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[Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro]

Whoopi argues Trump isn't allowed to build a ballroom or fix the reflecting pool because the cast nor average Americans have those things.

She then demands Trump be removed from office and tells people to vote for candidates who will do that, disparages Republicans.

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

Seth Meyers doesn't care to inform his audience that the security for Game 3 of the NBA Finals when Trump attended was the same as Game 4 when he did not, "Seriously, dude, you shut down midtown Manhattan, made everyone go through two hours of TSA-style security just so you could take a nap at game three of the NBA Finals?... So, everyone gets inconvenienced because you decide to go to the game, and you won't even drink your second choice soda? Next time this guy says Iran is being unreasonable in negotiations, remember he basically said 'Well, if they don't have diet coke, I'm not going to go.'"

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

Jimmy Kimmel broke his silence on Graham Platner and it was dumber than you thought, "Democrats overwhelmingly voted for Graham Platner for Senate despite a number of embarrassing scandals, including revelations of a Nazi-esque tattoo on his body, sexting with women while he's married, and allegations of abuse. If Democrats cannot get him into the Senate, word is the Republicans are planning to nominate him for president in 2028."

He goes on to continue his strange new respect for people like Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene

[MRC NewsBusters @newsbusters]

The leftist media are absolutely certain there is "no evidence" of any voter fraud in the LA mayoral race.

[Media Research Center @theMRC]

"Tobin’s argument was eyebrow-raising given that he prefaced his comments with how important it was for legal professionals to have common definitions for words, but then rhetorically tossed away a stylebook for journalists and newsrooms, which provided the same function."

MRC's @NickFondacaro cited in @FoxNews
https://t.co/7PHc8jpmvB

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

ABC's Jimmy Kimmel decorated a U-Haul with balloons, streamers, and cans for Spencer Pratt, "He clearly promised that if Karen Bass or Nithya Raman were elected mayor, he was going to move out of L.A. He said he was done with L.A. and Spencer, if you are watching, we are so, so, so sorry to see you go... Either way, mazel tov and good-bye, Spencer Pratt. Let us know if you want it, and we'll drop it off in front of the Bel Air hotel."

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[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

As for the pollution idea, Boykoff laments "Also, the United States just simply doesn't have a strong train system, and so people are going to be flying from match to match, thereby jacking up the emissions. But in the bigger picture, FIFA has a real problem with greenwashing, which is to say talking a big green sustainability game but not actually following through on the ground...What you can say about Qatar is that once you got there, you could go around to the different matches on the metro and by car and have your emissions be relatively low. That's not the case here. So, while we have stadiums that were built, thereby keeping the carbon emissions low, people's travel budgets are going to be really high."

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

PBS anchor Hari Sreenivasan quotes hard-left professor and former U-23 Team USA player Jules Boykoff, "The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, also on track to be the most polluting.”

Boykoff then says the U.S. in 2026 is akin to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, "Well, I would say the through line between those three tournaments that you just mentioned, Russia World Cup in 2018, Qatar in 2022, and the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2026, is the idea of sportswashing... And that term was used a lot, sportswashing, when people were talking about Russia and Qatar. And for good reasons, they were trying to use that event to deflect attention and make political and economic gain. But that's definitely what's happening in the United States as well."

[Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro]

Admitting it's all for power, Sunny Hostin on her and Democrats having moral standards: "That is over at this point. That is over. (...) It's time for Democrats to stop that nonsense."

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

Laverne Cox stopped by The Daily Show to ruin the definition of "divine", "You are made exactly the way you are supposed to be, and your transness, your gayness, your lesbianism, your bisexuality, these are all divine."

[Jorge Bonilla @BonillaJL]

WATCH: VP Vance's referral of MN Gov, Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison to the DoJ related to ongoing fraud scandals has drawn no coverage on the network evening news- and only this 28-second burial on the 5AM hour of CBS News Mornings:

MIKE GEORGE: Vice President JD Vance has triggered a federal fraud probe against Minnesota Governor and former election rival Tim Walz. The move stems from a House Oversight report, which claims fraud warnings related to federal programs in Minnesota were ignored by top state officials. Walz has denied the allegations. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is also a target of the probe. The vice president heads the administration’s anti-fraud task force.

[The First @TheFirstonTV]

Does Scott Pelley REALLY believe he's not biased? @JesseKellyDC asks @CurtisHouck

[Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro]

Young's counsel Lisa Glass calls out the AP's lawyer for dismissing the AP Stylebook:

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GLASS: We just heard the attorney for the Associated Press get up here and say that its style book, which is a handbook for journalists, for students worldwide, does not apply to this case, that its reporter should not be held to what it says.

Words matter. The AP created its own stylebook to ensure that.

JUDGE THOMAS D. WINOKUR: But, I mean, defamation, the definition of it is that the public has been led to, believe, some falsity about somebody. So, why does the public care what the AP writes in its stylebook about what the definitions of words are?

I'm not denying that the word “smuggle” might have some sort of a very negative connotation, but what does the AP Stylebook have to do with what the public thinks?

GLASS: Well one of the purposes of the stylebook is to have consistency in reporting, and for especially in a hard news article like this, when a public reads it and they take it at face value, they know what human smuggling means.

Below, we provided 40 examples of recent reporting by the AP, which were reported both before and after the article at issue that used “human smuggling,” “people smuggling” in exactly the way that its stylebook was intended; to describe criminal conduct. And I find it disingenuous to accept this one article from that manner of usage of the word that's dictated by the stylebook.

Also it's not just one word which counsel kept repeating, it's just one word, it's just one word, no, it's a defined term, it's a phrase, it's not “smuggle” in isolation, it's smuggled people.(...)

[Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro]

In a defamation hearing today, AP's lawyer argues to a panel of judges that their style guide doesn't matter.
He argues that it's okay the AP didn't follow their own guidelines when they used a word their book gives a negative meaning that implied illegality to describe the heroic work of Navy veteran Zachary Young, who rescued nearly 2 dozen women and a baby from Afghanistan:

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CHARLES D. TOBIN: Your Honor, those are all pages 407 to 415 of the record. What is the testimony on which the word "smuggle" is based, and we would submit that for purposes of defamatory meaning when read in the context -

JUDGE L. CLAYTON ROBERTS: The AP publishes something called the AP Style Manual, correct?

TOBIN: Correct.

ROBERTS: And it defines “smuggling,” and the definition that the AP publishes for their reporters to use, and lots of other people use it, it says “smuggling” is an illegal activity.

TOBIN: It says, “human smuggling” is an illegal activity, or “people smuggling,” the whole point of defining a term, Your Honor, we do this in our briefs every day, is to use the term consistently from case-to-case moment-to-moment within it as you're walking through a brief.

The AP did not use the terms in its Stylebook. The Stylebook is inapt as, it is inapplicable to the circumstances of this case.

And Your Honor, we haven't talked yet about Judge Winoker's question, which I think does drive the decision that the court should reach here, which is, how do you read something? What are the tools that the court uses to read something when somebody argues that they're all avail themselves of more than one meeting? And what you do is you look to the context for the defamatory meaning question, you look to the context of the entire publication.
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[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

INSANE: CNN liberal journalist Jamie Gangel says the slower it takes to count votes in states like California, the more proof a state’s electoral system is secure...

“And there is no evidence here. I do think it’s important for those of us on Earth one to remember California has the largest population. These are millions of voters. They do a lot of mail-in ballots. By the way, today, if your ballot arrives in California, it will still be counted on June 9 as long as it was postmarked. But to go back to what Mo [Elleithee] said, you know, slow does not mean fraud. Slow does not mean rigged. The only time President Trump starts throwing this around is when he’s not winning.”

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

John Oliver rewound to 2024 to denounce Chris Rufo and Ron DeSantis's transformation of New College of Florida, saying they make the Nazis look good by comparison, "Rufo even gleefully retweeted coverage of that saying "We abolished the gender studies program. Now we're throwing out the trash." And setting aside that one of those books is a book of fucking puzzles— I don't even want to say what I need to right now. So I'm not going to say it. That said—and remember, I'm not saying this, but say what you will about — here it comes — the Nazis but — stick with me — credit where it's due — I know — when the Nazis went after books, they went big. They didn't wait for the students to be on break. At least the Nazis — I hear it too — were bold."

[Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro]

In all seriousness, Whoopi argues that the money from the weaponization fund should go to the Knicks fans Trump inconvenienced by being a the game. She also blames him for the brawls that broke out at watch parties across the city.

[Tim Graham @TimJGraham]

Jim Acosta testifies that we need media "led by the people" (the non-corporate left): "One of my favorite options there on the media diet is public broadcasting, PBS and NPR. I'd be remiss if I didn't give a shout out to my friends in public broadcasting. Donald Trump on that Truth Social post that I put up there, he celebrates defunding PBS and NPR."

[NewsBuster Picks @NewsBusterPicks]

From the Hunter Biden laptop to Kamala Harris edits: the long history of '60 Minutes' controversies https://t.co/LbWmPvesI9 #FoxNews

[Alex Christy @alexchristy17]

Jane Fonda is pretending that the First Amendment doesn't exist for comedians any more, telling Jon Stewart that "Entertainers will—you know, you have been attacked, comics first, because tyranny and comics don't go together. You are the ones that point out there’s no clothes and all that kind of—yeah, so comics go first, you know."