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.

‘That is a frightened Donald Trump’: Scaramucci reacts to Trump’s remarks at Mar-a-Lago (CNN)

Trump unravels in Mar-A-Lago press conference, ranting about Kamala Harris’ crowd size (MSNBC)

Trump Team Says Trainwreck Press Conference Is a Sign of Discipline (The New Republic)

“I F**king Told Them!”: Enraged Butler Cop On Bodycam Says He Told Secret Service To Cover Warehouse Used By Shooter, And They Agreed

Trump Tries to Wrestle Back Attention at Mar-a-Lago News Conference (New York Times)

Trump lashes out at Harris and falsely claims no one was killed on January 6 (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian) No one was killed by the rioters.

Trump holds seemingly pointless press conference filled with false claims (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Stalking and Squawking – The weird, puzzling and so far ineffective counterattacks by the Trump campaign (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s increasing dementia? (Robert Reich)

Project 2025 is everywhere. Don’t believe the distancing or “winding down” claims. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Is Donald Trump ‘quiet quitting’? Here’s what his ‘meltdown at Mar-a-Lago’ reveals (David Badash/Alternet.org)

Trump Spews Lies, Disparages Harris’s Intelligence, Insults Jews, and Rambles About “Insane Asylums” in Unhinged Press Conference (Bess Levin/Vanity Fair)

Lawrence: ‘Stupidest’ candidate Trump did not answer reporters’ questions (MSNBC)

The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’ (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Somebody might mistake them for Democrats.

Public Notice.

Elon Musk is busy. No, not because he’s attending to any of his multibillion-dollar companies.

For Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink, he’s full of wild promises with very little actual progress. But what Musk is really spending time on these days is attacking the core foundations of American democracy on multiple fronts.

There’s his thus-far successful effort to get rid of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). There’s his political action committee, America PAC, which pretends to help register people to vote but is just hoovering up voter data to give to the Trump campaign. And there’s his lawsuit seeking to force companies to advertise on X, despite the fact advertisers generally do not want their ads running next to the Nazi content X is full of now.

All of these efforts have the potential to succeed because the federal courts are broken, and the administrative state is dying a slow and painful death.

So–what exactly are these ‘core foundations of American democracy’? Apparently they include the NLRB, a keystone of centralized governmental intrusion into business; hatred of Donald Trump; hatred of the ‘Nazi content’ on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter); the (pre-Trump) federal courts; and the administrative state.

Good to know.

Huffington Post.

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in 2005.

Ah. ‘So-called”. I guess that makes it true.

Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris Win (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)  Especially if they try to steal this one as they stole the last one.

Sen. Mark Kelly Calls Out Vance for Calling Out Walz

Trump isn’t campaigning as hard as he used to (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

What the Jeffrey Epstein Documents Reveal About Donald Trump (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

MSNBC Selectively Edits Vance To Label Him ‘Entirely False’ On Walz’s Military Record  As they do.

Pelosi says it’s her life goal to ensure ‘that man’ Trump never steps in the White House again (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)

Biden ‘not confident at all’ that there will be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses election (Zoë Richards/NBC News)

Trump’s meltdown during Harris-Walz rally sounds alarm: Will family get him help or just ‘cash his checks?’ (Kevin Manahan/New Jersey Online)

Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022 (Washington Post)

Trump, Off The Campaign Trail, Comes Up With New Puerile Insult For Harris: ‘Kamabla’ (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane (Josephine Walker/The Daily Beast)

Trump complains about campaign as advisers try to focus on attacking Harris (Washington Post)

Harris Shuts Down Trumpian ‘Lock Him Up’ Chants (The Daily Beast)

‘I think this settles it’: Vance busted over resurfaced post jabbing ‘undisputed war hero’ (Maya Boddie/The Raw Story)

Trump can’t take a joke. Democrats need to use that. (Ruth Ben-Ghiat/MSNBC)

Trump Says He’ll Focus on Issues. His Allies Are Not Holding Their Breath. (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

The world has a lot to lose from a second Trump presidency (Public Notice)

Pelosi Admits ‘My Goal in Life’ Is to Get, Keep Trump Out of White House

Daily Show Claims Trump Is Invoking Themes From Mein Kampf

Tim Walz’s normal dad energy is causing MAGA to come unglued (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Normal dads don’t push for tampons in boys bathrooms.

JD Vance’s TikTok flop (Anusha Mathur/Politico)

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PBS “special correspondent” Simona Foltyn, who covers the Middle East, appeared on Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-funded PBS News Hour to make the case for the anti-Jewish terrorist group Hamas, after the assassination of Hamas terrorist chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Anchor Amna Nawaz introduced the report from Lebanon by making the familiar fatalist argument that there’s no point in killing Hamas leaders because it only strengthens the Palestinian populace against Israel.

Nawaz explained that Foltyn (who has a virulently anti-Israel X feed) had gained “rare access” to factions of “the militant group” Hamas within Lebanon for her report. You gain access by sounding like a propagandist.

UnHerd.

When Richard Nixon resigned as president 50 years ago, the country witnessed the birth of a monster. I am not talking about some sinister influence he exerted after his fall. I am talking about the media.

Having gratifyingly removed a leader who had become dangerous and unstable, the media, like a grizzly bear that kills its first human and will only eat human flesh from then on, shifted its purpose from investigate, report and expose, to search and destroy. In the process, it has normalised disaster thinking about American life, from the most ordinary experiences — love and work — to the highest echelons of human activity. If America is on the verge of political calamity, it is because for the past five decades, the media has kept the country on the edge of its seat expecting no less.

Unable to come up with another Watergate, the media tried to force every story it could into the Watergate template. Someone big had to be exposed as doing something really bad, with the result that they had to be made to fall exceptionally hard. There was some precious, honest, public-spirited journalistic work as a result. But the media, as befit its proud new image as heroic saviour of democracy, gradually robbed democracy of its vital essence: the freedom to live life privately, secretly, incalculably. (When Socrates said that “the unexamined life is not worth living”, he did not have in mind 24/7 cable news.)

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The concept of hate has proved very useful to the Cultural Marxist project to overturn conventional society and its norms.

Donald Trump is out of control (MSNBC) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Trump’s Campaign Is Drowning in Rage (The New Republic) Drowning!

Trump seems to forget it’s not 2016 anymore. And he’s frustrated. (Washington Poop)

If Trump Thinks Harris Is So Dumb, Why Is He Afraid to Debate Her? (New York Magazine)

How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk (Eric Geller/Wired)

Trump Pulls Bulk of Voters’ Concerns About Age, Mental Fitness With Biden Out of Contest (Eli Yokley/Morning Consult Pro)

Kamala Harris has MAGA world freaking out about demons and the apocalypse (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)

On Biden’s Exit, Pelosi Says She Was Driven by Need to Defeat Trump (Carl Hulse/New York Times)

As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’ (Politico)

Donald Trump Has Nothing Else (Eric Lutz/Vanity Fair)

Project 2025 Is an Unmitigated Polling Disaster for Trump and Republicans (Rolling Stone)  After a ceaseless drumbeat from the Narrative Media.

Trump Got a Free Cybertruck From Streamer Adin Ross. Is That Legal? (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)

Donald Trump admits EV flip-flop was a quid pro quo to secure Elon Musk’s support (Christiaan Hetzner/Fortune)

Trump trains sights on one of the last of the ‘Impeachment 10’ (Natalie Fertig/Politico)

Republicans aren’t beating the weirdness allegations (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Trump’s fusillade of falsehoods on debt and taxes (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Trump picks a pointless fight with Georgia Republicans – it could cost him (George Chidi/The Guardian)

Trump’s New Attack on ‘Kamabla’ Harris Is Literally Gibberish (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s Georgia Meltdown Shows He’s Panicking (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)

Trump’s Campaign Is Drowning in Rage (Susan Milligan/New Republic) Although not as much as the Narrative Media.

Pakistani national with ties to Iran charged in connection to a foiled assassination plot potentially targeting Trump (CNN)

Letter: If Biden’s age was so concerning, why isn’t Trump’s age? (Gary Gaddis/St. Louis Post-Dispatch)  Because Biden was a vegetable, and Trump is a dynamo.

Newsbusters.

Comedy Central’s weekly temp host of The Daily Show, Michael Kosta, reacted to the outrage that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is allowed to compete in the women’s Olympic boxing tournament on Monday by spreading fake news about pro-life laws in America in an attempt to argue conservatives are being hypocritical. He also conveniently never said the words “failed gender test.”

For the International Olympic Committee, Khelif is a woman because her passport identifies her as such, and that is good enough for Kosta, “Because, again, this female boxer is female. Can we stop this before America turns it into a presidential campaign issue?”

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The BBC described a riot in Birmingham during which a pub was besieged, innocent people violently attacked and news reporters harassed and followed as “largely peaceful,” while failing to identify the people behind it.

Sound familiar?

Guess Who Kamala Harris Blames For Disastrous Jobs Report?

Former Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway registers as lobbyist for Ukrainian billionaire with past ties to Trump (ABC News)

What’s Rattling Trump: The Size of Harris’s Crowds (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

ABC Host Received Death Threats Following Trump Interview (Owen Lavine/The Daily Beast)

Trump says he has ‘no choice’ but to support electric vehicles because Elon Musk ‘endorsed me very strongly’ (Kenneth Niemeyer/Business Insider)

The NABJ interview with Trump provides a model for media coverage (Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post)  “Orange Man Bad!”

THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: CBS’s Weijia Jiang Admits The Regime Media Drove Anti-Vance ‘Weird’, ‘Cat Ladies’ Narratives

Surprise Poll Reveals a Key Trump Weakness Against Kamala Harris (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

It’s fine to laugh at JD Vance and his couch (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Trump anointed Vance as MAGA crown prince – but DeSantis isn’t going away (Politico)

GOP senators say Trump caught ‘off guard’ by Harris’s strength (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) Names?

CNN’s Kasie Hunt: Trump Calling Kamala Low-IQ ‘Definitely Race-Related’

Trump leans into religious extremism to energize rightwing evangelicals (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)

Kennedy: Trump ‘Terrible Human Being,’ ‘Sociopath’

Indignant CNN and MSNBC Still Obsessed with Vance’s ‘Cat Ladies’ Remark  Hits a little bit too close to home.

A Harris presidency would give the GOP time to purge Trumpism (Geoff Duncan/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)  Too bad it’s not going to happen.

With Putin, Trump ignores ‘do not congratulate’ advice (again) (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  I’m sure he’d happily ignore advice from MSNBC.

The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020 (Meridith McGraw/Vanity Fair)

GOP gaslighting gets weirder: Why Trump and Vance spread lies about race and gender (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  As Amanda Marcotte spreads lies about Trump and Vance.

Donald Trump is set to be interviewed by streamer Adin Ross, who has hosted white nationalists and neo-Nazis (Justin Horowitz/Media Matters for America)

Inside the legal plans by foes of Donald Trump and Project 2025 to fight his second-term agenda (Tierney Sneed/CNN)  Whatever it may be, they’re against it.

Larry Elder.

When I ran for governor, a reporter accused me of believing “men are smarter than women.”

Research shows, I wrote in a 20-year-old column, women know and care more about social security, health care and education. When asked, however, about 25 political questions, men were more likely to answer correctly in 15, men and women answered the same in nine, and women answered more correctly than men in only one. I quoted a left-wing journalism professor who said the reason women knew less than men about those questions is that they are more likely than men to watch local news. She said, “Watching local news makes you dumber.” This became translated to: “Elder thinks women are dumber than men.”

This brings us to Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate. The AP wrote: “During Vance’s bid for the Senate in Ohio, he said in a Fox News interview that ‘we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats,’ and referred to them as ‘a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. … How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?’”

I was wrong about Kamala Harris. And that’s a huge problem for Donald Trump  Why, yes, I am very important. Do you doubt it?

For multiracial Americans, Trump’s attack on Harris felt personal (Washington Poop) Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Senate Republicans forgot Trump’s recklessness. It’s back to haunt them. (Paul Kane/Washington Post)

How JD Vance Thinks About Power (Matt Flegenheimer/New York Times)

The Washington Post’s Phony Story on Trump at the Black Journalists Convention

MSNBC Warns About Shapiro and the Left, Works ‘Couch’ Into J.D. Vance Mockery

Judge Chutkan Denies Trump’s Motion To Dismiss Election Case, Sets Status Conference

Trump goes low as Harris gains ground (Politico)

Whistleblower: Rowe Lied, Made ‘Significant Cuts’ to Security Assets

Kamala Harris Mocks Donald Trump for ‘Running Scared’ Over Debate (Jason Lemon/Newsweek)

Dog whistling past Dixie: Republicans are in over their heads playing the Kamala Harris race card (Salon)

Gov. Kemp Fires Back at Trump

‘Trump Is Scared To Debate!’ Says Party Whose Last Candidate Had To Quit Politics After Debate

Ex-GOP congressman Riggleman endorses Harris, rips Trump’s ‘thirst for power’ (Laura Vozzella/Washington Post)

Sen. Tim Scott Shares LOVELY Wedding Pics of Himself With His Bride and A-Hole Lefties Just Can’t DEEEAL (Sam J./Twitchy)

FLASHBACK: Decades of Lib Media Fawning Over Democratic Veeps

Trump claims he’s pro-worker. Project 2025 will gut labor rights (Steven Greenhouse/The Guardian)

Republicans for Harris launches, aiming for Biden-like appeal to anti-Trump voters (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)

Democracy dies if we drop the case of Trump, Egypt and $10 million in cash (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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A recent study indicates that higher dietary tellurium levels, stemming from mining and manufacturing, are linked to increased blood pressure, though foods high in tellurium like cereals and legumes do not directly cause hypertension. Researchers stress the importance of monitoring tellurium in foods globally, given its potential role as a risk factor for hypertension.

“Linked to” means “We have no proof that they’re connected, but we want you alarmed just the same.”

Director Rowe Personally Crippled Trump’s Secret Service Team (David Strom/HotAir)

Why Trump isn’t celebrating as Americans return home from Russia (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

MSNBC Fearmongers That Election Is ‘Life Or Death Choice’ For Women

Elon Musk’s Insidious New Strategy to Help Trump Win (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Dunh-dunh-DUNHHHHHHHH….

Harris campaign calls Trump ‘too scared’ to debate, says he ‘needs to man up’ (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Harris blames Trump for latest dreadful jobs report nearly a full term after he left office (Brooke Singman/Fox News)

Morning Joe Doubles Down: Trump Not Just ‘Deeply Damaged’—Also ‘Dangerous’

UAW Chief: Trump Has ‘Never Supported’ Working Class

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Found Vance’s Democrat Ex-Roommate to Trash Him as ‘Dark’ & ‘Creepy’

With Vance’s elevation, Pennsylvania voters reexamine Trump’s views on women (Maeve Reston/Washington Post)

Trump’s Racist Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Part of a Larger, Unhinged Plan (Rolling Stone)

Fallout over Trump’s race comments grows (The Hill) Especially in the Narrative Media. A more accurate phrase would be ‘dandruff’.

‘He wants to take us back’: Democrats eye new strategy against Trump’s attacks on Harris (Politico) And, to the extent that he does (not as great as Democrats would have you believe) Ah’m fur it.

Scoop: Trump stalled Black journalists interview over fact-checking (Axios) A more accurate term would be ‘fart’.

What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Race in America (Politico) Getcher Narrative right here!

He’s a Racist – It’s not a surprise – By now you’ve probably seen clips … (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …)

Incredulous laughter, audible gasps: Trump’s performance at Black journalists’ panel left him exposed (Andrew Lawrence/The Guardian)

Prompted by right-wing radio host, JD Vance linked Roe v. Wade to Dred Scott decision allowing slavery (Eric Hananoki/Media Matters for America)

Republicans Freak Out Over Trump’s New Race-Based Attack on Harris (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)

Why Trump Can’t Banish the Weirdos (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)

Donald Trump’s gag order remains in effect after hush money conviction, New York appeals court rules (Michael R. Sisak/Associated Press)  They can’t afford to let him speak.

The Media POUNCED on Trump at NABJ, But What Did They Omit or Downplay?

Trump’s Disastrous Interview Shows He’s Afraid of Kamala Harris (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

Doctors told Pelosi of concern for Trump’s mental health, ex-speaker says in book (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)

‘CBS Mornings’ Uses Russian Prisoner Swap to Mock Trump, Celebrate Biden’s ‘Legacy’

Morning Joe’s New Attack Line On Trump: ‘A Deeply Damaged Man’ (and ‘Fat Elvis’)

Get ready for even more JD Vance in the spotlight after shaky rollout (CNN)  The monkeys are filling their hands with poop….

Whoopi Declares GOP Banned from Black Community After Trump Meets NABJ

The MAGA Abuse of the English Language (Brian Klaas/The Garden of Forking Paths)  Not to mention forking tongues….

Vance defends Trump over former president’s false claims about Harris’ racial identity (CNN)

How to Fact Check Trump’s Lies about His Document Case (emptywheel)

JD Vance Is An Investor In A Far Right Video Platform Filled With Neo-Nazi Content (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)

NPR on NABJ Convention: Trump Talk Was ‘Unsettling,’ ‘Kind of Nuts All the Time’

Trump’s Racist Attack on Kamala Harris Was No Accident (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

What happened to JD Vance? (Davidrlurie/Public Notice)

Dear Media, You Are Allowed to Call Trump a Racist (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)  So presumably we’re allowed to call Muslims terrorists?

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As they do.

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After waiting a week, NewsBusters can report that ABC’s The View had finally done the meme and falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris (the presumptive Democratic Party nominee) was “never” the border czar. In fact, during Wednesday’s episode, moderator Whoopi Goldberg literally held up a note card and seemingly read the widely spread Democratic Party talking points about “root causes” of migration and the lie that President Biden never appointed her to that role.

After playing dueling ads where the Trump campaign noted that Harris was the border czar, Goldberg snarkily suggested: “let’s get some factual information, right?”

Whoopi Goldberg strikes me as the Platonic ideal of the FUBB whose only goal in life is to be an annoyance to others.

Black Journalists’ Leader Quits Before Trump Speech

Trump Declines to Back Away From ‘You Don’t Have to Vote Again’ (Maggie Astor/New York Times)

6 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempt

MSNBC: Vance Wants People to Only Have ‘More White Children’

ABC Heralds Trump’s Nephew Hawking Book Claiming He Said N-Word, Disparaged Disabled

After Assassination Attempt on Trump, Some Want to Hold Gun Owners Responsible for Government Failures

PBS Pundit/NPR Reporter Tamara Keith RIPS Vance’s ‘Really Terrible, No-Good Week’

Harris campaign unveils ad hitting Trump back over the border (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump’s VP Pick Is A Climate Skeptic, And The Knives Are Out

Trump pressed for answers after saying supporters ‘won’t have to vote’ again (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book (Alex Shephard/New Republic) Yup, open the book and a hand will reach up and smack you in the face.

Tax-Funded PBS’s Laura Barron-Lopez Poses Trump 2.0 as Dangerous for LGBTQ People

The last thing JD Vance probably wants to be associated with right now is a couch. But for some reason, he’s still talking about it. (Cheryl Teh/Business Insider) Certainly the Narrative Media seem obsessed with talking about it.

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Hire Muslim ‘journalists’, get Muslim propaganda.

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Huge increase in the national debt? Pshaw! Not news.

What’s next on the agenda for Trump? “I don’t mean on Trump’s agenda. I mean the opposition’s agenda.”

US Spy Agencies: Iran Trying to Harm Trump’s Chances in Election  What a surprise.

Harris Campaign: Trump Backpedaling on Sept. 10 Debate

Trump’s Mental State Suddenly Takes a Darker Turn: “I’ve Gotten Worse” (New Republic)  They’re going to try the same on him as happened to Biden–but the evidence isn’t there.

“Old and quite weird”: Democrats finally discover new effective attack – and Republicans hate it (Charles R. Davis/Salon)

WATCH: Liberal Blitz to Call Conservatives ‘Weird’ Backfires

Media Shills Have Received Their New Script: “Conservatives Are Weird”

Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance ‘weird.’ Here’s why (Meg Kinnard/Associated Press)

J.D. Vance May Be The Worst Politician I’ve Ever Seen (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  He says that like it’a  a bad thing.

Kamala Harris Trolls Donald Trump: I’ll Go to Debate Even if You Don’t (The Daily Beast)

Republicans Are About To Become Desperate (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Trump says he’ll ‘probably’ debate Harris: ‘I can also make a case for not doing it’ (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Trump’s reckless vaccine ultimatum (Radley Balko/The Watch)

Acting Secret Service Chief Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump

‘WEIRDOS’! Pro-Kamala Hollywood PAC Mocks Creepy White Christian Men in New Ad

It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids (CNN)  The horror! The horror!

Panicking Trump Picked J.D. Vance After Slip With Key Voter Group (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Behind the Curtain: The battle for Trump power (Axios)

Exclusive: The inside story of John Roberts and Trump’s immunity win at the Supreme Court (CNN)  Yeah, sure.

Historian Timothy Ryback: “Hitler could only have dreamed” of Trump’s fanatical support (Chauncey DeVega/Salon)

Where J.D. Vance’s weirdest idea actually came from (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Trump Media Quietly Enters Deal With a Republican Donor Who Could Benefit From a Second Trump Administration (ProPublica) DUNH dunh dunh….

AOC Shuts Down Republican Whining About Kamala’s “Weird” Trump Attack (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

WashPost’s Gene Robinson Jumps On The Kamala Harris Campaign ‘Weird’ Train

Maddow points out frightening truth about Trump’s lack of concern about votes (MSNBC)

Fred Trump III calls uncle Donald Trump ‘atomic crazy,’ says he used racial slur decades ago (ABC News)

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Tuesday’s CBS Mornings featured a truly remarkable segment that had the cajones to commiserate with Lebanon (run in large part by the Iran-backed terror group, Hezbollah) that Israel might unleash a fierce military response to last weekend’s missile attack by Hezbollah on a youth soccer field that left 12 children dead and strewn in pieces.

Filling in on the weekday show, CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller expressed concern of “growing” “fears of a wider war” not because of Hezbollah’s horrifying attack, but because “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a severe response”.

She even seemed to case doubt on whether someone else carried out the attack: “Netanyahu blames the Lebanon-based Hezbollah.”

Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance (Washington Post)

For 25 Minutes, Secret Service In Command Center Never Notified Trump’s Detail

JD Vance is faltering in the Midwest, a big problem for the GOP (John L. Dorman/Business Insider)

PBS ‘Washington Week’ Panel Defends Harris From GOP Attacks While Mocking JD Vance

Buttigieg Tells Fox Viewers that MAGA Is a Cult (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Ilhan Omar says Trump is ‘losing his memory’ after he confuses her with Rashida Tlaib (John Bowden/The Independent)  I don’t see any effective difference.

“My Beautiful Christians:” Trump’s Pandering to Christian Nationalists (emptywheel)

How to Buy a President – Donald Trump’s joke of a media company is also a $6 billion meme stock … (David Freedlander/New York Magazine)

Trump’s falling legal fees free up campaign cash (Noah Bressner/Axios)

A comprehensive guide to J.D. Vance’s views on women and children (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  Getcher Narrative! Right here!

Trump uses immunity ruling to try to blow up his conviction (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally (McKay Coppins/The Atlantic)  If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Trump Just Had His Worst Week–Ever (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)

Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

The media fails to take Trump at his word. Again. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

Trump’s Bro-Pocalypse Advisers Got Him ‘Cat Lady’ Vance (Nell Scovell/The Daily Beast)

These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers (Justin Glawe/Rolling Stone)

Iran Is Working to Undercut Trump in Presidential Election, U.S. Spy Agencies Say (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)  Of course they are. They’d be fools not to.

ABC, CBS, NBC Gush of Kamala’s ‘Strength’, ‘Surge’ Putting Trump ‘On Defense’

New York Times.

Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform’s business. But its owner, Elon Musk, is always one whim away from undoing her work.

Newsbusters.

We were reliably told that attacks against the courts were attacks against our very institutions, and therefore on Democracy™ itself. That is, unless you are a Democrat appearing on a Regime Media Sunday political affairs show and attacking a majority-conservative Supreme Court. In which case, fire at will. Figuratively, hopefully.

WATCH as CBS’s Robert Costa, filling in for Margaret Brennan on deFace The Nation, enables Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as he attacks the Court, accusing it of “threatening democracy” without any sort of pushback or followup:

Trump tries to sharpen Harris attacks as she blunts his momentum (Politico)

5 Excerpts From JD Vance’s Emails to a Transgender Classmate (New York Times)  Don’t communicate with left-wing crazies. It will always prove a pretext to attack you.

Trump tells Christian voters “they won’t have to vote anymore” if he is elected in November (CBS News)

Rebuke Of Trump Calling Kamala ‘Bum’ Sends MSNBC Host Into Frenzy! ‘Hear Hear!’

Trump’s superpower is plausible deniability (Jason Sattler/I Know How Much You Care)

German Publisher Stops All Printing Of JD Vance’s Book Hillbilly Elegy

Buttigieg says voters have transferred their concerns about age to Trump (Isabella Ramírez/Politico)

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Before Joe Biden’s stumbling and incoherent debate performance led panicked journalists to join Democrats in bullying the presumptive Democratic nominee out of the 2024 campaign, the media airwaves were full of praise for Biden’s “enormously consequential” and “extraordinarily successful” presidency.

The “successes” that so impressed journalists, of course, were the *multiple* trillion-dollar-plus legislative packages passed by a friendly Democratic Congress during Biden’s first two years — “accomplishments” that have stoked the awful inflation that’s led most Americans to say the President’s economic policies have failed.

“If you add up those seven pieces of legislation, it’s a $3.5 trillion agenda that Biden and the Democrats have passed since early last year,” political analyst Ryan Lizza gushed on CNN in 2022. “There’s really nothing like that in terms of that scale….He’s sort of in that modern pantheon now.”

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Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

The Guardian.

In the Narrative Media, ‘mysogyny’ means ‘saying something disagreeable to some woman somewhere’.

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Who did Amanpour & Co. invite on to discuss the supposed “Christian Nationalism” running rampant within Project 2025, the feared, loathed, seldom read presidential blueprint issued by the Heritage Foundation? Nobody but Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the author of something called Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

Bianna Golodryga was the fill-in host on Christiane Amanpour’s political talk show (whose episodes run on tax-funded PBS after first airing on CNN International) and set up the interview between liberal author Kristin Kobes Du Mez and liberal journalist Michel Martin by borrowing Du Mez’s subtitle: “Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez tells Michel Martin how white evangelicals how white evangelicals have corrupted a faith and fractured a nation.”

Golodryga justified the show’s paranoid liberal focus on Project 2025 by noting “the contributors of the conservative playbook include some of [Trump’s closest political advisers, as well as organizations with Christian nationalist leanings.”

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But you knew that.

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With the Paris Olympics set to begin on Friday, PBS’s Amanpour and Company devoted their entire show to the games on Thursday, including a wild history lesson on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness and the Making of Modern Sports author Michael Waters tried to tie Nazism with opposition to transgender ideology.

As part of his history lesson, Waters touched on the Czech runner, Zdenek Koubek. Koubek was a champion female runner who would later identify as a man. It should be noted that Koubek was intersex, not transgender.

The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits. (Abby Vesoulis/Mother Jones)  Like the ones against Trump?

Even as Biden Is Forced Out, Dishonest ‘Doonesbury’ Still Prefers to Ridicule Trump

Amazon Quickly Yanks Tee: ‘Only Good Trump Is a Dead One’

Trump botches Kamala Harris’s first name, again and again and again (Meryl Kornfield/Washington Post)

The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Finally Word from the FBI -About The Trump Story The Press Has Refused To Question (Talking Points Memo)

Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn’t Picked J.D. Vance (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Yeah, a writer for New Republic really knows what Republicans wish.

How the press helped Trump sell himself as a strongman (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  Aaron Rupar is the guy who lent his name to the trick of selectively editing video to remove the parts that didn’t agree with proglodyte narratives.

J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch. But he’s still extremely weird. (Rebecca Jennings/Vox)  Weirder than Vox? Can’t see how.

Trump’s second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce (Joe Davidson/Washington Post)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet (New York Times)  These guys are pretty sharp.

J. D. Vance’s Sad, Strange Politics of Family (Jessica Winter/New Yorker)

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Earlier this week as I found myself scrolling through Instagram, I was bombarded by colorful compilations of Vice President Harris’ most absurd remarks. As I watched one of them, I assumed it must have been an attack ad from the GOP. But to my surprise, the clip was from the women’s media company “Betches” and was captioned “A woman in a high powered job laughing?? Groundbreaking really.”

As Democrats have mobilized to support President Joe Biden’s pick for a successor in Kamala Harris following his announcement last weekend that he would not seek reelection, the Internet would seem to show that influencers have decided to embrace Harris’ eclectic and often unserious persona. “Kamala is brat” was tweeted by singer Charli XCX and has been a meme embraced by the campaign. This is likely in a desire to galvanize young people, a coalition that had been decisively unenthused by Joe Biden’s campaign, to come out to vote for Harris. However, the cost may be swing voters.

Could Republicans get buyer’s remorse with J.D. Vance? (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)

Posts spread baseless rumors about GOP vice presidential pick JD Vance having sex with a couch (Melissa Goldin/Associated Press)

Trump’s Nephew Reveals Racist Comments From Former President In New Book (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)  It’s all about the book deal.

Trump allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss (Washington Post)

Trump and His Allies Adapt to a New Role: Fighting for Attention (New York Times)

Some Republicans express buyer’s remorse over Vance VP pick (Axios)  They were never ‘buyers’.

Beshear becomes Harris’s top attack dog against Vance (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Beware the Mump – Speaking in Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday, at his first campaign … (Robert Reich)

FBI Is Not Fully Convinced Trump Was Struck by a Bullet (Zachary Folk/The Daily Beast)

Critics Flag 1 Huge Flaw In Trump’s Claim About Kamala Harris And Jewish People (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Harris campaign hits Trump over Fox News interview: ‘This guy shouldn’t be president ever again’ (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

‘Trump Is Old And Quite Weird’: Kamala Harris Camp Hits Back At ’78-Year-Old Criminal’ Trump’s Fox News Interview (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)

J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters (David Corn/Mother Jones)

Hawley Whistleblower: USSS Refused Drones Before Trump Shooting

JD Vance Wrote Book Blurb For Jack Posobiec, Far-Right Influencer Of Pizzagate Fame (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Was Donald Trump The Victim Of White Privilege? A Democratic Member Wants To Know You can’t make this shit up.

Harris hits Trump’s scandals in presidential campaign debut (Politico)

A Reader’s Guide To MAGA’s Racist And Misogynistic Attacks On Kamala Harris (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Gitcher Narrative, right here!

Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being ‘childless,’ testing Trump’s new running mate (Adriana Gomez Licon/Associated Press)

Secret Service encourages Trump campaign to stop outdoor rallies (Josh Dawsey/Washington Post)

Michigan man kills himself after running over 80-year-old Trump supporter (Erum Salam/The Guardian)

PBS Balance: Amanpour & Co. Buffs Biden Up With One Guest, Trashes Trump With The Next

The simple reason why Kamala Harris has Donald Trump running scared (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  I’m thinking cooties.

Kamala Harris Grins as Crowd Chants ‘Lock Him Up’ on Campaign Debut (Mary Ann Akers/The Daily Beast)

Trump is back to insulting his opponents despite reported transformation (Adam Wren/Politico)

Trump Repeatedly Used N-Word, Says His Own Nephew (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)  So does Dave Chapelle. What’s your point?

Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump do the one thing he fears most: Get up and get out (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  You can’t make this shit up.

Trump’s Favorite Lies, Puffery and Flights of Fancy, Up Against the Data (New York Times) The paper of record … if the record is broken.

Yes, the Assassination Attempt Changed Trump. It Made Him Even Worse (Michael Ian Black/The Daily Beast)

How Kamala Harris Beats Trump (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  Whisper it: Vote fraud.

It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s age (Max Burns/The Hill) Anything to keep from talking about his ideas.

Trump said to be ‘freaking out’ as he’s ‘caught in a no-win situation’ against Harris (Brad Reed/Raw Story)  ‘Said to be’ means ‘I just made this up’.

Trump Said Some Disabled People “Should Just Die,” According to His Nephew (Julia Métraux/Mother Jones)

My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’ (Fred C. Trump III/TIME)

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We are now quite deep into the propaganda portion of the transition from Biden to Harris. How deep? NBC News is basically running youth commercials as “reports”.

Watch, as we wonder whether Antonia Hylton’s report qualifies as an in-kind donation to the Harris campaign.

‘DEI,’ ‘Colored,’ ‘Jezebel’: MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

Trump is already trying to back out of a debate with Kamala Harris (Marin Scotten/Salon)  There is no debate to back out of; Trump hasn’t agreed to any such thing.

A Decade Of Conspiracists?

Harris Opens Fire On Trump: ‘Predator, Fraudster, Cheater’ (The Daily Beast)

Trump subverted democracy. His allies are pretending the left did, too. (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump’s New Rival May Bring Out His Harshest Instincts (New York Times)

Trump-Lover Elon Musk Is Already Causing Kamala Harris Problems (Paige Oamek/New Republic)  Apparently ‘Trump-lover’ is the new ‘nigger-lover’.

Judge Cannon and JD Vance Are on the Same Team (Jesse Wegman/New York Times)  The team of truth, justice, and the American way?

It Got Nasty! The Worst Media Outbursts from the RNC

JD Vance repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault (CNN)

How Trump Set Deadly Election Trap for Himself (Jill Filipovic/The Daily Beast)

Oliver Trashes RNC as ‘A Bunch Of D**** on Stage’

Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt (Mark Follman/Mother Jones)

Trump Camp Is Planning to ‘Willie Horton’ Kamala Harris (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)  No, they’re going to ‘Kamala Harris’ her.

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History (Andrea Pitzer/scientificamerican.com)

Trump Is Suddenly Too Old (David Strom/HotAir)

King Claims It Is ‘Certain’ Harris Will Face ‘Racism and Sexism’ During Campaign

CNN: Outside ‘Reality’ for Trump Say He Wasn’t Properly Protected I guess his ear just shot itself.

J.D. Vance Spends Weird, Low-Energy Speech Praising Diet Mountain Dew (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

‘Donald Trump Will Destroy Democracy,’ Says Party Nominating Candidate No One Voted For (Babylon Bee)

This Politico GENIUS Mocked the GOP ‘Fantasy Crowd’ Over Their Biden-Replacement Theory

MSNBC Whines That Calling Harris A ‘DEI Hire’ Is ‘Clearly Racist’

With Harris Running, Democrats Open New Line of Attack on Trump: His Age (Wall Street Journal)

Kamala Harris Must Be the Candidate. This Is How She Beats Trump (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  Whisper it: Vote fraud.

JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm  I like him already.

LGBTQ community sounds alarm bells over Vance (Brooke Migdon/The Hill)

MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden (Aditi Bharade/Business Insider)

A Small Matter of the Politics (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo) If you don’t want to be slut-shamed, don ‘t be a slut. ODF.

A Candidate, Not a Cult Leader (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  The implication is that Trump is the ‘cult leader’ in question. Unexamined is the counter-assertion, ‘A tool, not a candidate’.

In the new 2024 race, Trump hedges on debating Kamala Harris (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Trump wanted to ‘debate’ Biden to demonstrate that Biden is a vegetable. Nobody needs a demonstration that Harris is an incompetent fool.

MAGA World Resurfaces Kamala Harris ‘Side Chick’ Slurs (Philippe Naughton/The Daily Beast)  Any inconvenient truth that the Left doesn’t like is a ‘slur’.

ABC Hails Kamala ‘Blazing New Trails’ After ‘Biblical’ Biden Twist, Trump ‘Meltdown’

Trump and His Allies Are Freaking Out Over Biden Leaving Race (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history (Talia Lakritz/Business Insider)  Only because Biden was shit-canned.

Now, We Beat Trump. – OK Everyone! It’s time to rise out of our despair! (Michael Moore)

Donald Trump Donated Thousands to Kamala Harris in the Past (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)  Well, he’s given money to whores in the past….

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas (Gil Duran/New Republic) “Techno-authoritarian”? You mean like Zuckerberg and the guys who run YouTube and Google?

The post-Biden era may be uncertain for the Democrats, but for Trump it will be utterly dismaying (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)  I suspect he’ll cope.

Trump’s Alarming New Rant Praising Dictators Shows Media Is Failing Us (New Republic)  Of course, there was no such ‘rant’; they’re just making it up because that’s what they do.

Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  As do his critics.

All The Ways The Right Is Melting Down Over Kamala Harris (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)  They must have the right confused with the Harris campaign.

MAGA Crowd Melts Down After Mike Pence Says Something Reasonable (David Moye/HuffPost)

Trump’s age and health under renewed scrutiny after Biden’s exit (Michael Kranish/Washington Post)

Michael Moore Urges Boldness by Dems to Thwart MAGA  Boldness? Or morbid obesity?

Democrats Now Flipping Age Card Against Trump  The question isn’t age, the question is competence.

Trump’s social media suggests a campaign scrambling from Biden leaving 2024 race (ABC News)

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Overshadowed by the Republican National Convention last week, CNN’s lawyers filed a motion for a protective order that aimed to block network host Jake Tapper from being deposed as part of the $1 billion defamation suit against the network. It was the second time Tapper was requested for deposition and the second time CNN put up resistance, this time more aggressively. CNN has also been accused of destroying evidence critical to the case.

“There is no basis to depose Tapper,” CNN counsel Deanna Shullman wrote in her motion as she argued against “re-opening fact discovery and deposing CNN employee Jake Tapper.”

Further in her motion, Shullman seemed to produce contradictory information about the plaintiff’s interest in having Tapper deposed (bold text added to highlight):

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“All of these white people keep Acting White! I don’t understand it!”

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I guess that means she glows in the dark. Draw your own conclusions.

‘Cognitively diminished, old vaudeville performer’: Joy on Trump’s rambling RNC speech (MSNBC) This was the most un-Trump-like speech he’s ever made. I wish these people would make up their minds.

Trump Struggles to Turn the Page on ‘American Carnage’ (New York Times)

Trump the Lion, or Trump the Lyin’? (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)

Project 2025 Plan for Trump Presidency Has Far-Reaching Threats to Science (scientificamerican.com)

The RNC clarified Trump’s 2024 persona: Moderate authoritarian weirdo (Eric Levitz/Vox)

The totalitarian tell in Trump’s “unity” speech (Jamison Foser/Finding Gravity)

Trump’s RNC speech was divisive, but front pages of mainstream media claimed it was “unifying” and “healing” (Courtney Hagle/Media Matters for America)

MSNBC’s Sanders was ‘Sickened’ by Tribute to Corey Comperatore Jacket ‘Prop’

Leftists Prove They Are Zealots In The Wake Of Trump Shooting

Whoopi Goldberg Slammed for Attack on Trump Granddaughter

NPR Bashes RNC: ‘Violent Rhetoric and Attacks on Undocumented Immigrants’

Vexed By Her Unifying Endorsement Of Trump, Morning Joe Attacked Nikki Haley

A Searing Reminder That Trump Is Unwell (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

JD Vance’s wife faces racist online backlash from far-right social media posts (Kiara Alfonseca/ABC News) As opposed to the racist online backlash from the Left against her husband for being a white male. Pot, meet kettle.

Trump is poised to bypass his legal woes thanks to judges he appointed (Kyle Cheney/Politico) Like the way Obama and Biden did. Quelle surprise.

‘Anti-Psychopath PAC’ Set up Against Donald Trump (Alia Shoaib/Newsweek)

Trump’s GOP is no country for MAGA women (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Certainly no country for Amanda Marcotte.

Tossing Trump’s case was risky for Judge Cannon – at least for now (Ann E. Marimow/Washington Post)

PBS: Trump Is ‘Uglier And Darker,’ More ‘Dangerous’ Than 2016 On Immigration

Gov. Pritzker’s Role In The Extreme Rhetoric Surrounding Donald Trump

How Project 2025 would change American life (Jacob Knutson/Axios)

“Many Educators Portrayed Trump As An Existential Threat. Moving Forward, A Narrative Shift Is Essential”

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Amid on the ongoing Israel war on Hamas, the terrorist-run Gaza health officials’ narrative has permeated Reuters and The Associated Press, and now The Washington Post has been called out for taking the terrorists’ side over a wistful hope of a family of a hostage still held.

Undecided voters grade Trump’s performance at RNC. See if he passed (CNN) It’s CNN, so what do you think they say, not even having read it?

Anti-party in a ghost town: Trump’s undead GOP holds an un-convention (Andrew O’Hehir/Salon)

A rash of tech billionaires are pivoting to Trump – but not because they’re MAGA bros (Allison Morrow/CNN)

White Men Can Vote: The Logic Behind J.D. Vance for VP (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)

Days After Trump Assassination Attempt, Scripps News Contributor Steve Schmidt Pens RNC Analysis Rife With Nazi Comparisons

BlueAnon Rears Its Head: One-Third of Dems Believe Conspiracy Theory That Trump Staged Assassination Attempt

Digging In: Rep. Mondaire Jones Says He Won’t Be ‘Gaslit’ Away From Decrying Trump as a ‘Threat to Democracy’

Whistleblowers Reveal Security Failures at Trump Rally (House Committee on the Judiciary)

Whoopi Attacks Trump’s Grandkids: ‘They’re Trying to Humanize Him!’  How dare they!

Secret Service Whistleblowers Emerge Following Trump Assassination Attempt

PBS, David Frum Condemn Trump for Using Shooting ‘In an Improper Way’  Uh-oh … David Frum … step back….

PBS Hurls Bad Fact Checks: GOP Voting Concerns Could Mean ‘Political Violence’

Tucker Carlson, Ousted by Fox, Roars Into Milwaukee as a Top Trump Ally (New York Times)

Globalist “Guru” Claims Trump’s Re-Election Will Mean ‘The Death Of Global Order’

Nicolle Wallace: Republicans ‘Totally Codependent on Disinformation’

CBS’s Margaret Brennan: ‘The Strongman Has a Family, Too’

Bulwark Never-Trumper Accuses Republicans of ‘Losing the Plot,’ Confusing Presidents

Excruciating! Trump’s Endlessly Long, Wildly Dishonest RNC Speech (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

EU Parliament Refuses To Condemn Trump Assassination Attempt

Joy Reid Insists Trump’s Speech Proves His Brain Is as Bad as Biden’s

Joy Reid Thinks Masculinity is ‘White-Adjacent’  Well, yeah.

Are Trump Scandals Just Endless Hours of Noise?

Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims in RNC acceptance speech (CNN)

Trump tramples unity theme in two-act convention speech (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Morning Joe Warning To MSM: Do NOT Praise Trump’s New Tone!

The RNC Is Calling This Billionaire Trump Donor an ‘Everyday American’ (Rolling Stone)

Republicans Say They Want to Tone Down Political Rhetoric – But They Keep Calling Immigration an ‘Invasion’ (Casey Murray/NOTUS)  Because that’s what it is. Truth is not ‘political rhetoric’.

Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes

Post-Speech Roundup: Trump’s a Narcissist Full of Lies and ‘Unity’ Bunk!

Donald Trump Can (and Must) Be Defeated (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

Colbert Attacks ‘Deeply, Psychotically Weird’ RNC  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Donald Trump Cannot Even Pretend to Change Who He Is (Jonathan Chait/New York Magazine)

TEMP NOT LOWERED: MSNBC ‘Historian’ Claims Trump Win Will Lead to ‘Dictatorship’

This Crew Is Totally Beatable (David Frum/The Atlantic)  But not by that crew.

Comedy Shows Smear Republicans As Racist Cultists During RNC

ABC Melts Down Over Trump’s ‘Dark,’ ‘Anti-Immigrant’ Speech, SLAM Biden for Staying in

What Happens When a Felon Throws a ‘Law-and-Order’ Convention (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)

Maddow Sees ‘Alt-Right’ In Vance’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Fandom  Maddow sees ‘Alt-Right’ in cloud formations.

PBS’s Capehart: Trump ‘Deified,’ I Am ‘Terrified’ of ‘We Love Trump’ Chant

Charlottesville tiki torch rioter endorses Donald Trump at his Jan. 6 sentencing (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)  Trump is his only hope of receiving justice.

Is Donald Trump the victim of stochastic terrorism? (UnHerd)

Trump endorses vaccine conspiracy theory in leaked call with RFK Jr. (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

“Staged Theatrics To Win Idiots’ Vote”: Virginia Prof Declares Trump Shooting Was Faked

FBI, DHS Warn of Retaliation After Trump Shooting  Well, obviously, Republicans will respond the way Democrats would–be afraid, be very afraid….

The Dismissal of the Trump Classified Documents Case Is Deeply Dangerous (Neal K. Katyal/New York Times)

J.D. Vance pick unnerves GOP’s business elite, thrills populists (Jeff Stein/Washington Post)

Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)

‘Whoa whoa whoa!’ CNN host stops GOP rep for suggesting Secret Service set Trump up (Matthew Chapman/Raw Story)

Yale Law School Snubs J.D. Vance-But Does Mention Taylor Swift (Alexander Nazaryan/The Daily Beast)  Vance got his law degree from Yale Law School; Taylor Swift–not so much….

A Gunman Shot at Trump With an AR-15. RNC Visitors Can Win a Free One (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

‘Do You Just Not Say Anything?’: Biden Blames Trump for ‘Rhetoric’ After Admitting ‘Bullseye’ Comment Was a ‘Mistake’

‘They’ didn’t shoot Donald Trump (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

The View Defends Continued Use of Inciting Rhetoric Against Trump

JD Vance charted a Trump-centric, populist path in Senate as he fought GOP establishment (Associated Press)

Van Jones: Vance Is A ‘More Dangerous Virus’ Than Trump

How Gen Z Responds to Attempt to Kill Trump

MSNBC: Trump’s Bandaged Ear ‘a Spectacle’ to ‘Mine’ for Support

CBS Frets ’24 Trump Opponents Neither Holding Out Nor ‘Resisting the Temptation To Endorse’

Ted Cruz pushes the GOP’s immigrant-voting lie deeper into the slime (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

MSNBC Thinks Viewers Are Morons, Falsely Equates Menéndez and Trump’s Convictions

MSNBC Pushes Debunked Conspiracy Theory that Trump Wasn’t Shot, Glass

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports (Zoë Schlanger/The Atlantic)

Former Obama Interior Secretary: “really afraid for the future of our planet” if President Trump Wins

JD Vance: prince of the MAGA movement  (UnHerd)

Vance Becomes Face Of ‘New Right’

The extraordinary duplicity of Musk’s $180 million donation to support Trump (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

The phony populism of JD Vance (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Morning Joe Speculates: Maybe Trump Wasn’t Conservative ENOUGH For Shooter!

NBC Omits Biden Scolding Lester Holt as a Trump Enabler

Editor at ‘major news outlet’ tells media to bury iconic photo of Trump after assassination attempt: report (Yael Halon/Fox News)

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden’s Age (emptywheel)

JD Vance on Abortion (Jessica Valenti/Abortion, Every Day)

MAGA Makes Racist Attacks Against JD Vance’s Wife (Ewan Palmer/Newsweek)

J.D. Vance’s Stunning Admission About Trump Spells Trouble for MAGA (New Republic)  In your dreams….

A new kind of Republican Party is forming at the RNC (Politico)

‘Arm yourself accordingly’: What the GOP is saying about gun control after Trump shooting (Laura Gersony/USA Today)

Anderson Smears Tim Scott As ‘Uncle Tim or Tom’ After RNC Speech

Court ‘Going To Remove’ Aileen Cannon From Trump Case: Anti-MAGA Lawyer (Ewan Palmer/Newsweek)

‘Scared to Death’: GOP Security Hawks Slam Vance Selection (Jonathan Martin/Politico)

Trump’s choice of Vance ‘terrible news’ for Ukraine, Europe experts warn (Andrew Roth/The Guardian)  Gee, what a pity.

Google Buries Trump Campaign Website Even in Thick of Republic National Convention

Trump’s tariffs mean big opportunities for corruption (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)  At least ten percent won’t be going to the Big Guy.

NY Times Shrugs Off Lefty Conspiracy Theories on Trump Shooting: ‘Hardly Household Names’

Kamala Harris says Trump picked JD Vance to be ‘rubber stamp’ for former president’s ‘extreme agenda’ (Landon Mion/Fox News)  Kemala, of course, aspires to be a rubber stamp some day….

Biden Administration Stonewalls Congressional Investigation Into Trump Shooting

How Trump’s Running Mate J.D. Vance is Connected to Silicon Valley (New York Times)  Dunh dunh DUNH….

J.D. Vance described Alex Jones as a truth teller to the Teneo Network, a Project 2025 partner organization (Jack Wheatley/Media Matters for America) More so than Media Matters.

On MSNBC, George Conway Mocks Religious Republicans for Feeling ‘God Saved Trump’

Networks Cheer Biden in Nevada, Ignore Incendiary Rhetoric Toward Trump, GOP

CAIR Honcho and ‘Squad’ Donor Suggests Israel Behind Suspected Iranian Plot To Assassinate Trump

Wallace Praises Kamala Claims She’ll ‘Wipe the Floor With J.D. Vance  Uh, Vance graduated from Yale Law. Jambalaya went to UC Hastings. I know whom I would put my money on.

PBS RNC Night 2: Echoing ‘White Supremacist Notions,’ Don’t Say ‘Illegals’

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In a July 16 article, Bloomberg News reporters Simone Foxman and Michael Hirtzer responded to a John Deere decision to abandon some of the radical DEI policies exposed by podcast host Robby Starbuck. The article completely neglected to mention that their boss has slapped ESG scores on thousands of companies in a massive push to shame them into compliance.

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After energetic talk over the weekend that no one should blame President Biden or the Democrats (or the media) for inspiring violence against President Trump and his supporters, we need to remind you of the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, where the liberal media decided to accuse conservative talk radio for domestic terrorism that destroyed a federal building.

Specifically, Bill Clinton blamed Rush Limbaugh.