Former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller subpoenaed by Justice Department (CNN)

Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Mocked as Ukrainians Force Russia to Retreat (Newsweek)

Discriminatory profiling needs to end at Homeland Security (The Hill)

Jan. 6 Prisoners And Families Expose Brutal Truth About Jail Lockdown

The View’s Hostin claims Queen Elizabeth wore ‘crown with pillaged stones,’ Britain a ‘genocidal’ empire

‘The View’s Sonny Hostin defends professor who wished Queen ‘excruciating’ pain

Leonard Leo: the secretive rightwinger using billions to reshape America (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Bannon is not finished: his ‘precinct strategy’ could alter US elections for years (The Guardian)

Two Top Trump Political Aides Among Those Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Case (N.Y. Times)

It’s official: Sarah Palin cost the GOP a House seat (Washington Post) According to the Narrative.

Michigan Republicans Stumble in Dress Rehearsal for Overturning Future Elections (Bolts)

NYT: U.S. Found Yielding to ‘Hate’ Hysteria

Wells Fargo Screws Sex Workers, Cancels Accounts Over ‘Risks’

35 Trump Allies Served With Warrants, Subpoenas According To Steve Bannon  The witch-hunt continues.

Stephen Miller, Brian Jack Subpoenaed in Trump Electors Case  The witch-hunt continues.

Proud Boys Hawaii Leader, Friend Plead Guilty in Jan. 6 Riot  A stark chice: Take the plea deal or the government comes down on you with both boots.

Republicans Aren’t the Only Ones Who Can Play Culture Warrior (Politico) Rich Lowry, National Review RINO.

How Democrats gained the upper hand on God, guns and gays (Politico) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Dan Patrick Demanded That Texas Retirement Funds Divest From BlackRock. But He Kept His Shares in the Firm. (Texas Monthly)

Republicans winning the House could plunge US and world into ‘chaos,’ warns New York Times

The hidden danger posed by a MAGA takeover of the House (Washington Post)

The problem with GOP extremists isn’t what they thought in college (Washington Post)

How reactionary is MAGA? Try the first century B.C. (Washington Post) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

U.S. cited ‘domestic terrorism’ in search tied to Oath Keepers’ lawyer (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

Oath Keepers: Leaked membership list includes police and politicians (BBC) So does the Democrat Party.

An ex-professor spreads election myths across the U.S., one town at a time (Washington Post)

Hillary Clinton to Melania Trump: ‘How’s Your Summer Going?’ (Daily Beast)

12 Brilliant Ways Republicans Are Planning To Screw Up The Midterms (Babylon Bee)

Rubio walks the Mar-a-Lago line (Politico)

Chelsea Clinton says she used to be friends with Ivanka Trump until ‘she went to the dark side’

It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy (Mother Jones)

William Barr: The New Alyssa Farah

Steve Bannon’s indictment reveals the truth about Trumpism (The Guardian) The witch-hunt continues.

GHOULISH Politico Whines: Why Isn’t 2020 Objections Top of Mind in GOP Obits?

Revealed: Ginni Thomas’s links to anti-abortion groups who lobbied to overturn Roe (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Behar Calls DeSantis ‘Cowardly’ for Refusing Invite to ‘The View’

CA High School: ‘Whites,’ ‘Heterosexuals’ And ‘Christians’ Are Fascists

An “Election Denier” Strikes Back

Oath Keepers’ founder Rhodes fires lawyers, seeks delay in Capitol riot trial (Politico)

Oath Keepers leader wants trial delayed at least 90 days (The Hill)

Jennifer Lawrence had recurring nightmares about Tucker Carlson in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (Insider)

Press: If the semi-fascist shoe fits, wear it! (The Hill)

Dr. Oz on Incest: More Than First Cousin? ‘Not a Big Problem.’ (Jezebel)

New CNN chief’s first major hire is retired cop who recently lied about the NYPD spying on Muslims after 9/11 (Media Matters)

Kansas School District Pays $95K Settlement After Suspending Teacher For Not Using Preferred Pronouns

MSNBC Cries Over ‘Rotten’ & ‘Extreme’ GOP Passing Pro-Life Laws

Scarborough: Republicans So Bad, Media Shouldn’t ‘Play It Down The Middle’

Arizona AG Candidate Continues to Support Trump, Conservative Ideals

A QAnon-Touting Election Denier Could Soon Run This Swing State’s Elections (Vice)

Kathy Griffin Claims That Republican Voters ‘Want Civil War’

Michael Flynn: From government insider to holy warrior (Associated Press) “This story is part of an ongoing investigation from The Associated Press and “Frontline” that includes the upcoming documentary “Michael Flynn’s Holy War,” premiering Oct. 18 on PBS and online.”  Ongoing investigation! Pretty scary!

Oath Keepers members list includes military, law enforcement, politicians (Axios) All of whom must now be witch-hunted.

Schumer Super PAC Spends Millions To Damage Moderate Republican in New Hampshire Primary

Lost Journalist Accidentally Wanders Into The Washington Post  (Babylon Bee)

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The issuance of the court order comes days after the release of bombshell emails showing that the Biden administration coordinated with senior officials at Facebook and Twitter to censor posts about Covid-19 they claimed contained false or misleading information. As reported by The Federalist, “In an email dated July 16, 2021, addressed to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a senior representative for Facebook discussed how the company and Biden administration officials met ‘to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from [Facebook] on misinformation going forward.’”

A separate email chain dated July 20, 2021, also shows Digital Director for the White House Covid-19 Response Team Clarke Humphrey asking Facebook if the tech giant could remove a parody Instagram account of Dr. Anthony Fauci, to which a company official replied, “Yep, on it!”

The Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump (The Guardian)

Protests outside Michelle Wu’s home: Boston judge rules protester was ‘wrongfully arrested,’ drops charges (Boston Herald)

Raskin: Ginni Thomas has ‘relevant’ testimony for Jan. 6 panel (The Hill)

Justice Department Lawyer Smears Religious Liberty Advocate as ‘Hate Group’

MSNBC’s Velshi Hypes Handmaid’s Tale as Real Possibility from GOP

Biden Says Heckler at Labor Day Speech Is ‘Destroying Democracy’

Chaplain Claims Church Of England Deemed Him “Risk To Children” For Questioning LGBT Ideology

The Campus Trans Diktat: No Debate, No Dissent—And No Jokes

Publishing needs JK Rowling to be a monster

Fox producer’s warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit (NPR)

Election deniers repeatedly visited Ga. county office at center of criminal probe, video shows (Washington Post) Election deniers!

More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall (FiveThirtyEight) OH NOES!

New Mexico county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder removed from elected office for role in US Capitol riot (CNN)

Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation (Rolling Stone)

Irish teacher suspended from school, jailed over transgender pronouns flap

Republican campaigns are silent on health care (Axios) Perhaps because it’s none of the government’s business.

A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can’t be saved (Washington Post) Media push the Narrative  in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

‘Don’t Tread on Our Kids’: Brittany Aldean Faces Pushback for Conservative Opinion

The View: ’60-70 Percent’ of GOP Are ‘Fascist’ MAGA Extremists

Cloudflare stops services to ‘revolting’ far right hate site (The Register)

Elevated Discourse: Whoopi Curses Out Opposition to Student Loan Bailout

U.S. Capitol riot panel withdraws subpoena issued to RNC, Salesforce (Reuters)

Jan. 6 committee drops subpoena for RNC fundraising data: reports (The Hill)

DeSantis’ election police charged 20 with voter fraud. Advocates say there’s more to the story. (NBC)

Justice Alito’s views on religious faith cloud the neutrality of the Supreme Court (Fresno Bee)

Why Sarah Palin’s loss is a warning for the GOP (Politico)

Google’s image-scanning illustrates how tech firms can penalise the innocent (The Guardian)

The pending collapse of the United States of Political Correctness

How Journalists Hyped Biden’s Angry, Hateful Attack on Fellow Americans

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Connecticut Law, Section 46A-60B1, specifically bars discriminatory employment practices. A violation occurs if anyone refuses to hire or employ people “because of the individual’s race, color, religious creed, age, sex, gender identity or expression.”

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Jeremy Boland, who serves as Cos Cob Elementary School’s Assistant Principal, was recorded bragging about how he oversees the hiring of teachers who will disseminate “progressive” political ideas in the classrooms.

Once again, Project Veritas has the goods.

Richard Epstein.

A recent magazine section in the Sunday New York Times breathlessly announced the “untold story of Jones Day’s push to move American government and courts to the right.” Jones Day is a powerful and well-respected law firm. The author of this exposé is an investigative reporter, David Enrich, who draws this excerpt from his new book, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice, whose lurid title all too well sums up his grandiose thesis. Enrich is not a lawyer, nor does he argue like one. Instead, his modus operandi is to merely assume that Donald Trump, any of his associates, and indeed any conservative cause deserve intense public condemnation.

Enrich wants to delegitimize Jones Day by turning the firm into an arch-villain. He hopes first to make Trump persona non grata, so that large corporate law firms will rid themselves of Trump loyalists and dissociate themselves from any conservative causes. In going after Jones Day, Enrich lurches into dangerous territory by branding it ethically improper, if not downright immoral, for individuals to defend causes with which Enrich disagrees. His ultimate objective is to neutralize conservative law firms, a goal toward which at least one giant law firm appears already to have moved. (Kirkland & Ellis parted ways with two of its most distinguished lawyers—Paul Clement and Erin Murphy—because of their successful and sound defense of gun rights in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022).) It would be equally wrong to mount this kind of crusade against any left-wing firm that decided to defend any of President Joe Biden’s initiatives on immigration, student loans, foreign affairs, or climate change. On both sides, it is far better to argue a case on the merits than to cast aspersions on the people and causes with which you disagree.

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by FBI, Justice Dept. tells judge (Washington Post)

Trump Demands Either New Election ‘Immediately’ or Make Him ‘Rightful’ President Now (Daily Beast) Trump living rent-free in proglodyte heads.

Trump Ridiculed After Calling for His Reinstatement: ‘Ridiculous at Best’ (Newsweek) But they still have to write about it. They can’t help themselves.

Commission calls for stripping Robert E. Lee of honors at West Point (Politico)

Billions in ‘dark money’ is influencing US politics. We need disclosure laws (The Guardian) How about voter ID laws?

Eaton Corp. transaction helped fund conservative non-profit (Cleveland.com) A progressive non-profit would have been fine.

Lindsey Graham raises eyebrows with ‘riots’ claim on Fox (CNN) Ooooooo, raised eyebrows!

The rich are using long-term care funds meant for the poor (The Hill) The thing about a program that’s open to everybody … is that it’s open to everybody.

Jim Jordan Slammed for His Tweet on the Virtues of ‘Real America’ (Newsweek) I can see where that would piss off people at Newsweek.

Feeling unwelcome in blue states, gun companies move to red ones (Washington Post)

Russia ‘Absolutely’ Tried to Infiltrate Mar-a-Lago: Former FBI Official (Newsweek)

Entrance to Local GOP Office in Central Florida Vandalized

The Strangest Thing About “Semi-Fascist” Trump

Ron DeSantis’ First Voter Fraud Bust Is Quickly Imploding (Slate) Betcha it isn’t.

Fox News trashes Prince Harry for idling in gas-guzzling SUV, not realizing its an Audi electric SUV  (No mention of the fact that the jet plane–not electric–was idling right alongside of him.)

Lindsey Graham’s prediction of riots reads more like a threat (Washington Post) Oh, yeah, people are just standing by waiting for Lindsay Graham’s call to arms.

Bezos Slammed for Tweet of Himself Eating McDonald’s  Apparently, for a billionaire to eat at McDonald’s is cultural appropriation or something (it’s not clear what the objection is).

Trump Woke Up and Went on a 60-Post, QAnon-Fueled Social Media Spree (Rolling Stone) Nobody at Rolling Stone knows what QAnon means, but it sure sounds scary, doesn’t it?

Trump shares barrage of QAnon content and other conspiracy theories on his social media platform (NBC)

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The nation’s oldest Jewish university filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court on Monday to challenge a lower court ruling that would force it to recognize an LGBT student club.

Takeaways from the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit (CNN) The official Narrative.

‘Unbelievable’ is right when it comes to Trump’s staggering hypocrisy over documents (Kansas City Star)

The Trump affidavit shows the Mar-a-Lago search was hardly capricious (Washington P0st ) Oh, no; it was most carefully calculated by the Deep State minions.

The FBI’s Mar-a-Lago affidavit paints an unsettling portrait of Trump (The Guardian) To whom? NeverTrumpers expect it. Trumpists recognize it for what it is. Who is unsettled?

White House shines light on Republicans who are criticizing student debt cancellation after getting their PPP loans forgiven (NBC) Ignoring the fact that PPP forgiveness was passed by Congress, while student loan forgiveness was an unconstitutional degree from Creepy Joe.

Historical Association President’s Groveling Apology to Woke Mob Shows Why History Can’t Be Left to Institutions

Exclusive: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College (Reuters) He’s a re-enactor. Get over yourselves.

Pennsylvania governor candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College (CNN) Well, I guess it wasn’t ‘exclusive’ after all. (He’s a re-enactor. Get over yourselves.)

Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting

Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law (N.Y. Times) He’s not outside the law, either.

It’s Over: Trump Will Be Indicted (Daily Beast) Walls are closing in etc. etc….

Bill Maher: ‘Is It OK to Have a Conspiracy to Get Rid of Trump?’

Of all the legal threats Trump is facing, is this the one that could take him down? (The Guardian)

If Prosecuting Trump Sets a ‘Dangerous’ Precedent—So Does Letting His Crimes Slide (Daily Beast) What ‘crimes’? Everybody jaws on about Trump’s ‘crimes’, but nobody ever cites one.

He’s Part of the Problem: Trevor Noah’s Cancel Culture Critique Rings Hollow  Halfricans, of course, like Trevor Noah and Don Lemon, never have to worry about being cancelled.

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Never in my lifetime have so many people been so obsessed with one man.

People despised Nixon; they cheered or reviled Reagan, and they revered or dismissed Obama, but none of those responses comes close to the mania attached to Donald Trump. I mean the hate side, not the adoration. The former feeling and the cult it spawns dwarfs the latter. Liberals mock the idol worship they find among Trump’s supporters, but while Trumpists smile and cheer and vote for the man, liberals abhor him with a passion three times as fierce. It’s visceral, fanatical, knee-jerk. If nearly the entire psychology profession didn’t suffer from the condition to greater or lesser degrees, it would be a likely subject for diagnosis, particularly given the unself-conscious way in which the victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome act out their animus.

Former Labor Sec. Robert Reich asks if Gov. DeSantis’ last name is ‘officially a synonym for fascist’

A ‘woke’ calculation: Hurt millions, so DeSantis can win (Orlando Sentinal) Ever notice that proglodytes like to say that thing X they don’t like is ‘Not who we are’?

‘I Was in Kenosha Two Years Ago, Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not a Hero’ (Newsweek) Just in case you forgot that particular piece of the Narrative.

Rittenhouse trial witness pens column condemning media ‘caricatures’ of Rittenhouse and those killed

This power line could save California — and forever change the American West (L.A. Times) A Child of the Crust rejoices in having at last found a way that Flyover Country can serve the People Who Count – on the Left Coast.

Chinese behemoth Pinduoduo to take on Amazon in US – with even worse labor practices (The Guardian) If you don’t pay your assembly-line people as if they were software engineers at Google, you are officially a Bad Person.

San Francisco billboard darkly warns about moving to Texas (S.F. Gate)

Tim Ryan is for real. Trump’s GOP Senate picks are in real trouble. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit about Trump, which appears to be her actual job.

More damning evidence against Trump. And more of it from Republicans. (Washington Post) We hope you appreciate the effort we go to in finding these ‘Republicans’.

Another Republican lie is born (Washington Post0 Dana Milbank strains at a gnat while swallowing all of the Democrat camels.

Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan FBI warned Facebook of ‘Russian propaganda’ before Hunter Biden laptop story  I guess Russians are the New Jews.

Lawsuit Seeks Removal Of Judge Who Approved Warrant For FBI Trump Raid

“Get Trump!” Damn The Constitution

Biden: MAGA Moved GOP Toward ‘Semi-Fascism”  Sorry, Wilson moved America toward semi-fascism, reinforced by FDR–both Democrats.

Bill Barr: Mueller ‘Made Some Very Serious Errors’

NY Times Pits ‘Polarizing…Hard-Right’ DeSantis vs ‘Peaceable’ Centrist Crist

Revealed: leaked video shows Amy Coney Barrett’s secretive faith group drove women to tears (The Guardian) The witch-hunt continues.

NY Times Editorial Board: Prosecuting Trump Is ‘Necessary’

Former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world (Axios) Walls are closing in on Trump etc. etc….

MSNBC Accuses GOP Senate Candidate Of Hiding Abortion Views, Not Dem Doing The Same

‘On the Offensive’; Nets Trumpet Biden’s ‘Fiery’ Speech, ‘Semi-Fascism’ Smear Against GOP

Sen. Warner: Intelligence Panel Needs Damage Assessment of Trump Materials

Redacted Affidavit Just Says ‘Orange Man Bad’  (Babylon Bee)

Podcast Conference Apologizes for ‘Harm’ Done by Ben Shapiro’s Visit

Justice Department releases unredacted Barr memo detailing decision not to charge Trump with obstructing Russia probe (CNN)

DOJ recommended against Trump prosecution on obstruction in Mueller probe: newly released 2019 memo reveals

Celebrities and Excessive Water Use: How Income Disparity Is Magnifying California’s Drought Crisis (Hollywood Reporter)

Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone are accused of massive water waste (NPR)

The “Fantastic Giant Tortoise” – Believed To Be Extinct – Has Been Found Alive (SciTech Daily)

When It Comes to Eating Away at Democracy, Trump Is a Winner (N.Y. Times)

Conrad Black: The Regime Has Its Man – All It Needs Now Is The Crime

Eight Sources Say Feds Are Not Done With Matt Gaetz (Daily Beast) We won’t tell you who they are, but trust us, there are eight sources. Eight!

DHS Shuts Down Disinformation Board Months After ‘Pause’

Congressman-Elect Deems Trump ‘Essentially Traitorous,’ Says ‘If I Had Done What He Did, I Would’ve Been in Jail’ (Mediaite) What an odd thing for a Democrat Congressman to say … oh, wait….

Five Florida Men Arrested on Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach  The witch-hunt continues.

An expert on the right urgently warns: Beware of another Oklahoma City (Washington Post)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘swatted’ for second time in two days, police say (CNBC)

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home swatted a second time in two days (The Hill)

Jewish Groups Rip CNN for ‘Whitewashing’ Left-Wing Antisemitism

YouTube Quietly Changes COVID-19 Censorship Policy on Masks, Social Distancing, Vaccines

Margaret Sullivan Writes Her Final Column Chock Full of TDS

Trump’s risk of indictment for his document snatch just skyrocketed (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

What Herschel Walker’s clueless campaign says about the GOP (Washington Post)

NBC Reporter’s Book Blames Voters For Bias Against Women Candidates

Georgia cops respond to ‘swatting’ call at home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (CNBC)

Morning Joe Pushes Possibility ‘Nefarious’ Trump Sold ‘Ultra-Secret’ Documents

Piers Morgan’s Ratings Plummet Since Turning on Trump

Police Investigate ‘Swatting’ Directed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Buffalo Bills reporters have a lot of exciting content to discuss this year. Whether it’s the positive impact their numerous offseason acquisitions will have, the elite status of quarterback Josh Allen, or the team’s realistic shot at winning its first Super Bowl in history, the amount of content is endless. But for Bills AP reporter John Wawrow, something far more important was deserving of his attention on Monday. He was more worried about the fact that songs by female artists aren’t on the soundtrack that frequently accompanies team practices. No, I’m not making that up.

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Wokeness, most observers would agree, can be defined as the progressive worldview that views all racial and sexual disparities as proof of discrimination, and rejects liberal procedural traditions in favor of a totalizing politics that seeks to dismantle those disparities and silence dissenters. But nobody seems to agree on where it came from. Is wokeness an intellectual, religious, psychological, economic, legal, or institutional phenomenon? Its emergence over the last decade or so has been attributed to everything from academic intellectual trends, declining religiosity, victimhood psychology, corporate self-interest, white-collar class interests, the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and the copycat tendencies of large organizations. These all seem to have some explanatory power, but none seems on its own to account for the phenomenon fully. Let’s consider each in turn.

Schiff discusses what could be in affidavit used to search Trump’s home (CNN)

The barely hidden fascism of Ron DeSantis makes a Pa. pit stop on a race to ’24 (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch is the Inquirer’s pet rabid proglodyte.

‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Christians are being persecuted in Pakistan

The left’s mask slips on brazen Trump bias

Double Standard: NYT Adores Beto While DeSantis Echoes ‘Conspiracy Theories’

Florida Christian School Head Won’t ‘Cower’ to Threats Amid Trans-Policy Backlash  Apparently it’s not allowed for a Christian School to be, you know, Christian if it’s contrary to the Narrative.

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Everybody needs a purpose in life. Liz Cheney’s appears to be persecuting Trump.

UPDATE: Liz Cheney Enters Second Stage Of Grief, Blames ‘Very Sick’ Republicans For Her Loss

Trump in ‘Really Dangerous Territory,’ Maybe Committed ‘Treason’: Kirschner (Newsweek) Walls are closing in etc. etc…..

Trump’s throw-everything-against-the-wall response to the Mar-a-Lago search (Politico) Not to be confused with the Narrative Media’s throw-everything-against-the-wall response to Trump.

Trump pushes for un-redacted affidavit’s release, despite the risks (The Hill) What risks? Trump obviously has nothing to hide–what does the DOJ (and it’s propaganda arm, the Narrative Media) have to hide?

HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes

There Is No Happy Ending to America’s Trump Problem (N.Y. Times) Except maybe a witch-hunt!

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A bizarre string of events is unfolding at the American Historical Association (AHA). Last week, AHA president James H. Sweet published a column in the organization’s magazine on the problem of “presentism” in academic historical writing. According to Sweet, an unsettling number of academic historians have allowed their political views in the present to shape and distort their interpretations of the past.

Sweet offered a gentle criticism of the New York Times’s 1619 Project as evidence of this pattern. Many historians embraced the 1619 Project for its political messages despite substantive flaws of fact and interpretation in its content. Sweet thus asked: “As journalism, the project is powerful and effective, but is it history?”

Within moments of his column appearing online, all hell broke loose on Twitter.

Unsealed document in Mar-a-Lago search sharpens focus on Trump as possible subject of criminal probe (CNN) Trump has been under a ‘criminal probe’ ever since Biden took office.

IRS becomes GOP boogeyman ahead of midterms (The Hill) Becomes?

Hill report claims Republicans are making the IRS a ‘boogeyman,’ ‘hyping danger to voters’

Ken Bensinger Joins Politics Reporting Team (N.Y. Times) Specifically to report on ‘right-wing media’.

Vance’s anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma (Associated Press)

Trump supporter who flew on private jet to Jan. 6 riot and threw media equipment outside the Capitol pleads guilty (NBC News) The witch-hunt continues.

The Latest in Renaming Mania

Hogan calls GOP gubernatorial nominee mentally unstable (Washington Post)

MSNBC: Cheney’s Loss Proves 2022 is Choice Between Democracy & Fascism

NYT Airs the Shaq’s Shoe Theory of Mar-a-Lago Documents: They’re Memorabilia

What Biden could gain from pardoning Trump (Washington Post) They actually pay people money to write this stuff.

Morning Joe: Despite Defense of FBI, Mike Pence Is ‘Not Completely Clean’

CNN Accuses ‘Anti-Intellectual’ DeSantis Of Wanting To ‘Make Us Dumber’

That’s rich: How stroke-hit Fetterman sponged off his tony parents ‘til he was 49 but now attacks Dr. Oz’s wealth in bitter Pa. Senate race Who would vote for somebody who looks like a caricature of a Satanist?

Newly unsealed documents from the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago put Trump in even worse legal peril, experts say (Business Insider) Walls are closing in etc. etc….

Even Trump Thinks Dr. Oz Will ‘F–king Lose,’ Sources Say (Rolling Stone) Rolling Stone is the weed-head’s Daily Beast.

FBI Raid Targeted Docs Trump Collected To “Exonerate” Himself From Russiagate Hoax; Report

MSNBC Blames GOP Education Laws For Teacher Shortage

But Trump! Whining Baldwin Cries Victim

NY Governor Was Mum on Pro-Abortion Firebombing. Now She’s Calling Pro-Life Activists ‘Extremists.’

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Harris, who once found favor amongst some on the right for standing up against identity politics and Islamism, suffered a rather severe bout of Trump derangement syndrome around the 2016 election and hasn’t recovered since.

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Before embarking on a quest, all good Dungeons and Dragons players know they have to check their privilege. After all, isn’t it fun to inject radical identity politics into your fantasy game?

That seems to be the idea behind “Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel,” a set of new Dungeons and Dragons adventures that take place in the titular location. It has a hyper focus on race.

U.S. Justice Dept opposes revealing evidence supporting search of Trump’s home (Reuters)

DOJ opposes making public details in Mar-a-Lago search warrant’s probable cause affidavit (CNN)

Former Federal Prosecutor: A Damning Pattern of Facts Against Trump (Newsweek)

Even ‘mainstream’ Republicans are making idiotic defenses of Trump (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (If she didn’t have Trump, she wouldn’t have a job.)

Kinzinger: Trump’s ‘evolving explanation’ on FBI search ‘just like Jan. 6? (The Hill)

Sen. Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act amid the Mar-a-Lago investigation (NPR)

Bolton: Trump’s defense of Mar-a-Lago materials “almost certainly a lie” (Axios)

Mitch McConnell greatly damaged US democracy with quiet, chess-like moves (The Guardian)

Josh Shapiro’s new ads cite Doug Mastriano’s ties to antisemitic content on Gab (Philadelphia Inquirer) Ties! That proves it!

Justice Department subpoenas Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann (Politico)

Youngkin’s toxic school ‘tip line’ is shrouded in secrecy (Washington Post) Toxic! Shrouded!

Anti-Trump GOP group spends big to shrink his base (Politico)

Blame Newt Gingrich for Today’s Lying MAGA Republicans (Daily Beast)

Longtime GOP insider Cheri Jacobus: America is “not going to recover from Donald Trump” (Salon) Not as long as Democrats keep witch-hunting him, certainly.

Trump’s latest eruption underscores the danger of a GOP House (Washington Post) Danger to the media-government complex, certainly.

CNN Ignores FBI Whistleblowers, Hypes Dubious ‘Right Wing’ Terror Stat

For never-Trump conservatives, it’s never-ending misery (Washington Post)

Turley: Why The Case Against Donald Trump Remains Incomplete

Why Donald Trump’s declassification claim might not be that outlandish (Politico)

Maddow’s Stand-In Alex Wagner Hopes to ‘Dismantle’ or ‘Undercut’ Right-Wing Lies

It’s Inevitable: Trump Will Be Indicted (American Greatness)

The New Era of Political Violence Is Here (The Atlantic)

Why Every New Trump Crime Just Makes Republicans Angrier at the FBI (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait loses his shit.

On Jim Acosta’s Show, ‘Legend’ Sam Donaldson Compares Trump to Al Capone

A classic anti-Trump frenzy (Washington Examiner)

Trump’s Big Mouth Sets Up Top-Secret Case Against Him (Daily Beast)

NBC Now: Donald Trump Is Darth Vader! NBC in 2011: Dick Cheney Is Vader!

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A new symbol has joined the pantheon of hate along with the “OK” hand sign and the thumbs up according to Atlantic magazine. The prayer beads of the rosary.

This discovery was made by Daniel Panneton in Sunday’s edition of the Atlanticwhose headline blared “How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary.” The subheadline described the rosary as a “sacrament,” which is a ridiculous error, It is called a sacramental.

And now we join Panneton as he weaves his conspiratorial tale of how the rosary has somehow become a radical symbol of hate.

Mar-a-Lago — and its owner — have long caused concerns for US intelligence (CNN)

FBI seizes privileged Trump records during raid; DOJ opposes request for independent review: sources

Some Capitol rioters try to profit from their Jan. 6 crimes (Associated Press)

The Republican party has reason to fear the midterms (The Guardian)

The ‘Gun Dude’ and a Supreme Court case that changed who can own firearms in the U.S. (NPR)

Princeton University course says that ‘far right activists’ are using ‘free speech’ to justify ‘hate speech’  There is no right but the ‘far-right’.

Jared Kushner Most Likely Mar-a-Lago Mole Behind FBI Raid: Mary Trump (Newsweek)

Vindman Calls Gabbard ‘Agent of Russian Disinformation’ After Fox Segment (Newsweek)

Donald Trump ‘Misjudged’ Merrick Garland Over FBI Raid: Legal Analyst (Newsweek)

Justice Department Accused of Taking Attorney-Client Material at Mar-a-Lago (Jonathan Turley)

Former FBI Agent Says Mar-a-Lago Raid Was Government’s Attempt To ‘Embarrass’ Trump  Guess it didn’t work.

Apply the Hillary Clinton Rule to Donald Trump (The Dispatch) David French, apparently now part of the Golberg Group, polishes his pretend-conservative street cred with a Never-Trumper rant. Contrary to his lies, if we applied the Hillary Clinton standard to Trump, Trump would skate with the AG washing his hands.

Former National Intelligence Director: Trump Has ‘Ultimate Declassification Authority’

Partisan NY Times Blames ‘Right-Wing Rhetoric’ for Violence

Rubio’s fake populism is no match for real history (Washington Post) History, that is, according to the Narrative.

Some Republicans Make a More Restrained Case for Defending Trump (N.Y. Times) “Yeah, Trump sucks but….”

The Arizona Republican Party’s Anti-Democracy Experiment (N.Y. Times)

NPR Hates DeSantis, Smears Old Flag as Symbol of ‘Dangerous Right-Wing Ideology’

GOP’s New Mexico bet (Axios)

Cheney’s next mission: Keeping her anti-Trump megaphone  (Politico) No problem. I’m sure she’s got a gig on MSNBC and a book deal anytime she wants one.

Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds (Washington Post) ‘Election deniers’ are the new niggers.

Liz Cheney’s political life is likely ending — and just beginning (Washington Post) The value of 30 pieces of silver (denarii) in modern dollars is about $85.

Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump’s dumbest, scariest stunt yet (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (If she didn’t have Trump, she wouldn’t have a job.)

NBA Continues To Ostracize Non-Woke Athletes And Coaches

Trump’s Investigation Miscalculation (The Bullshit Bulwark) A minion of the Kristol Krew polishes the Narrative.

GOP Anti-Trump Group Buys $3M in Ads in Swing States

How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary (The Atlantic) The Atlantic crew could use a little rosary time.

Why Did Trump Take Classified Documents in the First Place? (Bloomberg) Talking past the sale: We don’t know that he did; merely that the Biden goombahs say that he did.

MSNBC Guest Calls GOP Behavior ‘Treasonous,’ Forgets to Call Out Liberal Violence

Twitter is hiring an alarming number of FBI agents

Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families  (Daily Beast) “Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!”

Jury: Democratic PAC Defamed Roy Moore, Awards Him $8.2M

Flashback to When MSNBC Hated ‘Odious’ and ‘Toxic’ Liz Cheney

Joe Scarborough Now Decries ‘Fascism,’ Didn’t Mind Liberal Abuse of Power

‘It worried people all the time’: How Trump’s handling of secret documents led to the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search (NBC News) Welcome to the Narrative !

Inside Trump’s chamber of secrets (Washington Post) The Narrative is built on a lot of mind-reading.

Top House lawmakers ask intel officials to review national security damage from Trump document handling (Politico) Running a picture of Congressman Schiff, one of the greatest liars in the history of the republic, is rather Freudian.

Trump’s secrets: How a records dispute led the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago (Washington Post) Hammering home the Narrative.

Police Investigating Threat Against J.K. Rowling

Yellen: IRS Will Not Use $80B in Inflation Reduction Act to Target Middle-Class  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The week that was: Trump screams. Biden governs. (Washington Post) E. J. Dionne, the old proglodyte warhorse, does his bit pushing the Narrative. In truth, Trump is rousted, and Biden babbles.

There Is No MAGA Movement Without Threats and Violence (The Atlantic) David French, National Review’s pretend-conservative, polishes his proglodyte tool cred by lending a hand to push the Narrative.

Armed Trump supporters outside Phoenix FBI office (CNN) Unlike AntiFa and BLM, they don’t have hoods over their faces and bricks in their hands.

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross: ‘Traitor’ Trump ‘Trafficking’ Nuke Secrets To Putin

Chris Wallace, CNN Hate Talk of Federal ‘Gestapo’…Unless Dems Use It

Trump goes on Truth Social rampage, sharing over a dozen posts, including from accounts with QAnon references (Business Insider) Alia Shoaib is shocked, shocked I tell you….

Former flight attendant sues Delta Air Lines after it fired her for sharing anti-Trump editorial cartoon on social media (CNN) Because hating Trump is just normal, after all.

If Trump is charged, it should be for the worst of his crimes (Washington Post) Funny how all this investigation hasn’t turned up any actual probative evidence of such ‘crimes’.  Your tax dollars at work, I guess.

The reason why presidents can’t keep their White House records dates back to Nixon (NPR) The Narrative needs to include mentions of Nixon so that everybody is on the same page with their Two Minute Hate.

Espionage Isn’t the Strongest Case Against Trump. It’s Simpler Than That. (Politico) I should have so rich a fantasy life.

Why Trump has to sell a fantasy of collective persecution (Washington Post) Why the Narrative Media has to promote fantasies about Trump.

Washington Post op-ed condemns Trump supporters for buying into ‘fantasy’ of ‘persecution’  Being raided by the FBI is no fantasy.

Judge denies Trump Organization attempt to dismiss tax fraud case (Axios)

Kinzinger on Trump battle: “He won, in the short term at least” (Axios)

New York governor slammed for bashing DeSantis at Holocaust event: ‘She owes everyone an apology’

Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families (Daily Beast) Sauce for the goose….

He’s antigay and a race extremist. He’s running unopposed for a Bay Area school board seat (S.F. Chronicle)

Investigate Hunter Biden? Most Democrats say yes. Investigate Trump? Most Republicans say no. (Washington Post) So who’s getting investigated? Trump, yes; Hunter Biden, no.

Conservative push to alter Constitution focuses on primaries (Associated Press) Except for that inconvenient fact that primaries aren’t in the Constitution.

Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump Rally to Confront Brain-Wormed ‘MAGA-ites’ (Daily Beast) Who?

Why Wait? Here’s Liz Cheney’s Concession Speech in Advance (Politico)

Democrats Don’t Trust ‘the Police,’ but They Do Trust the FBI, Provided It Is Targeting Donald Trump

Weighing the pros and cons of Beto O’Rourke dropping an f-bomb on a heckler (NPR)

Morning Joe Hilarity: Back to ‘Are the Walls Closing In On Trump?’

Dana Milbank’s Uncivil War on GOP ‘Destructionists’

What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke (Salon) I guarantee you that nobody who writes for Salon has a clue as to what Trump wants. Their TDS stands in the way.

I’m a Conservative, and I Don’t Know What the GOP Stands For (Daily Beast) If you’re writing for The Daily Beast, you’re not a conservative. There’s more to ‘being a conservative’ that ‘identifying’ as one.

Mayer Declares GOP Legislators Passing Laws Is ‘Torching Democracy’

Court Removes Page For Judge Who Approved Raid Of Trump’s Home  What goes around,  comes around.

‘Morning Joe’ Hypocrites Accuse Right-Leaning Media of Whipping the Public ‘Into a Frenzy’

Trapped in Trump, Trump, Trump (The New Yorker)

ABC: New Conservative Dating App Is ‘Tinder for Bigots’

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Twitter continued to crackdown on dissenting political views this week with the permanent suspension of columnist and commentator Paul Sperry.  The suspension came down after Sperry allegedly tweeted about the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. Sperry said that Twitter gave “No warning, no explanation, reason given.” That is a signature for the company, which has little transparency or ability to challenge such private censorship.

Twitter has a long and documented history of suspending those with dissenting political, social, or scientific views, particularly before major elections. Sperry says that he tweeted the following:

Funny, don’t remember the FBI raiding Chappaqua or Whitehaven to find the 33,000 potential classified documents Hillary Clinton deleted. And she was just a former secretary of state, not a former president.

DEVELOPING: Investigators reportedly met back in June w Trump & his lawyers in Mar-a-Lago storage rm to survey docs & things seemed copasetic but then FBI raids weeks later. Speculation on Hill FBI had PERSONAL stake & searching for classified docs related to its #Spygate scandal.

Sperry went on to note that “the current deputy general counsel at Twitter is also the former general counsel at FBI HQ under Comey. His name as you may know is James Baker, and he was the top attorney who reviewed the fraudulent anti-Trump FISA wiretap warrants for probable cause.”

Official video posted to Trump’s social media account appears to use QAnon song (Media Matters) And how does this guy at Media Matters know what a “QAnon song” is like. (Appears! That proves it!)

Some Justice Department officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search (CNN)

Fox boss Lachlan Murdoch privately levels harsh criticism against Trump, sources say (CNN)

The GOP’s crazed reaction to the search at Trump’s home shows its true colors (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump targeted by Biden administration, and they can do it to you, too

Republicans’ response to the Mar-a-Lago search is disturbing and dangerous (Washington Post)

Walls Closing In AGAIN? CNN Legal Analyst Predicts Indictment of Trump Is ‘Imminent’

The GOP makes its choice: Trump, yes. Rule of law, no. (Washington Post)

VIDEO: Taking Cue From Dems, Media Abandon ‘Raid’ To Describe Trump FBI Raid

Media Stopped Describing Targeting Of Trump As “Raid” After Former FBI Agent Complained

PBS Helps ‘The Destructionists’ Author Tie Trump, Other Republicans To Terrorism

Poll: 83 Percent of GOP Voters Say FBI Raid on Trump Increases Desire to Vote

FBI To Begin Raiding Homes Of Those Who Criticize FBI Raid  (Babylon Bee)

Feds seized documents from Mar-a-Lago in June with grand jury subpoena (CNN)

Liz Cheney’s Kamikaze Campaign (The New Yorker)

Trump’s 2024 Primary Support Reaches New Heights After FBI Raid

Union Refuses To Aid Teacher Who Faced Termination for Criticism of Woke Training

AP Smears DeSantis, Conservatives as Fueling ‘Anti-LGBTQ Hate’ Online

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For decades, schoolchildren across America have taken field trips to presidential homes such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier. Students and adults alike have learned about the lives and legacies of the men who crafted our founding documents and stood for freedom at the risk of their own lives.

But today, visitors to Monticello and Montpelier will discover that a new narrative has seeped into the grounds of these historic sites in Virginia.

Trump uses FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home to solicit campaign donations (Reuters) The swine! (This is news?)

FBI would not let Trump attorneys in rooms as agents raided Mar-a-Lago, warrant focused on NARA: source

How the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialism (NPR)

Why the Fulton County Grand Jury Isn’t Going to Indict Trump (Daily Beast)

Eli Lilly assails Indiana antiabortion law — after plying its supporters with campaign funds (L.A.Times)

Another reason not to work in Indiana (Chicago Sun-Times) Fine, stay in high-crime high-tax Illinois.

Public opinion relatively unchanged after Jan. 6 hearings: poll (The Hill) The Stalinist show-trial didn’t work–hence the raid on Trump’s home.

Ex-Trump aide shares story about Trump mishandling classified documents (CNN)

New hotline to report white supremacist activity has received more than 2 dozen calls (CBS Boston) Can’t have a witch-hunt without witches!

Grisham denies she was source of Haberman’s White House toilet photos (The Hill) Can’t have a War on Trump without toilet photos.

4 Key Questions After FBI Raids Trump’s Home

MSNBC Fearmongers: Mar-a-Lago Raid Will Trigger Terrorism Like OK City Bombing  Certainly that’s what the Left would do.

GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Agents Seized His Cellphone

The Guardian Accuses Republicans Of ‘Weaponising’ Trump-Raid  Gee, I think the FBI already did that.

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security chief says (Michael Isikoff)

Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid!

Kevin McCarthy Promises a Republican Congress Will Obstruct Justice (The NationO Well, no, that’s just the Narrative spin. What he said was that the Republicans will start playing hardball, and that’s what the Deep State fears most.

“The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim Trump Raid Could Disqualify Him From Future Office

‘It’s Christmas!’ Colbert Celebrates ‘Most Beautiful’ Mar-a-Lago Raid

Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where (Newsweek) And if they had actually found anything significant, we would know it by now; it would have been leaked to somebody in the Narrative Media.

Facebook bans hate speech but still makes money from white supremacists (Washington Post)

Eric Trump tells DailyMail.com what REALLY happened in FBI raid: President’s son says 30 agents REFUSED to hand over warrant, kicked lawyer off property, rifled through clothes – and how Mar-a-Lago staff refused to turn off security cameras

Trump and Republicans Are Already Trying to Cash in on the Mar-a-Lago Raid (Rolling Stone) This is news?

FBI agents, Garland and Wray see increased death threats after Trump Mar-a-Lago raid: sources  And rightly so.

Josh Hawley, senator-as-symptom of a broken news business (Washington Post) George Will goes full RINO and joins the witch-hunt.

Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge  (Vice) Welcome to our world. Karma is a bitch.

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I’d love to get a look at Biden’s tax returns — not to mention Obama’s.

Democrats Spent $43 Million Helping Election Deniers Win Their Primaries (Newsweek)

What the Alex Jones trial means for the future of conspiracy culture (CNN)

Trump Pick for Michigan AG Tied to Voting Equipment Breach: Report (Daily Beast)  Tied! Can’t get more guilty than that!

Feds Arrest Man for Allegedly Mailing Poop to Rep. Jim Jordan (Daily Beast) Didn’t know that was against the law. Good news for Senator Warren.

From the fringes of the far right, Doug Mastriano vainly tries to dance back to the middle (Philadelphia Inquirer) There is no Right but the Far-Right.

Trump’s worst toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale. Did they learn anything? (The Guardian) Robert Reich was a Rhodes Scholar. He obviously learned nothing.

How ‘Loyal Dog’ Sean Hannity Went From King of Fox News to Has-Been (Daily Beast) Uh, he still has a bigger audience than the Daily Beast….

Bodega clerk Jose Alba leaves NYC ‘afraid for his life,’ mulls move back to Dominican Republic: report

The GOP is Viktor Orban’s party now (Washington Post) Max Boot loses his shit.

House Dems Say Gun Company Ads Emphasize Masculinity, Make Veiled References To ‘White Supremacist’ Groups

Lies, Damned Lies, & The January 6 Committee

How Dangerous Is Peter Thiel?  Dangerous enough to witch-hunt.

Adams condemns Texas governor for busing migrants to New York (Politico) My, what a surprise.

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals (The New Yorker) Probably the first time The New Yorker has had anything good to say about generals.

2 Men Face New Trial Over Scheme to Kidnap Michigan Governor

Nets Cheer Biden for Zawahiri Strike, Griped About Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Droning of Soleimani

HUH? Bloomberg News Co-Founder Blames ‘Election Deniers’ for Americans Thinking Biden Economy Sucks

Washington YMCA Bans Member For Standing Up To Transgender Ideology

Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet (CNN) Donald Trump: Living rent-free in proglodyte heads for six years and counting.

No One Despises MAGA Voters More Than MAGA Elites (The Bulwark) Jonathan Last of the Kristol Krew splahes around in the proglodyte Fantasy Land. (‘MAGA Elites’? I guess cannabis really is legal there.)

What Is Elon Musk? And how is it possible that he could emerge from his Twitter debacle more culturally dominant than ever? (New York Magazine) Voices of the Crust are always so surprised when reality intrudes on their dream-world.

Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn’t Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims (Daily Beast) A report! That proves it!

Washington Post publishes book preview claiming ‘sick’ GOP set for ‘destroying the world’s oldest democracy’

Tennessee college alumni lobby to remove Supreme Court Justice Barrett from school’s ‘hall of fame’

Justice subpoenas of Trump counsel mark turning point (The Hill)

Facebook quiet on election misinformation efforts as midterms loom (NBC News)

Trump’s grip on GOP activist class on display at Texas conclave (Politico) ‘Activist class’? Do the Democrats have an ‘activist class’?

Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers

Ben & Jerry’s Suing Its Owner to Keep Israel Boycott in Place

Jury awards $45.2 million in punitive damages in Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial (Reuters)

A jury finds Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim (CNN)

A big looming victory for Biden could put Trumpists on the defensive (Washington Post)

Just when you thought Josh Hawley couldn’t stoop any lower … (Washington Post)

Donald Trump Just Had His ‘Worst Day’ Yet: Watergate Prosecutor (Newsweek) From one witch-hunter to another.

How ‘Loyal Dog’ Sean Hannity Went From King of Fox News to Has-Been (Daily Beast) Best high-school journalism in America.

‘Morning Joe’ Focused Their Daily GOP Rant on ‘Dope[y]’ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Trump blasted by Dick Cheney as former vice president stars in his daughter’s latest ad

Josh Hawley’s problem with masculinity (Washington Post) When it comes to ‘masculinity’, Jonathan Capehart and the Washington Post are not my first stop.

WaPo op-ed condemns Hawley, warns conservative masculinity is more about ‘prejudice than manliness’  Hawley’s mistake was getting into this pissing contest in the first place.

A judge unleashed a tirade on a prominent Jan. 6 defendant for his post-plea comments (NPR)

Merrick Garland has sped up his investigation. He cannot let up now. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

How a Trumpy Billionaire Is Single-Handedly Reshaping Campaigns (Daily Beast) It’s Peter Thiel’s turn on the bonfire.

California Gov. Newsom asks Hollywood to stop filming in conservative Georgia, Oklahoma after abortion ruling  Come to California, where we can tax you!

In the GOP, the paranoid fringe is becoming the establishment (Washington Post) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

Dining across the divide: ‘I was bewildered when she said Donald Trump was intelligent’ (The Guardian) Which he is, certainly more so than anybody at The Guardian.

Time is running out. The Department of Justice must indict and convict Trump (The Guardian) Larry Tribe loses his shit.

Ex-WH Adviser: ‘I Was in the Room’ When Trump Requested National Guard for Jan. 6

Viktor Orbán’s racism not a deal breaker for the right in the U.S. (MSNBC) In the Narrative Media, ‘racism’ means ‘preferring one’s own countrymen to foreigners’.

‘Echoes of History’: CNN Implies Hungary’s Orban Will Launch a Second Holocaust

Orban at CPAC brings the ‘far-right international’ into focus (Washington Post) There is no Right but the Far-Right.

Orange Man Bad … But Florida Man Worse

The New Right Finds a Home at the Intersection of Populism and Elitism (The Dispatch) The Goldberg Group joins the Kristol Krew in RINOland, continuing the Buckley tradition of peeing on their ideological neighbors rather than fighting the Left.

Trump Leaves RNC Ensnared In Criminal Probes Of His Coup Attempt (Huffington Post) Or, more accurately, the Left’s attempt to make everybody pretend that there was a coup attempt.

Malicious Vox Editor Fantasizes About Justice Alito’s Death

‘Bull in a china shop’: Ukrainian-born GOP lawmaker rankles colleagues with her aggressive criticism of Kyiv (CNN)

NewsGuard Fails Fox News, Still Gives Phony BuzzFeed News a Perfect Credibility Rating

Trump’s Pre-Jan. 6 Actions Demolish Democrats’ ‘Coup’ Fantasies

‘Never Has America Faced A Greater Threat Than Donald Trump,’ Says Guy Who Started Two Wars And Shot A Dude In The Face  (Babylon Bee)

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One of the more effective ways to fight back against Corona oppression is to sue those who mandate the vax, and then force them to do discovery when they are hauled into court. That’s the only way the contents of the mRNA “vaccine” will ever be publicly revealed, and also the only way the adverse effects of the jab will ever be forensically identified.

One such case is now being brought before a court in the Italian city of Pesaro.

Judge allows Capitol riot officer lawsuits against Trump to go forward (CNN)

Arizona GOP primary tests power of Trump’s election lies (Associated Press)

Trump loyalist wins GOP nod to oversee Arizona elections (Associated Press)

Kyrsten Sinema, Decisive Vote on Spending Bill, Targeted in New Arizona Ad (Newsweek)

There’s a good reason Jon Stewart is angry at Ted Cruz (CNN) And there’s a good reason Ted Cruz doesn’t care.

Colbert: ‘Some veterans would like to bump Ted Cruz with their fists’ (The Guardian) I doubt that Colbert knows any actual veterans … and some veterans (I’m among them) would like to bump Colbert with their fists (and feet).

Washington Post op-ed warns of ‘mini-Trumps’ threatening ‘democracy’

Fox News Anchor Loses It When Manchin Questions Her Patriotism (Daily Beast)

Rep. Greene Loved Vibe Of Golf Tourney Funded By The Regime Behind Journalist’s Murder (Huffington Post) Of course, the HuffPo can’t dream of why anybody would want to murder a journalist.

The oft-maligned tax increase on the verge of becoming law (Politico) The Democrat base are too stupid to realize that corporations don’t pay income tax, they merely collect it; it’s paid by their customers through higher prices. Call it a tax on left-wing stupidity.

It’s Time for the GOP to Let Trump Go (Newsweek) It’s time for the Narrative Media to let Trump go.

Guy Reffitt’s Daughter Calls for ‘Life in Prison’ for Donald Trump Over 1/6 (Newsweek)

The Republicans Who Want Election Laws to ‘Stay Broken’ (Daily Beast) Broken, that is, from a proglodyte viewpoint.

Trump tries to topple a powerful Wisconsin Republican in his futile quest to reverse his 2020 loss. (N.Y. Times)

Election-denier Mark Finchem wins Arizona GOP secretary of state primary, NBC News projects (NBC News)  In the Narrative Media, ‘denier’ refers to somebody who lives in the real world rather than in the proglodyte fantasy-land.

CNN ‘New Day’ Crew Parrots Dem Tropes: ‘Democracy on Ballot, Election Denier, Big Lie’

Facebook is fine when punishing others financially, but cries when others do it to them

Obama Aides Warn Colbert GOP Wants To ‘Make Life Worse and Shorter’

The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters (N.Y. Times)

How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right (N.Y. Times) dunh-dunh-DUNHHHHHHH….

House’s Jan. 6 Committee Fails to Make Case Against Trump

CNN’s Tapper to Australian Leader: Please Tell Us How Stupid America Is on Guns, Climate

Mark Finchem is the latest in a wave of election deniers moving toward controlling elections (Arizona Mirror) ‘Election denier’ is their new slur, like ‘nigger lover’ was back in the sixties.

How election deniers are campaigning to control voting in four critical states (Georgia Recorder)

NPR Reporter Compares ‘Hardline’ Republicans on Immigration to El Paso Walmart Mass Shooter

Bragg’s bad choice: A prosecutor shines new light on his Trump decision (N.Y. Daily News)

Will Ivana help Donald Trump with tax breaks from beyond the grave? (The Guardian)

Juan Williams: GOP will stop at nothing if it wins midterms (The Hill) Proglodytes assume that Republicans will act the same as Democrats would.

What to expect from the DOJ’s investigation of Donald Trump (The Hill) A lot of hot air and innuendo, but no actual charges.

Trump Must Be Charged for ‘Crimes’ or They’ll Be Repeated: Glenn Kirschner (Newsweek) Except that they haven’t managed to come up with any, you know, actual crimes.

Retired DC cop who testified before January 6 committee says Trump ‘adamantly’ wanted to go to Capitol (CNN) Is that a good thing or a bad thing? What’s the Narrative this week?

Leftist TikToker: “Normalize Spitting Into The Drinks Of Trump Supporters”

The View: GOP Unwilling to Kill Terrorist Leaders Like Dems Are

CNN Deceptively Edits Audio to Pass Off Sunday Host as Hungary’s Orban

Trump’s defamation case against CNN is weak but may foreshadow his criminal defense (The Hill) All Trump! All the time!

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross slams ABC for reportedly hiring Alyssa Farah Griffin to co-host ‘The View’

The Utah Independent Who Just Might Have the Formula to Beat Trumpism (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Kinzinger slams McCarthy over Hutchinson comment: ‘I don’t trust a thing’ he says (The Hill) I”m sure the feeling is mutual.

Advocates, school board members support firing of Va. teacher over refusal to use pronoun (WTOP)

Subpoena Ginni Thomas (Boston Globe)

10K Christians Rip Greene’s Christian Nationalism: ‘Betrayal of Our Faith’ (Newsweek) Well, not exactly their faith.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Selling Christian Nationalist Shirts Amid Backlash (Newsweek ) Doing well by doing good.

Politico Scolds ‘Pouty Republicans Who Stiff Reporters,’ They’re ‘Making a Big Mistake’

Harvard Study: J6 Rioters Were Motivated by Loyalty to Trump, Not Insurrection Against the Constitution

Republicans’ next big play is to ‘scare the hell out of Washington’ by rewriting the Constitution. And they’re willing to play the long game to win. (Insider) More proglodyte projection–blaming their opponents for what they themselves would like to do.

Doug Mastriano Is Keeping A Big Secret From Pennsylvania Voters (Huffington Post0 dunh-dunh-DUNHHHH!

FBI failures before the Capitol siege avoided the Jan. 6 committee’s scorn. Not for long.

‘I’ll never vote again’ for former President Trump: Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (ABC) Trump is apparently insufficiently corrupt for the Republican wing of the UniParty.

Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general hosted 9/11 conspiracy radio shows (CNN) dunh-dunh-DUNHHHHH!

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It was Bertrand Russell, in a 1928 essay, who captured a central truth about the enduring power of the Puritan ethic in American life.

“The career of Puritanism has been curious,” he wrote. “It held brief power in England in the seventeenth century, but so disgusted the mass of ordinary citizens that they have never again allowed it to control the Government. The Puritans, persecuted in England, colonized New England, and subsequently the Middle West. The American Civil War was a continuation of the English Civil War, the Southern States having been mainly colonized by opponents of the Puritans. But unlike the English Civil War, it led to a permanent victory of the Puritan Party. The result is that the greatest Power in the world is controlled by men who inherit the outlook of Cromwell’s Ironsides.”

The January 6 hearings will have a bigger impact than Watergate (CNN) Doubtful.

Jan. 6 hearings chip away at Trump’s hold on GOP, as 2024 hopefuls circle (NPR)

Oil company profits boom as Americans reel from high fuel prices (The Guardian)

$2,245.62 a second: ExxonMobil scores enormous profit on record gas prices (CNN) Time to buy.

Donald Trump Without Makeup Photo Sparks Ridicule: ‘Looks Like a Zombie’ (Newsweek) When these ‘journalists’ graduate from high school, they’re going to be awesome.

CNN analyst hits Alito’s ‘nasty’ speech mocking foreign leaders over abortion ruling: A ‘tone of aggrievement’

Donald Trump ‘crashed’ the set of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and acted like a ‘buffoon,’ says star Cristin Milioti (Insider)

Jon Stewart Expertly Trolls Fox News Viewers While on Fox News (Daily Beast)

Josh Hawley Mocked for ‘Manhood’ Book After Video of Him Fleeing Jan. 6 Mob (Newsweek)

Trump violates federal law by showing off presidential seal while hosting Saudi-backed golf event (Salon)

NYT: Blakes Masters Pushes Hateful Conspiracy Theory: Democrats Like to Win

America First is laying plans to perpetuate Trumpism beyond Trump (The Guardian) duh-duh-DUHHHHHH. To begin with, there is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’. Trump doesn’t have a distinctive philosophy or program, he just does what he thinks ought to be done. To the extent that there is anything to ‘Trumpism’, it’s just a grab-bag of anti-Woke stuff that proglodytes hate him for and that any normal person recognizes as common sense.

‘Dangerous’ GOP Shouldn’t Get Fair Coverage But Dems Deserve ‘Some Grace’

Morning Joe Rips Trump For Hosting Saudi Golf, Silent On Biden’s Saudi Fist Bump

MSNBC Laments Existence Of Pro-Life Men: ‘He Doesn’t Have A Vagina’

Prosecutors prepare for court battle to force former White House officials to testify about Trump’s January 6 conversations (CNN) The witch-hunt continues.

The public relations and ad firms refusing fossil fuel clients (BBC)

The weaponization of doubt (Deseret News) Believe the Narrative! Believe!

As Kevin McCarthy’s California district gets redder, discontent brews on his right (L.A. Times)

Dynamic shifts between Fox News, Donald Trump (The Hill)

Trump again tries to get immunity from Jan. 6 civil suits (The Hill)

Pastor Warns About Marjorie Taylor Greene: She ‘Dances With the Devil’ (Newsweek)

Secret Service director delaying retirement amid investigations into agency (CNN)

‘Stop the Steal’ speaker Brandon Straka gave FBI info on rally organizers, more than a dozen others as part of plea deal (CBS)

Capitol-Fleeing Josh Hawley Has Written a Whole Book on ‘Manhood’ (Daily Beast) Best high-school journalism in America.

Jan. 6 committee expands interest into possible use of the 25th Amendment against Trump with Mnuchin and other Cabinet interviews (CNN)

Will Trump Face Justice? Don’t Give Up on Merrick Garland Just Yet (Newsweek) The witch-hunt continues.

CNN Killjoy: ‘Vastly Premature’ to ‘Talk About Trump in an Orange Jumpsuit’

Don Lemon Juices the DNC Midterm Message: GOP are ‘Extremists’

Jan. 6 committee tees up 20 witness transcripts for DOJ (Politico) The witch-hunt continues.

Sports Illustrated Sweating Out NFL’s Ability To Cope With Trump Again

He Made a Joke About Land Acknowledgements. Then the Trouble Began. (Common Sense)

Is Pro-Life Now Hate Speech?

The Lessons of Last Year’s Larry Summers Hatefest (New York Magazine)

Poll Finds Americans Want Biden to Condemn Pro-Abortion Violence, Harassment of Justices 

When it rains on Donald Trump, it pours. And the deluge is just beginning. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Trump is tough. He can take it. That’s why people voted for him.)

‘The View’ Apologizes to Turning Point USA After Lawsuit Threat (Daily Beast)

Trump has never been patriotic or defensible. It shouldn’t take a coup to figure that out. (USA Today) More Narrative Media TDS.

Democrats are pressuring Merrick Garland to make an anti-Trump case he doesn’t have  Andy McCarthy points out that there’s no there, there.

MSNBC Labels GOP a ‘White Extremist Party,’ SCOTUS ‘Absolutely Illegitimate’

WashPost Singles Out DeSantis Press Secretary for Whacking Reporters on Twitter

NYT’s Krugman: BLM Marches ‘Overwhelmingly Peaceful,’ GOP ‘Far More Dangerous’ Than Dems

Fearing a wipeout, Democrats try to unify around a simple midterm message: Republicans are ‘extremists’ (CNN)

Republicans Might Skip Liberal Interviews? Good

Why are the younger Trumps so awful? Did you hear the speeches at Ivana’s funeral?  (The Guardian)

Justice Dept. investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe (Washington Post)

Justice Dept investigation into Jan. 6 now encompasses communications of allies of Trump (CBS News)

DOJ reportedly investigating Trump’s conduct, conversations as part of 2020 election probe

Reports: DOJ criminal investigation hones in on Trump communications (Axios)

Trump’s defense secretary denies there were orders to have 10K troops ready to deploy on January 6 (CNN)

Trump did not have 10,000 troops ready to deploy on Jan. 6, his defense secretary says (CBS News)

Merrick Garland calls Justice Department’s Jan. 6 probe the ‘most wide ranging investigation in its history’ (NBC News) Wider-ranging than Watergate? Wider-ranging than the Kennedy assassination?

AG Garland refuses to rule out prosecuting Trump for Jan. 6  Of course he does. Prosecuting Trump is the whole goal and end of this entire charade.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends Nationalist Speech as ‘She Is a Nazi’ Trends (Newsweek)

Georgia state bar investigating two lawyers who participated in fake elector plot (CNN)

A repulsive new breed of Trumpist candidates poses a fresh threat (Washington Post)

Big Oil was quick to jack up gas prices at the pump but slow to drop them: report (Salon) It’s called ‘the ratchet effect’ and is well-known to anyone with the slightest knowledge of economics, which sadly doesn’t appear to include those who write for Salon.

Why some Supreme Court justices are supremely unpopular (The Hill) Being targeting for a Narrarive Media witch-hunt will do that.

Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul Placed on List of Russian Propagandists by Ukraine (Newsweek)

As Ukraine ‘blacklists’ some Americans, one journalist wonders if Zelenskyy watches ‘Morning Joe’

What if the Supreme Court had had term limits from the beginning?  (Washington Post) Funny how proglodytes never worry about term limits when they’re winning; only when they lose.

Michigan medical students walk out of induction ceremony to protest keynote speaker with anti-abortion views  (CNN)

The media’s role in the January 6th hearings (MSNBC) Provider of pitchforks and torches, apparently.

“We’re Very Angry”: Fire-Stricken Liberals Freak After CA ‘Militia Group’ Provides Disaster Aid  Why do ‘militia members’ always look like homeless bikers in camo?

Hayes Suggests Zeldin Colluded With NY DA to Release His Attacker Without Bail

At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for ‘Microaggressions’

VICTORY: The View Buckles to Turning Point USA’s Defamation Threat

MSNBC Warns of ‘Malicious, Muscular Christianity’ Taking Over Country

Justice Thomas no longer listed as GWU faculty after Roe backlash (Politico) Cancelling the parts they can reach.

Bee-Line to Extinction: TBS Kills Off Leftist Sam Bee’s ‘Comedy’ Show

I used to be optimistic about America’s future. Not anymore. (Washington Post) Voice of the Crust Max Boot loses his shit.

Trump’s revenge (Axios)

CNN’s Jim Acosta: Trump ‘returning to the scene of the crime’ in DC this week (The Hill) He’s right, but not in the way he means.

Adams admits NYC schools, health care ‘inundated’ by migrant influx, but blames ‘callousness’ of border states  Yeah, if they’d only stand still and allow their pockets to be picked….

Liz Cheney is already looking beyond 2022 (CNN) Let’s see: MSNBC gig, book deal, think-tank spot….

Liz Cheney and Larry Hogan show what it means to stand against GOP lies (Washington Post) And stand with Democrat lies.

How Donald Trump Contaminated the Secret Service (Daily Beast)

The View Falsely Claims DeSantis Thinks Neo-Nazis Are ‘Good People’

Sandy Hook Parents to Testify Against Alex Jones, and a Culture of Lies (N.Y. Times) They want to get their testimony in favor of the Culture of Lies on the record.

Former Olympian Swimmer Says Trans Hate Mob Has “Made My Life Hell”

Red states are building a nation within a nation (CNN)