Former The Late Show host David Letterman joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday to praise him as “the leader of the resistance” and also tell Kimmel that he and his contemporaries are helping to save democracy every night with their shows. Letterman kicked off his ode to his successors by asking, “People are aware of the fact that you are the leader of the resistance?” while Kimmel tried to downplay the idea, “Yes, I mean, I am the totally ineffective leader of the resistance, yes.”     Alluding to Kimmel’s suspension, Letterman continued, “By the way, will this be televised tonight? I can never keep track with you getting yanked off. Oh, well, excuse— I'm sorry.” After the duo made that comment seem more sexual than it had to be, Letterman resumed, “And speaking of leaders, let me just say one thing here. I'm going to suck up to you because I feel like if I kind of tag along with you, I'll be glorified in retrospect in my own—you know, it's kind of like you just sit there. If the—now, this is irrespective of the party or political ideology— irrespective, party or political ideology—if the leader of the free world is a fool, the leader of the free world then should expect and examine every bit of ridicule he receives.” Of course, Kimmel was not suspended for mocking President Trump. He was suspended for false depictions of Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s political ideology and then refusing to acknowledge he did anything wrong. As it was, Kimmel later asked if Letterman ever wishes he was still hosting a show to comment on the current political climate. Letterman said no but had more praise for the current crop of late night hosts, “Boy, you would think, but no. I'm so glad to be out from under this mess because people like you and people like Stephen and people like Seth do such a masterful job of this, defending democracy… I thank God for you, thank God for others, SNL and everybody else, it's just—I think it's the way things need to be in a democracy that's seemingly this crippled.” Kimmel added, “You did forget Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, I mean, there are many others that we could include here.” Letterman’s idea about mocking the leader of the free world irrespective of ideology sounds nice, but the problem is that the comedy show hosts only seem to apply it to Republicans. When Letterman was still on the air, the percentage of jokes targeting George W. Bush for his presidency was far higher than those targeting Barack Obama during his. That trend has only gotten worse since Letterman’s retirement and during the Trump and Biden presidencies.  Here is a transcript for the December 9 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 12/9/2025 11:53 PM ET DAVID LETTERMAN: People are aware of the fact that you are the leader of the resistance? JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes, I mean, I am the totally ineffective leader of the resistance, yes. LETTERMAN: By the way, will this be televised tonight? I can never keep track with you getting yanked off. Oh, well, excuse— I'm sorry. KIMMEL: Come on, wake up over there for God’s sake over there. Dave's here. Anton would have hit that with no problem. LETTERMAN: Thank you very much. And speaking of leaders, let me just say one thing here. I'm going to suck up to you because I feel like if I kind of tag along with you, I'll be glorified in retrospect in my own—you know, it's kind of like you just sit there. If the—now, this is irrespective of the party or political ideology— irrespective, party or political ideology—if the leader of the free world is a fool, the leader of the free world then should expect and examine every bit of ridicule he receives. … LETTERMAN: Boy, you would think, but no. I'm so glad to be out from under this mess —  KIMMEL: Good. LETTERMAN: —because people like you and people like Stephen and people like Seth do such a masterful job of this, defending democracy. And about all I'm capable of showing up every now and then and saying “[bleep] you, Waymo.” That's it. By the way, that's about all I got, and but I thank God for you, thank God for others, SNL and everybody else, it's just—I think it's the way things need to be in a democracy that's seemingly this crippled. KIMMEL: Well, I prefer you limited it to me but I appreciate that. LETTERMAN: Well, you—you know. KIMMEL: You did forget Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, I mean, there are many others that we could include here.

The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they’re the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don’t play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with ten color photographs on the glorious Rosie O’Donnell and her passionate loathing of Donald Trump. The Post summarized the puff piece on X: “Donald Trump’s first administration took an emotional toll on Rosie O’Donnell. She didn’t think she could endure a second term. This time, O’Donnell had a plan: she moved to Ireland.” So let’s give Rosie credit for carrying out the threat to leave America, unlike many exquisitely sensitive celebrities. “She’s a sensitive soul, a giant exposed nerve who has posed, successfully, for most of her life and career as a brassy Long Island toughie,” gushed Post arts reporter Geoff Edgers. The first Trump term “took an emotional toll on the die-hard liberal, even as she tweeted and marched and spit invective against the president every chance she got.” So at least we get the term “die-hard liberal,” and the accurate note on “invective.” But these only make her more lovable to the customers of The Washington Post. She moved to Ireland for her child: “O’Donnell, 63, worried about life under an administration that has been hostile to gay rights and gender-nonconforming people in general; her youngest, 12-year-old Clay, is nonbinary.” It used to be “her daughter Dakota.” Then Edgers dropped a pile of obligatory "they/their" terms on Clay. Edgers pitched O’Donnell vs. Trump as two “vivid triborough loudmouths” who could deliver “late-night bluster.” He quoted Rosie attacking Trump’s personal life: “Left the first first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair. Had kids both times, but he’s the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America.” The Post laid out a similarity here, but didn’t make it direct: Rosie left the first wife, after four adopted kids. Rosie left the second wife, after adopting one more. The second wife later committed suicide. That’s not mentioned in this huge article. Edgers isn’t going to mock Rosie’s moral compass. No, her problem is she cares too much. We’re told “This impulse to help – anyone, anywhere, at whatever cost – is a constant source of frustration for her friends.” Even now, Trump enjoys mocking Rosie, and that’s painted as somehow weird, when it’s not weird in reverse. When the Irish prime minister came to the White House, Trump mocked her in response to a question from the Real America’s Voice network. Edgers turned dramatic: “Suddenly, what had once seemed like a classic showbiz rivalry — a Joan Crawford-Bette Davis slap fight rebooted for the reality TV era — was beginning to feel more ominous than absurd.” Ominous? Like Trump was going to send a goon squad to rough her up? Leftists love to dish it out against Trump, but they can’t seem to take it. The Post story is accompanied by a Rosie portrait of Trump where she scrawled the words “Felon, Crook, Creep, Liar, Loser, Done.” But that’s not ominous? Of course, the Post wouldn’t use words that would be upsetting about Rosie's strange views, like "9/11 conspiracy theorist." This isn’t the first time Geoff Edgers has traveled to Ireland for a puff piece. In 2020, he offered the same routine, a huge Sunday tribute to leftist singer Sinead O’Connor, beloved for tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live. She was “one of contemporary music’s greatest and most original artists.” These women are very much alike -- “sensitive artists” at war with everyone The Washington Post hates.

On Tuesday afternoon's Chris Jansing Reports, MS NOW promoted a liberal activist who stalks immigration agents so she can warn illegal aliens of their presence and keep them from being arrested. She also made the left's latest reference to Nazi Germany by invoking Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Jansing set up the piece by touting the "grandmother" who is trying to undermine federal agents: In New Orleans heightened fear as federal agents enforce President Trump's immigration crackdown. But one local grandmother is rolling up her sleeves and pushing back: 71-year-old Reverend Jane Mauldin says her faith drives her to keep her community informed and safe, so she trails ICE agents patrolling the city's streets, alerting people of their whereabouts on social media. She then brought aboard reporter Alex Tabet to discuss a "ride-along" that he was doing with 71-year-old Unitarian pastor Jane Mauldin and to speak with her live. The MS NOW reporter filled in viewers: Well, Chris, Reverend Jane Mauldin is having an absolutely massive impact here in the New Orleans area. She's doing what so many others are doing here, which is ICE-verifying, ICE spotting as it's called. And the way that it works is that you're in a Facebook group, you're in a WhatsApp group, you'll hear an eyewitness report of a potential federal agent in the area. And she'll go and drive to that area, take a picture of a car that she suspects to be ICE, report it back into those Facebook groups, into those WhatsApp groups, as a means of letting the community know to shelter in place and to stay safe, but also by letting DHS and ICE know that they're being watched. No concern was shown about whether federal agents are endangered by their locations being made public by such actions. And at one point, Reverend Mauldin tried to tie in Nazi Germany by quoting Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: TABET: Why is it so important for you to be doing what you're doing? And how does your faith drive what you're doing here today? REVEREND MAULDIN: Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said, "The opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference." And I believe my faith in action drives me to love, to be present, to witness and care for my neighbors. And I love my country dearly. I want my children, my grandchildren and their grandchildren to have the similar democracy to what I have. And if I don't act now by helping to protect my neighbors, then it will be gone. A bit later, she hyperbolically accused ICE of kidnapping people: When vehicles -- when people like this want to abduct and kidnap my neighbors with no reason to do so other than the color of their skin, that is not America. That is not what I believe. I believe we are all brothers and sisters and care for one another. And I'm trying to do my part right now as are thousands across New Orleans area. Tabet is a journalist who has a history of showing sympathy of such liberal activism. On the November 18 Ana Cabrera Reports, he hugged an activist in Charlotte who helps run a group that provides food to immigrants who want to stay indoors to avoid immigration agents. Transcripts follow: MS NOW's Chris Jansing Reports December 9, 2025 12:44 p.m. Eastern CHRIS JANSING: In New Orleans heightened fear as federal agents enforce President Trump's immigration crackdown. But one local grandmother is rolling up her sleeves and pushing back: 71-year-old Reverend Jane Mauldin says her faith drives her to keep her community informed and safe, so she trails ICE agents patrolling the city's streets, alerting people of their whereabouts on social media. MS NOW reporter Alex Tabet is in Louisiana for us, and I know you're with the reverend in a ride-along right now, so talk to us, what you're seeing and what she's telling you. ALEX TABET: Well, Chris, Reverend Jane Mauldin is having an absolutely massive impact here in the New Orleans area. She's doing what so many others are doing here, which is ICE-verifying, ICE spotting as it's called. And the way that it works is that you're in a Facebook group, you're in a WhatsApp group, you'll hear an eyewitness report of a potential federal agent in the area. And she'll go and drive to that area, take a picture of a car that she suspects to be ICE, report it back into those Facebook groups, into those WhatsApp groups, as a means of letting the community know to shelter in place and to stay safe, but also by letting DHS and ICE know that they're being watched. And we're actually at the scene of one of these reports right now with Reverend Jane Mauldin. Reverend Jane, why do you suspect that that car that we can see right there -- why do you suspect that might belong to DHS or to ICE? REVEREND JANE MAULDIN, UNITARIAN PASTOR: I have seen many confirmed DHS ICE vehicles over the last week. They all fit the same mold. Large SUV, usually white or black, fully dark-tinted windows with out-of-state license plates in strange places where they have no obvious reason to be. This fits that mold. TABET: And Reverend Mauldin, you're 71 years old, you have four grandchildren. You have a lot on your plate. Why is it so important for you to be doing what you're doing? And how does your faith drive what you're doing here today? REVEREND MAULDIN: Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said, "The opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference." And I believe my faith in action drives me to love, to be present, to witness and care for my neighbors. And I love my country dearly. I want my children, my grandchildren and their grandchildren to have the similar democracy to what I have. And if I don't act now by helping to protect my neighbors, then it will be gone. TABET: Reverend Mauldin, thank you so much, Chris. I'll toss it back to you. JANSING: And, Alex, I know they're telling us to toss it back, but I have to ask her what the reaction has been, what she's seeing, and does she feel she's making a difference? TABET: Our anchor is wondering -- Chris Jansing is wondering, what have you been seeing in your community? And do you feel that you're making this difference? REVEREND MAULDIN: Absolutely. I feel I'm making a difference. There are hundreds, probably thousands of people in the New Orleans metro area who are organized to help provide food and services -- to watch for ICE vehicles, and alert our neighbors so they can make decisions to help keep themselves and their families safe. There are so many layers of care happening in our community. It has exploded with care and love and compassion. This is truly a city, a metro area that loves each other, and I'm making a difference by just being one small part of that to help people stay safe. When vehicles -- when people like this want to abduct and kidnap my neighbors with no reason to do so other than the color of their skin, that is not America. That is not what I believe. I believe we are all brothers and sisters and care for one another. And I'm trying to do my part right now as are thousands across New Orleans area. TABET: Reverend Mauldin, thank you so much. JANSING: Alex, thank you for bringing it to us. We greatly appreciate it. (...) MS NOW's Ana Cabrera Reports November 18, 2025 11:37 a.m. ALEX TABET: Now, just 30 minutes ago, Border Patrol agents were spotted on the premises right here at a nonprofit in Charlotte which provides child care services for refugee families and for immigrant families. And it really caused quite a fear. It's the second time this week they were spotted here, but that is not scaring the volunteers here from pushing forward. They're continuing to gather donations of essential goods like water, like milk -- everyday items that families need to feed themselves -- to feed their children that they are afraid to go outside of their homes and get all throughout this city of Charlotte, given the uncertainty of the repercussions. (...) Just break down what happened just a half hour ago. How is it impacting you personally? And how is it impacting the children who you service. SALMA VILLARREAL, OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS: Yeah, so, within 24 hours, Custom and Border Patrol has had to enter the properties that host all of these nonprofits that support immigrants three or four times. And they have one goal: to instill fear -- to make the places that our community felt the most safe in not be safe anymore. That is what they're doing, and so, personally, you know, myself, it's -- its disheartening -- it's heartbreaking to see what's going on, but it's just making our team more resolved and continuing to support our community and continuing to fight for justice and for what's right. And it's making our community scared -- like our spaces are spaces where we fight so hard that every family -- every child feels safe and welcomed and loved. And now they're hearing that ICE was at Ourbridge -- ICE was here, ICE was there -- the places that they felt the most safe in. And so we're hearing from our kids that they're scared. They're confused. Kids don't know these names. They just know that there's people out there who want to take them away from their parents. And so now we have to do that work to try to help them heal and help them feel safe again in this city. But we have so many people like you said who are doing just that. TABET: Salma, thank you. Can I give you a hug? VILLARREAL: Yeah. TABET: And, as Salma noted, they've been working hard all day. Their goal is to send food and medicine to at least 150 families across the city of Charlotte, Ana.

CBS’s drama Fire Country, now in its fourth season, is set in the fictional town of Edgewater, California. So, it was only a matter of time before we got hit with the, “it’s climate change, not liberal bureaucracy,” excuse for the state’s ongoing, real-life problem of severe wildfires. Episode 7, “Best Mom in the World,” featured a meeting between fire chief Manny (Kevin Alejandro) and his crew where Manny imparted lessons he learned at a fire training session in Sacramento. The team had recently battled a massive fire that was difficult to control and claimed many lives and homes. Manny warned his crew that, “Thanks to climate change,” they’re “at war,” and they need to be prepared because the fires are going to get much worse: Manny: All right, everyone, sit down. As you all know, I went down to Sacramento for a couple of days to do some training, and they put me in this presentation about fire season. Well, we all know damn well there is no fire season anymore. Thanks to climate change, it's all year round. Just keeps getting worse. Last year, little more than 8,000 wildfires and over a million acres burned. Here in NorCal, we had Zabel Ridge. And we lived it, and we fought it. We saw this. It took land. It took homes. And lives. Right now, snowcap's at 30% of normal, which means we're gonna have a really dry spring. And if we don't get significant, and I mean significant, winter storms, they're saying it's about to look like this. So, we got to be ready, guys. We were this close, this close to losing our town. But this? This will make the Zabel Ridge Fire look like a baby. We cannot wait for it. We have to act. Now. I'm talking resources, I'm talking training. I'm talking, whatever you got going on, set it down. Single focus, no distractions. Because what's coming ain't stopping for nothing. We're at war. Umm, did Gavin Newsom write this episode? When Manny’s division chief chastised him for his “death is imminent,” and “everyone should panic,” messaging because she believes he shouldn’t give the firefighters the full picture all at once, Manny clapped back with, “That’s science…the mother of all fires will come.” Sure, Manny. Liar, liar, pants on fire (pun intended). Let’s just ignore the fact that liberal California politicians have spent decades banning controlled burns and shutting down logging and grazing that used to clear deadwood, all while chasing carbon credits. It’s not about “science.” It’s about government bureaucracy protecting areas of “habitat” where 100 million dead trees remain unremoved, just waiting to become potent tinder for the next massive wildfire. Poor forest management has led to this excessive fuel buildup (dead wood, underbrush, and dense vegetation), making fires more intense when they occur. As for the “snowcaps” (the proper term is “snowpacks”), California weather has alternated between drought and deluge for centuries. The 0.8°C of warming since 1880 isn’t to blame here. Lastly, most of the “8,000 wildfires” mentioned were ignited by homeless encampments, downed PG&E lines (thanks to shifting focus onto green-energy incentives), arsonists, and other man-made causes. Combined with unmanaged fuels, these incidents increase the severity and frequency of fires more than miniscule temperature changes. “Climate change” is just a copout for liberal politicians like Newsom who want to shift the blame from themselves and their horrible policies. Too bad Fire Country chose to give cover to such liberal bureaucracy rather than emphasize the real problems with, and causes behind, California wildfires.

Twin brothers were arrested Tuesday and charged with making terroristic death threats to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin. The brothers, Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores of New Jersey, allegedly threatened on social media, not only to torture and kill McLaughlin, but to also to shoot U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “on sight.” One of the brothers has been charged with unlawful possession of a weapon. As Fox News reports: “[O]ne of the brothers allegedly tweeted in a partially redacted response to a McLaughlin message: “‘We Americans should find you, tar you, feather you, and hang you as we did to anyone serving tyrants before the Revolutionary War.’ “A second partially redacted tweet, reportedly from the other brother, read: ‘Shoot ICE on sight.’” “We are NOT afraid of you,” DHS declared in a social media post, issuing a warning to other would-be attackers following the arrests: “Let this be a warning to anyone who dares threaten or attack our law enforcement and DHS officials. We will find you, we will arrest you, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. “We are NOT afraid of you.” The demonization of immigration enforcement by Democrats and liberal media has reportedly fueled an 8,000% increase in the number of death threats against ICE law enforcement officers.