It's funny because it's true

One of the best jokes I've heard about the Sydney Sweeney "controversy" is that American men are going to invade Poland.

Democrats Announce 2028 Campaign Slogan: 'We Hate Capitalism, Hot Chicks, And The Jews' https://t.co/aoCQeAgg2t pic.twitter.com/WTdyowMFbK

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 31, 2025

That happened

Twitchy: "Time for America's LEAST Favorite Show: 'Amy Klobuchar's Fictional Tales From the Grocery Store'." 

Why do they tell these obviously false stories?  Nobody's buying this. 

The Washington Post comes *so* close

They almost posted an editorial critical of judicial overreach without equivocation but they had to appease their readers with a "but Trump" add-on comment.

This White House has aggressively tried to withhold federal money from programs it dislikes. Those efforts have rightly faced scrutiny in the courts because the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse.

A case out of Massachusetts is different. There, a federal judge has blocked an act of Congress — not an executive order but legislation — steering Medicaid funds away from abortion providers. Allocating public money is Congress’s core competency. Yet U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani not only countermanded Congress’s spending choice in a preliminary injunction, she also refused to stay her ruling pending appeal. This is the kind of lower court activism that gives the Trump administration fodder for its attacks on judges.

Let's not ever forget the real crime is adding credence to Trump's complaints.

The 2030 census is gonna be lit

Red State: "Outmigration Is Killing Illinois, and Democrats Can't Fix It." 

This totally tracks

Babylon Bee: "Federal Judge Orders Sydney Sweeney To Gain 100 Pounds And Get One Of Those Butch Haircuts." 

A rogue judge tries to overturn federal law

The media keeps trying to play it like this clown judge is striking down a Trump executive order.  She's literally trying to override a law passed by Congress.  Trump has nothing to do with it!  Powerline: "A rogue judge begs for reversal."

She's lining up her social calendar:

Judge Talwani’s order is more a left-wing cri de cœur than a legal document. It will be reversed on appeal, like so many other politically-motivated orders. But Talwani will be celebrated in faculty lounges and left-wing cocktail parties.

Yup.

Worst ever

Red State: "'Democratic Brand Is So Bad': Panic Among Capitol Hill Dems After Release of Devastating New Poll."

Cue the standard excuse about "messaging."

Democrats have hit a 35 year low in approval ratings per @wsj poll. They’ve completely lost men and are working on losing sane women too. It’s not a messaging issue, voters hear what they are saying and just hate it. pic.twitter.com/S2PwqrAaym

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 26, 2025

Unintentional humor

Via Real Clear Politics, here's an actual article in the Guardian titled: "We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty?"  Here's the penultimate paragraph:

And there are artists beginning to organize. The poet Michael Klein is creating a new podcast calling writers “to take our language back in writing a way through the various veils of deceit–an act, which in itself, has always been a form of resistance”. Meena Jagannath, a movement lawyer, is gathering artists and activists in salons to deepen our collective investigation and imaginative co-creation. She told me: “Our charge in these times is to support each other in building protagonism – a sense that we have agency to contest fascist narratives about how the world is and should be. It needs to be a collective, creative and responsive process that takes in what’s going out there and alchemizes it into a more expansive imagination of what could and should be.”

Oh no, not "alchemizing!" It would take a heart of stone to not laugh at this puffery. 

Chuck Todd's enduring bias

Jonathan Turley: "“I Make Choices”: Chuck Todd Slams Hunter Biden Interviews as Bad for Democrats and Biden." - "Now, he is irate over the Hunter Biden interviews last week. What is telling, however, is that he is not lashing out at the content but the fact that the media interviewed a figure who proved so damaging for the Democrats and President Biden." 

I read this to find out who the conservative was

NY Post: "Colbert’s left-wing ‘Late Show’ became ‘therapy’ session for liberals: study."

Since 2022, Colbert has hosted 176 left-leaning guests and only one Republican on soon-to-be cancelled “The Late Show,” according to a study by media watchdog NewsBusters — a staggering imbalance that has tracked with his 2025 guest list.

It was Liz Cheney.  🙄

These people are insufferable

Washington Post: "They’re rich. They’re anti-Trump. And they don’t want their big tax cut. - Affluent voters have become more Democratic in recent years — and are also some of the biggest winners in the GOP tax bill."

So don't take it!  Write a check to the US Treasury.  Nobody is stopping you!  This is so much moral vanity and humblebragging. 

A self-own for the ages

Outkick: "Shockingly Dumb Democrats Forced To Delete Tweet After It Inadvertently Showed How Bad Things Were Under Biden"

This is what happens when your organization is being run by college interns:

Are The Democrats even a serious party? pic.twitter.com/YN5ZcH0Ha3

— Gator Gar (@yalligatorgar) July 24, 2025

Insert Dr. Krieger quote here

Red State: "It Looks Like Donald Trump and Elon Musk May Have Nuked Media Matters Into Oblivion."

Gee, ever since USAID was de-funded, all these left-wing groups are collapsing one-by-one.  What a strange coincidence!

"My words as a Biden"

Twitchy: "'The Audacity to Grope': X Suggests Titles for Joe Biden's Memoir and BAHAHA Here Are Some of the Best." 

I would also accept: "Stuff my ghostwriter wrote." 

How does supply and demand work?

Reason: "Rent Prices Are Falling Fast in America's Most Pro-Housing Cities - From January 2024 to January 2025, average rent in Sarasota fell from $3,290 to $1,886 per month."

Meanwhile, future NYC mayor Mamdani is promising rent controls.  Let's all keep a close eye on rental prices in the Big Apple once they're "capped." 

Rampell, Capehart, and Bump

They're cleaning house at the Washington Post.

It's glorious, and right after Colbert!  What a time to be alive.

Rogue judges gonna rogue

The Corner: "Judge Talwani Wants to Abolish Congress."

I can't believe this is still a thing after recent Supreme Court decisions.

Like buying a ticket on the Titanic

...and it's already sinking.  AP: "Billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times says he will take the newspaper public in the coming year."

This is nuts: who is going to invest into a company that loses millions each year?

Colbert enters the Howard Stern spiral

Ace: "Scott Pinsker: CBS's Decision to Leave Colbert On the Air Even Though He's Cancelled Puts Them In a Stinky Howard-Stern Hole."

As Ace notes, Colbert is going to pander to a smaller and smaller group of hangers-on making a play for an MSNBC slot until CBS is forced to fire him.  That's exactly what he wants because victimhood and martyrdom is the coin of the realm on the Left. 

If there's any justice in this world, Jimmy Kimmel will be close behind.  They can be victims together.

Extra - Outkick: "Stephen Colbert Cancellation, South Park Extension Shows Major Vibe Shift in Comedy." 

This is why we can't have nice things

Powerline: "The jerks are everywhere." - "A privately educated “queer dance artist” unfurled a Palestinian flag while on stage at the Royal Opera House before tussling with a stagehand who tried to wrest it from him." 

Extra - Spiked Online: "Posh Twats for Palestine - How Israelophobia became the favoured hobby of the filthy rich."

The Telegraph has Perry’s backstory. He attended an eye-wateringly expensive school in leafy Hertfordshire. He’s nonbinary – sorry, they’re nonbinary. He’s a self-styled ‘queer’ dancer. He seems blissfully unaware that if he ever set foot in Gaza the only pirouette he’d be doing is a mid-air one as Hamas hurled him off a tall building. He recently wore a ‘Free Palestine’ t-shirt to a performance of Cabaret, the musical about the Weimar Republic that foreshadows the rise of the Nazis and the burning of the Jews.

All the world's a stage to these assholes. 

He was losing CBS $40 million a year

The Corner: "Ultimately, Math Ended The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

You can be like Chris Hayes, Brian Stelter, Vox, The New Republic, Adam Schiff, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other progressives, and choose to believe you live in a world where the ending of The Late Show is a sinister plot by spineless, cowardly corporate executives who are terrified of irking President Trump and who desperately want the Federal Communications Commission to approve the merger of CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global, with Skydance Media. (And, it should be noted, Colbert’s choice to  turn the show into a four-nights-a-week version of the speaker list at the quadrennial Democratic National Convention.)  That is a dramatic world, with noble heroes and dastardly villains, plotting against the interests of the public, punishing a brave comedian, smashing dissent, and bending the knee in obedience to a ruthless, vindictive, power-mad president.

Or you choose to believe you live in a world where the ending of the show is a reflection of the fact that CBS was losing $40 million each year on the show, as the Wall Street Journal reports today. And as much fun as it would be to blame Colbert for being greedy and making the show unprofitable with his $20 million per year salary, with numbers like that, the show would still be unprofitable even if he worked for free.

What interesting about all these eulogies for Colbert is that nobody is saying "he was funny."  Instead it's all the usual "truth to power" claptrap that the Left loves to imagine gives them credibility.  It was never a comedy show that people wanted to watch; it was a therapy session for TDS.

It finally happened

NBC News: "Trump's cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid clear Congress - The $9 billion package passed the House and the Senate with only Republican votes through the rarely used "rescissions" process. Trump is now expected to sign it into law."

I'm old enough to remember when Mitt Romney was raked over the coals for suggesting that the toy and merchandising powerhouse of Sesame Street maybe could pay for their own production costs.  And so after decades of threatened cuts that never materialized, I can understand why the Corporation for Public Broadcasting felt like they could continue their slide to the Left without any consequences.

Consequences are here.

Flashback - to the Uri Berliner piece that started this ball rolling: "I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust." 

It's a "California farm"

 

Stephen Colbert finally made me laugh

Deadline: "‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Ending Next Year With CBS Retiring Late-Night Franchise."

In a shocking move, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is ending in May 2026.

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season.  We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time."

You did it, Stephen: you killed "The Late Show."

CBS said this was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night”. “It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” the trio added.

Oh, perish the thought!  Surely the guy who has spent virtually every second of his (now dead) show pushing one political viewpoint didn't contribute to its demise.  "It must be the late night landscape!" laughed Greg Gutfeld. 

Pop quiz for Colbert: do you know who's going to have a job this summer?  Donald Trump.

Extra - Legal Insurrection: "CBS Cancels Colbert — Left-Wing Conspiracy Theories Follow - [The Right] saw a fading genre getting one last round of applause before the curtain fell, and a Democratic Party so deep in its echo chamber, it probably thinks canceling a late-night show is a threat to democracy." 

People will die! (if not already dead from net neutrality)

Good gravy, every single thing is a life-threatening disaster to these drama queens: "Patty Murray Is So Upset the Republicans Voted to Defund Public Broadcasting She Has to Lie About It." 

It takes hard work to be this bad

Twitchy: "You're Doing GREAT, Democrats! Party Approval Now Below 20% With NO SIGNS of Improving Any Time Soon." 

He was always an empty suit

Federalist: "Biden Was Never Fit For Office To Begin With - Who approved the Biden administration’s 11th-hour clemency decisions and authorized use of the autopen? Because it certainly wasn’t Biden."

Please please please

As Sabrina Carpenter might say: please defund NPR and PBS.  I would be so happy.  Red State: "Sen. John Kennedy Wrecks NPR Head After Her Hot Take on Bias and Rural Communities." 

Extra - Hot Air: "NPR Is the Only Thing Saving Poor, Barefooted Children From the Information Kalahari." 

Absolute nutcase

Twitchy: "'Tim Walz Wanted Me to Kill Amy Klobuchar': Killer's Letter Released."

This guy is either legit crazy or he's trying for an insanity defense. 

There's one big tell in this story

Ace: "Not Even the Leftist Simp NYT Believes That Biden Signed His Pardons."

The NY Times reported that allegedly Biden was keeping his staff up until 10pm discussing the pardons.  There's no way Biden was up after sundown.  Not a chance.

All the evidence indicates the Biden White House is trying to get ahead of the story:

This is simply not evidence that exonerates Biden, and its release in this way has all the hallmarks of Team Biden soft-launching what GOP-led investigations will find. pic.twitter.com/WxWfSPHFqU

— Sarah Bedford (@sarahcbedford) July 14, 2025

Burn it down and start over

Shot: "The American Education System Is Letting Our Students Down - This isn’t going to change until we clean out or replace our educational institutions. We need teachers and professors who are dedicated to transmitting knowledge, not their political beliefs."

Chaser: "Surprise! SCOTUS Gives Trump Big Win on Education Dept Layoffs."

I've said this before: how badly must a government department fail to shut it down as a wasteful and inept agency?  Look at the kids in America right now.  The Department of Education has failed, utterly. 

Because it's so much easier to be a "victim"

American Thinker: "Why So Many Young Americans Fall for Socialism." 

Washington Post: there's the door

Jonathan Turley: "Post Editor to Staff: Get on Board or Get Out."

In other words, please leave now.

In some ways, Bezos and Lewis have faced the same challenge as executives at other companies, from Facebook to X, in changing a culture. You cannot do it with a staff created for an entirely different purpose. The Post has spent years advancing advocacy journalism over objectivity, promulgating false claims, and feeding the echo chamber on the left.

One of the reasons that X was able to make such a rapid turnaround is that Musk got rid of much of the staff. Facebook has also been pushing for massive staff reductions and changes. The problem at the Post is not the ship, it is the crew.

Many of us are rooting for Lewis in seeking to right this ship. We need the Washington Post back as a leading newspaper committed to traditional journalism.

In my opinion, it all went south for the Washington Post when they adopted their smug slogan of "Democracy dies in Darkness" and planted their flag on the anti-Trump Left.  Readers saw that the paper was not fair and objective and reacted accordingly.  

The judiciary branch is falling apart

A drama in three acts:

Fox News: "Boston judge accused of helping illegal alien evade ICE agent, escape courthouse faces hearing - Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph faces judicial misconduct hearing."

Red State: "Things Just Got Even Crazier With the Judge Who Blocked Congress From Defunding Planned Parenthood." 

Federalist: "KBJ Keeps Showing America Why She Doesn’t Belong On SCOTUS." 

So here are three judges who are either actively undermining the law or outright breaking it.  The Supreme Court tried to tamp down on these runaway district judges but they don't even care about the legal underpinnings of their rulings.

The only thing I can think of that John Roberts can do to restore order is to fast-track the appeal process to quickly overturn these crazy nationwide restraining orders. 

Luigi is their hero

Good essay from Victor Davis Hanson: "The Roots of Leftist Rage." 

The kids are leaving Boston

Boston Globe: "Let’s talk about the families that leave Boston - Lamenting the flight of families to the suburbs used to be code for lamenting the loss of white families. But now those famiies are multiracial. The city needs to keep more of them here." 

Boston is turning into a place where people just go to work.

Tell us how you really feel, Jamie

Outkick: "JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Blasts Democrats As ‘Idiots’ With ‘Little Brains’" - "The Democrat Party is in free fall, thanks to bad policies that don’t work"

One of the most powerful executives in the financial industry did not mince words when talking about the modern Democrat Party.

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, absolutely went off on the political left, its terrible ideas, and even worse execution.

"I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots," Dimon said, per Bloomberg, while speaking at a foreign-ministry event in Ireland. 

"I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out has failed," he added.

It's because the liberal left believes in good intentions over actual results.  I'll give you a recent example: demolition of the Francis Scott Key bridge is starting next week, over a year after it was destroyed by an errant ship.  Just now they're finally getting around to clearing the debris and the rebuilt bridge won't be ready until 2028.

What were Baltimore/Maryland/Washington doing up until now?  To ask is to answer.

Extra - The Hill: "New poll delivers troubling signs for Democrats" 

More good intentions: "How New York Dems Lit $100 Million On Fire Buying Lights."  It's only (taxpayer) money.

No - no they can't

Steven Malanga at City Journal: "Could City-Owned Grocery Stores Survive New York’s Shoplifting Plague? - The root of Gotham’s “food desert” problem is growing crime and disorder, not greed or profiteering."

Clown show

Hot Air: "Chris Cillizza: By George, I Think Biden's Team is Trying to Hide His Decline!"

In the final year of his presidency, Joe Biden’s top aides — and his wife, Jill —hid him from the media and the public in ways that we are only now beginning to fully grasp.

What do you mean by "we" kemosabe?  This is straight from the Jake Tapper playbook: gosh, even though we're "journalists" we're just continuously baffled by these wily Democrats! 

GFY, assclowns.  You dragged Brett Kavanaugh through the mud on an obvious lie but when Biden starts talking to dead people somehow it's too hard to put the pieces together.  I'm not even here to re-hash Biden's decline but I refuse to let these media jerks pretend they didn't see it.

This you, bro?

New poll numbers are in

Politico: "Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’ - A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies." 

Guess who was the dissenting vote in the 8-1 decision

You have three guesses and the first two don't count: "Supreme Court Hands Trump White House a Major Win, and Slaps Down Justice Jackson Again."

You know for someone who has been criticized as a DEI hire, Jackson sure does her damnest to look like a DEI hire.  When you're being criticized by Sonia "Bake me a cake" Sotomayor, you're really out to sea.

A history of violence

Ace: "An Armed Gunman Shoots Border Patrol Guards In an "Ambush" As Axios Reports Rich White Democrats Are Demanding Actual Violence and a Literal Bloody Revolution Against Trump."

PJ Media: "Democrat Voters Demand Blood to Stop Trump." 

What an unexpected surprise.  How could this happen?

Accidental journalism

Legal Insurrection: "NY Times Felt Need To Explain Its Mildly Critical Piece on Zohran Mamdani - “That’s a lot of words to say you accidentally did a journalism and now you’re sad about it because it might hurt the commie.”

Extra - Jonathan Turley: "New York Times Struggles to Explain Why It Reported News to Traumatized Readers." 

This dude is SO bad at his job

Twitchy: "Hakeem Jeffries Pivots When Asked About Zohran Mamdani Checking 'Black' on His College Application."

Jeffries has a habit of never answering the question he's asked.  It really doesn't matter what you say to him - he's going to fall back on this same familiar phrases and diversions. 

The WSJ reports

Wall Street Journal: "No One is ‘Gutting’ the Safety Net - The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about their reforms or lose the 2026 election." 

That ship has sailed, CBS News

Outkick: "Don't Worry, John Dickerson: CBS News Lost The Public's Trust Long Before Settlement With Trump - The damage to public faith in legacy media is serious."

It's amazing to me that over the past ten years the mainstream media has become so self-destructive.  They'd rather drive their business into the ground than report the news without bias. 

Happy Fourth of July!

Reason: "The Fourth of July Is a Celebration of Freedom—From Government - The belief that limited government best protects individual rights turned out to be America’s secret sauce." 

Voting with their feet

PJ Media: "The Second American Civil War Will Be Fought Mostly by U-Hauls." 

Like all communists

Tilting at Windmills: "Mamdani is dangerous, but also pretty stupid."

It's sad but true but there will always be people around trying to grab other people's money.

The panic won't work anymore

Bethany Mandel: "Democrats cry wolf over Medicaid cuts."

Case in point: "AOC on Verge of Tears Is a Sure Sign the BBB is a Home Run for the American People."

The "everybody is going to die!" tactic has lost its power.

Regrets, they have a few

Hot Air: "NY Times: There Really Was a Gang Problem in Aurora, Colorado."

It turns out the mainstream media denied there was a gang problem because Trump said there was.  Now the truth can be told.  I like this comment on the NY Times website:

Denial of the problems opened the door for the making the harsh measures employed by the Trump administration acceptable.  Failure on the progressive side directly lead to the current policies.  I don't like where we are, but Its clear how we got there.

Yup!  Now the left and the media (I repeat myself) are firmly on the side of "Maryland Man."

Alas, no apology

Ace: "CBS, Paramount Settle With Trump Over Word-Salad Election Interference Case - Update: CBS Lies About the Settlement"

How strange: yet another corporate news source settled a lawsuit just before the discovery phase. 

Over at Mediagazer, they link to dozens of sources reporting on the "60 Minutes" capitulation to Trump and most of these stories say something along the line that this case was winnable for CBS News:

Legal observers spanning the ideological spectrum say Trump's lawsuit — which had sought $20 billion in damages — spuriously alleges election interference over the kind of discretionary editorial choices that routinely confront broadcast journalists.

Know what none of these stories will show?  The actual video of Kamala's word salad.  That's too much information for common Americans to watch and make up their own mind about election interference.

Still: by the time he's done, Trump is going to have an epic Presidential library. 

This looks like a comedy skit

🚨 The Democratic Doctors Caucus press conference isn't going so well pic.twitter.com/XTunL597jI

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 2, 2025

The Leftist media in a nutshell

This sentence right here sums up everything I despise about the Left-wing media.  From Annie Lowrey at the Atlantic:

The proposal would permanently fix the top income-tax rate at 37 percent and make a number of other fiddly changes, including giving a tax break to high-income households in high-tax states and exempting mammoth inheritances from taxation.

It's just never enough.  A 10% tithe was good enough for God but heaven forfend somebody pays less than one-third of their income to the government.  Also, we have to grab that inheritance cash that's already been taxed when it's earned, saved, spent and invested.  One more tax for Uncle Sam!

What's a fair share?  You'll never get an answer. 

What happened to Lloyd Dobler?

Fox News: "Far-left actor John Cusack says Iran 'should get' nukes to protect Middle East from US and Israel." 

What is wrong with these people?