Apparently The New York Times has snowflakes for brains as it struggled to find the climate change link in the blistering cold that has gripped the Eastern Seaboard. Times reporter Eric Niiler ran a ridiculous February 7 piece of propaganda disguised as news that was laced with a complete lack of self-awareness: The headline? “What’s Up With This Big Freeze? Some Scientists See Climate Change Link.” Niiler floated the possibility that “A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The ‘wobble’ can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East.” At least in the 1970s-1980s, frigid temperatures were more narratively consistent with the “Global Cooling” angle, but this was just the latest textbook example of climate media activists trying to have their cake and eat it too.  He was at least apparently aware of the glaring contradiction but still attempted to shoehorn some kind of logic into it anyway. “If the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter,” Niiler pondered. “The seeming contradiction comes up often when talking to Judah Cohen, a research scientist at M.I.T. who has been studying how global warming might also be causing colder winters in the eastern United States.”  Recall the Great American Cold Wave of January 1985 that also swooshed across the eastern states for one of the “most intense arctic outbreaks of the 20th century?” The interesting factoid was that frosty event also occurred during, er, winter. Shocking, right? The National Weather Service summarized then that “Extremely cold temperatures affected every state east of the Rockies with three new state record lows established.” The Times reported on that “Major Cold Snap” along the following lines, “Temperature records shattered like icicles yesterday from the upper Middle West to the Gulf states, as Arctic cold covered much of the United States.”   Here’s the funny part: In May of that same year (1985), following the snap, The Times fear-mongered that “Beginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries.” But as JunkScience.com founder Steve Milloy pointed out February 1, “[A]t its 2025 summer minimum, the Arctic still had more than 5 million square kilometers of sea ice — about the same as in 2007.” In May 2025, the Antarctic ice sheet gained a record-shattering amount of ice between 2021 and 2023, reversing a trend of loss.  Apparently, if we were to take Niiler’s 180-degree spin, “warming” was also causing the reverse effect to happen too: Climate warming in the Arctic is causing this disruption of the polar vortex, Dr. Cohen said. With more snowfall in Siberia and melting sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas, just north of Norway and Russia, the ocean is feeding more heat into the atmosphere, setting up a weather pattern that leads to a burst of extreme cold in North America. Liquid → Solid vs. Solid → Liquid. Global Cooling or Global Warming? Heads I win, tails you lose? Either way, it’s ManBearPig from South Park’s fault didn’t ya know!  Jeez, just pick one already!

Despite his position as a Hollywood elite, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel likes to think of himself as a man of the people who cares for the little guy, but on his Tuesday show, Kimmel made the strange claim that illegal immigrants are “raising your children.” While talking about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s congressional testimony where he was questioned about his appearance in the Epstein files, Kimmel sarcastically declared, “But this was encouraging. Congressman Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, is speaking out and loudly against Epstein's co-conspirators.”   After a clip of GOP Rep. Lisa McClain at a press conference lamenting, "And you know what the Democrats want to do? Let's release them into your communities. And let's celebrate the criminals. Let's villainize the ICE agents and celebrate the people who are raping your children,"… pic.twitter.com/jP9SbPxxtV — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 11, 2026   A video of McClain then showed her at a press conference lamenting, “I don't get it. I've got to share with you, I don't get it. These folks are monsters. They're criminals. They murder. They sexually assault young women. Minors.” Kimmel then teed up the second part of the video by reacting, “What's that? Oh, that wasn't about the men in the Epstein files? Who was she yelling—oh, immigrants. Oh, no.” The McClain clip then continued with her adding, “And you know what the Democrats want to do? Let's release them into your communities. And let's celebrate the criminals. Let's villainize the ICE agents and celebrate the people who are raping your children.” Kimmel again reacted, “I think she meant to say raising your children? I mean, listen, could you imagine how ignorant these people are screaming about pedophiles and rapists while members of their own party seem to be doing everything they can to protect the pedophiles and the rapists in the Epstein files.” According to the not-at-all conservative American Immigration Council, 6.7 percent of childcare workers and 4.1 percent of all child day care workers were illegal immigrants in 2021. While numbers are hard to find for Kimmel’s Los Angeles specifically, 39 percent of California’s child care workers are immigrants—either legal or illegal—higher than the national average of 21 percent, and a disproportionate number of them live in LA. For the overwhelming majority of Americans, and especially those who live outside of areas like LA, Kimmel’s remarks simply aren’t true.   Here is a transcript for the February 10 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2/10/2026 11:44 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: But this was encouraging. Congressman Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, is speaking out and loudly against Epstein's co-conspirators. LISA MCCLAIN: I don't get it. I've got to share with you, I don't get it. These folks are monsters. They're criminals. They murder. They sexually assault young women. Minors. KIMMEL: What's that? Oh, that wasn't about the men in the Epstein files? Who was she yelling—oh, immigrants. Oh, no. MCCLAIN: And you know what the Democrats want to do? Let's release them into your communities. And let's celebrate the criminals. Let's villainize the ICE agents and celebrate the people who are raping your children. KIMMEL: I think she meant to say raising your children? I mean, listen, could you imagine how ignorant these people are screaming about pedophiles and rapists while members of their own party seem to be doing everything they can to protect the pedophiles and the rapists in the Epstein files.

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: Finally, Some Journalisming! NY Times Front-Pager Exposes Epstein Ties to Clinton Machine Yahoo News Appears to Play Shell Game to Boost Overwhelmingly Leftist Media Content PROBE: The FCC Looks to Crackdown on ABC's The View Citing Equal Time Apple News Continues Rejection of Right-Leaning Outlets in January   Finally, Some Journalisming! NY Times Front-Pager Exposes Epstein Ties to Clinton Machine NYT Delivers Rare Real Journalism on Clinton-Epstein Ties: The New York Times put on its front page a major exposé showing that Ghislaine Maxwell played a substantial role in creating the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). She participated in budget discussions, coordinated with Clinton aides and event producers, and arranged a $1 million wire transfer for the launch—with Jeffrey Epstein aware of the payment.  Mainstream Media Largely Ignores the Story: Despite the bombshell front-page placement in the New York Times, CBS and NBC flagship newscasts gave it zero coverage, while ABC offered only a single passing mention. This selective silence from the rest of the legacy media highlights the double standard in how Clinton-related scandals are handled compared to other political figures. New Evidence Fuels Scrutiny of the Clinton Global Initiative: The reporting corroborates long-standing criticisms of the CGI as a pay-to-play access operation and adds fresh texture to the connections between the Clinton world and Epstein/Maxwell’s circle.  Yahoo News Appears to Play Shell Game to Boost Overwhelmingly Leftist Media Content Yahoo News Fakes Balance with a Deliberate Shell Game MRC analysis of January 2026 morning editions reveals Yahoo News creates a thin veneer of fairness by occasionally including right-leaning outlets like Fox News and the New York Post—but almost always buries them at the very bottom of the top 20 stories, often with non-political human-interest pieces (e.g., a 550-pound bear eviction or shark migrations), while flooding the most prominent positions with hard-hitting political stories from overwhelmingly leftist sources like TIME, Salon, and The New Republic. 16 Straight Days of Total Exclusion for Conservative Voices For 16 days in January 2026, Yahoo News featured zero articles from right-leaning outlets in its top 20 morning stories, and on the remaining days, right-leaning content appeared in the top 10 only twice—with the rest relegated to the lowest spots or just outside the list—demonstrating a systematic pattern of suppression that prioritizes leftist narratives and denies conservative perspectives equal visibility to millions of users. Clear Pattern of Anti-Conservative Bias Demands Accountability As MRC Free Speech VP Dan Schneider warns, Yahoo News shows a “consistent, unmistakable pattern” of burying right-leaning media while crafting plausible deniability for claims of balance—especially timely amid potential House Judiciary oversight under Rep. Jim Jordan—forcing Big Tech gatekeepers like Yahoo to finally explain this blatant skew that undermines free speech and public access to diverse viewpoints. PROBE: The FCC Looks to Crackdown on ABC's The View Citing Equal Time FCC Launches Probe into The View for Unequal Airtime in Political Coverage — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating ABC's The View after it gave Democratic Texas Senate candidate Rep. Jasmine Crockett nearly 18 minutes (across three segments) while providing only about 10 minutes to her primary opponent, James Talarico — highlighting a clear disparity that triggered scrutiny under the long-standing equal time rules. End of 'Bona Fide' News Exemption for Daytime Talk Shows — The Republican-led FCC has cracked down by declaring that interview segments on shows like The View, late-night programs, and other non-news daytime content no longer automatically qualify as "bona fide" news — meaning they must offer equal opportunities to opposing political candidates under the 1934 Communications Act, rejecting ABC/Disney's implied claim of exemption. Exposing Liberal Bias with Real Consequences — With The View showing a massive guest imbalance (128 Democrats vs. just 2 conservatives in 2025 political discussions) and no equal-time request filed for Talarico, the probe could force the show to invite Republican figures like Sen. John Cornyn — proving that "fake news" and one-sided partisan programming won't get a free pass anymore under stricter FCC enforcement. Apple News Continues Rejection of Right-Leaning Outlets in January Zero Right-Leaning Voices in 620 Top Stories: In January 2026, Apple News featured not a single article from right-leaning outlets (such as Fox News, New York Post, Breitbart, Daily Mail, or The Gateway Pundit) among its top 20 daily stories for the entire month. This complete blackout—across 620 curated headlines—shows deliberate suppression of conservative perspectives, especially under human editors who manually select content rather than relying on neutral algorithms. Overwhelming Left-Leaning Dominance: Apple News pushed 440 stories from left-leaning sources like The Washington Post (72 stories), Associated Press (54), NBC News (50), The Guardian (34), and The New York Times (30), while center outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Reuters got some play.  Pattern of Censorship Demands Accountability: This January blackout continues a long-running trend of excluding conservative media, building on prior months with near-total suppression (e.g., only one right-leaning story out of 560 in November 2025). As a dominant news aggregator, Apple News's bias violates fairness principles and calls for conservatives to demand transparency, equal footing, and Big Tech adherence to First Amendment-like standards—urging contact with representatives and reporting censorship to hold Silicon Valley accountable.  

Editorial writers can have a solipsistic tendency to think journalism jobs are the most essential jobs imaginable. We can revere the philosophical argument about the importance of a free press in keeping democracy viable without thinking every lost job at a media outlet is the decline and fall of America. The Washington Post just cut 300 jobs – not from national politics, but from foreign bureaus, and book reviews, and sports. That means the Post no longer boasts the full menu of newspaper offerings. Journalists don’t beat their breasts like this when coal miners or auto workers are laid off. On February 5, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan broke out in a crying jag of an editorial, sounding less like a conservative and more like a ranting lefty like Ellen Goodman or Mary McGrory in the Reagan-era Post. “Reaction shouldn’t break down along ideological lines,” she protested, “in which the left feels journalism is its precinct and is sad, and the right feels journalism is its hulking enemy and isn’t sad. Treat it that way and we’ll fail to see the story for its true significance. The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it. That isn’t the occasion of jokes, it’s a disaster.” It's not a “disaster” that the Post doesn’t have a Sports section. It’s not a “disaster” if the Post has to shrink. Noonan wouldn’t write a column like this if The Washington Times folded. She thinks it’s not a real newspaper. This is the first mistake liberals make: the conservatives find an enemy in “journalism” – as if only liberal journalists are actual journalists. They do think journalism is their precinct, that conservative journalists are somehow not essential in holding government accountable or keeping democracy vibrant. Liberals don’t want journalism that holds liberals and Democrats accountable. They seem to think democracy and Democratic Party dominance are the same thing. That’s what “journalism” at The Washington Post reinforces.   But Peggy keeps up the dramatic lament: “The Post’s greatness and expertise can’t easily be replaced and perhaps can’t be replaced at all, or at least not for decades of committed building.” The politics-and-policy crew isn’t going anywhere. The Post just looks more like Politico or Axios now. We’re told “Government by its nature always wants to accumulate power and use it. A watchful press slows this process, sometimes stops it, by exposing its abuses. If citizens are informed, they can self-govern from a rough baseline of realism.” Noonan isn’t working from a place of “realism.” This whole article desperately clings to the Woodward-and-Bernstein-movie myth surrounding the Post. They destroyed Nixon’s presidency, which was apparently the summit of media greatness.  It doesn’t matter that you can’t remember a time the Post undermined a Democrat president or Congress in that way. The heroism is in treating the conservatives as your “hulking enemy.” The conclusion is the most vomitous passage: that this reduction in liberal force under Trump is “more than a Jeffersonian nightmare, it is a kind of sin. The kind history doesn’t easily forgive.” This is where you laugh at the writer claiming reaction to this unemployment news shouldn’t “break down along ideological lines.” Everything she’s written about this is an ideological reaction, and that’s especially true when you define a failure to muster your “Jeffersonian” resistance to Trump as an unforgivable “sin,” as if Trump is Satan in the flesh.  The Washington Post will be thinner. Life will go on. Democracy will continue. America doesn’t rise or fall with the fate of one Democrat-boosting newspaper. Take a pill, Peggy. 

Immigration is shaping up to be the hit-button issue of this midterm election. One drawback, though, is that these types of stories require a steady flow of victims in order to keep the issue in front of the public. With the unrest in Minnesota off the news, CBS News thinks they may have struck gold. Watch as Matt Gutman goes to Idaho to investigate an ICE raid and is tipped off about an ACLU lawsuit: The thing about immigration as a hot-button issue is that it requires fresh victims in order to remain on the front-page. Watch as CBS News goes fishing in Idaho: pic.twitter.com/e1UTtEUSeg — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: Second, in another CBS News exclusive tonight, a question of tactics in the story of an immigration raid in rural Idaho. While allegedly focused on Mexican cartel activity, the raid, in fact, swept up more than 300 U.S. citizens, along with 100 undocumented immigrants, just five of whom were later arrested on gambling charges. In the process, children as young as 14 were zip-tied and questioned on their immigration status. Here is chief national correspondent Matt Gutman. PROTESTER: Are you going to shoot me if I don't…? GUTMAN: When about 200 armed agents stormed this horse racing event in rural Idaho, Anabel Romero said she had no idea who they were. ANABEL ROMERO: All I'm asking for clarification. Who are you? Why am I being detained? GUTMAN: And their response? ROMERO: Their response? I'm going to blow your [bleep] head off. GUTMAN: Canyon County share Kieran Donahue was there on horseback.  KIERAN DONAHUE: So this was a very, very large-scale operation, maybe the largest I've ever been involved with. GUTMAN: The sheriff says nearly 500 people were at the October 19th event. 375 of them U.S. citizens or legal residents, including some 60 children. The sheriff says the event was linked to Mexican cartel activity and asked ICE to join. But so far only five people have been arrested for nonviolent, illegal gambling. In a lawsuit filed tonight, the ACLU is accusing Donahue and the federal government of using excessive force, including against children. JENN ROLNICK BORCHETTA: Law enforcement should not be zip-tying children. They have done long-lasting damage to children. GUTMAN: Can you show me, SueHey, where you had bruises? SUEHEY ROMERO: I had bruises all right here among both wrists. GUTMAN: Romero and her 14-year-old daughter SueHey, both U.S. citizens, say agents herded them along with Romero's 2 younger children to the racetrack. Was it scary, you two?  There, officers zip-tied SueHey. That's her 8-year-old sister by her side. SUEHEY: I was there, like, crying. I can't even get words out. I was, like, struggling. Can’t even get words out. GUTMAN: With her hands bound behind her back, Romero says she was unable to console her daughter. ROMERO: I can't hug her. I can't hold her because these guys won't let me go, and I'm like she's only 14. GUTMAN: In an email, the Department of Homeland Security first told CBS News it was a conspiracy theory, and in a second email they denied ICE agents zip tied children. DONAHUE: The youngest that was zip-tied was 16 years old, and he had a mustache. There were kids in there. They weren't zipped -- those little ones were not zip tied. GUTMAN: This is a picture of SueHey, we met her this morning, she is 14 years old. She is, I would say, a child, a girl who was zip tied, and these are the bruises from those zip ties. Have you seen or heard that? DONAHUE: No, I had not. I had not seen that. But I will tell you this. I've been in this business a long time. I haven't gone against gang members who are a lot younger than that. GUTMAN: She was with her 6-year-old brother and 8-year-old sister. DONAHUE: But you are taking that out of context. We do not know her- GUTMAN: What kind of context do you need? There is a girl with two small children with her, how dangerous could she possibly be? DONAHUE: We don't know. GUTMAN: Now the sheriff is facing community backlash.  Have ties been broken with your community? To some degree, I believe they have come absolutely. ROMERO: My parents, they came over here to the United States to give us a better life, so we didn't have to suffer, and that day, I felt like our freedom was taken away from us. GUTMAN: Matt Gutman, CBS News, Wilder, Idaho. The first inconsistency with this story appears to be the balance of U.S. citizens to illegal aliens. When Tony Dokoupil introduces the story he makes reference to 300 citizens and 100 illegal aliens. Matt Gutman refers to 375 U.S. citizens or legal residents plus 60 children- deemphasizing the number of illegal aliens present, or whether there are any at all. There is an effort to make the raid resemble Minneapolis or Chicago, but this event went down at a local horse racing track. Hence, the arrests for illegal gambling. The local sheriff indicates that there was suspicion of cartel activity, but this is deemphasized in the report. There is a clear dispute as to which minors were zip-tied. But this doesn’t get earnestly resolved. Instead, we get Gutman yelling at the sheriff and asking him whether he’s lost standing in the community. There seemed to be little interest in getting to anything else than establishing the next round of immigration victims for the next several cycles in order to further undermine law enforcement. I will note that there is still no coverage of the illegal alien truck driver that killed four Amish in Indiana. If only those Amish were rainbow flags… If only the 4 Indiana Amish killed by an illegal alien truck driver were rainbow flags, they might garner coverage on the CBS Evening News pic.twitter.com/OgH42Pz6Jp — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026