Greetings!  The White House Briefing Room has a new seating chart. NewsBusters appears to have had the story first last night. Where journos sit in this room – ground zero for the heart and soul of the White House press corps -- can either be taken as a barometer of the  power of their respective organizations or a symbol of their decline. New to the Briefing Room are the Daily Wire, The Telegraph and Black Press USA. Axios, NOTUS and  Semafor are also newcomers.  Those finding themselves seatless:  the Voice of America, McClatchy newspapers and Yahoo News...Jeff Bezos just pulled into first place as the country’s most vilified billionaire after axing more than 300 journalists from the newsroom of the Washington Post. Since 2017, the slogan of the newspaper he owns reads, “Democracy Dies in the Darkness.” With the gutting of his legendary newspaper, an essential read in our nation’s capital, and power centers here and abroad, the world just got darker.  Worth noting: FrontPage defends the massive newsroom cuts. “Bezos is many things, but a weak sister isn’t one of them, and he didn’t spend $250 million to maintain it as a place for entitled journos to defy his interests and badmouth him,” writes Daniel Greenfield...Good NY Times roundup of the flood of books being published by possible 2028 White House wannabes.  It includes tomes by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Trump is threatening to rename the new White House addition the Monica Lewinsky ballroom, according to his Truth Social post yesterday afternoon. You’ll have to scroll down several pages in the post to see his tasteless threat...Launch News: Junto, a new conservative online magazine, began publishing this week. According a brief description on its website, it publishes essays and debates from writers across the American right.  I hope to find out more in the coming days....Just in time for Black History Month: The Daily Wire is now promoting the Matt Walsh documentary The Real History of Slavery. According to the promotional material: “They told you slavery was America’s unique sin. They lied”...Here’s the full 14-page Department of Justice indictment of Don Lemon and other reporters and activists.  They are charged with conspiracy to obstruct religious freedom...And so was Heinrich Himmler: PJ Media wrote Friday that the Left wants Kristi Noem gone “because she is too competent”...On Monday I wrote about ex-FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s return to podcasting February 2. His first guest was none other than President Trump who used Bongino’s vast platform to suggest that (gulp) Republicans should nationalize future elections. (Fox News)... The Dozing Don: The American Conservative gives Trump a well-deserved dig in this article The Commander-in-Tired.  “Despite evidence suggesting otherwise, President Trump is mortal just like the rest of us,” comments writer Spencer Neale with a bit too much understatement...Sick Bay Report: Mitch McConnell is hospitalized with the flu. (The Gateway Pundit)...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard