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Good news to end your week with: The Supreme Court has denied Steve BANNON's bid to remain free pending appeal of his contempt conviction. The full court denied it. So by end of day MONDAY, Steve Bannon will be in federal prison to start his mandatory 120 day sentence. He is due to be released at the very end of October, just days before the election. Sadly, for him, I do not think they will provide him with 4 shirts to wear at a time.

The Supreme Court pulled some shenanigans related to January 6th defendants charged with "obstruction of an official proceeding," narrowing the ability of the government to apply that charge. Now, on its face, that sounds BAD. But in reality, it's kind of not a big deal. The brilliant minds at Just Security broke it down and made me feel a whole lot better.

PTSD is getting in the way of supporting our president. Not C&L readers, of course -- I assume by now you already know not to panic. But PTSD consisting of every disappointing loss we've suffered in our lifetimes is paralyzing too many Democrats. Joe Biden has one bad night, and according to the Village elites, the sky is falling. The New York Times wrote an editorial called "To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race." First of all, fuck you, New York Times.

I guess they felt so empowered wiping out decades of MTV News that they decided, WTH, let’s get rid of the comics, too: Comedy Central Website Shuttered, Decades of Daily Show and Colbert Report Clips Gone in a Blink Paramount has effectively shut down its Comedy Central website, TVLine has confirmed. Prior to this week, ComedyCentral.com had been home to a repository of clips that included video from every episode of The Daily Showsince 1999 and all of The Colbert Report. Also included in the purge: snippets from and episodes of @midnight, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper. Future Historians are not going to find original sources to understand what we were thinking and our reaction to it.

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The National Republican Congressional Committee finally joined its peers when it announced its first batch of fall TV ad reservations on Tuesday, making it the last of the four largest outside groups involved in House races to do so. The NRCC's bookings total $42.2 million across 29 different media markets, which the committee says is intended to target 22 districts.