Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

A fierce divide has emerged from the early autopsies of Democrats’ election disaster: Was it policy — or culture — that doomed the party with working-class Americans?

Why it matters: Joe Biden touted himself as the most pro-union president in U.S. history. He joined a picket line, bailed out union pensions and invested massively in manufacturing jobs. And yet working-class voters still flocked to Donald Trump in droves.

Zoom in: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who campaigned for Vice President Harris, was unsparing in his critique this week of a party that he believes “has abandoned working-class people.”

A pointed reminder that ‘pro-union’ doesn’t equal ‘pro-working-class’.

New York Times.

After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.

Oh, ya think?

Read it.

I don’t really know why Kamala Harris lost. The best explanation I’ve seen is that Harris ran into a buzzsaw of anti-incumbent post-pandemic disillusionment that has played out across the developed world. You can add more strategic or tactical explanations about her candidacy — the timing of Biden’s exit, specific themes she pursued — but I am not sure it overwhelms this.

Let the finger-pointing continue….

Washington Free Beacon.

“Ungoverning” is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of “deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement.” This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of the ability to govern. But the individual they hold most responsible for this is former and future president Donald Trump, who brought decades of preexisting “hostility toward government to a crescendo.”

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The authors pursue their critique of Trumpian ungoverning through a consistently one-sided analysis. For instance, relying on a single New York Times article from April 2020, they allege that even in the COVID emergency, the Republican goal of “incapacitating government prevailed”—disregarding the remarkably rapid success of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership established by the Trump administration that developed effective vaccines by the end of that year. They also scold Trump for “imped[ing] the Centers for Disease Control … from issuing its own public guidance” on how to minimize COVID transmission. This ignores infectious disease czar Anthony Fauci’s subsequent admission that his six-foot distancing rule was something he arbitrarily invented; Fauci’s dogged dismissal, backed by National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins, of the evidence that the virus originated in a Chinese lab, not a “wet market”; and the costs (to the economy and especially to schoolchildren) of extended, bureaucratically devised lockdowns.

The New Republic.

Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.

So the problem wasn’t that Trump was better, or that the media lied, or that Harris was just a dumpster fire of a candidate — no, the problem was messaging.

The Guardian.

t has been an extraordinary week for US politics – and a very depressing couple of days for those such as me who spent hours on the phone to people, trying to persuade them to vote for Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump. This is what voters told me time and again, and why so many did vote for Trump.

Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump revealed as 2 New Yorkers also busted in plan to kill journalist (New York Post)

Three charged in alleged Iranian plot that included plans to kill Trump (Washington Post)

Wind the clock (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders (CNN)

Exclusive: RFK Jr. Is Crowdsourcing Cabinet Picks for Trump (Kiera Butler/Mother Jones)

Hezbollah Targeted Israel’s Trump Heights The Day After Election

Thousands expected for People’s March on Washington ahead of Trump’s inauguration (Ellie Silverman/Washington Post)

Pentagon Worried Trump May Fire ‘Woke’ General

Gavin Newsom’s quest to ‘Trump-proof’ California enrages incoming president (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)  And rightly so, I should think.

How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump (Politico)

Can Trump Tame Resistance 2.0?

Trump’s second presidency sparks fear of ‘scary’ time ahead among some immigrants (USA Today)  At least, they hope it does.

Trump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)

Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World Is Prepping for Trump Part II (New York Times)

Justice Dept. to focus on ‘most egregious’ Jan. 6 cases until Trump is inaugurated (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

Newsbusters.

t’s been a rough few days for the leftist media elites, they have been in anguish ever since Election Day.

The mix of anger and sadness poured out as they called the massive win for Donald Trump and the GOP a “nightmare” and questioned if America had “given up on democracy.” Journalists like Stephanie Ruhle warned that the voters had just “f’d around” and were about to “find out.”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid lectured Latino men: “Y’all voted with….David Duke and against your own sisters.” MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill choked back tears as she worried that America had turned their backs on their “better angels,” by electing Trump.

America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump (The Hill)

Trump’s mandate isn’t as ‘powerful’ as he suggests. Here’s why. (Washington Poop)

Some Issues and Topics Our Reporters Will Be Following in a Second Trump Presidency – and How to Get in Touch (ProPublica)

Media Elites Fume Over Their Inability to Force-Feed Narratives to the American People

WATCH: Jim Acosta Lectures Trump-Voting Latino: ‘Do You Want To See People in Camps, Rounded Up and Put in Camps?’

After 248 years, America prepares for life under a king (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

MAGA Launches Increasingly Horrific Attacks on Women After Trump Win (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Election Deniers Went Suddenly Quiet When Trump Won (Claire Lampen/The Daily Beast)  No, they didn’t. You just aren’t listening.

New Jersey governor says he’ll ‘fight to the death’ against Trump actions ‘contrary to values’ (Charles Creitz/Fox News)

Dem governor issues stark warning to Trump: ‘You come for my people, you come through me’ (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox News)

Elon Musk, the Leftist Media’s New Supervillain

Canceled Classes, Rescheduled Midterms, and Stress Baking: How Elite Universities Are Coddling Students Grieving Over Trump’s Victory

Here’s the Plan to Fight Back (Sen. Elizabeth Warren/Time)

Behind the Curtain: Deep Democratic depression (Axios)

‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Donald Trump’s victory (Lydia Spencer-Elliott/The Independent)

How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts (New York Times)

Let’s Not Lose Sight of Who Trump Is (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump Won’t Just Change Washington Politics – He’ll Change Life in the City (Michael Schaffer/Politico)

Pentagon anticipates major upheaval with Trump’s return to White House (Washington Post)

Dump Twitter  (New Republic)

Canadian police brace for ‘worst-case scenario’ of asylum-seekers fleeing Trump (Anna Mehler Paperny/Reuters)

Books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘1984’ are flying off the shelves after the presidential election (Erika Tulfo/CNN)

Meyers Mourns Our ‘Stupid System’ Ended Trump’s Legal Troubles

Ted Cruz’s daughter caught wincing and telling her mom ‘don’t clap’ as senator praises Trump on stage (James Liddell/The Independent)  Gee, I wonder where she learned that?

For transgender Americans, Trump’s win after a campaign targeting them is terrifying (Kevin Rector/Los Angeles Times)  It could be worse. They could be white males.

Trump AG Prospect Warns Letitia James: ‘We Will Put Your Fat Ass In Prison’ (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)  We can only hope.

They’re good at winning. They’re absolutely terrible at governing. (Jason Sattler/I Know How Much You Care)

CNN’s Bill Weir Declares ‘Notorious Climate Denier’ Trump Will Let Earth ‘Go to Hell’

Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters are on the verge of escaping charges (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

I blame the media – I am horrified and I am terrified and I am angry. – And I blame the media. (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch)

White House domestic policy chief Neera Tanden accused of repeated Hatch Act violations (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Ekosj: “The View” Cost Harris the Election

Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump (Associated Press)

Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy (Financial Times)

On CNN, Hillary Advisor Phillippe Reines Analogizes Trump To a ‘Clogged Toilet’

Madonna eats ‘f–k Trump’ cake after he wins 2024 presidential election  Like Kamala, she is famous for her mouth-work.

“Devastated”: Classes At Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Swarthmore & Others Canceled Over Trump Win

Justice Department files charges in murder-for-hire scheme targeting Trump (NBC News)

US Charges Iranian Asset in Regime’s Assassination Plot Against Trump

Canadian Immigration Website Sees Traffic Surge

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On her Thursday show, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner decried the fact that when women get married, their support for Republicans goes up. Not only that, Wagner claimed that such voting patterns show a disregard for “their black and brown sisters,” whose lives are supposedly threatened by the GOP.

Wagner lamented to CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Maya Wiley, “I want for a moment to, like, just, for a moment, talk about this loss of allyship in a very desperate time, that not only were white non-college educated women voting for Trump and against Harris, they were voting against the interest of their black and brown sisters in parts of the country where their lives are in danger, but, whether because of healthcare deserts, abortion deserts, or any other factors, and it’s a phenomenon that happens increasingly as women get married, and I wonder, you know, the plight of black and brown women in this country extends well past the fortunes of Kamala Harris.”

Trump Dodged the Law. Here’s Who to Blame. (Ankush Khardori/Politico)

Radical Left Activates Anti-Trump Protests As AOC Riles Up Rioters 

Through the darkness, some rays of light (Popular Information)

Democrats Will Win Again Once the Economy Tanks (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)

Playbook: Trump returns, and so does the drama (Politico)

At an Upper West Side synagogue, Jews gather to ‘sit shiva’ following Trump’s win  It’s hard to hold to the trope that Jews breed for intelligence when they keep voting for Democrats.

Trump allies, private sector quietly prepare for mass detention of immigrants (CNN)

“You’re Hurting, I See You” – Biden Reminds Nation Of His “Historic Presidency” A Day After ‘Trump Sweep’

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)

How California has been ‘Trump-proofing’ itself against federal reprisal (Andrew Gumbel/The Guardian)

‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ Again: Bob Woodward Claims Trump Being ‘Blackmailed’ By Putin

The Guardian view on the return of President Trump: a bleak day for America and the world (The Guardian)

Biden needs to Trump-proof US support for NATO, Ukraine (Dov S. Zakheim/The Hill)

‘What The Actual F***, America?’ Comedy Shows Struggle With Trump Victory

Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it’s not ‘better than this.’ (Rex Huppke/USA Today)

Trump Honeymoon Over Already at PBS: ‘Waged Violent Riot Against Democratic Process’

Newsom calls special session to fund California’s legal defense against Trump (Taryn Luna/Los Angeles Times)

For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’ (New York Times)

Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future (New York Times)

What President Trump’s Landslide Election Victory Means for Science

Don’t buy the hype, 2024 is no 2016

The Strategic Failure of 2024 Was Written in 2021 (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

The Left Is Losing It Online

Newsbusters.

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio underlined how firmly it’s on Team Kamala by airing a story on Monday’s Morning Edition hyping the notion that women were secretly voting for Kamala despite their pig-headed Trump-backing husbands. The headline was “Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret.”

Never mind that if they’re voting for her, they’re not conservative.

The Narrative Media seem to believe that when they say something it’s automatically true, even when it obviously isn’t.

I actually saw a commercial to that effect. It revolved around two ‘conservative’ women cunningly voting for Kamala while brightly lying to their husbands and sharing that girls-putting-one-over-on-the-stupid-boys look. I doubt that there is any conservative man doesn’t know for a fact how his wife will vote no matter what she might tell him, and I also doubt that any conservative man would either marry someone who would vote for a dumpster fire like Kamala or remain married to her if she did. (And he would know. Men aren’t as stupid as women like to pretend that they are.)

Biden team debates how to ‘Trump-proof’ foreign policy (Politico)

Far-Right Donald Trump Supporters Celebrate His Victory With Violent Memes and Calls for Executions (Tess Owen/Wired)

Trump Is President-Elect. So What Happens to Those Indictments?

‘I’m Profoundly Disturbed!’ Sunny Hostin Denounces Trump Win as a ‘Referendum On Cultural Resentment’ in Jawdropping A-Block on ‘The View’ (Jamie Frevele/Mediaite)

Trump’s win could lead companies to push up prices. Here’s why. (Kate Gibson/CBS News)

Misogyny, Disinformation, and ‘Rogue Corporations’: Watch the Mainstream Media Melt Down Over Trump Win

What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration (Stephen Engelberg/ProPublica)

Trump loses ground with LGBTQ voters (Brooke Migdon/The Hill)  I’m sure he’s worried.

“These Are Not Good People” – Trump Derangement Is The Stupidest Political Phenomenon Of Our Lifetime

America Did This to Itself (George T. Conway III/The Atlantic)

Trump has promised mass deportations. Can he do it in his 2nd term as president? (Jeanine Santucci/USA Today)

Biden admin is planning for a possible migrant surge before Trump takes office (NBC News)

The View Top to Bottom

Bette Midler implied she’d drink toxic Drano if Donald Trump won election — then deleted her account

Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler  Babylon Bee.

Watch all the media meltdowns from Donald Trump’s election win over Kamala Harris

The Atlantic’s David Frum leaves GOP after Trump victory (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)  When was David Frum ever a Republican? In college?

How Trump Accidentally Let His Biggest Advantage Over Harris Slip Away (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Trump snaps at reporter when asked about abortion: ‘Stop talking about that’ (Adriana Gomez Licon/Associated Press)

X Is a White-Supremacist Site … X has always had a nazi problem. (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

Elon Musk is sued over $1 million election giveaway (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Texas church removes four elders over Trump-linked founder’s abuse of girl, 12, in 1980s (Ramon Antonio Vargas/The Guardian) Linked!

Advisers urge Donald Trump to declare victory prematurely on election night (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)

Trump votes, and then utters 15 falsehoods in 15 minutes (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

CNN Is at a ‘Loss’ to Explain Georgia Independents Swinging to Trump

Exit Polls Find Significant Shift in Black Vote Toward Trump

CBS MELTDOWN: Sad About Life Winning in FL, Slams ‘Dark’ Trump Stirring ‘Violence’

Joyless Reid Smears DeSantis as ‘Openly Fascist’ Over FL Abortion Fail

Trump Bans Amazon Reporter From Election Party Despite Bezos Kissing the Ring (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

ABC Frets Latinos Chose ‘Their Truth’ About Groceries Over Trump’s ‘Mistruths’

PBS’s Capehart Wonders if America Has ‘Given Up on Democracy’

Sitting in it – It hurts. Let’s talk about it. – As I write this early Wednesday morning … (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  The villain from whom the term ‘rupar‘ was coined feels the butt-hurt.

The New Yorker, Voice of the Crust.

Susan B. Glasser loses her shit.

Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistake—a consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error. But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be. His victory was a worst-case scenario—that a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nation’s Capitol, who calls America “a garbage can for the world,” and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could win—and yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.

Gee, I guess The People aren’t buying your Woke bullshit any more, huh?

Rolling Stone, Voice of the Crust.

Andrew Perez loses his shit.

It happened, again: Democrats lost a winnable election to a racist, orange-makeup-wearing carnival barker, despite his odiousness, immorality, and unbridled corruption.

Don’t hold it in, Andrew; tell us how you really feel.

The Bulwark, Voice of the Neocon Deep State.

Bill Kristol and Andrew Eggar lose their shit.

Newsbusters.

Amazon pulled Brian Williams out of media exile on Tuesday to helm their election night coverage and when it became clear that Donald Trump would win, he proved not much has changed since his MSNBC days. Williams must have spent his exile in cave because he claimed that Republicans win because they have become “stone cold killers,” while Democrats are just “student council presidents” who are recycling nerds and if Democrats want to win again, this needs to change.

Fellow former MSNBC-er Abby Huntsman explained what Democrats are going to do next, “You always have a full autopsy, Brian, whenever you figure out if you lose it, what did we do wrong?”

The Hill, Voice of the Crust.

Max Burns loses his shit.

New York Times.

The Grey Lady loses her shit.

The Hill, Voice of the Crust.

Liz Cheney loses her shit.

The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.

Tom Nichols loses his shit.

OffMessage, Voice of the Crust.

Brian Beutler (sounds like Hitler) loses his shit.

Guess he was more comfortable with the Old Autocracy.

The United States and the world will soon be in the hands of mercurial, vindictive, greedy men with scores to settle and few checks on their power.

Oh? Did Joe Biden get re-elected?

The Atlantic., Voice of the Crust.

David Frum loses his shit.

Politico.

Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.

He was already the first former president ever to be charged with and convicted of felonies. Now he has become the first convicted felon ever to win a presidential election. And his victory virtually guarantees that he will never face serious legal accountability for an avalanche of alleged wrongdoing.

Trump’s imminent return to the White House shatters years of work by special counsel Jack Smith to convict Trump for his attempt to subvert the 2020 election and for the stockpile of classified documents he kept at his Florida estate.

It halts the prosecution he is facing in Georgia for his 2020 election plot as well.

It almost certainly allows Trump to postpone any sentence on his New York conviction for covering up a hush money scheme in 2016.

In short, the president-elect is now his own judge and jury, insulated from the criminal consequences he might have faced without the legal force field of the Oval Office.

And it BURNS, doesn’t it? Wave goodbye to the kangaroo courts hopping for cover.

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The censorship and manipulation of political information by Big Tech companies led by “woke” white-collar activists, corporate media, fact-checkers funded by far-left billionaires, a web of leftist-controlled non-profits, and the censorship blob in Washington, DC – all working in unison to combat free speech and control public narratives is at its worst: election interference.

Wikipedia Cites Laughable Sources in Sickening Trump-Fascist-Nazi Comparison

US election 2024: Polls open with Harris-Trump result on a knife edge – live updates (The Guardian)

Who won the day? Harris (Politico)

ABC Calls on GOP to Vote Dem, Floats Cheney as AG for Her ‘Moral Core’

RFK Jr Says Trump Plans To Remove Fluoride From American Drinking Water Doubtful.

How Trump Could Ban Abortion Without Congress (Politico)

A Georgia Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results (ProPublica)

A Key Trump Staffer Was Fired Last Week For Being a White Nationalist (Amanda Moore/Politico)

NYC Equinox Kicks Out Gym Patron Over Trump Shirt

Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs on Mexico, largest U.S. trade partner (Jeff Stein/Washington Post) Also our largest source of illegal immigrants.

A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time (CNN)

Trump Announces Dumbest Person You Know Will Lead Missile Defense (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) The dumbest person I know is Kamala Harris.

The MAGA Propaganda Machine Has Successfully Censored Voices Calling Out its Lies (Renee DiResta/The UnPopulist)

Trump organizer who secretly hosted white-nationalist podcast is fired (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

JD Vance calls for loving fellow Americans before labeling Harris “trash” (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)

THE END: Trump-Deranged Joy Reid Delivers UNHINGED Opening Editorial

Proud Boys claim they’ll be at polling places as Trump ups violent rhetoric and election fraud claims (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

“They’re very scared”: Migrants anxiously monitor U.S. election, fearing Trump win (CBS News)

Rapid spread of election disinformation stokes alarm (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

Trump and allies have primed supporters to falsely believe he has no chance of losing (Stephen Fowler/NPR)

It’s Been Four Years. How Ready Are We for ‘Stop the Steal 2.0’? (Kim Wehle/The Bulwark)

Will America become Russia? (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

PBS-Picked Prof Warns of ‘Very Dangerous Rhetoric’ from Trumpian Evangelical Christians

From ‘Clingers’ To ‘Garbage’ – Why The 16 Years Of Vilification?  Because that’s the way they roll.

‘I went to a Trump rally – the curtains are closing on his circus’ (Pablo O’Hana/Metro.co.uk)

CNN’s Kasie Hunt Closes the Campaign with Badly Disguised Kamala Commercial

Harris’s people look confident. The Trump campaign appears panicky: ‘He’s realizing that he could lose’ (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

MAGA outrage over wives voting for Kamala Harris is funny – but it’s also dangerous (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  So is Amanda Marcotte.

How Trump used the ‘red mirage’ in vote counting to deny his 2020 loss (Washington Post)

What happens if Trump tries to overturn another election loss? (Cameron Joseph/Christian Science Monitor)

Nicolle Wallace on Vance calling Harris ‘trash:’ ‘You just effed up’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Oprah Winfrey warns that not voting for Harris could mean never being able to ‘cast a ballot again’ (Washington Examiner)  Certainly if Harris wins.

Literal Neo-Nazi Leader Endorses Trump (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)  What, you expect him to endorse Harris?

ABC Hopes for Harris Wins With ‘Unity & Optimism’ Over ‘Anti-Immigrant,’ ‘Dark’ Trump  He’s not very dark; hasn’t been for, oh, twenty years now.

Trump Campaign Finishes the Election by Taking Revenge on the Media (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)  Good.

Maddow, Reid, Wallace: For Election Night, MSNBC Assembles the ‘Primetime Avengers’!

Google Makes Its Preference Clear, Continues Search Manipulation on Election Day

I’m a Presidential Historian. This Is My Biggest Regret About Trump. (Jon Meacham/New York Times)

Short On Cash After 2016 Election, Trump Secured Secret Loan (Dan Alexander/Forbes)  Dunh– dunh- DUNH……..

Trump campaign denies and revokes journalists’ election night credentials after critical coverage (CNN)  Sauce for the goose….

Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say (Reuters)  Ah, yes, ‘experts’.

Google Explains Why Search for ‘Where Can I Vote for Harris’ Showed a Map While Similar Trump Search Didn’t (Todd Spangler/Variety)  Who would want to vote for Trump?

The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.

Some liberals insist that they’re not joking this time: They are very scared, and very ready to leave the country if Donald Trump is reelected.

Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

PSA: Go Where You’re Treated Best

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She presented herself with a huge smile, her words crisp and her gaze confident as she looked across the high school auditorium of prospective voters. In bedazzled shoes, a bright red dress, and a blonde blowout, she stood assured like a pageant queen.

Friends and family donning T-shirts with the words “Make Education Great Again” sat in the front rows. They were eager to hear Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction, make the case that her lack of experience in public education is just what North Carolina students need.

“I think one of my greatest qualifications is I have no experience in a failing system,” she said in the October 14 debate at a high school in Pinehurst.

Can’t say she’s wrong, although The Intercept, a thinly-disguised Voice of the Crust, suggests that she’s delusional — and even gets in a dig against Trump.

Trump says he doesn’t ‘mind’ if someone has to ‘shoot through’ the media (Politico)

Fetterman On CNN: Trump An ‘A-hole’ For Running Ad On Kamala’s Trans Policy

Trump campaign leaving some cities with hundreds of thousands in unpaid bills after rallies (Soo Rin Kim/ABC News)

North Carolina–and Iowa? (Mary L. Trump/The Good in Us)

Trump returns to his grievances for his closing argument (Politico)

Harris vows unity in closing message while Trump lashes out (Washington Post)

Chuck Todd Augurs Kleptocracy “For a Generation” If Trump Reelected

Medvedev: US Election Doesn’t Matter, Ukraine War Won’t Stop, And Trump May Get JFK’d If He Intervenes

The Future Of Debanking  Melania and Barron get cancelled.

PBS Lies That Trump ‘Talked About Cheney in Violent and Threatening Terms’

If Trump wins the election, these 11 issues will be under threat (The Guardian)

Security fencing goes up around White House, Capitol, VP residence (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)

A Vivid Trump-Harris Contrast in the Campaign’s Grueling Final Days (New York Times)

Ahead of the Election, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Squeezes Off One Last Hysterical Editorial

Trump Enters Final Sprint For White House An Unfocused Mess (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Establishment Media Says Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Be An ‘Economic Disaster’

Whirlwind of misinformation sows distrust ahead of US election day (Mike Wendling/BBC)

GOP’s closing election message on health baffles strategists, worries experts (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds (Politico)

Trump escalates false claims of fraud, setting stage to cry foul if he loses (Washington Post)

‘I Think We’re in Trouble’: Is There a Future for MAGA After Trump? (David Siders/Politico)

Harris official says Trump is closing “with total darkness and anger” (Erin Doherty/Axios)

Right-Wing Groups Are Organizing on Telegram Ahead of Election Day (New York Times)

The consequences of putting the cranks in charge (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump’s “baked in” bigotry (Davidrlurie/Public Notice)

Obama Recycles “Very Fine People” Narrative Despite the Fact That It’s A Proven Hoax

NBC Runs Trump Ads for Equal Time After Harris’ ‘SNL’ Bias Allegations

Washington Activates National Guard, Oregon “Standing Ready”, Heading Into Election Day

GOP primed to back Trump if he contests election (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

Elon Musk’s misleading election claims have been viewed more than 2 billion times on X, analysis finds (Marshall Cohen/CNN)

U.S. Farmers Brace for New Trump Trade Wars Amid Tariff Threats (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret (Sarah McCammon/NPR)

Donald Trump Has Lost His Sh*t (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Any Other Republican Would Be Running Away With This (Matthew Yglesias/New York Times)

Media’s Closing Argument: Vote for Harris to Save America From ‘Evil’ ‘Maniac’ Trump

Final GOP push in Pennsylvania focuses on imaginary voters over real ones (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump Stepped on a Rake Yesterday–and He Knew It (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)  Oh, really?

Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees. (Andy Kroll/ProPublica)

Your Tax $ At Work: PBS Laments GOP Spending on Ads ‘Demonizing Transgenders People’

Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down (Michael Gold/New York Times)

Crazy Talk About Media Favoring Trump Over Harris

Donald Trump Promises Global Peace With Reelection. His Track Record Says Otherwise. (Akbar Shahid Ahmed/HuffPost)

Robert De Niro Takes Goal Line Stand Against Trump At Eagles Tailgate Party (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)

‘I Saw It From The Inside’: Ex-Trump Administration Lawyer Echoes Forceful Warning (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Mini Poop Statues Appear At D.C.’s Mysterious Turd Monument ‘Honoring’ Trump (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Shameless Scarborough Still Peddling Lie Trump Wanted Liz Cheney ‘Shot By Firing Squad’

Two potential futures for Trump: The presidency or prison (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Pompous CBS Lecture: Kamala Will Beat ‘Darker’ Trump With ‘Silent’ Harris Voters

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YouTube is still suppressing ongoing discussions on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment nearly five years after the start of the pandemic.

Eagle Forum hosted its Eagle Council 52 conference last month, which featured a plethora of speakers including renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough. During his speech, Dr. McCullough mentioned some of the most pernicious impacts of the COVID-19 virus and vaccines. He also noted how censorship continues to impact discussions surrounding health and the pandemic. YouTube, however, censored Eagle Forum’s video of Dr. McCullough’s speech for allegedly “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”

Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman blasted YouTube for its censorship in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America. “Dr. McCullough spoke eloquently about the dangers to medicine and science when certain opinions are silenced. The idea that YouTube can censor a practicing doctor, who actually treated COVID patients, is outrageous,” she said.

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As Election Day nears, CBS’s procedural drama FBI: Most Wanted took on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (AKA fracking) and CO2 pipelines, but even though the ecoterrorists were the bad guys, the vibe was sympathetic to their cause if not their violent methods of protest.

The Economist.

onald trump has dominated the American right for nine years and yet, even after a decade of study, many observers still cannot fathom why. But voters are certainly not tired of Mr Trump. Even after the scandal and mayhem of his first term, culminating in his attempt to cling to power after losing the election in 2020, around half of the electorate, or some 75m Americans, will vote for him this time.

What accounts for his enduring strength? At first it was common on the left to point to racism, misogyny and xenophobia, sustained by misinformation and lies. Hillary Clinton infamously summarised this thesis. “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” she once said.

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Calmer analysis is more helpful. Social scientists provide three kinds of explanation. Political scientists point out the importance of institutions; political economists put stress on material conditions; and political sociologists emphasise the cultural divide between elites and the self-described populus.

UPDATE: ‘Underserved, overtaxed’: Battleground state voter explains why she’s backing Trump (CNN)

UPDATE: Reluctant Trump voter reveals why she’s voting for the former president (Fox News)

UPDATE: Trump is ‘arrogant,’ ‘narcissistic,’ and ‘paranoid,’ these Mass. voters say. And they’re voting for him again.  (Boston Globe)

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Even as Trump Pushes “America First” (ProPublica)

Leftists Predict Hysterical Dystopian Future Ruled By JD Vance And An Immortal Elon Musk

‘I’m Scared Sh–less.’ Why Women’s March Protesters Say They ‘Won’t Go Back’

Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’ (Hugh Dougherty/The Daily Beast)

MSNBC’s Racial Fearmongering: Trump Would ‘Take Us Back To Jim Crow—And Then Some!’

Portents Of Chaos

Trump says migrants caused a ‘surge in crime’ in a small Wisconsin city. Its residents reject that. (Irie Sentner/Politico)

Donald Trump’s freakshow continues unabated (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

Elon Musk’s Mom Suggests She May Break Voting Laws (MauríCio Alencar/The Daily Beast)

Why young men like Donald Trump

Lying NY Times Pretends Not to Hear Trump’s Anti-War Insult of Cheney: ‘Violent Language’

Here’s Why Trump Just Claimed Credit For “Killing” Nord Stream II

A Second Trump Term? Three Conservative Columnists Unpack What Could Happen. (New York Times)  You can guess with three. Any resemblance between them and Real Conservatives is purely coincidental.

Kamala Harris Mocks Donald Trump on ‘SNL’ Appearance, Urges Americans to ‘Keep Kamala and Carry On-A-La’ (William Earl/Variety)

‘I Think It Will Happen Again if Trump Is the President’: The Ongoing Trauma of Family Separation (Myah Ward/Politico)

Epstein Claimed: Trump Liked to F**k His Friends’ Wives (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

The Latest Harris Campaign Gaslighting Is Comedy Gold

ELECTION NIGHT REWIND: The Bias Doesn’t Stop When the Voting Is Over

Trump Thinks America Wants His Perversions (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)

Apology Not Accepted – I woke up yesterday morning to learn that Don Trump–the famed rapist … (A.R. Moxon/The Reframe)

Trump Tells Supporters He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House (New York Times)

2024’s biggest gaffe? GOP telling the truth about what it will do to America. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump Says ‘I Don’t Mind’ if the Media Gets Shot (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Trump Boasts ‘Every Rally Is Full’ as Camera Immediately Pans to Empty Seats, People Leaving (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Trump talks about reporters being shot and says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss (Associated Press)

Trump doesn’t rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president: ‘I’ll make a decision’ (NBC News)

GOP candidate Tim Sheehy says medical records don’t exist for gunshot wound (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)

Trump says he doesn’t mind someone shooting at journalists at rally (Washington Post)  Neither do I.

The Regime Media’s Sunday Shows Continue to LIE to Their Viewers and Push the Debunked Cheney Hoax

Why business leaders are worried about JD Vance (Politico)

‘This must be disqualifying’: Harris calls out Trump’s violent Cheney comments (Myah Ward/Politico)  But, amazingly, it’s not.

Trump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired upon in escalation of violent rhetoric against his opponents (Eric Bradner/CNN)  No, he didn’t. This is a lie.

Ariz. Prosecutor Investigating Trump for Saying Cheney Should Face Gunfire  Which he didn’t.

Johnson leans on Trump in frantic push to save House majority (CNN)

Jeffrey Epstein details close relationship with Trump in newly released tapes (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)

GOPer Confronts CNN for Their ‘Distortion’ of Trump’s Cheney Comments

Here’s Why Mark Cuban’s Attack on the Women Around Trump Is Backfiring

Recap: The Republican War on Women (Andra Watkins/How Project 2025 …)

Nicolle Wallace Calls on Her Former Boss, George W. Bush, to Denounce Trump (Tim Balk/New York Times)

Trump Still Can’t Stop Talking About Women (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)  He wants their votes. How does this come as a surprise?

Wash. State Activates National Guard Ahead of Election

Harris campaign, Drudge Report melt down, accuse Trump of calling for Liz Cheney’s ‘execution’ (Josh Christenson/New York Post)

Kamala Harris Is Not Our Savior. But a Donald Trump Win Would Be Catastrophic. (Versha Sharma/Teen Vogue)

Your Tax $$ at Work: NPR Hails ‘Smart’ Lying ‘Trump Will Ban Porn’ Ads on Porn Sites  Which he won’t.

Trump, Preparing to Challenge the Results, Puts His 2020 Playbook Into Action (New York Times)

Trump’s vows for revenge face few limitations in second term (The Hill)

The Editorial Board – You already know Donald Trump. – He is unfit to lead. Watch him. (New York Times)

Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign (Tim Alberta/The Atlantic)

Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans. His First Presidency Suggests He Won’t. (Eli Hager/ProPublica)

‘Don’t Lie To Me’: Maher Condemns Media For Claiming Trump Wants Liz Cheney Shot

Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights? (George Monbiot/The Guardian)  Apparently democracy = socialism.

Bolton suggests Trump will not accept results if Harris wins: ‘We should be ready for it’ (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)

The Unique Danger of a Trumpist Oligarchy (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)

Maher delivers final message to undecided voters: It may get worse under Trump (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)

Donald Trump Weirdly Simulates Sex Act on Microphone Stand (Mathew Murphy/The Daily Beast)

CBS Falsely Says Trump Mused ‘About Executing Liz Cheney’

“The Guy’s A Retard. He’s Retarded”: The Atlantic Accidentally Makes Trump Look Hilarious Over Biden Nickname

Trump is using election lies to lay the groundwork for challenging 2024 results if he loses (Jill Colvin/Associated Press)

Jeff Bezos Has a Point on Media Trust, and the Liz Cheney Lie Proves It

Latest Trump Hoax Drops: No He Wasn’t Simulating Oral Sex

Close RFK Jr. friend whose account promoted “Jew World Order” conspiracy theory says she’s “working with” Trump’s transition team (Eric Hananoki/Media Matters for America)

Trump Needs Help (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

‘Strong’ Women in Trump Orbit Clap Back at Mark Cuban

Vance suggests upper- and middle-class kids ‘become trans’ for college admissions, says Trump may earn ‘normal gay guy vote’ (Kit Maher/CNN)

Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters. (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Trump lagging in early vote with seniors in Pennsylvania, a red flag for GOP (Politico)

“It is so disastrous”: MAGA men are freaking out that wives may be secretly voting for Kamala Harris (Charles R. Davis/Salon)

After Godwin’s Law, Dems May Try One Last ‘Get Trump’ Gambit On Election Day

ABC, CBS Newscasts OMIT Mark Cuban Insult of Trump-Supporting Women

Leopards Are Telling You That They Will Eat YOUR Face (Paul Krugman/New York Times)  It’s about Trump. Trust me.

THIS IS CNN: Tavis Smiley Mocks JD Vance, Says He Has ‘Mommy Issues’

Listen to Jeffrey Epstein Spill Intel on Donald Trump’s White House (Harry Lambert/The Daily Beast)

Crazy Talk About the Media Favoring Trump Over Harris

CNN’s Preston Argues Biden Should Double Down on ‘Garbage’ Smear

New Report Suggests “Whale Psychiatrist” Trump May be Right About Wind Farms and Whales

Harris keeps bringing in new money as Trump struggles to grow his donor base (Jessica Piper/Politico)

Trump actually treats Puerto Rico like garbage (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Liz Cheney Fires Back at Trump, Accuses Him of Threatening Her ‘With Death’ in Blistering Counter (Colby Hall/Mediaite)

Europe’s Greens ask Jill Stein to pull out of US election to prevent Trump victory (Politico)

Donald Trump’s campaign of relentless lying (Daniel Dale/CNN)

Trump Attacks Liz Cheney Using Violent War Imagery (Michael Gold/New York Times)

Secret Service Interfered in IG Assassination Probe

Meet the Democrats using porn ads to convince Trump voters to stay home (Susan Davis/NPR)

Elon Musk’s Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence (emptywheel)

“The Garbage Can of the World” – At Donald’s hate rally at Madison Square Garden … (Mary L. Trump/The Good in Us)

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it’s crucial we remember (Elizabeth Hlavinka/Salon)

The Strongman Fantasy (text and audio) (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)

When You Thought He Couldn’t Sink Lower (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump Fantasizes About Guns Pointed at Liz Cheney’s Face (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Uh, actually, no….

Execute Her? Fake News Invents New Outrage When Trump Suggests Liz Cheney Serve In Wars She Promotes

What Happens When Trump Exploits Your Daughter’s Murder (Asawin Suebsaeng/Rolling Stone)

Some Maga men seem to think women don’t have rights – starting with their wives (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)

Donald Trump Is Done With Checks and Balances (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

YouTube CENSORS Rogan-Trump Interview: Jordan Fires Back at Google CEO

Trump embraces violent rhetoric, suggests Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’ (Washington Post)

Trump Suggests Training Guns on Liz Cheney’s Face (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

Garbage In/Garbage Out

CNN’s Stelter Disses Trump’s Lawsuit Against CBS with Lefty ‘First Amendment Experts’

Desperate Leftist Media Wildly Distort Trump’s Liz Cheney Comments 

Obama FBI Ran Off-The-Books ‘Honeypot’ Operation On Trump Campaign In 2015: Whistleblower

Arizona’s top prosecutor investigating Trump’s comments about Cheney as possible death threat (Brahm Resnik/KPNX)

Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign’s closing argument (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)

10 Things You Should Do One Last Time Before Trump Institutes A Totalitarian State (Babylon Bee)

Reuters.

The news reporting on the news reporting on the news.

CNN.

The Crust takes care of its own.

Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

The Economist Endorses Harris, Warns Trump Carries ‘Unacceptable Risks’ (Nina Golgowski/HuffPost)  Ask yourself why The Economist, a British magazine, is endorsing a candidate for the U.S. Presidency.

Trump’s plan to radically remake government with RFK Jr. and Elon Musk is coming into view (Zachary B. Wolf/CNN)  I’d vote for that.

Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk’s misinformation machine (CNN)

MSM Melts Down Over Trump Garbage Truck Stunt

Majority of swing-state voters say they fear violence if Trump loses (Washington Post)

Billionaire Trump Awkwardly Dresses Up as a Garbage Truck Driver (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)

Harris says she will be ‘sadly ready’ if Trump prematurely claims victory Tuesday (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

New York Times Revels in Harris Tactic of Labeling Trump a Fascist

The Spinal Tap Election: Everything Is Turned Up To 11

The Politics Of Fear: Laying The Groundwork For Fascism, American-Style

UNBURDENED: CBS’s O’Donnell MAD About Trump’s Garbage Truck ‘Stunt’

Trump Insists He Has Big Lead Over Harris, Setting Stage for 2024 Doubts (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)

Bush v Gore 2: Despotic Boogaloo (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Trump: My Own Staff Beg Me to Stop ‘Inappropriate’ Talk About Women (Sean Craig/The Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Is a Foreign Influence

Trump Dresses Up as a Fascist for Halloween and It Sure Is Scary

Is The Left Preparing For War If Trump Wins?

“I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not”: Trump’s closing argument is toxic masculinity (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte is toxic stupidity.

Swing State Newspaper Slams Trump: ‘Crippled Cognitively’ With ‘Clear Signs Of Mental Illness’ (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks (The Economist)

YouTube let right-wing figures undermine the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast (Media Matters for America)  This is the same YouTube that made Joe Rogin’s interview with Trump infindable through their search engine.

‘Like it or not’: In one quote, Trump distills the 2024 gender gap (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race (New York Times)

PBS Gets Out Harris Vote in PA: ‘Racist, Sexist’ MSG Rally Has ‘Broken Through’

Trump Would Be Worse for Palestinians (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)  And rightly so.

CNN’s Kasie: Don’t Let Election Denier Trump Distract You With Garbage Truck/McD’s Stunts!

Make Diseases Great Again: Trump team says they’re coming for vaccines (Emily Singer/Daily Kos)

Networks MAD Trump Wants to ‘Capitalize on’ Biden ‘Appearing to’ Call Voters ‘Garbage’

Report: WashPost Pays to Promote Anti-Trump Stories

Republicans are serious about cutting people’s health care (Dylan Scott/Vox)

ABC Blames Trump for Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Smear, Rips Blue-Collar Workers

2024 election violence is already happening (Nicole Narea/Vox)

Read it.

The twin pillars of Woke ‘journalism’ appear to be Envy and Prurience.

‘Secret’? Can’t be much of a secret if three Jimmy Olsens found out about it.

New York Post.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Quillette.

In March, Sarah Carr—a professor of journalism and contributor to the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Slate—published an essay in the Hechinger Report titled, “How Flawed IQ Tests Prevent Kids from Getting Help in School.” Reliance on IQ tests in many US schools, she wrote, “is now slowly starting to ebb after decades of research showing their potential for racial and class bias, among other issues. IQ scores can also change significantly over time and have proven particularly unreliable for young children.”

In August, the Atlantic published an essay by staff writer Ali Breland titled, “The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed with Race and IQ,” which fretted that “right-wing gatekeepers are shrouding [their] bigotry in a cloak of objectivity and pseudoscientific justification.” That essay was approvingly linked by a contributor to the Free Press the following month in an essay titled, “Pseudo-Scholars and the Rise of the Barbarian Right.” Three days after the Atlantic essay appeared, Lithub ran an essay titled, “On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test.”

These are just a few recent examples of the tendentious journalism about IQ that routinely appears in mainstream news outlets otherwise dedicated to scientific rigour and accuracy. Reporting and commentary like this would lead any reasonable citizen to conclude that intelligence tests are biased and that the study of IQ is pseudoscientific. Conversely, there is very little reporting on the field’s strong research base or its efforts to improve the health of people with low IQs, accelerate treatment for children with learning disabilities, and understand the link between the brain and behaviour. Consequently, there is a mismatch between the work and findings of intelligence researchers and the portrayal of their field in the popular media.

Most ‘journalists’ are progressives, including those purported to be ‘scientists’. They hate the notion that one person can even possibly be inherently ‘better’ in any area than another; which is rooted in the Woke delusion that everybody is just as good as everybody else, everybody is just as capable as everybody else, and if differences arise they arise because somebody is being oppressed or somehow being deliberately cheated.

Read it.

After cheering the “brave” resignations of LA Times employees, it was expected that faux Republican Jen Rubin would follow suit when the Washington Post also failed to endorse Kamala Harris.

Guess not.

My theory is that precisely because she is so principled, she is merely delaying her resignation to achieve maximum effect. And then it’s Take that Jeff Bezos!

A reported 200,000 readers have cancelled their WaPo subscriptions in protest even though there has not been even a hint of an editorial shift in favor of balanced, more objective coverage or something equally terrifying and fascistic. Does anyone believe that there is any employee, editor, reporter or opinion writer at the WaPo who is openly to the right of Trotsky or Whoopi Goldberg?

Those cancellations could be a loss of maybe $30 million per year on top of the $77 million annual deficit Bezos is currently paying out of pocket to fund these ingrates. And some have even vowed to stop using Amazon.com!

Puerto Ricans in must-win Pennsylvania say Trump rally joke won’t be forgotten (BBC)

Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania (Politico)

Trump’s offensive Madison Square Garden rally triggers fears of an overshadowed message and fallout with Puerto Rican voters (CNN)

Anger grows over racist remarks about Puerto Ricans at Trump rally (The Guardian) Since when is ‘Puerto Rican’ a race?

Michelle Obama’s Brutal Takedown of Trump’s Mental State Shames Media (The New Republic)

Michelle Obama blasts Trump for ‘gross incompetence’ at Harris’s Michigan rally (The Guardian) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Michelle Obama’s message to men was a perfect rebuttal to Tucker Carlson (MSNBC) Uh, yeah, sure.

Trump rally comedian workshopped racist Puerto Rico line at NYC comedy club the night before (NBC News)

Trump advisers propose bypassing FBI background checks for appointees (The Guardian)

USA Today the Latest to Offer Up Excuse for Lack of Presidential Endorsement (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

Harris Aides Hopeful That Casting Trump as a Fascist Could Shift Election (New York Times)

The Smearing of Kamala Harris (Anita Hill/New York Times)

‘Floating pile of garbage’ comments follow Trump to his rally tomorrow (Holly Otterbein/Politico)  Which TRUMP never said. But that doesn’t matter.

NAACP poll: Trump’s support among young Black men decreasing (Brakkton Booker/Politico)

Trump: ‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi’ (Meridith McGraw/Politico)

‘Nobody Gets a Pass!’ Mika Goes on Wild Anti-Trump Rant on ‘The View’

Elon Musk’s America PAC uses crude, sexist attack against Harris in new ad (Brittany Gibson/Politico)

Archbishop of San Juan says Trump needs to ‘personally’ apologize (Mia McCarthy/Politico) For something he didn’t say, that everyone present knows was a joke.

Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate (Oliver Milman/The Guardian)

Regime Media Bask in Hope MSG Fallout Hurts Trump With Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania

Kamala Supporter Outlines ‘Survival Guide’ If Trump Wins

How Trump Goes to Prison (Jeff Wise/New York Magazine)

The obscene and absurd in MAGA Square Garden (Public Notice)

The most misogynistic ad in the history of politics (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Playbook: Trump faces a P.R. disaster (Politico)

Joe Rogan Addresses YouTube Censorship Concerns, Says Harris Interview Still Possible 

Trump Betrayed America. My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party. (J. Michael Luttig/New York Times)

That Revolting Rally Was a Sign of Weakness (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

George W. Bush’s Daughter Barbara Breaks Silence on Election to Campaign for Kamala Harris (Exclusive) (Daniel S. Levine/People)

How Trump’s Business Could Create New Conflicts If He Is Re-Elected (New York Times)

‘Racist, sexist, crude’: Media outlets use strong language to describe Trump rally (Tom Jones/Poynter)  But they’d do that anyway.

Puerto Rico’s G.O.P. Chairman Demands Apology From Trump for Comic’s Remarks (Neil Vigdor/New York Times)  He is supposed to feel obliged to apologize for what someone else said. Welcome to the Cancel Culture.

Elon Musk’s “illegal” past doesn’t feel like hypocrisy to MAGA – Trump’s hate rally in NYC shows why (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte is a walking hate crime.

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Don’t Fall For Trump’s Makeover. He’s an Anti-Muslim Bigot. (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  As opposed to a pro-Muslim bigot, like will Saletan. Of the two, I know which one I’d pick.

The Memo: Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise (Niall Stanage/The Hill)

How Trump Is Using Truth Social to Concoct and Spread Conspiracy Theories (New York Times)

Poop artist strikes again with neo-Nazi tiki torch statue for Trump (Joe Heim/Washington Post)

Trump claims to ABC’s Scott he didn’t hear comedian’s Puerto Rico comment, doesn’t denounce it (ABC News)

Cooper, Stelter Impute Ill Motive to Bezos’ WashPost Endorsement Call, Suggest Compliance Ahead of Impending Autocracy

Whoopi Goldberg: Trump Will Break Up Interracial Marriages, Deport The Non-White Person

Trump identifies a scapegoat in case he loses (Sophia Cai/Axios)

Trump and his allies insist he’s ‘not a Nazi’ (Rebecca Shabad/NBC News)  And Harris and her allies insist that he is. Who to believe?

State Department Alerts Congress: Iranian Spy Teams Are Attempting To Assassinate Former Trump Officials

The stage is set for post-election tumult if Trump loses (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Liberal Media Have Collective Amnesia About Their 2016 Election Denial

Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight (Tess Owen/Wired)

Read it.

New York Times reporters Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, and Michael Gold were on the scene for the purported Trump hate-fest held at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. The resulting story featured what political polling guru (and Kamala Harris supporter) Nate Silver in his newsletter called “the sort of headline” the paper’s “liberal critics” have “been pining for”: “A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism.”

Walz compares Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to 1939 pro-Nazi event (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Trump ad depicts country ‘gone to hell’ – during Trump’s presidency (Adam Wren/Politico)

Speakers at Trump MSG rally insult Dems, minorities (Meridith McGraw/Politico)

A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris Reached Out to Them. (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

Trump’s New York homecoming sparks backlash over racist and vulgar remarks (Meridith McGraw/Politico)

Trump-supporting comedian opens MSG rally by calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” (Alex Galbraith/Salon)

Donald Trump’s Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)

Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism (New York Times)

By contrast: NYC Mayor Says Trump Not A Fascist, Urges Politicians To ‘Dial Down The Temperature’ Good luck with that.

The Other McCain.

Failure in politics requires scapegoats, and Harris herself is exempt from blame because (according to the rules that Democrats impose) anyone who criticizes her is a racist and a sexist and, perhaps, literally Hitler. Forbidden to blame the candidate who led them to defeat, therefore, Democrats will point the finger of blame at each other, and we will witness a Carnival of Recriminations — if, as I say, Kamala loses. The fact that the Washington Post is imploding now, less than 10 days before Election Day, is a sort of signal of which way the winds are blowing. Robert Kagan wouldn’t be resigning his job if he didn’t think a Trump victory was highly probable.

What’s going on here? Professor Glenn Reynolds floats the theory — relevant to Bill Clinton throwing shade on Harris — that there’s an internecine combat between the Clinton clique and the Obama clique, with the Clintons aiming to get a measure of revenge. Team Clinton wants to make sure that they get none of the blame for an expected Harris defeat. But what about this thing at the Washington Post? Certainly it strikes me as an omen of a Harris defeat — Bezos wouldn’t have held back the Post‘s endorsement if he thought Harris was on her way to the White House. And, in examining this — again, hat-tip to Professor Reynolds — Ann Althouse mentions the similar non-endorsement by the Los Angeles Times.

Washington Poop.

A federal appeals court Friday ruled invalid a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by then.

The ruling came less than two weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election and could have implications for other states with similar laws. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit did not rule on how the state should handle ballots for this election, saying that matter should be addressed later by a trial court judge.

The reason a Voice of the Crust is hand-wringing over this is that ‘late-arriving ballots’ are a standard tool in the Democrat election-stealing toolbox.

“Federal law requires voters to take timely steps to vote by Election Day,” Judge Andrew S. Oldham wrote for the unanimous panel. “And federal law does not permit the State of Mississippi to extend the period for voting by one day, five days, or 100 days.”

Indeed.

ABC News, a Voice of the Crust.

In Woke-speak, ‘misinfornation’ is anything that disagrees with the Narrative.

In Woke-speak, ‘drive Americans apart’ means anything that persuades people not to like Big Brother.

Read it.

Even though it is.