Oil Tumbles On Deal ‘Breakthrough’ As US-Iran Reportedly Reach MOU, Pending Trump’s Final Approval

Trump has no way out on Iran — This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

No Way to Make a Deal ??? The agreement that Trump wants to strike with Iran keeps eluding him. (The Atlantic)

Scoop: U.S. and Iran reach deal but need Trump’s final approval, officials say (Barak Ravid/Axios)

U.S. and Iran reach temporary deal ??? but Trump hasn’t signed off yet (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC

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ow’s that “Diversity is our Strength” thing going, Europe?

You will not be surprised that the world’s international “objective” news agency failed to mention a key detail in the motive for the attack.

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

CNN, a Voice of the Crust, goes full Climate Panic.

“Scientists say”! That proves it!!!

Actually, they keep promising that coastal cities will be under water “any time now” and it never happens.

Let’s see: New York, Boston, Balimore, DC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, all under water—that sounds like a win to me.

ATQUE: Germany’s AfD Party Calls Debunked Climate Scenarios “Greatest Fraud in Human History”

Babylon Bee.

After yet another failed assassination attempt against President Trump yesterday, the national media has agreed to just start reporting when Trump wasn’t shot at.

Quillette.

Nicholas Kristof’s 11 May New York Times column (“The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”) and its accompanying video demonstrate the halo effect that protects many non-governmental organisations from the scrutiny they deserve. In addition to the testimony provided by security prisoners (suspected or convicted terrorists) released from Israeli prisons, Kristof’s essay relies upon quotes from unverifiable NGO reports or statements, and from a United Nations committee that recycles the accusations those statements and reports contain.

The NGO at the centre of Kristof’s essay calls itself the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med or EMHRM), which Kristof blandly describes as “often critical of Israel.” Registered in Switzerland in 2015, this Palestinian NGO has a mailing address in Geneva and an unknown number of staffers paid with funds from undisclosed donors. The publication of a 69-page Euro-Med report on 12 April was the source of Kristof’s accusation that Israel “employs systematic sexual violence” that is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.” The report was accompanied by an extensive public-relations campaign, which included promotion in Turkish-government-controlled news platform TRT, Qatar-linked propaganda platform Middle East Eye, and many other outlets that routinely promote invented or tendentious stories about Israel.

Newsbusters.

It’s only May, and Google is already hard at work interfering in the 2026 midterm elections and doing clean-up for Democrats embroiled in fraud accusations.

Google News completely ignored multiple fraud scandals plaguing Democratic Party politics in its top 20 morning stories in April, hiding important information from voters as the midterm elections ramp up. From the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to the FBI raids on largely Somali-run day-care centers in Minnesota to a Democrat congresswoman found to have taken $5 million from taxpayers, mum was the word from Google.

There was no lack of stories on each of the scandals, but Google News shut them all down, including those published by some of Google’s favorite left-leaning outlets. Even still, these left-leaning sources dominated Google News while right-leaning outlets were once again denied visibility.

Newsbusters.

Everyone on the Left is convinced of his or her own omnipotent power to read the minds of people they know nothing about.

Newsbusteres.

The Elitist Media’s network evening news collectively whined over the Department of Justice’s announcement of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund intended to redress the grievances of those who claim to have been targeted by the Biden Department of Justice. ABC saw this as an opportunity to doctor President Donald Trump’s January 6th speech, as did the BBC.

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

Newsbisters.

The Big Four News Apps follow a predictable script: elevate articles from left-leaning outlets, suppress their right-leaning counterparts, while giving prime real estate to some of the most radical news outlets on the left. Yahoo News typically pushes that script even further. In April, the news aggregator appeared to mask that pattern by flooding its platform with BBC content, but the underlying bias quickly resurfaced.

Yahoo News has a record of sidelining not only stories from the right but also center-leaning sources that may offer balance. Its strong preference for the most extreme outlets on the left — Salon, The New Republic and The Daily Beast — has resulted in it being scored by the Media Research Center’s Digital News Tracker as the second-most leftist of the Big Four News Apps over the November 2025 through April 2026 period.

The aggregator dramatically ramped up its publication of BBC stories in April — which is still technically classified by AllSides as centrist — in an apparent bid to offset its extreme left-leaning bias rating. However, this tactic failed to deliver true balance as Yahoo News sacrificed right-leaning stories to elevate the scandal-plagued BBC, even though the British broadcaster has shifted leftward since AllSides’ last evaluation in July 2024.

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An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 New York Times article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.

Quillette.

Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times essay “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” displays a corruption in the moral language used to denounce Israel. Ostensibly a report on sexual abuse in detention, its actual function is to turn Israel into an object of revulsion: a state reimagined as an agent of rape, humiliation, bodily degradation, and bestial violation. Abuse in prisons and wartime detention obviously ought to be investigated, thoroughly and without prejudice. No state, including Israel, deserves exemption from scrutiny. But Kristof’s column—printed in the opinion section rather than the news section of America’s paper of record—is not content to ask for scrutiny. It gathers anonymous and politically mediated claims and arranges them into a grotesque moral tableau. The obscene result demonstrates how sexual accusation can become a political cudgel.

Tim Graham.

Leftists in the media cannot stand the idea that Team Trump is coming to the defense of white males at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They believe white males should never file a complaint, given their centuries of massive white male privilege.

Last week, The New York Times reported scornfully on how discrimination claims by white men and Jews are “Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda,” according to their headline. In their view, the EEOC should always match the leftist agenda. It’s supposed to be a captive agency of the Left under every administration.

This week, the EEOC sued The Times for discrimination against a white male employee who applied for a deputy real estate editor position. Despite experience in real-estate journalism, he was excluded from the final pool of candidates, which was composed of a white female, a black male, an Asian female, and a multiracial female. The multiracial female won the job, despite a lack of experience in real-estate journalism.

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Editors across Wikipedia are going all out to salvage the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) reputation.

The biased, so-called online encyclopedia’s editors downplayed, hid and even deleted content about the recent grand jury indictment of the SPLC across Wikipedia. The SPLC – accused of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence” – was indicted on “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

While Wikipedia routinely elevates indictments against Republicans and right-of-center organizations, the website’s editors pushed news of the indictment further and further down the SPLC’s own Wikipedia page. Wikipedia editors ultimately buried the news in the 65th paragraph of the entry, making “Federal indictment” a small subheading of “Lawsuits against and criticism of the SPLC.”

By contrast, Wikipedia consistently includes indictments, charges or investigations against Republicans and organizations on the right in the introductory section of their Wikipedia articles, many times as high as the third paragraph. Wikipedia boosted legal attacks on the pages of The Trump Organization, Fox News, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, former Trump advisor Roger Stone and former White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

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Three days before a 31-year-old male stormed the White House Correspondents Dinner, hoping to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet, the New York Times published a 35-minute video titled: “‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why petty theft might be the new political protest.” In it, a Times editor interviewed two other members of the media aristocracy about the moral code shared by a large swathe of young Americans.

That code justifies theft—and even violence—when harnessed to a fashionably left-wing cause. None of the participants—podcasting celebrity Hasan Piker, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, and Times opinion editor Nadja Spiegelman—expressed alarm at the glorification of crime. They smirked and giggled through the discussion, betraying a breezy indifference to lawbreaking.

It was striking enough that the Times published the video after reviewing the final cut. The paper was not embarrassed by the participants’ ignorance and entitlement. Nor was it troubled, apparently, by their debate over whether the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “actually effective political action” or merely—and disappointingly—effective “political consciousness-raising.”

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Leave it to the Soros regime to make it seem to the public like an economically-shellacked enemy of the U.S. is somehow winning its war against President Donald Trump.

The liberal Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft — which boasts $2,025,000 in funding from George Soros between 2019-2023 — pushed an asinine claim by non-resident fellow Ian Proud April 28 headlined, “Iran and Russia are gaming the United States, and winning.”

Proud then fear-mongered that Trump was running out of time to end the world before the American economy goes belly up. Proud attempted to prop up Iran’s illusory economic firewall, which new reporting proves is false in retrospect: “Both [Iran and Russia] have as a source of their strength considerable natural resources from which they can generate cash flow to sustain themselves during stand-offs with the West.” But as even pro-terrorist outlet Al Jazeera admitted May 2, “Prices surge, jobs disappear as war strains Iran’s economy.”

Babylon Bee.

This is CNN.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump was rushed off stage after a shots were fired at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

The US president was appearing as guest of honour at the annual journalism gala in Washington, DC on Saturday before shouts of “down, stay down,” were heard.

Security officials quickly stormed Mr Trump’s table and evacuated him from the event, which was taking place at the Washington Hilton hotel.

Mr Trump was not hurt during the incident, and later posted on social media that a gunman had been arrested and that he wanted the dinner to resume.

Well, if the Narrative Media and the Leftist Fringe keep calling him Hitler, people are going to try to kill him.

UPDATE: White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman identified as California teacher after shocking shooting  My, what a surprise.

UPDATE: Here’s what we know about the California teacher charged with trying to shoot up the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

UPDATE: Man With Shotgun Fired at Secret Service, Officer OK

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The Atlantic has a well-documented history of publishing fake hit pieces about President Donald Trump and his administration, and one wonders how many more hoaxes they can run before they get in real trouble.

Its latest effort targeting FBI Director Kash Patel may be its most reckless yet — and this time, the bureau is fighting back with lawyers.

Newsbusters.

The elitist media are refusing to report on the heinous murders committed by illegal immigrants – probably because they don’t want to give any credence to the necessity of the Trump administration’s beefed-up enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

In just the last two weeks, we’ve seen four high-profile cases (some involving Biden and Obama-era illegals) who have committed horrific crimes. One of the cases involved a gruesome video of an illegal Haitian immigrant killing his victim with a hammer. It’s the kind of video that usually makes national news. Yet it’s only been covered by one of the broadcast networks (CBS).

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Lot of that going around these days.

To point out that the “FT is nothing more than the Guardian with stock prices these days”, a “once mighty publications fallen into the abyss of wokery” would be only to shoot the messenger bearing the familiar pink newsprint. Let’s now turn to the message itself, lest one stand accused of employing ad hominem tactics.

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The same feminist rag encouraging mothers to publicly reject their children has another totally not life-ruining word of advice for married couples: Cheat on your spouse!

It will save your marriage, according to New York Magazine’s lonely and childless cat ladies at The CUT.

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We rescued an American soldier. It was miraculous. It was heroic. It was everything you want in an American story.

Except the retelling of rescuing a MAN didn’t consider the fact that a woman might exist in the same situation in an alternate universe.

No, it couldn’t. A woman would have surrendered to the Iranians.

Newsbusters.

National Public Radio recently aired two frankly sexist episodes of its race-based podcast Code Switch , hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby. The April 1 edition was titled “’Mar-a-Lago face’: MAGA’s aesthetic loyalty test.” Anti-Trump sexism is acceptable in “public” radio.

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, the panel on the Audie Cornish-hosted program started with more accusations of U.S. war crimes from panelist Sarah Fitzpatrick of The Atlantic and Kim Dozier, a CNN Global Affairs Analyst. Fitzpatrick said the US will be “turning off incubators for babies,” while Dozier claimed the US is about to violate the Geneva Conventions like Russia had in Ukraine.

I wasn’t aware that Russia was a signatory to any ‘Geneva Conventions’.

Furthermore, at the end of the hour-long morning show, a discussion ensued between Cornish and Fitzpatrick, which worried almost only about the “cost” of the rescue mission of a U.S. Military pilot.

In the opening salvo of the show, Cornish asked if the original “sense” of the U.S. and Israel’s desire to preserve the infrastructure of Iran had shifted, and Fitzpatrick turned to the “ramifications” of possible strikes.

Rival Nations Seize On Choke Points to Counter Trump (Ana Swanson/New York Times)  Nobody else; just Trump.

Trump’s Purge May Be Just Beginning (The Atlantic)

Always Stuck in the 1950s, Trump Courts His Own Suez (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)

Pam Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit. But Trump Wanted Her Gone. (New York Times)

What to Know About the ‘Massive’ Military Bunker Beneath Trump’s Ballroom (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

White House Scrambles to Wipe Trump Meltdown Footage (Annabella Rosciglione/The Daily Beast)

‘I Think It’s Time’: The Inside Story of Pam Bondi’s Ouster (Wall Street Journal)

Jim Acosta Whines Trump Is ‘Winning’ His War on the Press

Federal judge demolishes legal “basis” for Trump’s ballroom (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court? (New York Times)

What the Birthright Case Is Really About ??? Do we want to be the America of John C. Calhoun or Frederick Douglass? (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)

March Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Soar By 178K Most Since 2024, Blowing Away All Estimates; Unemployment Rate Drops

Liberal Group Warns That Trump Could Have Two More Supreme Court Picks (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)

Reeling from war in the Middle East, Trump reaches for a reset (Washington Post)

Pam Bondi’s firing won’t have the effect Trump desires (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)  As if anybody at the Guardian has a clue as to what Trump desires.

The six big events that have dragged down Donald Trump’s approval rating (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  The one that Rasmussen says remains at 51%? That approval rating?

When the Bond(i) breaks — Presented by Good morning and happy Friday. (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)

Whole Hog Politics: Bondi beached (Chris Stirewalt/The Hill)

Hegseth’s War on America’s Military (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

The bizarre reason Hegseth’s right-hand man is spreading damaging rumors about the Secretary of War (Steven Nelson/New York Post)

The Mythology of Pete Hegseth (Garrett Graff/Doomsday Scenario).

All the President’s Women Scapegoats (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Evangelicals widely backed Trump. Now pastors denounce his ICE crackdown after it hit their churches. (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)

Hegseth’s wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: “It’s insane” (Colin Demarest/Axios)  I guess it would be too much work to look up how many generals Marshal fired at the beginning of U.S. entry into World War II.

Trump wants the world to buy more US oil. He might regret it. (Mike Soraghan/Politico)  Then again, he might not.

Amanpour Parrots Regime Hacks About Trump’s Assault On ‘2,500-Year Old Civilization’  That civilization was destroyed by the Muslims in the 7th century.

Trump and the Myth of American Oil Independence (Joseph J. Schatz/Politico) America had oil independence until Obama and Biden screwed it up.

An Army Shake-Up in the Middle of a War (The Atlantic) This isn’t really a war; this is a beat-down.

Trump accused of running ‘misogynistic administration’ after Bondi dismissal (David Smith/The Guardian)  By people who hated both Bondi and Trump.

Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump (Victoria Guida/Politico)

Trump’s back-to-back-to-back setbacks (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  The guy after whom RUPAR was named.

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As NASA’s Artemis II mission — the first crewed flight around the Moon in over half a century — gets underway, some in the media couldn’t resist injecting race into humanity’s greatest technical achievement.

Instead of celebrating the engineering triumph and the daring crew pushing the boundaries of exploration, certain outlets fixated on skin colour and “representation.” This is the same crowd that claims to champion science, yet they reduce every milestone to identity politics.

A Sky News reporter declared that the Apollo missions to the Moon “didn’t represent humanity because ‘Apollo was all white men…’” highlighting how even lunar history must now be filtered through the lens of grievance.

I guess they couldn’t find a gay black woman to add that little bit extra.

Judge orders Trump to halt $400 million White House ballroom project, for now (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Judge Blocks Trump Ballroom Pending Congressional OK

Trump Blasts Order Halting White House Ballroom

BREAKING: Trump will sign sweeping order attacking mail-in voting (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

NPR and PBS Win Injunction Against Trump Order to End Funding (Daniel Seiden/Bloomberg)

Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges (Associated Press)

Dems Struggle to Criticize Trump’s No Tax On OT

A New Era of International Gangsterism (Peter Juul/Liberal Currents)

Trump’s gas prices problem (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Birthright Citizenship Shouldn’t Be Up for Debate (Michael Waldman/Brennan Center …)  Freedom of speech? What’s that?

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Appeals Court Stops V.O.A. Journalists From Quickly Returning (Minho Kim/New York Times)

CNN Poll: Trump’s approval rating on the economy hits a new low (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)  Among the people polled by CNN. (Rasmussen: Trump Approval Steady at 51 Percent)

Trump Eyes NATO Exit Over Iran Rift

Astroturf and selective outrage: The real story behind ‘No Kings’ (Jay Rogers/The Hill)

The Costs of a Political Science-Free Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner’s World)

Trump’s mixed messages on Iran perplex his own team (Axios)  What, you didn’t know that writers for Axios could read minds?

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Trump Motorcade Met With Middle Fingers on Way to Supreme Court (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)  Leftist class.

Spain hits back at Trump in escalating row over euthanasia (Milena Wälde/Politico)

Trump’s Antifa Terror (Julia Ioffe/Puck)

Trump’s Fateful Choice (The Atlantic)

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Now Plans to Gut, but Not Close, Consumer Protection Agency (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)  I would like to dance in its intestines.

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Obama Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restore Legal Status Of 985,000 Migrants Who Used CBP One App

Trump Presidential Library To Feature Solemn ‘Reflecting Pool’ Of Liberal Tears (Babylon Bee)

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This past Sunday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week for Christians around the world, a period that should be meaningful and joyous, but that was not the case in Nigeria, as dozens of Christians were reported to have been killed by gunmen, including in Gari Ya Waye community Angwan Rukuba, served by Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Jos. The targeting of Christians in Nigeria is not new or rare, prompting President Trump to threaten military action last November, unless their government did more to protect the community, but still the latest attacks were ignored Monday by the network newscasts.

The New York Times did report on the 12 deaths and multiple injuries in the mostly Christian city of Jos, while downplaying reports of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, which it’s more than ABC’s World News Tonight, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS News Hour and Special Report With Bret Baier could manage on Monday, which was not one word about the killings combined. After all it was a busy news night. ABC’s David Muir had to tell his viewers about the return of Celine Dion.

Trump Orders War Crimes. Then What? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Anonymous Artists Mock Trump With Giant Gold Toilet By Lincoln Memorial (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Trump approval just hit the 30s. Can his numbers get any lower? (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)  In the Narrative Media, you can count on it.

Raskin rips Patel over reported plan to release decade-old Swalwell files (Max Rego/The Hill)  My, what a surprise.

America Is Abandoning Morality (W.J. Hennigan/New York Times) Proglodyte morality, that is.

States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Newsom Blames Trump for High Gas Prices. But California Created Its Own Energy Nightmare.

Trump’s Tax Cut Delivers at Least $65 Billion Windfall to Corporations (Caitlin Reilly/Bloomberg)  Ponder the people who characterize being allowed to keep more of your own money as a ‘windfall’.

In Supreme Court Justices’ Histories, a Story of Immigration in America (New York Times)  The Narrative Media persists in refusing to distinguish immigration from illegal immigration.

Trump Secretly Admits Humiliating Defeat on Major War Aim (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) Must not be much of a secret if the high-schoolers at The Daily Beast know about it.

Trump says Strait of Hormuz is the world’s problem: ‘Go get your own oil!’ (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico) Sounds good to me.

Colbert: ‘Yes We Can’ Stop Fascism With Defecating Trump Balloon

Congress is a bastion of Republican bigotry (Mark Jacob/Stop the Presses)

Behind the scenes and in front of cameras, Hegseth serving as top cheerleader for military power in Iran war (CNN)

The Nonsense Case Against Birthright Citizenship (Mother Jones)

Trump’s Rage Erupts Over War Failures as Pope’s Harsh Rebuke Hits Hard (New Republic)

Federal judge orders halt to White House ballroom construction (ABC News)

Judge orders Trump administration to halt White House ballroom construction unless Congress OKs it (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Revoked Status of Migrants Who Used Entry App (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Judge halts construction on Trump’s White House ballroom (Washington Post)

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Halts White House Ballroom Construction (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Here’s how U.S. residents feel about Trump’s signature on American cash (Herb Scribner/Axios) Well, at least the ones chosen by Axios.

Federal judge temporarily blocks further demolition of the White House for Trump’s ballroom (NBC News)

Judge Orders Construction Stopped on Trump’s White House Ballroom (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Trump is flailing in Iran. Every word he says adds to the muddle (Ted Widmer/The Guardian)

Trump Rages After Judge Blocks White House Ballroom Construction (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone)

The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree (New York Times)

President Trump Tells EU Leaders to “Go Get Your Own Oil” from Gulf – In Interim, Welcome King Charles

Obama Judge Halts Trump Effort to End Parole for Hundreds of Thousands

Judge Finds Cutting Taxpayer Funding From NPR and PBS Violates First Amendment

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW program’s co-host Jonathan Lemire claimed the Israeli military killed the Iranian Parliament Speaker, who had emerged as the apparent key negotiator and possible new leader in Iran according to the White House.

Around 10 minutes after his statement, host Joe Scarborough asked Lemire to clarify his comments, to which he clarified the report of the Speaker’s death may be untrue and shifted his tone to mention that the Parliament Speaker may have no power anyway, a flip from his original smug comments on negotiations.

A focus of the premier liberal morning talk program was on how a war with Iran would end through negotiations. David Ignatius, a columnist at The Washington Post, discussed many diplomatic options, but called the president “overoptimistic.”

And there was much rejoicing…. Except for the Narrative Media, of course.

Dozens Arrested for Failing to Disperse After ‘No Kings’ Rally in Los Angeles

“Worse Than the 1970s” ??? Donald Trump, it seems, has managed to outdo his first term’s mismanagement … (Ryan C. Smith/Liberal Currents)

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)

MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar. Nope. (Kristen Soltis Anderson/New York Times)  MaGA is the New Nigger.

They’ve Been Accused of Running a ‘Covert’ Operation in Greenland. It’s No Secret. (New York Times)

Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says (Reuters)

The left LOVES kings — the ones with (D) after their name (New York Post)

When ICE Blows Through Rural America (Emma Janssen/American Prospect)

The FCC chair is openly cheering the weakening of the press (Tom Jones/Poynter)

The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  Is Sid Vicious still alive?

This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms (David Gilbert/Wired)

New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13 (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s America and the Axis of Autocracy (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy (Paul Krugman  Paul Krugman spends too much time breathing his own exhaust.

The Trump-voting pastor Democrats think could cost them a chance at a Nebraska Senate seat (Andrew Kaczynski/CNN)

First Draft: Are These Trump’s Worst Poll Numbers… Ever? (Andrew Perez/Zeteo)

Major Airports Return to Normal as TSA Workers Get Paid

ICE Agent’s Heroic Act Saves Toddler at Airport, Counters Dems’ Dire Predictions

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall (David Smith/The Guardian)

NY Times Relays Anti-Trump Conspiracy Kookery (and 44 Photos) From ‘No Kings’ Rallies

This weekend, women in Handmaid’s Tale garb marched alongside protesters who want Trump to stop bombing the theocratic regime of Iran ?

The Trump Administration Comes for State Voter Rolls (Eric Columbus/Lawfare)

President Trump’s Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll (Jared Sharpe/UMass Amherst)

What ‘deadline’? — The “deadline” for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

What Are Your Obligations When Your Country Is the Villain? (Aaron Regunberg/The Nation)  Move.

Most say Trump administration has not done enough to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Survey (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Trump says White House ballroom plans include ‘massive’ underground military complex (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….l

‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying’: Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC (Nathan Taylor Pemberton/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope,,,.

Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  In proglodyte dreams.

MAGA’s latest campaign of cruelty targets immigrant kids’ education (Svante Myrick/The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger.

US military building ‘massive complex’ beneath White House ballroom project: Trump (Agence France-Presse) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Thousands rally across Utah in ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump (Samantha Moilanen/Salt Lake Tribune)

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for ‘revolution’ (Asra Nomani/Fox News)

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: ‘No work, no school’ (Raw Story)

No Kings protests draw crowds, with record number taking place across U.S. (Washington Post)

No Kings Protests Held Across the U.S.: Photos and Videos (New York Times)

No Kings rallies across Wisconsin draw thousands (Wisconsin Examiner)

A month into Iran, the GOP’s political reality sinks in (Politico)  The Narrarive Media’s ceaseless drumbeat of talking up Iran as a ‘problem’ for Republicans, a bid to get Republicans to panic, proceeds apace.

‘No Kings’ protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn (David Spector/New York Post)  It’s ironic that people who can’t tell the difference between a man and an woman think that they are the arbiters of what distinguishes a President from a King.

The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC (Vox)  Used to be, Democrats could depend on Republicans to play by the Democrat playbook for 90% of the time, which allowed them to focus on the remaining 10%. Trump threw that old playbook out, and Democrats have been playing catch-up ever since.

Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics (Michelle Boorstein/Washington Post)Used to be, Democrats could depend on Republicans to play by the Democrat playbook for 90% of the time, which allowed them to focus on the remaining 10%. Trump threw that old playbook out, and Democrats have been playing catch-up ever since. Hegseth learned at the feet of the Master.

Red flare for Trump: ‘No Kings’ rallies a show of political force (Susan Page/USA Today)  No, just an attempt to substitute noise for effective action. The Left depends on virtue-signaling and noisy crowds to give the impression that their support among the population is greater than it actually is. ‘They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!’ (No Kings protests across the world: in pictures (Pejman Faratin/The Guardian))

5 Takeaways From the ‘No Kings’ Rallies as the Midterms Heat Up (Tim Balk/New York Times)  Come and get your Narrative, hot off the press!

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Meeting under France’s 2026 G7 presidency at a historic abbey outside Paris on March 26–27, foreign ministers from the world’s leading economies issued a joint call for an immediate halt to attacks on civilians as the war in the Middle East intensifies.

They’re talking the wrong language to the wrong people. One side doesn’t recognize the notion of ‘civilian’—either you’re a Muslim, and so a Soldier of Allah, or you’re not, and so an Enemy of Allah. There is no room for ‘civilian’ in this worldview.

Representatives from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union said protecting civilian lives and infrastructure must be a top priority. They also stressed the need to limit the conflict’s ripple effects across the region and to better coordinate humanitarian aid. Deliberate strikes on civilians or diplomatic sites, they said, can never be justified.

They don’t realize that the other side in this conflict doesn’t care. Muslims play to win. Ripple effects across the region is the whole point. They don’t care abot ‘humanitarian aid’ except as a lever that uses the West’s own morality against itself. “Do what I say or I’ll shoot this dog” only affects the side that cares about the dog.

The talks also touched on concerns about global trade and energy security, including the danger to critical shipping routes, primarily the Strait of Hormuz, and the broader economic consequences straining energy markets and disrupting supply chains.

As long as Iran is a threat, these problems are going to remain problems. The simplest course, joining in to grind Iran’s terrorist regime into the sand, would require work, and they’re much more comfortable in their native habitat, the realm of talk.

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Politico published a cartoon on Friday featuring anti-Semitic imagery in an attempt to criticize the war in Iran. The image depicts President Donald Trump, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Republican members of Congress wearing blood-covered Jewish prayer shawls and yarmulkes.

The cartoon, drawn by former New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas, depicts the lawmakers aboard a rowboat labeled “Ship of Neocons”—a play on the Hieronymus Bosch painting Ship of Fools—that is about to plummet over a waterfall. A bag of blood-smeared money crowns the mast, and the word “Amalek,” a reference to a historical enemy of the Jewish people from the Hebrew Bible, appears in the background.

Netanyahu, depicted with an exaggerated nose, is also shown wearing a blood-covered Jewish prayer shawl and eating from a table covered in blood, while Trump, also in a Jewish prayer shawl, is drawn underneath the word “Amalek.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who is not Jewish, is depicted wearing a yarmulke and a Jewish prayer shawl and holding a bottle of blood. Graham and Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), also drawn in a blood-covered Jewish prayer shawl, have supported the Iran war and are longtime supporters of Israel.

The cartoon plays on classic anti-Semitic tropes about Jews covertly controlling events, in this case the decision to launch the war in Iran, and using financial exploitation to do so. The exaggeration of Netanyahu’s nose in a grotesque, caricatured style plays on age-old efforts to dehumanize Jews.

The drawing was published as part of Politico‘s “Cartoon Carousel,” which Politico describes as a round-up of the “best” political cartoons of the week.

A spokeswoman for Politico did not respond to a request for comment. Delonas declined to comment, saying he “charge[s] $500 for a 1/2 hour interview and $750 for a full hour.”

Newsbusters.

The Washington Post is a Democrat rag. On Thursday’s front page, the below-the-fold headline on the left was “Democrats continue to reel in victories in special elections.” The subscribers surely loved it.

In the same spot on Friday was “Young conservatives’ bigotry has GOP on edge: Radicalization of youth on the right has set off bitter debate in the party.”

Democrats love a “bitter debate” on the other side.

The online headline was similar, but the subheadline was more specific: “Many Republicans dismiss such party members even as white supremacists like Nick Fuentes gain popularity, but there’s growing unease at their presence in the rank and file.”

Let’s not deny the Republicans have a problem with antisemites in their ranks. Reporter Hannah Knowles quotes Sen. Ted Cruz: that he has seen more prejudice against Jewish people “in the last 18 months on the right than at any point in my lifetime,” and that “it is gaining real purchase, especially with young people.”

But surely Knowles and the Post is not unaware that “groyper” Nick Fuentes has been out there raging against Trump. On March 16: “He needs to go. Like, I really believe that he needs to be impeached under the Democrats. And I don’t even want him to be removed from office because I don’t want Vance to become president either. I want Vance to burn down with all of it.”

On December 28, 2025, Fuentes posted on social media that he’d vote for Gavin Newsom over “fat subhuman” Vance for president in 2028 “100x over just because he’s handsome.”

Why is this nowhere in the story? Because the Post is a Democrat rag.

Trump imagines negotiation with Sharpie maker for $5 signature pens (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  Jesus told stories about laborers in a vineyard and prodigal sons, too, and I’m pretty sure he’d never labored in a vineyard or been a prodigal son. I guess he just imagined them. (Journalist: Someone paid money to write stuff displaying how dumb they are.)

Trump To Put His Signature On US Dollar Bills, Breaking Tradition Since 1861 I’m happy they have nothing more important to write about.

Trump considers renaming Strait of Hormuz after either America or himself — once he evicts Iran (New York Post) Sure, I believe that.

Trump’s signature is coming to U.S. currency — as cash use fades (Kelly Tyko/Axios)  Perhaps we can get proglodytes to make burning money fashionable because it has Trump’s name on it.

Will Iran Break Trumpism? (New York Times)

Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our Precincts Model Law. NOW. (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment (Marin Scotten/New Republic)

On CPAC’s Main Stage, Fissures in the Party Trump Remade (Kellen Browning/New York Times)  The equation of CPAC with the Republican party is merely the latest of instances where Narrative Media journalists demonstrate their utter ignorance of anything outside of the proglodyte bubble.

The war in Iran is driving a generational divide between MAGA men at CPAC (Liz Crampton/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

MAGA’s eruption has so far kept Trump from endorsing in key Senate race (Natalie Allison/Washington Post)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Donald Trump Impeachment: Democrat Warns President’s GOP Support Cracking (Steve Mollman/Newsweek) But that trick never works.

49 States Enact Legislation Banning Immigrants From California (Babylon Bee)

The Epstein class thinks it runs America. Today, No Kings protesters send their response. (Rep. Ro Khanna/MS NOW)  The not-very-subtle implication is that Trump is part of “The Epstein Class”, hence the linkage with the explicitly anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrations.

You can’t hide your lying ICE (Radley Balko/The Watch)

Trump’s conflicting messages sow confusion over the Iran war (Steven Sloan/Associated Press)  And probably intentionally so.

Troop deployments test Republicans’ nerves on Capitol Hill (Politico)  And Democrat bile ducts.

The Latest Front in Stephen Miller’s Personal War (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  One of the ugliest symptoms of TDS is the compulsion to destroy not only Trump but anybody who is even vaguely connected to Trump.

Is Iran a Political Problem for Trump? Tell Me How Long the War Lasts. (Nate Cohn/New York Times) Apparently Cohn can’t let it go.

Newsbusters.

The Friday evening newscasts of ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News continued their streak of ignoring Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s ethics probe as the House Ethics Committee found her guilty of 25 ethics charges. However, the Saturday editions of NBC’s Today and CBS Saturday Morning did manage to ever so briefly acknowledge the scandal’s existence. The same could not be said of ABC’s Good Morning America.

CBS’s coverage was limited to the “Eye Opener” segment at the beginning of the show, where reporters rattle off several headlines without further discussion. In this case, one narrator reported, “A Democratic House lawmaker is in hot water, facing expulsion from Congress.”

Had it been a Republican, it would have been front page news 24/7.

A War No One Wants to Defend (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  This is possibly the first war that Bill Kristol hasn’t liked.

Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies (Will Weissert/Associated Press)  Comforting to know that they don’t have anything more important to talk about.

As Trump skips CPAC, MAGA’s rifts over Iran war are on display (Natalie Allison/Washington Post) At least that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Standoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump’s Freestyle Diplomacy (Michael Crowley/New York Times) Among the Narrative Media and the Usual Suspects.

Exclusive: Donald Trump to Add His Signature to US Currency, a First For a Sitting President (Aidan McLaughlin/Vanity Fair) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

DHS Won’t Comply With New Jersey ICE Mask Ban

Education Dept. to leave headquarters, give building to Energy Department (Washington Post)  Trump is doing what Reagan talked about but never did.

Where Trump Has Installed Election Deniers in Government (New York Times)

MAGA is growing anxious over Orbán’s fate (Ian Ward/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

After markets rattle, Trump once again punts on following through with threat on Iran power plants (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)  Just because you don’t understand the plan doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

Donald Trump Is Breaking Up with Europe (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)  Badly for Democrats’ Muslim clients.

As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next (Washington Post) And rightly so.

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List (New York Times)  Purging the DEI hires.

Some Republicans Raise Questions About Iran War Plans (Jonathan Tamari/Bloomberg)  The Narrative Media would like nothing more than to promote division among Republicans. Unfortunately for them, they don’t hold a monopoly on the News any more.

For Trump, a Deadline Isn’t Always a Deadline (Aruna Viswanatha/Wall Street Journal)  The problem seems to be that most journalists are unable to keep up.

Poll: 1 out of 8 Trump voters has buyer’s remorse about 2024 (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

Bruce Springsteen Says ‘I Don’t Worry’ About Losing Fans Over Slamming Trump and New Tour Is ‘Going to Be Political’: ‘Blowback Is Just Part of It. I’m Ready’ (Zack Sharf/Variety)  I guess everybody needs a hobby.

Russian jailed in UK for attacking woman after Trump’s son alerted police (Michael Holden/Reuters)

Two More Giant Ls for Trump (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  And two more giant Lies for the Bullshitwark.

A war of regression: how Trump bombed the US into a worse position with Iran (Patrick Wintour/The Guardian)

Nothing Works in Trump’s America–Except for Racism (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  Hey, racism has worked for Democrats since the Sixties.

Johnson: No Warren-Pocahontas Joke At Mullin Ceremony Shows Trump ‘Has Dementia’  I’m sure he was thinking it. I know I was.

TIME Finds an Ideal Anti-Trump Angle: ICE Detains Infirm Gay Iranians

The End of Immigration — Americans despise ICE, but it’s “succeeding” nonetheless (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

TSA Agent Keeps Skills Sharp By Groping Mannequin At Home (Babylon Bee).

Newsbusters.

On Thursday, law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida announced charges against a brother and sister in the placement of a bomb at MacDill Air Force base, a key U.S. base amid the war in Iran as it’s home to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Special Operations Command. This national security bombshell was of no interest to NBC (and barely at all to ABC) on their flagship newscasts Thursday night and Friday morning.

While 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng was arrested, her brother Alen Zheng remains at large and fled to….China (which opens up a dangerous set of possibilities vis-à-vis the Chinese regime). At a Thursday press conference, the U.S. Attorney said they were not yet sure whether the two Americans have dual citizenship in China.

Thursday’s CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil provided a welcome contrast with a full story on this and aired prior to the ongoing lead story of the last few weeks in the (Democrat-created) Homeland Security shutdown that has caused mass chaos at American airports with TSA workers remaining unpaid.

Newsbusters.

On Thursday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tried and largely failed to clean up his Tuesday remarks, where he declared Markwayne Mullin is not qualified to be secretary of Homeland Security because he used to be a plumber. Kimmel’s damage control effort would fail because he tried to have it both ways as he tried to double down on the original comments while also implying his criticism of Mullin is just about ideas.

Kimmel began by observing how “the president and his pals in the MAGA media are not happy with me right now. Trump even called in to Fox to complain about me tonight. His apple polishers are all in a tizzy because I made light of the fact that his new head of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, before he was a senator, was a plumber. And now he’s the head of Homeland Security. Which is not necessarily the kind of resume you might hope for, for the person in charge of protecting us from terrorism.”

Once again, Kimmel omitted the management experience Mullin gained in that as he turned the family plumbing business into the largest in Oklahoma. Nevertheless, Kimmel continued, “Of course, they decided to twist that to say it was an insult to plumbers, which it was not. I wouldn’t put a plumber in charge of Homeland Security for the same reason I wouldn’t call a five-star general to pull a rat out of my toilet, okay? It has—we all have our areas of expertise. They went nuts about this. They went nuts on every channel. But I think that my favorite part—bit of performative outrage came from a person named Rob Finnerty of Newsmax.”

Newsbusters.

The House Ethics Committee held their scheduled adjudicatory hearing, more commonly referred to as a “trial”, against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Sadly, none of the main broadcast network newscasts saw fit to carry the story.

The networks continue their ongoing blackout of this story. Not a second of it aired on ABC, CBS or ABC’s evening newscasts. This major omission joins their omission of the IOC’s ban on “trans women” during the 2028 Games and onward thereafter.

The PBS item is not perfect, though. Viewers never once heard any detail of the egregious charges filed against Cherfilus-McCormick.

UPDAE: House Panel Finds 25 Violations by Congresswoman  Ever notice how black women try to make themselves look like white women as much as possible?

UPDATE: House Ethics Panel Finds Florida Democrat Congresswoman Committed 25 Violations

Trump’s TV-Warped Brain Is Putting the World in Danger (Chris Lehmann/The Nation)

The Republican Collapse Has Begun — And Trump Is Leading It (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

How Trump is complicating TSA funding (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Trump housing chief Bill Pulte seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James (Vaughn Hillyard/MS NOW)

ICE Lied About Its Authority to Make Courthouse Arrests (Whitney Curry Wimbish/American Prospect)

Senate locked in staring contest on DHS as insults fly (Hans Nichols/Axios)

Jack Smith memo includes ‘damning evidence’ about Trump’s handling of classified documents, top Democrat says (NBC News)

Trump Draws Bipartisan Backlash for Easing Oil Sanctions on Russia and Iran (Robert Jimison/New York Times)

California Sues Trump Administration Over Offshore Drilling Order (Chevron Warns California Facing Historic Fuel Crisis As Diesel Hits Record $7)

Trump Says GOP Is the ‘Hot Party’ Despite Midterm Headwinds (Bloomberg)

Trump says Justices Barrett, Gorsuch ‘sicken me’ after Supreme Court tariff ruling (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

More US Counties See Population Drops Under Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (Bloomberg)  How many are Blue counties? Place your bets….

Trump’s Threats to Europe Put Its Leaders in a Double Bind Over Iran (Mark Landler/New York Times)

Russia plays chicken with Trump (Megan Messerly/Politico)

The Thug of War — Pete Hegseth’s colleagues at the Pentagon are calling him ‘Dumb McNamara … (Zeteo)

Stewart Claims Iran War Violence Is ‘Almost Sexual’ For Hegseth

‘I’m a military expert and Donald Trump ‘wilfully ignorant’ on conflict with Iran’

Exclusive: Trump’s approval hits new 36% low as fuel prices surge amid Iran war, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) Sure,  I believe that. (EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base)(Heartland Polling: Iran War Is Unpopular, But Not Hurting Trump)

NPR’s Mueller Tribute Includes Replay of ‘Impeach Trump’ Commercial. But that trick never works.

US Troops Are Being Told to ‘Get Ready’ to Invade Iran (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

How Jack Smith connected the dots between GOP lawmakers, Trump aides in 2020 election probe (Politico)  Mostly by making it up.

Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)  Oh, gee, how did that happen….,

Raskin says he has “damning” memo on Trump classified docs case (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Collusion between judges and Jack Smith?

Trump administration’s $1B deal to stop offshore wind shows an evolution in its anti-wind strategy (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)

Trump Picks ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

Trump breaks military recruitment vows as he arrests and deports veterans (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)

Terrorists Give Up After Three Hours In TSA Line (Babylon Bee)

Airport Wait Times Eliminated After TSA Checkpoints Taken Over By Chick-Fil-A (Babylon Bee)

Kari Lake’s dismantling of VOA is a full-blown fiasco (Liz Dye/Public Notice) Blown by heavy breathing in the Narrative Media.

Trump Loses the Home Front (William A. Galston/Wall Street Journal)  Or so they would have you believe.

Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Pentagon has no plan to stop Trump sons profiting from defense contracts: Warren, Blumenthal (Garrett Downs/CNBC)  Perhaps because they aren’t doing anything illegal.

Amanpour Spews on PBS: ‘White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House’

A Dunning-Kruger War, Courtesy of the Dunning-Kruger President (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)  Reported by a Gell-Mann Narrative Media.

Trump’s ‘absurdly incoherent’ Iran pleas leave allies befuddled (Politico)  Politico thinks that everybody is as stupid as they are.

‘Trump is Sending Masked ICE Agents to Murder US Citizens,’ Dem Seeking Md. House Seat Claims  Find. Give us a lit.

Newsbusters.

Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the legislation required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote.

That’s false. In the legislation, voters would need a passport or birth certificate to register. One can find ways to buy birth certificates from their local government offices. For example, a simple internet search for birth certificates in a person’s county will bring up links, like this from Fairfax, VA, and give options to obtaining a copy of a birth certificate.

The topic came up in an opening discussion on the SAVE ACT. Scarborough referenced Brzezinski not knowing where she was born since her mother, apparently, did not remember.

The Trump Administration Turns a Blind Eye to White-Collar Crime (Marie Gottschalk/Bloomberg)

Democrats launch new inquiry into Corey Lewandowski (NBC News)

Conservation groups sue to block Trump efforts to ‘hastily gut’ the Kennedy Center (NBC News)

Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head (The Bulwark)

The Crazy Bill for ICE Barbie’s Cowboy Cosplay Is Revealed (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know. (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Voice of America journalists allege Trump wants to make outlet a propaganda source (David Bauder/Associated Press)  VOA was established to be a propaganda source, one in favor of America and against Communism. The problem with VOA is that it morphed under the Deep State into a vehicle for promoting Wokeness.

ICE heads to the airport (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Jason Stanley on Fascism (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)

ICE Agents Deployed To Nation’s Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing (Barry Petchesky/Defector)

Margaret Brennan Warns of U.S. War Crimes, Tries to Drive Wedge with NATO Leader

Watson v RNC: The Supreme Court’s Conspiracy-Brained Justices Are Ready to Limit Mail-In Voting (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method ‘cheating’ (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)  When cheating is allowed, non-cheaters are at a disadvantage. There is no inconsistency here.

Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail (Erica L. Green/New York Times) See above comment.

Trump casts Florida mail ballot as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)  See above comment.

When Trump Wants Something Done, He Dispatches ICE to Do It (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)  So what?

Trump’s suspiciously timed announcements on Iran (Aaron Blake/CNN)  Suspiciously!

The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  Ugly, of course, because it’s contrary to the Narrative.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story (Public Notice) More Proglodyte Projection.

Airports on ICE — Federal immigration agents popped up around the country on Monday to do seemingly nothing. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)  Except, perhaps, to yank the chains of the hand-wringers in the Narrative Media.

Trump in His Elvis-in-Vegas Era (The Bulwark)  The best of American high-school journalism.

The unraveling of the war in Iran (Popular Information)

PrinceHarming: 20 Short Quotes About Jared Kushner (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

US’s new ‘brand ambassador’: A Hooters-loving, ‘Alpha Male’ Trump nominee (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Trump’s Threat to Iran Crosses a Line, Rights Experts Say (New York Times)  Really? And what might a ‘rights expert’ have in the way of qualifications?

Newsbusters.

As the DHS-only government shutdown rages on, the Elitist Media’s broadcast network newscasts continue to work overtime to shield the Democrats from accountability over their role in creating the shutdown in the first place. This dirty work is being performed as security lines worsen across the nation’s airports.

Newsbusters.

In not-so-shocking turn of events, former CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane — a man with seemingly zero hobbies in life outside of January 6 — announced Monday morning he was joining the far-left Meidas Touch Network as a host and correspondent, cartoonishly insisting without a shred of irony he’s “not an opinionist” or “editorialist” but would nonetheless refuse to “platform conspiracy theories” or allow “whitewashing of history” in “such a critical moment.”

The pedantic partisan boasted to followers that, less than ten days after leaving CBS, he would become, “[e]ffective immediately,” the “chief Washington correspondent for the MeidasTouch Network” and an eponymous daily show will launch in “two or three weeks,” bringing together those who “share the same north star of communicating that when you have news to break or something important to explain, just get to it, straight to the point.”

CNN’s Bash Sets Up Hakeem Jeffries to Tell Trump To ‘Keep His Reckless Mouth Shut’

jTrump issues his most bizarre endorsement yet (David Nir/The Downballot)

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids (ProPublica)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

‘No practical use’: TSA experts say Trump’s ICE deployments won’t help with airport security (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)  It’s not intended to be ‘of practical use’. It’s intended to put pressure on Democrats in Congress by pointing out that their attempt to pressure Republicans by inconveniencing the American people will have the effect of inconveniencing the Democrat base of pro-illegal-immigrant activists. Let’s see who blinks first. I’m betting that Trump wins this one.

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)  Oh, is Pete a Muslim?

Jeffries tells Trump to ‘keep his reckless mouth shut’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing what they are doing 

March 22, 2026 — President Donald J. Trump’s behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

To Trump, America’s judges are either minions or traitors (Svante Myrick/The Hill)

Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812 (Philip Kennicott/Washington Post)

It’s three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Not surprising, considering how much Democrats steal.

ICE Invades Airports Across the US (Wired)

How Trump Killed Conservatism (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

There’s no way to redeem Trump’s dismal second presidency (John Kenneth White/The Hill)  Trump must be doing something right,  all the right people are his enemies.

Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)

Trump’s shambolic policy-making by Fox segment hits the airports (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  More accurately, thousands of ILLEGAL ballots.

GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.