4 h. ago Tucker Carlson is doing a better job than Democrats of countering Trump on Iran: ‘We’re in such a bizarro world’

ANALYSIS: Carlson’s anti-war advocacy even earned him reluctant praise from his arch-nemesis, Jon Stewart, Richard Hall writes.

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9 h. ago CNN guest claims Republicans Mike Johnson and Ted Cruz support Israel because ‘they’re rapture preppers’

A CNN guest has claimed that House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator Ted Cruz support Israel because they are “rapture preppers”.

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11 h. ago A US senator’s X posts after the Minnesota shootings were horrific – and predictable | Austin Sarat

Mike Lee knows better than to turn tragedy into disinformation. But outrageousness has become the name of the gameNational tragedy used to bring national unity. If only momentarily, partisanship was put aside, and people of all political persuasions came together.No more. The nation received a startling reminder of that sad fact on Sunday when Republican senator Mike Lee went online to share his reaction to the weekend’s horrible shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty Continue reading...

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56 h. ago How the right spread ‘brutal and cruel’ misinformation after Minnesota lawmaker killings

The rightwing media ecosystem spins up narratives to serve their agendas after tragic events, regardless of accuracyTina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation about a shooting that killed her friend.Lee’s posts, which advanced conspiracies that a Minnesota assassin was a “Marxist” and blamed the state’s governor for Melissa Hortman’s death, were among many threads of false or speculative claims swirling online after the killings. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Jon Stewart tears into Fox News host for saying Trump’s ‘military parade/quinceañera’ should scare Iranian leaders

‘Does the ayatollah know the Americans have obtained [...] jazz hands? Surrender or dance!” he leered.

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61 h. ago Jon Stewart and Sen. Tina Smith roast MAGA Senator Mike Lee over Minnesota shooting tweets

‘I want to know why those deaths in Minnesota are worth only a night of edgelord s***posting,’ Daily Show satirist rebukes Republican over offensive posts

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61 h. ago Jon Stewart and Tina Smith roast MAGA Senator Mike Lee over Minnesota shooting tweets

‘I want to know why those deaths in Minnesota are worth only a night of edgelord s***posting,’ Daily Show satirist rebukes Republican over offensive posts

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3 d. ago The View rips Sen. Mike Lee over Minnesota shooter tweets, says he’d ‘be fired instantly’ anywhere else

‘It’s like a slow dehumanization of the other,’ The View’s Sara Haines lamented on Monday

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9 d. ago ‘Trump happily lights the fuse’: Jon Stewart blasts president’s role in Los Angeles riots

The Daily Show host said the situation in LA was “explosive”, asking: “Is your city ever not on fire?”

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2 w. ago Karoline Levitt ditches religious necklace after Jon Stewart’s brutal joke: ‘Some sort of weird Pinocchio cross’

‘By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets,’ Daily Show host says of White House spokeswoman

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2 w. ago Karoline Leavitt ditches cross necklace after Jon Stewart's scathing joke

Karoline Leavitt was spotted without her cross necklace during her latest White House press briefing, after Jon Stewart brutally joked about the accessory

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2 w. ago Jon Stewart mocks Elon Musk’s black eye saying it looks like he had ‘bad night in a Nashville bar’

Stewart jokingly said he felt bad for Musk while noting his tired state compared to four months ago.

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2 w. ago Jon Stewart roasts Elon Musk over spectacular fall from grace at the White House

John Stewart roasted Elon Musk as 'one of America's least efficient government workers' in a blistering monologue on Monday as the billionaire's time in the White House came to an end.

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2 w. ago Jon Stewart ridicules Elon Musk after claiming Trump ‘broke’ billionaire in government

Jon Stewart poked fun at Elon Musk's final interview before his exit from Donald Trump's administration, joking that the US president had "broken" the Tesla CEO.

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2 w. ago Jon Stewart mocks Elon Musk’s black eye saying it looks like he had a ‘bad night in Nashville bar’

Stewart jokingly said he felt bad for Musk while noting his tired state compared to four months ago.

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3 w. ago Jon Stewart makes horrifying dark prediction about the end of Trump

A disturbed Jon Stewart harrowingly predicted how Donald Trump's presidency may end for the media.

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last month Jon Stewart lashes CNN for hawking anchor’s Biden book: ‘F***ing weird ... Don’t news people have to tell you what they know?’

‘It’s just fun to watch them not only continue to push the book in light of this difficult news, but to actually frame this difficult news as perhaps even more of a reason to buy this book,’ Jon Stewart quipped on Monday night

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last month Jon Stewart rips Trump over his ‘Chat GPT’ reaction to Biden’s cancer

‘Perhaps the most shocking response of all was from the commander in chief himself,’ Stewart scorned

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