The Jan. 6 committee exposed Trump’s lies — and indicted the GOP in the process (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin abandons any pretense of being a Republican.

Police say men linked to a White supremacist group planned to riot. Here’s what we know about Patriot Front, its young leader and how it’s different (CNN) No action against the Supreme Court protesters who also ‘plan to riot’, though.

The first Woodward and Bernstein story on the Watergate scandal (Washington Post) Reliving the old days of glory and hoping it will somehow rub off on Trump.

A plea to gun owners to save more Sierras (CNN) Even the ‘medical correspondent’ has to pile on.

Guns, insurrection and the persistence of Trumpism in Republican identity (The Hill)

Doug Mastriano hired former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis for his campaign for Pa. governor (Philadelphia Inquirer) Oh no! Trump cooties!

Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation, report says (The Guardian)

Probe Reveals Mysterious ‘Third Party’ Breached Michigan Voting Systems Amid Trumpworld’s Voter Fraud Frenzy (Daily Beast) Mysterious!

Government expands investigation into Trump’s social network deal (Axios)

SEC Expands Its Investigation Into Trump’s Shady Social Network Deal (Gizmodo) Shady!

A California lawmaker tweeted a joke about drag shows. His house was then searched for bombs. (S.F. Gate)

Death Threats Emailed to Sen. Wiener and Other Incidents, Raise Pride Safety Concerns (NBC)

Churches, Pro-Life Organizations Attacked 41 Times in Past 6 Weeks

MSNBC Hosts Compare Fox to Middle Eastern State Propaganda

What I Saw at ‘Blockade the Supreme Court’ Protest

California Dems Aim to Target Tax Exempt Status of Patriot Groups

Alito Protests Disrupt Police and Neighborhood

White House Advisor Calls for Big Tech to ‘Jump In,’ Censor So-Called Disinformation

Networks Quiet as New Wave of Pro-Abortion Terror Strikes U.S.

Ruhle Rants Against GOP ‘Using Inflation to Push People to the Polls’

The uses of the January 6th Congressional hearing: setting the scene for the criminal indictment of Trump?

Capitol Police Chief Debunks J6 Committee Conspiracy Theory

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Can you have bread and circuses without the bread? A group of rabid lefties want to find out. James Martin, CEO of Martin’s, whose potato rolls are popular in both supermarkets and restaurants, supports a conservative candidate for Pennsylvania governor. So, according to The Washington Post on Sunday, Martin’s must be destroyed.

Apparently Martin, his wife, and his daughter donated money to GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano. Mastriano is a Pennsylvania state senator, a retired army colonel, and a Trump supporter.

The most notable person to boycott was author and chef J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, known for not only having a large YouTube following and public presence but for banning MAGA hat-wearing customers from his restaurant, San Mateo Eatery, in 2019, saying the MAGA hat was “Same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate.” (How does he feel about Che Guevara tee shirts?) Certainly, the type to get his panties in a bunch over some conservative bread rolls.

US white supremacists arrested at Idaho gay pride event – police (BBC)

Trump’s forces are preparing for the next storming of the Capitol. This time, they plan to win (The Guardian)

Biden says forces behind January 6 attack ‘remain at work today’ – as it happened (The Guardian) The desire for an unstolen election? I’d say that’s correct.

Liz Cheney Is Ready to Follow Donald Trump to the Gates of Hell (Daily Beast) Good luck with that.

Former Trump Official Says Panel’s Jan. 6 Videos Are ‘Doctored’ (Newsweek) As they obviously are.

Trump’s judges will keep moving the country to the far right for decades (L.A. Times) There is no right but the far right.

Proud Boys leaders say DOJ mixed ‘politics and criminal justice’ with sedition indictment (The Hill) Which they obviously did.

Rep. Perry Says Rep. Cheney Lied About Claim He Sought Presidential Pardon

NYT Targets AG For Going After Censorship Online

Key takeaways from the first Jan. 6 hearing: It’s all about Trump (NBC) But you knew that.

Cheney’s Jan. 6 committee spotlight burns her in Wyoming primary (NBC) “Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.” Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

Name and Shame White Christian Nationalism, the Ideology Behind Jan. 6 (Daily Beast) So I guess non-white Christian Nationalism is okay?

J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel Accused of ‘Secret Website’ Shenanigans (Daily Beast) Shenanigans!

Michigan candidate for governor, Ryan Kelley, charged for Jan. 6 involvement (NPR)

Bipartisan Senate group eyes deal ‘this week’ on bill to prevent future coups (NBC) Future coups!

Kavanaugh threat: MSNBC’s Joy Reid, ABC’s Joy Behar pivot to attacking Mitch McConnell over gun control

Priorities: Morning Networks Spend Over 3x More on January 6 Than Kavanaugh Threat

Democratic Philly Mayor Wants To Arrest Man for Defending Himself During Mass Shooting

Norms Restored: FBI Now Literally Arresting Republican Candidates

‘Morning Joe’ Mocks Shooting Survivor Scalise for Speaking Truth on Guns

Pennsylvania Dem Says ‘Diseased’ GOP Must Be ‘Cleansed’ After Preaching ‘Unity’

Chinese students at Cornell “taunt” Uyghur classmate

Cheney faces pivotal moment with Jan. 6 prime time hearing (The Hill)

West Point expected to be ordered to take down portrait of Robert E. Lee (Politico)

Democrats fret as Garland’s January 6 investigation creeps closer to pre-midterm deadline (CNN)

Audio shows Trump-endorsed Arizona Senate candidate questioned whether January 6 attack was set up by FBI (CNN)

DeSantis spokeswoman belatedly registers as agent of foreign politician (Washington Post)

Gov. Ron DeSantis to WaPo, ‘legacy media’ after ‘smear’ attempt: ‘We don’t care what you think anymore’

Beto O’Rourke’s Chances of Beating Abbott With 5 Months to Election: Polls (Newsweek) Hint: Zero.

CNN Panel: It’s Not the NRA, It’s Republican ‘Gun Absolutists’ To Blame!

Liberal Tries to Assassinate Justice Kavanaugh in Name of Abortion Rights and Gun Control; Story Relegated Way Down NYT Homepage

How the defense of Trump foretells a possible new GOP era of extremism (CNN)

Republicans launch counter-programming to Jan. 6 Committee hearings with Stefanik, Scalise, Jordan media event

During Watergate, John Mitchell Left His Wife. She Called Bob Woodward. (Washington Post)

Citing Costs, Memphis Officials Hesitant to Provide Escort for Donald Trump (Newsweek) They wouldn’t hesitate, of course, to do so for Bill or Hillary Clinton.

Jan. 6 committee interviews head of Trump’s Secret Service detail on day of Capitol attack (Politico)

Secret Service considered options to get Trump to Capitol on January 6 (CNN)

Tucker Carlson: Peter Navarro’s arrest is a huge step toward the politics of the third world

Elise Stefanik says Peter Navarro case shows Biden ‘attacking his political opponents’

First on CNN: House Democrats investigating whether foreign gifts to Trump went missing (CNN)

The GOP drive to install thousands of poll workers sets off alarms (CNN) Gee, we might not be able to steal the next election.

You Can Ignore Elon Musk (New York Magazine)

Hear Bob Woodward ‘s advice to Americans ahead of Jan. 6 hearing (CNN) Impeach Nixon!

Bannon subpoenas Pelosi and House January 6 committee members to fight contempt charges (CNN)

Fake Trump electors told to operate in ‘complete secrecy’, email reveals (The Guardian)

Where Trump’s long list of legal challenges stand (The Hill)

Two January 6th Defendants and the Consolidation of Right-Wing Extremism (The New Yorker)

Is the Real Goal of the Jan. 6 Committee to Arrest Donald Trump?

‘Morning Joe’ Hypocritically Ignores All The Times Leftists Used Violence Against GOP

Comedians Can’t Quit Trump

Armed Man Arrested Outside Brett Kavanaugh’s House; Planned To Kill Supreme Court Justice

Protesters Finalizing Plans For Blockade of Supreme Court on June 13

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Kyle Rittenhouse confirmed in an interview that he is readying to file lawsuits in a bid to “make the media pay”—months after he was acquitted on several murder charges in connection to the August 2020 shooting during a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter protest and riot.

“We’re going to make the media pay for what they did to me,” Rittenhouse told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Monday. “They made it hard for me to live a normal life. … I don’t think I’ll ever be able to work or get a job because I’m afraid an employer may not hire me.”

Elise Stefanik Really Doesn’t Need to Embrace Trumpism (New Yorker)

Why Republican politicians (almost) all go off the dial (N.Y. Daily News)

What studies reveal about gun ownership in the US (CNN) From the Nartative point of view, that is.

Jan. 6 committee set to make its case public with prime-time hearings (Washington Post) Just in time for the mid-term elections. What a coincidence.

Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public? (The Guardian) No,  but that’s not the point – the point is to bring the Narrative to the U.S. public.

Why Trump Isn’t to Blame for the Nation’s Toxic Political Tribalism (Politico)

‘Hateful’ anti-LGBTQ graduation speech at Ohio high school sparks outrage (NBC)

Trump’s latest Jan. 6 grift poses a hidden challenge to Democrats (Washington Post)

Ben Sasse wants an optimistic GOP. He’s going to be disappointed. (Washington Post)

Trump can’t blame Democratic crossover voters for his Georgia failures (Washington Post)

MSNBC guest: ‘White Men’ are the biggest ‘threat’ to women’s ‘liberty as citizens,’ ‘right to vote’

This is an absolutely savage new ad against Herschel Walker (CNN) If he were running as a Democrat, they’d call it racist.

Jan. 6 Committee Adviser: No ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Trump Planned US Capitol Breach

Susan Collins confronts a moment of truth (Washington Post)

Right-wing conspiracy outlet Infowars moves to exit bankruptcy (CNN)

Alex Jones’ InfoWars agrees to dismiss bankruptcy (Reuters)

Jan. 6 committee reveals details of first public hearing in Capitol riot probe (NBC)

Alito’s draft opinion insults Kennedy’s legacy — will Gorsuch and Kavanaugh sign on? (The Hill)

Abortion rights might soon be gone. Activists worry same-sex marriage is next (NPR) Well, they got that right, at least – both were invented by activist judges.

Emboldened Democrats eye Ron Johnson amid new controversies (The Hill)

Doug Mastriano’s unhinged ‘Nazi’ claim signals deeper danger ahead (Washington Post)

Trump Is Finally Boring (Politico)

Chicago Gal Pals Charged After Their Capitol Riot Photos Give Them Away (Daily Beast) Think of it as evolution in action.

‘Stop the Steal’ Group Fined Over Lack of Evidence in Voter Fraud Lawsuit (Newsweek)

Kimmel Exposes ‘Grifter’ Don Jr. for Lying About Making His Gear in America (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Donald Trump Jr.’s Most ‘Shameless’ Hypocrisy Yet (Huffington Post)

Democrat Reps. Demand Amazon Comply With House Oversight Probe Into Labor Practices

Harwood: Biden ‘Kept the Heat’ on ‘Extremist Republican Party’

Law Professor Suspended for Criticizing Biden’s ‘Affirmative Action’ SCOTUS Pick Will Get Job Back

January 6th Committee Kicks Off Prime-Time Hearings Next Week  Trying some smearing before the mid-term elections. It’s not going to work.

Hapless Trumpist Mo Brooks gives away the GOP ‘vote fraud’ scam (Washington Post)

‘Outsider’ in Nevada’s GOP Senate primary surges, rattling Trump’s pick (NBC) Wherever you go, whatever you do, it’s All About Trump.

House Republicans to unveil conservative road map on climate, energy (Washington Post) I wish I could believe that.

MSNBC, Politico Flip Out Over Normal GOP Election Day Operations

MSNBC Blames Oklahoma For Shooting Despite Admitting Unknown Facts

Mental Gymnastics: The Root Somehow Brings Race into Depp-Heard Verdict

Sandmann Lawyer Joins Kyle Rittenhouse Team, Says Mark Zuckerberg a ‘Top’ Target

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The rising Hindu nationalist movement that has spread from India through the diaspora has arrived inside Google, according to employees.

In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs — a nonprofit that advocates for Dalits, or members of the lowest-ranked caste — was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees began spreading disinformation, calling her “Hindu-phobic” and “anti-Hindu” in emails to the company’s leaders, documents posted on Google’s intranet and mailing lists with thousands of employees, according to copies of the documents as well as interviews with Soundararajan and current Google employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about retaliation.

Soundararajan appealed directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who comes from an upper-caste family in India, to allow her presentation to go forward. But the talk was canceled, leading some employees to conclude that Google was willfully ignoring caste bias. Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Soundararajan to speak, resigned over the incident, according to a copy of her goodbye email posted internally Wednesday and viewed by The Washington Post.

This is why Muslim terrorists are the pets of the Wokery. Hating America trumps hating gays and oppressing women.

Why Texas Authorities Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Themselves (Daily Beast) Well, Texas! And Ultra-MAGA Trump Cooties!

‘Don’ of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player (The Guardian)

Watchdogs Tackle the Murky World of Greenwash (Inside Climate News)

Liz Cheney’s ‘uphill’ path to re-election runs through Trump (NBC News)

Woman Sneaks Into Donald Trump’s NRA Speech To Show How Lax Security Is (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts Straight People Will Soon Be Extinct (Newsweek) Well, actually, no.

Morning MSNBC: GOP Just Evil ‘Second Amendment Fundamentalists’

Nasty Kimmel Rants at ‘Demon,’ ‘Dumbass’ Cruz For School Safety Plan

Army Reservist Found Guilty of Jan. 6 Capitol Breach Facing 23 Years in Prison

NYT Gets Thrill Up Leg Over Connecticut Creating State-Based Election Disinfo Board

Not RINO enough: Kinzinger, journalist get into online spat over ‘Top Gun’ praise (The Hill)

Leah Remini, Adam Kinzinger, and Yashar Ali Are Fighting About ‘Top Gun’ (Daily Beast)

Group doorbells WA homes, searching for illegal voters and drawing complaints (Seattle Times)

Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns  And there’s no nationalism so bad as Christian nationalism.

January 6 hearings could be a real-life summer blockbuster (CNN)

Republicans Are Getting Really ‘Sick’ of Trump’s ‘Bitching’ (Daily Beast) And, of course, the Daily Beast is the expert on what Republicans think.

‘This AR-15’s Got to Go!’ Whoopi Is Coming for Your AR, ‘I Want It!’

‘You need to look into your souls’: Acosta presses NRA board member after mass shooting (CNN) Mine looks better than yours, Jim.

The Plot to Out Ronald Reagan (Politico)

Trump’s ‘big lie’ hits cinemas: the film claiming to investigate voter fraud (The Guardian)

Hands on Wisconsin: Republicans are a tool of the NRA (Madison.com)

Behind the Jan. 6 panel’s last-minute efforts to win 3 key Trump-world lawsuits (Politico)

Margaret Thatcher Statue in Her Hometown Vandalised Twice in 2 Weeks

The Trump Charlottesville Lie Just Won’t Die  Progressives are the chief practitioners of the Big Lie technique, which is why they’re so quick to ascribe it to their enemies.

Jan. 6 Panel Drops Bid to Get RNC Records for Public Hearings

FBI’s Handling of Trump-Alfa Bank Allegation ‘Unusual’: Former Agent

Mitch McConnell Never Puts America First (Daily Beast)

Inside Mitch McConnell’s decades-long effort to block gun control (Washington Post)

The cost of Trump’s chaos just keeps accumulating (CNN)

RINO Alert: McCarthy to Commit ‘Multiple Crimes’ by Refusing Jan. 6 Subpoena: Kirschner (Newsweek)

McCarthy, GOP lawmakers escalate standoff with Jan. 6 panel (Associated Press)

‘God’s gift to lawyers.’ DeSantis’ culture war laws get him sued a lot (Orlando Sentinel) That’s like saying ‘Zelensky’s War in Ukraine’.

Nina Jankowicz thinks disinfo board would help ‘address’ mass shootings: ‘Disinformation plays a role’

Brown holds Gov. Abbott accountable on mental health policies (CNN)

New evidence reveals coordination between Oath Keepers, Three Percenters on Jan. 6 (NBC)

Investors Sue Elon Musk and Twitter Over Pending Takeover

Federal investigation into Trump fake elector probe expands to multiple states (CNN)

‘Unconscionable’: Thousands of workers at Salesforce, San Francisco’s biggest employer, demand company stop working with NRA (S.F. Gate)

Salesforce employees call for company to stop doing business with NRA (S.F. Chronicle)

Kevin McCarthy’s coverup for Trump just got much more alarming (Washington PostO AARGH! TRUMP COOTIES!

Left-wing critics say Bill Maher should be ‘canceled’ over LGBTQ comments Of course they do.

What to know about the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston (CNN) Come here and get your Narrative.

House Oversight Committee to Probe Gunmakers After Texas School Shooting  Never let a crisis go to waste.

When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Really Is (Slate)

Ruhle Suggests Civil War Never Ended, Wonders How ‘Sick’ is America

GROSS: WashPost Exploits Buffalo Massacre to Wokescold Stefanik Donors

‘A Very Big and Successful Evening’: Trump Welcomes 100-6 Endorsement Record

What Greg Abbott gets *totally* wrong about the Uvalde shooting (CNN) Says Chris Cillizza, who has never been elected to anything.

Republicans are trying to dive for cover under the Second Amendment. Don’t let them. (NBC)

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

REID: GOP Only Wants Book Bans, Forced Births, Harassing LGBTQ People & Guns  Nothing else; only that.

CBS Reporter: Beto Press Conference Interruption Stunt ‘Very Clearly Staged’

No Tragedy Unexploited: Jezebel Uses Uvalde to Slander Conservatives

CNN Runs Misleading Pro-Gun Control Fact Check of Abbott

Georgia candidate’s ‘Jesus Guns Babies’ tagline is a Christian nationalist parody — but it’s real (NBC)

Kandiss Taylor Warns ‘Death by Firing Squad’ to Corrupt Officials at Rally (Newsweek)

Union Victory Images Emerge Amid Trump Call for New Civil War (Newsweek)s

Could Donald Trump’s Civil War Post Disqualify Him From Running in 2024? (Newsweek)

Internet company CEO was ‘extremely uncomfortable’ with Rodney Joffe’s task to research Trump and associates

Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush (CNN)

The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough (Daily Beast) No, they didn’t.

Homophobia is Mastriano’s driving force (Philadelphia Inquirer) There’s nobody more Woke than Will Bunch.

Tax Case Could Force Roger Stone to Cough Up Jan. 6 Records (Daily Beast)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wins GOP Primary and Is More Popular Than Ever (Newsweek)

New York attorney general subpoenas Trump’s longtime assistant for testimony (CNN)

Longtime Trump Gatekeeper Rhona Graff Subpoenaed by New York AG in Trump Org Investigation (Daily Beast)

Video released of garage meeting of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers leaders (Washington Post) The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Trumpism.

MSNBC: ‘Disinformation’ for GOP to Say It Isn’t Suppressing the Vote

Gervais Trumps Chapelle As Most-Hated Comedian Among Trans Community…

Michael Moore: Americans Care More About Guns Than Children  Certainly Michael Moore cares more about guns than children.

CNN’s Sick Satisfaction With ‘Destroyed’ ‘Little Bodies’ at Shooting, GOP Is ‘Evil’

Top FBI Brass Were “Fired Up” About Destroying Trump

Why Democrats’ Domestic Terrorism Bill Actually Goes After Political Opponents

Lefty Crypto-Billionaire May Throw $1 Billion at Defeating Trump in 2024

Anarchists Take Credit for Vandalizing Four Pro-Life Churches in Washington State

Calling Us Terrorists Wasn’t Enough: NSBA Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents

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The German judicial system has arrogated unto itself the unenviable task of determining what is correct and incorrect within Christian theology and scriptures. I hardly need to add that what will be deemed theologically correct is that which is politically correct.

Well, the Nazis tried it, but that didn’t last.

America’s billionaire class is funding anti-democratic forces (The Guardian) I’ll bet you didn’t know that America had a ‘billionaire class’. Certainly George Soros is funding ‘anti-democratic forces’, although I wouldn’t call him American.

Supreme court guts lifeline for prisoners who claim wrongful convictions (The Guardian)

Inside McConnell’s bid to quash GOP ‘isolationists’ (Politico)

Jared Kushner’s follies show that ‘corruption’ has lost all meaning (Washington Post) No mention of Hunter Biden, of course.

Why you shouldn’t believe this latest Donald Trump promise (CNN)

Justice Alito’s alternate abortion ‘facts’ (The Hill)

Who’s Afraid of Elise Stefanik?

REPORT: Facebook Fact-Checker Redefines ‘Energy Independence’ to Silence Biden Critics

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For progressives, “separation of church and state” means that religious believers must forgo all attempts to influence what the state does. Secular believers have no corresponding duty to refrain from demanding that the church submit to their preferences. Accordingly, leftists are loudly condemning the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, the Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, for directing the priests in his diocese to refuse the sacrament of communion to Nancy Pelosi. Whoopi Goldberg, whose theological expertise derives from playing a nun in the movies, said of the Archbishop’s action, “This is not your job, dude.” Other progressive voices were less calm and restrained.

The San Francisco Examiner forthrightly demanded that Pope Francis sack the archbishop for holding and propagating opinions that deviate from progressive orthodoxy. The church, it declares, ought to be “a place that welcomes people of all political backgrounds and all faiths” (emphasis added).

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The New York Times ran a hit piece on former CBS journalist Lara Logan by Jeremy Peters, who is the paper’s go-to reporter for criticism of conservative media figures: “Former Star At CBS News Follows Path To Far Right.”

After introducing Logan as someone who had “reached the heights of American journalism….as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News,” he lamented “today Ms. Logan cuts a far different figure in American media. Instead of on national news broadcasts, she can be found as a guest on right-wing podcasts or speaking at a rally for fringe causes, promoting falsehoods about deaths from Covid vaccines and conspiracy theories about voter fraud.”

Peters characterized her supposed decline as “one of the most puzzling in the modern history of television news.” But more interesting than what Peters had to say about Logan was his assumptions about what a mainstream journalist is allowed to believe.

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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’