Stephen Miller, who has described the Democratic Party as a "domestic extremist organization," is a key figure in the White House push to investigate progressive groups, with targets including ActBlue and George Soros' network, per a new Reuters investigation.
"'The goal is to destabilize Soros’ network,' a third White House official said." reuters.com/legal/governme…

A bunch of Fox live-tweets over the weekend, with the president repeatedly praising people giving his line on his television. 🧵 Saturday
Left, Fox, 7:35 a.m.
Right, Trump, 7:56 a.m.

Crashing out and telling people it's because you're mad about the handling of the Epstein files sounds like a great way to stop doing hard work and get back to making tons of money podcasting... Grain of salt but if the deputy director of the FBI resigns and says it's because the attorney general is directing a cover-up you kinda need to have congressional hearings at that point...

1. A Fox host told Trump over lunch two weeks ago that Iran was days from a nuke, which he apparently believed over the denials of the former Fox contributor he made director of national intelligence. 2. Then Trump woke up on Friday and saw wall-to-wall positive coverage of Israeli strikes on Iran, and decided he wanted some credit.

1. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually happened a day ago in order to avoid pointing out that Donald Trump was wrong about something. 2. A few hours ago at the White House, Trump was asked when he last spoke to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom. Trump replied that they had spoked "a day ago."

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1932476754981163010

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration.

She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."

Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1920608333184090354

Pirro stands out, even among the long list of shills and propagandists Fox employs, as a diehard Trump sycophant. In 2018, my late colleague Simon Maloy wrote that her "advocacy for the president is so aggressive that it often borders on insane -- some of her commentary would be at home in an authoritarian state media apparatus." mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/…

Here's a thread of notes on Pete Hegseth, the Fox & Friends weekend co-host that Donald Trump is trying to make Defense Secretary, overseeing the U.S. military, massive Pentagon budget and bureaucracy, and sixth in line to the presidency. Hegseth is an extreme hawk who has backed attacks on Iranian infrastructure and cultural sites and even floated a “preemptive strike” against North Korea. mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/t…

Not going to bother to find out what he said in order to express regrets to Puerto Ricans that it happened, fascinating stuff!

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1851753782452891896

Takeaway from the truck stunt is Trump won’t say anything bad about the supporter who spoke at his rally and called PR garbage, and indeed doesn’t seem able to even denounce the comment.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1851753489816223798

Trumpy billionaires are hoping to ride a wave of grievance into power, then use it to cut their own taxes and demolish their competitors. In exchange for his support, Trump is offering Elon Musk the power to, in Musk's own telling, destroy Tesla's domestic competitors.

It is depressing but somehow not surprising that 11 days before an election that the NY Times’ publisher and top editor warn could destroy the U.S. free press, the paper is spending time taking down good-faith critics (me) who argue its content doesn’t meet that moment. Let’s go through this from top to bottom. semafor.com/article/10/24/…

Fox's women voters town hall is very obviously packed with Donald Trump supporters, opens with a standing cheering ovation for him. The first question at the Fox town hall went to a Lisa who looks a lot like Lisa Cauley, president of the Fulton County Republican Women -- even the necklace matches. fultonrepublicanwomen.com/team/lisa-caul…

The blue bars are articles mentioning Hillary Clinton's email server in the week after the Oct. 2016 Comey letter.

The red bars are articles mentioning Trump's Jan. 6 indictment the week after Jack Smith's latest filing was unsealed earlier this month. Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server mediamatters.org/new-york-times…

How things are going right now on the websites of the largest news outlets in North Carolina after CNN broke its story about Mark Robinson's "dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum" -- a thread. Raleigh's The News & Observer.

Fox News is championing RFK Jr's view of public health, even as it puts your kids at risk mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n… If Trump appoints RFK Jr. to a top health post he will be able to do for the U.S. what he did to American Samoa. Fox is onboard.

Fox’s response to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo peddling thirdhand election fraud lies she didn’t bother to check demonstrates how the network has abandoned anything resembling journalistic standards in its quest to return Donald Trump to the White House.

mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-s… Bartiromo repeatedly told her Fox Business viewers this week about a “Democrat operation” to register “massive lines of illegals” to vote at Texas government offices, a story she originally attributed to the wife of a friend of a friend and made no apparent effort to verify.

Maria Bartiromo repeatedly used her Fox Business show to peddle an election fraud conspiracy theory that she claimed originated with the wife of a friend of a friend in Texas.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says her story is "kind of racist" and "simply false."

The local GOP calls it "erroneous." mediamatters.org/fox-business/m… On Sunday morning, Bartiromo posted an item to X alleging that “a massive line of immigrants” had been obtaining driver’s licenses and registering to vote at three Department of Motor Vehicles offices in Texas:

This WaPo factcheck says flatly there is "no evidence that Trump sent" "love letters to dictators," and that "we do not know what Trump wrote to Kim."

Bob Woodward accessed the 27 Trump-Kim letters for his 2020 book; CNN pubbed full transcripts of two. cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol…


Robert L. Carlin also got access to the letters and reported on their contents for Foreign Policy in 2021. foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/13/nor…

Psycho shit like this will get you lots of bookings on Tucker Carlson's show but normal Americans are too busy cheering the U.S. women in gymnastics to create chalkboard scrawls blaming Kamala Harris for who Algeria sends to the Olympics. Trump’s once-formidable polling lead evaporated, the Vance rollout is in shambles, and his supporters casting about for someone to blame.

They're responding with the hateful shit that the MAGA freakshow loves but that repulses normal people. mediamatters.org/fox-news/maga-…

They're really going for it. This is just sick.

JD Vance has sought to tamp down the firestorm over his "childless cat ladies" smear by claiming he was taken out of context.

But this wasn't a single rant. Here are 12 other times Vance disparaged people who “don't have kids” -- on Twitter, right-wing podcasts, and on Fox.🧵 1. In a November 2020 podcast interview, Vance said that “so many people, especially in America’s leadership class,” don’t have the “cadences of life” that come with having children, adding, “I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable

JD Vance claims his July 2021 comment to Tucker Carlson that "childless cat ladies" like Kamala Harris “don't really have a direct stake” in the country’s future was taken out of context.

I found him making similar comments in three more Fox interviews. mediamatters.org/fox-news/three… Fox News Primetime, 7/30/21

VANCE: I am sick of these bureaucrats experimenting on my children because that's what they're doing [with vax and mask mandates]. If you want to experiment on somebody's kids, Kamala Harris, AOC, and so forth, have your own kids, lay off of mine.