Jonathan Last, editor of The Bulwark, is arguing Democrats should not oppose President-elect Donald J. Trump’s planned deportations because migration-background voters are no longer voting dependably for the liberal party. “Democrats should spend exactly zero political capital stopping any Trump deportation efforts,” he wrote on Bluesky, a bolthole for leftists upset by X owner Elon Musk’s turn towards Trump. “It is madness to spend capital trying to help people who are no longer a major part of your electoral coalition.”
Last’s comments followed a story about “Rosa,” an illegal immigrant supportive of her children’s choice to vote for Trump in the 2024 election. Rosa expressed confidence that Trump would focus on deporting criminals rather than individuals like herself who have not had legal issues since arriving.
Conservatives highlighted the mercenariness of Last’s worldview, with one noting that Democrat opposition to deportations is supposed to be “about being a Good Person,” not political advantage.
“There was a political angle? That sounds like a conspiracy theory,” he added sarcastically.
2024 saw a massive swing to Trump among Latino voters, with almost 50 percent of Latino men under 40 backing the America First leader. Democrat-leaning commentators were aware of the swing even before Election Day, with one MSNBC contributor sneering that some Latinos were turning towards Trump in an attempt to “be white.”
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Jonathan Last, editor of The Bulwark, is arguing Democrats should not oppose President-elect Donald J. Trump's planned deportations because migration-background voters are no longer voting dependably for the liberal party. "Democrats should spend exactly zero political capital stopping any Trump deportation efforts," he wrote on Bluesky, a bolthole for leftists upset by X owner Elon Musk's turn towards Trump. "It is madness to spend capital trying to help people who are no longer a major part of your electoral coalition."
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Judicial proceedings are set to continue in a case involving Navy veteran Zachary Young, who says cable network CNN defamed him in a 2021 report regarding the evacuation of Afghan families. Young, along with his enterprise Nemex, filed a lawsuit against the network after a segment suggested he charged excessive fees without guaranteeing safety or success during Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. The broadcast displayed Young’s image alongside a caption mentioning “black markets” and high charges.
Judge William Henry of Florida recently determined that the case must go to trial, emphasizing that a jury needs to decide whether the term “black market” was intended to imply illegal activities by Young. According to his judgment, there is enough evidence suggesting CNN might have known the claims were false or acted recklessly.
Henry asserted that the trial could explore whether CNN acted with “actual malice,” particularly through the use of the phrase “black market,” which could lead to punitive damages.
The network offered no comment, but CNN aired a clarification on March 25, 2022, in which anchor Jake Tapper acknowledged an error in terminology and apologized to Young during a segment of his show, The Lead.
Some references used in the broadcast, such as terms like “exorbitant” and “exploit,” were deemed opinions by Judge Henry and thus not actionable. Moreover, the court concluded that Nemex Enterprises was not directly implicated as it was not mentioned in the report.
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Judicial proceedings are set to continue in a case involving Navy veteran Zachary Young, who says cable network CNN defamed him in a 2021 report regarding the evacuation of Afghan families. Young, along with his enterprise Nemex, filed a lawsuit against the network after a segment suggested he charged excessive fees without guaranteeing safety or success during Joe Biden's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. The broadcast displayed Young's image alongside a caption mentioning "black markets" and high charges.
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Mika Brzezinski, host of MSNBC‘s Morning Joe, apologized on Wednesday following remarks made by The Atlantic‘s David Frum during an earlier segment on the program. The Canadian-American neoconservative mockedPete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, referencing anonymous sources that claimed the Fox News host smelled of alcohol on set.
“Well, just given what one sees on camera, if you’re too drunk for Fox News, you’re very, very drunk indeed,” Frum said. The former George W. Bush White House speechwriter continued: “In 1989, President George H. W. Bush nominated John Tower, senator from Texas, for Secretary of Defense. Tower was a very considerable person, a real defense intellectual, someone who deeply understood defense, unlike the current nominee. It emerged that Tower had a drinking problem, and when he was drinking too much, he would make himself a nuisance or worse to women around him.”
In his critique, Frum questioned the current candidate’s qualifications for the defense role, stating that moral standards should not allow for a nominee lacking defense knowledge and leadership. Notably, Frum was forced to resign from the Bush White House after his wife publicly bragged that he was the author of the phrase “axis of evil.”
AN APOLOGY.
Later in the broadcast, Brzezinski addressed the situation, clarifying remarks made about Fox News and Hegseth.
“And before we go to break or a little bit earlier in this block, there was a comment made about Fox News in our coverage about Pete and the growing number of allegations about his behavior over the years and possible addiction to alcohol or issues with alcohol,” Brzezinski said, continuing: “The comment was a little too flippant for this moment that we’re in. We just want to make that comment as well. We want to make that clear.”
She added: “We have differences in coverage with Fox News, and that’s a good debate that we should have often. But right now, I just want to say there’s a lot of good people that work at Fox News who care about Pete Hegseth, and we want to leave it at that.”
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I missed Mika Brzezinski’s very bizarre on air apology for a comment David Frum made on air about Pete Hegseth’s drinking. You can watch it in this clip. And it’s weird for reasons @joshtpm lays out in this post: https://t.co/ThHkXAf6UKpic.twitter.com/JoNjBbrBsW
Mika Brzezinski, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, apologized on Wednesday following remarks made by The Atlantic's David Frum during an earlier segment on the program. The Canadian-American neoconservative mockedPete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, referencing anonymous sources that claimed the Fox News host smelled of alcohol on set.
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Former Washington Post cyberstalker and COVID-19 fanatic Taylor Lorenz is now advocating for violence in response to a decision by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to limit anesthesia coverage for surgeries under certain conditions in Connecticut, New York, and Missouri. Reacting to a post on Bluesky regarding the decision, Lorenz unleashed an unhinged rant, suggesting insurance company executives should be killed. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association CEO Kim A. Keck was singled out specifically by Lorenz.
“People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering,” Lorenz wrote on the social media platform popular with leftists who fled Elon Musk’s X following President-elect Donald J. Trump’s landslide election victory. She continued: “As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the [people] in power who enable it.”
People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it.
In another post, Lorenz—who was fired from The Post in October after calling President Joe Biden a “war criminal”—wrote: “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”
And people wonder why we want these executives dead
Lorenz became the subject of online ridicule earlier this week after posting a separate rant on Bluesky complaining about those who are no longer wearing masks or following other long-debunkedunscientific COVID-19 pandemic protocols. The disgraced social media blogger accused those who prefer to breathe without masks of “raw dogging the air.”
Planning a Covid safe book launch took months and THOUSANDS of my own dollars ensuring testing, outdoor space, far UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. Meanwhile u dumbfucks are out raw dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbors. We are not the same
Former Washington Post cyberstalker and COVID-19 fanatic Taylor Lorenz is now advocating for violence in response to a decision by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to limit anesthesia coverage for surgeries under certain conditions in Connecticut, New York, and Missouri. Reacting to a post on Bluesky regarding the decision, Lorenz unleashed an unhinged rant, suggesting insurance company executives should be killed. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association CEO Kim A. Keck was singled out specifically by Lorenz.
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ABC’s Good Morning America faces declining ratings and deteriorating conditions at its former headquarters as the network transitions to a new location in downtown Manhattan. The flagship morning show has been losing ground to NBC’s Today, sparking concern among Disney and ABC executives.
Sources describe the Upper West Side building, which has housed ABC since the 1980s, as “falling apart.” Over the weekend, the building’s antenna was ripped off, with no plans for replacement. Staffers still working on-site endure freezing temperatures and complain about the lack of Wi-Fi and the building’s poor maintenance. “The heat is off!” one insider quipped, while another reported, “It smells like crap.”
The deteriorating conditions come as the building awaits demolition. ABC sold the property in 2018 for nearly $1 billion but has remained a tenant while transitioning to its new Hudson Square facility. According to insiders, the building’s current owners have little incentive to maintain it, with plans afoot to replace the complex with high-rise developments.
Staff have dealt with infestations of mice and fleas, broken elevators, and escalators, forcing some to avoid certain areas. “The building is going to get condemned,” one employee said.
Meanwhile, GMA is struggling to retain its audience. Reports indicate a ratings slide that executive producer Simone Swink acknowledged during a recent staff meeting. Disney executive Debra O’Connell and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic have reportedly expressed frustration over the lagging performance. President-elect Donald J. Trump trashed the network as biased and dishonest even by the standards of the corporate media during the 2024 election campaign.
ABC’s Good Morning America faces declining ratings and deteriorating conditions at its former headquarters as the network transitions to a new location in downtown Manhattan. The flagship morning show has been losing ground to NBC’s Today, sparking concern among Disney and ABC executives.
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An international non-government organization (NGO) comprised of journalists in six countries, intimately involved in the first Democrat-backed impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, has been exposed as receiving half of its funding from the United States Department of State. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)—co-founded by entrepreneur Drew Sullivan—saw 52 percent of the funds it spent between 2014 and 2023 funneled to it by the U.S. federal government, according to a report published by Drop Site.
Concerningly, it appears U.S. taxpayer dollars likely contributed to the OCCRP’s investigation into former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani‘s political work in Ukraine. These activities were cited no fewer than four times in the whistleblower letter that sparked the first impeachment of President Donald J. Trump in 2019. Trump was ultimately acquitted of the charges by the U.S. Senate.
U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDS.
The report notes that while the OCCRP—a massive NGO heavily involved in corruption reporting in Eastern Europe and Russia—has disclosed that it receives some government funding, the exact amounts were previously not publicly known. Since the organization’s founding, the U.S. government has contributed $47 million to its budget and is committed to granting OCCRP an additional $12 million.
In addition to American government funding, OCCRP has received an estimated $15 million from the governments of Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands over the last decade. OCCRP is also backed by private donors, including left-wing billionaire George Soros‘s Open Society Foundations.
EXTENSIVE MEDIA NETWORK.
The OCCRP routinely collaborates with state and corporate mediaworldwide. These include Germany’s public broadcaster NDR and Der Spiegel, Rolling Stone magazine and The Washington Post in the United States, The Guardian and The Times in the United Kingdom, France’s Le Monde, and Australia’s Dossier magazine, among many others.
Additionally, much of the OCCRP’s U.S. government-backed work has focused on countering Russian media narratives, raising concerns that the organization is simply spreading its own propaganda to counter that pushed by the Russian government. Numerous OCCRP reports have been cited as the basis for U.S. government actions against individuals, companies, and governments around the globe.
Like many NGOs, OCCRP attempts to portray itself as nonpartisan. However, its co-founder, Drew Sullivan, has a lengthy social media track record of boosting partisan political narratives. Recently, Sullivan has amplified claims that President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, sports far-right Christian nationalist tattoos.
The National Pulse has reported that the tattoo in question is a Jerusalem Cross associated with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the modern country of Georgia.
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An international non-government organization (NGO) comprised of journalists in six countries, intimately involved in the first Democrat-backed impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, has been exposed as receiving half of its funding from the United States Department of State. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)—co-founded by entrepreneur Drew Sullivan—saw 52 percent of the funds it spent between 2014 and 2023 funneled to it by the U.S. federal government, according to a report published by Drop Site.
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MSNBC is pushing President Joe Biden to pardon himself and Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith—along with his team of attorneys—in the wake of the 82-year-old Democrat deciding to pardon his son, Hunter Biden. The network, late Sunday after Biden announced the pardoning of his son, featured former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, who argued Biden should use his pardon power to protect DOJ officials who pursued the federal government lawfare campaign against President-elect Donald J. Trump.
“I’m relieved and thrilled that he did it; this was one of the cases that called out for clemency. Hunter Biden, first of all, would not ever be prosecuted for the gun crime, but for his last name,” Wine-Banks claimed when asked for her reaction by MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, the former Watergate prosecutor went further, urging Biden to “…issue preemptive pardons to all of those people threatened by the injustice of what will become the Department of Justice in the Trump administration.”
“That includes Jack Smith and all of his staff, many Department of Justice lawyers, it includes President Biden himself, although we don’t know that anyone can legally pardon themselves,” Wine-Banks continued, concluding: “He will need a pardon because he is going to be harassed and charged for no crimes whatsoever. Donald Trump has promised that.”
🚨 JUST IN: MSNBC is now calling for Joe Biden to issue “PREEMPTIVE PARDONS” for HIMSELF, saying “he will need a pardon!”
DARN RIGHT HE WILL!
They also said Biden should pardon Jack Smith and his associates, because they KNOW they’re in some deep crap.
There are widespread suspicions that President Biden’s pardoning of his son, Hunter, may just be the first in a series of grants of legal clemency for members of his family and individuals who’ve served in his government. Along with special counsel Jack Smith, Biden may also move to pardon any cabinet officials or former officials, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, who the incoming Trump White House could move to investigate.
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MSNBC is pushing President Joe Biden to pardon himself and Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith—along with his team of attorneys—in the wake of the 82-year-old Democrat deciding to pardon his son, Hunter Biden. The network, late Sunday after Biden announced the pardoning of his son, featured former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, who argued Biden should use his pardon power to protect DOJ officials who pursued the federal government lawfare campaign against President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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A major union of European journalists has threatened to leave Elon Musk’s X next year, on the date President-elect Donald J. Trump assumes office. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), representing over 320,000 members, has declared its intention to cease publishing on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) beginning January 20, 2025.
The EFJ has joined other media groups, including The Guardian and the German Journalists Association, in leaving the platform.
The organization’s president, Maja Sever, claimed that X now serves as a medium for spreading conspiracy theories, racism, and far-right rhetoric, alleging it benefits Musk’s ideological and financial interests.
Despite these departures, no significant U.S.-based media groups have announced similar actions, though individual journalists have chosen to leave the platform.
X and Elon Musk have also been criticized by European politicians, particularly those in the European Union (EU). Last year, the EU launched pro-censorship action against Musk and X under the Digital Services Act (DSA), alleging X was not compliant in countering illegal content and disinformation.
Musk later revealed that the European Commission, the unelected executive branch of the EU, had offered him a secret deal to quietly censor posts on X. He also claimed other social media platforms had accepted this “illegal” deal.
At one point, former European Commissioner Thierry Breton even directly threatened Musk prior to an interview he conducted with President-elect Donald J. Trump, calling on Musk to censor the interview.
Some X users expressed surprise that, given the quality and similarity of their work, there are as many as 320,000 journalists in Europe. Musk characterized them as “320,000 NPCs.”
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A major union of European journalists has threatened to leave Elon Musk's X next year, on the date President-elect Donald J. Trump assumes office. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), representing over 320,000 members, has declared its intention to cease publishing on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) beginning January 20, 2025.
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Users of the online message board platform Reddit say they are growing tired of certain actors’ repetitive or stale performances in recent Hollywood films. Redditors were asked to name actors whom they were tired of seeing in films. Receiving more than a thousand comments within a day, the post saw Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg mentioned frequently. Both have been prominent figures in the film industry, often appearing in multiple movies each year.
Wahlberg, who users have criticized for always seeming like he is from Boston no matter what role he plays, has also become more well-known recently among Catholics, participating in the popular Catholic prayer app, Hallow.
Dwayne ‘The Rock‘ Johnson, also featured on the list, was criticized for playing himself in most roles. His most recent film, the Christmas-themed Red One, has been largely panned by critics.
Meanwhile, Jared Leto was described as a “dick in person,” with one user saying the actor should not be allowed on a film set.
Hollywood has struggled to get people back into theatres since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Box office numbers have plummeted, causing theater bankruptcies like Cineworld’s in 2022.
Hollywood and corporate media are expecting massive layoffs in the coming months, with Paramount Global announcing it will reduce its workforce by at least 3 percent.
Director Judd Apatow also highlighted China’s influence on modern films, claiming the country and its vast market have forced the film industry to censor certain topics.
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Users of the online message board platform Reddit say they are growing tired of certain actors' repetitive or stale performances in recent Hollywood films. Redditors were asked to name actors whom they were tired of seeing in films. Receiving more than a thousand comments within a day, the post saw Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg mentioned frequently. Both have been prominent figures in the film industry, often appearing in multiple movies each year.
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MSNBC’s viewership continues to plummet following President-elect Donald J. Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election. According to data from Nielsen, the network has now seen nearly 50 percent of its audience tune out. Even more concerning for the left-wing corporate news channel is that its audience among the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic has entirely collapsed, standing at just 63,000 viewers.
In comparison, Fox News strengthened its position as the leading cable news network, reporting growth during the same period. While MSNBC attracted 644,000 viewers during primetime, Fox News’s viewership soared to 3.2 million, marking an 86 percent increase from the previous year. In the 25-54 demographic, Fox recorded a 147 percent rise, resulting in an average of 476,000 viewers.
MSNBC’s challenges extended to total-day ratings, where the network garnered 497,000 viewers and just 49,000 in the key demographic. This reflects ongoing issues for programming like Morning Joe, which experienced a 37 percent decline in viewership after co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-elect Trump.
Several of MSNBC’s major programs, including The ReidOut and 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, have reached low points in their viewership, particularly in the 25-54 category. In comparison, Fox News captured 62 percent of the cable news audience for total-day ratings throughout November.
CNN also experienced a decline, losing 33 percent of its audience; however, MSNBC’s downturn was more pronounced. MSNBC reported only 14 broadcasts exceeding two million viewers for the month, significantly lower than Fox News’s 248 telecasts reaching the same threshold.
Notably, billionaire technology and space exploration mogul Elon Musk has expressed interest in buying the failing MSNBC network from its parent company, Comcast. The National Pulse reported late last week that Musk indicated in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he was seriously considering the move.
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MSNBC's viewership continues to plummet following President-elect Donald J. Trump's landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election. According to data from Nielsen, the network has now seen nearly 50 percent of its audience tune out. Even more concerning for the left-wing corporate news channel is that its audience among the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic has entirely collapsed, standing at just 63,000 viewers.
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