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According to Vladimir Putin, there are Nazis lurking in the Ukrainian government. This, says Putin, is why Russia must invade: to “strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.” It is an outlandish claim, intended to justify Putin’s raw aggression. Anyone who attempts to frustrate his designs is, in Putin’s twisted account, a Nazi.

Watching this effrontery from Europe and America, observers are astonished that a rapacious autocrat would lie openly while enacting territorial conquest. Westerners think Putin is acting just like—guess who?—Hitler. And so images of the Russian president with the trademark moustache have been all over Twitter. So has the hashtag #putinhilter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky encouraged the comparison when a Russian strike hit the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial in Kyiv: “what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…”

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The Israeli manufacturer of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is suing the company because he says it cut off his 35-year contract after he refused to participate in its “illegal” Israel boycott.

Avi Zinger, an ice cream maker who has produced and distributed Ben & Jerry’s in Israel since 1987, filed the lawsuit against Ben & Jerry’s and its parent corporation, Unilever, in U.S. federal court on Thursday, alleging breach of contract and wrongful termination.

Zinger’s legal complaint outlines a decade-long pressure campaign by anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) activists against Ben & Jerry’s that he says led to the company’s decision to cut ties with him.

Russian President Putin Tweets Updates; Former U.S. President Trump Still Banned from Platform

As Democrats Sag in Polls, New York Times Whines GOP ‘Weaponizing’ the ‘Culture Wars’

Todd Blames ‘Right-Wing Echo Chamber’ for Bad Polls on Biden Economy

The Texas primary has turned into a bad Netflix series (CNN) Whatever happens, It’s All About Trump.

Romney on Greene, Gosar: ‘I have morons on my team’ (The Hill) If it were your team, Mitt, you’d quit helping the other side score.

With the world watching Putin, Trump targets Trudeau

Donald Trump at CPAC: Five Moments You Might Have Missed (Newsweek) Spin, spin, spin….

Conservatives turn to a new message: ‘God bless the Ukrainian people’ (Washington Post) Continuing the Narrative that ‘conservatives’ were pro-Putin.

Investigate Trump’s mishandling of presidential records (Boston Globe)

The war against democracy finds allies in America First (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Study: Twitter’s ‘Liberal’ Content Turned Voters Away From Trump

MSNBC Slags Kavanaugh, Barrett SCOTUS Resumes as ‘Abysmal, Embarrassing’

Pass the Haterade! CBS’s ‘Magnum P.I.’ Disparages Police with Far-Fetched Anti-Cop Storyline

Sinister: AP Says Republicans Using Trans as ‘Wedge Issue’  No pun intended, I’m sure.

Big Tech Allows Russia State-Affiliated Accounts to Have 38.7M Followers — Banned Trump

Watch: Dem Rep. Suggests Kicking Out Every Russian Student In The US  Eric Swalwell cements his position as being possibly the most putrid Democrat in Congress.

Trump Arrives for CPAC as Investigations, Jan. 6 Probe Close In (Newsweek)

The strange Republican world where the big lie lives on and Trump is fighting to save democracy (The Guardian)

Trump’s adulation for Putin has gone way too far (L.A.Times)

Calls to expel Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene after speech at white nationalist event (The Guardian) Free speech? Not here!

Liz Cheney calls out fellow House Republicans for associating with White nationalist event (CNN) Except that it wasn’t a ‘white nationalist event’.

Putin’s “useful idiots” abound in MAGA world (Seattle Times)

Has Clarence Thomas’ wife crossed a line? Yes, and then some (L.A. Times) Free speech? Not here!

Yahoo Boosts WH Flack: Trump, Putin ‘Two Nauseating, Fearful Pigs’ Who Hate America

Stephanopoulos Obsesses Over Trump While Putin Attacks Ukraine

White House spokesman calls Trump, Putin ‘pigs’ who ‘hate what America stands for’ (The Hill)

“Don’t Say Gaetz” Law Protects Florida’s Kids from Matt Gaetz (The New Yorker)

Kimberly Guilfoyle, fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., meets and clashes with Jan. 6 committee (NBC)

New dark money group reminds NCGA lobbyists they can donate unlimited money (WRAL News) In the Narrative Media, ‘dark money’ means ‘pro-Republican’. George Soros, for example, cannot be ‘dark money’.

Believe It or Not, Ron Johnson Used to Be Normal (Daily Beast) For sufficiently left-leaning values of ‘normal’.

Hillary Clinton repeatedly suggests Donald Trump, Republicans enabling Putin aggression during MSNBC interview No mention of her years as Secretary of State, of course.

GOP’s Gerrymandering Called Racist, but ‘Obamamandering’ Just Politics

Vox Mourns ‘Imperiled’ New York Investigation of Trump

FLASHBACK: When Russia Invaded Ukraine in 2014, NBC Whined That Trump Called Obama ‘Weak’

Why Donald Trump can’t stop praising Vladimir Putin (CNN) Chris Cillizza can apparently read minds.

Russia invades Ukraine: What you need to know (Washington Post) Hint: It’s all about Trump.

North Carolina officials reject Cawthorn claim that Constitution’s insurrectionist ban no longer applies (Politico)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Violence Needed To ‘Stand Up’ To Trans People (Newsweek)

Local Canadian convoy support builds on years of disinformation (The Hill)

Former Minneapolis officers found guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights (Washington Post)

Trump, the Saudis, and Mar-a-Lago’s boxes of U.S. secrets: A recipe for disaster? (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Now is the time to remember what Fox’s own lawyers said about Tucker Carlson (Washington Post)

Donald Trump’s Detention Club convenes for Putin’s Ukraine invasion (CNN)

Fact-checking Sen. Rick Scott’s claims his new plan does not raise people’s taxes (CNN)

Scott’s agenda spurs backlash from Democrats, GOP alike  (The Hill)

Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on (L.A. Times)

Trump Wanted Lindsey Graham to Take Out Mitch McConnell. Graham LOL’d (Daily Beast)

The Mysterious Right-Wing Group Funding the Trucker Convoy (Daily Beast) Mysterious!

German Federal Minister Wants Kindergarteners To Be Educated About “Right Wing Extremism”

Mitt Romney Blames Trump’s “America First” Policy For Russian Attack On Ukraine  Of course he does. No situation is so unrelated that it can’t be blamed on Trump.

Bank Account Deplatforming Is Cancel Culture’s New Weapon

Disinformation for profit: scammers cash in on conspiracy theories (The Guardian)

Pentagon approves 700 National Guardsmen and 50 tactical vehicles ahead of possible trucker convoys in DC (CNN)

Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? (Washington Post)

Republicans Support Democracy in Ukraine as Long as It Does Not Spread to U.S. (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz thinks he’s funny but he’s not.

DeSantis’s latest brilliant Florida pandemic idea? A mask-shunning, vaccine-skeptical, ivermectin-promoting surgeon general. (Washington Post) Of course, he’s Not Really Black.

Canadian MP posts about ‘single mom’ locked out of bank account over Freedom Convoy donation

Colorado Is Again Trying to Compel a Wedding Vendor’s Speech. Supreme Court Has a Chance to Defend Freedom.

Canada Unfreezes Some Pro-Convoy Accounts as Anti-Convoy Crowd Sues for Damages: Report

Lead Prosecutors Abruptly Quit Trump Investigation

NY Magazine: Parents ‘Tyrants’ for Not Wanting Trans Agenda In Schools

Trudeau Revokes Emergency Powers Act

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A statue of the controversial king Leopold II in Brussels could be removed and melted down as Belgian authorities consider how to deal with the country’s past colonialism. The bronze statue, from the 19th century, is located in the centre of Brussels, close to the Royal Palace.

A group of historians, architects and other specialists, commissioned by the Brussels regional government, has come up with two suggestions on what can be done with the statue. The statue could be melted down and turned into a monument to those who died during Leopold II’s brutal rule of the Belgian Congo. The alternative suggestion is to create an open-air statue park to house the work, along with other controversial monuments to figures of the colonial past.

Or they could smear it with bird poop and put up a sign saying Black Lives Matter.

The dirty little secret of Donald Trump’s massive fundraising (CNN) Chris Cillizza is All Trump! All the time!

Fact check: Debunking more false Fox claims about the Canadian convoy protests (CNN) False claims!

‘Something Went Wrong’: Trump’s Twitter Knockoff Suffers Bumpy Launch (Daily Beast)

J.D. Vance’s attack on Gen. Barry McCaffrey is obscene. It’s also not unusual for today’s GOP. (Washington Post) And it’s All Trump’s Fault.

‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections (The Guardian)

Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin, and 49 other Senate cowards (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Rittenhouse Launches The Media Accountability Project to Sue for DEFAMATION

Kyle Rittenhouse To Sue Whoopi Goldberg, Other ‘Celebrities, Politicians And Athletes’ For Calling Him A Murderer  And I hope he squeezes every nickel out of them that he can.

Harvard Law Prof Says Tucker Carlson Guilty Of “Treason” For Criticizing Biden Over Russia

Morning Joe Blames Trump For Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank—for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence

Trump’s ‘Days Are Numbered’—Kirschner Predicts Ex-President to Be Indicted (Newsweek) The walls are closing in, etc., etc.

‘Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome’ is worse than ever (CNN)

Week One of Spying Scandal: Nets, CNN Bury Blockbuster Claims Against Clinton

These court rulings are a major blow to Trump and his family (CNN)

Jim Jordan Should Be Disqualified From Ballot Over Jan. 6: Protestors (Newsweek)

Protesters want Jordan blocked from ballot (LimaOhio.com)

Nothing Can Prevent the RNC’s Unholy Alliance With Trump (Daily Beast) Unholy!

Native American tribes sue North Dakota over ‘sickening’ gerrymandering (The Guardian)

My Cousin Allegedly Killed His Wife and Cast Her Vote for Trump (Daily Beast)

The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West  Glenn Greenwald.

Trump’s Truth Social tops downloads on Apple App Store; many waitlisted

Liberals Cheer As John Oliver Calls Ted Cruz a ‘F–king Knob’ on Critical Race Theory

Ottawa Mayor Proposes To Sell Confiscated ‘Freedom Convoy” Trucks

NYT Author Loathes ‘Sex and Red Meat’ Fox, Praises ‘Incredibly Dedicated Pros at MSNBC’

Donald Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in court (CNN)

Trump’s dilemma on pleading the Fifth (Washington Post) Which there is absolutely no evidence he is thinking of doing.

It’s Trump’s time to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (The Guardian)

Renewed opposition to Trump stirs among establishment Republicans (The Guardian)

Move Against Liz Cheney Shows Donald Trump ‘Must Be Scared’: Adam Kinzinger  (Newsweek) He MUST be!

Republicans Invent Reasons to Blame Biden for Ukraine (Daily Beast)

On MSNBC, Silly Elie Mystal Accuses New York Times of Bias IN FAVOR Of Trump!  You can’t make this stuff up.

Snobby NY Times Cyber Reporter Caught in Trump-Spying Time Warp

CNN: South Votes Republican Because of Opposition to Civil Rights

Trump’s legal woes deepen and could bring new political trouble (CNN) Or maybe not.

Take the 5th? The choice could soon be Trump’s in NY probe (Associated Press)

Oath Keepers Founder Secretly Backed Lawsuit for Government Based on ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Daily Beast)

Facebook whistleblower alleges executives misled investors about climate, covid hoaxes in new SEC complaint (Washington Post)

Joe Rogan’s Embattled Podcast Back on Spotify, But Other Shows Still Absent (Rolling Stone) Follow the money.

Sean Hannity dares Hillary Clinton to sue as she warns network’s dishonest coverage gets ‘close to actual malice’ (CNN) ‘Actual malice’ seems like such a mild term.

Judge says Trump could be culpable for January 6 and says lawsuits against the former President can proceed (CNN) Judge Ahmit Mehta. Totally unbiased, of course.

DOJ reveals new Signal messages from Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes as judge rules he will remain in jail (CNN)

Let’s Go Brandon: the Nascar driver who became a hero in an unwinnable culture war (The Guardian) Unwinnable! Or so they think.

The great greenwashing scam: PR firms face reckoning after spinning for big oil (The Guardian) Which is, of course, perfectly legal.

How Trump Said Too Much and Helped New York Investigators (Daily Beast)

Durham Dismisses Crazed Fox News Reporting on Trump’s Paranoid Spying Conspiracy Claims (Daily Beast) Crazed! Paranoid!

Ontario Government Employee Fired Over $100 Contribution To Freedom Convoy

Ottawa Arrests Top 100 As “Freedom Convoy” Organizers Face Judge For First Time

Ilhan Omar scolds journalists for promoting harassment of Canadian Freedom Convoy donors: ‘Unconscionable’ Whoa – Who are you, and what have to done with Congresscritter Omar?

Steve Bannon’s Richie Rich Friend Just Filed for Bankruptcy (Daily Beast) The best of America’s high-school journalism.

Biden rejects Trump’s attempt to shield White House visitor logs, including for day of January 6 attack (CNN) Ah, so now it’s an ‘attack’.

Feds say Oath Keepers plot went beyond Jan. 6 attack on Capitol (NBC) Plot! Attack!

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson flip-flops to block Biden judicial nominee (CNN) Flip! Flop!

Trump’s Inner Circle Freaks That His Tax Firm ‘Screwed’ Him (Daily Beast)  Freaks!

The far-right playbook to take down Texas public schools is ‘sheer destructive chaos,’ pastors claim (WFAA.com) Far-right! Playbook! Take down! Chaos!

Texting through an insurrection (Washington Post) Insurrection!

Obsessed Rand Paul Threatens to Investigate Fauci if GOP Takes Senate (Daily Beast) Obsessed!

Finnish lawmaker being charged for expressing her religious views speaks out, calls the case ‘dangerous’

Coal Plant Won’t Pay Its Rent, but Can Pay Joe Manchin (Gizmodo)

Radio ad targets Ron DeSantis’ ‘disgusting’ comments on shelter for migrant children (Florida Politicis) Disgusting!

Stephen Colbert Taunts GOP Lawmaker For Comment ‘So Dumb’ It Almost Ended His Vacation (Huffington Post)

The Mind Control Police: The Government’s War On Thought-Crimes & Truth-Tellers

Small Business Owner Threatened After GiveSendGo Data Hack

Media Goes After Canadian Truckers’ Donors

Liberal WashPost Bullies Trucker Protest Donors Who Were Doxxed Online

Canada’s Justice Minister Says Trump Supporters Should Worry About Having Their Bank Accounts Frozen

Canada Freezes Convoy Bank & Crypto Accounts, Threatens Dogs; MSM Journos Dox Donors With Hacked Materials

The real reason Jim Jordan is ranting against Jan. 6 committee staff (The Hill) The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are on the case!

New Records Show Trump Spoke to Jim Jordan for 10 Minutes Morning of Jan. 6 (Daily Beast) Smoking gun! Or something.

Lin Wood Goes to War With Kooky Far-Right Conference Beset by ‘Anthrax’ Rumors (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Press: Time for Merrick Garland to flush Donald Trump  (The Hill) Yeah, MG, show us what ya got.

New York AG Letitia James really, really wants Donald Trump to unlock his two-dozen file cabinets in Trump Tower (Insider) I’m sure she does.

What sort of ‘comeuppance’ is in store for Trump? (Washington Post) You can almost hear the drool.

‘Guilty as Sin’: Jamie Raskin Promises Trump Will Answer for ‘Crime Wave’ (Newsweek)

What the GOP meant when it called Jan. 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’ (Politico) As if Politico had any clue as to what ‘the GOP meant’.

Super Bowl Viewers Troll Trump With Lots Of Versions Of The Same Scathing Joke (Huffington Post) Scathing!

Reid, Lemon Cry ‘Insurrectionist Grift’ Over Hawley Selling Coffee Mugs

rump’s unorthodox phone habits complicate January 6 investigation (CNN) The swine!

MTG Should Be an Embarrassment, Not a GOP Superstar (Daily Beast)

Trump Reportedly ‘Terrified’ of Accusations He ‘Flushed’ Official Documents (Newsweek) Uh, sure….

Flushed or just lost to history? Trump leaves hole in the record (NBC) Who doesn’t know that every document that enters the White House has an electronic copy somewhere?

Kanye West Targets Pete Davidson, Kid Cudi, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift With Childish Instagram Memes (Daily Beast) Speaking of childish….

Hogan Rips GOP Attacks on Republicans Who Don’t Show ‘100% Fealty’ to Trump (Newsweek)

Kinzinger Slams Pro-Putin Republicans, ‘Affection for Authoritarianism’ (Newsweek) Russia! Russia! Russia!

Trump Suggests Clinton Operatives Deserve Death for ‘Spying Operation’ (Newsweek) Except that he didn’t.

The Weird Law Prosecutors Could Use to Bar Trump From the White House (Daily Beast) You want an insurrection, that would certainly do it.

Every Republican has to answer about Jan. 6, Kinzinger says (Politico) Including you, RINO.

CNN Takes January 6 Obsession to New Level of Stupid

Fake Conservative PAC Attacks President Trump Endorsed Kari Lake

Former press secretary breaks down Trump’s call practices (CNN)

US far-right podcaster charged after machine guns found in basement (The Guardian)

Alt-Right Podcaster Charged Over ‘Arsenal’ of Full-Auto Machine Guns (Daily Beast) As opposed to non-full-auto machine guns?

Beware of this deadly mix: oligarchic economics and racist, nationalist populism (The Guardian) Robert ‘One-Note’ Reich.

White House uses GOP’s own rhetoric to rebut Supreme Court criticisms (The Hill)

Clinton Trolls Trump With ‘But Her Emails’ Hat After Documents Reports (Newsweek)

Joe Rogan’s use of the n-word is another January 6 moment (CNN)

Bill Maher on Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’: They’re ‘not wrong’ to be ‘p—ed off’ at elites

Why the RNC blunder may be a tipping point (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin goes full Narrative.

Judge Orders Bannon’s Sugar Daddy to Cough Up $134 Million Over Notorious Yacht  (Daily Beast)

As U.S. ‘trucker convoy’ picks up momentum, foreign meddling adds to fray (NBC) Foreign! Meddling!

Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at ‘top secret’ level (Washington Post)

Follow the Sharpie: Prosecutors probing Donald Trump are sitting on ‘tons’ of documents bearing his handwriting, sources tell Insider (Insider) An obvious sign of malfeasance.

Mark Meadows’s absurd spin for Trump shows right-wing media’s power (Washington Post) Right-wing media!

How G. Gordon Liddy Bungled Watergate With an Office-Supply Request (Politico) Nobody is too dead to be witch-hunted by the Narrative Media.

The tweeting, deleting operative who does DeSantis’ distorting (Orlando Sentinel)

Common sense and gutlessness at Harvard

Naomi Wolf and Liberal Intolerance

Jon Stewart: “Who Gets To Decide What’s ‘Misinformation’?”

White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot (CNN)

There’s A New Way To Watch The Widening Income Gap in (Almost) Real Time (TIME)

A Trump adviser’s angry eruption over Jan. 6 bodes badly for democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Tucker Carlson Is Back on His Jan. 6 False Flag Shit (Daily Beast) The best in high-school journalism.

If the only voice I hear for a week is Joe Rogan’s, what sort of person will I become? (The Guardian)

Michael Flynn’s Sister-in-Law Sues CNN for $100M Over QAnon Claims

For Republicans, being ‘qualified’ has nothing to do with merit (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘merit’ means ‘fashionable gender and skin color’.

A Canadian judge has frozen access to donations for the trucker convoy protest (NPR)

“Slash The Tires, Arrest The Drivers”: Harvard Professor And CNN Analyst Calls For Violence Against Freedom Convoy

‘Slash The Tires’! CNN PSYCHO Lashes Out at Freedom Convoy

CNN’s ‘Reality Check’ on Republicans Falls Apart

MSNBC Anchor: ‘Makes Complete Sense’ To Treat Trump Like a Mobster or Terrorist!

Bette Midler Donated to MeidasTouch SuperPAC Targeting Joe Rogan

CNN anchor admits she’s ‘officially out of ideas’ for ‘what to do about Joe Rogan’ I guess leaving him alone is not an option.

One in five applicants to white supremacist group tied to US military (The Guardian) Tied!

1 in 5 Patriot Front applicants say they have ties to the military (NPR) Sounds like a Narrative.

Rightwing lobby group Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry (The Guardian)

‘Completely off the rails’: Trump’s latest endorsement roils Georgia’s GOP (NBC)

Pelosi rips McCarthy for walking away, declining to comment on RNC censure resolution (NBC)

Republicans are trying to turn red America into a dystopia (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin catches sight of herself in a mirror.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims She’s in ‘Facebook Jail,’ but That’s Not Exactly True (Daily Beast)

The Drama in This Crazy Texas Primary Explains Trump’s GOP (Daily Beast)

Russia’s Big, Bizarre ‘Thank You!’ to Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley (Daily Beast)

Washington Post vs. Youngkin: Paper publishing near-daily pieces attacking new Virginia governor

North Carolina Board Asserts Right To Disqualify Madison Cawthorn As An “Insurrectionist”

Police Beating Of Unconscious Trump Supporter Was “Objectively Reasonable,” Department Rules

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“Diversity statements” are the latest device the left has come up with to impose and enforce woke conformity in education.

Why the Donald Trump-National Archives story is such a big deal (CNN) Apparently there was head-scratching among the Unenlightened, so Chris Cillizza is here to explain it to you

,‘Joe Rogan watchdog’ exposes host’s ‘most hateful’ Spotify slurs

Joe Rogan and Spotify offer a masterclass in getting rich off the race card (Washington Post) The WaPo would never do that.

Georgia prosecutor says presidential immunity won’t protect Trump (The Hill) It can’t stand up to her Awesome Magical Power as a Black Woman.

Exclusive: FBI probes pre-Capitol riot meeting of far-right groups (Reuters)

Why does anyone care what Ben & Jerry’s, Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Rogan think? (Washington Post) Max Boot lives up to his name.

Joy Reid: US democracy ‘already in decline’ (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

A California lawyer tweeted what she saw in immigration court. The DOJ demanded she delete it

CNN Warns of SCOTUS ‘Unraveling Minority Voting Rights’

‘Boom!’ CNN’s Avlon Excited By Unlikely Scenario That Could Kick Trump Off Ballot

‘The View’ Bashes FL Parental Rights Bill: Just as Harmful as Anti-CRT Bills!

Delta CEO Asks DOJ To Enforce A National “No Fly” List For Unruly Passengers

National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago (Washington Post) Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

The GOP’s gerrymandering scheme backfires (Washington Post)

‘Dismantling Democracy’ to save it: How Democrats rediscovered the joys of rigging elections (The Hill)

Amy Coney Barrett’s Long Game (The New Yorker) Crxiticizing Barrett for what they praised Ginsberg for doing.

Donald Trump quietly making millions from coffee table book (CNN) Making millions! Quietly! The swine!

The RNC turns into an Orwellian horror show (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin goes full Narrative.

The Bengals are in the Super Bowl but their owner remains reviled

Trump Tells Joe Rogan To “Stop Apologizing”

CNN’s Fanone Claims History Will ‘Take A Big Shit’ on Pence’s Head

Vile, Far-Left Site Obtains Sinema’s Social Security Number, Journalists Yawn

MSNBC Warns of Canadian ‘Insurrection,’ Threat of Plinko & Pizza Ovens

Pelosi Shares ‘SHOCKING’ MSNBC Warning: GOP Will End Democracy In 2022  In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

The Republican Party is enabling Trump’s politics of violence (CNN) Which only exists in the fantasy world of the Left.

Republican criticism of RNC resolution to censure Cheney, Kinzinger grows (Newsweek) More accurately, RINO criticism.

The Supreme Court Is Democracy’s Enemy Now (Daily Beast ) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

WaPo slammed for ‘morally bankrupt’ column using colleague’s death to push censorship, drag Joe Rogan

WaPo report details use of ‘burn bags’ for Trump documents (CNN) duh-duh- DUH…. ‘Burn bags’ are usually employed by the government to dispose of classified documents that are being gotten rid of. These guys need to get out more.

Trump’s incendiary Texas speech may have deepened his legal troubles, experts say (The Guardian) They have to include ‘incindiary’ so you’ll know what to think.

NY Times’ Latest Assault on Rival Joe Rogan: Stop Him, ‘Our Health Is at Risk’

The Revolution Has Come For Joe Rogan

What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Jan. 6

Rumble CEO Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million “To Make The World A Better Place”

Scientists Conclude Dire Climate Change Models Were Wrong, Now What?

Stacey Abrams Says She Doesn’t Have To Wear A Mask Because She’s A Governor  Babylon Bee.

CNN Panel Claims Abrams Mask Hypocrisy Was An Honest Mistake  Yah, sure, you betcha.

Republican National Committee overwhelmingly votes to censure Cheney, Kinzinger for sitting on Jan. 6 panel

MSNBC guest: ‘Make America Great Again’ supporters want to ‘lynch or murder’ Black people

Prosecutor investigating Trump lays out timeline (CNN) Using her Magical Powers as a Black Woman.

Nevada Republican Boss and Fake Trump Elector May Be the Model MAGA Man (Dauky Beast) At least from the viewpoint of the Narrative Media.

If Donald Trump Had Won ‘Russians Would Already Be in Kyiv,’ John Bolton Says (Newsweek)

‘Cutting very close to Trump’: Bombshell MAGA memos have 45 scrambling (MSNBC) Bombshell! Cutting close!

Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan Blames Jeff Zucker for the Rise of Trump

Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove stolen election (Washington Post)

Memo argued Trump-linked officials should seize NSA data in effort to prove election was stolen: report (The Hill)

California county on track to be run by militia-aligned group (The Guardian) Aligned!

Take The Hint, John Roberts — It’s Time For You To Retire, Too (Politico)

Politico Founding Editor Urges Roberts to Retire from Supreme Court

Trump’s Legal Payouts Plummet as He Pawns Off Costs on RNC (Daily Beast) Pawns!

A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment (NPR) Right-wing!

National Butterfly Center closes after repeated threats stemming from false sex-trafficking claims (Washington Post)

‘I am doing the devils work’ — Staff at Dem firm revolt over work for Sinema (Politico)

Here’s who has left Spotify because of Joe Rogan (CNN)

Health experts respond to Neil Young stance on GMOs after anti-science hit on Joe Rogan

Trump Wants GOP Governor Chris Sununu Out After He Opposes Jan. 6 Pardons (Newsweek) According to people other than Trump.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Atlanta-area DA expects special grand jury in Trump probe to see a lot of activity in June and July (CNN)

Donald Trump’s Old ‘Grudge’ Helped Propel Ron DeSantis to GOP Stardom: Lev Parnas (Newsweek)

As Trump rages, a new plan to prevent a 2024 coup quietly advances (Washington Post)

PolitiFact POUNCES on N.C. Republican for Cheeseburger Tweet Mocking DC’s ID Hypocrisy

Don Lemon Whines About Biden Calling McConnell a ‘Man of Honor’ at Prayer Breakfast

13-Year-Old Boy Berated By Cop-Hating Teacher For Wearing ‘Thin Blue Line’ Mask

Spotify Subscriptions Up 3,000% After Obamas Threaten To Leave  Babylon Bee.

Critics say Ginni Thomas’s activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide if that’s true. (Washington Post)  But we’ll insinuate that it does nevertheless.

Some records sent to Jan. 6 committee were torn up, taped back together — mirroring a Trump habit (Washington Post) We have no evidence that he did it, but we’re going to insinuate that he did.

Some Trump White House records handed over to January 6 committee had been ripped up (CNN) And you know what THAT means.

‘Burn it down’: This deep-red California county is now a recall warzone (S.F.Gate)

Trump’s rally in Texas shows exactly why he’s so dangerous (CNN)

Trump’s Texas trip illustrates his upsides and downsides for Republicans and their midterm hopes (Washington Post)

CBS hosts say Joe Rogan doesn’t have ‘First Amendment right’ to be on Spotify: ‘It seems so dangerous’

Joe Rogan Shares Incorrect Coronavirus Story Just 24 Hours After Apology (Huffington Post) Incorrect!

A GOP proposal targeting ‘negative’ U.S. history is cause for renewed alarm (Washington Post)

The second best thing about getting doxed by white supremacists (Washington Post)

‘Free to do as you are told’: Florida Republicans advance wave of draconian bills (The Guardian) A bad case of projection.

Kavanaugh Fears Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Will “Hog the Keg” (The New Yorker) The best of high-school journalism.

Exclusive: Trump advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines, sources tell CNN (CNN) Sources!

Second draft order by Trump advisers sought to ask DHS to seize voting machines: report (The Hill) Two drafts! A smoking gun!

Trump’s Mega-Fans in Moscow Declare They’re ‘Ready to Elect Him Again’ (Daily Beast)

NBC Historian Beschloss: I’m Not Saying Trump Is Hitler—But He’s Hitler

Globe and Mail: Calling the Ottawa Protests ‘peaceful’ Plays Down Non-violent Dangers, Critics Say

Joe Scarborough Says ‘Nobody Here Comparing Trump to Hitler’ 

Groundhog Refuses To Emerge To See Shadow Until Rogan Banned  Babylon Bee.

At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he’s indicted (Philadelphia Inquirer) In the Narrative Media, ‘all but’ means ‘didn’t really’.

MSNBC deletes tweet slamming conservatives for favoring affirmative action when it benefits them

SNL’s Michael Che Earns Groans Mocking Biden’s Vow to Put Black Woman on SCOTUS (Daily Beast)

CNN’s Jim Acosta Relishes Marjorie Taylor Greene Being Told Trump Lost (Newsweek)

Trump’s rally in Texas can ignore his fake electors scandal. The Jan. 6 committee won’t. (NBC) Even if they have to make it all up.

Coups are making a comeback (Axios)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Is Pushing Republicans Across the Country to the Extreme Right (Daily Beast) There is no Right but the Extreme Right.

Watch: CNN Labels Rogan’s Millions Of Listeners As “Less Enlightened” Than Their Few Thousand Viewers

Rogan Responds to Spotify Outrage, Hammers Misinfo Censorship Hypocrisy

CBS Demands ‘Dangerous’ Rogan Be Censored Despite Claiming to Support ‘Free Speech’

Georgetown Puts Ilya Shapiro on Administrative Leave for Criticizing Biden Supreme Court Promise

What’s Driving the Witch Hunt Against Joe Rogan

Committee investigating Jan. 6 attack issues subpoenas to 14 bogus Trump electors in states Biden won (Washington Post)

‘How can this not be a crime?’ Blackwell on fake electors plot (CNN)

Trump WH spokesman is sent subpoena by January 6 committee (CNN)

Sarah Palin gets assist from ex-NHL star Ron Duguay after pestered at NYC restaurant

Twitter says it has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election (CNN)

In J.D. Vance’s primary, nonstop Trump-worship shows the perils of populism (Washington Post)

South Carolina university admissions counselor says Republican applicants are part of an ‘oppressive group’

Kimmel Jokes Trump Jr. Is Crack Addict as He’d ‘Snort…Powdered Sugar’ at Dunkin’  Apparently he has Trump confused with Hunter Biden.

Behar Responds to Criticism of Bigotry Against Justices Thomas, Barrett

Pucker Up, Bette: West Virginia Governor Tells Haters To Kiss His Dog’s Heinie

Louisville Police Department Pays $75K to Pro-Life Cop

Surprise! Hollywood Awards Finally Recognize Non-Woke ‘Yellowstone’

Trump faces MAGA revolt over endorsement (Politico) I guess ‘Trumpism’ isn’t all that monolithic.

Donald Trump Supporters Denounce His Decision Not to Endorse Robby Starbuck (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Jailed Oath Keeper’s Estranged Wife Shares Snaps of ‘Escape Tunnels’ Dug Into Backyard (Daily Beast) I had to look to make sure it wasn’t the National Enquirer.

DeSantis’ Demented Doc Is About to Get the Grilling He Deserves (Daily Beast) High-school journalism at its finest.

Best path to Jan. 6 accountability: A civil suit against Trump (The Hill) When in doubt, sue Trump.

No, America is not on the brink of a civil war (The Guardian)

CDC’s Walensky had to Google her own website when asked about advancing equity in the pandemic response

GOP Governors Under Attack From MAGA Monsters They Helped Create (Daily Beast)

Joy Reid: ‘Absolute worst’ Manchin and Sinema ‘don’t care’ about poor people

Joe Walsh: GOP Voters ‘Want a Dictator’ Who Won’t Teach The Holocaust

Iranian Hackers Posed As “Proud Boys” During 2020 Election Disinformation Campaign, FBI Says

What Did Clinton Know And When Did She Know It? The Russiagate Evidence Builds

MSNBC Contributor: GOP Voters Are ‘Often More Emotional Than Rational’

On Colbert Show, Joy Reid Says Media Isn’t Tough Enough on GOP Never was anyone so egregiously mis-named.

EXCLUSIVE: Government Expands List of Unvaccinated, Now Tracking Both Medical and Religious Exemptions

Ginni Thomas would not be the first Supreme Court spouse to imperil a justice (Washington Post) Which is only a problem during a Narrative Media witch-hunt.

Millions Bummed that It Wasn’t Clarence Thomas (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz is what passes for humor in The New Yorker.

A masterclass in election-rigging: how Republicans ‘dismembered’ a Democratic stronghold (The Guardian)

Dems Storm Out of Testy Confirmation Hearing for DeSantis’ Mad Doc (Daily Beast) High-school journalism at its finest.

Florida surgeon general favorably recommended after Democrats walk out of confirmation hearing (CNN) Disrespecting a Doctor of Color.

Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty (Daily Beast) In other news, somebody that Goetz passed on the street one day has been indicted. The walls are closing in!

Civil war expert reacts to Trump supporter. See her warning for the US (CNN) ‘Trump supporters’ are the new COVID.

What would a 2024 Trump coup look like? A new paper offers a worrying answer. (Washington Post)

The Jan. 6 Committee Members Are Patriots Making Sure Treason is Fully Documented (Daily Beast)

Witness Can Confirm Matt Gaetz Was Told He Had Sex With a Minor (Daily Beast) I guess that proves it, then.

Lawmaker on why DeSantis’ surgeon general pick is so dangerous (CNN)

Trump didn’t sign this newly unearthed 2020 election EO. We need to know why. (MSNBC) Perhaps he thought it would be a bad idea. (All Trump! All the time!)

Blaming The Donald for Biden’s Woes

Joe Scarborough’s Violent Fantasy: Will Trump ‘Bleed Out’ Like Boris Johnson?

Anti-Free Speech Left Celebrates Dan Bongino’s YouTube Ban

‘The View’ Accuses Justice Thomas of Being a Race Traitor, ACB Not ‘a Woman’

Left Barely Masks Its Contempt for Parents’ Involvement in Education

Projection: Kimmel, Meyers Falsely Claim GOPers Are Triggered by Biden Attacking Doocy

Ron DeSantis’s election police squad would poison democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Would Trump Throw His Own Kids Under the Bus to Save Himself? We May Soon Find Out. (Daily Beast)

What CEOs are really saying when they lash out against ‘woke’ America (CNN) The mind-readers at CNN are on the case.

Tucker Carlson Whines He’s No Longer Attracted to the Brown M&M (Daily Beast) What a racist!

Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked (The Guardian) No retaliation is too petty.

Jim Jordan Described as Trump ‘Sycophant’ in Op-Ed in Ohio’s Largest Newspaper (Newsweek) And Newsweek, of course.

There is a new champion in the ‘what if the left did it’ competition (Washington Post) The continuing witch-hunt after Clarence Thomas’ wife.

MSNBC & New Yorker Smear Ginni Thomas as ‘Threat’ to SCOTUS

Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks (L.A. Times) It’s all part of the witch-hunt.

Joe Manchin’s take on why he and other Democrats often seem to be speaking a different language: “The base they have is a different base than I have.” (Politico) That’s pretty obvious.

Seth Meyers on failed voting rights bill: ‘Republicans are waging war on democracy’ (The Guardian) Sounds like a Narrative.

Warming Trends: Winterless Olympics, a Disaster Novel Shows the Importance of Storytelling in Climate Conversations and a New Lab Studies Parks and Warming (Inside Climate News)

New pro-DeWine dark-money group launches ad barrage in Ohio (Cleveland.com)

SNL’s Ted Cruz Begs Trump to ‘Hit Me, Choke Me, Spit in My Face’ (Daily Beast) High-school never ends for some people.

Kathy Griffin Whining She’s Not Been Canceled, but ‘Erased’ — In Splashy NY Times Story

MSNBC’s Capehart Loves Howard Dean Scolding Dems For Failing to Fight ‘Neo-Fascist’ Republicans

Steve Sailer.

Handel’s Messiah is a rare work of high art that most people enjoy and a large number have actually performed in. Not surprisingly, Canadians are worked up over what Handel’s Messiah has to do with George Floyd in the same way that Canadians decided that the topic of “Rembrandt in Amsterdam” required repeated references to Turtle Island.

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity just had the most amazing exchange (CNN) Well, amazing to Chris Cillizza, anyway. I get the impression that he doesn’t get out much.

Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? (The New Yorker) They realize that Clarence Thomas ignores them, so they’re going after his wife.

The Case Against the Oath Keepers (The New Yorker)

DOJ seeks to block subpoena for Trump deposition (CNN)

Wisconsin GOP lawmaker who questioned Biden win disciplined (AP)

Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Hillary Clinton Helpfully Suggests that Republicans Look at Trump’s E-mails (The New Yorker) I will helpfully suggest that we look at Clinton’s e-mails.

‘House of Trump is crumbling’: why ex-president’s legal net is tightening (The Guardian)

What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem (NPR)

Videos show “Stop the Steal” rally organizer saying he would work with extremist groups (CNN) Like Antifa? Like BLM?

British white supremacist, initially sentenced to read Austen and Dickens, imprisoned for two years (Washington Post) Glad to know they’ve got nothing more important to write about.

The eternally unfulfilled dream of Trump’s opponents: This time, they’ve got him (Washington Post)

Jordan Peterson: Why I Am No Longer A Tenured Professor At The University Of Toronto

Jimmy, He’s No Longer President: As Biden Crashes, Kimmel Rants at Trump

Midterm Messaging Alert: Major News Outlets Keep Hiring Journalists Obsessed With January 6

Liz Cheney’s Wyoming Nemesis Is an Oath Keeper Who Was at Capitol Rally (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Trump’s Arizona Speech Proves His Shock Comic Act Has Jumped the Shark (Daily Beast)

A pro-business retired cop sparks liberal revolt in first few weeks as mayor (Politico)

CNN White House reporter: Republicans nationwide are trying to ‘steal elections’  Reporter? Say rather shill.

Attack, attack, attack: Republicans drive to make Biden the bogeyman (The Guardian) Gee, that never happened under Trump, did it?

Bitcoin millionaires are moving to Puerto Rico for lower taxes and island living (NBC) Plus you can be around Puerto Ricans all the time! What’s not to like?

Leftists Call For Boycott Of Joe Rogan And Jordan Peterson  Of course they do.

Big Tech Thugs and Their Allies

‘270 Doctors’ Called Out Joe Rogan – But Vast Majority Of Authors, Signatories Are Not Medical Doctors

AP Touts Jill Biden’s ‘Healing Role,’ Trashed Melania Trump’s ‘Marketing Ploy’

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This step-by-step guide explains how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it is important, and what to do if you are targeted for “doxxing”—the publishing of your private information. In a era of universal surveillance, when livestreamers broadcast every major demonstration while fascists, FBI agents, and police officers comb through social media posts to gather intelligence with which to harass activists, there has never been a better time to take steps to secure your privacy. Here’s how.s

We need to be able to talk about trans athletes and women’s sports (Megan McArdle)

NYT: This Isn’t Your Old Toxic Masculinity. It Has Taken an Insidious New Form

Corporate sedition is more damaging to America than the Capitol attack (The Guardian) Robert Reich has been a witch-hunter from wayback.

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows (NPR)

Census memo cites ‘unprecedented’ meddling by Trump administration (Seattle Times) Sounds like a Narrative.

SNL’s Michael Che Brutally Mocks Oath Keeper Boss’ Eyepatch (Daily Beast) When these guys graduate from high school they’re going to be totally awesome.

The Justice Dept. alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump? (Washington Post) No, because they haven’t got a case.

DeSantis’ Democrat challenger compares him to Hitler: ‘In a lot of ways’ I guess that’s why everybody is moving to Florida.

Florida Dem Gov. candidate compares Ron DeSantis to Hitler in interview

Gillibrand vows to ‘do better’ after restaurant says she ignored mask mandate

Trump’s ‘Crimes Flow Through’ Oath Keepers’ Sedition Indictment: Former Prosecutor (Newsweek)

“We’re Breaking Her, Keep Going”: ACLU Strategist Issues Chilling Tweet Against Sinema

NYT Embraces Disgraced Avenatti’s Jail Claims, Dismissed Those of Capitol Defendants

Steve Schmidt Fantasizes Handcuffed Kevin McCarthy Locked in Basement

Iran Promotes Video Depicting Assassination Of Trump At Mar-a-Lago

Djokovic Deported After Losing Visa Appeal, Faces 3-Year Ban From Australia

Utah’s Largest Newspaper Calls For Unvaxxed To Endure Draconian Lockdowns Enforced By National Guard

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The company said the feature was first created in March 2020 and reportedly flags “insensitive phrases,” according to Gizmodo:

“Some examples include changing “blacklist” and “whitelist” to “accepted” or “allowed list,” or swapping the gender-specific “postman” with “postal worker.” Similarly, “humanity” or “humankind” is recommended over “mankind,” and “expert” is suggested when the software flags “master,” a term linked with slavery.”

The feature is reportedly turned off by default, but users can customize settings to flag some inclusive features while leaving others turned off. The “offending” terms are underlined in purple and inclusive alternatives are suggested.

Libre Office is free and non-Communist.

What Joe Manchin told Steve Clemons at dinner  (Politico) HARD news!

Trump Calls NPR the Worst TV Network in America (The New Yorker) I suspect MSNBC is worse.

The brutal creation of a billionaire’s pleasure garden (The Guardian) Brutal! Rich person bad!

We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News (Politico) Go ahead, see whether you can guess.

Donald Trump’s tattle-tale niece Mary buys decadent $7M NYC condo  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

WATCH: Media Blamed Trump, Absolve Biden for Soaring COVID Deaths

Doctors Pressure Spotify to Crack Down on ‘Misinformation’ After Joe Rogan Podcast

Liberal Restaurant Cancels Event With Pro-Life Democrats After Learning They Oppose Abortion  Not even being a Democrat will save you.

Did Chicago Punish Car Dealership Rocked By $1 Million Theft After Lightfoot Called Owner An “Idiot”?  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Novak Djokovic’s Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration

Watch: MSNBC’s Reid Again Calls For Denying Medical Care To The Unvaxx’d

Ethics Watchdog Calls For Investigation Into Luria’s Private School Ties

Trump’s new Manhattan bar: serving rip-off drinks and a side of narcissism (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Trump White House had a secret crypto booster in Jared Kushner, new Mnuchin file dump shows (CNBC) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Matt Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testifies to grand jury in sex trafficking probe (NBC) So we can presume she’s totally unbiased and objective.

Majority in new poll backs reforming law Trump tried to use to subvert Electoral College (The Hill) A poll by Politico. No bias there.

Zach Galifianakis: Celebrity culture ‘how we ended up with’ Trump (The Hill)

The Protecting Our Democracy Act gives Republicans a chance to prove they care about democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

West Virginians scramble to get by after Manchin kills child tax credits (The Guardian) Perhaps they could just cut taxes on low income people instead. Then they would need tax credits.

50K kids in Joe Manchin’s home state could sink into deep poverty without child tax credits (The Hill) Perhaps they could just cut taxes on low income people instead. Then they would need tax credits.

On the phone with the real world, Trump hangs up (Washington Post) All Trump! All the time!

Joe Manchin’s arguments for the filibuster keep getting more ludicrous (Washington Post)

Can insurrectionist enablers be disqualified from office? It’s complicated. (Washington  Post)  They actually pay people to write this crap.

This Might Be the Scariest Far-Right Mask Trend Yet (Daily Beast)

Joy Reid mocks Ron DeSantis for touting freedom in Florida, calls the state ‘authoritarian’  I guess that’s why people are moving there from such bastions of liberty as California and New York.

ABC’s WNT WHINES: Republicans Keep Blocking Voting Rights!  Rather a blatant lie.

Uses and abuses of the past

Who Is Ray Epps? DoJ Refuses To Say, Jan6 Committee Claims ‘Not A Fed’

Probing the FBI’s Role in January 6

A single district attorney in Georgia has the best case against Trump (Reuters( And we’re all looking for the best case against Trump, amiright?

Trump Threw Tantrum After His Lawyers Met Georgia Prosecutors, Maddow Reports (Daily Beast) And Maddow is, like, totally credible and honest.

Steve Bannon and the Right Have a Scary New Tactic to Take Over Politics (Daily Beast) Perhaps it involves an INSURRECTION! And I’ll just bet it has something to do with Trump….

Trump wants the Jan. 6 suits against him dismissed. Why he’s on shaky ground. (NBC)

Trump Accuser Pushes New York to Pass the Adult Survivors Act, Plans to Sue for Rape (Newsweek)

Fauci Defends Calling G.O.P. Senator a Moron: “I’m Just Following the Science” (The New Yorker)

Texas’s new attempt to circumvent the Constitution resurrects an old tactic (Washington Post)

Top FBI official dodges when Cruz asks if agents participated in Jan. 6 riot

Clock is ticking on what Garland needs to do about Trump’s bid to overturn 2020 election (Boston Globe)

Stern Goes Ballistic About Unvaccinated Djokovic Continuing Tennis Career

Joyless Gaslighting: Reid Claims Republicans Want to Ban Voting, End Elections (Not True)

CNN’s ‘Flamethrowers’ Melt Down Over Fox News, Trump

Twitter Bans Project Veritas’s Spracklen Following Exposé on Fauci

We need more than deplatforming (Mozilla.org)

No Republican should be able to evade these simple questions (Washington Post) Not Democrats; just Republicans, the Heretics and Sinners.

Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state (NPR)

Dark-money group asks judge to block bank records that would reveal donors (Tampa Bay Times) Dox those Heretics and Sinners so we can cancel them!

How a Trump Golf Course Is Screwing Over a Public School (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

72-Year-Old New Yorker Charged With Threatening to Kill Donald Trump, Members of Congress (Newsweek)

Foundation behind network pushing election and coronavirus conspiracies had its tax-exempt status revoked. It still solicits donations (CNN) Apparently CNN doesn’t know that you don’t have to be tax-exempt to solicit donations.

Former House Staffer Opens Up About How Conservative Media Ruined His Life (Daily Beast) Welcome to our world, snowflake.

‘The Timothy McVeighs are still there’: fears over extremism in US military (The Guardian)

Robert Reich has the perfect answer to Trumpism (Salon) Except there is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ outside of the fever dreams of the Narrative Media.

Activists target public relations groups for greenwashing fossil fuels

Facebook Censors Pro-American Children’s Books as ‘Disruptive Content’

High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian

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“Sarge! I couldn’t shoot a Republican!”

If you’re old enough to recognize the joke, you’re old enough to appreciate the irony.

If you’re not, look it up.

American Airlines apologetic after Twitter user complains about pilot with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sticker Oh, no! A Twitter user complained! How will we survive!

Former cult member: Trump used techniques and tactics exactly the same as a cult (CNN) A cult like … Twitter?

Experts Are VERY Suspicious of Mike Pompeo’s Weight Loss Claim (Daily Beast) When these writers graduate from high school they’re going to be totally awesome.

The Decision Trump Made That May Destroy NYC Someday (Daily Beast)

Climate change is helping invasive species take over trout habitats in Montana (Washington Post) The first time that the WaPo ever gave a shit about Montana.

Here’s where Christian nationalism comes from, and what it gets wrong (Dallas Morning News) Didn’t know Christians were a ‘nation’.

Clyburn knocks Manchin for arguing voting rights vote must be bipartisan (The Hill)

TikTok SCRUBS MRC Video Knocking COVID-19 Containment Measures

Deutsch Demands Dem ‘Protection’ Against ‘Lying’ GOP Effort to ‘Cheat’

Lincoln Project Doubles Down on Nazi Symbolism

American Airlines Investigates Pilot With “Let’s Go Brandon” Sticker

Steve Bannon Sought Bizarre Loan as His Jan. 6 Woes Spiraled (Daily Beast) And this is national news … why?

More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump’s effort to overturn election (The Guardian) Obviously they must be punished!

Chicago Teachers Union delegate vows to ‘report’ members who show up for work  To whom? The FBI? Homeland Security? Nancy Pelosi?

Trump has birthed a dangerous new ‘Lost Cause’ myth. We must fight it (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Strategy shift: Biden confronts Trump head on after year of silent treatment (The Guardian) The only President to go on national TV to complain about an election he won.

The insurrection is only the tip of the iceberg (The Guardian)

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross: I’m a ‘Bigger Patriot’ Than ‘Half-Witted’ Tucker and Ted Cruz

Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy

PBS Anchor Coddles Kamala on ‘Very Forceful’ 1/6 Speech, Wants Trump Prosecuted for Riot

Hating On Novak Has Become A National Sport In Australia

Washington Post rewards editor who led its unfair assault on Trump

Scarborough Brags Lib Journalist Decried Trump Supporters in 2016

Dick Cheney just spoke a hard truth to his fellow Republicans about January 6 (CNN) All of a sudden CNN loves Dick Chaney.

They stormed the Capitol. Now they’re running for office. (Politico) Does that make them eligible for the Congressional Black Caucus?

The Loophole That Trump Tried to Steal the Election With Is Still There (Daily Beast)

Scraping bottom, Kevin McCarthy manages to sink even lower (L.A. Times) He’s a Heretic! And a Sinner!

Washington Post continues poor fact-checking record against Tom Cotton, forced to make second correction

Citigroup to fire unvaccinated employees this month

NEW: Matt Walsh Suspended From Twitter  It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

FLASHBACK: Alec Baldwin Wanted to ‘Stone’ Republicans, ‘Kill Their Wives and Children’

A year after U.S. Capitol siege, Biden blasts Trump’s ‘web of lies’ (Reuters) Being called a liar by Creepy Joe is like being called ugly by a frog.

Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations (Associated Press) Only to the delusional.

This US state is home to the most hate groups (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, a ‘hate group’ is anybody to the right of Stalin.

Trump’s Favorite Part of Jan. 6 Is Laughing at the Trauma (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time! (I’d laugh at those special snowflakes, too.)

Ex-Trumpers set to plot how to try and take down Trump (Politico) Or at least seem to do so while they cash in.

CBS News buries poll result showing strong bipartisan agreement Jan. 6 was ‘a protest that went too far’

A haunting, Hollywood-style vision of Jan. 6 as a product of the Trump propaganda machine (Washington Post) All Trump! All the time!

Does John Katko Have the Secret to Thwarting Trump? (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Destroying A Democracy To Save it: Democrats Call For The Disqualification Of Dozens Of Republican Members

The J6 Hyperbole Olympics Off to a Good Start

Seattle Police Officers Falsified Reports About Proud Boys Moving Toward ‘CHOP’: Watchdog

CNN’s 1/6 Special: Fox News ‘Relishing the Idea’ of a Civil War

Girls’ Basketball Team Wins 92-4, Gets Coach Suspended For Lopsided Win

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Blue rhetoric toward Red America—unquestionably the target of the above outburst—has been unrelentingly punitive since at least 2015, and increasingly so in recent months. As one illustration, when offered the opportunity to “walk back” the above statement, the White House doubled down, and its media allies followed suit. Clearly, they’re committed to this kind of talk.