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A New Media Outlet Is Backed by Progessive Stars, as Well as Gulf Money and Foreign Agents

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Grid, which went live earlier this month and whose masthead boasts left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias, raised seed money from a holding company owned by Emirate royal Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Grid also consulted with a firm that is a registered foreign agent for the UAE. The foreign funding and lobbyist involvement raise questions about the news outlet’s independence—and whether it should be required to register as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice,

Major News Outlets Keep Hiring Journalists Obsessed with Jan. 6

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A spate of recent hiring announcements suggests mainstream media outlets are determined to make Trump, the January 6 storming of the Capitol building, and the so-called assault on democracy central components of their news coverage throughout the midterm election cycle. Democratic politicians, of course, will be more than happy to amplify this coverage on the campaign trail.

Number of Michigan Nursing Home Deaths 42% Larger Than Whitmer Reported

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The number of Covid-19 deaths in Michigan nursing homes is 42% larger than Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration disclosed, according to a state auditor general’s report reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The report, which will be released week, shows 8,061 Covid-19 deaths in the state’s long-term care facilities from Jan. 1, 2020, to July 2, 2021. That number is 42% larger than the 5,675 deaths Whitmer’s health department reported.

Michael Avenatti’s Prison Guards Are the Men of the Year

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In almost every instance, kicking a man when he’s down is total bitch move. Unless the down man is Michael Avenatti. According to a Politico profile of the convicted felon, the guards patrolling the 10 South block of the Metropolitan Correctional Center did the honorable thing when the disgraced porn lawyer requested some reading material. They brought him The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump. 

Jon Gruden Is 2021 Man of the Year

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Raiders coach Jon Gruden was forced to resign for using offensive language in a series of old emails leaked to media outlets. In one exchange, Gruden referred to then-vice president Joe Biden as a “nervous clueless pussy,” which is only offensive to people who are offended by the truth…For his unabashed willingness to call out fellow men lacking testicular fortitude, Jon Gruden is a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.

To Mainstream Media, John McCain Was a Maverick, Manchin Is an Obstacle

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t wasn’t so long ago that a senator bucking his party was greeted by the press in a much different way. Former Senator McCain cast perhaps his most famous vote in 2017, torpedoing the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare. This was an effort the GOP had made the centerpiece of its 2016 election strategy, and McCain’s thumbs-down was a deliberate middle finger to his own party.

Review: Hillary’s Master Class on “The Power of Resilience

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Scholars beware: Hillary Clinton’s new course on “the power of resilience” is not for the faint of heart. Completing the three-and-a-half hour Master Class requires an extraordinary amount of intellectual resilience. Your humble reviewer was forced to confront his own lack of resilience when his failure to overcome the tedium of Hillary’s lectures caused him to miss his deadline. (Disclaimer: Unless you’re getting paid to review it, do not attempt.)