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Most on the Right know that as the Woke have driven the knuckle-dragging wrong-thinkers from their precious institutions, eventually they would turn on the only ones remaining to harangue — themselves.

To whit, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) this past week turned on one of the most reliably liberal and accepting members, who had just received the prestigious award of Grand Master status at their Nebulas convention, and kicked her, and her husband who wasn’t even present, out of the convention.

U.S. needs to tax Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Billionaire Boys Club out of their misery (Philadelphia Inquirer)

How Donald Trump’s Fear of Getting Pied May Come Back to Cream Him (Daily Beast) The best of America’s high-school journalism.

This working mom is Republicans’ best shot at unseating Marjorie Taylor Greene — if they want to (CNN) Republicans are just waiting around for political advice from CNN.

STUDY: When There’s a Slaughter, the Press Loves to Blame Conservatives

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump’s loss, emails show (Washington Post)

Elon Musk blasts Biden administration, Democrats on Twitter over ‘hate,’ sidelining of Tesla (CNBC)

Why academia is a breeding ground of cancel culture

John Eastman’s election-fraud evidence is as weak as you’d expect (Washington Post)

Proposed Central Bucks library policy targeting ‘sexualized content’ spurs worries about sweeping book removal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The unbearable weight of defining disinformation and misinformation on the internet (The Hill)

NY Mag: ‘Disinformation’ a ‘fantasy’ that lets liberals ‘lie to themselves,’ avoid ‘agony of self-reflection’

‘This is ‘The Twilight Zone”: Acosta reacts to Orban plugging Tucker Carlson in speech (CNN)

Hillary Clinton’s Trump/Russia Media Strategy Revealed In Day 4 Of Sussmann Trial

Inconvenient Fact About Mass Killings  Larry Elder.

The truth about the Buffalo shooting

FBI Lawyer Admits Knowing Clinton Was Behind Trump Allegations Would Have Changed Things

What I Saw at Third Protest at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home

Fiona Hill says Putin ‘had to keep explaining things’ to Trump (The Hill) They said the same thing about Socrates.

Doug Mastriano race to decide if Pennsylvanians want their votes counted or cheaper bacon (Philadelphia Inquirer)

D.C. Attorney General Lets the Trump Swamp Win Again (Daily Beast)

‘This virus is here to stay’: Omicron subvariant causing COVID-19 wave in Colorado

Health Officials Consider Mask Mandates As Covid Cases & Hospitalizations Surge

Conservatives fume over tech industry’s ‘shadow docket’ play (Politico)

Oprah needs to denounce Oz (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Does Texas’ Idiot Attorney General Have a Point About Chrome’s Incognito Mode? (Gizmodo) Don’t hold it in, guys, tell us how you really feel.

Joe Manchin’s trail of destruction is about to get much worse (Washington Post)

Switching PGA courses after mob rampage a success for all bar Trump (The Guardian)

Elon Musk Completes Transition to Supervillain With Bolsonaro Meeting in Brazil (Gizmodo) Gizmodo is allegedly a tech pub but you’d never know it by reading it.

AP Paints Jankowicz As Victim of a Torrent of Sexist ‘Online Abuse’  Sauce for the goose….

MSNBC Calls GOP Rep. an Idiot For Opposition to Near Birth Abortion

Federal Judge Dismisses Fraud And Defamation Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Amid Week Of Controversy

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

A woman has made a hearsay allegation against Elon Musk, claiming that on a company airplane in 2016, he exposed himself to and propositioned a flight attendant. The woman who made the claim says she is a friend of the flight attendant. It is alleged that Space-X paid the flight attendant $250,000 when she left the company.

Funny how that works: no one needed to know any of this until Musk undertook to buy Twitter and turn it into a free speech zone, and–horrors!–said he would be voting Republican in November. Now, suddenly, he is under attack on multiple fronts.

Funny how that works.

These Nine Republicans Voted Against Expanding Access to Baby Formula (Newsweek)

The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same (The Guardian) George Monbiot is the Thomas Friedman of the UK.

Tony Norman: Onward Christian Nationalists, marching off to war … (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)

Hiltzik: How does Elon Musk get away with breaking the law? (L.A. Times) Money talks?

Trump’s alarming GOP primary wins demand a serious response (Washington Post) Really? He was a candidate?

Trump claims immigrants are voting illegally. The real problem is foreign fat cats funding US campaigns (The Guardian) What Robert Reich won’t tell you is that they are supporting Democrats. (Liberal Dark Money Group Bankrolled by Foreign Billionaire Gave Millions to Stacey Abrams’s Voting Nonprofit )

Congress members led ‘reconnaissance tours’ of Capitol before attack, evidence suggests (The Guardian)

Faculty Freedom of Speech and Diversity is Threatened at the University of Washington

OnlyFans creator stalked and had sex with Meta employees to reinstate Instagram  Dare I suggest that none of these people is a Republican?

Snitches Get Tote Bags: Taxpayer-Funded NPR Creates Tip Line for Employees To Rat Out Colleagues Who Don’t Wear Masks

Bee: SCOTUS Cares ‘About a Cluster of Cells’ But Not ‘Actual People’

Hillary’s Hidden Hand: Clinton Okayed Anti-Trump Media Hit Job, Trial Reveals

Mook Testifies That Hillary Clinton Approved Trump-Russia Media Dissemination

Unfriendly Skies: Flight Attendants Fired for Opposing Radical Equality Act Sue Alaska Airlines

Elon Musk is in their sights

Declaration of War: CBS Ties Fox News, Gingrich, Johnson to Racist Buffalo Shooter

New Florida Law to Prohibit Protests at Private Residences

RINO Alert: Kinzinger criticizes GOP for pushing theories that are ‘getting people killed’ in wake of Buffalo shooting (CNN)

Republicans dismiss white supremacy charge but show unease about rhetoric (The Hill)

A lengthy list of Trump’s disastrous business deals — compiled by his newest business partners (L.A. Times)

Trump’s New Business Partners Just Published A Damning List Of All His Failures (Huffington Post)

The Orbanization of America: How to capture a democracy (Washington Post)

Orbán and US right to bond at Cpac in Hungary over ‘great replacement’ ideology (The Guardian)

Arbitrator Orders Reinstated a Professor Fired for Retweeting Me, by Steve Sailer

Get Ready To Be Muzzled: The Coming War On So-Called ‘Hate Speech’

Judge Finds ‘Shocking’ Malpractice at Law Firm That Threatened Free Beacon

Abortion Doctor Accuses Rep. Chip Roy of ‘Inflammatory Language’ About What Happens to Aborted Babies

Hostin Declares All GOP Voters ‘Biggest Domestic Threat’ to America  I’m happy that she thinks so. I wish I had her faith in the GOP.

NYT Writer Urged Activists To Escalate Protests Targeting Kavanaugh

Twitter does not believe in free speech’: Undercover Project Veritas recording reveals Twitter engineer saying platform censors the right but NOT the left, everyone who works there is ‘commie as f**k’ and they ‘hate’ Elon Musk (Daily Mail)

Jeff Bezos is not a poster (The Verge)

Why Jeff Bezos’ Anti-Biden Tweets Are So Dumb (Politico)

A new blasphemy law?

O’Donnell: Murdoch Did More Damage to U.S. Than Any Immigrant in The World

WashPost Smears Stefanik: ‘Echoes Racist Theory’ of Buffalo Supermarket Shooter

A Deadly Hate Crime That Liberals Probably Can’t Blame on Tucker Carlson

Colbert Declares Half of Republicans Agree With Buffalo Shooter

Leftists Bury Another Norm: Protesters Target Homes of SCOTUS Justices

Unhinged John Legend Goes on “Handmaid’s Tale” Rant

CBS’s King: Does Massacre Define U.S.? ‘Who Are We, Really?’  By ‘we’ of course, they don’t mean them, but rather you.

The View: Parents at School Board Meetings Are Same as Buffalo Shooter

Loathsome NY Times: By Opposing Amnesty, GOP ‘Stoked Beliefs That Led to Killings’

Apple Facing Lawsuit After AirPods Allegedly Ruptured Child’s Eardrums With Amber Alert

Internal Documents Contradict American Express on ‘Woke’ Personnel Policies

With New Book, Pediatricians Try to Ensnare Kids in Gender Ideology

Judge Jackson won’t denounce the Dobbs leak or the protesters at justices’ homes

The ESG Community Lacks an Understanding of What Crude Oil is Used For

Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor Who Raised Hell Over Woke Lunacy

Nancy Pelosi, Unhinged

Biden Push To Turn ‘Ultra MAGA’ Into Disparaging Epithet Came From 6-Month Study, Was Not ‘Organic’

Who’s Paying Protesters to Harass Justices and Churches?

Ultra MAGA: The rejected slurs

Behar Threatens Rep. Stefanik/Staff: ‘Quit Now! We’re Warning You’

ABC Blames Guns, Trump for ‘Epidemic of Violence and Hate’ in U.S.

Disgusting NY Times Conflates All GOP With Buffalo Supermarket Murderer on Page One  As they do.

Using ‘Wrong’ Pronouns Could Lead to School Suspensions in Virginia Public Schools  Virginia is getting bluer by the day.

Lott: Guess How Many Violent Crimes Actually Involve Guns?

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Famous, liberal Vox writer Ian Millhiser panicked Thursday after the Fifth Circuit upheld the controversial “censorship” law.

NetChoice, the plaintiff in the lawsuit to stay the law, sued Texas over the “censorship” law last year and argued that it violated the First Amendment. The injunction was overturned this week and the law went into effect.

Elon Musk can’t just walk away from his Twitter deal by paying a $1 billion breakup fee (CNBC)

NY Times Accuses ‘Xenophobic’ GOP of ‘Weaponizing’ Baby Formula Crisis

AP Laments GOP POUNCING on Biden Over Baby Formula Shortages

Stelter Guest: Tucker, Ingraham & Shapiro Parrot White Supremacists

J.D. Vance, migrant babies and the unhinged GOP enemy hunt (Washington Post) The First Rule of Progressivism is that they alway accuse you of doing what they want to do.

Fusion GPS Loses Its Fight Over “Privileged” Documents

‘Unrelenting Daily Confrontation’: After Roe Leak, Yale Law Students Call for Ostracizing Conservative Classmates and Tossing Out Constitution

NPR Smears Pro-Lifers As United in White ‘Male Supremacism’

NPR’s Miss Extremist

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Mark Esper, President Trump’s last confirmed Secretary of Defense, has been the toast of all the networks this week for his new memoir, starting with the high-profile debut on “60 Minutes” with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell. Then came CNN and MSNBC and PBS and NPR and Fox News.

That doesn’t even count the massive sharing of soundbites from these interviews, mostly dedicated to the unending hunger for “tell us all the crazy crap Trump said next” anecdotes. The last president’s failure to accept the certified election results and his failure to call off January 6 rioters may be the craziest stuff.

Other than Bret Baier of Fox News – surely the most skeptical of the lot – the toughest question Esper faced was how could he stand ever taking a job with Trump, and why on Earth did he hang around?

Put that parade aside for a minute for a much more general point about “tell-all books.” Try for a few minutes to remember the tell-all books that emerged from Bill Clinton’s cabinet and White House inner circle. Maybe you can come up with Locked in the Cabinet by Labor Secretary Robert Reich (1997). That wasn’t a rip-roaring “tell-all.” Then there’s All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos (1999). The network interviewers threw questions about how he looked like an “ingrate” and a “backstabber,” inquiries which aren’t often thrown at Republican tattlers. But by that time, he was an ABC News star.

Republican senator’s push to arrest abortion protesters meets GOP resistance (NBC News) Once again, Republicans are their own worst enemy.

The Senate could save a woman’s right to control her own body. But it probably won’t (L.A. Tiems) Were were they during the Pandemic Panic? “Folowing the science”, I’m sure.

What We Saw At Protest Outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s House

ABC Ignores Federal Marshals Sent to Protect SCOTUS from Pro-Abortion Mobs

Reporter Recounts What He Saw Covering 2020 Riots

It’s Illegal, but Pro-Abortion Protesters Still Target Justices’ Homes

House Dems Insert Poison Pill Into Bipartisan Bill To Protect Supreme Court Justices

CNN Welcomes Alito Classmate To Compare Him To The Salem Witch Trials

“When The Mob Is Right”: Georgetown Law Prof Supports “Aggressive” Protests At Homes Of Justices  Democrats are okay with mob rule — when it’s their mob.

Jan. 6 Prosecutors Threatened Oath Keepers With Life Sentences, Raised Treason Analogy

Trump Managed to Body-Shame an Aircraft Carrier (New York Magazine)

Anti-Free Speech Twitter MELTDOWN After Musk Proposes Un-Banning Trump

Destroying Democracy To Save It: Democrats Lose Another Effort To Disqualify A GOP Member

Democrats’ National Abortion Bill Replaces Word ‘Woman’ With ‘Person’

GWU Student Calls for Canceling…George Washington

Pro-Abortion, Anti-Women Politicians Are Targeting Pregnancy Centers

Joe & Mika Mock ‘Snowflake’ Sen. Collins on Pro-Abortion Chalk at Her House, Ignore Threats

After Son’s Murder, Federal Judge Tells ABC: SCOTUS Must Be Protected

Congress Votes On Bill To Legalize Clinton-Assisted Suicide (Babylon Bee)

FBI Sternly Warns Mob At Justice Kavanaugh’s Home To Stay Away From School Board Member’s House Next Door (Babylon Bee)

After 800 years, Church of England apologizes to Jews for laws that led to expulsion (Times of Israel)

‘Ministry of Truth’ Leader Jankowicz Pushed Trump-Russia Misinfo, Conspiracies

What The Media Still Isn’t Telling You About Russiagate

Biden’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Tsar: Parents Concerned About Critical Race Theory Are “Disinformers”

YouTube Censors Donald Trump Speech at Heritage Foundation Event

“You will pay the price”

Pro-Choice Activists Target Home of Pro-Choice Republican

Whoopi Downplays Lib Terror at Pro-Life Group, Behar Touts Intimidation

These Anti-Semitic Activists Don’t Want Elon Musk To Bring Free Speech to Twitter

Liz Warren Demands JPMorgan & Goldman Name Clients Trading Russia Debt The Gestapo mindset in action.

One of the ugliest right-wing lies about Jan. 6 is imploding (Washington Post)

Top Trump Lawyer Is a Longtime Tax Deadbeat (Daily Beast) In the Narrative Media, a ‘tax deadbeat’ is somebody who pays less in taxes than the arrested adolescent writing the article thinks that person ought to be paying.

Christian nationalism is surging. It wasn’t inevitable. (Washington Post)

Mystery solved? Florida reveals why it rejected math books over critical race theory (Politico)

Trump justices accused of going back on their word on Roe – but did they? (The Guardian)

Herschel Walker’s insulting campaign is the worst kind of sports idolatry (Washington Post)

80 ‘Suspicious Actors’ And ‘Material Witnesses’ Under Scrutiny By Jan. 6 Defense Attorneys

Amanpour Cues Ex-Conservative to Trash Pro-Lifers as Like Nazis, Iran, and Saudi Arabia

Twitter Locks Concerned Women For America CEO’s Account: Report

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Why, you might ask, disrupt Catholic church services, and not Baptists or other pro-life Protestant denominations? Because hatred of the Catholic Church has become a core principle of the left, full stop. The reasons for this go beyond the coincidence that that the five Supreme Court justices who (may) form the majority to overturn Roe are Catholics. To quote Whittaker Chambers (a Quaker), “the Catholic Church is the only fully consistent conservative position.” That’s why.

I can think of few things that will alienate moderate voters than shrieking leftists disrupting church services. Though it is fitting that they might do so on Birthing Person’s Day Mother’s Day.

It says something about the Left that their mob actions aren’t intended to persuade anybody but just to inconvenience the targets of the current Two Minute Hate. I believe that the technical term for that is ‘tantrum’.

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Margaret Atwood is sharpening her pencils.

Georgia DA investigating Trump’s election interference will look into fake Electoral College certifications (CNN)

‘Trumpery’ damaged our democracy. Here are some ways to overcome it. (Washington Post)

Trump Organization Accused of Hiding Witness Michael Cohen, Who Knew if Donald Trump Lied (Daily Beast)

Ocasio-Cortez: Supreme Court ‘isn’t just coming for abortion’ (The Hill) Coming for!

Watchdog finds Trump DHS altered, delayed report on Russia’s election interference (The Hill)

Ranting couple claim they were kicked off JetBlue flight for supporting Trump

Chris Rufo attacks MSNBC segment labeling him a ‘far-right mastermind’  There is no right but the far-right.

Repairman who revealed Hunter Biden laptop sues Schiff, CNN, Politico and The Daily Beast

Taibbi: PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout

PolitiFact Omits Some of Hannity’s Words So They Can Tag Him ‘FALSE’ on Twitter Gains

Elie Mystal Freaks: Founders Were ‘Racist Misogynist Jerk Faces’!

Georgia official texted Mark Meadows as Trump badgered secretary of state to ‘find’ votes (CNN)

Accuser Drops Don Lemon Assault Suit, Recants Claims (Daily Beast)

Dems grimace at Manchin’s bipartisan energy detour (Politico)

How real is the chance of criminally prosecuting Donald Trump? (CNN)

DeSantis rips Trevor Noah for ‘lying’ about his presence at correspondents’ dinner

Trump Lawyers Tried to Hide His Bizarre, Fruity Testimony (Daily Beast) Bizarre!

Kevin McCarthy is a shining symbol of democratic decay (Washington Post)

Conservatives don’t want true democracy, and ‘nice’ Republicans are no exception (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

A growing threat to democracy: Trumpist gubernatorial candidates (Washington Post)

The right’s gender wars are an assault on democracy (The Hill)

Hasan Slimes Musk: Will Hand Twitter to ‘Neo-Nazi’ GOP, Musk Fires Back

Wall Street Journal Claims “Shadow Crew” Of Billionaires Urged Elon Musk To Buy Twitter

ABC: ‘Shockwaves’ as Alito Heaps ‘Scorn’ and Prepares to ‘Upend’ ‘Lives of Women’  Yeah, Abortion Barbie is going to be in deep doo-doo.

DC Will Channel Money From Trump Hotel Settlement to Woke Nonprofits

Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes (Associated Press) Trump! Schemes!

Mark Meadows claims US Capitol attack panel leaked texts to ‘vilify’ him (The Guardian)

Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk Wimp Out on Their Twitter Chest-Thumping (Daily Beast)

One by one, Republican midterm candidates are falling into line with Trump (The Guardian) What do they know that Robert Reich doesn’t know. (Quite a bit, I suspect.)

NY Times Goes to War on Tucker Carlson: ‘Most Racist Show in History of Cable News’

Tucker Carlson vows he won’t read N.Y. Times series about him (Axios)

Ministry Of Truth Announces Target Of Today’s Two Minutes Hate Is Tucker Carlson  Babylon Bee.

Is Tucker Carlson a Racist? No Check vs Blue Check Definitions of “Racist”

MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Returns to Twitter, Gets Re-Banned (Daily Beast)

“All’s Well That’s Orwell” – Musk Tosses Tactical Nukes At ‘Ministry Of Truth’ And Trust-Fund Journo

CBS Fawns Over Book From NYT Reporters, Skirts Dirt on Democrats

Tucker vs New York Times, Round 2: ‘Nativist Tilt and Racial Scaremongering’

Biden jokes Trump was a ‘horrible plague’ in remarks at White House Correspondents’ Dinner (CNN)

Biden returns to White House Correspondents Dinner — here are the pitfalls of presidential humor

Misinformation’s wingman? (Seattle Times)

Elon Musk is threat to our democracy, cries Elizabeth Warren as she works to undermine it

Here’s What the Hell Joe Manchin Is Doing (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

New York Times Says Illegal Aliens Voting Is a ‘Fake Threat’ — But Wait, What About…

Zurawik: ‘We Are Headed to Hell’ If Congress Doesn’t Regulate Musk

The Other McCain is shocked, shocked I tell you.

Back in 2014, when I started researching radical feminism, one of the first things I discovered was the phenomenon of Tumblr, a toxic cesspool that began as a blogging platform with an interface that allowed it to also function as a social-networking site. Tumblr users could “follow” each other, exchange DMs and, most importantly, “reblog” each other’s content. Feminist Tumblr was a notorious bedlam of craziness, where The Discourse™ spiraled into long threads of young women practicing “call-out culture,” i.e., accusing each other of transgressions against intersectional social justice. Whoever your favorite celebrity, whatever your favorite movie or TV show, it was sure to be denounced as “problematic” at some level by the social justice totalitarians of feminist Tumblr — all of whom proclaimed their mental illnesses in their profiles, and none of whom were heterosexual. Tumblrinas were always somewhere in the LGBTQ spectrum, and all of them were suffering from depression, anxiety, ADD, OCD, autism, bipolar disorder and/or PTSD.

Durham’s Treatment Of Clinton Camp Contrasts With Mueller’s Treatment Of Trump Camp

Radical Left Targets Video Games as Hotbeds of Right-Wing Extremism

Judge rejects Trump’s affidavit saying he doesn’t have documents sought by New York’s attorney general (CNN)

DeSantis’ Bonkers Claim About Cartoons Has Twitter Destroying Him With Acme Dynamite (Huffington Post)

YIMBYs accuse wealthy S.F. neighborhood of trying to skirt housing laws with historic status — and point to racist past (S.F. Chronicle)

The week in whoppers: Joy Reid’s ugly slurs, WaPo’s scaremongering and more

MSNBC analyst claims he was confronted by a ‘Musk bro’ at an airport

NY Times: FLA Under DeSantis: ‘Rightward Lurch…More Rigid Conservative Orthodoxy’

New Jan. 6 Bodycam Videos Show DC Police Officer Assaulting Unconscious Protester

PBS, Lincoln Project Label DeSantis, Press Secretary ‘Alt-Right’

FLASHBACK: Vile NBC Blamed Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio for Oklahoma City Bombing  As did Bill Clinton.

After Ant-Semitic Trope About Israel, Velshi Laments Musk’s Idea of Free Speech

NY Case Against Trump Implodes As Grand Jury Ends With No Charges  New York Democrats are still going to be beating that dead horse for years, if not decades.

George Will points to Hawley while arguing senators should be barred from presidency (The Hill)  Don’t recall him having any problem with Bernie Sanders – or Jumbalaya Harris. I guess he’s just pretending to be a Republican. (Lot of that going around.)

Conservative Catholic group calls Greene a ‘disgrace’ over comments about church (The Hill) About the only time The Hill has ever cared what a ‘conservative Catholic’ group thought.

Democrat admits ‘unparliamentary language’ after criticism of Greene (The Hill)

Trump’s appraiser was ‘not consistent’ in adhering to internal quality controls, judge says (CNN)

Welcome to the cultural authoritarianism era (Tampa Bay Times)

FCC commissioner shoots down ‘absurd’ claim that the federal government can block Musk’s Twitter purchase

Bias, far-right sympathies among California law enforcement going unchecked, audit finds (L.A. Times) There is no right but the far-right.

Democrats announce plans to ‘go after’ big oil in effort to bring down prices (The Guardian)

To cut gas costs, Democrats to focus on oil company ‘price gouging’ (The Hill)

Manic Morning Joe’s Advice To Dems: Make People ‘Very Afraid’ of ‘Crazy’ Republicans

Pennsylvania College Reins in Free Speech After Hillsdale Professor’s Talk Leaves Left Grumbling

Profiles in Liberal Courage Only: JFK Foundation Awards Snub Manchin, Sinema

Morning Joe Hopes Twitter Buyout ‘Brings Down Musk’s Entire Business Empire’

The GOP is no longer a party. It’s a movement to impose White Christian nationalism. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin gets her panties in a wad yet again.

Judge Says Real Estate Giant Broke Rules for Trump (Daily Beast) Wouldn’t do it for just anybody, mind.

House Dems to lead hearing on Supreme Court ethics, amid calls for Thomas to resign or be impeached

Rand Paul’s comments on Russian invasion criticized as echoing Putin’s point on Ukraine (Courier Journal)

New York grand jury hearing evidence in DA’s investigation into Trump Organization expires this week (CNN)

Elon Musk already broke his agreement with Twitter (Quartz)

Fact check: Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating false claim that attorney general called parents ‘terrorists’ for wanting to attend school board meetings (CNN) Which he did.

McCarthy’s false claim that Garland called parents ‘terrorists’ (Washington Post) Which he did.

A top Democrat ties Pence’s ‘I’m not getting in the car’ to Jan. 6 ‘coup’ (Washington Post)

The next threat to democracy in the US: Moms for Liberty? (Al Jezeera) What would Al Jezeera know about democracy?

Trump Warns of Killer ‘Tomatoes, Pineapples, and Bananas’ in Court Docs (Daily Beast)

Man Applauded for Leaving Family With Dinner Bill After Sister’s Gay ‘Joke’ (Newsweek)

‘Homophobic’ first-class passenger accused of assaulting Delta flight attendant (NBC News)

How The Media Built The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Narrative

MSNBC, ABC Claim Elon Musk Wants To See Abuse Of Women & Jews, And A Return To Apartheid

Washington Post Warns Elon Musk Tweets Can ‘Unleash Mobs’ Online — ‘Including Racist Ones’

UK Streaming Platform Censors ‘Homophobic’ Line In 2002 Spiderman Movie

CNN Uses Anonymous Teen To Accuse Adults of Attacking ‘Non-Binary’ Youth

2,350,000 Reasons George Soros Funded Group Wants to Ban Trump — Again

If found guilty, the Constitution won’t save Greene and Cawthorn (The Hill)

How to Delete Your Twitter Account, and Reactivate It if You Change Your Mind (CNET)

Trump Evokes The ‘P’ Word Again And Twitter Foes Know It’s As Sexist As Ever (Huffington Post)

Ivanka Got Real Quiet Real Fast in the Group Text After Nov. 6 (Daily Beast)

Republicans found something they love even more than tax cuts (Washington Post)

Border visit backfires on vulnerable Senate Dem (Politico)

Trump Admits He Oversaw Pay for Executive Who Got Fishy Perks (Daily Beast) Fishy!

Biden needs to explain why GOP lies and bullying are a danger to democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Women put ‘friendly face’ on Jan. 6 attack, extremism research argues in new study (NBC News)

Abbott’s plan to humiliate the weak instead dupes Texas taxpayers (Washington Post) Dana Milbank is NOT happy. Apparently busing illegal immigrants to D.C. is ‘humiliating’. Who knew?

Kevin McCarthy was asked about his Trump lie. His answer was gibberish (CNN) Strange as it may seem, Chris Cillizza is apparently not fluent in gibberish, which surprises me.

Democrat Effort To Disqualify House Republicans For ‘Insurrection’ Was Just Dealt Crippling Blow

CNN+ Host Wonders if Musk Wants ‘To Kill A Puppy’ As Free Speech

Scarborough Exploits Holocaust Remembrance Day To Slam ‘Neo-Fascist’ Republicans

Kimmel Gets Trumped: Comedian Bashing of The Donald’s Truth Social Gets Reality Check

Harvard De-platforms Feminist Opposed to Males In Women’s Sports  Welcome to our world, feminist.

CNN Exclusive: Mark Meadows’ 2,319 text messages reveal Trump’s inner circle communications before and after January 6 (CNN)

Trump allies’ secret work to overturn 2020 election detailed in new text messages (NBC)

‘Exhilarated’ McConnell said Jan. 6 ‘discredited’ Trump, book says (Washington Post) Still obsessed with Trump.

Kevin McCarthy’s border stunt reveals a dark truth about the GOP (Washington Post) Stunt! Dark!

When the Capitol riot began, Marjorie Taylor Greene knew whom to blame (Washington Post)

Seth Meyers Brutally Mocks Ivanka Trump’s Coup Texts (Daily Beast) The mean girls strike back.

New York AG Investigates Real Estate Giant for Helping Trump

With his every pronouncement, Gov. Ron DeSantis turns Floridian against Floridian (Gainesville Sun) He refuses to just shut up and follow the Narrative.

Nets Smeared Border Agents for ‘Horrific’ ‘Whipping’ of Migrants, Censor Their Clearing

IRONY: MSNBC’s Melber Worries Musk Will Shadowban & Censor Dems

NY Times Claims Christopher Rufo ‘Fuels Cultural Fires For Right’ in Florida  They say that like it was a bad thing.

The View Defends Disney: Bigot DeSantis ‘Taking on the Mouse’

The Trump party blames America first (The Hill) Except that there is no ‘Trump party’, nor do they blame America first.

Inept ‘People’s Convoy’ chased out of Bay Area by egg-throwing kids (S.F. Gate)

Why Hollywood Still Loves Watergate: Fifty Years Later, The Scandal Inspires ‘Gaslit’ And More (Deadline)

Mark Meadows Aide Names Lawmakers in Trump WH Meetings Leading Up to 1/6 (Newsweek)

Utah Democrats throw support behind independent Evan McMullin to take on Mike Lee (CNN) I guess he really isn’t independent, is he?

Why This Hawaii Senator Lost His Sh*t on Josh Hawley (Daily Beast) Indeed, he had a lot of shit to lose.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid calls photos of Black kids at DeSantis event as ‘child abuse’

Rob ‘Meathead’ Reiner Bemoans ‘End of Democracy’ If Garland Doesn’t Indict Trump  Well, then, we have something to look forward to.

Morning Joe Panics Over ‘Dr. Evil’ Elon Musk Buying Twitter

WAPO Forced To Issue Correction After Telegram Blunder

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So it is somehow crucial to know your sexual preference in your private life in order to know whether you can teach and conduct research on climate change. Got it.

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During CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, CNN analyst Scott Jennings was the only guest on the panel segment that dared to push back on his co-panelists who were trashing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for punishing Disney over their support for grooming children.

“Republicans are really unhappy with some of these corporations in Georgia, in Florida, and elsewhere who weighed into these issues with aggressive stupidity. And that CEOs of these companies, who call up like Ron DeSantis, like the CEO of Disney did, they haven’t read the law,” Jennings shrewdly pointed out. Noting that Disney simply parroted talking points provided to it by the left.

Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states (Washington Post) The nerve of that guy! Doesn’t he know you have to be a dead Democrat to do that?

Elon Musk wants to own Twitter to protect his ‘freedom’, not everyone else’s (The Guardian) Robert Reich has suddenly developed amazing mind-reading skills … and a concern with individual freedom that he has never before exhibited.

Destroying Democracy To Save It? Court Advances Effort To Block GOP Candidates From Ballots

NYTimes Decries GOP ‘Demonizing’ Refugees, But ‘Soaring’ Biden Called GOP Jim Crow

On MSNBC: Black Republicans Like Herschel Walker ‘Shucking and Jiving’ for White Handlers

Atlantic Magazine Defends Taylor Lorenz by Claiming Definition of Doxxing Is Fluid

Jan. 6 revelations will ‘blow the roof off the House,’ Rep. Jamie Raskin says (NBC News) Who?

Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Actions Qualify as ‘Treason’: Glenn Kirschner (Newsweek) Apparently he’s never read the Constitution, or doesn’t care to; typical Democrat.

J.D. Vance’s Former Roommate: He’s ‘the Most Dangerous Candidate’ (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Rips Into ‘Glazed Ham’ Trump Over Sweaty Piers Morgan Interview (Daily Beast)

Trump Brags He Threatened to Not Defend NATO Allies From Russia (Newsweek) Betcha he didn’t.

Ron DeSantis’ Florida Congressional Map Is One of the Most Biased in U.S. (Newsweek)

Secrecy, sex and sun: captain reveals life aboard superyachts (The Guardian) Tabloid journalism without the journalism.

Virginia School Administrator Says She Was Harassed, Forced Out for Questioning Critical Race Theory

MSNBC: ‘Mafia Feel’ to DeSantis Revoking Disney Special Status

Escobar: Big Tech’s “Cancel Culture” Love-Affair

‘Balanced’ PBS NewsHour SMEARS Parents’ Rights Movement as QAnon Kook Fringe

CNN Condemns Florida For Not Teaching Conservatives Are Racist in Math Class

An incredibly damning quote from Mitch McConnell on January 6 (CNN) Or maybe not. Chris Cillizza isn’t the most reliable of reporters.

McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign after Jan. 6, new audio reveals (NBC News) Or maybe not. if true, it doesn’t surprise me.

The One Way History Shows Trump’s Personality Cult Will End (Politico) Dream on, snowflake.

Manhattan DA’s Star Witness: Indict Trump Now or I’m Out (Daily Beast)

Jordan Klepper Reveals Europeans Are Just as Deluded as MAGA Morons (Daily Beast)

‘The Daily Show’ correspondent talks Hungary trip, warning signs for America (CNN) Jordan Klepper really gets around, doesn’t he?

Ron DeSantis’s war on Disney points to an ominous GOP future (Washington Post) How about Disney’s war on truth?

The Jan. 6 committee and Merrick Garland must protect our endangered democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

One of Twitter’s most popular right-wing hatemongers was unmasked. Good. (MSNBC)

MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd: Today’s Conservatives Would Call Jesus a Woke Groomer Socialist  As if anybody at MSNBC had a clue about Jesus.

Book Claims Kevin McCarthy Wanted Big Tech to Ban More Republicans After Jan 6

‘Daily Show’s’ Jordan Klepper warns about Ron DeSantis turning Florida into an ‘autocracy’

CBS, CNN+ Tee Up Far-Left Klepper to Compare ‘Authoritarian’ Hungary to Florida

The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees (The New Yorker) Of course, they had no objection to the ‘slime machine’ – including the New Yorker – targeting dozens of Trump’s nominees.

Ginni Thomas also texted Meadows about another friend who shared election fraud conspiracy theories (CNN)  Ooooooo! Texted! A friend! Very suspicious!

ABC, NBC Wail: DeSantis Targets Disney for Supporting Child Grooming!

College Professor Wins Settlement In Pronouns Lawsuit

YouTuber Who Said Cancel Culture Was A Good Thing Gets Cancelled  What goes around comes around.

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the not-so-hard questions.

Start with a simple question: Does wearing a mask protect you from COVID-19?
If the answer is “yes,” and you are protected by your mask, then why does it matter whether or not other people are also wearing masks? If you think other people must also be compelled to wear masks — because their mask protects you from their germs, supposedly — then doesn’t that imply that your mask is ineffective? But if your mask isn’t working to protect you, then why do you think their mask is necessary, since you apparently don’t think masks really provide a barrier to germs?

We could have a long discussion about the efficacy of masks — do they reduce the spread of airborne viruses by 10% or 20% or whatever? — but the real bottom line is that people who act as if masks will protect them from COVID-19 don’t really seem to believe masks work that way, or else they would be content to protect themselves and not worry about whether other people are also wearing masks. And we could say much the same thing about COVID-19 vaccine mandates: If you think the vaccine will protect you, why does it matter whether other people are also vaccinated?

The fundamental fact is that masks and vaccines don’t work very well, the COVIDians know they don’t work very well, but they have nothing but PANIC to fall back on. Security theater is not a monopoly of the TSA.

Ron DeSantis takes his culture war to the next level (CNN) Note how this is somehow his culture war, not the one that CNN has been waging for the last thirty years.

Why did CBS News hire Mick Mulvaney? (The Guardian) Robert Reich is not pleased with the ideological traitors at CBS.

Why Tucker Carlson wants men to aim lasers at their private parts (Washington Post) Why Dana Milbank is so concerned with men’s private parts.

Florida’s vile ‘groomer’ law may soon blow up in DeSantis’s face (Washington Post) Vile!

How ‘Drag Storybook Hour’ set off culture wars at a Virginia community center (Washington Post)

John Oliver Reveals How He’s Been Trolling Dr. Oz for Years (Daily Beast) Oliver was an asshole before being an asshole was Politically Correct.

WashPost’s Lorenz Attempts to ‘Expose’ Woman Behind Libs of TikTok  There’s gotta be a witch in there somewhere….

WaPo “Tech Reporter” Taylor Lorenz Under Fire For Doxxing ‘Libs Of TikTok’, Harassing Family

CNN Decries ‘Putin-esque’ ‘Book Burning,’ Suggests Florida Is Cancelling Math

Jack Dorsey Goes After CNN For Deliberately Stirring Division

‘Unqualified,’ ‘Florida,’ ‘Dangerous,’ MSNBC Attacks Judge Who Struck Down Mask Mandate

Liberals Raise Concerns About Account That’s Making Them Look Bad By Just Sharing Their Actual Words

Doxxer Taylor Lorenz thinks she’s the real victim  Of course she does.

Why we’ve just scratched the surface of the January 6 investigation (CNN) Liz Cheney always looks as if she hadn’t bothered to wash her hair for a couple of weeks.

He Could’ve Taken Down the Trump Org. Now He’s Taking the Blame. (Daily Beast)

The Trumpified RNC strikes another blow against democracy (Washington Post)  Mommee! Billy hit me back!

On MSNBC, NPR’s Hinojosa Falsely Accuses Border Agents of Whipping Haitians

Brian Stelter Plays Dumb (Again) on Big Tech Spiking Conservatives

WashPost’s Max Boot Cries Elon Musk Is ‘World’s Richest Troll’  Which leaves Max Boot with the title of World’s Dullest Troll.

Report Alleges U.S. Spied on Big Tech Accounts of Project Veritas Employees

Lefty Singer on CBS: Abbott Wants to Make Black AND Gay People Disappear!

The Monopoly On Your Mind: These 6 Companies Control 90% Of What You Read, Watch, & Hear

Read it.

Anybody at all making money, actually, except Children of the Crust.

Former Aide Knocks Trump’s ‘Dumb Endorsements’ in GOP Primaries (Newsweek)

The one word that explains Donald Trump’s endorsement of J.D. Vance (CNN) CHris Cilizza apparently doesn’t have a big vocabulary.

SNL’s Michael Che and Colin Jost Brutally Roast Elon Musk (Daily Beast) Ritual denuciation of the latest heretic and sinner welcomed by the Cool Kids at the Daily Beast.

SNL’s Marjorie Taylor Greene Warns Easter Is Way Too Gay (Daily Beast) And no attempt at humor is too sophomoric for either SNL or the Daily Beast.

Ohio public university to pay $400,000 in damages after punishing professor over preferred pronoun controversy

Trump, Allies ‘Inarguably Committed’ Crimes With Jan. 6 ‘Coup’: Kirschner (Newsweek) No, not that Kirschner, another one, one you’ve never heard of.

Libs Of TikTok Suspended Again After Getting Reinstated

Is Hunter Biden’s Laptop Killing Twitter as We Know It?

CIA Bombshell: The Sussman Data Was “User Created”

Read it.

It is amazing. Certain politically pregnant phrases are repeated nearly verbatim, over and over by a multitude of pundits, politicians, news anchors, podcasters, talk show hosts, etc. It’s as if they’re all reading from the same script. (They are.) The worst of these is the declaration of a “threat to our democracy.” It’s as if this is the definitive, final, word. Except that they all must say it, just in case it didn’t quite take in first time. Just in case we didn’t hear it. Just in case someone, aghast, challenged the idea of it, declared it not just unoriginal, but also just plain wrong.

Challenge is an ugly thing. It is “a threat to our democracy!”

GOP Lawmaker: Hitler Should Serve as an Inspiration to Homeless People (Daily Beast) Best high-school ‘journalism’ in the country.

NY AG launches gas price gouging investigation into the oil industry (CNN) Gouging!

DOJ charges 3 Russians with running ‘foreign influence and disinformation network’ in U.S. (CNBC) Can a Trump indictment be far behind?

Raskin: Jan. 6 panel’s report will include ‘crimes that have not yet been alleged’ (The Hill)

Soros-Funded Group Whines Billionaires Are ‘Toxic’ to ‘Democracy’

Texas Follows Through With Gross Stunt of Dumping Migrants in D.C. (Daily Beast)

Greg Abbott eagerly fills the border-politics void left by Trump (Washington Post)

How to explain Tim Scott? (Washington Post) Well, usually by just making stuff up.

Replacing derogatory names in WA gets dragged into our larger culture war (Seattle Times)

State: Residency law too late to remove Trump-backed hopeful (Associated Press)

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoes 26 Democratic bills (Associated Press)

Liberal NowThis News ripped for 2018 video mocking Trump’s prediction about Germany  Trump was right again.

Capitol riot defendant blames actions on Trump and false election claims (The Guardian) He now loves Big Brother.

NY AG expands Trump Organization civil investigation to include role of appraiser (CNN)

Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals (The Guardian)

These Bay Area and California billionaires pay a lower effective federal tax rate than you do (S.F. Gate)

MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Democrats repeatedly fearmonger, claim GOP will be the ‘death of democracy’

Ruhle Lets MSNBC Analyst Liken Republicans to ISIS on Abortion

MSM Brands Musk A “Supervillain” As Blue Checks Melt Down Over Hostile Twitter Takeover

Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense (The Guardian) And Robert Reich knows all about dangerous nonsense.

An unintentionally revealing line in a Donald Trump un-endorsement (CNN) And of course Chris Cilizza, ace mind-reader, absolutely knows what Trump’s intention is.

Kimmel Hits Back at Accused ‘Sex Offender’ Matt Gaetz for Calling Him Sexist (Daily Beast)

Did Jared Kushner just get a $2 billion bribe? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Since he’s not a public official, it doesn’t matter. But it’s really all about Trump.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Joining Military Is ‘Throwing Your Life Away’ (Newsweek) Leaving out, of course, the key qualifier ‘under Biden’.

Jimmy Kimmel Spots Major Trump Confession Hiding In Plain Sight (Huffington Post) Except that it isn’t really.

The infuriating insincerity of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ chat about San Francisco homelessness (S.F. Gate)  Infuriating! (The Narrative Media is just chock-full of expert mind-readers.)

CLOWN Robert Reich: Elon Musk’s ‘Libertarian’ Views on Internet ‘Dream of Every Dictator’

NYT Opinion Editor: Couldn’t Help Worrying ‘For Our Democracy’ After Hearing Conservative Men  ‘Their’ democracy is one in which they win all of the time.

20 Federal ‘Assets’ Embedded At Capitol On Jan. 6, Court Filing Says

Greene Slams Media Focus on Capitol Riot, Notes It Happened ‘One Time’ (Newsweek)

Cheney rejects report of a dispute among Jan. 6 committee on criminal referral for Trump (The Hill)

Twitter Suspends Clinton Accuser Juanita Broaddrick

Paul Graham.

One of the most surprising things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy.

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There are an ever-increasing number of opinions you can be fired for. Those doing the firing don’t use the word “heresy” to describe them, but structurally they’re equivalent. Structurally there are two distinctive things about heresy: (1) that it takes priority over the question of truth or falsity, and (2) that it outweighs everything else the speaker has done.

For example, when someone calls a statement “x-ist,” they’re also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion. They do not, having said this, go on to consider whether the statement is true or not. Using such labels is the conversational equivalent of signalling an exception. That’s one of the reasons they’re used: to end a discussion.