According to emails obtained by the great people at Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), reporters from The New York Times and Politico worked alongside the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try and concoct a record of climate leadership for then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed campaign. And, when it was all over, one fretted to their fellow liberals about the agency’s future under President Trump. On the latter example, reporter Kevin Bogardus — who works for Politico’s E&E News — fretted on January 6 that he was “reaching out to former EPA officials who served in Democratic and Republican administrations to hear what they think about what the agency accomplished during these past four years as well as what is under threat or will last during the incoming administration and beyond.” “Under threat”? The horror! Of course a D.C. journalist would frame the change of administrations that way. His questions even implied impending doom, wondering how much EPA had yet to spend from the bipartisan infrastructure act. Specifically, he expressed concern that about the EPA’s “Clean School Bus Program,” which “was appropriated $5 billion[.]” Bogardus did the same with the boondoogle known as the Inflation Reduction Act and EPA employees overall (given what Americans already knew would be mass layoffs). Going back to the campaign, Politico’s Zack Colman sought help in a July 25, 2024 e-mail to the EPA in confirming whether it’s “accurate to say VP Harris was instrumental in formulating the idea to send $20B in climate funding under the Inflation Reduction Act to community lenders.” An EPA officially replied to Colman and Bogardus with a comical word salad with political buzzwords looking to make fetch happen, alleging Harris was instrumental in what was called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) as part of the Inflation Reduction Act: Vice President Kamala Harris is a leader who doesn’t do surface, she digs in and she was a driving force behind EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program from the Inflation Reduction Act. The Vice President was actively engaged during the development of the program and emphasized the importance of community lenders in the work to reach underserved communities. Her engagement resulted in a program that will help ensure that families, small businesses, and community lenders, especially in disadvantaged and underserved areas, have access to billions of dollars of new capital they need to make climate and clean energy projects a reality in their neighborhoods. Now, just how absurd is this GGRF? Check out this definition from a far-left group called Evergreen Action: [T]he Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is the largest grant program within the IRA. Not only does this provide a massive investment in pollution-reducing, clean energy technology, but it targets communities that have been historically overlooked and underserved and brings equity to the clean energy transition. And the program’s flexibility puts decision-making into states and communities’ hands—allowing local leadership to design and implement programing for maximum impact. This financing will have both immediate and long-lasting impact, by deploying clean energy projects in communities now, and supporting the creation of green banks that can finance clean energy projects well into the future.  With buzzwords like “equity,” “flexibility,”  “green banks,” and “undeserved,” theat sure seems like a slush fund to us! He was back for more on August 19, 2024 asking about Regan’s future if Harris were to win (or lose) the election. When there didn’t appear to be a response, he added another question hours later: “How would you characterize Administrator Regan’s working relationship with Vice President Harris? Have they worked closely together during the Biden-Harris administration? If so, on what issues?” They apparently called him the next day, leading Bogardus to give his fellow liberals a preview of how their comments to him would be characterized prior to publication (click “expand,” italics original to the e-mail): Many thanks for the phone call just now, Nick. I really appreciate it. As we discussed, regarding my questions about Administrator Regan’s future plans, you directed me to prior comments from Administrator Regan, including whether he is interested in being part of a potential Harris administration. I will use that in the following in italics in my story: EPA spokesperson Nick Conger directed E&E News to prior comments Administrator Michael Regan made about his future plans, including whether he was interested in being part of a potential Harris administration. “I’ve learned not to get out ahead of any conversations I’ve had with the president and the vice president,” Regan said at an event last month. Also, as we discussed as well, please pass on that on-the-record statement regarding Vice President Harris and Administrator Regan’s working relationship as soon as you can. Thanks so much again for your help and talk to you later! It must be nice to have the power to see how the elite press will characterize you beforehand. Rewind a week to August 12, 2024 and Times White House reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs emailed this to an EPA official asking for help in finding examples of how Harris “shaped” the administration’s climate agenda through “big decisions”: Hope you’re well. I was referred to you by the vice president’s office for a story we’re doing on Vice President Kamala Harris’s time as vice president. We’re curious about exploring what the VP did and did not do on policy. What were the big decisions she made? How did she help shape some of the policies in Biden’s agenda? I thought the Administrator would be able to provide his perspective? The thing we’re looking for here is examples of the VP’s work, rather than just analysis. Of course, EPA press aide Timothy Carroll replied just over half an hour later: “Administrator Regan would be happy to chat on this and I think he can speak to a few examples, especially on the VP’s engagement in the development of EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.” A search of Kamala Harris and Michael Regan in The Times’s database showed quite the sad trombone as such a story never materialized under his byline.

The horrific mass shooting as a high school in Canada wasn't just embarrassing to the Canadian establishment because of their passionate advocacy of gun control, especially so-called "assault weapons." It's another mass shooting committed by a transgender individual, and they just don't know how to handle it. They ended up sounding more sensitive to the T-Police than to the crime victims. One AP story just stuck vaguely to "her" pronouns:  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the attack that killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia. Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound following the assault on a school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school.  A different AP report said  "A woman who police believed was the shooter was found dead, apparently from a self-inflicted wound, police said. The motive remained unclear." Not "a shooter who police believed was a woman." Time magazine echoed that online: A woman believed to be the shooter was found dead at the school from what police described as a “self‑inflicted injury.” Later, they said police described a “female in a dress with brown hair.” CNN.com reported "Police identified the alleged shooter in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, as Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old female resident of the town who had “dropped out of school approximately four years ago.” Canada's National Post newspaper quickly went into Trans Defense mode:  The Tumbler Ridge shooter was a trans female. How rare is that? Five transgender people have previously been implicated in mass shootings, but U.S. organizations say they account for less than one tenth of one per cent of such shootings, despite being a larger proportion of the population On X, Libs of TikTok underlined this truth-defiance mode happened all over the internet:  NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED The media is reporting that a "female" shooter was responsible for massacring people at a school in Canada. Jesse Strang was a MAN pretending to be a woman. Media is covering up trans violence pic.twitter.com/ivkWbjrT64 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 11, 2026

On Tuesday, NewsBusters pointed out that the three major news networks aren't always interested in reporting on stories that don't fit their liberal agenda. That story referred to a violent anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis last Saturday, with over 40 arrests, which was passed over by the nightly newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC, with only Fox News's Special Report covering it. Tuesday's House Ways & Means Committee hearing on "Foreign Influence In American Non-Profits" resulted in all three networks skipping the story. While the topic may seem like a big yawn on the surface, one of the goals of the hearing is to expose left=wing non-profits, who Committee Chairman Jason Smith accused of "sowing chaos" in the United States. That could include the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests.  According to The New York Post, "Radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive billionaire George Soros" are behind those protests. Despite all of this, Fox's Special Report was the only nightly newscast of the four to take on the hearing. Host Bret Baier introduced the report: "Foreign adversaries maybe targeting nonprofits to gain access inside the U.S. Lawmakers heard testimony today over how foreign cash funneled through those groups could be financing U.S. politics, protests, and the White House. Senior Foreign Policy Correspondent Gillian Turner reports from Capitol Hill." Turner's report opened with a clip of Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), "To the tax-exempt groups hiding in darkness, and stirring up unrest in this country, know that this committee is coming for you." The stated purpose of the hearing alone makes it a newsworthy story, but apparently not if the groups doing the stirring up are left wing groups.  TURNER: The Chairman of House Ways And Means issued a warning to U.S. nonprofit groups in today's hearing. In the committee's crosshairs Code Pink  and The People's Forum, a left wing group focused on marginalized communities. Chairman Smith then added, "One of their largest donors is a wealthy former U.S. tech executive living in Shanghai." Turner followed up with the revelation that, "The Chinese government spent $11 billion last year according to the State Department, promoting pro-communist propaganda around the world." Again, extremely troubling and newsworthy stuff, one would assume. And there was more.  Turner played a clip of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, who claimed that some U.S. non-profits like Code Pink and The People's Forum take their money and relay their "pro communist" messages. She also said that some of causes pushed by, "this dark money network include pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel causes, pro-communist, pro-Maduro causes."   As if all of that wasn't enough, Turner says Rogers told Fox that the State Department has traced CCP (Chinese Communist Party) money to groups involved in the anti-ICE protests.  Given the seriousness of these accusations, I'm sure it was an easy call for the Big 3 to stay far away. However, by doing so they did miss out on the predictable Democrat responses, including this one from Committee member Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), which Turner included in her report, "No tax-exempt organization has been more vulnerable or more welcoming to malign foreign influence than Donald Trump." It's the Left's answer to everything.

Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show today to reveal new findings from MRC Free Speech America’s Digital News Tracker, showing Apple News’ continued tilt toward left-leaning outlets and complete exclusion of right-leaning sources. Bozell explained that Apple News, along with Google News, Yahoo News, and MSN News — the “Big Four” news aggregation platforms — plays an outsized role in shaping how Americans consume headlines. "It has become a way for these failing legacy news media outlets to hide in plain sight and still have influence over the narrative." @DavidBozell exposes Apple News with @ScottJenningsKY pic.twitter.com/NLuKuDJlNx — Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 11, 2026 “These apps have been relative blind spots for the conservative movement, and we figured out a way through our new Digital News Tracker to quantify just how left-leaning all these news apps have really been,” Bozell said. Using daily screenshots of Apple News’ Top Stories, MRC analyzed 620 headlines in January. Of those, 440 came from outlets rated left-leaning, while the remainder were classified as centrist. Not a single headline came from a right-leaning source. The imbalance, Bozell warned, affects millions of Americans who rely on push notifications and quick headline scans rather than in-depth reporting. “If you're the nurse in the hospital who just doesn't have time to go in depth with Scott Jennings or Steve Deace or any of the influencers in the conservative ecosystem, or if you're a housing contractor going from job to job, you're scanning headlines,” Bozell said. “You're just looking at your push notifications and they're routinely and regularly to the left wing.” "More than half a billion people are headline scrolling on these four apps." @DavidBozell encourages conservative news sources to be aggressive about getting on these news apps. @ScottJenningsKY pic.twitter.com/0O6eeDjLFF — Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 11, 2026 The sourcing patterns were especially striking. In January alone, Apple News’ Top Stories featured the Washington Post 72 times, the Associated Press 54 times, NBC News 50 times, The Guardian 34 times, and the New York Times 30 times. Meanwhile, Bozell pointed out, outlets like Fox News and the New York Post were entirely absent. Bozell also challenged Apple’s claim that users can fully customize their news experience, citing an MRC test showing Apple editors can override blocked sources. “It’s much more editorially driven than they want to admit,” Bozell concluded.  

All those many many months focused on one primary task at Politico. Get Trump via the Epstein files. It is hard to underestimate the insane lengths Politico employed to somehow implicate President Donald Trump with the foibles of Jeffrey Epstein via the Epstein files. Politico acted if they just kept focusing on those files, damaging material just had to be found about Trump. The pathetic spectacle of Politico madly pursuing their political White Whale culminated last July when Politico was flooded with SIX Epstein stories in just one 24 hour period. So what was the end result of Politico's absurd Epstein-Trump frenzy? A laughably tardy admission in Tuesday's Politico Playbook that rather than Trump being in cahoots with Epstein, he actively worked with police to nail Epstein due to Trump's disgust with his sleazy activities.  ...Last night, the Miami Herald’s Julie Brown uncovered a previously unreported 2019 FBI interview with former Palm Beach Police chief Michael Reiter. In the interview, Reiter recalls a phone call he says he received from Donald Trump in 2006, when the first investigation into Epstein was underway. “Thank goodness you’re stopping him — everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told the chief of police in 2006, according to the interview. Reiter says Trump had described Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil” and recommended they “focus on her,” according to the report. Trump also told Reiter that “he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and that Trump ‘got the hell out of there,’” per the FBI report. This is a big deal: As the Herald points out, it seems to directly contradict Trump’s public statement in 2019 that he had known nothing about Epstein’s sordid activities. (Expect White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to be grilled on this point at her 1 p.m. briefing today.) But more importantly, the document ultimately seems to corroborate Trump’s longstanding insistence that he had fallen out with Epstein long before any police inquiry, and cut all ties. It’s important to note that the figures who have so far been damaged by this latest tranche of documents are those who chose to maintain links with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, like Peter Mandelson, Britain’s now-former ambassador to Washington. Before congratulating Politico for finally seeing the light, keep in mind that the truth about Trump's relationship with Epstein was out there for years if anyone cared to look into it, which Politico obviously did not. One example of avoiding the truth was this 2019 video of an interview with Bradley Edwards, an attorney representing the plaintiffs against Epstein who stated that Trump was the ONLY prominent person who was helpful in giving him information about Epstein.   Unfortunately, Politico shamed itself by conveniently overlooking real facts that were available all along while dig, dig, digging for ultimately imaginary dirt on Trump in regards to the Epstein files.