The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
20th October 2025
It’s a question we have to ask too often: How stupid do the nation’s top journalists think we are?
The available evidence would suggest: Pretty stupid,
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20th October 2025
Twice in recent days, MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff downplayed the criminal record of an illegal alien a week after he flipped out because federal agents arrested him at a Chicago bakery while he was having coffee.
On October 7, Soboroff first brought the story to MSNBC during Chris Jansing Reports as he interviewed a witness to the arrest. As he played video of agents parked outside the bakery and chasing the men inside, the MSNBC reporter tried to portray the Trump administration as being dishonest about whom they are arresting.
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19th October 2025
‘No Kings’ protests against Trump bring a street party vibe to cities nationwide (Associated Press) And all the senile hippy boomers come out to play….
NJ Residents Rip School Board Over Vile Texts Attacking MAGA Mom
Going Full Venezuela — No Kings day feels eerily familiar to me. (Quico Toro/Persuasion)
Morning Joe Admits Bolton Indictment Legit, But Claims It’s Still Trump Abuse
Ex-ICE director says Trump’s immigration crackdown putting agents in “terrible position” (Anna Schecter/CBS News) Yeah, they actually have to do their jobs. They didn’t get a government job in order to actually work….
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …) By ‘allies’ I assume she means non-Americans, i.e. illegal immigrants.
Second “No Kings Day” protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) And by pretty much the same people.
Networks Grant Leftist ‘No Kings’ Protests 18 Times the Air Time as March for Life
Plan to Fire Artillery over a Highway During Vance Visit Irks California’s Newsom
It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times) It’s all they’ve got.
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal (Washington Post) Sure, I believe that.
No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum (Sasha Stone/Free Thinking Through …)
Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level (David French/New York Times)
No Kings protests held across U.S., overseas to demonstrate against Trump administration (NBC News) I guess the British and the Saudis couldn’t participate. Pity.
Sanders at ‘No Kings’ rally: Mega-billionaires have ‘hijacked’ economy (Tara Suter/The Hill) As opposed to mere millionaires, like him and Senator Umbrage. Where does he draw the line? He never says, and nobody ever asks.
Rand Paul: ‘All of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name’ (David Cohen/Politico) Who cares what their names are? Does he mean that justice is different for people if you know their names? Is he going to start demanding the same due process rights for illegal immigrants as for Americans and legal residents. Is he going RINO on us?
When Could The Government Shutdown End And What Might Finally Force Breakthrough? Republican supermajority in the mid-terms.
Trump jabs ‘No Kings’ protesters with AI videos of himself wearing crown (Zac Anderson/USA Today) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….
‘King’ Trump, 79, Dumps on Protesters in Bonkers AI Video (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)
Trump Vows to Make San Francisco ‘Great Again
Inside the quiet, yearslong investigation into John Bolton (CNN)
Mamdani, Jeffries and How to Beat Trump at His Own Game (Chris Hayes/New York Times) Putting America first? That’s not a game Mamdani wants to play.
Donald Trump Has Posted An AI Video Of Himself Dumping S**t On Protesters (Kevin Schofield/HuffPost)
FBI Probing Air Force One Sniper Stand at Palm Beach Airport
Secret Service Discovers Hunting Stand Overlooking Trump’s Air Force One Exit Guess they’ve started taking their job seriously again.
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18th October 2025
Swalwell: When we’re in majority, ICE masks coming off (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
FEMA Cuts Disaster Aid, Leaving States Fending for Themselves (Scott Dance/New York Times) Because, as we all know, disaster aid is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal tazpayer.
Donald Trump’s Dream Palace of Puffery (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force (Heather Knight/New York Times)
Joe Rogan is unpleasantly surprised by Trump’s actions. He’s hardly alone (Aaron Blake/CNN)
How dozens of Trump’s donors have benefited from his second term (Financial Times)
The Smart People Can’t Accept Trump Isn’t Hamas or Hitler or Stalin
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history (Matthew Wollin/Public Notice)
Donald Trump: America First globalist (Marc Caputo/Axios)
Trump Says $20 Billion Project Schumer Wants Is ‘Pretty Much Dead’ (Bloomberg)
Republican Frustration With Kristi Noem Has Reached a Boiling Point (NOTUS)
Joe Rogan Rips Trump for Setting a ‘Dangerous Precedent’ (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
GOP senators worry about Trump, Hegseth shutdown moves (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First (Paul Krugman)
Universities Are Standing Up to Trump (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns (New Republic)
The resistance reaches into Trump country (Waging Nonviolence)
Trump preparing to reopen Alaska wildlife refuge for oil drilling (Adam Federman/Politico)
Trump’s Very Own Basket of Deplorables (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball (Andy Kroll/New Yorker)
Propaganda Puppet Kimmel: Trump Is “Pretending There’s Chaos” For “A Military Takeover”
The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration (Dan Holtmeyer/Liberal Currents)
“Outraged” Trump Refuses To Adhere To Global Carbon Tax On Shipping
Scoop: Warren pushes White House to release jobs report during shutdown (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
Putin Plays to Trump’s Ego as U.S. Wavers on Ukraine Aid (New York Times)
Trump Pushes Indiana Lawmakers to Redraw State Maps (Tyler Pager/New York Times)
What Trump Is Really Up to in Chicago, According to JB Pritzker (Dasha Burns/Politico)
Dear Mr. President, Americans Don’t Care Who Owns Donetsk, So Why Risk WW3 By Sending Tomahawks?
“I’m not a king,” Trump says ahead of nationwide No Kings protests (Josephine Walker/Axios)
MSNBC’s ICE-Breaker Jacob Soboroff Touts Fear: We May Not Have a 2026 Election
Fmr CNN Host Don Lemon: ‘Get a Gun’ in Case ICE Shows Up
Don Lemon tells Black, Brown citizens to carry guns in case ICE shows up (Fox News)
PBS Host Geoff Bennett Prods Retired Justice Kennedy to Condemn Current Court
CNN Admits There’s Some Merit to Bolton Classified Info Indictment
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged. (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Greenlight Chicago Military Takeover (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
Former WH Special Consul Cobb: Bolton Indictment Has Legal Merit
Trump admin cancels more than $11 billion in mostly blue state projects (Jason Lalljee/Axios)
White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)
Public Health Professor Warns Trump’s ‘Eugenics’ Policy Echoes Nazism (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
The Shutdown is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind. (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
Voting Rights Act faces a near-death experience at US Supreme Court (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)
How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree (Emily Peck/Axios) Well, it looks as if the Narrative ‘journalists’ are not totally stupid.
PBS Whines Trump, GOP Won’t Buckle On Shutdown
With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department (Washington Post)
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17th October 2025
Senate Democrats tank military funding bill amid shutdown feud (Connor O’Brien/Politico)
Vulgar Pro-Hamas, Anti-Trump/Netanyahu Messages Broadcast at Pa. Airport by Hackers
Trump’s Unilateral Spending Cuts Complicate Shutdown Deal (New York Times)
Harvard posts biggest operating loss in 14 years as Trump cuts bite (Dan Primack/Axios)
Chamber of Commerce Sues Over Trump’s New $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee (Wall Street Journal)
President Trump envisions D.C. arch to mark 250th anniversary of U.S. (Anastasia Tsioulcas/NPR)
California AG vows to sue if Trump sends troops to San Francisco (Noah Baustin/Politico)
Trump’s Long-Awaited IVF Policy Falls Far Short of His Campaign Pledge (NOTUS)
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn (Lauren Gambino/The Guardian)
Inside Trump’s DOJ: Punitive firings, public scoldings and pressure to prosecute foes (MSNBC) Sounds a lot like the Obama DOJ and the Biden DOJ to me.
Democrats Lay Out ‘Damning’ Examples of ICE’s Tactics in Chicago (Amelia Benavides-Col??n/NOTUS)
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17th October 2025
n what will hopefully be the first of many welcome changes at CBS News in this Bari Weiss era, senior vice president for standards and practices Claudia Milne announced Thursday she would be leaving the company after having played leading roles in what our friends at the New York Post noted were “some of the network’s recent controversial, woke reporting” in recent years.
For reference, the Post’s indefatigable media reporter Alexandra Steigrad explained the standards and practices unit at news organizations are “responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming,” so her departure marked the “the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss” was named editor-in-chief on October 6.
Steigard, as always, came armed with sources. She found one who said Milne “was part of the woke mob at CBS News” and thus “Bari’s first scalp” as she seeks to move CBS back towards the center.
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17th October 2025
Read it.
Fifteen journalists have agreed to the Department of War’s new press policy, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
The department had set a Tuesday deadline for news outlets to sign a new Pentagon access policy or lose access to press credentials and Pentagon workspaces.
At least 30 news organizations, including Reuters and Newsmax, declined to sign the new policy, citing a threat to press freedoms and their ability to conduct independent newsgathering on the world’s most powerful military.
The last thing the “world’s most powerful military” ought to do is let “independent newsgatherers” anywhere near their facilities. One of the least effortful ways of gathering intelligence on one’s enemies is simply reading the product of “independent newsgatherers” who just can’t wait to show everybody how in-the-know they are, no matter whether or not it damages national security.
Reporters who signed the document include those who work for The Federalist, The Epoch Times, and One America News.
“After thorough review of the revised press policy by our attorney, OAN staff has signed the document,” Charles Herring, the company’s president, said in a statement.
Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on social media they found no new restrictions on the ability of journalists to report on or criticize the government.
“If the new guidelines result in fewer professional con artists and media hoaxers roaming the halls looking for new lies to peddle, so be it,” they said.
And that says it all.
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17th October 2025
Episcopalians? Are they still around?
Despite overseeing a denomination that’s been cratering in support for its far-left views, celebration of genital mutilation, and downplaying the Word of God (among other things, making its Christian bona fides questionable), Episcopalian Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde was heralded on Thursday’s CBS Mornings for her new young adults book about bravery and her January scolding of President Trump at an inaugural interfaith service.
And, to make it even more palatable for the liberal hosts and viewers, Budde never mentioned God, His Son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, or any character in the Bible as examples of bravery. Rather, Budde and the co-hosts focused on her selections of Martin Luther King Jr. and Harry Potter.
“Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was brave enough to tell President Trump to welcome refugees to America. She’ll tell us why she is bringing that lesson of bravery to kids in a new book,” gushed featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers in one of two teases.
Of course, the interview itself began with the snippet of her homily ripping into the President from the National Cathedral pulpit as xenophobic.
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16th October 2025
Judge Extends Ban on Trump Deploying National Guard in Portland
Overthrow: Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Ops Targeting Venezuela’s Maduro No beating around the bush.
Federal firings could reach 10,000 during shutdown, Vought says (Emily Peck/Axios) Let’s get a head start on draining the swamp.
New York Magazine: ‘How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?’ Trump Republican, Biden Democrat. Seems obvious to me.
Trump is considering sending National Guard to San Francisco (Faith Wardwell/Politico) I hope they make sure to wear a flower in their hair.
Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner (Wall Street Journal) They say that like it was a bad thing.
Judge Pauses Transfer of Florida Land for Trump Library
Trump vows federal ‘surge’ in more American cities to combat crime (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)
RINO ALERT! Murkowski Joins Democrats in Push for Federal Worker Back Pay
Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
Democrats float a new shutdown demand: Reversing Trump’s mass firings (Politico) Sounds as if they’re feeling the pinch right in their base.
NY Times Furious Trump Wants Balanced Refugee System
Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups (Wall Street Journal)
Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules (Scott Nover/Washington Post) That gets rid of a major pain in the ass.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of “Vanity Parade” (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News) The derangement is strong in this one.
The Hatch Act? Wassat? Who cares? (Robert Reich) Certainly no Democrat, much less Robert Reich.
The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps (Nancy A. Youssef/The Atlantic) Speed the day. Why we even have a “Pentagon Press Corps” escapes me.
Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times) The horror! The horror!
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals (Glenn Thrush/New York Times) As they went after him. Quod abit circum venit circum.
When the Trump Guardrails Fall (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)
Special Counsel Jack Smith: Trump Persecution Was Not Political Liar Liar Pants On Fire.
I resigned from the military because of Trump (Doug Krugman/Washington Post) Sometimes the system works.
How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto (Financial Times) That’s why he’s a billionaire, and you’re not.
Trump’s Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)
Extreme Leftist Democrat Crockett Claims Trump Had A Stroke And Cannot Function I’m sure he’d be able to whip your ass.
Trump Rule Sidelines 6,000 Truckers Over English Tests It frightens me that there were 6,000 truck drivers on the roads who can’t pass an English test.
Federal immigration officers in Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, judge says (Christine Fernando/Associated Press) I’m not sure she has the authority to do that.
The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act (Elie Mystal/The Nation) More guts!
San Francisco DA says she ‘won’t hesitate’ to bring charges against federal agents (Politico) The magic words are Qualified Immunity.
Photo Shows Trump Backstage At Rally With Republicans In Racist Texts Scandal (HuffPost) Trump! Backstage with REPUBLICANS! AT A RALLY! What is this world coming to?
Norwegian Nobel Socialists Snub Trump, Give Prize to Eco-Extremist Economist
Judge Blocks Trump Cuts, Restores $34M in NYC Anti-Terror Funds
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16th October 2025
Just hours after 20 Israeli hostages were released from captivity, after being held by the terrorist organization Hamas for 738 days, an event made possible by Donald Trump’s peace plan, CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip featured Dr. Cornel West justifying the existence of Hamas, claiming that Palestinians in Gaza were under occupation, and comparing them to the Jews of Poland, and those who suffered as slaves in this country, and going after Donald Trump.
Phillip began the questioning with Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan, who expressed doubt about the likelihood that the the rest of Trump’s plan would be implemented, but acknowledged that it was a day for celebration: “What we can say it was a good day because today the guns went silent.” Next, Phillip turned to West, who in the past, on her very show, has compared the plight of the Palestinians to slavery in the United States, and has falsely claimed that Gaza was occupied by Israel prior to October 7th.
Phillip began with a ridiculous question about Trump, prefaced with her liberal point of view: “And look, everybody knows that Trump loves credit, but is it fair in your mind for more people on the left to actually give him credit for this? To acknowledge that, that perhaps he was the difference maker in this particular deal?” Then West went on his rant.
Cornel West is pretty much the poster child for Affirmative Action Hire.
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16th October 2025
On Monday night’s The 11th Hour, MSNBC’s very own Jason Johnson made the incredibly logical conclusion that everyone who was not in favor of fascism should be grouped under the same label as those who cause violent riots in the name of Antifa. This was in reaction to the Trump administration’s recent actions taken against the terrorist network.
Of course, Stephanie Ruhle’s stand-in, Antonia Hylton, couldn’t start without first minimizing the significance of the riotous clan: “It’s worth reminding viewers that Trump designated Antifa, which is not an actual organization, as a domestic terrorist group with an Executive Order…”
It’s atypical, shapeless (not formless), and hides amongst the shadows in-between incursions. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
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15th October 2025
On Monday and Tuesday, brutal footage emerged of Hamas terrorists carrying out public executions of those they claim were disloyal and “collaborators with Israel,” just hours after the ceasefire went into effect as part of President Trump’s historic regional peace deal. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, ABC completely omitted this disturbing turn from their flagship evening and morning newscasts.
Instead, chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell eagerly peddled Hamas propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
Pannell declared on Tuesday’s World News Tonight that “[i]n Gaza, some of the nearly 2,000 prisoners taken by Israel and held without charge also reporting abuse.”
He then used video taped inside Gaza (likely from a local producer) of a man “detained for 20 months saying he was told his family had been killed. It was a lie.
“‘I was released, not knowing if my family was alive. It was a beautiful feeling to find them,’ he says…[T]his dispute about Hamas disarming and the return of bodies underscores how immense the challenges ahead are, but President Trump clear he wants a wider Middle East peace and that means solving Gaza once and for all,” he added.
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15th October 2025
Knesset on Monday, MSNBC contributors tag-teamed a critique of his actions against Iran and his international diplomatic capabilities. This included affirmation for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a failed Obama-era treaty that primed Iran for nuclear weapons capabilities.
After playing a few clips of Trump mentioning Iran, Ana Cabrera stand-in Erielle Reshef asked former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes about the impact of Operation Midnight Hammer (Click “expand”).
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15th October 2025
It appears that ABC World News Tonight is fighting hard to reclaim the mantle as America’s most nakedly partisan legacy evening newscast. Another wildly biased shutdown item from correspondent Rachel Scott does little to inform viewers but everything to inflame them.
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15th October 2025
Even in what you might call the mainstream liberal media, you’d have to look far and wide to find outspoken support for the often-violent, blatantly antisemitic, pro-Hamas student protesters that have plagued American colleges in recent times.
But look no further than CNN This Morning and its host, Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR. Last week, reacting to a poll showing a majority of Americans opposing sending more weapons to Israel, and supporting sending humanitarian aid to Gaza,
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14th October 2025
Johnson: ‘We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history’ (Emily Brooks/The Hill) Because the Republicans haven’t caved. Kudos to Trump for passing out spines.
The Right’s Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections (Rolling Stone) So secret that even Rolling Stone knows about it?
Parliament Hands Out MAGA-Style Hats Before Trump’s Speech (Harry Thompson/The Daily Beast)
Pakistan PM Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Majority of The View’s Cast Refuse to Credit Trump for Ceasefire
The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)
Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats (Caitlyn Freeman/The Seattle Times)
Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
Trump Refuses To Let Go Of Macron During Aggressively Long Handshake At Egypt Summit (Graeme Demianyk/HuffPost) SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT (Liam Knox/Bloomberg)
Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report (Maya Yang/The Guardian) Because, AS WE ALL KNOW, the education of ‘specials’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.
Trump says immigrants are driving violent crime in Illinois, but ICE can’t find many who are (MSNBC) Because pro-crime Democrats are hiding them. That’s what “Sanctuary Cities” are all about.
Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda (Robert McCoy/New Republic)
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent (Meg Anderson/NPR) No mention of the more violent tactics of the anti-ICE terrorists.
Trump has done the impossible in Gaza, and the media still sneer (Andrea Peyser/New York Post)
Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass (Tom Bowman/NPR) Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
The small cracks of dissent emerging in Trump’s GOP (Alex Isenstadt/Axios) So small that only the Narrative Media can see them.
Jeffries slams GOP spending bill: ‘Gutting the health care of the American people’ (MSNBC) Because, AS WE ALL KNOW, the health care of the American people is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.
Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump (New York Times)
Trump: Time Photo ‘Maybe Worst of All Time’
Quid Pro Presidency (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over–and It Quickly Backfires on Trump (New Republic) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Chuck Schumer Calls For “Forceful” Uprising Against Trump Administration
Colbert and Kimmel Hail Gaza Deal, But Mock Idea Of Trump Winning Peace Prize
Left-Wing Group Instructs How to Fight ICE in Chicago
America Needs a Mass Movement–Now (David Brooks/The Atlantic) David Brooks has evidently tired of being the NYT’s Pet Conservative and decided to go full Woke.
In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’ (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo) Not that they ever did.
Drug Runners Shifting Strategies After Trump Strikes
Biden, Blinken take credit for groundwork behind Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal (Fox News) I’m sure they do.
RFK Jr. Adviser Has Shock Theory for Trump’s ‘Dementia’ and Cankles (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
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14th October 2025
At CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, more colloquially known as the Thunderdome, we are often reminded that if it weren’t for double standards there would be none at all. So it is, now, with comparisons to terrorists made at the hallowed Table.
Consider this exchange, broadly over former President Barack Obama’s recent comments on the Marc Maron podcast decrying authoritarian creep (lol, someone get him a mirror), which end with Meidas Bro Adam Mockler comparing the election of President Trump to the election of Hamas in Gaza.
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14th October 2025
Once again, the New York Times is coming to the defense of the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk.
Reporter-at-large Eli Saslow journeyed to Texas Hill Country for the latest epic, a 3,000-word sob story about a fired female firefighter, that got major, three-column play across the prime news real estate of Sunday’s front page: “She Hated Kirk. He Resolved to Make Such People Pay.”
And again left unmentioned: The left cancelling people’s reputations and getting them fired over far less offensive things during the Covid and Black Lives Matter-fueled hysteria of 2020. That phenomenon also overtook the New York Times, driving out opinion staffer Bari Weiss and former opinion editor James Bennet from the Times opinion page during that sinister “social justice” era, whose consequences we are still enduring.
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14th October 2025
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14th October 2025
ince Hamas’s barbarism on October 7, 2023, one of the worst broadcast network correspondents has been CBS’s Debora Patta in sucking up to the Palestinian cause (read: Hamas). It was thus unsurprising her lead-off segment on Monday’s CBS Mornings actually gave equal time in the three-minute-and-24-second segment to the 20 living Israeli hostages and the nearly 2,000 Palestinians being released from Israeli jails for a slew of offenses, including some serving life sentences.
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14th October 2025
The New York Times scrambled to run cover for leftist billionaire George Soros after a groundbreaking report exposing his pro-terrorism funding served as the pretext for the Justice Department launching an investigation into his Open Society Foundations (OSF).
The Times tried October 10 to attack the Capital Research Center’s investigative report showing that Soros had funneled at least $80 million into “groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence” both in the U.S. and abroad. The headline: “Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism.”
One heavily Soros-funded group, Al-Haq, is “a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank” that has been “long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization.” But The Times picked an obvious strawman and went to town with it by claiming the report “does not show evidence that Mr. Soros’s network knowingly paid for its grantees to break the law, which legal experts said would be necessary to build a criminal case.”
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14th October 2025
As President Trump himself articulated on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the legacy, liberal media have been surprisingly respectful and tonally correct in expressing admiration for the peace deal between Israel and Hamas and capturing the emotion from Israelis as the 20 living hostages reunited with their families.
But in the middle of the night here in the U.S., one NBC international correspondent celebrated the Palestinian prisoners being released as “hostages” because some were merely “minors, doctors, nurses, journalists who have never been charged” but jailed by Israel under “administrative detention.”
Daniele Hamamdjian told senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson that the nearly 2,000 Palestinians being turned over from Israeli prisons are “freedom fighters” and “hostages” in the eyes of “many Palestinians”:
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13th October 2025
Jewish Chamber Defends RFK Jr. Over Circumcision, Antisemitism Claims
NY Times Blames ‘Conspiracy Theorists,’ ‘Right-Wing Influencers’ for Antifa Violence
Maduro Doubts Trump Will Do Anything in Venezuela
Trump’s 100% tariff threat sparks defiance from Beijing (Phelim Kine/Politico)
Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)
Denmark Commits $4.2B to Arctic Defense, Backs Trump’s Security Vision
Trump’s claims about violence are falling apart in court (Aaron Blake/CNN)
J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists’ Questions. It Did Not Go Well (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)
CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals (Axios)
Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring (Washington Post)
Inside Trump’s “funny numbers” on mass deportations (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education (Cory Turner/NPR)
Republicans embrace hardball moves as shutdown enters Week 3 (Politico)
How Trump Is Making China Great (Paul Krugman)
Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government (Washington Post) And relieving a lot of strain from taxpayers.
Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)
Obama rips concessions that businesses and others have made to Trump (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)
Trump Cuts Dem Federal Programs: ‘They Made a Mistake’ Nothing is more common than a dozen different government programs, each supposedly dealing with the same “problem” and each with its attendant plethora of bureaucrats who all naturally vote Democrat. Don’t think that this is by accident.
Vice President Vance Calls Out NBC News for Noting Bibi Boos, Skipping Trump Applause
It Turns Out, Americans Don’t Want a Police State (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin is so wrapped up in her own little fantasy world that she can’t tell what’s actually going on.
Naked bike riders demonstrate against federal troops in ‘quintessentially Portland’ protest (Associated Press) Tom Lerer: “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!”
Trump’s Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement (William Kristol/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew succumb to Progressive Projectionism.
Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump (Lisa Friedman/New York Times) Because, AS WE ALL KNOW, coal miners are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer. (Maybe they could hit up George Soros; I hear he has some loose funds available.)
Is America on the brink? Political violence isn’t new in America. But the reaction to it today feels different. (Sean Illing/Vox) Of course it does. “MOMMMEEE! Donald hit me back!”
Shutdown polls show Democrats’ economic messaging still falling flat (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico) Only the Democrat base is as stupid as Democrats expect everybody to be, and that isn’t enough any more.
Obama: ‘Inherently corrupting’ for a president to use military ‘against their own people’ (Max Rego/The Hill) When Democrats won’t enforce the law, there is little choice.
The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump (Jeet Heer/The Nation)
Moment Heckler Interrupts Trump Knesset Speech
Donald Trump Heckled During Speech in Israel
People Who Have Been Calling For A Ceasefire For Two Years Denounce Ceasefire (Babylon Bee)
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13th October 2025
For those of you wondering how CNN’s brand has fallen so deep into the toilet, the strange attitudes divorced from reality of many who work at that network might offer one of the significant reasons.
An example comes in the form of CNN’s Science and Wellness writer, Madeline Holcombe, who wrote an overlong boring rant about her neurotic hangup with the ‘male gaze’ on Saturday, “After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back.”
The “male gaze” is back? If you even knew it ever existed as a major problem in the first place, then YOU are probably the one with the problem for even noticing. And one who has definitely noticed and can’t stop thinking about it is Holcombe who one could argue causes the male (and female) glaze — as in their eyes glazing over in utter boredom while attempting to read a rant that seems like entering an unending wormhole into an alternate universe obsessively concerned about something that never appears as a problem on the radar screens of normal people.
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13th October 2025
nother Sunday has passed, and with it another cycle of omissive bias from the major legacy media political affairs shows. Two major political stories went undiscussed- both the ongoing fallout over the Jay Jones text scandal currently roiling the Virginia gubernatorial election, and the arrest of the Red Mass bomber exactly one week ago.
With regard to Jay Jones, the only Sunday show mention remains former Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short on the 10/5 broadcast of NBC’s Meet the Press. And this is an instance where he forced it on to the panel discussion, rather than something produced as a standalone segment on the show.
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12th October 2025
Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction (Daniel Dale/CNN) “Face check” in Media-speak actually means “Narrative gaslighting”.
Rep. Claudia Tenney: Create Trump Peace Prize
Purge Politics: Jeffries Pledges Legal Retaliation When Democrats Take Power
Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on (NPR)
‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities? (Maanvi Singh/The Guardian) How stupid are the people who write for The Guardian?
Purge, Merge, and Surge (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?) Since the author is evidently a Democrat, I would say “No”.
European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists (Jennifer Rankin/The Guardian) To The Guardian, there is no ‘right’ but the ‘far right’.
Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok (David Frum/The Atlantic)
Maga figures back Bukele’s call for Trump to crack down on US judges (Jason Wilson/The Guardian) MAGA is the New Nigger.
More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated (CNN) Yeah, theu re-hired the ones they actually wanted to keep, avoiding lawsuits from those they wanted to get rid of..
‘Using us as political pawns’: federal workers reel over threats of firings and withheld back pay (Michael Sainato/The Guardian) The Democrats certainly are.
Trump loves his tariffs. Too bad he’s wrong about them. (Glenn C. Altschuler/The Hill)
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. (Lydia DePillis/New York Times) “Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.” Yeah, getting rid of special treatment will have that effect.
Kilmar Abrego’s court victory could end Trump’s reign of retaliation (Nick Akerman/The Hill)
MSNBC Spreads Fake News That ICE Zip-Tied Children, Fox Debunk
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12th October 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James is a Democrat who was elected on her promise to prosecute “illegitimate” President Donald Trump. In other words, she was a super-charged partisan. But the partisan leftist media regularly dropped the (D) – and the E, as in elected. A low-information voter would think she was nonpartisan. That’s still happening.
In the breaking-news article online, you can see the D in paragraph 4, which begins: “In a statement, Ms. James, a Democrat who had won a civil case against Mr. Trump accusing him of fraudulently inflating the value of his assets…” But in the On Dead Tree version, it’s not there. How bizarre.
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11th October 2025
“This is a disaster”: Congress erupts at Trump’s shutdown mass firings (Andrew Solender/Axios) Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Admin Not Giving up on Deporting Abrego Garcia to West Africa
ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van (Brad Reed/Common Dreams) I’d have paid to see that.
Portland Leftists Plan ‘Laser Tag’ Attacks On Federal Aircraft Saturday Night
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….
RINO Alert! Sen. Collins Slams White House Over Schumer Shutdown Layoffs
Complaint: HHS Violated Hatch Act by Blaming Dems for Shutdown ‘Blame’ is easily assigned: Who voted in favor of the budget and who voted against it, thereby shutting down the government?
James Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next? (New York Times) Brennan. Clapper. Schiff.
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (Heather Knight/New York Times)
Trump ‘in Exceptional Health’ Says White House Doctor (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
CNN Host Boris Sanchez Giggles as Socialist Guest Mocks Noem as ‘Renowned Puppy Killer’
Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats (Catie Edmondson/New York Times) They’re angry because they’re not getting their way. They’re used to Republicans caving in short order to Democrat demands.
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal) That’s what winning looks like.
Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy? (Ross Douthat/New York Times) It is — bomb the living shit out of those who won’t get with the program, as the Iranians found out.
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit. MAGA is the New Nigger.
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle (Steve Rose/The Guardian) MAGA is the New Nigger.
For Trump, media manipulation is his show of force (Sarah Ellison/Washington Post) And he’s running rings around you people.
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing (Peter Stone/The Guardian) Remarkable how the Narrative Media are the only people who seem to have copies of this “authoritarian playbook”.
Portland mayor orders removal of police tape despite federal demand for perimeter at ICE facility, report says (Alex Nitzberg/Fox News) Sounds like an insurrection to me.
ICE isn’t hiring the best people (MSNBC) Neither, dare I say it, is MSNBC.
Trump’s Favored Prosecutor Is Moving at Full Steam (Wall Street Journal) Apparently this is news to the bright sparks at WSJ.
Critics: Trump’s Columbus Day Proclamation Minority ‘Trolling’
Goldberg Claims Trump Proves America Is Still Debating Kingly Power
Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US–‘Betrayed’ (Mandy Taheri/Newsweek) There’s that MAGA guy again. He sure gets around.
Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois (Mark Berman/Washington Post)
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11th October 2025
Establishment media puppets that align with the Deep State interests have received coordinated messaging directives this past week, scripted talking points designed to advance ongoing informational warfare against the American public to obscure or downplay the very existence and activities of radical left group Antifa, which has been formally designated a domestic terrorist organization due to its repeated attacks on federal personnel, facilities, and other government assets.
“New talking point directive just issued,” journalist Tom Elliott wrote on X, accompanying a montage video showing leftist media puppets, from Jimmy Kimmel to Whoopi Goldberg, reading from what appears to be identical scripts in a coordinated misinformation and disinformation campaign. By now, the American people view the MSM not as news organizations but as a massive PR arm serving the interests of Deep State operatives.
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11th October 2025
In another embarrassing and revealing moment for Western mainstream media and its many puff pieces on Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Regiment, Canadian national broadcaster CBC has aired a news report this week from “an elite training facility” of its 3rd Assault Brigade in Kiev, featuring a fighter with a swastika tattoo on his arm.
The footage, released Thursday, blurred out the swastika tattoo of one of the main military trainers interviewed, but failed to do so in the video’s YouTube thumbnail. Comments were turned off, with a note attached in the YouTube description which reads: “A tattoo of an offensive symbol has been blurred in this video.” Watch (officer with tattoo starts at :16 mark)
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11th October 2025
Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon did us a great service late Monday by collating an exhaustive list of the most ridiculous meltdowns over CBS News announcing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief and that parent company Paramount SkyDance purchased her site, The Free Press.
By Wednesday, the Associated Press got off the sidelines to offer a cartoonishly whiny piece that, if published earlier, would have made the roundup in sneering a “polarizing” person taking over a “fact-based” network that has supposedly never had “an agenda.”
The headline was foreboding: “In CBS role, Bari Weiss goes from critic of mainstream news to one of its gatekeepers.”
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10th October 2025
DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rant on Luigi Mangione (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue (Block Club Chicago) Strong as the temptation might be….
The authoritarian menace has arrived (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring) One guess as to who that might be….
Trump Deserves Nobel, Israel Says; But Norway Braces For Backlash Ahead Of Expected Snub
Man Accused of Starting LA Fire Wrote Anti-Trump Posts My, what a surprise.
Report: Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence
Trump: Obama Won Nobel Peace Prize for ‘Doing Nothing’ He was the Magic Negro. That’s all it takes.
Trump, the Self-Styled “President of PEACE” Abroad, Makes War at Home (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
The impossibly dumb reason for Trump’s invasion of Portland (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
Trump’s war on ‘antifa’ is both buffoonish and sinister (Paul Waldman/MSNBC)
Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic)
Trump Snubbed for 2024 Nobel, But Case Growing for 2025
The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare (William Kristol/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew goes full Democrat.
Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark) Nixon gave us the EPA and OSHA, which are still going strong with Democrat support, so I suppose that’s true.
MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa (Tal Axelrod/Axios) MAGA is the New Nigger.
“People Are Not Fungible Commodities” – MAGA Spars With Peter Schiff On Immigration That MAGA guy gets around.
I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast) An unimpeachable source?
The Beauty Queens of MAGA World (Joshua Chaffin/Wall Street Journal) The WSJ seems to be striving to be the new Daily Beast. Not Trump’s fault Democrat women are pretty much all butt-ugly.
MAGA Fury Erupts After Trump Misses Nobel Peace Prize (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump’s Admin Disappeared Them Anyway (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)
Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark) ‘Exclusive’ must mean ‘of the facts’.
The Justice Department’s Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James (Molly Roberts/Lawfare) Still stronger than James’ case against Trump.
Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic) I’m surprised Pritzker could even pick it up, much less drop it.
Cool! It Really Looks Like Greg Abbott is Taking Orders From Libs of TikTok (Brian Gaar/The Barbed Wire) I think it may be the other way around.
Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic) (1) She’s not Trump, (2) she’s female, (3) She’s ‘latinx’.
Comedian Passed Over for Daily Show: Trump Voters Are Inferior ‘C-Average Students’
The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade (Mark Lee Greenblatt/New York Times) But not as many, of course, as the New York Times.
Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) Yup–everything going to shit under Democrat policies. (See? It’s in their name.)
This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning (Alice Speri/The Guardian) For certain narrow values of ‘winning’.
As the public sours on his economic performance, Trump tries playing make-believe (Steve Benen/MSNBC) Welcome to your world, eh?
Donald Trump deserved the Nobel prize, says … Vladimir Putin (Seb Starcevic/Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….
‘They Gave Speeches’: MSNBC’s Sanders Credits France and Britain For Gaza Deal
Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition (Faiza Patel/Brennan Center for Justice) Too late–they’re already criminals.
Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low (Joan Walsh/The Nation)
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)
Trump’s Quest for Unchecked Power: A Video Roundup (Landry Ayres/The UnPopulist) Carefully edited, of course….
QUENCHED: Networks Ignore Alleged Palisades Fire Arsonist Was Anti-Trump Eco-Fanatic
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10th October 2025
He’s not afraid to ask the soft questions….
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9th October 2025
The shrill liberal shriekers of ABC’s The View have long been supporters of far-left rage monster and congresswoman, Katie Porter (D-CA). So it was no surprise that, during Thursday’s show, a majority of the co-hosts had her back during her run for governor even as she hemorrhaged support after a series of videos showed her abusing staff and a journalist. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, along with co-hosts Joy Behar and Ana Navarro, tried to save Porter’s campaign with a tourniquet of excuses ranging from being human to menopause to just being plain “smarter” than everybody else.
After playing a clip of Porter near the top of the show scream at a staffer to “get out of my f[bleeping] shot,” Goldberg tried to blunt the audiences shocked reaction by singing a line from the musical Hamilton: “I’m not giving away my shot, shot, shot!”
“Maybe she’s having a menopausal moment,” Behar chimed in defense.
I’ve never yet met a Democrat woman who wasn’t a potty-mouth.
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9th October 2025
What in the Benjamin C. Bradlee is going on with The Washington Post editorial board? After shocking the internet by conceding that Obamacare was really just an expensive mess, the newspaper seems to have red-pilled itself hard again.
The Post once again tackled the ongoing political standoff between the GOP and Democrats over the Schumer shutdown, surprisingly chastising liberal lawmakers for being stubborn by continuingly voting down the Republican clean continuing resolution (CR). Then came a jaw-dropping admission from the liberal newspaper: “The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut.” But the newspaper even took it a step further: “If the last week has shown anything, it’s that the federal bureaucracy performs too many ‘nonessential’ tasks that do not have a direct bearing on the lives of most citizens.”
Can pigs fly? Are we living in a parallel universe? Are chimpanzees dropping in from the cosmos? The Left will cry “state-run media.” Finding this kind of hot take within the pages of one of the most anti-Trump newspapers in circulation is like finding a real conservative on the Nicolle Wallace show.
Of course, The Post played both sides by caveating its nod to libertarian economics: “At the same time, the government also performs many critical functions.” However, the newspaper’s open rebuke of the Democrats’ incorrigible grandstanding over Obamacare subsidies is a sight worthy of beholding.
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9th October 2025
It is that time again, wherein CBS’s John Dickerson coughs up another pompous editorial from behind the anchor desk on CBS Evening News Plus. This one particularly pompous and lacking self-awareness, but perhaps mindful that there are only so many of these left before Bari Weiss fully takes over as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.
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9th October 2025
Democrats and media outlets were quick to blame climate change and oil companies for the devastating Palisades Fire that ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year. But that narrative crumbled on Wednesday when federal law enforcement officials charged a man for deliberately starting the fire.
Federal prosecutors in California charged Jonathan Rinderknecht with one count of destruction of property by means of fire, a charge that carries a maximum time of 20 years in federal prison. “While we cannot bring back what victims lost, we hope this criminal case brings some measure of justice to those affected by this horrific tragedy,” said acting U.S. attorney Bill Essayli.
The charge—which Essayli said was informed by witness statements, video surveillance, cell phone data, and an analysis of fire dynamics conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—cuts against the narrative prominent Democratic lawmakers and media outlets pushed following the tragic event.
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9th October 2025
During Attorney General Pam Bondi’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley bewailed the newly unearthed fact of President Biden’s FBI investigating himself and eight other Republican members of Congress. MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports took the opportunity to fact-check and downplay the importance of the Arctic Frost operation, almost making it out to be routine.
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8th October 2025
Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to ‘do something’ before shooting her, attorney claims (Anna Betts/The Guardian) I’m sure he does.
2 Charged Over Instagram Threats to Federal Agent
Historian Files Suit Over Trump Library Site
Miami real estate gift for Trump presidential library sparks lawsuit (Max Rego/The Hill)
Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
Trump’s off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP (Politico)
Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times) I doubt that Pritzker ever did a pushup in his life.
MSNBC’s Ruhle Presses Cuomo on Sharing Donors with Trump Trump Cooties!
Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law (Emily Pontecorvo/Heatmap News)
Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark) They hope, they hope, they hope.
Trump administration cuts federal support for disabled Americans facing homelessness (Emily Peck/Axios) Because, as we all know, support for disabled Americans facing homelessness is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.
Are Trump’s voters turning against him? (Christian Paz/Vox) Scott Adams’ Law of Headlines states that if a headline poses a question, the correct answer is invariably No.
Mass Layoffs Trump Is Threatening in Shutdown Fight May Be Illegal (Tony Romm/New York Times) They hope, they hope, they hope,
Why MAGA is outraged at Zach Bryan over ICE lyric (Herb Scribner/Axios) There’s that MAGA guy again.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar (Kristen Gelineau/Associated Press) Because, as we all know, feeding starving children in Mayanmar is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.
What Civil Society Can Do to Beat Trumpism (Henry J. Farrell/New York Times)
Local Politicians Are Defiant as National Guard Gathers Outside Chicago (Wall Street Journal) LEAVE OUR CRIME ALONE!
Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show (Paul Waldman/Public Notice) There’s that MAGA guy again.
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows (Dharna Noor/The Guardian) And where was the analysis for Biden ‘picks’? or Obama’s?
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.
The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
Democrat Claims Trump Crime Crackdown Is “The Very Same Thing” As The Rise Of Third Reich Of course they do.
U.S. security guarantee for Qatar sparks jealousy and confusion (Colin Demarest/Axios) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….
How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies (New York Times) Just like a Democrat!
Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor (Wall Street Journal) Both of whom have publicly advocated breaking the law.
The TDS Is Strong With This One…
Tech Giant AI Chatbots Take Partisan Stand, Blame Republicans for Government Shutdowns
At Oversight Hearing, AG Bondi Responds to Questions With Attacks Instead of Answers (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket) Entirely appropriate, since the ‘questions’ were also attacks.
The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America (Jacqueline Sweet/Rolling Stone) Who knew that the MAGA guy was a foreigner?
How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP’s redistricting games (Richard L. Hasen/MSNBC)
Anderson Cooper Teams Up with Cory Booker to RIP ICE, ‘Deeply Corrupt’ Trump
Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
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8th October 2025
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel found a strange, new respect for Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman he has frequently dubbed “Klan Mom,” on his Tuesday show as he claimed a recent tweet from Greene proved his point that Republicans are lying about health care amid the government shutdown.
Kimmel claimed, “The reason the Democrats refuse to sign this budget agreement is because it will cause millions of Americans to lose their health care. Republicans deny this.”
What Greene omitted and Kimmel continues to omit is that the Obamacare subsidies being discussed removed the cap that limited recipients to those making 400 percent of the federal poverty level for what was supposed to be a temporary COVID relief measure. That means that even if the subsidies were to expire, a family of two making $84,600 could still be eligible. Meanwhile, while Kimmel is trying to say he is right because even Greene agrees with him, Greene is also the same congresswoman who made dire predictions that turned out to be false about what would happen if the U.S. involved itself in the Israel-Iran War back in June.
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8th October 2025
We at the Media Research Center have long argued that one of the most insidious forms of media bias is bias by omission: the exclusion of stories, or of key items within stories, that run counter to the ongoing media narrative. We cover those omissions as they happen, but they are usually limited to one high-profile story. But last night’s legacy evening news omitted THREE major items.
We begin with Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, and the media’s ongoing omission of his murderous text messages that have rocked that state’s gubernatorial election, which the national media usually look to and cover as a midterm bellwether. Our own Geoff Dickens has tabulated the scant coverage these texts have received and has rightly noted that “If Jay Jones were a Republican, he’d probably be a household name by now.” To date, no major Democrat has broken from Jones over these violent texts, most notably among these Senator Tim Kaine. Neither the texts, nor revelations that Jones was busted for driving 116 miles per hour, nor reports that he reported time spent at his PAC as court-ordered community service, nor his just-revealed alleged pining for police deaths, disqualifying for a Republican, drew any significant media scrutiny.
In other news, CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified and published an explosive report that further clarifies the extent to which then-Vice President Joe Biden engaged in corrupt practices related to his oversight of matters pertaining to Ukraine.
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8th October 2025
Comedy Central’s Tuesday version of The Daily Show ended on a somber note as host-of-the-week Josh Johnson welcomed the founder and executive director of Black Girl Environmentalist, Wawa Gatheru, to the program to lament that under the Trump Administration, left-wing environmental groups are no longer being bankrolled by the federal government.
A solemn Johnson wondered, “There is all of this climate work that needs to be done and you would think that your greatest ally would be the government and the country. But unfortunately, we, you know, are here. And so, what do you do when you not only don’t have support, but there is active hostility towards climate science or climate activists?”
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8th October 2025
ProPublica, a Voice of the Woke.
Perhaps because the public schools suck, and the Department of Education hasn’t done a damned thing to improve the situation.
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8th October 2025
Last week, I wrote about the left’s playbook of projection and deflection, wherein they ascribe their own sins unto their victims. This week, let us examine how the left tries to advance its radical agenda by redefining words and standards.
Today’s case study: free speech.
While the First Amendment of the United States Constitution recognizes and protects the God-given right to free speech, there has always been a reasonable, popular consensus that there exists material not suitable for young, impressionable children and that, alternatively, for adult consumption, cannot be banned. The left is endeavoring to rend this consensus.
Presently, the left equates the removal of age-inappropriate materials that sexualize children from public schools as “censorship.” As readers of last week’s article will recognize, such is a deflection and a projection from the fact the left has for years been banning, eliminating, and re-editing all manner of media, usually by “dead white European males” (though certainly not exclusively), from curricula for being contrary to the dictates of their “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) secular religion.
While one might expect leftists to recognize their own mendacity and hypocrisy, one would be sorely mistaken.
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8th October 2025
Oh, ya think?
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7th October 2025
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
WH Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’
Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
It’s Time for Soft Secession (Clara Jeffery/Mother Jones) The Left Coast shall rise again!
Solar Groups Sue Trump Administration over Cancellation of $7B in Grants
Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner Fret Unbiased CBS Will Become STATE TV Under Bari Weiss
MAGA calls for Trump to overrule judges on National Guard deployments (Tal Axelrod/Axios) There’s that MAGA guy again.
White House: Trump is not talking to Democrats (Irie Sentner/Politico)
Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities (Chris Edelson/The UnPopulist) Pretty heavy lifting for a guy in his 80s.
Trump Says He’d Invoke Insurrection Act If Necessary
Speaker to Rep. Jeffries: Trump Obsession Makes It Worse
Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing (Josephine Walker/Axios)
Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, to Mixed Reactions (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire’ Before Judge’s Home Exploded (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)
Trump Tells the Navy to View Half the Country as the Enemy (Edith Olmsted/New Republic) Perhaps because they are.
Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He’s not happy about it. (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
Trump’s Plan — The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war. (Robert Reich) Robert Reich loses his shit.
MAGA Turns on Trump’s Top Lawyer (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
Both CNN and MSNBC Cut Off Speaker Johnson As He Was Explaining Democrats and Illegals
The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake (Slate)
AP Assembles the ‘Experts’ to Diss Trump As Too Nasty for Nobel Peace Prize
Stephen Miller’s Uncle Agrees That He’s a ‘Depraved Fiend’ (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast) The Daily Beast is well named.
No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants (Stephen I. Vladeck/New York Times)
Democrats are winning the shutdown (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) They hope.
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Presumably she includes ‘truth’, ‘justice’, and ‘the American way’.)
Trump Teases Legal Action Against ‘Sleazebag’ Jack Smith And I would encourage him to do so.
Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
Trump’s power to deploy National Guard, explained (NPR) Getcher Narrative, right here.
FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)
Legal Battles Rage Over National Guard Deployments To 5 States – What To Know
DHS: Illegal ‘Thug’ Arrested for $10K Hit on US Border Patrol Chief
Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown (Robert McCoy/New Republic)
The Supreme Court’s Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)
Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities (Reuters)
The Comey Indictment and Selective or Vindictive Prosecution (Ema Rose Schumer/Lawfare) Oh, like what Democrats did to Trump for four years?
MSNBC, ‘Prosecuting Donald Trump’ Podcaster Baselessly Blame Trump for Fire at Judge’s Home
Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)
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7th October 2025
Monday’s Morning Joe brought MSNBC viewers a confounding explanation for the ongoing government shutdown by creating a political paradox: Republicans were completely at fault, but Democrats were preventing the shutdown from ending.
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7th October 2025
Amid several attempts across the nation by left-wing extremists to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, CBS News Sunday Morning appeared to blame the actions of ICE for the attacks. CBS alluded to ICE being the source of the violence, twisted the story of a young illegal immigrant, and talked for a former ICE attorney all to allude to a false fact that ICE deserved the attempts to kill their agents. The reporter behind the segment even suggested it was a “David versus Goliath” fight.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, is now effectively the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in the nation. Some have cheered its growth. Others are wondering, when does more become too much?” chided host Jane Pauley as she introduced the segment which was delivered by correspondent Lee Cowan.
Though not explicitly calling it such, Cowan’s report essentially consisted of listing out the purported transgressions that caused ICE agents to deserve the attempts on their lives, even blaming them for the violence brought against them, and accusing them of racism.
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6th October 2025
How Chief Justice John Roberts Rewrote the Constitution and Helped Trump Return to Power (Lisa Graves/Zeteo) More accurately, cleaned the barnacles and other accretions off of it.
Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit.
CBS’s Margaret Brennan Enables Sen. Duckworth Smear of ICE as ‘Gestapo’ No, xhe Gestapo are the TSA.
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago (Sophia Tareen/Associated Press) As, indeed, they need to be, considering the pro-criminal city and state government.
‘Very difficult situation’: Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms (David Edwards/Raw Story) Well, of course not–they have Trump Cooties.
2 Motorists Charged in Chicago, Including One Shot by Federal Agent (Julie Bosman/New York Times) “The account in the federal criminal complaint, which differs significantly from an earlier homeland security statement, says the motorists rammed officers’ vehicle and that an agent shot one when she drove her car at him.”
Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’ (Sonia A. Rao/New York Times) Too late!
Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something (A.R. Moxon/The Reframe) Polishing Narrative lies for fun & profit.
California, Oregon suing Trump in bid to stop troop deployment to Portland (Axios)
Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland for second time (Politico)
Trump faces more shutdown blame, but Americans remain divided: poll (Avery Lotz/Axios)
Newsom joins Oregon’s suit after Trump sends California National Guard to Oregon (Politico)
Judge Again Blocks Guard Deployment as Trump Expands His Targets (New York Times)
State Terror, American Style (Paul Krugman) Krugman is rapidly becoming a clone of Robert Reich. (The Mad King’s Television (Robert Reich))
Trump’s DC takeover is working — in fact, it has already worked (Craig DeLuz/The Hill)
The Next Prosecution of Donald Trump (Eugene Kontorovich/Wall Street Journal)
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review)
We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency (Emily Bazelon/New York Times) Conveniently, they all agree that Trump Sucks.
Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump (Troy Brynelson/OPB) No mention, of course, of what the protesters are doing.
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens (Judd Legum/Popular Information) As they did under Obama and Biden, just different targets.
Police Unions Condemn Chicago Ordering Police Not to Help ICE Officers Under Attack
Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason) And, once again, ‘libertarians’ like un with the Left.
We Found the ‘Enemy from Within’ (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago (Sarah Lazare/In These Times)
The Supreme Court v. Democracy (Elie Mystal/The Nation)
Chicago journalists sue Trump over “extreme brutality” at ICE protests (Josephine Walker/Axios)
The “Dual State” Theory Was Invented to Describe Nazis. The Supreme Court Could Take Us There. (Pema Levy/Mother Jones) Funny how all of a sudden the Narrative Media are experts on “Nazis”.
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6th October 2025
Hold on to your britches because you’re not going to believe this one. The Washington Post Editorial Board just admitted that the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” one the most notorious pieces of Obama-era legislation foisted upon consumers by legislators and the liberal media as the saving grace of American health care, turned out to be an expensive mess.
The Post tried to play both sides of the fence in the ongoing government shutdown stand off with Republicans and Democrats, the latter of which demanded “Republicans agree to extend the Covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it.” Then The Post ran one of the biggest plot twists ever to hit American politics in the last 15 years.
“The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable.” Nope, your eyes didn’t deceive you. The architects of former President Barack Obama’s 2010 “signature achievement,” wrote The Post, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.”
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