A 14-month-old dog is a “baby that doesn't know any better,” hunting dog trainer Dan Lussen tells Rolling Stone on Governor Noem's execution of Cricket. 'To me, it's a lack of guidance by the owner, or training by the owner, or discipline of the owner.'

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Jesse Watters seems to have walked back his apology for the Chinatown segment.

Left is Watters to Max Tani in December 2016 and right is Watters to Lachlan Cartwright yesterday

'The world needs laughter; it needs satirical criticism more than ever'

I talked to the new owners of The Onion: Jeff Lawson (Twilio co-founder) and Ben Collins (formerly NBC News), who formed Global Tetrahedron to buy it
Jeff Lawson Ben Collins

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/bus…

Imagine being an elderly Trump supporter tuning into Charlie Kirk, then finding out today's show is about the plight of a Dimes Square e-girl fired for calling her coworkers slurs. angrywhitemen.org/2024/04/24/cha…

Popular right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit, a prolific promoter of election fraud conspiracy theories, is filing for bankruptcy. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

The divorce case for fascist lawyer Augustus Invictus features none other than the Roman god Mercury telling Invictus's wife he was having an affair — and Mercury is right!

A QAnon believer has been sentenced to life in prison for the Q-inspired murder of her mentor — a case I covered in my book, Trust the Plan.

Making matters worse, her QAnon allies convinced her to fire her attorney and represent herself.

wcjb.com/2024/04/22/nee…

Top Turning Point Action official resigns after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could run for reelection in the Arizona House, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez reports. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner suspended as network grapples with fallout over his essay - my story npr.org/2024/04/16/124…

NEW from me: The inside story of how the prominent media-fighting law firm Clare Locke was torn apart. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…

A hot new book is out today: Isaac Arnsdorf's 'Finish What We Started,' all about Donald Trump's post-Jan 6 resurgence. Available now! amazon.com/Ground-Game-MA…

The woman who sold Ashley Biden’s stolen diary to Project Veritas for $20,000—then got caught, admitted it, missed something like 11 sentencing dates (!!!) and got a DUI on a Monday afternoon—was just sentenced to one month in prison. In “Democratic-controlled” New York.

Bad news for blundering right-wing operative Jacob Wohl — he now has to pay $1.25 mil for a racist robocall voter suppression scheme, as part of an agreement with NY AG Letitia James.

“Just then, in case Steve Bannon might have looked like nothing more than some grumpy old man shouting at the TV in his basement on a sunny, 72-degree afternoon, his phone buzzed.”

2nd excerpt of FINISH WHAT WE STARTED in VANITY FAIR vanityfair.com/news/steve-ban…

What a perfect campaign scandal. Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says in stump speech he was shot in the arm in Afghanistan. Post finds a Ranger report of him admitting he accidentally shot himself in the arm in Glaciar National Park in 2015 and paying a $525 fine over it.…

Manosphere dating podcasts are a vital new art form. twitter.com/jackXRE/status…

New from me:

The man accused of ramming his SUV into the FBI headquarters in Atlanta on Monday shared QAnon conspiracies online and said he was looking to join a 'good militia'

wired.com/story/navy-vet…

For seven years I’ve been waiting to tell the story of what life was like on the inside of The National Enquirer during the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial.

My story for NYT Magazine —

nytimes.com/2024/04/03/mag…

I talked to Philip Bump about the current state of QAnon — publicly less vocal, but more at home in the GOP than ever.

The Daily Caller has retracted its story claiming the White House banned religious easter eggs

'With that additional context included, the news value of the article was significantly diminished ...'

dailycaller.com/2024/03/29/whi…