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Sunday, June 14, 2026

On June 3, former Utah court clerks Jennifer Joma (27) and Lauren Morrow (26) were indicted on conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, harboring illegal aliens, and obstruction of proceedings before departments and agencies. Joma is also charged with transporting illegal aliens.

The case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative where the full resources of the Justice Department are being brought to bear to combat illegal immigration and its requisite cartel and transnational crime. Both women face up to 25 years in prison if convicted, and Joma is facing an extra five years for the additional charge of transporting illegal aliens.

It appears these ladies allegedly decided it was a good idea to take a page from former Milwaukee, Wisconsin, judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of a felony for helping an illegal alien avoid ICE arrest by shepherding him through a back exit to avoid the agents. You would think Dugan would be a cautionary tale; instead, these women seemingly decided she was a role model.

An indictment was unsealed, and two former Utah state court clerks have been arrested after they allegedly helped an illegal alien evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest. The clerks also allegedly obstructed immigration proceedings and the lawful enforcement of United States immigration laws by helping at least one of three other illegal aliens escape out a backdoor of the Logan City Municipal Justice Court so that ICE could not arrest or deport them.
According to allegations in court documents, on April 9, 2026, Joma and Morrow were working at the Logan City Municipal Justice Court in Logan when an ICE Enforcement and Removal Officer (ICE-ERO) entered the justice court to arrest an illegal alien for immigration related charges. The ICE officer had an administrative warrant for the illegal alien who was at the justice court for a court hearing. The ICE officer left the secure area and eventually went outside and waited in his car for his target to leave the courthouse before trying to make the lawful arrest.

Joma and Morrow allegedly accessed court databases without permission to discover the immigration status of people scheduled on the court's docket. When the two identified the non-U.S. citizens, they would find them at their courtrooms and prevent them from leaving the courthouse. And then, they allegedly pulled a Dugan, leading the illegal aliens through a secure area, down several hallways, and out through a back door of the courthouse.

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These charmers were not even hiding their glee over their actions, with one of them even giving the middle finger to the security cameras.

After sneaking out the back door of the courthouse for the first time with an alien, Morrow and Joma were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it, and Morrow used her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera. On the second trip, Joma drove off with three aliens in her car before returning alone to the courthouse for work.

Joma and Morrow appeared in U.S. District Court on Thursday morning, where they both pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them. Their attorneys are doing their jobs: trying to paint the women as good people with poor judgment who have been caught up in this "political climate."

"She had a ton of family support in the courtroom today," said Nate Duncan, attorney for Joma. "She has a sweet little three-year-old daughter. Jennifer is a sweet, wonderful person and it's a tragedy to see that she's in this situation right now."
He and Adam Crayk, the lawyer for Morrow, want to learn more about the charges, much of which could be provided in discovery. Crayk noted "the political climate" in responding to questions post-hearing.
"You're talking about people who have zero criminal history," Crayk said. "People who are good, hard-working."

One could argue that anyone with judgment that terrible should not be trusted with sensitive information and legal matters at all. If these women were "good" and "hard-working," they would not have found the time to allegedly manipulate the court system and actively thwart immigration enforcement.

Between the legal shenanigans of the defense counsel for the man charged with Charlie Kirk's murder and these two brain trusts, Utah's court system is not looking very stable or competent.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/12/what-is-up-utah-court-clerks-allegedly-hatch-a-plot-to-help-an-illegal-circumvent-ice-arrest-n2203274?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Trump Taps Special Envoy to Support US Landowners Burdened by Dems' Green Energy Mandates

Trump Taps Special Envoy to Support US Landowners Burdened by Dems' Green Energy Mandates

By Becca Lower

Country superstar John Rich has been tapped by President Trump to serve as a Special Envoy for American Landowners, the Agriculture Department (USDA) announced in a press release this week.

Rich hopped on X on June 8 to tell fans how honored he was to serve as a conduit between the federal government and the long-silenced voices of farmers, ranchers, and other landowners.

The post, which ended with an emoji of an American flag, read:

President Trump has afforded me the great honor to serve in his administration as the "Special Envoy for American Landowners." In this role, I look forward to representing and advocating for landowners’ rights against any entity that chooses to harass or intimidate them in an effort to achieve goals contrary to those of the President. I look forward to defending our farmers and ranchers

Rich already seems aware of some of the issues with which many farmers and landowners are burdened in relation to the Left's wrongheaded green energy policies. For example, on June 7, he wrote on an X post by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman:

A fight for the ages is brewing over the destruction of Upstate New York’s farmland. I’ll put my boots on the ground there soon. @GovKathyHochul is allowing foreign entities to overrun American farmers with 50 square miles of Chinese solar panels. “Love Thy Neighbor” is now the official battle cry.

John Rich isn't the only Conservative in the music world, as RedState recently wrote about Jon Ondrasik of Five for Fighting's strong endorsement of his friend, former pro sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya, for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.

He's also been a regular feature in these pages. Rep.Tim Burchett (TN-02), as we wrote earlier in June, suggested his friend Rich as an alternative performer for the Freedom 250 show; when many of the artists - like Martina McBride - dropped out.

Rep. Tim Burchett Has a Great Alternative Lineup for the 'Freedom 250' Concert That I Would be All in For

The new Special Envoy also reacted to EPA (Environment Protection Agency) administrator and former Republican New York representative, Lee Zeldin's remarks on farmers in Upstate NY being pressured by Democrats in the blue state, including from Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), over a green energy mandate.

Zeldin said bureaucrats in Albany, and the governor, were in cahoots to infringe on New Yorkers' rights, stomping on local government control, stating in a video X post that by

[o]verriding local control, Albany politicians have massively ramped up their railroading of upstate communities, forcing them to take on the burden of far more solar farms on farmland. While in the southern tier this morning, I spoke out on behalf of the many upstate residents who and opinions ignored and rejected by Governor Hochul and her henchmen of power hungry, out of touch Albany bureaucrats.

Rich replied to Zeldin's post that he was "exactly right" to take on these leftists trying to bully the landowners in his state:

While Rich might have his hands full with a successful music career, hopefully he will be able to use his microphone and platform to give some pushback to the blue state leaders trying to cram green energy down farmers' and ranchers' throats.

'We Need More Time' for Costly Climate Change Law That's Raising Utility Rates, Says NY Gov. Hochul

Here's the official announcement from USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins:

The full announcement reads:

Secretary Rollins welcomes President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of @johnrich as Special Envoy for American Landowners.
As Special Envoy, Rich will serve as a strong advocate for America’s farmers, ranchers, and private landowners, helping ensure their rights are protected ard in Washington. He will work closely with USDA and stakeholders across the country to defend private property rights and address growing concerns from landowners facing pressure related to large-scale solar and wind development that impact productive farmland and rural communities.
America’s farmers and ranchers deserve a government that stands with them. USDA looks forward to working alongside John as we continue advancing President Trump’s commitment to protecting rural America and preserving our nation’s agricultural heritage.
🔗usda.gov/about-usda/new…

Sec. Rollins said in a statement:

“America’s farmers, ranchers, and landowners are among the greatest stewards of our nation’s resources and the backbone of our rural communities
"President Trump understands that private property rights are fundamental to the American way of life. John Rich has long been a champion for rural America, and I look forward to working alongside him as we continue fighting for the people who feed, fuel, and clothe our nation.”

And here's the gracious way John Rich reacted, calling it an "honor":

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/06/11/usda-taps-john-rich-to-support-us-landowners-pressured-by-blue-state-dems-green-energy-mandates-n2203275?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Saturday, June 13, 2026

Burgum's Interior Department Says Goodbye to Woke, Kicks 43 Leftist Groups to the Curb

Burgum's Interior Department Says Goodbye to Woke, Kicks 43 Leftist Groups to the Curb

By Bob Hoge

I can’t lie, I didn’t used to pay a whole lot of attention to the Department of the Interior. If you knew that Deb Haaland was the secretary under Biden, you got me beat.

But President Trump’s pick for the job, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, has been making headlines on a regular basis, many highlighting his efforts to beautify the nation’s capital in preparation for America’s 250th birthday, a Trump priority.

Now, he’s cutting the fat at the department and nuking partnerships with a whole range of entities that undermine American pride and work against our interests. Frankly, it infuriates me that my tax dollars were going to this garbage in the first place:

The Department of the Interior is cutting 43 partnerships with outside groups it says no longer align with the Trump administration’s priorities, eliminating more than $4 million in planned funding for programs tied to DEI, environmental justice and support services for illegal immigrants.
Led by Secretary Doug Burgum, the department determined the agreements were "operating in direct opposition" to its mission, according to a press release obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.

Four million may be pocket change in Government World, but it’s still a lot of moolah:

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A number of partnerships are getting the axe, but why in the world was the federal government in business with groups that sue the administration in the first place? Emphasis mine:

Another group on the department's list was The Cultural Landscape Foundation, which it said has a master cooperative agreement with the NPS "to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities." The organization has opposed several administration initiatives, including suing over changes at the Kennedy Center, criticizing plans for a White House ballroom and highlighting cultural landscapes and historic sites it says are threatened by administration actions through its Landslide 2026: Erasing American History initiative.

The list of woke programs is eye-opening: an environmental group that advocates a "total phase out of fossil fuels," another that brings DEI programs to national parks, and another that gives instructions on avoiding getting picked up by ICE. What does that have to do with national parks and natural resources, you might wonder?

This is the mission the Interior Department should be focusing on (and Burgum, to his credit, is) — not trying to spread woke indoctrination to the American public.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/12/burgums-interior-department-says-goodbye-to-woke-kicks-43-leftist-groups-to-the-curb-n2203277?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Decay is a Choice

Decay is a Choice

by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’ve been trawling the wilds of X again. In my defense it’s the only way to find out what is actually going on in the rest of the world that the press wishes to hide.

Anyway, I fell into a talk about the reflecting pool where the title was Decay is a Choice. Like this: apparently, as far as I understand (I don’t have the history on hand just now) the story goes like this: the Obama administration spent something like 300 million to have the reflecting pool be “ecologically minded.” Meaning it was either filling from a river or from grey water (I don’t remember which) and it was lined in a “natural” way or some crap. (I honestly can’t remember, though the post I read two weeks ago described what was done in oh so green sounding words, and all sorts of eco-techno nonsense (most eco-techno is nonsense because they don’t understand engineering and don’t know reality from a hole in the ground. They’re frankly iffy on reality beyond wordage.)

On the surface, this was done for ecological and green reasons, and of course all the usual suspects applauded, but what actually happened was that within two weeks — predictably — the reflecting pool was basically open sewage with algae and goose poop. AND THEY LET IT STAY LIKE THAT.

Now you can argue that this was because they couldn’t admit failure. Sure, you could. And it probably was part of it. Heaven knows the Little Man Who Wasn’t There (Obama) was absolutely loathe to admit he might fail/have failed at anything. Or done anything wrong.

But given his not-so-hidden hate-on for our country, you know and I know he got a secret (?) frisson from the fact that the reflecting pool, supposed to reflect a monument to America’s past, was in fact open sewage. In his tiny (not a reflection of intelligence but of pettiness) mind, this reflected the true state of our country and all that jazz. In fact, at the same time they were tearing down monuments to our past and covering others in graffiti.

A post on ex, the one entitled “Decay is a Choice” was in fact hypothesizing that the left does this stuff on purpose.

I know it sounds far-fetched, but I’m sure he’s right. It’s a combination of four things:

1- They’re Marxist who think that wealth is a finite pie and somehow bringing America down will automagically bring everyone else up. (This is the opposite of reality. There should be a term for that. Not just false, but the actual opposite of reality. But Marxism is a reductionist and stupid lens to view things through.)

2- They are straight up oikophobes, imagining that places abroad, particularly those with people who tan are full of natural communists. America isn’t so America must be eeeevil. And therefore they hate us and want us to suffer.

3- They genuinely straight up love decay, filth and nastiness. You see, they are upper class keyboard muffins (thank you shesellsseashells for the lovely term) who have never experienced nastiness. To them this is what “authentic” means as opposed to their lives which they experience as plastic and too nice. For some it might be a cover for guilt for their unearned riches. For others it’s simply a kink. Nostalgie de la boue.

4- They are despicable sadists who get off on making everyone suffer. This goes with their illusion of being “elite” and wanting the “peasants” to be humiliated.

At this point you guys are looking at me like I’m nuts, but really cast your mind on the administration of the autopen and tell me if those points don’t unify everything they did, from the open border bringing in the dregs of the third world (not sending their best is the best case scenario. Most places were sending their utter worst), to letting gangs run rampant, to defunding the police, to indoctrinating kiddies on the stupid idea that slavery was the point of the country, to taking our money and giving it to people who hate our country, to not letting us have the energy we need as an industrial society, to– Everything they did really.

From the outside, it looked like America was decaying, but the decay was not organic. Decay was a choice and the choice wasn’t ours, but imposed from above.

Decay is a choice.

And it only goes on until the people decide enough is enough. Let me put it this way, as the um…. spicy stuff going on the other side of the pond shows? Decay only goes on until the governed decide they’ve had enough.

And we’ve had just about enough. We’re not getting spicy because FOR NOW our government is combating the decay.

However, California should take notice of what’s going on the other side of the pond. Because not only is decay a choice, IT IS NEVER THE CHOICE OF NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS. And it is never the choice for people who live in it. People prefer living in clean surroundings and being safe. Most normal people want to work, have a home, have a stable relationship and raise fat babies.

Anything else is being imposed upon them by a plague of academics who, for the reasons listed above (and probably others) decided that the West and PARTICULARLY America deserved decay and decline. And since they’d actually never understood decay and decline, they decided to impose it from above. Which means it’s not real. It’s Kay-fab decay and decline. Which–

People don’t like. The encoprofication of reality is not the preference of normal, healthy human beings. Of which, thank the good Lord, the US still has plenty, whatever the news tell you. (I didn’t even list above the decay of our education, which is very much a choice. There’s nothing wrong with the minds of the young. Our education establishment has worked really hard at preventing them from learning, is all.)

It is important for everyone — yes, particularly you, doomer 23900 in your dungeon — to realize that encoprofication (From coprolite) is not real. It’s a choice. It’s a mod on reality. There is no reason for it to exist. Just like there was never any real reason to stop building nuclear plants; there was never any real reason for not producing oil in the US; there was never any reason to let mentally ill and drug addicts turn our cities into cesspools; there was never any reason to destroy and spit on our past.

It is the choice of a cultural minority, which has installed itself in the seats of power and for whom this is an aesthetic and possibly sexual choice.

It is NOT OURS. And there’s no reason to allow the small group of shit-aesthetes any power.

It’s time to push their noses in. Before the necessity comes to us that came to people across the pond. Because that necessity comes with a lot of horrible choices and also inevitable pain I don’t wish on our land.

So go forth. Build under, build over, build around. Make things beautiful, shining, prosperous. There’s nothiing wrong with that, and no reason to feel ashamed of preferring it.

And annoy a Marxist today. Yes, I now it’s easy. But also every time a Marxist cries an angel gets its wings. And I don’t care if you don’t believe in angels, just do it anyway.

Go be clean and happy. And if you still can, raise fat babies. If you can’t, help someone else raise fat babies.

There’s a lot of angels needing wings.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/06/11/decay-is-a-choice/

Commie Jihadis On The Grassy Knoll

Commie Jihadis On The Grassy Knoll

It used to be that Fifth Columnists funded by foreign interests operated from the shadows, holding clandestine meetings while trying to undermine the nation. Today, however, Islamist organizations linked to both communist China and global Jihad networks openly proclaim their hatred for the United States right here in Texas.

A Texas Islamist network working to radicalize Shia Muslim students at educational institutions across the state, including Texas public universities, is made up of agents and proxies for the murderous Iranian regime.
In March, the Iranian regime and its proxies across the world organized “Al-Quds Day,” a global annual event to celebrate Hezbollah and Iranian revolutionary ideals. Several Western governments expressed alarm, with British minister Sarah Sackman, a Labour Party politician, describing Al Quds as a dangerous expression of support for the “malign regime in Iran and the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] and its proxies.”
Al Quds Day events have taken place across Texas for many years, relying on a network of Shia student organizations and their backers.
In Dallas, Shia Islamist students and youth activists protested in support of the Iranian regime on the Grassy Knoll, coordinated by two North Texas Khomeinist organizations: DFW Shias for Justice and the Ahlul-Bayt Student Association (ABSA) at the University of Texas Dallas.

It’s a good thing communist-backed individuals never committed heinous crimes in that part of Dallas before…

In a direct response to U.S. conflict with Iran, the Ahlul-Bayt Student Association has published calls for the “ummah [Muslims across the globe] to unify against our common enemy … the United States.”

Are any of those participating naturalized American citizens? If so, declaring that the United States is “your enemy” should be cause for denaturalization. After all, didn’t they swear to “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen”?

DFW Shias for Justice has, in response to a slideshow of designated terrorists from Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), expressed hope that “the blood of the martyrs … will be avenged. The Zionist entity will be no more by next Eid.”
The North Texas Al Quds Day protests also received the backing of domestic far-Left activists tied to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the Texas branch of a Sunni Islamist organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which the governor of Texas has designated as a terrorist organization.

CAIR used to show up regularly back when I was doing a regular This Week In Jihad roundup.

In Houston, the Al Quds Day protest was spearheaded by RISE Against Oppression, a Houston-based “collective of Muslim grassroots activists” involved in pro-Hamas student encampment protests in 2024.
RISE calls on Muslims to “awaken,” “impose Islamic laws,” and warns that “Islam and the teachings of the Quran should prevail in all countries. … it should advance on all regions of the world.”
The Al Quds event was also promoted by the University of Houston’s Ahlul Bayt Student Organization, along with far-Left China-linked organizations such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

You may remember the Party for Socialism and Liberation from such hits as “let’s try to mostly peacefully burn down Los Angeles.”

Footage from the Houston rally revealed Iranian regime rhetoric and praise for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, who earlier this year ordered the murder of tens of thousands of Iranian protesters, and was responsible for the murder of many hundreds of Americans.
One speaker at the 2026 Houston Al-Quds Day, Muzzamil Zaidi, is a prominent regime advocate, who in in 2020 was the subject of a federal investigation in which the Department of Justice stated that Zaidi and his coconspirators “have considerable operational links to the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps],” a U.S-designated terrorist organization. In 2024, Zaidi and the other defendants pleaded guilty “for their roles in an illicit scheme to collect tens of thousands of dollars from the United States to Iran, including in the name of Ayatollah Ali Husseini Khamenei.”

Given the conflict with Iran, shouldn’t we be reviewing all jihad-friendly NGOs and suspending or dissolving those with ties to the IRGC?

RISE, the University of Houston Ahlul Bayt Student Organization, and Muslim Congress (a Khomeinist organization which assists with the organization of Al Quds Day events across the United States) all operate out of the Islamic Education Center of Houston, a leading radical Shia mosque in the city.
While the Islamic Education Center serves as an important base for Shia students in Houston, the mosque’s imam is reportedly “directly appointed by the office of [Iran’s] Supreme Leader.” And in 2022, the mosque filmed a performance by school-age children at the mosque, in which they pledged allegiance to Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, singing: “[Khamenei] is calling on his children, his soldiers… In spite of my age, I will be your army’s commander…May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, I will sacrifice everything for you…”

Shouldn’t pledging allegiance to a foreign leader count as cause for losing your religious tax-exempt status?

Several national Khomeinist organizations partner with student members of the Ahlul Bayt network. The Texas-registered Camp Arafah, for instance, organizes retreats for student activists across the country. In a possible violation of U.S. Treasury sanctions, Camp Arafah claims to collect khums [a Shia tithe] on behalf of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, an act for which it must have expressly secured an ijazah [license] from Khamenei’s office. Camp Arafah instructors include Iranian-trained operatives and clerics, such as Samira Rizvi, a University of Houston graduate who moved to the regime’s clerical base in Qom in 2012.
Other Shia student graduates in Texas have founded new mosques in the state, including the Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association mosque in Austin. The Austin mosque’s imam, Jafar Muhibullah, studied at the Iranian regime’s flagship seminary in Qom, later receiving a doctorate from the University of Tehran. In a presentation for a regime-controlled media outlet in Iran, Muhibullah praises the “victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979.” In sermons, Muhibullah refers to “our leader [Iranian Supreme Leader] Ayatollah Khamenei.”

That’s the mosque that’s less than a mile from my house.

All NGOs with communist and jihadist ties should be enjoying deep forensic audits to ensure they have no ties to international terrorist and jihadist organizations. And those that do should be sued and dissolved for breaking the law.

And while natural born American citizens have the First Amendment right to spout off stupid political opinions, it doesn’t mean that people here on visas or green cards have the same right.

Let a thousand (more) deporations bloom.

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=71974

Friday, June 12, 2026

The AP Amazingly Declares in Court It Does Not Need to Follow Its Own AP Stylebook

The AP Amazingly Declares in Court It Does Not Need to Follow Its Own AP Stylebook

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Both Kinds of Standards – ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sooooo…you are not beholden to your own standards?!

In a truly perplexing argument in court, lawyers for the Associated Press are arguing that the outlet should not be held to the standards and definitions spelled out in…the AP Stylebook.

In the defamation case, lawyers for military veteran Zachary Young say the AP was wrong to describe his business of exfiltration efforts as “human smuggling,” a definition declaring illegal activity. His team noted that this was the case based on the AP Stylebook outlining that the term is for illegal acts.

Lawyers for the news syndicate have actually made the argument that the term did not necessarily apply to this particular report on Young, despite the use of that term dozens of times in other reports, both before and after its coverage on Young. Simply amazing and desperate contortions.

When The New York Times came out with its report on Graham Platner and his past troubles with a number of relationships, the featured player in that exposé was Lyndsey Fifield. Hers was the most damning of testimonies, and she was also scorched by many on the Left for being an active conservative in D.C. Also brought up was some of her claims being unverified, which brought her more scorn.

After the article came out, Fifield said many of her comments and pieces of corroborating evidence were disregarded by The Times. Now she has sat in with The Free Press to give a fuller dose of background and clarify her positions. Notable too is TFP said it spoke with others who corroborate what Fifield went through at the time.

You have to appreciate this explanation from The New York Times about its coverage of Fifield. Note the last four words:

A spokesperson for The New York Times said the story “accurately presents each of these accounts as told to our reporters and according to our standards.”

Democratic Custodial Services – NBC NEWS / TODAY SHOW

You have to savor how they try to make this sound like a minimal story few have heard of.

On Today, they covered the Platner win in the primary election, and the description of his biggest problem is humorously pathetic.

In describing some of the issues, the best here was the line that he is accused of having, “a tattoo some say resembles a Nazi symbol.”

“Some say” is bad enough, but pretending the Totenkopf skull has not been confirmed is simply sad and desperate.

Legalized Press-titution – MS NOW

Joe, wipe the drool from your lips.

After Graham Platner won his largely uncontested primary, Morning Joe had him on to spike the football and launch his new campaign against Susan Collins.

Scar-Joe was at his obsequious best, all intending to get Platner down the runway. He dismissed the mounting list of problems with this guy as “so-called scandals” and then tried shielding him from future issues by dredging up the claim he suffers from PTSD. This was pure shameless servile pandering.

Gilded Reframe – VARIOUS OUTLETS

Interesting that the claims of bias are not heard regarding this named individual.

As the CBS News drama continues, the latest development has surrounded whether or not Bari Weiss is going to be assigned a “handler” by Paramount executives, and also whether or not she will be overseeing CNN, once the merger is completed.

Axios has come out with a report that it has obtained a list of possible names who could be tabbed to oversee CNN. One of those listed as a prospect is Ben Sherwood. He is the CEO of the blatantly leftist outlet The Daily Beast.

Considering we have endured perpetual wailing from those in the press about Weiss taking the network to the Right (and Sherwood’s own site declaring CBS is MAGA-influenced), we do not see any hand-wringing or pearl-clutching over the possibility of CNN being pulled to the extreme Left.

News Avoidance Syndrome – VARIOUS OUTLETS

So no curiosity that there could have been more reasons behind that decision?

The news that a referee from Somalia was denied access into the country to work the World Cup had many lunging for their keyboards to say the decision was due to racism and/or President Trump’s crude immigration policies.

Apparently, many believe that the immigration bans set up to keep out undesirables should be waived for soccer-related instances. Moving aside this ref could have been assigned to the games played in Canada or Mexico, it took Bill Melugin to actually reach out to immigration authorities and learn this individual tried to come in with improper documentation and was found to have connections to terror groups, the very type of people cited for denial of entry into our country.