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“You’re not safe in Joe Biden’s America.” — tagline of Trump campaign ad posted on social media Donald Trump’s presidential campaign moved quickly to tie the killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the country illegally in 2022, to the surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border under the Biden administration. His campaign posted a video that, with pounding music, combines news clips about the case with clips of Biden administration officials assuring people that the border was secure. It ends with the blunt message above. Never mind that violent crime rates, especially...

An NBC News review of available 2024 crime data from the cities targeted by Texas’ “Operation Lone Star,” which buses or flies migrants from the border to major cities in the interior — shows overall crime levels dropping in those cities that have received the most migrants. Overall crime is down year over year in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, New York and Los Angeles. Crime has risen in Washington, D.C., but local officials do not attribute the spike to migrants.

VIDEOMSNBC went into a state of deep deep mourning when the news broke that the Supreme Court will take up President Trump's immunity appeal thus delaying the trial for more months to come and likely past the November election. Of special note is former judge Michael Luttig whose crackpot Lawfare idea that states can use the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from the ballot is currently being laughed out of the Supreme Court. With his crackpot idea being laughed away, Luttig was profoundly saddened by the news that the J6 trial will probably be delayed past the election. His face...

For basically the entire Biden presidency, the corporate media have been trying to sell Americans on the idea that the economy is as good as it could possibly be, given the circumstances. But the messaging hasn’t resonated with voters, and the President’s poll numbers on the economy remain well underwater. In response, Biden’s frustrated media allies have started complaining about voter ignorance and bemoaning that he has been denied “credit” for the “fantastic” economy. Unfortunately for these self-appointed Biden surrogates in the media, telling voters not to believe their lying wallets is not a winning campaign strategy. If Americans continue...

The acclaimed CBS reporter who was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal before she was fired last week had her personal files seized by the network in an “unprecedented” move, sources told The Post on Thursday. Catherine Herridge — who is the middle of a First Amendment case being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among 20 CBS News staffers let go as part of a larger purge of hundreds of employees at parent company Paramount Global. Her firing had stunned co-workers, but the network’s decision to hold on to her personal materials, along with her work laptop where...

Below is my column in The Hill on the trouble brewing at CBS over the seizure of the files of acclaimed investigative reporter Catherine Herridge. The column broke the story on the uproar over not just her being laid off but her being locked out from her files. I am now hearing from CBS sources that the network is moving toward a resolution to turn over the files after the outcry. However, the concerns over Herridge’s firing and the network’s handling of her confidential notes continues to draw fire from journalists and commentators. The union issued a statement (below) after...

As we reported, Catherine Herridge was fired from CBS during a bloodbath of them cutting hundreds of employees. Her firing got the most attention because of her excellence in reporting and the suggestion that it was more than just a layoff when it came to her being let go, just after she'd been reporting on the Hur Report. That suspicion grew louder when it was learned that CBS had also seized Herridge's files, computers, and records, which included her "privileged sources." According to George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley: "The timing of Herridge’s termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington. She...

Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on its website, the company’s leadership announced this week. CEO Bruce Dixon said, “It is no longer cost effective to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,” in a memo sent to employees and shared with several media outlets Thursday. Vice is the latest in a slew of digital media companies that have been forced to lay off staff as a cost-cutting measure in an increasingly tough digital advertising market, increased fragmentation across the media landscape and fast-changing news consumption habits.

CBS News has reportedly “seized the files, computers and records” of fired investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, including information on privileged sources. “The network grabbed Herridge’s notes and files and informed her that it would decide what, if anything, would be turned over to her,” George Washington University law Professor Jonathan Turley reported at the Hill on Thursday. “The files likely contain confidential material from both her stints at Fox and CBS.” As part of a restructuring drive to boost profitability, CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, announced layoffs of hundreds of staffers last week, including Herridge. The firing of Herridge, who...

CBS reportedly seized files from Catherine Herridge, the network’s recently laid-off senior investigative correspondent. This action included materials that may reveal information about confidential sources, according to an article by Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, in The Hill. Catherine Herridge, an Emmy-winning and nominated reporter known for her work on national security and intelligence, was among the 800 employees Paramount Global laid off in a bid to streamline operations amid financial strain. Her firing has since escalated into a broader controversy. In his article titled “CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files,”...

This news is totally insane

“Well over 300,000 Americans are in graveyards today because of the misinformation, the doubt, the suspicion, the distrust that caused them to say that vaccine is not safe for me. And it continues,” Dr. Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health said in September 2022, citing a KFF estimate.Disinformation not only continues but it’s getting worse. Public trust is declining due to social media, and increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI). As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, distrust can lead to preventable deaths.Confidence continues to declineLast month, the Florida Surgeon General called for a halt to COVID-19 vaccines, saying...

Catherine Herridge, probably the best reporter that CBS has, as well as about 20 other CBS reporters, were let go in a blood bath firing by Paramount Global, with 800 people total losing their jobs. The Washington Bureau, where they covered national security and intelligence, was hit hard. The NY Post suggested there might be more than "just cost-cutting." They note sources said Herridge "had clashed" with CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews. CBS isn't talking, according to the Post. Herridge just posted on X Monday about more damaging news to Joe Biden, noting that the House Oversight Committee wanted the...

Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that’s one big reason why his first term has been so full of accomplishment: His age, often cited as the greatest obstacle to his reelection, is actually his superpower. The first presidential election in which Joe Biden was eligible to vote featured Lyndon Johnson beating Barry Goldwater. History remembers LBJ’s presidency as chaotic because of his tragic adventuring in Vietnam, but in other respects it was remarkable. His Great Society echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal (FDR was...

You think I'm kidding?You think I'm shining you on?Think again, friend-o: There is nothing shiny about me. I am sandpaper covered in coal-dust.I'm sure you already know that the New York Times' first instinct was to Pivot to Republicans Pounce:Luke Thompson is posting amusing tweets, in which he quotes a member of the partisan traitor media or a member of the traitorous Democrat Party, and then pronounces: "We have entered the Soviet grain report phase of the Biden presidency." Referencing, of course, this sort of headline that would run in Pravda every harvest season:THIS YEAR'S GRAIN HARVEST EXCEEDS ALL RECORDS...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attempted to counter claims President Biden is too old to lead the White House by bringing up that he has the ability to ride a bike - despite the embarrassing stumble he suffered in June 2022. The issue of Biden's age shot back into focus this week following a damning special prosecutor conclusion that he mishandled classified materials, but was perceived as too old for a jury to convict. It said that a jury would probably conclude that he had 'diminished faculties' and was a 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.' In a discussion on...

Special counsel Robert Hur appears to have gotten what he was after with his final report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, claimed that Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but said the evidence was insufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. And the special counsel also differentiated Biden’s handling of documents from former President Donald Trump’s. But more than anything else, Hur’s ample commentary on Biden’s memory has become fodder for far-right — and not-so-far-right — media. Which...

There are no minimally confrontational interviews with Zelensky from our "journalists". See if you can watch this short CNN interview video without feeling queasy from propaganda overdose. (CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO)

Detectives in Iowa are blaming me for b*mb threats. NBC is trying to get law enforcement to say I’m connected so that I can be investigated. That’s their goal. They want me in prison for exposing the grooming and sexualization of your kids. https://t.co/lCWVFgbvMx pic.twitter.com/TFxGwuq0a5— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) February 7, 2024

Ratings-challenged CNN canceled its scandal-scarred morning news show in a massive shakeup, the cable network announced Monday. “CNN This Morning” — launched in November 2022 with a trio of hosts that included Don Lemon before he was fired — will no longer air from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., CNN boss Mark Thompson said in a memo to staff. The show’s current co-anchors, Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly, will be reassigned, and the network will abandon producing the morning show in New York City — with the 50-person staff that worked on “CNN This Morning” from its glittering Hudson Yards...