This Georgia County Spent $1 Million to Avoid Paying for One Employee’s Gender-Affirming Care (ProPublica)

US banks want socialism for themselves – and capitalism for everyone else (The Guardian) Robert Reich is apparently unfamiliar with the definitions of both ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’.

A new Arkansas law allows an anti-abortion monument at the state Capitol (NPR) Of course, they wouldn’t object to a pro-abortion monument.

The American Elite Are Planning Their Escape — And It Starts With Paying For Passports (Huffington Post) I would do the same.

The de-Russianification of Art

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Stanford Dean Who Berated Federal Judge Draws Six-Figure Salary

Jury Convicts 4 Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 ‘Conspiracy’

The View Blames GOP for Stanford Libs Shouting Down Conservative

Kevin McCarthy’s desperate plea to MAGA reveals a glaring GOP failure (Washington P0st) Greg Sargent continues to invent reasons to criticize Republicans.

Stanford Students Demand Journalist Remove Their Names From Stories… After Targeting Other Students By Name  Rules are for thee but not for me. (The National Lawyers Guild is a Commie front organization that has somehow managed to cling to life since the 1930s.)

Mississippi Republicans Want to Take Over a Majority Black City to ‘Save’ It (Daily Beast)

MSNBC Hints Trump’s ‘Take Back Nation’ Call a Crime, Ignores Kamala’s ‘Bloody Knuckles’

Ron DeSantis Is Completely Out of Touch With Ordinary Americans (Daily Beast) As if someone writing for the Daily Beast knew anything at all about ‘ordinary Americans’.

George Santos never filed a key financial disclosure. Enforcement has been lax for years. (Politico) Just a reminder that the Narrative Media witch-hunt never sleeps.

Reagan Allies Schemed to Delay U.S. Hostages’ Freedom to Sabotage Carter, Alleged Witness Says  (Rolling Stone) Sure, I believe that.

Why white Christian nationalists are in such a panic (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin re-surfaces, full of bile.

Manhattan DA’s office ‘asked for a meeting’ with law enforcement ahead of possible Trump indictment (Fox)

Manhattan district attorney looks into Trump alleged “hush money” payment (CBS) Which is not illegal, no matter how much hand-wringing the Usual Suspects may do.

Law enforcement preparing for possible Trump indictment next week (NBC) A blatantly political move intended to knock him out of the election.

The risks of indicting Trump in the N.Y. hush money case (MSNBC)

Alvin Bragg May Not Be As Close To Trump Indictment As Thought (Newsweek)

“I’m Back” – Trump Posts On Facebook For First Time Since 2021

Federal Judge Hands Over Trump’s Lawyer’s Notes to DOJ (Daily Beast) Such notes are in theory privileged, but I guess not if you’re the New Hitler.

Trump Says He’ll Be Arrested Tuesday as DA Eyes Charges (NewsMax)

Trump says ‘illegal leaks’ indicate he will be arrested Tuesday in N.Y. hush money probe (NBC)

Trump will surrender to face charges if indicted, defense lawyer says (CNBC)

Reaction Suggests Trump Arrest Will Make Him Stronger

Get ready for Manhattan DA’s made-for-TV Trump prosecution: high on ratings, but short on the law (The Hill) Jonathan Turley looks at possible trumped-up charges.

Manhattan DA Announces Plan To Get Trump Elected In 2024

“Arresting Trump makes him the GOP nominee. A rich guy willing to risk his freedom for his politics cannot be beaten in a primary.” — ZMan

If these clowns actually go through this this, it will blow up in their faces and they will regret it forevermore.

Federal prosecutors warn court of potential deluge of January 6 charges – report (The Guardian)

DOJ warned courts to expect a new wave of January 6 prosecutions in ‘next few months’ They can’t let it go.

Ron DeSantis Eating Pudding With His Fingers Will End His 2024 Bid (New York Magazine) Really, you can’t make this shit up.

DeSantis Will Betray Ukraine for MAGA Votes (The Atlantic)

Once a darling of defense hawks, Ron DeSantis retreats (NBC) A tendentious mischaracterization in pursuit of the Narrative.

Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire (Mother Jones) Or so the progs would have you believe.

The Federalist Society Isn’t Quite Sure About Democracy Anymore (Politico) A bare-faced smear job.

Pence’s Joke About Buttigieg Turns The Daily Show Into The Joke Police

Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured (UK Independent) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The ‘Dallas Express’: Your Go-To Source For Right-Wing, Astroturf News (Texas Tribune) As opposed to the Texas Tribune, which is your go-to source for Left-Wing Astroturf News.

The Ousted Reporter Was Right to Call Out Ron DeSantis’ Propaganda (Politico) Except that it obviously wasn’t ‘propaganda’, and this is just one proglodyte hand washing another.

The View Dings Conservatives for Book Banned By Leftists Schools

2 in 5 Republicans want Fox held accountable for false 2020 claims (Washington P0st) I doubt it.

Meltdown: Paul storms out of Homeland Security markup after clash on amendments (The Hill)

Whoopi Goldberg tapes video apology for saying ‘gypped’ on ‘The View’: ‘I’m really sorry’ (Fox)

Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using racially insensitive word on ‘The View’ — again (L.A. Times) I’ll bet you didn’t know that Gypsies were a race.

JK Rowling says she knew her views on transgender issues would make ‘many folks deeply unhappy’ (The Guardian)

JK Rowling salutes ‘grateful’ fans who stood by her after trans comments, hits cancel culture ‘dictators’ (Fox)

Judge Denies Requests From Jan. 6 Defendants To Cross-Examine FBI Agent On Leaked Messages

GOP lawmakers cringe over Trump’s effort to destroy DeSantis (The Hill)

Colbert Labels Reagan A Crack Dealer, Condemns Pro-Lifers With Harris

The Dilemma of Horny Bro Conservativism (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes continues the Kristol Krew’s march to the Left.

21% of Fox News Viewers Trust Network Less After Texts Revealed in Dominion Lawsuit: Survey (Varfiety)

SCANDAL! Childish Daily Beast Seethes Over DeSantis, Claims He…Ate Pudding with Fingers?

Be skeptical of Elon Musk’s claims of educational ‘indoctrination’ (Washington Post)

The View Spews Misinformation About MTG’s District Being Gerrymandered

Meyers, Penn Condemn ‘Incredibly Stupid’ GOP Opposition to Wokeness

Fulton County investigators have another recording of a Trump phone call pressuring a Georgia official (CNN)

‘Our best face’: How ‘peaceful’ MAGA leader Amy Kremer cultivated ties to a violent Three Percenter group (RawStory)

Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens Even as They Bore Down on Trumpworld

Looming Trump charges threaten to inject chaos into 2024 campaign (Axios)

There’s a new chief judge in DC who could help determine the fate of Donald Trump

Inside the Trump world-organized retreat to plot out Biden oversight

Investigators seek to question attorney about phone call with Trump in classified docs probe: Sources (ABC)

As 2024 election looms, Pence implies Trump is a bad Christian (Washington Post)

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Plenty of other falsehoods and misrepresentations animate the fable of January 6. But for those honestly seeking the truth, consider this a cheat sheet for future use.

Steve Hayward at Power Line.

About a decade after the end of the Vietnam War, by which time the bloodbaths of the Communist takeover of South Vietnam and the spillover of the carnage to Cambodia were undeniable, the West German journalist Uwe-Siemon-Netto, who had specialized in anti-American reportage as a correspondent during the war, caused a stir in Europe when he publicly suggested that for him and his fellow anti-war activists, the most appropriate course of action was a prolonged period of silence.

This recommendation comes back to mind just now in watching the neocon freakout over Gov. Ron DeSantis expressing doubts about our Ukrainian policy. Bill Kristol had an embolism on Twitter, his most prominent public platform these days. (How the mighty have fallen.) The Ukraine romantics (I’ll call them) rushed to say that Gov. DeSantis’s position was “pro-Putin,” even though DeSantis said he supported aid to Ukraine, but worried that the Biden Administration and other cheerleaders for our Ukrainian support don’t have a clear strategy and seem heedless of—or frightened by—the risks. It looks more and more like Vietnam all over again, in which we thought we could calibrate “graduated pressure” to achieve a precise outcome while always fearful of what a more forceful strategy might entail. War doesn’t work like that. As Ronald Reagan liked to say in the 1960s, we should either win, or get out. Everyone said he was irresponsible and naïve.

Republicans leave Colorado GOP after election denier becomes state party leader (Next9News)

The Colorado GOP’s Slow-Rolling MAGA Suicide (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue selling out.

The hypocrisy of Pence dissing Buttigieg taking ‘maternity leave’ (MSNBC)

White House calls on Pence to apologize for ‘homophobic joke’ about Buttigieg (CNN)

This is ‘serious damage Ron DeSantis did to the United States’: Retired general (RawStory)

DC Freaks Out Over DeSantis’s Ukraine Comments; Voters Shrug

Hating Everyone Everywhere All At Once At Stanford

Chris Murphy: Republicans ‘don’t give a crap’ about children or gun violence (The Guardian)

MSNBC: DeSantis Loves Putin’s Russia Because ‘There Are No Gay People’

Trump Judge Kyle Duncan got exactly what he wanted out of Stanford: Fame (S.F. Chronicle) Another mind-reading proglodyte.

Sold: Yacht With a Waterfall. Price: $19 Million. Broker: George Santos. (N.Y. Times) The witch-hunt continues.

LOSING THEIR MINDS: Lefty Journos and Celebs Rage Against ‘Fascist’ ‘Hitler’ DeSantis

Putin’s Boy from Tallahassee (Puck)

The GOP’s stunning realignment on foreign policy (Axios) He’s shocked–shocked, I tell you–that Republicans have stopped drinking the Kool-Aid.

Antifa State University: Charlie Kirk Sparks ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Riot at UC-Davis

Protesters Disrupt Charlie Kirk Event at UC Davis  I’m sorry, but Charlie Kirk looks like an android.

A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of ‘woke’ as an attack (Washington Post)

The “Free State of Florida” Is Coming for You (The Triad) Jonathan Last is a reliable proglodyte witch-hunter.

Protesting an Anti-Trans Trump Judge Isn’t Disrespectful, It’s American (The Nation) No, it’s proglodyte.

Banking On Censorship: Sen. Kelly Becomes Latest Dem To Suggest Barring Opposing Views On Social Media  Democrats are the real fascists.

A Quick Look at the Lying Trumpist Liars Behind that Database on Corporate Giving to “BLM” (Talking Points Memo)

DeSantis’ Ukraine Comments Show He’s Playing for the Pro-Putin Wing of the GOP (Daily Beast)

Telemundo Helps Kick Off AMLO’s ‘Diplomatic Offensive’ Against Republicans

Trump returns to Iowa, with a plan to avoid the missteps he made in 2016 (Politico) And the mind-readers at Politico know all about it.

Fearing indictment, Trump changes his story in hush money mess (MSNBC)

Trump claims violence he inspired on Jan. 6 was Pence’s fault (Washington Post)

Weird! George ‘Bimbo Eruption’ Stephanopoulos Grills Trump Lawyer on Hush Money

Donald Trump just called for another coup and hardly anyone even noticed (RawStory) Perhaps because it’s a lie. Or because the author, a Person of Color, doesn’t know what ‘coup’ means.

Fox News braces for more turbulence as second defamation lawsuit advances (The Guardian)

How Fox News Begged D-List Right-Wingers to Defend Them (Daily Beast)

The hits keep coming for election-deniers (Washington Post) Huh? There was no mention of Hillary Clinton in this article.

Why big and small businesses flock to Delaware (CNBC)

Here’s why more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware (CNBC)

Former Fox producer for Tucker Carlson feared truth telling would insult ‘dumb’ audience (CNN)

Barney Frank blames crypto panic for his bank’s collapse. Elizabeth Warren blames Trump. (Politico)

Prosecutors refute claims Tucker Carlson’s airing of security footage exonerates January 6 defendants (CNN)

Tucker Carlson’s disingenuous effort to exonerate the QAnon Shaman (Washington Post)

Why Fox News wants you to be afraid of electric bikes (Electrek)

Conservatives blame Silicon Valley Bank collapse on ‘diversity’ and ‘woke’ issues (NBC)

The Supreme Court Conservatives’ Favorite New Weapon for Kneecapping the Administrative State (The New Republic)

Jan. 6 Attorney Alleges FBI Criminally Altered Evidence, Requests Special Master Review Of Leaked Messages

White House rebukes Mike Pence over homophobic jokes about Pete Buttigieg (The Guardian)

Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology (Washington Free Beacon)

Matt Gaetz’s New Staffer Identifies as a ‘Raging Misogynist’ (Daily Beast)

The Boys Who Cried ‘Woke!’ (N.Y. Times)

GOP election deniers increasingly admit they’re just going off vibes (Washington Post)

Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi CLAPS BACK After Dem Calls Him ‘So-Called’ Journalist

Vermont Bans Christian School Teams for Transgender Boycott

Vermont Christian School that Refused to Play Trans Player Banned from Future Tournaments

The View Flips Out Over Pence’s Buttigieg Joke, Laughed at Murdering Pro-Lifers

Why ‘MAGA’ is so appealing to older Republicans (Washington Post) ‘Analysis’ by a clueless proglodyte mind-reader.

Embattled Rep. George Santos indicates intention to run for re-election (NBC) I’d do the same in his place.

Is Ron DeSantis Flaming Out Already? (The Atlantic) David Frum, reliable Voice of the Crust, starts the effort to undermine DeSantis.

PBS Never Satisfied: ‘Oscars So Male’ and Other Bean-Counting Academy Awards Gripes

Mike Pence’s hypocrisy knows no bounds in his strongest rebuke of Trump to date (CNN)

The irony: Clarence Thomas wants to topple a precedent that helps Fox News (MSNBC)

Suit keeps telling the truth about Fox News. It’s not pretty (San Jose Mercury News)

Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance” (ProPublica) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Proud Boys prosecutors push back on claims of misconduct after discovery of internal FBI messages (Politico)

Nikki Haley just handed Joe Biden a major gift (CNN)

Stanford Tells Federalist Society Students To ‘Reach Out’ to Diversity Dean Who Encouraged Disruption of Their Event—and To Shut Up on Twitter

Prosecutors say newly aired Chansley footage paints misleading portrait of his Jan. 6 conduct (Politico) Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

What Florida Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Book Bans (Daily Beast) More mind-reading from the Usual Suspects.

Senate GOP’s 2024 landmines (Axios)

White House condemns Pence’s homophobic, misogynistic comments (Washington Blade)

Proposed SCOTUS Ethics ‘Model’ Targets Justice Thomas, Wife

Woody Guthrie’s family tells Josh Hawley ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not for use by ‘insurrectionists’ (RawStory) Ironic, coming from a bunch of Communists.

Straight White Women Leaving Everyone Behind — Rapinoe

The Republican Party May Not Be Fascist, But It’s Definitely Getting Fasci-er (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait has the Jennifer Rubin chair at NYMag.

‘Farrago of lies’: Naomi Wolf Apologizes for Believing Media’s Jan. 6 Narrative 

McCaul says Pence right in condemning Trump for Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Inside Pence world’s decision to go hard at Trump at the Gridiron (Politico)

Pence reaffirms stance against Trump’s words on Jan. 6 as indictment looms (MSNBC)

Mary Trump Predicts What Donald Trump Will Do If He Loses Again (Newsweek)

A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’ (RawStory)

A Trump Indictment Would Put Republicans in a Bind (Bloomberg) Uh, no, it wouldn’t.

Trump continues to suck the air out of the GOP primary (Politico)

The Colorado GOP’s Slow-Rolling MAGA Suicide (The Bullwark)

Trump has ‘no plans’ to participate in Manhattan grand jury probe, attorney says (ABC News) Why volunteer to be the witch in a witch-hunt?

Why an indictment may actually boost Trump’s campaign (Public Notice) It makes the witch-hunt obvious.

Jan. 6 Song Using Trump’s Voice Tops ITunes Charts

Orthodox Rabbi Debunks Left’s Claim That Conservatives Want To Force ‘Christian Values’ Down Americans’ Throats

MSNBC Alleges DeSantis And Youngkin Seek To ‘Demoralize’ Black People

Can Trump’s ‘Straight Man’ Lighten Up? (Politico)

What Would Happen If American Elites Told The Truth?

Lauren Boebert will be a grandmother at 36. This is what conservatives want for us (The Guardian) Non sequitur.

Democrats Refuse To Address The Contents Of The Twitter Files – Attack The Messengers Instead

PBS Attacks Former Ark. GOP Gov: Transgender ‘Rhetoric Leads to Real-World Violence’  Certainly: Violence by trans-activists and their running mates on the mobocratic Left.

France: Senator Tried for Tweeting “Immigration Kills the Youth”

A Trump veteran at Fox struggled to balance election lies with the network’s interests (Washington Post)

NBC’s Todd: DeSantis Teaching Dangers of Communism is ‘Politicizing’  He says that like it was a bad thing.

Federal Judge Calls On Stanford To Fire DEI Dean That Participated In Student-Led Revolt  Ain’t gonna happen.

MSNBC Vocab: Ron DeSantis Is a ‘MAGA Extremist Bully,’ a ‘Fascist,’ and a ‘Richard’

PBS Whines as DC Crime Bill Trounced: GOP ‘Pounced,’ Dems ‘Blindsided’

Atlantic Writer Discovers Weird Wacky World of YouTube Censorship

Trump Gets Caught Trying to Play Judges to Manufacture Trial Delays (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Without Evidence, ABC’s Martha Raddatz Blames Trump for SVB Collapse

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Over the past two centuries, legislation, random chance, and a variety of land deals have left the American West with a patchwork landscape of public and private land. Within the patchwork lie swaths of alternating sections of public and private land, like the squares of a checkerboard. At every point where four squares meet, there is a property corner ripe for controversy. With the issue of corner-crossing in the news again, we decided to leverage our strengths and drill down on the data. What we discovered was shocking in its scope.

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If you ask OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT to generate a Steve Sailer tweet, it will respond, “I’m sorry, I cannot generate a Steve Sailer tweet, as his tweets often contain controversial and divisive content, which goes against OpenAI’s values of promoting kindness and respect.” Major publications are afraid to cite him. Journalists I know are afraid to be seen interacting with him on Twitter. A Florida professor was disciplined by his university for linking to a Steve Sailer article on his personal Twitter account.

Steve, along with John Derbyshire, Stacy McCain, and Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna, tell it like it is, rather than the way the Narrative would like it to be. (I think I now need to include Scott Adams among The Saints….)

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion’s defamation suit (L.A. Times)

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch dismisses $1.6 billion defamation case revelations as ‘noise’ (CNN)

Fox News’ ‘craven hypocrisy’ on alleged voter fraud runs deep (Tampa Bay Times)

Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country (Mother Jones) Dunh dunh DUNHHHH…. I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Fox News Editor Overseeing Crime Fearmongering Is Felon Himself (Daily Beast) Who would know better?

House Republicans Launch Probe Into Jan. 6 Panel

The FCC could choose to act against Rupert Murdoch for Fox News’ election lies, but few expect it to (NBC News)

Beware The Nonresponsive Response To Tucker Carlson

CLOWN SHOW: VA Governor Glenn Youngkin Ambushed at CNN Town Hall

Ron DeSantis is just getting started with his rightwing agenda. That should worry us all (The Guardian)

Ron DeSantis Loves to Bash the Press. Will That Playbook Work in a Presidential Race? (Vanity Fair)

In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment (NPR) For NPR, of course, there is no ‘right’ but the ‘far-right’. I’ll leave you guess how many times NPR has warned about ‘far-left’ groups.

Playbook: The GOP’s 2024 picture snaps into focus (Politico) Forging the new Narrative ahead of the election.

NBC’s Lester Holt Leaves Republicans on the Cutting-Room Floor

Colbert Labels GOP Bad Christians For Budget Priorities  Colbert wouldn’t know a Christian if one bit him on the ass.

Meet the ‘Ghost’ Woman Fox Relied on for Voter Fraud Claims (Daily Beast)

GOP Presidential Field Rallies Around One Idea: Declare Drug Cartels Terrorists  Which they obviously are.

MSNBC Compares Florida To Jim Crow To Urge MLB To Denounce DeSantis

Heckler’s Veto: Judge shouted down at Stanford law school with help from Dean of DEI (Hot Air) The ‘Dean of DEI’ is, of course, a fat ugly black woman

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Trump Official Gives Marjorie Taylor Greene Exactly What She Wants (Newsweek)

Sealed hearing in DOJ’s attempt to force Trump attorney to testify ends without a ruling (CNN)

Will Oprah Sue Donald Trump? Book Revelations Could Land Him in Hot Water (Newsweek)

New York prosecutors indicate Trump criminal charges likely, report says (CNBC)

A camp icon

The election-denying Republicans who aided Trump’s ‘big lie’ and got promoted (The Guardian)

2024 Trump Is Even Scarier Than 2020 Trump (The New Yorker)

‘Racist’ Trump is blowing up because he can’t stand being prosecuted by Black lawyers: Former GOP strategist

Daylight Savings Time: If Only Trump Would Pick a Side, Then We’d Know Which Side to be on

Trump Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine (The Atlantic) I wouldn’t mind The Atlantic getting a taste of its own medicine.

fThe Tucker Carlson Schtick Melts Away (Politico)

Carlson hates Trump but needs his base — like the rest of the right (Washington Post)

Karl Rove’s 2012 meltdown on Fox News was quite revealing in hindsight (MSNBC) The Narrative Media love to focus on the past and irrelevant fossils like Karl Rove.

Arkansas Senate OKs transgender bathroom bill that critics call extreme (NBC) Name a measure that ‘critics’ won’t call extreme. I dare you.

Arkansas transgender bathroom bill, that some label ‘anti-trans’, headed to House Thursday (KARK) Some!

Kyle Rittenhouse, the MAGA Star That Wasn’t (Mother Jones)

Murdoch said Fox hosts may have gone ‘too far’ in covering stolen-election claims (Reuters)

Tucker Carlson ‘passionately’ hates Trump, and eight more key revelations about Fox News from new Dominion filings (CNN)

The Media Can’t Handle the Tucker Clips

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is not credible, White House says after Jan. 6 coverage (Reuters)

MSNBC’s Hayes Smears The Daily Caller, Claims NYT ‘Not a Liberal Paper’

Colbert Labels Alito A ‘Turd,’ Compares Roe’s Demise To Iran, The Taliban

Internal text reveals Tucker Carlson reads the work of a Holocaust denier at a white nationalist hub  (Media Matters for America) Here’s a pen–go smear Tucker.

‘It’s a Sh*t Network’: New Texts Reveal Ex-Fox News Reporter Claiming Network ‘Muzzled’ Her for Fact-Checking Trump (MEDIAite)

Teacher In Need Of Vacation Tells Class There Are Only Two Genders (Babylon Bee)

MSNBC Condemns ‘Fascist’ DeSantis As He Debunks Their Fake News

George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former roommate tells feds (Politico) George! Long time no see!

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As with misinformation, labeling someone who disagrees with the current standardthink as a “denier” has become, pardon the term, endemic amongst the woke.

Covid denier, climate denier, election denier, science denier – are all bandied about to immediately end debate, tar any difference of opinion as literally insane, and depict anyone who ever disagrees with you as stupid and evil.

This epithet is now even being used pre-emptively to makes sure that no matter what anyone who now or ever questions the move to ban gas stoves will not be doing so based on facts or logic but because of their “gas stove denialism.”

I suspect that there would be a great market for t-shirts that just said DENIER. I’d buy one.

Trump is the latest Republican to avoid his most notable success (MSNBC)

Why Trump’s secret plan for the war in Ukraine is unbelievable (MSNBC) Can’t be much of a secret if MNSBC knows about it.

Club for Growth Snubs Trump Ahead of Annual Donor Retreat

Why the Stormy Daniels Charges Might Actually Reach Trump This Time (Slate)

We don’t need any new ideas to fix the Supreme Court. Just one very old one. (MSNBC)

Tucker Carlson knows exactly what he’s doing (Washington Post) Continuing the Hunter Biden coverup.

Pot is making people sick. Congress is playing catch-up. (Politico) Think of it as evolution in action.

As basic health care grows unaffordable, the rich seek eternal youth (Washington Post) Unaffordable for whom? Not for the poor, who can just show up at a hospital and by law must be treated whether they can pay or not.

Mane of terror: the sorry return of long-haired men (The Guardian)

Chelsea Handler Defends Cancel Culture: Just Don’t Be Racist or Sexist

Socialist Students Protest Sasse on First Day as UF President

Smithsonian Kicks out Students Over Pro-life Hats

Sen. Daines responds after Twitter suspends his account for hunting photo: ‘My wife is a great shot’ (Fox)

PBS Anchor Fights with GOP Rep. Chip Roy on ‘Un-American’ Border Bill

Lemon Declares GOP Making Americans ‘Suffer’ Through Biden Probes

Disney+ Kids Show ‘Proud Family’ Pushes Anti-White Hate

The High School ‘Asshole’ Who Became a Blackface-Wearing Neo-Nazi Homeschool Dad (Vice)

Cringey 23-Year-Old Mayor Quotes Steve Jobs to Defend His Trumpian Coup (Daily Beast) Trump cooties! They’re everywhere!

Chinese spy balloons under Trump not discovered until after Biden took office (CNN)

The Mob Boss Tactic Trump Uses to Keep People From Flipping (Daily Beast)

Prospects rise for NY charges against Trump in Stormy Daniels case (The Hill)

Mark Pomerantz on investigating Donald Trump (CBS)

Trump should be charged with corruption, says former Manhattan prosecutor (MSNBC)

Trump’s ‘24 game plan: Be the dove among the hawks (Politico) The chance that someone writing for politico has even the vaguest clue about Trump’s 2024 game plan is slightly above zero.

Inside the Trump Campaign’s Plan to Take Down Nikki Haley (Daily Beast) Needless to say, the chance that anybody writing for the Daily Beast has even the vaguest clue about any Trump  Campaign plan is slightly above zero.

Mark Pomerantz on investigating Donald Trump (CBS)

Wake up, Corporate America: You can’t bribe, threaten, or feed people to get them back in the office (Boston Globe) Sure you can.

Gas stove makers have a pollution solution. They’re just not using it (NPR)

‘Autocrats’: Receipts bust house GOP for secret MAGA deal after admission (MSNBC)

Ron DeSantis ramps up war on education (MSNBC)

Ted Cruz Can’t Say Why He Wants Two-Term Limits AND a Third Term (Daily Beast)

Denialism is seeping into legislation and undermining public health (The Hill)

DeSantis wants a ‘core curriculum.’ That idea is college kryptonite. (The Hill)

Politico Story on Twitter Uniting Europe Devolves Into Fierce Elon Musk Attack

Neo-Nazi leader and girlfriend accused of targeting Md. power stations (Washington Post) Everybody worries about ‘neo-Nazis’ but nobody worries about actual Communists. I wonder why that is.

The View’s Ana Navarro Tries to Pin Balloon-Gate on GOP: China Loves That ‘Republicans Turned This Into a Big Drama’ (MEDIAite)

Soros-Funded Group Targets Elon Musk for Engaging with ‘Right-Wing’ Twitter

A Storm’s Brewing At Home For Donald and Melania Trump With New Stormy Daniels Case Defense Strategy (Vanity Fair)

Trump Will Never Stop Reminding Us That He Hates Free Speech (Daily Beast) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too (Forbes) SO THERE! (Trump, top national security officials refute claim that Chinese spy balloons transited US under his admin)

Koch Network, Aiming to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump, Will Play in the G.O.P. Primaries (N.Y. Times)

Koch network to back alternative to Trump after sitting out recent primaries (Washington Post)

“It’s Disinformation”: Trump, Former Officials Slam Anonymous Report Of Chinese Spy Balloons Under Their Watch

DeSantis files complaint against Orlando Philharmonic for hosting drag holiday event (The Hill)

The Neo-Nazi Hunter Next Door (Rolling Stone)

Tom Brady, Cheating Trump Fanatic, Ruins ‘80 for Brady’ (Rolling Stone)

‘Miserable’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Whines That Her Congressional Salary Is Too Low (Daily Beast)

SNL Roasts Santos, MTG and Trump’s ‘Big Ole Dump Truck’ (Daily Beast)

Ron DeSantis Moves To Strip Florida Venue’s Liquor License For Christmas Drag Show (Huffington Post) They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

Theater Of The Absurd In J6 Courtrooms

Don’t Let Republican ‘Judge Shoppers’ Thwart the Will of Voters (N.Y. Times)

An ex-Romney presidential campaign strategist says Nikki Haley ’embodies the collapse’ of the Republican Party (Business Insider)

As G.O.P. Rails Against Federal Spending, Its Appetite for Earmarks Grows (N.Y. Times) Nothing compared to Democrats, of course.

Facebook, Instagram Threaten To Restrict Or Ban Project Veritas

AR-15 lapel pin is a perfect symbol for a GOP that’s become a death cult (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit. (At least he’s quit calling it an ‘assault rifle pin’.)

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016 (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump trashes ‘ambitious’ potential 2024 rivals in sprawling interview (The Hill)

N.Y. prosecutors group says former Trump investigator violated ethics with book (Washington P0st)

Prosecutors likened Trump to mob boss and had to prove he wasn’t insane – book (The Guardian)

Why Tom Fitton’s misguided advice to Trump matters (MSNBC)

NYC Prosecutors Had to Prove ‘Trump Was Not Legally Insane’ (Daily Beast)

Trump 2016 Campaign to Pay $450,000 to Settle Non-Disclosure Case (Bloomberg)

Jamie Raskin on why Trump charges are ‘almost inevitable’ (MSNBC)

Democrats, Seeing a Weaker Trump, Are Falling in Line Behind Biden (N.Y. Times) Lacking a yellow dog. Biden will have to do.

An insider’s critical view of an investigation of Donald Trump (Washington Post)

Forget Trump, Democrats Are Preparing Ways to Beat a DeSantis Campaign (Bloomberg)

MAGA rebuked on TV: See Ebro tell U.S. to face ‘Who we are’ from Jan. 6 to police brutality (MSNBC)

The right’s anti-ESG crusader (Axios)

Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should curb its greed (L.A. Times)

Let me mansplain: studies reveal impact of condescension (The Guardian)  Such as this on the part of The Guardian.

Veteran sues after being arrested for holding ‘God bless the homeless vets’ sign (Fox)

After College Board Victory, DeSantis Faces CNN Smears of Racism

NY Times Smears Scientist on Front Page for Daring to Defend Gas Stoves

Democrats Propose Abraham Lincoln Statue Removal  After all, he was a Republican.

Republicans have a big Kari Lake problem (Washington Post)

MSNBC Invokes The Bible While Claiming Russia, China Love DeSantis

MSNBC: ‘January 6 Now! January 6 Tomorrow! January 6 Forever!’

U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry

The blue Midwest is where DeSantis’s school crackdowns ‘go to die’ (Washington  Post) Paul Sargent must be taking a vacation day from bashing Trump.

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The Associated Press added an entry to its style guide directing journalists to put the term “crisis pregnancy center” in scare-quotes, and to use “anti-abortion center” instead, to convey that “the centers’ general aim is to prevent abortions.”

The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022, according to The Daily Signal’s search of the Wayback Machine. The guide describes the centers as “set up to divert or discourage women from having abortions” and warns writers against “potentially misleading terms” like “pregnancy resource centers or pregnancy counseling centers.”

“If using the term anti-abortion center, explain later that these often are known as ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ (with quotation marks) and that their aim is to dissuade people from getting an abortion,” the style guide entry states.

New Book Reveals What a Trump Indictment Would Look Like (Daily Beast)

Looks like they are moving closer to bringing charges’: Reporter on grand jury (MSNBC)

Trump Insults Stormy Daniels in Predictably Desperate Rant on Grand Jury Proceedings (Daily Beast)

SE Cupp: America has pulled back the curtain on Trump’s political wizardry (CNN) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Former Trump Executive, Already Jailed, Could Face More Fraud Charges (N.Y. Times)

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents (Reuters)

Trump campaign staff on 2020 election lies: ‘fan the flame’ (Associated Press)

Trump Org Pays $1.6 Million Fine for Tax Fraud Conviction (Daily Beast)

Trump Likened to Mob Boss John Gotti in Ex-Prosecutor’s New Book (N.Y. Times)

William Barr shifts from defending Trump’s actions to defending his own (Washington Post)

‘Bill Barr’s Sin’: Trump AG’s abuse of power defense shredded by Mueller vet (MSNBC)

Patrons of NYC gay bar incapacitated and robbed of thousands via facial recognition on their phones (MSNBC) This is why I don’t use a phone with facial recognition.

Three Men Incapacitated and Robbed After Visiting New York Gay Bar, Police Say (NBC)

‘She should blame herself’: Newsom responds to Fresno County DA’s comments over slain Selma officer (KCRA)

Newsom can’t see that California’s soft-on-crime laws are deadly (Washington Examiner)

Reporters face jail for interviewing Christian who left LGBT lifestyle, warn of assault on free speech (Fox)

Big tobacco is lighting the law on fire to peddle addiction (The Hill)

Univision Shamelessly Airs Anti-DeSantis Propaganda

The GOP Can’t Remember Why It Took the Debt Ceiling Hostage (New York Magazine)

Anti-Semitic MSNBC Claims Israel Turned West Bank Into An Apartheid

NHL’s commitment to diversity, inclusion under microscope again at All-Star game

On PBS, Amanpour In Sync With Radical Palestinian on ‘Fascist’ Israel Government

Do They Not Know He’ll Betray Them? (The Atlantic) David Frum continues the witch-hunt.

DeSantis Faces CNN Smears of Racism in Education

The Powerful Lobbyist Behind Kevin McCarthy (N.Y. Times) Hmmm … no mention of George Soros here….

Republicans rally around conservatives who lost their elections (Washington Post)

The State Where the GOP Would Rather Lose Than Change (Politico)

Matt Gaetz wants to make poor Americans work for their health care (Semafor) The Horror! (Semafor is the newest Narrative Media barking seal.)

Sinema Faces Ethics Complaint Over Use of Staff

CNN Invites AOC To Accuse Republicans Of ‘Stochastic Terrorism’

GOP Rep. Clyde hands out assault-rifle lapel pins to House colleagues (Washington Post) The Horror! (They are not, of course, ‘assault rifle’ pins.)

Freeform’s Racist, Woke Sitcom ‘Grown-ish’: ‘Straight People are a Disease’

Republicans like DeSantis and Boebert are pushing guns — and banning books (MSNBC)

American College of Physicians ‘Committed’ to Fight So-Called Health ‘Disinformation’ Online

Joy Behar CONFRONTS Sunny Hostin for Defending Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism

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Whilst social media promises us unrestricted access to an individual’s innermost thoughts and whims, the culture in which it operates is diametrically opposed to freedom of expression. Despite rare victories, such as the Elon Musk exposé of Twitter censorship (“Elon Musk reveals motivation for Twitter Files, says ‘almost every conspiracy theory’ about the social network is true”), the range of ‘acceptable speech’ is only moving in one direction: less.

Free speech is in a dark place right now—with the punishment for those foolish enough to believe in such an antiquated concept becoming quite extreme. Try being Tonje Gjevjon, threatened with a three-year jail term for the crime of saying ‘Men cannot be lesbians.’ How about Darren Brady, an army veteran arrested for ‘sharing an anti-woke meme’? Or my personal favourite: the UK Constabulary, which allows male rapists to record their gender as female, and then threatens female inmates with should they ‘misgender’ their unwelcome cellmates.

The GOP Attack on Ilhan Omar Trivializes Antisemitism (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait employs handwavium to divert attention from one of the most corrupt haters in Congress.

A Short Guide to MAGA “Conservatism” (The Bulwark) The scare quotes around ‘conservatism’ tag this as a Kristol Krew hit piece (as if Charlie Sykes would write anything else….).

MSNBC: Election Integrity Based on Election Lies, GOP Needs Exorcism

The Cold Calculus Behind the Shrinking GOP Presidential Field (Politico) Cold!

Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse (Associated Press)

Inside the GOP’s “Save the kids” strategy (Axios) More mind-reading from Narrative Media NPCs.

How Rod Dreher Caused an International Scandal in Eastern Europe (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their witch-hunt against figures on the right.

The View Denounces Pledge of Allegiance, American Exceptionalism

Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin’ Donuts

Leftist Anti-Trump ‘Doonesbury’ Cartoonist Finally Takes on a Biden—But Only Very Gently

Arizona’s elections chief seeks investigation into Kari Lake tweet (MSNBC)

Recent tweet could mean felony charge for Kari Lake (NBC)

‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions (The Guardian) The Guardian, of course, loves unions.

‘We will figure out how to fire you’: Report shows how major corporations are fighting unionization (AlterNet)

DeSantis wants to dismantle diversity programs at Fla. colleges, target tenure (Washington Post)

DeSantis proposes banning diversity and inclusion initiatives at Florida universities (CNN)

The Junkification of Amazon (N.Y. Magazine)

Chief Justice Roberts’ Wife Is Latest Supreme Court Spouse To Spark Ethics Concerns (Forbes) Among the Woke.

Kanye’s ‘Campaign’ Has Been More of a Disaster Than We Knew (Daily Beast)

DeSantis Evades Verbal Spat With Trump, Instead Touts Florida’s Success

Top Jan. 6 investigator says FBI, other agencies could have done more to repel Capitol mob had they acted on intel (NBC)

The House GOP’s sham hearings are fizzling before they even begin (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

NY Post Editorial Board Calls George Soros ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’  More dangerous than Joe Biden? Hmmm.

DeSantis largely ignores Trump barbs amid attacks (The Hill) More mind-reading from the Narrative Media.

GOP senators rally to defend DeSantis from Trump attacks (The Hill) Continuing the Narrative Media effort to pick a fight between Trump and DeSantis.

The Gop Is Just Obnoxious (The Atlantic) David Frum loses his shit.

Unhinged CNN Attacks DeSantis’s ‘White Nationalist Agenda’

‘God Supports’ Abortion? Planned Parenthood Vermont Erases ‘Women,’ Blasts ‘White Women’

Fireworks in House after Democrat says ‘insurrectionists’ should be banned from leading Pledge of Allegiance (NBC)

George Santos Relative Says They Never Gave $5,800 Reported by the Campaign: “I’m Dumbfounded” (Mother Jones)

George Santos’ campaign spent more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. That’s enough to buy 1,131 orders of the rigatoni bolognese. (Business Insider)

George Santos takes dig at ‘career pathological liar’ Biden in new interview apology: ‘I’ve learned my lesson’ (MSN)

He lost to George Santos. Now he’s trying to make up for it. (Yahoo News)

Promised green cards, catfishing, threats: How George Santos’ ex-boyfriends say they were left feeling trapped, manipulated (ABC)

George Santos Mocked for Old Karaoke Recordings of Disney, Leonard Cohen (Newsweek)

George Santos loses his cool with OAN reporter after being questioned about the sincerity of his apology for campaign lies (Business Insider)

Rep. George Santos dismisses poll showing 78% of constituents want him to resign (MSNBC)

George Santos’s Treasurer Has Resigned. So Who’s Handling the Money? (N.Y. Times)

Rep. George Santos steps aside from committee assignments amid investigations (NBC)

A letter from George Santos: ‘I am recusing myself from committees. Also, I am Batman.’ (Indianapolis Star)

Feds probing Santos’ role in service dog charity scheme (Politico)

Senate Judiciary mulls action amid fallout from Durham probe (The Hill)

‘Atrocity, worse than Trump’: George Santos hammered for mounting lies by Stephen A. Smith (MSNBC)

Far-right spreads misinformation about Paul Pelosi attack (MSNBC) To the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

Bolsonaro Seeking Tourist Visa To Extend US Stay As Criminal Cases Pile Up In Brazil

Ron Paul: The Real Disinformation Was The “Russia Disinformation” Hoax

Trump Files $49M Lawsuit Against Woodward for Selling Tapes Without Consent

Rep. Maxine Waters Calls GOP House Members “Domestic Terrorists”

Polls reveal the real reason Ron DeSantis is fighting the teaching of Black history (MSNBC) Not only can ‘journalists’ at MSNBC can read minds, but polls can read minds too! Who knew?

Exclusive: Extremists raised $6.2 million on crowdfunding websites in ‘heyday’ of financing (USA Today) By ‘extremists’, of course, they don’t mean Democrats, much less BLM or Antifa.

Newsday poll: 78% of 3rd District residents say George Santos should resign (Newsday) Newsday, of course, has been calling on him to resign since day one, so you can tell how much that poll is worth.

Ron DeSantis Wants to Erase Black History. Why? (N.Y. Times) The New York Times wants to lie about Ron DeSantis. Why?

Santos Temporarily Steps Aside From House Committees Amid Calls to Resign (N.Y. Times) Committees involve work. He’s not there to work; he’s there to collect a hefty paycheck. This is an amazingly fortuitous opportunity.

On Policing, Colbert Asks When GOP Will ‘Start Being Evil’  My question is when Colbert will start being adult.

‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions (The Guardian) The Guardian, as a Voice of the Crust, just loves unions and just hate ‘corporate America’.

The Political Targeting of George Santos Is Inextricable From His Sexual Orientation and Latinx Heritage

The historic support for George Santos’s resignation (Washington Post) Doesn’t matter a damn. They keep pretending that it does, but it doesn’t.

Trump Financial Crimes Investigation Was ‘Buried,’ Kirschner Says (Newsweek) As they’re now doing with the Bidens?

How the Trump Document Scandal Became a Congressional Pissing Match (Daily Beast)

Waiting for a Deus Ex Machina End to the Trump Era (The Atlantic) Don’t hold your breath.

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only One to Blame for the Capitol Riot. I’d Know. (N.Y. Times) No, you wouldn’t.

Trump investigations: Georgia prosecutor ups anticipation (Associated Press) Smoke and mirrors–if they had anything real, we would know it by now.

Trump’s 2024 MAGA litmus test (MSNBC) As if Charlie Sykes knew anything about it.

Manhattan Prosecutors Will Begin Presenting Trump Case to Grand Jury (N.Y. Times)

Far-right project that pushed election lies expands mission as Trump ramps up 2024 campaign  (The Guardian) For the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

Trump Used Records Requests to Get Look Behind Scenes of Talks Over His Taxes (Bloomberg)

Trump Sues Journalist Bob Woodward for Releasing Interview Recordings

The stunning hypocrisy of Bill Barr’s probe into the Russia-Trump investigation (Vox)

Why Merrick Garland Should Fire Special Counsel Durham Now (Daily Beast) Getting too close to the truth?

MSNBC Uncorks Fever Dreams of MAGA Killing Democracy — As DirecTV Nixes Newsmax

On PBS, Amanpour Warns LGBTQ ‘Human Rights Are Under Fire’ from ‘Strange’ DeSantis

Trump’s Social Network Is a Cesspool of Weird Fringe Ads (Daily Beast) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘There Are No Trump Policies’ Without Trump

Trump’s path to GOP nomination is strewn with obstacles (Washington Post) Obstacles like the Narrative Media.

Trump says he is ‘more angry’ than ever as he tries to revive White House bid (The Guardian)

Trump’s lasting legacy on the judiciary is not just at the Supreme Court (Washington Post)

Trump lawyer John Eastman should be disbarred, California State Bar says (N.Y. Post)

List of Trump criminal investigations gets unexpectedly longer (MSNBC)

Trump’s pending return to Facebook is more about cash than speech (MSNBC)

Trump Savages Female Fox News Host Over ‘Unendurable’ Voice (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Rages Against ‘Grating and Unendurable’ Fox News Host (Newsweek)

Nikki Haley’s Campaign-in-Waiting Starts Its Engines (The Dispatch) The Goldberg Group can apparently read minds as well as the Kristol Krew.

Trump Tries a New Campaign Tack: Small-Scale (N.Y. Times)

Trump’s Evolution in Social-Media Exile: More QAnon, More Extremes (N.Y. Times) Don’t you wish you knew what this “QAnon” thing was that the Narrative Media keep obsessing over? I know I do.

Trump Demands DirecTV Drop CNN, MSNBC in Rant Against Newsmax Removal (Newsweek)

Facebook’s Big Announcement on Trump’s Account Is ‘Encouraging,’ But There’s a Catch, Expert Says

Mostly Non-American Meta Oversight Board Weighs in on Trump Reinstatement

Trump unveils new education policy loaded with culture war proposals (Politico)

Morning Joe Ties Trumpism To Auschwitz & JFK, MLK Assassinations

New MAGA Push: Defund the Government, It’s Too Woke (Rolling Stone)

Federal prosecutors discussed charging Trump in Stormy Daniels case when he left office, book says (CNN)

Revealed: Trump secretly donated $1m to discredited Arizona election ‘audit’ (The Guardian) Secretly! Discredited! Scare quotes!

Trump’s Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could (Rolling Stone)

On Trump’s Social Network: Ads for Miracle Cures, Scams and Fake Merchandise (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Leftist Talking Heads Claim Letting Trump Back On Facebook Will “Destroy Democracy”

NJ Democrat rips return of indoor smoking to House (The Hill) Glad he’s got nothing more vital to worry about.

What ‘The Sneetches’ can teach us about the battle against wokeness (The Hill)

Health Care — FDA committee votes to change vaccine strategy (The Hill)

Behar: Gun Owners Have a ‘Mental Illness’ That Must ‘Be Stopped’

As Santos digs in, both parties ramp up campaign plans for his demise (Politico) How silly would they all look if he did a good job and got re-elected?

Unlike Trump Appointees, Biden Officials Are In Big Demand In the Private Sector  Mammon of Iniquity, here they come.

Scoop: GOP considers copying powerful Dem donor tactic (Axios)

What Mike Pompeo Leaves Out (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues to punch right.

‘I have no enemies, at least’: Where Santos really stands in the House GOP (Politico)

Pompeo Accuses Schiff of Leaking Classified Info From Intel Committee

Tucker Carlson Talks Nonsense About U.S. Invading Canada To Remove Trudeau (Huffington Post) And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage? (N.Y. Times) Paul Krugman, The Man Who Is Always Wrong, indulges in a little fantasy.

Late Night, Daily Show Decry ‘Orwellian’ GOP Education Laws  Liberal Projection Syndrome strikes again.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Is Trying to Open a Gun Range That Serves Alcohol (Jezebel)

Behar Claims GOP Wants to Ban Holocaust from History Classes

Soros-Funded Fake News Operation Pushes Facebook to Reinstate Trump Ban

George Santos’ drag days are an asinine smokescreen (CNN)

Serial liar George Santos fits right in with the modern GOP (CNN) Apparently Santos is the only liar ever elected to Congress. (Adam Schiff, call your office.) Somebody better tell the Congressional Black Caucus.

‘You Asked For It’: Stephen Colbert Gets ‘Mean’ In Scathing Reply To George Santos (Huffington Post) Scathing! (Santos might even notice.)

More than 100 Students Walk Out of Embattled Harvard Professor Comaroff’s First Class of Semester (Harvard Crimson)

Harvard Students Walk Out to Protest Professor John Comaroff (Teen Vogue)

Georgia Police Officer Resigns After Being Put on Leave for Facebook Post on Traditional Marriage

‘I felt like we were in “Goodfellas’’’: How George Santos wooed investors for alleged Ponzi scheme (Washington P0st) The witch-hunt continues.

Daily Show Spreads Fake News About Pro-Lifers Banning Contraception

Antifa Members Charged in Vandalism of Florida Pro-Life Clinics But, remember, only Republicans indulge in political violence.

The MyPillow Guy’s Fake Campaign For RNC Chair Is a Real Disaster (Vice)

It Came From the Basement (Mother Jones)

Ron DeSantis’ Secret Twitter Army of Far-Right Influencers (Daily Beast) Well, if the Daily Beast knows about it, it can’t be much of a secret.

National Archives silent as disparity between its handling of Biden, Trump documents fuels questions

Vimeo Removes ‘Dead Name’ Documentary About Parents of ‘Transgender’ Kids for ‘Hateful Conduct’

Democrats urge House Speaker McCarthy to deny GOP Rep. George Santos access to classified information (CNBC)

The ‘lying congressman’ and his crewnecks (Washington Post) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Democrats have a two-part plan to use the debt ceiling against Republicans (Washington Post) And Jennifer Rubin, mind-reader extraordinary, is privy to all Republican plans.

G.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills (N.Y. Times)

McCarthy might have a math problem in blocking Omar from panel (The Hill)

Inside the George Santos Campaign Report Blame Game (Daily Beast)

The Democratic Party’s Political Gift to Ron DeSantis (The New Yorker)

Obama Warns About the ‘Raw Sewage’ of Disinformation — Ignores Democrats’ Own Garbage

Aussie Basketball Team Rejects Pride Logo, Reaps Barrage Of Abuse

Dem Rep. Payne Hits GOP Over Indoor Smoking

Trump attorney threatens to sue former prosecutor who wrote “People vs. Donald Trump” book about Manhattan D.A.’s investigation (CBS)

Woman Pleads Guilty After Sending Ricin to Then-President Donald Trump (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Busts Trump For Cheating At His Own Golf Tournament (Huffington Post) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Biden’s devious plan to break the MAGA fever just might work (Washington Post) Greg Sargent is back at his day job bashing Trump.

OMG. Trump Has Started Texting. (N.Y. Times)

The private angst over Donald Trump’s racist attacks on Elaine Chao goes public (Politico)

Trump Has Completely Lost His Grip on Reality (National Review)

Facebook Reinstates Trump After Two Years With “New Guardrails In Place”

An R.N.C. Remade by Trump Backs Away From His 2024 Campaign (N.Y. Times) They would rather lose with a Romney than win with a Trump.

New Hampshire Republicans are not yet ready to go for Trump: ‘He’s going to have to earn it’ (NBC)

Donald Trump Accuses His Special Counsel of ‘Bullying Everyone in Sight’ (Newsweek)

Donald Trump Attempts to Save One of His Most Loyal Allies (Newsweek) My, what a surprise.

Biden’s Handling of Secret Documents Complicates the Case Against Trump (N.Y. Times) Oh, ya think?

Marjorie Taylor Greene aims to be Trump’s VP pick in 2024 (NBC) I don’t think so….

Microsoft’s Changes to Xbox Console Leave Republicans Outraged (Newsweek)

Tucker Carlson’s Confusion Over Vagina-Shaped Cloud Sparks Wave of Jokes (Newsweek) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Proud Boys ‘Rule Book’ Revealed in Trial Sparks Flurry of Jokes, Mockery (Newsweek)

Tucker Carlson’s war on M&M’s (NPR)

CBS Giddy Over News Mike Pence Stored Classified Docs at His Home

How Southern California helped birth white Christian nationalism

NPR Drops Bombs on the ‘Hard Right Republicans In Congress’  To NPR, there is no right but the Hard Right.

Dems mobilize to defend Omar in face of GOP defections (Politico)

Pizzeria Owner Who Said Nancy Pelosi Needed to ‘Hang’ Convicted of Jan. 6 Charges (Law & Crime)

AT&T’s DirecTV Cancels NEWSMAX in Censorship Move

McCarthy Formally Rejects Schiff, Swalwell From House Intel Committee

Why the new game ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is roiling the LGBTQ community (Washington Post)

4 Oath Keepers Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for Jan. 6

Ron DeSantis Believes in Free Speech as Long as You Only Speak About the Awesomeness of Straight White People (Vanity Fair)

Inside a Modern-Day Heresy Trial

Fox News’ defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims (NPR) Debunked!

Fox News Lawyers Seem to Justify False Election Fraud Claims in Dominion Case (Daily Beast) False claims!

Ex-prosecutor calls for new investigation into Brett Kavanaugh over bombshell documentary revelation (Salon) Bombshell!

The never-ending war on Brett Kavanaugh (Washington Examiner)

Pronoun fines and jail time for librarians: Republicans target LGBTQ+ rights with new laws (The Guardian)

Reading is precious. But the cult of book ownership can be smug and middle-class (The Guardian) And God knows you don’t want to be smug and middle-class. Pew!

EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With “Sanctions” Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter

Ron DeSantis Likes His Culture Wars for a Reason (N.Y. Times) Narrative Media ‘journalists’ love to pretend that they can read minds, especially of those they hate.

Daily Show Goes to Britain to Trash Gun Rights Advocates’ Genital Size  Amazing how many women see themselves as remote experts on penis size. One suspects that they’ve never actually seen one ‘in the flesh’. (And don’t get me started on Greta Thunberg….)

First on CNN: Classified documents found at Pence’s Indiana home

Dishonest Don Lemon: DeSantis Making It ‘Illegal To Teach Slavery’ in Florida Schools

Director of Movie Co-Starring Sex Predator Smears Justice Kavanaugh

Paul Krugman Calls GOP ‘Economic Terrorists’  From The Man Who’s Always Wrong, that’s a great endorsement.

Final report of Ga. grand jury investigating Trump may be released soon (Washington Post)

Details of Trump’s Attempt to Overturn Defeat in Georgia Could Be Released  Walls are closing in etc.

Georgia DA investigating Trump for 2020 election interference says charging ‘decisions are imminent’ after grand jury report (CNBC) This tease is just to keep her name in the headlines. If she actually had anything, she would have announced it, to great fanfare.

Georgia Election Probe Report to Remain Secret for Now  Which means they’ve got nothin’.