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?

Read it.

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?

The American Mind.

The entire premise of the “Documents Case” against President Donald Trump is illegitimate and a direct assault on the Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine. In pursuing 41 felony counts against the president for possessing classified information, prosecutor Jack Smith is engaged in a work of legal abuse without parallel in American history.

A thorough review of the facts, the law, and the Constitution itself indicates that Donald Trump, as President of the United States, had the right to know every secret contained in the executive branch during his time in office. Moreover, as president, Donald Trump had every right to declassify and make public whatever documents or state secrets he chose while in office. In addition, the correct understanding of the separation of powers doctrine makes clear that Congress does not have the right to proscribe how the president is to conduct purely executive branch business either during or after his term. From these premises we can assert that the Presidential Records Act of 1978 is unconstitutional and that any documents discovered in President Trump’s possession after his presidency are presumptively legal for him to possess and dispose of as he sees fit.

The Foundry.

Chalk it up as another victory for the mob.

Earlier this month, Princeton University professor Robert P. George was slated to give a talk at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, including “a discussion of the importance of free and open discourse during college of the great questions of human life.” That’s according to an email from the organizing professor obtained by the student newspaper, The Elm.

But apparently “a discussion of the importance of free and open discourse” was too much for Washington College students to stomach.

“Protesters at Washington College … were successful in silencing the speaker, Robert P. George,” reported The Star Democrat, a local Maryland newspaper.

Gov. Youngkin directs VMI to accept controversial Confederate statue (Washington Poop)

A Jan. 6 rioter was convicted and sentenced in secret. No one will say why (Associated Press)

Lancaster County Jan. 6 rioter convicted and sentenced in secret. No one will say why (ABC27)

Three remaining Whitmer “kidnapping” defendants are acquitted

Three Defendants Acquitted in Whitmer Kidnap Plot Trial

There’s Videotape! Annals of Feral Lauren Boebert … (Talking Points Memo)

Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis turns on ‘malignant narcissist’ ex-president (The Guardian) Ka-ching!

What the Ken Paxton saga shows about MAGA and Trump (Politico) When was the last time a Democrat legislature impeached a Democrat official? Take your time; we’ll wait.

Special counsel warned Trump could ‘precipitate violence’ if told of Twitter search warrant (The Hill) Democracy dies in Democrat darkness.

New Hampshire Secretary Of State Speaks Out On 14th Amendment Challenge To Trump

Trump Will Be ‘Imprisoned With Ivanka’ Says Maxine Waters As Trials Delayed  Congresswoman Bitter Beer Face has spoken.

New York attorney general trial against Trump is in limbo (CNN)

Trump’s New York Fraud Trial in Limbo After His Legal Gambit Works (Daily Beast)

Judge temporarily halts NY fraud trial against Trump, pending appeal (Reuters)

Weeks away from Trump’s $250M financial fraud trial in NYC, details are fuzzy on who will lead defense (N.Y. Daily News)

“Meet the Press” booking Trump for first show with new host is how FASCISM is normalized (The Dean’s Report)

Trump’s Last-Minute Legal Challenge Could Disrupt N.Y. Fraud Trial

Trump, His Kids, and His Bankers: New York AG Lays Out Witnesses in Case (Daily Beast)

Judge Halts New York AG Letitia James’s Fraud Trial Against Trump

Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel

New Bill Combats Tyrannical Democrats From Declaring Nationwide Public Health Emergency To Enforce Gun Control

Librarians say they were fired for rainbow autism symbols, accused of ‘LGBTQ agenda’ (Washington Poop) Scorecard! Getcher scorecard here! You can’t tell the virtue signalers without a scorecard!

With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways (The Guardian) Progressive Projection strikes again.

The state of right-wing extremism nearly 3 years after J6 (Public Notice)

Hawley: AI Will ‘Absolutely’ Censor Conservatives Ahead of Elections

‘ALL TALK’: Chuck Schumer’s Own Talking Points Give the Lie to His Claims on Military Readiness, Tuberville Says

Point and Laugh at the Far-Left Daily Beast for a Silly, Fact-Free Smear of NewsNation

The secret thoughts of moderate Republicans (Politico) Who knew that Politico ‘journalists’ could read minds?

Brussels Prepares Autonomous Wartime Economy in Fear of Trump 2024 Win

Why Is the Left So Desperate to Destroy the New College of Florida?

‘Building Blocks For a Police State’: Conservatives Raise the Alarm About Washington State’s ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Effort

Alvin Bragg keeps winning — and nobody’s talking about it (MSNBC)

Food Prices Up Almost 20 Percent Under Biden (NewsMax)

Milley disputes claim he recommended Trump attack Iran (CNN)

Jailed Proud Boy Leader: Feds Tried To ‘Coerce Me’ Into Implicating Trump

Musk: ADL ‘Instrumental’ in Trump’s Twitter Ban

Judge rejects request to try all Trump Georgia defendants together next month (The Hill)

Newsom taunts DeSantis: ‘He’s belly-flopped’ (Politico)

Newsom assails right-wing attacks on rights, and on California values (San Jose Mercury News)

Gavin Newsom bashes ‘belly-flopped’ Ron DeSantis (Florida Politics)

Maine Church Attacked Over Biblical Views (NewsBusters)

House GOP Questions Biden Admin Probe of Christopher Rufo’s Pronoun Use (Daily Signal)

Ramaswamy Says He Would Fire Most of the Federal Work Force if Elected (N.Y. Times) No, not really. (I wish….)

‘Double Standard’: Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Christian Athletic Club Ousted From California School District (Daily Signal)

‘School Choice for Me but Not for Thee’: New Report Reveals Backroom Deals Between Teachers Unions and Louisiana Schools (Daily Signal)

O’Donnell Shrieks Over FL Abortion Law, DeSantis Schools Her on Fake Travel Warning (NewsBuzters)

Pope Francis Mulls Removing Bishop for Traditionalist Views

FEC Tables Allegation Gaetz Misused Campaign Funds

DeSantis took undisclosed private flights and lodging through wealthy donors (Washington Poop)

In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. (N.Y.Times) But it won’t … just like Hunter Biden could go to jail, but he won’t.

Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows (The Guardian) In the Narrative media, a book removed from a school library for being age-inappropriate is ‘banned’.

Fulton County DA to Reveal 30 Unindicted Co-conspirators

Joy Behar Blames Poor Mental Health for Her Unhinged Attacks on GOP

This Illinois Democrat Can’t Stop Tweeting About How Dumb His Constituents Are

GOP lawyer with ties to three Trump rivals enters 14th Amendment fray (Washington Poop)

Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging G.O.P. Lawmakers to Impeach Biden (N.Y. Times) ‘Privately’?

Trump’s Agenda47: Abolish Department of Education  Jimmy Carter’s legacy under threat.

Hostin/Farah Admit to Evidence Against Biden, Argue Trump Was Worse

Court Blocks Special Counsel’s Access to Rep. Perry’s Records

New Mexico Gun Ban a ‘Political Gesture’ Without Legal Basis

Darcy’s Farce: CNN Backs Team Biden’s Letter Telling Media To Get Tougher On GOP!

Lauren Boebert ditches the MAGA thing in Colorado (Politico) ‘MAGA’ is the New Nigger.

RFK Jr. Telegraphs Threat To Abandon Democrat Party

College Lacrosse Coach Ousted From Position After Speaking Up Against Male Athletes Competing Against Women

So Much for Free Speech: Judge Rules YouTube Can Keep on Censoring

The Right-Wing Conspiracy-Fest Is More Openly Bloodthirsty Than Before (The New Republic)

Randi Weingarten Cites ‘Uptown Klan’ Argument to Demonize Parental Rights Movement

WH, Biden Camp Slam Trump’s Reported Tax Plan  Not even the actual plan, just the reported plan.

MSNBC Columnist: Trump ‘Must Die in Prison’

Trump files motions to dismiss charges in Georgia election case

Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge in DC presiding over federal election subversion case (Associated Press)

Aileen Cannon Is Taking Her Own Sweet Time In The Mar-a-Lago Case (Talking Points Memo)

Putin: Trump Prosecution Shows ‘Rottenness’ of US Politics

Mark Meadows lost big on Friday night. And so did Donald Trump. (Public Notice)

Trump faces another 14th Amendment candidacy challenge, this time in Minnesota (CNN)

Iowa Poll: Trump Leading DeSantis by 35 Points

Trump and his cronies underestimated Fani Willis (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin is back on her bash-Trump beat.

Third party candidates will help Trump win (The Guardian) Robert Reich lays groundwork for the election-year witch-hunts.

Libertarians Sense Golden Opportunity to Make 2024 Breakthrough (Newsweek)

Some National Guard units haven’t followed order to ditch Confederate items: report (Fox)

Gavin Newsom Slammed Over Dianne Feinstein Comments (Daily Beast)

Passport Bros: Feminists Are Outraged At Men Going Overseas To Find Traditional Wives  Saw that coming. Eddie Murphy did a great comedy routine about this a number of years ago.

The GOP’s impeachment push is an attack on democracy (Public Notice)

Why So Many Conservatives Rightly Hate the GOP Establishment

Communists Burn Flags Outside Jason Aldean Concert, but the Response Shuts Them Down (RedState)

Ex-GOP Lawmaker Recalls Wild Moment Colleagues Made His Head Explode (Huffington Post)

Justice Department drops Mueller-era case against Michael Flynn ex-lobbying partner Bijan Kian (CNN)

7 Arrested for Protesting in McCarthy’s Office

Democrats Complain That Illegal Immigrants Are Destroying Their Sanctuary Cities (Babylon Bee)

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Compares Unborn Babies to Broccoli, Lumps of Coal

Samuel Alito Is Wrong and Arrogant—and Must Be Reined In (The New Republic)

Bush institute exec pushing ‘civility’ pledge leaked Steele dossier to media outlet in 2016 (Fox)

Trump Is Really Old, Too (N.Y. Times) Yeah, but he’s not senile. Frank Bruni employs handwavium to distract from the real issue.

The key to understanding Donald Trump’s enduring appeal is Vince McMahon (Popular Information)

Pretrial-palooza underway for Trump (Washington Poop)

Prosecutors drop foreign-agent case against Trump transition adviser (Politico) Sometimes the witch-hunt works, and sometimes it don’t.

Trump is explaining exactly how wild and extreme his second term would be (CNN) I, for one, am looking forward to it.

Christie: I’ll Hound Trump if He Skips Next Debate (NewsMax) He might even notice. “Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.”

Prospect Fading for Quick Start of Trump Georgia Trial

Trump advisers plot aggressive new tax cuts for second White House term (Washington Poop) He’s got my vote.

Poll: Iowa Caucusgoers Say Trump No. 1 Choice

Trump as martyr (The New Neo)

Trump’s Rosebud: New Documentary Draws Comparison Between Trump, Citizen Kane

Ignore Jack Smith’s Critics (The Atlantic)

Colorado secretary of state calls Trump a ‘liar,’ vows to see ballot lawsuit through (The Hill)

7 state flags still have designs with ties to the Confederacy (Washington Post)

The New York Times Vladimir Putin Op-Ed, 10 Years Later

How “Fact Checking” Obliterates Truth

Pastor Says It Was a Mistake to Let DeSantis Speak at Shooting Vigil (Daily Beast)

Giuliani Files to Get Georgia Charges Against Him Tossed

Triggered: Woke Alabama School Suspends 6-Year-Old Over ‘Finger Guns’ During Cops And Robbers Game

What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement (Politico) The witch-hunts continue.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Pardons Father Who Protested School Board After Daughter’s Sexual Assault (The Messenger)

As GOP investigates prosecutors, experts worry about judicial independence (Washington Poop) Prosecutors are not judges and have nothing to do with ‘judicial independence’.

“See You In Court”: Gun Owners of America Sues Tyrannical New Mexico Governor

‘Trump allies have to be a little worried’: Trump picks up endorsement at South Dakota rally (MSNBC)

Trump Inflated His Assets Up to $3.6 Billion, New York AG Claims (The Messenger) Since when is this illegal?

Trump: DA Willis Wanted to Indict Anybody ‘Breathing’

“Outrageously Wrong” – Turley Trounces Harvard Prof Over 14th Amendment “Nonsense” Comments  Tribe has been senile for years now. But, like Biden, his delusions serve the Narrative and so he is supported.

NBC’s Chuck Todd Frets Trump Trying to ‘Muddy the Waters’ With Hunter Biden ‘Questions’

Jim Jordan Announces Probe Into Jack Smith’s “Abusive Tactics”

Trumpophobes Seek to Keep Him Off ’24 Ballot for Crimes He Never Committed

Seeking Link to Trump, Prosecutors Questioned Proud Boys Leader (N.Y. Times)

Take a load off Fani: Stuck inside of Fulton County

Fani Willis rips into Jim Jordan over probe of Trump election case: ‘You lack a basic understanding of the law’ (N.Y. Post)

Georgia DA eviscerates Jim Jordan, suggests he buy book on RICO law (MSNBC)

After grand jurors were doxed, Georgia prosecutors want Trump trial jurors shielded (NPR)

Ex-Georgia GOP chair seeks to punish Fulton prosecutor over legal brochure (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

They Did This to Themselves (The Bulwark) Hating Trump as a way of life.

Fani Willis Scolds Jim Jordan For ‘Illegal Intrusion’ Into Her Trump Hunt

The surprisingly strong constitutional case for Trump’s disqualification (Public Notice) No, there is no such case.

Trump Hates Hillary Clinton. He Might Hate This Judge More. (Daily Beast) With good cause.

Kimmel Mourns Not Being on Air to Mock Trump’s Weight, Indictments

The Contagious Corruption of Ken Paxton (N.Y. Times) The sellout David French lectures the rest of us on corruption.

The Republican Party’s plan to rule the state of Wisconsin forever, explained (Vox) Another case of Proglodyte Projection.

Republicans are trying to find a new term for ‘pro-life’ to stave off more electoral losses (NBC News) Not really.

The Right’s War on Divorce—and Its Costs (Mother Jones) No discussion of the costs of divorce … of course.

The Supreme Court’s Fake Praying Coach Case Just Got Faker (Slate)

MSNBC Guest: Christianity Brought to America to Justify Slavery & Genocide

The GOP Is Losing the Doctor Vote in Pennsylvania. Will the Party Flatline in 2024? (Politico) Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Wisconsin Republicans Try to Subvert Democracy, Again (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Another Christian influencer arrested for child abuse: Why conservatives keep falling for these cons (Salon) A better question is, why do people keep reading Salon?

Grand jury called for indicting Sens. Graham, Perdue, Loeffler in Trump Georgia election case (CNBC)

Proud Boys are GOP’s ‘neo-fascist foot soldiers’ — and have their full support: reporter (Raw Story)

Georgia Grand Jury Recommended Charges Against Current, Former US Senators

Georgia Grand Jury “Went Insane”, Targeted Lindsey Graham And 38 Others Over J6

Harvard is named worst school for free speech — scoring zero out of possible 100 (N.Y. Post)

Harvard finishes last in nonprofit’s ‘free speech’ rankings of 254 colleges: ‘Abysmal’ (Fox)

Harvard University is the worst college for free speech: ‘Abysmal’ rating, report says (Boston Herald)

NEW: 2024 College Free Speech Rankings show alarming 81% success rate of deplatforming attempts at nation’s most censorial schools (FIRE)

She was a childfree woman enjoying her Saturday. Then came the culture warriors. (NBC News)

The Right Would Like All Women to be 1950s Housewives, Please (Rolling Stone) The world would be a better place.

Viral “29 And Single” TikTok Sparks Heated Debate About Single Life Vs. Married Life (Evie Magazine) Women not wanting children is a self-correcting problem.  Natural Selection works whether you want it to or not.

Civil rights groups attacked by Elon Musk are mounting a counteroffensive (NBC News)

ADL head responds to Elon Musk’s lawsuit threats: ‘We will be ferocious in fighting hate’ (MSNBC)

Musk misstep obscures a serious gripe on the ADL’s tilt hard-left (N.Y. Post)

Ramaswamy Campaign Cuts Off Free Beacon Access After Appearance on Anti-Semitic YouTuber’s Podcast

America’s Authoritarian Exceptionalism (The Bulwark) Jonathan Last succumbs to Progressive Projection.

Tommy Tuberville’s Hissy Fit Shows McConnell Has Lost His Hold on the GOP (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Wagner Condemns GOP Candidates For Ignoring SPLC’s Hate Group Ratings

Joe Kennedy Resigns From Position Over ‘Retaliation’ From School District

Hostin LASHES OUT at School Choice Despite Her Kids’ Private Education

Judge Chutkan is The Boss (Washington Monthly)

CNN Poll: Trump Widens Lead Over DeSantis to 34 Points

New York AG asks judge to sanction Trump for rehashing failed legal arguments (CNBC)

Would Trump pardon the Proud Boys? (Washington Post) Philip Bump lives in his one proglodyte world.

Sidney Powell Alleges Falsehoods In Georgia Trump Indictment

New York AG James Asks Court to Fine Trumps, Lawyers $20K

Trump scores big social media vote victory (Axios)

VP Harris: Trump Can’t Be Spared Accountability for Jan. 6

Top Trump Loyalist Is About to Finish Falling on His Sword for His Master (Daily Beast)

How Trump still taps into America’s cultural animus (Public Notice)

Trump’s big lead: Among nonvoters, many agree with him that elections are rigged (USA Today)

Media Hide the (D) When Covering Those Prosecuting Trump

Lawsuit filed to remove Trump from ballot in CO under 14th Amendment (CREW)

A crisis in U.S. presidential legitimacy is looming

The political bias of Judge Chutkin, who is presiding in the DC trial against Trump

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy (Associated Press)

Ex-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 conspiracy

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison, longest for a January 6 defendant (CNN)

Enrique Tarrio’s sentence was shorter than prosecutors wanted. That’s OK. (MSNBC)

GOP efforts to curtail out-of-state abortions take a radical turn (MSNBC)

New ordinances would ban driving through cities and counties en route to abortion care (KTRK)

Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting (MySA)

Anti-choice Texas traps women within its borders. Some in Missouri would follow suit. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The judge defending Clarence Thomas has his own ethical conundrum (The Hill)

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse files ethics complaint over Justice Samuel Alito interview (MSNBC)

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? (N.Y. Times)

California Dems Could Remove Visitation Rights for ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents

‘Good To Be On’: Ramaswamy Appears on Anti-Semitic YouTuber’s Podcast (Washington Free Beacon)

George Santos Insists He Is Not Working On A Plea Deal (Talking Points Memo) No nit is too small for the Narrative media to pick.

Shellenberger: Government Intel & Security Agencies Behind NGO Demands For More Censorship By X/Twitter

‘THE FIX IS IN!’ MSNBC Panics SCOTUS Will Uphold Alabama’s Maps

The Global War On Thought Crime

The truth about Elon Musk and anti-Semitism (Popular Information) More accurately, the Narrative.

Tarrio, a Miami-made Proud Boy, got what he deserved. But Miami is far from blameless (Miami Herald)

Trump’s Fulton County Case Has Descended Into Chaos Even Before It Starts (Daily Beast)

Biden Uses Labor Day Speech to Attack Trump

Peter Navarro to Face Contempt Trial Over Defiance of Jan. 6 Committee

Inside MTG and Kari Lake’s ‘Death Race’ To Become Trump’s VP (Rolling Stone)

rump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him (Politico) Not really, but they’ve got to say something to keep the pot boiling.

GOP Rivals See Focus on Hunter Biden as Helping Trump

The 14th Amendment Trump Panic (Wall St Journal)

“Dangerous”: Law Professor Sounds Alarm On Attempts To Disqualify Trump

D.C. POLL: 64% of Residents Would Find Trump Guilty Ahead of Trial  Bias? What bias?

‘Menace to the Planet’ The View Blames Trump for Rain at Burning Man

North Carolina Supreme Court justice files lawsuit over state investigation into her comments about diversity (CNN)

Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars (The Guardian)

“No Choice”: Musk Threatens Suit Against ADL; Blames Activists For “Most Of X’s Revenue Loss”

How Democrats are bracing for a ‘MAGA shutdown’ (Politico) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Senate Democrat Asks Chief Justice to Investigate Alito

CNN Finds It ‘Remarkable’ Democratic Appointees Criticize Tuberville

When “Punch a Nazi” Goes Wrong

Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (The Guardian) As opposed to, say, far-left eugenicists.

Wisconsin voters caught in the middle as misinformation takes on education (The Guardian)

Neo-Nazi groups spew hate outside Disney World and near Orlando, officials say (NBC News)

Videos Show Angry Neo-Nazis Cursing and Screaming Slurs During March in Florida (Rolling Stone)

Shocking video shows Neo-Nazis marching outside Disney World chanting ‘We Are Everywhere’ (N.Y. Post) Except that they’re not.

ADL Florida warns of Labor Day mobilization for antisemitic ‘White power’ groups (FloridaPolitics)

The California Megachurch Pushing Public Schools to the Far Right (Daily Beast)

NYT’s Demirjian Lambasts ‘Ultraconservative’ GOP For Pushing Border Security

Vivek Ramaswamy Now A White Supremacist, According To Democrat Party

“Election Interference!” Trump Slams NY Attorney General Over ‘Targeted’ Prosecution

Trump: ‘Rigging the Election’ by Indictments ‘Won’t Hold Up’

Conflicting Dates In Trump Trials Unfair, Must Be Resolved, Experts Say

Orange Man Disqualified? Adam Schiff Talks 14th Amendment  You can tell he’s lying because his mouth is moving.

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ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was surprised by a new Wall Street Journal poll that showed President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump tied at 46% in a potential 2024 rematch. The survey of 1500 registered voters was conducted August 24-30.

On Sunday’s edition of “This Week,” Stephanopoulos said, “It is kind of shocking in a way that despite all of the baggage that Donald Trump carries, he’s tied with Joe Biden right now.

His “shock” is evidence that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very real thing and it is blinding Democrats to Biden’s obvious vulnerabilities. It allows them to ignore the fact that the president of the United States has become the laughingstock of the world. He’s barely able to read a speech off of a teleprompter, often butchering and even slurring his words, particularly when he tries to speak fast.

Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks (Washington Post) Glad to hear it.

Defenders Of Confederate Symbols Distort History To Sow Division

An Important Lesson From Chicago On Confronting The Enemies Of Free Speech

Judge: DeSantis’ Fla. Redistricting Map Unconstitutional

Greene responds to criticism over impeachment comments: ‘The White House is attacking me’ (The Hill)

PBS Pushes Lefty Misinformation GOP Trying to Erase History of Slavery

Neo-Nazis March Through Florida Park (Daily Beast) I’m more worried about Neo-Commies than Neo-Nazis.

Residential School ‘Mass Grave’ was underground rocks, no bodies found

Ron DeSantis Gets the Sarah Palin Treatment

As Clarence Thomas faces record unpopularity, Americans want an ethics code for the Supreme Court (CNN) Pushing the Narrative witch-hunt as hard as they can.

PBS: GOP Has ‘Turned Up Volume on Violence’ Against Trans People  There is no ‘violence against trans people’ that isn’t caused by ‘trans people’ themselves.

Officials Can’t Interfere With Tenn. Pride Festival Under Anti-drag Law: Judge (NewsMax)

Busing Illegal Immigrants To Blue America Is Working

New Migration Data Reveals Urban Exodus Continues Despite Frozen Housing Market

Woman Says Her Daughter Was Sex Trafficked After School Hid Gender Transition

Watch: Chicago Residents Rage As Illegal Migrant Housing Takes Over Their Neighborhoods

FLASHBACK: As CBS Evening News Anchor, Katie Couric Was a Liberal Flop

How the Gender Lobby Hijacked the EU’s Policy Agenda

‘Burning Man = Total Disaster’: 73,000 Attendees “Hunker Down” As Desert Party Transforms Into Muddy Hellhole

Calls Grow For Staten Island To Secede From NYC As Illegal Immigrant Crisis Escalates

10 Items That Will Definitely Get Your Kid Suspended From School (Babylon Bee)

Texas Activists Push to Make ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Illegal (NewsMax)

Canadian churches burned over bodies that weren’t buried in the yard (Hot Air)

Not-So-Secret Billionaire Utopia In California Faces Major Hurdles As ‘Renderings’ Emerge

For All Rudy’s Troubles, There’s Much More Still There (Talking Points Memo)

‘Kit’ Carson Monument Vandalized

Watch: Pastor Forcibly Removed From School Board Meeting For Reading Aloud Porn Book From Kids’ Library

NY Times Smears DeSantis As Racist Again: ‘Outraged Many Black Voters and Leaders’

The Death of #MeToo: ‘To Be Fair, It Was Never Actually About Helping Women’

NY Review of Books Is Shocked, Shocked to Find Silicon Valley’s Wealth Is Based on Smart Old Ideas About Nature / Nurture

ATTRITION: Russian Losses in Ukraine

Capehart: DeSantis Signaled Those Who Believe Black People Are ‘Worthy of Extermination’

CNN Hypes Doctor Leaving Louisiana Over Pronoun, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bills

Kinzinger slams DeSantis for not meeting with Biden in Florida: ‘Absolutely outrageous’  RINOs gotta RINO.

Another Draconian sentence for J6 participants

How the End of Trump Could Come in Iowa and New Hampshire (Daily Beast) Or maybe not.

The sleeper legal fight that could define 2024: Is Trump even eligible to run? (Politic0) *sigh* No matter how much they beat that dead horse, it’s still not going to move.

Fla. Judge Dismisses 14th Amendment Lawsuit Against Trump (NewsMax)

Trump Is Top Choice for Nearly 60% of GOP Voters, WSJ Poll Shows

“Remarkably Dishenst” DA Fani Willis Violates The Law

Georgia Judge Allows Streaming of Trump Hearings, Trial (NewsMax) Of course. What good is a show trial without the show?

“Mugshot Merch” Selling Like Hotcakes On Trump’s Website

Report: Ga. DA Willis Has Evidence Clearing Some Indicted  Not that she’s going to let them off the hook.

How Trump’s loyal pen pals spread his message (Axios)

Georgia Judge Rules Against DA Willis in Trump Trial

DOJ Loses Appeal on Blocking Trump Deposition

How public opinion on the Supreme Court has shifted amid Justice Thomas ethics questions (CNN) According to the Narrative, of course.

Colorado Dem Gov. Defends Student’s Gadsden Flag Patch (NewsMax)

Sen. Johnson Reveals Big Tech-CDC Censorship Collusion Timeline (NewsBusters)

PBS’s Nawaz Cues Dem to Blame DeSantis for Racist Jacksonville Shooting

The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong (Slate)

In the Last Days of Summer, Government Comes for the Ice Cream Trucks

Vivek Ramaswamy’s “cold, cultural civil war” (Public Notice) The witch-hunt expands.

Trump Aide Outed as Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Cops (Daily Beast) Outed! That proves it!

California’s Democratic leaders escalate fights with conservative school boards (NBC News)

A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence (Mother Jones) It’s more likely that Mother Jones has been co-0pted by Russian Intelligence.

WORST Censorship in August: Five Times Big Tech Silenced Free Speech

Justice Thomas’ Former Law Clerks Rally to His Defense (NewsMax)

Rep. Jordan Slaps ‘Digital Brownshirts’ with Scorching Subpoenas (NewsBusters)

Elitist NYT Columnist Thomas Edsall Snobbishly Whines Small Donors Are ‘Big Problem’ (NewsBusters)

WATCH: Vivek Ramaswamy Flip-Flops on One Issue After Another  Well, no, not really. But they have to do something about him.

Trump advised Tudor Dixon to soften her line on abortion during Michigan governor’s race (Politico)

NBC Howls Over Texas Takeover of Failing Houston School District (NewsBusters)

Fmr CIA Agent Hid Twitter Job After ‘Spies Who Lie’ Letter (NewsMax)

Justice Thomas says he used private jet for security reasons after Dobbs leak (Washington Post)  Probably needed it.

“No Willful Ethics Transgression”: Clarence Thomas Releases Independent Legal Audit In New Financial Disclosure

Democrats Push to Subpoena Jared Kushner’s Saudi-Backed Investment Firm (Rolling Stone)

Proud Boy Joe Biggs Sentenced To 17 Years Over Jan. 6 Plot (Huffington Post) Let’s see … nope, still no jail time for BLM or Antifa rioters.

Ingraham Wants Mitch McConnell to Resign Just So She Can Keep Calling Biden ‘Decrepit’ (Daily Beast) The best in American high-school journalism.

Alice Cooper Dropped From Deal After Trans Comments