Newsbusters.

Following the news of the death of feminist Gloria Steinem, MS NOW pulled out the big guests for Thursday’s State of Play as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined for remembrance in live interviews. However, host Peter Alexander’s questions later turned to referendums on the current Trump presidency, especially in his interview with Pelosi.

After Pelosi showed her thankfulness for her relationship with Steinem, Alexander noted how there was a record number of women in Congress. But then, Alexander started to frame Steinem and Pelosi as fighters against Republicans.

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On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, at the end of a segment pondering whether President Trump might throw Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under the bus, host Audie Cornish took things in a very different direction, whining about how, “He very much has completely made good on his promises to focus on culture war issues in the military.” She also falsely claimed military promotions were now reserved for whites only.

As a Black American, she will TELL ANY LIE that advances her agenda.

JD Vance Says He’s OK With Bringing About the End Times (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic) So would I, if it meant the elimination of The New Republic.

Trump Says He’s ‘Happy’ Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Leaving US (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)  As are all right-thinking people.

Judge Blocks Newest Trump Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship

Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order aimed at ‘birth tourism’ (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

Trump’s first midterm ads are heavy on ‘me’ (Aaron Blake/CNN)

How freaked out should you be about Trump’s plot to disrupt mail voting? (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Maggie Haberman Reveals GOP Midterms Convention ‘Error’ That Trump’s Team Somehow Overlooked (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  Anne Applebaum loses her shit.

Federal judges say they’re facing intensified threats since start of Trump’s second term (Jalen Beckford/Politico)  Tell the Left. They’re the ones with violence in their playbook.

Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections (ProPublica)

MS NOW’s Alexander Blames Trump’s ICE for Haitian Immigrant’s Suicide

OMISSION: Nets Hide Guilty Plea of Man who Vandalized JD Vance’s Home

Trump Returns to a Familiar Playbook as the War With Iran Flares Up Again (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

The Trump administration is taking stakes in more companies — and progressives are taking notes (Joseph J. Schatz/Politico)

Republicans fear Trump will keep super PAC money and not spend on the midterms (Washington Post)

MAGA begins to crack as 2026 GOP roster backs away from Trump’s tech vision (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

How Trump tanked Canadian conservatives (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (New York Times)  ‘Aid minority students’ being a code-work for ‘illegal racial preferences’.

Trump Sticks With a Losing Midterm Plan (Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal)  Well, we’ll find out.

A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy (Naomi Bethune/American Prospect)  Jerk those tears! Jerk those tears! Women almost always react with emotion rather that thought, and female ‘journalist’ are the worst of the lot.

America’s War on Drug Smugglers at Sea Is Unlawful–and It Is Failing (Just Security)  So sue. Everybody else is.

IRS unveils plan to cancel universities’ tax-exempt status (Brian Faler/Politico)  Because of racism; of course he forgot to explain that part.

Welch Claims She Loves Vance Kids More Than He Does, GOP Doesn’t ‘Give a S***’ About Vets  Hey, you can make up any shit you want.

Gay LA activist arrested for threatening to kill Trump, doxxing Trump’s attorney

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As they do for everything that happens that they don’t like.

The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey joined PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday to allege that the reason why the United States does not have “universal, simple benefit systems” like universal basic income or single-payer health care is because of the legacy of Jim Crow.

Jim Crow had a legacy? Boy, I’d like to read that Will….

Lowrey was to promote her book, The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix, which naturally argues that it costs too much time and money in order to receive benefits in this country due to excessive bureaucracy. While attacking unnecessary bureaucracy may sound nice, Lowrey’s attempt to identify a source was way off track, “Part of the reason that we do not have universal, simple benefit systems in this country, like some of our peer countries have, is because we were creating those programs often during Jim Crow. And we wanted to have ways to get benefits to some people, but not others.”

Yeah, the difference is between ‘people who deserve help’ and ‘lazy feckless parasites’. This distinction is not one that proglodytes make. (Of course, these are the people who think that government is the perfect vehicle for telling everybody how to run their lives. Ironic.)

Newsbusters.

Few in the liberal elitist media have as wide of a gulf between how smart they think they are and how smart they actually are than MS Now’s Lawrence O’Donnell. Students of history are aware of several classic military blunders: touching America’s boats, invading Russia in winter, and engaging in a land war in Asia. Yet on Thursday’s The Last Word, O’Donnell, who fancies himself a history buff, proved he would commit another: promise to end a war by Christmas.

“Well, the list of what Donald Trump didn’t do today is, as usual, much, much longer than the list of what he did do today,” O’Donnell the pseudointellectual proclaimed.

Aside from the fact that literally everyone’s list of things they didn’t do in a day was longer than the list of things they did do, O’Donnell was aghast that President Trump had not promised the service members fighting Iran and their families that the war would be over and they’d be reunited by Christmas.

Newsbusters.

So much of the “news product” we consume today isn’t about what has already happened. It’s about what could happen in the near future. Forget a microscope on the past. Get out the crystal ball. When it comes to the fortunes of the Democrats, the picture often takes on a rosy hue.

When conservatives dismiss our most “prestigious” newspapers as partisan Democrat rags, it comes from stories like the August 25 “News Analysis” editorial on the front page of The New York Times. It’s a piece by congressional reporter Carl Hulse titled “The Midterms Feel Like ’06 Is Back Again.” That’s a year when the Democrats gained 31 seats and Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House.

Newsbusters.

If ever you doubted MS NOW’s devotion to servicing its Trump Derangement brainworms, we urge you to consider Lawrence O’Donnell. A recent over-the-top tirade blasts President Trump for the heinous act of…reposting a high school photo with his parents?

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The Canadian state media outlet, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), responds to the tensions of the Canada-USA relationship by telling all state funded journalists: “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”

Gee, sounds just like something that NPR would do….

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On Monday, a private labor arbiter ordered The Washington Post to rehire far-left Global Opinions Editor after Attiah said on September 15, 2025, that the newspaper jettisoned her following a series of Bluesky posts excusing and downplaying Charlie Kirk’s assassination from five days earlier.

Despite trashing her bosses, she filed a grievance against The Post for what The New York Times called “a yearlong fight” as Attiah “accused the company of violating its labor agreement and social media policy.” Attiah insisted she was fired for “[s]peaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.”

Arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa wrote that the “Democracy Die in Darkness” paper “did not have good and sufficient cause to terminate the employment of the Grievant, Karen Attiah” and must “make the Grievant whole, including full backpay and lost benefits.”

Newsbusters.

The homepage for National “Public” Radio was pushing a story today headlined “In candid interviews, National Guard members speak out about D.C. deployment.”Usually, the word “candid” means “anonymous,” as it was in this case. NPR loves granting their special power of anonymity for Trump-haters to speak “candidly.”

On Monday’s Morning Edition, anchor Leila Fadel explained: “NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf has been speaking with some of them, and they say they’re worried that this is a new norm of armed troops patrolling American cities.” Did Kat find any members of the National Guard who supported the president? Well, that wasn’t worth mentioning, and apparently not “newsworthy” in NPR’s judgment.

Newsbusters.

It’s not a fret; it’s a slur.

Today’s episode of The Weekend on MS NOW devoted a segment to questioning Donald Trump’s “mental acuity.”

Leading the charge was Jonathan Capehart, who declared that more people should be talking about it “in the way they were giving President Biden hell for walking with a stiff gait.”

It wasn’t just a stiff gait, Jonathan, and if anyone should know that, it’s you. Interviewing Biden in 2022, Capehart watched him appear to zone out mid-conversation and had to call him back with “Mr. President?”

Capehart edited out that awkward moment in the version of the interview he later aired on his own show. Talk about a double-standard dose of chutzpah.

Capehart cited three recent Trump comments as evidence of cognitive trouble: that Canada is a state, that the Strait of Hormuz is U.S. territory, and that the military could ultimately be used to intervene in the bond market. Granted, the last one was a tad perplexing.

Newsbusters.

n a brief report long on speculative doom and short on facts and data, ABC News, once again, instinctively took the side oppositional to the Trump administration. This time, the Disney subsidiary parroted the spin of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney while reporting on the collapse of a potential deal between the United States and Canada.

The Narrative Media are the cornerstone of the Hate America First movement.

Newsbusters.

As has been previously pointed out, ever since Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff implied that White House aide Natalie Harp’s relationship with President Trump is more than just business, the left wing media has been obsessed with the story. On Thursday they were given some new ammunition thanks to an article in The Daily Beast, which printed a pair of letters allegedly written by Harp to Trump in 2023.

They reinforce the admiration, loyalty and closeness that Harp feels for the President, that the left has been using to attempt to pervert the relationship. But the article also contained vital context, as to why Harp might have these feelings towards Trump. One is, she believes that he had saved her life.

Newsbusters.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly news recap segment with The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks. During the part of the discussion about DSA candidate Angie Nixon winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, Capehart insisted that you can’t actually claim Nixon is a DSA candidate and therefore tie her to the DSA’s recent praise of Fidel Castro.

When trying to come up with a reason why Nixon was able to defeat liberal hero from Trump 1.0, Alexander Vindman, Capehart claimed, “But Democrats are also talking about someone who will fight for them, someone who’s going to give expression to their anger about what’s happening, whether it’s the war or high prices, high gas prices, inflation, or just the wrecking ball the administration’s taking to just democracy.”

Ironically, Capehart’s denunciations of those who seek to associate Nixon with the DSA began when he himself admitted Nixon is a member of the DSA, “And Angie Nixon, state legislator who has been in the trenches there in Florida, working really hard, talking to people, she went out and asked for people’s votes, and they gave it to her. I mean, one thing to keep in mind, she joined the Democratic Socialists of America just a few months ago.”

Tell the truth about Democrats, and the Narrative Media invariably describes it as a ‘smear’.

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While guest hosting All In on Thursday, MS NOW’s Ali Velshi welcomed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico to another one of his strategy planning sessions disguised as an interview. At one point, Velshi seemed befuddled by the idea that “Most people are not losing sleep over transgender kids in sports, but they [Republicans] seem to just be stuck on this one with you.”

Velshi began by suggesting that Republicans are talking about gender stuff because they cannot talk about the economy or foreign policy, “I’ve been having conversations with people like you: Democrats who have a good chance of winning in states that have traditionally been Republican or in recent years at least have voted for Donald Trump. And I’ve had this conversation with Roy Cooper, and last night I had it with David Jolly. And there is some indication that when things are going badly for Republicans, particularly as they are now, because of the cost of living and this war that we were told we weren’t going to get involved in wars like this. Democrats have a few go-tos and they’re enjoying one of them with you. They talk a lot about transgender stuff, and they lean into that.”

Newsbusters.

National or International, they’re still all Socialists.

Newsbusters.

As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such analogies were rebuked.

For this study, NewsBusters analyzed all news programming from PBS, MS NOW, and CNN as well as the morning and evening newscasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC from August 1 through August 15.

Newsbusters.

Women on the Left have no hesitation in attacking women, so long as they are Not On The Left—and sometimes even when they are. It all depends on how many Diversity Pokemon Points the target has and who winds the Virtue Signaling Stakes.

The Atlantic.

David Frum was once a conservative writer for National Review, as Joe Scarborough was a Republican Congressman. Both Saw The Light And Cashed In.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

So what? The Department of Justice is not an ‘independent agency’ (whatever that means). The Attorney General works for the President. Nobody complained about Merrrick Garland failing to ‘pledge independence’ from Joe Biden. Nobody complained that Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch failed to ‘pledge independence’ from Barack Obama.

This is nonsense. (They actually pay people to write this shit.)

Newsbusters.

It’s no secret that Forbes magazine has largely betrayed its capitalist foundation by becoming a megaphone for some of the most vile left-wing, cultural Marxist tripe in the media ecosphere. But a new scandal did show that its top leadership didn’t completely abandon free markets when it suited their own interests.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane was fired after “the company discovered that he had received a payment of about $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine.”

The payment was made after RJ Shook, the founder of the firm that worked with Forbes to publish wealth adviser rankings, “sold a majority stake in Shook Research to PPC Enterprises, a private equity firm, last August.” Lane made himself a spectacle of anti-Trump furor in 2021 when he threatened companies that dared to hire people who formerly worked with President Donald Trump, such as former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States” despite having repeatedly failed to reopen it.

The US president on Friday said he would annex the waterway, before suggesting he already controlled it anyway.

Iranian officials accused Mr Trump of indulging in “fanciful delusions”.

During a speech in New York on Friday, Mr Trump said: “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.

“Essentially, that’s what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.”

Ah ah ah ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

For Trump, Secret Flight Was a Stunning Ruse. For Putin, ‘a Regular Tuesday.’ (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)  God forbid that the NYT should pass up a chance to link Trump to Putin.

Which Trump Officials Joined Him on His Secret Flight Out of Turkey? (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)  Maggie Haberman goes on a witch-hunt.

How Trump’s Ruse to Evade an Iranian Threat Unfolded on the Tarmac in Turkey (Wall Street Journal)

China Dominates The Humanoid Robot Race. Can Trump Close The Gap?  Because, as we all know, ‘closing the gap’ in the ‘humanoid robot race’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the President of the United States.

Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling (Tom Burgis/The Guardian) LINKED TO: “Linked to” in news stories means “there is a strong correlation but we can’t really say that there’s a causal link without being called out for it, but we’re going to write as if there actually was a causal link because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to stir people up and get more clicks”.

Newsbusters.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was recently indicted on a slew of federal charges, including fraud. Today a top official was indicted in relation to these charges. Then, as now, the Elitist Media Evening News seemingly took a vow of collective silence.

…

What compelling stories bumped the indictment of the former SPLC CFO allegedly rerouting donor monies to her live-in neonazi lover from the airwaves? Among other things: ICE spending $20M on electroshock gloves (ABC, NBC), John Hinckley, Jr. shooting his shot with Jodie Foster (NBC), Travis Kelce gushing about his wedding to Taylor Swift (CBS, NBC), and Bob Iger and a Kushner buying the Lakers (ABC).

Newsbusters.

A surrogate mother fought tooth and nail to save the baby she was carrying from abortion due to a dangerous but treatable medical condition. The Elitist Media mostly whiffed on the story, and the outlet that did cast pro-lifers in a weird frame.

CBS reported the story mostly down-the-middle, except for the weird framing of Live Action as an “anti-abortion rights group.” And although that characterization might be perceived as a badge of honor, there is much more that the organization does. It’s pretty clear that the Elitist Media haven’t gotten over Dobbs.

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each covered on the flagship morning newscasts the results of Tuesday’s primaries in six states, focusing specifically on contests in Minnesota, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. This led to more labeling chicanery with 12 combined uses of “progressive” and “socialist” versus nine for “centrist,” “establishment,” or “moderate.”

Of course, there was none for “far-left” or “communist.” But most egregiously, ABC and CBS conveniently chose to wait until Wisconsin communist Francesca Hong lost to let their viewers know about a few of her radical positions.

ABC’s Good Morning America started its coverage with fill-in co-host Rachel Scott tossing to correspondent Jay O’Brien by saying Tuesday “was a big test not only for progressives but also for the President.” ABC used “progressive” four times, “socialist” once, and “establishment” twice.

There’s No Vaccine for Stupid (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  True enough. Which side is the stupid side is, of course, up for debate.

Trump’s Vaccine Order Puts Parents In a Bind (Lisa Jarvis/Bloomberg)  No, it doesn’t. It puts Wokeratchiks in a bind, but that’s different.

Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)  No, he didn’t.

Human rights groups sue Trump administration over International Criminal Court sanctions (Sammy Westfall/Washington Post)

WHO defends childhood immunization schedules after Trump reduction order (Sarah Davis/The Hill)  Anything Trump does must be bad, by definition.

CNN Likens Trump Administration To Hitler, ‘Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels’  As they do. Surprised they didn’t include Albert Speer.

Maddow, O’Donnell Giddy About Iranian Assassination Plot Against Trump

Trump Used Air Force One Passengers As Decoys, Saved Himself (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)  If Trump does it, it MUST be bad.

Trump’s Airplane Switch Follows a Familiar Presidential Playbook (Maya Davis/Wall Street Journal)  The playbook being the one that requires Narrative Media ‘journalists’ to criticize Republicans in general and Trump specifically no matter what happens.

FACT FOCUS: Trump makes false claims as he signs order urging revisions around childhood vaccines (Associated Press)

Trump Has His Own Communist Manifesto (Keith Johnson/Foreign Policy)  You can’t make this shit up.

Democrats want answers about 18-karat gold ring given to Trump (MS NOW)

Dem Senators Question Diamond Ring Gift Before Tariff Break

Morning Joe Outraged by Trump Calling Dem Candidates ‘Jihadists’  Even though they are.

We need the truth about Trump’s alleged ‘ballroom’ (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy (Peter Baker/New York Times)  No, it became a flying target, because everybody thought Trump was still on board. These people have tofu for brains.

Trump’s Air Force One deception faces scrutiny over ‘decoy’ passengers (The Guardian)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

Why the elaborate ruse Trump used in Turkey isn’t like other secret presidential trips (Will Weissert/Associated Press)  Because anything Trump does is BY DEFINITION bad.

See How Trump’s Secret Air Force One Swap Unfolded (New York Times)  Full frontal Narrative. (Reporter breaks 26-year silence on briefing that preceded Clinton’s plane swap (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Vile Plot to Rig Midterms as GOP Unnerved (New Republic)  “Rig the midterms” means “keeping the Democrats from stealing elections.”.

The Five Scandals Within the “Air Force One” Scandal (Garrett Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  How much hot air can they blow into this fantasy?

Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  Their finest hour.

Anderson Looks Forward to Trump Being in Hell, Calls Escape From Turkey ‘Dumb’

Hold Republicans Responsible for the Iran Disaster (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Samuel Alito’s Oil Money Reveals the Worthlessness of the Supreme Court Ethics Code (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)  No, it just reveals the worthlessness of proglodyte hypocrisy. Perhaps they ought to take a look at Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

O’Donnell: Trump Is a ‘Deeply Cowardly Man’ for Not Personally Killing Assassins

MS NOW’s Hillyard Makes Plane Switch Story About Trump Health ‘Transparency’  Maybe you can make some sense out of that—I must confess I can’t follow that twisty trail.

We Finally See the Trump Administration’s Sweeping Census Power Grab Emerge (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  God forbid we should avoid counting illegal aliens.

Trump’s cost-of-living crunch (Politico)  He PERSONALLY came and jacked up your prices.

Former CNN Pentagon Reporter Wonders How Trump Plane Deception Was Legal  Not the sharpest knife in the drawer….

US press groups sue Donald Trump over fast access to Truth Social posts (Financial Times)

How to Survive a Republican Scandal: Imitate Trump (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  Will Saletan loses his shit.

Newsbusters.

Cheat early and often?

Tuesday’s New York Times featured “Inside the Left’s Playbook for Scoring Election Wins,” by Kellen Browning, Tim Balk, and Dan Simmons, which whitewashed the radical postures of the new crop of hard-left, socialist candidates who’ve won some Democratic Party primaries, threatening to push the party’s center of gravity further leftward.

Newsbusters.

With about three months remaining in the midterm campaign, it’s become time for the most desperate partisan gamesmanship, as our socialist-friendly media engage in helping the Democrats win.

Do not recognize the “independent media” and the “independent fact-checkers” as the referees of this campaign. These elitists should be identified as uniformed players for the Democrat team, since the following are their apparent rules of campaign communication:

Newsbusters.

On August 5, Vice President J.D. Vance announced – at a roundtable meeting – that the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force had uncovered and halted billions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on fraudulent spending.

The amount of money saved was jaw-dropping.

Given the size and scope of the fraud uncovered and the fact that the VP detailed it in an op-ed in a paper of record for the elitist media, surely the legacy broadcast networks would cover the whopping totals.

So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to this big win for the Trump administration and the American taxpayer?

Zero seconds.

Patriot Games open with dodgeball, lots of MAGA caps and even more questions (Noah White/Washington Post)  Mainly who the fuck cares. (MAGA is the Noo Jooz.)

Cassidy blasts vaccine order, saying Trump has no ‘expertise to make these changes’ (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)  Trump’s ‘expertise’ is not important. He doesn’t make these changes without inputs from Real Doctors, who haven’t given up their profession for politics.

A record Trump shouldn’t want to beat (Politico)  According to the Narrative, that is.

How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)  Because there are no “Trump’s Russia Ties”, which was always a made-up Deep State op.

Trump fumes over latest Iran demands (Eli Okun/Politico)  Fumes! You can see the fumes from here!

Trump Stokes Islamophobia by Calling Democratic Candidates ‘Jihadists’ (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)  Which they are. We need more Islamophobia if the nation is to survive.

Trump Wants to Move On From the Middle East. It’s Not Letting Him. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)  The mind-readers at the New York Times are eager to tell you what Trump is thinking, feeling, and planning … if you’re willing to believe them.

American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order ‘dangerous’ (Max Rego/The Hill)  Dangerous to their pocketbooks.

Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats (New York Times)  So what?

Fact-Checking the Trump Administration’s Claims About Vaccines (New York Times)  Who will fact-check the fact-checkers? (Come get yer Narrative, right here.)

Trump didn’t board AF1 in Turkey due to an assassination threat and wokies are losing their minds  They had high hopes that some Muslim would succeed where Domestic proglodytes have failed.

One Year After Trump Sent National Guard to DC, Homicides Plunge 41%, Overall Crime Stats Mixed

Trump is searching for the Supreme Court’s breaking point on birthright citizenship (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  Which is why he was elected.

In Colombia, PBS Wary of ‘Hard Right’ Trumper Defeating ‘Human Rights Advocate’  Man, those Trump Cooties are everywhere.

Dr. Phil and a Texas Oil Firm Go to Greenland With a Suspicious Agenda. Signs Point to Trump’s Imperialist Visions. (Nicole LaFond/Talking Points Memo)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Newsbusters.

Hey, it’s not as of CNN is a news organization….

It’s becoming more and more apparent, that as we get closer and closer to the November elections, the left-wing media is, if you can believe it, getting even bolder when it come to displaying, promoting and protecting their various leftist narratives. Sunday on CNN’s NewsRoom, Anchor Omar Jimenez repeatedly defended Hasan Piker and would not allow South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace to finish a thought on elected Muslim officials.

Jimenez, best remembered as the guy pushing “largely peaceful” takes on Kenosha rioting while fires burned behind him, previously pushed back on Scott Jennings objecting to Zohran Mamdani’s stated plans to single out rich white people for higher taxes.

In this case, Mace posted about Muslim politicians, and Jimenez interrupted her 13 times in nearly five minutes on the topic. Mace took the unflinching position that each and every Muslim official is a threat.

As indeed they are. Only Democrats and other morons think they are not.

Melania’s Shockingly Light Workload Is Exposed in Audit (Tomas Thor/The Daily Beast)  They are actually serious. Unbelievable.

Inside school investigations frozen under Trump: Racial slurs, sexual harassment and more (Laura Meckler/Washington Post)  Shame on Trump for not pursuing the Wokerati witch-hunts, I guess.

Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank (Scott MacFarlane Reports)

Mullin faces MAGA backlash at Homeland Security (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGE is the Noo Jooz.)

Trump can’t lie his way out of a missile shortage (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Nor is he trying to—except in the fantasyland of the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  He hopes, he hopes, he hopes…. (Greg Sargent loses his shit.)

Trump posted touched-up version of his golf photo to look younger and slimmer (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)  I’m happy they don’t have anything more important to write about.

Newsbusters.

The choice of which parent to go live with following the divorce of NBC and MS NOW said a lot about the journalist who made it. While he would more routinely appear on NBC News programs, former Chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander chose to go with the more-openly partisan cable news channel. Moreover, despite promising his viewers “the facts” with this new daytime program State of Play, Alexander opened on Monday with a lie.

 

Newsbusters.

He says that like it was a bad thing.

Former CNN reporter and host Jim Acosta is the type of person who claims to believe that journalists need to speak truth to power and hold politicians accountable. However, when Acosta welcomed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to his Friday podcast, Acosta hosted a strategy planning session disguised as an interview as he wondered how El-Sayed would respond to his critics who are “obviously steeped in Islamophobia” and who accuse him of being a socialist.

A phobia is an irrational fear. Fear of Islam is perfectly rational, as 1400 years of history make clear.

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In recent months, the leftist media have been fearmongering about the possibility of Donald Trump rigging the 2026 midterms. At the same time, however, they have found themselves opposing election security measures like the SAVE America Act. Not wanting to be left out of this hypocrisy-fest, MS NOW continued their trend of attacking election monitoring on this Friday’s Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle.

MS NOW Speculates Election Day Will ‘Be The Equivalent’ of Jan. 6  The Narrative Media seem to think that ‘Jan. 6’ is as scary to everybody as, say, 9/11. They forget that the ‘Jan. 6’ fuss has been exposed as a Deep State operation and makes most people yawn.

Trump Showed Up at a Rally With Lustrous Locks. The Memes Won’t Stop. (Wall Street Journal)  The best of American high-school journalism.

Prosecutor Fired Over Old Posts Critical of Trump Sues DOJ

Trump Officials Deport Group of Mexicans Despite Torture Risk (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, ‘torture risk’ invalidates all American laws.

Trump won’t let the Supreme Court have the last word (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  Just like a Democrat!

CNN’s Audie Cornish Falsely Claims Birth Tourism ‘Already Illegal’

Newsbusters.

Journalists in Washington often sound like their first objective is to make sure Democrats are as electable as possible. In Wisconsin, socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong has a difficult job explaining a raft of bizarre and extreme tweets where she seems to hate a collection of American holidays, starting with Thanksgiving.

Politico “Playbook” reporter Irie Sentner labored mightily to help Hong prepare her appeal to a broader election after she wins the Democrat primary, as expected.

Newsbusters.

All OutKick founder Clay Travis did was challenge the WNBA and “the Science” cult to put their money where their mouth is and prove that biological males don’t have an unfair physical advantage over women in sports, and the alphabet soup mafia in the media are already losing their collective mind.

To the extent that they have minds.

Travis pledged $10 million August 3 for the WNBA to put their defending champion Las Vegas Aces up against a boys’ high school basketball team of his choosing, with the apparent intent of showcasing the idiocy of biological males competing in women’s sports.

I’d bet on the high school team. Easy money.

Jana Shortal, an anchor of Twin Cities NBC-affiliate TV station KARE 11 personality, short-circuited her brain seething over Travis’ challenge during the August 3 edition of her show Breaking The News. “Today, [OutKick’s] founder took to a new stunt — one that really makes no sense if OutKick is really concerned about caring about women in women’s sports.” Nah, it makes plenty of sense actually, Shortal.

Read it.

Yeah, our ‘critical supplies’ of avocados are a high risk. Call out the Marines….

Newsbusters.

The New York Times has finally noticed the academic credibility meltdown at one of the premier universities in the world, Cambridge: Ex-professor Jason Arday, a plagiarist and fabulist who rocketed up the academic ladder, enabled by gullible or perhaps intimidated fellow scholars, aided by lawyerly muscle and even Scotland Yard to keep doubters quiet.

Yet the Times article saved its harshest words for Arday’s exposers, smearing a scholar with the effrontery to challenge Arday’s ludicrous C.V. as “racist.”

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Reporters Jennifer Schuessler and Alexandra Alter treated Arday with the journalistic equivalent of raised eyebrows — yet reserved their true hostility for a scholar who dared expose Arday’s plagiarism. As “philosopher of biology” Nathan Cofnas wrote on X: “The only person explicitly smeared in the NY Times’ write-up of the Arday affair is me.”

As they habitually do. That’s what being Narrative Media is all about.

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (New York Times)  If there were a Democrat President, of course, all would be fine.

Trump’s promise of an economic ‘golden age’ collides with reality (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  More accurately, the Narrative that Trump hasn’t brought any economic benefits collides with reality—like gas prices.

Trump slashes Medicare drug subsidies, cutting against affordability message (Mallory Wilson/The Hill)  Medicare drug subsidies don’t ‘cut drug costs’, they merely shift the costs to the taxpayers. That’s not what Trump promised to do.

Is MAGA Melting Down? — MAGA continues to be powerful, but we may be in the last months of the height of its powers. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

2028: Trump’s final act begins (Jim VandeHei/Axios)  Narrative Media mind-readers get a lot of mileage out of their fantasies.

Pre-Trump GOP is coming for Vance (Mike Zapler/Axios)  Sorry, Narrative, the Wall Street Journal hasn’t been ‘the standard bearer of traditional conservatism’ for at least a decade. Next, you’ll try to pretend that David French is a conservative … Oh, look: World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out (David French/New York Times)

Even Republicans in Congress can see how unpopular Trump’s immigration agenda is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Unpopular with whom? The Usual Suspects? It certainly seems popular with ‘Republicans in Congress’.

Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump administration is “flailing” in Iran and “has to try to figure out a way out of this” (Kaia Hubbard/CBS News)  Compared to what Biden and Obama did, he’s been pretty successful. Of course, a Democrat Senator can’t even hint at that….

MAGA Rep Accused of Wife Beating Streams Jaw-Dropping Attack on Her (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

Media shifts to more aggressively fight Trump in courts (The Hill)  Since their lapdogs the Democrats dont’ appear to be having much luck.

Did Trump Finally Find an Offramp for the Iran War? (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)  The ‘off-ramp’ has always been there; Iran has just refused to take it. You would think that a writer for the Wall Street Journal would be paying better attention….

Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules (Moriah Balingit/Associated Press) Wow, look at all those preschool standards guts all over the place…. Of course, as we all know, letting states set any standards is TOTALLY reprehensible. That would be (whisper it) democracy! Why, they might be Republicans! WE CAN’T HAVE THAT!

MAGA vs. Mullin (Politico)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

This Sleazoid MAGA Congressman May Just Have Turned a Red Seat Blue (Michael Tomasky/New Republic) MAGA is the New Jooz.

Let’s Talk About the Massive Parking Garage Trump Wants to Build at Dulles (Martin Austermuhle/NOTUS)  If a Democrat President had proposed it, of course, he’d be the new FDR.

Trump denigrates fellow golfers as lacking ‘talent’ as he boasts about winning trophy on his own course (Ariana Baio/The Independent) I guess Britain has high-school journalism as well.

Trump Gets To Keep Tax Immunity Under DOJ Deal With Republican Senators (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Iran denies Trump claim that new talks will start Monday after he called off attacks (NBC News)  Lucy with the football. I hope Trump has a plan.

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention (Jos?? Olivares/The Guardian)  I’d let them starve, but ICE can’t do that in this degenerate bleeding-heart world.

For Iran, Trump’s Reversal on Escalation Shows Who Has the Upper Hand (Erika Solomon/New York Times)

Trump’s Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (M. Gessen/New York Times)  Of course, the NYT assumes that The Future is Woke.

Senate Republicans see Trump as a growing political liability (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  He’s getting in the way of the Uniparty. Can’t have that….

Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief’s Tax Crimes (emptywheel)  Don’t hold it in; tell us how you really feel.

MS NOW Host Ali Vitali Frets Trump’s ‘Otherizing’ Illegal Alien Truckers, No Mention of Deaths

Trump’s Meddling in Justice Dept. Causes Problems of His Own Making (Alan Feuer/New York Times)  It’s All About Trump.

For Trump, the Year Is Always 2020 (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  Yeah, that’s when you guys pissed him off.

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief–and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (MAGA is the New Jooz.)

Lincoln Project’s Clout Fades in Trump’s Second Term

Sen. Warren Cites Trump in Push to ‘Scrap’ Debt Ceiling  We mustn’t let him keep us from spending money.

Dem States Sue to Challenge Trump’s Latest Tariffs He can’t tax American business. Only WE can tax American business.

MAGA Exiles Declare War on Trump: ‘He Betrayed Us All’ (Mary Papenfuss/The Daily Beast)

McGlinchey: Trump’s Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation  Who?

Newsbusters.

On Friday, as socialists continued their rise as a part of the Democratic Party through primary election victories, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took his own route with socialism claims of his own and instead claimed the Republicans were actually the socialists. He also seemed to minimize the actual rise of socialists in the Democratic Party, a topic his show has recently covered extensively, as he called the DSA “fringe.”

The conversation started at the very beginning of the premier liberal morning show as, between Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s bickering about who would lead the segment, Scarborough remarked, “Let’s start with the socialists… that nobody’s talking about.”

After Brzezinski agreed, Scarborough continued, “but everybody should be talking about it because socialists are taking over some of the most important companies in America’s economy.”

Joe Scarborough, who once pretended to be a Republican when it was profitable, has been fully assimilated by the Proglodyte Borg.

Newsbusters.

The feminist psychological castration of men proceeds apace.

6 of the Wildest Details From the WSJ’s Trump Fundraising Report (Nia Prater/New York Magazine)  Here’s the playbook: 1. A Narrative Media ‘journalist’ cobbles together a menage of slur and inuendo about Trump; 2. Another Usual Suspect takes the first report as gospel-truth and proceeds to expand on it; 3. The rest of the Narrative Media pile on, just ‘reporting what’s in the news’. These people are shameless.

A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Coral Davenport/New York Times)  Note the statist assumption: Deregulating a program ‘upends’ it.

Florida Man Gets 2 Years for Threatening Trump  I’m willing to bet that he wasn’t a Republican.

Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts (Associated Press)  They’re just pissed that they didn’t think of it first.

The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China (Peter Jamison/Washington Post) If there actually is a “Trump country”, I want to move there.

MD Gov. Wes Moore: ‘Concerned’ Trump Will Interfere in Midterms  In other words, they’re worried that the election will actually be more honest.

He’s Making It Worse on Purpose (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  Nobody hates like the Kristol Krew.

Why Trump is at war with the International Criminal Court (Vox)  Because they declared war on him.

‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility (Eva Hartog/Politico)  Because, as we all know, earthquake ‘response’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (New York Times)  The Narrative Media would rather we didn’t have any arctic ships.

The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump (New York Times)  Actually, they’re fleeing the New York Times.

NBC Mourns Spanish Border Crisis Has ‘Been Seized On By President Trump’

Obama described Trump as an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr a ‘f****** moron’ in call to Fauci, diaries reveal (Erin Keller/The Independent)  I’m sure Trump would say the same about Obama and Obama Jr. (oops, my mistake—there is no Obama Jr.)

Newsbusters.

Even mind-readers have to have something to work with.

How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound?

What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?

On – and on and on – went these and other questions from the American media as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu arrived at the White House for his latest meeting with President Trump.

There are multiple examples of this kind of media scrutiny of the President and the Trump White House, where minor details are over-interpreted and become major obsessions, as the two leaders met.

Newsbusters.

The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the Electoral College. However, on Friday’s PBS News Hour, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart agreed, “That’s not controversial.”

Not at PBS, that’s certainly true.

Moderator Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by playing a clip of Harris insisting, “We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the Court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”

Bennett was not interested in examining the radical aspects of those proposals. Instead, he wondered if it showed Harris was in tune with the Democratic base, “So that’s the thing. Democrats are saying they want a candidate who will fight for the things that Democrats say they care about. What do you make of that message?”

Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they’ve pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan” (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)

Trump Puts Immunity From Probes Over His Fight for Blanche (Bloomberg)

Trump’s ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something deeply unsettling about the president and his team (Holly Baxter/The Independent)  Yeah. He actually has original ideas, ideas that The Usual Suspects can’t wrap their mindes around.

Defying Trump, Cornyn Uses His Lame-Duck Power (Michael Gold/New York Times)  The RINO is strong in this one.

Inside Trump’s Senate playbook (Axios)  The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are SURE they have the inside scoop on what Trump is planning. ‘Delusional’ seems totally inadequate to describe it.

Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge (Politico)  The Narrative Media lament the disappearance of the traditional Republican Punching Bag.

Nine Things to Know About Trump Fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke (Wall Street Journal)  Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

Democrats Mobilize Over Fears Trump Will Deploy Troops to Polls (NOTUS)

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

Cheap gas won’t save Trump, now at a new all-time approval low (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Whistling past the graveyard….

Trump’s Iran strategy is working. His vice president’s isn’t. (Marc A. Thiessen/Washington Post)  Hey, we gotta find somebody to hate on.

Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near (CNN)  Wow, election security infrastructure (that guaranteed Democrats wouldn’t be caught cheating) guts all over the place. What a mess!

The Tate Brothers’ Should Be The Trumps’ Second Epstein Scandal (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Yeah, they couldn’t lie their way into making people believe that there was some connection with Epstein, perhaps they can lie their way into making people believe that there is some connection to the Tates. Hey, words are cheap….

Critics Say Historic Sites Are Endangered by Trump-Aligned Panel’s Plan (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)  “Trump-aligned” means “We can’t provide any evidence of a connection, so we’re just going to depend on smears and innuendo to see if people will buy it”.

In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing. (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal is corrupt and dangerous. Just ask Marco Rubio. (Sen. Edward J. Markey/MS NOW)

How a Lawsuit Seeking to Silence Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Actually Proved Its Point

We Now Have the Leading Charge in Trump’s Next Impeachment (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  But it doesn’t matter—we’d just make something up anyeway.

Newsbusters.

The spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci refusing to answer questions from senators by repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination was blatantly ridiculous. A man who never found a microphone he didn’t like was refusing to engage in defending his record. Then the elitist media that claim to be all about transparency and accountability rushed to his defense.

Sen. Rand Paul’s release of Fauci’s writings on his government computer revealed just how cozy the wily doctor was with the network news stars in 2020, from George Stephanopoulos to Chuck Todd to Jake Tapper. This was an obvious reason for the networks to bury the story of these writings.

It was all reminiscent of 2016, when Wikileaks dropped a pile of communications between Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta and other Democrats and political journalists. The networks discussed the leaked documents about the Clinton campaign vs. the Bernie Sanders campaign. But they weren’t going to discuss the chummy content between Podesta and the “objective” reporters.

Wikileaks exposed that in 2015, NBC’s Chuck Todd invited Podesta (among others) to their home for “Cocktails & Dinner in honor of” Jennifer Palmieri, another Clinton staffer, and her Democrat husband, Jim Lyons. Wikileaks revealed CNN asked the Democratic National Committee for questions to ask Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. What we’re never told is how cooperative the journalists were with the Democrat suggestions.

This is, in a word, collusion – a complete blur between journalists and Democrats, all seeking the same political objectives. But the media that claims to be all for democracy and transparency hide their inner chumminess in concocting the “news” product while pretending there is no secretive alliance.

You don’t need a ‘conspiracy theory’ if everybody involved knows what they need to do.