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Yesterday, we caught CNN’s Kasie Hunt claiming that “we may never know” the motive of the suspect in the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Today, it was MSNBC’s turn. On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire joined the chorus of liberal media members professing ignorance as to Routh’s motives.

The motive is obvious, but not something that the Narrative Media can bring themselves to say.

Yet another instance of the ‘Muslims Murder Jews, Motive Unclear’ syndrome that all Narrative Media embrace.

UPDATE Sen. Paul to Newsmax: Leftist Media Must Stop Inciting Violence on Trump

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You can’t make this shit up.

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If you can’t speak freely you are someone else’s puppet. In that brief sentence alone, any genuinely well-educated reader should find delicious food for thought, because words aren’t the innocent little toys the ex-hippies the BBC loves to sell as language experts, insist they are. They are a constant battleground of chemical reactions that link me to other English speakers like you. Tiny, infinitely potent triggers we exchange across time and space, that make us human. English words connect me to Grendel, to Jerusalem and the battlements at Elsinore. They infuse me with a unique identity. They make me the person my colleagues, friends and family recognise.

What they don’t do is merely colour my skin or label me so some witless sociologist can heap more trash thought on a mountain of unwanted and unwarranted research. Without them we are just gurning chimps.

I’ve been writing about how badly words are treated by so many people for the past five years and even did a radio programme on the topic for the BBC, against all the odds it increasingly seems to me, considering their preference for the ex-hippies. But recent events across the West have cast a lurid spotlight on this profoundly important corner stone of democracy. Free speech is under attack in a way no Englishman who feels any pride in his nation, can ignore.

We have a new government in the UK that in a matter of weeks has demonstrated repeatedly, on line and on screen, its absolute dedication to the ex-hippies’ linguistic faith. They have made it clear they neither value, nor wish to support, our free speech. Meanwhile in that other great English speaking nation, someone who thinks a situation in which social media companies “speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation…has to stop” is actually standing for election as President of the world’s largest democracy.

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“ I think I may not have children although I do want them,” she notes. “Just because, with all of the things we see going on in the world, it seems unfair to bring someone into all of this against their will.”

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When does the fantasy end for them? It doesn’t. They derive life’s meaning from this endeavor. They will try to implement evermore convoluted net zero schemes in the hope that one will work. It won’t. Their bossiness and show of moral superiority will become intolerable and like an earlier generation of socialists and communists they will leave misery in their wake.

Babylon Bee.

Satire–read it quickly before it becomes true.

The Economist.

In many parts of the world, the cool blast of an air-conditioner on a hot day is nowadays seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. Climate change is tipping the balance. Average global temperatures are now roughly 1.2°C higher than they were before the Industrial Revolution: by mid-century they are projected to be about 2°C higher. Air-conditioning (ac) use, correspondingly, is set to soar. By one estimate, the number of room-cooling acs could nearly triple between now and 2050.

These additional units will save lives, make cities liveable and stave off losses in economic productivity. The Lancet, a medical journal, estimates that access to air-conditioning averted nearly 200,000 deaths worldwide among people aged 65 or older in 2019, for instance, cutting the cohort’s heat-related mortality by 37%. But expanding those benefits more widely will come at a cost. The electricity needed for air-conditioning is already responsible for more carbon-dioxide (CO₂) emissions than the entire aviation industry. And as the laws of physics unhelpfully dictate that a single degree of cooling becomes more energy-intensive as the outside temperature rises, additional cooling will require more power per unit, risking a great deal more planetary heating.

If you can’t make yourself read the entire article, just read these two paragraphs. Read them several times, and see whether (not if) you can detect how many Narrative Media boxes they check.

Newsbusters.

GOP vice presidential nominee and Ohio Senator JD Vance went on the Regime Media’s Sunday public affairs shows and utterly dismantled them for their lack of coverage of the stress that the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies have placed upon such towns as Springfield, Ohio, until a Trump-adverse angle can be exploited.

Nature.

A century ago, the world’s first ‘wilderness area’ was established in the Gila Mountains of southern New Mexico, by the forester Aldo Leopold. He wasn’t concerned with preserving ancient wildlands or resurrecting a memory of the Pleistocene epoch. He wanted hunters to be able to take a two-week backpacking trip without encountering a road. Out of such pragmatic sentiments — and decades before the US Congress offered protections — grew a system of more than 800 wilderness areas on federal lands in the United States. Hundreds more have since sprung up worldwide.

The wilderness is widely seen as a place untrammelled by human activities. Not so, argues journalist Sophie Yeo in Nature’s Ghosts. Advocating lyrically for rebuilding a diverse natural world, she recognizes that, however wild a region might seem, human activities have left a mark in even the most isolated regions. People have been a part of nature as long as they’ve been around, coevolving with its ecosystems for millennia.

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Six months ago Kamala Harris was the butt of a joke in American politics. Disliked and distrusted by the US electorate, and marginalized by Biden’s inner circle, the Vice President had found herself dogged by a steady rhythm of negative stories and headlines. In 2023, the Telegraph pronounced Harris “the least popular vice president in history.” “A Kamala Harris staff exodus reignites questions about her leadership style — and her future ambitions,” declared a 2021 Washington Post headline. “Kamala Harris one year: Where did it go wrong for her?,” wondered the BBC. Other outlets were barely more charitable: “Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’ frustrating start as vice president” (CNN); “Not a healthy environment: Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent” (Politico); “Kamala Harris’ staff turnover driven by burnout and apprehension of being labeled a ‘Harris person’” (Business Insider). A book on the Biden administration from Atlantic Staff Writer and DNC asset Franklin Foer described, according to New York Magazine, “an administration where Harris is a comparatively minor player and seemingly manages to always put the wrong foot forward despite her best efforts.”

How did Harris go from a beleaguered and unpopular vice president to the inspiring, celebrity-backed, girlboss of the future? The explanation is simple. The press did not need to flatter Harris during her tenure as vice president, but once she became the standard-bearer for their 2024 political ambitions, the calculus changed.

It is a familiar refrain on the Right that the media is a “wing of the Democratic Party,” but the truth is closer to the reverse: The Democratic Party is the handmaiden of the media, academia, major foundations, and activist groups, as well as various other left-wing authorities that exist in the liminal space between the government and civil society.

Associated Press.

More women chose to have their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, a new study shows, and the biggest increases were in states that ban abortion.

A research letter published Wednesday in JAMA examined insurance claims data from 2021 and 2022 for around 4.8 million women who got tubal ligations, which are surgeries to close the fallopian tubes so the patient can no longer get pregnant. The data came from 36 states and Washington, D.C., and researchers categorized these places as “banned,” “limited” or “protected,” based on their abortion policies.

In the 18 months before the Dobbs decision in late June 2022, tubal ligations remained stable in all three groups of states. But in the latter half of 2022, the procedure rose in all three groups. Researchers also looked at sustained change in the numbers over time, finding that tubal ligations rose by 3% each month in banned states.

Good. Excising their defective genes from the gene pool is a welcome development. Think of it as evolution in action.

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Clear partisan lines can be seen here, too. Although certain elements of the debate do suggest that, like Harris, Muir and Davis were out for Trump.

The moderators ‘fact-checked’ and ‘corrected’ the former president four times—on issues as contentious as immigration and abortion. They chose not to correct a single statement by Harris.

No surprises here. The Narrative Media are in the tank for Harris and everybody knows it. The only question is why Trump would put up with this horseshit. Well, if he loses, he’s only got himself to blame.

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On today’s Morning Joe, a furious Mika Brzezinski accused the so-called “mainstream” media of “sanewashing” Trump — never confronting him with his alleged affronts to democracy as described by Dick Cheney in his statement explaining why he, like his daughter Liz, will be voting for Kamala Harris.

You knew it was going to be a tough morning for Mika and Joe Scarborough, having to deal with the new New York Times/Siena poll showing Trump with a one-percent lead among likely voters. Scarborough dismissed NYT/Siena polls as regularly being an “outlier.” In fact, Five Thirty Eight has rated it the #1 poll!

Any look at the 2020 polls demonstrates most of them were “outliers” compared to the actual vote totals.

They actually pay these people.

There’s a reason that Doonesbury is located on the editorial pages.

Remember the days when Nixon was The New Hitler? Ah, the memories….

The New Yorker.

There is no such thing as a ‘magazine for mercenaries’, any more than there is a ‘magazine for drug cartels’ or a ‘magazine for car repos’–and if there were, you wouldn’t know about it.

In the early nineteen-eighties, Susan Katz Keating was living in California, working as a freelance journalist with a side gig waiting tables. On a newsstand, she came across Soldier of Fortune, a monthly magazine infamous for its gonzo war reporting and its gun-for-hire classified ads. “I wanted to write about mercenaries,” she recalled recently. So she placed an advertisement in the publication. “You paid by the word, and I was quite young and didn’t have any money. The ad said, ‘Are you a mercenary? Contact S. Katz.’ And then I gave my home address.”

Keating was flooded with letters. A handful of seemingly professional warrior types arrived at her door unannounced. “I also got some government agents showing up, because they thought that I was trying to raise a mercenary army,” Keating said.

In 1986, Keating began contributing to Soldier of Fortune, the rare woman to do so. Two years ago, she achieved a longtime dream by purchasing the magazine from its founder, the retired lieutenant colonel Robert K. Brown, for an undisclosed sum. She now operates as its publisher and editor-in-chief.

Another Narrative Media down-the-alimentary-canal-with-gun-and-camera look at ‘flyover country’; popular zoology for the Coastal Crust. Read it for the entertainment, but don’t take it too seriously.

Trump’s Wildly Unhinged New Ramblings on Fox News Reveal the True MAGA (The New Republic) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump claims he had ‘every right’ to interfere with election (CNN)

Trump Says He Had ‘Every Right’ to Interfere With Presidential Election (Newsweek)

Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in 2020 election (Reuters)

Gee, there’s an echo in here….

You can fill in the rest for yourself. It’s not as if they’re hard to find.

JD Vance Rants About ‘Miserable’ Professional Women in Unearthed Clip (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

Winning election wouldn’t save Trump from massive fraud, defamation judgments (Griffin Eckstein/Salon)

Missouri Man Arrested For Allegedly Threatening To Kill Trump, Republicans, Police Officers

Conservative Moms, Charmed by Trump, Would Rather Avoid His Misogyny (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

The Entire Manufactured Controversy Over Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit

‘Political poison’: How Trump’s tariffs could raise gasoline prices (Ben Lefebvre/Politico)

Hot-Button Trump Flick ‘The Apprentice’ Acquired by Briarcliff for Pre-election Release, Awards Campaign (Exclusive) (Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter)

Thumbs Up: The Story of No-Context Trump (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Lincoln Project: Probe RFK Jr.’s Trump Endorsement

Trump-Hate: Nets Go on Attack on Arlington, Suddenly Concerned About Cost of IVF

Miss Teen USA Runner-Up Shames JD Vance for Cruel Video Post (Hugh Dougherty/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s latest waffling on reproductive health shows he’s still struggling to find an answer for what he created (Steve Contorno/CNN)

New details suggest Trump’s Arlington controversy won’t end soon (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump questions acceptance of transgender people as he courts his base at Moms for Liberty gathering (Associated Press)

JD Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Voters but Pleases Trump (Michael C. Bender/New York Times)  My, what a surprise.

Trump speaks at Heritage-sponsored event after disavowing Project 2025 (Abbie Cheeseman/Washington Post)  “Linked”.

‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration (Jason Wilson/The Guardian) Dark!

Trump Contorts Himself on Abortion in Search of Political Gain (New York Times) Contorts!

DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘Joyful’ and ‘Happy’ Harris-Walz Vs. ‘Dark’ and ‘Dangerous’ Trump-Vance

‘One Of The Lowest Moments That I’ve Seen’: PBS Attacks Trump’s Arlington Visit

Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters (emptywheel)

Pelosi: Trump Entirely to Blame for Jan. 6

Top Oversight Committee Dem seeks ‘full account’ from Army secretary on Arlington incident (Daniel Hampton/Raw Story)

Cleanup on Aisle MAGA: Trump Bends to Conservative Abortion Critics (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)

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In a public hearing exclusively recorded and streamed by NewsBusters, on Friday, CNN defended their use of Taliban Sharia law in the courtroom. CNN’s lead counsel Deanna Shullman (of Shullman Fugate PLLC) repeatedly argued that the network was correct to suggest Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young took part in an illegal “black market” because he was getting women out of Afghanistan “without permission of the Taliban;” an argument that got some push back from Judge Scott Henry.

Jack White rips Trump campaign for posting band’s song: ‘Don’t even think about using my music you fascists’ (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)

For Trump, Arlington National Cemetery controversy goes from bad to worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Harris Campaign Trolls Trump With Ad Buy in His Own Backyard (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

The Trump campaign’s conduct at Arlington is shocking but not surprising (Kevin Carroll/The Guardian)

Dems press Arlington cemetery for Trump incident report (Andrew Solender/Axios)

MAGA faithful blow off polls in Michigan, insist ‘Trump’s got it made.’ (Adam Wren/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

‘The behavior is grotesque’: MSNBC host pummels Trump World over war with cemetery (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)

If Trump loses, expect a Republican civil war (Myra Adams/The Hill)

CNN Suggests To Vance He Was Making Fun Of Suicide

Team Trump Makes Arlington Cemetery Fight Way Worse With Army Insult (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Pushing Back on Trump’s Latest Lies About IVF (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

In a test of character, Trump shows his true grift (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)

Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious (Michael Powell/The Atlantic)

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How many times have you heard the mainstream media tell you that the economy is doing just great in recent months? Personally, I have seen the word “booming” used over and over again to describe the economy, and it makes me sick. The level of gaslighting that we are witnessing right now is off the charts. Millions of Americans are sleeping in their vehicles, thousands of businesses are failing all over the nation, and most of the country now believes that the American Dream is no longer attainable.

Trump shares social posts with QAnon phrases, calls for jailing lawmakers and special counsel (Michelle L. Price/Los Angeles Times)  I give up–what are ‘QAnon phrases’? (Remember: If you hear the ‘dog-whistle’, you’re the dog.)

Trump Goes Full Fascist in Truth Social Posting Spree (Rolling Stone)

How to give thousands to Trump without giving his campaign a cent (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Harris Camp Trolls Trump with Ad Targeting Mar-a-Lago (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)

Vance repeats a bogus Trump claim on ‘factories’ debunked years ago (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Trump Reposts Crude Sexual Remark About Harris on Truth Social (Michael Gold/New York Times)

Sulky CNN Can’t Take Zuck’s Biden-Censorship Mea Culpa: ‘Election-Season Gift’ to GOP

Trump Images at Grave Dismay Family of Green Beret Buried at Arlington (New York Times)

Trump Dishonors Fallen Soldiers Again (Charles Sykes/The Atlantic)  Yeah, laying a wreath–totally disrespectful.

How a Trump visit sparked turmoil at America’s most sacred cemetery (Washington Post)

CBS, NBC Outraged Trump Dared Visit Arlington, Unlike Biden-Harris

‘Furious’: Veterans slam Trump team’s altercation at Arlington National Cemetery (USA Today)

CNN’s Kasie Hunt Airs MORE ‘Resurfaced’ Dem Clips of Vance ‘Childless’ Leftist Talk

Trump Goes on Crazed, Violent Rant Calling for Death of His Enemies (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

Randi Weingarten, Jewish teachers union boss, calls J.D. Vance ‘gross’ for saying she ‘doesn’t have a single child’

MSNBC Host Puts Trump Campaign Adviser ‘On Notice’ For Pushing ‘False Quote’ On Air (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost)  I’ll bet he’s worried.

Abba demands Trump campaign stop using their music at rallies (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)  “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!” — Tom Lerer

What the performative patriotism of Donald Trump reveals about his character (Jos Joseph/The Hill)

EXCLUSIVE: Gold Star Families Had Trouble Getting Trump Into Arlington Until House Speaker Intervened (Henry Rodgers/The Daily Caller)

Speaker Mike Johnson Helped Trump Break The Law (Jason Easley/PoliticusUSA)

Someone Take This Man’s Phone (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Kristol reveals his Inner Fascist.

CNN Host Kasie Hunt Slams Trump Words on Zuckerberg, Trump Aide Responds with MRC Poll

Playbook: 3 Trump transition issues that aren’t Project 2025 (Politico)

Exec at Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied GOP Lawmaker (ProPublica)

Crockett on Arlington incident: MAGA is not ‘party of law and order’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

24 hours of Trump: QAnon tributes, crude attacks and hawking pieces of his suit (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)

Utah Gov. Cox faces scrutiny for using military cemetery photo with Trump in campaign email (Hannah Schoenbaum/Associated Press)  Oh no! Trump cooties!

Trump aide ‘abruptly pushed aside’ an Arlington National Cemetery employee during commemoration, official says (NBC News)

Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Trump campaign strategy pivots to praying he wins September debate (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)

Republicans for Harris: GOP gets ready to rescue MAGA from Trump (Brian Karem/Salon)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

PolitiFact Rules Vance Was ‘False’ in Mocking Walz’s Weird ‘Trans Refuge’ Law

ABC Joins Smearing of Trump Over Arlington, Livid With Vance’s ‘Charged Language’

Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Campaign Event (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

ABC Treats Kamala’s 21-Year Old Misstatement about Prosecutions as News but Not Trump’s Daily Lies about His Own Crimes (emptywheel)

Fallout from Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery visit continues after campaign video (NPR)

Johnson pulled strings to get Trump into Arlington – and now the scandal is spreading (David Badash/Raw Story)  In the Narrative Media, anyway.

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The assembled cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe joined former Obama State Department official and former managing editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel, on Thursday in hailing Vice President Kamala Harris for supposedly taking back the mantle of American exceptionalism from Republicans.

The basis for the segment was an article Stengel wrote for Time where he claimed that Harris’s DNC acceptance speech was “the most full-throated and sincere expression of American exceptionalism since the presidency of George W. Bush, and the most direct and unambiguous expression of that idea by a Democratic presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy.”

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In proof that the thesis may need some revisions, elsewhere in the segment, Stengel would dance around counterexamples, such as the anti-American, anti-Israel demonstrators.

As it was, after Stengel claimed the Iraq War alienated many Democrats from the idea of American exceptionalism, he turned his attention to Donald Trump, “I mean, the other thing, the flip side, the fact that Republicans are embracing American exceptionalism, when their own candidate has basically derogated the term when he said the American dream is dead and has run as a declinist, as political scientists call him, someone who thinks America is in decline.”

NBC News.

If it’s ‘conservative’ it’s got to be bad.

Why Special Counsel Jack Smith Filed a New Trump Indictment

Georgia governor inquires whether he can remove MAGA election board members after series of alarming votes (Katie Hawkinson/The Independent)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

How a Zuckerberg letter got Trump to accuse himself of rigging 2020 (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Jack Smith Secures Superseding Indictment Against Trump

Kamala’s Campaign Pushes Trump’s Impulse Control Problems (emptywheel)

Largely Anti-Trump CNN Panel Insist Trump DID NOT Win Biden Debate

Donald Trump, JD Vance and RFK Jr.? ‘Weird’ doesn’t do justice to this loony trifecta. (Rex Huppke/USA Today)

Trump’s Approach to Florida’s High-Stakes Abortion Amendment: Don’t Ask. Won’t Tell. (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)

Trump economic plans would cost more than $4 trillion over a decade (Aris Folley/The Hill).

Trump budget would spike deficits by nearly 5 times Harris proposal, says Penn Wharton (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

The Superseding Trump Indictment Is about Obstruction as Much as Immunity (emptywheel)

‘This is simply insane’: Questions raised about vetting of J.D. Vance amid new blow-up (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)

In resurfaced remarks, Vance bashes teachers union president for not having ‘some of her own’ children (Zoë Richards/NBC News)

Trump’s new indictment rocks his newly reshaped race against Kamala Harris (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Revealed: top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)

Donald Trump’s embrace of RFK Jr. exposes the campaign’s QAnon strategy (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Pop quiz: Do you know what ‘QAnon’ means?

Fresh controversy brews over Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery visit (Colin McCullough/CNN)

Trump’s Ugly, Shameless New Offer to RFK Jr. Hands Dems a Big Weapon (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Trump promoted another Truth Social account that calls for killing his political opponents (Eric Hananoki/Media Matters for America)

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Gee, imagine that. Funny how all of these ‘conspiracy theories’ turn out to be true.

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The word capitalism has no stable definition and should probably be permanently retired. That won’t happen, however, because too many people are invested in its use and abuse.

Indeed. The widespread use of ‘capitalism’ is based on Marx’s discussion of ‘the capitalist means of production’ in the beginning of Das Kapital, but really boils down to ‘buying machines run by workers in order to produce stuff’–the most accurate term for which is industrialism, because it’s used in all modern forms of production (including those used by socialists and communists).

Anti-Trump PAC Continues to Shuffle Millions of Donor Dollars to Firms Owned by Insiders

Trump Says We ‘Gotta’ Restrict the First Amendment (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

How will team Trump tell him he should be muted during his debate with Harris? (Robert Reich)

Taunting Trump: Harris campaign’s sneer tactics (Mike Allen/Axios)

The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

First look: Latinos warned Project 2025 would hit them hard (Astrid Galván/Axios)

MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

How The Hell Was Trump Allowed To Use Arlington National Cemetery As A Campaign Prop? (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)

Biden, Harris push scrutiny of police. Trump would halt such efforts. (Washington Post)

MAGA Is So ‘Desperate’ They’ve Now Gone After Tim Walz’s Dog (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.

How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’ (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)

Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Crockett: Trump will ‘get his butt handed to him’ if he debates Harris (Cheyanne M. Daniels/The Hill)

Sen. Warren: Trump ‘Really Afraid’ of Kamala Harris  In her dreams.

Confederate Voter Intimidation 2.0: The GOP’s Dark Strategy for Winning (Thom Hartmann/The Hartmann Report)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…..

Bolts.

The Nebraska Voting Rights Restoration Coalition was ready for July 19. A new state law, Legislative Bill 20, would take effect that day, instantly granting voting rights to some 7,000 people with past felony convictions. Because the law requires state officials to do very little to notify people of their newfound eligibility, let alone to automatically register them, the work of contacting and assisting those affected would largely fall to community groups.

And so the coalition reserved ad space on print, digital, and radio platforms. It organized registration drives in Omaha and Lincoln, each to be held in the first days of the law’s enactment. Those events were to kick off a statewide campaign that would touch many more towns and cities, and go through late October, when Nebraska cuts off new voter registration ahead of the general election.

But the ads never ran. No one was registered at the events in Lincoln and Omaha. More than a month after its planned launch, the campaign has yet to begin.

That’s because two Republican elected officials in Nebraska—Attorney General Mike Hilgers and Secretary of State Bob Evnen—halted implementation of the new law, shutting down new registrations for people with past felonies and throwing into question the voting rights of tens of thousands of other Nebraskans who, until last month, were legally, unambiguously eligible to vote.

Vote Democrat, that is.

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Hey, it’s not as if they had anything better to do with their time.

Donald Trump Accused of New Federal Crime as He Cozies Up to RFK Jr. (Newsweek)

Brownstein: Why RFK Jr.’s endorsement could be a problem for Trump (CNN)

Ignore my brother Bobby, Max Kennedy says (L.A. Times)

What polling shows about Americans’ views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Associated Press)

GOP strategist cautions Trump on joining forces with RFK Jr: ‘He’s kind of a looney tune’ (Filip Timotija/The Hill)

Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters Slam Trump for Using Hit Song at Rally (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

A Manufactured Fight over Incumbency Hides Trump’s Fascism (emptywheel)

Foo Fighters Say Trump Didn’t Have Permission to Use ‘My Hero’ at Arizona Rally (Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone)  He doesn’t need it, as long as he pays the proper ASCAP/BMI royalties.

Trump allies try to energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris (Washington Post)

How Tim Walz’s dumb taco joke broke MAGA brains (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Audience signs and chants at the DNC were all about America. At the RNC, it was the Trump show. (Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert/Business …)

Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall

Trump event at wall Obama built highlights an unkept promise (Washington Post)

Trump aides alarmed he’s ‘just golfing all day and stewing’ as election slips away: WaPo (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)  They just make this shit up.

Be Careful What Trump’s Lawyers Wish For, Superseding Indictment Edition (emptywheel)

Why Were Justice Dept. Officials Scared to Talk to This Book’s Author? (David Greenberg/New York Times)

Cotton: Republicans at DNC Had ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

Fox Cuts Off Ranting Trump Then Mocks: ‘He’s Still Talking!’ (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s spectacle is no match for Harris’s substance (Michael Starr Hopkins/The Hill)

Wait, Did Trump Just Admit He Lost the 2020 Election? (Sean Craig/The Daily Beast)

Trump Is Going to Lose. (Probably.) (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  We hope we hope we hope….

‘That’s Margaret Thatcher, Dude!’ CNN Analyst Elliot Williams Goes Gaga For Kamala

Trump Golf Club Hosts Fundraiser for Jan. 6 Defendants

DNC unveils billboards dubbing Trump, Vance, RFK Jr. ‘weird as hell’ (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)

Is Trump OK? Unhinged reaction to rise of Harris worries supporters (Chris McGreal/The Guardian)

Trump Is Behind Not Because the Press Is Hyping Kamala but Because He’s Unpopular (Mark Antonio Wright/National Review)  NR finally joins the cucks.

Democrats once strove to ‘go high’ against Trump. Not anymore. (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)  When?

Claim: A Trump Victory Would Set the Planet On Fire

Trump Hosting Fundraiser For Domestic Terrorists Who Assaulted Cops On Jan. 6 (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Trump says he’s refusing intel briefings so he won’t be accused of leaks (April Rubin/Axios)

WATCH: Biden Cabinet Official Cluelessly Blasts Biden Admin 818K Jobs Revision as Trump Lies on ABC

With Harris, Democrats try a new tack to take down Trump: Making fun of him (Peter Nicholas/NBC News)  It’s all about Trump.

Kamala Harris has put Trump in a box, and he’s struggling to break out (Dan Balz/Washington Post)  Sure, I believe that.

Kamala Harris Turns the Page on the Trump Era (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

SHOOT TO KILL? NPR Airs Adam Kinzinger Comparing Trump to Enemy in Trench Warfare

Trump slams New York governor’s speech at DNC: ‘Nastiest speaker’ (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

‘Call This Idiot’: Trump Ordered Cabinet Secretary To Pressure Fed Chair To Cut Rates (Kyle Khan-Mullins/Forbes)

Trump Is Not Done With Us (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump’s claims about violent crime increasingly diverge from reality (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Daily Show Asks Dem Rep. To Make Sense of Vance’s ‘Anti-Woman Rhetoric’

Trump has far less campaign money and infrastructure than Harris (Jessica Piper/Politico)

Look out – Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves (Max Burns/The Hill)

Labor Department Overstated Job Growth by 818,000, Revised Report Reveals  As they do.

London Mayor Fears for Safety If Trump Wins

Vladimir Putin manipulated Donald Trump’s ‘ego and insecurities’, book says (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)

Michelle Obama Absolutely Takes Apart Donald Trump (Tressie McMillan Cottom/New York Times)

Donald Trump Accused of Committing ‘Massive Crime’ With Reported Phone Call (Jordan King/Newsweek)

Donald Trump: ‘I Hate My Opponent’ (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark) Don’t blame him.

Meyers Fawns Over Obama’s Trump Is ‘Bad At Sex’ DNC Speech He certainly doesn’t charge as much as Harris.

From Dems, a Reminder: January 6 Was Horrible (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Women’s Muslim Group Folds After DNC Denies Speaker

Trump’s Angry New Rants About the Obamas Betray a Deeper MAGA Fear (New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

White House condemns antisemitism after Trump attacks ‘Jewish Governor’ Shapiro (Adam Cancryn/Politico)  Except that he didn’t ‘attack’ Shapiro.

Trump takes it upon himself to decide who is a proper Jew (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  It’s as legitimate as for white people to decide who is a proper Negro.

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Russia’s FSB security service said Thursday it had opened a criminal case against a journalist working for CNN who it said had illegally crossed the Russian border to film a report inside the Kursk region following a Ukrainian cross-border incursion.

Obama steps back into the spotlight — and absolutely skewers Trump (Politico) Even at the Democrat National Convention, it’s all about Trump. Orange Man Bad! (‘Skewers Trump’ means ‘Says the same old lies they’ve been telling for ten years now.’)

The GOP’s greatest skill: Taking credit for things Democrats did (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post)

Florida Republicans had their favorite in this legislative primary. Then Trump got involved. (Gary Fineout/Politico)

Andy Beshear Hopes Somebody Rapes J.D. Vance’s Wife or Daughter (David Strom/HotAir)  That’s Democrats for you.

Mallory McMorrow at DNC calls Project 2025 conservative plan for a Trump dictatorship (Clara Hendrickson/Detroit Free Press)

Trump Campaign Brazenly Steals Kamala Harris’ Beyoncé Anthem (Eboni Boykin-Patterson/The Daily Beast)

Former Trump Press Secretary to Denounce Him at DNC  The RINO is strong in this one.

Harris Aide Warns of ‘All-Encompassing’ Trump If He Wins

Democrats Take On Trump With Devastating ‘Law & Order’ Parody During DNC (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

DNC Mentions Trump Almost 150 Times

Harris campaign knocks Trump over event in ‘KKK capital of Michigan’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

WATCH: Trump Drops the Mic After Reporter Asks Why He Visited a City ‘Linked to White Supremacy’ (Bonchie/RedState)

Trump’s Latest Scheme to Beat Harris May Have Crossed Legal Lines (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Trump Surprised by Who Hurt His Feelings the Most at the DNC (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)  The Straw Man Trump is really getting beat up these days.

Trump “Disgusts Me to My Core”: Ex-MAGA Supporters Tell the World Why They’re Voting for Kamala Harris (Bess Levin/Vanity Fair)

PBS Claims of GOP ‘Demonizing’ Dem Women Popped by David Brooks in Two Words

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The corpses are stacking up!  Oh, wait a minute….

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At critical moments over the past 25 years, the New York Times has aided the interests of a power faction within the Chinese Communist Party responsible for atrocities against practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong.

On top of implicating itself ethically, the paper has also, as a result, distorted its China coverage and misled its readers, as revealed by an analysis of The New York Times’ China coverage as well as interviews with half a dozen experts on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) politics and geopolitics.

Trump flunks basic science yet again in speech insulting Harris’ intelligence (MSNBC)

‘He’s melting down’: Van Jones reacts to Trump’s latest Harris comments (CNN)

Trump Is Pissed at Harris for Trapping Him in Two Debates (Paige Oamek/New Republic)  As if Trump didn’t have good cause to be pissed at Harris otherwise.

Media reaction to Trump campaign email leak starkly different from 2016, when Clinton was hacked (Lorraine Ali/Los Angeles Times)

PBS Promotes Leftist ABA Effort to ‘Defend Democracy’ vs Trump ‘Authoritarianism’

Trolling the Troll – Kamala Harris knows how to get under Donald’s skin (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)

‘When they go low, we go with the flow’: Dems ramp up attacks on Trump (Irie Sentner/Politico)

Donald Trump Has No Idea What Has Hit Him, and It’s a Joy to Watch (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Age-based attacks are boomeranging back on Trump (Politico)

Keep talking, JD! Vance’s creepy views on ‘females’ are repelling women voters (Arwa Mahdawi/The Guardian)

Deploying on U.S. Soil: How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants (New York Times)  And long overdue.

Brutal New Poll for J.D. Vance Reveals a Big Trump-MAGA Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Off-Guardian.

That’s how it is now, the world we are allowed to see is largely fake, and as technology masters the art of deception, it will only get worse.

Of course, we can blame a lot of things for this, first on that list is AI. But now not just AI art, but AI video, AI news, AI novels, AI everything. We can also obviously blame marketing and advertising for much of this fakery that hits us in the face every day.

Commercial marketing has always done that, certainly since the days of Bernays, the psychological wizard-mind of brainwashing and propaganda. A relative of Sigmund Freud no less.

A Trump official criticized the media for talking “about Project 2025, which has nothing to do with our campaign.” She worked on Project 2025. (Eric Hananoki/Media Matters for America) So she should know.

Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report (Nicholas Liu/Salon)

NBC Decries Vance for Saying… It’s Good for Kids to Know Their Grandparents?

Trump watches himself get shot ‘over and over’ and campaign staff fear he has PTSD: report (Mike Bedigan/The Independent)

Trump VP pick JD Vance is seen posing with three female classmates at boys’ urinals in unearthed high school photo (Daily Mail)

Trump Will Try to Drag Kamala Into the Mud With Him (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

What Are Females For? – Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance really does love to run his mouth on podcasts. (Jill Filipovic)

Leftist Slant of NPR Exposed Again by Trump Speech ‘Fact-Check’

Trump Immediately Derails Press Conference With Weirdest Comments (The New Republic) Back we go to the ‘weird’ schtick.

Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims at news conference (CNN)

Playbook: Look who’s pushing for a Trump reset (Politico)

How Elon Musk is using his wealth, reach to support Trump’s campaign (The Hill)

JD Vance: Amazon funded Black Lives Matter so riots would destroy rival retailers (Cameron Joseph/Christian Science Monitor)

The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One (emptywheel)

Donald Trump Needs a Course Correction

Trump’s Luck Is Running Out, and He Isn’t Taking It Well

JD Vance: ‘Whole Purpose Of The Postmenopausal Female’ Is To Care For Grandkids (Brooke Seipel/International Business …)  If that.

Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term (CNN)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Report: Secret Service Agent Leaves Trump Post to Breastfeed

With JD Vance, Things Just Get Weirder And Weirder (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Again with the ‘weird’ schtick.

Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign’s worst month of 2024 (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)

The Trump Campaign Endorses a Racist Theory (Charles Sykes/The Atlantic)

Republicans practically beg Trump to change it up. He’s not listening. (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)

Tic Tacs, tampons, turmoil: What Trump’s ‘economy’ speech actually covered (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump’s Crocodile Tears for the Jews (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)

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This week, alleged comedian Stephen Colbert had on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss the 2024 presidential election. In the middle of the interview, Colbert began to ask Collins a question, in all sincerity: “I know you guys are objective over (at CNN), you just report the news as it is.” Colbert, presumably, expected his audience — all Kamala Harris fans, since Colbert is the most left-leaning host on late night television — to nod along. Instead, they laughed.

They laughed because everyone in America knows, at this point, that the media have become stenographers for the Democratic Party.

Trump’s Weird “Nuclear” Moment With Elon Musk Gives Kamala an Opening (The New Republic)

CNN fact-checks Trump’s conversation with Musk (CNN) Getcher Narrative, right here!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s rambling softball interview embody a campaign in disarray (MSNBC)

Trump Mocked For Calling Good Inflation Report ‘Kamalanomics’ (David Moye/HuffPost)

Former Trump aides claim Donald is in ‘meltdown’ and ‘feels the election is slipping from him’… so is ‘lighting up the campaign’ (Martha Williams/Daily Mail)

Project 2025’s Climate Cuts Would Cost Americans Billions Of Dollars Per Year (Alexander C. Kaufman/HuffPost)

Trump Allies Fear He’s Sabotaging His Own Campaign (Gabriel Sherman/Vanity Fair)  As if Vanity Fair would know.

End Citizens United Files FEC Complaint Against Trump Campaign and X Over Illegal Corporate Contribution (End Citizens United)  Take a number. Line forms over there.

JD Vance in 2020 agreed grandmothers raising children is ‘whole purpose of the postmenopausal female’ (Clare Olson/Heartland Signal)

J.D. Vance’s Weird Thoughts on Older Women Exposed in New Audio (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

Trump Keeps Watching Clip of Himself Being Shot at: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’ (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession  The Other McCain.

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

Team Trump Fumes After Trainwreck Elon Musk Interview (The New Republic)

CNN fact-checks Trump’s conversation with Musk (CNN) Never Harris, just Trump.

UAW Files Charges Against Trump, Musk For ‘Strike’ Comments During X Conversation

Top Republicans call on Trump to stop insulting Harris, refocus on policy (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

MELTDOWN: ABC Loses Its Noodle Over Elon Musk’s Donald Trump Interview

After Trump’s Disastrous Musk Interview, Harris Mocks ‘Rich Guys’ Who Can’t Run a Livestream (Rolling Stone)

So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules (Marina Hyde/The Guardian) Narrative ‘journalists’ spread smears. Same old shit.

Why newsrooms haven’t published leaked Trump campaign documents (Washington Post)

MAGA Election Official Immediately Spews Conspiracies After Conviction (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

NPR Proves They Despise Trump 162 Times

How Trump’s infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign (Popular Information)

Morning Hate Speech: David Frum Compares Trump To Mass Murderer Charles Manson

J.D. Vance Is Bombing His Audition As Trump Heir Apparent (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)

Losing Makes Trump Crazier, and Being Crazy Makes Him Lose (New York Magazine)

Donald Trump’s ego cannot handle being trounced by Kamala Harris (The Guardian)

‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Harris Campaign Said Walz ‘Chaired Veterans Affairs’… He Did Not

Desperate Trump Returns to X as Poll Numbers Keep Tanking (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

JD Vance’s false claim that ‘green energy scam’ ships jobs to China (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe Biden (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

Trump Can’t Deal With Harris’s Success (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

EU’s Breton warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response (Seb Starcevic/Politico)

The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  And the Second if Harris wins.

Trump spent the weekend flying around America on a plane previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein (Business Insider)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Broadcast news and major papers failed to cover report of possible Egyptian bribery involving Trump (Tyler Monroe/Media Matters for America)  Sure, I believe that.

Donald Trump’s Campaign Admits It Rented Jeffrey’s Epstein’s Jet (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

CNN Panel EXPLODES When Frum Says Vance Is Claiming Tim Walz ‘Is a Sexual Deviant’

Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Trump spreads false conspiracy theory about Harris’ Detroit crowd size (Eric Bradner/CNN)

Democrats continue to joke about false JD Vance rumor after years of criticizing Trump for spreading misinformation (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Republicans can’t replace their old man nominee, so they’re pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

George Conway: Sociopath Trump Like Hitler in The Bunker, Family Should Have Him Committed

‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape (Sam Levine/The Guardian)

The 2024 campaign will now turn on whether Trump can blunt Harris’ soaring start (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0 (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Trump reportedly used a slur against Harris in private conversations (Associated Press)  Ah, yes, the famous ‘reportedly’. Next it will be ‘sources say’.

The most expensive political ad of all time (Popular Information)

Trump’s Private Anger Over Kamala’s Poll Surge Takes an Ominous Turn (The New Republic)

‘Maybe I’ve gotten worse’: Trump’s attempt at discipline unravels (The Guardian)

Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump’s slump (Axios)

‘Grandpa Donald’ is ‘not capable of being president’: Rick Wilson (MSNBC) Why anybody listens to Rick Wilson is a puzzle.

COORDINATION? ABC, CBS Ask JD Vance The Same Weird White Supremacy Question

To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris (David French/New York Times)  David French is one of the most infamous faux-conservatives alive today. Of course he’s voting for Harris.

Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos (Ariana Eunjung Cha/Washington Post)

JD Vance’s Campaign Won’t Deny That’s Him in Viral Drag Photo (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)

Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy of a Failed Hoax

Big Question: How Are Ukraine Stakeholders, CIA, & The US Intel Community Going To Stop Donald Trump?

Trump Is a Threat Whether He Wins or Loses, Biden Says (Julianne McShane/Mother Jones)

Harris is beating Trump by transcending him (E.J. Dionne Jr/Washington Post)

Harris is pushing joy. Trump paints a darker picture. Will mismatched moods matter? (Associated Press)

Poll: Democratic attacks on JD Vance are working (Kadia Goba/Semafor)

Trump Reportedly Refers To Harris As A ‘Bitch’ In Private (Sebastian Murdock/HuffPost)

Donald Trump Privately Rants That Kamala Harris Is a ‘B***h’ as His Polls Plunge (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s 270-Page Dossier of JD Vance’s ‘Vulnerabilities’ Hacked by Iran (Owen Lavine/The Daily Beast)

Russiagate Continues To Survive Like A Sci-Fi Monster Resilient To Bullets

Trump’s Crucial Power Has Been Neutralized (Jeff Greenfield/Politico)

Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular (James Risen/The Intercept)

162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact checks former President Trump (Domenico Montanaro/NPR)  Gether Narrative, right here!

JD Vance Has Right-Wing Friends in High Places (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times) I certainly hope so.

Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump’s slump (Axios)

Vibes matter: Trump can hardly restrain his jealousy over the Harris campaign’s joy (Sabrina Haake/Salon)

Trump’s Anger Out of Control as Poll Numbers Keep Cratering (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)

Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice. (Richard Fausset/New York Times)

Newsbusters.

On Friday morning, MSNBC’s Jose Diaz Balart devoted a segment to complaining about both the Joe Biden and Donald Trump administrations slowing down the entry of illegal immigrants as the liberal host fretted that limiting immigrant entry makes it take longer for LGBT asylum seekers to enter the country.

GOP nominee to run North Carolina schools advocated pro-Trump military coup in January 6 video (CNN)

Marine Major CONFRONTS CNN’s Brianna Keilar for Disparaging Vance’s Military Service

Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign (New York Times)

Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos (ProPublica)  Dunh-dunh- DUNHHHHH….

The U.S. Press is Broken (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)  They’re not anti-Trump enough.

ABC’s Parks Hails ‘Joyful’ Harris Contrasting With ‘Mean And Nasty’ Trump

A sinking ship? Donald Trump campaign mocked for playing ‘Titanic’ song at rally (USA Today)

Will Late Night Apologize for Sharing Cassidy Hutchinson’s Trump Hoax?  Hint: No.

CBS Hypes Trump as a Border Extremist, Worries Harris May Not Be Left Enough

Trump is putting mass deportations at the heart of his campaign. Some Republicans are worried (Stephen Groves/Sentinel Colorado)  Deport them too.