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Following the exposure of a hidden “Gender Support Plan” and policy to conceal student transgender procedures from parents, the whistleblower, counselor Kathy McCord, has been placed on immediate and indefinite leave, and could be facing termination.

McCord, a counselor at Pendleton Heights High School in the South Madison Community School Corporation in Indiana, confirmed documents unearthed by parents in Madison County showing that counselors were asking teachers not to reveal a student’s new name and pronouns to parents.

Madison County is north and east of Indianapolis.

Donald Trump ‘Caught in Repeated Lies’ During Deposition—Attorney (Newsweek) If that were true, he’d be indicted for perjury. But it’s not, so he won’t.

Trump Backs Failed AG Candidate to Lead Michigan GOP (Daily Beast)

Trump Looks to Ditch His Own Social Media Site (Rolling Stone)

FDA to Simplify COVID Vaccine Strategy (Philadelphia Inquirer) Mob boss! Trump cooties!

A 23-Year-Old Mayor Tried Trump’s Stolen Election Playbook. Only It Worked. (Daily Beast)

Archives Silent on Biden Docs After Public Complaints of ‘Torn-Up’ Trump Docs and ‘False’ Reports on Obama-era Docs

Dems ask watchdog to investigate IRS’s tardy audit of Trump (Politico) Look over there! Trump!

‘I’m not the Speaker’: McCaul sidesteps questions on Marjorie Taylor Greene committee posts (The Hill)

House GOP rewards hard-liners, Santos with committee seats (MSNBC)

Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality (The Guardian)

“They’re going to make this into a circus.” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) reacts to far-right House Republicans securing high profile committee assignments (MSNBC)

Kevin McCarthy’s biggest foe in the debt ceiling fight? Math. (MSNBC) Well, Narrative Media math, anyway.

Republican rule returning smoking to the U.S. Capitol really stinks (MSNBC) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The U.K.’s deploying a familiar GOP tactic to suppress trans rights (MSNBC)

‘SNL’ mocks George Santos in late night skits (N.Y. Post) Of course they do.

‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches aside, George Santos is no joke (CNN)

George Santos Was Inevitable (The Dispatch) David French provides us with a thumb-sucker.

How the White House plans to target 18 House Republicans from districts Biden won (CNN) First, you have to get rid of Biden.

‘Cut His Time Short’: Far-Left Activists Continue Demonstrations at Kavanaugh’s Home  And, despite the law, D.C. law enforcement continues to fail to act.

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

Pennsylvania Republicans Quietly Plot Their Revenge After 2022 Wipeout (Daily Beast)

George Santos’ lies are casting a harsh spotlight on a powerful Republican who endorsed and raised money for him (CNN) Apparently Santos is developing his own strain of cooties.

Man Who Propped Feet on Pelosi Desk Guilty in Jan. 6 Case

Aretha Franklin song ‘A Natural Woman’ blasted by transgender ‘activists’ (N.Y. Post)

In blocking an AP Black studies course, DeSantis tells us who he is (Washington Post) Or at least Jennifer Rubin thinks it does, which is not the same thing. (I guess she’s taking a break from hating on Trump.)

UK Civilian Arrested For Praying Outside Abortion Clinic…AGAIN

What the ‘Weaponization’ Committee Is Really After (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their Republican-bashing ways.

Read it.

We live in a new age of enforced uniformity, prosecuted in the name of preserving “our democracy” and keeping “disinformation” and “far right lies” at bay. The Harvard intellectual historian James Hankins has aptly spoken of an “information oligarchy” that is committed to maintaining and enforcing its monopoly on the truth. In this surreal world of “democratic” uniformity, certain “truths” are beyond challenge or question. To challenge them with evidence, logic, and a more faithful regard for the truth is to risk being dismissed as an extremist or conspiracy theorist. The independent-minded, those who refuse to bow before what George Orwell so memorably called “smelly little orthodoxies,” are candidates to be cancelled and confined to the category of those beyond the pale. The Left has a preferred name for this: those who resist the pressure of intellectual conformity, of stifling political correctness, are “enemies of democracy.”

New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed in Secret Sundance Doc (Daily Beast) Damning! Secret!

This prominent pastor says Christian nationalism is ‘a form of heresy’ (CNN) Prominent! Pastor! Heresy!

Savannah Sparks Is TikTok’s Most Polarizing Medical Misinformation Sleuth. She Doesn’t Care. (Daily Beast)

Judge Says Rioter Followed ‘Trump’s Instructions’ to Storm the Capitol (Daily Beast) There are lies, damned lies, and the Daily Beast.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy: how backroom deals have put controversial Republicans into key roles (The Conversation)

‘Justice’ Review: Doug Liman’s New Brett Kavanaugh Doc Can Only Reignite the Same Old Outrage (Variety)

The park where every day’s Confederate Memorial Day (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Sad Rolling Stone: Concern Over Civil Liberties, Surveillance ‘Right-Wing Paranoia’

‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance (The Guardian)

Sports Media Gets Woke: Attacks On NBC’s Tony Dungy, Hockey’s Ivan Provorov

PBS Touts Liberal Activist’s Attack on Gun ‘Mania’ in U.S.

Proud Boys on defensive at sedition trial haunted by absent Trump (The Guardian0=)

NBC’s Todd Asks: Does GOP Need to Lose More Before Caving on Abortion?

The Real January 6

Judge’s Words May Come Back to Haunt Donald Trump (Newsweek) Walls are closing in etc.

MAGA’s hottest club is the House Oversight Committee (MSNBC)

TV tonight: the jaw-dropping story of Donald Trump’s former adviser (The Guardian)  Jaw-dropping!

Netflix Promotes Comedy Special with Trump Assassination Jokes

Anti-Abortion Voters Have Picked an Early 2024 Favorite. It’s Not Trump (Rolling Stone)

RNC chair challenger looks to Never Trumpers for a boost (Politico)

The Biden document case shouldn’t hinder Jack Smith’s probe into Trump (Washington Post) Certainly not if Jennifer Rubin has anything to say about it. And she will. At great length.

Under oath, Trump is confronted with his ‘hoax’ hyperbole (Washington Post) ‘Analysis’ that, oddly enough, turns into a witch-hunt.

Bitter RNC chair race roiled by questions of Trump loyalty (Washington Post) No, by questions of Trump hatred.

Trump and lawyer sanctioned almost $1 million for ‘frivolous’ lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (CNBC) Frivolous!

Trump Resort to Host Pro-QAnon Speaking Tour (Daily Beast) QAnon (whatever that is) is the new Satan, I guess. I sounds like a proglodyte fantasy to me.

Judge Orders Trump and Lawyer to Pay Nearly $1 Million for Bogus Suit (N.Y. Times) Middlebrooks was appointed by Clinton in 1997.

Is Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Finally Ready to Indict Trump? (Daily Beast)

DA Alvin Bragg warns Simon & Schuster tell-all book may derail Trump probe (N.Y. Post)

One-on-One with Michael Schmidt (MSNBC) Hating Trump as a business model.

Joe Scarborough: Trump Vow To ‘Handle’ DeSantis ‘Sounds Like A Mob Threat’

Former anti-Trump Rep. Adam Kinzinger removes, reposts listing for signed copies of Jan. 6 committee report  Apparnetly RINO points can be traded for valuable prizes.

N.C. AG Stein to Run for Governor in 2024, Mocks Trump

Trump Derangement Syndrome…on the Right (Mother Jones)

Trump Is Plotting How to Kick DeSantis ‘In the Nuts.’ Here’s His Playbook, So Far (Rolling Stone) The notion that anybody at Rolling Stone has even the vaguest idea of what Trump’s ‘playbook’ might be is ludicrous.

‘Lies’: Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch will go under oath (MSNBC)

New book ‘Myth America’ examines misinformation in U.S. history (PBS) ‘Misinformation’ being anything that doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

Historians on race, identity and immigration in ‘Myth America’ (Washington Post)

What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn’t report (Washington Post)

Why Didn’t the January 6 Committee Go Harder on Big Tech? (Vanity Fair)

Ron DeSantis’s war on “wokeness” is a war against the First Amendment (Vox)

Media Cameras Cut Away From Jaguars Kicker Patterson’s Cross

Man Wearing ‘Jesus Saves’ Shirt Ordered to Leave Mall

CNN Spews Disinformation About VA School District’s Maniacal ‘Equity’

Trump Throws Temper Tantrum Throughout E. Jean Carroll Deposition (Daily Beast) Not unlike the daily temper tantrum the Daily Beast throws about Trump.

Donald Trump’s Telltale Sign He Knows He’ll Be Indicted: Kirschner (Newsweek) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Revealed: Who visited the Trump White House before Jan. 6 (Politico) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH….

Two states still observe King-Lee Day, honoring Robert E. Lee with MLK (Washington Post)

Mississippi, Alabama still celebrating Confederate general on MLK Day (MSNBC)

Are we too worried about misinformation? (Vox) No, just the wrong kind.

Biden knocks ‘fiscally demented’ Republicans in MLK Day speech (The Hill)

Man ordered to remove ‘Jesus is the only way’ T-shirt at Mall of America (N.Y. Post)

What’s the true value of crypto? It lays bare the lies of libertarians (The Guardian)

GOP Rep. LaLota: DOJ, FEC Need to Freeze Santos’ Campaign Funds What does he need campaign funds for? He’s already been elected.

Ron DeSantis Takes On the Likability Issue (Sort Of) (Politico) A thinly-disguised hit-piece from one of the Usual Suspects.

The Bathroom Fight Fueling Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s Break-Up (Daily Beast) A fairy-tale of mind-reading from America’s High School Paper.

The McCarthy-Jordan Plan to Weaponize the House (The Bulwark) A stalwart of the Kristol Krew punches right.

Is Ron DeSantis just Trump 2.0, or something else entirely? Republicans are anxious to find out (Globe and Mail) And the Narrative media are even more anxious to find out.

Fmr Congressmen on House GOP’s score-settling and “narrative of grievance” (MSNBC)

FBI informants to testify in Proud Boys trial (MSNBC) I cannot take seriously someone who wears his hat backwards.

How Stephen Colbert Knows George Santos Is Definitely Going to Resign (Daily Beast) Not only does he read minds, but he also lives on Planet Proglodyte, where everything goes his way.

Jimmy Fallon Unearths Wild George Santos Video, Calling It Real-Time ‘Identity Theft’ (Huffington Post) Wild! (Meanwhile, Santos is sitting in Washington pulling down $174,000 a year, plus expenses.)

Nurse fired for refusing to prescribe birth control sues CVS (The Hill)

LAPD Chief Blasted For “Political Pandering” After Banning ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Flag From Los Angeles Police Stations

Telemundo Mad Over Arkansas’s Ban On Official Use Of Non-Word ‘Latinx’

Rep. Comer: Santos Will Be Removed If He Broke Campaign Finance Laws  One suspects that he was very careful not to.

Ex-Trump aide Sanders defends critical race theory ban as Arkansas governor (The Guardian) My, what a surprise.

New details link George Santos to cousin of sanctioned Russian oligarch (Washington Post) Next up: Pictures of George Santos jaywalking!

Rep. Santos Linked to Cousin of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch  Linked! That proves it!

Joe Scarborough Implies Bigotry Behind GOP Criticism of Karine Jean-Pierre  I guess it’s bigoted to be critical of dimwits if they have the Fashionable Skin Color.,

Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020 Sounds about right.

Biden Chides ‘Fiscally Demented’ Republicans in MLK Day Speech  Mr. Bipartisan.

Judge rejects as ‘absurd’ Trump bid to dismiss rape accuser’s lawsuit (Reuters)

Trump testified E Jean Carroll was ‘nut job’ who said she enjoyed being sexually assaulted (The Guardian) These days, that’s not far-fetched.

See the smoking gun that might get Trump indicted: GOP chief links him to ‘crime’ phone call (MSNBC) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

If the Mar-a-Lago case collapses? Disaster dodged, America. (Washington Post)

Republicans Want to ‘Phase Out’ Electric Cars to Protect Fossil Fuels (Newsweek) No, they don’t.

The U.S. renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman (NPR)

Brazilian homemaker claims George Santos ruined her life (N.Y. Post) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

For 2nd time in a week, Chicago Police Department under fire over handling of a cop accused of belonging to extremist group (Chicago Sun-Times)

Save us from women’s shoulders, Missouri state legislature! (Washington Post) It is not, of course, about ‘women’s shoulders’. Narrative Media ‘journalists’ love to build straw men and then beat the living snot out of them.

‘Dismay and anxiety’ on college campuses as DeSantis ramps up anti-CRT campaign (Orlando Sentinel)

Conroe brewery receives flood of threats, harassment after canceling Kyle Rittenhouse event (Texas Tribune) The Texas Tribune is the Mother Jones of Travis County, home of Austin The Blue Pustule on the Rosy Red Butt of Texas.

NY Times Pouts Over DeSantis’s ‘Radical Approach’: Ignoring ‘Nonpartisan’ Press

George Santos Is A Piker Next To Former Rep. Doug Stringfellow

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning? (Rolling Stone)

The House GOP’s retread tactics have blown up in Republicans’ faces before (Washington Post) Far-Left Retread E. J. Dionne fills in for Far-Left retread Carl “Worse Than Watergate” Bernstein, who has probably died during the interval.

Alabama bank slammed for Robert E. Lee, MLK holiday sign: ‘Pull your money out’

MSNBC guest scorches Garland over probes

WATCH: House Minority Leader Jeffries blasts House GOP agenda, calls out Santos (PBS)

Schumer blasts ‘extreme’ House GOP agenda: American people don’t want Congress to ‘just’ investigate (The Hill)

Indiana Lab Worker Fired for Sending Creepy Threats to Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (Daily Beast) As opposed to: uncreepy threats?

PBS Claim: GOP ‘Immersed in These Far-Right Networks…From Moscow to Budapest’  By contrast with the Far-Left Networks that the Democrats are immersed in, from Beijing to Brussels.

Schumer, Jeffries Warn ‘MAGA Republicans’ Forcing Default

House GOP Eyes Investigation of Big Tech-Aligned Election Grants

On PBS, Journalists Label House GOP As All ‘Fringe’ and ‘Very Extreme,’ Unlike Democrats

Rep. Grothman displays Christian nationalist flag outside congressional office (Wisconsin Examiner) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing as a ‘Christian nationalist flag’. Would you even know it if you saw it? Thank God we’ve got proglodyte ‘journalists’ to hunt these things down for us.

MSNBC Panel Labels GOP Racist ‘Juvenile Delinquents’ Projection.

‘We Will Die for Brazil’: How a Far-Right Mob Tried to Oust Lula (N.Y. Times) Lula is a socialist and a crook, so naturally he’s the Good Guy. Everybody who is not a Good Guy is a Far-Right Neo-Trumpist Crypto Nazi Bad Guy. Just keep that straight.

Embattled Rep. Santos Allegedly Tied to Ponzi Scheme  Allegedly! Tied! That proves it!

George Santos Allegedly Wore a Stolen Scarf to Stop the Steal Rally in 2021 (Daily Beast) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Democrats: ‘It’s Different When We Do It!’

Read part of Trump’s deposition in the E. Jean Carrol libel lawsuit (PBS) Just the part that supports the Narrative, of course; this is, after all, PBS.

Trump: Special counsel Jack Smith might ‘turn out to be a criminal’ (MSNBC)

Donald Trump Calls Special Counsel Investigating Him a ‘Terrorist’ (Newsweek)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tells CNN that his office’s investigation of Trump Org. will continue (CNN) It’s not as if he’s got anything else to do, since they aren’t prosecuting criminals any more.

Biden’s Document Blunder Is Nothing Like Trump’s Crime (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait indulges in a little cognitive dissonance.

ABC Suggests Trump Shares Blame For 2016 Terrorist Plot

Washington Post.

Don’t think of this as selling out; think of it as buying in.

Progressives eagerly await their chance to harass McCarthy (Politico)

How McCarthy is paying back the GOP leaders that voted for him (CNN)

Eric Adams blasts NY Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for migrant budget critique (N.Y. Post)

The truth about Stone Mountain’s giant Confederate memorial (The Economist)

New documentary explores Stone Mountain’s history (Axios)

How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary (L.A. Times)

‘The nation’s executioners’: the US supreme court’s shift towards capital punishment (The Guardian)

When Idaho legislator likens women’s reproductive rights to cows, it’s no laughing matter (Idaho Statesman)

Wisconsin Republican who bragged about low turnout faces calls to resign (The Guardian)

Awkward moment on MSNBC as Andrea Mitchell scolds a colleague using ‘pro-life’ term (Fox)

Republicans invent fake procedure for symbolic anti-abortion vote (MSNBC)

Why Prince Harry is such a threat to a certain kind of man (CNN)

Amid abortion bans, Muslim Americans turn back to their faith’s ruling on abortion (NPR)

Joe Manchin’s top aide to join oil and gas lobbying group (Axios)

Idaho Lawmaker Goes Beserk at School Board Meeting Over Trans Issues (Daily Beast)

Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden to Void Visa of Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Rightwing group pours millions in ‘dark money’ into US voter suppression bid (The Guardian) More than Soros? I don’t believe THAT.

Bullies Stuff Kid Into Locker For Not Giving His Pronouns (Babylon Bee)

Will this Fulton County DA be the first prosecutor to indict Trump? (MSNBC)

Trump is facing various criminal charges – here’s what we can learn from legal cases against Nixon and Clinton (The Conversation)

Special counsel seeks information on who is paying Trump orbit legal bills as investigation intensifies (CNN)

John Kelly was ‘terrified’ by aspects of Trump, says Michael Schmidt (MSNBC)

Trump Dealt New Legal Blow From Judge He Appointed, Kirschner Explains (Newsweek)

DOJ Indicts Trump For Biden’s Possession Of Classified Documents (Babylon Bee)

Team Trump Hit With Fresh Jan. 6 Subpoena: Report (Daily Beast)

Trump campaign officials got subpoena asking new questions about Jan. 6 (Washington Post)

The Civil War exposes the risks of charging — or not charging — Trump (Washington Post)

Trump’s ‘Fall Guy’ Committed Crimes ‘At His Direction’: Kirschner (Newsweek) For which there is absolutely no evidence.

Judge will allow prosecutors to use Trump’s ‘stand back and stand by’ comment in Proud Boys trial (CNN)

Scarborough Instructs Garland To Prosecute Trump on Documents, Not Biden!

To defeat Trumpism, stop letting MAGA stunts drive the debate (Washington Post) Greg Sargent loses his shit. (There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the fever dreams of the witch-hunt media.)

The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Faces Headwinds Few Others Have (N.Y. Times) Lack of anything resembling a crime, for one thing.

Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says (MSNBC) The more outrageous the lie, the more books proglodytes will buy.

Trump’s Shortlist of VP Picks All Have One Thing in Common (Daily Beast) It is of course delusional to think that a writer for the Daily Beast has any clue about who is on Trump’s ‘shortlist of VP picks’. Proglodytes fancy themselves mind-readers but really are just day-dreamers.

There are no moderate House Republicans (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Dr. Phil debate on illegal immigration gets explosive: ‘Why didn’t White people stay in England?’ (Fox)

The GOP’s first bill exposes the false promise of right-wing populism (MSNBC)

Over 200 Democrats Vote Against Condemning Attacks on Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

Kash Patel Says Jan. 6 Committee Buried Key Evidence From His Testimony

Emory Law Professor Denounces The Late Antonin Scalia As “Basically A Klansman”

Jim Jordan, Church Committee Pretender (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues it’s mission of being a Democrat tool.

Jewish Students Reported a Professor for Anti-Semitism. Their University Retaliated Against Them.

Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S. (Washington Post) Mostly among Democrats, I suspect, who have been fascists since Woodrow Wilson.

Exclusive: Alex Jones Phone Dump Reveals Text Convos With Tucker Carlson (Huffington Post) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH!

Man arrested at gunpoint in DeSantis voter fraud crackdown, video shows (The Guardian)

Alphabet Mob Smacks Down Dungy For Attending Christian Conference

The Federalist.

New licensing rules in Minnesota that require teachers to ‘affirm’ students’ transgender identities will meet immediate court challenges from civil liberties advocates.

Merrick Garland’s Special Counsel Is Zeroing In On Trump’s Inner Circle (Vanity Fair)

Michael Cohen: When working for Trump ‘you think you’re not going to get caught’ (MSNBC)

Trump Executive Weisselberg Prepares for Jail on Rikers Island

Lawsuit Reveals Trump Can’t Stand Being Compared to Hitler (Daily Beast)

DoJ seeks to question Trump team that found more classified documents (The Guardian)

Trump’s tax returns show he was a bigger risk than we realized (MSNBC)

Trump’s Tax Returns Expose Sweetheart Loans For Ivanka And Her Brothers (Forbes) All this while ignoring Hunter. Amazing.

Houston Diner Who Fatally Shot Restaurant Robber to Face Grand Jury

U.S. House Republicans vote to go after Biden Justice Department (Reuters)

Oklahoma State University sued over policies that punish students for ‘opinionated’ views

Advocates slam Supreme Court justice over “vile” comments (Axios)

From ‘Avatar’ to Elon Musk, exploration is out and culture war is in (Washington Post)

The stink from Ducey’s $200 million shipping container border wall just got a little stinkier (Arizona Republic)

Trump-appointed judge in Yale clerk boycott condemns ‘cancel culture’ at Harvard event (Reuters)

DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College (N.Y. Times) No mention of the fact that progressives did their own ‘hostile takeover’ of a formerly rigorous college.

2023 is the year for hunting heretics (The Hill) A Woke heretic hunter indulges in a little projection.

How the Biden administration can slow the GOP’s dangerous schemes (Washington P0st) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Normalization of Marjorie Taylor Greene (The Bulwark) Mona Charen pushes the Narrative like a good little tool.

U.S. would ‘treat seriously’ requests to revoke Bolsonaro’s visa (Washington Post) The witch-hunt knows no borders.

I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel (The Guardian)

Hero Customer Who Shot Armed Robber At Houston Taco Joint Ordered To Face Grand Jury By Soros-Funded DA

McCarthy’s mysterious deal with the hard right (Washington Post) As opposed to the soft right?

Capitol riot far-right internet personality gets 60 days (Associated Press) In the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

MSNBC Predicts Violence As A Result Of GOP Rhetoric, Oversight

Progressive Journalists Can’t Read a 3-Page Bill. Calling It ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is Easier

PBS Host Dubiously Shrieks All 20 McCarthy Vote Holdouts Were ‘Election Deniers’  Like Hillary?

GOP Kicks Off Oversight of Biden Docs Case  Not ‘Congress’, mind you, but ‘GOP’.

Divided House Approves G.O.P. Inquiry Into ‘Weaponization’ of Government (N.Y. Times)

‘Divorced From Reality’: Paul Krugman Claims ‘Election Deniers’ Are Also ‘Economy Deniers’  Says the man who has been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Jordan Peterson: Enemy Of The State

MSNBC: GOP Investigating Investigators is an ‘Insurrection Committee’

Trump Attorney Sides With Supreme Court Knocking Down Case to Reinstate Him (Newsweek)

Giuliani subpoenaed amid special counsel investigation into Trump’s fundraising (CNN)

GOP’s ‘weaponization’ panel would have power to review those probing Trump

House adopts new rules Democrats decry as a ‘ransom note to America’ (The Guardian)

How America’s Richest Woman Isn’t Spending Her Money (Daily Beast)

The GOP settled on a speaker, but the chaos is just beginning (MSNBC)

Kristi Noem Manages to Make Ron DeSantis Look Less Awful (Daily Beast)

TV tonight: Ken Burns’ scathing new documentary takes apart US delusions (The Guadian) Scathing!

NY Times Uses Speaker Fight to Tar GOP With ‘Far Right,’ ‘Ultraconservative’ Labels

Investigating The Investigators

End of Jan. 6 panel opens new chapter for Department of Justice (The Hill)

Jeffries says McCarthy concessions to far-right members ‘just the beginning’ (The Hill) To Democrats, there is no right but the far-right.

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace blasts Matt Gaetz as a ‘fraud’ for fundraising off McCarthy Speaker votes (The Hill) RINOs know they can get favorable headlines by attacking Republicans.

Lauren Boebert accused of swearing at Marjorie Taylor Greene during House speaker vote (N.Y. Post) Is that all?

MTG, a Member of Congress, Blames ‘the Internet’ For Her Past QAnon Beliefs (Rolling Stone) On the road to RINO….

Fmr. Freedom Caucus member on the “mess” ahead for the GOP (MSNBC)

The unauthorized history of the House Freedom Caucus (Politico)

Relationship with ‘needy’ Trump a complex part of Sasse political legacy (Omaha World Herald)

Conservatives Take Aim at Tenure for University Professors

House Republican Probed Over Jan. 6 May Now Investigate FBI

U.S. Military Begins Changing Names of Confederate Ships, Installations, More

NEW PROBE: Reelected Michigan AG will hold Trump allies accountable for fake elector plot (Occupy Democrats)

The speaker fight is over but the chaos is just beginning (CNN)

Texas Democrat calls for US authorities to extradite Bolsonaro back to Brazil (The Hill)

House GOP Causing Panic on the Left

The Beautiful People Hate ‘Ugly Israel’s’ New Government

AOC Calls for End to Bolsonaro’s Florida Exile

McCarthy’s Day One Plan: Gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (Mother Jones) The likelihood that a writer for Mother Jones has any clue as to what McCarthy’s plans are is negligible. This is just Narrative fairy-tale.

That McCarthy PAC Concession? It Could Elect Far-Right Candidates in 2024. (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue as the running dogs of the Democrat witch-hunt.

Mel Gibson Removed as Co-grand Marshal of Mardi Gras Parade

Bolsonaro Admitted To Hospital In Florida As Dem Lawmakers Urge Booting Him From US  They can’t be bothered to secure the border but they’ve got time to witch-hunt Bolsonaro.

Colorado Secretary Of State Admits Mailing Over 31,000 Voter Registration Instruction Cards To Non-Citizens  Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail. The Crust takes care of its own.

Mainstream Media Confesses Russia Hoax At Last

ABC Appalled Armed Robber Gets Stopped By Armed Good Samaritan

Soccer Player Who Wouldn’t Kneel Receives $100K Settlement

Maria Bartiromo Is Still Doing the Kind of Journalism That Got Fox News Sued For Billions (MEDIAite) I’m surprised that they didn’t manage to include Trump in that weasel-worded headline.

Donald Trump Hit With Yet Another Lawsuit as Legal Troubles Stack Up (Newsweek)

Trump tax returns: IRS hobby rules put $1.1M of deductions at risk

How Trump’s allies stoked Brazil Congress attack (BBC) Those Trump cooties are just everywhere.

REPORT: Former President Trump’s Facebook Ban May Finally Be Lifted  The longer it stays, the more partisan it looks.

Fulton special grand jury completes Trump investigation (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) “Judge dissolves panel, sets hearing on whether to publish group’s recommendations.”

Kevin McCarthy reveals how the MAGA House will protect Trump (Washington Post) Greg Sargent pursues his day job.

Trump Indictment for Mar-a-Lago Documents Coming ‘Soon,’ Attorney Predicts (Newsweek)

‘To Hell with It’: A GOP Congressman Reflects on His One Term in Trump’s Party (Politico)

The speaker of the House debacle is the Maga revolution eating its children (The Guardian)

This suburban gynecologist treated the downtrodden. US prosecutors say she punched a Capitol officer on Jan. 6. (Boston Globe)

Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and the politics of the moment (The Hill)

Two years after Jan. 6, democracy is in distress and the House is a total mess (The Hill)

A brief taxonomy of Christian nationalism in the U.S. (Washington Post) Get yer Narrative! Right here!

What is Pentecostal Christianity? (The Conversation)

‘Jolly’ Ex-Rep on MSNBC: Probe of FBI, CIA Abuses ‘Heroin In Veins of Fox News Viewers’

College that fired prof for showing image of Muhammad could lose accreditation

From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos (N.Y. Times) Needless to say, actual democracy in action is anathema to the NYT.

PBS Fearmongers: GOP ‘Threats to Democracy Remain,’ Like the House Speaker Vote?

ABC Panics Over McCarthy Victory: U.S. Fiscal Security in Jeopardy!

Elon Musk Aims To Move Fraud Trial From California To Texas To Avoid “Local Negativity”

Todd Predicts GOP House Will Help Re-Elect Biden

‘Floored me’: GOP official who defied Trump’s coup reveals shocking call (MSNBC)

MAGA ‘clown show’: How McCarthy foes tried to steal election for Trump (MSNBC)

Donald Trump ordered by judge to face New York fraud lawsuit (Reuters)

In Mar-a-Lago case, DOJ wins another dispute over Trump’s lawyers (MSNBC) All Trump! All the Time!

MAGA ‘clown show’: Speaker humiliation a ‘drift’ in Trump’s threat to democracy (MSNBC)

Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase (CNN)

OPEC’s Second-Largest Oil Producer Issues Trump Arrest Warrant

Trump Special Counsel Bolsters Team With Anti-Graft Specialists (Bloomberg)

Michigan AG pledges to pursue case against Trump electors (Associated Press)

Activist Groups Lobby for Colorado to Disqualify Trump in 2024  Which they cannot do.

The feds say they’re in for the long haul in the Jan. 6 investigation. There is a time limit. (NBC)

Nation In Shock As Politicians Show Up To Work 4 Days In A Row (Babylon Bee)

Writer calls for ‘anti-fat bias’ training, condemns ‘triggering’ workplace health programs (N.Y. Post)

Civil rights organization blasts Chicago mayor, top cop for not firing officer for his links to the far-right Proud Boys (Chicago Sun-Times) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Southern Poverty Law Center wants CPD officer fired (CBS)

The ‘Stolen’ Election That Poisoned American Politics. It Happened in 1984. (Politico) Pushing that ancient Narrative.

Enablers, line-straddlers and quiet resisters: How GOP lawmakers contributed to Jan. 6 (Politico)

A Harvard professor’s book asks: What if the Jan. 6 attack had succeeded? (Washington P0st) Only a Harvard professor could believe that Jan. 6 was an attack or that it could have ‘succeeded’. (When the Narrative is based on fairy-tales, those who write fairy-tales for a living cash in.)

Adam Schiff: Republicans are currently being led by ‘chaos agents’ (MSNBC)

What the Jan. 6 Committee Report Left Out (Politico) Facts?

Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard (The Nation)

NBC’s Law and Order Attacks Texas Gov for Busing Illegals to NYC

‘The Democrats, the Republicans and the Freedom Caucus’: Inside the right’s plans to seize power in the new Congress (Grid News)

Supporters raise millions to rebrand Jan. 6 rioters as ‘patriots’ (Washington Post)

House Democrats connect Jan. 6 to GOP’s speakership fight (Axios) Of course they do.

Meacham Alleges Republicans Oppose The Declaration Of Independence  Another fairy-tale for the Narrative.

Hostin Blames DOJ for Speaker Gridlock, Need to Arrest Holdouts for J6

Gavin Newsom Blames Republicans for January 6 Riots in Inaugural Address  My, what a surprise.

California Law Allowing Private Residents To Sue Gunmakers Takes Effect

NPR Attacks Rush Limbaugh and Salem Radio in Seven-Minute Hit Piece on ‘Right-Wing Radio’

The January 6 Attack Is Not Over (The Atlantic)

FLASHBACK: Lib Media Used ‘Bridgegate’ to Kneecap Hillary Foe

CNN, MSNBC Accuse GOP Of Helping China Discredit Democracy

A Puritanical Assault on the English Language

Mother Of Ashli Babbitt Arrested For “Jaywalking” Near Capitol While Protesting

Read it.

Over the last decade, “The Science is Settled” has been a major refrain of American life. As so many critics have noted, this phrase is not an empirical statement. People who challenge the “settled” state of science explain that science is a process of discovery and not a conclusion. They aren’t wrong, but they unfortunately assume that “the science is settled” is meant in good faith. It’s not. The slogan is a form of rhetorical bullying. Its singular purpose is to create an illusion of certitude in order to preempt any meaningful debate about the natural world, public policy, and the role of scientific knowledge in democratic deliberation.

George Will (a Princeton alumnus).

Squalls of indignation gust across campuses so frequently that they seem merely performative — synthetic, perfunctory, uninteresting. Princeton’s current contretemps, however, fascinatingly illustrates how wokeness, which lacks limiting principles, limits opposition to itself.

Since 2001, a statue of John Witherspoon (1723-1794), the Presbyterian minister recruited from Scotland to be the then-college’s president, has adorned a plaza adjacent to Firestone Library. Now the woke, who subordinate everything to “social justice” as they imagine it, demand its removal because he owned two slaves and did not advocate immediate abolition.

US military starts removing base names, items related to Confederacy (The Hill)

Military to proceed with changing the names of bases honoring Confederate generals (CBS)

On official tours of the U.S. Capitol, there is no mention of Jan. 6 (Washington Post) Guess it wasn’t all that important after all.

Experts Worried Elderly Billionaires Will Become Immortal, Compounding Wealth Forever (Futurism) Experts! That proves it!

Nashville suburb sues Tennessee Historical Commission over Confederate-named streets (Tennessee Lookout)

Laura Loomer Trolls McCarthy With Revenge Text, Savors His Humiliation (Newsweek)

McCarthy speaker spectacle is no joke. It shows the Republican Party will damage America. (USA Today)

Poll: Americans Split on Attention Given to Jan. 6 Probe

Antisemitic Hate Crimes Doubled in NYC as The New York Times Targeted Orthodox Jews, Hasidic Group Says

Liberal Media Agree With Cori Bush: Black Republican Byron Donalds Is a ‘Prop’

McCarthy Destroys His Speakership In Order to Save It (Politico)

CNN Invokes Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest to Warn Against GOP Lawmakers

Judge Sides With DOJ Over Trump in Mar-a-Lago Document Dispute (Daily Beast)

PBS Pits Rep. McCarthy vs. ‘Hard-Line Right Wingers…Trump Is These People’s Demigod’

Trump Sued by Estate of Capitol Police Officer Who Died After Jan. 6 Attack (Wall Street Journal)

How Trump’s Missing Call Logs Could Become His Nixon Tapes (Daily Beast) Carl Bernstein is waiting in the wings….

‘Fearless’ Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives in Washington to lead Trump probes (Reuters)

Jack Smith returns to U.S. weeks after becoming Trump special counsel (Washington P0st)

The Kevin McCarthy Mess Is Peak Trumpism (Vanity Fair) All Trump! All the time!

Trump Extends His Losing Streak (Morning Shots) Demophile Charlie Sykes puts the slipper in.

FLASHBACK: Everything The Media Said We’d Find in Trump’s Tax Returns

Lightfoot ad attacks Garcia, questions his ties to Madigan, cryptocurrency mogul (Chicago Sun-Times) BRAAAAAAAINS!

MAGA humiliation: McCarthy chaos reveals ‘total collapse of the Republican party’ (MSNBC) I see no ‘MAGA’ connection here, other then MSNBC’s obsession with Trump.

Pivotal moments from the select committee Jan. 6 transcripts (CBS) Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Twitter Files: Musk says US government demanded Twitter suspend 250,000 accounts, including journalists (Fox)

I bought a Tesla to help the environment. Now, I’m embarrassed to drive it. (Bangor Daily News) It’s all about the virtue-signaling.

Judge Slashes Damages Due in Charlottesville Rally Case

Unhinged Joy Reid Attacks MRC’s Brent Bozell for Supporting New GOP Leadership

New York Gun Control Law Unconstitutional: NY Supreme Court

Twitter Files Reveal Hillary Clinton — Of Course! — Was Behind Censorship Push

At trial, Oath Keeper alleges specific plan to stop vote count (Washington Post) Alleges! That proves it!

Colbert Uses Speaker Battle To Suggest Reagan Is In Hell  He must have him confused with Ted Kennedy.

Rep. Donalds Rips Cori Bush for ‘Blatantly Outrageous’ Attacks

Nothing But Rage: The Ginni Thomas Investigation Ends Without A Mention In J6 Report

Twitter Files Come Back to Bite Donald Trump (Newsweek) I doubt that he noticed.

Jan. 6 committee yet again debunks Trump claim of 10,000 troops (Washington Post)

‘Fearless’ Special Counsel Jack Smith Arrives in D.C. to Lead Trump Probes

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Because that’s the most important thing to know about them, right?

Will 2023 be the year Donald Trump is indicted? (Vox) No.

2023 presents complications for Donald Trump comeback (Florida Politics)

‘That was a surprise’ What we learned from Trump’s revealed tax returns (MSNBC)

Jan. 6 Panel Transcripts Show Gen. Milley Agreed With Pelosi That Trump Was ‘Crazy’ (Huffington Post) My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

2023 Will Finally Be the Year of Accountability for Donald Trump (Daily Beast) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Trump’s Tax Returns Are Only Part of the Picture (Bloomberg)

Trump seems to have a large war chest – but is he struggling to raise money? (The Guardian) He’s a billionaire. He doesn’t need to raise money.

MAGAworld rocked by Jan. 6 testimony bomb: Top advisors knew of plan to march on Capitol (MSNBC)

McCarthy Proposes Gutting Office of Congressional Ethics in Bid for Speaker (TIME)

Reid Smirks as Leftist Rep-Elect Says DeSantis Wants Drag Show Bans Over Guns

Trying to Trademark ‘Rigged Election,’ and Other Revelations From the Jan. 6 Transcripts (N.Y. Times)

George Santos Comes to Washington. It Could Be Awkward. (N.Y. Times) Not for him, apparently; he appears to be pretty shameless. The people for whom it will be awkward is the Democrat establishment, who are accustomed to ignoring such ‘sins’ on the part of their own members, and now are awakening to the fact that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

A Far-Right Gang Of House Members Will Hold Power Over Their Caucus — With A Megaphone (Huffington Post) Not to be confused with the Far-Left Gang of House Members (The Squad) who will hold power over their caucus with a megaphone.

The right has already won the House speakership election (CNN) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

MSNBC: Gun Control Is Like Traffic Laws, War Is More Controlled

Twitter Files 11: Hillary’s Russia ‘Cues’ Were Nexus for Intel Meddling

2023 prediction: Donald Trump will face criminal charges (MSNBC)

‘To Hell with It’: A GOP Congressman Reflects on His One Term in Trump’s Party (Politico) If it were actually ‘Trump’s party’, this guy wouldn’t even be in Congress. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

New data shows the folly of Trump’s crusade against early voting (Politico)

US Appeals Court: MAGA Hat Expression of Free Speech

The Democrats reveal the contents of Al Capone’s vaults Trump’s tax returns….

8 Most Shocking Revelations From Trump’s Tax Returns

The Supreme Court’s squandered opportunity (The Hill) Squandered!

He Cannot Be Serious. Kanye Goes Even Further Off The Deep End. Updated!!! (Daily Kos)

Why the Jan. 6 committee’s 845-page report wasn’t long enough (MSNBC)

Leaked Jan. 6 Committee Report Exposes Twitter’s Post-Insurrection Chaos (Rolling Stone)

NY Times Now Loves the FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Social Media All Cool

NYC Machete Attack: Don Lemon’s Instinct Is To Ask First for Suspect’s Condition, Not the Cops

A Comprehensive Guide to Why a Ron DeSantis Presidency Would Be as Terrifying as a Trump One (Vanity Fair) I like him already.

CBS Again Hits Benedict XVI as “Arch-Conservative,” “God’s Rottweiller”

White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. (Washington Post) Does that come as a surprise to anyone?

Unanswered questions about Trump’s tax returns (CNN) Such as: Who care? Or maybe: Where’s the crime?

Threat of mass resignations upended Trump’s coup plans (MSNBC) That straw man is pretty thoroughly dead by now.

Trump Called Supporters Storming Capitol ‘Trashy’ But Good ‘Fighters’: Jan. 6 Testimony (Huffington Post)  Sure he did.

MSNBC Fantasizes About DeSantis Assassinating Trump, Brutus-Caesar Style

Meta Set to Make Decision on Trump’s Return to Facebook  I doubt it. They hate him too much.

Trump rings in 2023 facing headwinds in his White House run (Associated Press)

Asa Hutchinson: Jan. 6 ‘Disqualifies’ Trump from GOP Presidential Nomination  Unfortunately for Asa, his opinions don’t control reality.

Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights (The Intercept)

Clarence Thomas Must Be ‘Subpoenaed’ to Testify Over Jan. 6: Lawyers (Newsweek) But he won’t be.

PBS Drops Barrel of ‘Far Right’ Labels on New Netanyahu Government in Israel

A once respected biology journal indicts evolutionary biology for ableism  ‘Ableism’ is one of those made-up smears that give the Wokerati a stick with which to beat people who don’t think it’s their main job to accommodate every possible distorted version of humanity. As with most Woke fetishes, it attempts to make the exceptions into the rule and hammer the heretics.

Politico Creep: Pope Was ‘Homophobic Pedophile Protector, Hitler Youth Alumnus’

ABC’s Karl Fluffs Leftist Rep-Elect, Touts Him Heckling DeSantis

Trump’s tax returns are much to do about nothings (CNN)

Michael Cohen Reacts To Trump’s Tax Returns: ‘Donald’s Time Has Come’ (MSNBC)

In testimony to Jan. 6 committee, former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato said he didn’t recall heated motorcade interaction with Trump (CBS)

‘Alex Jones Did Nothing Wrong’: Meet the Christian Nationalist Behind ‘Pastors For Trump’ (Rolling Stone) You might have thought that Rolling Stone was about the music industry, but you’d be wrong. It’s just another brick in the wall of the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Taxes Are the Best Case Yet for Putting Him in Prison (Daily Beast)

The Trump tax returns

The Supreme Court is manipulating its own calendar to lock GOP policies in place (Vox)

Mark McCloskey won’t get his guns or money back despite pardon, Missouri judge rules (The Hill)

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Janitors, Reportedly Forcing Staff To Bring Own Toilet Paper (Huffington Post) Considering how full of shit most Twitter employees have turned out to be, I can see where that would be a problem.

Left-Wing Politico Blasted for Naming Meghan Markle Among 2022’s Worst ‘Narcissists’ (Breitbart) Which she so obviously is.

Jan. 6 committee is running out of time. Key documents may soon be locked away for decades (L.A. TImes)

TV News Liberals Hit “Rigid,” “Hard Line” “Cartoonish” Pope Benedict

N.C. State Broadcaster Let Go After Mentioning ‘Illegal Aliens’

The Invention of Elise Stefanik (N.Y. Times) When RINO is not enough….

An MSNBC “Debate”: Is GOP “Neo-Fascist,” “Proto-Fascist” or “Semi-Fascist?”  Wow, that’s a stumper, all right. It would be more interesting if anyone at MSNBC knew what ‘fascist’ meant (other than ‘we hate you’).

ECHR Upholds Eric Zemmour’s “Incitement to Discrimination” Conviction

Trump Jr. details efforts to sway father on Jan. 6 in panel deposition (The Hill)

Key findings from the latest Jan. 6 panel transcripts, including from Donald Trump Jr. and others (CNN)

Nevada’s newest (and least qualified) judge is an alarming teachable moment (MSNBC)

Melania Trump was ‘angry’ with Meadows and ‘wary’ of lawyers ahead of Jan. 6: Grisham (The Hill)

Dangerous Devotion: Congressional hearing examines threat of white Christian nationalism (Southern Poverty Law Center)

With latest Title 42 ruling, Supreme Court majority makes a mockery of the law (Washington Post)

‘Obscene and unprecedented’: Text messages reveal GOP calls to overturn 2020 election results (MSNBC)

West Point Begins Removal, Alteration Of Confederate Memorials On Campus

Lying Liar George Santos Under Investigation For All Those Lies  And what will the investigation find? “Yup, he lied. No law against that.” (If there were. half of the Democrats in Congress would be in jail.) He’s still a Congressman, and will be for the next two years.

DHS watchdog has launched criminal probe into destruction of Jan. 6 Secret Service text messages, sources say (NBC)

World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers To Chinese Social Media Apps

The MAGA Right Would Have Called Winston Churchill a ‘Welfare Queen’ (Daily Beast) One of the most reliable hobbies of the Narrative Media is building straw-men that they can then enjoy pummeling.

Will George Santos’ Lies Cost Him Access to Classified Information? (Daily Beast) Does he even care? I wouldn’t, in his situation. If they deny him a clearance, he just says, ‘Fine, less work for me to do.’

All the Worst: CNN Year in Review Attacks Dobbs Decision, Musk

MSNBC Analyst LIES: We ‘Ignored’ Timothy McVeigh After Oklahoma City?