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).

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

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.

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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)

Donald Trump Judge ‘Calling His Bluff’ by Offering Chance To Testify—Lawyer (Newsweek)

Donald Trump goes on attack against rape case while on Irish trip (The Guardian)

Trump given three days to decide whether to testify in E. Jean Carroll case (The Hill)

Justice Dept. Intensifying Efforts to Determine if Trump Hid Documents (N.Y. Times) Ought to be ‘whether’, not ‘if’. Used to be you could depend on newspapers for correct grammar, but not any more.

DOJ finds ‘insider witness’ in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents probe: report

Trump, looking to regain 2016 magic, moves away from the Republican brand (NBC News) Since the Republican ‘brand’, to the extent that it has one, is ‘like Democrats only not as much’, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Hungary’s Orban Sees Trump as Key to West’s Comeback

11 witnesses testified in Donald Trump’s rape trial. Here’s what they said. (Politico) According to the Narrative.

Sorry, Nicolle! WaPo Reporter Tells Wallace: No Evidence Linking Trump To Proud Boys Violence

Irish reporters ask Trump why he’s golfing in Ireland instead of attending NYC civil rape trial (N.Y. Daily News)

Judge Tosses Trump’s Lawsuit Against NY Times, Orders Him to Pay All Legal Fees (Daily Beast)

Exclusive: Special counsel probing Trump Organization’s handling of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage (CNN)

Donald Trump’s Rape Trial Goes From One Disaster to Another (Daily Beast) Walls are closing in, etc. etc.

How Trump’s Legal Jeopardy Will Test American Democracy (Daily Beast) In the Narrative media, ‘American democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Behind Trump’s musical tribute to some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters (Washington Post)

Trump is inviting Dems to make 2024 about Jan. 6. And they’re obliging. (Washington Post)

New video reveals Tucker Carlson’s coarse remark about Dominion lawyer (The Guardian) Coarse!

The other thing that Tucker Carlson’s text message makes undeniable (Washington Post) Philip Bump is undeniable. Undeniable!

See the text that may have gotten Tucker Carlson fired (CNN) ThoughtCrime!

“How White Men Fight” (Mother Jones) White men aren’t allowed to fight!

Newly revealed text confirms Tucker Carlson is also privately racist (MSNBC) As opposed to MSNBC, which is publicly racist.

Uh, Oh! NPR Gets Triggered Over Elon Musk — Again

Poll: 36 Percent Would Watch Carlson Online

Dem Senator: Scalia accepted over 70 undisclosed gifts similar to Clarence Thomas (AlterNet)

Emails Reveal ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Herschel Walker Money Scandal (Daily Beast) Jaw-dropping!

Calif. Teacher Fired Over Gender Policies Sues

Attempt To Remove Soros-Backed Prosecutor Moves Forward; She Vows To Fight ‘Witch Hunt’

‘He’s Wrong,’ Expert Says as Education Secretary Implies Book Banning Responsible for Falling Civics, History Scores

Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition. (ProPublica) Think of it as reparations in action. Crow still has no business before the Supreme Court.

Daughter of Representative Katherine Clark sentenced to probation for assault on Boston police officer (Boston Globe) Good thing she wasn’t a Republican or she’d be in prison for years.

Scarborough Ignores Sotomayor News To Ask What If Thomas ‘Were Justice Sotomayor’

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn’t Recuse From Its Cases (Daily Wire)

CNN Welcomes Back Toobin To Attack Clarence Thomas As Unethical

Hate-Filled KC Star Smears Pro-Women Group as ‘Anti-Trans,’ Refuses to Run Op-Ed

The GOP megadonors with buyer’s remorse (MSNBC) Charlie Sykes goes full prog.

Media Matters Accidentally Makes Tucker Carlson Look Awesome With ‘Leaked’ Videos

ABC, NBC Buzzards Circle Justice Thomas, Ignore NEW Sotomayor Book Scandal

MSNBC Admits No Evidence Of Corruption, Still Demands Thomas Resign Or Be Impeached

Top Senate Democrats push for new ethics rules in wake of Clarence Thomas report as Republicans defend justice (CNN)

GOP frontrunner for NC governor mocked school shooting survivors and once justified shooting protesters (CNN)

Lauren Boebert hit with new campaign finance complaint for ‘illegally spending $60,000’ (Raw Story)

In defense of Justice Thomas

Ann Coulter.

Having failed to destroy Clarence Thomas 32 years ago with preposterous sexual harassment charges (disbelieved at the time by 60% of Americans), now the left is resorting to attacking the ethics of a man vastly more honorable than the collection of degenerates reviling him.

The sole purpose of the media’s sudden fixation on the Supreme Court’s “ethics” is to morally intimidate conservative justices by reminding them that the left controls the culture. Since they lost abortion, liberals have been in a panic that the court will junk other liberal sacraments, like gay marriage and affirmative action, too. That’s the reason for the stream of calumnies directed at the justices.

As usual, the main target of the left’s rage is Thomas. We’re supposed to be appalled that Thomas’ billionaire friend Harlan Crow took the justice and his wife on a vacation that (the media claim) would have cost Thomas more than $500,000!!!

Well, yeah, but Thomas and his wife, Ginny, weren’t going alone. They hadn’t just won a cruise sweepstakes. They were joining Crow on a vacation he was taking anyway. Cost to donor: a few extra chicken cutlets and string beans.

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The media want us to believe that generosity from personal friends is an ethical issue, but that’s because that’s not how liberals bribe government officials. They bombard their targets with the sort of public adoration that money can’t buy — or the sort of public hate that money can’t block. Your choice: Be beloved from every corner of society or be subjected to nonstop ridicule.

Trump had ‘40 zillion hands’ during alleged groping attack, called accuser a ‘c-nt’ on 2nd meeting: testimony (N.Y. Post) And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Trump assault accuser Jessica Leeds on taking the stand in E. Jean Carroll’s Trump rape civil trial (MSNBC)

Trump Makes at Least One Good Decision at His Rape Trial (Daily Beast)

E. Jean Carroll sounded ‘breathless’ and ‘emotional’ in call after alleged rape, friend testifies (CNN) With visions of dollar signs dancing in her head.

Why CNN Gave Trump a Prime-Time Town Hall—And Why Trump Accepted (Vanity Fair) Mind-reading in the Narrative media! It is of course ludicrous to pretend that anybody writing for Vanity Fair has a clue as to why Trump does what he does.

Trump’s Next Criminal Charge Is Practically on the Calendar (Vice) Practically! Almost certain! Very close! Just about!

There remains little value in broadcasting Trump’s comments live (Washington Post) There remains little value in reading what Philip Bump writes.

E. Jean Carroll’s Quest for Justice and the Carnage of Donald Trump’s Misogyny (Vanity Fair) Hey, we’ve got a few spare minute, let’s bash Trump.

Dem Megadonor Funding Trump Rape Lawsuit Visited Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedophile Island’

Editorial: Texas governor’s ‘illegal immigrants’ remark deflects from mass shooting horror (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Abbott’s tweet labeling Texas shooting victims ‘illegal immigrants’ was inhumane (Star-Telegram)

Clarence Thomas’s ethics are not the Supreme Court’s only problem (Washington Post) Philip Bump is not the only witch-hunter at the Washington Post.

An Anti-Trans Doctor Group Leaked 10,000 Confidential Files (Wired) Which they would have applauded had it been a pro-trans doctor group.

NYC’s Adams: Abbott’s Migrant-Busing Targets ‘Black-Run’ Cities  Which is any city run by Democrats.

6 Takeaways as Senate Democrats Target Clarence Thomas and Legitimacy of Supreme Court (The Foundry)

The Corrupt High Court (Talking Points Mem0)

How 18 Republicans Just Made Democratic Recapture of the House More Likely (The New Republic)

The Republican threat to our children (Robert Reich) Robert Reich is like Bernie Sanders’ idiot younger brother.

Democrats’ Attack on Supreme Court Intensifies

John Roberts Does Understand How Checks and Balances Work (Slate)

Texas’s Solution to School Shootings: Training 8-Year-Olds in “Battlefield Trauma Care” (Vanity Fair) More useful than gun bans that don’t stop

Former Nevada assemblyman, election denier Jim Marchant running for US Senate (Nevada Independent) Denier! Denier! Denier!

Ruhle Wonders Why Roberts’s Wife Is Allowed To Work For Law Firms  I wonder why Ruhle is allowed to soil the airwaves with her bile.

Kings College Professor Banned From Using ‘Male’ And ‘Female’ In Research

Tucker Carlson sent a racist text to a producer: ‘It’s not how white men fight’ (CNN) Sure,  I believe that….

Senate Committee Hearing Exposes Left’s Campaign to Manipulate Supreme Court

The Democrats’ war against the conservative justices on SCOTUS

‘Digital Brownshirts’ at It Again! NYT Boosts Group Pushing Google to Censor

E. Jean Carroll takes stand in Trump rape allegation case for a third day (CNN)

Trump’s Lawyers Go After E. Jean Carroll’s ‘Fabulous’ Life (Daily Beast)

Trump attorney seeks mistrial in E. Jean Carroll civil rape trial (MSNBC)

Twitter Users Slam CNN For Scheduling Donald Trump ‘Town Hall’ Meeting (Huffington Post)

Trump Lawyers: Let Him Discuss Hush Money Evidence

Trump’s Rape Trial Does Not Appear to Be Going as Well as His Lawyer Had Hoped (Vanity Fair)

Here’s how right-wing media shields Trump from his scandals (Washington Post)  Philip Bump is Jennifer Ruben’s understudy at the WaPo.

Texas governor goes out of his way to say Texas shooting victims were ‘illegal immigrants’ (MSNBC) ‘Out of his way’? There’s no evidence that this was ‘out of his way”; this is just a gratuitous smear.

Kansas teacher rips district for diversity training amid teacher shortage: ‘Repeated white shaming’ (Fox)

Republicans Fine With Supreme Court Justices Having No Formal Code Of Ethics (Huffington Post) As were Democrats, before the witch-hunt started.

Copenhagen mayor to California’s ‘Danish Capital’: Stop acting homophobic (L.A.Times)

Minnesota lawmaker Sen. Bahr is shirtless during Zoom meeting: Video  Cal is a Republican, of course; nobody would mention it if he were a Democrat.

2 Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year-olds to be allowed to serve alcohol in restaurants (Insider) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…..

2024 Presidential Candidate Wants To ‘Shut Down The FBI,’ Replace It

MSNBC’s Ruhle Claims A Lot of Culture Wars Made Up By GOP

What Is a Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed to Say

Who paid for Ron DeSantis’ trip overseas? No one will say. (Politico)

What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows (The Atlantic)

Megyn Kelly Warns Tucker: Fox Trying to Destroy You

The Next Front in the GOP’s War on Women: No-Fault Divorce (Rolling Stone)

Tucker Carlson’s creepy behind-the-scenes comments (Media Matters for America)

The aggrieved Justice Alito points fingers but offers no proof (Washington P0st) Ruth Marcus needs to learn how to read. Alito pointed no fingers, precisely because he doesn’t have the proof to do so. He already said that.

‘Disgraceful’: GOP Senators Accuse Dems of Threatening to Yank Supreme Court Justices’ Security Funding

CNNer: GOP Has ‘Gun’ Pointed at ‘Head of the Global Economy’

MSNBC: ‘Really Disturbing’ for GOP to Play Thomas ‘High-Tech Lynching’ Video

Woman arrested for allegedly throwing wine at Rep. Matt Gaetz (CNBC) But, of course, only Republicans indulge in political violence.

Soros Henchman Attacks NY Post for Exposing Billionaire’s Ties to Radical DAs

One Year Later: Dobbs Leak Led to Attacks on Justices, Pro-Lifers, Catholics

Middle school student allegedly sent home for refusing to change shirt that said ‘There are only two genders’ (Fox)

The Anatomy of a Washington Post Smear Campaign

Kyrsten Sinema’s Party of One (New York Times)

Student sentenced to 10 days in jail for peaceful protest of anti-trans policies

A Hot Mess in the Georgia Republican Party (N.Y. Times) Spreading Narrative FUD.

The secret delegate battle that will decide the 2024 Republican nominee (Vox) Spreading Narrative FUD.

The first arrests from DeSantis’s election police take extensive toll (Washington Post)

Clash Erupts Over Work Requirements for Federal Aid

Washington Post Front Page Hypes ‘Far Right’ Freedom Caucus ‘Pledges Fiscal WAR’

Al Franken: Supreme Court is ‘Illegitimate’  But not as much of a bastard as Franken.

12-Year-Old Student Pulled From Class Over T-Shirt About Gender

Is Fox News holding Tucker Carlson hostage?

Sen. Schumer Letter to Dems: ‘MAGA’ Debt Plan ‘Far-Right Ransom Note’  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Indiana Republican Faces Liberal Outrage After He Jokes That He’s Now a Lesbian Trans Woman of Color

6 Scandal-Plagued Senate Democrats Attack Clarence Thomas Over Ethics 

NYC Mayor: Abbott Busing Migrants to ‘Black-Run’ Cities  I.e. Democrat cities.

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Consider Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker, a women’s rights activist who holds rallies under the rubric Let Women Speak. She advertises a place and time, turns up with stewards in hi-viz jackets, and hands the mic to any woman with something to say. Some talk about men who identify as women using women’s toilets and changing rooms at workplaces and gyms, or muscling into women-only support groups for everything from addiction to the menopause.

One frequent speaker served a prison sentence locked up with a trans-identified man; another, a disabled woman, fears asking for a female carer only for a man who identifies as a woman to turn up. An increasingly common theme is schools colluding with gender-distressed children’s delusion that they can change sex.

In a sane world, what these women say wouldn’t attract criticism; indeed, it wouldn’t even need to be said. But often they are drowned out by transactivists shrieking threats and slogans of the sort Robert Jay Lifton, in his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, called thought-terminating clichés: “brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases [that] become the start and finish of any ideological analysis”. “Trans women are women”. “Trans rights are human rights”. “Kill all terfs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists]”.

Prosecutors in Jan. 6 Case Step up Inquiry Into Trump Fund-Raising (N.Y. Times)

He blew the whistle on Trump’s Truth Social. Now he works at Starbucks. (Washington Post)

How the Trump Years Weakened the Media (Politico)

Rape Case Places Trump in Legal Jeopardy. Politically, He’s Thriving. (N.Y. Times)

MSNBC Legal Analyst: It’s a ‘Disservice’ to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser

sdBar that kicked out customers after Bud Light controversy makes desperate plea to win back business (Fox)

Whiney restaurant owner stops serving Bud Light because of Dylan Mulvaney partnership (LGBTQNation)

George Santos, Instead of Shrinking From the Spotlight, Steps Into It (N.Y. Times)

Media VILIFIED GOP Budget-Cutters During 2011 Debt Fight

The North Carolina Supreme Court Signs Off on a Political Gerrymander (Civil Discource With Joyce Vance) By Republicans, of course; she would have no problem with a Democrat gerrymander.

Joe Rogan: Fox Should Just Pay off Carlson

MSNBC Pans Alito On Assassination Threats: ‘Some Kind Of Headline’

The Kyrsten Sinema Theory Of American Politics (The Atlantic) The Narrative media are full of people who think they can read minds, like the dimwits at the Rolling Stone who are convinced that they know what Republicans are thinking.

Top Fox Hosts Are Telling Friends They Could Be the Next to Go (Rolling Stone)

CNN Hits ‘Very Ideological’ GOP, Biden From The Left On Transgenderism

CNN Host Shockingly Blasts Teachers Union Boss Over School Closure Lies

On attacking any Republican candidate

Dismantling the Supreme Court’s ‘misdirection’ about its own ethics (CNN)

This Is What the Right-Wing Takeover of a Progressive College Looks Like (N.Y. Times) I guess Michelle Goldberg doesn’t think that the Left-Win takeover of a non-progressive college is worth writing about.

AOC Is Wrong – Deplatforming Never Works  What a cheeky little totalitarian she is.

PBS Aids Trans Legislator Zooey Zephyr’s ‘Blood on Your Hands’ and ‘Eradication’ Smears

Republicans ramp up attacks on transgender people, in statehouses and on the campaign trail (CNN) Apparently transgender people’s attacks on Republicans aren’t worth writing about.

Trump Accuser Admits to Sexually Harassing Roger Ailes (NewsMax) In pari delictu.

Think Manchin has coal connections? Meet his rival. (Politico)

The Online Racists Stealing Military Secrets (Rolling Stone) People like Edward Snowdon and ‘Chelsea’ Manning?

MSNBC Says It’s Racist for State Police to Enforce Law in Jackson, MS

Federal appeals court upholds several voter restrictions enacted by Florida Republicans (CNN)

Texas AG Paxton Backs Christian Baker in Third Lawsuit

What’s really behind Republicans’ mounting transphobia? (Robert Reich) How would he know? Can he read minds?

German Domestic Spy Agency Labels AfD Youth Org As “Extreme Right”, Enabling Mass Surveillance Of All Members

Senior EU Official Issues Warning to Twitter over Moderation Failings

The Polite Disdain of John Roberts Finds a Target (N.Y. Times) More accurately, perhaps: The Polite Disdain for John Roberts Finds a Target.

DeSantis and Florida GOP look to upend public record laws as they attempt to shield his travel and other records ahead of likely White House bid (CNN)

Accused Pentagon leaker’s violent rhetoric raises fresh questions about top secret vetting process (CNN)

A new Senate bill would curb Trump’s worst judges (Vox) All Trump! All the time!

GOP uses state capitol protests to redefine ‘insurrection’ (Associated Press) Hey, if the Left can redefine ‘woman’, then anything goes.

Ron DeSantis in Guantánamo: how questions about his past haunt the Florida governor (The Guardian) They may haunt writers for The Guardian but I doubt that they haunt DeSantis at all.

No, You Absolutely Do Not Have to Hand It to Tucker Carlson (The Nation) The chief virtue of Tucker Carlson is that he drives all of the proglodyte ankle-biters insane.

Fox News Ratings Collapse by 50% as Newsmax Soars

Scarborough Outraged Childless Bachelor Sen. Lindsey Graham Speaks Against Abortion

Trump’s Rape Trial

Judge rebukes Trump for ‘entirely inappropriate’ post before E Jean Carroll testimony (The Guardian)

Jury Has Likely Decided Trump’s Fate in Rape Case Already (Daily Beast) Admitting the truth: That Trump can’t get a fair trial in New York.

Is Trump Inevitable? Some in the GOP Are Starting To Wonder (Politico) Spreading the Narrative FUD.

Trump is racking up GOP endorsements, even amid criminal jeopardy (Washington Post)

Trump lawyers offer detailed defense to Mar-a-Lago case (Washington Post)

Washington Examiner.

The news that Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s highest-rated prime-time host, abruptly left the network sent shockwaves throughout the media world on Monday. The ladies of ABC’s The View, were, of course, delirious over the development. The left-leaning website The New Republic found the news “hilarious” and wrote, “It turns out the Fox News host wasn’t nearly as bulletproof as he thought he was.”

But they weren’t the only ones to hop aboard the schadenfreude train. They were quickly joined by conservative anti-Trumpers and former Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes.

Jonah Goldberg is turning into a great disappointment. He isn’t as much of a whore for the Establishment as Bill Kristol or David French, but he is a disappointment.

Florida Phoenix.

Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHH….

The real reason for the Supreme Court’s corruption crisis (Vox) Anybody who could believe that Clarence Thomas was ‘corrupt’ is doing too much drugs. Besides, anything this guy says applies even more to the prog justices, who don’t even pretend to stick to the Constitution. That’s the corruption that counts.

How Bud Light made its true feelings about Dylan Mulvaney depressingly clear (MSNBC)

Tucker Carlson Fans Cancel Fox Nation Subscriptions

Carlson’s Willingness to Question Dominant Narratives Made Him an Enemy of Powerful Establishment

Researcher Ousted for ‘Dangerous’ Study Into Censorship of Feminists in Academia Who Don’t Buy Into Transgenderism

RFK Jr. Responds To DNC’s Plans To Skip Primary Debates: ‘The System Is Indeed Rigged’

The Memo: How long will Tucker Carlson’s influence linger? (The Hill)

The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built (Wired)

Fox Has a Secret ‘Oppo File’ to Keep Tucker Carlson in Check, Sources Say (Rolling Stone)

‘Good riddance’: Pentagon officials cheer Tucker Carlson’s ouster (Politico) As do all of the other Deep State apparatchiks.

Tucker Carlson had to go because he was having way too much fun at others’ expense (Arizona Republic)

Fox loses $500 million in value after announcing Tucker Carlson is leaving (CBS News)

Watchdog group requests criminal investigation of Tennessee Speaker Cameron Sexton (Popular Information) In the Narrative media, ‘watchdog group’ means ‘band of proglodyte busybodies’.

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue

“Good Riddance”: Military-Industrial Complex Celebrates Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit

A Far-Right Moms Group Is Terrorizing Schools in the Name of Protecting Kids (Vice) Far-Righ1! Terrorizing! (Hey, maybe they just don’t want their kids exposed to perverts and their literature.)

Daily Show, Buttigieg Team Up To Attack GOP ‘Culture Wars,’ Fox

The Wall Street Journal’s Double Standards (The Bulwark) Mona Charen outs herself as a CINO as the Kristol Krew continues to carry water for the Left.

Grown Adult Temper Tantrums Over Misgendering, Deadnaming & Male Periods

Hate crimes will spike around the 2024 presidential election, civil rights group warns (USA Today) Especially since their business model depends on it.

Library Group Blames Book Challenges on Anti-LGBT Prejudice, Ignores Porn Charges 

The Case for Tucker Carlson’s Show to Move to Twitter

New Ky. Poet Laureate Called Trump Supporters Bigots

CNN Claims Permit-Less Carry Only in Red States, But Their Map Shows Blue States

I don’t love Biden, but I’m terrified of Trump (CNN) Good.

Decision On Trump Indictment To Be Annouced ‘In The Near Future’: Fulton County DA  As close to the election as possible.

Donald Trump needs protective order to prevent him from publicizing evidence, prosecutors say (ABC) What are they trying to hide?

Manhattan DA Moves To Stop Trump From Looking at Trial Documents Without Supervision

DA to decide on Georgia election probe charges in summer (Asasociated Press) Another Soros-backed ‘DA of Color’ goes after Trump.

Atlanta Prosecutor Sets Timetable for Charging Decisions in Trump Investigation (N.Y. Times) As close to the election as possible, I have no doubt.

Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts (Daily Beast) He hopes, he hopes, he hopes….

Biden’s never-Trump campaign for ’24 (Axios)

Jurors in the Trump rape case were advised to use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity (Insider)