The American Mind.

As if you had not been told already, hardly a day goes by without a headline reminding us that, after something of an autumnal carnival, habemus—we have a speaker of the House. A theme has emerged in the media coverage. Mike Johnson is a “Christian nationalist,” we are told over and over again, in pieces from Time, from Politico, and from New York Magazine, from Salon, from the Washington Post, and from the New York Times (those are just the outlets you have heard of).

And if, as the Jesus and John Wayne author Kristen Du Mez said on MSNBC this weekend, they mean by that tag just what sociologists have labeled “Christian nationalism,” then they are right, so far as it goes. But throat-clearing clarifications that this is a non-pejorative academic label should feel like fig leaves, surrounded as they always are by the breathless language of danger, fear, and condemnation.

The assessments of Johnson highlight an ambiguity in the discourse about Christian nationalism and in the term itself, which American Christians in particular should bear in mind as the confusion is used to marginalize and manipulate them. The signifier “Christian nationalist” acts as both an allegedly dispassionate sociological descriptor and, usually with “white” attached at the front, a catch-all for the bad people who don’t want to replace the stars and stripes with the vexillologically dysphoric “progress” flag. Plus, of course, some people even call themselves Christian nationalists in defiance of the condemnation.

This Ripped Up Note Could Help Jack Smith Take Down Donald Trump (The New Republic) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Fani Willis predicts Georgia election case could go into early 2025 (Axios)

Univision, the Spanish language news giant, shifts its approach to Trump (Washington Poop)

Network News Bosses Want No Republican Challengers to Donald Trump

Biden compares Trump’s ‘vermin’ remarks to Nazi rhetoric (NBC News) Took him long enough to get the memo.

Donald’s Desperate Demand: Trump Files for Mistrial in New York Bank Fraud Case (Daily Beast) Nothing ‘desperate’ about it; it’s an obvious move–for those who’ve been paying attention. Another case of Prog Projection?

South Carolina Poll: Trump Has Majority in Haley’s Home State

Ratings Gold? CNN Analyst Elle Honig Says ‘Smart Move’ for Trump to Back a Televised Trial!

Damage Control: RNC Chairwoman McDaniel Pledges To Support Trump If Voters Choose Him  Sure, I believe that.

After ‘Vermin’ Remark, PBS NewsHour Turns to Historian for ‘Trump Mimics Hitler’ Talk

Trump Jr. Just Uttered the Word That Could Trip Up His Family’s Entire Defense (The New Republic) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Trump calling opponents ‘vermin’ draws rebukes from White House, some in GOP (Washington Poop) But Hillary calling people ‘deplorables’ is fine, just fine.

‘The boss is not going to leave’: Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers telling Georgia prosecutors about efforts to overturn 2020 election (ABC News)

Trump Tests D.C. Gag Order, Blasts ‘Deranged’ Special Counsel

Trump Will File For Mistrial In NY Fraud Case ‘Soon,’ Attorney Says

Trump Campaign Officials Try to Play Down Contentious 2025 Plans (N.Y. Times) Said ‘plans’ existing only in the fever dreams of the proglodyte media.

Unmarried to the Mob (The Nation)

Trump Denies Report He Threatened to Leave GOP: ‘That’s Bulls–t’ (The Messenger) Don’t believe everything you read in an anti-Trump book. Just sayin’.

Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos (Washington Post)

Checks and Balances Are for Losers (N.Y. Times) The NYT steps up its anti-Trump witch-hunt in preparation for the coming election.

Johnson Said in 2015 Trump Was Unfit and Could Be ‘Dangerous’ as President (N.Y. Times) “When the facts change, sir, I change my opinions. What do you do?” — John Maynard Keynes

After Trump case video leak, Georgia prosecutor seeks emergency seal for evidence (Washington Poop)

House Speaker Mike Johnson endorses Trump, defends ‘stolen election’ claims (CNBC)

Arizona Poll: Trump Crushing GOP Field, Beating Biden

Trump to remain on Michigan ballot after judge rejects another 14th Amendment challenge (CNN)

Democrats get surprisingly good news from America’s Trumpiest court (Vox)

California middle-schooler banned from sports over ‘black face’ — but group says he was just wearing eye paint (N.Y. Post)

CPAC Board Member Wrote Brutal Letter Trashing Matt Schlapp (Daily Beast)

It’s Not the Gaffes. It’s the Plans. (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes channels the hard-left fringe.

Mike Johnson’s Shady Finances Are Already Coming Back to Bite Him (Daily Beast) They must have mistaken him for a Democrat.

How Deep-State Bureaucrats Used a Middleman to Try to Censor Americans in 2020

New York’s Hunger Games Governor Is Now “Collecting Data” From “Surveillance Efforts” On Social Media To Monitor “Hate Speech”

Polish MEPs Facing Three Years in Prison Over Anti-Migrant Video

‘He’ll be out’: Santos’ GOP critics anxiously await report they hope will help boot him (Politico) With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Finnish Court Vindicates Politician Who Faced ‘Hate Speech’ Charges for Bible Verse Tweet

Dems prepare to save another GOP speaker from a shutdown

PBS Pushes SCOTUS ‘Ethics’ Reform Led By Democrats: ‘So What’s the Holdup?’

A wasteland: Political coverage ignores the threat to democracy (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Sinema left the Democratic party. Democratic donors left her too. (Politico)

Bishop Schneider: Strickland Part of ‘Purge’ of Traditionalists

UK Shakeup: Fmr PM Cameron Now Foreign Secretary; Conservative Sacked

House GOP proposes two-step plan to fund government, raising shutdown risk (Washington Poop) The D.C. Crust, of course, are aghast.

Could George Floyd Revelations Help Overturn Chauvin Conviction?

How Moms for Liberty and a notorious English teacher exploited a high school student (Popular Information)

Stephen Miller’s “America First Legal” is more dangerous than you think (Public Notice)

MAGA-dominated state Republican parties plagued by infighting, money woes (Washington Poop)

Dems Defund Arizona’s Independent Sen. Sinema

Pro-Hitler and Holocaust denier account: X has paid me $3,000 in ad revenue sharing (Media Matters for America)

Who Paid for Mike Johnson to Attend This Conservative Conference? (Daily Beast)

Ex-Fox News Reporter Claims Network Fired Him for Calling Out Jan. 6 Lies (Daily Beast) Translation: Fired him for repeating Democrat Jan. 6 lies.

“Absolute Torture”: Jan. 6 Inmates Put Renewed Spotlight On Use Of Solitary Confinement

Raided Pro-Life Activist Sues DOJ For ‘Malicious Prosecution,’ Emotional Distress

Should Joe Manchin Run for President? (N.Y. Times) Ross Douthat says the quiet part out loud.

UCLA faculty call on school to condemn protests, speech ‘crossing the line’ (The Hill)

European Parliament Lifts Immunity Of Conservative MEPs Facing Criminal Charges For Retweeting Criticism Of Illegal Immigration  What use is any ‘immunity’ that can so easily be lifted for witch-hunt purposes?

NBC Compares Criticism Of Hunter’s Influence Peddling To Haley’s Daughter’s TikTok Posts

Maher Rebukes Obama: ‘Enough With the Moral Equivalencies’

NPR, Nina Jankowicz Whine It’s ‘Open Season’ on Social-Media Censors In Runup to 2024

Moms for Liberty Sets the Record Straight on 7 ‘Harassment’ Claims

Pope Francis Fires Bishop For Being Too Catholic (Babylon Bee)

Trump’s Vow to World, N.H. Voters: ‘I Will Be Your Peacemaker’

Trump Jokes He’d Make UFC’s Dana White His ‘Offense Chief’

Is Abortion, Not Trump, The GOP’s Albatross?

Biden shifts into campaign mode with more attacks on Trump (NBC News)

Giggling Judge, Gloating AG—VDARE Mugger Letitia James’s Trump Show Trial

Raids, Detention Camps, Mass Deportations: Trump’s Immigration Plan For Second Term

In Veterans Day Speech, Trump Promises to ‘Root Out’ the Left (N.Y. Times) Speed the day.

“Covering him as a normal candidate”: Extremism scholars say TV news “normalizing” Trump’s threats (Salon) When ‘normal’ is Democrat totalitarianism, we need somebody un-normal.

Trump Compares Political Foes To ‘Vermin’ On Veterans Day—Echoing Nazi Propaganda (Forbes) Not to mention every Democrat speaking about Republicans.

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk  (The New Republic) More accurately, straight-up Democrat talk.

Trump Lawyer Habba: Mistrial Filing Coming ‘Very Soon’

Trump defense at New York fraud trial set to counter state attorney general (CNN)

RNC Chair McDaniel: I Will Support Trump as Nominee  Very white of her.

Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings (Associated Press) They have no idea what Trump’s plans are, so they just make shit up.

WaPo’s Shipley Hand-Selected Hamas Cartoon He Pulled Amid Woke Blowback, Cartoonist Ramirez Says

Peter Thiel Is Taking A Break From Democracy (The Atlantic) George Soros, who isn’t mentioned, is of course actively trying to destroy it.

In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (Reuters)

Ohio Republicans Say It’s Their ‘God Given Right’ to Restrict Abortion Access (Rolling Stone)

Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution (Politico)

CENSORTRACK: Five Worst Times Big Tech Silenced Veteran Voices on Their Platforms

Ramaswamy now selling merch after Haley’s ‘scum’ comments (The Hill)

“Malpractice”: Ramaswamy Denies Claim By RNC Chair McDaniel That He Voted For Obama

Sen. Blackburn Seeks Epstein Flight Logs to Identify Perps  Epstein cooties are even more powerful than Trump cooties.

Teacher Fired for Using Gender-Neutral Honorific Title

Stelter Returns To CNN To Attack Fox, The ‘Beating Heart of the GOP’

Bill Maher and Ted Cruz Stage Unexpected Mutual Love Fest (Daily Beast)

Taibbi: According To Pundits, “Ignorance” Makes Americans Give “Wrong” Answers To Economic Confidence Poll+

Pastor Indicted With Trump in Georgia Asks Evangelical Supporters for Help (N.Y Times)

Good Samaritan Arrested After Stopping NYC Subway Assault By Firing Warning Shots

Even this Supreme Court knows it shot itself in the foot with a disastrous decision (MSNBC)

Bannon Appeals Contempt Conviction at Hearing

Running On Censorship: A California Candidate Seeks To Ride The Anti-Free Speech Wave

FEC Commissioner Calls Out Her GOP Colleagues in Brutal 5-Sentence Takedown (Daily Beast) Let’s see … nope, no mention of the Biden Crime Family….

MTG Is Trashing Lauren Boebert as a ‘Whore’ to GOP Colleagues (Daily Beast) Pretty rich, the Daily Beast complaining about somebody else’s ‘high school’ behavior. Mote, meet beam.

Taibbi: The Tragic Victimhood Of “Disinformation Experts”

Georgia Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Rep. Greene

Dr. Robert Malone Reveals How The Government Tore His Reputation Apart, “Piece By Piece”

Justice Barrett gets standing ovation at Federalist Society gala (Washington Poop)

Lefties Trash NBC News for Hosting a Debate with Media ‘Extremists’

McCarthy Predicts Nancy Mace’s Downfall After She Voted Him Out (Daily Beast)

House GOP’s Dysfunction Inches Government Toward Shutdown (Daily Beast)

Arizona fake electors led vocal campaign to overturn the 2020 election – they’re now part of a ‘robust’ state investigation (CNN) Who better to look for hanky-panky?

How the GOP muzzled the quiet coalition that fought foreign propaganda (NBC News) In the Narrative media, ‘foreign propaganda’ is whatever disagrees with the Narrative.

The Key to Mike Johnson’s Christian Extremism Hangs Outside His Office (Rolling Stone) How dare he be a Christian! The swine!

Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution (Politico) Bias? What bias?

Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office? (The New Republic) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Why is Eric Adams being investigated?  (The New Neo) Apparently he wandered off of the Democrat plantation.

Minnesota Supreme Court Dismisses Case To Keep Trump Off The Ballot

Trump’s Lawyers Argue Judges Don’t Have a Role in Enforcing 14th Amendment Challenge on Day One of Michigan’s Oral Arguments (The Messenger)

Trump’s false election claims lurk in background as court weighs robocall case (Politico)

Trump suggests he could investigate opponents if reelected (The Hill) Sauce for the goose….

Trump’s right, the system is RIGGED. In his favor  Right, it’s so rigged in his favor that he’s under … how many indictments?

The Warnings About Trump in 2024 Are Getting Louder (The New Yorker) Especially from the sort of people who write for The New Yorker.

Rep. Elise Stefanik files ethics complaint against judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial (NBC News) It’s about time somebody did.

Trump: I Could Also Weaponize Government Against Enemies  Sauce for the goose….

Billionaire Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus Endorses Trump  Apparently not all the billionaires are Democrats. Who knew?

Trump turns to oil barons to boost his White House bid (Washington Poop)

Trump Warns He Could ‘Certainly’ Indict Political Opponents if He’s Reelected (Rolling Stone) Sauce for the goose….

NewsMax.

The Republican National Committee said 2024 GOP presidential candidates who participate in the Family Leader’s Thanksgiving forum will be barred from future Republican primary debates.

I guess RNC stands for ‘RINO National Committee’. Good to have that cleared up.

Ivanka Trump testimony: Why ‘I don’t recall’ is a common legal strategy (BBC News) Plus it’s the correct answer if you, say, don’t recall.

Trump shows off disclaimer clause he tried to show judge at civil trial and claims it clears him of fraud (N.Y. Post) As indeed it would.

Judge Engoron’s Handling of Donald Trump Comes Under Scrutiny (Newsweek)

What Trump stands to lose in his New York civil fraud trial (Axios) Any commitment to the American legal and political system, for one.

New York Times Oozes Sympathy for Lefty House Members Trapped in ‘Far-Right’ Hellhole

SPLC Goes to Extreme Lengths to Brand Speaker Mike Johnson ‘Racist’ on Immigration

Who’s Blackmailing Whom? EU Continues to Withhold Funds from Hungary

Republican Party Checks Into Rehab For Addiction To Losing (Babylon Bee)

Republicans Join the Rich-Bashing

The Supreme Court appears poised to rein in its worst decision on guns (Vox)

Supreme Court reviews domestic abuser gun ban (MSNBC)

Supreme Court appears likely to hand Biden DOJ a win on challenge to gun law (Fox News)

Why American women of childbearing age now have another Supreme Court case to watch (CNN)

A boneheaded state official may have just handed the NRA a big Supreme Court victory (Vox)

Texas man’s challenge to gun ownership, domestic violence law heads to Supreme Court (CBS Texas)

Supreme Court facing record case related to domestic violence with guns (WOAD)

The Supreme Court may make America’s gun violence problem even worse (CNN) Or better, depending on your point of view.

Biden primary challenger Dean Phillips sees little support from past home state donors in Minnesota (CNBC)

Elon Musk’s Free Speech Stance Is “Dangerous”, Columbia Journalism Fellow Warns

Speaker Mike Johnson Faces Looming Battles Over Biden Impeachment, Shutdown

Are ‘MAGA’ Republicans Worse Than Hamas? Many on Far Left Appear to Think So. (The Foundry)

Christian Wedding Photographer Who Refused to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Wins Settlement

Woke Teachers Trying To Ban Classic Novel From Schools To “Protect Students”

Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a ‘Broken’ Confirmation Process, Critics Say

House Report: Newsmax Among Targets of Censorship in 2020

Hawley Challenger Suggests Republicans Are Like the Nazis Who Planned the Holocaust  Hey, Republicans aren’t the ones hating on Jews.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Congress How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People (Daily Beast) I’d rather have MTG as a friend than anybody at the Daily Beast.

Squad: It’s Super ‘Dangerous’ to Criticize Us, You Guys

YouTube Censors Steven Crowder After He Exposed Nashville School Shooter Manifesto

Conservative Watchdog Alleges Retaliatory IRS Audit After Exposing Biden Nominees

Why Does the Right Hate America? (N.Y. Times) The only hate I see is coming from Paul Krugman.

She/her/or/else

Letitia James Reportedly Broke Into Laughter During Trump Testimony  Trump’s a funny guy.

‘Chill over much of courtroom’: Expert on Trump’s impact as witness in NY civil fraud trial Monday (MSNBC)

Trump testifies in New York civil fraud trial (CNN)

Extra Time: Trump testifies in New York civil fraud trial; gearing up for Election Day 2023 (WABC-TV)

Lawrence: Trump incriminated himself and his children with one word on the stand (MSNBC) Still no crime here. No lender takes the borrower’s word for property characteristics; all of a borrower’s assertions are vetted by trained professionals.

Trump Tangles With Judge, Complains of Treatment at N.Y. Fraud Trial (NewsMax)

‘Control Your Client’: Judge Quarrels With Trump and Lawyers During Fraud Trial (Washington Free Beacon)

4 things we learned from Trump’s testimony in the New York fraud trial (Washington Poop)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to endorse Trump at his Florida rally this week (NBC News)

Jack Smith Could Be On Shaky Ground In Trump Charge: Analysts

Trump doesn’t just want to win. He wants revenge. (Washington Poop) And who could blame him?

Jan. 6 riot was ‘culmination’ of Trump conspiracies to overturn 2020 election, special counsel says in new filing (NBC News)

Prosecutors Assail Trump’s Bid to Have Federal Election Case Dismissed (N.Y. Times) Does this come as a surprise to anybody?

Trump Forgets What Years He Was President While on the Stand in NY Trial (Daily Beast) Who care? (Other than the arrested adolescents in the Narrative media.)

Trump kids’ blame claims don’t match with fraud case facts: reporter (Raw Story) I’d sooner believe the Trump Kids (Is that a band?) over some Narrative media ‘reporter’.

Grievances, insults, tangents: Trump brings his 2024 campaign into the courtroom (Washington Poop) How does that differ from what the Narrative media bring into their Trump coverage?

Trump belief that 2020 election was stolen is not a defense, DOJ says (Washington Poop) Sure sounds like a defense to me.

‘He’s a child’ Trump is imploding because he thinks ‘rules don’t apply to him’: biographer (Raw Story) Yet he’s a billionaire businessman and was a successful President of the United States. Can this ‘biographer’ show more success?

TV Ignores Trump’s GOP Rivals, Blasts Ex-Prez With 93% Bad Press

‘Stop It!’ Scarborough Screams At Team Biden for Not Trashing Trump Enough on TV

Trump’s Wealth Has Grown $500M Since Leaving Office

Trump’s day in court paints a dark preview of the national ordeal ahead (CNN) Poor iddle baby….

Trump Plots Against His Enemies (The Atlantic) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Trump’s Recipe for a Shockingly Raw Power Grab (Politico)

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After journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger won a $100,000 award from the National Journalism Center / DAO for excellence in investigative journalism regarding the Twitter Files, WikiPedia editors threw a fit – with one, who goes by “Specifico”, removing all mention of the award until other editors were in ‘consensus for inclusion.’

A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry (The Conversation) The ‘bleak, dangerous philosophy’ in question is just opposition to Wokeness.

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video (Rolling Stone)

PolitiFact Cries Pro-Lifers Are ‘False’ on Ohio’s Pro-Abort Referendum

The Great Reset, Part 2: A Camp With No Outside

Will the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women? (N.Y. Times) Linda Greenhouse does the Proglodyte Two-Step: Guns are bad, unless they protect women, in which case guns are good.

Expect a rough two weeks for Speaker Johnson (Washington Poop) Especially with the Narrative Media gunning for him.

How Republicans are using congressional maps to entrench their power (Public Notice) Aaron Rupar is the fellow after whom the verb ‘rupar’ was coined.

“Apocalypticism”: Polling expert reveals the root of “panic among conservative White Christians” (Salon)

PBS NewsHour Agenda: Trashing Conservatives in Congress Is What We Do

More proof that more guns will not save us (The Hill) Non sequitur. Whatever the ‘gun culture’ in Maine might be (and I don’t take the word of The Hill for that), I see no evidence that anybody in the places where people were shot were carrying. If they had been, the death toll would be far smaller–in Texas, where people commonly carry firearms in public, the shooter would have been put down before he got off more than one or two shots.

Hutchinson booed for over a minute after claiming ‘significant likelihood’ Trump will be found guilty (Fox News)

Trump Scores More Florida Lawmaker Endorsements, Including DeSantis Defectors (The Messenger)

Media Cites First Amendment in Trump Trial TV Ban Challenge

Barring Trump from office could bring closure for Jan. 6 riots, former officer says

Election Group Slapped With RICO Says It Can Prove Trump Won Georgia In 2020

Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term (Washington Poop)

Trump 2.0: A second term would see him pick more and uglier fights on immigration (The Hill) He says that like it was a bad thing.

If Trump wins, more voters foresee better finances, staying out of war — CBS News poll (CBS News)

Poor Josh Hawley Can’t Help Himself (The New Republic) Neither, apparently, can TNR.

Sen. Hawley clashes with McConnell over FEC law (KOMU)

Josh Hawley makes a point about corporate money in politics. Would his bill make a difference? (CNN)

Boos Rain Down on Chris Christie During Florida GOP Speech (The Messenger)

Mark Meadows’ Publisher Sues Him for Millions Over Election Lies in Book (Daily Beast)

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki’s Curious Bible Hangup With Speaker Johnson

All The Ways Republicans Tried To Game The Ohio Abortion Vote (Talking Points Memo)

Mark Levin SLAMS Washington Post for Helping CNN Smear Him as Anti-Semitic

‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and Our Broken Christian Politics (N.Y. Times) David French loses his shit.

Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term (The HillO Michael Mann continues lying about the climate.

On NPR, Kinzinger Says GOP = ISIS, Hannity and Levin Cause ‘Brain Rot’  The worm turns but remains a worm.

Fetterman Torches Manchin: ‘He’s Not Going to Be Around Much Longer’ (Daily Beast)

Supreme Court to Hear NRA Free Speech Case (NewsMax)

Santos to run for reelection even if expelled and downplays past lies (CNN)

Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States (Huffington Post) Note how the witch-hunt expands from the single Congressman who introduced the measure, Ryan Zinke, to the generic smear “Republicans”.

Jamie Raskin Marks Up George Santos’ Thank-You Note With Corrections (Huffington Post) The Mean Girls Table expands to fit the bile available.

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research (NBC News)

Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?

Lauren Boebert Wants ‘Mercy.’ Some Republicans Want an Alternative. (N.Y. Times)

Haley, Pledging to ‘Close’ the Border, Is Asked: What About Migrants Who Are Already Here? (N.Y. Times)

How Speaker Mike Johnson’s plans for a Christian law school unraveled (Washington Poop)

Trump’s New York Fraud Trial Descends Into Another Shouting Match (Daily Beast)

Judge issues another gag order in Trump’s civil fraud trial (Politico)

Trump’s Lawyer May Ask for Mistrial Because of … the Law Clerk? (The New Republic)

Trump lawyer Chris Kise may be misogynistic, says judge in N.Y. fraud case (N.Y. Daily News)

Trump to Face Anonymous Jury in Carroll’s Second Trial

Appeals Courts Pauses Trump’s Gag Order as He Fights Restrictions on His Speech (NewsMax)

Appeals court pauses Trump gag order in federal election interference case (The Hill)

NY Judge Slaps Gag Order on Trump Lawyers (NewsMax)

Ivanka Trump Loses Court Fight to Block Her Testimony Next Week (The Messenger)

What’s Hidin’ Biden: Beatlemania Edition (NewsBusters)

Trump Asks Appeals Court to Lift Gag Order in Election Interference Case (NewsMax)

Trump’s Truth Social page is a riot of witness intimidation (Public Notice) “Mommmeeee! Donald hit me back!”

Complaint Calls for Trump New York Trial Judge’s Clerk to Be Disbarred for Excessive Political Donations

NY Judge Blasts Trump Lawyers for Attacking Staff

Tuberville Dismisses 20-Hour Work Days for Military Brass (NewsMax)

DeSantis Makes Cringey Attempt to Reclaim ‘Bootgate’ Narrative (Daily Beast) I’m glad they have nothing more important to write about than Ron DeSantis’ boots.

PBS Invites Favorite ‘Republican’ Adam Kinzinger on to Denounce Undemocratic GOP (NewsBusters)

Colbert Continues To Smear ‘Awful’ Johnson In Buttigieg Interview

Judge finds Eastman culpable for ethics breaches in 2020 bid to keep Trump in power (Politico)

Where does Speaker Mike Johnson sleep when he’s in DC? Most likely in his Capitol Hill office (Insider) I’m glad they don’t have anything more important to write about.

Does Mike Johnson Even Want to Avoid a Government Shutdown? (New York Magazine) Maybe not.

NBC’s Fake Abortion Fact Check of Ohio Republican with Fake ‘Nonpartisan Experts’

I Lived Abroad For 11 Years. This Is The Thing That Shocked Me Most When I Moved Back To The U.S. (Huffington Post) I’m shocked that all of these ‘America isn’t sufficiently socialist’ haters persist in coming back.

Speaker Johnson’s hypocritical First and Second Amendment contradictions (The Hill)

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group (CNN)

Mike Johnson was part of push for Louisiana’s fifth law school (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report)

Speaker Mike Johnson made his name fighting abortion in Louisiana. Will he do it in Congress? (NOLA.com)

House Rejects Effort to Expel Rep. George Santos of New York (NewsMax) Sometimes the witch-hunt works, and sometimes it does not.

Democrats scrap plans to vote on Greene censure resolution (The Hill)

PBS’s Frontline Portrays Senate Leader Mitch McConnell as Sinister Supreme Court Svengali (NewsBusters)

What’s “Extreme Right Wing”? (House of Eratosthenes)

Post: AI Doesn’t Watch Enough TV Commercials

Nancy Mace’s Staff Guide Shows Her True Priority: Nancy Mace (Daily Beast) The Beast would never write such a hit-job concerning a Democrat, of course.

On Colbert Show, Kinzinger Compares Mike Johnson To The Taliban

Barbara Lee hits California Senate opponents Schiff, Porter on Santos expulsion vote (The Hill)

Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds (Politico)

Pelosi launches an all-out attack against No Labels (Politico)

CNBC Host Smears Conservatives as ‘Bigoted People,’ Downplays Boycotts of Woke Companies

Tuberville Staffer: Primary GOP Sens Who Oppose Military Hold

I Grew Up in Mike Johnson’s District, Where Kindness Can Mask Cruelty (N.Y. Times)

From 9/11 to Benjamin Netanyahu: The world is learning that toxic masculinity can’t keep us safe (Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Donald Trump Jr’s courtroom debut: Chuckles, smiles and mispronunciation (BBC News)

Donald Trump Jr. takes the stand in NY Attorney General civil fraud case (MSNBC)

Judge Denies Trump ’24 Removal Dismissal

Florida Judge Might Delay Trump Classified Docs Case

Don Jr. Has a Conveniently Fuzzy Memory of Trump Org Finances: “I Leave It to My CPAs” (Vanity Fair) Conveniently!

Trump Jr distances himself from documents at center of fraud trial: ‘I don’t recall’ (The Guardian)

Court to decide if 14th Amendment case over Trump’s Minnesota ballot eligibility proceeds (ABC News)

Trump Derisively Celebrates Rep. Buck’s Departure

Mary Trump says Ivanka Trump will throw her father ‘under the bus’ in fraud trial testimony (The Hill) She hopes, she hopes, she hopes….

Minn. Justices Appear Skeptical of States Deciding Trump’s Eligibility for Ballot

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The Democratic Party is undergoing a civil war over Gaza and Israel. Traditional Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are pro-Israel. Possibly this has something to do with the fact that American Jews contribute a large portion–last time I saw the numbers, more than half–of all campaign funds for Democratic candidates. To be fair, however, it may also reflect basic human decency.

But the newer generation of Democrats, represented by the Squad, is not impressed. They hate Israel and don’t much like Jews. And the Squad speaks for lots of Democrats: Joe Biden’s approval ratings have fallen among Democrats, apparently because many object to the pro-Israel stance he has taken in connection with the Gazan massacres.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, never a team player, weighed in yesterday with an over-the-top attack on AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC is a grass roots and lobbying organization that supports Israel. It is bipartisan and has endorsed many Democrats, but is seen as relatively conservative in orientation, by Washington standards.

Trump grouses that his indictments took years. Here’s why that is. (Washington Poop) They wanted to time it for the election, of course–forget the Narrative BS.

Mike Johnson’s Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump’s lies (Salon)

Supreme Court to Determine Legality of ‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark (NewsMax)

Trump’s Allies Want a New Style of Lawyer if He Returns to Power (N.Y. Times)

Trump fights loom large for a Supreme Court that has tried to ignore him (Politico)

Trump Attorney Alina Habba: Jail is ‘Not Even Something We Think About’ (The Messenger)

Untested Legal Imagination’s the Mother of Trump and Jan. 6 Prosecutions

Trump to Judge: Leave My Kids Alone

Speaker Johnson taps veteran GOP operative as chief spokesperson (Politico)

Sen. McConnell Warns Dems on ‘Inappropriate’ Subpoenas (NewsMax)

Tesla Wins First Jury Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash (NewsMax)

EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson Opens Up About Intersection of Faith, Politics (The Foundry)

Missouri Court Rejects GOP’s Abortion Summary Language (News Max)

Was That Bernie Sanders In A Scarborough Halloween Outfit Proposing A ‘Billionaire Tax?’

House Ethics says update on Santos investigation coming as possible expulsion vote looms (CBS News) Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Republicans Out to Impeach Biden Have a Friend in House Speaker Mike Johnson (The Messenger)

RFK Jr. Renews Plea For Secret Service Protection After Second Stalker Arrest

Dinesh D’Souza’s Film ‘Police State’ Is Warning Cry for Americans: ‘We’re in Danger’

The Latest Target for California Conservatives? Local School Boards (N.Y. Times)

Idaho’s first ‘abortion trafficking’ arrest (Abortion, Every Day)

False Claims Haunt Family Of Woman Who Died On Jan. 6

Adam Kinzinger Rewarded for Denouncing the GOP ‘Terrorist Caucus’ (NewsBusters)

The Virginia voter purge (Popular Information)

RFK Jr.’s 2024 bid is a threat to Republicans — and donor data shows it (Politico)

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group (CNN)

Does New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Have a Bank Account? (Daily Beast) I’m certainly glad they have nothing more important to write about.

As the World Smolders, the New Speaker Trolls Biden (N.Y. Times)

Democrats launch attack ads against vulnerable Republicans over election of Speaker Johnson (Washington Examiner)

Christian Nationalism ‘Is No Longer Operating Beneath the Surface’ (N.Y. Times)

The GOP voter suppression jamboree comes to North Carolina (Public Notice) In the proglodyte media, ‘voter suppression’ means ‘making sure voters aren’t fraudulent’.

“Faith and Family” vs Democracy (Democracy Americana)

“A kind of Stepford wife”: It’s more than a prayer keeping Mike Johnson’s wife suddenly out of view (Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Scarborough: House GOP Plans Please Jew-Haters, Tax Cheaters, Illegal Aliens and Putin

Democrats quickly seek to make Speaker Johnson a boogeyman (Washington Poop)

Musk Doubles Down on Soros Criticism: ‘He Fundamentally Hates Humanity’

A Virginia GOP State Rep. Built Her Political Career On A Story That Doesn’t Add Up. (Huffington Post)

G.O.P.’s Buck Won’t Seek Re-Election, Citing His Party’s Election Denialism (N.Y. Times) Some RINOs are a self-correcting problem.

12+ Churches Targeted As Ohio Pro-Aborts Demand Unrestricted Abortion Bill

House Chairs Take Aim at DC Over Probe Into GOP Activist (NewsMax)

‘Medical emergency’ leads to another short-handed military post due to Tuberville protest (Raw Story)

Tuberville: WH Would Rather ‘Burn Down’ Senate” Than Negotiate

Ron DeSantis Turns Down Chance To Squash Lifted Shoe Speculation (Huffington Post) I’m sure glad they don’t have anything more important to write about.

3 Expert Shoemakers Say Ron DeSantis Is Probably Wearing Height Boosters (Politico) I’m sure glad they don’t have anything more important to write about.

Mike Johnson’s Wife Takes Down Website That Compared Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest (Huffington Post) I thought that proglodytes had no problem with bestiality and incest?

Democrats’ all-purpose message for 2024: Defeat MAGA chaos (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin is back from her break, tanned and fit and ready to witch-hunt.

“It Was Always Going to End Badly”: The Untold Story of Tucker Carlson’s Ugly Exit From Fox News (Vanity Fair) Still obsessing over Tucker Carlson, I see.

Journalist Groups Defend Rachel Scott Against GOP, But Didn’t Defend ‘SOB’ Peter Doocy

Kinzinger says family disowned him over loss of Hannity’s trust (The Hill) Can’t blame them.

Colbert, Daily Show: Johnson’s a Hypocritical Christian For Not Banning Seafood

Why Doug Burgum Is Staying in a Race He Can Afford to Lose (N.Y. Times) Everybody needs a hobby.

Former Fox Reporter Faces Contempt Charge After Refusing To Reveal FBI Source

Senate Dems plan to subpoena conservative justices’ billionaire patrons (Axios) Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Media: Mike Johnson Is a ‘Far-Right’ ‘Christian Nationalist’ ‘Extremist’  I like him already.

House Republicans: No Aid for Israel Unless Rich Tax Cheats Get a Break (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative.

Guess Who Is the King of Nazi Analogies on Television?

House Liberals Use Hearing on Global Religious Persecution to Decry ‘Christian Nationalism’ in America

Twitter Files: Sen. Klobuchar the Overreaching, Would-Be Censor

Pro-DeSantis Group Goes After Trump in Iowa Over Abortion (NewsMax)

Ala. Man Faces Charges for Threatening DA Willis, Sheriff

Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman, in rare public rebuke of a Republican candidate, says Trump ‘belongs in jail’ (CNN) Billionaires are evil–except when they’re anti-Trump.

Donald Trump Jr. Says Prosecutors Want ‘The Death Penalty’ for His Father (The Messenger) If they could get it–I think that’s accurate.

NBC Poll: Iowa Republicans OK That Trump Skips Debates

Donald Trump’s Colorado ballot challenge trial begins with each side warning of an attack on democracy (Denver Post)

Judge Reinstates Gag Order in Trump Election Case

Ben Carson Endorses Trump for President

How Trump’s Verbal Slips Could Weaken His Attacks on Biden’s Age (N.Y. Times)

Trump Colorado Ballot Trial Begins

Trial begins on whether Trump should be kept off the 2024 ballot in Colorado (NBC News)

Colorado Trial Will Consider Whether the 14th Amendment Disqualifies Trump (N.Y. Times) Ludicrous on its face.

Pentagon renames Georgia fort in final project to replace bases honoring Confederates (The Hill)

Fort Gordon, last Army base honoring Confederate general, renamed Fort Eisenhower (N.Y. Post)

Newly-named Fort Eisenhower signifies Augusta’s “commitment to the future of the nation” (WJBF)

House Speaker Johnson: Russia, China, & Iran Are The New Axis Of Evil

Mike Johnson Conducted Seminars Promoting the US as a “Christian Nation” (Mother Jones)

Biden’s New Challenger Doesn’t Remember GOP Megadonor Cash (Daily Beast)

The Devil’s Bargain Mike Pence Could Not Escape (N.Y. Times) The Devil, of course, being Trump.

DeSantis allies earn big paychecks on the front lines of his culture fights (CNN)

Expel George Santos? Some fear terrible precedent despite his terrible record (Washington Poop) Yeah, they might start expelling Democrats with terrible records, and we can’t have that.

“Lord of the Flies”: The House’s chaotic next era, explained (Vox) According to the Narrartive, of course.

Jenna Ellis Could Become a Star Witness Against Trump (N.Y. Times) Depending on how much she’s willing to lie her way into the Establishment.

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Matt Taibbi is one of a group of honest liberals who are not blind to the contemporary Left’s faults. At Racket News, he writes about his testimony before Jim Jordan’s House Weaponization of Government Committee, which apparently prompted a visit to his home by the IRS. Jordan’s House committee investigated, with the result that the IRS has announced a new policy on home visits.

Read it.

After more than 11 long years, jury selection in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Mark Steyn and others begins on Monday. I had lost track of this case as it wended its tortuous way through the courts, and tried to catch up with it by watching Mark’s deposition, the two short halves of which you can see here and here. The deposition does not lack for entertainment value, but as I watched it, I wondered, how can this terrible case possibly be going to trial? How could Mark Steyn not have gotten summary judgment?

The case arises out of a post that Mark wrote at the Corner on National Review quite a few years ago. He quoted Rand Simberg, who called Michael Mann the Jerry Sandusky of climate science (both Mann and Sandusky were employed by, and investigated by, Penn State). Mark added a few comments of his own about Mann’s absurd hockey stick. The gist of Mark’s brief post was that Mann’s hockey stick was a fraud. Which it was.

Trump appointee faces 10-year prison recommendation for joining mob at Capitol (Raw Story)

New House Speaker Mike Johnson used to be top counsel for anti-LGBTQ hate group (Salon)

ABC Censors Dem Dean Phillips Rising to Challenge Biden in Primary

Mike Johnson’s Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest (Huffington Post)

Survey: Most Oppose Book Bans, Support Elective Bible Study

The Christian Nationalism of Speaker Mike Johnson (TIMT)

PolitiFact Pounces on New House Speaker, Unlike Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries

New Climate Institute Claims Microsoft is “Unjustly” Quarantining Their Emails

For Mike Johnson, Religion Is at the Forefront of Politics and Policy (N.Y. Times) They say that like it was a bad thing.

PBS Freaks ‘Far-Right’ Johnson Promotes ‘Christian Nationalism’

Ex-CNN+ Host Smears Johnson as ‘David Duke-Lite’

Misinformation is flowing ahead of Ohio abortion vote. Some is coming from a legislative website (Associated Press)

Not an accidental speaker: How Mike Johnson positioned himself for the gavel (Politico)

Johnson’s speakership win fails to end House GOP infighting (Politico)

The deep inequity of the anti-college movement (The Hill)

Ramaswamy Defends Opposition to Israel Aid in Speech to Jewish Republicans (Washington Free Beacon)

Mike Johnson is well within the mainstream of today’s GOP (CNN) They don’t mean it as a compliment.

Trump doubles down on calling Hezbollah ‘very smart’ (Washington Poop)

FLASHBACK: While TV Ignores Biden Inquiry, They Feasted on Trump’s

Ivanka Trump to testify Friday in the NY civil fraud trial – here’s how she can hurt her father and brothers (Business Insider) Masturbating to the tune of the anti-Trump tango.

Larry Elder drops out of 2024 GOP primary, backs Trump (The Hill)

Prosecutors Withdraw Second Subpoena in Trump Fund-Raising Inquiry (N.Y. Times)

Trump’s Vanishing Act: Why Trump Rallies Are Going Extinct (Daily Beast)

Poll: Trump Leads Closest GOP Rivals by 47 Percent

Hearings begin as Trump critics attempt to kick him off ballots (Washington Poop)

Some of Trump’s closest allies have yet to be offered plea deals in Georgia case (The Guardian)

Arizona prosecutors ask about 2020 pressure campaign by Trump allies (Washington Poop) They don’t even bother to say ‘alleged’ any more.

Inside the Secretive Melting of Civil War Monument to Robert E. Lee (Washington Poop)

Confederate monument melted down to create new, more inclusive public art (NPR)

A Controversial Statue Was Quietly Melted Down In US. Here’s The Story (NDTV)

Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee melted (The Daily Progress)

‘Not…Bipartisan’; Nets Continue to Seethe Over ‘Most-Right Wing’ Speaker Johnson

Maine Democrat calls for assault weapons ban after past opposition (The Hill)

“The Face Of The Digital Censorship Movement”: Matt Taibbi Calls Out Amy Klobuchar

New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is ‘Pointing People To The Truth’ (Huffington Post) Let’s all look down our noses at this Louisiana goober for believing such obvious nonsense. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Mike Johnson pushed the ‘Big Lie.’ But Biden world sees thornier issues ahead.

Ireland Is Reaching Its “Limit” For Accommodating Refugees, Admits PM Varadkar  Hey, nothing says Irish like ‘Varadkar’.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files censure resolution accusing Rep. Rashida Tlaib of inciting an insurrection (NBC News) Sauce for the goose….

TV News Warns About the New ‘Extremist’ Speaker

Is the Republican Speakership Cursed? Johnson Is About to Find Out. (N.Y. Times)

‘He Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’ (Politico)

Jenna Ellis’s long, strange trip to disgrace (Public Notice)

‘What a D*ck!’: Late Show Attacks New Speaker Johnson

Public Broadcasting Smears: NewsHour Puffs Author Comparing GOP to Nazis

Santos Faces Arraignment on New Fraud Indictment in NY  Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Make Mike Johnson Famous (OffMessage) Burn the witch!

Germany: Employer Now Docking Wages Of Employees Who Eat Meat, Drive Autos!

CBS Blasts ‘Far-Right’ Johnson as ‘Anti-LGBTQ,’ ‘Climate Skeptic,’ ‘Election Denier’

Iowa Governor Rips Media for Wrongly Describing Keeping Sexually Explicit Material Out of Schools as Banning Books

Joe Scarborough Delivers Blistering Takedown Of Mike Johnson’s Gun Logic (Huffington Post) At least in the view of the AWFLs that run the HuffPo.

A year later, Musk’s X is tilting right. And sinking. (Washington Poop)

Nine Takeaways From Mike Johnson’s First Interview as Speaker (N.Y. Times) According to the Narrative, that is.

The View’s ‘Republicans’ Blame ‘Gun-Owner Apologists’ for Mass Shootings

Mike Johnson’s conspiracy theories about ‘illegals’ mark a new GOP low (Washington Poop) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

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The Left’s most insidious power grabs involve taking over private companies that run services that are open to the public. Especially where such services have large market shares, left-wing dominance can have real consequences in suppressing conservative (or just normal) ideas.

A case in point is EventBrite. EventBrite’s managers have decided that defending women’s sports is out of bounds. Thus, they have thrown a speech by Riley Gaines at the University of California, Davis off their platform….

Trump doesn’t get his ‘Legally Blonde’ moment, storms out of court (MSNBC) Storms!

Trump: Meadows ‘Weak,’ ‘Coward’ if He Took Plea Deal  Well, yeah. The government is kind of counting on that.

Michigan State investigation finds Mel Tucker sexually harassed rape survivor (USA Today) When did it become proper to wear white athletic shoes with a suit? Or is that just for coaches?

Exclusive: Fulton County DA has discussed plea deals with at least 6 more Trump co-defendants (CNN) My, what a surprise.

The One Simple Trick For Avoiding Prison Could Be Slipping Out Of Reach For Trump (Huffington Post) Switching to Democrat?

Trump Cleared Of Any Wrongdoing In FBI Headquarters Spat

Nicolle Wallace Unglued: Trump Like A Disobedient Dog Rolling In Poop!

ACLU sides with Trump, argues Jan. 6 case gag order is unconstitutional (The Hill)

Colo. judge rejects Trump’s bid to toss lawsuit aimed at keeping him off 2024 ballot (NBC News)

Texas Poll: Trump Up 8 on Biden, 49 on DeSantis

Jenna Ellis and Michael Cohen: What happens when Trump’s co-conspirators become his victims (Salon) No matter what happens, it’s All Trump’s Fault. (Whose turn is it to be the victim?)

Chris Christie on What Mark Meadows Immunity Deal Means for Trump: ‘The Walls Are Closing In Around Him’ (MEDIAite) Unfortunately, there aren’t walls big enough to ‘close in’ around crypto-Democrat Christie.

Donald Trump ‘unfazed’ by legal woes, ‘acting like nothing’s wrong,’ insiders say as polls give him edge

Trump’s Allies Pledged Loyalty to Him. Until They Didn’t.  (N.Y. Times)

Why did Tom Emmer drop his House speaker bid after 4 hours? (CBS News)

The GOP is broken, and the nation is paying the price in House speaker turmoil (L.A. Times) Hey, just look at all of the Important Stuff that isn’t getting done without a Speaker–like … uh … or … uh … but then … uh … Hm, no I can’t think of any. But they assure is that Important Stuff isn’t getting done, so that proves it!

Republicans Place House Speaker Job On ZipRecruiter (Babylon Bee)

MAGA Diehards Are Furious Jenna Ellis Pleaded Guilty After Raising $200K (Rolling Stone) And of course left-wing ‘journalists’ are entirely competent to tell whom the ‘MAGA diehards’ are.

Emmer bid collapses, extending extraordinary GOP Speaker losing streak (The Hill) If I were a Republican Congressman I wouldn’t want the job, either, now that the Narrative media have converted it into a target in their poo-flinging contest.

New No Labels Plan: Deadlocking the 2024 Election? (New York Magazine)

Lawmakers Pressure Amazon to Censor Alexa’s So-Called ‘Election Misinformation’

Dozens Of States & DC Slap Meta with Damning 233-Page Lawsuit

Missouri Pol’s Plan Would Force Foreign Landowners to Sell

Florida asks Supreme Court to allow its anti-drag law to take effect (CNN)

How the 47 Percent Video Drove Mitt Romney to Depression and Nearly Out of the 2012 Race (Mother Jones) RINO Mitt Romney has been the Left’s favorite Republican ever since John McCain died, so long as he continued their preferred career path for such people–talking a good fight and then losing.

The Profitable Destruction Of Americans’ Health

Voters soundly reject Gabrielle Hanson, other MAGA candidates in historic Franklin, Tennessee election (WTVF) ‘MAGA’ is the New Nigger.

Republicans pray for an early voting reversal in Virginia (Politico)

The 8th Amendment is next (Public Notice)

‘Boycott UFC’ Calls Soar After Mega-Sponsorship Deal With Bud Light

Threats to American Democracy Ahead of an Unprecedented Presidential Election (PRRI)

Daily Shows Smears ‘Evil White Men’ in ‘Particularly Heinous’ NFL

Upstart Dutch Party Calls for Sovereignty, Migration Limits

Who is Rep. Mike Johnson, the House GOP’s latest speaker nominee? (CNN) Hint: They don’t like him.

A Coup on His Resume (The Bulwark) Lining up for the witch-hunt against the prospective new Speaker.

5 things to know about Mike Johnson, the GOP’s latest House speaker nominee (Washington Poop) Lining up for the witch-hunt against the prospective new Speaker.

North Carolina lt. governor quoted Hitler in newly unearthed social media posts (Jewish Insider) He’s a Republican, of course. They wouldn’t dare witch-hunt a Democrat.

GOP speaker nominee Mike Johnson played a key role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election (NBC News) Lining up for the witch-hunt against the prospective new Speaker.

‘Nasty Little Woman!’ Sara Haines FLIPS OUT on Female Republican

Sidney Powell pushes claims that 2020 election was rigged and prosecutors ‘extorted’ her after she pleaded guilty to election interference (Insider) Told you so.

Playbook PM: The first MAGA speaker? (Politico) Lining up for the witch-hunt against the prospective new Speaker. (‘MAGA’ is the New Nigger.)

Cop Stops Mom From Exposing Sexually Explicit Content At School Board Meeting

CNN Concedes ‘Hugely Conservative’ Johnson Isn’t ‘The Devil Incarnate’  Awful white of them.

Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds (N.Y. Times) And let’s not forget the ongoing witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas.

Johnson Played Leading Role in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election (N.Y. Times) And the witch-hunt gets into gear.

‘I killed him’: How Trump torpedoed Tom Emmer’s speaker bid (Politico)

Cohen Denounces Trump During Courtroom Face-Off (N.Y. Times) Working for Trump must be like working for Taras Bulba.

How Calls From Trump Scuttled ‘RINO’ Emmer’s Speaker Bid (NewsMax)

Bill Kristol ‘Alarmed’ by Trump’s 2024 Enthusiasm Advantage

“Ominous Implications”: Turley Opines After Former Trump Lawyer Pleads Guilty, Flips In Georgia Case

“Trump Has Never Let Us Down”: Longtime DeSantis Ally Flips On Ron Over Jewish Issues

Mark Meadows Flipped, And People Are Imagining How Trump Will React (Huffington Post) Well, he hasn’t ‘flipped’ quite yet, but the Narrative media are too busy masturbating over the news to worry about petty details.

Trump rages as former acolytes turn against him under legal heat (CNN) Well, they haven’t ‘turned against him’ quite yet, but etc. etc.

Trump, the UAW, and the electrified future (Popular Information)

Chuck Todd: Mitt Romney sounds one last alarm on Trump (NBC News)

Trump Lawyer Plea Deals in Georgia? More ‘Walls Are Closing In’ Juice for Morning Joe

ACLU Urges Judge to Reconsider Trump Gag Order in DC Election Case

Trump made crude Oval Office remark about fate of Kurds in Syria, book says (The Guardian)

Titanic Trump: Co-defendants flee sinking MAGA ship (The Hill) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Trump’s Lawyers Are Going Down. Is He? (N.Y. Times) David French joins the masturbatory revel.

Reports: Trump told Mar-a-Lago member about calls with foreign leaders (CNN)

Donald Trump calls billionaire Anthony Pratt ‘red haired weirdo from Australia’ as he denies discussing submarines (The Guardian)

Donald Trump Speaks Out Over Melania Bikini Report (Newsweek)

Trump denies reports he shared sensitive details with Mar-a-Lago member (Axios)

Playbook: Inside Tom Emmer’s Trump problem (Politico)

Jon Karl FREAKS OUT at Tim Scott Saying Biden Has ‘Blood on His Hands’ by Coddling Iran

Republicans Grapple With Being Speakerless, but Effectively Leaderless, Too (N.Y. Times)

Forget Hamas! Sharpton Asks Maddow to Explain How Trumpism Looks Like Fascism (NewsBusters) In the Narrative media, ‘Trumpism’ is an invented term to use as a stick to beat Trump supporters (or potential Trump supporters), as most such slur-terms are.

More Bad News for Trump (Civil Discourse) All of these ‘walls are closing in’ articles about Trump proceed from the assumption that Trump is guilty of something (the Leftist fantasy) or can be railroaded into being convicted of something (the more realistic Leftist playbook).

A President, a Billionaire and Questions About Access and National Security (N.Y. Times) The continuing effort to make it appear that Trump did something that was even half as bad as the stuff Biden has obviously been doing since he was VP.

Liz Cheney doesn’t rule out presidential bid, calls Donald Trump ‘the single most dangerous threat’ (USA Toaday)

During Gaza Hostage Crisis, MSNBC Host Says ‘Americans Are Being Held Hostage By GOP’

Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power (The New Yorker) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHH….

SPLC Tries to Blacklist Turning Point USA, Project Veritas From Donor-Advised Funds

How each Speaker candidate voted in overturning 2020 election results (The Hill) Just to make sure that no CrimeThinkers get elected Speaker.

‘Influencer’ gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election  Basically, he’s being jailed for criticizing Hillary Clinton.

Ex-Florida GOP lawmaker who sponsored so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill sentenced to prison (Politico)

Texas City Settles Lawsuit With Biden Bus Passenger Who Says Police Ignored Calls About Trump Supporters (The Messenger)

Musk Calls NewsGuard a ‘Scam,’ Demands Its Disbandment (NewsMax)

House GOP drowning as crisis reaches breaking point (Politico) Name one bad thing that has resulted from the House not having a Speaker.

Alex Jones Must Pay $1.1B in Damages Despite Bankruptcy  Where do they think he’s going to get it?

Speaker Saga: House GOP Can’t Even Agree on Not Agreeing (Daily Beast)

Elon Musk’s X removes the New York Times’ verification badge (Washington Poop) Treating Democrats the way they treat Republicans! How shocking!

1,000 Days Without A Trial: Jan. 6 Prisoner Shares His Story of ‘Endurance, Perseverance, And Hope’

Jordan and the GOP find a new low point in speaker mess (Washington Poop) Name one bad think that has resulted from the House not having a Speaker.

The True Story Behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Being Erased From Oklahoma Classrooms (N.Y. Times) As if the Times would recognize a ‘true story’ if it pissed on their leg.

White Supremacist Nick Fuentes is Causing Chaos Inside Texas Youth GOP (Daily Beast) Not really.

Nicolle Wallace Goes Low: Why Do Some Republicans Hate Jim Jordan Like I Do?

Kimmel Compares Trump, Cruz to STDs, Speculates About Cruz’s Sex Life

Verified Accounts on X Spread 74% of Wartime Misinformation (AdWeek)

PolitiFact Whacks Americans for Prosperity as ‘Mostly False’ for True Claim on Tax Hike

FLASHBACK: Media Hit GOP Over Anti-Hillary Benghazi ‘Witch Hunt’

House remains paralyzed with no end in sight for speakership battle after Jordan’s exit (CNN) They say that like it was a bad thing.

PBS Celebrates Jordan Failing To Become Speaker

Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan Sues Anti-Defamation League for $4.8 Billion

Donald Trump’s Ex-Attorney Gives Fani Willis Evidence to Use Against Him (Newsweek)

Prosecutors Urge Judge to Let Federal Election Case Proceed: Trump ‘Not Above the Law’ (NewsMax) But if his name were ‘Biden’ he would be.

Jack Smith Slams Trump’s Bid to Dismiss Jan. 6 Charges: ‘The Defendant Is Not Above The Law’ (The Messenger) Do you sense a theme here? Why is this cliché only used about Republicans?

Federal Prosecutors Reject Trump’s Immunity Claims in Election Case (N.Y. Times)

Hutchinson calls Trump an ‘isolationist’ (The Hill)

Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro rejected plea offer from Georgia prosecutors (NBC News)

Special counsel urges judge to deny Trump’s Jan. 6 claim of immunity. (Washington Poop)

Team Trump Never Dreamed Sidney Powell Would Flip on Them (Rollling Stone) Which, indeed, she has not, despite what the dimwits writing for the Rolling Stone might think.

Christie Challenges Trump: ‘You’ll Have to Face Me One Way or Another. Get Ready’ (The Messenger) Really?

Turley: Sidney Powell Could Be ‘Dangerous Witness’

Judge Raises Jail Threat at Trump for Defying Gag Order  Freedom of speech? Not in this Democrat’s court-room.

Judge Fines Trump $5K for Maligning Court Staffer

Emerson Poll: Trump Holds Massive 51-Point Lead Over DeSantis

Turley: The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down