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Can we stop giving him credit for "availability" to the press? It doesn't count if he doesn't actually answer the questions and instead brushes reporters off with "fake news" taunts. That's not availability, that's evasion. And it's part of why I think he's unfit for the job.

There's something ugly about attacking a dead man who can no longer defend himself. Sarah Vine's GP analogy is dishonest. A GP who faked their qualifications is nothing like Jason Arday, whose PhD was legitimately awarded. his university investigated the plagiarism allegations and found no case to answer. Recycling insinuations as fact right after his death and calling it "analysis" is shameful.

Media's gone quiet on the MVP conversation, and the numbers don't back that up. Last 11 games: Caitlin Clark. 280 pts, 25.5 PPG, 9 APG. A'Ja Wilson. 279 pts, 25.4 PPG, 9 RPG. Clark has outscored the reigning MVP over this stretch while also averaging 9 assists. To every analyst who spent the season picking apart her turnovers, shot selection, and defense: where's that scrutiny now? If she was good enough to earn that criticism, she's good enough to get credit when the numbers say this too. The stats aren't asking permission. They're forcing the conversation.

Democrats call the extremists "just the fringe." Look at the bench: candidates campaigning to abolish the police, prisons, borders, ICE, the Senate, and the Electoral College, every check on power they don't hold. Bernie Sanders built a career attacking capitalism while living like the wealthy he condemns, private jets, multiple houses. Hasan Piker preaches the same politics from a multimillion dollar mansion while making inflammatory statements about America and landlords. Other rising names bring their own baggage: financial trouble, thin records, rhetoric that doesn't match the moderate image being sold. We're told none of this represents the party, not the candidates, the activists, or the quotes, just the scripted convention speech. This isn't a messaging problem. The message is clear. Voters are finally looking at this bench and watching the rebrand collapse the moment it speaks.

RFK Jr. told Dana Bash the government's first duty in a future pandemic is protecting constitutional rights. She answered she didn't want to "allow" him to say things she believed untrue. That word is the author's whole case: journalists report and rebut, they don't "allow." To him the press cheerled lockdowns and mandates instead of questioning them, and still hasn't reckoned with it. The Constitution is for when fear is highest, not until then.

Apparently UK police told an independent journalist to stop filming a Hamas supporter because she said she felt harassed based on her gender, prioritizing her stated feelings over his right to film in public. If true, that's a serious problem: police shouldn't tell a lawful journalist to stop working just because someone claims to feel harassed. https://t.co/1jm56ul9hY