A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

Really wish some person or org could make 17-year-old 5-star football recruits understand the potential political power they hold by simply refusing to go play In states that disenfranchise black voters.

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

From the terrific new book Undue Process by NBC immigration reporter Julia Ainsley: How the Trump administration fired a DHS press person because she refused to call undocumented immigrants "scumbags" in a press release.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

It doesn’t seem Sanders himself used “overuse.” That’s the writer’s interpretation. What he actually says is worse.

Not a drag queen.

The NYT reported that the firm building Trump's ballroom received a no-bid contract for $17.4 million. I earlier revealed the same company got nearly 2X that — $34 million — in a separate no-bid contract to demolish historic buildings at DHS headquarters. www.theredoubt.net/exclusive-no...

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

In 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates published Between the World and Me, a collection of essays written as letters to his teenage son. French dismissed the work as “full of rage and even hate.” He responded in the National Review with “my own letter, written to my seven-year-old African-American daughter.”

He’s barely beating @killthecomputer.com lmfaooooooo

Ellie Leonard is on The Left Hook right now discussing her bombshell new piece on Michael Wolff's complicity. thelefthook.substack.com ellieleonard.substack.com/p/the-beginn...

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

“A traffic camera on Richmond Avenue and Monsey Place — the same block as P.S. 22, an elementary school that enrolls more than 700 students — issued 25 speeding tickets to the truck.”

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.” For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

“My understanding is that there were students in my section who, through Fed Soc, had clerkships lined up the fall of 1L,” Kaufman said. “There is no liberal student for whom that’s the case.”

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

JD Vance hasn’t fucked an ottoman like this since undergrad

WHY WOULD SHE BE DOING A TOWN HALL IN OHIO ABOUT WINNING THE MAJORITY SHE GOT FEWER VOTES THAN KAMALA HARRIS WHAT THE FUCK SOMEONE ASK HER WHY SHE THINKS SHE'S AN EXPERT ON VOTE GETTING!!!

The Navy SEAL medic whose testimony helped Eddie Gallagher walk free in his war crimes case has recently joined a neo-Nazi group. We've obtained secret documents detailing his October interview with the group. We also uncovered his racist and antisemitic X account.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Good god, if you are in the House of Representatives (or aspiring to be) do not talk about the 25th Amendment, talk about impeachment, the THING YOU DO.

This is the problem with liars: you never know when they *aren't* lying.

Congress is on vacation

A man serving time for tax and nursing-home crimes allegedly bought his way out of prison with a network of right-wing operatives, lobbyists, and lawyers, all connected to Trump. His name is Joseph Schwartz. He paid nearly $1 million to people with direct access to the president to secure a pardon.

It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.

How about journalists who care about the First Amendment refuse to attend this dinner. Instead of be used as a prop by Trump, speak out. If legacy media wants to know why it is in such rapid decline and not trusted, empty gesture like this is why.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

Sigh. There is no aspect of America's right wing so horrifying that NYT won't treat it with, at best, a chortling pseudo-anthropological detachment.

New story out this morning from the Washington Examiner saying that it's an open secret inside the Border Patrol that the current Border Patrol Chief has bragged for decades about going to Thailand and Colombia to sleep with a bunch of sex workers. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

I'm worried about the US Forest Service* and just saw morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t... Please send me more reporting and analysis of this latest move as you see it? *among many MANY other things

"Well, she got nearly 24,000 fewer votes in Michigan in 2024 than Kamala Harris. So maybe she should be taking notes, not giving them."

…huh.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

Nellie Bowles mocked our CBS News reporting this week. But there's no other way to describe the network's cratering ratings other than a complete catastrophe. Our response on Power Lines: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0185...

Some new exhibits just dropped in Musk v Altman trial including these texts with Mark Zuckerberg and Musk

Donald Trump Jr. bought into a company. Three months later, his dad's Pentagon handed them $620 million in taxpayer dollars. Democrats forced a vote to subpoena Don Jr. today to come clean about this shady deal. But Republicans blocked it and even shut down the hearing to protect him.