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Taylor Lorenz’s Fawning Over Alleged United Assassin Is Normalizing Political Violence 

On Sunday’s episode of CNN’s MisinfoNation, self-proclaimed “journalist” Taylor Lorenz played apologist for alleged murderer Luigi Mangione — who is accused of gunning down a health care CEO in cold blood. Lorenz shamelessly described Mangione as a “morally good man” and a “revolutionary,” even cracking jokes when addressing criticisms leveled at him.

But there is nothing humorous about murder. Lorenz’s dismissive attitude is not just tasteless; it’s part of a broader, calculated effort by the left to normalize political violence and numb the American public to its rising frequency.

“It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America, as if we don’t lionize criminals, as if we don’t have, you know, we don’t stan murderers of all sorts, and we can give them Netflix shows,” Lorenz joked. “There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and the angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.”

Lorenz continued: “You’re going to see women especially that feel like, Oh my God, right? Like, here’s this man, who, who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person that seems … like this morally good man, which is hard to find.”

Lorenz even likened the fandom around Mangione to that surrounding President Donald Trump: “They want somebody to take on this system. … They want someone to tear down these barbaric establishment institutions.”

But UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a “barbaric establishment institution.” He was the father of two, he was someone’s son, and he was the victim of a murder. But that matters naught to Lorenz, who previously went viral after she said she felt “joy” when learning of Thompson’s murder.

But the left seeks to make political violence acceptable. It’s classic Marxist theory, as explained in these pages by J.T. Young.

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New York Times Lies About Why Kash Patel Suspended Analyst Key To FBI Corruption

The New York Times continues to cover up government corruption, on April 11 hitting FBI Director Kash Patel for suspending analyst Brian Auten nearly a decade after Auten helped Democrats frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset. The NYT headline reads, “F.B.I. Suspends Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List,” not something accurate such as “FBI Suspends Employee Who Illegally Abused Government Power To Protect Democrat Presidential Candidates.”

Predictably, other corporate media outlets took the same corrupt angle, notably an April 12 NBC article by “Fusion Ken” Dilanian and Alexandra Marquez.

Dilanian is known as a Democrat propaganda mouthpiece, particularly for spreading lies created by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Trump as a Russian asset. Those lies came from probable Russian assets such as Christopher Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko, meaning Clinton and Dilanian may have used actual Russian propaganda to falsely accuse their political enemies of … spreading Russian propaganda. Dilanian once described the now widely discredited Steele, whom the FBI paid for information, as “James Bond.”

The Clinton campaign paid Steele to fabricate lies about Trump in a “dossier” that Democrat operatives in the government helped launder through U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, including the FBI. Auten was the top FBI “analyst” assigned to verify the dossier. His team, he testified to Congress in 2020, could not verify any of its salacious allegations that included the infamous “golden showers” nonsense.

So Auten knew the “dossier” was full of lies as early as 2017. Yet Auten’s “Crossfire Hurricane” FBI team still used the unverifiable, false material to back secret warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, fueling further leaks of false information that saddled Trump’s first term with investigations and clouds of public suspicion.

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Trump Says “Out Of Control” CBS’ 60 Minutes Should “Lose License”

Late Sunday night, President Donald Trump unleashed a Truth Social bomb, accusing CBS’ 60 Minutes of routinely airing “derogatory and defamatory” stories about him — but said this weekend’s broadcast on the left-wing network “tops them all.”

“Almost every week, 60 Minutes, which is being sued for Billions of Dollars for the fraud they committed in the 2024 Presidential Election with their Interview of Failed Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, mentions the name “TRUMP” in a derogatory and defamatory way, but this weekend’s “BROADCAST” tops them all,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

The president continued: “They did not one, but TWO, major stories on “TRUMP,” one having to do with Ukraine, which I say is a War that would never have happened if the 2020 Election had not been RIGGED, in other words, if I were president and, the other story was having to do with Greenland, casting our Country, as led by me, falsely, inaccurately, and fraudulently.”

Trump reiterated his ongoing $20 billion lawsuit against 60 Minutes over its “fraudulent, beyond recognition, reporting,” including allegations that it deceptively edited an interview with failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris ahead of last fall’s election.

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Kamala Harris mocked on social media for reported interest in creating an institute for policy and ideas

Social media commentators had a field day after a report that former Vice President Kamala Harris was considering starting a center for “policy and ideas.”

The New York Times released a piece on Thursday, headlined, “Sidelined and Still Processing Her Defeat, Harris Looks for a Way Back In.” The article observed how Harris and her husband are “weighing each new opportunity with the potential political blowback in mind” as they chart a course for the future.

“One possibility: establishing an institute for policy and ideas,” The Times reported. “Brian Nelson, an adviser to Ms. Harris since she was California’s attorney general, has broached the idea with several universities, including Howard and Stanford. But some allies have noted that raising money for such a center could, depending on the donors, create liabilities in future races.”

The notion that Harris’ next political move could involve starting a think tank — despite a presidential campaign often criticized for gaffes — resulted in many jokes on social media outlets like X.

Washington Free Beacon senior writer Andrew Stiles summarized the report as “NYT: Kamala Harris, known for her deep knowledge and ability to articulate complex issues, is thinking about launching ‘an institute for policy and ideas.'”

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RFK Jr. Hits Back At Media Over ‘Ironic’ Effort To Attack Him With Out-Of-Context Quote

Few figures within the Democratic Party have been more thoroughly rejected by the party than Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He has been repeatedly excoriated by the left — including members of his dynastic family — in recent years for remarks about vaccines and other hot-button issues.

Most recently, multiple media outlets seized on his remarks at the Food and Drug Administration headquarters, taking one word out of context and depicting it as an anti-handicap slur.

As Breitbart reported:

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out establishment media attacks against him in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, saying that he believes “it’s always ironic how the liberal media weaponizes woke cancel culture to safeguard the interests of Big Pharma and Big Food.”

Kennedy was responding to a baseless onslaught after several publications misquoted him Friday in his use of the word “retarded” to evoke the proper name of a New York state mental facility.

The deluge of condemnation came after reports of the Secretary’s remarks to a gathering of the staff of the Food and Drug Administration at the agency’s headquarters in White Oak, Maryland.

Mediaite spun his appearance with the headline: “FDA Staffers Dish on Unhinged Meeting With RFK Jr. Where He Called Special Olympics Athletes ‘Retarded.’”

The Daily Beast headlined it: “Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.’s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State.”

Kennedy told Breitbart News the coverage is yet another demonstration of the axiom by 17th century satirist Jonathan Swift: “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

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If Reporters Ignore Reality, Of Course We Can’t Trust Them To Report On It

President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, reportedly refused to respond to New York Times reporters who included their “preferred pronouns” in their email signatures. Leavitt said it’s a Trump administration policy to ignore questions from reporters who deny “biological reality.”

“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt told the New York Times’s Michael Grynbaum in an email. “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”

Considering the way the media class covered Trump over the last decade, it seems like common sense to avoid so-called reporters who so plainly expose their left-wing bias. These people are not grounded in reality and, therefore, cannot be trusted to report the facts to the American people. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

Still, this should be a policy for all Americans, not just the Trump administration. While they claim to report the news with no left-leaning slant, putting pronouns in their bio exposes their bias in the most obvious way.

The Washington Post reporter Karine Elwood is an excellent example of this. She wrote a profile on April 3 about a trans-identified male, Eliza Munshi, who is “forced” to compete in track events on the male team. Elwood framed the story purposefully to push the reader to empathize with the boy despite overwhelming evidence that male athletes have a clear advantage over female athletes. Additionally, female athletes have been seriously harmed by male athletes during competitions.

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Multi-Millionaire Whoopi Goldberg Says Americans Need to ‘Suck It Up’ and Pay More in Taxes

Whoopi Goldberg of The View recently suggested that Americans need to ‘suck it up’ and pay more in taxes.

She said this right after admitting that many Americans are struggling on a day to day basis, which makes her argument even more absurd.

In recent weeks, DOGE has shown American taxpayers that our government has a special talent for wasting our tax dollars, but Whoopi clearly believes that the way to prosperity is for people to give the government more money.

If that makes sense to you, you might be a liberal.

The Daily Caller has details:

Millionaire Whoopi Goldberg Tells Americans They Need To ‘Suck It Up’ And ‘Pay A Little More Taxes’

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg, a multimillionaire, told Americans on Thursday that they need to “suck it up” and “pay a little more taxes.”

Goldberg called on Americans to pay more taxes to help pay for schools and other essentials, despite claiming that Americans are also “struggling with everything on a day to day basis.” The co-host’s net worth is estimated to be $60 million as of April 2025.

“A 90-day pause doesn’t mean anything to anyone because people, as you said, are struggling with everyone that they’re living with on a day to day basis. Now you know what we’re fighting against,” Goldberg said. “But I also believe that it’s very important to remind people that now is the time for each and every one of us to suck it up and make sure that we know what we need to take care of. If you’re in an area where the school district is losing, then you got to pay a little more taxes and you gotta help the schools out. If you’re finding that your libraries are falling apart, you have to give more.

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Leftist KTLA Scrambles for Cover After Posting “N-Word” on Social Media — Claims It Was a “Technical Error”

KTLA, widely regarded as a mouthpiece for the California Democrat Party, is under fire after a shocking racial slur was posted to its official account on X.

The Los Angeles-based outlet is now scrambling to save face, claiming the shocking post was nothing more than a “technical error.”

The now-deleted post, which included the full “N-word,” was live on KTLA’s X account long enough to spark immediate backlash.

KTLA quickly attempted to downplay the incident, blaming a so-called “technical error” related to a language filter gone wrong.

According to the carefully curated PR statement, the station claimed: “KTLA experienced a technical error while adding language filters to our social media accounts, resulting in an offensive word being accidentally shared. We are appalled and apologize that this occurred.”

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Chuck Todd Finally Confesses but There’s a Catch

Dinosaur legacy media has-been Chuck Todd finally admitted that he helped hide Joe Biden’s decline because he didn’t want to help Donald Trump. But there’s one little problem with Todd’s confession: He doesn’t understand that he’s guilty of anything.

I’m so angry, I had to set this column aside several times before I could finish it. Vitriol to follow. 

Todd, you might remember, is the media tool who was so overpriced that he “chose” to exit NBC News earlier this year rather than accept a pay cut after decades as a useful lapdog to the Democrat cause. “Now it can be told,” as Ed Morrissey put it earlier this week — the fancy footwork Todd used to kinda-sorta tell the truth about Biden to give himself just enough plausible deniability to sleep at night.

How did that work?

Todd told Piers Morgan on Wednesday that he and his MSM compadres were “subtle” in their coverage of Biden’s accelerating senescence. “I would argue the reason people were able to come to their own conclusion on Joe Biden is because of the media coverage,” Todd said, without any obvious signs of cocaine on his face. “Look, we were subtle. ‘He’s using the back staircase. He’s not using the front staircase.’ ‘Hey, he’s not doing any interviews.’”

Let me translate that for you. Todd’s NBC News and every other legacy outlet barely reported on the things the White House could not hide and helped the White House hide what they could, and now Todd is giving everybody — including himself — a pat on the back for how they “subtly” reported the truth without being “perceived as helping Trump,” as he put it.

This is one of those places where I had to stop writing for a few minutes and go touch grass. Because it was either that or start doing shots on an empty stomach before taking my younger son to school.

Todd played a game with the public’s perceptions, a dangerous game involving the highest possible stakes. He referred to reporting on the two candidates as “some sort of zero-sum game.” But when Todd said to Morgan, “I certainly questioned whether he should run. You didn’t understand, you know, there were some of that. But I understand the argument about the collective on that front,” he completely missed the point. Whether that’s because he’s still obfuscating or because he simply has no clue what a reporter’s job is, I have no idea.

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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?

We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.

This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, comes with a large dose of truth offered rapid-fire by celebrated, authoritative voices via prominent media. The truth is sprinkled with subtle messages that render it sterile.

This has long been the case, but it is even more so in the age of images on screens and digital media where words and images flow away like water in a rapidly moving stream. The late sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, updating Marx’s famous quote “all that is solid melts into thin air,” called this “liquid modernity.”

Welcome to Operation Pandemonium

See, these experts purport to say: What we tell you is true, but it is impossible to draw definitive conclusions. You must drink the waters of uncertainty forever lest you become a conspiracy nut. But if you don’t want to be so labelled, accept the simplest explanation for matters that disturb you – Occam’s razor, that the truest answer is the simplest – which is always the official explanation.  If this sounds contradictory, that is because it is. It is meant to be. We induce schizophrenia.

And it is, these experts suggest, because we live in a world where all knowledge is relative, and you, the individual, like Kafka’s country bumpkin, who in his parable “Before the Law,” tries to get past the doorkeeper to enter the inner sanctum of the Law but is never allowed to pass; you, the individual, must accept the futility of your efforts and accede to this dictum that declares that all knowledge is relative, which is ironically an absolute dictum. It is the Law. The Law of contradictions declared from on high.

Many writers, journalists, and filmmakers, while allegedly revealing truths about the U.S. and its allies’ criminal operations at home and abroad, have for decades slyly conveyed the message that in the end “we will never know the truth,” the real facts – that convincing evidence is lacking.

This refusal to come to conclusions is a sly tactic that keeps many careers safe while besmirching, intentionally or not, the names of serious researchers who reach conclusions based on overwhelming circumstantial evidence (the basis for most murder convictions) and detailed, sourced facts, often using the words of the guilty parties themselves, but are dismissed with the CIA weaponized term “conspiracy theorists.”

This often escapes the average person who does not read footnotes and sources, if they even read books. They read screens and the mainstream media, which should now be understood to include much of the “alternative” media. And they watch all sorts of films.

But this “we will never know” meme, this false mystery, is shrewdly and often implicitly joined to another: That we do know because the official explanation of events is true and only nut cases would believe otherwise. Propaganda by paradox.  Operation chaos.

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