The Bulwark, a Voice of the Crust.

IN THIS CRUCIAL PERIOD between the election and the inauguration, opponents of the president-elect need to use every feasible lever of power to defeat Trump’s movement, lest the country fail.

In this, they would be correcting a past mistake. The original response to Donald Trump’s rise was based on a strategic error. His critics and opponents thought he was an aberration, not a phenomenon—a recipe for quietism.

In the context of culture, we had Michelle Obama’s initial response: “When they go low, we go high.” The comforting conceit was that if Trump’s opponents continued to hold the moral high ground, Americans would eventually tire of the man’s shenanigans and return to their better natures. If you get down in the mud with a pig, the saying goes, you only get dirty.

Pete Hegseth Was Removed from Biden’s Inauguration, Labeled ‘Extremist’ (James Bickerton/Newsweek)

Democrat Governors, City Leaders Pledge to Shield Illegal Aliens From Trump  Trump be da boogeyman.

No Matter How Bad You Think an Attorney General Matt Gaetz Would Be, He’ll Be Worse (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)

A Foul Fireside Chat (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)

Senate Republicans Alarmed by Gaetz Pick as Attorney General Nominee (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)

Justice Dept. employees stunned at Trump’s ‘insane,’ ‘unbelievable’ choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney general (NBC News)

Exclusive: Trump’s team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say (Reuters)  Good.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

Matt Gaetz just resigned from Congress, ending a probe into sexual misconduct and drug use (Associated Press)

Trump’s pick for top intel job has been accused of ‘traitorous’ parroting of Russian propaganda (Dan De Luce/NBC News)  Russian collusion! Russian collusion! Russian collusion!

House Democrat to introduce resolution reiterating Trump can serve only two terms as president (NBC News)

House Ethics Panel Was Set to Vote to Release Report Critical of Matt Gaetz (New York Times)

Bolton calls for FBI investigations before Gaetz, Gabbard confirmations (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Despite Victory and GOP Trifecta, Trump’s Fight Has Just Begun

Energy Department Quadruples Lending Budget in Rush To Approve ‘Green Energy’ Loans Before Trump Takes Office

Why Trump is trying to outrage Washington with his controversial Cabinet picks (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Trump Plans to Install His Book Publisher as Head of Personnel (New York Times)

The Trump Doctrine

Matt Gaetz is emerging as the Trump pick Republicans are prepared to dunk on (Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business Insider)

Federal Judge Reverses Retirement Plan So Trump Can’t Fill Seat

NYC delivery workers filing wage theft claims seek protection from deportation under Trump  I guess they must be illegal aliens. What did they expect? A supportive Democrat?

Matt Gaetz Cannot Be Allowed to Become Attorney General (Jeffrey Blehar/National Review)

Leftists Melt Down As Biden Is Nice To Trump During White House Welcome

Matt Gaetz Is a Bad Choice for Attorney General (Wall Street Journal)

Klepper After Hegseth Nomination: Women ‘Have to Get Pregnant’ to Risk Life

NY Times Shepherds Radical Anti-Male Feminists Broken by Trump Victory

‘Left turn and off the bridge’: Trump’s spy pick stuns intel world (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post)

Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary: Perfect symbol of phony MAGA masculinity (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

OH SHUT UP: Chicago Tribune Columnist Cries Trump Didn’t Win Election, ‘Disinformation Did’

Trump’s Shock, Mock, and Roll ‘Em Strategy (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump’s Immigration Plans Could Bring an Economic Toll (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

Trump pick resurfaces questions about Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 Syria visit (Bryan Pietsch/Washington Post)

What Trump Can (And Probably Can’t) Do With His Trifecta (Russell Berman/The Atlantic)

Eva Longoria reveals she has fled ‘dystopian’ America with her family and is now living in Mexico and Spain (Natasha Anderson/Daily Mail)  Good riddance.

‘These Are Such Vital Years’: Weir Demands EPA ‘Hold The Line’ Against Trump

The Curious Case of Tulsi Gabbard: Is She a Russian Asset or a Dupe? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Playbook PM: Ethics probe hangs over Gaetz (Eli Okun/Politico)

MSNBC’s Mitchell Doubles Down On Fake News About Hegseth, Women Pilots

Republican Leaders Are More Afraid of Trump Than Ever (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Fla. AG Takes FEMA to Court for Civil Rights Violations

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)

Nichols Loses His Noodle Over Conservative Telling Him to Give Gabbard a Chance

Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump’s revenge (Washington Post)

House Oversight Committee Investigates Biden-Harris ‘Scientific Integrity’ Guidelines Meant To Thwart Trump’s Agenda

Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That (Ben Domenech/The Transom)

Trump’s intelligence chief pick Tulsi Gabbard is ‘Russia’s girlfriend’ (Marc Bennetts/The Times)

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ABC top brass is scrambling to bring in pro-Trump hosts for “The View” and other top shows, the New York Post reports.

Trump’s defense choice stuns the Pentagon and raises questions about the Fox News host’s experience (Associated Press) Questions they never raised about Kamala.

Pete Hegseth Appointment Sparks Military Fury: ‘Beyond Stupid’ (Newsweek) I’d have picked Eric Prince.

‘We are in a new place’: Bernstein reacts to Hegseth’s comments about women in combat roles (CNN) Trotting out Carl Bernstein again? Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Russia Attempts to Collect Its Winnings (emptywheel)  The new Russia Collusion Hoax. An oldie but a goodie.

THE TWO DONALD TRUMPS (The Atlantic)

SNL Pretends To Support Trump To Stay Off ‘List Of Your Enemies’

Protests Break Out Across US in Response to Trump Winning the Election

Hostin Supports Axing Holidays With Trump-Voting Family, ‘Moral Issue’

US Senate Democrats rush to confirm judges before Trump takes office (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Republicans Probing FEMA for Denying Hurricane Relief to Trump Backers

Rubio news triggers MAGA backlash (Politico)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

Uniparty Establishment War On MAHA Heats Up

CNN’s Whitfield Touts Clyburn’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Fearmongering Over Election

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reveals Plans to Fire 600 Federal Health Workers (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Judge in Arizona election case against Trump allies is accused of anti-Trump bias (Politico)

Putin Aide Issues Ominous Warning About Trump’s New “Obligations” (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Trump pledged to close the Education Department. What would that mean? (Washington Post)  A lot of money saved, a lot of Federal leeches unemployed, a lot of kids not perverted.

Fired FEMA Supervisor Claims Avoiding Trump Homes Was A Widespread Practice Due To ‘Political Hostility’

CNN’s Hunt Questions Trump Pick of ‘Little Marco’: Doug Heye Has Great Comeback

‘Who the f–k is this guy?’: Defense world reacts to Trump’s surprise Pentagon pick (Politico)

Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  Speed the day.

Once They Were Neocons. Now Trump’s Foreign Policy Picks Are All ‘America First.’ (New York Times)  Trump’s a learner.

CNN’s Scott Jennings SCHOOLS Panel Over Hegseth Pick as Secretary of Defense

Newsom Assures Californians They Will Be Safe From All The Trump Administration’s Prosperity, Safety, Lower Prices  Babylon Bee.

Port Authority races to secure funds for Midtown bus terminal before Trump takes office

Playbook: Elon wears out his welcome (Politico)

Trump demands Senate recess to install Star Wars Bar (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Special counsel Jack Smith and his team to resign before Trump takes office (NBC News)  The first fruits of the Trump victory.

YouTuber Applauds as Families Divorce & Dissolve over Election

Trump Called His Win a ‘Historic Realignment’ of U.S. Politics. We Have Our Doubts. (New York Times)  Of course you do.

Why Is PBS Allowed to Be Mangle-MAGA TV?

Pritzker, Colo. Gov. Polis launch governors’ coalition to protect against ‘threats of autocracy’ under Trump (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)

Newsom Visits Washington To Shield California From Trump Policies

CNN’s Zakaria Admits Dems Lost Due to Ignoring Border and Anti-Trump Lawfare

Trump Puts Allies on Alert by Handing Pentagon to Fox News Host (Bloomberg)

Europe must build resilience against Trump’s America – and welcome those desperate to flee it (Alexander Hurst/The Guardian)

Former DC Officer Fanone Hunkers Down In Blue Ridge Mountains; “Fully Expects” Shootout With Trump Agents

In Trump’s mass deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity (ABC News)

Trump May Usher In Massive TV Station Land Grab (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Carl Bernstein: Putin, Netanyahu, China benefiting from Trump picks (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)

No, women aren’t likely to “boycott” men – but here’s why the idea matters (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

Lawmakers Reject Bill That Would Let Trump Destroy Nonprofits (Noah Hurowitz/The Intercept)

The Guardian Throws Tantrum Over Trump Victory, Says “No Longer Posting On X”

Don’t Give Up on the Truth – Striking out against injustice is always right; it always matters. (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Transcript: Paul Krugman on How Badly Trump Voters Have Been Scammed (New Republic)

Mitchell Spreads Fake News About SECDEF Nominee Hegseth, Female Pilots

ABC, CBS Pitch Hissy Fits Over Trump Joking About Staying in WH After 2028

Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

U.S. Left Loses It As Trump Reaches Outside D.C. Bubble for Cabinet Nominees

Democrat Moves to Clarify the 22nd Amendment After Trump Refers to Running for Third Term (Annie Karni/New York Times)

Republicans “stunned and disgusted” as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG (Axios)

Newsbusters.

President-elect Donald Trump may have overcome Google’s election interference, but the search giant continues to rig presidential race search results.

The Media Research Center found that Google provided a desert of left and legacy media sources for conservatives to wander through in search of right-of-center presidential race coverage on Nov. 12—exactly one week after the election. MRC researchers once again utilized the media list provided by AllSides, which classifies publications based on their “right” to “left” bias, and searched for the terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris” presidential race 2024.” The first U.S.-based right-of-center result for the Trump prompt did not appear until the sixth search result on page 11, a New York Post article. This means that users had to pass over around a hundred search results before The Post.

Google did not display a single article from a U.S.-based right-of-center outlet in the 24 pages of search results for the Harris prompt. The first right-of-center result appeared on page six in the form of a Fox News video.

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And the finger-pointing continus….

US migrant rights advocates raise alarm over Trump appointments (Al Jaaeera)

Yale Psychiatrist: Harris Voters May Need To Cut Off Friends & Family Members

One of Trump’s Few Checks on Power? The Supreme Court He Shaped (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

White House races to dole out funding from key legislation before Trump takes office (Arlette Saenz/CNN)

’60 Minutes’: Depressed Scott Pelley Struggles to Comprehend Trump Win

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Directly Addresses People Who Voted For Both Her And Trump (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost) Splitters!

What Election Do These People Think We Just Had? – Democrats are inventing wild fantasies … (Jack Mirkinson/Discourse Blog)

Lead CBS, NBC Shows Ignore BOMBSHELL Report on FEMA Discriminating Against MAGA

A Look at Democratic Voter Turnout and Trump’s Election Victory (Michael C. Bender/New York Times)

David Remnick sounds off on the 2024 election, MAGA Media, Jeff Bezos, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)

‘Hail Hitler and hail Trump’: People wave Nazi flags outside Jewish play in Michigan (David Edwards/Raw Story)

Those lovable uniters on the left advise Democrats to shun their friends and relatives who voted for Trump

Trump’s Cabinet Could Include Senator Who Tried to Fight Hearing Witness: Report (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Resistance 2.0: Why The Campaign Against Trump Is Different This Time

Warren: Trump transition ‘already breaking the law’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

He Went To A White Supremacist Event. Now He’ll Oversee Trump’s Mass Deportations. (Christopher Mathias/HuffPost)

Inside House Dems’ 11th-hour plot to sabotage Trump’s agenda (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Trump’s reelection casts a shadow over the start of global climate negotiations (NPR)

Musk Turning Himself Into the ‘Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave’ at Mar-a-Lago (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

‘I Don’t Believe it’: Glaude Insists Trump Elected Because America Is Racist, Not Economics

How the Senate map explains Trump (Calder McHugh/Politico)

Trump Stole Bernie’s Working-Class Story. Dems Should Steal It Back. (Aaron Regunberg/New Republic)

Trump’s shadow falls on Chinese solar giant (Arianna Skibell/Politico)

CNN Cheers As Top Kamala Staffer Calls For Jan. 6 “Disruption”, Unelected Presidency

Chinese National Arrested Again After Multiple Efforts To Enter Mar-a-Lago

Women stockpile abortion pills before Trump term (Marisa Iati/Washington Post)

Iran Strongly Denies US Claims It Was Involved In Plot To Kill Trump

MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coverage (Alex Griffing/Mediaite)

‘Trump Wins, Planet Loses’ – Morano heads to UN’s COP29 in Azerbaijan – Gore depressed – Bernie Sanders: ‘Struggle against climate change is over’

COP29 Will Be Haunted by the Ghost of the President Yet-to-Come

Springtime for Calling People Hitler

Blue state govs gear up to protect their people (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Left Blames Racist Minorities for Trump’s Win

Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump? Can It? (Stephen I. Vladeck/New York Times)

Why Trump’s Deportations Will Drive Up Your Grocery Bill (Paul Krugman/New York Times)  That makes me feel better — Krugman has been wrong on his economic predictions Every.Single.Time.

RFK Jr. Isn’t Just Reckless. He’s Dangerous. (Michael R. Bloomberg/Bloomberg)  Trump cooties!

STUDY: 89 Percent Of Saturday Night Live’s Fall Campaign Jokes Targeted Trump

Trump Cabinet Picks So Far Decried as ‘Nightmare Fuel’ (Elise Stefanik/Common Dreams)

Will the American project survive the anger of white men? (Carol Anderson/The Guardian)

Welcome back to 1945

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will spend part of week in DC as he tries to Trump-proof state policies (Sophie Austin/Associated Press)

Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action now (CNN)

What Trump’s mass deportation plan would mean for immigrant workers and the economy (CNBC)

Ramaswamy backs Trump’s mass deportations as ‘pragmatic’ approach (Politico)

Trump’s mass deportation plan is ‘where we need to start,’ says Sen. Barrasso (NBC)

Why Trump’s 2nd withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will be different (Politico)

Ramaswamy: Dems Should Back Down From Trump ‘Histrionics’

Immigration advocates brace for Trump: ‘Buckle up’ (Rafael Bernal/The Hill)

CNN Reboots Old Trump-Era Classic: MUH NORMS

There’s a Lot of Fighting Over Why Harris Lost. But Everyone Seems to Want to Avoid This Explanation. (Nadira Goffe/Slate)  Apparently Trump is a ‘fascist-loving felon’. Who knew?

MSNBC Is Still Unable to Cope With Trump’s Gains Among Latinos

Virginia Professors Infantilize Students and Selves Over Trump Win

Will Trump’s hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect’s immunity claim (Associated Press)

Round 2 in the Trump-vs-Mexico matchup looks ominous for Mexico (Associated Press)

California Group Rebranded as Anti-Trump Coalition Hours After the Election. It Could Suggest an Incoming Windfall for Progressive Orgs.

‘Managing Stress During Change’: Biden-Harris State Department Holds Therapy Session After Trump Win

The mirror of fascism in big tech

Courts restrained Trump in first term. Will they ‘check’ his power again? (Devin Dwyer/ABC News)

Protecting the rule of law under Trump is going to be precarious (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)  Unlike under Biden, where it was nonexistent.

Trump and Musk: The Bromance That Cannot Last (David Nasaw/New York Times)

Against Panic: A Survival Kit (Margaret Renkl/New York Times)  It would appear that the people who are meltime down most hysterically over Trump winning are all women.

How The View’s Sunny Hostin Killed Kamala’s Chances Of Topping Trump

Billionaire Pratt Will Move To America After Trump Win As Liberals Flee To Canada

CNN’s Acosta Frets Trump ‘Radical Ultranationalist Agenda’ with Dem Congressman

Stop Handwringing, Start Fighting (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Authoritarianism Expert Shatters A Trump ‘Illusion’: ‘One Of The Biggest Scams Of All’ (Lee Moran/HuffPost)  Every Democrat (or is that Emocrat?) is an expert on authoritarianism.

WATCH: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Wrecks Anthony Scaramucci for Anti-Trump Grift

John Oliver Exposes Trump’s Likely Cabinet: ‘Oops! All A**holes’ (Sean L. McCarthy/The Daily Beast)

‘Nostradamus’ Prof Blames Elon Musk “Director Of Misinformation” For Huge Democrat Loss

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it (Richard Seymour/The Guardian)  To the Guardian, there is no right but the far-right.

Glasser Spews Anti-Trump Bitterness, ‘Campaign of Lies Around Immigration’

Leaving on a Jet Plane? Trump Haters Could “Skip Forward” on a Four-Year Cruise

Trump, Who Was Charged with Mishandling Secrets, Will Get Classified Briefings Again (Brian Bennett/Time)  Apparently, when it comes to Trump, just being charged is a sufficient proof of guilt.

Election autopsy: 5 POLITICO reporters weigh in on what mattered (Politico) Four females and one male, which tells you nothing about Trump but a lot about Politico.

Cuban implies Trump’s tariff threat having negative impact ‘right now’ (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)  Yeah, well, how bright can he be? He supported Harris.

‘Normalized A Sociopath’: George Conway Tells ‘Sad Story’ That Led To Trump’s Win (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? (Timothy Snyder/New Yorker)  It means you don’t know the meaning of the word.

None of the conventional explanations for Trump’s victory stand up to scrutiny (Ben Davis/The Guardian)

Scientific American Editor-In-Chief Has Spectacular Post-Election Social Media Meltdown

Nicole Scherzinger apologizes for ‘hurt’ caused by her commenting, ‘liking’ pro-Donald Trump posts

Sad: Liberal Forced To Have Second Meltdown After Forgetting To Press Record  Babylon Bee.

Student President Of Harvard’s Institute Of Politics Calls For End Of Non-Partisanship After Trump Victory

Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish (Associated Press)

Liberal Cat Ladies Reveal “Battle Plan” To Poison Trump Men With Aqua Tofana

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.

Although most Americans agree that transgender people should not face discrimination in housing and employment, there is nowhere near the same level of support for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports—which is why Donald Trump kept bringing up the issue. His campaign also barraged swing-state voters and sports fans with ads reminding them that Kamala Harris had previously supported taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgery for prisoners. The commercials were effective: The New York Times reported that Future Forward, a pro-Harris super PAC, found that one ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.” The Harris campaign mostly avoided the subject.’

Judging by articles like this one, I’d bet on them not getting one.

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?

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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.

Read it.

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.

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)

‘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.