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“Today’s jury selection was just as bad as Tuesday. One prospective juror said she wouldn’t believe Trump even if his tongue were notarized. She also called him racist and sexist on social media. Another one said her son worked in DC and when asked for who, she said Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat. One woman said she marched at …

Brasil Wire reports: On April 3, Michael Shellenberger tweeted a series of excerpts from emails by X executives dubbed, “Twitter Files Brazil”, which alleged to expose crimes by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, he claimed, had pressed criminal charges against Twitter Brasil’s lawyer for its refusal to turn over personal information on political enemies. Elon Musk quickly …

“Trump comes out yesterday and makes this big statement about leaving abortion to the states. He’s really trying to create a tent that enough Republicans can stand under to elect him in November. So he does that yesterday. “Today, Arizona comes out after the Biden campaign jumps all over Trump and said, ‘States are going to do radical things and …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters on Friday claimed there is no difference between being gay and being transgender. “We adopted a young child, and at age five, he was playing with dolls, and everybody knew he was gay, or was going to be gay. And it’s not like all of a sudden we took him to …

“If Trumpism is a cult, it’s the worst cult in history. Because people come and go as they please. Everything is wholly transparent, there’s – nothing is secretive about it, and people seem to be having a good time. They don’t seem terrified of reprisals. “If this is a cult, then so is Oktoberfest. I mean, Trump, I think what …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): We have a mysterious new bird flu is now spreading, some saying it could lead to a pandemic far worse than COVID. DR. MARTY MAKARY (CONTRIBUTOR): The chances of it turning into a pandemic are low with this particular strain and the form that it’s in. Now, I don’t think it’s helpful …

“You have so many Democrats who seem hostile to religion, I think it’s partly why they’re losing voters of color because if you go into any Catholic Church – you and I are both Catholic – in any suburb in this country on a Sunday, it’s multi-generations of Hispanics and Asian Americans filling up those pews in some of those …

Media Matters has the transcript: BRET BAIER (HOST): You could go through all kinds of campaign events, Charlie, and say who said what, when. These emotional things, obviously those families are weighing in. CHARLIE HURT (GUEST): Yeah, and then you have Democrats attacking Donald Trump for talking about it in a political campaign. Well, what are you supposed to talk …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters attempted to normalize a criminal defendant repeatedly attacking court staff and their families, as Donald Trump has done. “Now, the media, who doesn’t support the First Amendment are care about corruption covers it this way,” Watters said, teeing up a clip of non-Fox News outlets noting the aberrant nature of Trump’s missives while …

Agence France-Presse reports: A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation. The tech giant says CrowdTangle will be unavailable after August 14, less than three months before the US election. The …

“The polls – the president [Biden] says he’s gaining in some of the battleground states – he’s got more money than the RNC, no question, which is reconfiguring. He’s [Trump] got to be spending a little on his court cases. He can’t get out as much as he can. That’s why I think the president [Trump] should name his whole …

“Look, Democrats and the corporate media have gotten themselves into a huge mess here. They’re in their bunkers and refusing to change their minds on issues or even– they don’t wanna be in the same room with someone with whom they have disagreements. “Now, what’s funny about this is they accuse Trump of this very thing. It’s the usual projection …

“As it turns out, Americans seem to miss prosperity and peace and stability and safety and security. They see what Biden is doing at the border, they know he has been spending recklessly, they see Biden inflation. It is starting to surge yet again. “They reject the overbearing Green New Deal regulations. You know? You gotta get an electric vehicle. …

Media Matters has the transcript: ERIC BOLLING (HOST): So Victor, I don’t mean to say that because Maersk has this new DEI push, people likely died in Baltimore this morning. But I do mean to say there’s a pattern here. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (GUEST): We don’t know the exact relation to cause and effect, but we do know this — …

“The bridge has never had train tracks so I don’t know what he’s talking about, but there will be more where that came from in the next week; made up stories, misdirection and blame games — but don’t fall for it, we have to get to the bottom of this. A cargo ship hasn’t taken out a bridge in decades …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News pundit Raymond Arroyo has vanished from the network’s airwaves since sparking backlash last month by claiming Black voters would support Donald Trump for president because “they love sneakers.” A paid on-air contributor with the conservative cable giant since 2017, Arroyo is best known to Fox News viewers for his regular appearances on Laura Ingraham’s …

“If this judgment had not been lowered, if Trump couldn’t meet it, if you want to make sure Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, go let Letitia James walk up to Trump Tower and stamp an eviction notice on the side of that building and seize it. Even the people who don’t support Donald Trump would see …

“January 6 itself seems like it had a predetermined, pre-planned outcome. It would seem as though there are certain folks on the left and the right that wanted this to happen. Why else would they put the Capitol in a vulnerable position, knowing good and well that something could happen, something horrible could happen? It was a horrible day. Let’s …

“The Democrats say there’s no evidence, the media reports there’s no evidence, and the four year cover-up continues. So, looking at the calendar, I don’t see the committee moving towards an official impeachment this year, I just don’t. “Personally, I believe there is sufficient evidence to start impeachment last year but that’s just me. But if Trump wins and finds …

“It’s more than $454 million. It’s 120% of that. That is almost a half a billion dollars in cash. Give me a break. And I’ll tell you why they don’t want to take a risk and give him that money. The reason they don’t want to take a risk and do that is because they — this market, this real …