Justin Baragona

Just imagine the thermonuclear reaction -- not just from Fox News, but the legacy media sphere -- if any Democratic president said this about the GOP during a speech to a military branch.

Meanwhile, this won't even stay in the news cycle 24 hours, if at all.

I still don't understand why people keep calling these guys fascists

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

New twist as senator’s wife files suit accusing late assistant of massive theft Exclusive: Nancy Bass Wyden told The Independent that Brandon O’Brien made a ‘deliberate effort ... to ingratiate himself with [my] children over time, gaining their trust in order to twist isolated i...

This has to be one of the craziest stories I've ever read!

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CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

Fox News: SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE! SHUT UP AND SING! Celebrities need to stop spouting out their political views. Keep politics out of our entertainment!

Also Fox News:

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

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“[Howard Lutnick] has a reputation for spouting things publicly that make the already cartoonish administration look even more like a caricature,"

a Trump admin official told @swin24.bsky.social after Lutnick called Epstein 'the greatest blackmailer ever’

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Fox News' Martha MacCallum to ICE chief: "So Portland gives their crime numbers as lower. Homicide is dramatically lower. Rape down, robbery down, aggravated assault. These are the numbers they’re presenting to bolster their side of the argument that they don’t need the extra help. What do you say?"

Conservative influencer Nick Sortor among those arrested after fights break out at Portland ICE facility Sortor posted Friday morning about his arrest on social media, telling PPB to "lawyer up." The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his arrest.

Pam Bondi's DOJ now running interference for far right influencers arrested by local cops in Portland. Opens investigation into arrest of Nick Sortor www.kgw.com/article/news...

And both Posobiec and Andrew Kolvet, the Turning Point USA spokesperson that’s been continuing Kirk’s podcast, both explicitly blamed the SPLC for Kirk’s murder on their show last night

BERMAN: The private sector jobs from ADP, not great. And if you at the jobs reports going back to spring, not great either. Why are jobs lagging?

CHAVEZ-DeREMER: Well certainly, what we inherited from Biden

B: But why is it headed in wrong direction?

CD: We have the strongest economy in the world

Over the past few weeks, Fox News and Republicans have been raging over liberals' "dangerous" rhetoric, saying they are the only ones calling their political opponents "evil."

Meanwhile, here's the president posting a message that says Democrats "are the party of hate, evil, and Satan."

American trust in media hits all-time low, with GOP confidence now in single digits In its annual measurement of American adults’ confidence in mass media, Gallup found only 28 percent of respondents said they had at least a fair amount of trust in the press.

Who could have guessed that when media organizations capitulate to a president who describes them as "fake news" unless they are full-on sycophantic propagandists, that trust in the free press will continue to plummet?

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New article from The Free Press My Favorite Actress Is Not Human “Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen. Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. By Tyler Cowen 10.02.25

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

Exclusive | Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.

I like how the NY Post portrays this as an "exclusive" when it has been known for weeks that Bari Weiss is getting a top position at CBS News and Ellison is buying The Free Press.

Also, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social had the editor-in-chief detail earlier this week.

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Elon Musk leads calls to ‘Cancel Netflix’ in response to LGBT+ show The tech CEO’s comments were shared with his 227 million followers, with Netflix’s shares dropping by 2.2 percent after he called for the boycott

The free speech absolutist strikes again.

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Mike Johnson offers advice to Hakeem Jeffries about racist Trump sombrero videos ‘Look, these are games. These are sideshows. People are getting caught up in battles over social media memes,’ Mike Johnson said on Thursday.

"Just ignore it."

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lol

Newsmax host Bianca de la Garza: "Portland's governor apparently doesn't think any of this is a problem."

ANTIFA BATTLES IN PORTLAND

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

“This is not stretching the envelope. This is shredding it. This is tearing it apart,” Geoffrey S. Corn, a retired judge advocate general lawyer who was formerly the Army’s senior adviser for law-of-war issues, told the New York Times.

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We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in.

If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

Right-wing journalist says ‘antifa-affiliated’ Portland protester gave her black eye ‘Katie ended up with a black eye, courtesy of ‘trantifa.’ They/them still on the loose,’ Jesse Watters snarked on Wednesday night.

Once Trump sees these Fox News segments about this MAGA reporter's "antifa-affiliated" black eye, how many more troops is he going to send to Portland?

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Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer: "[Zohran Mamdani] was asked yesterday if you are a communist. He said, 'No. I'm a democratic socialist. I believe in dignity for all people.'"

Dana Perino and Karl Rove laugh.

Hemmer: "I mean..."

Or, in other words, they need to bail out farmers and manufacturers because of the tariffs Trump implemented.

Ted Cruz v @tedcruz X.com The 44 Senate Democrats who voted for Schumer's Shutdown should know that the Sombrero posting will continue until they re-open our government. Hey, Macarena! [photo of Amy Klobuchar that’s been altered]

Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. It’s set to the song Macarena.

What the fuck are we doing here?

Well, she was...

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League, FBI director says The FBI said on Wednesday it had cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish group that tracks antisemitism, after Republicans criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a glossary on extremism.

welp

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Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.

immediately leaks, ofc

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