Newsbusters.

As the U.S. and Israel war against Iran enters Day 4, the PBS News Hour continues to rely on coverage sympathetic to the murderous regime pro-regime from “special correspondent” Reza Sayah.

Judge: Trump Effort to End NYC Congestion Pricing Unlawful

Smoothie King fires employees who refused to serve couple with Trump merchandise (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)

Trump’s MAGA base wrestles with Iran strikes launched by an ‘America First’ president (Matt Dixon/NBC News)  No, they don’t. They’re behind him. Narrative Media sock-puppets just don’t want to believe it. (Why didn’t we do this to Iran long ago?)

New Jersey Faces Structural Deficit Crisis And Democrats Blame Trump

The Trump administration still can’t decide why it’s doing this (Cameron Peters/Vox)  Sure they did, you just can’t admit it.

Trump is running out of time to sell his rationale for Iran war (Politico)  He’s got three years left.

House Dems fume at Trump admin’s “bullsh*t” Iran briefing (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Fuming is about all they’re good for.

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation – He Lied To Us’

O’Donnell Suggests Trump’s Military Operates like Hitler’s WW2 Forces

Texas primary shows that MAGA loves a villain (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit. No, MAGA doesn’t so much love a villain as hate a RINO. Amanda, of course, hasn’t the wit to perceive that.

So much for affordability: Trump’s war with Iran exposes the deceit of ‘America First’ (Max Burns/The Hill)

Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Sounds like a plan.

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers (Molly Taft/Wired)  As if anybody who writes for WIRED knows shit about farming.

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Indeed, they are not.

Iran is not Venezuela as much as Trump wants it to be (Politico)

Death toll rises in Trump’s ‘Epic Fury’ military campaign (Ellen Mitchell/Associated Press)  Soon they may match the typical transgender or Muslim mass shooting.

Trump: Dems Would Back Iran Strike If Not Done By Me Of course they would; who doesn’t know that?

Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square (Drop Site News)  You’d think they would jihadist terrorists or something.

Doctors Sound Alarm on White House ‘Secrecy’ Over Trump’s Neck Rash (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  Maybe they ought to worry about him getting athlete’s foot, too. I mean, all that golf….

Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Yes.

MAGA Already Hates Trump’s Iran War (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  As if anyone writing for the Bullshitwark has a clue as to what MAGA hates. (Hint: The Bullshitwark.)

MS NOW Itches for High Casualties to Hurt Trump, All Operation Plans

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus (Jonathan Larsen/Jonathan Larsen’s …)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Box-Cutter Thug Gets 16.5 Years In Prison After Framing Immigrant With Fake Trump Death Threats

‘Pretty Bad for Vance’: The VP’s Silence on Iran Peeves Allies (Ian Ward/Politico)  Boy, this molehill sure looks like a mountain if you squint properly.

Clinton says Trump told him of ‘some great times’ with Jeffrey Epstein (Andy Sullivan/Reuters)  Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!

Is America sliding into autocracy | FT #shorts

Rubio’s war remarks blow open MAGA’s Israel divide (Axios)

Trump’s Iran War and the Article One crisis (Lisa Needham/Public Notice) What crisis?

Minnesota Sues Trump Admin Over $243M Medicaid Freeze

Donald Trump’s dangerous ‘war of whim’ (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  The Financial Times is what the Wall Street Journal would be if it were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

We’re witnessing the birth of the Trump Doctrine (Marc A. Thiessen/Washington Post)  At least that’s what we’re going to tell you.

In Plunging Into a Mideast Conflict, Trump Gambles His Presidency (Tyler Pager/New York Times)  A gamble that no Democrat would risk, even one that was compos mentis, as Joe Biden notoriously was not.

On MS NOW, Reza Aslan Compares ‘Authoritarian’ Trump to Iran Regime

In Anti-Trump Rant, Politico Finally Admits Biden Administration Was ‘Dysfunctional’

Comedy Shows Claim Iran War Is a Distraction From Epstein  EpsteinQ Epstein! Epstein!

What Is the Point of This War? ??? A vignette from the end of the U.S.-led global order, per Reuters: (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Wonder of wonders: Bill Krisol has found a war he doesn’t like. History is being made.

FAKE NEWS: ABC’s Bruce Falsely Claims Rubio Said Israel Dragged U.S. into Iran War

Chris Hayes Compares Trump Bombing Iran to 9/11 Terrorists

Trump has cornered himself with his war in Iran (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  Didn’t know that Sid Vicious was still alive. He and Robert Reich must have a lot to talk about.

TechDirt.

You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of promises about how they were somehow going to revolutionize U.S. media. In reality most of their promises were relatively inane, and it didn’t take long before the outlet demonstrated it was primarily interested in propping up the status quo.

Case in point: one of the very first things the outlet did is start hosting “Restoring Trust In Media” annual conferences. Except each year they make it a priority to unironically validate, normalize and platform a lot of the people actively working to undermine trust in news. Like former Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson the first year, and overt bigot Megyn Kelly last year.

Semafor keeps being criticized for not only not helping to “restore trust in media,” but for actively making the problem worse. But they keep doubling down. This year’s event, for example, is a who’s who of people that have made U.S. media immeasurably less trustworthy over the last year

Newsbusters.

Did you know that a historic and symbolic landmark of the nation’s capital was recently vandalized by an individual currently sought after by the FBI? If the story escaped your attention, thank the Big Four News Apps — Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News — which largely ignored the attack, only featuring one article on the story over four days.

On Feb. 20, Fox News exclusively reported that the Trump-Kennedy Center had been subjected to an alleged act of vandalism after a suspect poured a “toxic,” dark substance onto an outdoor ice rink earlier that morning. The attack marked a major escalation of violence on a federal property, particularly one that holds national significance.

The Media Research Center examined the Big Four News Apps to determine whether they featured the vandalism story among their top 20 headlines during the mornings of Feb. 21 through Feb. 24. The results were telling.

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In a rare moment, Israel is confirming at least nine people killed and over 40 injured after an Iranian ballistic missile slammed into a residential area west of Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon.

The missile impact was in Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, and according to Israeli media destroyed a synagogue and even caused damage to a bomb shelter beneath surrounding homes. There’s a likelihood that the death toll throughout the country will climb given Tehran’s ongoing massive retaliation.

“The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it declared the deaths of eight victims at the scene and took 28 others to hospitals, two in serious condition,” Times of Israel reports. “The death of the ninth victim was declared a short time later.”

“Significant”? By what standard?

More people died in the mob that attempted to storm the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan. Almost as many died in the Islam-inspired mass shooting in Austin, Texas. Eight times as many casualties occurred in the famous Oct. 7 Hanas terror raid that the Narrative Media are so studiously ignoring, while trumpeting the perfectly understandable Israeli retaliation in Gaza as a “genocide”.

I guess “significant” is in the eye of the propagandist….

Newsbusters.

Near the end of Thursday’s edition of The Lead, host Jake Tapper boosted an election theft conspiracy pushed by The Washington Post, which erroneously claimed President Trump was going to issue an emergency declaration to steal the midterm elections. Tapper even brought on the senior White House reporter to wrote the story, Isaac Arnsdorf to help give the accusations weight. But Republican commentator Shermichael Singleton blew up the accusations with a phone call.

“President Trump could then use that claim [of China election interference] as a basis to declare a national emergency, which then theoretically could open the door for him to exert extraordinary presidential power over the voting process in this year’s midterm elections,” Tapper prefaced as he began to rhetorically pull out the red twine.

After being given the floor to explain what his source told him, Arnsdorf disclosed that the proposal DID NOT come from the White House but rather someone who claimed to have spoken to the White House about it.

Newsbusters.

he State of the Union speech is an effective annual exercise to measure how journalists feel about a long speech on national TV by Donald Trump. They hate it intensely, like most children hate broccoli. They would like to scrape that steaming plate into the garbage.

The New York Times published a front-page editorial by White House reporter Katie Rogers – lamely labeled as “News Analysis.” It came under the headline “Casting Democrats as Villains, Trump Produces a Spectacle.” You can sense their outrage. Nobody should darkly cast Democrats as villains, especially the people Democrats relentlessly suggest are authoritarians out to end our democracy, but only after they starve children and close hospitals.

Like a good Democrat, Rogers insisted Republicans find themselves in a “politically treacherous moment,” while Democrats are “seeing polling moving their way” and “remain confident about the midterm elections.” The usual midterm election trends should inspire confidence, as well as all the partisan “news” products.

Liberal outlets sent out their pollsters to find that Trump has “gone too far” on immigration, taken the country in “the wrong direction,” and has all the wrong “priorities.” Their pollsters are always going to keep the “vibes” high for Democrats and paint dark clouds over the Republicans in any election season. They tried in 2024, but the people ruined it for the pollsters.

They also pile on Republicans with their so-called “independent fact-checkers.” They pounce relentlessly on Trump, aerobically implying to the public that you can’t believe a word Trump says about anything. They’re trying to put the oomph behind this Jimmy Fallon joke: “Trump’s speech focused on his major accomplishments, and when those eight seconds were up, he just riffed for an hour and a half.”

Democrats Counter Trump With Their Own Plan to Limit Wall Street Landlords (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)

Just 32% of Americans say Trump has right priorities, new poll finds, ahead of State of the Union speech – live (Lauren Gambino/Press Association)  Or so they would have you believe.

Fresh Off a Supreme Court Loss, Trump Could Face New Challenges on Tariffs (New York Times)

FACT FOCUS: A look at Trump’s false and misleading claims ahead of the State of the Union (Melissa Goldin/Associated Press)

How to stop a dictator ??? Just over a year into President Donald Trump’s first term … (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

SOTU: Democrats Erupt After Trump Mentions ‘Somali Pirates’ And Sanctuary Cities

GOP lawmaker quietly questioned ‘disturbing’ East Wing demolition (Washington Post)

Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against New Jersey for Interfering with Federal Immigration Laws (US Department of Justice)

Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression (New York Times)

After Trump threats, Canadian military recruits surge (Mike Blanchfield/Politico)  Good luck with that. As the EU quickly discovered,  a rampant welfare state has very little money left over for defense.

Trump DOJ Sues N.J. Over ICE Ban on State Property

Dems demand probe of Trump’s SAVE America Act website (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)  Democrats are just full of ‘demands’.

Missing Epstein files include interviews with alleged Trump accuser (Lisa Rubin/MS NOW)  Alleged! That proves it!

Trump Is on the Verge of War. Previous Presidents Did It Differently. (Jeff Greenfield/Politico)

Ranking Member Robert Garcia Statement After Department of Justice Withheld Epstein Files, Includes Allegation President Donald Trump Sexually Abused a Minor

Charles Kushner adds to Trump’s growing ambassador drama (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Summer Lee Knows the Real State of the Union (John Nichols/The Nation)

Democrats to probe DOJ’s alleged withholding of Epstein files on Trump (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)  Lot of allegations wandering around these days.

ABC Hurls Deluge of Trump Hate Ahead of SOTU, CBS Goes Hard on GOP But Soft on Dems  Which is sort of their job, by all the evidence.

RINO Alert: Two GOP Reps plan to join Dems in SOTU Epstein protests (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Democrats Will Try Not To Act Like Children During Trump’s State Of The Union Address  I predict that they will fail.

Maryland Sues To Stop DHS From Converting Empty Warehouse Into ICE Facility

No. 2 House Democrat won’t attend State of the Union (Mia McCarthy/Politico)  Sadness fills the universe….

RINO Alert: Khanna, Massie to sit together during Trump’s State of the Union (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

This South Texas region flipped for Trump. Now it’s seeing red over his immigration policies. (Suzanne Gamboa/NBC News)

LAME: ABC, NBC Try to Trap Hughes Family Over Trump Inviting Hockey Team to SOTU

Dem Lawmakers Boycotting SOTU to Attend Counter Events

Trump cites health care issues in Greenland saying he’s sending a hospital ship. His claims are off (Associated Press)

Ahead of SOTU, Dems demand Trump makes Iran plans public (Joe Gould/Politico)  Yet more Democrat demands. Good luck with that.

We asked 2,300 Americans about the best and worst things Trump has done. (Washington Post)  All Democrats, of course, and focusing on the worst.

John Roberts Is Losing Patience With Trump (Linda Greenhouse/New York Times)  Narrative Media mind-readers are on the case.

Watch: TDS-Riddled De Niro Sobs In Tears Over Trump  The tears of our enemies are sweet.

15 States Sue Trump Admin Over Changes to Childhood Vaccine Policy  Because, as we all know, vaccine policy is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Leftist Media Outraged After USA Olympic Hockey Team Goes Pro-MAGA

Trump’s favorite falsehoods: What to watch for in the State of the Union (Glenn Kessler/MS NOW)  TDS will certainly be on display.

Ro Khanna’s State of the Union guest recruited over 20 underage girls for Epstein: ‘Like Heidi Fleiss’ (Fox News)

Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews (CNN)

Rep. Al Green again escorted out of chamber after protest (Politico)

Dems tap ICE detainees, suspected illegal immigrants as guests for Trump’s speech: DHS (Fox News)  Demcorats: Party of Criminals. (California Allocates $35 Million To Aid Illegal Immigrants)

Rep. Ilhan Omar invites constituents ‘traumatized’ by Minnesota ICE raids to State of the Union 2026 (Ryan King/New York Post)

Pugnacious Trump sticks to the script (Politico)

Live updates: Trump touts campaign of mass deportation at State of the Union (Associated Press)  Hey, if you’re trying to get rid of 25 to 30 million illegal aliens, that’s by definition ‘mass deportation’.

Rep. Al Green Escorted Out of Trump’s State of the Union for Second Year in a Row (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)  Playing to the partisan crowd.

Spanberger slams Trump on ‘affordability’ in SOTU response — as Virginia Democrats push new taxes (Fox News)

Jake Tapper Clutches His Pearls Over Trump Calling Dems ‘Crazy’ and Omits Why

Actor Robert De Niro SEETHES: ‘Our Country’s Not So Lovable Right Now’

What Hath Trump Wrought (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains (Katie Rogers/New York Times)

What Trump got right — and wrong — last night (Politico)

Donald Trump’s SOTU Speech Least Popular This Century: Poll (Sam Stevenson/Newsweek) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

A SOTU Like No Other — So little truth, so much time — Well, that was exhausting — or would have been, if I had watched it. (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

The Trump boys are Making Corruption Great Again (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  The best of American high-school journalism.

Trump’s Dangerous Tariff Addiction (Robert J. Shapiro/Washington Monthly)

Why the longest-ever State of the Union address was the most inconsequential (David Smith/The Guardian)

Donald Trump gives unhinged State of the Union rant full of racist attacks, lies and stunts (Daily Record UK)

Trump Hires Team USA Goalie To Guard Southern Border (Babylon Bee)

Congress Confused By State Of Union From President Who Can Talk  (Babylon Bee)

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry–and It Should Alarm Us All (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit. By ‘us’, of course, he means his fellow proglodytes.

‘A Tedious, Tiresome Performance’: The Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s State of the Union (New York Times)

President Trump’s State of the Union Variety Show (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

‘Christmas Message From The Grinch’: Kimmel Pans Trump’s ‘Angry’ SOTU

This Moment of the State of the Union Just Lost the Democrats the Midterms (Matt Margolis/PJ Media)

Mark Kelly stands for illegal immigrants but sits for legal American citizens (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner)

Donald Trump’s State of the Union Was Long and Wrong (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Here’s a reality check on Trump’s AI pledge (Politico)

First Draft: ?? Trump’s Very Boring Fascist Rally (Zeteo)  I hope this writer never means a real fascist.

Fascist Failure ??? The State of Trump ??? What is the state of Trump? He is failing at fascism. (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)

Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plodding, Scattered, and at Times Eerie State of the Union (Talking Points Memo)

Read NPR’s annotated fact check of President Trump’s State of the Union (NPR)

AP Fact-Checks Trump For Claiming The Revolution ‘Still Burns’ In Patriots’ Hearts

Fact check: Trump makes false claims about the economy, elections and crime in State of the Union (CNN)  Unfortunately, all of these Narrative Media ‘fact checks’ tend to bounce because there’s nothing behind them.

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump (New York Times)  Maybe she lied.

Fact-checking Trump’s State of the Union address and more on most shocking moments (CBS News)  Bounce, bounce, bounce….

Democratic Lawmaker: Trump’s Request To Stand For American Citizens “Racist” (Washington Free/The Washington Free …)

Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell (New Republic)  More like a fart.

Joe Scarborough’s State of the Union: Trump ‘Did Sh– No Sane President Would Ever Do’

Schumer defends Democrats who didn’t stand during SOTU (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  Of course he does.

Omar heckles Trump during comments about Somali community (NewsNation)  In Somali, no doubt.

Lessons from the Minnesota’s Civil Contempt Case (Roger Parloff/Lawfare)

Margin of Error? CNN’s Cornish Cites ‘ONE Republican’ to Suggest Trump’s Losing Fans

Hegseth Jokes About Throwing Off Pentagon Pizza Tracking

ABC LOSES IT Over Patel in Milan, Cites Iran, Guthrie for Why He Shouldn’t Have Gone

‘Angel Families’ Return to Washington to Back Up Trump Ahead of State of the Union (Katie Rogers/New York Times)

Trump snubbed as U.S. Women’s Hockey Team declines State of the Union invitation (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)

The View Hates Patel Partying at Olympics, Demands He Prepare for War With Iran  I wasn’t aware that the FBI had any role in war with Iran.

The Supreme Court Spurns a Presidential Power Grab (Ilya Somin/The Dispatch)  Ilya Somin is a libertarian lawyer who is pretty sound on everything outside of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

NC House candidate fired from community college after calling Charlie Kirk racist (Jane Winik Sartwell/Raleigh News …)

CALIFORNIA CALAMITY: Governor Gavin Newsom Pardons Criminal Illegal Alien Convicted for Attempted Murder and Assault with a Firearm (Department of Homeland Security)

MAGA Attacks Gavin Newsom Over SAT, Reading Remarks in Atlanta (Khaleda Rahman/Newsweek)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He really gets around.

New Polling Data Shows Immigration Enforcement Is Costing Republicans Their Own Voters (Austin Kocher) Or so they would have you believe.

Trump administration expands efforts to dismantle the Education Department (Juan Perez Jr/Politico)

If Forced to Choose, Our Military Leaders Should Follow the Law Not the President–Like Ulysses S. Grant (Kori Schake/The UnPopulist)  Of course; but all this talk of ‘illegal orders’ is designed to leave the impression in people’s minds that Trump is actually giving illegal orders—a proposition for which neither evidence nor argument is given. It’s just hints and innuendo, intended to undermine Trump’s authority without leaving any actual statement for which they can be held accountable. (Jeanine Pirro’s office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News))

Utah Map Decision Could Hand Democrats a Seat

Maryland Sues to Block ICE Detention Facility

Student ICE Protests Lead To Lockdowns, Debate Over Discipline In Pennsylvania Schools

MS NOW Lauds Comparison of ICE to KKK; Allows Lies About ICE Funding

The Trump Administration is Trafficking Pregnant Children to Texas So They Can’t Get Abortions (Jill Filipovic/Throughline)

‘Abolish ICE’ gets most votes in Chicago snowplow-naming contest; ‘Stephen Coldbert’ also a winner (John O’Connor/Associated Press)

Why Won’t the White House Cut Tucker Loose? (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Perhaps because the White House doesn’t hate the same people that The Bulwark hates?

Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs (Ana Swanson/New York Times)

PUBLICITY STUNT: Soros-Funded Fake News Outfit Co-Hosting Anti-Trump SOTU Boycott

Trump on Mar-a-Lago Shooting: ‘Lot of People Gunning for Me’

Nets Continue to Freak Out Over Kash Patel, OMIT White House ‘Angel Mom’ Event

Kash Patel’s Olympic outing sparks scrutiny (Cate Martel/The Hill)

Trump team on damage control after Huckabee comments on Israel (Felicia Schwartz/Politico)

‘A defensive posture’: Trump speaks to Congress on shakier ground than last year (Eli Stokols/Politico)

Trump faces midterms reality check (Politico)

Most Americans say Trump is growing erratic with age, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)  Come and get your Narrative, hot off the press….

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump (Stephen Fowler/NPR)

Trump is about to start a war he hasn’t bothered to explain (Paul Waldman/Public Notice) Oh, he explained it; you just wouldn’t listen.

What a mission-driven press must do in this time of crisis (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

Meddling with private business need not spiral after Trump (Washington Post)

‘Crisis of his own making’: Donald Trump weighs another war with Iran (Financial Times)

Kimmel Bashes Trump, Daily Show Praises Canadian Health Care After Hockey Wins

Trump Angered by Fresh Slide in Polls as Even Fox Admits He’s Tanking (New Republic)  Or so they would have you believe.

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases (Eli Hager/ProPublica)  They’re still ILLEGAL immigrants.

Minnesota faith groups sue DHS over access to immigrant detainees (Paul O’Donnell/RNS)

PBS Hosts Historian Meacham: Trump Is Like McCarthy, Jesse Jackson Kept ‘Hope Alive’

Donald Trump’s state of mind is a global risk (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are on the case.

Why The State Of The Union Boycotters Have It Right (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  It’s less effort than sticking their fingers in their ears and saying NA NA NA NA NA NA NA loudly.

The Movement: How anti-MAGA Republicans are plotting to take back the party (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  Good luck with that.

Attack of the Zombie Tariffs (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks. Krugman quits the pretence of being an economist and puts on his Narrative Media panties.

Trump’s new tariffs are just as illegal as his old tariffs (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  We’ll find out, won’t we?

Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says (Amanda Kaufman/The Boston Globe)

The Unending Trump Tariff Mess (Wall Street Journal)

Trump Stole Your Money. He Won’t Give It Back. (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  Much like what you want to do to ‘rich’ people.

More Democrats to Ditch Trump’s SOTU Address  Good. Fewer Democrats to indulge in rude and disrespectful performance theater, like Pelosi tearing up her copy of Trump’s speech on national TV.

Report: Trump Just One More Assassination Attempt Away From A Free Third Term  (Babylon Bee)

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We just saw another tragic shooting in Rhode Island, this time at a high school hockey game. What people want to know in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies is who did it, where, and why—and how many people were injured or died. We instinctively want to know how close it was to us, if it could have happened to us, and if we could avoid a similar fate.

Flying in the face of this human need for truth is the woke legacy media, which puts ideology ahead of facts.

The Daily Mail, a British paper, reported early on that the Pawtucket perpetrator was a trans-identifying man in his 50s, the chief victims his wife and children, and the motive was likely connected with his gender identification and family conflict about it. Their photos supported this.

U.S. legacy media, meanwhile, tried to avoid the above facts. Their reason? The woke dogma the media adhere to is that “trans” people are an oppressed minority and always victims. Thus, the growing instances of mass shootings from people suffering from gender-related mental troubles must be given as little coverage and detail as possible.

Never Trump Republicans are still issuing dire warnings. Is anyone listening? (Steve Peoples/Associated Press) Uh, no.

Kash Patel Faces Backlash For Flying To Winter Olympics, Partying It Up With Team USA (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost)

Armed Man Shot Dead at Mar-a-Lago Was Fixated on Epstein Files, Text Shows (TMZ.com)

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives (Hana Kiros/The Atlantic)  Just because something saves lives doesn’t oblige the taxpayers have to pay for it.

OMISSION: Sunday Shows Mostly Ignore Latest Trump Assassination Attempt

Trump’s Netflix threat is a warning to every CEO (Peter Kafka/Business Insider) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

A Voice Sounding Like Trump Called Into C-SPAN And His Name Was A Pseudonym Trump Has Reportedly Used (Paige Skinner/HuffPost) Reportedly! That proves it!

Neil Gorsuch has Elena Kagan dead to rights (Jason Willick/Washington Post)

Trump’s law is crushing the next generation of RFK Jr. disciples (Amanda Chu/Politico)

The Human Cost of Trump’s War on Science (Jeneen Interlandi/New York Times)

Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders (New York Times)

Fact-check: Trump’s Latest Claims on Jobs, Inflation and Crime (New York Times) Come get your Narrative…

What Trump Sells Is Impunity (Katherine Alejandra Cross/Liberal …)  What are they going to do—impeach him?

Call Them What They Are — The Republican Party has become a haven for Nazi sympathizers. (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  If they were Communist sympathizers, they’d be Democrats.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s replacement is even worse (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Trump’s approval rating with independents hits a new low ahead of the State of the Union (CNN)  Come and get your Narrative, right here.

Trump won’t blink on tariffs ??? because he can’t (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Trump: High Court ‘Accidentally’ Boosted Presidential Powers  Every action Trump makes that is overturned by the courts is an action that a future Democrat President can’t take. It’s a win either way.

Why Tariffs Aren’t Shrinking the U.S. Trade Deficit (Wall Street Journal)  The sol-called ‘trade deficit’ is a made-up thing. All trades have two sides, and all trades are balanced. The so-called ‘trade deficit’ only looks at one part of trade: goods in versus good out. The ‘trade-deficit’ hand-wringers pretend that if imports exceed exports, somehow that is a bad thing. But every trade is balanced; if imports exceed exports, it doesn’t mean that we are giving stuff away—those imports are being ‘paid for’, if not in goods then in capital flows. When imports exceed exports, that means that foreigners are sending us goods in exchage for ;pieces of paper, which is all ‘dollars’ really are these days. Who gets the better of that deal? (You’d think that a writer for the WSJ would know that—and, before they went Woke, a writer for the WSJ would know that.)

Trump Reverts to First-Term Tumult as Republican Fears Mount (Bloomberg)  Or so they would have you believe.

The UK and Other Democracies Hold the Epstein Elite Accountable (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  No, just the ones they don’t like. Jennifer Rubin losing her shit doesn’t change that.

Trump’s new interest in war will end badly (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times)  For Iran, perhaps. For Islam, certainly. War is a bad thing, but it’s not the worst thing, although you wouldn’t know that from listening to the Narrative media.

FLASHBACK: Media Elitists Despised Trump’s Addresses to Congress

Judge permanently blocks release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump classified documents case (Jacob Rosen/CBS News)  What are they afraid of?

The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action (Pamela Herd/Can We Still Govern?)  Apparently not letting Democrats cheat in elections is now ‘Christian nationalism’. I have no problem with that.

At the Spot Where Alex Pretti Was Killed (Sam Stein/The Bulwark)  The Bullshitwark will preach the anti-Trump Narrative until you fall asleep.

Nicki Minaj’s social media propped up by thousands of bots, analysis finds (Jason Beeferman/Politico)  If she weren’t a Trump supporter, nobody would give a shit.

Major Update: Bombshell Epstein Developments as Trump Support Falls Ahead of State of the Union and FBI Director Faces Calls to Resign (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)  Come and get your Narrative.

You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts (Liz Dye/Law and Chaos) He’s still not a prog, and that means he’s evil.

Patel sparks outrage partying with Team USA as MAGA cheers him on (The Hill)  Outrage from the Usual Suspects, that is, although why anybody ought to care certainly escapes me. (The Left Is Big Mad at Kash Patel for Celebrating the Gold Medal Win With USA Hockey (Tim O’Brien/PJ Media))

First Draft: Time for Trump to Go? ??? Our president is too dangerous, too unwell, too much of a fascist. (Andrew Perez/Zeteo)

MS NOW’s Velshi Whacks Trump For Criticizing SCOTUS, Leaves Out Left Doing Worse

C-SPAN: Caller ‘John Barron’ Was Not Trump

Trump Gets Back at ‘supreme court’ by Revoking Capital Letters (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)

U.S. Women’s Hockey Team declines Trump’s invitation to the State of the Union (NBC News)  Hating Trump is the most important thing.

Dem AGs plot to thwart Trump election interference (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico)  Proglodyte Projection: When progs accuse you of doing what they do—or plan to do.

Read it.

Don’t hold it in—tell us how you really feel.

JPMorgan Concedes it Closed Trump’s Accounts after Jan. 6

JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump’s Accounts After Jan. 6 Capitol Attack (Rob Copeland/New York Times)  Probably seemed like a safe thing to do.

Trump has other tariff tricks up his sleeve (The New Neo).

CBS News is convulsing as Larry Ellison tries to please Trump (Margaret Sullivan/The Guardian)

Trump’s Trade Gamble Will Continue, Despite Supreme Court Rebuke (Ana Swanson/New York Times)

60% disapprove of Trump ahead of State of the Union, Post-ABC poll finds (Washington Post)  Of course they do.

Global Watchdog Claims US Could Lose “Democracy Status” Because Of Trump These self-appointed ‘watchdogs’ think quite a bit of themselves.

Secret Service: Armed Man Shot and Killed after Entering Mar-a-Lago Secure Perimeter

21-Year-Old Male Identified As Shotgun-Wielding Mar-a-Lago Intruder

Can the pardon power be saved from its own abusers? (Mike Fox/The Hill)

Is This the Most Important Supreme Court Case of the Century? (David French/New York Times)  David French cements his Woke credentials.

“Devastating” Discovery: New Docs Confirm JPMorgan De-Banked Trump Shortly After Jan 6th Capitol Chaos

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

How MAGA learned to love Christian persecution (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)

California bill would block immigration agents near polling sites (Politico)  “Leave our criminals alone!’

This Is How an Autocrat Goes to War (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)  Apparently history is no longer a required subject in the schools.

Republicans are ignoring Trump and holding out hope for a second megabill (Politico)  Sure, Politico is the expert on what Republicans are doing. I believe that….

Trump’s dream is a giant slush fund Congress can’t touch (TadDeHaven/Vox)  Just like a Democrat!

MAHA unleashes on White House after Trump backs pesticide (Politico)  Sure, Politico is the expert on what MAHA is doing. I believe that….

DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump (Roger Sollenberger)

Judge Condemns ‘Terror Against Noncitizens’ and Orders Hearings for Detainees (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)

MAGA’s Reaction to the Epstein Files Reveals Total Moral Collapse (Kali Holloway/The Nation)

ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash–Before They’ve Even Been Built (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

Justice Kavanaugh: Trump Tariffs ‘Clearly Lawful’

Trump Plans to Impose Tariffs a Different Way After Supreme Court Loss (New York Times)

Trump Can Still Impose Tariffs, Here’s How

Appeals Court Blocks California Mask Ban for ICE Agents

Network Newscasts SKIP White House Black History Month Event Where Trump Was Praised

Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump’s Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)  Doing jobs Americans won’t do.

ICE’s Campaign Of Terror Is Not Over, Says Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Nope, because the law is on their side.

Trump banner on Justice Dept. building draws authoritarian comparisons (Washington Post)  Of course it does. That’s all they know how to do.

Trump Demeans Himself as He Attacks the Supreme Court (Wall Street Journal)

A Year Into Trump’s 2nd Term: When Does Accountability For The Deep State Begin?  The Deep State wasn’t built in a day, and it won’t be deconstructed in a day, either. Really, there’s no pleasing some people.

Democrats demand that Trump issue $1,700 tariff refunds to Americans after the Supreme Court ruling (Kelsey Vlamis/Business Insider)  You will have noticed that Democrats are very good at demanding. You’d think that they were  a majority in Congress rather than a rather pestiferous minority. Toddlers all.

Deputy AG fires interim U.S. attorney succeeding Trump loyalist hours after appointment (NBC News)

Desperate John Bolton Throws Stink Bomb Into Trump’s Board Of Peace Meeting (Babylon Bee)

With tariffs ruling, Supreme Court reasserts its power to check Trump (Andrew Chung/Reuters)

The Atlantic Boasts Trump Hates Facts — Then Makes Up a Measles Story

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Targeted attack’ vandalizes Trump-Kennedy Center outdoor ice rink, forces performance cancellation (Jasmine Baehr/Fox News)

Newsbusters.

In the aftermath of DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin announcing her resignation, MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff accused her of spreading misinformation when, in fact, he was the one misinforming his viewers.

Antonia Hylton filled in for Chris Hayes on Monday’s All In show. She began by asking Soboroff what it has been like having to interact with McLaughlin to get information about immigration issues. He began by taking a shot at ex-DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from the first Donald Trump administration: “It’s been a bit of deja vu quite frankly, and I think that Tricia McLaughlin comes from a long line, I think it’s fair to say, of Trump administration officials dealing with immigration policy that have been less than forthright with the truth.”

It has been previously documented by NewsBusters that in June 2018 Nielsen forthrightly announced that those who crossed the border illegally would be detained and separated from their children, but Soboroff prefers to harp on one of her answers to a question to portray her as dishonest.

The MS NOW reporter then repeated more previously debunked information when he claimed that illegal alien Narciso Barranco did not swing his weed whacker at Border Patrol agents in Los Angeles even though there is video of him doing just that.

Newsbusters.

They say that like it was a bad thing.

Trump says world has 10 days to see if Iran agrees deal or ‘bad things happen‘ (BBC)

The US could strike Iran. Here’s how Tehran is getting prepared (CNN)

Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt

In-Your-Face DOJ Aide Rides Prosecutors for ‘Chief Client’ Trump (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)

Donald Trump is mentioned in the Epstein Files over a million times. This is an illustration of what that looks like. (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)  Epstein cooties! Of course, what they don’t talk about is how many times Obama or Biden is ‘mentioned’ in the Epstein files.

Failure to communicate: Trump’s messaging isn’t working (Keith Naughton/The Hill)  Oh, I think it’s coming through well enough. (MAGA Voters Back Trump’s Interventions (Wall Street Journal))

Orwell Would Cringe — MAGA bad faith attacks on “wokeness” and left-wing “censorship” … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. The reason Orwell would cringe is because of Rubin who clame to be ‘progressive’ while being dyed in the wool statists.

Bishops Praise Trump for Combating Gender Ideology

An arts panel made up of Trump appointees approves his White House ballroom proposal (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)

Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)  The proglodyte definition of ‘free and fair elections’ means ‘Democrats get to cheat’.

Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Six deaths in six weeks: What to know about ICE detentions in Texas (The Texas Tribune)

Fox News correspondent: “It’s a bit surreal seeing the juxtaposition of President Trump presiding over the Board of Peace while preparing for war” (Media Matters for America)  The Romans had a saying: Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace,  prepare war.

Third American Death Linked to ICE Uncovered by Newsweek (Newsweek)

Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He Wants (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)

Why a Royal’s Arrest Exposes Trump’s Shameful Perversion of Justice (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)

Stepped in It: CBS’s Ed O’Keefe Asks If Trump Has Ever Been Falsely Accused of Racism  Every. Fucking. Day.

Pardoned Binance Founder Hobnobs With Trump Sons, Administration Officials at Mar-a-Lago Crypto Fest (Wall Street Journal)

Tommy Robinson was barred from the US. Trump’s border force has now let him in (Sanya Burgess/The i Paper)

Police in Idaho search for suspect who stole ambulance, drove into building that houses DHS offices (Associated Press)

Congress risks major loss to Trump over war powers vote on Iran (Axios)

Federal judge accuses Trump administration of ‘terror’ against immigrants in scathing ruling (Sudhin Thanawala/Associated Press)

As Trump Weighs Iran Strikes, He Declines to Make Clear Case for Why, or Why Now (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

Trump’s Dangerously Dumb Plan to Steal the Midterms (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing what they plan to do.

Newsbusters.

With the Minneapolis unrest off the front pages, immigration enforcement has become an afterthought on the Elitist Media evening news. And yet efforts to obstruct ICE, often violently, persist- whether or not they make the evening news. Case in point, the grotesquely underreported attempted terror attack on ICE’s office in Boise, Idaho.

Newsbusters.

New York Times reporter Kellen Browning is a superfan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – in April 2025 he celebrated the “monster crowds” the younger leftist generated on her “Fighting Oligarchy” with older leftist Sen. Bernie Sanders.

After an embarrassing performance at the Munich Security Conference in which she blanked out, made factual gaffes, and otherwise demonstrated the perils of rarely being challenged by reporters stateside, she called in a Times reporter, who’d been tweeting about her European tour, for a lifeline. He readily obliged with stenography, even admitting it on X.

Newsbusters.

More than two weeks after NewsBusters broke the story and two days after initially trying to explain away why ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg requested to borrow Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, The View offered up some new excuses for why their co-hosts were in the files. On Thursday’s show, Goldberg’s story completely changed and co-host Joy Behar claimed she only learned that she was at a party with Ghislaine Maxwell from our reporting.

The View kicked off the show by talking about the Epstein files, particularly the arrest of Prince Andrew for allegedly sharing confidential files with Epstein. But it was Behar who wanted to get back to clearing their names.

In NewsBusters’ original reporting about The View co-hosts being in the files, we noted that Behar was included on a guest list for a “William Astor’s dinner” that was also attended by Epstein’s partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Newsbusters.

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

Newsbusters.

Stephen Colbert is getting the Jimmy Kimmel Free Speech Hero award this week on the leftist cable networks for his stunt putting an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico on YouTube instead of CBS. He claimed CBS banned him from putting Talarico on air. Then CBS put out a statement implying Colbert was lying, that they only offered “guidance” about how to fulfill equal-time requirements that might be enforced.

On Tuesday’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, former New York Times reporter Bill Carter and former National Review writer Jonah Goldberg both lined up like good liberals for the Colbert Publicity Train. Tapper tried to glide past Colbert’s claims on “how aggressively they gave that guidance,” but Carter lectured it just had to be Fear of Trump driving everything.

Newsbusters.

With the passing of The Rev. Jesse Jackson comes the media coverage that would be expected for a man of his stature, complete with documentation of his history, analysis of achievements, and tributes from those who knew him. On Tuesday CNN’s Inside Politics provided all of the above, but they failed to mention a major controversy from 1984 when Jackson was running for President, and they managed to attack President Trump for good measure.

During his 1984 campaign Jackson, speaking to a reporter, referred to New York as “Hymietown,” and to Jews as “hymies.” He first denied making the derogatory remarks, but later fessed up at a New York synagogue. At the time this was quite a significant story, but it wasn’t mentioned in host Dana Bash’s review of Jackson’s life and legacy, Nor was it mentioned by Atlanta Journal Constitution writer Tia Mitchell, who alluded to Jackson’s runs for President, and how he was hailed by her family.

I doubt that they mentioned his multi-decade race-hustle shakedown operation against American businesses.

Newsbusters.

On Monday night’s 11th Hour, guest hosted by Symone Sanders, Sanders and MS NOW contributor Jason Johnson reminisced the good days of the Obama presidency in response to Obama’s appearance on a progressive podcast. Johnson also pushed for Democrats to be harsher and not partake in “mealy mouthed, centrist nonsense.”

Read what they say about Trump. If that is ‘mealy-mouthed centrist nonsense’, these people have lost touch with reality.

Read it.

Last Thursday, The Atlantic published a heart-wrenching story about an 11-month-old child who died of measles. Written in the second person from the perspective of a mother whose two unvaccinated children fell ill with the disease, the story is rich with personal detail.

…

Turns out, NONE OF THAT HAPPENED. The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig simply made it up, leading to mass confusion.

The Narrative Media have a long history of publishing stories—in many cases, award-winning stories—that jerk proglodyte tears and turn out to be complete fabrications.

Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps (Tim Dickinson/The Contrarian)

Theres’s Credible Evidence of Trump’s Sex Crimes (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program (Pranav Baskar/New York Times)

Trump, weeks after backlash over racist post, hosts Black History Month reception (Associated Press)

Judge Voids Ruling Backing Trump Mass Detention Policy

The Trump administration is increasingly trying to criminalize observing ICE (Meg Anderson/NPR)

The ‘Enigma’: Why JD Vance Befuddles the World (Nahal Toosi/Politico)

Not Subtle: PBS Skips Rubio’s Munich Triumph to Bash ‘President Trump, Demolition Man’

Newsbusters.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr said at a press event Wednesday that he got a big laugh when he looked back at the way CBS “Late Show” Host Stephen Colbert used a hoax to manipulate the media this week.

Rebuking the legacy media’s blind regurgitation of Colbert’s claim that CBS prohibited him from airing an interview with Democrat Texas Senate primary candidate James Talarico because the FCC banned the interview, Chairman Carr pointed out that even CBS says that neither the network nor the FCC prevented Colbert from airing the interview.

Instead, the media-savvy Rep. Talarico (D-Texas) and Colbert played a hilarious hoax on the all-too-predictable media, Carr explained.

“When I stepped back and looked at the entire arch of the news story yesterday, I was highly entertained. I think it was one of the most fun days I’ve had on the job, watching for the hilarity of how this story played out,” Carr said:

Groups sue Trump administration over Pride flag removal at Stonewall  Of course they do. Forget that it’s a Federal monument and he has the perfect right to do that.

Trump Becomes A Lame Duck In Europe As Leaders Court Democrats At Munich Conference | Alex Ward  Be careful, this ‘lame duck’ can stomp you into the ground.

Jeremy Carl is latest Trump nominee facing Senate pushback over history of antisemitic remarks

Unluckily Woke: Anti-Trump US Figure Skater Finishes 13th at Olympics  Perhaps God is trying to tell her something.

The Trump admin argument that masks “are for officer safety reasons” is actually an admission (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)  In Narratve Media Fantasyland. The obvious ‘safety reason’ is so that they won’t be personally identified and wind up with a mob at their front doors threatening their spouses and children, which everybody knows is the reason why proglodytes are trying to ban them from wearing masks.

Norway Faces Up to Trump’s Demands for the Nobel Peace Prize (The Atlantic)  Which will never happen from a group that gave it to Barack Obama merely for being the Magic Negro.

Trump’s damage is done. Democrats – and Europe – are struggling to define what’s next (Kasie Hunt/CNN)

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)  Doesn’t matter. California has plenty of them, and no auto manufacturer can afford to ignore the California market.

Detroit Police Chief Targets Officers Allegedly Coordinating With ICE

Agreements that allow local police to work with ICE skyrocket (Julia Ainsley/NBC News)

Trump Risks Igniting a Nuclear Wildfire (New York Times)

Anti-system voters are turning on Trump over Epstein (Christian Paz/Vox)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

February 15, 2026 — The Trump administration’s white nationalist project was on full display … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

NAACP asks judge to protect against ‘misuse’ of voter data seized by FBI in Georgia’s Fulton County (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)

Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)  Epstein cooties!

The Guardian view on Donald Trump and the climate crisis: the US is in reverse while China ploughs ahead (The Guardian) Polluting the air all the way….

“Just making s**t up” — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing what they do (or are planning to do).

Libertarians warned about the ‘imperial presidency.’ Too few actually warned about Trump. (Anthony L. Fisher/MS NOW)  Democrats, of course, are quite comfortable with a Woke imperial Presidency. It’s Trump the object to.

The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)  Orange Man Bad!

Trump’s second year: Whiplash (Politico)  You know you’re over the target when you’re getting flak.

ICE Barbie’s Alleged Lover Slammed by His Colleagues Over Cringey Side Hustle (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)  The best in American high-school journalism.

Push for Congress to block Trump pardons draws GOP backing (Andrew Solender/Axios)  One thing you have to give the Democrats, they never forgot which side they’re on … unlike Republicans.

New York Times Front Page ‘Analysis’ Condemns Trump’s ‘Cult of Personality’: Obama Who?

Minneapolis anti-ICE activist group promotes ‘jury nullification training’ amid high-profile cases (Jenna Gloeb/Alpha News MN)

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

The View Wants You to Stop Criticizing Olympians Who Criticize America

Bill Kristol: The Administration’s Stupid Ethnonationalism (The Bulwark)  You’d never know that at one time Bill Kristol pretended to be a patyriot.

CNN Is Obsessed With Eking Out A Win on Its Dumb Trump Economy Scare Porn

Democrat lawmakers rush to bash Trump even as jobs, inflation reports beat projections (Leo Briceno/Fox News)

Hillary Clinton gets in testy exchange with European leader over Trump (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Hillary Clinton Spars With Czech Leader Over Trump

The Disastrous First Year of RFK Jr. (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of ‘Trump Republican’ candidate (Sara Braun/The Guardian)  Epstein cooties!

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files ‘cover-up’ in BBC interview (Jessica Parker/BBC)  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Obama Took On Recession, Health Care and Iraq. What He Didn’t See Coming Was Trump. (Peter Baker/New York Times)

Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Newsbusters.

Call it irony or call it hypocrisy, CNN’s The Situation Room was awash with it during their Wednesday newscast when the pro-choice outlet’s Pamela Brown clutched her pearls over Christian women choosing to put being a mother and a wife above their careers. Brown parachuted into a “patriarchal Christian communit[y]” she fishing for stories about domestic abuse. She looked on in confusion, horror, and disgust as a woman explained why she wanted to be a stay at home mom and be “submissive” to her husband.

In a continuation of her smear campaign against Christians from the previous day where she framed them as radicals and a threat to the country, Brown said she “embedded with a tight knit conservative church community in southeast Texas” to gawk at how they lived.

She opened the segment by warning that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was follower of a pastor who taught his followers to adhere to “specific gender roles, where wives submit to their husbands and make being a mother and homemaker their primary role, while the husband acts as the head of the household and makes the executive decisions for the family.”

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, the “Group Chat” sounded less like analysis and more like a Democratic messaging session.

Discussing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0,” CNN senior reporter Zach Wolf wasn’t troubled by the incendiary historical comparison. Instead, he fretted that Democratic Senator John Fetterman had gone “off message” by refusing to echo it.

Is the CNN motto still “Facts First”? Or is it “Keeping the Democrats On Message”?

Fetterman said: “I would never refer to the SAVE Act as, like, Jim Crow 2.0… I don’t call people names or imply that it’s some kinds of things as something gross about the terrible history of Jim Crow.”

Newsbusters.

Quiz: How many times has Barack Obama been “fact checked” by PolitiFact since he left office in 2017?

Answer: Seven — in nine years. Only one was a “Mostly False.” There was one “True,” two “Mostly Trues,” and three “Half Trues.”

By contrast, PolitiFact dumped eleven “fact checks” on Donald Trump in the first 45 days of 2026 — and eight of them are “Mostly False” or worse. Three are “Half True,” and nothing is True at all.

Trump Honors Hillary Clinton With New Federal Holiday ‘Almost Presidents Day’ (Babylon Bee)

Democrats Warn Voter ID Will Disenfranchise Key Voting Demographic Of People Too Stupid To Get An ID (Bablyon Bee).

Fearing Trump interference in midterms, NY Democrats push voting rights package  Preserving Democrat dominance is what Democrats are all about.

The Price of the Epstein Frenzy

The Trump Administration Is Now a Threat to Our Lives, and Not Just from Street Executions

After Melting Down over Vance, Sunday Shows OMIT Rubio’s Munich Speech

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation (The Guardian)

Vanity Fair: ‘Epstein’s Ghost’ Haunts Trump’s Every Move, Despite a Lack of Evidence  The ‘ghost’ in question is that of the dead Epstein horse that the Narrative Media keep hoping they can beat into life.

Trump Is Having to Work Harder Than Ever to Keep GOP in Line (Wall Street Journal)

Trump vows voter ID requirements for the midterms, ‘whether approved by Congress or not’ (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. (Reuters)  I didn’t know that there were so many Democrat judges.

Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad (Thomas Chatterton Williams/The Atlantic)  Were it not for slavery, Michelle Obama would be squatting beside a mud hut in West Africa grinding up corn meal for dinner.

Newsom Tells Europe “Trump Is Temporary,” Doubles Down On Failing Green Agenda

PBS Compares Minnesota Protestors To Civil Rights Movement, Underground Railroad

Trump is clowning his evangelical base (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Bondi’s Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein’s Victims (Ross Douthat/New York Times)

‘BAD BREATH!’ WashPost Editorial Board Spews Hot Air on Trump Tariffs Ruining Valentine’s Day

Trump Lashes Out as Epstein Files Fallout Grows and the Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)

Pam Bondi’s ‘Cage Match’ and Trump’s Fraying Coalition (New York Times)

Fragmenting Latino vote now a wildcard in elections (Russell Contreras/Axios)  Apparently not every Brown Person hates Trump.

The Democratic governor building a playbook to resist ICE (Astead Herndon/Vox)

‘The court can conceive of no circumstance’: Judge bars ‘warrantless’ immigration enforcement raids at churches to protect ‘religious freedom’ (Colin Kalmbacher/Law & Crime)

Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)

How ICE Failed to Justify the Shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis (New York Times)

President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim … (Rick Hasen/Election Law Blog)

Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace (New York Times)

Media Has Short Memory: Biden DOJ Targeted Trump

Rubio calls on Europe to join Trump’s new world order (Felicia Schwartz/Politico)

‘South Texas will never be red again’: Home builders warn GOP over Trump’s immigration raids (Politico)  Uh, guys? They never were.

MAGA Architect Plotted With Epstein Against Pope Francis (Annabella Rosciglione/The Daily Beast)  The Narrative Media desperate effort to somehow handcuff Trump to Bannon is exceeded only by their absurd efforts to handcuff Trump to Epstein.

Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show (Daniel Ruetenik/CBS News)  Epstein cooties!

5 of the most-botched deportations of Trump 2.0 (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  It’s so hard to get good help these days.

‘Buried at the Trump Golf Course’: Explosive FBI interview unearthed in Epstein files (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)  Epstein cooties!

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump’s DHS deploys ‘less lethal’ weapons on protesters (NBC News)  Protesters WHO ARE INTERFERING WiTH LAW ENFORCEMENT. Just because you’re a ‘protester’ doesn’t mean you can do anything you want.

Trump officials condemned Don Lemon. He’s bigger than ever after arrest. (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)  He’ll have plenty of time to work out in prison.

The SAVE Act and the Myth of a Voter Fraud Crisis (The Rational League)  Proglodytes always name their mobs for what they DON’T do….

The vacuum speaks: Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs? (Paul Krugman) Not Paul Krugman, apparently.

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality (Peter Baker/New York Times)  What a short memory! Go back and look how Obama was treated, simpleton.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

Trump claims victory on affordability as public anxieties persist (Washington Post) Two things that are not incompatible.

Fetterman Reveals His Parents Are Trump Supporters, Refuses To Call MAGA Voters ‘Nazis’

“I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again” (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE)  Talk to the Narrative Media, then. They’re doing all the fear-mongering.

What Do Monica Lewinsky, Maggie Thatcher, Elvis, Cher, Bill Cosby, & The Pope Have In Common?  Surprise! They all appear in the Epstein files!

The backlash against Trump is showing up in hard data, not just polls (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Well, what passes for ‘hard data’ for Narritive Media….

Obama derides social media ‘clown show’ in first comments since Trump’s racist video post (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Republican Party of Eau Claire County headquarters vandalized (Kim Leadholm/WEAU-TV)  Notice how you never hear of a Democrat party headquarters being vandalized…?

Leftists Install Unauthorized Sirens Across LA To Warn Illegals Of ICE Raids

Newsbusters.

Before the Department of Homeland Security shutdown at midnight on Saturday as a result of Democrats demanding certain ICE reforms, ABC’s World News Tonight host David Muir and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce declined to inform their viewers that ICE will be largely immune from the shutdown.

 

The New Neo.

A textbook example is from CBS. In particular, the headline is misleading. There’s no question in my mind that this is purposely so, and perhaps the most important part of the game. The headline is often either the only thing people read, or the headline and the first paragraph or two, and articles are shaped by people who are well aware of that. Even if a person does read the whole thing, the headline tends to shape that person’s perceptions.

The headline of this particular article is, “Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump’s 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows.” Wow, the reader is meant to think, I guess the right is lying when it says the focus right now is on criminals. How many people read articles with such a jaundiced eye that they’re aware of the trap there, the words “violent criminal records” and especially the definition of the word “violent”? Most of those who do read the headline with skepticism are probably not going to be Democrat voters and/or Trump haters, because of the phenomenon of confirmation bias.

I read all articles with skepticism, but that’s only because I have to write about them and need to try my best to get it right, and have learned over and over and over again how much of what we read is propaganda. It happens on both left and right, but more often on the left, and of course most of the MSM is on the left.

That’s why I immediately realized the key word there was “violent.”

I would rather focus on the key words ‘criminal record’. The constant drumming on ‘criminal record’ puts a false notion in people’s mind (especially the minds of those on the left side of the IQ bell curve) that somehow illegal aliens can’t be deported unless they have some kind of ‘criminal record’ (i.e. have been charged with, and convicted of, an actual crime). This ignores, of course, (and that is deliberate) that being in the country illegally is ipso facto a crime; these people are in actual fact criminals, whether they have a ‘criminal record’ or not.

But she certainly has a point.

The Foundry.

It is a journalist’s duty to report the truth, yet so many news outlets covered themselves in shame by bowing and scraping to honor the “transgender identity” of the man who carried out one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history.

Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, was born a man and he died a man. He spent his last day on Earth killing his 39-year-old mother, his 11-year-old stepbrother, a 39-year-old teacher, three 12-year-old girls, and two boys, 12 and 13, before taking the coward’s way out and turning the gun on himself. He reportedly wounded about 25 others at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and critically injured two more.

Initial reports on the shooting described Van Rootselaar as appearing female, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police erased all doubt Wednesday at a press conference.

“I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to transition to female and identified as female, both socially and publicly,” Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said.

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Hell may not have frozen entirely. But a chill wind has blown through the Post’s editorial boardroom. When an institution long associated with climate alarmism writes “It’s about time” in response to a major deregulatory move, observers are entitled to raise an eyebrow.

Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans (NBC News)

Trump Plans Denaturalization Crackdown

Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials (NBC News)

The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

Bondi refuses to apologize for DOJ handling of Epstein files during heated hearing (CBS News)

Trump Can’t Cancel Elections. He Could Undermine Them. (Sean Morales-Doyle/New York Times)

Elon Musk’s X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders (David Gilbert/Wired)

‘Zionism’ Is Splitting MAGA in Two (The Bulwark)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

About 6 in 10 think Trump has gone too far when it comes to deploying federal immigration agents in major U.S. cities. (AP-NORC)  According to the Narrative.

U.S. judge rejects BBC’s stay application in Trump defamation case (Reuters)

ICE Is on a Dark Path. Congress Must Act Now. (New York Times)

Americans think everyone is corrupt (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)  Gee, I wonder why?

Making America Stagnate Again (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks. Since Krugman’s predictions have failed every single time so far, this makes me optimistic.

Illinois AG sues to prevent Trump admin. from cutting $600M in public health funds from 4 states (ABC7)  Because, as we all know, public health is TOTALLY the resposibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)

Lawmakers demand DOJ stop tracking lawmakers’ Epstein files searches (NBC News)  Gee, I wonder why?

Senate Democrat aims to put members on record opposing Maxwell pardon (Jordain Carney/Politico)  Because they, not knowing Trump but knowing their fantasy version of Trump, assume that he will pardon her, and want to get their preemptive virtue-signal on record.

How Young Men View Trump 2.0 After One Year (Lucas Holtz/Third Way)  At least according to the Narrative.

Minnesota AG: Feds still not cooperating on Pretti and Good investigations (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)  Seeing as how the Minnesota AG is a pro-terrorism pro-crime Black Muslim, I can’t say that I blame them.

U.S. Ski Team Awarded Gold Medal For Synchronized Screaming About Trump (BabylonBee)

Alarming Study Shows Average Somali High School Senior In Minnesota Committing Fraud At Just A 5th Grade Level

Trump Is Trying to Change Voting Control Because He Is Nervous He Will Lose | Karin Von Hippel

NYC officials vow to fly Pride flag at Stonewall, after Trump admin takes it down (Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument (Matt Tracy/Gay City News))

Dad who shot Brit daughter dead after ‘Trump argument’ releases statement

Trump, corruption, crypto, and the UAE (The New Neo)

‘Going to Hell’: Democrats Press DHS Officials on Immigration Action  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Trump dropped a dime on Epstein way back when (The New Neo)

10 Threats Against Trump Admin Officials in 2026

The Man Who Always Has Proof Tomorrow: Adam Schiff Cries Election Fraud Again

In the New Jersey Primary, ‘Abolish ICE’ Looks Like a Winning Message (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Trump’s tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group (Elizabeth Schulze/Associated Press)

Trump administration’s changes to the CFPB cost Americans $19B, a new report says (Ken Sweet/Associated Press)

A Campaign to Revoke the Endangerment Finding Appears Near ‘Total Victory’ (New York Times)

The Nation’s Most Democratic State Might Elect a Trump-Friendly Governor (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)

Trump’s Doomed Drive to Rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport (Michelle Cottle/New York Times)  That was never serious. But proglodytes have no sense of humor and so can’t detect it in others.

After Greenland, it’s the micro-agressions (Politico)

Republicans are pushing to drastically change the way you cast ballots (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)  Yeah—you actually have to be alive and a citizen. Shocking, I know.

Trump set to repeal landmark climate finding in huge regulatory rollback this week (Reuters)

Republicans can’t afford more presidential distractions right now (Washington Post)  They hope.

The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump’s war on usefulness (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests (New York Times)

Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High. (ProPublica)

Raging MAGA Rep Demands Consequences After ‘Depraved’ Bad Bunny Show (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

How ICE defies judges’ orders to release detainees, step by step (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

ICE Arrests Raise Questions About Following Federal Agents

Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback (Wall Street Journal)

Trump set to gut U.S. climate change policy and environmental regulations: White House official (Associated Press)

Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message (Washington Post)

Stewart And Beshear Strategize On How To Combat Trump’s Immigration ‘Body Count’

A “Zahltag” Moment, in a United States of “On To Cincinnati” (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

Maxine Waters is the newest target in Democrats’ intergenerational war (Melanie Mason/Politico)  Congresswoman Bitter Beer Face on the rocks? Say it ain’t so!

The New Neo.

You’ve probably read Narrative Media stories {like this one: Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)] about the Irish guy whose been in the U.S. 20 years ‘as a lawful resident’ and has been in ICE custody for five months. Here’s the truth.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed Tuesday that ICE agents arrested Culleton in early September.

“He entered the United States in 2009 under the visa waiver program, which allows you to stay in the U.S. for 90 days without a visa,” McLaughlin told Newsweek in a statement. “He failed to depart the U.S.. He received full due process and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on September 10, 2025. He was offered the chance to instantly be removed to Ireland but chose to stay in ICE custody, in fact he took affirmative steps to remain in detention.”

Judge tells ICE to free man arrested in Chinatown sweep, warns of unconstitutional arrests (Gothamist)

Impressed By Their Setting Up Checkpoints To Demand Papers, Trump Hires Protesters To Join Border Patrol (Babylon Bee)

Virginia Democrat gives profanity-laced response to Cruz’s criticism of the state’s redistricting push (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)

Green Day Frontman Calls on ICE Agents to Quit Their Jobs  You can’t make this shit up.

Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’ (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

Reaction to Trump’s Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

Trump Rages at Bad Bunny–and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)

Massie on Trump’s rhetoric: ‘He’s gone too far’ (David Cohen/Politico)

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US (Bryan Armen Graham/The Guardian)  And Voices of the Crust are SO UPSET….

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  If grandma is illegal, although that’s the quiet part they don’t say out loud.

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Although they have a long history of being fools.

Wes Moore suggests race may be why he was not invited to gov dinner with Trump (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Only if Democrat is a ‘race’.

Trump rips Olympic skier over remarks about representing US (Sophia Vento/The Hill)

Raskin: Voter ID Law Violates The 19th Amendment In Denying The Vote To Women  Clutching at straws or another Democrat Big Lie? We report, you decide.

Democrats sound alarm about possible voter intimidation in midterms (Jacob Wendler/Politico) “Cheese it, the cope!”

Election officials are “very concerned” about Trump voting push, says David Becker (CBS News)  I’ll bet they are.

Trump lashes out at American Olympian who expressed negative view of US politics (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) And rightly so. If you don’t like it, move somewhere else. I’ve heard that Ukraine needs more people.

Trump says it’s ‘terrible’ Bill Belichick wasn’t elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot (Allan Smith/NBC News)  This belongs in a newcast?

U.S. Olympic athletes in Italy are speaking out about the political situation at home (Kevin Baxter/Los Angeles Times)  And so ought to be barred from any future Olympic representation of the U.S. Only fools pick ‘representatives’ who are going to trash-talk them.

SAVE America Act becomes catch-all for Trump’s election demands: Here’s what’s actually in it (Avery Lotz/Axios)  According to the Narrative, that is.

Trump plans to keep Democratic governors out of traditionally bipartisan meeting (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)  Because Democrats are not and never have been ‘bipartisan’—they define ‘bipartisan as ‘Republicans roll over’.

Trump Shreds Olympic Skier Hess Over Comments About Repping the US  And rightly so.

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The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration enforcement officers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. It has rarely acted to “hold government accountable” when the governing comes from Democrats, like Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

NPR was eagerly touting its new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65% of Americans, up from 54% in June of 2025, think the actions of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] have “gone too far” in enforcing immigration laws, and 62% say the actions of ICE are making Americans “somewhat less safe, or much less safe.”

The New Republic underlined what NPR and PBS were cooking: “Brutal New Poll Wrecks Trump’s Main Claim on ICE.”

Now ask yourself this question: Did PBS and NPR ever ask the public for their evaluation of ICE under President Joe Biden, when there was a mass importation of illegal aliens? Pollsters may have asked about their approval of Biden on the immigration issue. But this polling is specific and suggestive, intended to punish ICE deportation efforts.

New York magazine, a Voice of the Crust.

Since the mid-20th century, each generation has had their own version of what is now known as an e-girl. Think back to the British punks, in tartan and T-shirts destroyed by safety pins. In the ’80s, they were called goths, loved the Cure, and dressed in all black, with black hair, and intentionally pale skin. In the 2000s, it was the angsty, pop-punk emo girls who listened to My Chemical Romance and took Facebook photos like this. And now, it’s the age of the e-girl, who stamps  black hearts on her cheekbones, listens to K-pop, and dresses like she’s auditioning for a reboot of The Craft.

The prototypical e-girl is really more of an idea — an aesthetic rather than a person. As the antecedent “e” would imply, the e-girl is also “very online” — maybe she’s a gamer, a cosplayer, or spends a lot of time on TikTok. Tumblr, the dinosaur medium used by emo-girls of yore (2010s), also makes up a big part of the e-girl online diet. The style is heavily influenced by Asian culture, specifically anime and K-pop. YouTuber Jenna Marbles called it a mix between “Harajuku, emo, and Igari makeup, the hangover makeup in Japan.” Think Harley Quinn with rudimentary film-editing skills.

Being mocked by New York magazine is like being called ugly by a frog.

Not mentioned, perhaps because it is obvious, is that these chicks are the very model of a stylish A.W.F.U.L. Democrat.

Trump Posts Obamas As Apes Driving Democrats Insane (Tim Pool) Tim actually shows what the video is all about: Trump is king of the jungle, and the others are all funny animals. I especially love Hillary as a warthog and Pritzger at an elephant and AOC as a donkey..

Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement (David Remnick/New Yorker)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there even were an “MAGA media”. I suspect that “MAGA Medis” are any that don’t support the Narrative.

Senate Democrat knocks TrumpRx: ‘Glorified coupon book’ (Joseph Choi/The Hill)  It will help more people than Obamacare.

Trump Shares Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes (New York Times)  The more they complain, the more people watch the video. Streisand Effect, here we come.

Trump revives racist imagery once seen as disqualifying (Russell Contreras/Axios)  That was then, this is now, and we don’t give a shit any nmore about your “disqualifying”.

Donald Trump is trying to crush a religious uprising against him (John Stoehr/Editorial Board)  The religion is Wokeism, and that’s what he was elected to do.

Trump has never accepted election results and he is only getting worse (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say (Jonathan Karl/Associated Press)  Nobody on the Left understands sarcasm.

White House excluding Dems from its annual governors meeting (Daniel Lippman/Politico)  Why invite the Wreckers?

House Dem Leader Jeffries: “F*** Donald Trump” (Andrew Solender/Axios)  That’s what passes for news these days.

Don Lemon Brands JD Vance “Vile Human Being” And Fake Christian  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Ohio Man Charged With Threatening to Kill VP Vance

Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes (Natalie Allison/Washington Post)  That’s because he has nothing to apoloize for. The video completely passes over the head of all of the race-mongers with their tunnel vision.

NY Times Columnist on Bluesky: J.D. Vance’s Addict Mom Should Have Sold Him for Drugs

The Real Threat Isn’t Trump. It’s the MAGA Apparatus. (New York Times)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump’s post on the Obamas shows a ‘bigoted and racist regime’ (Associated Press)  Of course she does.

Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe (emptywheel)

Anne Applebaum on Trump’s betrayal of Europe (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)

Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool (Politico)  Be careful what you wish for….

Newsbusters.

The debate over immigration rages on in this country, with a disproportionate media focus on the enforcement side. But there continue to be horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens that garner no coverage from the network evening news.

The networks routinely report on lethal traffic accidents. In fact, all three today reported on the woman that plowed into a Los Angeles supermarket. Three people died as a result of that accident. But this one’s different. Or, perhaps- (D)ifferent. In any case, not a peep on the network nightly news.

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In 2023, we published Grave Error, a book of essays that candidly discusses the “unmarked-graves” social panic that swept Canada four and a half years ago. In May 2021, it was announced that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) had identified the formerly unknown resting places of 215 Indigenous children who’d attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The announcement sent shock waves through Canadian society, and led to months of self-lacerating commentary about our country’s colonial sins. Journalists and politicians alike acted as though these 215 victims—children who’d presumably been dispatched by murderous Residential School staff—had been identified and unearthed. It was only once this initial period of national hysteria ended that observers noted that, outside of the GPR reports, there existed no proof of graves, bodies, or human remains. And since GPR technology cannot detect bodies, but only soil dislocations that may equally indicate tree roots, drainage ditches, rocks, or other artefacts that have nothing to do with graves, the claim that these GPR-identified soil anomalies corresponded to graves remained unproven.

To this day, not a single grave has been discovered at any of the GPR-identified locations in Kamloops; nor at any of the other Residential-School sites where similar GPR surveys were conducted. Seen in retrospect, this whole strange episode in Canadian history now seems like a morbid farce.

All of this has been a particular embarrassment for Canadian journalists, who took a leading role in convincing readers and viewers that those 215 “unmarked graves” were real. This explains why many journalists have simply stopped talking about the issue, perhaps in the hope that the whole mortifying episode (and their role in it) will simply be forgotten.

Journalists used to say ‘Let’s wait and see.’ Nowadays they say ‘Let’s panic and jump to conclusions.’ I don’t see that as an improvement.

Newsbusters.

Even though DHS vehemently denied weeks ago that ICE agents tried to use a five-year-old child as bait to lure his mother out of her home, MSNOW’s Nicolle Wallace repeatedly parrots the claim as if it were undisputed. In fact, she has made the charge on her Deadline: White House show every day since Friday, January 30.