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

Read it.

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

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

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

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

ABC Censors Dem Dean Phillips Rising to Challenge Biden in Primary

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

Survey: Most Oppose Book Bans, Support Elective Bible Study

The Christian Nationalism of Speaker Mike Johnson (TIMT)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poll: Trump Leads Closest GOP Rivals by 47 Percent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TV News Warns About the New ‘Extremist’ Speaker

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

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

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

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

Public Broadcasting Smears: NewsHour Puffs Author Comparing GOP to Nazis

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

Make Mike Johnson Famous (OffMessage) Burn the witch!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Cleared Of Any Wrongdoing In FBI Headquarters Spat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Republicans Place House Speaker Job On ZipRecruiter (Babylon Bee)

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

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

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

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

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

Missouri Pol’s Plan Would Force Foreign Landowners to Sell

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

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

The Profitable Destruction Of Americans’ Health

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

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

The 8th Amendment is next (Public Notice)

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

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

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

Upstart Dutch Party Calls for Sovereignty, Migration Limits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donald Trump Speaks Out Over Melania Bikini Report (Newsweek)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PBS Celebrates Jordan Failing To Become Speaker

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

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

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

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

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

Hutchinson calls Trump an ‘isolationist’ (The Hill)

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

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

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

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

Turley: Sidney Powell Could Be ‘Dangerous Witness’

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

Judge Fines Trump $5K for Maligning Court Staffer

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

Turley: The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down

America’s Biggest Charities Bankrolled RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Outfit (Rolling Stone)

Teen Journalist Booted From GOP Event, Accused Of Being Democratic Operative (Huffington Post) They’re shocked, shocked that Republicans might do to Democrats what Democrats routinely do to Republicans.

Democratic senators introduce bill establishing Supreme Court term limits (The Hill)

Trump Is About to Be Ripped to Shreds by NYC Bank Fraud Trial Judge (Daily Beast) They hope, they hope, they hope….

It now seems clear why Allen Weisselberg’s testimony ended (MSNBC)

At Donald Trump’s civil trial, appraiser recalls Eric Trump’s ‘lofty’ views on property value (Associated Press)

Trump’s loyal CFO Allen Weisselberg may have lied on witness stand in fraud trial: N.Y. AG lawyers (N.Y. Daily News)

The Fulton County question that should keep Trump up at night (MSNBC) The art of the plea deal as a tool of ruling class oppression.

Dem Billionaire Podcaster Pierces Legacy Media Veil, BLASTS ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (NewsBusters)

Sidney Powell, attorney who aided Trump’s bid to subvert election, pleads guilty (Politico) The Narrative media seem to think that this means she was actually guilty of something, rather than the truth, that she cut the best deal she could with people who were going to put her in jail by any means necessary. As an experienced attorney, she knows that the power is all on the other side. The Narrative media will be masturbating to this for months.

NY AG Calls for Review of Data in Trump Civil Fraud Case

Screaming’ Court Staffer Arrested, Trump Told to Simmer Down in Dramatic NY Trial (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Is Going to Get Someone Killed (N.Y. Times) Wanker Jeffrey Toobin loses his shit.

Why the GOP Can’t Unite (Politico) Combination of Conservatives and Democrats-Lite.

Gaza Hospital Attack: NBC Reporter Skeptical Only Of Israeli Denials, Not Hamas Accusations

Why House Republicans Can’t Function, According to a House Republican (N.Y. Times)

Jim Jordan won’t be the next speaker (Washington Poop)

MAGA Republicans are normalizing violent threats (Public Notice) Although not as much as BLM and Antifa.

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant (Insider)

Russian sources disappeared after Trump declassified ex-spy’s evidence, UK court told (The Guardian)

Trump Lawyer Acknowledged Political Agenda in Election Suit, Emails Show (N.Y. Times)

Maddow: Trump Wants ‘MSNBC on Trial … So that He Can Execute Us’ She says that because if she had the power that’s what she would do to Trump, and of course assumes that he feels the same way about her.

Sperry: Leaker Of Trump Taxes Worked For Biden Beltway Donor That Just Won Big New IRS Contract

FACT CHECK: How Blue Cities and Counties Inflate Red States’ Homicide Rates

Prof. Claims Washington U. Axed Him Over Anti-Hamas Post

North Carolina governor sues Republicans over election rules change (The Hill)

Jim Jordan’s allies tried strong-arming his GOP critics. It backfired. (Politico)

These California Republicans voted for Jim Jordan and against the good of the country. Remember their names (L.A. Times)

The Wrestlers Trying to Stop Jim Jordan From Becoming House Speaker (Slate)

Playbook: Revenge of the squishes (Politico)

The Petty and Bitter Chaos of the House GOP’s Speaker Drama (Daily Beast) Not to mention the petty and bitter chaos at the Daily Beast.

The quest for a speaker may never end (Washington Poop) Certain in the pages of the WaPo.

A resounding ‘no’ for Jim Jordan (The Hill)

Victoria’s Secret Is Bringing Sexy Back

The Threat to Democracy Is Coming From Inside the U.S. House (The Atlantic)

Omar, Tlaib Silent After Evidence Contradicts Their Claims That Israel Killed Hundreds in Gaza Hospital Blast

Government Pressure: Sen. Bennet Exploits Hamas-Israel War to Clamor for Big Tech Censorship

Anything That Makes Adam Kinzinger Happy Is Objectively Bad for America (The Real McCain)

PBS: Family Separations at Border Comparable to Historic U.S. ‘Enslavement and Internment’

Rep. Tlaib Repeats Debunked Claim That Israel Bombed Hospital

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“I don’t know too much about the book or the event, except the fact that many people who are in the gender studies and are well-educated, and queer studies have condemned the contents of the book; I trust their condemnation.”

So said a member of the University of Edinburgh’s academic staff when interviewed by a student journalist at a protest on the university campus last week. He was protesting the launch of Sex and Gender: a contemporary reader. Edited by Professor Alice Sullivan and Professor Selina Todd, it is published by one of the world’s largest and most prestigious academic publishers. Guests to the university were forced to clamber across protestors who not only sat in front of the barriers and refused to move, but grabbed guests’ ankles and legs to try to stop them reaching the venue, whilst chanting “Shame on you” and “Go home”. In one incident, the member of staff quoted above appeared to thrust his groin in front of a gap in the barrier, in what looked like an attempt to stop an older woman, escorted by security guards, from reaching the venue. Other protestors laughed and chanted as she picked her way through the jeering crowd and past a sign saying “FUCK TERFS”. The member of staff would later post accusations on Twitter/X that he’d been kicked, pushed, trodden on and shouted at, along with other accusations for which no evidence seems to exist.

Playbook: Jim Jordan’s day of reckoning (Politico)

Jim Jordan skeptics begin lining up behind his House speaker bid (Axios)

Jim Jordan’s remarkably thin legislative track record (Washington Poop) As thin as Joe Biden’s? As thin as Kamala Harris’s?

Jordan builds Speakership momentum as opposition falls (The Hill)

America’s zombie “crime wave” (Popular Information)

‘Everything Is Just Stuck.’ No Matter What Happens to Jim Jordan, the Next Speaker Is In For a World of Trouble. (Politico)

Jim Jordan Is Out of Step With a GOP Party He Wants to Lead (Bloomberg)

The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold (N.Y. Times) Apparently nobody at the New York Times has a dictionary.

Democrats craft strategy to make GOP pay at the ballot box if Jim Jordan is elected speaker (NBC News)

Tapper’s 9/11 Twist: It’s ‘Incredibly Important’ to Lecture About American Islamophobia!

Jordan Inches Closer to Speakership, but Republican Holdouts Remain (N.Y. Times)

Rep Jasmine Crockett Says Dems are ‘the Adults’ Amid GOP Speaker Battle: ‘They Always Expect Us To Fix Their Mess’ (The Messenger) The cure would be worse than the disease.

Democrats prepare to chain GOP to ‘far-right’ Jordan in 2024 (Politico)

America’s highest gun death rates are in the South (Axios) And all in Democrat-run cities.

Colbert Claims GOP Couldn’t Vote For Jesus: ‘Worse Than a Socialist, He Was a Christian’

The Right’s Latest Target: Unmarried Women (The Nation)

Jordan Klepper Confronts Deeply Clueless Trump Fans in New Hampshire (Daily Beast) More accurately, Trump fans confront a deeply clueless Jordan Klepper.

Trump Might Win And Have Dems To Thank

Trump, under fire for Israel comments, proposes fresh crackdown on Muslim immigrants (Washington Poop)

Trump to Appeal ‘Unconstitutional’ Gag Order

Trump’s Minions Are Already Trying to Poison the Jury Pool (Daily Beast) I wish I had some minions. Apparently they don’t work for the Left.

Trump Is Surging

Why a Conflicts Hearing For Trump Co-Defendant Waltine Nauta Imploded (LawFare)

Sen. Graham: Trump’s Hezbollah Remark ‘Huge Mistake’

Trump Seeks to Disprove Claims in Steele Dossier

How Trump’s Team Twisted His Bank Fraud Trial Into a Farce (Daily Beast)

Judge Imposes Limited Gag Order on Trump in Election Case (NewsMax)

Judge Imposes Limited Gag Order on Trump (N.Y. Times)

Judge Bars Trump From Attacking Prosecutors, Witnesses (Washington Free Beacon) Who is going to bar the judge from attacking trump?

Trump Case Just Got More Unprecedented With Gag Order

’60 Minutes’ Escorts Fumbling Biden, Slams Danger of ‘Hard-Right Republicans’

The GOP refusal to condemn Menendez speaks volumes (Public Notice)

CBS ’60 Minutes’ Hit Piece Claims DeSantis Is the Criminal, Not the Illegal Immigrants

Whoopi: Pope Francis Is a ‘Progressive’ Because ‘He’s a Human Being’  Pope Benedict wasn’t a ‘progressive’, so I guess he wasn’t a human being.

CNN’s Mattingly: House Republicans ‘Literally’ Pouring Gasoline, Setting Themselves On Fire!   Nobody in the Narrative media has a dictionary.

Justice Department Seeking Stronger Prison Sentences for Proud Boys Members (The Messenger)

Will Jim Jordan bully his way to the speakership? (Politico) ‘Bully’?

WashPost Hates Cancel Culture When It’s Applied to Leftist Anti-Semites

Jordan Activates Right-Wing Pressure Campaign in Push to Win Speakership (N.Y. Times)

House Republicans’ Chaos Is Making Biden’s Split-Screen Strategy a Lot Easier (The Messenger) Do none of these people have a dictionary?

CNN’s Tapper Despicably Compares Israel’s Defense to Russian War Crimes

GOPer cut off by CNN host for anti-immigrant rant when asked about Gaza refugees (Raw Story) ‘GOPer’?

Jim Jordan’s pressure campaign the ‘dumbest thing you can do,’ one House Republican says (Politico)

It Has Come to This: The Hamas Lockdown

Leftist Media Call Trump-Supporters “Far-Right”… For What?

Republicans Score ‘Major Victory’ as Trump-Backed Landry Wins in Louisiana

Trump falsely characterized Israel’s role in his administration’s hit on Iran’s Soleimani, say former U.S. officials (NBC News) And, of course, ‘former U.S. officials’ are all more credible than Trump.

Michael Cohen Set to Skip Trump Bank Fraud Trial Testimony (Daily Beast)

Judge Admonishes DOJ For “Wasting the Court’s Time” In Trump Documents Case

Trump’s Unflattering Story About Netanyahu Elicits Outrage From Republican Rivals

What I Learned at the ‘Stop Trump Summit’ (Washington Free Beacon)

Inside Trump’s Backroom Effort to Lock Up the Nomination (N.Y. Times) ‘Backroom’? Say what you will about Trump, there is nothing ‘backroom’ about him. (Maybe they’re confusing him with Biden.)

Schwarzenegger Calls for Trump’s Border Wall (But Won’t Use the Word)

Republicans ramp up search for an escape hatch from speaker chaos (Politico) Apparently nobody at Politico knows the meaning of the word ‘chaos’.

University DEI Offices Not Being ‘Inclusive’ of Jewish Students After Hamas Attacks (The Foundry)

Nancy Mace Thinks She Could Be Trump’s Next VP (Daily Beast)

House Republicans collapse into anarchy (Washington Poop) Apparently nobody at the WaPo knows the meaning of the world ‘anarchy’.

Actor Says TikTok, Instagram Censored Him for Posts on Hamas Atrocities (NewsBusters)

Stanford Instructor Told Jewish Students To Stand in Corner Like ‘Israel Does to Palestinians’: Report (Washington Free Beacon)

WH Ups Pressure On Tuberville To Abandon Pentagon Blockade

Republicans ramp up search for an escape hatch from speaker chaos (Politico)

Animal Contraceptive And Antibiotics Detected In Top 10 Popular Fast Foods: Report So eat at Subway. Problem solved.

Democrats refuse to help GOP out of House speaker mess, trashing Jim Jordan as an ‘insurrectionist’ (NBC News)

Sunny Hostin compares Hamas to Proud Boys (Politico)

How Kari Lake’s Tactical Retreat on Abortion Could Point the Way for the G.O.P. (N.Y. Times) Please, Republicans, do it our way! You know we’re going to win in the end!

The Real Danger in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Independent Run (N.Y. Times) It shows he doesn’t love Big Brother (the swine….).

The House Speaker Race Is a Mess—and So Is the GOP

Trump’s turn against Israel offers stark reminder of what his diplomacy looks like (CNN) What ‘turn against Israel’?

Israel, White House condemn Donald Trump’s remarks (Reuters)

Kevin McCarthy Dances in Circles to Defend Trump After Israel Comments (Daily Beast)

Why Donald Trump really thinks Hezbollah is so ‘smart’ (MSNBC) The mind-readers at MSNBC are quite certain they know what Trump’s thinking.

De Niro warns democracy ‘won’t survive’ Trump reelection (The Hill) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means Democrat vote fraud.

Jack Smith tells Trump to put up or shut up (MSNBC)

Will Narcissist Trump’s Bizarre Praise for Hezbollah Hurt Him? (The Bulwark)

Turley: Federal Court Asked To Address 14th Amendment Effort To Bar Trump

EU probes X over spread of Israel-Gaza disinformation, ‘terrorist’ content (The Hill)

With the World in Crisis, House Republicans Bicker Among Themselves (N.Y. Times) And Democrats duck and dodge their perennial support for Muslim terrorism. Mote, meet beam.

EU Threatens To Block X; Musk Demands Concrete Examples Of Alleged “Disinformation”

Fear and loathing grips the House GOP (Politico) Some Republicans are actually losing patience with the Democrat-Lite wing of the party. Naturally, the Narrative media don’t like that.

CNN Tries to Equivocate Hamas Slaughter, Blames Israel for No Gaza Shelters

House GOP in total chaos: So much for fascist order and discipline! (Salon) You want fascist order and descipline, Amanda, try the Democrats. They’ve got it down.

How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions (Hate-fueled NBC News) You know you’re over the target when you start getting flak.

Stanford instructor removed for targeting Jewish students as ‘colonizers’ after Hamas attack on Israel (The Forward)

Authoritarian Thugs Continue Persecution of Colorado Cake Shop Owner

Hostin Declares Israel Is the One Committing ‘Terror’ and ‘War Crimes’

Israeli President Says There Are No Innocent Civilians In Gaza (Huffington Post) As it happens, I agree with him.

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)