The bitter ex-New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went to a new level of deranged by using the poorest choice of words to describe his disdain for corporate America’s relationship with President Donald Trump. Krugman went on another of his usual Substack tirades January 19, whingeing that “Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump.”  Krugman twisted and bent the words of Benjamin Franklin to evoke the imagery of death crouching at the doors of any American business leader who won’t band together to stand up to the Trumpian dictator in his bizarre worldview: “If you don’t hang together, you’ll all hang separately.” You’re all gonna die didn’t ya know! Sheesh, no wonder Krugman’s nutty behavior was even too much for the Times editorial leadership. One of his first Substack columns after he left the newspaper in a huff over the editors “toning down” his voice, literally read as follows: “Donald Trump Wants You to Die.”  Now, despite most of Krugman’s prophecies of Trump driving the economy into a brick wall falling flat, the disgruntled has-been turned to making it seem like business leaders were selling their souls to the devil. No, we’re not kidding: Moreover, believing that [Trump’s] extremism was a charade was made much easier by Corporate America’s expectations of future profits from the conventional right-wing parts of his agenda: tax cuts plus increased freedom to pollute and defraud consumers, along with lax financial regulation and permissive anti-trust. No more pesky Democrats to get in their way.  Remember that this is the same schlub who made himself a caricature by being the poster-child, er, economist, for the inflationary disaster of Bidenomics, who called Americans that despised Biden’s outrageous spending policies dumb, and who told President Joe Biden before his inauguration, “Don’t Worry About Inflation.” Yeah, Krugman’s one to talk about Faustian bargains, especially since he virtually flushed his career down the toilet just for the sake of propping up Biden as the best president of “my adult life.”  The level of projection in his latest screed is just mind-blowing: The lesson for businesspeople is that Faustian bargains never end well. Take a lesson from watching Scott Bessent – appease Trump and he will demand that you debase yourself even further. It’s been astonishing how quickly corporate greed has been replaced by corporate fear: Businesses who hoped to profit from Trump now toe the line because they’re afraid of being punished. Did that Faustian bargain you made with the walking sock puppet Biden end well, Krugman? The world wants to know.

After a dismal record to close out 2025, Apple News has unfortunately shown renewed commitment to left-wing bias in the first two weeks of 2026.  Apple News did not use a single right-leaning outlet among its top 20 articles in its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 14, 2026. Apple News continued its streak of completely excluding right-leaning media outlets across its 280 top stories.  Instead of highlighting news stories from popular right-leaning outlets such as Fox News or the New York Post, Apple News has consistently published articles from leftist, elitist media outlets like The Associated Press, The Washington Post and NBC News as well as center outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Apple News picked headlines for the first two weeks of January 2026 that attempted to present President Donald Trump and his administration in a negative light. For example, the news app ran a story from The Atlantic with a headline that read: “Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s.” The subheadline also framed Trump in a bad light: “The president told The Atlantic that Delcy Rodriguez needs to comply with U.S. wishes—or else.” A headline from leftist British outlet The Guardian read, “US executions surged in 2025 to highest level in 16 years.”  The biased findings for the first two weeks of 2026 continue Apple News editors’ unbroken streak of refusing to select right-leaning outlets for its morning editions that goes back to Nov. 5 of last year. On that date, the news app linked to right-leaning British outlet The Telegraph for a story about the atrocities taking place in Sudan, but Apple News has not linked to another right-leaning outlet since.  Disturbingly, unlike some of the other news aggregators that rely on algorithms to display top news, Apple News editors select stories to run each day. This is especially concerning considering the growing prevalence of news aggregators like the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News). According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  News aggregators like the Big Four News Apps are tools or platforms that gather articles from multiple media sources into a single place either through algorithmic selection or human curation, and they are a growing source for people to get their news. As a leading news aggregator, Apple News has shown itself to be one of the worst platforms when it comes to bias. Methodology: During the time period Jan. 1 - Jan. 11, 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM ET and the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories between Jan. 12 - Jan. 14, 2026 at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and analyzed the results. Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Independent conservative journalist Nick Sortor has in recent weeks shone an unflattering light on the thuggery of anti-ICE rioters and imported grifters in Minneapolis.The efficacy of his reportage — which led on Thursday to at least one arrest — appears to have made him a prime target for radicals who have circulated his image for street-identification purposes, mobbed his vehicle, and attacked another journalist whom they mistook for Sortor.'At least Minneapolis Police haven't erroneously arrested me ... yet.'Sortor shared footage taken by fellow journalist Cam Higby on Sunday revealing the latest lengths radicals have gone to stop him: stealing his camera and dragging him down the sidewalk."A group of Somali thugs just ROBBED me of my $1,000 camera in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis," Sortor indicated in a Sunday evening X post. "Then they DRAGGED ME DOWN THE STREET as my hand got trapped in their door handle."Footage of the incident shows a black-clad woman wearing a face covering approach Sortor's vehicle on the driver's side, grab the journalist's camera through his open window, and take off running.RELATED: 'You are on notice!' Don Lemon backs anti-ICE radicals who stormed Saint Paul church — but DOJ vows reckoning Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesIn the video, Sortor — who told Blaze News the "Somali thief reached IN to my vehicle and ripped the camera out of my hand, breaking the wrist strap" — quickly exits the vehicle and chases the woman on foot."The Somali mob then ran interference for them as I tried getting it back, giving the thief time to flee," said Sortor.Video confirms that while attempting to capture the apparent thief — who climbed into a red Kia — Sortor is obstructed by multiple shrieking onlookers and then nearly tackled to the ground by a black male wearing a mask. Sortor appears to get his hand stuck in the door handle of the fleeing suspect's vehicle such that when it accelerates down the sidewalk, the journalist is dragged alongside it for a considerable distance.After the suspect flees the scene, a shaken up and bloodied Sortor tells his associate, "They just stole my camera."Women in face coverings and other apparent critics of Sortor encircle the journalist as he makes his way back to his vehicle, ordering him to leave. One of the women admits on camera that they followed Sortor to the scene.Footage shows a Minneapolis police officer telling the journalist after the incident that he should leave the area and that individuals were calling the department to accuse Sortor of harassment."We don't need this stuff to keep happening," says the officer. "This level of hostility, obviously, it's not going away."When asked how his treatment by radicals and police in Minnesota has compared with his treatment in Portland, Sortor told Blaze News, "Much like Portland Police, Minneapolis Police submit to the mob and have been completely neutered by the left-wing government out here. However at least Minneapolis Police haven't erroneously arrested me ... yet."Sortor was arrested when covering an anti-ICE demonstration on Oct. 2 in Portland, Oregon. After determining that it couldn't make a disorderly conduct charge stick, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office declined to pursue the case. Sortor indicated last month that he plans to sue the City of Portland for allegedly violating his civil rights when targeting and arresting him.Sleuths have alleged that the vehicle in which the suspect fled the scene is registered to an individual whose address is listed as the SpectrumWorks Center in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. Blaze News was unable to reach the autism support center for comment.Cam Higby noted that "it's the owner of the vehicle who's address is allegedly the autism center. The robber may have hopped in someone else's vehicle."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

During a Senate hearing titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Dr. Nisha Verma — where he attempted to “establish a biological reality.”Verma, a medical doctor, was incapable of doing so.“I wasn’t sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked Verma.“I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so that’s where I paused, I think,” she answered.“Well the goal is the truth. So can men get pregnant?” Hawley pressed further.“Again the reason I paused there is I’m not really sure what the goal of the question —” she continued, before Hawley interjected, “The goal is just to establish a biological reality.”The pair went back and forth, with the leftist doctor claiming he was just being “polarizing.”“I’m not trying to be polarizing. I think it is extraordinary that we are here in a hearing about science and about women, and for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men. We are here about the safety of women, and the science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases,” Hawley responded.“There’s a difference between biological men and biological women. I just don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with this on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this,” he continued.“I think it’s extraordinary that you would sit here and advance a political agenda that has been thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American people in this forum. And I’m glad we had this exchange because it is exceptionally clarifying,” he said, adding, “It is also in many ways quite depressing.”While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is grateful for Hawley’s common sense, she’s also horrified that a doctor is still refusing to acknowledge such basic biological reality.“This woman is going into medical school, and she is teaching young people that ‘I am a person of science, and I represent all of the complex realities of my patients, and I don’t want to answer your very simple question,’” Gonzales comments.“These are the people in charge of your health care. These are the people in charge of setting policies,” she says, adding, “These people are still delusional.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The administration of the newly inaugurated New York City mayor was rocked by yet another controversy over bigoted posts on social media that were later deleted.Afua Atta-Mensah ridiculed liberal white women in the posts on the X platform before being named the chief equity officer of the city by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.'The anti-white racism of Mamdani's inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see.'"There is no one I trust more to advance racial equity across our work in City Hall," Mamdani said about Atta-Mensah when he appointed her to the office.The social media posts were unearthed by the New York Young Republican Club, according to the New York Post.In one post, she wrote emphatically, "Tax them to the white meat!" in reference to a show about wealthy people.In another post from 2020, she reposted a message reading, "There's NO moderate way to Black liberation," and added a comment in approval.She also criticized white liberals and white women in some posts, including one that responded positively to the statement, "we don't talk about white liberal racism enough." She replied, "Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations." In another, in response to the question, "Who's not police but FEELS like police to you?" she wrote, "White women at nonprofit organizations." Mamdani named Atta-Mensah to the equity office on Thursday before the NYYR released screenshots of the posts that were apparently deleted soon after her elevation."We have the receipts and we are here to win," reads a statement from the NYYRC. "These tweets by Afua Atta-Mensah are just the tip of the iceberg and New York is not going down without a fight. The anti-white racism of Mamdani's inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see."Although Mamdani has only been in office for less than three weeks, a number of members of his team have been found to have issued extremist statements.RELATED: Mamdani makes bizarre promise about World Cup tickets — and gets humiliated by community note Mamdani's housing czar had issued many statements advocating for the state to take control of housing while calling homeownership a tool of "white supremacy."Another aide had advocated for the abolition of police, while yet another said that real terrorism comes from capitalism and their pawns.The Post said City Hall did not respond to requests for comment about its equity director.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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