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

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

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

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

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

Media Caught Laundering Dem Talking Point into a Legitimate News Item

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Other McCain.

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

ABC News Breathlessly Joins Fake ‘Cognitive Decline’ Drumbeat

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

Colorado Leaders Appeal Trump’s Denial of Disaster Declarations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

As they love to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Epstein Files Release Highlights Clinton, Makes Scant Reference to Trump

Trump Refuses To Rule Out War With Venezuela

Judge Blocks WH From Altering Homelessness Funding Conditions

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

Sen. Sanders to Urge Ban After Kennedy Center Renaming

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

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

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

Trump Goes for the Stoner Vote (Wall Street Journal)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colbert’s Christmas Cartoon Has Trump, ICE Arrest Santa

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

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

Pride of Caste: Another Book on TDS

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Read it.

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The New Neo.

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

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

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

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

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

Dems Freeze Coast Guard Nominee Over Hate-Symbol Clash

44 Chained Outside S.F. Immigration Court Arrested

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bravofication of American government (Christian Paz/Vox)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ill. Mayor Confronts Border Chief Bovino Amid Operation

US Judge Plans To Block Hundreds Of Trump Admin Layoffs

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

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

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

Federal Judge Won’t Block White House Ballroom Construction

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

Victor Davis Hanson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Widens the Breach (John Dickerson/The Atlantic)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump-Deranged Margaret Brennan Plays Maduro Advocate for Machado Interview

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

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

National Trust Sues Trump Admin Over White House Ballroom Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If He Builds It, Tear It Down

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

NewsBusters.

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

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

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

Who knew?

Newsbusters.

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

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

Supreme Court, Minus Alito, Rejects Case Against Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jamie Dimon Blames ‘Militarizing’ Govt in Debanking Trump Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Harvard Poll: Trump Outperforms Congress by 19 Points

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UPDATE: Rationality Returns to Australia as Climate Scare Wanes

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

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

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

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

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

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

DHS Rejects Claim ICE Ran Over Man’s Leg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The New Neo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vittert: Arguing Over International Law Pointless, Trump Always Wins

Sen. Rand Paul: Hegseth Either Lying or Incompetent

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

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

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

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

Judge Limits Immigration Arrests in D.C.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watch: Unrepentant Trump Unloads On Fake News Reporters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judge Halts Trump Bid to Cut Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Cites US Immigration Code for His ‘Permanent Pause’

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

Democrats Sue After Trump Cuts SNAP Benefits For Alien Migrants

NYC Protesters Now Using Barriers to Halt ICE Agents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Denmark Sets Up Overnight ‘Watch’ to Track Trump Statements

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

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

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

Oregon Warns DOJ, DHS Over ‘Reckless’ Immigration Arrests

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clown Car Diplomacy (Dan Rather/Steady)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Admin. Faces 20-State Lawsuit on Assistance Cuts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amateur Hour At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (The Bulwark)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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