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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th January 2023

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

 

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29th January 2023

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

 

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29th January 2023

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)

 

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28th January 2023

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.

 

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27th January 2023

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”

 

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27th January 2023

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

 

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26th January 2023

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

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

26th January 2023

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)

 

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25th January 2023

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….

 

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

25th January 2023

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

 

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24th January 2023

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.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th January 2023

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’.

 

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Indiana School Places Counselor Who Leaked Secret Transgender Policy on Leave

24th January 2023

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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.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd January 2023

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!

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

23rd January 2023

‘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.

 

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The New Age of Uniformity

23rd January 2023

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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.”

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22nd January 2023

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

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

22nd January 2023

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.

 

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20th January 2023

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.

 

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19th January 2023

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.

 

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18th January 2023

‘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’

 

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18th January 2023

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

 

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17th January 2023

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….

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

17th January 2023

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.

 

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16th January 2023

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.

 

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15th January 2023

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.

 

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

15th January 2023

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)

 

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14th January 2023

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!’

 

 

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14th January 2023

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

 

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From Outside Agitator to Inside Player: The Remaking of Marjorie Taylor Greene

14th January 2023

Washington Post.

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

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13th January 2023

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)

 

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13th January 2023

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)

 

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12th January 2023

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.

 

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12th January 2023

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

 

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Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, And Jews From Teaching In Public Schools

12th January 2023

The Federalist.

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

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11th January 2023

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.

 

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11th January 2023

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’

 

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10th January 2023

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

 

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10th January 2023

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis on Tue, 10 Jan 2023

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

 

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9th January 2023

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.

 

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9th January 2023

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.

 

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8th January 2023

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)

 

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8th January 2023

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

 

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7th January 2023

‘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.

 

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7th January 2023

Sherman's Lagoon Comic Strip for January 07, 2023

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

 

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Settled Science and the Politics of Knowledge

7th January 2023

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.

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Wokeness in All Its Self-Flattering Moral Vanity Comes for a Statue at Princeton

7th January 2023

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.

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6th January 2023

Free Range Comic Strip for January 06, 2023

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

 

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6th January 2023

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….

 

 

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5th January 2023

‘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

 

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