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

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

Federal Judge Orders End To National Guard In DC

Mamdani Stands by Trump Criticism Despite Friendly White House Meeting

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

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

GASLIGHTING: Sunday Shows Platform ‘Seditious’ Congresscritters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Expansion of Rapid Deportations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Placing Conditions On Federal Disaster Funds

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watch the Whole Thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Military Court to Look Into Democrats’ ‘Sedition’ Video

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

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

Chicago Rejects DOJ Grants Tied to Trump’s Immigration Policies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Media Strike at Trump as Trump Strikes Narco-terrorists

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

Trump Expands Offshore Drilling, Colliding With Newsom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PREDICTABLE: Nets Trumpwash Congressional Democrats’ ‘Seditious’ Video

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

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

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

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

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

Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jen Psaki Exploits Epstein Victim in Failed Attempt to Implicate Trump

Judge Reopens Contempt Probe of Trump Deportation Flights

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

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

DOJ Sues California Over Mask Ban, ID Rules For Feds

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

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

NBC Promotes Churches Hosting ICE-Spotting Seminars

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slotkin Leads Dems Urging Troops to Disobey Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oregon City Declares State of Emergency Over ICE

This Is All John Roberts’ Fault (Mother Jones)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ecuador voters rebuke pro-Trump president (Financial Times)

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

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

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

OMISSION: Elitist News Media HIDE Shocking New Trump Shooter Details

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

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

Judge Upholds New York Law Barring Immigration Agents From Courthouses

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

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

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

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

Oversight: Dems Caught Red-Handed in Epstein Hoax

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sen. Shaheen: Trump Venezuela Push Risks US Readiness

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

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

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

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

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

The Unraveling of the Justice Department (New York Times)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Could they stick them in penny-collection cards?

Melt them down for model soldiers?

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

Apparently not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PBS Promotes Military Personnel Questioning Legality of Trump Moves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Plan May Cut Green Cards for Travel-Ban Nations

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

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

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

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

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

Georgia Judge Drops 3 Counts in Trump Election Case

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BBC Edits Trump; Trump Still The Villain

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

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

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

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

MS NOW Only Goes 4.5 Hours Before Making First Nazi Analogy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bondi Says Acting US Attorney Alina Habba Confronted, Property Destroyed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Florida AG Targets JPMorgan Over Trump Debanking, Jack Smith Collusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mink Confronts ICE (Adam Pagnucco/Montgomery Perspective)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

Nothing was sacred to ABC’s The View if it could be abused to make an attack on some element of the Trump administration, including Veterans Day. During Tuesday’s episode, the liberal ladies sought to commemorate the holiday with their thanks and stories of their veteran family members; but moderator Whoopi Goldberg brought things down when she took a swipe at War Secretary Pete Hegseth to seemingly accuse him, an Army combat veteran, of not caring about those who came home from war.

“So, Joy is out today, hopefully she will be back tomorrow, and it is also Veterans Day today and we want to start by thanking every veteran in this country who has served in our armed forces,” Goldberg announced at the top of the show.

Goldberg chimed in again later in the segment to note how there were times that America didn’t treat veterans well and that America was trying to do a better job. She then invoked Hegseth’s name to scold him as if he wasn’t interested in treating veterans well or didn’t care about them.

Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves (Miranda Yaver/MSNBC)  As they did from the beginning of the world down to 1933.

Deployment of West Virginia National Guard members in nation’s capital can continue, judge rules (John Raby/Associated Press)

Trump’s 2020 alternate-elector pardons seek to derail remaining criminal cases (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)  Of course they do.

Trump Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ Message (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

Trump’s meatpacking probe meets with MAGA skepticism (Ja’han Jones/MSNBC)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The swine!

Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States (Zach Montague/New York Times)

JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers. (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE) Pretty appropriate name.

Trump’s sweeping 2020 election pardon raises alarms ahead of the midterms (Politico)

Serial Felon Freed by Trump Back Behind Bars (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)

Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally (Kenneth P. Vogel/New York Times)

For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

Politico Highlights How Trump ‘Gloats’ in Reaction to BBC Resignations Over ‘Mistakes’

Trump Defends Plan to Bring in Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Students: ‘I Know What MAGA Wants Better Than Anybody Else’ (Charlie Nash/Mediaite)

CBS News Trumpwashes BBC Scandal That ABC and NBC Nightlies OMITTED

Trump dismisses financial concerns of air traffic controllers working without pay for more than 40 days (Zoë Richards/NBC News)

Why Trump Declared War on Immigrants  Richard Hanania loses his shit.

Trump has promised peace for Gaza. Private documents paint a grim picture. (Politico)  There will be no peace so long as Gaza is full of Muslim terrorirsts—and children being trained to grow up as Muslim terrorists.

Trump’s Rage at Shutdown Boils Over in Rant That Should Wake Up Dems (New Republic)

Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: Hegseth’s policies are pushing qualified women out of the military (CNN)

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling (New York Times)

Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal (Michael Stratford/Politico)

MSNBC Lets Dem Guest Call DHS ‘Domestic Terrorism Organization’

Donald Trump booed as the 1st sitting US president at a regular-season NFL game since Carter in 1978 (Howard Fendrich/Associated Press)

Trump Booed at NFL Game After Demanding Stadium Is Named In His Honor (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Resigns to Speak Freely Against Trump (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)

Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says (Karina Tsui/CNN) Hey, if Biden can do it….

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, other key figures allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election (Peter Charalambous/ABC News)

Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani, Others Involved In Bid To Challenge 2020 Election

Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election (New York Times)

F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It (Adam Goldman/New York Times) “Said”? Must have heard it through the grapevine….

Court Rules Trump Must Release $4B in Food Aid  Using what for money? There is no current appropriation because of Democrat bullheadedness. Is he just supposed to shit the money? What ever happened to all the complaints that only Congress can appropriate money? Since when do the courts get to decide this?

Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump’s sinking ship (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  … But a Dem sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest…. (ICE Has Received More Than 200,000 Job Applications: DHS)

Home Depot Can’t Ignore Its ICE Problem Forever (Beth Kowitt/Bloomberg)  Time to start hiring Americans.

Trump turned the military on U.S. cities. I will continue to hold him accountable. (Sen. Dick Durbin/MSNBC)  Yeah, we can see him tremble in his boots….

Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite — Perhaps it took the second coming of Donald Trump for empathy … (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)  Molehill? Can’t you see the mountain there?

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in (Jane Martinson/The Guardian)  Translation: It lied about Trump and got caught. Unlike Democrats, British civil servants resign when they get caught.

Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)

Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback (Antonia Hitchens/New Yorker)

Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek commutation from Trump, whistleblower says (NBC News)  Which she is perfectly entitled to do. How nefarious!

BBC: Received Legal Threat From Trump Over Speech Doctoring

BBC News says it received legal threat from Trump over speech edit (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

BBC Chairman Apologizes for Error in Edit of Trump Speech (Max Colchester/Wall Street Journal)

Lions WR Points to Trump, Does His Dance After TD

Gallup Poll: DHS Sees Sharp Rise in Public Approval

Fla. AG: Probing JPMorgan Chase Debanking Trump Media

Far-right party named ‘TRUMP’ launches in Belgium (Ketrin Jochecová/Politico)

Newsbusters.

Just like they waited until either Joe Biden had bumbled in the June 2024 debate or he was out of office to admit he wasn’t in charge of his faculties, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC awoke Monday morning by telling viewers it was Democrats who had a “whole strategy” to “drive the country into a shutdown,” but lost out when eight defectors “back[ed] away from what they’ve been demanding” on ObamaCare subsidies.

Newsbusters.

Overnight, a small group of Democrats proved that their party was in the driver’s seat of the longest U.S. government shutdown by crossing the aisle and voting with Republicans to reopen the government. The multimillionaires of ABC News’s The View were so bitter about federal workers getting paid and SNAP recipients getting food that they were raging and screaming into the cameras. The majority were angry over Democrats giving up their political leverage against Republicans following their electoral victories last week. One of them even shouted: “I want an opposition party!”

At the top of the show, moderator Whoopi Goldberg tacitly admitted that it was Democrats who were holding out during the government shutdown, and whined that “eight senate Democrats threw in the towel by siding with the GOP to advance a vote that could lead to the government reopening.”

Newsbusters.

Last Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, granted a request by the Trump administration, to temporarily stay a lower court ruling, which ordered the government to fully fund SNAP for the rest of this month, until the First Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on the case. ABCNews.com reported it straight on Friday:

Yet mysteriously, when it came time to report on this story, Justice Brown Jackson’s name was no where to be found on several news shows including some of the Sunday shows. I wonder why that happened!

Newsbusters.

Despite detailed photographic evidence to the contrary, many liberals continue to assert that the Venezuelan boats recently destroyed by the U.S. Navy are merely fishing, not drug, boats. The Associated Press has jumped into the fray and in a roundabout “nuanced” way admitted that the destroyed boats are indeed drug boats. The “nuance” comes in via the AP asserting that among the crews of the drug boats, some worked mostly as fishermen or other low paying jobs with drug smuggling only as a side gig to boost their income.

The AP reluctantly made the ‘nuanced’ admission that the destroyed boats were drug boats on Friday with this report by Reginia Garcia Cano, “Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced.”

Newsbusters.

Last Thursday afternoon as Tesla shareholders were deciding to give their CEO Elon Musk a package that could be worth 1 trillion dollars, CNN’s Kasie Hunt was discussing it on her show, The Arena. Hunt concluded her interview with Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) by asking, “Do you think Elon Musk should be a trillionaire, is that a thing we should have?” In other words, should we put a limit on how much financial success a U.S. citizen, especially a conservative one, should be allowed to attain? Just when you thought you’ve heard it all!

Khanna answered that he is all for Musk, or anyone, making all the money he can make, so long as they give a chunk of it to the government, on top of the taxes that are already in place. “..I’m all for Elon becoming a trillionaire, as long as we can have a 5 percent trillionaire tax…My problem is not the wealth generation. It’s that it hasn’t been taxed. Have a wealth tax on all these billionaires and trillionaires.” That answer seemed to please Hunt, who then broke the trillion bucks down this way.

All good, so long as we get to wet our beaks and buy some votes with  his money.

Newsbusters.

PBS’s newest Frontline documentary, “The Rise of Germany’s New Right” concerns the rise of the AfD in Germany (Alternative for Germany) party and its supposed links to Nazism and Putin’s Russia. Director and correspondent Evan Williams has also made the Frontline docs Germany’s Enemy Within (2024) and Germany’s Neo-Nazis & the Far Right (2021).

Germany’s migrant problem surged after 2015, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the borders to people (mostly fighting-age males, it seemed) fleeing the Syrian war. Over three million refugees and asylum seekers have entered Germany since, some bringing Islamic-style terrorism with them and causing understandable backlash toward the country’s open-border policy.

Yet terrorism involving migrants in Germany was barely noticed in the documentary and narrator Williams preferred to smear the AfD for noticing. He dredged up controversial statements and spurious links to Adolf Hitler. All the while, the main anti-Semitism on the ground in Europe today is coming from the pro-Hamas left.

The Telegraph (UK).

The BBC will apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, the Telegraph can disclose.

Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, will write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together.

The apology will heap further pressure on Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, to quit over an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that alleged widespread bias within the corporation.

The Telegraph has previously disclosed that both Mr Davie and Mr Shah were warned of the doctored footage in May but appear to have kept quiet.

The decision to issue an apology now raises questions about why it has taken them six months to admit viewers were misled.

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts (ProPublica)

Judge Berates Justice Dept. in Its Prosecution of Comey (New York Times)

Trump goes on posting frenzy a day after Democrats win key elections (Jenna Amatulli/The Guardian)

Pope Leo offers his strongest criticism of Trump yet (Sarah Rainsford/BBC)

The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds (NPR)  They wouldn’t be biased, no siree.

The Hideous Symbol of MAGA Corruption (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Ever notice how “The Contrarian” always parrots the latest Woke Narrative?

Trump adviser to Germany’s far-right AfD: ‘We are in this together’ (Politico)  To Politico, there is no right but the far-right.

Eric Trump: ‘The Left wanted my father dead’ (Tim Stanley/Telegraph)

Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them.

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens–and Lying About It (Harry Litman/New Republic)

MSNBC’s Wallace Show: ICE Agents, ‘Monster’ Trump ‘Using Chemicals’ on Schools

CNN’s Phillip Rips Trump For Wanting To Help Christians In Nigeria And White South Africans

Trump’s Lilly And Novo Deal Slashes Monthly Weight-Loss Drug Costs By Up To 90%  Compare that to what’s going on with Obamcare.

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Massive Money Grab. That’s Why They Are in Trouble. (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)

Trump Officials Admit Math Error in Plan to Gut SNAP Funding (Rachel Kahn/New Republic)  Gut!

Trump makes an overdue discovery: ‘They have this new word called affordability’ (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump taps DEI critic to lead workplace civil rights agency (Claire Savage/Associated Press)

Maryland Sues Trump Over Location of FBI HQ

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

“Against humanity”: World leaders slam Trump at COP30 climate summit (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

Former DOJ lawyers switch sides (Politico)

Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the ‘working man’ (Margie Mason/Associated Press)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that Trump had his own country.

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced (Regina Garcia Cano/Associated Press)

America Begins Clapping Back at Donald Trump (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Clap!

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site (New York Times)

The softest Nazis you ever did see (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

The Founders Would Abhor Trump’s Domestic Deployments (Philip Allen Lacovara/The Bulwark)

Two-Faced! Biden-Boosting Associated Press Pushes Trump as ‘Face of Economic Discontent’

Top Trump Officials Moved Into Military Housing Due To Left-Wing Political Threats

Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks (Alice Speri/The Guardian)

GROSS: ABC Claims Trump WH Is Using Flight Cuts, Hungry Americans as Partisan Tools

Newsbusters.

Let’s hope the owners of The New York Times send a big chunk of their wealth to Washington annually. You can count on this leftist newspaper to channel the “popularity” of soaking the rich like fervent socialists like to do.

The Foundry.

The CBS News program “Sunday Morning” has been hailed as one of the “crown jewels” of the network—which means it’s larded with liberal bias. Last year, it was a conveyor belt of Democrats.

It aired puffball interviews with Pete Buttigieg, Doug Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Kamala Harris. So, it was typical when CBS reporter Seth Doane traveled to Italy for this week’s show to get the hot interview with “Hollywood icon” George Clooney.

Things got spicy when they discussed what went wrong in 2024. Doane asked Clooney if he still felt good about his New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside.

“Yes. We had a chance,” Clooney answered. “I wanted there to be—as I wrote in the op-ed—a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going. I think the mistake with it being Kamala is that she had to run against her own record. And it’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ You know, it’s hard to do. And so, she was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, quite honestly.”

So, Clooney wanted a primary, which obviously did not happen. It could have happened if Democrats had pressured Biden out in 2023, but they denied and delayed until the disastrous debate, and then it was too late for a primary. It left them with the irony of being the Democrats without any actual democracy.

Newsbusters.

Google News is the only major Big Tech news aggregator that consistently highlights Al Jazeera, a network so sympathetic to radicalism that MRC’s Dan Schneider refers to it as “Hamas News.”

Google propped up the leftist Qatari-funded media outlet Al Jazeera a staggering 15 times in recent weeks. MRC analysis found that Google News was the only major news aggregator that consistently included Al Jazeera. Google’s persistent promotion of Al Jazeera, a network known for its hostility towards Israel, serves as yet another example of the tech giant’s disdain for the Jewish state.

Schneider commented on Google’s pattern of radicalism. “Every scientific evaluation of the major AI platforms shows that they are all biased to the left. But Google seems desperate to win the gold medal for being the most radical of them all,” he said. “This is just the latest example of how it pushes its agenda. It is no wonder that several Congressional committees and regulatory agencies are investigating it.”

Chicago residents say immigration enforcement is leading to children getting tear-gassed (Natasha Korecki/NBC News) If they’d stay home, it wouldn’t be a problem.

The resistance is ascendant — Donald Trump may still have a firm grip on the three branches … (Dan Froomkin/Heads Up News)

The Supreme Court’s Tariffs Arguments Were a Bloodbath for Trump (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)

Jeffrey Epstein claimed prosecutors offered his freedom if he agreed to implicate Donald Trump: cellmate (Andy Tillett/New York Post)

Trump Really Was on the Ballot — The magnitude of the GOP rout is a bad sign for holding Congress in the midterms. (Wall Street Journal)  No matter who is involved, it’s all about Trump.

When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE (Sam Judy/The Barbed Wire)

Gallup Poll: Americans More Positive About Drug War

Donald Trump enters his lame duck era (Politico)  You’ll look pretty silly when this lame duck kicks your ass.

Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s China Trade Policy Is a Hot Mess (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)

The Workers Left Out of Trump’s Drug-Manufacturing Renaissance (New York Times)

The Big Smirk — The cruelty is the point, party edition — There’s been plenty … (Paul Krugman)  This from the guy that took $50,000 from Enron for doing absolutely nothing.

The White House’s Plan A is winning its Supreme Court tariff case. It also has a Plan B. (Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico are on the case.

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here’s the ugly backstory. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

Threatening Nigeria? Leaving Romania? The Chaos of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

As Trump’s approval rating sinks, Republicans have a decision to make (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Yeah; To listen to the Narrative Media, or to ignore it.

Colbert Claims Trump Wants Kids To Go Hungry To Pressure Democrats  As with most proglodytes, you have to turn it around to get the truth.

Why Trump’s agenda is on voters’ minds even if he’s not on the 2025 ballot (Phillip M. Bailey/USA Today)

Revolutionary Escalation, Semi-Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround? (Thomas Zimmer/Steady) Whatever happens, it’s Trump’s fault.

Conservatives erupt on social media over ‘absurd’ Pelosi comment calling Trump ‘worst thing’ on earth (Fox News)

Media Elitists Rage Against Trump and His ‘Nazi’ ‘Stormtroopers,’ Praise Antifa

Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order And Won’t Give Out SNAP Benefits (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown (Washington Post)

CNN Hypes Nancy Pelosi Calling Trump ‘WORST Thing on the Face of the Earth,’ No Rebuttal

Trump threatens to withhold SNAP funding until shutdown ends (Politico)

Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown (David Dayen/American Prospect)

Trump suggests U.S. won’t pay any SNAP benefits during shutdown, contradicting court filing (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Maryland Governor Pushes For Redistricting to Counter Trump Gerrymanders: ‘Come Next November, We Will Have Fair Maps’ (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)

White House Says Administration Will Partially Fund SNAP After Trump Suggests Otherwise (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)

Trump White House snubs ex-VP Dick Cheney, offers no condolences on his death (Steven Nelson/New York Post)  Considering what an anti-Trumper he was, and the pain in the ass his daughter turned out to be (which he supported), this ought to come as no surprise.

A White House Ballroom Fit for a Bribe (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)

Facing difficult questions about his use of an FBI jet, Kash Patel pitches weak defense (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Cash-strapped Americans signal rising costs could be Trump’s midterm headache (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump’s imperial presidency is Dick Cheney’s final legacy (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

NBC News Exit Poll: Voters disapprove of Trump in New Jersey, Virginia and other key races (Stephanie Perry/NBC News)  No matter who’s on the ballot, it’s All About Trump.

White House slams Mamdani’s ‘completely irresponsible’ comments linking Trump to threats against voters (Fox News)

From groceries to gas, Americans say they’re spending more under Trump (Washington Post)  Gas today is $2.29 at Walmart, the lowest I’ve seen in a decade.

White House scrambles to limit fallout of Trump threats to withhold SNAP food aid benefits (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)

CNN exit polls find voters in key races dissatisfied with Trump, concerned with economy (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)

Cheney’s death highlights GOP shifts under Trump (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump (Francesca D’Annunzio/The Texas Observer)

Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  How is this the business of a judge?

Democrat Spanberger Wins Governor Race As Virginians Reproach Trump (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)  “Reproach”? Hardly. Virginia has been going steadily Blue as the Deep State expands out from DC, and Democrats have always voted Democrat even if Jesus were the Republican on the ticket. It’s about demographics, not Trump. (Virginia’s Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S. (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News))

Trump’s IRS kills program that let Americans file taxes for free (Robert Davis/Raw Story)  Don’t blame Trump for what the IRS does–the Deep State reaches there as much as anywhere, and putting Trump in the White House doesn’t immediately turn everything around.

BBC Busted Doctoring Trump’s J6 Speech To Smear Him As Violent

Tuesday’s races were a quiet rebuke of Trump for many voters, AP Voter Poll finds (Associated Press)  So quiet that only the Narrative Media could hear it, much like the Nazi dog-whistles they hear everywhere.

The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger);

Trump Considering Menu Of Venezuela Attack Options, Including Oil-Field Seizures

Newsbusters.

As part of their breaking-news coverage of Dick Cheney’s death, NPR’s Morning Edition turned to Jonah Goldberg, who tweeted “Dick Cheney, a great man, has passed after an amazing life. RIP.” The “great man” part didn’t come up on NPR.

NPR morning anchor Steve “Obama’s Always Cool” Inskeep had to make Cheney’s death about Trump.

NPR didn’t exactly think that was Cheney flip-flopping on everything he ever believed out of personal spite. Pro-Trump analysts would have Inskeep that voting for an abortion-loving socialist who wanted to fund transgender operations for prisoners wasn’t “ironic,” it was two middle fingers at the Republican Party. But Goldberg said Yes to irony.

Newsbusters.

More accurately, a communist touch.

Newsbusters.

Impossible to be otherwise.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Federal and state criminal investigations into a Virginia woman who distributed leaflets disclosing the home address of a White House official, Stephen Miller, have prompted a secret court fight over the balance between personal safety and free speech at a time of rising political violence, recently unsealed court documents show.

The records, which were reviewed by The New York Times, reveal that a local court approved the search of a cellphone belonging to the woman as part of an investigation that included multiple local law enforcement agencies as well as the F.B.I. and Secret Service.

The activist, Barbara Wien, has not been charged with any crime, though the Virginia State Police still have her phone. The investigation remains active, leaving it unclear whether law enforcement has since gathered additional evidence.
The dispute captures the fierce tensions over political activism that have become a defining feature of the second Trump presidency, pitting the Miller family’s concerns for their security against the First Amendment claims of a critic of the administration.

In an atmosphere in which political violence against Republicans and Democrats has become more common, administration officials have increasingly voiced worries about their security, citing in particular the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and two attempts in 2024 to kill Donald J. Trump.

“… and Democrats”? I know of no instances of somebody trying to kill a Democrat.

Newsbusters.

The legacy newscasts were all over the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, labeling his prosecution as part of an alleged “political retribution” campaign by President Donald Trump. These outlets were nowhere to be seen, though, as the Eastern District of Virginia dropped a multiple-warhead filing that decimated those narratives.

Read it.

On November 3rd, a leaked memo revealed that the BBC’s Panorama programme had edited President Donald Trump’s January 6th, 2021 speech in a way that misrepresented his remarks, making it appear as though he was encouraging supporters to riot at the Capitol.

The programme–aired a week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election–showed Trump telling the crowd he would march to the Capitol to “fight like hell.” In reality, the President had said he would walk with supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

According to the 19-page dossier, Panorama merged footage from the beginning of Trump’s speech with segments from nearly an hour later, creating the false impression that he said, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not gonna have a country any more.”

Most Americans Are Seeing the Dangers of Trump’s Authoritarianism (Robert P. Jones/The Contrarian)  Notice how writers for The Contrarian somehow always seem to parrot the Woke party line?

Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels: report (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump approval rating falls to second-term low of 37% (Maya Yang/The Guardian)  Who cares? Certainly not Trump. He’s still in his first year of four. This must be some sort of left-wing security blanket.

Trump endorses Andrew Cuomo over the Republican candidate in NYC mayoral race (NBC News)  There’s a Republican candidate in the NYC election? How did that happen? How come nobody mentioned it?

Lauren Boebert’s racially charged Halloween costume sparks backlash (ABC News)

The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind (The Rational League)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he’s winning (Michael Edison Hayden/MSNBC)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

CBS’s interview with Donald Trump was an abdication (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch)

Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC election — and ditch Curtis Sliwa (Steven Nelson/New York Post)  Trump is a practical man before he’s a Republican. Much as I admire Curtis Sliwa, I’d have done the same.

Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  And fantasy still consumes The Bullshitwark.

Report: Donors to Trump’s White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)  Of course, they don’t dare investigate who the donors were to Obama’s Presidential Bunker–or what federal contracts they had.

A Confederacy of Toddlers ??? The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children. (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic) And The Atlantic is written by patronizing self-righteous bigots.

Exclusive: Trump ousts watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say (Reuters)  In the Narrative Media, ‘watchdog’ means ‘nosy proglodyte activists hunting for heretics and sinners’.

Pelosi: Trump is ‘worst thing on the face of the earth’ (Max Rego/The Hill)  This is news?

Trump held ‘Gatsby’-themed Halloween party as SNAP benefits were due to be cut off (USA Today)  If USA Today ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

President Donald Trump: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview (CBS News)

Democrats Urge Trump to Engage in Talks as Shutdown Closes In on Record (Wall Street Journal)  They want him to pressure Republican Senators to cave to Democrat spending demands, a trick that has often worked on Republican Presidents in the past. (Trump: I ‘Won’t Be Extorted’ by Democrats)(Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: “If they don’t vote, that’s their problem” (Norah O’Donnell/CBS News))

US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal (Financial Times)

EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Send Deputy AG Michael Gates to “Monitor” California’s Prop 50 Election (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism (Ezra Klein/New York Times)  To the Left, every time somebody does something they don’t like, it’s an ‘-ism’.

What it’s like being wrongly charged by Trump’s Department of Justice (Sidney Reid/MSNBC)

ICE Blamed for Drop in Chicago Holiday Festivities

Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation: Poll (Emily Guskin/Reuters)

The Meltdown at Heritage–and the Fight for MAGA’s Future (Eli Lake/The Free Press)  There’s that MAGA guy again. MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump’s Next Defense Strategy Risks Leaving the U.S. Underprepared (The Bulwark)

Sabotage? Portland ICE Building Plunged Into Darkness After Suspicious Power Blackout

Government Shutdown Could Become Longest Ever

Government shutdown could become longest ever as Trump says he ‘won’t be extorted’ by Democrats (Mary Clare Jalonick/Associated Press)

We’re Number Two! — Does Donald Trump realize that he has ceded world leadership to China? (Paul Krugman)  Does Paul Krugman realize that this is the first time he has ever shown that he gives a shit about America?

CBS Cuts Trump’s Corruption Tantrum From ’60 Minutes’ Edit (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

In Redistricting Battles, Here’s How Trump, Republicans and Democrats Are Faring (New York Times)  I wasn’t aware that Trump had a dog in that  particular fight.

Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)  Confronts! (Officials Expect Supreme Court to Uphold Trump’s Tariffs)

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid (Zach Montague/New York Times)  Proglodytes are deeply invested in giving away YOUR money.

‘Utterly shameful’: Congress to crush US record this week for longest shutdown (Politico).  Thank you,  Chuck Schumer.

Poll finds most Americans doubt Trump’s commitment to free speech, fair justice (Washington Post)  My, what a surprise.

Virginia and New Jersey can show that Trump isn’t inevitable (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump Administration Highlights: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Guard Deployment in Portland (Anna Griffin/New York Times)

Democrats are more enthusiastic about the midterms as Trump’s approval hits a second-term low, CNN poll finds (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)

? Factchecking Trump on ’60 Minutes’ (Mehdi Hasan/Zeteo)

How the U.S. Economy Has Defied Doomsday Predictions on Tariffs (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)

Why DOJ election monitors in California and New Jersey are setting off alarms (Hayes Brown/MSNBC)  They must be catching Democrats cheating.

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force (ProPublica)  And being shot randomly by black teen gangbangers made youi feel safe?

Trump’s politicizing of the U.S. military is accelerating (Max Boot/Washington Post)

Dissecting the Trump Administration’s Effort to Circumvent the War Powers Resolution for Boat Strikes (Brian Finucane/Just Security)

Man hospitalized after violent federal immigration arrest in Melrose Park, family says (Adriana P??rez/Chicago Tribune)

‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump (MSNBC)

Under Trump, the Law Is Just a Speed Bump (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

7 of the Biggest Lies So Far From Trump’s Homeland Security Mouthpiece (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe (Financial Times)  Fine. Let their taxpayers pay for Grievance Studies.

The Ballroom Blitz Should Be a Bigger Scandal (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

NY Times 12-Part Anti-Trump Editorial ‘Are We Losing Our Democracy?’ FLOPS in Hypocrisy

Whistleblower Claims BBC Doctored Trump Footage to Skew Jan. 6 Coverage

Exploit The GOP’s Nazi Meltdown (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Exclusive: BBC ‘doctored’ Trump speech, internal report reveals (Gordon Rayner/Telegraph)

Slaughter on the High Seas (John McCormack/The Dispatch)  A dozen drug smugglers is not a ‘slaughter’.

CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’ (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)

Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ’60 Minutes’ (Daniel Dale/CNN)

Donald Trump Is a Commie (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Jonathan Last is a moron.

Dem Attorneys General Sue WH Over Student Debt Relief

Why Tuesday’s elections could give Democrats two paths to coming back from Trump (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Is Nov 5th’s ‘Trump Must Go Now’ Action Set To Kick Off Civil War 2.0?

Rev. Al Sharpton Rips Trump Over ‘ALLEGED’ Killing of Christians in ‘Non-White Countries’