They Voted For Trump And Then For Biden. Here’s What These Swing Voters Think Now (NPR)

Trump may run again and the nation’s mood darkens: Here’s what Biden must do (Salon)

How to get the wealthy to pay the taxes they owe (CNN) First prove that they owe what you think they do.

Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals (The Guardian) Oooo! Republicans! Extremists! Secretive!

How a middle-class retirement plan became a tax dodge for the rich (CBS News) The swine! How dare they take advantage of the law to dodge taxes!

Joe Manchin, America’s climate decider-in-chief, is a coal baron (The Guardian) He stands in the way of the Narrative, so he must be destroyed.

Leaked Membership List Shows Top Republicans in Shadowy Group With Extremists (Daily Beast) Top Republicans! Shadowy Group! Extremists!

Republicans are about to lose Texas – so they’re changing the rules (The Guardian) Hey, it works for Democrats.

The Media Root for Routing Republicans

TV’s Worst of the Week 9/26/21: Hatred for Hannity, ‘Dangerous Whites’ & ‘Blood Red’ America

Lee and Romney oppose debt relief just to make democrats look bad (Salt Lake Tribune)

Mellman: McConnell’s strategy: Hurt the country to help the GOP (The Hill)

Capitol attack committee issues fresh subpoenas over pre-riot Trump rally (The Guardian)

Joy Behar Rages at Manchin, Sinema:‘Enemies of Democracy,’ ‘Destroying the Country!’  All aboard for the Narrative!

Woman Comes Forward Claiming To Have Not Been Sexually Assaulted By Either Cuomo  Babylon Bee.

UCLA Professor Files Lawsuit Against University After ‘Racist’ Email Allegations

Media-Hyped Trump-Hating Florida Man Arrested for Stalking Woman in ‘Biden Sucks’ Shirt

Are You a White Christian Conservative? Joy Reid Probably Thinks You’re a Terrorist

Marine, Who Rescued Baby in Kabul, Under Investigation for Appearing With Trump  You know he would have been praised for appearing with Biden. Or Obama.

NY Times Hypes ‘Frightening’ Dystopia of Walmart, Exploits Leftist Cashier with Epilepsy

Angry Pats Players Considered Boycotting Practice Over Coach’s Support For Trump

Steve Sailer.

Behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden’s book The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality has been much anticipated by scientists worried that the dumbing down of discourse in the name of diversity might eventually get their funding cut.

After years of trying out on the science conference circuit her arguments for why the Woke shouldn’t be so anti-genetics, The Genetic Lottery is finally here. It turns out to be an elaborately contrived triple-bank-shot attempt to head off growing Ibram X. Kendi-style science denialism by claiming that ignoring the influence of genetics upon human differences just enables the Real Bad Guys, led by archvillain Charles Murray, to easily dunk on the libs.

Trump Claims He Won German Election (The New Yorker) No, he didn’t. But truth is not a New Yorker value.

How Republicans learned to stop worrying and embrace ‘replacement theory’ — by name (Washington Post)

NYC Names New Firm to Take Over City Golf Course Run by Trump Organization

Mother Jones to the Left: Stop Jonesing About Brett Kavanaugh

‘Family Guy’ Bashes Sean Hannity: ‘I Just Peddle Hate for Money’

FedEx employee out after posting TikTok rant vowing not to deliver to homes supportive of Biden, BLM or Harris Of course, if he were refusing to delivery to Trump supporters, he’d be lauded for his ‘Resistance’.

California news anchor with adopted black daughter is ‘suspended indefinitely’ after telling bosses he wanted to talk about ‘missing white woman syndrome’ during coverage of Gabby Petito case (Daily Mail)

Abbott says Texas vote audits aren’t all about Trump (Politico) But Politico is.

The Power of Political Tribalism

Washington Teacher Forced to Remove ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag From Classroom

Teacher Reportedly Forced to Remove Pro-Police Flag While BLM, Pride Flags Allowed

ABC Adores Anita Hill, Blasey-Ford: ‘Took a Stand, Educated a Nation’

Twitter Censors Daily Signal Video About Border Patrol on Horseback

Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret (Washington Post) Ooooo! Far-right!

Host for extremist sites subpoenaed by law enforcement following Jan. 6, hacked documents show (Salon) Ooooooo! Extremist!

Judge Slams Gov. Abbott ‘Shamelessly Taking His Orders’ From Trump on Texas Election Audits (Newsweek) The County Judge in Texas isn’t a real judge but rather the chief of the county commissioners and a partisan elected official. But it’s all about Trump.

Bogus Arizona election audit backfires on Trump (CNN) As usual, it’s all about Trump.

Fresh calls for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over ‘replacement theory’ (The Guardian) America: Where you can get fired over a theory.

MSNBCs Chris Hayes Compares Tucker Carlson to Former KKK Leader David Duke (Newsweek) I guess they’re saving the Hitler comparison for later.

Whose kid is that? Dems want big changes in who qualifies for child tax break (Politico) The constant search for more ways to buy votes with YOUR money.

News Anchor ‘Suspended Indefinitely’ in Spat About Gabby Petito Coverage, Report Says (Daily Beast) Apparently she wasn’t black enough for him.

Sovereign Citizen’s New Capitol Riot Defense: ‘I’m Not a Person’ (Daily Beast)

Reporter: Bannon’s admission creates a huge problem for Trump loyalists (CNN Actually, it doesn’t, but it’s really All About Trump.

Judge erupts at Capitol rioter: ‘You’ve disgraced this country’ (The Hill) Guess he needed a BLM t-shirt to escape calumny.

These Are Mary Trump’s Favorite Parts of Uncle Donald’s $100 Million Lawsuit (Daily Beast)

Mary Trump calls Donald Trump Jr. her ‘stupidest’ relative (The Hill)

It’s been easy to forget about Trump, but rightwing America has yet to shake him off (The Guardian) Looks more like the leftwing is having the most trouble ‘shaking him off’.

If my fellow Republicans want to win, they won’t buy Trump’s stolen election fantasy (CNN) Another RINO Narrative.

Biden Thanks Arizona G.O.P. for Letting Him Relive Greatest Victory of His Life (The New Yorker)

Far-Right Group Wants to Ban Kids From Reading Books on Male Seahorses, Galileo, and MLK (Daily Beast) I’m curious as to how hard the Daily Beast had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find this group.

Arizona Audit’s Big Reveal: Trump a Bigger Loser Than First Thought (Daily Beast)

Tucker Carlson Pushes Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Yet Again, ADL Renews Call for Fox to Fire Him (Daily Beast)

Woodward Praises Milley, Williams Says GOP Sens ‘Put the Sick in Sycophant’

Bill Maher Show: Republicans Are ‘All Crazed,’ McConnell an ‘A-Hole,’ Democrats Are Too Weak

Donald Trump turned on Lindsey Graham. Of course. (CNN) No bi9g deal. I’ve turned on him myself.

Trump lashes out at GOP senators, blames Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee for his failed coup attempt (Salon)

Analysis | How Tucker Carlson twisted a 2015 clip of Biden into a conspiracy theory (Washington Post)

Biden WH to Replace ‘Shocked’ Lee Greenwood on Arts Council

ACLU Celebrates Ginsburg’s Legacy By Editing Out Her Actual Words As Offensive

Scientific American: Why the Term ‘JEDI’ Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Anti-Semitism: Alive and Well on the Left

Rubio Reveals Bill Allowing Shareholders to Sue Over Corporate Boycotts

Soros-Funded Group FCC Letter Included Question on Whether to ‘Shoot’ Republicans

John Stossel SUES Facebook, Says Platform Fact-Checker Claimed He Pushed Misleading Info

Pro-Trump lawyer’s memo begins with a lie, then descends into madness (CNN)

Mike Pence’s 6-point plan to steal the election: Republicans leave roadmap for future authoritarians (Salon)

Lefty Doc Demands Government ‘Go After’ ‘Anti-Science’ Conservative Media

ABC Takes Victory Lap After Smeared BP Agents Are Put on Desk Duty  Let’s see: Going from chasing illegals on horseback in the Texas heat to sitting down all day in air conditioning. What a punishment.

San Diego Teachers’ Union Passes Resolution That Rejects Israel’s Legitimacy

Sunny Hostin: Let’s Throw Out the Entire Republican Party  She would if she could.

The Supreme Court has only itself to blame (Washington Post)

Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’ (Daily Beast)

Residents in AOC’s district say how much they think the rich pay in taxes

A couple wore masks inside a Texas restaurant to protect their newborn son. The owner kicked them out. (Washington Post)

Grieving Harry Dunn Family, Who Trump Tried to Ambush, Settles Out of Court (Daily Beast)

Trump Campaign Admitted in Internal Memo That Outlandish Election Conspiracy Was BS (Daily Beast)

Texas Democrat argues with CNN anchor over Border Patrol agents: ‘They don’t carry whips’

Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites (Washington Post)

New bombshells show Trump’s coup threat was real and hasn’t passed (CNN)

Dead Horse: ABC, CBS Continue FAKE NEWS Smear Against Mounted BP Agents

CNN On Debt Limit: ‘Nihilistic’ Republicans ‘Happy To Let World Burn’

MSNBC Trash Talker: Republicans Deride Minorities as ‘Dirt,’ ‘Enemy’

No Holds Barred: Joy Reid Latches Onto Lies About Border Agents Using ‘Whips’

Punch in the face

Trump Sues Niece, NY Times Over Pulitzer-Winning Tax Story

Liberal Group Includes Call to ‘Shoot Republicans’ in Letter to FCC

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According to The Washington Post, the top 10% of American income earners pay nearly half of all income taxes, compared with just 27% for the top 10% of Swedes, 31% for the top 10% of Germans, and 28% for France’s top 10%.

So what, precisely, does Biden mean by “pay their fair share”?

Perhaps he means simple sloganeering. Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., donning a Cinderella ball gown emblazoned with the words “Tax the Rich” to the Met Gala—a dress made by Aurora James, a woman who owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes and who has received more than $40,000 in federal pandemic aid—class-warfare sloganeering is more about the sloganeering than the class warfare.

Low-Information Voters are the Democrat base.

Memo shows Trump lawyer’s six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election (CNN)

The wealthy may avoid $163 billion in taxes every year. Here’s how they do it  All of which is perfectly legal. (CNN)

January 6 Rioters Identify As Pedophiles So FBI Will Cover For Them And Look The Other Way  Babylon Bee.

ABC, CBS Smear Border Patrol Agents With Lies About Using ‘Whips’ on Illegals

In Breach of Norms, Biden Fires Trump Appointees From Government Panels

Royal Holloway music professor quits over cancel culture

One-Sided NPR Cues ‘Abortion Providers and Seekers’ to Rip ‘Cruel’ Pro-Life Law in Texas.

Mark McCloskey, Wife Could Face Suspension of Law Licenses After Firearms Incident

AOC, Omar Spread Fake News Claims That Border Patrol Is Whipping Migrants

‘Billionaires Joyriding Into Space’ Draw UN’s Red Glare

University Says ‘Action Could Be Taken’ Against Students for ‘Misgendering’ or ‘Pronoun Misuse’

Democrats Agree: Criticizing Our Behavior Is Racist, Sexist, Homophobic

Amid Dem Progressive Outcry, Military Aid for Israel Is Pulled From US Bill to Fund Government

Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza And Hearst

Telemundo’s Border Coverage Now Pushes The “Whip” Hoax

Support for Abbott plunging in Texas: poll (The Hill)

The Banality of Bonkers (New York Magazine) When in doubt, bash Trump.

Democrats want to tax the very rich. Here’s who they are. (CNN)  The rich, not the Democrats.

Republicans who let Trump ‘bully’ party will seal midterms defeat, GOP senator says (The Guardian)

Trump may be gone, but Covid has not seen off populism (The Guardian)

This $100,000 Donation by Matt Gaetz Raises All the Eyebrows (Daily Beast)

Two women nabbed for stealing MAGA hat, ripping Trump sign learn their fate Probation.

12 People Canceled by the Left After Expressing Conservative Views

NY Times Freak Out Over ‘ULTRACONSERVATIVE’ Texas ‘Shifting Right’

Brian Williams Promotes Disgraced Lincoln Project, Airs Free Ads Attacking GOP, Fox News

ABC Enthralled by Woodward Book Warning America in Peril if Deranged Trump Runs Again

The words Trump couldn’t bring himself to say (CNN)

Private Jet Attendants Tell All About Flying the Super-Rich (Daily Beast)

Trump’s ‘Waning Influence’ Shown in ‘Very Small Crowd Size’ at ‘Justice for J6’ Rally: Ted Lieu (Newsweek) You mean the one he told people not to go to?

New Yorker moves to Texas and shares ‘culture shock’ with viral TikTok

The insurrectionists and their defenders are an old American story (Washington Post)

Analysis | This is how embarrassing Trump’s ‘fraud’ claims have gotten (Washington Post)

Georgia prosecutor quietly pursues case against Trump (CNN)

Texas Lt. Guv Spews Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory on Fox: ‘A Revolution Has Begun’ (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Trump And His Supporters With A Brutal Video Reminder (Huffington Post)

A Texas Republican’s vile rant shows ‘great replacement’ is becoming GOP dogma (Washington Post)

Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse (Salon)

New Arizona ‘Voter Fraud’ Report Turbocharges the Crazy

Trump Reportedly Called White Supremacists “My People,” in Case It Wasn’t Clear He’s an Abject Racist (Vanity Fair) No, he didn’t.

Analysis | A deeply cynical moment in gerrymandering from the Ohio GOP (Washington Post)

Unhinged Newsmax Host Cuts Off and Yells at Veteran for Mildly Criticizing Trump (Daily Beast)

Georgia Now Grows Politicians to the Right of Marjorie Taylor Greene (New York Magazine) OH NOES!

Judge: Prosecutors Can’t Show Rittenhouse Link to Proud Boys

VENOMOUS Joy: GOPers ‘Love Covid So Much’ They Want to Kill You, ‘Drink It’ Like ‘Kool-Aid’

California’s recall election makes it abundantly clear: Trump is lying about election fraud (Washington Post)

California recall election results show Gavin Newsom winning — and Donald Trump losing (NBC News)

California Republicans Flee to Florida and Texas in Search of Dumber Governors (The New Yorker)

GOP suffers historic embarrassment in California recall (Washington Post)

Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley,Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free (Bloomberg) ‘Gamed’ means ‘took advantage of existing law, the swine’.

CNN’s Don Lemon Urges Viewers “It’s Time To Start Shaming” Unvaccinated People  How about we start shaming Halfricans like Don Lemon instead?

Terry McAuliffe Employs Debunked Attacks Against GOP Opponent

California recall lesson: Republicans believe in elections only when they win (The Arizona Republic) That’s because Republicans don’t try to steal elections, but Democrats do.

Analysis | All of this to keep Trump from getting upset (Washington Post) Since when has the WaPo ever worried about upsetting Trump?

Jim Risch’s questions to Blinken show how a Republican lie is born (Washington Post) No, the lie is born with Blinken’s answer.

Trump Calls Allies to Demand Gen. Mark Milley Be ‘Arrested’ for ‘Treason’ (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh

Why are there so many Trump staff memoirs? The authors need to whitewash their reputations (The Guardian) Maybe it’s the money?

Anonymous says it will release massive trove of secrets from far-right web host (Daily Dot)

MSNBC contributor calls Larry Elder ‘Trumpism in blackface’ As they do.

Colbert Argues to Breyer: ‘Right-Wing’ SCOTUS Justices Illegitimate

They Are Creating The Biggest Witch Hunt In American History

As Newsom leads California recall polls, Larry Elder pushes baseless fraud claims (NBC News) Baseless!

California recall pits Newsom against Trump and GOP’s election lies (NBC News) Lies!

Tucker Carlson Admits ‘I Lie if I’m Really Cornered or Something’ (Daily Beast) Unlike the Daily Beast, which lies just for the hell of it.

Trump’s White House chief of staff is target of Capitol attack records request  (The Guardian)

George W. Bush just threw a whole lot of shade at Donald Trump (CNN) And CNN is there to celebrate.

Former teacher tells Tucker he ‘was separated’ from school after objecting to CRT, split Zoom sessions by race

Biden: California Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder a Trump ‘Clone’  Well, we can hope.

Famous California Ski Resort Renamed to Remove Native American Slur

Senators Condemn Protest Outside Brett Kavanaugh’s Home

Texas Right to Life gets barrage of disturbing threats and messages after abortion law’s passage Haters gotta hate.

Democrats try to put Trump on the ballot in California, Virginia and New Jersey races. (Washington Post)

Fashion designer called out for cultural appropriation over its $1,190 pants (CNN)

Murdered Trump Supporter’s Estate Sues Portland, Mayor and DA

WashPost Attempts Hit Piece on Pro-Life High-Risk OB/GYN

Foul John Oliver Melts Down Over Abortion Law, Demands TX ‘Face Consequences’  Yeah, a lot of Wokies will leave the state, and others will refrain from moving here. Sounds like a win to me.

MSNBC Historian: Honor 9/11 Heroes By Fighting Back Against GOP

Hack of Texas GOP website on 9/11 ‘made my day,’ ex-Biden-Obama adviser says

Kinzinger Praises George W. Bush For Calling Out Domestic Terrorists  I hope Bush winds up in the same Hell as Nixon.

NY Times’ Classless Krugman Marks 9-11: Real Threat to USA? The Right Wing  Paul Krugman is a proglodyte polemicist who teaches economics in his spare time.

PBS on 9/11 at 20: MAGA Is Much More Threatening to US Than ISIS

Yet more evidence Donald Trump is running a shadow presidency (CNN) When the ‘real’ President is a vacancy, that’s not hard to do. (What would CNN have to talk about if they didn’t talk about Trump?)

Trump praise for Robert E. Lee’s statue in Virginia shows how far this ‘hero’ has fallen (NBC News) Praise from Trump? Say no more!

Lunatic Wallace: Have Mueller Investigate GOP, Supreme Court ‘Collusion’ on Abortion!

Smug NY Times: Southern GOP ‘Allergic to Science’ for Avoiding School Mask Mandates

Ex-Trump Aide Jason Miller Detained in Brazil for ‘Anti-Democratic Acts’ (Daily Beast)

Salt Lake City Flight Passenger Growls Like a Dog and Screams ‘Joe Biden!’ in Racist Rant (Daily Beast)

Abbott Considering Other Measures to Prevent People from Ever Setting Foot in Texas (The New Yorker) ‘People” being, of course, Crustians from the Left Coast or the Other Left Coast. Nobody else qualifies as ‘people’.

Freaking Out About Texas: Republicans Are the New American ‘Taliban’

Scandal-Plagued Ubisoft Fires Trans-Skeptic Video Game Programmer Over ‘Hateful Comments’ They Won’t Explain

Ex-Trump Officials Told to Resign from Military Advisory Boards, Russ Vought Says ‘No’

Media Coaches Democrats, Trashes Republicans

Watch: White Woman In Gorilla Mask Assaults Larry Elder With Eggs

Tripwire CEO ‘Steps Down’ After Supporting Texas Anti-Abortion Law

Americans Emailed Pence, Officials Asking to Remove Trump From Office After Capitol Riot

Trump’s Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline (New York Magazine) Except Biden stole it first.

Food Network disowns host over abortion stance: ‘We regret giving him a platform’

Ellen Barkin: “What Is the Expiration Date for Cis White Males?”

Joy Behar on TX Abortion Law: We Need to Worry About the Republican Taliban

Montana Resort Town Residents Band Together to Shun Broke Richard Spencer (Daily Beast)

‘Sit Down and Shut Up’: Alexander Vindman Fires Back at Ohio Republican Over Afghan Refugees

Killing Floor Boss Pleased Texas Women Losing Basic Human Rights Since when did killing your child become a ‘basic human right’?

CNN Host, PBS Star Agree 1/6 Is As Big as the Civil War, World War 2  Except for the fact that only one person died, of course, and she was shot by a policeman.

Media Slam Ron ‘DeathSantis’ But Tout ‘Masterful’ Andrew Cuomo

Elder: Fear of Black GOP Governor Fueling ‘Hysterical’ Media Attacks  Those of us who view politics chiefly as a form of entertainment are pulling for Larry as we did for The Donald.

Nancy Pelosi Flies To Afghanistan To Lecture Stranded Americans On How Bad January 6 Was  Babylon Bee.

Economic War Comes Home: Portland Urges Imposition Of Sanctions Against Texas

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CubanaAngel, as she is known on social media, is the wrong sort of civil rights campaigner — the mainstream left would prefer it if she kept her mouth shut. A black woman in California, CubanaAngel has the wrong opinions, she worships an unfashionable god and probably doesn’t even give her pronouns when she meets new people. Despite not passing the political purity test, CubanaAngel believed she had the right to speak-out against something she felt was unjust. But when she did, the US edition of the Guardian, a paper which describes itself as “giving a voice to the powerless”, reported that she had made “unsubstantiated allegations” which had fuelled violent far-right extremism.

Bigoted Joy Reid: Conservative Christians Are America’s Taliban Islamophobia!

Anti-Abortion Whistleblowing Site Gets New Home With Provider Known for Hosting Extremists (Daily Beast) Extremists!

Amy Coney Barrett an ‘actual handmaid,’ MSNBC host asserts in Texas abortion law segment

Jim Acosta Calls Out ‘Human Manure-Spreader’ Tucker Carlson (Daily Beast) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Jim Acosta Rips Tucker Carlson as a ‘Human Manure Spreader,’ Part of ‘American Taliban’

Kristi Noem Used Prison Labor to Build a Gun-Holding $9000 Desk—Then Got a Discount (Daily Beast)

Kristi Noem Orders $9K Desk From State Prison Work Program That Includes Gun Drawer (Newsweek)

Pro-Trump Republicans Will Rally at Capitol to ‘Celebrate Cop Killers,’ Says Eric Swalwell (Newsweek)

These Trumpy Billionaire Bros Are in Hot Seat Over Union-Busting Claims (Daily Beast) Despite the headlines, the billionaires in question are not named Trump.

It’s Time to Put the Right-Wing Zombie Death Cult on Trial (Daily Beast) This from people who support abortion.

FLASHBACK: CBS, MSNBC Fretted Trump Was Visiting Hurricane Victims Too Quickly

USA Today ‘Fact Check’ Accuses Gold Star Parents Of Lying, Then Issues Massive Correction

Joy’s Week of Hate: Fox Is al-Qaeda, GOPers Are the New Taliban, and TX Loves Rapists

Another Trump Organization executive to appear before NY grand jury as prosecutors probe former President’s business

Rogue Congressman on Afghan Mission Claims He’s Heading Home (Daily Beast) Doesn’t he know that his job is to stay in Washington and do what he’s told?

The Trump News Show Is Over and We’re All Healthier For It (Politico) It won’t be over until propaganda outlets like Politico quit talking about it.

‘I Love Him More Than I Hate Ted Cruz’ (Politico) Beto rises from the dead.

Twitter Rolls Out New Anti-Harassment “Safety Mode” To “Reduce Disruptive Interactions”  Good luck with that.

Panicked LA Times Columnist: Newsom Recall Fueled By ‘Anti-Immigrant Nativists’

‘Taliban Would Love Texas Pro-Life Law’: Hollywood UNHINGED

House committee investigating insurrection wants Mo Brooks’ phone records

Sidney Powell Storms Off Set When Grilled on Her Election Lies (Daily Beast)

Eric Clapton, Enough Is Enough (The New Yorker)

3 Teachers Now Suing Virginia School System Over Transgender Pronouns

Reinstatement of teacher who objected to pronoun policing is upheld

Here’s Donald Trump’s most lasting, damaging legacy (CNN)

Mike Pompeo takes his own arrows over the Afghanistan collapse (Politico)

January 6 committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in ‘Stop the Steal’ rally  (CNN)

Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, a rising right-wing radio star, doesn’t care if you call her a murderer (Washington  Post)

Comedy Central Caves to Cancel Culture, Removes Episode from ‘The Office’ Line-up

SICK NY Times Columnist: DeSantis Allowing Florida ‘to Choose Death’ By Covid

Majority of US Religious Hate Crimes Target Jews

‘Mad Max’ Strikes Again! Kellerman Equates Racist Chess With 49ers Quarterback Situation

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Facebook has reportedly backtracked after it deleted the account of Shana Chappell, the grieving mother of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in Afghanistan last week. Like so many other censorship instances before, the Big Tech platform claimed the removal was a mistake, according to the New York Post.

Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui was killed in the recent Kabul attack.

Chappell reportedly posted on Instagram that President Joe Biden was disrespectful when they met after the death of her son. She added that she told the president that her son’s blood was “on [his] hands,” according to Reclaim The Net.

Chappell reportedly posted on Facebook that her Instagram account had been deleted, and her Facebook account was subsequently restricted.

Sharpton Show Lets Guest Compare Pro-Lifers to ‘Suicide Bombers’

Former NYT Writer Banned From Twitter for Criticizing Vaccines

China Is “Cleansing” Online Content Of Anyone Critical Of The Country’s Economy

Jim Jordan Admits to Multiple Calls With Trump on 1/6, Spurring Renewed Calls for Subpoenas Multiple calls! With Trump!

Queen accused of ‘not taking full ownership of Meghan Markles racism allegations (Geo News) I’m looking for a reason for her to do that and I’m not finding one.

House panel tees up Trump executive privilege fight in Jan. 6 probe (The Hill)

I Am Seething With Rage After Reading These Messages From The World’s Most Entitled Parents (Buzzfeed) And ‘seething with rage’ is what Buzzfeed does best.

Netanyahu Accused of Not Returning State Gifts

Biden Blasted for Looking at Watch During Ceremony for Fallen Soldiers   Jeez, he’s the President, he has a tight schedule.

Chase Bank Cancels General Mike Flynn’s Credit Cards

Sen. Rand Paul: Hatred of Trump Preventing Potential COVID Drug Research

CBS Revives Kook Conspiracy Theory That Conservatives Got Ed Asner’s Show Cancelled

Teacher Fired After Speaking Against Gender Identity, Critical Race Theory, and Mask Mandates

Scandal As Newsom Campaign Produces Old Yearbook Photo Showing Larry Elder In Blackface  Babylon Bee.

Lefty Journos FREAK OUT After Washington Post Refuses to Slime Dana Loesch

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Imagine you bought a book with the title How to Talk to A Contemptible Idiot Who Is Kind of Evil. You open the book, and read the author earnestly telling you how important it is that you listen, and show empathy, and acknowledge why the people you’re talking to might believe the things they believe. If you want to persuade them, he says, you need to treat them with respect! But all the way through the book, the author continues to refer to the people he wants to persuade as “contemptible idiots who are kind of evil”.

At one stage he even says: “When speaking to a contemptible idiot who is kind of evil, don’t call them a contemptible idiot who is kind of evil! Many contemptible idiots find that language insulting.” But he continues to do it, and frequently segues into lengthy digressions about how stupid and harmful the idiots’ beliefs are. Presumably you would not feel that the author had really taken his own advice on board

This is very much how I feel about How to Talk to A Science Denier, by the Harvard philosopher Lee McIntyre.

Trump Flips Out at House Committee After It Requests Secret Capitol Riot Documents (Daily Beast) Flips out!

Trump has good reason to be triggered by Jan. 6 commission: Records request suggests a real probe (Salon) Real probe!

New York Times Still Claiming Tea Party Built on Fear of a Black President  A well-founded fear, judging by the results.

Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds (Gizmodo)

Politico Instantly Predicts ‘GOP Faces Hurdles’ in Midterms in Wake of Kabul Bombings

Atrocity Narrative in Action, or Why Is @BenMakuch Obsessed With Neo-Nazis?

Judge Sanctions Trump Allies And Orders Legal Education For Failed Election Lawsuit

Matt Gaetz Failed to Properly Disclose His Abysmal Book Sales (Daily Beast) The swine!

NY Times: ‘Far-Right’ Larry Elder ‘All That Is Wrong With the Recall Process’ in California  I’m waiting for them to describe Lindsey Graham as ‘far-right’.

NPR Unloads: ‘Very Controversial’ Larry Elder Waved a Gun at a Woman?  How does that differ from half of the black men in Los Angeles?

Parler CEO Blasts Social Media for Allowing Taliban, Khamenei, CCP — Banning Trump

Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump For Allegedly ‘Masterminding’ Jan. 6 “Attack”  Guess they didn’t read the FBI report that said there was no masterminding.

Survey: Notre Dame’s Leprechaun Mascot Is Offensive  As a person of Irish descent, I certainly find it offensive.

Liberal Media Say Joe Rogan Has Lost Influence, Celebrate Alleged Decline of His Podcast

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New research from the Boston Fed argues that the racial wealth gap may be smaller and more stable than thought.

Science quietly wins one of the right’s longstanding culture wars (Salon)

F.D.A. Withdraws Approval from “Whatever Drug Rand Paul Is On” (The New Yorker)

Kayleigh McEnany, With a Straight Face, Says We ‘Didn’t See Crisis After Crisis’ Under Trump (Daily Beast) And we didn’t — except for the ones ginned up by the Narrative Media … like the Daily Beast.

Twilight of the Satyrs

Nirvana sued by the baby from Nevermind’s album cover

Democrat-Controlled House Panel Probing Capitol Attack Targets Trump White House  Of course they are.

Kandahar Joy Reid Insists U.S. Is Doing a ‘Thorough Job,’ Dismisses Critics as Bad-Faith  Leg’s drop her in Bagram and see how long she lasts.

Not even Donald Trump can control the monster he created (CNN) A find generic Trump Derangement Syndrome headline.

Lame Showtime Comedy Goes Back to ’80s to Bash Reagan as ‘Dummy’

No Mercy: Navratilova Celebrated COVID-19 Death Of Conservative Talk Show Host

Ex-CIA director compares Trump supporters to the Taliban

‘Stay the Hell Out’: Georgia Official Warns Marjorie Taylor Greene as Election Probe Begins

A weird story out of Colorado shows the dangers U.S. democracy faces (Washington Post)

Quietest Place in America Is Also a Hotbed of Racist Hate (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump’s Latest Money-Making Schemes (New York Magazine)

State officials open inquiry into Larry Elder income disclosure  God forbid that a Not Really Black man should become Governor of a Blue state.

Caller blasts Iowa rep for requiring ‘White nationalist’ Pledge of Allegiance in schools

‘Biased’ Fact-Checker Targets PragerU

Bush Era NSA Head Says Its A “Good Idea” To Send Unvaxx’d Trump Supporters To Afghanistan

Snopes Skips Biden Fact Check, But Occupy Democrats Get ‘Mostly True’ Trashing Trump

As the MAGA-land crackup gets worse, a few voices plead for sanity (Washington Post)

Twitter Temporarily Suspends Ron Desantis’ Press Secretary

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan: Xenophobia, Islamophobia After 9/11 Led Haters to Trump

Comedian Seth Meyers: Republicans ‘Lying About Masks’

Teacher out of job after video of anti-Trump, left-wing rant in class released: ‘I’m deeply disturbed’

Carrie Underwood’s account clicked like on an anti-mask tweet. The outraged reaction shows what happens when country stars are silent on politics. (Washington Post)

A Shameful Attack on Conservatives for Supporting Afghan Women

‘Familiar and Obnoxious’: Fredo Ties Capitol Bomb Scare to Fox News

Bonkers MSNBC: ‘Abundantly Clear’ Domestic Extremists Are ‘Gravest Threat,’ Not Al-Qaeda

FBI Shoots Down Dem ‘Conspiracy Theory’ That Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Was Pre-Planned

NY Times Flunks GOP in Education ‘Culture War,’ Promoting BLM, CRT

Liberal Utah Teacher Canned For Going On Pro-Vax, “Trump Sucks” Rant, Calling Parents ‘Dumb’

CNN’s Kyung Lah Hits ‘Inflammatory’ Larry Elder in California Recall

MSNBC Needs Therapy: Wallace Wails ‘Abuser’ Trump Continues to ‘Traumatize’ Country

Larry David ‘screamed’ at Alan Dershowitz at grocery store over Trump ties

Top Google Engineer Abandons Company, Reveals Big Tech Rewrote Algos To Target Trump

Taliban Banned on Facebook, Allowed on Twitter — Trump Still Banned on Both

Facebook for Terrorists But Not Trump? CNN Op-Ed Defends Taliban

Media Equate GOP With Taliban

Former Bears QB Loses Uber Eats Commercial After Dissing School Mask Mandates

Lindsey Graham Warns Trump That Jan. 6 Riot May Be His ‘Political Obituary’

This Pro-Trump Lawyer Was a Rising ‘Stop the Steal’ Star, His Firm Erased Him (Daily Beast)

Google Rewrote News Algorithm to Target Trump

Matthew Dowd Wails GOP Trying to Be ‘Tyranny of the Minority’

Washington Post Applauds End to ‘Reality Villain’ McCain’s Reign on ‘View’

Jake Davison, Suspected Mass Shooter, Said He Was an American, Trump-Supporting Virgin (Daily Beast)

‘Jeopardy!’ Host Mayim Bialik’s Ugly History of Shaming Weinstein’s Victims and Being an Anti-Vaxxer (Daily Beast)

Matt Gaetz’s week just got way worse: Wingman reportedly hands over “thousands” of files to the feds (Salon) Funny how we don’t even have a name for this alleged accuser.

The reckoning may have finally come for MAGA governors. But at what cost? (Washington Post) Oh? What ‘reckoning’ is that?

San Francisco salon owner who exposed Pelosi talks about losing her business a year later

Jen Psaki reminds Fox News reporter of Trump’s plan to inject “poison” into Americans as COVID cure (Salon) Which is a lie spread by Narrative Media.

CNNers Revel in Paul’s YouTube Ban For….Saying What CNN Said a Week Ago?

Nasty Colbert Denigrates DeSantis: ‘Doesn’t Care if His Voters Live or Die’  What a mind-reader!

Facebook To Scan Prayers For Misinformation Before Passing Them On To God  Babylon Bee.

Joy Reid: ‘Homicidal’ Republicans Don’t Believe in ‘Staying Alive,’ Don’t Want Citizens to Live

MSNBC LUNATIC: ‘Radicalized GOP is Greater Threat than Al-Qaeda and ISIS’

MyPillow Guy’s ‘Cyber Expert’ Admits They Have No Proof of Election Hack (Daily Beast)

California dad killed his kids over QAnon and ‘serpent DNA’ conspiracy theories, feds claim (NBC)

Utah governor responds to constituent demanding he change ‘obscene’ last name (The Hill)

Trump’s Favorite Dictator Fueling New Pro-Hitler Movement (Daily Beast)

“They are laughing at you”: Scathing new video attempts to burst the right-wing media bubble (Salon)

Judge refuses to toss out Dominion defamation suits against Powell, Giuliani and Lindell (Politico)

Federal prosecutors came to suspect Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg lied, and considered charging him with perjury (CNN) The mind-readers at CNN are on the case!

Donald Trump Faces Wealth Investigation Over Purchase of Golf Courses (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Donald Trump Calls $3.5T Budget Plan ‘Assault on Our Nation’ After Measure Clears Senate (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Fani Willis, DA Investigating Donald Trump, Seeks $115K-a-Year Assistants (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Gannett Bans Crimethink About Crime in Its Newspapers

How Will the Press Spin Thursday’s Census Announcement of a Declining Number of Whites?

Joy Reid: Not Only Are Conservatives Terrorists, But They Want to Kill Your Kids with Covid

Washington Post attacks Facebook for insufficient censuring of conservatives