censorship by Collins and the Biden Administration for his efforts to tamp down COVID fear and hysteria — a crusade that, according to Chakrabarti, NPR joined as well.

Newsbusters.

The Israeli war in Gaza is almost 2 years old and yet there are pockets of American media that insist on reporting as if they are still in the throes of the early Israeli response. Namely, CBS News which has been the most consistently pro-Hamas of the legacy nightly newscasts.