Grand jury in Trump classified documents case expected to meet this coming week after hiatus (NBC News)

Bragg detective Jeremy Rosenberg involved in Trump case suspended for Michael Cohen ties: officials (N.Y. Post)

On PBS, Capehart Admits: Democrats ‘Champing at the Bit’ to Run Against Trump

YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections (NPR) Notice that they just assume the claims are false.

Scoop: YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism (Axios) “Denialism” is one of those terms progs make up in order to win arguments without having to present evidence.

Business Highlights: YouTube to allow some false claims; Disney judge removes himself from case (Washington Post) Notice that they just assume the claims are false.

Twitter Internal Revolt Against Free Speech Exposed After Daily Wire Debacle? (NewsBusters)

PBS Star Woodruff Mourns Divisive Cable News…Like PBS Isn’t Hate-GOP TV? (NewsBusters)

Utah Gov. Cox Cuts LGBTQ People From Pride Declaration (NewsMax)

YouTube policy that banned election fraud lies reversed as 2024 approaches (Raw Story)

Violence Erupts at Anti-Pride School Assembly Protest in North Hollywood (Daily Beast)

‘Extremist’ Conservatives and ‘Reasonable’ Liberals: How the Media Covered the Debt Ceiling Deal Holdouts

Musk’s response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at Twitter (NBC News)

This Is Not the End of the Supreme Court’s War on Labor (The Nation)

‘Judicial power grab’: Georgetown law professor details the Roberts Court’s overt ‘contempt’ for America (Raw Story)

Republicans Have a Twisted View of the Safety Net (N.Y. Times) “Twisted view” means anything that doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

Ruhle Blames The Media For Lack Of Confidence In Biden’s Economy

DeSantis and Scott Get Nasty Welcome to 2024 Race from Leftist Media

School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’

Elon Musk Calls to Imprison Therapists Helping Trans Kids (The New Republic) No, he doesn’t.

Progressive ‘Little Mermaid’ Not Woke Enough

GOP Issues Debate Rules, But Will Trump Bother to Show Up? (The Messenger) I wouldn’t if I were him.

How the Media Reacted to Biden Falling Versus Trump Not Falling

Double Standard: MSNBC Gives 10 Mins Less to Biden Fall vs. Trump on a Ramp, Holding Glass

Donald Trump Is Promising Peace In A Second Term. War With Iran Seems More Likely. (Huffington Post) War with Iran will happen on their schedule, not ours, and it won’t matter who’s President.

Trump Admits Republicans Don’t Even Know What ‘Woke’ Means (Rolling Stone) Rolling Stone admits that it has no clue what Republicans know or don’t know, so it just makes shit up.

What Trump’s Recording Could Reveal (The Atlantic) Lazy ‘journalists’ love to make stuff up about what ‘might’ or ‘could’ happen as if it were a fact.

Recording of Trump Underscores Growing Evidence in Documents Case (N.Y. Times) If we push this molehill hard enough, we can surely make a mountain out of it.

How The FBI Lost, Found, And Rewarded The Alleged Russian Spy Pivotal To Surveilling Trump

A Peek Behind the MAGA Curtain (N.Y. Times) David French is apparently enjoying his job as the left’s poodle.

Did Trump declassify documents? Criminal indictment of former president has no legitimate basis (Washington Times)

Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states (Washington Post)  Hunt that witch! Hunt that witch!

Tape shows Trump saying he kept classified document on Iran: CNN

EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House (CNN) Let’s see … nope, no mention that Biden also had classified documents at home while VP.

Trump tape bomb is ‘last nail in coffin’: Audio has Trump talking about classified doc, report (MSNBC) Walls are closing in,. etc. etc.

Trump Lawyer Gets Cagey When Asked About Alleged Secret Docs Tape (Daily Beast) Cagey!

Donald Trump reiterates pledge to scrap birthright US citizenship (The Guardian) For illegal immigrants.

Trump vows to end birthright citizenship (KPIX) For illegal immigrants.

Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship echoes past calls, likely to face similar opposition (Fox)

Trump Was Taped Discussing Sensitive Document He Had Kept After Leaving Office (N.Y. Times) Which he had declassified–as President, he could do that.

The U.S. Government’s Over-Classification Epidemic: Ratcliffe

Trump’s Smoking Tape? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew allow their anti-Trump obsession to drag them into fantasy-land.

Sign with a homophobic slur in front of Florida business sparks backlash (NBC News)

Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters (The Intercept)

Ringleaders of Atlanta Bail Fund Booked on Money Laundering Charges

The Leader of the Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Is Now a MAGA Rapper (Vice) If you’re wondering why Vice declared bankruptcy, this may give you a clue.

University Of Colorado Declares Misgendering An “Act Of Violence”

After Warren Attack, Tuberville Vows to Keep Fighting Pentagon Abortion Policy

All Floridians Should Be Worried About DeSantis’ New Anti-Immigration Law (Mother Jones) But they aren’t.

Nets Yawn at Pro-Abortion Thug Brutally Assaulting Two Pro-Life Men

How James Van Der Beek Became Fox News’ New Hero (Daily Beast) Who the hell is James van der Beek? Only the Daily Beast knows for sure.

Wagner Throws a Fit Over Dems Needing to Work with GOP on Debt Deal

‘Demeaning’ Marianne Williamson Has Staff Running for the Exits (Daily Beast)

Inside Trump and DeSantis’ Ugly Feud Over The Babylon Bee (Rolling Stone) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘ugly feud’ over the Babylon Bee. I certainly didn’t.

Combating The Censorship Industrial Complex

New York Wedding Photographer Won’t Share Her Beliefs About Marriage Because Speaking Out Could Put Her in Jail

In a deep red Florida county, a student-teacher revolt shames the right (Washington Post) Or so they believe.

There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation (Slate) No conservative is too dead to be cancelled.

CNN, MSNBC Plug Democrat Book Complaining About GOP Winning Elections

Don’t Expect DeSantis to Deliver the GOP from Trumpian Abuses of Power (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues it’s lurch to the left.

‘Fastest girl in Connecticut’ Chelsea Mitchell suing state after losing to trans athletes (N.Y. Post)

PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Rate DeSantis ‘False’ On Alleged Book Banning

The View Kicks Off Pride Month Claiming GOP Wants Gays Executed

Vermont School Agrees to Pay $125K to Father, Daughter Punished for Speaking Out Against Trans Student

Mar-a-Lago prosecutors eye July episode with Trump surveillance cameras (Washington Post)

Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course blacklisted by Open Championship organisers

Donald Trump’s legal team and Manhattan prosecutors spar over where he will stand trial (Associated Press) They desperately need an anti-Trump jury to make up for the weakness of their case.

‘We want dictator Trump’: America First activist publicly calls for ‘Trumpian Reich’ (Raw Story) People on the left actually believe this stuff.

Political Analysts Confirm That Chris Christie Will Eat The Competition’s Lunch (Babylon Bee) From the looks of things, it’s a habit with him.

Trump lawyer said to have been waved off searching office for secret records (The Guardian) Would that they were this nit-picky about Hunter’s laptop.

Trump’s Lawyers Start to Wonder if One Could Be a Snitch (Daily Beast)

Exclusive: Trump Pledges Executive Order on ‘Day One’ of Presidency to End Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens, ‘Birth Tourism’ (Breitbart)

Trump and the Abuse of the Pardon Power (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew let their hatred of Trump drag them further to the left. No mention, of course, of the weaponization of the law enforcement establishment to persecute the enemies of the Deep State.

The Debt ceiling deal was a big WIN for Biden—and a big LOSS for Trump and MAGA (The Dean’s Report) Even though Trump wasn’t involved, MAGA is the New Nigger.

Liz Cheney says Republicans “wanted me to lie” about Trump (Axios) So she lied about Trump anyway–for the other side.

Trump’s legal team is an epic disaster (MSNBC)

Illinois To Become First State To Ban Book Bans (Book Riot) Which aren’t, of course, ‘book bans’.

Texas lawmakers find consensus on bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion offices in public universities (Texas Tribune)

Texas To Ban Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Efforts At Public Universities (Huffington Post)

With this debt limit deal, Congress has beclowned itself (Washington Post)

Texas Republicans pass voting bills targeting large Democratic county (Washington Post) If you want to prevent cheating, you go where the cheaters are.

Ugandan President Signs Anti-LGBTQ Bill With Death Penalty (Bloomberg)

Uganda Signs Anti-gay Law With Death Penalty for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’

Experts warn of increased risk of US terror attacks by rightwing ‘lone wolf’ actors (The Guardian)

No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Holds Line Against Calls To Cancel Scene In ‘Life Of Brian’

What ESPN’s Sam Ponder calls ‘fairness’ is plain old bigotry (USA Today) No backsliding on the Narrative, or you will be cancelled.

Data analyst explains why Ron DeSantis is in trouble with voters already (Raw Story)

Graduates boo and turn their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivers commencement address at liberal Colorado College – despite her blasting Trump’s election-denying attorney (UK Daily Mail)

MAGA Supporters Scammed With Worthless Trump Bucks: Report (Daily Beast)

Trump Supporters Scammed By Novelty Items—‘Trump Bucks’—Advertised As Legal Tender (Forbes)

The Mar-a-Lago classified docs case keeps getting worse for Trump (MSNBC) Really? Where’s the indictment?

Many GOP insiders fear that Teflon Don is back (Politico) But not as many as in the Narrative media.

‘We’re kind of tearing our hair out’: Republicans frustrated they’re stuck with Trump (Raw Story)

The Humpty Dumpty left uses “ban” to mean whatever they say it does

Henry Kissinger is turning 100. A long-running meme wishes otherwise. (Washington Post) The left has no problem with wishing death to their political opponents–alth0ugh, if someone on the right does so, it’s ‘hate speech’ and you could even go to jail.

Henry Kissinger is 100, but his legacy is still shaping how US foreign policy works (Vox)

Nikki Haley let the Confederate flag fly until a massacre forced her hand (Washington Post) Another smear-job from the propaganda arm of the Democrat party.

PBS Hosts Testy Talk Between Isaacson and NR’s Lowry: ‘I Get to Be the Interviewer Here’

BBC’s War On “Disinformation”

EU Official Threatens Twitter For Pulling Out Of Anti-Disinfo Pact

The Right Is All Wrong About Masculinity (N.Y. Times) David French continues to punch right as he carries water for the Left.

NBC’s Todd Cries: GOP Hasn’t Confirmed A Dem SCOTUS Nominee Since Cleveland!

‘Start the Kevin McCarthy death-clock’ after compromise with Biden: Rick Wilson (Raw Story)

MSNBC’s Phang Denounces Other Networks For Giving Airtime to GOP Prez Candidates!

Why Texas’ GOP-controlled House wants to impeach Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton (Associate Press)

Clarence Thomas’s newest opinion would literally bring back child labor (Vox) No, it literally wouldn’t.

Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech (CNBC)

“Sexualizing Kids”: Trump Jr. Explains Woke Brand Boycotts After NBC Smears Conservatives

Smith College Drops Use Of Word “Field” As Racially Insensitive

Racist Double-Standard Democrats Malign Tim Scott’s Melanin

DeSantis’s shameless defense of the Amanda Gorman fiasco is revealing (Washington Post) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Revealed – Bill Gates’s younger Russian ‘lover’ and her links to notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman (UK Daily Mail)

HOT TALK: House Democrat Whip Rains Fire on Evil People-Hating Republicans on NPR

Save the world economy or his own job? McCarthy can’t decide. (Washington Post) Who knew that Dana Milbank could read minds?

NBC, CBS Echo Dems On GOP’s ‘Cruel’ Work For Welfare Debt Limit Demand

MSNBC, Abrams Team Up To Spread Fake News On Poem-Banning ‘Tyrants’

AOC Heckled and Shouted Off Stage by NYC Voters: ‘Put America First’ (TownHall)

Prosecutors in Trump’s criminal case say they have recording of Trump and a witness (CBS News)

Nicolle Wallace Conspiracy-Mongers Trump/Saudi Classified Docs Connection

‘Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands. (NBC News)

Durham Report: 63% Believe Russia Smear Was ‘Hit Job’ Against Trump (Rasmussen)

Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people (Washington Post) Philip Bump tries to scraaaaape the barrel….

Trump and the Saudis: Is Jack Smith finally looking at this clear-cut corruption? (Salon)

Mexican Leader to Fla. Hispanics: Ditch DeSantis (NewsMax) Lopez Obrador is a socialist, so of course he hates DeSantis.

GOP Rep Complains Biden Isn’t Appointing Enough Straight White Guys as Judges (Daily Beast)

Florida groups warn America of danger from ‘dictator’ DeSantis (The Guardian)

Welcome to LIV, where the money is dirty and the golf doesn’t matter (Washington Post) How dare they play at a Trump golf course! Don’t they know he’s Hitler?

DeSantis’s Launch Was Not the Only Thing That Crashed (The Atlantic) David Frum is a reliable Republican-hater.

Samuel Alito’s Assault on Wetlands Is So Indefensible That He Lost Brett Kavanaugh (Slate)

How major brands were forced into the conservative plan to target LGBTQ people (NBC News)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Asks To Suspend ‘Right To Shelter’ Rule, Citing Illegal Immigrant Influx

Here Are the Two Democrats Who Voted With Republicans to Block Student Debt Relief (The New Republic) Hunting or heretics and sinners.

Dishonest Joy Reid Deceptively Edits RNC Chair’s Comments on Debt Limit Crisis

Christian Teacher Banned for ‘Misgendering’

‘Squad’ Dem Bowman: Republicans ‘Economic Terrorists’

Twitter Engineering Chief ‘Resigns’ Day After DeSantis Campaign Launch Glitches  A little bit of sabotage by a Woke holdover?

ELECTION INTERFERENCE: LinkedIn Censors GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

CNN Can Never Wash Away the Trump Disaster Stench (Daily Beast)

Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be (The Guardian) Let the witch-hunt begin!

Thomas has highest unfavorability on Supreme Court: Poll (The Hill) Not surprising, since he refuses to act like a Democrat Tame Negro.

New poll shows approval of Supreme Court dipping (NBC News) Not surprising, after a years-long witch-hunt by the Narrative media.

Tucker Carlson was fired before he could give a conspiracy-theory-fueled monologue alleging a January 6 protester was actually an FBI informant, biographer says (Business Insider India)

Tucker Carlson’s War Against Fox News Will Only Get Dirtier (Daily Beast)

‘Cat 5’ Politics: NC Gov. Declares “State Of Emergency” Over Approaching Democratic System

FAKE NEWS: CBS Peddles Tall Tale About Poem Being ‘Banned’ From Florida School

Jack Dorsey shares Robert F. Kennedy Jr. video echoing conspiracy theories (NBC News) “The Real Anthony Fauci”. Look for it online.

Here’s a look at the most contentious legislation DeSantis has signed leading up to his presidential bid (Politico)

Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign launch melts down in Twitter glitches (NBC News) Now that there’s an election coming, NBC doesn’t have to pretend to be an unbiased news site any more.

Unhinged Whoopi Claims Gov. DeSantis Used Body Double in Presidential Campaign Ad

Newsom Stigmatizes Conservatives Over Backlash to Target Pride Month Merchandise

Elon Musk’s Event With Ron DeSantis Exposes Twitter’s Weaknesses (N.Y. Times)

Florida Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Proud Boy Links (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHH….

James Comer Now Falsely Claims He Didn’t Link Biden Probe to Trump Poll Numbers (Daily Beast) And the Daily Beast falsely claims that he did. We report, you decide.

TRIGGERED: The Atlantic Cries Elon Musk Turned Twitter Into ‘Right-Wing, Alt-Tech’ Platform

Jan. 6 Megadonor Helping Ohio GOP Preemptively Overturn Will of the Voters (The Intercept)

DHS used terrorism prevention program to fund group linking GOP to white supremacists (Washington Examiner)

Michigan Man Gets Community Service for Shooting Anti-Abortion Campaigner (Associated Press)

CNN Warns Of ‘Stochastic Terrorism’ Amid ‘Totalitarian ‘Target Boycott

Target’s surrender to MAGA rage shows how anti-wokeness really works (Washington Post) MAGA here, MAGA there, MAGA MAGA everywhere! Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Henry Kissinger at 100: Still a War Criminal (Mother Jones) Don’t hold it in; tell us how you really feel.

LinkedIn Censors Presidential Candidate Who Says Fossil Fuels ‘Required For Prosperity’

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for plot to keep Trump in power (CNN) Pretty extreme, considering that he wasn’t even present on Capitol Hill that day.

The Head of the Republican Party Literally Said a Default Could Bode “Very Well” for the GOP (Vanity Fair) As indeed it could, because it would lay bare the intention of Democrats to spend the country into the poorhouse no matter what.

Amanda Gorman’s poem for Biden’s inauguration banned by Florida school (Associated Press) No, it wasn’t. Schools don’t have the power to ban anything. Only government can do that. What they did was remove it from their library as inappropriate for young children, a fact that is obvious on its face.

Greenwald: Regime Journalists Promote The “Right” Conspiracy Theories To Be Successful

Jim Jordan To Try To Defund The FBI To Protect Trump (PoliticusUSA) Amazing how left-wing journalists can all read minds.

DeSantis is adrift in the boundless sea of right-wing jargon (Washington Post) In contrast to Philip Bump, who is adrift in the boundless sea of left-wing jargon,  said sea consisting mostly of bile.

EXCLUSIVE: Maine School Board Asks Church What It Believes About Marriage, Abortion, Gender Before Denying Lease

The Dirty Money Behind the Lynching of Clarence Thomas

Trump lawyers seek meeting with Garland as Mar-a-Lago investigation shows signs of winding down (Associated Press)

Trump lawyers demand meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland (MSNBC)

Trump attorneys request meeting with AG Garland over ‘unfair treatment’: ‘Ongoing injustice’ (Fox)

Trump attorneys request meeting with Garland on special counsel’s investigation (CNN)

Trump Blasts Violation of Free Speech, Trial Date

The deepening radicalization of Donald J. Trump (Washington Post) Absurd. There is nothing radical about Donald Trump, except his refusal to countenance the further communization of America.

DeSantis Allies’ $200 Million Plan for Beating Trump (N.Y. Times)

Why aren’t we talking more about Trump’s business with the Saudis? (Washington Post) Because nobody gives a shit except anti-Trump progs.

Trump’s Lawyers Warn Him: Get Ready to Be Indicted by the Feds (Rolling Stone) They hope, they hope, they hope….

OBSESSED: CNN and MSNBC Mention Trump by Name 399 Times in 10 Hours  It’s all about the clicks. Without Trump, they have no viewers.

Roberts says Supreme Court will address ethics issues (Washington Post)

Roberts: Supreme Court seeks to assure public on justices’ ethics (Politico)

Chief Justice John Roberts seeks to assure the public about the Supreme Court’s ethics (CNN)

Harlan Crow Rebuffs Senate Democrats’ Questions About Gifts To Clarence Thomas (Huffington Post)

Illinois GOP Sen. Threatens Violence Over Bathroom Bill (NewsMax) Well, actually, no, he didn’t.

April Ryan, KJP Team Up to Trash DeSantis Using Far-Left NAACP’s ‘Travel Advisory’

She stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Then Gov. Ron DeSantis made her a state regulator (USA Today)

Busted: Ron DeSantis appointee breached Capitol on Jan. 6 (Raw Story) So what?

Elon Musk’s right-wing media venture scores another big win (Washington Post) Philip Bump expands his Republican-bashing.

Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network (The Atlantic) I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Why Republicans want to repeal Biden’s student debt relief now (Politico) Did you know that writers for Politico can read minds? Minds of people they hate? Isn’t that amazing?

Trans activists shut down controversial book launch, sparking free speech debate (Jerusalem Post)

MAGA Media Runs Wild With BS Claim of ‘Tuck-Friendly’ Target Kidswear (Daily Beast)

Male GOP Senators Ignore Women, Vote for Abortion Ban in South Carolina (Daily Beast)

House Republicans Pretty Much Admit They Are Taking Debt Limit ‘Hostage’ (Huffington Post) No, they don’t–except in the fever dreams of the Narrative media.

Reid: GOP Saving Women’s Sports is Transphobia Disguised As Feminism

Franklin Graham warns of data, bank cancellations of Christian ministries (Washington Times)

GOP unites in brinkmanship over default, rejecting Biden compromises (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘brinksmanship’ means ‘failing to roll over for the Democrats’. For Democrats, ‘compromise’ means ‘do it my way’.

How conservative activists worked to kill an effort to protect Florida election workers from harassment (CNN) In prog-speak, ‘protect Florida workers from harassment’ means ‘protect Forida Democrat election workers from adult supervision’.

Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood (Vox)

The Atlantic Claims Twitter Is Now A ‘Far Right Social Network’  Certainly, compared to The Atlantic.

Newsom knocks Target CEO for pulling LGBTQ merchandise from stores (The Hill)

Republican debt ceiling plans could see most vulnerable Americans lose aid (The Guardian)

Clarence Thomas should resign from the supreme court, for the good of the court (The Guardian) I’m sure he’ll get right on that.

Conservative Americans Are Participating in Democracy, AP Warns

MSNBC Dubs DeSantis ‘The Face of The Erosion of Those Freedoms’

Whoopi Goldberg Calls Out Right-Wing ‘Snowflakes’ for Target Pride Merch Outrage (Daily Beast) Yeah, we’re all really intimidated by the opinions of fat ugly black shrews.

Clarence Thomas’s image takes a hit (Washington Post) Only in the minds of the Narrative media, and they all hated him already.

Nebraska governor signs bill that bans most abortions at 12 weeks, gender-affirming care for those under 19 (CNN)

AP Warns of ‘Far Right’ in Red States, But Touts ‘Drag Laureates’ in San Francisco

Fla. Sued for Halt to Chinese Citizens Owning Homes, Land

Susan Rice Meets With Activist Lawyer Who Stoked Online Mob Against Pregnant Nurse

DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida (The Guardian)

Tucker Insider: Carlson was Fired from Fox Due to Dominion Suit

House GOP Members Rip Texas VA Clinic for ‘Cross’ Removal

North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Declares Emergency Over School Choice ‘Scheme’

GOP donor denies influence over Clarence Thomas, despite lavish gifts (Washington Post) I guess Clarence Thomas isn’t allowed to have any rich friends.

You Cannot Hear These 13 Women’s Stories and Believe the Anti-Abortion Narrative (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg loses her shit.

In Florida, reproductive care nightmares become tragically common (MSNBC) Note that this complaint doesn’t mention the tragedy of unborn babies being murdered.

Republican witness faces questions over whether he lied under oath to key panel (The Guardian)

Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign could be brief (Washington Post)

Dodgers apologize and invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night (L.A. Times)

Free Advice for Ron DeSantis: Don’t Run for President (Daily Beast)

Santos Sent GOP Allies ‘Thank You’ Notes After Expulsion Vote Failed: Report (Daily Beast)

U.S. lawmakers OK’d more pro-gun bills than safety measures since Uvalde (Axios) Note the obvious assumption that ‘pro-gun bill’ and ‘safety measure’ are opposites.

Abortion bans drive off doctors and close clinics, putting other health care at risk (NPR) Abortion doctors are there for the money; they don’t practice general medicine. This is like saying that closing extermination camps would reduce availability of police protection.

Here’s How Bad CNN’s Post-Trump Town Hall Ratings Have Been (Daily Beast) Hey, Annhauser-Busch thought Dylan Mulvaney was a good idea, too.

Trump Organization finishes last in brand reputation survey for second straight year (The Hill) That’s like saying that witches have a bad reputation.

Democrats sue W.Va. Gov. Justice over refusal to disclose work schedule (Washington Post)

How DeSantis and other GOP lawmakers are killing LGBTQ young people (Robert Reich) The deranged ravings of a Clinton-era proglodyte. Why anybody pays attention to these derelicts is beyond me. (Next up: Carl “Worse Than Watergage” Bernstein….)

How Vivek Ramaswamy helped make Martin Shkreli the ‘pharma bro’ (Politico) Vivek must be getting some traction if the Usual Suspects feel the need to witch-hunt him.

DeSantis Sued Over Ban on Drag Shows

Republican John Kennedy: southern plain-talk or Foghorn Leghorn shtick? (The Guardian) Not a trace of journalism here, just pure smear. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Why Don’t Americans Recognize that Inflation is Down and Incomes Are Up? (Washington Monthly) Maybe because they look at their monthly bills and refuse to buy what the Usual Suspects are selling?

Trump’s Truth Social Sues Washington Post For Over $3 Billion  Two can play at this sue-their-pants-off game.

Casey DeSantis Is ‘Lady MacBeth.’ Jill Biden Is a Doctor. Got It?

Teachers’ Union ‘Triggered’ After Republican Lawmaker Brings Educators Donuts

VINDICATION: Alan Dershowitz Defends Musk’s Criticism of George Soros

CBS’s Gayle King Fears for Her Sisters Because of NAACP Travel Advisory for Florida  These people spend too much time breathing their own exhaust.

Republican Debt Ceiling Lies (The American Prospect) Bias? What bias?

Southern Poverty Law Center Classifies Everyone Not Currently Wearing A Pride Shirt As A Hate Group  (Babylon Bee)

Republicans Are Trying to Seize Control Over Voting In Texas’ Largest Democratic County (Mother Jones) Of course they are, because otherwise Democrats try to steal the election, as they have been doing since LBJ in 1960.

‘Blood in the water for DeSantis’: Trump world embraces Tim Scott’s candidacy (Politico) Scott Adams likes him for Vice President.

E. Jean Carroll seeks fresh damages from Trump after CNN town hall (Axios)

DeSantis hits Trump over ‘Warp Speed’ COVID-19 vaccine mandates (N.Y. Post)

Trump warned Ron DeSantis not to run. Now, he plans to keep hammering away. (NBC News)

Trump’s attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs (CNN)

Trump faces $10 million defamation claim by E. Jean Carroll after CNN town hall remarks (CNBC)

Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Since 2017 (N.Y. Times)

Trump to appear remotely in N.Y. criminal court to hear judge’s warnings (Washington Post) Try to figure out why a court would be ‘warning’ Trump not to share evidence revealed to his lawyers by the prosecution. What are they trying to hide?

AG Merrick Garland Needs to Get Out of the Business of Defending Trump (Daily Beast) I’ll bet you didn’t know that AG Merrick Garland was in the business of defending Trump. Thank God we’ve got the Daily Beast on top of this stuff for us.

Judge sets 2024 date for Trump’s criminal trial in Stormy Daniels case (ABC News) Of  course it has to be as close to the election as possible.

Washington Free Beacon.

It goes without saying: The mainstream media is run by liberal activists. This ideological bias manifests itself in several ways, including the words journalists are allowed to use when discussing controversial issues.

For example, the New York Times might publish an article about how “a group of anti-fascist uterus-bearing individuals deployed Molotov cocktails to peacefully express their grievances over Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, which critics say could prevent access to gender-affirming care and reproductive freedom for undocumented Latinx immigrants, substance-affected unhoused citizens with prior justice system involvement, and full-figured sex entrepreneurs.”

The story would read a lot differently if it wasn’t written, edited, and published by liberal activists and members of the cultural elite who are constantly trying to impose their “correct” opinions on the general public. The woke words and phrases used in media reports would make a lot more sense to the average American if these people weren’t in charge—if journalists were forced to abide by the Washington Free Beacon Alternative Style Guide for Reporting on Issues of Controversy (ASGRIC).

Ron DeSantis’s context-free history book vanished online. We got a copy. (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘context-free’ means ‘doesn’t hate on white people’.

Dodgers fail miserably, crumble under pressure by disinviting Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (USA Today)

Uber’s Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity (N.Y. Times)

Civil Rights Groups to Tourists: Florida Laws ‘Openly Hostile’

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Heckled During BU Commencement Speech

The campaign against the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Uber Suspends Its Asian DEI Boss for Objecting to the “Karen” Ethnic Slur

NAACP Chief Aims to Get Rid of DeSantis ‘Once and for All’  Good luck with that.

Fla. GOP Official Offers Moving Costs for NAACP Chair

TV Journalists Cheer NAACP’s Absurd ‘Travel Advisory’ Dinging DeSantis

DeSantis wants to ‘make America Florida.’ That could mean many more uninsured (L.A. Times) But it certainly gives them a stick with which to attempt to beat DeSantis.

Why was this massive Trump scandal hiding in plain sight for 28 months? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch holds the Jennifer Rubin Chair at the Inquirer.

Why won’t conservatives ask Trump tough questions? (The Spectator) Maybe because they don’t have to? There are plenty of progs and RINOs queueing up to do that job.

The GOP Is in an Abusive Relationship with Trump (The Bulwark) The Bulwark is certainly in an abusive relationship with Trump, with them doing most of the abusing.

Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt (The Bulwark) Of course Trump doesn’t really want the U.S. to default on the debt; he wants Republicans to be willing to go that far in order to get concessions from Biden, rather than the usual go-to-the-brink-and-then-roll-over that Republicans have historically done. But any excuse will do for an invented smear by the left-adjacent Bulwark.

GOP Rep. James Comer Implies Biden Family Probe Is Really About Helping Trump In 2024 (Huffington Post) No he doesn’t–but I’m sure they’d like to believe that he does.

Hillary was protected from investigation by the same agencies who hounded Trump on false charges

Former Trump Lawyer Describes Conflict Inside Legal Team (N.Y. Times)

The GOP’s heart of darkness: Why Ron DeSantis can never beat Donald Trump (Salon)

Federal inquiry details abuses of power by Trump’s CEO over Voice of America (NPR) I don’t think so.

Ron DeSantis Is About To Run For President. Andrew Warren Has A Warning. (Huffington Post) *yawn*

Trump’s 2025 vision, revealed (Axios) The chance that anybody writing for Axios knows squat about ‘Trump’s vision’, for 2025 or any time, is negligible.

Is Mexico doing the US’s ‘dirty work’ when it comes to migration? (CNN)

He Became Convinced the School Board Was Pushing “Transgender Bullshit.” He Ended Up Arrested — and Emboldened. (ProPublica)

Why Ron DeSantis should hope he’s the second coming of John McCain (Politico) The Narrative media certainly hopes he is.

AOC to DeSantis: ‘Read a Bible’ for Defending Daniel Penny

PBS’s Amanpour Agrees with Democrat: Republicans Competing for ‘Most Extreme’

We’re all hostage to one man’s ambitions (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Politico’s Dirty Hit Piece on Casey DeSantis: ‘Lady Macbeth,’ ‘Ice Queen,’ ‘Vindictive’ MF-er

What Christian Nationalism Has Done to My State and My Faith Is a Sin (N.Y. Times) RINOs gotta RINO. Nobody who writes for the NYT has any faith to speak of, except in Wokeism.

NY university fires 2 employees over pronouns in email signatures: report (N.Y. Post)

New York state Christian university fires 2 employees over pronouns in work emails (Fox)

A university fired 2 employees for including their pronouns in emails (Seattle Times)

Christian College Workers Fired for Including Their Pronouns in Emails (Daily Beast)

Nebraska Passes Double-Whammy Bill Banning Abortion and Trans Kids’ Health Care (The New Republic)

This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy (Huffington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘following the Narrative’.

Protesters Slam Church for ‘Family-Friendly’ Drag Night

Gun and abortion laws have made Texas a woman’s nightmare (Washington Post) A proglodyte woman, of course–is there any other kind?

Illinois Prepares to Raise Gun Industry Liability  Those guns just shoot themselves!

Democrat Bill Would Pack Supreme Court To Lessen Conservative Influence

NBC Skips FBI Dissidents, Hypes Small-Town Right-Wingers

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Compares Pro-Life GOP to Taliban Tyrants: ‘Total Religious Control’

Air DeSantis: The Private Jets and Secret Donors Flying Him Around (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The Supreme Court Is Hiding Important Decisions From You (Politico) No, it’s not.

MSNBC Previews DeSantis 2024 By Labeling Him ‘Pro-White Supremacy’

Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds (Associated Press) If the right does it, it’s DEEP DARK CONSPIRACIES! If the left does it–it’s just ‘grass roots activism’.

ABC Claims GOP Waging ‘Unprecedented’ Attacks On Transgender Lives

he US debt ceiling crisis is more proof of Republicans’ cynicism and bad faith (The Guardian)

Pro-Confederacy Teacher Complains About School District’s Probe (Daily Beast)

The Supreme Court may soon reverse a core legal tenet (The Hill)

Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warns (The Guardian)

4 Big Moments as House Democrats Attack FBI Whistleblowers at ‘Weaponization’ Hearing

NBC Panics Over Conservative Takeover of Colorado School Board

FBI Whistleblowers Admit Taking Money From Ex-Trump Official (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans (N.Y. Times) Yet Another Affirmative Action Hire at the NYT peddles his racist fantasies as news.

Fox News’s ‘vitriolic lies’ present clear threat to US democracy, says woman suing rightwing network (The Guardian) Ed Pilkington will buy any fable if it smears the right.

Hayes: Party of ‘parents rights’ pushes child health care bans (MSNBC) Chris Hayes is one of those odd folks at MSNBC who thinks that killing an unborn child somehow constitutes ‘health care’.

Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus accuses others of doing what she does on a regular basis, as here.

Bathrooms Are Where We Feel Most Vulnerable. No Wonder Republicans Are Obsessed. (N.Y. Times) The Law of Liberal Projection suggests that somebody at the NYT has a bathroom fetish … and it isn’t a Republican.

NY Times: New Charges Considered for Trump Associate  They can’t get to Trump, so they witch-hunt anybody working for Trump. “And your little dog, too!”

LA Dodgers Remove ‘Anti-Catholic Hate Group’ From ‘Pride Night’ After Public Backlash

Top NY Times Woke Reporter Issues Front Page Hit on Detransitioner Chloe Cole

‘Let the Teachers Teach, and Shut Up’: New Hampshire Dem Lashes Out at Voter Over Parental Rights Bill

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth (Washington Post) Greg Sargent believes that Narrative fantasies are in general circulation. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn’t Bothered to Prepare (Politico) Except by turning the smear-machine up to 11 … and giving him extra ammunition.

Fulton County DA Signals August Charges in Trump Probe  Gotta time it right for the election.

The revenge of Chris Christie? How he could take it to Trump (Washington Post) SCRAAAPE that barrel….

New evidence in special counsel probe may undercut Trump’s claim documents he took were automatically declassified (CNN)

There’s Evidence Trump Knew His Classified Docs Claims Were False: Report (Daily Beast)

New evidence could undercut Trump’s claims of documents being declassified (CNN) Push that Narrative!

There’s now even less reason to blame Clinton for the Russia probe (Washington Post) Translastion: There’s even more reason to blame Clinton. (Durham’s Damning Report Assails FBI Leadership, Media for Enabling Hillary Clinton’s Alleged Russia Hoax Plan)

Donald Trump set to address Georgia GOP convention (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Favre: America Was ‘in Better Shape’ Under President Trump  It certainly was.

2024 Trump Nomination Would Hurt Down-Ballot Republicans, Poll Finds (National Reviw)

Trump’s Dominance in the GOP Isn’t What It Seems (Politico) Whistling past the graveyard.

Desperate Washington Post Makes Last-Ditch Pitch For Russian Collusion (Jonathan Turley)

In DeSantis’ fight against woke, Florida may instead go broke (MSNBC)

House votes to refer resolution to expel Santos to Ethics Committee (CNN)

Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees (Vice)

Soros-Backed Group Pushes Chicago Mayor To Slash Funding for ‘Racist’ Police Force

Ron DeSantis Just Took Two Big Steps to Make Trans Lives Illegal (Rolling Stone)

‘Squad’ members AOC and Bowman shout at Santos to resign as he speaks outside Capitol

Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children (N.Y. Times) There are no ‘transgender children’.

Fox News Highlights Threats, Vandalism, and Arson Against Pro-Life Centers

MLB Team Drops Plan to Honor Anti-Catholic ‘Hate Group’

DeSantis is angling to run to the right of Trump on abortion, guns and more (CNN) As if CNN had any clue as to what DeSantis intends to do.

LinkedIn Bans Journalist For Mentioning Durham Report

Why the Supreme Court Is Blind to Its Own Corruption (N.Y. Times) They keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they seem to think it means.

New York Mag’s Kara Swisher Claimed Musk Has ‘God Complex’ for Criticizing … Soros?

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Warns Republicans Will ‘Suffer’ For Strict Abortion Laws (Huffington Post) RINOs gotta RINO.

DeSantis attacks LGBTQ+ community with “slate of hate” laws (Axios) In the Narrative media, ‘hate’ means ‘disagreement with progressives’.

Republicans’ financing of white vigilantism (Boston Globe) In the Narrative media, ‘vigilantism’ means defending yourself or your fellow citizens from crime.

School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison (Washington Post) Funny thing: That’s what happens when you insist on breaking the law.

Everyone Point and Laugh at How Much Lefty Journos Now Hate Working at CNN

Ginni Thomas Has Donated More Than $20,000 To Republicans (Forbes) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Ron DeSantis’s big idea: Make Florida students ignorant (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit–as she does so well.

CNN’s Jake Tapper Apoplectic Over Musk Calling Out George Soros

Amanpour Rips Her Own Network’s Trump Town Hall In Commencement Speech

Democratic Attorney General Targets School for Policy Notifying Parents If Their Child Tries to Change Their Gender

School Counselor Fired for Disagreeing With Transgender Policy Sues Indiana District

CBS Whines Security Guard ‘Misgendered’ a Violent Trans Shoplifter

America’s Leading Republican Pipsqueak Has a New Book on How to Fix Men.  It’s a Hoot.  (Slate)

How William F. Buckley Jr.’s Right-Wing College Crusade Paved the Way for Ron DeSantis (Vanity Fair) I guess that DeSantis is … the New Buckley?

Beshear Appointee Scrubs Tweets That Called Kentucky Voters Homophobic Bigots

ACLU’s Lee Gelernt: Biden admin ‘replaced Title 42 with yet another Trump asylum ban’ (MSNBC) Oh no! Not another Trump ban!

Republicans Question Officials Who Cast Doubt on Hunter Biden Laptop Contents (N.Y. Times)

The Durham Coverup

Poll: 2 in 3 Floridians Want Trump Over DeSantis

The Return of Teflon Don: Trump Stans Say Scandals Help Him (Daily Beast) As indeed it does.

After Years of Political Hype, the Durham Inquiry Failed to Deliver (N.Y. Times) Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

“Damn, That’s Thin”, “I Know”, “It Sucks”: The Untold Story Of The Trump-Russia Investigation

The Durham investigation was a flop. But it’s a propaganda triumph. (Washington Post) Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

FBI Defenders Misrepresent 2019 Report in Attempt to Discredit Durham

The Worst Political Scandal in American History?

The truth about Russia, Trump and the 2016 election (Washington Post0 In the Narrative media, ‘the truth’ means ‘the Narrative’.

9 Ways Vivek Ramaswamy Can Beat Donald Trump, According to Andrew Yang

Clinton Collusion, Russian Spies, And More: Eight Surprises from the Durham Report

Turley: Durham Report Condemns FBI’s Russia Probe… But Don’t Expect It To Make A Difference

What Makes the Durham Report a Sinister Flop (The Atlantic) David Treyf Frum pushes the Narrative.

Exclusive: New evidence in special counsel probe may undercut Trump’s claim documents he took were automatically declassified (CNN) He was the President. If he says they were declassified, then they were declassified. CNN is not the judge of that.

A mind is a difficult thing to change: here’s the typical spin on the Durham Report from the left

Adam Schiff Still Insists Trump Conspired With Russia

CNN Buys Extra-Large Excavator To Help Bury Durham Report  (Babylon Bee)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges (NPR)

DeSantis curtails diversity, equity & inclusion programs at state colleges (CBS News)

DeSantis signs bill banning funding for college diversity programs (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

DeSantis bans state funding for diversity, inclusion programs at Florida public universities (Fox)

CNN Dismayed DeSantis Would Defend NY Marine from Lefty D.A.

Rudy Giuliani made antisemitic remarks about Jews’ genitalia, mocked ‘freaking Passover’ observance, new lawsuit claims (The Forward) The Forward is an explicitly Marxist newspaper for Jewish Red Diaper babies.

Online Reviewers Are Being Absolutely Brutal About Josh Hawley’s ‘Manhood’ (Daily Beast) They mean left-wing reviewers of course–are there any other kind?–like the Daily Beast.

Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages (Associated Press)

Haley’s financial disclosure report shows lucrative speaking engagements (CNN) Although not as lucrative as Hillary’s.

Paul Gosar’s Staffer Is a Neo-Nazi (The New Republic) Uh, not quite.

Protesting Homes of SC Justices: Free Speech or Intimidation?

‘Anti-Homophobia’ Event Disrupted by Muslim Students

Study: Taxpayer-Subsidized PBS Whacks GOP with 85% Negative News

DeSantis’s celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism (Washington Post) MAGA is the New Nigger. Greg Sargent feels Philip Bump encroaching on his turf.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Media Malpractice: Russian Hoax Confirmed by the Durham Report

Inside Tucker Carlson’s Battle to Trade His $20 Million Fox News Salary for a Twitter Show (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Yeah, as if Variety has any clue as to what Tucker is doing. (In the Narrative media, EXCLUSIVE means they just made it up.)

After breaking itself, Congress tries to break the rest of government, too (Washington Post) By ‘Congress’ they mean House Republicans, and by ‘breaking the government’ they mean ‘trying to put the brakes on Democrat attempts to buy votes with taxpayer money’.

The Republican Embrace of Vigilantism Is No Accident (N.Y. Times) There is, of course, no ‘Republican embrace of vigilantism’, merely Republican defense of citizens who act in self-defense and defense of their fellow citizens; which is what all this hand-waving is attempting to obscure.

Who Is Leonard Leo’s Mysterious Dark Money King? (The New Republic) I’m guessing it isn’t George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, or any of the billionaire Hollywood moguls and tech bros that fund Democrat PACs.

Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed (Media Matters for America) Proglodytes, by contrast, have never hidden their hit lists.

John Durham Owes the American People an Apology for Wasting Their Money (Daily Beast) Yeah, only Democrats are allowed to waste the American people’s money.

GOP Highlights Attacks on Pregnancy Centers, Pro-Lifers Under Biden Admin

House Democrat introduces resolution to expel Santos (CNN) I’m surprised it took this long.

What Congress can do, right now, about Justice Thomas (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes (Talking Points Memo)

How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Campaign Cash for Her Marathon Habit (Daily Beast)

Teacher Sacked After Refusing To Use 8 Year-Old’s Trans Pronouns

Nearly $2M Raised for Ex-marine on Manslaughter Charge

Inside the Tennessee legislature, where a GOP supermajority reigns (Washington Post) Adventures in Flyover Country with gun & camera….

Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates ‘radioactive’ (Raw Story) RINOs gotta RINO.

GOP state lawmakers try to restrict ballot initiatives, partly to thwart abortion protections (Associated Press) Who knew that the AP could read minds?

Hostin Decries ‘Dangerous’ DeSantis Raising Money for NY Marine Vet

Sen. Murphy Warns Supreme Court of ‘Popular Revolt’ on Guns

Mexican ambassador lashes out at Kennedy for ‘racist and xenophobic insults’

After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits  (Associated Press) Because those guns just shoot themselves!

Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett (Associated Press) Duck and cover!

POLL: Two-Thirds of Americans Agree Journalists Are Mostly Advocates, Not Unbiased

On PBS, Liberal Journalists Trade Tips on Deplatforming Trump for ‘24

Scoop: How Trump’s team egged him on during CNN town hall (Axios) ‘Scoop’?

Supreme Court to Review Dem Lawsuit Over Trump Hotel Lease

Trump Is Wrong on Abortion: Super-Majority of GOP Primary Voters Support Six-Week Limit (National Review) NR turns into Yet Another Anti-Trump RINO rag.

Durham Report: FBI Had No ‘Actual Evidence,’ Relied on Trump Opponents

In Final Report, Trump-Era Special Counsel Denounces Russia Investigation (N.Y. Times)

Ga. Prosecutor Fights Trump Bid to Cut Her From Election Probe

Trump Iowa Rally Rescheduled Over Weather

The 2024 election isn’t about normal things. It’s about Trump. (Washington Post)

Chris Christie: Trump a ‘Puppet of Putin’ With Ukraine Remark

Sketchy funding for Trump’s Truth Social was hidden from SEC and investors: report (Raw Story)

DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump (N.Y. Times) The only time you’ll see the NYT say something even vaguely positive about DeSantis is when it means they can bash Trump.

CORROBORATION: More women come forward about Trump’s sexual predation during presidency (Washington Presss) Let’s see … nope, nothing about Biden’s practice of grabbing women ans sniffing their hair.

Mayor Adams booed after bringing up NYPD past at CUNY graduation as students turn their backs on him (N.Y. Post)

Anderson Cooper: ‘You Have Every Right Never To Watch CNN Again’ After Trump Town Hall

CUNY Law Grads Turn Backs on NYC Mayor Adams at Commencement

Ron DeSantis Bans Credit Card Companies From Helping Track Gun Criminals (The New Republic) In the Narrative media, ‘gun criminals’ are any people who own a gun.

Virginia joins list of GOP states leaving bipartisan effort to combat voter fraud amid conspiracies (NBC News)

Tucker Carlson Wanted to ‘Start Threatening’ Fox News Staffers After 2020 Election (Daily Beast) Sure, I believe that….

CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams (N.Y. Times)

Why Ron DeSantis Is Limping to the Starting Line (N.Y. Times)

The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners (Washington Post) Dana Milbank not only lies, but does so stupidly.

Teacher sacked after refusing to use eight-year-old’s trans pronouns (UK Telegraph)

Charging Daniel Penny, the Subway Samaritan (WSJ)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ medical discrimination (LGBTQ+ Nation) In other words, they no longer get special privileges.

Embattled US Rep George Santos hit with fraud, money laundering charges (Reuters) Too bad his name’s not Biden; he’d be home free.

George Santos pleads not guilty to federal indictment and says he won’t resign (Associated Press)

Former DHS disinformation expert sues Fox News for defamation (NBC News) Hey, it worked once already.

Disinformation researcher who led now-defunct DHS unit sues Fox News for defamation (CNN)

Former Biden admin disinformation chief sues Fox News for defamation (Axios)

Former White House Disinformation Czar Sues Fox News for Defamation: Report (The Daily Beast)

‘Error’? Facebook Backtracks After ‘Mistakenly’ Deleting EXPLOSIVE Report

New Defamation Suit Against Fox Signals Continued Legal Threat (N.Y. Times)

Va. Parents Allege Threats Made for Speaking Out to School Board

Did George Santos lie about everything? (Vox)

Nets Ignore New Hunter Biden Revelations, Hype Santos Charges

GOP senator says of white nationalists in the military, ‘I call them Americans’ (Washington Post) No, he didn’t–‘so-called white nationalists’.

How Troubling Are the Payments and Gifts to Ginni and Clarence Thomas? (The New Yorker) Depends on which side of the witch-hunt you’re on.

Trump Mocked E. Jean Carroll Live on CNN. The Audience Laughed. (Mother Jones) I would have too.

Homeless man charged with hate crimes for defecating on two LGBTQ+ Pride flags: NYPD (N.Y. Daily News)

Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars (Huffington Post) As the Narrative media would like you to believe.

Soaking the Rich Fails in Los Angeles

The George Santos Indictment, Annotated (N.Y. Times)

Bowser to propose law making it easier to detain people before trial (Washington Post)

Tucker Carlson told us he’s running for president in 2024. Then he said he was joking. Then he said he’s ‘fundamentally a dick.’ (Insider) Sometimes they don’t even bother to pretend.

CNN’s Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.

The ‘brain’ behind Ron DeSantis’ likely presidential campaign was involved in a major ‘ghost candidate’ scandal in Florida: ‘If it’s not illegal, it should be’ (Insider) Election coming up, gotta start up the Narrative FUD.

Are School Libraries Banning Thousands of Books? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Trust the Left’s Narrative  School libraries can’t ‘ban’ books; the most they can do is remove them from their library. Only government can ‘ban’ books.

PBS Doc Reduces Tea Party Opposition To Obama To Racism, Bigotry

Elites Manufacture Fake “Hate” Crisis As Pretext For Mass Spying, Blacklists, And Censorship

CNN Labels Tucker Carlson ‘Right-Wing Extremist’  This is news?

Schumer and Senate Dems Give Rashida Tlaib Platform for Anti-Semitic Event Mourning Israel’s Creation After McCarthy Thwarts Plans

Check Out Leftist Twitter’s Hilarious Meltdown Over Tucker’s New Show

Behar Lashes Out at Pro-Trump Town Hall Audience, ‘Not American’

Concerned Virginia Parents Say They’re Being Targeted Online By ‘Woke’ Leftists

‘Profoundly irresponsible’: Ocasio-Cortez rips ‘atrocious’ Trump town hall (MSNBC)

Why CNN’s Trump town hall was always doomed to fail (MSNBC) “Fail” from the Narrative media standpoint, that is–nobody from MSNBC can match Trump in front of an audience.

RFK Jr. Shoots Down Speculation About Joining Trump Ticket  You can’t make this shit up.

There Is Finally Legal Recourse for Donald Trump’s Lies (Slate) But none for Slate’s lies.

Trump just (essentially) won the 2024 GOP primary. Here’s why. (MSNBC)

The wider the House Oversight’s net, the more often they catch Trump (Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.

CNN Town Hall: Trump Says He’ll Pardon Many Tied to 1/6

Trump dismisses his sex abuse verdict and gloats that it will help his 2024 bid (NBC News) Gloats!

Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’ (The Hill) Well, yeah, although not for the reason she means.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump’s election lies (Washington Post)

‘F–king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally (Rolling Stone)

Trump’s Still Stuck In 2020, And Other Takeaways From His CNN Town Hall (Huffington Post)

Entirely Unrepentant (The Atlantic)

CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall (Daily Beast)

Trump’s rivals let him off the hook  He was never on the hook, legitimately.

The chilling reality of Trump (CNN)

Key takeaways from Trump’s CNN town hall (Axios) Git yer Narrative, right here.

CNN town hall audience laughs at sexual assault as Trump reminds us how awful he is (USA Today)

Trump and the Town Hall (CNN)

The Moment That You Knew (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.

Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts (Raw Story) Which ‘experts’? Why, their ‘experts’, of course.

CNN town hall shows the network still doesn’t know how to handle Donald Trump (CNBC) They need the money, and Trump is a draw.

The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump (PoliticusUSA)

Top Ten Moments From Trump’s CNN Town Hall; AOC And Jake Tapper Livid

Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers (The New Republic)

CNN’s Donald Trump Town Hall Was Essentially a Campaign Rally (Vanity Fair)

On CNN, lying Trump was a late-night comedian for an America I didn’t recognize (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch holds the Jennifer Rubin Chair at the Inquirer.

E. Jean Carroll May Sue Trump a Third Time After ‘Vile’ Comments on CNN (N.Y. Times)

History According to The View: No Negativity in The World Before Trump  Nope. Not a shred.

New York congressman George Santos charged by federal prosecutors (The Guardian)  I love that: ‘Unspecified charges’. I guess they haven’t come up with a plausible enough excuse yet.

Fox News anchor Bret Baier’s reputation takes hit after text messages reveal what he said in wake of 2020 election (CNN) Now that Tucker has been dumped, it’s time to work on the rest of the Fox lineup.

Orlando Sentinel Front: ‘Bully’ DeSantis Uses ‘Fear Factor’ to Push ‘Hard-Right Agenda’

Musk shares baseless election claim with millions of Twitter users (Washington Post) I guess Musk is the New Trump. (They had to put ‘baseless’ in the headline so you’d know what the correct Narrative is.)

Dem Rep. Tlaib to Speak at Event Mourning Israel’s Founding  Democrats, Party of Hate. (EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib’s Anti-Semitic Congressional Event)

Biden Admin Creates New Disinformation Office To Oversee The Rest

NBC Digs Up Decades Old Leftist Playbook to Attack GOP for Budget Cuts

A new Supreme Court case seeks to legalize assault weapons in all 50 states (Vox) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

NBC Brings on Brian Stelter to Help Smear Tucker Carlson & Elon Musk

US ethics watchdog calls on Clarence Thomas to resign over undisclosed gifts (The Guardian) In the Narrative media, ‘watchdog group’ means ‘left-wing NGO witch-hunters’.

Playbook: How CNN is getting ready for Trump’s return (Politico)

Rep George Santos Charged With Federal Crimes – May Appear In Court Wednesday

Here are the criminal charges George Santos is facing (Semafor)

Speaker McCarthy is not calling on Santos to resign. (N.Y. Times) Of course not. (“Innocent until proven guilty” is not a proglodyte value.)

The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning Point (The Atlantic) There are no ‘book-bans’. School boards don’t have that power; only government has that power. The Narrative media is full of lies from end to end.

PBS ‘Frontline’ Doc Trashes Thomas As ‘Far-Right’ Affirmative Action Beneficiary

Tommy Tuberville rises to the defense of racists in the armed forces (Washington Post) A bare-faced lie. Philip Bump is determined to give Jennifer Rubin a run for her money.

DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School

The Foundry.

The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, but most lawsuits aiming to hold the SPLC accountable for this alleged defamation have failed. Judges often dismiss defamation lawsuits against the SPLC, saying the defamed “hate groups” fail to meet the “actual malice” standard.

Yet on March 31, District Judge Keith Watkins denied the SPLC’s motion to dismiss a defamation claim from the Dustin Inman Society and its founder, D.A. King. The Dustin Inman Society is a pro-immigration enforcement group that the SPLC brands an “anti-immigrant hate group.” Watkins published his opinion explaining the ruling on April 24. His ruling allows the case to move into the discovery phase of litigation, where King can demand SPLC documents to prove his case (and the SPLC can demand documents from King, as well).

Watkins’ ruling represents the first time that an SPLC-accused “hate group” has succeeded in making it to discovery in a defamation lawsuit directly challenging the SPLC on its “hate group” accusation. Many organizations, including the Center for Immigration Studies, the Proud Boys, Liberty Counsel, and D. James Kennedy Ministries, have failed to reach this point, even though D. James Kennedy Ministries appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

Read it.

Dog whistles work because they are inaudible to humans. Accusing a politician, therefore, of using “dog-whistle politics” – couching a (usually controversial) message to their core supporters in terms the general public do not notice – is formally self-refuting for doing so implies that it can be understood not just by the target audience, but also by the opposition. If that is so, however, the “dog whistle” is just a whistle. For the metaphor truly to work, the message needs to be so far removed from the understanding and concerns of the wider public that it sails straight over their heads, as when film-makers insert jokes aimed at adults into cartoons aimed at children.

Accusing Donald Trump of dog-whistle politics for his use of the phrase “America First”, previously associated with isolationism and the Ku Klux Klan, is therefore inapt. The history of that period is too well-known, and racism too central to the concerns of the left for them not to notice. But there is an area with which liberals, generally, have little experience and with whose language they are unfamiliar, and that makes it ripe territory for dog-whistling: religion.

The observation that Republicans are more likely to be religious than Democrats has been made so often that it has acquired its own name – the “God Gap”. In 2008, 28% of the latter claimed to have no religious affiliation, compared to 12% of the former. By 2021, the difference had widened to 45%-19%. Among those who do claim to be members of a religion, the figures are even more striking. About 80% of evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump twice.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I haven’t actually seen the verdict form, but it is not obvious why the jury would believe Carroll as to Trump’s “abusing and forcibly touching” her, but disbelieve her claim that he raped her. Perhaps the latter was simply a bridge too far in a crowded department store.

Carroll’s entire 27-year-old story was implausible, in my opinion. But a verdict in her favor was almost a foregone conclusion, given that Trump did not appear to testify on his own behalf. His deposition was taken during the case’s discovery phase, and some or all of it was played for the jury. I can only assume that Trump expected he would lose whether he testified or not, so he was better served, politically, to shun the proceeding and implicitly decline to accept its authority.

Will the verdict have any political impact? Some, I think. A jury finding is relatively credible, compared with merely being smeared by the press. And in many eyes, Trump’s checkered history will make plausible the jury’s finding that he sexually “abused” Carroll. The lawsuit was, in fact, a put-up job, encouraged and financed by anti-Trump activists. Nevertheless, the jury at least partially believed Jean Carroll, and that fact adds, not insignificantly, to the baggage that Trump carries as he seeks his party’s presidential nomination.

Why Journalists Have More Freedom Than Professors (N.Y. Times) Ross Douthat does his house-conservative thing.

Texas mall shooter had swastika, SS tattoos, online posts show (Times of Israel) Well, just hang everyone with a swastika or SS tattoo. Problem solved! Can’t touch the people with a hammer-and-sickle, though, that would be Extweeeeeemist.

George Alvarez charged with running over 18 migrants in Brownsville, Texas (N.Y. Post) Since Brown Is The New White, I guess this makes him a white supremacist and almost certainly a Trump supporter.

White House bans The Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms (N.Y. Post)

White House bans New York Post from attending Biden event (Fox)

Why are White House staff afraid to let a Post reporter question Biden?

8 of Neera Tanden’s Worst Attacks on Biden, GOP, Dems

GOP Threatens Blinken With Contempt Over Afghanistan Docs

nvestigators Examine Ideology of Texas Gunman  As if that had anything to do with the fact that he was bat-shit crazy. They’re just looking to see if they can pin it on ‘right-wing ideology’.

New York Times on Coronation: Royal Family’s ‘Racist, Sexist, Classist, and Out of Touch’  Yup, that’s why so many love them.

Americans, Not Conservatives, Strike Back Against Wokeism

Texas congressman criticized for prayers comment after mall shooting (Washington Post) Mostly by Narrative media jackals.

USA Today SMEARS Haley, Republicans for ‘Ruthless Assault’ on Kamala’s Competence

The GOP-Hungary connection shaping the ’24 campaign (Axios) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

‘It’s a Republican issue’: The View conservatives blame GOP lawmakers for mass shootings (Raw Story)There’s a Narrative media oxymoron for you: ‘View conservatives’.

Six months after midterm losses, election deniers mount new efforts (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘election denier’ means ‘opponent of Democrat vote fraud’.

Why non-White people might advocate white supremacy (Washington P0st) Philip Bump tries to step out of the shadow of Jennifer Rubin by trying to be even more deranged.

‘2,000 Years Ago They Hated Him, Too’: Chris Pratt Says He Relies on Jesus To Deal With Haters

Indoctrination Nation (New York Magazine) The Law of Liberal Projection in action: Jonathan Chait accuses conservatives of doing what proglodytes are actually attempting to do.

Former CIA chief Michael Morell, who wrote ex-spy letter dismissing The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reports, misled signers by saying he’d ‘clear’ it with agency (N.Y. Post)

Under the Radar, Right-Wing Push to Tighten Voting Laws Persists (N.Y. Times) It’s only ‘under the radar’ in the sense that the Narrative media refuse to report on it; but there’s an election coming up, so apparently the Times wants to crank up the FUD machine.

What Else Do Tucker Carlson’s Unredacted Texts Reveal? (Daily Beast) More to the point, what can we twist?

Need To Keep Masses Afraid Is Behind Elite Embrace Of Wokeism And Censorship  Michael Shellenberger.

MSNBC’s Dowd Says ‘They Banned Lawn Darts After Three Children Died’ But 4,000 Gun Deaths In Texas Haven’t Prompted Government Action (MEDIAite) There were more than 4,000 auto deaths in Texas, but they aren’t pushing for banning cars. (Since when is MSNBC a go-to source for anything other than comedy?)

Harlan Crow Sure Isn’t Paying for Your Kid’s School (Slate) Further attempts to keep smearing Clarence Thomas.

Timothy McVeigh’s Dreams Are Coming True (N.Y. Times) From Hitler to Emmet Till, muckrakers like Michelle Goldberg like to drag up old stuff and suggest it’s still a danger, as if nothing had happened since them. Needless to say, Goldberg has no clue what McVeigh’s dreams were, or would be. It’s all one big game of Let’s Pretend.

Scarborough Likens GOP On Guns To ‘Slaveholders And Segregationists’  And Scarborough is one of the most die-hard Let’s Pretend player on the air.

PBS on Cops Making Coronation Protester Arrests: More Like Moscow Than London

Newsom Launches ‘Hate’ Hotline for Californians To Report Attacks on Their ‘Actual or Perceived’ Identities

Harlan Crow refuses to hand over gift records to Senate Finance (Politico) The witch-hunt continues.

Axed Over Opposition to Trans Policies, California Teacher Wants To Take Her Case to Supreme Court

Trump late to right-wing attack on Missouri employer in passé Bud Light ‘controversy’ (Kansas City Star) Nothing to see here, move along,

Attorneys for Trump and E. Jean Carroll dispute character and evidence in closing arguments of civil rape trial (CNN) It’s not a ‘rape trial’, it’s a defamation trial. They like to say rape! rape! rape! because it makes Trump look bad. No surprises there.

Abraham Accords Led to Massive Boost in Israel’s Trade

Closing arguments in Jean Carroll’s civil case against Trump

Cheney launches New Hampshire TV ad slashing Trump (NBC News)

Judge Blocks Trump From Seeing Manhattan DA’s Evidence Without Supervision  Justice? What’s that?

Trump’s weird weapon: Bad news (Axios) If you can’t find something bad to say about Trump, make something up. It pays the same.

Read the new gag order muzzling Trump in his hush-money case (Insider) Telling the truth for once.

Liz Cheney launches anti-Trump ad on CNN ahead of former president’s town hall (Washington P0st)

Jury Rejects Rape Claim Against Trump but Awards Accuser $2M for Battery  Find a deep pocket–rare back and sue it!

Inside the ‘Death Match’ that Helped Doom Tucker Carlson at Fox (Rolling Stone)

Republicans like Abbott and Cruz who are politicizing gun violence (MSNBC) She actually said that with a straight face.

Massacre witness refutes right-wing talking point: ‘It wasn’t mental health that killed these people’ (Raw Story) Nope, the gun just pulled it’s own trigger; the crazy person holding it was just, like, standing there.

Like A Tweet, Lose Your Job

Asa Hutchinson: Trump Has ‘Moral Responsibility’ for Jan. 6  No, he doesn’t.

E. Jean Carroll Demands Trump Follow Court Order, Remove Rape Trial Posts (Newsweek) Free speech? Not for Trump!

Trump plays the inside game to stave off ’16-like convention chaos (Politico) After years in business, Trump became an experience businessman–apparently, after years in politics, Trump is becoming an experienced politician. Shocking.

Call It Trump’s Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was (Huffington Post) Narrative red in lie and smear.

Jamie Raskin Says Jack Smith Could Conceivably Charge Trump With Seditious Conspiracy (PoliticusUSA) The cloth cap covers the tinfoil.

Rebrand of the Rebrand: MAGA Oz Pivots Back to Being Dr. Oz (Daily Beast)

ABC: Tucker Carlson Promoted ‘Racist Views’ as Voice for ‘White Supremacy’  It’s all they’ve got, so it’s what they use, even though it’s obvious nonsense.

Senate Judiciary chair says ‘everything is on the table’ in response to Clarence Thomas revelations (CNN) Presumably including lynching Clarence Thomas from a lamp-post in front of the Capitol.

The Sotomayor exception  Rules are for thee but not for me.

The Gun Industry Wants America’s Malls and Schools to Be War Zones (The New Republic) Obvious nonsense.

Did Trump’s anti-glasses vanity doom his E. Jean Carroll defense  (Washington Post)

Key moments from the video of Trump’s deposition in E. Jean Carroll trial released to the public (CNN)