Trump tells Epstein protester: ‘F— you’ (The Telegraph [UK])

Donald Trump Has Been Acting ‘Unconstitutionally’ on ICE Raids | Washington State Attorney General

THE View: Whoopi Shouts Down Any Idea that Renee Good Was in the Wrong

The Nazi Slogans Are Not an Accident (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams (Steve Benen/MS NOW)

Department of Labor under fire for language similar to Nazi slogan (Kathryn Palmer/USA Today)  ‘Similar’ means ‘not the same but we want you to believe the smear anyway.’

In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims (New York Times)  It was so secret that the New York Times knew about it.

Fact check: Trump litters Detroit economic speech with numerous false claims about economy (Daniel Dale/CNN)

House Democrats Move to Block Funding for ICE  Good luck with that.

Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Going Full Spartacus: Democrats Hold Chest-Thumping Press Conferences To Fuel Anti-ICE Rage

RINO Alert: Murkowski calls for Congress to investigate DOJ over Fed ‘coercion’ (Al Weaver/The Hill)

Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)

The growing list of probes into officials Trump has criticized (Jennifer Hassan/Washington Post)

Embracing Impeachment — The case against Trump and his cabinet keeps growing … (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

The extraordinary criminal inquiry of a Fed chair, explained (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Federal judge orders HHS to restore $12m in funding to American Academy of Pediatrics (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)

NPR Critic: 2026 Media Scene Looks ‘Ominous’ If Trump Isn’t Thrashed

Abolish ICE–For Real This Time (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good (Dell Cameron/Wired)

Meet Bill Pulte, Trump’s unlikely attack dog (Axios)

Warren: Trump Trying to Install ‘Sock Puppet’ to Lead Fed

Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen and other past officials say Trump using ‘prosecutorial attacks’ to undermine Fed (Jeff Cox/CNBC)

Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods (Spencer Ackerman/FOREVER WARS)

Why ‘PBS News Weekend’ Won’t Be Missed: ICE Actions Are a ‘Threat to Democracy’

Transcript: Trump Explodes at GOPers as Defiance of Him Visibly Grows (New Republic)

Federal Judge Rules Trump’s Energy Project Cuts Are Unlawful (Shifra Dayak/NOTUS)

Minnesota Moves to Block Trump Immigration Enforcement Push Following ICE Shooting  History shows that whenever a state pushes back against the feds, the state loses.

Crowd yells ‘cowards!’ after federal agents crash into a car and fire tear gas in Minneapolis (Associated Press)

They say they’re monitoring ICE arrests. Feds say they’re breaking the law. (Washington Post)

Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to ICE Agent GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image (Jacqueline Sweet/The Intercept)

Minnesota and Illinois Sue Trump Administration Over ICE Deployments (Mitch Smith/New York Times)

Return of the Silver Shirts (Samuel Freedman/Liberal Currents)

Minneapolis ICE Shooter Told Longtime Neighbor He Was a Botanist: ‘I Had No Idea He Was an ICE Agent’ (Exclusive) (People)

DoJ Charges Venezuelan Illegal Over Border Patrol Vehicle Ramming Attack

F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups (New York Times)

Minnesota sues Trump to block ICE agent surge in Minneapolis (Aaron Pellish/Politico)

Minnesota sues federal government to try to end deployment of immigration agents (Tim Stelloh/NBC News)

Trump’s Attack on the Fed Is Already Backfiring (Jason Furman/New York Times)

Donald Trump Is Losing in Court (The Contrarian)

New Documents Detail Jack Smith’s $20K Bribe To Informant

Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter (David Frum/The Atlantic)  David Frum can read minds like nobody’s business.

A Breathtaking Week of Pure Trump Id (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

Trump Suggests Renee Good’s ‘Disrespectful’ Attitude Justified Fatal ICE Shooting (New York Times)  Not to mention her felonious obstruction of federal law enforcement agents, and her felonious attempt to flee the scene.

Obama Judge Orders HHS to Restore $12M Pediatric Grants

‘Because I was Latino, that’s it’: ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling driver (Andrew Hazzard/Sahan Journal)

CBS Reporter, Inciting Further Violence, Calls MN Shooting a ‘Murder’

Why ICE agents face far less accountability than police (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Golden Globe Celebrities Wear Pins Protesting ICE No surprises here. People who make their living attracting attention to themselves automatically signal whatever ‘virtue’ is fashionable.

New Federal Probe Opened Into N.Y. AG Letitia James

Trump’s motorcade in Florida rerouted due to ‘suspicious object’ (Associated Press)

Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election (New York Times)

Celebrities wear pins protesting ICE on the Golden Globes red carpet (Associated Press)

Mark Ruffalo, Natasha Lyonne and other stars protest Renee Good death with ‘ICE Out’ pin at 2026 Golden Globes (Daily Mail)

Bill Pulte Seen as Key Instigator Behind Powell Subpoena (Bloomberg)  Instigator!

Superbad: Director Judd Apatow Claims USA is a ‘Dictatorship’ at Golden Globes  If that were true, he would be in jail.

Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’ (Erica L. Green/New York Times)  ‘Civil rights’? Say, rather, anti-white race hatred.

‘Brace for impact’: Trump turns fraud into new weapon against blue states (Politico)  Of course, it wouldn’t be such a useful weapon were fraud not so pervasive in Blue states. “Leave our criminals alone!” is the proglodyte slogan.

Trump purges ‘lame duck’ claims with brute force, retribution and play for global domination (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Kill, smear, cover-up (Judd Legum/Popular Information) Riot, lie, and obfuscate.

The violent “randomness” of ICE’s deportation campaign (Christian Paz/Vox)  They can only deport the ones that they can catch.

Trump is getting creative to bypass Congress (Madison Mills/Axios)  As all Presidents have done, like Wilson and Roosevelt.

The Rare Republican Who Brawls With Trump — and Is Ready for More (Michelle Cottle/New York Times)

‘Completely bonkers’: Trump’s Greenland mining dreams collide with reality (Matt Egan/CNN)

Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet (Lisa Friedman/New York Times).

Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: ‘White people very badly treated’ (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)  Which is the literal truth.

DHS Blasts Anti-ICE Protesters Sharing List Of Hotels Allegedly Hosting Agents

MAGA is weirdly thirsty for Barron Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  So, I gather, is Amanda Marcotte.

Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny (Jeet Heer/The Nation)  Misogyny! Is there anything it can’t do?

ICE’s Reign of Terror and Violence Must End (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Crickets from MS NOW Hosts As Squad’s Ayanna Pressley 3 Times Accuses ICE Of ‘Murder’

Trump, 79, Answers Simple Question With Bizarre Word Salad (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

‘Nuance Speaking’: Whoopi Claims All ICE Agents Are ‘Violent Criminals’

Read it.

Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) just published an article titled: “Why the cold winter is no evidence against warming.”

The article explains why severe winters in Germany do not contradict global warming. The core argument lies in the distinction between weather (short-term events) and climate (long-term trends). That of course gets ignored by the media when there’s a hot summer day.

Experts, the FR reports, emphasize that a single cold winter is merely a statistical fluctuation, while the global trend points upward. “Weather is what you see outside; climate is the statistics over a long period of time,” the FR reports. “A cold winter does nothing to change the long-term warming trend.”

Democratic Leaders Hesitant to Wage Shutdown Over Disagreements With Trump Administration (NOTUS)

“You Don’t Want This Smoke”: Philly Sheriff, DA Threaten To Arrest ‘Fake Law Enforcement’ ICE Officers

White House shares video of Minneapolis shooting from ICE officer’s perspective (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)

Minnesota officials open their own probe of ICE shooting as protests spread (Reuters)

Five States Sue Trump Admin Over $10 Billion Freeze In Child-Care, Family-Assistance Funds

ICE Is Only Getting Started, the Worst Is Yet to Come: A Conversation with David J. Bier (Shikha Dalmia/The UnPopulist)

Maduro in Minneapolis — The shadow of Maduro hangs over Minneapolis. (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump’s Wild West doctrine freezes European brains (Tim Ross/Politico)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Newsom calls for Noem’s resignation (Sophie Brams/The Hill)  And Noem ought to call for Newsom’s resignation. Sauce for the goose ….

How Trump’s plan to charge foreigners more is causing chaos at national parks (Jake Spring/Washington Post)

After pressure from Trump, Colorado gov. signals possible clemency for election denier Tina Peters (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency (New York Times)  A good start.

ICE and Border Patrol shootings spark hundreds of weekend vigils and protests (April Rubin/Axios)  All in Blue-pustule urban areas, all managed by the protest-industrial complex.

Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting (Gideon Taaffe/Media Matters for America)  She fucked around and found out.

Stephen Miller Is Taking His Fascist Horrorshow International (Tim Dickinson/The Contrarian)  I guess Miller is the New Nazi.

Threat Made Against WH Press Secretary Leavitt on X  That’s what proglodytes do.

The Hole in Trump’s Rationale for Acquiring Greenland (The Atlantic)

Trump Goon Delivers Bonkers Excuse for Grim Jobs Report (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)

Trump dials Collins with ‘profanity-laced rant’ over Venezuela war powers vote (Al Weaver/The Hill)  And apparently The Hill was listening in.

The Poison Always Drips Through (Ned Resnikoff/Public Comment)  Mostly on a Narrative Media page.

Renee Nicole Good is ALL OF US (The Contrarian)  “Us” meaning proglodytes like The Contrarian, that is.

Kristi Noem and DHS do not deserve the benefit of the doubt (Philip Bump/MS NOW)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

Judge Blocks Trump Order Impacting Vote-By-Mail States

Trump’s plan to strong-arm insurers into lower prices is met with skepticism (Cheyenne Haslett/Politico)  Of course, if a Democrat President did it, they’d be kissing his ass.

Trump, Venezuela and the doctrine that wouldn’t die (Greg Grandin/Financial Times)

Brooks: Won’t Judge Minneapolis, But ICE Has Acted ‘Like Thugs’

Federal Agents Are Violating the Rights of Americans (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

Anti-ICE Mob Takes Protest Inside Minneapolis Hotels  Good way to get more people shot—which is what they want.

Democrats Say Things Would Be Much Safer If Law Enforcement Would Just Stop Trying To Enforce The Law (Babylon Bee)

Is It Good Politics to Defend a Harmless Woman Getting Shot in the Face? (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  Not when she hit an ICE officer with her car—except on Planet Proglodyte.

From “America First” to “Manifest Destiny”: MAGA eyes foreign expansion (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  And the mind-readers from Axios are on top of it.

Trump’s Married Labor Boss Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)  The best of American high-school journalism.

Widow Who Urged Wife To ‘Drive’ In Deadly ICE Incident Rakes In $1.5M In Donations

Minneapolis City Officials Dismantle ‘No-Go Zone’ Set Up By Anti-ICE Agitators

Tim O’Brien on the decline of The Donald (Public Notice)

Trump Targets 5 Defecting Republicans After War Powers Rebuke

Inside Democrats’ new push to handcuff ICE (Stephen Neukam/Axios)

Man accused of killing parents to fund Trump assassination plot pleads guilty (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

Trump, Congress Target Biden-Era Minnesota Mining Ban

CNN Accuses ICE Agent Of ‘Murder,’ ICE Recruitment Ads Evoke Nazi Germany

The Trump Administration Says It’s Illegal To Record Videos of ICE. Here’s What the Law Says. (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason)

That’s the Whole Ballgame, Folks (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

Senate unanimously approves installing Jan. 6, 2021 plaque (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)

Protesters Track, Harass Feds in Minneapolis

Walz Orders Minnesota National Guard on Standby  Hope Tim likes the weather in Guantanamo.

Democrats demand hearing with Noem after deadly ICE shooting (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)  A lot of demands for people with no power.

NBC News Analysis Of ICE Shooting Video Opens Door To Self-Defense

Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting (New York Post)

Vance Says Woman’s Fatal Shooting by an ICE Agent Was a ‘Tragedy of Her Own Making’ (NOTUS)

I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. (Jacob Frey/New York Times)

Top Democrats decline to say if they would push to rein in ICE funding after Minnesota shooting (Eric Garcia/The Independent)  They’re crazy, but they aren’t stupid.

Report: Slain Minneapolis Woman Active With Anti-ICE Group

Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else) (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are out in force today.

Exclusive: Trump supporter and oil magnate Harry Sargeant advising US on Venezuela, sources say (Reuters)  So what?

Kimmel Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill Americans’

Kimmel Slams ICE, Displaying T-Shirt Urging Agency Out of Minneapolis

Lawmakers request court-appointed official to oversee the Epstein files release (Hailey Fuchs/Politico) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

On Night Before ICE Shooting, CNN’s Burnett Let Minneapolis Mayor Claim Trump & ICE Are Racist

Watch: NYC Protesters Chant “Kristi Noem will Hang!” and “Save a Life, Kill an ICE”

PBS Invites Paranoid Professor to Mark January 6 As ‘Phase of Fascism’ Under Trump

Ukraine Awards Major Lithium Project to Investors With Links to Trump (Constant Méheut/New York Times)  “Links” means they can’t prove any connection but they’re going to insinuate one anyway.

5 blue states sue Trump admin over $10 billion child care funding freeze (Axios)

Protesters, officers clash in Minneapolis after ICE shooting (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

OMISSION: Nets Suppress Reports of Renee Nicole Good’s Anti-ICE Activism

German Prez Gets Schnitzel In A Twist, Says Trump Destroying World Order

The Cruelty of Trump’s Crackdown on Afghan Refugees (Lydia Polgreen/New York Times)

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’ (Maya Yang/The Guardian)

Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  On his planet.

The right-wing dehumanization machine is speeding up (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)

By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)  Yeah—Don’t try to run over ICE agents.

Trump Shooting Fiasco Worsens as Dems Find Fresh Line of Attack on ICE (New Republic)

The Mad King’s Madness Deepens (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

ICE is not the victim — MAGA lies can’t hide the real damage done to people like Renee Nicole Good (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

How right-wing creators bend reality to their will (Caitlin Dewey/Vox)  Vox attempts to bend reality leftward.

US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

What lies behind Trump’s retro oil plundering? (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)

Transcript: Can Trump’s Thugs Be Reined In? These Dems Have an Idea. (New Republic)

Revealed: ICE shooter has an IMMIGRANT Filipina wife and is an Iraq veteran as father comes to his defense (Ben Ashford/Daily Mail)

China’s fentanyl crackdown led to a stunning drop in U.S. overdoses, research says (April Rubin/Axios)

Renee Macklin Good’s wife releases statement about ICE shooting (Cari Spencer/MPR News)

Radical Rhetoric by Sanctuary Politicians Leads to an Unprecedented 1,300% Increase in Assaults Against ICE Officers and a 3,200% Increase in Vehicular Attacks (Department of Homeland Security)

A cold-blooded murder — In Minneapolis on Wednesday, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. (Robert Reich)  Robert Reich loses his shit.

Murder in Cold Blood (Dan Rather/Steady)  Being run down by a proglodyte in a car is not ‘cold blood’, Dan. Get back on your meds.

Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)

Our Mad King’s Vainglorious Venezuelan Victory Lap Was Rudely Interrupted By A Newly Assertive Congress Yesterday (Simon Rosenberg/Hopium Chronicles)

A Turning Point for Trump’s Marauding Secret Police (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Federal officers blocked medics from scene of ICE shooting, witnesses say (George Chidi/The Guardian)

Seattle Judge Blocks Health Department From Rejecting Head Start Grants With DEI Terms

Newsbusters.

Apple News failed to link to a single right-leaning media outlet among its top 20 daily articles during the month of December. Out of the 620 opportunities analyzed at approximately 10:00 a.m. each day by the Media Research Center, Apple News whiffed every single time.

Instead, dozens of times Apple News published articles from leftist outlets like The Washington Post, NBC News and NPR and center outlets like Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC.

You have to go all the way back to Nov. 5 of last year to find the last time Apple News deigned to link to a single right-leaning site. That story was from British outlet The Telegraph covering the atrocities taking place in Sudan: “In Sudan’s genocide, Only Those Who Pay Survive.” Ironically, Apple hid the article behind the Apple News+ paywall and only paid subscribers could read the full article.

Trump-Defying Conservatives Shower Massie With Cash After President’s Latest Rant

Musician Béla Fleck is the latest to cancel Kennedy Center performances after Trump’s renaming (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)

Trump hammers NATO allies while Greenland crisis deepens (Elena Giordano/Politico)  There is no ‘Greenland crisis’ except in the fevered brains of the Narrative Media. (Cold War Treaty Already Gives US Broad Access to Greenland)

Big 4 News Apps Conceal Trump’s Venezuela Victory, Spout Dem Narrative

How Trump’s Attack On Venezuela May Have Boosted His Net Worth (Kyle Khan-Mullins/Forbes)

‘GET HIM OUT!’ Whoopi Wants to Know Why NATO Not Saving Us from Trump

Minn. Gov. Walz Slams Trump After Fatal ICE Shooting  Anything to distract from his own incompetence.

Defiant Protester Renames Tehran Street for Trump

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It (Albert Burneko/Defector)

MN Gov. Walz Threatens to Use National Guard Against Federal Government

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September (New York Times)

ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder (David Dayen/American Prospect)

Deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting echoes Franklin Park, Marimar Martinez shootings during Operation Midway Blitz (Sara Tenenbaum/CBS News)

ABC Analyst Smears ICE Agent in Minneapolis, Suggests He Didn’t Know What He Was Doing

Trump Seeks $6.2M in Legal Fees From DA Willis’ Office

Trump seeks $6.2 million in legal fees from Fani Willis’ office over election interference case (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)

Trump quits pivotal 1992 climate treaty, in massive blow to global warming effort (Sara Schonhardt/Politico)  Trump for the win.

Furious Democrats threaten government shutdown after Minneapolis shooting (Axios)  Bring it own. You are the guys who want more government.

‘Jackassery’: Former Senior National Security Officials Rip Trump’s Attack On Venezuela (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem (Congresswoman Robin Kelly)

Trump defends ICE, seeks to define shooting before facts are established (Emily Davies/Washington Post)  Just like a Democrat!

CNN Contributor—Trump Foreign Policy Shows He’s Not Planning To Leave White House!

NBC Only Newscast to Report Vehicular Obstruction in Minneapolis ICE Shooting

Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” sets U.S. on great-power collision course (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Trump’s team races to come up with a Greenland takeover plan — here’s what’s at stake (Sam Meredith/CNBC)  Hysteria.

Renee Good’s killer can and must be prosecuted (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Trump Is Ensuring That His Venezuela Attack Has No Upside for Anyone (Nicholas Grossman/The UnPopulist)

Trump’s most defiant second-term moves were some of his most mocked first-term proposals (Washington Post)

An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt (Elizabeth Shockman/MPR News)

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Defining Donald Trump (Simon Kuper/Financial Times)  In service of the Narrative.

Anger erupts in Congress over Minneapolis ICE shooting (Andrew Solender/Axios)

ICE Killed Another Person (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump relaxes Venezuelan oil embargo, benefiting MAGA billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Protesters Clash With Federal Agents In Minneapolis After Fatal Shooting

Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6 (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  But it will stick to Biden forever.

5 years ago today (Politico) Whatever happens, everything is/was/will be Trump’s fault.

Senate Democrats Say Rubio Has Had a ‘Full MAGA-Lobotomy’ (NOTUS)  As if Rubio cares what Senate Democrats say.

Court watchers fear Emil Bove’s ‘level of allegiance’ to Trump (Erica Orden/Politico)

Trump’s Venezuela adventure is already a propaganda disaster (Paul Waldman/Public Notice) On his planet.

Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan–and about MAGA Voters (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greta Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Greenland could be next — Emboldened by the Venezuelan operation, Trump is seeking a foreign balm for domestic pain (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Where Trump could strike next (Sean McMinn/Politico) Minnesota, I hope.

Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber (Ankush Khardori/Politico)

NPR Faults Trump Labeling Maduro ‘Dictator’ After Years of Smearing Him Same Way

Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers (Popular Information)

There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  By ‘American democracy’, of course, the Narrative Media mean ‘Democrat rule’.

Lawmakers battle over how — and whether — Jan. 6 should be remembered (Paul Kane/Washington Post)

More than 2 million Epstein documents still unreleased, officials say (Kelly Kasulis Cho/Washington Post) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

DOJ says millions of Epstein files have yet to be released (Kyle Cheney/Politico) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Trump administration sparks midterm vaccine war (Caitlin Owens/Axios)  Because, as we all know, if vaccines aren’t on the government vaccine recommended list, no parents will have their kid receive that vaccination.

“Neocon smear”: MAGA rejects pure isolationism after Maduro capture (Tal Axelrod/Axios) The Narrative Media mind-readers are out in force.

Republican-turned-Democrat George Conway is running for Congress in New York to ‘fight Trumpism’ (Allan Smith/NBC News)  One benefit of Trump—he makes the RINOs show their true colors.

Jan. 6 Never Ended (Jamie Raskin/New York Times) On his planet.

US abandons child exploitation and drug cases to prioritize ICE, Democrats allege (Sam Levin/The Guardian)  As if dealing with one isn’t dealing with the others. These people cannot connect the dots to save their lives.

Dems use Venezuela to hammer affordability issues at home (Politico)  Gas was $2.19 in Plano, Texas, yesterday. That’s the kind of ‘affordability crisis’ I can get behind.

Trump’s Assault on the Environment Has Been Even Worse Than Experts Predicted (Thor Benson/Rolling Stone)  I remember when Rolling Stone wrote about music. Yes, I am that old.

MAGA’s Foundational Lie (Jeffrey Goldberg/The Atlantic)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

Sweeping Minimum-Wage Hikes Take Hold Across the Country (Jared Mitovich/Wall Street Journal)  And yet proglodytes blame the ‘affordability crisis’ on Trump. What do they think makes prices go up?

U.S. allies warn Trump over threats to seize Greenland (Alexander Smith/NBC News)  Trump has made no such threats. He just said he thinks Greenland is important to our national security. The rest is proglodyte fever dreams.

On this Jan. 6, remember the violence of 2020’s BLM riots (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner)

‘Biggest Mistake’: MAGA Loses It After Hilton Allegedly Cancels ICE Agents’ Reservations (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost)  ‘Loses it’? Say rather ‘wins it’.

January 6th and the Never-Ending Coup (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  William Kristol and the never-ending lies.

January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history (Sam Levine/The Guardian) Proglodytes always accuse you of what they are doing—or planning to do.

On January 6, PolitiFact Boasts of Its Activism Against Conservatives on Riot Narratives

Trump Mocks Paid Pro-Maduro Protesters

January 6 Is Five Years Behind Us. The Threat It Exposed Is Not. (Adam Kinzinger)  Democrats feel threatened! *yawn*

History Bends Toward Distortion When Accountability is Denied (Harry Dunn/Meidas+)  And nobody can deny accountability like proglodytes.

Trump Chooses the Path of Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan (David Rothkopf/Need to Know) Don’t forget Lenin and Mao, heroes of the Left.

Words & Phrases? — Donald Trump’s pathetic and grammatically flawed attempt to affix … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)

The Emperor’s New Oil Wealth (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks.

Trump triggers a renaissance for grand juries (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

The Military Isn’t MAGA — The Uniform Code of Military Justice should not suppress free speech. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)  The UCMJ supresses all sorts of ‘free speech’. That’s one of the rights on which one accepts constraints when one joins the military.

Awkward: Biden Forced To Pay Trump The $25 Million Bounty For Capturing Maduro (Babylon Bee).

Europe and Rest of World Try to Come to Terms With Trump the Imperialist (Steven Erlanger/New York Times)  What worries them is Trump the competent imperialist—Obama and Biden were incompetent imperialists, so nothing to worry about.

Big Law walks away from democracy (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

Nearly 200 Sue Trump WH Over Immigration Case Freeze

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s authority on immigration pause (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrecks Trump in Harsh Maduro Tirade (New Republic)  On their planet.

CNN Tries Having Its Cake and Eating It Too With Latest Stupid Griping Over Trump Economy

Schumer calls out DOJ for not providing unredacted Epstein contacts (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Trump’s Betrayal of Venezuela’s Democracy Movement Is Hard to Overstate (Larry Diamond/The UnPopulist)  But he’ll do his best.

Four questions on what happens next for Trump in Venezuela (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)  Just so you know what the Narrative is going to be.

For Many Jan. 6 Rioters, a Pardon From Trump Wasn’t Enough (New York Times)  Trying to make sure that the cancelled stay cancelled.

The most shameful day in American history (Robert Reich)  Robert Reich loses his shit. (More shameful than the day Bill Clinton did the job on an intern? Strange standards….)

US foes and allies denounce Trump’s ‘crime of aggression’ in Venezuela at UN meeting (David Smith/The Guardian)  As expected.

Trump Cannot Slash NIH Research Funding, Court Rules

Trump’s actions in Venezuela have Latin America on edge (Vox)  Not to mention the Usual Suspects in the Narrative Media.

Michigan teachers weaving lessons on Jan. 6 uprising into history classes (Kim Kozlowski/Associated Press)  To guarantee that kids growing up know that Orange Man Bad. Can’t leave something like that to chance, or risk them thinking for themselves.

From grudging respect to unease: Russia weighs up fall of Maduro (Pjotr Sauer/The Guardian)

Starlink Offers Free Internet in Venezuela After Maduro Arrest

N.Y. Gov. Hochul Says She Lectured Trump on Venezuela  She lives in a world where lecturing Trump has a beneficial effect. Somebody break the news to her that that trick never works. (I’m sure it was just a mandatory virtue-signal.)

WH: Democrats Turn on Maduro Arrest Because Trump Did It  Yeah, pretty much.

Trump’s Retro Imperialism (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Jack Smith’s Testimony: A Reminder that Donald J. Trump Owns All of It (Mimi Rocah/The Contrarian)

Donald Trump Is Drunk on War (Jeet Heer/The Nation)  I guess that’s why he’s trying to stop wars all over the globe. Good to know.

The straight line between Trump’s Jan. 6 terrorist attack and his attack on Venezuela (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean’s Report)

Network Of Left-Wing Nonprofits Raced To Counter Trump’s Narrative Of Maduro Raid

Oil First, America Last — We’re barely a week into 2026 and Trump has already thrown … (Brian Tyler Cohen) Apparently everything Trump does is either about oil or Epstein.

The Venezuela Invasion Is Going to Backfire. Here’s How (Mehdi Hasan/Zeteo)

At the U.N., Even Allies Condemn U.S. Action in Venezuela (Farnaz Fassihi/New York Times)

Donroe Doctrine: The war for minerals, oil and AI (Axios)

Newsbusters.

As you should expect, NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep is a cheerleader for his “news” network. On his Substack page came a titled “Public radio may be stronger in 2026.”

Inskeep objected to a recent puff piece on NPR’s CEO by Benjamin Mullin in The New York Times, as it discussed the “terrible blow” of losing taxpayer funding, the system is “far weaker overall.” Inskeep argued his visits to local stations didn’t match that verdict, and insisted that internal ratings reports suggested his show was up a million listeners last spring. But the part about NPR’s bias was ludicrous:

All you need to do is look at what they cover and what they ignore. The bias is obvious.

Eugene Volokh.

Today’s New York Times reports on a new study by three economists purporting to show that the Supreme Court’s decisions are increasingly tilted toward the interests of the rich, and suggesting that this may play a role in rising economic inequality.

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The study, “Ruling for the Rich: The Supreme Court Over Time,” by Andrea Prat, Fiona Scott Morton, and Jacob Spitz, was posted as an NBER working paper, and has not yet been peer-reviewed or (to my knowledge) accepted anywhere for publication. But that did not stop it from getting a the full-article treatment in the NYT.

Having looked at the study, I don’t think it does much of anything to reliably substantiate its claims. It is both conceptually muddled and poorly executed. At most it shows that (surprise!) Republican Supreme Court nominees have become more conservative over time (a point I made to the Times), but that is hardly a revelation.

Of course, to the New York Times (and other Voices of the Crust), anything that ‘favors the rich’, whether deserved or not, whether benefitting the country or not, is to be deplored.

Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)  Forget Venezula—EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Democrats Begin to Call for Trump’s Impeachment Over Venezuela Attack (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)

Democrats Begin to Call for Trump’s Impeachment Over Venezuela Attack (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS) I’m surprised it took them this long.

The Politics of Trump’s Idiotic and Illegal Venezuela War (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

Secret meetings point to inside job to take down Maduro (Cody Weddle/Telegraph)

Chinese Social Media Explodes: US Invasion Of Venezuela A ‘Template’ For Move On Taiwan I think they might be surprised….

Denmark PM urges Trump to stop threats to take over Greenland (Reuters)  Trump, of course, has made no such threats. The guilty flee where no man pursueth.

What Maduro’s ouster means for Trump’s mass deportation campaign (Washington Post)

A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump’s Personal Geopolitics (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)

NPR Sounds Like DNC Radio, Promotes Trump-Trashing Takes on Venezuela

‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say (Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian)  Because, as we all know, natural disasters are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump amplifies conspiracies on killing of Minnesota lawmaker (Washington Post)

CNN’s Bash Repeatedly Pushes Talking Point That Venezuela Invasion Is Not ‘America First’  Not that anyone at CNN cares, of course.

Trump’s Move for Regime Change in Venezuela Threatens a New MAGA Rift (New York Times)

A New Trump Game Plan Takes Shape: Strike and Coerce (Wall Street Journal)  Demonstrably more effective than the Democrat game plan of whine and wring hands.

Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands (M. Gessen/New York Times)

Gunboat Diplomacy Is Back. What Could Go Wrong? (David French/New York Times)  Well, David French could go wrong—and, indeed, is, habitually.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s requiem for MAGA (Christian Paz/Vox)

Frenzied Trump, 79, Posts Almost 100 Times in an Hour in Late-Night Rampage (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)  Frenzied! Rampage!

Minnesota day care hoax is fueled by MAGA psychosexual weirdness (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Hundreds of judges reject Trump’s mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

If We had a Functional Constitution, We Wouldn’t have an Illegal War (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that (Nesrine Malik/The Guardian)

This Is What Happens When America Goes Mad (Steven Beschloss/America, America)

The Week Ahead — What is Donald Trump running away from so hard? (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …)

Did Trump really invade Venezuela for oil? (Eric Levitz/Vox)

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Big Breakup (Charles Bethea/New Yorker)

The Danger and Foolishness of Trump’s Foreign Policy (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Patriots, Take to the Streets — If Washington won’t lead, we must. (Julie Roginsky/Salty Politics …)  After all, ‘the streets’ are where the virtue signals live.

Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

MAGA media link Trump’s overthrow of Maduro to 2020 election conspiracy theories (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  There’s that MAGA guy again—and apparently he has media. Who knew?

Read it.

Legacy media have echoed Democrats’ dour talking points in an effort to cast a pall on President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, but a look back at the year 2025 reveals there was significant good news to be had for those willing to see it.

Here are 10 items of good news from 2025.

Some lawmakers criticize Trump’s attack in Venezuela, fearing a costly new war (NBC News)  And apparently some don’t.

Maduro, wife face new indictment: What we know about the case (The Hill)  More accurately, what WE want YOU to THINK about the case….

The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)  And, of course, people who write for the New Yorker are THE EXPERTS on what is illegal and what is not.

Furious Dems float retaliation over Trump’s “insane” Venezuela attack (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Bring it on.

‘An illegal war’: Democratic 2028ers scold Trump on Venezuela (Politico)

Statement on Illegal U.S. Strike on Venezuela (Matt Ortega/Matt Ortega for Congress)

Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes (New York Times)  No doubt Trump patted him on the head and sent him home to his kidergarten on the Hudson.

CNN Fears Maduro’s Capture Will Start WWIII, Compares U.S. to Russia

FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claims as he discusses US raid to extract Venezuela’s president (Melissa Goldin/Associated Press)  Whenever the Narrative Media say “fact” you know they’re lying.

Saturday Morning Shows on Venezuela: ABC Claims It Could Inspire Terrorism, CBS Fumes

NBC’s Jackson Claims Maduro’s Arrest Will Harm Legal Case Against Him

Maduro likely headed for “inhumane” jail that housed Ghislaine Maxwell (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere (The Economist) I’m up for that.

US Strike on Venezuela to Embolden China’s Territorial Claims, Taiwan Attack Unlikely, Analysts Say

HHS escalates Minnesota fraud fight, prompting fear among daycare providers (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

Why Trump argues the US deserves Venezuela’s oil (Australian Financial Review)

How Trump Fixed On a Maduro Loyalist as Venezuela’s New Leader (New York Times)

In Venezuela Takeover, Trump Makes It All About The Oil (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover

Russia, China Demand That US Immediately Release Maduro From Custody

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela (Julian Borger/The Guardian)

“It looks weak”: Dems fume at their party’s response to Maduro capture (Andrew Solender/Axios)  They don’t hold many cards….

How the internet drove down regard for actual facts — and education (Philip Bump/MS NOW)  Philip Bump is, of course, one of the Narrative Media’s chief shit-losers, so this is a little rich.

Rubio remains vague on transition plan for Venezuela (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  And rightly so—you don’t tell your enemies your plans.

For Trump, the Epstein Cover-Up Beats the Truth (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Trump Plunges the U.S. Into a New Era of Risk in Venezuela (New York Times)

Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)

Democrats Claim Maduro Capture Is A ‘Distraction’

A Diminished Congress Weighs Whether to Reassert Its Power (Carl Hulse/New York Times)

Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’ (Io Dodds/The Independent)

Marjorie Taylor Greene bets the Republican troll era is over (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte, on the other hand, demonstrates that the proglodyte troll era is alive and kicking.

Mar-a-Lago Was Key to Jeffrey Epstein’s Criminal Enterprise (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

The latest effort to hold Gregory Bovino accountable for his disregard of the rule of law (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Bannon says Trump’s Iran threat echoes Hillary Clinton’s playbook (Ryan Mancini/The Hill) Funny how they only quote Bannon when they want to bash Trump.

Rep. Bacon: Congress Risks Becoming Trump’s ‘Lackeys’  Hey, they were Democrat lackeys for five decaces before Newt Gingrich kicked their asses. How about remembering what team you are on for a change?

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it. (Lauren Kaori Gurley/Washington Post)  Certainly  not any data they would publish in the Washington Poop.

Trump’s snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power (Nick Paton Walsh/CNN)  Long-awaited.

Trump faces quick criticism from Democrats over Maduro capture (Andrew Solender/Axios) My, what a surprise. If’ it had been Obama, they’d be licking his ass.

Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela (Conor Friedersdorf/The Atlantic)  Whenever they can’t think of any other complaint, they trot out the ‘risky’ (AlGore’s favorite word.)

Trump’s Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid! (Mehdi Hasan/Zeteo)  Because that’s what it would be about if you were doing it, Mehdi, doesn’t mean that’s why Trump is doing it.

Russia, Iran, China Outraged At US ‘Flagrant Armed Aggression’ On Venezuela As EU Shrugs  No better recommendation.

CNN Tries And Fails To Find Any New Negative Health Info On Trump From His WSJ Interview

Updated: Headfirst Into War (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

‘Iraq 2.0’: Democrats seethe at Trump’s surprise Venezuela strike (Politico) Seethe, Democrats, seethe!

World leaders denounce U.S. operation to capture Maduro (Lauren Floyd/Axios)

Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap (David Frum/The Atlantic)  So obvious even David Frum can see it.

Maduro Capture Operation and the President’s Duty to Faithfully Execute U.N. Charter (Ryan Goodman/Just Security)  I wasn’t aware that the U.S. President had any duty to ‘faithfully execute’ the U.N. Charter. The U.S. Constitution, yes, but the U.N. Charter?

Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro (New York Times)  Jesus, where do they come up with these twinkie names?

Trump’s Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America (emptywheel)  This is not ‘drug enforcement’. This is foreign policy. Nobody in ‘journalism’ appreciates the distinction between prophasis and aitia.

Schumer: Trump’s Venezuela Plans Should Alarm Americans  Especially Chuck Schumer.

Mamdani Calls Trump’s Venezuela Action Illegal  Name the law, Mr Mayor.

Democratic lawmakers say they were misled on Venezuela (Reuters) I wonder why? Trump Cites Leaks for Skipping Briefing on Venezuela Raid  Oh, I guess that’s why. (Democrats? Leak? Heaven forfend….)

Someone made a huge profit predicting Maduro’s capture. Here’s what happened (Herb Scribner/Axios)  And all that matters is that some evil white person made a profit.

Republicans largely back Trump on Venezuela action, Democrats decry it as unjustified (Associated Press)  This is news?

Democrats Melt Down Over Capture And Arrest Of Dictator Maduro  Had he been a ‘right-wing’ dictator, and had the President been a Democrat, they’d be falling all over themselves to kiss his ass.

Hegseth: Maduro ‘f’d around and he found out’ (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)  Not your AWFUL mother’s government.

A Criminal Empire — The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. (Spencer Ackerman/FOREVER WARS)  Some people have oil on the brain. If we switch to nuclear power, are they going to be wringing their hands all the time about uranium?

How Trump’s threats against Venezuela unfolded (Financial Times)

Newsbusters.

“Democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as the Mayor of America’s biggest city. The city that is famously home to the capitalism of Wall Street and all manner of millionaires and zillionaires, not to mention hard working, everyday Americans. And yes, New York is also the home of “legacy media” like the three broadcast TV networks, PBS, The New York Times and The New York Post et al.

Now it’s put up or shut up time for American socialists. With the “legacy media” on the scene to record the results.

Mayor Mamdani, whether he likes it or not, is now going to be under the media microscope if for no other reason then that it’s right there in New York watching the Mayor everyday. If socialism is the success Mamdani and his fellow Bernie Sanders-style Democrats insist, the media both — in New York and nationally — can be counted on to spread the word.

And if Mamdani’s socialist “solutions” crash and burn? However much the legacy media may want to downplay it, the woes of socialism will out.

Newsbusters.

On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America celebrated a new chapter in their hometown politics of New York City: the inauguration of far-left extremist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The network couldn’t hide their excitement as fill-in anchor and chief White house correspondent Mary Bruce pivoted away from a deadly Swiss night club fire, with a huge smile on her face to talk about the communist mayor. Of course, there was also mention of his controversial comment.

“And now to a new era in New York City. Zoran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor on Thursday,” Bruce beamed, parroting Mamdani’s “new era” slogan. “The 34-year-old is the first Muslim and first person of South Asian descent to lead the nation’s largest city.”

While ABC had called President Trump’s plans ‘controversial,’ that wasn’t tone given to Mamdani’s despite widespread concern. “The new mayor’s first act involved affordable housing, just part of an ambitious progressive agenda that Mamdani insists will set an example for the world,” touted correspondent Aaron Katersky.

Bias? What bias?

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

If Zohran Mamdani represents the rise of progressive politics in America, San Francisco is fast becoming the deflating counterpoint for the left.

It isn’t just that liberal lion Nancy Pelosi is on her way out or that moderate Democrats, backed by wealthy tech investors, have trounced the left in election after election over the last five years. It’s that San Francisco progressives who have been lost in a fog here — paying the price for voters’ frustrations over street conditions, homelessness and a drug addiction epidemic — have seen liberals in another big city suddenly supplant them.

At a series of meetings organized by socialists and other progressive groups here in recent months, the contrast with New York hung over the gatherings, stirring a sense of envy and anger. Many in San Francisco said it feels as if their city now belongs to the billionaire class.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a distinct ‘billionaire class that acts in lockstep.

Somebody tell George Soros to get with the program.

Jim Jordan Buries His Own Cowardice in a Cowardly Document Dump (emptywheel)

House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To. (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)  After all, your tiny brains might get the Narrative wrong. Can’t have that.

MAGA Voters F-Ed Around. In 2026, They’re Finding Out. (Julie Roginsky/Salty Politics …)

‘More Dangerous Than Francis’: MAGA Fury at Pope Leo’s Christmas Message (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)

Another Trump Tariff Retreat (Wall Street Journal)  Mistaking a maneuver for a retreat suggests that these people really haven’t been paying attention.

Health subsidies expire, launching millions of Americans into 2026 with steep insurance hikes (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)  I guess the Affordable Care Act wasn’t really all that affordable, was it. “Here, Lucy, hold this football for me.”

‘Mighty mad’: Democrats prepare to harness public anger over expired Obamacare subsidies (Nicholas Wu/Politico)  Guess they aren’t getting the Free Stuff that the Democrats promised them.

Medicaid, ICE and a ticking clock for undocumented Californians (Rachel Bluth/Politico)  Bias? What bias?

Why Trump Is Quickly Losing Hispanic Support (Wall Street Journal)  Is he really? Or is that just your wishful thinking expressing itself?

Trump’s wealth grew in 2025, but his investors took lumps (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

After Watergate, the Presidency Was Tamed. Trump Is Unleashing It. (Matthew Purdy/New York Times)  No, Republican Presidency was tamed. Democrats have always done whatever they wanted. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it’s proglodyte ass that is getting kicked.

Elon Musk created a monster that’s tearing the right apart (Andrew Prokop/Vox)  Sure he did.

The Worst Foreign Policy Blunders of 2025 (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Maduro urges Trump to abandon ‘illegal warmongering’ and start ‘serious talks’ (Tom Phillips/The Guardian)  Don’t hold your breath.

The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  I guess that’s the New Narrative.

Trump and top Iranian officials exchange threats over protests roiling Iran (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)

Trump gives away the game on his motivations for the first vetoes of his second term (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  If you think you understand Trump, you don’t understand Trump.

Newsbusters.

It was a terrible year for the British Broadcasting Corporation, which still has such an overhyped global reputation as the gold standard for media. Several websites tagged the BBC as the worst outlet in 2025, and it wasn’t really about its mangling of Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech that caused Trump to file a defamation lawsuit.

It was about the BBC’s horribly biased coverage of Israel and Gaza. Brittany Bernstein of National Review put the BBC at the top of their list of “Worst Media Misses of 2025.” The pro-Israel media watchdog Honest Reporting tagged the BBC as the “Dishonest Reporter of the Year.” And the dishonesty started early.

Both NR and Honest Reporting noted that in February, BBC executives pulled its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone after an investigative journalist found the film’s narrator Abdullah — “the emotional centerpiece of the film” — was the teenage son of a Hamas minister. Oops. And his mother had been paid by the production company responsible for the program.

Holy Hypocrisy! Orlando Sentinel Christmas Editorial Swaddles Illegals: MAGA Must Repent!

MS Now Guest Credits Trump’s Foreign Policy Approach

UGLY IN PINK: PBS Turns to Boston Globe Jerk to Accuse Trump of ‘Jim Crow’ Racism

Newsom Folds: California Ends Lawsuit Against Trump Admin Over High-Speed Rail Funding

NY Times, WashPost Alarmed Over Trump’s Christian Messages, But Were Fine With Biden’s

The most volatile group of voters is turning on Trump (Christian Paz/Vox)

What we learned about the state of the Trump coalition in conversations with 50 voters this year (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)

The judiciary’s Christmas gift to Trump (Brian Karem/Salon)

New York Magazine Desperately Clings to Hope Epstein Letter is Real

Prominent Leaders Amplify Disinformation About Brown University Shooting (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)  Whatever happens/We are taught/That it’s Trump’s fault/And never not.

Chinese Military Simulates Caribbean War Scenario Amid Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy

I Was the President’s Pardon Attorney. He’s Making a Mockery of the Pardon Process. (Liz Oyer/New York Times)  New cazareer path: Work for somebody who worked for somebody who worked for Trump, then cash in on bashing Trump. Ka-ching!

Trump calls for release of any Epstein files naming Democrats: “Embarrass them” (Joe Walsh/CBS News)

NPR Fails to Credit Trump as Crime Plummets: Prez Spouting ‘Rhetoric vs. Reality’

25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin (Ron Filipkowski/Meidas+)

Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing (David Smith/The Guardian)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

AZ Lawmaker Wants Trump Derangement Syndrome Analyzed

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture (Ashifa Kassam/The Guardian)

Trump’s Cabinet of main characters (Axios)

Only one examples is necessary.

Newly released Epstein file links Trump to murdered newborn baby dumped in Lake Michigan (David McAfee/Raw Story)

These people are not well.

Supreme Court says Trump can’t deploy National Guard to Chicago as legal challenge moves forward (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)

Supreme Court keeps block on National Guard deployment in Chicago (Devin Dwyer/Reuters)

Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago in defeat for Trump (Washington Post)

The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Media Caught Laundering Dem Talking Point into a Legitimate News Item

For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question (Steve Benen/MS NOW)

Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon (Wall Street Journal)

Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states (Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press)

Epstein Files Live Updates: Trump Referenced in Some Newly Released Documents (New York Times)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an ‘F-Minus’ (Zeteo)

19 States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors (New York Times)  All the places you want to avoid in one tidy list.

Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ has arrived for the top 10% (Sam Sutton/Politico)

Trump is talking about Greenland again (Joshua Keating/Vox)

‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office (New York Times)

Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

Judge green lights NY driver’s license law, rejecting a Trump administration challenge (Associated Press)

Judge sides with Trump over his $100K visa fee (Nick Niedzwiadek/Politico)

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here (Radley Balko/New Republic)

Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again (Marilyn W. Thompson/The Atlantic)

Trump’s claims to Venezuelan oil are part of broader ‘resource imperialism’, experts say (The Guardian)

‘It’s perpetuated this news cycle’: Frustration mounts in Trump’s orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents (Adam Cancryn/CNN)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Judge blocks Trump effort to strip security clearance from attorney who represented whistleblowers (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)

Federal Judge Bars Trump Admin’s Funding Cuts To Sanctuary States

Trump Is Suddenly Looking a Lot Smaller (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are targeting Tim Walz. Some Republicans are worried that could backfire. (Aaron Pellish/Politico)

The nation’s cartoonists look back on the year that was. (Politico)  Count up how many of them are anti-Trump.

The Other McCain.

For many years, conservatives criticized “liberal bias” in the news media, but the bias is not ideological so much as it is partisan. Most journalists seem to wake up in the morning, pour themselves a cup of coffee, and then go looking for ways to help the Democratic Party or, conversely, to hurt Republicans. Every aspect of major media coverage is shaped by this crude partisan calculus, and none of the allegedly objective journalists acting as “Democratic operatives with bylines” seem to have the slightest shame about their completely one-sided coverage.

The Foundry.

The Washington Post published an article Monday that fabricates two quotes attributed to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.

Roberts sent an email Sunday to Heritage staff announcing personnel changes at the organization. Washington Post reporters Jacob Bogage and Isaac Arnsdorf claim to have obtained the internal email, although the two quotes they cite from Roberts are noticeably different.

Below are the quotes from the Post’s article compared to Roberts’ email (emphasis added).

Sen. Paul: Oil Tanker Seizures ‘A Prelude to War’

Vance tries to weather the MAGA storm at Turning Point (Andrew Howard/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

ABC News Breathlessly Joins Fake ‘Cognitive Decline’ Drumbeat

The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead (Ezra Klein/New York Times)

Colorado Leaders Appeal Trump’s Denial of Disaster Declarations

Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (New York Times)

JD Vance is ‘walking a tightrope’ on raging Israel debate within MAGA (Natalie Allison/Washington Post)

MAGA’s Manly Manufacturing Misfire (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks.

JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’ (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast) I’m surprised it took this long.

Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts (Katharine Houreld/Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, Congolese rape survivors are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

How President Trump reshaped capitalism in 2025 (Maria Aspan/NPR) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘capitalism’; what people are bitching about is ‘industrialism’, which would be the same under socialism, as the history of the Soviet Union makes clear.

Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man (Ian Parker/New Yorker)

‘Our MAGA Civil War Is Spreading’ (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

Trump and Co. Can’t Keep Their Lies Straight (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)

Heritage staffers walk out amid latest strife at MAGA institution (Washington Post)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

Newsbusters.

As they love to do.

The year Trump broke the federal government (Washington Post)  Tell the truth: It needed breaking.

Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level (Peter Baker/New York Times) An ‘imperial Presidency’ created by Democrats, first by Wilson, then by Roosevelt.

PBS-Atlantic Freakout: Only ‘Tinpot Dictators’ Would Add Name to the Kennedy Center  Trump likes putting his name on things. No doubt the next Democrat President will remove it.

Market-savvy Treasury chief Scott Bessent emerges as unlikely MAGA warrior (David J. Lynch/Washington Post)

Redacted: Donald & Jeffrey (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …) If Trump isn’t in the Epstein files, it’s OBVIOUSLY because somebody removed him. EVERYBODY KNOWS that he was involved. EVERYBODY.

MAGA media mess deepens at Turning Point convention (Mike Allen/Axios) MAGA is the New Nigger,

Vance Addresses MAGA Infighting at AmericaFest  MAGA is the New Nazi.

Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie say they’re considering inherent contempt charges against Pam Bondi (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals (Casey Michel/The Guardian)

Read it.

In 2021 the establishment media was electrified by a discovery involving the ancient remains of a woman found over a century ago near a village in East Sussex in Britain.  The reason leftist journalists were so hyped?  A supposedly comprehensive study by “experts” in facial reconstruction had determined that the nearly 2000 year old skeleton belonged to a Sub-Saharan African person.

The remains became known as the “Beachy Head Woman” and images of her reconstructed black face circulating internationally.  This was proof, somehow, that progressives had always been right to support third world immigration.

…

The problem is, Beachy Head Woman is not African or black. Recently confirmed DNA evidence shows she was white with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was not a migrant, but born in ancient Britain.

Newsbusters.

The Bondi Beach massacre of Jews celebrating Hannukah resulted in two nasty blame-the-victim pieces, one in the far-left The Nation (no surprise, considering the author) and one in Time magazine, desperately blaming everyone but the actual Islamic perpetrators of the murders.

Marching mobs in Australia called to “globalize the intifada” – to attack Jews everywhere, not just in Israel — even before Israel had begun its counterattack after October 7, when over a thousand civilians were murdered and over 200 kidnapped, some sexually assaulted, by Hamas invaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu correctly stated that Australia had rewarded Hamas terrorism by granting recognition to a Palestinian state without any move toward reform.

The Nation’s Dave Zirin, supposed “sports editor” of the far-left rag, spends much of his column space smearing Israel as genocidal and guilty of war crimes against the Palestinians while hardly mentioning the actual terrorists, kidnappers, and rapists of Hamas. He did so again in “Don’t Listen to the Ghouls Exploiting the Tragedy of Bondi Beach.”

Epstein Files Release Highlights Clinton, Makes Scant Reference to Trump

Trump Refuses To Rule Out War With Venezuela

Judge Blocks WH From Altering Homelessness Funding Conditions

Biden White House Coordinated Mar-A-Lago Raid Before Taking Conversations ‘Offline’

Sen. Sanders to Urge Ban After Kennedy Center Renaming

Kerry Kennedy: ‘Grab a Pickax’ to Remove Trump’s Name From Kennedy Center

Kerry Kennedy says she’ll ‘grab a pickax’ to pull Trump’s name off Kennedy Center (Ryan Mancini/NewsNation)

Elise Stefanik Tried Everything to Please Trump. He Still Jilted Her. (Annie Karni/New York Times)

Trump Goes for the Stoner Vote (Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ Visa Nets Over $1B in Sales

MAGA infighting over Israel and 2028 heats up at the Turning Point USA conference (Jonathan Allen/NBC News)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump (New York Times)

Tucker Carlson inflames a raging battle for MAGA’s future (Washington Post)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Man accused of towing ICE SUV during LA immigration operation found not guilty (NBC Los Angeles)

Storied Law Firm Pays Brutal Price for Surrendering to Trump (The Daily Beast)  Losing all of their DEI hires? That’s a feature, not a bug.

Trickle release of Epstein files on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties (Sam Levine/The Guardian)

Brooks Claims ‘Gigantic Portraits’ Of Trump Remind Him Of ‘The Stalin Era’  David Brooks licks the hand that feeds him.

White House Made Bizarre Demands for Trump’s Bogus Peace Prize (Adam Downer/The Daily Beast)

Colbert’s Christmas Cartoon Has Trump, ICE Arrest Santa

There’s a 92 Percent Chance Trump Is Making It Up (Marie-Rose Sheinerman/The Atlantic)

DOJ Likely Pulled Photo of Trump from Released Epstein Files (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Pride of Caste: Another Book on TDS

Newsbusters.

A radio anchor for the George Soros-controlled KCBS 740 AM “All News Radio” station who had the gall to unmask the vehicles of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in the gang-infested San Jose, California area in January has reportedly been demoted after MRC Business took him to task.

Anchor Bret Burkhart elevated the unmasking of “undercover” ICE agents from the leftist Rapid Response Network, which fights against deportation initiatives during the January 26 edition of KCBS Radio Weekend News. To make things worse, he gave exact descriptions of the vehicles the ICE agents were reportedly using, including specific locations. NewsNation confirmed January 27 that the agents were conducting an operation in the area around that time, meaning their cover was potentially blown and they were placed in significant danger.

MRC Business immediately cut the audio and published it in an investigative report detailing the incident in addition to the radio station’s connection to Soros. In February 2024, Soros purchased $400 million, or a 40 percent stake, of the bankrupt Audacy in February 2024. Notably, Audacy, which is America’s second biggest radio company, features or streams at least 16 powerful 50,000-watt radio stations, which means that their coverage is especially widespread. KCBS 740 AM was one of the stations prominently listed in that deal. At the time, FCC bizarrely fast-tracked Soros’s purchase of the radio giant — which was also backed by foreign money — and dubiously allowed him to skirt the rigorous review process for such acquisitions.

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It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America’s 2024-25 winter was pretty cold, too. It’s gotten to the point that “polar vortex” is a phrase on just about everyone’s lips.

Of course, you are surely aware—as those of us with doubts about inevitably disastrous global warming were often told—that there’s a difference between weather and climate. Weather is anecdote, climate is longstanding trend. And the longstanding trend in climate, we have been told this entire past quarter-century, is toward a hotter climate all over the world, with multiple catastrophic consequences.

Now, we seem to have reached an Emily Litella moment—the moment when, on the now half-century-old “Saturday Night Live” program, the befuddled character realized that she had misheard and misinterpreted some anodyne comment and had been propounding an absurd theory, and dismissed it with a hurried, “Never mind.”

Newsbusters.

PBS News is still riding the wrecked transgender train. One would have hoped PBS would have hopped off the discredited movement, given the increasing piles of evidence on the consequences of irrevocable “gender-affirming” operations, the lack of science backing up the emotional blackmail claims of the movement, and the departure of trans-obsessed reporter Laura Barron-Lopez.

But reporter William Brangham actually outdid Barron-Lopez in his anti-journalistic transgender-teen advocacy and euphemistic tendencies in Wednesday’s segment. There is no dissent allowed. It’s the most sensitive profile imaginable, or you can call it propaganda, an infomercial, that makes the red states sound repulsive for opposing trans “rights.”

The story is a follow-up to a 2023 story about a “transgender” male teen, now named Leah, whose family was feeling persecuted in close-minded Texas. Now they’ve moved to more tolerant Colorado, where the schools feature stories about gay teens.

We are fortunate that most ‘transgender’ surgeries result in their defective genes being removed from the gene pool. Evolution is a stone-cold bitch.

Newsbusters.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales denied that the online encyclopedia has banned right-leaning sources, only to reference an example of that practice in the same discussion.

In a Wednesday interview with The Verge, Wales responded to growing accusations of bias and Wikipedia’s ban on sources such as Breitbart. His answer? An admission disguised as a denial: “We don’t completely ban sources. We may deprecate them and say, ‘Well, it’s not preferred as a source. We’d rather have something better.’”

Wales then went on to further minimize the impact of Wikipedia’s effective blacklist by suggesting that the list merely elevates sources like The New England Journal of Medicine over sources like Breitbart.

In reality, Wikipedia’s own “Reliable sources/Perennial sources” list proves that the platform does blacklist media organizations, including Breitbart, The Heritage Foundation and Project Veritas. Other right-leaning outlets are effectively sidelined through deprecations and usage restrictions, most of which are not imposed on left-leaning sources.

The Media Research Center has repeatedly exposed the severity and real-world impact of this blacklist, which goes far beyond prioritizing peer-reviewed journals over right-of-center news organizations.

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Apparently blatant editorializing in place of straight news now seems to be becoming increasingly the rule not the exception at the Associated Press.

The latest example of AP breaking its own rules against opinionating in news stories is so blatantly absurd as to be laughable. The AP on Thursday actually took the November inflation rate of 2.7% which was below the expected 3.1% and somehow turned that good news into a negative. Check the headline on AP reporters Paul Wiseman’s and Anne D’Innocenzio’s editorial poorly disguised as an article, “US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren’t feeling it.”

Yes. AP can not only determine that the data might be distorted but also somehow channel the feelings of millions of Americans to report it as an absolute fact. The very negative editorializing about lower than expected inflation continues in the body of the editorial/article.

The New Neo.

Susie Wiles is supposed to be a savvy and hyper-knowledgeable political advisor. And yet she gave an interview to Vanity Fair and apparently thought the periodical would treat her – fairly? What planet does she live on?:

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center (NBC News)

Mexico Asks UN to Step In Amid US-Venezuela Standoff  Good luck with that.

The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist (Scott Lincicome/The Dispatch)  “State corporatism” is what Democrats do, not Trump. Another example of libtard projection.

For Hegseth, There Is One Boat Strike He Doesn’t Want the Public to See (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

Dems Freeze Coast Guard Nominee Over Hate-Symbol Clash

44 Chained Outside S.F. Immigration Court Arrested

Trump’s war on Europe (Martin Wolf/Financial Times)

The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It. (Wall Street Journal)  An effort they did not put into mapping the Biden Crime Family.

The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Dude, he wasn’t talking to you.

ICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues (WVUE-TV)  Find a person who checks their horoscope every day in the papar, and I’ll bet you’ve found a liberal Democrat. Find a person who identifies as “wiccan”, and I’ll bet you’ve found a liberal Democrat. Find a person who believes in the healing power of “crystals”, and I’ll bet you’ve found a liberal Democat. Yet these people claim to be superior because they have “science” on their side.

The lasting impact of Trump’s federal surge on one D.C. neighborhood (Washington Post)  Jerk those tears! Jerk those tears!

Threats Against Judges Could Lead to a Judicial System Crisis (New York Times) There already is a judicial system crisis with judges putting ideology ahead of the law.

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (New York Times)  Getting pretty desperate in their ‘coverage’, it seems.

Fast, harsh, alone: Trump beams into prime time with uncertain results (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  Getting pretty desperate in their ‘coverage’, it seems.

The Bravofication of American government (Christian Paz/Vox)

Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State’s Election Vote in 2020 Call (New York Times)  Boy, that’s news.

Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Fact-Checking Trump’s Prime-Time Address on the Economy (Linda Qiu/New York Times)  Come gitcher Narrative, right here.

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  Perhaps if we repeat this lie enough times, people will believe it.

Breaking precedent, networks interrupt prime time for Trump political diatribe (Popular Information)  What precedent? The President is always accommodated when he wants’ to make a prime-time speech. What rock have these people been living under?

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming–but Were Ignored and Maligned (Toby Buckle/New Republic)

She’s Married to the Architect of Trump’s Darkest Policies. She Wants America to Love Her. It’s Not Going Well. (Tess Owen/Slate)

Why a single word disappearing from the FCC’s website matters for press freedom (Tom Jones/Poynter)

Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls (David Smith/The Guardian)

Ill. Mayor Confronts Border Chief Bovino Amid Operation

US Judge Plans To Block Hundreds Of Trump Admin Layoffs

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks (Washington Post)

Watch Rep. Sarah McBride’s Powerful Statement on Republicans’ Anti-Trans Obsession (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)

Trump’s Bad Economy Is Even Worse Than It Looks (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Federal Judge Won’t Block White House Ballroom Construction

Whoopi Claims ‘Warrior Dividends’ Are Bribe to Follow Illegal Orders

One of Trump’s grudges now threatens America’s weather forecasts (Marianne-Lavelle/Vox)  Because, as everybody knows, weather forecasts are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Judge dismisses complaint against Miami land transfer for Trump’s presidential library (Kate Payne/Associated Press)

“It’s a disgrace”: Dems rage over “Trump-Kennedy Center” renaming (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Newsbusters.

On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia. Instead the discussion clung to wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville march, ignoring the even more virulent anti-Semitism constantly on display at pro-Hamas marches in Australia and America alike for over two years running.

Victor Davis Hanson.

A lot of officials in the Trump Cabinet are under a lot of criticism, as we’d expect, from the Left. But one has, I think, both got more criticism and more unfair criticism than any other Cabinet member. And that’s Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war—the newly renamed Department of Defense.

Let’s just review a little bit of his record because it does not justify the level of invective that the Left, and even some people on the Right in Congress and the Republican Party, have unfairly attacked him.

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By omitting the long trail of failed UN climate pronouncements, ignoring the dramatic decline in climate-related deaths, and treating speculative model outputs as inevitable futures, PBS and the Associated Press badly mislead their audience concerning the true state of the Earth. A truly public-minded broadcaster would carefully scrutinize the UN’s record and available data rather than uncritically regurgitate its latest false alarm report.

Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)

Trump Pushes Back on Criticism of Reiner Comments  And rightly so. TDS and the sort of dysfunctional family life that lead to Reiner’s murder proceed from the same Woke roots. Rich liberals and celebrities have a hard time creating a normal family life for their children (when they even have them), and the combination (rich liberal celebrities) is overwhelmingly a predictor of bad outcomes. Nothing is more common than reports of celebrity ‘nepo babies’ struggling with various addictions and generally making a hash of their lives. That the Narrative Media take is supremely intellectually shallow is unfortunate, but not unexpected.

‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’ (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)  Yeah, young people are no longer buying what the Wokerati are selling, and they can’t cope.

Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and ‘any’ prescription meds history (Matt Naham/Law & Crime)

Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

BREAKING: Trump Dances on Rob Reiner’s Grave (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

Pentagon says it’s “escalating” Kelly review to “official” investigation (Axios)

Eager for Center Stage, Patel Casts Aside Caution in Statements as F.B.I. Leader (New York Times)

Trump attack on Rob Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base (Washington Post)

Republicans rebuff Trump’s post on Rob Reiner (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)

CEOs Are Learning to Live With Trump’s Turn to State Capitalism (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)  “State capitalism” is, of course, a meaningless term, crafted only as a stick with which to beat Trump.

Trump Widens the Breach (John Dickerson/The Atlantic)

Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Who doesn’t know that?

Trump has signed more executive orders in 2025 than in his entire first term (Washington Post)  Having ceased to be Mr Nice Guy.

Call them ‘Nuzzi Pox’ (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE)

The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Raskin to introduce bill to require review of White House renovation plans (Arden Farhi/CBS News)

Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff On Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) (Vanity Fair)

Words & Phrases That Have Lost All Meaning (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit, as she so frequently does.

Four Supertankers Reverse Course As Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Against Venezuela Accelerates

Trump’s war on democracy is failing (Zack Beauchamp/Vox) There is, of course, no ‘Trump war on democracy’, merely a Trump war on Democrats.

“Quite a buffet”: U.S. ready to seize more tankers with Venezuelan oil (Marc Caputo/Axios)

California Sues Trump Admin Over $33 Million Withheld Due To Trucker English-Proficiency Rules  Imagine the absurdity of requiring truckers to understand English!

The Psych-Ward Presidency ??? Another tranche of sour economic data came down from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

Susie Wiles Calls Explosive Vanity Fair Story A ‘Disingenuously Framed Hit Piece’ (Paige Lavender/HuffPost)  Why was she so stupid as to consent to an interview?

Former Trump Adviser Eviscerates President’s Shocking Response to Rob Reiner Murder (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

The Administration’s Drug Boat Strikes Are Crimes Against Humanity (Charlie Trumbull/Lawfare)  If humanity consisted of drug-users.

The Situation: Why Can’t Kash Patel Shut Up? (Lawfare)

FBI doubted probable cause for Mar-a-Lago raid but pushed forward amid pressure from Biden DOJ, emails reveal (Brooke Singman/Fox News)

Judges Are Getting Fired as Trump Pursues Immigration ‘Purge’ (Bloomberg)

‘We’re Doing Pirate Now’: SNL’s Trump Brags About Seizing Tanker, Shooting Santa

The Longest Suicide Note in American History (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  No, not the DNC platform.

DHS Rebuts Rep. Omar Claim ICE Stopped Son: ‘No Record’

Trump’s Vile Rob Reiner Comments Show How Much He Has Debased His Office (Sasha Abramsky/The Nation)

Sen. Mark Kelly calls Pentagon investigation into his remarks a move to chill military dissent (Associated Press)

Newsbusters.

On Monday afternoon, MS NOW host Katy Tur provided a forum for an anti-gun leftist journalist to call for changes in the law so that gun makers can be sued over shootings.

Near the beginning of the show, Tur recalled the increase in mass killings in schools since the Columbine attack in 1999, and played a prerecorded clip of Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) from 2023 predicting that an answer to school shooting would not originate in Congress. The MS NOW host then responded to the soundbite:

Bill McKibben: “Trump … assault on environmental norms is more shrill than confident”

EXCLUSIVE: How Trump’s ‘Convicted Felon’ Label Could Soon Vanish

Why Won’t Senators Stand Up to Trump? We Asked 3 Who Called It Quits. (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

Tiniest Trump Scandal of All Time? New State Department FONT Policy!

CNN’s Collins Plays Dems Game On Epstein Photos, Jennings Points Out ‘Smear’ On Trump

Trump’s library plan: An ‘iconic building’ in Miami and a ‘fake news wing’ (Washington Post)

Murphy: Trump on ‘deliberate campaign to make violence more likely’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)

Poll: Trump’s MAGA base is still behind him — but cracks are showing ahead of 2026 (NBC News)

Poll shows the (unlikely) way Trump could win over Dems (Anna Wiederkehr/Politico)

Trump administration races to finalize tariff payments — and hamstring possible refunds (Politico)  Hamstring!

Stop criticizing Trump’s bad economy. You’re making him sad. (Rex Huppke/USA Today)  Bias? What bias?

Nobel Prize Winner Machado: Trump Is ‘Champion of Freedom’ for Hemisphere

Trump-Deranged Margaret Brennan Plays Maduro Advocate for Machado Interview

CNN’s Dana Bash Lets Democrat Senator Say Trump’s Deliberately Increasing Violence

FAITHLESS: NBC’s Welker Assents as Warnock Calls Trumpism ‘A Plague’

National Trust Sues Trump Admin Over White House Ballroom Project

Trump is weaponizing fear against me and other immigrants (Rep. Ilhan Omar/MS NOW)

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. (ProPublica)  Because, as everybody knows, preventing deaths from cholera in foreign countries is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen? (Washington Post)

Trump served McDonald’s to connect with voters. Now, many feel they can’t afford it. (Peter Nicholas/NBC News)

‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country (Cassidy Randall/Politico)

The Erika Kirk and Candace Owens feud is tearing MAGA apart (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

Wisconsin Judge Faces Trial for Stopping Courtroom Arrest of Migrant in Trump Crackdown

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit, as he so often does.

One big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 (Washington Post)  As if the Washington Poop would know the difference.

The Indiana GOP’s defiance shows how Trump is losing juice (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s Promised Big Tax Cuts Are Expected to Disappoint the Average Worker (Caitlin Reilly/Bloomberg)  Expected by the Narrative Media, that is.

Here’s How Markets Have Performed Since The Start Of America’s MAGA Experiment

Trump’s Diversity Rollback Ends Crucial Aid for Deafblind Children Like Annie Garner (New York Times)  Becuase, as everybody knows, aid for deafblind (is that really a word?) children is TOTALY the responsibility of the Fedeeral government—and the Federal taxpayer.

MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Trump is Losing it — Donald Trump is losing it. He is losing more court cases (e.g. … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit, as she so often does.

Trump=Hitler Scarborough Now Says America’s ‘Doing Better Than Ever’!

MAGA Turns on Trump Over Deranged Rob Reiner Post (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

MAGA breaks with Trump on mocking Rob Reiner’s killing (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

White House Rages at MAGA Senator Over Anti-JD Vance Plot (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Republican lawmakers slam Trump’s “inappropriate” posts on Rob Reiner (Axios)

Look in a Mirror: The View Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From, Lie About Trump

Greene criticizes Trump over Rob Reiner Trump derangement post (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Trump’s Post Attacking Rob Reiner After Stabbing Death Draws Immediate Outrage (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)  Attacking? It told the bare truth.

Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash (Amy B Wang/Washington Post)

Republicans Condemn Donald Trump Over Vile Remarks About Rob and Michele Reiner (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)

“Very bad for our country”: Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner attacks (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

Media Wield Lefty Anti-Trump Group Agitprop, Claim Holiday Gift Prices Are Up 26%

Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)  Well, yeah—what’s your point? Denmark is smaller than Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state. What do they expect?

Immigrants Once Avoided Some Regions of America. That’s a Big Reason We’re So Divided. (Colin Woodard/Politico)  SCRAAAAPE that barrel….

PBS Accuses Trump Of ‘Overtly Racist Rhetoric’  As it does EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.

Seized Tanker Reveals Cuba’s Secret Oil Lifeline As Trump Turns To Gunboat Diplomacy

Kevin Kruse on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy (Public Notice)

Trump tech adviser David Sacks under fire over vast AI investments (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots. (Lauren FitzPatrick/Chicago Sun Times)  Rake that muck! Rake that muck!

The lawyer behind Vought’s bureaucracy crackdown (Sophia Cai/Politico)

Trump Is Losing the Reasonable Majority (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)  E. J. Dionne wouldn’t know ‘reasonable’ if it bit him on the ass.

Frum Dons Tin Foil Hat, Says Trump May Arrest People To Stop Them From Voting

If He Builds It, Tear It Down

Trump leans into isolation as challenges mount at home (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)

Trump takes first step in possible bid to control D.C.’s public golf courses (Rick Maese/Washington Post)

What Kind Of Caesar Will Trump Be?  One without croutons, hopefully.

Newsbusters.

Americans were barely done polishing off the Thanksgiving turkey left-overs when various media outlets began targeting, of all things, Christmas. Apparently, this is clickbait.

NewsBusters.

I’m not sure I’d ever bet against Elon Musk.

Newsbusters.

The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

At the tail end of 2025, The Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.

Who knew?