Newsbusters.

They call their newsletter “Politico Pro,” but it can sound more like “Politico Promo.” Take reporter Andrew Howard with his embarrassingly unskeptical pitch for funds on Monday, “Anti-Trump former Republicans have a multimillion-dollar plan to save House Democrats.”

When you hear the name “Lincoln Project” you should check your pocket to make sure the contents of your wallet are still intact. A co-founder of the Lincoln Project, Steve Schmidt, is back at the political money trough searching for funds using the name of the Save America Movement (SAM). And all they say they need is about $100 million.

Supreme Court, Minus Alito, Rejects Case Against Trump

AP Editorializes All Over Pipe Bomber Arrest as DOJ ‘Rewrite of History’ of January 6

Trump May Be Getting Ready to Blow Up the Model of a Presidential Library (Luke Mullins/Politico)

Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  Anne Applebaum loses her shit.

Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)

Mainstream Media Jumps On Bogus Narrative That J6 Pipe Bomber Was A Trump Supporter

Former FDA commissioner: Trump claims about hepatitis B transmission ‘simply not true’ (Max Rego/The Hill)

In the Line of Fire — During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)  TDS will do that.

Trump’s foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again (Andrew O’Hehir/Salon)

Jamie Dimon Blames ‘Militarizing’ Govt in Debanking Trump Media

Dimon on Trump Media debanking: ‘People have to grow up here’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Compromise defense bill stymies Trump on Europe troop withdrawals (Connor O’Brien/Politico)

Former MAGA loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump policies are not America First (Lesley Stahl/CBS News)  Which, indeed, they are not. But they’re the closest we’ve come in my lifetime.

Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like “an atom bomb,” scientists there say (Michael Kaplan/CBS News)

‘I am America First’: Marjorie Taylor Greene knocks Trump for not focusing on domestic issues (Scott Wong/NBC News)

‘Only so long’ before Trump’s tariff costs hit consumers, businesses warn (Daniel Desrochers/Politico)  Why, it’s a sure thing—as sure as Global Warming, as sure as sea-level rise, as sure as ….

Trump’s battle with independent agencies is back at the Supreme Court (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)  He’s won so far.

Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric (Washington Post)  Perhaps he realizes (as the Washington Poop does not) that ‘drug offenses’ are one of the Deep State’s favorite tools to suppress people they don’t like.

PBS Creeps Up to Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal, Fixates on ‘Xenophobic’ Trump

Venezuela’s Maduro, shaken but still standing, aims to wait out Trump (Washington Post)  He’s got three years to go.

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal (ProPublica)

The Trump show hits the stage (Politico)  You can almost hear the sniffing of the noses in the air.

Let’s call Trump’s anti-Somali hate for what it is (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Trump’s ‘hate’ for Somalis is nothing compared to their hatred for America. At least we know whose side Noah Berlatsky is on.

Is This The End of the Free World? (Paul Krugman)  Paul Krugman loses his shit.

Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out. (David Ovalle/Washington Post)  Rural America wouldn’t be depedant on foreign doctors were it not for Federal restrictions on medical residencies. This artificial block on the number of doctors who can be trained in America is the problem, not Trump.

All Gas. No Brakes. Trump Quakes. (William Kristol/The Bulwark) Kristol fakes.

The second strike isn’t the only problem (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The War Over Nick Fuentes Is Over. He Won (Tessa Stuart/Rolling Stone)  And it BURNS, doesn’t it, Tessa?

RINO ALERT: Anti-Trump former Republicans have a multimillion-dollar plan to save House Democrats (Andrew Howard/Politico)

DOJ attacks judges for criticizing Halligan appointment (April Rubin/Axios)

A Scholar’s ‘Bombshell’ Questioned Trump’s Power to Fire Officials (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  ‘Bombshell’? Try squeaky whine.

Humphrey’s Executor: SCOTUS weighs Trump’s power to fire (Axios)

Supreme Court Hears Fight Oover Trump’s Power to Fire FTC Membes

Trump Wants Complete Control. Will the Supreme Court Hand It to Him? (Kate Shaw/New York Times)

Harvard Poll: Trump Outperforms Congress by 19 Points

ICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and ‘unlawful threats’ (Bobby Allyn/NPR)  They ought to be arrested for obstructing justice.

WH: Report Trump Wants to Fire Noem ‘Fake News’  As it so often is.

A Dozen F.B.I. Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at Protest (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Ex-FBI Agents, Fired for Protest Kneeling, Sue to Get Jobs Back

‘Total Lie’! MS NOW Hosts Fulminate Over Illegal College Kid Deported to Honduras

Supreme Court conservatives poised to back Trump in FTC firing case (Reuters)

Mamdani Moves to ‘Trump-Proof’ New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)

Supreme Court seems ready to let Trump fire independent commissioners (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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If there is one robust trend visible here, it is not in rainfall but in rhetoric: the persistent escalation from modest signal to grand conclusion. Until that trend reverses, the distance between climate data and climate discourse will continue to grow—and with it, public confusion about what the numbers truly mean.

UPDATE: Rationality Returns to Australia as Climate Scare Wanes

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Anyone expecting tough questions from CBS’s Margaret Brennan to U.S. Representative Ilham Omar was sorely disappointed at the end of this week’s Face the Nation. Brennan instead provided a tour-de-force in media coddling, as Omar was the beneficiary of a kid-gloves interview that cast her as the victim of unfortunate events beyond her control.

This coddling of Omar is, as was noted by our own Tim Graham, part of a broader pattern seeking both to shield Omar from her connections to the Somali welfare scam currently roiling the state of Minnesota and to Trumpwash the scandal by focusing on President Donald Trump’s reference to Omar as “garbage” during a recent Cabinet meeting. As a reminder: Trumpwashing is that media tactic that suppresses any and all coverage of a Democrat scandal until President Trump reacts to it, then shifts coverage to turn Trump’s reaction into the scandal, as opposed to the scandal itself.

Judge Rejects Trump Admin’s Bid to Toss Guantánamo Migrant Detention Suit

Have Trump’s Tariffs Gone as High as They Can Go? Businesses Hope So (Ana Swanson/New York Times)

Trump Weighs Moving on From Noem (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark) More mind-reading from the Narratve Media.

The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East (Sasha Polakow-Suransky/Financial Times)

DHS Rejects Claim ICE Ran Over Man’s Leg

Trump won’t quit the filibuster fight. Thune can’t give him what he wants. (Alex Gangitano/Politico)

Media Elitists Attack Trump’s Cruel Shutdown Strategy But Hail Democrats’ Great Retreat 

Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads (Jason Horowitz/New York Times)

Trump’s Top Advisers Wage Campaign to Shift His Focus to High Prices (Wall Street Journal)

Inside Trump’s transformation of the Kennedy Center (Betsy Klein/CNN)

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court (Sahara Sajjadi/Copper Courier)

Conservative Project at Supreme Court Meets Trump’s Push to Oust Officials (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows (NBC News)  Yet.

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown (Robert Klemko/Washington Post)

Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)  “Echoes” means “seems like it to us”, the people who see racism as far as the eye can see.

Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest (Washington Post) My, what a surprise.

For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)

National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump’s birthday (David Klepper/Associated Press)

America’s affordability crunch is real — and worse under Trump (Financial Times)

Trump’s son suggests president may walk away from Ukraine (Nahal Toosi/Politico)

Trump on Cuellar running as Democrat after pardon: ‘Such a lack of loyalty’ (Sophia Vento/The Hill)  Expecting loyalty (or even gratitude) from a Democrat is like expecting honesty from a … Democrat.

Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal. (Jeh C. Johnson/New York Times)  Let’s not confuse what The New Hitler did with what The Magic Negro did.

Trump vows to slam America’s doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants (Robert Tait/The Guardian)

Homan defends Trump after president calls Somali community ‘garbage’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)

Amid Chuckles, CNN Dumps Out Early From ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ Presentation To Trump

From shooting to Slim Jims, immigration agents’ poor tactics made for needless safety risks, experts say (Chicago Tribune)

Trump sours on Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar after issuing pardon (Jacob Wendler/Politico)  Gee, I wonder why?

Land War or Self-Terrorism? (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)

The New Neo.

I’ve certainly tackled giving explanations for the TDS phenomenon before, but the topic came up again today in this thread (see especially the first comment and the many responses to it). So I thought I’d add a bit more.

Dems claim Trump officials withheld critical info in classified briefings (Stephen Neukam/Axios)  If it was classified, how do they know?

Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says (Associated Press)  Source says! That proves it!

Judge blocks provision of law that strips Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood affiliates (Politico)

‘Evil and disgusting’: Sabrina Carpenter condemns White House’s use of her song (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Funny thing about that—I would have said the same about Sabrine Carpenter.

AFSA: State Department Intends to Violate Congressional Mandate (afsa.org) AFSA (American Foreign Service Assocation) is the labor union (in the Clever Plastic Disguise of a ‘professional association’) for foreign service employees, as NEA is for teachers.

House Dems say Trump administration is scapegoating an admiral (Mike Lillis/The Hill)

ICE-Busted Ill. Cop in US Illegally Back on Duty

Trump appears to doze off in another meeting (Washington Post)

State becomes the latest agency to proceed with RIFs despite statutory pause (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)

The Last Criminal Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)

Minnesota officials defend Somali community against Trump’s attacks (Brad Brooks/Reuters)

US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Trump backs Monsanto in Roundup litigation (Rachel Frazin/Associated Press)  The swine!

Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)  I know the feeling.

Vittert: Arguing Over International Law Pointless, Trump Always Wins

Sen. Rand Paul: Hegseth Either Lying or Incompetent

Pope Leo Confronts Trump: Don’t Invade Venezuela — and No “Solo Deal” in Ukraine (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)  The days are gone when anybody listened seriously to the Pope of Rome.

RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS…under Biden (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)

Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations (Minho Kim/New York Times)  The swine!

Trump invites America’s wealthiest to fund his presidency (Zachary Basu/Axios)  Unlike Democrats, who depend on forced contributions from taxpayers. I like Turmp’s way better.

Judge Limits Immigration Arrests in D.C.

Doodling, drowsiness and a conspicuous misspelling highlight Trump’s last Cabinet meeting of 2025 (Associated Press)

Trump Says He Does Not Want Somalis in the U.S.  Nor does anyone with any sense.

What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency (Marc J. Dunkelman/New York Times)

For Trump, Even the National Guard Shooting Is About Immigration (Mona Charen/The Bulwark)  That’s because it is. National Guard members were shot by an Afghan immigrant. How is that not about immigration? We are importing people from the Turd World whose values are not our and whose impulses lean them to crime. How is that not about immigration?

Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional. (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump: Omar ‘Garbage,’ ‘Don’t Want’ Somalis in US  Concur.

Trump used a slur against Tim Walz. Many on the right didn’t mind (Eric Garcia/MS NOW) Nope. Sure didn’t.

Maddow Suggests Trump’s America Is Akin To Japanese Internment  Which was done by a Democrat.

Family of victim in alleged Trump ‘drug boat’ killings files first formal complaint (Aram Roston/The Guardian)  Good luck with that.

Trump Faltering in Face of Lower Courts (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  If it weren’t for Trump, Jennifer Rubin wouldn’t have a job.

Trump said he was ‘sharper than I was 25 years ago.’ Then he spent an hour appearing to doze off – again (Aaron Blake/CNN)

Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism (David R. Lurie/Public Notice) “Trumpism” means “anything we don’t like”.

Pete Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” is plain old cowardice (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Transcript: Trump White House Rages at Pop Star Who Nailed MAGA “Evil” (New Republic)

Leaked memo exposes flimsy legal basis for Trump boat strikes (Miles Taylor/DEFIANCE.News)

Don Jr.’s Venture Fund Set to Cash In on $620M Magnet Deal With Trump Administration (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Trump calls Ilhan Omar ‘garbage’ and says Somalis should ‘go back to where they came from’ (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News) Concur.

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder (Elie Mystal/The Nation)

Newsbusters.

ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t suspended for very long for preposterously claiming that Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer, Tyler Robinson, was a right-wing MAGA type. In the wake of Kirk’s killing, the media aggressively played dumb, claiming the motive was “elusive” and “complicated.”

Now we’re seeing the effects of the misleading coverage. According to a November 25 McLaughlin & Associates national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted for the Media Research Center, less than a quarter of respondents correctly described Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, as left-wing.

Newsbusters.

It took about a week, but it is our duty to report that the Minnesota Somali welfare scam has finally been reported on Elitist Media nightly news. Unsurprisingly, the network to break the seal was NBC.

Record-setting personnel issues are marring Trump’s second term (Politico)

What Trump didn’t say — With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine, Ali Bianco and Rachel Umansky-Castro (Politico)

Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump says Hegseth denied issuing order to kill boat crew (Washington Post)

Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’ (Miranda Devine/New York Post)  “Goveernment service’ at the upper levels is always inevitably about resumé-building: Upper level jobs rarely last beyond two years, and always top out at four, because a new administration wants it’s own people in place. Exceptions to this rule (and every rule has exceptions) in the last decade can be counted on the fingers of two hands.

Despite Supreme Court Wins, Elite D.O.J. Unit Has Seen Mass Turnover (New York Times)  See above comment about resumé-building—the time to take advantage of ‘Supreme court wins’ for a lawyer is while they are fresh in everyone’s memory. “Law firm X is hiring attorney Y, fresh off of wins in the Supreme Court.” The career usefulness of a government job is a rapidly depreciating asset. The news would be that there isn’t mass turnover.

Lawmakers warn Hegseth may have committed war crimes following second-strike report (Jacob Wendler/Politico)  ‘War crimes’ is the New Nazi.

Watch: Unrepentant Trump Unloads On Fake News Reporters

Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime? (Paul Krugman)  Paul Krugman: Evil or just stupid?

‘Time is not our friend’: Health care scramble begins amid mixed signals from Trump (Jordain Carney/Politico)  Imagine a world in which the health care industry is not depedant on ‘signals’ from a politician.

War Crime…or Murder? (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Jennifer Rubon: Evil or just stupid?)

A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact (ProPublica)  They say that like it was a bad thing. It’s certainly a backhanded criticism of the Trump administration.

GOP lawmakers lack confidence in Trump’s plans to tackle costs (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  More mind-reading from The Hill.

Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba is unlawfully serving as the US attorney for New Jersey, appeals court says (Kara Scannell/CNN)

Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney (New York Times)  I guess that’s the New Narrative.

The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke (Kurt Schlichter/Townhall)

‘Inside NYT’s Hoax Factory’: Trump’s AI/Crypto Czar Dismisses Hit-Piece As ‘Nothing Burger’

When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)  It’s all Trump’s fault because Orange Man Bad.

‘Kill Them All’ Sums Up Trump’s Policies Perfectly (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

France & UK Still Insist On Sending Troops To Ukraine, In Effort To Sabotage Trump Peace Plan

Morning Digest: A major election year is unfolding in D.C. as the city is besieged by Trump (The Downballot)

War Department: WashPost ‘Falsely Quoted’ Hegseth on Narco-Boat Strikes  As they do.

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. (The 19th)  Not a word about her being here illegally and therefore a felon. Giving birth to a defective baby apparently absolves all sins.

Schumer: Trump pardon of former Honduras president ‘truly disgusting’ (Al Weaver/The Hill)

Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders (New York Times)  If you’ve got Trump Cooties, the Narrative Media will slime you every day.

ICE coming for Minneapolis after Trump targets Somalis (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

Why Trump’s Presidency Is All But Over: James Carville (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)

Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)  Many of them are.

Trump, 79, Can’t Keep Eyes Open in Marathon Cabinet Suck-Up (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again) (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  Nothing else is sticking, so we’ll throw this against the wall and see what happens.

A sickening moral slum of an administration (George F. Will/Washington Post)

The New York Times Busts WaPo Over Bogus Hit Piece On Hegseth

Judge Halts Trump Bid to Cut Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood

A Few Bad Men (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)

Ilhan Omar Argues She Should Be Able To Stay In Horrible Country She Hates (Babylon Bee)

Minnesota Added To Trump’s Third-World Travel Ban (Babylon B ee)

Newsbusters.

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings was the only (and first) flagship morning or evening newscast to mention the special election in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District to fill an R+10 seat, but the kudos should stop there as the two-minute-and-25-second piece was a puff piece for far-left Democrat — State Representative Aftyn Behn — by ignoring any number of incendiary statements she’s made that include her hatred of Nashville….which is part of the district.

“Voters in Tennessee have an opportunity to send the Trump administration a very strong message today. That’s because there is a special election to fill a congressional seat in the Nashville area. The President won the district a year ago by a wide margin but this race is very close after last month’s elections….A lot of people are watching this one,” co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King began, greasing the skids for her fellow leftists.

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Most glaring with Valdes choosing to ignore Behn as having said she “hates” Nashville. Our friend and former NewsBusters intern, Greg Price brought that old clip to light on November 19.

Newsbusters.

Whether it’s MSNBC or MS NOW, this network fully supports the disruption of border enforcement. They hail it as “nationwide resistance.” On Sunday’s The Weekend: Primetime, they promoted an effort in New York City where a crowd of anti-ICE activists tried to stop federal agents from exiting a parking lot.

Or as Palestinian-American community organizer Murad Awawdeh of the New York Immigration Coalition declared, they were “putting their bodies on the line to defend their neighbors.” Illegal immigrants are commonly described as “neighbors.” How dare they deport the “neighbors.”

Co-host Elise Jordan asked Awawdeh, a former president of the Muslim Democrats of New York, if these were “spontaneous protesters” or did they get a call, leading him to explain,

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When you’re on Team MS NOW, you think there’s nothing funny going on when Jim Acosta starts lecturing about civility in press briefings. During his time at CNN, Jim Acosta may have been the rudest White House reporter in modern history, but only with one president. On Saturday’s Velshi, substitute host Charles Coleman welcomed in Acosta and fellow White House screamer April Ryan.

Coleman asked for Acosta’s reaction to how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt excused Trump trying to silence a rude reporter with a “Quiet, Piggy.” Typically, the liberal journalists think you can exhibit maximum rudeness to Trump – like calling him Hitler – but he is now allowed to be rude in return. But his strategy in response – for the anti-Trump press to stop covering Trump until he behaves – would be a huge win for the White House.

Acosta insisted that any boss in any newsroom would be fired for being this rude to a female reporter.

None Dare Call It Treason: The Republican Party Is Compromised (Stuart Stevens/Lincoln Square)

“The Order Was to Kill Everybody.” (Charlie Sykes/To the Contrary)

Trump Cites US Immigration Code for His ‘Permanent Pause’

Watch: ‘Seditious’ Kelly Doubles Down On Military Mutiny Call

Democrats Sue After Trump Cuts SNAP Benefits For Alien Migrants

NYC Protesters Now Using Barriers to Halt ICE Agents

We Have Descended into Utter Madness (David Rothkopf/Need to Know)

Chaos In New York As Trained Activists Try To Block ICE Operations

ICE protesters clash with cops at NYC government building after reports of agents rounding up illegal migrants (New York Post)

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)

Liberal Tears! White House Launches ‘Media Offender of the Week’ Page

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison (Sarah Stillman/New Yorker)

Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge (ABC7)

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends (New York Times)

In a time of crisis, Trump falls back on rants rather than unity (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)  In Narrative-speak, ‘unity’ means ‘the Democrat way’.

All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)

Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s ‘retribution campaign’ (Washington Post)

How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill (Eva McKend/CNN)

He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress. (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Bar in deep red Idaho delights Trump administration by offering free beer to anyone who helps deport illegal migrants (Victoria Churchill/Daily Mail)

Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime (Michael Gold/New York Times)

PBS Guest Sportswriter Salutes ‘Incredible Kneeling’ of NFL Players Backing DEI vs Trump

Stephen Miller’s Wife Rips CNN’s Phillip For Allowing Her Husband To be Called A ‘Nazi Jew’

Republicans’ health care homework is due – and they’re panicking (Paul Waldman/MS NOW) On their planet.

The emerging MAGA fractures (Adam Wren/Politico)  This appears to be gthe New Narrative.

Surging measles cases are ‘fire alarm’ warning that other diseases could be next (Erika Edwards/NBC News)  This is a not-so-subtle dig at Robert Kennedy (anti-vaxxer) ant through him Donald Trump (Orange Man Bad!) with a view toward promoting another Pandemic Panic (OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!_). Tedious Narrative Media handwringing.

Walz Demands Trump’s MRI Results After Unhinged Slur Attack (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)  Trump should demand a look at Walz’s testosterone levels.

Joy Reid, Lefty Nuts: ‘Illegal’ Is New N-Word, Vances Should Split, Trump Has Dementia

Trump singles out Minnesota’s Somali community after D.C. shooting (April Rubin/Axios) The horror! The horror! (Intifada Chant in Dearborn Before D.C. Attack Surfaces)

Denmark Sets Up Overnight ‘Watch’ to Track Trump Statements

The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  Tortured!

Is Trump’s Third World Immigration Ban A Precursor To The Insurrection Act?

Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power (José Luis Granados Ceja/Drop Site News)

Oregon Warns DOJ, DHS Over ‘Reckless’ Immigration Arrests

New York Times Trolls Trump: Low-Energy Don Shows ‘Signs of Fatigue’

MS NOW Analyst: Trump’s FBI Purge Led to Charlie Kirk’s Death

Pentagon’s right-wing, pared press corps gets a meet-and-greet (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

MAGA’s Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  Proglodytes always love to accuse their targets of doing what they thenselves are doing.

PBS Pundits TRASH Trump, Not the Shooter, After National Guard Members Were Shot

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And that’s because that’s what they are?—a terrorist orgnization. A ‘risk of violence’ comes with the package.

Following in the New York Times’ footsteps, National Public Radio rallied around the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the discredited, Hamas-linked Islamic pressure group gilded as a Muslim “civil rights organization” by its allies in the elitist press.

Andrew Schneider, senior reporter for politics and government at Houston Public Media, penned a blandished defense for Houston public media on Monday, a version of which aired on NPR itself Tuesday.

Americans are buckling under medical bills. It could get worse. (Amanda Chu/Politico)  This is, of course, a not-so-subtle dig at Trump for not rolling over on Obamacare subsidies.

Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side? (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  Riussia! Russia! Russia!

Clown Car Diplomacy (Dan Rather/Steady)

The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)  The problem is not crime in D.C.—the problem is Orange Man Bad. (Shooting suspect drove across country to target National Guard members: Officials (Reuters))

Where Trump Sees Deals, Russia and China See a Chance to Disrupt U.S. Alliances (Wall Street Journal)  They could depend on Obama and Biden to disrupt U.S. alliances all by themselves. Trump, not so much.

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. (The Boston Globe)  The Narrative Media, by this constant drip—drip—drip of tear-jerking stories, attempt to hand-wave away the simple fact that IF YOU ARE NOT HERE ILLEGALLY YOU WILL NOT GET DEPORTED. (19-year-old college student deported despite judge’s order blocking her removal: Lawyer (Laura Romero/ABC News))

Kennedy Katch and Kill Kontinued (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)

White House Tells Reporter To “Shut The F**k Up” for Saying National Guard Should “Never Have Been” In DC

Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)

Trump vows to ‘permanently pause’ migration from poor nations in anti-immigrant social media screed (Josh Boak/Associated Press) Screed!

Trump says he may cut income tax ‘completely’ because of tariff income (Reuters)

More than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention policy (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008 (Paul Krugman)  Since Krugman has been wrong with every prediction he’s ever made, I am optimistic.

Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post)

Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  On their planet.

How Trump made his Justice Department a tool for retribution (Vox)  As Biden had made his.

Trump Uses National Guard Shooting to Cast Suspicion on Refugees (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)  And rightly so.

There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  I guess that’s the new Narrative.

Trump’s Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low (Megan Brenan/Gallup)

NY AG James sues Trump admin for trying to block green card holders from SNAP benefits

Newsbusters.

After a disgraceful front-page smear against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this month, (Actual headline: “Ron DeSantis Is a Veteran. So Are 7 Inmates He’s Sending to Execution”) the Orlando Sentinel has continued to use that valuable space to place ridiculous stories involving ICE and immigration, running three sob stories on its front page over a span of eight days.

The Orlando Sentinel’s November 19 front-page headline, “Sanford grandfather to remain in ICE custody — Retired optician faces deportation for criminal past.”

Sounds awful, doesn’t it? But there’s a little more to the story (by Jeffrey Schweers, who regularly files anti-DeSantis hit jobs for the paper) as DeSantis himself, with an assist from Executive Office communications staffer Christina Pushaw pointed out on X: “Good grief the legacy media is shilling for a convicted rapist. That is your sob story?”

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CNN This Morning’s group chat offered a number of excuses for the Afghan immigrant’s shooting of National Guardsmen.

CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton began by claiming that anyone can be radicalized, pointing to Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber! If ours is a country of 350 million potential mass murderers, all the more reason not to add to the count by admitting millions of lightly-vetted foreigners!

Leighton went on to say that the Afghan’s struggles to make ends meet after coming to US might have set him off. Seriously? Perhaps he should have stayed in Afghanistan, that land of plenty!

Meghan Hays, a CNN commentator and former Biden aide, claimed that the fact that the Afghan shot at point-blank range proved that he was a “crazy person’ with “mental illness.”

Seventy-two virgins ring a bell, Meghan? Are all the “martyrs” insane?

Inside lobbying efforts to make the Mar-a-Lago foreign worker visa a staple of MAGA (Diana Nerozzi/Politico)  MAGA’S GOT STAPLES! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Trump Admin. Faces 20-State Lawsuit on Assistance Cuts

Rep. Eric Swalwell sues housing official who’s made multiple criminal referrals for Trump critics (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)

Why is Trump accusing a former astronaut of treason? (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office (New York Times) He’s still ten times better than Biden—and twenty times better than Kamala.

Keystone Kash’s Girlfriend’s Closest Held Secret Revealed (The Daily Beast)

Trump hijacks turkey pardon with Biden, Pritzker jabs (Josephine Walker/Axios)  Hijacks!@

Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation (James Surowiecki/The Atlantic)

We Are Approaching the MAGA-Trump Event Horizon (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

“America First” scars loom over Trump’s Venezuela campaign (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees. (Washington Post)  Orange Man Bad.

Trump’s Retribution Push Has Expanded Even as It Hits Legal Barriers (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)  Retribution!

Bill Pulte and Ed Martin’s shitposting legal strategy (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Larry Bushart Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme. He Went to Jail for 37 Days. (Greg Lukianoff/New York Times)

Turkey Day With a Turkey President — No Morning Shots tomorrow or Friday … (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

Virginia Assistant Principal, Brother Arrested for Plot to Kill ICE Officers

Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting (Reuters)  You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

Diplomacy for Sale: How Witkoff and Co. Cut a Deal with Russia (Garry Kasparov/The Next Move)

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On Tuesday, the far-left podcast I’ve Had It — hosted by vile white female pundits Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan — illustrated why it personifies the hate-filled miserable liberal base by tag-teaming with twice-failed former MSNBC host Joy Reid to hurl bile at our friend Scott Jennings and accuse the wider Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement of being a terrorist organization willing to “commit jihad” for “proto-fascist” President Trump.

Welch brought up Jennings just past the nine-and-a-half-minute mark and said he’s someone who gets on Reid’s nerves. Reid began by alluding to a recent appearance on her own show by CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip — who owes her employment status to Jennings — and whining Jennings possesses “a disingenuousness to a lot of Republicanism.”

Ex-feds join forces to reimagine government post-Trump (Sean Michael Newhouse/GovExec.com) The Deep State strikes back.

“It’s A Tinder Box”: GOP Members Consider Following MTG Into Retirement, Say White House Treats Them ‘Like Garbage’

Scarborough Ooze: Democrats ‘Brilliant,’ Republicans Stuck Defending Illegal Orders

Trump’s revenge campaign falls flat (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump (Bolts)

The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution This Time Around (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Trump’s lawfare takes a big L (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Mike Huckabee Is Peddling Sleep Supplements While Serving as Ambassador to Israel (Dave Levinthal/NOTUS)

DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy (Paul Krugman)

Trump’s weird war on “terrorism” (Joshua Keating/Vox)

Trump’s DOJ purge backfires as courts toss Comey, James cases (Andrew Pantazi/Axios)

Kimmel, Meyers: Mamdani Proves Trump Works With ‘Human Vomits’ And ‘Charmless Goons’

Trump’s Broken Promise to Confront Corporate Power (New York Times)

MAGA influencer Benny Johnson’s job is to have no principles. Business is booming. (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He sure gets around.

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge (Popular Information)

What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign? (Maura Judkis/Washington Post)  I’m happy that they have nothing more important to write about.

Amateur Hour At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (The Bulwark)

Trump Is Usurping Congress’s Power of the Purse (Mark Sandy/Lawfare)

I Served in Congress During Trump’s First Term–I Know Exactly Why the GOP Majority Is Falling Apart (David Trott/The Daily Beast)

Why a BBC libel suit could be risky business for Trump (The Hill)

Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths (Amudalat Ajasa/Washington Post)  Which rule was overly restrictive.

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters (ProPublica)  Maiming Protesters sounds like a great name for a video game.

Concha: Media’s ‘Death-By-Innuendo’ Attack on Trump Will ‘Boomerang’ on Democrats

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Democrats whipped themselves into a frenzy trying to manufacture a “gotcha” moment for President Trump and the GOP over the Epstein files.

According to Bloomberg data, the headline count in MSM for “Epstein” erupted on the day when President Trump signed a spending bill to reopen the federal government after Democrats caved. This was nothing more than a headline deflection by Democrats.

But in recent days, the Epstein story count in MSM has fallen off a cliff. You don’t hear much from the Democrats who chanted “release the files” every day …

Newsbusters.

Last week on November 17, 26-year-old Bethany MaGee was randomly attacked and set on fire while riding a Chicago commuter train, leaving her with life-threatening injuries. A suspect was apprehended hours later and has an unfathomable 72 prior arrests, but was still allowed to roam the streets in a Democrat-run city defended by the left as anything but a criminal hotbed.

Given this incident underscores the urgency shown by President Trump to address crime in major U.S. cities, the liberal elites at CBS and NBC have omitted this story from their flagship morning and evening newscasts.

ABC wasn’t much better with only one full, 79-second segment back on the November 19 World News Tonight. Anchor David Muir — who often lacks the ability to speak in complete sentences — announced: “Tonight, federal terrorism charges after a horrific attack on a commuter train in Chicago. Prosecutors say the suspect see on surveillance allegedly setting a woman on fire. Tonight here, we do have news on her condition.”

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The sordid tale of the “Seditious Six” has taken on a new dimension, with the Pentagon now hinting at an investigation of Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who is a retired Navy Captain. In light of these developments, it appears that ABC has chosen to run crisis comms for him rather than fully report on the ramifications of the video stunt he willingly participated in.

The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Federal Judge Orders End To National Guard In DC

Mamdani Stands by Trump Criticism Despite Friendly White House Meeting

Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers (Bloomberg)

NY Times Standards Editor Compares Pro-Trump Christians to Worshippers of the Golden Calf

GASLIGHTING: Sunday Shows Platform ‘Seditious’ Congresscritters

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)  Because he is?

“Quite frankly I was pissed off!” Growing online page chronicles Trump Justice Dept. resignation letters (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)

Union Asks Judge to Order Trump Officials to Fund US Consumer Watchdog

Appeals Court to Rule If Trump Can Ban AP From Oval Office

NBC Host Kristen Welker Nudges Smear from Mamdani: Repeat for Me, Trump’s a ‘Fascist’

The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump (Frank Bruni/New York Times)  Democrats always accuse their opponents of what they most like to do themselves.

PBS ‘Washington Week’ Host Rips Trump’s ‘Unmanaged Anger’ at ‘Ignorable’ Orders Video

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison (Sarah Stillman/New Yorker)

Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)  And many pro-Muslim personalities are lying through their teeth. (X Location Tool Exposes Fake Gaza Accounts Soliciting Donations)

How Trump has upended a president’s pardon power (Washington Post)  At least his staff aren’t using an autopen to do it for him.

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

We’re Led by an Administration of Liars (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

Appeals Court Upholds Halt on Trump’s Expedited Migrant Removal Plan

PolitiFact Carefully Selects ‘Legal Experts’ to Defend Democrats on ‘Illegal Orders’

Trump To Execute All Turkeys Pardoned By Biden’s Autopen (Babylon Bee) If I were President, those turkeys would be on the table.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Hints at Divisions in Trump’s Movement (New York Times)  Oh, ya think?

What Trump’s Mamdani praise — and MTG’s ouster — says about MAGA’s future (Politico)  The usual mind-readers deposit a load of scat.

Trump’s Proposed Ukraine ‘Deal’ Is a Disgrace (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)  Can’t think of a better recommendation that that Friedman hates it.

Trump refused to send disaster aid to Chicago after 2 devastating storms (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Because, as we all know, providing aid after local disasters is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)  Torn!

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Expansion of Rapid Deportations

Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win (Nicholas Grossman/Arc Digital)  More mind-reading.

CNN Invokes Nazis’ Nuremberg Trials Amid ‘Unlawful Orders’ Dust-Up

Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset (Daniel Hannan/Telegraph)  So?

MS NOW’s Jason Johnson Rejoices Over Anti-ICE Tire Slashing in Charlotte

The surprising issue driving a wedge between Trump and his MAGA base (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

At Harvard-Yale Game, Rivals Come Together Against Trump Administration Attacks (Mark Arsenault/New York Times)  Gee, what a surprise.

Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation (David French/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

The Neo-Right’s Multi-Front Revolt Against America (William Galston/The UnPopulist)

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)  In his dreams.

CBS News poll finds most would oppose U.S. military action in Venezuela, say Trump hasn’t explained (Anthony Salvanto/CBS News)  How surprising.

AI Clash Opens Rift Between Trump, MAGA Base  How many times do we have to remind people that Trump is not a ‘conservative’?

Fact-Checking Trump’s Latest Claims on Affordability (Linda Qiu/New York Times) In the Narrative Media. ‘fact-checking’ means ‘lying about anything that contradicts the Narrative’.

Zohran Mamdani says he still believes Trump is a ‘fascist’ and ‘despot’ after White House meeting (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)  He’s young yet.

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity (Bill McKibben/The Guardian)  I could say that same about Democrats.

“Groceries,” and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump (emptywheel)

Aftermath of Chicago’s intense immigration crackdown leaves lawsuits, investigations and anxiety (Associated Press)

PBS Panel Hits Trump’s ‘Misogyny,’ Gallantly Defends ABC’s Compromised Mary Bruce

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Placing Conditions On Federal Disaster Funds

Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to “scrape ICE out of their stores.” (Itzel Luna/Los Angeles Times)

Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)

Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)  Artually, it exposed major ‘Palestinian’, fake IDF, and supposed ‘American’ accounts as foreign actors.

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How did we get Trump? This video shows some insight into one reason why Trump ran (love of country is the other reason) and why he is steamrolling over certain lefty Democrats. I never watch the correspondence suppers, my contempt for much of the media was already formed by the time this happened. I have heard funny clips from these dinners but not these clips. Perhaps the media didn’t want to showcase how intolerable their own kind were. Perhaps I wasn’t listening to Rush the day he played it, if he even knew about it.

I saw this clip for the first time this morning and so much more makes sense. The scorn they showed him, the utter lack of respect of him, the joy they had in mocking him in public, we can relate. That is the same scorn we Trump supporters have felt for over 10 years from both sides of the aisle. Heck, there are even a few on ricochet who could use a dose of self-reflection. I’m not referring to those who merely dislike Trump and offer polite disagreement, but to those whose posts and comments reek of the same insulting condescension as the people showcased in the video had. No, we don’t fall for the cowardly explanation that the insulting posts exist to teach us about Trump. Trump isn’t on ricochet so he won’t see them. Trump supporters on ricochet see them and are the target, well, not me anymore. Ignoring them works.

Thanks to ricochet’s moderation, posts here remain mostly civil, unlike the sewer that other social media sites have become. Insulting posts about Trump that push the limits of the CoC will probably continue but who is really the butt of the crude comments and jokes? Trump, his supporters, or the writers?

Watch the Whole Thing.

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abortion. Pushing abortion pills after the repeal of Roe v. Wade is heroic in their eyes. On Wednesday’s PBS News Hour, health care reporter Sarah Varney spent almost ten minutes glamorizing an “underground network” of abortion pill distributors in pro-life states. It’s “underground” enough that PBS helpfully hid the identities of all their heroines, avoiding head shots and using aliases.

Transparency took a beating for these headless leftists, but the elitist media love the way it makes America look like a dangerously backward place.

Varney noted six out of ten abortions are now achieved with pills, which is why Varney is touting these brave pill-pushers. She started by attending a training session for doulas: “Their teacher, who goes by Ashaba (ph) to protect her identity, is part of an underground network. She helps people in states where abortion is illegal get access to abortion medication…. Ashaba says this word-of-mouth network stretches south from Illinois to Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.” So she’s the Harriet Tubman of infanticide.

Democrats seek police action on Trump’s ‘threatening’ social media posts (Washington Post)

CNN Hacks Tearing Hair Out to Explain Trump Economy It Spent Months Saying Was ‘Terrible’

Watch: Construction Sites In Charlotte Go Dark As Illegals Hide From ICE

Judge puts hold on IRS sharing taxpayer info for immigration crackdown (Danny Nguyen/Politico)

Vance Urged Bezos to Make the Washington Post Even More MAGA (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)  There’s taht MAGA guy again—and apparently he worlds for the Washington Poop. Who knew?

Military Court to Look Into Democrats’ ‘Sedition’ Video

Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew the Question Wide Open. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Ariz. AG Seeks to Revive Case Against Trump’s 2020 Allies

Chicago Rejects DOJ Grants Tied to Trump’s Immigration Policies

MS NOW Guest Insinuates Trump’s a Pedo, Might Start War to Distract From It

The Long Con Comes To An End (Phillips P. OBrien/Phillips’s Newsletter)

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor (Daniel Han/Politico)

Capehart Bristles At The Idea That Calling Trump An Authoritarian Is Bad

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats (Washington Post)

Has Trump’s Power Peaked? (Norman Eisen/The Contrarian)

Media Strike at Trump as Trump Strikes Narco-terrorists

The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)  Lots of mind-readers in the Narrative Media these days.

Newsbusters.

Dominating the cover is a sparkling Taylor Swift on stage somewhere, with guitar, arms flung wide open, big smile on her face as she apparently is singing one of her hit songs.

Just below her are six previous TIME Person/Man of the Year covers from over the decades. They feature:

• “The Guardians and the War on Truth: The Staff of the Capital Gazette on December 9” – Prominently listing the murder of journalist 
• President-elect  Jimmy Carter (in January of 1977 for 1976, the year Carter came from political nowhere to win the presidency)
• Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono as “The Good Samaritans” for 2005
• The American Soldier featuring three uniformed soldiers in fighting gear for 2003.
• Greta Thunberg: The Power of Youth in 2019
• President-elect Barack Obama in 2008

PBS Recruits Bishop to Bash Trump on Immigration, Is Chided on Church’s Trans Stance

Trump Expands Offshore Drilling, Colliding With Newsom

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard in D.C. (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Judge rules Trump’s National Guard deployment to D.C. is illegal (Joe Walsh/CBS News)

Democratic hawks defiant after Trump accuses them of ‘seditious’ act (Mark Satter/Roll Call)

Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death,’ for urging military to ignore illegal orders (NBC News)

Our Depressing Vaccine Future Laid Bare on the C.D.C. Website (Jessica Grose/New York Times)

Karoline Leavitt Defends Trump’s ‘Quiet, Piggy’ Insult By Suggesting We Should Be… Grateful? (Lydia O’Connor/HuffPost)  You ought to be grateful that he talks to you at all.

Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Trump DOJ Defies Another Court Order in Abrego Garcia Case (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

House Dems Report Trump’s ‘Death Threats’ to Capitol Police

Split Screen: ‘MySafeSpace’ and the Collapse of whitehouse.gov (Azza Cohen/The Contrarian)  Evidently ‘contrarian’ means ‘fully invested in the proglodyte Narrative’.

Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees (Jack Jenkins/RNS)

Vance pleads for ‘patience’ on the economy in sharp departure from Trump’s rhetoric (Adam Cancryn/CNN)

PREDICTABLE: Nets Trumpwash Congressional Democrats’ ‘Seditious’ Video

Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies (Katie Benner/New York Times)

‘HANG THEM’: Trump Boosts Message Calling For Executing Democrats In Congress (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  The delusion is strong in this one.

Democrats fear political violence after Trump accuses Congress members of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’ (The Independent)

Congressional Republicans Begin to Look Beyond Trump (Carl Hulse/New York Times)

Radio Free Europe’s Hungarian service shuts down after Trump funding cuts (Justin Spike/Associated Press  As the name makes clear, Radio Free Europe was founded to transmit real news behind the Iron Curtain. Last time I looked, the Iron Curtain no longer exists.

Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

Party of one: Trump chews up and spits out his inner circle (Neal Rothschild/Axios)

Federal Judges Uphold Several North Carolina US House Districts Drawn by Republicans

Trump’s All-but-Forgotten Border Wall Reaches an Angry Laredo, Texas (New York Times)  If you get an outfit, you can be a cowboy too.

Grenell Hits WH, NY Times on Kennedy Center: ‘We’re Making Money’

Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly (New Republic)  They hope.

Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico (Adam Downer/The Daily Beast)

Jake Tapper on President Trump’s suggestion that 6 Democratic lawmakers be executed for sedition (CNN)  Trump, of course, made no such suggestion.

Judge Shreds Lies and Provocations of ICE Barbie’s Goons (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s Policy Failures Are Even Worse Than We Realize (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)

Brace Yourself for … Full. Blown. Panic. (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hanged Them. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …)  But Lincoln would have.

Transcript: Trump’s Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Backfires Badly (New Republic)

Another Undaunted City (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Apparently ‘contrarian’ now means ‘fully invested in the proglodyte Narrative’.)

NFL Coach Schools Trump After He Trashed Rule Change (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

Trump had a bad week. Fox News polling suggests things are going to get worse. (Philip Bump/MS NOW)  They hope.

Swalwell Announces He’s Running For Governor As Kimmel Calls Trump ‘Horrifying’

MAGA Disarray And The Accumulated Debt Of Corruption (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Seems pretty on message—for the Narrative—to me.

‘Look In The Mirror, F*** Face’: Stewart Rants At Trump-Supporting Mamdani Critics

Politico Senior Writer Now Admits Epstein Files Release Unlikely to Harm Trump

30-Year JAG Veteran Schools Democrats for Video Calling for Sedition in the Military

The Washington Poop, paper of record for the Deep State.

More accurately, ‘spending the most on politics’. Leftists have this delusions that spending money equals influence, which for them I guess it does, but Michael Huffington can testify that spending more than your opponent doesn’t guarantee a win.

The 20 most prolific donors on the Forbes billionaires list have collectively given nearly $5 billion between 2015 and 2024, spending on everything from state ballot measures to congressional elections and presidential races. Some have concentrated on supporting issues of interest. Finance billionaire Jeff Yass has poured millions into supporting pro-school-choice candidates in his home state of Pennsylvania and across the country.

While some billionaires have given similar amounts to both parties, the most prolific donors gave almost exclusively to one party. In federal races, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman gave just under 90 percent of his total donations to Democrats and liberal committees; all the other top 20 donors were even more lopsided. Nobody gave over $5 million to both Republicans and Democrats.

Considering how much power the government has over the economy, who, having money, wouldn’t spend it to influence the people who could confiscate all of that money if they had a mind to?

Newsbusters.

New York Times Houston bureau chief J. David Goodman sounded aggrieved in his Texas-based story in Wednesday’s paper, “Texas Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a Terrorist.” This is how liberal papers routinely describe leftist agitators. They’re “civil rights groups.”

As for the phrase “Muslim Civil Rights Group,” the Times is actually talking about the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Hamas-linked Islamic pressure group. “Civil rights group” should not describe a radical group whose national executive director Nihad Awad declared himself happy about the October 7 massacre by Hamas — a story covered by the Times in December 2023 but ignored in this new story. “I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land,” Awad said.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has also designated CAIR a terrorist group.

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As she did just over a year ago, Alyssa Farah Griffin, the faux conservative for ABC’s The View, came to the defense of Vanity Fair editor Olivia Nuzzi, the liberal journalist who cheated on her then-fiancé Ryan Lizza with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During Thursday’s episode, Farah Griffin proclaimed floozy Nuzzi was “one of the best writers of my generation” and hoped she “will come forward and defend herself” from new allegations of sleeping with another politician and a former MSNBC host.

Near the top of the segment, moderator Joy Behar was perplexed that people had a problem with a journalist having affairs and sleeping with their sources: “And her ex-fiance, who’s also a political reporter, is writing a blog claiming that she had an affair with yet another politician. Okay. (…) So, what’s wrong with that?”

“The problem is that’s unethical under journalism standings,” co-host Sunny Hostin had to explain to her. “I mean you can’t sleep with a source because there’s an immediate conflict of interest in your reporting. And she gave glowing reports – She wrote glowing reports about the two men that she allegedly had affairs with.”

‘Lies, smears and AI deepfakes’: DHS tackles fake news about ICE (Anna Giaritelli/Washington Examiner)

Jen Psaki Exploits Epstein Victim in Failed Attempt to Implicate Trump

Judge Reopens Contempt Probe of Trump Deportation Flights

Judge Boasberg says “justice requires” him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Judge Boasberg to resume contempt proceedings over Alien Enemies Act deportations (Politico)

DOJ Sues California Over Mask Ban, ID Rules For Feds

The Trump Steamroller Is Broken (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)  He hopes.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real And It’s Driving Therapists Crazy

NBC Promotes Churches Hosting ICE-Spotting Seminars

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy (New York Times)  Like the Biden Crime Family?

The word Trump hates to say (Politico)  According tot he mind-readers at Politico, anyway.

Trump-Marjorie Taylor Greene breakup shakes MAGA: ‘Mom and Dad are separated’ (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)  Apparently Gossip Girl writes for the Washington Poop.

The lame duck dictatorship (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)

How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Is Trump Starting to Correct His Course? (Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal)

Newsbusters.

Sunny Hostin, the staunchly racist co-host of ABC News’s The Views, was on a roll this week between declaring on Monday’s show that America was “founded” on “racism and slavery;” then doubling down on Tuesday’s edition of their Behind the Table podcast, saying “this country still is sickened” with such things.

In a bitter rant during Monday’s show, reacting to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s comments attacking America for not electing a woman yet, Hostin gave her take “as an afro-Latina” lashing out at America as racist:

If you include all of the anti-white racism, she’s probably correct.

Democrats Explicitly Tell Spy Agencies, Military To Disobey Trump (IJR)

Trump Attacks Another Female Reporter After ‘Piggy’ Rant (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)

Trump again threatens ABC’s broadcast license, this time over Epstein questions (Irie Sentner/Politico)

Trump’s Justice Department may have accidentally handed Democrats five House seats (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Trump faces criticism for referring to female Bloomberg reporter as ‘piggy’ (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)  My, what a surprise. (The reporter in question has been snubbed by Trump before. Apparently she refuses to let him finish a sentence before she asks another accusation-disguised-as-a-question.)

Trump’s Scheme to Give the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)  They hope.

ICE and CBP Officers Face Unprecedented Surge in Vehicle Ramming Attacks (Department of Homeland Security)

Slotkin Leads Dems Urging Troops to Disobey Trump

Trump Meets Business Partner In the Oval Office (Russ Choma/Mother Jones)

Federal appeals court rejects Trump’s ‘meritless’ case against CNN (Brian Stelter/CNN)

The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown (Reuters)

The White House Gold Rush Is On (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It (New Republic)

Brutal New Poll Shows Just How Badly Donald Trump Is Tanking On Epstein And The Economy (Reuters)

Trump Was Working With Putin The Entire Time (Phillips P. OBrien/Phillips’s Newsletter)

Kimmel, Chieng See Ulterior Motives In Trump’s MBS Meeting

Oregon City Declares State of Emergency Over ICE

This Is All John Roberts’ Fault (Mother Jones)

Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds (Sharon Lerner/The Guardian)

The Epstein Saga Has Only Just Begun (The Bulwark)  I’d hate to see how long it takes before the end gets here.

“What Has Become Of Us”: Rosie O’Donnell May Have Just Handed Trump A Golden Defamation Lawsuit

Nearly all immigrants detained in Trump Chicago raid had no criminal conviction (Roque Planas/The Guardian)  They keep repeating that as if it mastters. If they are here illegally, they are felons. It doesn’t require a ‘criminal conviction’ to arrest them and deport them.

Trump is in Full Retreat (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin sniffs her own farts.

19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months (Ron Filipkowski/Meidas+)

Rep. Ro Khanna cracks the MAGA coalition over the Epstein files (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)  Who?

Snapshot: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim (Steven Beschloss/America, America)

OMITTED: Networks Avoid Democrat Video Calling for Military Personnel to Disobey Orders

Anxiety Over Trump’s Crackdown Alters Life for Many Immigrants, Poll Finds (New York Times)  Wow, what an amazing insight.

A Top Republican Wanted to Reclaim Congress’ Spending Authority. The White House Stopped Him. (Oriana González/NOTUS)

ABC Colleagues, Fellow Libs Rush to Mary Bruce’s Defense After Trump Tussle  The Crust takes care of its children.

Dems Aim to Curb Donors as Trump Builds New WH Ballroom  Goodness, there’s a dog in that manger. Wonder what he’s doing there.

Appeals Court Halts Limits on Immigration Agents’ Response to Chicago Protests

Honor and Shame in the Era of Trump and Epstein (Robert Reich)  Clinton fossil Robert Reich loses his shit.

Head Twister! CNN Actually Admits ‘Trump Is Right: He Lowered Some of Your Costs’

Trump shrugged off Khashoggi’s killing. This is a new low (Jodie Ginsberg/The Guardian)

Gretchen Carlson: Trump treatment of female reporters ‘despicable’ (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)  And their treatment of him is equally despicable.

Newsbusters.

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared on CNN News Central on Tuesday afternoon to hawk his latest book worshiping the Kennedys, but the appearance turned into an embarrassing outing as two of his broad proclamations about contemporary politics turned out to be wildly false. Between claiming the Senate was going to stymie the release of the Epstein files and suggesting the Washington Post never criticized the Saudi crown price visiting the White House, Matthews’ assertions were blown up in his face by CNN journalists.

Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  Difficult to square with the fact that he’s spent the year putting Democrat faces in the toilet and flushing it. Progs really live in an alternate universe.

Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S. (Jeffrey Schweers/Orlando Sentinel)  What part of i’llegal immigrant’ do these people not understand?

Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear. (Allyson Chiu/Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, clinical trials are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Pence group rips Trump’s drug pricing plan in new ad campaign (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)

High Hamburger Prices? White House Blames Biden and Migrants. (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)

Trump Threatens Latin America But Leaves US Strategy Unclear (Bloomberg) God forbid we should have a strategy without broadcasting it to the world.

Trump says he would be ‘OK’ launching strikes in Mexico to fight drug smuggling (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)  So would I.

Trump revives policy penalizing immigrants for using safety net programs (Alice Miranda Ollstein/Politico)  No, I don’t believe that.

Trump says he won’t rule out sending troops into Venezuela (Washington Post)

Appeals Court Halts DOT Restrictions On Commercial Driver’s Licenses For Illegals

Ecuador voters rebuke pro-Trump president (Financial Times)

Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: ‘Quiet Piggy’ (Meredith Kile/People)  I wonder how long he’s wanted to say that?

New Yorker: Trump Occupies ‘Negative Space’ in Epstein Files (As In Nothing There)

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays (John Keough/This Week in Worcester)

OMISSION: Elitist News Media HIDE Shocking New Trump Shooter Details

EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Why Trump can never win on Epstein (Politico)  Because the entire Narrative Meedia is going to beat this dead horse until he leaves office.

Judge Upholds New York Law Barring Immigration Agents From Courthouses

Trump’s team tried to walk back these false claims. He won’t let them (Daniel Dale/CNN)

Trump Threatens To Cancel World Cup In Seattle After Election Of ‘Communist’ Mayor

‘We Have To Just Keep Doing It’: Amanpour and Stewart Hail Anti-Trump Activism

The New Russiagate: Networks Bury Trump With Over 800 Minutes on Epstein

Oversight: Dems Caught Red-Handed in Epstein Hoax

Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is. (David French/New York Times)

Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ — warned us about (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation (CNN) Boy, they’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel for headlines.

On MS NOW, Schlossberg Calls RFK Jr. ‘Dangerous,’ ‘A Rabid Dog’  Yeah, I have uncles that I felt that way about.

How a tech billionaire philanthropist got caught between Trump and San Francisco (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

Indiana Republican called out by Trump on redistricting is swatted (Adam Wren/Politico)

Sen. Shaheen: Trump Venezuela Push Risks US Readiness

‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family (Sean James/Mediaite)

The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’ (New York Times)

Trump’s investigation into Epstein ties to political foes might be ‘smokescreen’, Republican says (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)  Republican says! That proves it!

Trump’s message to MAGA (Politico)  More important, of course, is Politico’s messae to Trump.

Why Trump can’t make the Epstein scandal go away (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Ummm, because the Narrative Media are propping it up? That’s just a guess, you understand….

The Unraveling of the Justice Department (New York Times)

The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  In his dreams.

Trump defends Tucker Carlson for interviewing white nationalist Fuentes (Amy B Wang/Washington Post)

Trump’s biggest tell is the policy he doesn’t talk about (Derek Thompson/The Argument)  More mind-readers in the Narrative Media.

The ‘Easy Way’ to Crush the Mainstream Media (Gilad Edelman/The Atlantic)  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

150 Years Of Data Destroy Democrat Dogma On Tariffs: Fed Study Finds They Lower, Not Raise, Inflation

Dems to Try Peg Their Housing Crisis on Trump in ’26

The Supreme Court made a horrible mistake when it gave Trump absolute power (William S. Becker/The Hill)  Which, of course, it didn’t.

Democrats eye housing affordability as next weapon against Trump (Washington Post)

‘He got tired of me winning’: How Thomas Massie outmaneuvered Trump on Epstein (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)

As Trump Looks for Distraction on Epstein, Justice Dept. Rushes to His Aid (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)

ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights (Gillian Brockell/American Prospect)

We need to talk about JD (Thor Benson/madness)

Joy Behar: Trump Incited Threats With ‘Traitor’ Chide, But She Used It Against Him

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)

Networks Bemoan ‘Fear,’ ‘Rising Tensions’ in Charlotte Over ICE Raids

Newsbusters.

In the past week, the Apple News aggregator entirely excluded right-leaning media outlets in its top 20 daily stories.

During the week of Nov. 8-14 Apple promoted articles from NPR, The Washington Post and NBC, but Fox News Digital was notably missing from the Apple News daily lineup. Fox News Digital is the third most-visited news site in America according to Statista’s list of “[l]eading global English-language news websites” calculated by monthly visits. New York Post and Daily Mail are not far behind. However, not a single Fox News, New York Post or Daily Mail article appeared among the top 20 news articles curated by Apple News editors each day of the week.

News aggregators curate articles from various sources to create a news feed that includes a wide range of outlets.

Of the 140 articles MRC Free Speech America researchers examined, 93 were from outlets rated “left” or “lean-left” by AllSides.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

What, exactly, is the plan for all the pennies?

Many Americans—and many people who, though not American, enjoy watching from a safe distance as predictable fiascoes unfold in this theoretical superpower from week to week—find themselves now pondering one question. What is the United States going to do with all the pennies—all the pennies in take-a-penny-leave-a-penny trays, and cash registers, and couch cushions, and the coin purses of children, and Big Gulp cups full of pennies; all the pennies that are just lying around wherever—following the abrupt announcement that the country is no longer in the penny game and will stop minting them, effective immediately?

The answer appears to be nothing at all. There is no plan.

This is the sort of proglodyte twat that writes for the Narrative Media. Whatever it is, there has to be a plan. A government plan. To be without a government plan is to be outside of civilization. The very foundation of the world will tremble.

Exactly why there needs to be a plan for the pennies now in circulation is never discussed. Never even mentioned.

Can’t people just spend ’em if they got ’em? 300 billion. That ought to be enough to keep people happy.

Could they stick them in penny-collection cards?

Melt them down for model soldiers?

Put them on railroad tracks because that just the dumb shit that people do?

Apparently not.

There must be a plan. And it must be a government plan. Else the universe will dissolve into chaos.

Here’s Why Trump’s “50-Year Mortgage” is a Terrible Idea (Tahra Hoops/Home of the Brave)

‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates (David Smith/The Guardian)

Trump buys at least $82 million in bonds since late August, disclosures show (Nandita Bose/Reuters)  So what?

Trump Buys Another $82 Million of Corporate and Municipal Bonds (Bloomberg)  So what?

Trump blocked from gutting Voice of America collective bargaining rights (Ryan Knappenberger/Courthouse News …)  Gutting!

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Shames Team Trump for Citing Epstein Victim in Trump’s Defense

PBS Promotes Military Personnel Questioning Legality of Trump Moves

GOP-led Epstein probe in House creates political friendly fire for Trump (Paul Kane/Washington Post)  I guess Trump is guilty until proven innocent.

Trump’s Racially Discriminatory Refugee Policy (Ilya Somin/Reason)

Trump’s broadside against health insurers is a cautionary tale for industry (Amanda Chu/Politico)

Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that’s now a model for other cities (Associated Press)  Yeah—all Democrats are now tagged as pro-crime.

The Grift Bubble — A Political Theory of American Collapse — How does a country burst? (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)  From living in a fantasy world where everything is free and nobody is responsible.

Trump’s tariffs are costing companies. Keeping up with them may cost even more. (Doug Palmer/Politico)

‘Noem should resign over this’: Fury over alleged DHS ‘child kidnapping and trafficking’ (David McAfee/Raw Story)

Trump Plan May Cut Green Cards for Travel-Ban Nations

QAnon influencers baselessly suggest newly released Epstein emails show Trump was an “informant” against Epstein (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)  Ah, yes, the dreaded “QAnon influencers.” Have you ever met one? Would you even know how to go about finding one? Seriously?

Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices (Associated Press)  Would a Democrat President be that flexible? I think not.

These Reagan-appointed judges have had it with Trump (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  Are you really going to believe anything written about Trump by someone naned Cheney?

Epstein files reveal his obsession with Trump (Miami Herald)  Just like every Narrative Media outlet in the world.

Only 2.6% on list of 614 ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees had criminal histories, DOJ records show (Chicago Tribune)  Insisting on ‘criminal histories’ is how they get around the fact that being in the country illegally is a felony and makes you ipso facto a ‘criminal’. They want you to think that, just because they haven’t been convicted of a crime, they’re not criminals. Conviction doesn’t make the criminal; crime does.

Georgia Judge Drops 3 Counts in Trump Election Case

Epstein Sent Trump a Truck Load of Baby Food for Losing Bet (Harry Thompson/The Daily Beast)  Supposedly this says something bad about Trump, otherwise it wouldn’t  be in the Daily Beast, but I confess that it escapes me.

MSNBC’s Katy Tur: Trump is ‘Callous’ for Firing Feds, Withholding SNAP

Trump’s redistricting campaign isn’t going well (Cameron Peters/Vox)  They hope.

Amid Trump’s Deportation Push, More Families Are Being Torn Apart (New York Times)  ODF.

Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters (Kyle Clark/KUSA-TV)

‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules (Mikhail Zinshteyn/CalMatters)

Epstein, Fuentes and Trump’s Political Erosion (New York Times)  If they say it loud enough, and repeat is enough times, perhaps it will really happen. “I think it will, I think it will, I think it will, I think it will….”

Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way (David Herzberg/New York Times)

Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding (Alan Blinder/New York Times)

Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’ (Chicago Tribune)  Since when is “Latino” a race? Do not all demographic statistics say “Hispanic of all races”?

Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California (Associated Press)

BBC Edits Trump; Trump Still The Villain

Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law (Zach Everson/Forbes)  I’m sure it does, somewhere, somehow….

NPR Can’t Abide Trump Truth on Anti-White South Africa Acts: Afrikaners Not His ‘Pawns’

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)

Donald Trump re-ignites feud with Sadiq Khan in unhinged TV rant  Unhinged!

MS NOW Only Goes 4.5 Hours Before Making First Nazi Analogy

Trump stews and Dems gloat over feud with Marjorie Taylor Greene (Politico)  It doesn’t matter who you are: If you cross Trump, you get crossed off. I’m surprised people haven’t learned that by now.

Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Senate Democrat: Trump in ‘daily panic mode’ over Epstein files (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)  And, of course, Senate Democrats always (a) know what Trump is thinking and (b) tell the truth about it.?

TDS of the disabling variety  I suspect that people who depend on ‘therapy’ are the sort of people that would contract TDS readily.

WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)

Trump faces heat from MAGA base on ‘America First’ agenda, Epstein (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)  An addciti0n to the modern game of baseball? What is a “MAGA base”?

JD Vance Received a Dire Warning About the Groyper Takeover of the GOP From a Strange Source (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)

Trump administration repealing protections for key swaths of Alaska petroleum reserve (Becky Bohrer/Associated Press)

Trump’s Unpublished National Security Strategy Is Stephen Miller’s Far-Right Wet Dream (Zeteo)

The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Well, it’s certainly a chronic disease for the Narrative Media.

Bondi Says Acting US Attorney Alina Habba Confronted, Property Destroyed

Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper (Nia Prater/New York Magazine)  And, of course, Trump is to blame.

Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

America First? Some Trump Supporters Worry That’s No Longer the Case. (New York Times) I wasn’t aware that the NYT knew any actual Trump supporters.

We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  As opposed to the non-far-right MAGAs? Give us names, please.

Georgia election interference case against Trump and allies will carry on with new prosecutor to replace Fani Willis (Jason Morris/CNN)

Nevada Supreme Court revives criminal case over Trump elector gambit (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Georgia prosecutor keeps case against Trump alive for now (Patrick Marley/Washington Post)

Ponzi Schemer Who Got Trump Clemency Faces 50 Years in New Fraud (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)

Humiliated Dems Forced to Delete Latest False Claim About Epstein and Trump (Rusty Weiss/RedState)

Here’s Everything We Know About Trump’s Financial Ties To Saudi Arabia (Dan Alexander/Forbes)

After Zohran’s Win, Trump Is Coming for New York (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

The Epstein files sinkhole widening under Trump (Philip Bump/MSNBC)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Secret Memo Reveals Holes in Legal Case (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

The President Who Cried ‘Hoax’ (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)  And he was right.

The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Democrats’ Epstein Email Dump Backfires As Trump Sets DoJ On Clinton, Summers, Hoffman, Et Al.

The Trump Backlash Quietly Underway: Young Progressives Signing Up To Run For Office (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Chicago Mayor Asks The UN To Intervene In Trump’s Deportation Efforts  Hey, proglodyte help is where you find it.

Democrats inject “Epstein files” into special election that’s scaring GOP (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  They hope.

Large far-right German delegation to visit Washington, Trump ally says (Politico)

Will Trump’s Economy Survive the Left’s Sabotage Ahead of Midterms?

Read it.

Before MSNBC transforms into MS Now at midnight on Saturday, The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle joined ESPN and SiriusXM host Stephen A. Smith on Thursday for his Straight Shooter podcast. Once there, Ruhle offered up an unconvincing excuse for why she does not have Republican guests on her show.

What made Ruhle’s response even more strange was that Smith didn’t even ask about guests. Instead, he simply wondered, “What role is Stephanie Ruhle going to play? In bringing attention to these issues and making sure these issues are addressed in a manner in which it deserves as a member of the media, as a member of MS Now moving forward.”

Bondi Ripped After Epstein Files Blow Up on Her (Adam Downer/The Daily Beast)

House Democrats release new Epstein emails referencing Trump (ABC News)

Latest Epstein Emails About Trump Appear To Be Just Another Misleading Democrat Info Op (Mark Hemingway/The Federalist)

As Trump Defends Foreign Workers, His Company Sought Record Number In 2025 (Zach Everson/Forbes)

These are the 37 donors helping pay for Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom (Will Weissert/Associated Press)

Docs reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s behind-the-scenes image consultant: Trump foe Michael Wolff (Politico)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker worries that Trump will go to extremes to distract from Epstein files (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)

It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

Epstein files become a fiasco of Trump’s own making (Marc Caputo/Axios)

18 Trump voters explain why a slice of his base is unhappy with his economic performance (NBC News)  I wonder how long it took them to find 18 such people.

Epstein is the one issue that persistently splits Trump from his base (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post) They hope, they hope, they hope.

Democrats Released Three Cherrypicked Epstein Emails… So the GOP Released 20,000 (Matt Margolis/PJ Media)

MAGA offers fresh pushback on Trump’s immigration policies (Julia Manchester/The Hill)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He sure gets around. (MAGA is the New Nigger)

Scoop: Mamdani, Dem governors plot how to stand up to Trump (Holly Otterbein/Axios)  How is this a ‘scoop’?

The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Latest Epstein files knock White House on it heels (Politico)  They wish….

‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back (Zeteo)  With the Narrative Media beating it as hard as they can to bring it back to life.

Frightening Wake-up for MAGA (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (MAGA is the New Nigger)

The Dogs That Haven’t Barked — The Trump administration is a regime of restoring male power. (Jill Filipovic)

I Know Why Epstein Refused to Expose Trump: Wolff (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)

When Trump talks about ‘trillions,’ does he understand what the word means? (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Probably more than some proglodyte ‘journalist’.

Lefty Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett gets fact-checked by CNN while failing to smear Trump over Epstein docs (Chris Nesi/New York Post)

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today predictably served as clapping seals in celebrating Jack Schlossberg — the grandson of John F. Kennedy and thus royalty on the left — launching a bid for a Manhattan-area House seat despite having only been an “influencer” and a self-described provocateur on social media. In other words, he’s never had a real job.

To be sure, as a child of a Kennedy he’s really never had to work in his life.

NBC was particularly enthralled and head-over-heels as a longtime friend of the show might be representing many of them in Congress.

They teased a full segment on Schlossberg not just once, but twice. In the second, co-host Savannah Guthrie gushed: “Then, just Jack. John F. Kennedy’s grandson throwing his hat into the political ring…The social media lightning rod now looking to takeover a high-profile seat. The full story coming right up.”

Co-host Craig Melvin tossed to correspondent Stephanie Gosk: “Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, announcing on social media overnight that he plans to run for Congress. Schlossberg is targeting an open seat in a high-profile, influential district in New York.”

The ancient cliché that politics is “show-business for ugly people” suggests that non-ugly people have an even smoother road. After all, “show-business” does actually involve a modicum of work, whereas politics merely requires effort, which is not the same thing; and damned little effort at that, as former Representative George Santos has demonstrated.

No Kings Founder: Primary Dems Who Won’t Fight Trump

Newsom tells AP the eight senators who struck the shutdown deal aren’t alarmed enough about Trump (Associated Press)

CNN This Morning Doesn’t Know How Trump’s Foreign Policy Duties Work

Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling (Washington Post)

Florida AG Targets JPMorgan Over Trump Debanking, Jack Smith Collusion

Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say (Politico)

The Supreme Court Just Took a Scary Voting Case That Has Trump Salivating. He Might Be Disappointed. (Richard L. Hasen/Slate)  And, then again, he might not.

‘Latin American Kuwait’? Trump’s Looming War In The Caribbean Might Have Nothing To Do With Narco-Terrorism

Trump built a surprising voter coalition. One key piece just cracked. (Politico)

The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway. (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)

How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters (Jeremy Kohler/ProPublica)

‘He’s Actually Weakening the Economy’: Why Trump’s Strategy May Fail (Victoria Guida/Politico)

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct (Michael Gold/New York Times)

Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails, new release shows (Kaitlan Collins/CNN)

US Mint to strike last penny as Trump’s phaseout rattles retailers (Michael Stratford/Politico)

Donald Trump ‘spent hours’ at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with sex-trafficking victim, newly released email alleges – live (Shrai Popat/The Guardian)

Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump ‘knew about the girls’ (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)

Mink Confronts ICE (Adam Pagnucco/Montgomery Perspective)

PARTISAN TILT: PolitiFact Hammers Trump and GOP as Liars, Goes Soft on Democrats

South African finance minister rebukes Trump’s claims of Afrikaner persecution (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  Trump showed us the video.

House Democrats release Epstein email that claimed Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Epstein emails released by Democrats say Trump ‘knew about the girls’ and spent time with a victim (Associated Press)

Dems Dump New ‘Epstein Files’ With Trump – Redact Witness Who Already Exonerated Him

Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever (Mark Leibovich/The Atlantic)

Trump’s Shocking Brawl With Laura Ingraham on Fox Exposes His Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Trump Knew About His Conduct, New Emails Show (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Trump ‘spent hours’ at Epstein’s house with victim of sex trafficking, email alleges (Financial Times)

MAGA goes quiet on the “Epstein files” (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He could probably use the rest; he’s been very busy lately, at least according to the Narrative Media. (MAGA is the New Nigger)