Open Thread: Nyt's Peter Baker 'discovers' The Biden Economy

We've covered Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's bizarre actions previously after he opened an account on Truth Social, being the first Democrat to do so. And Susie Madrak reported that Fetterman said the federal cases against Hunter Biden and the New York hush-money case against Trump were both “politically motivated” and deserving of pardons.

Entrepreneur and NYU professor Scott Galloway appeared on Morning Joe to talk about Mark Zuckerberg's total capitulation to Trump yesterday. "What is so shocking -- I mean just from a personal standpoint, what's the point of having all this money if you aren't at some point going to show some fidelity as a 40- or 50-something year old man that has the wealth of the GDP of a Latin America nation, to actually standing up and showing some fidelity to American values?

Of note, no one corrected Scotto's obvious error, an error she either misread from her notes in front of her or were written down as a mistake to begin with. And it's a bit unclear if Truman ever made such an offer, or even knew about it. Truman's Secretary of State James Byrnes made the offer after negotiations with Denmark over U.

More sanewashing of Trump's insanity by the bootlickers over on Fox "news." Here's The Five hosts Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld making light of Trump's threat to annex Canada during his off the rails press conference this week. So much for running on the price of eggs and staying out of "stupid" wars. Transcript via Media Matters: JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): This is like Tyrus, Tyrus' neighborhood.

The Trump flacks on Fox's Outnumbered did their best to sanewash Trump's insane presser this Tuesday. As we already discussed here, the entire thing was nuts, with Trump rambling about rainwater and taking a shower, invading Greenland and Panama, changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and more. But that didn't stop Trump bootlickers on Fox from pretending that this is all somehow normal, and sanewashing his comments about annexing Canada. MCENANY: Kennedy, there was some laughter when President Trump said the 501st state could be Canada.

Well isn't this SPECIAL. NBC News reports: "The company’s new guidelines prohibit insults about someone’s intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations. However, the latest guidelines now include a caveat for accusing LGBTQ people of being mentally ill because they are gay or transgender. “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird,’” the revised company guidelines read." In addition, users may now refer to women as "household objects" and non-binary people as "it." And Popular Information reports that Zuckerberg is taking big inspiration from President Musk, as Meta "move[s] its Trust and Safety and Content Moderation teams out of California and our U.