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.

Fox News is flooding its airwaves with incendiary coverage blaming President Joe Biden for a handful of abhorrent crimes allegedly committed by migrants. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…






The network’s coverage relentlessly dehumanizes migrants with constant suggestions that the entire group is composed of dangerous criminals and lacks anything resembling subtext.

Major news outlets provided dramatically more coverage of Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial than former President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations this month that, if reelected as president, he may direct prosecutions of his political enemies.

The Big Three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) collectively produced 18 times more coverage of the trial than of Trump’s calls for politicized prosecutions, while the A-sections of five major newspapers featured six times more articles about the trial, according to a Media Matters review.
mediamatters.org/broadcast-netw…

Hunter Biden's guilty verdict on federal gun charges comes amid a years-long right-wing media effort to delegitimize the federal justice system as a weaponized arm of the Democratic Party. mediamatters.org/joe-biden/maga… But MAGA propagandists, rather than abandoning their conspiracy theories, are coalescing around a new twist: The conviction is an “op” in which Hunter Biden is being deliberately sacrificed to protect the rigged system.

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…
Trump says he'd use the National Guard and even (illegally) the military to arrest and deport millions of migrants. His "plan" is notably light on details, which seems like a guarantee for child-separation-style cruelty. time.com/6972022/donald…

FLASHBACK: A Trump-appointed prosecutor dropped an unfalsifiable partisan bomb on President Joe Biden Thursday, playing into a years-long right-wing media campaign — and U.S. political journalists decided to treat it as a valid and impartial charge.

mediamatters.org/joe-biden/poli… The New York Times ran 30 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded."

Sean Hannity's Fox News show ran with this informant's claims in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. He said they proved Joe Biden engaged in "public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/study…

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1758240350559240321

Of course the benefit of building wild conspiracy theories premised on the bogus idea that the DOJ under Biden is in the tank for Democrats is you can move directly to claiming this prosecution is part of the conspiracy. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…

1. Russia invaded Ukraine. A broad U.S. and E.U. coalition funded Ukraine's defense.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that supporting Ukraine was taking resources away from border security, so.... 2. Biden proposed a supplemental which included both funding for Ukraine and additional funds for border security.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that border funds weren't enough without policy changes, so...