CEOs: Blacklist Harvard Students Who Signed Anti-Israel Letter (NewsMax)

National Republicans knew Lake was unbeatable. So they joined her. (Politico)

Christian Baker Who Refused To Make LGBT Cake Scores Legal Victory

As Crises Mount, Republicans Depart from Reality (The Bulwark)

Rhode Island Town Defies Mob, Erects Columbus Statue

Texas Republicans are fighting about whether it’s OK to associate with white supremacists (Public Information)

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority (ProPublica)

Someone Is Inscribing All Of WikiLeaks’ Infamous Afghan War Logs On Bitcoin

The New Republican Establishment (N.Y. Times)

North Carolina’s cautionary tale for purple states (Public Notice)

A “Sh*t Thing” To Say: Explosive Kerfuffle Erupts Between House Dems After Jewish Rep. Accused Of Slamming Muslims

Who Ghostwrites Reports For The Center For Countering Digital Hate?

Samuel Alito Really, Really, Really Wants to Save This Racial Gerrymander in South Carolina (Slate)

Columbia Tightens Campus Access Following Attack on Jewish Student, Pro-Palestine Protests

Republican Sen. Tuberville Warns Against ‘Picking Sides in the Middle East’ in Jaw-Dropping Interview (MEDIAite)

Kimmel Mocks Scalise For Not Embracing Gun Control After Getting Shot

MSNBC’s Talking Points Crumble As Guest Decries Israel’s Existence

Trump asks judge to OK subpoenas for Jan. 6 committee documents (The Hill)

Trump lawyers double down on request to delay classified docs trial until after the election (NBC News)

Trump’s lawyers lash out over timing of his federal trials (Seattle Times)

Donald Trump’s ‘presidential immunity’ claim is absurd. It could still buy him time. (MSNBC)

Fulton County DA rebuffs Jim Jordan’s request for information on her investigation of Trump (CNN)

Trump Lawyers Want Us to Believe Key Witness Knows Nothing (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Criticizes Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Calls Hezbollah ‘Very Smart’ (Huffington Post)

How to Make Trump Go “Crazy,” According to George Conway (The New Republic)

Trump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone (Media Matters for America)

Biden aides slam Trump for calling Hezbollah ‘very smart’ (The Hill)

Trump’s anti-immigrant onslaught sparks fresh alarm heading into 2024 (Washington Poop)

Trump tells court he had no duty to ‘support’ the Constitution as president (Raw Story)

Why is Trump Trashing Netanyahu? (Washington Monthly)

Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X, formerly Twitter (CNBC)

Disinformation spreads on Israel-Hamas war across social media (NBC News) In the Narrative media, ‘disinformation’ is anything that doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

How to limit graphic social media images from the Israel-Hamas war (Washington Poop)

Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press (Rolling Stone)

Activists send death threats to California school board president over LGBTQ flag debate: ‘Hide your kids’ (Fox News)

The right’s war on birth control is already starting (MSNBC)

Tuberville reports former CIA director Hayden to Capitol Police over tweet (The Hill)

Tuberville Reports Hayden to Cops for ‘Assassination’ Post (NewsMax)

Rep. Lawler Slams Omar: ‘Unfit to Serve in the House’

Warner, Kaine urge DOJ to probe Gov. Youngkin’s ‘purge’ of voter rolls (Washington Poop)

Brutal: RFK Jr’s Own Siblings “Denounce” Him And Endorse Biden

Lisa Ling Smears AP History Reforms in First Assignment at CBS

NBC News Resists ‘Normalizing’ Trump, But Not the Killers of Hamas

Charles Koch’s audacious new $5 billion political scheme

Colbert, Frost Accuse GOP of Being ‘Okay With Kids Being Mowed Down,’ Poll Taxes

Business Insider Calls Terrorists ‘Hamas Fighters’ While Decrying ‘Misinformation’ on Twitter

Conservative Election Activists Use Virginia as a Dry Run for 2024 (N.Y. Times)

Republican lawmakers to introduce resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress (NBC News) When was the last time Democrats attempted to expel a Democrat member of Congress.

The NRA Argues Domestic Abusers Should Keep Their Guns (Huffington Post) I guess nobody at the HuffPo can read the Constitution.

The Supreme Court appears determined to make it easy to draw gerrymanders (Vox)

NBC Questioned Trump’s ‘Moral Authority,’ but Gives Hamas a Pass

Rasmussen Poll: Trump Gains 30 Percent of Dem Votes

Fraud trial: Trump acknowledged penthouse size at 11,000 square feet, not 30,000 he later claimed (Associated Press) And did that defraud anybody? No, it did not.

Trump dips into internet conspiracy theories with his latest lines about Obama (NBC News)

Crackpot fight! Trump is worried about RFK Jr. running for president — and he should be scared (Salon)

Trump demands trial delay to wade through classified docs he stole (Public Notice)

CNN Nevada Poll: Trump Leads by 52

Michigan Poll: Trump Leads Biden by 7 in Key State

The GOP’s working-class tilt is causing havoc in its ranks (Washington Poop)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Last Gasp (The Atlantic)

Benjamin Netanyahu failed Israel (Vox)

North Carolina Republicans Are Creating a ‘Secret Police Force’ (Daily Beast)

George Santos’ $500K Campaign Loan Was Fake—Until It Wasn’t (Daily Beast) No Republican is too obscure to avoid witch-hunting by the Daily Beast. You’d think they have more important issues to pursue but you’d be wrong.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Declares Israel’s Siege of Gaza a ‘War Crime’ (But Guess What’s Not?)

Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back (Salon)

Tiffany ‘New York’ Pollard: Why I called Omarosa a ‘Republican c—t’ on ‘House of Villains’ 

Mystery solved as Iran-backed judge, who seeks Trump’s arrest, confirms invite to Washington, DC (Fox News)

DERANGED: Liberals Scramble To Blame Trump for Hamas Atrocities (Washington Free Beacon)

Trump Wildly Claims Forbes Is a ‘China Propaganda Machine’ After He’s Removed from 400 Richest Americans List (Daily Beast)

After years of exaggerating his business assets, Trump confronts them in court (Washington Poop)

Special Counsel: Make Trump Declare Legal Strategy

Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley (Washington Poop) George Will, the Compleat Cuck, is desperately seeking somebody to stop Trump.

Trump’s Overrated Peace Plan Helped Enable the Horrors in Israel and Gaza (Daily Beast)

Poll: Republicans Want New Speaker Loyal to Trump (NewsMax)

Trump: Israel, Ukraine Attacks Wouldn’t Occur Under Me  (NewsMax) He’s probably right.

A Major Victory for President Trump in the Clown Show NYC Trial: MSM Media-Crickets

Team Trump Is Using ‘Fyre Festival Strategies’ in N.Y. Fraud Case (Rolling Stone)

Jack Smith: ‘No Reason’ to Delay Trump’s Florida Docs Trial

As false war information spreads on X, Musk promotes unvetted accounts (Washington Poop)

There’s not a chief of naval operations to help Israel due to Tommy Tuberville’s protest: Retired Commander (Raw Story) This is horseshit. The CNO is a staff officer; he has nothing to do with ‘helping Israel’. The operational chain of command goes from the President to the individual theater commanders to the actual operating units. Neither the CNO nor the Secretary of Defense is in that chain.

Rubin And Tribe Under Fire For Using The Massacre In Israel For Bizarre Attacks On Political Figures To pretend that Jennifer Rubin is a ‘conservative columnist’ is one of the more ridiculous lies perpetrated by the Washington Poop.

Liz Cheney is right about Jim Jordan’s involvement in Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election (The Dean’s Report) Yet another little proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Telling People to Follow Antisemitic Account for War Updates (Rolling Stone) How can an ‘account’ be anti-semitic?

Renegade House Republicans Aren’t Sorry Congress Has Ground to a Halt Amid Israeli War. Kevin McCarthy Has Words for Them. (Washington Free Beacon)

Fact Check: Jim Jordan Did NOT ‘Terrorize’ Sunny Hostin in a 2019 House Hearing (NewsBusters)

‘The Diciest Thing’ Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan Are Battling Over (Daily Beast)

Republicans respond to attack on Israel by demonstrating their unfitness (Public Notice) Yet another little proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Influential Texas activist Jonathan Stickland hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes at Fort Worth office (Texas Tribune)

Putinite Republicans are disgracing America (Washington Examiner) The Examiner joins the Narrative media.

The Roots of Today’s Authoritarianism Come From a 19th Century Supreme Court Ruling (Politico) Plessy v. Ferguson was gutted by Brown v. Board of Education. The roots of today’s authoritarianism come from the Democrat administration of Woodrow Wilson and the erasure of the right to Freedom of Association by the Civil Rights Acts, primarily through efforts of Social Justice Warriors like the author.

Harvard Dean, 33 Student Groups Blame Israel for War

Jim Jordan Tried to Help Trump Mount a Coup. Now He Gets to Be Speaker? (Mother Jones)

Hostin Looks to Blame Israelis for Hamas’s Barbarism Against Civilians (NewsBusters)

‘Rudderless and leaderless’: House GOP lurches forward after Israel attacks (Politico)

‘Fraudulent’: Whitmer Faces Call To Resign After Omitting ‘Israel’ From Statement On Hamas Terrorism

Starbucks Union Championed by Bernie Sanders and AOC Celebrates Hamas Attacks

Appeals Court Rules For Trump Amid NY Fraud Trial

Ex-Washington Post Editor Martin Baron Implies Any Interview with Trump Is a ‘Big Mistake’

‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening (The Guardian) Surprising all of these ‘right-wing codes’ that only proglodyte ‘journalists’ can read.

Fmr NATO Commander: McCarthy Ouster ‘Great Day for Putin’

RINO Alert: Attack on Israel underscores ‘irresponsibility’ of Republicans paralyzing House with speaker fight: Christie (ABC News) There is absolutely no connection between the two, other than Christie’s compulsion to polish his status as a tool of the D.C. establishment.

Kylie Jenner quickly deletes pro-Israel post after receiving backlash amid Hamas attack

Washington Post Lectures on the History of ‘Corporate Genocide’ Behind Pumpkin Spice  You can’t make this shit up.

CBS Lets Rachel Maddow Warn of ‘Ultra-Right’ Fascism Coming to America

Trump Loves Sharing National Security Secrets With Random Strangers (The New Republic)

“Tip of the iceberg”: Experts sound the alarm after Trump blabbed nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago (Salon)

In Her Jan. 6 Courtroom, Judge Who Will Hear Trump’s Case Is the Pot Calling the Defendant Incendiary

Trump’s Latest Gamble Is Outlandish—but It Just Might Work (Daily Beast)

The One Thing Trumpies and Swifties Have in Common (Politico) Thumb-sucking for fun and profit.

How not to cover Donald Trump’s bizarre 2024 campaign for president (L.A. Times) Just ignore him and maybe he’ll go away.

CBS News: No Evidence Trump Shared Nuclear Secrets With Australian

Jim Jordan, Who’s Running For Speaker, Played A Key Role In Trump’s 2020 Election Plot (Huffington Post)

PBS Fetes Hillary, Both Endorse Biden’s Bashing of MAGA GOP as ‘Semi-Fascist’

FLASHBACK: Media Blamed GOP ‘Hard Right’ After Boehner’s Exit, Too

Robert F. Kennedy is headed for a breakup with the Democratic Party (NBC News) Considering they way they’re treating him, I’m not surprised.

Mitchell Blames Terrorist Attack On Israelis, Saudis Ignoring Biden

Doja Cat slammed for wearing shirt with ‘neo-Nazi’ comic Sam Hyde on it

Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen (Washington Poop) The truth is out there.

WH: GOP Spreading ‘Disinformation’ on Israel Attacks

The Great Sort: Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out. (N.Y. Times)

Liz Cheney thinks Jim Jordan will lose Speakership vote (The Hill)

Liz Cheney’s Ominous Warning About Jim Jordan’s House Speaker Bid (Newsweek)

Liz Cheney cheers Kevin McCarthy removal, warns of Jim Jordan ascension (N.Y. Post)

Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney says at University of Minnesota that Kevin McCarthy deserved ouster as House speaker (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

DeSantis: I’ll take accreditation from schools with DEI programs (MSNBC)

Nancy Mace Solicits Campaign Funds on Fox, Flouting House Rules (Daily Beast)

Left-Wing Violence: Bernie Minion Nabbed in Possible Assassination Attempt

The Attack on Wisconsin’s Governor Perfectly Sums Up Our Gun Problem (The New Republic) Yeah, the guy was a Bernie Bro; the problem is the shooter, not the gun.

How MAGA Corrupts the Culture of the White Working Class (N.Y. Times) David French continues his lucrative career as sock puppet for the left.

America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch holds the Jennifer Rubin Chair of Hysterical Leftism at the PInq.

‘What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party’ (Politico)

EU Parliament Designates Surrogacy as Human Trafficking

Hillary Clinton says ‘MAGA extremists’ may need ‘formal deprogramming’ (Washington Examiner) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Hillary: Trump Backers Need ‘Deprogramming’

Meyers Finds It ‘Infuriating’ That GOP Attacks Dems After Speaker Vote

Running Spoiler Campaigns Does Not Protect ‘Democracy’ (The New Yorker) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat Vote Fraud’. Jonathan ‘Voice of the Crust’ Chait knows that better than most.

Not The Onion: Bernie Sanders’ Staffers Have Left-Wing Antiwar Activists Arrested Outside Office

Vivek Ramaswamy Says Pro-Ukraine Protesters Rammed His Car. Police Say No.

Iowa police dispute Ramaswamy campaign’s claim that protesters rammed their car (Politico)

N.J. Attorney General Opens Inquiry Into Nadine Menendez’s Fatal Crash (N.Y. Times) Blood in the water….

Some Republicans Furious Over Fox Speaker Interviews

Fox TV Speaker Candidate Interview Tabled After Uproar

Reid Freaks Out About GOP Taking Away ‘Children’s Right To Read’

45 House Republicans Say Dems and ‘Chaos Caucus’ Must Be Stopped From Hijacking GOP

Moms for Liberty Is Taking Over Banned Books Week (Mother Jones) They don’t like ‘banned’ books but they don’t object to banned people.

Transgender Lawyer Who Wanted to ‘Correct the Errors’ of Jack Phillips’ Thinking May Have His Own Case ‘Corrected’

Michael Benz, a rising voice for conservative criticism of online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona (NBC News)

Trump lawyers urge dismissal of 2020 election indictment, arguing immunity while in office (The Guardian)

Trump drops suit against former lawyer Michael Cohen (Politico)

Trump Seeks Dismissal of Bragg Indictment

Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national after leaving White House: Sources (ABC News)

To amplify Trump? Or not to amplify? There’s actually a good answer. (Press Watch)

Trump’s violent rhetoric is getting muted coverage by the news media (Washington Poop)

Trump Said to Have Revealed Nuclear Submarine Secrets to Australian Businessman (N.Y. Times)

Nicolle Wallace: We Don’t Amplify Dangerous Trump Comments—But He’s Hitler!

The Irony of Trump Whining About a Jury Trial His Lawyers Didn’t Formally Request (Daily Beast)

Many GOP anti-Trumpers are throwing in the towel (Axios)

ABC, CBS, NBC Evening Nets Ignore Marquette Poll Showing Trump Cleaning Biden’s Clock on Economy

Trump Escalates Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric With ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Comment (N.Y. Times) Another little proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Trump Lawyers Seek to Halt Civil Fraud Trial

New York appeals court halts the process of breaking up Trump’s businesses but rejects halting the trial (CNN)

The Foundry.

There is no worse example of a biased, tendentious mainstream media with ulterior motives than the castigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during the past half year.

The latest example stems from flyspecking Thomas’ amended financial disclosure reports, repeating what has never been disputed and attempting to cast a dark shadow on otherwise innocent, normal conduct—that the man has affluent friends and these friends engage in activities with their friends, which is typical of those with wealth.

Apart from the shameless and intentional misinterpretation of this reality, what is omitted from the reporting truly speaks volumes. There are neither accusations nor even circumstantial evidence that the 700-plus opinions Thomas has written over his career, the 2,800-plus cases he has voted on, and the millions of words he has authored have been compromised in any way to benefit his friends.

Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker could cost GOP its best fundraiser heading into 2024 (Associated Press)

House devolves into angry round of retribution following McCarthy’s ouster (CNN)

House GOP must drop ‘any member can move to unseat the speaker’ rule (N.Y. Post)

How does a ‘frozen’ U.S. House function without a speaker? Everyone’s got an opinion. (Idaho Capital Sun)

Swiss writer being jailed for insulting lesbian journalist alarms free speech advocates (Fox News)

From a Capitol Hill Basement, Bannon Stokes the Republican Party Meltdown (N.Y. Times)

Former Mike Pence Aide Claims Matt Gaetz Likely Came To D.C. ‘For The Teenage Interns’ (Huffington Post)

MSNBC’s Hayes FREAKS! Claims Media Blames Democrats for ‘GOP Chaos’

Vote to oust McCarthy is a warning sign for democracy, scholars say (Washington Poop)

Matt Gaetz Says He’s Fueled By Small Dollars. A Leaked Video Shows Him Courting GOP Megadonors. (Daily Beast)

GOP Senator Drops NSFW Claims About Matt Gaetz In Wild CNN Interview (Huffington Post)

House GOP quietly panics over how to escape its self-inflicted mess (Axios)

Not satisfied with schools, book banners are now targeting adults’ right to read (L.A. Times) Not to be confused with the proglodyte attempts to cancel authors they don’t like.

The MAGA-McCarthy meltdown does not oblige Democrats to save the GOP (Washington Poop) MAGA is the New Nigger.

White Supremacist ‘Active Club’ Provides Security for Moms for Liberty-Allied Mayoral Candidate (Right-Wing Watch) Yet another little proglodyte mushroom of hate.

He ‘Terrorized Me’: Sunny Hostin Claims Jim Jordan Is a ‘Terrorist’  I like him already.

BEASTMODE: GOP Senator Says Matt Gaetz Was Known for Boasts About ‘ED Medicine’ and Sex Prowess

A Broken Congress Is What MAGA Always Wanted (Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Gaetz’s speeches against McCarthy hand Democrats fresh campaign material (Axios)

Pro-life Display Vandalized at Mo. Catholic Church

Trump’s recent confession about the border wall underscores an inconvenient truth (MSNBC)

Hours After Gag Order, Trump Launches Fresh Vitriol Against New York Judge (The New Republic)

Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson calls out John Kelly: ‘He knew Mr. Trump’s record’ (Politico)

Donald Trump drops from the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Here’s what changed. (CBS News)

Trump drops off Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans (Axios)

Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes List Of Richest Americans For Second Time In 3 Years (Forbes)

Donald Trump Loses $600 Million in One Year to Fall Off Forbes List (Newsweek)

Judge Kicks Reporters Out of Courtroom to Talk to Trump and AG (Daily Beast)

Pence: Trump Attacks on Gen. Milley ‘Utterly Inexcusable’

Trump is no ghost of the past — he’s haunting Ukraine’s present (Politico)

Trump Being Nominated for House Speaker Is Becoming a Real Possibility (Daily Beast) You can’t make this shit up.

Texas Republican will nominate Trump for Speaker of the House (The Hill)

Trump Won’t Rule Out Speakership: ‘I Would Do It’

As McCarthy tumbled toward defeat, Trump did not defend his speakership (Washington Poop) Gee, I wonder why?

Exit stage (far) right: Kevin McCarthy’s nightmare is now America’s ordeal (The Hill)

The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity (Vox)

Business Report: Consumer financial protection in peril (Hawaii News Now)

Challenge to consumer watchdog gets a frosty reception at the Supreme Court (NBC  News)

How the Supreme Court could move to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (The Hill)

McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday (Politico)

Payday Lenders Get Their Asses Handed To Them During Anti-CFPB Supreme Court Arguments (Huffington Post)

State Department slams GOP for failing to reauthorize global AIDS program (The Hill)

Leonard Leo says he will not cooperate with D.C. Attorney General tax probe (Politico)

Networks Throw Tantrums Over ‘Hard-Right’ GOP Ousting Kevin McCarthy (NewsBusters)

The Only Sin That Republicans Can’t Forgive (The Atlantic) Scott Adams characterizes The Atlantic as the least reliable publication he knows about.

FBI Says MAGA Sheriff Sold Deputy Badge to Iraqi Fixer (Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.

The House GOP Is a Failed State (Politico)

The rudderless GOP careens toward 2024 (Politico)

House Is Paralyzed, With No Speaker After McCarthy Ouster (N.Y. Times) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Giuliani’s Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention (N.Y. Times) Not to mention that of the witch-hunt media.

Playbook: The House GOP’s fight may have just begun (Politico)

Senate Republicans watch McCarthy ouster with alarm, disbelief (The Hill) Republicans aren’t taking our shit any more! How did that happen?

UPDATE: A case study in unethical journalism (Popular Information) Odd as it may seem, they’re not talking about themselves.

Swiss Writer Sentenced To 60 Days In Jail For Calling Journalist A “Fat Lesbian”

‘He’s about clicks’: Florida Republicans furious at Gaetz (Politico)

Kevin McCarthy is GOP incompetence made flesh (Public Notice) Another prog mushroom of hate

The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”

Libs of TikTok Says Account Was CANCELED by Yet Another Platform

Rep. Hoyer Loses Capitol Hideaway Office

Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself (Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Pelosi Booted From Plush Office After McCarthy Accuses Her of Betrayal

McCarthy ouster exposes the Republican Party’s destructive tendencies (Washington Poop)

Gaetz knocks Speaker pro tem for sending lawmakers home to ‘cry for a week’ (The Hill)

Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash (N.Y. Times)

Bob Menendez’s Wife Needed That Mercedes Because She Killed Someone With Her Old Car, Prosecutors Say

Leader of 5th Largest School District in the Nation Signs Pledge From Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty

RNC Threatens To Ban Ramaswamy, Christie From Next GOP Debate For ‘Unsanctioned Dialogue’

Republicans are sick of Matt Gaetz, and they’re not quiet about it (Washington Poop) I don’t look to the WaPoo for accurate information about Republicans.

There Are Tapes: GOP Rep. Has Recording of Kevin McCarthy ‘Belittling’ Him (Daily Beast)

Moderate Republican says he’d vote to remove 8 colleagues from GOP conference who supported McCarthy ouster (The Hill) No wonder the Deep State keeps winning.

Absurd, attention-seeking Matt Gaetz is the GOP’s John Fetterman (N.Y. Post) And Rich Lowry punches right.

Two right-wing judges seem to be trying to rig a US House race (Vox)

Gerrymandering: Will the Court Permit Discrimination for Partisan Gain? (The Nation)

GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don’t like them (Salon) I doubt that Taylor Swift’s preferences are truly representative.

Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes Just Can’t Stay Away From Twitter/X (Daily Beast) Any more than the Daily Beast can stay away from the Gossip Girls table.

Georgia Trump indictment: First defendant who took plea deal wants ‘nightmare’ over (Fox News)

Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn (The Hill)

As Volunteers Blast City’s Gardaworld Contract, City Leaders Blast Lack Of State Support For Migrants (Block Club Chicago)

The anti-abortion pill judge is back — with an alarming new target (MSNBC)

The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe (The New Yorker)

WATCH: ‘Welcoming’ NY Governor Hits Republicans From Right, Calls To Quadruple Border Patrol

Putin’s Pals Brag: Elon Musk ‘Really Is Our Agent!’ (Daily Beast)

Montana GOP Rep. Prayed for Smaller Republican Majority After 2022 Midterms (The Messenger)

My Fellow Republicans: It’s Time to Grow Up (N.Y. Times) The Times must have a closetful of these RINOs ready to trot out when convenient.

NY Times SCOTUS Scare Tactics: ‘How Far to the Right Will the Supreme Court Go?’

No Labels makes its choice (Popular Information)

‘Fact Checkers’ Discredit Themselves In Service to Transgender ‘Stigma’ Reduction

Mexico Blames US’s Cuba Policy for 10,000 Migrants a Day to Border

The Fight Against France’s Homeschooling Ban Goes to the UN

How Red-State Politics Are Shaving Years Off American Lives (Washington Poop)

Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump (CNN)

John Kelly confirms Trump’s ‘suckers’ remark about war dead (The Hill)

Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant (The Guardian)

Trump fundraises off fraud trial: ‘Nothing can break me’ (The Hill)

Real Estate Experts in Florida Say Valuation of Mar-a-Lago Cited by Judge in Civil Case Is Based on a Misunderstanding of Basic Real Estate Practice (N.Y. Sun) My, what a surprise.

Sidney Powell Paid For Georgia Election Machine Examination Upon ‘Threat’, Her Lawyer Says

John Bolton: It’s ‘entirely possible’ Trump wants his supporters to kill Mark Milley (Raw Story)

Trump ramps up violent rhetoric (NBC News)

How Trump Turned an Oval Office Fantasy Into G.O.P. Doctrine (N.Y. Times)

‘I Almost Crossed The Picket Line,’ Late Night Hosts Celebrate Trump Indictments

Beer-Can Bearing Trump’s Mug-Shot Hits Major Milestone: CEO

Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine (N.Y. Times) Paul Krugman illustrates that MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump and the New York show trial

Prosecutors Probe Trump’s Efforts to Steal Arizona’s Election — Years After He Lost

Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) “Nice life you got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it…”

AG Garland: I’d Resign If Biden Asked for Action on Trump  Of course Biden doesn’t need to ask,  Garland will do it on his own initiative.

Federal Prosecutors Push For Gag Order Against Trump After His Recent Remarks Freedom of speech is not a Democrat value.

As His Fraud Trial Begins, Trump Looks to Capitalize on It (N.Y. Times)

Bankman-Fried Explored Paying Trump $5B Not to Run

Supreme Court Rejects Long Shot’s Bid to Disqualify Trump in ’24

Trump: ‘The Crime Is Against Me,’ ‘No Crime,’ ‘No Victim Here’ Except Me  Quite agree.

House GOP Members Look to Expel Gaetz as He Schemes to Oust McCarthy: Report (Daily Beast)

Rep. Matt Gaetz threatens to trigger vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker (NBC News)

Pelosi weighs in on Gaetz’s plan to oust McCarthy (CNN)

EXPLAINER | How hardline US House Republicans could strip Kevin McCarthy of speakership (News 24)

Dems Marshal Strategy on Potential McCarthy Ouster (NewsMax)

PBS NewsHour Runs Down GOP Candidates on ‘Slavery’ Curriculum, Transgender Kids

‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening (The Guardian) You gotta love all this ‘rightwing code’ that proglodyte ‘journalists’ seem to have no trouble reading.

Kevin McCarthy Shows How CBS Host Margaret Brennan Acts Like a Hostile Democrat Debater

Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans (N.Y. Times)

North Carolina Republicans create “secret police force” (Popular Information) Yet another proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Musk’s first year as Twitter’s Dear Leader is nigh

Musk Under Fire After Posting Mocking Zelenskyy Meme  Free speech is not a proglodyte value.

Anti-Trump Republicans Won’t Save Democracy. Can Anybody? (New York Magazine) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Online Censorship: Canada Continues Crackdown

The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate

Read it.

Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was a slogan of genius. While his supporters (and most Americans) instantly knew what it meant, Democrats hated it. They didn’t know whether to respond, “America is still great,” or “America was never great,” which is what most of them believe. It was a painful dilemma.

But times have changed. Now Democrats embrace Trump’s slogan, or at least its acronym. They constantly refer derisively to “MAGA Republicans.” A Google search for “MAGA Republicans” returns over 58 million hits.

MAGA is the New Nigger.

WashPost Puffs Trump’s J-6 Judge: Reasonable Yet Tough, ‘Coolheaded Natural Talent’

Trump goes to trial in New York before a judge who just ruled he’s a fraud (Politico)

The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity (The Garden of Forking Paths) Another mushroom of hate.

Christian Nationalism May Not Be Serious, but It’s Dangerous (N.Y. Times) David French has long since given up any pretense of being a conservative; it appears he’s giving up any pretense of being a Christian as well.

Elitist Deutsch: Trump Cares What My Kind Of People Think — Not Tupelo Bumpkins

Trump Receives Cheers From CA Crowd After Arguing In Favor Of Shooting Looters  I like him already.

Nikki Haley Says Trump’s Campaign Sent Her A Birdcage (Huffington Post) Naw, I don’t believe that. “But it had to be the Trump campaign, who else would do that?” The Trump campaign would have done something a lot more clever.

Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP (Politico)

Physical anthropologists, beware – the woke brigade has come for you

Anthropology Session On Importance Of Biological Sex Canceled To Appease LGBT Advocates

The Trans Power Wins Again

Police Chief Who Led Kansas Newspaper Raid Suspended

Elon Musk crosses the border to Nazi (The Handbasket) Every time one turns around, there is a new proglodyte mushroom sprouting from the manure pile of modern progressivism.

Jeffries: House stopgap bill ‘total defeat for the extreme MAGA Republicans’ (The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger. (Ask him whether there are any ‘MAGA Republicans’ who are not ‘extreme’. Go ahead. I dare you.)

These Republican senators voted against the government funding bill (The Hill)

Uncle Fester speaks: Fetterman: ‘I’m done normalizing this dysfunction’  Like being called ugly by a frog….

It’s time to end McCarthy’s reign of error (Washington Poop) I guess Dana Milbank has been turned to the Matt Gaetz side of the farce….

How the right’s elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could now backfire (Washington Poop) Next up is undoubtedly the proclamation of RFK jr as a white supremacist.

Rep. Lawler: Gaetz’s McCarthy Plans ‘Delusional Thinking’  (NewsMax) The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

AOC: Would Vote to Oust ‘Very Weak’ McCarthy

Sen. Graham: ‘Disaster’ if GOP Joins With Dems to Oust McCarthy  It would certainly be a disaster for the Linday Grahams of the party.

House GOP members seek to expel Gaetz amid renewed threat to vacate House Speaker McCarthy (Fox News)

Trump’s N.Y. business empire is ‘greatly at risk’ from judge’s fraud ruling (NPR)

Trump appeal to delay New York fraud trial denied (CBS News)

Court ruling puts Trump’s New York empire at stake (Washington Poop)

Mar-a-Lago judge’s developer-hating past is a big win for Donald Trump (N.Y. Post)

The Trump fraud case highlights the use of a broad law in novel ways to target Trump and only Trump

Trump Champions Industry-Boosting Policies to Cheering Auto Workers: What We Saw at His Detroit Rally

IRS contractor charged with stealing Donald Trump’s tax returns, which were leaked to press

Lawsuit to Disqualify Trump Under 14th Amendment Filed in Mich.

The Trump administration touted him as a victim of #MeToo. Now he’s accused of dismembering a girlfriend (S.F. Chronicle)

On Florida’s Gulf Coast, a loose coalition of activists, officials and Trumpworld celebrities is building the world they want to live in (Washington Poop)

Trump’s New York Fraud Trial Will Start Monday, Court Says—After Judge Rules He Inflated His Assets (Forbes)

Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Effort to Delay Trial in Fraud Case (N.Y. Times)

5 takeaways ahead of Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial (ABC News)

The New York buildings that Donald Trump could lose (BBC)

Trump suing ex-MI6 officer who alleged he was ‘compromised’ by Russian security service (The Guardian)

Trump and his sons will plead the Fifth in civil fraud trial: Watergate prosecutor (Raw Narrative Story) They’re sure, because that’s what they would do, because they would be guilty. But the Trumps will surprise them.

Fani Swatted After CNN Legal Expert Calls Trump Charges ‘Unnecessary’

Republican Group Running Anti-Trump Ads Finds Little Is Working (N.Y. Times) Nobody buys those RINO lies.

Donald Trump’s thrill ride is nearly over — but the media refuses to let go (Salon)

How Trump’s fraudulent business practices finally came back to bite him (Public Notice)

EEOC sues Tesla, alleges racist harassment of Black workers, retaliation against those who spoke out (NBC News)

Kari Lake and Pro-DeSantis ‘Reporter’ Get Into Screaming Match at GOP Debate (Daily Beast)

Hard-liners plot to replace McCarthy with a deputy as shutdown looms (Washington Poop)

Paxton, Yelp sue each other over crisis pregnancy center descriptions (The Hill)

‘GOP hates Gen Z’: Teens arrested after storming McCarthy’s office to protest shutdown (USA Today) I could be persuaded to ‘hate Gen Z’, especially if they act like thugs.

Lawsuit of Physician’s Assistant Fired for Refusing Transgender Directives Gets Judge’s Go-Ahead

6 takeaways from the second GOP debate (NPR)

Takeaways from the second Republican presidential debate (CNN)

Who won the 2nd GOP debate? Donald Trump was a no-show but still came out on top (USA Today)

5 takeaways from the Republican debate: Haley scoffs at Ramaswamy, DeSantis goes after Trump, more (ABC News)

Clarence Thomas and the Mystery of the Missing Book Royalties (Daily Beast)

Clarence Thomas Should Not Get Away With It (N.Y. Times) Get away with what? Not being a Good Democrat Negro?

Democrats call on Thomas to recuse himself from Chevron case over Koch network ties (The Hill)

The straw that breaks the camel’s back? SCOTUS scandal widens with new Thomas report (MSNBC)

Mark Levin’s New Book Hits NYT Bestseller List, Will They Review It?

BEASTMODE: Nikki Haley to Vivek: ‘Every Time I Hear You, I Feel A Little Bit Dumber’ (Washington Free Beacon) Appropriate response: “Every time I hear yoy\u, you look a little bit dumber too.”

Maddow Praises Univision’s Anti-American, Pro-Trans Questions at GOP Debate

My expectations for the debate were low, but holy crap (Public Notice) Aaron Rupar is the poster child for dishonest ‘journalism’, hence the term.

Morning Joe Endorses Nikki Haley as the Only ‘Adult in the Room’ at Second GOP Debate  I guess that makes her the RINO candidate.

Newsom: I ‘Baited’ DeSantis Into Debate

The Republicans Driving Congress Toward a Shutdown (N.Y. Times)

New data on ultra-rich tax cheats wrecks the ‘working-class GOP’ ruse (Washington Poop) Greg Sargent takes a break from bashing Trump to join the witch-hunt.

Trump Family Insists Mar-A-Lago Worth Over $1 Billion After Judge Calls Value Wildly Inflated. Here’s What It Might Really Be Worth. (Forbes)

Losing: Trump loses fraud case as lawyers ask if his sons must move out (MSNBC)

Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election subversion case (Associated Press)

Gen. Milley says he has “appropriate” safety measures after Trump social media threat (CBS News)

‘Let me be blunt’: UAW VP for GM has strong words about Trump’s visit to Michigan (Detroit Free Press)

Mark Milley Taking ‘Safety Precautions’ After Trump Suggested He Deserves Execution (Huffington Post) The HuffPo clutches their pearls.

Report: FBI Blocks FOIA into Possible Nationwide Election Fraud (NewsMax)

Justice Dept. Accuses Trump Lawyers of Dragging Their Feet in Documents Case (N.Y. Times)

Get Lost: ABC, CBS Apoplectic Over GOP Debate Not Focusing on Trump Indictments

Trump’s Promise of Lawlessness (N.Y. Times)

Hatchet Job: Texas Tribune’s Framing of Liberals vs. Cruz Went Exactly the Way You’d Think

What Is J.D. Vance’s Angle? (N.Y. Times)  More to the point: What is Michelle Cottle’s angle?

Why Are Gun Companies Losing Payroll Services? Cruz Investigation Finds Underlying Culprit

‘Ew,’ CNN Panel Mocks DeSantis For Scheduled Debate With Newsom

Cancel Culture: Companies Pull Ads from Rumble Over Refusal to Censor Russell Brand

With Rupert Murdoch leaving Fox News, an even more deranged MAGA media is making its move (Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.

The Coming Attack on an Essential Element of Women’s Freedom (The Atlantic)

NY Times ‘News Analysis’ RIPS ‘Hard Right’ GOP ‘Wrecking-Ball Caucus’ of ‘Mass Dysfunction’

Jewish leaders rip X, accuse Musk of antisemitism (The Hill)

House Democratic Leader Targets Supreme Court Justices: ‘Right-Wing Extremists’

Cassidy Hutchinson’s new book reveals a Trump White House even more chaotic than previously known (CNN)

Cassidy Hutchinson says it’s a ‘make or break moment’ for the Republican Party to stand against Trump (The Hill)

Hutchinson sheds new light on Meadows, burning White House docs

Cassidy Hutchinson Scoffs at Matt Gaetz’s Claim They Dated: ‘I Have Much Higher Standards’ (Video) (Yahoo Entertainment)

Trump Tells Gun Store He’d Like to Buy a Glock, Raising Legal Questions (N.Y. Times)

Trump Admires, but Did Not Buy, ‘Trump 45’ Glock

MSNBC Compares Trump to Hitler Due to His Six Month Plan  Not that they need an excuse.

Cassidy Hutchinson Begs GOP to Stop Donald Trump Before It’s Too Late

Forget fantasies about replacing Biden. Kamala Harris can’t beat Trump. (Washington Poop) Max Boot pretends to be a Republican but he isn’t fooling anybody.

Trump is crushing it in California. His rivals are ‘in denial.’ (Politico) An actual journalist must have snuck into the Politico offices when they weren’t looking.

Cassidy Hutchinson says Trump said ‘hang’ as he watched rioters chant ‘hang Mike Pence’ on Jan. 6 (ABC News)

Donald Trump Calls Reporting the News a Capital Offense (The Nation)

Cassidy Hutchinson tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump is the ‘most grave threat’ to American democracy (CNN)

Joe Scarborough and Crew: Biden, Journalists Are Just Too Civil Toward Trump

WATCH: Pete Buttigieg Shreds Trump’s Reported Insult of Wounded Vet (Daily Beast) Nobody would seriously believe that Trump would ‘insult a wounded vet’. This is just another RUPAR.

Donald Trump’s attacks on top military officer are ‘outrageous,’ Pete Buttigieg says (USA Today)

Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump’s reported remarks about wounded veteran (The Guardian)

Hear what Trump reportedly said about injured veteran after this hug (CNN)

Poll showing Trump up 10 points over Biden for 2024 election criticized (The Guardian)

Trump has a second-term agenda, and it’s more terrifying than ever (L.A. Times)

Trump Trials: The Waiting Game (Washington Poop)

Big GOP donors hoped for an alternative to Trump. Now some are giving up. (Politico)

Activists’ Push to Block Trump From 2024 Ballot Stalls

Donald Trump will be all across America this week, except on the debate stage (CNN)

2 Looming Rulings Could Shape Trump’s Fraud Trial in New York (N.Y. Times)

Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley (The Atlantic)

The View PANICS Trump Leading ABC Poll, Claim Pollsters Were ‘High’

Trafalgar Polls: Trump Leads Iowa by 33 Points, Nationally by 42

California Democrats Could Guarantee Trump 2024 Win  They’re certainly doing their best.

MSNBC Analyst: Trump’s Alleged Jail Worries Show ‘Overwhelming Consciousness of Guilt’

PANIC: ABC Hyperventilates Over Poll Showing Trump Beating Biden BIG  Setting the stage for easing Creepy Joe out of the top spot.

As Trump Prosecutions Move Forward, Threats and Concerns Increase (N.Y. Times) “Mommeee! Donald hit me back!”

AGAIN? NBC’s Meet the Press Also Panics Over Trump’s Polling Bump

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression (Vox) “America’s Trumpiest court”?

Report: Billionaire That Gifted Justice Alito Luxury Trip Holds At Least $90M in Financial Companies Overseen by CFPB (Accountable.us) SCRAAAAPE that barrell….

Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Fears About Economic Fallout (Newsweek)

How an Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Benefit Alito Patron (The New Republic) “Alito patron”?

North Carolina Republicans Just Passed a Massive Power Grab to Seize Control of Elections (Mother Jones)

After Rupert Retires, NPR’s Folkenflik Rants on ‘Corrosive…Right-Wing’ Fox News on PBS

Dana Perino of Fox News Is About to Face Her Biggest Test as a Journalist (N.Y. Times) Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

You’ve Persuaded Us Already (The Reframe) Little proglodyte propaganda sites keep popping up like weeds.

GOP Rep Who Pushes ‘Traditional Values’ Is Accused of Affair With Lobbyist (Daily Beast) Of course he is. And the Beasties are there to push the Narrative.

Jack Smith adds war crimes prosecutor — his deputy from the Hague — to special counsel team (Politico)

Alternate Trump Electors Push Back Against State Racketeering Charges In Federal Court

Judge asked to decide if Trump property valuations were fraud or “genius” (CBS News)

Cassidy Hutchinson Reappears. She Has More Trump Stories to Tell. (N.Y. Times)

WashPost EXPOSED for Sneaky Campaign to Cancel Dave Portnoy’s Pizza Festival

Californians To Pay 18% Tax On Firearms, Ammo After Anti-Gun Lawmakers Strike

The Wrecking-Ball Caucus: How the Far Right Brought Washington to Its Knees (N.Y. Times)

The YouTube Unpersoning of Russell Brand

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Pay-to-Play Scandal Finally Connects All the Dots (Slate) The witch-hunt continues.

Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks (Washington Poop)

Netanyahu, Once Again, Educates CNN About Judicial Reforms

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Flirts With the Libertarian Party (N.Y. Times) The swine!

Gov. Newsom Attacks Federal Judge As Child-Killing, Extremist, Right-Wing Zealot Owned By The NRA  Don’t hold it in, Gav, tell us how you really feel.

Clarence Thomas’ Koch Party Is Latest Shocking Ethics Breach (Daily Beast) I’m shocked, shocked I tell you….

Destroying Russell Brand

‘No longer’ a foreign threat: New bipartisan group calls out MAGA movement as ‘fascist’ (MSNBC)

MSNBC Worries Trump Will Win Over Votes of Striking Autoworkers

Trump lights his legal defenses on fire on Meet the Press (Public Notice)

Trump Tries to Strike Down New York AG Case Before It Starts (Daily Beast) The nerve of that guy!

Why Did Trump Lose His ‘Billion Dollar Lawyer’? (Rolling Stone)

Trump notches another delegate selection rule win in Massachusetts

Trump vows expanded travel ban if reelected (The Hill)

Why Is Donald Trump Afraid to Debate? (Wall Street Journal) Even the WSJ can be stupid at times.

Trump Vows Massive Deportation Plan If Elected (NewsMax) Good.

THE PATRIOT: How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump (The Atlantic)

What Trump’s assistant told investigators about classified records — and why it’s so damning (L.A. Times)

Scarborough: Forget Biden Dementia Concerns, Trump Clearly Has ‘Dementia’!

Trump’s latest legal gambit could cause ‘cascade’ of trial delays, New York warns (Politico) What a pity.

Ray Epps Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 Charge

National Guard Refused Before Jan. 6 Because ‘Pelosi Will Never Go For It’: Former Capitol Police Chief

FBI Had So Many Paid Informants In J6 Riot They Lost Track And Had To Perform Audit: Ex-Official

A Nation Of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans To Report On Each Other

Republicans can’t pass bills for the same reason they support insurrection (Public Notice)

Book banners target public libraries (Populat Information)

Republicans resigned to being the villains in the inevitable government shutdown (Politico)

Ruhle Gets Angry When Tuberville Labels DOD Abortion Policy As Illegal

Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate, report finds (Texas Tribune)

WashPost ‘Gender Columnist’ Loses Her Mind Over DeSantis Term ‘Abortion Tourism’

Vivek Ramaswamy and the Woke Culture War on Hindus

‘Stabbed In The Back,’ PBS Teams Up With Al Gore To Trash British PM on Climate

Right-Wing Rebels Block Defense Bill Again, Rebuking McCarthy on Spending (N.Y. Times)

Notorious racist Donald Trump indulging in a little white supremacy.

The Only Opponent Who’d Make Adam Kinzinger Vote for Trump (The New Republic)

CNN’s Oliver Darcy LASHES OUT at NBC’s Welker for Trump Interview

Trump Is Said to Have Told Aide Not to Acknowledge She Knew of Documents (N.Y. Times)

Rupert Murdoch often wishes Donald Trump dead, Michael Wolff book says (The Guardian)

Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison (Rolling Stone) The notion that writers for Rolling Stone have any clue regarding what Trump frets about, privately or not, is ludicrous.

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb compares Trump to ‘mob boss’ (The Hill)

The Republican Party infighting is driving America toward a government shutdown (CNN) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Shutdowns Don’t Work, But Republicans Seem Determined to Force One Anyway (Bloomberg)

Right-Wing House Republicans Derail Pentagon G.O.P. Bill, Rebuking McCarthy (N.Y. Times)

An out-of-control GOP is the party of nonstop national crisis (The Hill)

Twitter regrets and glass houses: 8 things we learned from the Musk bio (Washington Poop)

The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather (The New Yorker)

Elon Musk worried his father was ‘uncomfortably attentive’ to his stepdaughter when she was 15, biographer says. His father later had 2 kids with her. (Business Insider)

On GPS: How Elon became Elon (CNN)

Freedom Caucus Holds Shutdown Talks in a Tax Cheat’s Home. The Neighbors Are Pissed. (Daily Beast)

A Batman researcher said ‘gay’ in a talk to schoolkids. When asked to censor himself, he quit (Associated Press)

YouTube Preemptively Punishes Russell Brand Amid Allegations

McCarthy Capitulates Again as House GOP Implodes Spectacularly Over Spending Bill (Daily Beast) I suspect that the Daily Beast doesn’t actually know the meaning of the word ‘implode’.

Republican infighting paralyzes the House as some call a shutdown inevitable (NBC News)

Sen. John Fetterman Mocks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory That He Has A Body Double (Huffington Post)

Murdoch Called Hannity ‘Retarded’ and DeSantis ‘Kicked’ Tucker’s Dog, Wild New Book Claims (Daily Beast)

Right-Wing Group That Compares Biden Conservation Plan to Genocide Is Getting Taxpayer Money (Daily Beast)

SBF’s Parents Steeped In Democrat Dark Money And ‘Illegal’ Election Tactics

New Initiative Exposes ‘Bias’ Reporting in Public Schools (NewsMax)

Democratic groups target House Republicans in new shutdown ads (NBC News)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Rupert Murdoch didn’t want to dump his ratings leader and favorite Fox host. But was Tucker Carlson giving him a choice? (New York Magazine)

MSNBC Claims GOP Wants To End Democracy, Empowering China And Russia

How crisis pregnancy centers get millions in tax dollars to perpetuate lies (Public Notice)

Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To ‘Crack Down On Free Speech As A Weapon Of War’

Watch: Charlie Kirk Gets Mobbed by Angry Activists During Visit to Northern Arizona University (RedState) But of course we all know that only Republicans indulge in political violence.

If the Shoe Fits: Joy Behar Whines The View Cast Are Called ‘Libtards’

Jonathan Turley on Jack Smith’s attempt to impose a gag order on Trump

Trump to Woo Striking Union Members in Detroit, Skipping 2nd G.O.P. Debate (N.Y. Times)

Trump Promises to Pardon Pro-Life Advocates Jailed by Biden

California Gov. Newsom Boosts AI “Misinformation” Fears, Complains Of “Micro-Cults” Around Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan

The Atlantic Wants to Cancel Richard Hanania’s “The Origins of Woke”

Fact-checking Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview (CNN) Headline you’ll never see: “Fact-Checking Biden’s Interview”. (Bias? What bias?)

‘He just said it on air’: Weissmann reacts to Trump’s TV confession (MSNBC) Look for the rupar.

Kristen Welker’s ‘Meet the Press’ Debut Derailed by Trump Derangement (Daily Beast)

‘A colossal mistake to showcase this sociopath’: NBC facing backlash after ‘shameful’ Trump interview airs (Raw Story)

Rhetoric expert explains why there’s no way to fact-check Trump’s ‘layers of lies’ (Raw Story)

Trump Failed the Covid Test (Power Line)

Trump Argues Again for D.C. Judge’s Recusal

Gagging Donald: Turley Slams Smith’s “Narrowly Tailored Motion” To Silence Trump

How not to interview Trump (Public Notice)

Trump shares post bashing ‘liberal Jews who voted to destroy America’ (The Hill) Just like saying anything negative about a Negro is racist, saying anything negative about a Jew is anti-semitic. Truth is irrelevant.

Trump Throws Anti-Abortion Activists Under the Bus

California Dems consider unique approach to getting Trump off ballot (Politico) I guess they’re afraid he’ll win.

Navarro Disses Welker for Trump Chat: ‘Interviewing an Insane Person!’

We Have Two Medias in This Country, and They’re Going to Elect Donald Trump (The New Republic)

Scoop: How GOP pressured Texas senators over Paxton’s impeachment trial (Axios) Democrats would never do that, of course. (Because Democrats never forget what side they’re on.)

Ken Paxton emerges victorious from yet another career scandal (Texas Tribune)

Elon Musk likes to think he saved us from Armageddon. He’s just brought it closer (The Guardian)

What Does “Far-Right” Even Mean Anymore?

Report: US Reaches 501 Mass Shootings in 2023 “This broader definition may contribute to higher numbers compared to sources using more restrictive criteria.” Oh, ya think?

PBS Hypes Smear on ‘Popular Authoritarian Movement Within the Republican Party’

Sleazeball Rick Wilson Rips Mike Pence As ‘One Notch Short of Stoning Gays’

Could McCarthy really lose his job? (Washington Poop)

Supreme Court May Hear Jan. 6 Cases  I should hope so.

Gross Will Spend $20 Million to Unseat Sen. Rick Scott

PolitiFact Freaks Out at Claims of Candace Owens Joining ‘The View’

Colorado peak linked to 1864 atrocity has been renamed Mount Blue Sky

George Soros Deploys ‘TikTok’ Army Against Republicans

Special counsel seeks ‘narrowly tailored’ gag order against Trump, citing ‘disparaging and inflammatory attacks’ (ABC News)

Trump’s become a runaway train in the GOP primary. Here’s why. (Politico) Gitcher Narrative, right here.

Inside Trump’s Gambit to Get Rid of a Judge by Suing Him (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Trump’s indictments – and mug shot – are deepening his supporters’ anger and revving up their support (CNN)

Stephen King’s ‘Holly’ Swamped by Trump Derangement Syndrome (NewsBusters)

Trump Decries ‘Double Standard’ In Documents Case, Pointing To Treatment Of Hilary Clinton

NBC’s Welker Attempts to Fact Check Trump Live, Fails Miserably (NewsBusters)

Fact checking Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview (NBC News) For every thing (spin, spin, spin) there is a Narrative (spin, spin, spin) and a lie for every purpose under heaven….

C’est Ma’am! Gynaecologist Accused of Transphobia for Not Examining Male Patient

Acquitted AG Paxton got off and Texas politics is Dunn for (Houston Chronicle)

The striking hypocrisy of Republicans’ Hunter Biden righteousness (MSNBC)

Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times (Politico)

FLASHBACK: The Nasty Media Campaign to Destroy Brett Kavanaugh (NewsBusters)

PBS Warns GOP ‘Cheapening’ Impeachment Without a ‘Holy Cow’ Moment (NewsBusters)

The hard right is getting closer to power all over Europe (The Economist) And the hard left is really upset about it.

Armed man arrested at RFK Jr. campaign event in Los Angeles (Politico) History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.

Is The Biden White House Instructing The Media’s Anti-RFK Jr. Coverage? (NewsBusters)

PBS Rains on Isaacson’s Elon Musk Bio: He’s a Racist, Sexist, ‘Potentially Dangerous Man’

Canadian School Purges Books Published Before 2008 In Bid For ‘Inclusivity’

House GOP in midst of ‘civil war’ amid shutdown threat, warns Dem leader (The Hill) What possible reason would anyone have for wanting to know what a Democrat has to say about what’s going on in the Republican Party?

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When the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign broke out in Oxford, Nigel Biggar rose to the occasion and engaged the ‘decolonising’ agitators in a public debate. He now admits to having been a little more naïve back in 2015 than he is today. For one thing, he seemed to think that this was a good faith discussion about history. Yet the leader of the Rhodes Must Fall side made it clear within the first minute of his speech that the Cecil Rhodes statue outside Oriel College, Oxford, is not a stand-alone offence, but just one “emblem” among many of an inexpungeable guilt, a totemic symbol of a civilisation that was built on white supremacy. Europe, he added, is still plagued by the legacy of this original sin, to the ‘systemic’ disadvantage of non-Europeans who for some reason continue to cross the Mediterranean in vast numbers to reach this irredeemably racist hellhole.

This must have caught Biggar off-guard, for he showed up to the debate armed with more old-fashioned weapons—things like facts, figures, even quotes from Rhodes himself, none of which his opponents bothered to rebut. “Thus did I stumble, blindly, into the Imperial History Wars,” he recalls in his splendid book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Biggar won the debate by Socratic standards, but not by the sophistical ones operative on the other side and, regrettably it seems, in the packed Oxford Union audience as well. This begs the question: what really motivated this enthusiastic crowd, and what motivates others like them, if not a noble hunger for the vicarious experience and practical wisdom that knowledge of history confers?