CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen Monday whether he believes Iranian officials over President Donald Trump.
Trump said talks had started between the United States and Iran. Iran, however, denied any such negotiations have taken place. During a discussion on “The Arena,” Hunt asked Van Hollen whether he trusts Iranian officials over the president.
“So you believe the Iranian officials over the president of the United States?” Hunt asked.
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MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC, is backing off the charade of presenting ‘straight news’ and is doubling down on the anti-Trump programming that brings them eyeballs and ratings.
Morning Joe is being cut by an hour, and other supposed ‘news’ shows are being ditched to make room for what they are hoping will increase their market share.
The National Education Association recently held a training session called “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Education” that seeks to establish the oughtness of woke ideology as the oughtness of human life. This action is sectarian in nature, which is troubling given the nature of the organization. It is one of the largest teachers’ unions in America, with over 3 million teachers. The question is not if the organization crossed the line into political activism, but what, if anything will be done about it.
Teachers’ Union’s Far-Left, Anti-Trump Agenda Exposed in Leaked Training Session – slaynews.com
A major teachers’ union representing millions of educators in schools across America is under fire after a leaked training session revealed heavy political messaging targeting President Donald Trump and conservative policies, fueling concerns that classrooms are being used for far-left activism instead of education.
The National Education Association (NEA) is one of the largest teachers’ unions in the United States, with roughly 3 million members.
The NEA conducted a February 23 training titled “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Educators.”
The leaked material is now raising major concerns about teachers being used to indoctrinate children with leftist ideology.
Originally published March 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“Muzzling conspiracy gives conspiracy unearned truth. This is the power behind demagogues.” – Paul Gordon Collier
“Then Absalom would say, ‘Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.’ And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.” – 2 Samuel 15:4-6
An image of an Islamist tossing an IED over the shoulder of a Progmerican protesting a white supremacist anti-Islamist rally captured three bad paths for this land to follow in this post-Trump land.
All three lead to the creation of priest-kings of hate. All three lead to the death of America for good. The Progmerican press emphasizes the white supremacist, while concealing or soft-pedaling the Islamists. The conservative press emphasizes the Islamists, while concealing or soft-pedaling the Islamists. The Islamists celebrate the terrorists.
The Progmerican press and conservative press are protecting their interests, none of which necessarily agrees with the ideologues they are de facto protecting. Both sides are protecting their audiences from questions they shouldn’t dare ask, like “are we becoming allies of ACTUAL Islamic terrorists?” or “do we ACTUALLY have a white supremacist problem among the right?”
By not asking the questions, they are only empowering the very enemies they think they are opposing. In one moment, competing anti-American interests crossed paths.
On March 7, 2026, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were caught on video attempting to bomb an Anti-Islam protest with IEDs. They tossed one lit IED, failed to activate another one, and a third one found later turned out to be a dud. Had the two REAL IEDs gone off successfully, the likelihood of death would have been high, and severe life-altering injuries would have been almost certain.
The two IEDs were made with TATP (triacetone triperoxide), which is called “Mother of Satan.” It is an extremely “effective” explosive. That explosive material is mixed with nuts, bolts, and screws, all designed to maximize the effective kill range of the IED.
Authorities have determined this was a terror attack. Both men call it an ISIS-styled terror attack, with one, Balat, confessing he wanted an attack that would be bigger than the Boston marathon bombing. Fortunately, he didn’t get his way.
The attack took place just outside the new DNC Islamist NY Mayor’s home, Gracie Mansion. The Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was quick to blame the “white supremacists” for inciting the attack in the first place.
Balat was born in Turkey and came over with his wealthy parents. Kayumi has a similar story, but he comes from Afghanistan. They both lived in Bucks County, PA before the attack.
A still-shot of the video of the moment one of the Islamists threw a lit IED captured the zeitgeist of our times. Right before the IED was thrown, leftist actor Walter Masterson was making a speech in support of open borders, in support of New York being for everyone.
The IED was thrown over Masterson’s shoulder, who had no idea how close he came to death. Masterson himself has come out afterwards continuing to support open borders.
The targets for the Islamist attack were the attendees of a protest called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer.” The primary driver of the event was MAGA influencer Jake Lang, who was also one of the pardoned J6 political prisoners. Lang appears to have organized multiple anti-immigrant and anti-Islamist rallies.
He is often referred to as a white supremacist and a Nazi by his detractors. There seems to be evidence he just might ACTUALLY fit the bill for such charges. For instance, Lang constantly talks about “white Christians” as opposed to ALL Christians, and he is constantly talking about securing a future for “white children” instead of “all children.”
I understand that merely believing the theory that Progmericans wish to brown America at the expense of white America does NOT make you a white supremacist, but Lang seems to go beyond that. He advocates for a “pro-white Christian America” and seems to advocate entangling the Kingdom of God with the state, something I vehemently oppose.
As a matter of fact, on April 10, 2026, our subscribers will get a digital copy of my essay, Fear of Suffering and Death, which attacks the very concept of mixing Christianity with the state.
Lang here serves as one potential path the liminal Presidency of Donald Trump could lead us to, while Masterson represents another. Lang represents the hard right response to the existential threat of Progmerica, which ends up destroying Americanism every bit as much, as fast, and as hard as full-fledged Progmerica will.
Lang is the rare case of someone actually using REAL dog whistles of white supremacism. He is also one of those rare cases where someone is actually caught making a Nazi salute.
Masterson represents full-fledged Progmerica. This nation watches its women get raped, its children get plundered, all while it cheers on the invaders. These invaders were sponsored by the same people they were paid to rape, murder, pillage, and plunder Americans.
Masterson has embraced the “great cleansing” of his “great Satan,” which is us, we Americans (especially the whites), while Lang has embraced the “great cleansing” of his “great Satan,” us, the Americans (especially the non-whites) AND Progmericans (especially the whites).
While the Democrat Media emphasized the white supremacism of Jake Lang and referred to the Islamist attackers as “teenagers,” the “conservative” media has focused almost entirely on the Islamists in their stories, effectively de-emphasizing the white supremacist part of this story.
It is a foregone conclusion that the Democrat Media will use Jake Lang as the poster child for any individual or group expressing ANY ideas connected to Lang. The idea they most want to kill is the idea that they really are trying to end the white race in America. It is the question they themselves don’t want to be asked, “are we really trying to intentionally end a race’s very existence in this land?”
They know, deep down, the answer is yes, though if push came to shove, I expect most of them will blink before they fully throw in with the final solution for the white American. For now, most of them assume ending “whiteness” is merely ending the American republic, the Patriarchy, Christianity, and the nuclear family, not ending the ACTUAL white race itself.
The white devil is an overhyped monster with little to no real power in America today. Lang’s rallies, for instance, are all poorly attended. Yet, failure by the conservative media to emphasize the white supremacist element of this story as well COULD lead to rallies that are a little more well-attended.
Nick Fuentes, however, is another ACTUAL white supremacist (and now, apparently, Democrat Party supporter) that DOES have a significant audience already, largely because difficult questions cannot be asked.
Muzzling conspiracy gives conspiracy unearned truth. This is the power behind the demagogue. This is the power behind Nick Fuentes. The questions, the difficult questions that cannot be asked aren’t necessarily salient ones, or even any based in truth (though some might well be both), but that they cannot be asked at all has given them a power that works counter to the reason for oppressing the questions in the first place.
On the right, some of those difficult questions are “Is there a white supremacist movement growing from among us?” To that, I would say, my understanding of human nature, of history, would strongly suggest this would be a natural backlash to the anti-white ideology Progmerica represents.
But in America, we white Americans have bulwarks against sectarian temptations. We white Americans possess something most nations don’t have, and that is the core of our national unity, our belief in the inalienable rights of ALL men. This belief is shared by every American of every race, for it is THIS belief alone that makes us all American.
For most of the non-Progmerican whites, I would wager, the overwhelming majority think of America as the whole of all the parts it already has, and has to some degree from its inception, mainly its diverse beliefs and ethnicities.
This is a radical challenge for the human species, to be able to form a union around mutual respect of self-stewardship alone, no matter the race or the belief system of the other, so long as they are willing to operate under the same civil standards.
Humanity has organized around ethnicity mostly. It has organized around belief alone almost never. Even England was not merely bound by its contracts, it was also bound by its blood. The great question that remains unanswered is “Can humans form a non-biological ethne that allows for diversity of belief on the nature of being and valuing?”
America has the greatest opportunity to break down factional tribalism and sectarianism both biologically and ideationally. America has the opportunity, through her pre-existing values of “individual liberty,” to create a new ethne not formed through anything but mutual respect of one another’s liberty.
America has the opportunity to create a bridging standard that allows a wide swathe of belief systems to co-exist with one another so long as they do not support using coercion (from the state or corporate monopolistic power) to impose their beliefs on others. The only beliefs that can be imposed on Americans are the beliefs in individual liberty and self-stewardship for all American citizens.
Jake Lang calls his white supremacism MAGA, sullying both the American name and MAGA. The MAGA movement, as a whole, is not white supremacist, and this writer suspects the majority of them are true Americans, wanting to live in peace with ANY neighbor, so long as they are willing to live in peace with them as well.
Walter Masterson has rejected America altogether. As a white man, he represents a certain psychotic spirit of self-annihilation affirmed in his continued embrace of the people who just tried to kill him (and almost succeeded).
Fortunately, Lang doesn’t represent the majority of MAGA, but failure by conservative media to emphasize the white supremacist part of this story only empowers people like Lang himself, and even Nick Fuentes, who will both revel that the right doesn’t even dare ask the question, “do we have a white supremacist problem?”
The now iconic image of Masterson’s shoulder serving as the launching pad for an IED by an Islamist against an actual white supremacist rally serves as an indictment of the spirit of our land, a land that continues to support abortion openly and proudly.
Such a nation cannot hold on to the human in the other, which gives rise to sub-humanizing movements, all represented here, the Islamist, the Progmerican, and the Neo-Nazi, all three representatives of the potential paths we could follow after Trump goes away.
President Trump is the liminal figure, the representation of a nation unsettled on what it wants to be next, largely because it has so many new players (and not just among the recent and even not-so recent “imports” of humans).
Yet underneath it all is an answer that would fell all three, an answer this writer believes most of the people in this land want, the American Bill of Rights plumbline of the state restored, and the freedoms she creates extended to ALL who are willing to recognize the freedoms inherent in the other, even when they hate that same other.
CNN hasn’t exactly had a banner month. It started with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spanking CNN’s Kaitlin Collins about the dignified transfer of our brave service members who died in Operation Epic Fury, and only went downhill from there.
Just a few days later, the network repeatedly shared the false news that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was the target of homemade IEDs that were thrown into a crowd of anti-Islam protesters near Gracie Mansion. They started by portraying the alleged bombers, Ibrahim Kayumi and Emir Balat, as “two Pennsylvania teenagers” who “crossed into New York City … for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather.” The post went on to say the pair’s lives “would drastically change” after they were “arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest.” CNN later deleted that post, claiming it “failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards” of the network. That post implied Mamdani was the target of the attacks, too.
Election experts from around the country are sounding alarms that the SAVE Act (full name: SAVE Trump’s Ass From The Epstein Files Act) would cause mayhem and set up the elections and the country for failure. In large part, this is because many of the act’s requirements are unfunded.
The so-called SAVE America Act, which President Donald Trump is relentlessly pushing, would create chaos for state and local elections administrators by immediately imposing several new requirements without adding funding, former North Carolina elections chief Karen Brinson Bell said on a press call Tuesday organized by Washington U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell.
“I cannot emphasize enough the Herculean effort that the SAVE America Act would present for election officials across this country,” Brinson Bell, who now advises election officials as a co-founder of the group Advance Elections, said. “Please do not set our country or these public servants up for failure. Bring us to the table. Develop this legislation properly and provide adequate funding and resources so we can all succeed.”
Nearly three weeks into a war against a crazed theocracy, the political and media focus has been, like a complaining child in the back seat of a car on a long trip, “When will it be over?”
This ridiculous impatience is a product of a Democrat opposition to Operation Epic Fury that will exploit every misstep, whether occurring out of strategy, operations, rhetoric, or unintended consequences. It is akin to getting a work assignment that the employer and employee both know will only reasonably produce results after weeks of long hours, at minimum, but nonetheless getting harangued by the boss every day: “You’re not done yet!?”
Now, the boss may be just an intolerable micro-manager, or he may be trying to get you to quit out of frustration. But it’s fairly certain, given the Democrat decades-long foreign policy record, that productive oversight of the conflict is not their goal.
Between the now ascendant neo-Marxist left and the “river-to-the-sea” crowd, the Democrat war objectives are clear: sabotage.
The concept of freedom of the press isn’t ruined by criticism of the press. But when liberal TV hosts roll out their lectures, they sound a little like the president they routinely attack. Any criticism of their work must be Fake News.
MS NOW host Ana Cabrera expressed indignation on March 16 after FCC chairman Brendan Carr tweeted that broadcast stations should watch what they’re airing on the war in Iran: “Freedom of the press has been such a huge, huge underpinning of the democracy in this country, right? In order to hold people in power accountable to be that government watchdog.” But Carr is “squashing” press freedom with a simple tweet.
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik lamented Carr wanted to “get in the weeds of what’s said,” but allowed that “you can argue there are good principles involved about wanting to make sure certain kinds of coverage is fair to all sides” – yet the government shouldn’t interfere.
MS NOW host Ana Cabrera freaked out at Brendan Carr tweets, arguing press freedom is a huge underpinning of democracy. He’s quashing it! NPR’s David Folkenflik says Carr’s FCC wants to “get in the weeds of what’s said.” Yes! Much of what they say would fit the weeds metaphor. pic.twitter.com/7GATuVWf8X
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 17, 2026
How the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Could Save the Civil Service Washington Monthly
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During Tuesday morning’s cable news morning shows on MS NOW and CNN, blame was placed on Republicans for the lasting DHS shutdown caused by Democrat protests of immigration enforcement and ICE funding. The hosts of CNN This Morning, CNN News Central, and, of course, MS NOW’s Morning Joe ignored the Democrats’ impact on the shutdown, a growing media trend.
In a tease for the News Central segment, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish teed up the story as a Republican attack on Democrats:
Okay, you guys, we want to talk a little bit more about the partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security enters another week and as we mentioned earlier, very long lines at the airport as a result. So, Republicans want voters to blame Democrats. We’re going to talk about how this is going to play out.
In a tease for CNN News Central, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish minimized the Democrats impact on the DHS shutdown and impacts to the TSA.
Instead, she stated “Republicans want voters to blame Democrats” for the shutdown. pic.twitter.com/UWdcdOu6s9
— Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026
Israel’s defense minister said Wednesday that the country would escalate its war against Iran, and its parallel assault on the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon, clearly signaling an escalation of the conflict in the heart of the Middle East.
“The intensity of attacks in Iran is increasing. We are in the midst of achieving a decisive outcome,” Katz said in his video message, shared on social media.
“Israel’s policy is clear and unequivocal: no one in Iran has immunity, and all are targeted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorized the IDF to neutralize any senior Iranian official for whom an intelligence and operational opportunity arises, without the need for additional approval. We will continue to intercept and hunt them all,” he said.
“Significant surprises are also expected throughout today across all arenas, which will escalate the war we are conducting against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
The human cost of Israel and America’s air campaign on Iran is mounting, nowhere more painfully felt than in the children’s wards of its hospitals.
In the intensive care unit of one, four-year-old Anita lies in a coma with severe head injuries a few days after being pulled out of the rubble of her home when it was destroyed in an air strike.
Her mother Zeiba was in torment, clutching her tiny hand and begging her to wake up. Doctors say she almost certainly never will.
Joe Kent, who led the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned Tuesday, saying he “cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.”
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter to Mr. Trump.
Kent accused high-ranking Israeli officials and some in the media of waging a “misinformation campaign” that was “used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory.”
“This was a lie,” he said, urging Mr. Trump to “reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for.”
In a post on X, Gabbard appeared to respond to Kent’s letter, saying the president “is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat.”
ABC News’ Wednesday report on an alleged Iranian drone threat to California did not initially include that the information was “unverified.”
“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,” ABC News reported the late February alert stated.
However, the outlet noted in an updated version of the article on Thursday — which included an editor’s note — that the full alert reportedly included the word “unverified” between “acquired” and “information.”
On the left is the way ABC (or their source) reported the FBI alert.
On the right is the actual FBI alert that went to JTFF partners.
You will notice the word left out —“Unverified.” https://t.co/zSBHObisAI pic.twitter.com/XEZPeNKmDA
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) March 12, 2026
NBC Nightly News deserves a measure of credit for being the only Elitist Media broadcast network newscast to report on the Cuban regime’s proposed economic opening: a “Cubastroika”, if you will. However, the report is plagued with so many essential omissions that one wonders why NBC even bothered.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Monday, March 16th, 2026:
This weird NBC report on the proposed “Cubastroika’ is remarkable for its many omissions. Nowhere to be found within are the following words: Castro, communism, socialism, regime, protests, Communist Party, dictator, dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/4d9SSfDimx
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 17, 2026
HALLIE JACKSON: To Cuba, tonight, now descending into a blackout as conditions deteriorate. But in a rare and exclusive interview, one official says the country’s now hoping to open up more of a relationship with the U.S., even with some critics skeptical. Our George Solís has made his way to Havana, and has more.
GEORGE SOLÍS: Tonight, Cuba is in the dark. The entire electrical grid collapsing today as the country struggles with an energy crisis, leaving millions on the island without power. During this latest blackout, people have been spilling out to the streets here for hours. Fortunately, some cloud cover to keep them from this blistering heat.
It’s been three months since a drop of oil has reached the country. Highways are empty because there’s no gas. Women are delivering babies in dark hospitals with no electricity. Conditions are deteriorating. I sat down exclusively with Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez Oliva Fraga, considered by many to be Cuba’s economic czar. His plan- to attract more foreign investors, including large companies from the United States.
OSCAR PEREZ OLIVA FRAGA (In Spanish): Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship…
China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades.
As the Trump administration steps back from U.S. climate commitments and reinvests in fossil fuels, China is flexing its dominance in renewable energy, using offers of equipment, expertise and financing as geopolitical levers.
European Union ministers and leaders pushed back on ideas to protect the strait, including expanding a maritime operation already in place in the Red Sea.
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Trump Administration Presses Back on Media Determination to Propagate a Defeatist Narrative
Or at least a quagmire narrative.
Axios: FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over Iran war coverage, a day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth singled out CNN and rooted for a friendlier owner (Axios).
Abortion polling is notoriously deceptive and known to strategically skew and misrepresent public opinion to favor abortion activists’ radical agendas. Pew Research Center’s latest survey appears to be no different.
In its 2026 American Trends Panel analysis, Pew uses its January 2026 survey of more than 8,500 U.S. adults to assert that a majority of Americans, 60 percent, “continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.”
Pew suggests that number means states’ attempts to use the post-Dobbs v. Jackson era to outlaw or limit abortion are unpopular and out of touch. The research center’s write-up of its newly retrieved data even notes, in bold, that “In recent years, the public has become more likely to say obtaining an abortion in their area would be difficult.”
National Public Radio is still in hot pursuit of the supposed sins of GOP Islamophobia, while anti-semitism from Muslim Democrats is never news. NPR made not just one but two stories out of Barbara Sprunt’s reporting, which consisted of her acting horrified about Republicans saying mean things about Islam without being punished.
The first story aired March 13 on All Things Considered: “Unlike past eras, anti-Muslim GOP rhetoric draws little pushback from party leaders.” Yes, the good old days when Republican leadership called out offensive comments by Republicans – and got no credit for it from the elitist media, which still called every Republican presidential candidate a racist.
AILSA CHANG, HOST: In recent days, several Republican lawmakers have drawn condemnation for using anti-Muslim rhetoric. It’s not the first time that the party has had to confront hateful language from within its own ranks, but unlike in past political eras, these comments have faced little pushback from Republican leaders. NPR congressional correspondent Barbara Sprunt joins us now….let’s start with this tweet from Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles. This was from earlier this week, right? He posted, quote, “Muslims don’t belong in American society.”
NPR doesn’t care if antisemitic comments from Democrats like Rep. Ilhan Omar receive “little pushback from Democrat leaders.” Being Muslim means you’re “marginalized,” so you’re in a different rule book. Sprunt went on to say:
SPRUNT: ….There’s been a lot of posts about Sharia Law. There’s a Sharia-free America Caucus that now has 50 Republican members. Sharia refers to rules devout Muslims follow in life, like praying five times a day, avoiding pork. It’s a religious framework, not a plan to replace the Constitution. And if you listen to the rest of what Johnson said, he added that this isn’t about Muslims as people. But critics say by framing this answer around Sharia law, it gives cover for bigoted language.
On March 7, a throng of left-wing counter protestors met with a small right-wing protest outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D). From within the crowd, 18-year-old Emir Balat threw a homemade bomb and yelled “Allahu akbar.” Balat and his friend Ibrahim Kayumi were arrested for the attack, and law enforcement later determined that the two were ISIS sympathizers.
All of the above information was publicly available by the afternoon of March 7. By 2:00 p.m. ET, several videos of Balat throwing the bomb were already circulating on social media, in which he could clearly be heard yelling the well-known Islamist slogan.
Despite all of that information being readily available, The New York Times’s first headline about the incident read: “Homemade Bomb Thrown at Protest Near N.Y.C. Mayor’s House, Police Say” — a summary so vague that it almost seemed to pin the bomb-throwing on the right-wing protestors.
Since February 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been largely shut down after funding lapsed because Democrats demanded changes to President Trump’s deportation policies, leaving government workers such as TSA agents to work without pay and turn to food banks.
A Media Research Center study found that, since the start of the DHS shutdown, only eight percent – or 125 seconds – of the 26 minutes and 22 seconds on the shutdown across the flagship evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC have brought up the fact that the long lines at airports are because of the left’s obstructionism.
MRC analysts examined every mention of the DHS shutdowns and its effects (mainly at America’s airports) by journalists, starting on February 14 on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News and tallied both the total coverage and allusions to Democratic demands to reopen DHS.
For decades, my colleagues and I have been up against an immense machine— a wildy rich, axis of media, entertainment, and cultural power that made dissent a form of professional suicide. A form of murder – the systematic killing of a person’s good name, reputation, and livelihood.
And when we pointed out the sharia-compliant media ecosystem that enabled it, the punishment only intensified. We were smeared, deplatformed, shadow-banned, and algorithmically buried—until many of us were effectively disappeared from the public square, leaving the megaphone almost entirely in the hands of far-left demons.
Liel Leibovitz of Tablet looked at the New York Times’ piece on the terror attack outside of Mamdani’s residence titled “At 13, He Was Selling Sneakers. At 18, He’s Facing Terror Charges.” Leibovitz: This is not a bug. It’s a feature. We can mock it all we want, writing cutesy headlines like “at 20, he was an aspiring Viennese painter; at 56, he was facing the Allies in a bunker in Berlin.” But the truth is deeper and more troubling. What we’re seeing here is the result of the left’s near-total command of everything we’re allowed to know, say, and think…. When a perfect machine that includes the Democrat party, mainstream media, intelligence agencies, Big Tech, and corporate America comes together and runs an intel operation on you, this is what reality starts to look like. And it’s not something to be merely laughed at; it’s something to be crushed, which means making very significant changes to how you live your life, who you trust, and what you value (Liebovitz).
The New York Times has caught a lot of justified flak the last few days for how softly it has framed its profiles of the Islamic perpetrator of an anti-Jewish attack on a Michigan synagogue. “The Michigan Synagogue Attacker Was a Quiet Restaurant Worker.” At least Sunday’s print headline was better: “Recalling Attacker’s Last Days Before Driving Into Synagogue.”
Critics faulted the terrorist-sympathetic framing of the story, like another headline: “Family Members of Michigan Synagogue Attacker Died in Airstrike in Lebanon.” The story initially included insistence from sources that members of the man’s family killed in an Israeli air strike there were not members of Hezbollah.
As confirmation of the man’s Hezbollah links emerged, that denial was quietly excised.
Despite CNN being forced to walk back their fake news over the weekend where they suggested the U.S. military and the Trump administration didn’t have a plan to protect the Strait of Hormuz, ABC News program The View still pushed it during their Monday episode. The news show then went on to encourage people to vote for Democrats in the November midterms.
Chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin pushed the false claim there was no plan for dealing with Iran’s efforts to close the Strait, then suggested the national average price of gas was $8-per-gallon because of it:
I can’t believe that the president didn’t know that Iran’s response to this would be to close the Strait of Hormuz and not allow tankers in. And now our energy prices are going off the rails, $8 for gas.
The emperor is stark naked, but thanks to a misguided legal doctrine, the Republican justices keep insisting he’s fully clothed.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Apparently, this famous quote was written by the 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire, but I first heard the line in the movie The Usual Suspects. I think about it often, as it encapsulates Donald Trump’s relationship with the Republicans on the Supreme Court.
The Donald Trump who exists in the real world—the racist, fascist sexual predator who happily tweets out the illegal and unconstitutional motivations for his policies—does not exist according to the Supreme Court. Instead, the court has invented a different Trump, one who does not speak, does not lie, and adheres to the well-established norms regarding the use of executive power. It has dreamed up a normal US president, grafted this creation onto Trump’s legal filings, and then ruled as if this fiction were reality.
