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3 dispatches.
It paid the largest known media defamation settlement in American history for airing claims its own stars privately called crazy. It won another lawsuit by arguing that no reasonable viewer expects facts from its biggest show. And now two dozen of its personalities run the federal government. At what point are we allowed to stop calling it news?
An anti-ICE protest in Texas turned violent — a police officer was shot — and the sentences ran to fifty, seventy, even a hundred years, one of them reportedly thirty years for moving a box of zines. The men who plotted to overturn an election and helped beat 140 officers at the Capitol? Pardoned. A tale of two justices.
He's back, and we've entered the theme park from hell. Over 1,500 January 6 pardons, exits from Paris and the WHO, and — the pièce de résistance — renaming the Gulf of Mexico. It almost feels like satire, but sadly it's just Tuesday.
