Newsbusters.

When it comes to the arrest and charges against former CNN Host Don Lemon, for his role in the invasion of a Church in St. Paul, Minnesota last month, it appears that some in the liberal media are not only willing to support his claims that he was there as a “journalist”, but they are willing to leave out some important information during their reporting. As pointed out by our colleague Alex Christy, ABC and CBS are guilty of doing it, and they are not alone.

Friday night on CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillip, the host incorrectly claimed that Lemon was not named in a part of the indictment where he was in fact included, and she wound up being corrected by panelist and New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan. Phillip opened the show by claiming, “Freedom of the press is under siege after the arrests of Independent Journalists, former CNN anchor Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their coverage of an anti-ICE protest that erupted and interrupted a Church service in St. Paul, Minnesota.”

Phillip soon played part of Lemon’s interview with Pastor David Easterwood, who described what was happening as, “unacceptable and shameful,” and at one point said he needed to go and “take care of my flock.” But Lemon continued and eventually accused the pastor of “pushing” him, although it does not appear that way on the video. Phillip then read from the indictment.

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When it comes to the case against former CNN host Don Lemon’s alleged role in a recent takeover of a St. Paul church, the two most serious allegations against him are probably those that state he did not leave when the pastor asked him to and that he obstructed congregants as they tried to leave. However, neither ABC’s nor CBS’s Friday evening or Saturday morning news broadcasts reported on those details. While NBC mentioned the part about Lemon being asked to leave, it joined the other two in not explicitly mentioning the obstruction allegation, even if it showed footage of Lemon by the door.

CBS reporter Matt Gutman was the most vocal against Lemon’s arrest on Evening News, declaring, “Tonight, Don Lemon defiantly addressing reporters after being indicted on that federal civil rights charge.”

After showing video of Lemon at a press conference and from the day of the alleged crime, Gutman didn’t see what the big deal was, “Don Lemon says this act of conventional journalism has landed him in federal court.”

Gutman then profiled co-defendant Georgia Fort, calling her a “Minnesota journalist,” but ignoring her role with the NAACP before playing some clips from Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Trump.

The Foundry.

Conservatives could look at today’s incredibly fractured media environment and wonder why anyone would need to worry about the elite media, considering their trust numbers are in the basement (except among liberals) and their audiences keep eroding.

But just breathe the media air any day, and what we used to call the “dominant media” still dominates in setting the political agenda—in determining what everyone talks about. There was an old maxim that the media can’t tell you what to think, but they’ll tell you what to think about.

This again came to mind when MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace interviewed Oliver Darcy, whose current business is energetically trying to reinforce the ideological rigor of the leftist press. Wallace told Darcy, “I still think that story selection is the most power we have, what you decide to shine a light on, especially now in the second Trump term.”

Right now, that dominant story is the allegedly heroic resistance in Minneapolis to federal attempts to enforce the immigration laws. The daily narrative is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are murdering innocent protesters in the streets. It’s not just choosing the subject. It’s the tone and tenor of the coverage. When it’s 93% negative against ICE on the evening newscasts, it’s a combination of time and tone intended to transform public opinion.

Experts Warn Arresting Journalists Could Be Slippery Slope To Arresting Politicians And Other People Who Deserve It (Babylon Bee).

Epstein Files: ‘Disturbing Allegations’ About Trump Surface As More Pages Are Released (Times News [UK])

Nine Phone Settings to Change Before Attending a Protest (LifeHacker)

‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms (Jewish Telegraph Agency)

Therapists warn of Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ moves as kingdom crumbles around him (Daily Record [UK])

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals (Washington Post)

New GOP scheme to rig presidential elections: Missouri sues to exclude undocumented from census (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)

Trump’s Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (“Darker than Don Lemon” is a very low bar.)

UPDATED: CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage (Committee to Protect Journalists)

CNN Boss Confronted by Staff Over MAGA Pundit’s On-Air Behavior (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

ABC: Good, Pretti Deaths Part of Plot to Steal 2026 Elections and Social Security Numbers

Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda (Nick Hilton/The Independent)

Acosta, Lemon Podcasts Lob ‘Fascist’ And ‘Nazi’ Insults After Lemon’s Arrest

GADZOOKS! CNN’s Latest Brain-Dead Take Is Trump ‘Might Regret’ ‘Refocusing’ on Economy

‘It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)

Left Melts Down Over Don Lemon’s ‘Outrageous’ Arrest

Judges across the country rebuke ICE for defying court orders (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  I’m sure they do.

Trump Accused In Epstein Files of Forcing Underage Girl To Perform Oral Sex (TMZ.com)  Accused! That proves it!

The Church at the Center of Don Lemon’s Arrest Has Ties to Christian Nationalism (Kiera Butler/Mother Jones)  Ties! That proves it!

Nationwide Strike Urged Against Trump Immigration Policies

The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)

With Don Lemon’s Shocking Arrest, Trump Expands His Total War on Free Speech (Zeteo)

The Tiny, Terrified Men of the Trump Administration (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)

California’s Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Politico Finally Gives Up on Attempting Epstein-Trump Connection

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Trump’s New Method of Humiliation (Mark Leibovich/The Atlantic)

As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

Trump’s polls are tanking. What does his base think? (Vox  His base thinks it’s all lies.

Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion (David D. Kirkpatrick/New Yorker)  “Profiteering” is the smear-phrase leftists use when you make more money than they think you ought to.

NPR SMEAR: Anti-ICE Lefties Knit Red Hats as ‘Symbol of Resistance to Nazi Occupation’

Autocracy in America ??? A year in, the pattern of democratic backsliding under Trump is undeniable. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

US Judge Declines to Halt Trump’s Minnesota Immigration Agent Surge

Trump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies (David Smith/The Guardian)

Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers (New York Times)  Is said! That proves it!

Activist Judge Blocks Key Parts Of Trump EO On Verifying Citizenship To Vote

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding? (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE (New York Times)

Chicago Mayor Signs ‘ICE on Notice’ Exec. Order

Rise of the Trump Loyalist (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

The Foundry.

The leftist media cabal constantly imagines itself as the grand embodiment of democracy and freedom of speech, even as it seeks to put Republicans in jail and hopes to censor them from speaking on social media. It doesn’t live up to its First Amendment boasting.

For example, there’s “CNN International” host Christiane Amanpour, whose leftist ravings are also broadcast on PBS stations. On Jan. 23, Amanpour led off her show with this attack on President Donald Trump: “He says he’s bringing free speech back to America, but one year into Trump 2.0, few presidents have done as much to degrade civil liberties and muzzle the free press. Former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron joins me to discuss how American journalism can survive.”

Oh, the overwrought ardor! How will journalism survive as they seek to destroy Trump 24/7? Any pushback on their destruction campaign will be painted as an attack on freedom of the press.

Amazon’s Spending on ‘Melania’ Is a Barely Concealed Bribe

The Department of Justice Ignores Court Orders Because It Knows It Can

Chilling: If They Can Arrest Don Lemon For Something As Simple As Breaking The Law, Imagine What They Can Do To You (Babylon Bee)

Trump’s fire-free zone (Axios)

Trump faces fresh MAGA blowback for efforts to ‘de-escalate’ in Minnesota (Washington Post)

The Perils of a Falling Trump Dollar (Wall Street Journal)  Not just any dollar, but the Trump dollar.

Appeals Court: Noem Illegally Ended Venezuelan Protections

‘Abolish ICE’ is imperative (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Sleepless Trump, 79, Launches Manic 6AM Post-a-Minute Rampage (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Trump officials awarded Venezuela oil-sale contracts to firms tied to bribery (Washington Post)  In the Narrative Media, ‘tied to’ is meant to suggest a connection for which there is no actual evidence. (Bias? What bias?)

Immigration is turning into a disaster for Trump (Lakshya Jain/The Argument)  Trough great efforts in the Narratie Media.

Democrats Announce 3 Key Demands For Curbing ICE (HuffPost)

After Alex Pretti’s Murder, it’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors (Alan Elrod/Liberal Currents)

Democrats poised to trigger government shutdown if White House won’t meet demands for ICE reform (Associated Press) Oh, don’t throw us in that briar patch….

Alex Pretti CONFIRMED Not Protesting, Group Of 50, CONSPIRED To Commit Felonies (Tim Pool) My, what a surprise.

Tragedy As Entire Studio Audience Drowns In Flood Of Jimmy Kimmel’s Tears (Babylon Bee)

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino decries ICE ‘Gestapo’ comparisons as critics target ‘Nazi-coded’ coat  You can’t make this shit up.

ICE: These Are the People Anti-ICE Agitators in Minneapolis Are Trying to Protect

Why Does Pam Bondi Want States’ Voter Rolls? (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  So she can check for voter fraud, Jennifer. Try to keep up.

Incitement? ABC Journo Predicts More MN Protesters Will Bring Guns to Fight ICE

Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre” agents (Marc Caputo/Axios)

House Dems Demand Noem’s Firing, Threaten Impeachment  It didn’t work against Trump, and it won’t work against Noem.

CNN Host Suggests Guns Should Be Brought to Bear Against ICE Agents

DHS: ICE Officers Face 8,000 Percent Rise in Death Threats

Stop Letting Republicans Off the Hook for the ICE Killings (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  He must be reading different newspapers that I am.

Families of Trinidadians Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Administration (Hamed Ahmadi/NOTUS)  Good luck with that.

Patel Says FBI Has Discovered Groups Funding Minnesota Protests

Ohio AG Candidate Elliot Forhan: ‘I Am Going to Kill Donald Trump’ (Breitbart)

Donald Trump Can Be Stopped (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

ICE Barbie Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus to Save Her Job (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)

California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing (Sara DiNatale/San Francisco Chronicle)

City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against Federal Agents (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)

This Focus Group Should Absolutely Terrify Trump (Sam Stein/The Bulwark)  Doubtful that a ‘focus group’ will terrify anybody, much less Trump.

“Go ICE”: Chicago-Area Teacher Put On Leave For Two Words Posted On Facebook

Don’t Make Bovino the Fall Guy for the Violence Trump Long Craved (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)

In her screams, the desperation of a community under siege by ICE (Sabrina Shankman/The Boston Globe)

Donald Trump Is Frightened (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent is delusional.

The White House’s shocking lies about Minneapolis (Christian Paz/Vox)

In Minneapolis, far-right influencers frame ICE resistance as terrorism (Brandy Zadrozny/MS NOW)  To the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

In six violent encounters, evidence contradicts Trump immigration officials’ narratives (Reuters)

Trump Ally Shocked at President’s ‘Psychological State’ in Private Meeting (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

ICE’s Brutality Is Its Weakness (Omar Wasow/New York Times)

How Dems Can Tame ICE (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Keep lying?

Five Constitutional Amendments Trump Is Ignoring in Minnesota (Pema Levy/Mother Jones)

fPopular Mechanics.

I’m sure you’ve seen hand-wringing articles in the Narrative Media about the so-called “doomsday clock”, one of the most Useful-Idiot scams of the Cold War.

It’s the opening session of the three-day 2025 Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The gathering is convened by scientists and nuclear security experts alarmed that a new arms race, eroding global cooperation, and the rise of artificial intelligence in warfare—among other factors—are pushing civilization closer to catastrophe. Timed to the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the world’s first nuclear explosion, the assembly aims to produce a declaration urging world leaders to reduce the nuclear threat.

The same urgency drives the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and its iconic Doomsday Clock, the stark graphic that represents how close we are to self-annihilation. The clock is set yearly by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board chaired by Daniel Holz, PhD, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Chicago.

In January, six months before the Nobel Assembly, Holz stood at a lectern at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., to announce the time. “It is now 89 seconds to midnight,” he said, as four solemn presenters swiveled a turntable to reveal a pared-down quarter clockface, a white wedge rimmed by black dots for numbers, the hands angled so sharply they overlapped. It was the closest to midnight since the clock’s inception in 1947.

The Times (UK).

Seven in ten Britons think BBC News needs to change to meet the requirements of society, according to the findings of a landmark government study.

The Value of BBC News survey, commissioned by the culture secretary Lisa Nandy, found the majority of adults were satisfied with the broadcaster’s news coverage. Almost three quarters of respondents found it valuable personally and to the nation.

But while almost a quarter of the 3,325 people polled believed the BBC met society’s needs extremely well, a majority felt changes were required.

The results emerged as Nandy commissioned the first research in a decade into public attitudes towards the BBC as a whole. Both studies will influence the way in which the government approaches crucial negotiations with the BBC for its new charter in January 2028.

How is this a surprise?

ATQUE: BBC Faces Backlash for Omitting Jews from its Holocaust Coverage

The Other McCain.

You think you hate the liberal media enough, but you don’t — and that’s probably a good thing. It would be psychologically unhealthy to hate anyone as much as the liberal media deserve to be hated.

Heather Schwedel is a writer for Slate, which was one of the pioneering political commentary sites back in the dial-up modem days of the 1990s. If you’re old enough to remember when AOL discs came in a box of cereal — seriously, that actually happened for a few months in 1996 — you may remember when Microsoft hired Michael Kinsley (former New Republic editor and then co-host of CNN’s Crossfire) to be editor of Slate.

That was 30 years ago. In 2004, the Washington Post purchased Slate, but when Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, he had no use for Slate, which is now property of a separate firm, Graham Holdings. This trek down memory lane doesn’t do much to explain why Heather Schwedel is on Slate’s payroll, but it does give you some sense of the downward trajectory of Slate’s prestige. The latest milestone on this descent into infamy is Schwedel’s article with this headline, “Well, That Is One Way for J.D. and Usha Vance to Respond to the Erika Kirk Divorce Rumors.”

The Shit-Losers: Amanda Marcotte, Jennifer Rubin, Will Bunch, Greg Sargent, Philip Bump. Their entire job is thinking up new names to call Trump. That’s all they do. Report on the news? Sorry, ain’t nobody got time for dat.

Minnesota ICE Shooting Has Sparked A Crisis of Trust In America | Amy Frederiksen

Amid Minneapolis Tensions, Republicans Continue to Back ICE  No reason not to. They’re enforcing the law, the thing we all voted for Trump to do.

Tim Walz Says He Will Do Anything To Keep Minnesota Residents Safe Except Cooperate With Federal Law Enforcement (Babylon Bee)

J6ers Wishing They Had Thought Of Branding Themselves ‘Legal Observers’  (Babylon Bee) “Legal Observers” are protesters who stand by with camera-phones as the remainder provoke law enforcement, hoping to get video that they can twist into supporting the Narrative. They are NOT ‘innocent bystancers’. They are Leftist co-conspirators.

Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Trump administration goes after Second Amendment rights in justifying Minneapolis shooting (Jonathan Allen/NBC News)  The first time I can recall NBC saying anything positive about the Second Amendment.

NBC’s Kristen Welker: Are Dead American Citizens The Price of Trump’s Immigration Policy?  They are if they’re stupid law-breakers.

The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. (New York Times)  The NYT is lying to our faces, and it’s safe to say that Congress will not act.

Believe Your Eyes — People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis. (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)  And interfering with law enforcement in a carefully calculated operation.

For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Just like the Narrative Media!

Margaret Brennan Tries to Run the Detained Kids Hoax, Gets SHUT DOWN

Moderate Sen. Jacky Rosen urges Noem’s impeachment as Dem fury grows over Minneapolis shooting (Mary Clare Jalonick/Associated Press)  Jacky Rosen is NOT a ‘moderate’.

Democrats grow louder on calls for Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)  When you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target.

Minn. AG calls Trump administration version of shooting ‘flat-out insane’ (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)

Former Vikings captain says Minnesota liberal resist ICE because ‘we’re deporting their voters’ (Fox News)

NY Times Rends Garments Over Bovino’s Coat: ‘Some Minds Go Straight to the SS’  Mostly the people who see Nazis under every buxh.

Cam Higby’s ‘SignalGate’ Potentially Ties Unrest to Minn. Dems

“He Was a Good Man” — The federal government murders another American citizen (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)  No, he wasn’t—he was a left-wing agitator LARPing as a revolutionary.

How the Trump Administration Rushed to Judgment in Minneapolis Shooting (New York Times)  No coverage of how the NYT rushed to judgment on the Minneapolis shooting,  of course.

Demands for Minneapolis Shooting Investigation Grow as Trump Officials Blame Victim (Associated Press)  AP burnishes its Narrative Media credentials.

What Trump officials claimed about Alex Pretti — and what the evidence actually shows (Daniel Dale/CNN)  Accordint to the Narrative.

Read it.

Mainstream media outlets rushed to paint Alex Pretti as a blameless ICU nurse gunned down by heartless Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. They highlighted his work caring for veterans and seized on video snippets showing him holding a phone. The New York Times ran with that angle, running the headline “Man Killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun,” and claimed that footage captured Pretti only with his phone in hand, insisting that agents had no reason to believe he was armed during their encounter.

Media outlets are also quick to point out that Pretti held a valid Minnesota concealed carry permit and legally owned the gun, as if that absolved him for his actions against the Border Patrol agents.

Others point out that he had no criminal record, just traffic tickets.

This, they argue, proves he was an innocent victim, not an agitator.

But what the mainstream media isn’t telling you is that Pretti wasn’t just some random bystander.

According to Jeanne Massey, a neighbor, Pretti was part of a “Signal ICE” group chat of volunteers who organized a sophisticated operation to track ICE activity in real time and alert each other when agents were in the area.

These folks patrol streets, blow whistles, alert residents, and film operations to disrupt arrests.

That puts him not on the sidelines but plugged into the very network that coordinated responses to federal enforcement operations.

Mother Jones profiled the group just last week.

Minneapolis shooting hardens Democrats on government shutdown (Axios)

We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence (Ken White/The Popehat Report)

Appeals Court Rejects Justice Dept. Push for Arrest Warrant for Don Lemon (Alan Feuer/New York Times)

Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun (Associated Press)  Sure, I believe that.

Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests (The Colorado Sun)  Guess he was too stupid to listen. Think of it as evolution in action.

State Terror Has Arrived (M. Gessen/New York Times)

Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE. (Seth Moulton/YouTube)  I don’t see you going out in subzero temperatures for 18 hours at a time to round up the illegal invaders that are corrupting our country. Doesn’t take much bravery to spout off on YouTube.

Lefty Protestor Bites Off Federal Officer’s Finger

Trump’s Goons Are the Terrorists. This Is What We Must Do Now (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  We need to write a lot of rage-bait editorials. That’ll fix ’em!

The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti (David Gilbert/Wired)  As opposed to the constant perpetual smear campaign agaist ICE.

Shooting renews urgent legal effort to restrict ICE’s Minnesota operation (Politico)

Republicans are worried about Trump’s deportation campaign, and our new poll shows why (Politico)  We asked a whole bunch of AWFULs and they all agreed.

Fatal shooting in Minneapolis renews protests; video raises questions about DHS account (Washington Post)

Trump’s sudden retreat on Greenland shows that limits still exist (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)  No, it just means that he’s been playing simpletons like the people who write for the Washington Post.

CNN’s Phillip Claims ‘Legitimate Fear’ Of ICE In Minneapolis Justifies Running From Them  But they’re not ‘running from them’, they’re ‘interfering with them’. I see no trace of fear there, legitimate or otherwise. They seem to think that this is some kind of LARP.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others (New York Times)  So he interfered with law enforcement and got shot. Some help.

ICE is clearly out of control. This week the Senate can actually do something about it. (Mike Zamore/MS NOW)  Out of proglodyte control, certainly.

Monsters — And their enablers are accessories to murder — I was working on another wonkish post … (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum talks a great fight, doesn’t he?

Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him (Anthony Blair/New York Post)

The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal action (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Death Squads Execute Second Dissident (Carole Cadwalladr/How to Survive …)

Execution in Minneapolis — The contrast between, on one hand, federal shock troops’ brutal … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Left-Wing Activists Run Shadow Police Force On Signal To Target ICE In Minneapolis

Border Patrol chief praises agents who killed Alex Pretti (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Yes, It’s Fascism (Jonathan Rauch/The Atlantic)  If it were fascism, you would be in jail.

There’s More to Greg Bovino’s Coat Than You Think (Derek Guy/Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Videos of deadly Minneapolis shooting contradict government statements (Hannah Fingerhut/Associated Press)  Of course they do, because they were deliberately by the protest-industrial complex to support their version of the Narrative. The same thing was done in the case of Renée Good.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a grim turning point (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  It’s not a ‘turning point’ at all, except perhaps in the Democrat push for a Protesters’ Veto over law enforcement activity.

What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second Amendment (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic) Really? Really? Jonathan Chait is now supposed to be an expert in what “MAGA thinks”? Pull the other one….

Newsbusters.

Intentionally or not, the PBS News Hour exhibited a liberal double standard in descriptions in a story by Liz Landers from Minneapolis, where residents are apparently being persecuted under ICE.

A long 13-minute Thursday segment, which was capped with two guests, one from the Trump administration and one from the Obama administration, twice underlined that anti-ICE protester Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, but the November murder of another federal law officer in Washington, D.C. was downgraded to a mere “shooting.”

The story did lead with a strong statement from Vice President J.D. Vance from on the ground in Minneapolis.

The New Neo.

You may have noticed that many people criticize the deportations by saying that overstaying a visa isn’t a criminal act but is a civil offense. They’re right that it’s not criminal – although many of those being rounded up are also guilty of crimes. But let’s just stick with overstaying a visa. The fact that it’s a civil offense does not protect the alien; in fact, it removes the protection afforded to defendants in criminal cases. Nor are those people who’ve overstayed visas (or otherwise entered illegally, but are not criminals) being given prison sentences, as in the criminal system. They are being deported, which is a civil action.

You will no doubt have seen headlines in the Narrative Media about illegal immigrants being deported who ‘have no crimila record’. Whether or not they have a criminal record is irrelevant. They are here illegally, and are subject to deportation when caught.

The government does not need to prove you committed a crime to remove you; it only needs to prove you are removable under immigration law.

Exactly so.

This is literally true. I’m sure you’ve seen the headline about ICE arresting a 5-year-old. The fact is that the kid’s father, an illegal immigrant, ran away and abandoned the child, which an ICE agent picked up and took to shelter.

E.G.: ‘Disturbing,’ ‘Haunting’; Friday Shows Blast ICE Over Incident With Five-Year-Old

Newsbusters.

Politico, leaning entirely on the results of a focus group consisting of nine (count ’em, NINE) people has been able to somehow determine what they see as a big political trend out there reflected in the title of this story on Friday by Samuel Benson, “These Gen-Z Trump voters don’t want JD Vance in 2028.”

The subtitle reinforces what looks to be a dire (as projected by Politico based on the focus group NINE) political future for Vance: “A recent focus group of 18- to 24-year-old Trump voters suggests weaknesses for Vance among young Republicans.”

Exhausted White Liberal Women Clock In For Another Long Day Protecting Migrant Sex Offenders (Babylon Bee)

‘Sinners’ Nominated For ‘Best Movie We Have To Nominate Or Else We Will Be Called Racist’ (Babylon Bee)

The American Threat: Three Words I Never Imagined Typing (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)

Trump’s Greenland Gambit Has Broken Brains Across Washington (Nahal Toosi/Politico)

Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done. (Politico)

Jack Smith makes first public defense of Trump indictments (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

Few Voters Say Trump’s Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds (New York Times)

Inside Trump’s Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn (Wall Street Journal)

Has Trump Pushed the Supreme Court Too Far? (New York Times)

Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

The Voters Who Have Taken a U-Turn on Trump (Nate Cohn/New York Times)

‘Our American Dream is dead’ (Politico)

Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Proof Trump, 79, Has Reached ‘Dementia Con 5’ (Meera Navlakha/The Daily Beast)

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower (Garrett M. Graff/Wired)  Is Obama back?

Fed’s Favorite Inflation Indicator Refuses To Show Any Signs Of Runaway ‘Trump Tariff’ Costs

Minnesota Judge Blocks Federal Charges Against Don Lemon Over Anti-ICE Church Disruption

Leftist CNN Pundit Smears Trump as a Pervert, Is Forced to Issue Humiliating Retraction

Trump’s Weird Bruise Looks Worse Than Ever (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)  Fortunately, they don’t have anything more important to write about.

People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Sunny Hostin Claims Trump Is Constructing ‘New World Order’ to Conquer the Globe

The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller’s Immigration Crusade: Part II (Greg Sargent/The UnPopulist)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Our Narcissist in Chief Has Exceeded Putin’s Wildest Dreams (John Harwood/Zeteo)

‘12 Essential Facts’ About Jack Smith and the History of His Dubious Ploys to Get Trump

Trump Disguises Himself As Muslim Migrant So Europe Will Let Him Invade Greenland (Babylon Bee)

Trump To Convert Entire City Of Minneapolis Into Insane Asylum (Babylon Bee).

Minnesota Arrests Churchgoers For Interrupting Protest (Babylon Bee)

We Want an Independent Fed, Not One With Trump Derangement Syndrome or Foreign Influence

Anti-ICE Activist Groups Silent on Church Invasion

New protest art on National Mall takes aim at Trump and Epstein files (Joe Heim/Washington Post)

“ICE 101” — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)

Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser (emptywheel)

Trump’s Attack on Democracy Is Faltering (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)

Atlantic Mag Attempts to Link Fringe Weirdo ‘Looksmaxxing’ to Trump Supporters

Judge posts job opening for top prosecutor spot that DOJ claims Lindsey Halligan occupies (NBC News)

This Is the End — One year ago today Donald Trump was sworn in as president … (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Trump’s “roving patrols” are closing in on Americans (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

‘We Don’t Want to Be Like Minneapolis,’ Other Minnesota Cities Say, Supporting ICE

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)

Yo, Dems: You can’t ‘reform’ fascism (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

Trump’s deeply unpopular presidency so far (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)  Deeply unpopular with the Left, that is.

House Democrats’ support for impeaching Kristi Noem is exploding (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Maine Secretary of State Bellows: No Undercover ICE Plates

Thousands of ICE, Border Patrol Employees Doxed in Data Leak

Gretchen Whitmer says it’s not ‘paranoia’ to fear Trump disrupting elections (Steve Inskeep/NPR)

Leftists Call For Political Purge Of MAGA If They Return To Power  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump’s weird text to Norway’s prime minister renews 25th Amendment talk (Steve Benen/MS NOW) They hope.

Trump, 79, Kicks Off Press Conference by Reading Aloud to Himself (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Democrats Are Trying To Weaponize The 25th Amendment Again, And It Won’t Work

US science after a year of Trump (Nature)

Conservative Military Archbishop Says Catholic Troops Can Defy Trump Orders on Greenland (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)  First of all, he’s not ‘conservative’, and secondly, that’s not what he said.

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday’s Inside Politics, CNN attempt to give credence to a story that an unfortunate “disabled” woman was accosted and arrested by ICE for supposedly no reason while trying get to a doctor’s appointment. But a simple search of the woman’s name, Aliya Rahman, turns up a treasure trove proving that she had a long history as a professional liberal activist working with far-left organizations that promote “racial,” “criminal,” and “social justice.” With part of her focus being against law enforcement.

“We’re hearing for the first time from Aliya Rahman, the woman ICE officers dragged from her vehicle while she shouted that she was disabled and trying to get to her doctor’s office,” announced host Dana Bash.

What followed up was a soundbite of Rahman claiming that even someone without her cognitive processing problems would have an issue understanding the ICE agent’s order to move her car out of their way.

Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Trump Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)

Judge refuses to block new DHS policy limiting Congress members’ access to ICE facilities (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)

Falsehoods Fueled Trump’s First Year Back in Office (New York Times)

Trump’s talk of canceling elections is a sign of desperation (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

It’s Sundowning in America (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

President Trump Will Get a Third Term Even Without Defying the Constitution (John F. Harris/Politico)

A very simple explanation for why politics is broken (Eric Levitz/Vox)  It’s all the fault of those stupid white people.

With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest (Peter Baker/New York Times)

Lemon Defends Joining Anti-ICE Mob to Storm Church of ‘White Supremacy’

One Year of All This — On the corrosive private ambition of Donald Trump. — One year in. (Jonathan Bernstein/Good Politics/Bad …)

How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)

Trump’s a T-Rex and ‘pathetic’ leaders need to confront him, rages California’s Newsom (Politico)

How Donald Trump broke Congress and rendered ‘separation of powers’ meaningless in just a year (Eric Garcia/The Independent)

How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (New York Times)  All this and he didn’t even get “10% for the Big Guy”.

Ray Dalio warns that ‘capital wars’ could follow Trump’s actions, with countries dumping U.S. assets (Yun Li/CNBC)

Trump’s Year of Anarchy (Foreign Affairs)

Bull Connor’s Ghost (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse …)  Remembering always that Bull Connor was a Democrat.

26 Villains For ’26 — To honor the nation’s looming Semiquincentennial, here are some of … (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

MS NOW Fails At Fact-Checking Trump On St. Paul Church Storming

Under Patel, F.B.I. Scours Its Records to Discredit Trump Opponents (New York Times) Just like a Democrat!

ICE Is Imposing Autocracy in Minnesota (Damon Linker/Persuasion)  If that were so, you’d be in jail.

Trump’s Greenland Threats Will Boomerang on America (Wolfgang Ischinger/New York Times)

Trump suffers major losses in his war on offshore wind (Politico)

7 predictions for how MAHA will change how Americans eat (Vox)

MAGA Is Discovering the Downsides of X (Ian Ward/Politico)

Minnesota killing pushes ICE to center of midterm campaigns (Politico)

A stunned Europe finally wakes up to Trump’s Greenland threat (Tim Lister/CNN)

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says it would be a ‘shocking step’ for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act (NBC News)

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says federal agents are an “occupying force” (Kaia Hubbard/CBS News)

The president of the United States is at war with his own country (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  No, just the Left part.

Bruce Springsteen Dedicates ‘Promised Land’ to Renee Good, Decries ‘Gestapo Tactics’ Leading to Citizens Being ‘Murdered’: ‘ICE Should Get the F– Out of Minneapolis’ (Chris Willman/Variety)

Violent Left Wing Mobs In Minneapolis Hunt For ICE And Attack Counter Protesters

NYC Socialists Prepare Mass Mobilization Of 4,000 Anti-ICE Army

Don’t Back Down, Europe — Trump’s tariff threats against allies should be the last straw. (Francis Fukuyama/Persuasion)

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. (M. Gessen/New York Times)

Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland is Simultaneously Evil, Illegal, and Counterproductive (Ilya Somin/Reason)

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters (Stephanie Saul/New York Times)  No mention of protester misconduct, of course.

WATCH: Somali Woman Robs Independent Journalist Nick Sortor in Minneapolis Then Drives Off, Dragging Him Down the Street Before Leftists Surround and Threaten Him – FBI Responds! (Jordan Conradson/The Gateway Pundit)

Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump (Paul Krugman) The vacuum speaks.

There’s a reason Trump Is Targeting Minneapolis (Lydia Polgreen/New York Times)  Yeah—it’s a hotbed of Democrat fraud and corruption.

Media’s 20 Worst Anti-Trump Quotes From His First Year Back In Office

Celebrate a King, Not a Trump (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

‘You Have To Make People Uncomfortable’: How Don Lemon Helped Anti-ICE Activists Storm a Minnesota Church (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)  Name one time that Don Lemon has ever made a Democrat uncomfortable.

ABC, CBS REFUSE to Cover Anti-ICE Mob Harassing Christians at Minneapolis Church

Trump’s Insane New Threat Leaves No Doubt: It’s Time for the 25th Amendment (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

WHAT A NUT: Paul Krugman Tells Businesses to Cut Ties with Trump or ‘You’ll Hang’

Daily Record (UK).

Piers Morgan, 60, shared a picture to his social media from his hospital bed and told fans that he had fractured his femur so badly, he required a hip replacement.

The former Good Morning Britain host explained he had tripped while at a restaurant and would have to use crutches to aid his mobility for several weeks. He’s also not allowed to take long-haul flights for the next three months and in a rather unexpected twist, placed the blame on his long-term friend, President Donald Trump.

The New York Times, Paper of Record for the Narrative.

Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good, her partner and their allies, with some even using an acronym: AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.

That acronym has been in common use among The People Paying Attention for years.

The Times,  of course, thinks that this is just ‘awful’, never entertaining the notion that, like most ‘derogatory’ terms, it might have some basis in reality.

UPDATE: MSM Melting Down Over New Term For Liberal White Women

Trump has made ICE a 70-30 issue — for Democrats (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)s

The Minneapolis Crucible — Will we forge democracy anew? (Paul Krugman)  To make it equivalent to progressive totalitarianism, perhaps? The vacuum speaks.

‘Stop Proposing This Populist S–‘ (NOTUS)

One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis (New York Times)

Trump’s promised manufacturing boom is a bust so far (David J. Lynch/Washington Post)  Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Democratic lawmakers urge FTC to investigate Trump phone (Brian Cheung/NBC News

Iceland demands answers from US after Trump ally cracks 52nd state joke (Ketrin Jochecová/Politico)

Bipartisan bill targets Trump’s Greenland talk (Joe Gould/Politico)

Mayor Frey: Residents Are Asking Us ‘to Fight ICE Agents in the Street,’ But We Don’t Have Enough Police

With Blood on His Hands, Trump Is Eager To Invoke Insurrection Act (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

NY Times Editor Schmoozes Soros-Tied Venezuelan Expert to Slam Trump’s Plans

Nobel Committee Takes Heat at Home as Machado Courts Trump (New York Times)

Democrats Introduce NOPE Act As Both Parties Claim Politically Motivated Prosecution  Democrats have learned that what goes around comes around.

Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish. (Jennifer Medina/New York Times)

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)

Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ (Wired)  I certainly hope so.

CNN Tries Casting Doubt On Story Of ICE Agent Being Attacked With a Snow Shovel

Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Minneapolis (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)

DHS: NY Times’ ‘Despicably Misleading Headline’ Is Why Media Aren’t Trusted

Let’s Make Renee Good the Last Person That ICE Kills (Robin Wonsley/The Nation)

The View’s Token Republican Cheers Walz Deploying Guard Against ICE

How Trump could use the Insurrection Act to pummel Minnesota (Axios)

Trump’s military threat comes as Minneapolis reels under ICE (Nick Halter/Axios)

Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE (New Republic)

‘Treason’: Elon Musk urges imprisonment of educators accurately teaching US history (Raw Story)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

ICE Is Losing the Political Battle (New York Times)  They hope.

The Minnesota War Zone Is Trump’s Most Trumpian Accomplishment (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Dem Rep. Thanedar Bill Would Abolish ICE; ‘Beyond Reform’

ACLU Sues to Halt Trump ICE Crackdown in Minnesota

Something Is Rotten in the State of America (David French/New York Times)  The Left’s favorite ‘conservative’ does his virtue-signaling.

Trump, Vance, and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Hate (Andrew Weinstein/Moral Clarity)

Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says (Joanna Slater/Washington Post)

Simon Rosenberg on Trump’s no good, very bad year (Public Notice)

‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’: Republicans amp up their resistance to Trump’s Greenland push (Jordain Carney/Politico)

Machado Presents Trump With Gold Nobel Peace Prize Medal

CNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities (CNN)  Of course it does.

War Powers Resolutions Keep Failing. Democrats Are Going to Try Again Anyway. (Hamed Ahmadi/NOTUS)

Another Way Republicans Are Overplaying Their Hand on Immigration (Gillen Tener Martin/Washington Monthly)

Trump could be close to unleashing the state violence he’s always wanted (Philip Bump/MS NOW)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

Norway Stunned After Machado Gifts Nobel Peace Prize Medal to Trump (Bloomberg)

Cooling Inflation Doesn’t Mean Tariffs Were Harmless (Jonathan Levin/Bloomberg)  Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

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.

…

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.