Justin Baragona

Groypers on James Fishback’s insane campaign are now so misogynistic that they’re saying gay sex is straighter than heterosexual sex. www.thebulwark.com/p/james-fish...

also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy

you have to listen to everything he says but also ignore everything he says which is very difficult

This was such a good job by the NYT's Shawn McCreesh.

He asked a very pointed and direct question to Trump about the school bombing, leading the president to corner himself (was he claiming the US sold Iran Tomahawks???) before admitting he doesn't "know enough" and will abide by the final report.

MacFarlane's CBS Verdict In his farewell memo, CBS News Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane made no mention about why he had had chosen to exit—but privately he had been more candid abut his frustrations, Status has learne...

Why did CBS News Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane decide to exit the network?

He didn't say in his farewell note to colleagues. But, privately, he had been more candid about his frustrations under Bari Weiss.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/scott-macf...

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The wheels on the bus go round and round...

It’s All About Dead Presidents: Stephen A. Smith Officially Not Running For White House In 2028 Provocative ESPN host iStephen A Smith finally insists it's time to put rumors of his  "presidential aspiration to bed."

1. Stephen A. Smith has never been serious about running because no one would vote for him.

2. He's already said multiple times before that he wasn't going to run.

3. He will do this whole charade again a few more times ahead of 2028 just to gain attention.

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Greg Gutfeld: This so-called Islamophobia is arising from Americaophobia... what drives me nuts is we can decapitate Iran, kill their leader, and we can’t rub out two parasites on the street that just tried to kill a bunch of people.

Fox News' Harold Ford Jr: You didn't mean that Islam is not welcoming of other faiths?

Greg Gutfeld: I mean everything that I say... I've seen a lot of people bend over backwards to say this is a religion of peace. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but an overwhelming amount of terrorists are Muslim.

Truer words were never spoken.

There are only like a handful of people this could be.

NEW—In a phone interview, President Trump told me the war could be over soon: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force.” He added that the U.S. is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5 week estimated time frame.

Pete Hegseth to 60 Minutes over the weekend: This war has just begun!

Trump, today: "I think the war is very complete, pretty much."

Bill Maher Tussles With Podcast Guest Who Gave Him Flak for Dining With Trump: You Just Want to ‘Wallow in Trump Hate’ Bill Maher tussled with liberal author Sam Harris after Harris said he would not have accepted President Donald Trump's invitation to dinner.

New hipster coffee shop just dropped.

"You know, all I hear is when I go out in public, I walk into a restaurant, and 20 people come up to me and say, ‘Thank God for you and for keeping it down the middle and for being honest to both sides.’"

www.mediaite.com/politics/bil...

There was no punishment for Reps. Randy Fine and Tommy Tuberville for their anti-Muslim hate, so here we go.

No censure. Nada.

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Scott MacFarlane has also been posting to his YouTube page and social media accounts more frequently in recent weeks with his own independent reporting on January 6 and the Epstein files, setting the stage for his departure from CBS News.

www.youtube.com/@ScottMacFar...

Here's my deep dive on the 5-year mark of Jan 6 -- The ongoing impact on victims, the lies ... and the continued malignant corrosion of democracy As aired on..... The BBC

All one needs to know about why Scott MacFarlane -- one the of the network's most high-profile and respected correspondents -- left CBS News is spelled out in this tweet of his in January, where he unsubtly calls out his network for not airing his J6 deep-dive report.

It aired, instead, on the BBC.

"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals."

Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.

Just "show some guts," guys!

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Also, just a quick correction to my original post -- Scott MacFarlane hasn't been with CBS News for 20 years. He started there in 2021. He previously worked for NBC affiliates and the Cox Media Group before joining CBS.

One CBS News source told me the following about Scott MacFarlane's decision to leave:

"He was pissed they barely marked Jan 6 and both sides it during Tony’s roadshow.

Made a point of saying he spent more time on our partners the BBC than CBS."

NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane just announced to the newsroom that he's leaving the network after 20 years.

Here's his goodbye note:

It should have been obvious to MAGA that the "no more foreign wars" slogan was always going to be an empty promise as long as Trump had folks like Lindsey Graham in his inner circle.

Oil intensity

Why the US is particularly vulnerable to oil price shocks...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

INBOX: Former MSNBC president Rashida Jones has been named CEO of Piers Morgan's Uncensored global operations.

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On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

Besides the Orwellian overtones, he obviously got his talking points crossed up.

The war hawks have been saying we've been at war with Iran for 47 years, beginning in 1979.

This has now become 1947 for Crawford.