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Daily Show's Chieng Fangirls over Mayor's Sanctuary City Defense
Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng welcomed Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to the Tuesday taping of The Daily Show for a short two-question interview. Chieng’s first question was simply to ask how Wu became mayor, while the second put the ball on the tee for her to deliver her ode to sanctuary cities. Afterwards, Chieng would heap praise on his guest, telling her she is “the best.”

CBS’s Migrant Advocacy Burns Down a Field of Tren de Aragua Straw Men
The CBS Evening News continues to perform immigration advocacy disguised as journalism, with reporting on the illegal aliens deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison that is best described as victim porn, and is normally seen on Univision and Telemundo. This advocacy is undergirded by some major omissions

NBC’s Social Security Fearmongering Pushes Grandma Off a Cliff
Tonight’s NBC Nightly News reporting on the Senate hearing to confirm business executive Frank Bisignano as head of the Social Security Administration had a familiar sound to it. If you listen closely enough, you’ll hear the kind of fearmongering that was a staple of a bygone era.

MSNBC Lets Swalwell Rant on Security Breach, Ignores His Own Scandal
If any more proof was needed of how un-self-aware MSNBC really was, Charles Coleman Jr. rose to the occasion while filling in for Monday night’s The 11th Hour. To discuss a reported national security breach of the Trump administration, Coleman ostensibly interviewed Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA.), but in fact just let Swalwell mouth off at will, while completely ignoring the fact…

‘I’d Be Honored’; Trump Gives Support to Efforts to Defund NPR, PBS
On Tuesday during a White House press pool Q&A ahead of a meeting with prospective U.S. Ambassadors, President Donald Trump gave his support to the House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee as it prepares to hold a hearing Wednesday with the heads of taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, adding “I’d be honored” if he were the president to finally defund…

'This Guy Has to Go!’ Behar Seemingly Calls for Dems to Coup Trump
ABC News co-host Joy Behar seemed to call for President Trump to be the target of a Democratic Party coup during Tuesday’s edition of The View. Behar’s crash out came in the wake of the apparent security breach involving a Signal chat group of members of Trump’s cabinet. Despite Trump not being involved in the chat at all, Behar wanted him to bear the responsibility and demanded…

PBS Unmoved By Claim 'We Know' There's 'At Least Three Genders'
As PBS prepares to defend itself at a Wednesday Congressional hearing, the Monday edition of Amanpour and Company seemed oblivious to the stakes the network faces. Guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed transgender Nashville city council member Olivia Hill to not only declare there are “at least three genders” but also that people who transition the other way acquire “male privilege,”…

Gross: Kimmel Ponders Ingraham's 'Erection' If Biden Had Group Chat
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not content to merely criticize Trump Administration national security officials for discussing military operations on a civilian messaging app while unwittingly including The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in their conversations on his Monday show; he just had to bring Fox News’s Laura Ingraham into it as well. For unexplainable reasons, Kimmel mused about how…

ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Crockett Calling for Violence Against Ted Cruz
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth-area affiliate KXAS and went viral on X Monday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) talked repeatedly about wanting to beat up and repeatedly “punch” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Leaving aside her sudden code switching in the last year, the incendiary rhetoric is the sort of thing ABC, CBS, and NBC would look to call out if…

Stewart on Columbia: Trump Doesn't 'Give a F*** About Free Speech'
Columbia University’s own task force investigating anti-Semitism issued a 90-page report chronicling how threats and harassment towards Jewish students have increased since October 7 and how the school failed to respond appropriately. However, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart alleged on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show that the Trump Administration’s demands to Columbia proved they “don…

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CBS’s John Dickerson Laments Trump Wields Presidential Power
Fresh off of blaming Americans for ruining Spring, CBS anchor John Dickerson delivers another hollow, moralistic editorial from his “Reporter’s Notebook” segment which closes out the CBS Evening News Plus.

Darcy Is MAD Outlets Aren’t Like AP Fighting Trump on Gulf of America
Former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy suggested Sunday on his newsletter site Status American democracy was teetering and a descent into authoritarianism was afoot. Even though his unhinged outlook on life appears permanent, this new reason was legacy media outlets having refused to join the Associated Press in using “Gulf of Mexico” instead of Gulf of America (and instead vague uses…

Lefty Kook Mystal Floats Axing Voter Registration, Key Deportation Law
Elie Mystal, the man dubbed Mad Scientist Fat Albert in 2019 by the great Varad Mehta, joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday by plug his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America with one of them a comically predictable antidote to fixing our republic: axing all voter registration laws.