[video] In Focus: Man Who Crossed Nation In Balloon Only Wants To Talk About Horse Abuse

Lawrence O'Donnell recently pointed a finger at a familiar source that always seems to give Donald Trump the benefit of a good "sane-washing"--a new phrase that perfectly captures how our media makes Trump seem not nearly as Incoherent. Weird. Crazy. Creepy. F*king nuts. The familiar source is the NY Times, the worst offender (there are others, like WaPo, AP, NPR, CNN and even hosts on Lawrence's own network earlier in the day) in taking Trump's hateful rhetoric, cognitive impairment, endless gibberish & serial lies and making it seem like he slightly exaggerated or lost his train of thought--or, let's be honest, even had a a f*king point. Stephanie Miller & Cliff Schecter--with some mockery and laughter tossed in--provide a great analysis of how with someone as mentally deranged as Trump, our media's making him palatable to low-info voters, who may catch a cable clip at the gym or headline in passing, turns a 20% loser into legit contender.

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist who is Donald Trump's niece, told MSNBC that her uncle has "severe untreated psychiatric disorders." In an interview on Sunday, Mary Trump reflected on her uncle's recent debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. "She inflicted upon him a narcissistic injury so deep he will never recover from it, but I'm actually not being hyperbolic," she explained.

You Might Notice a Trend: The prelude to dangerous days. The Ink: Kamala won by being all the things. Constant Commoner: Something wicked this way comes – Trump in 2016. Just an Earth-Bound Misfit, I: Never interrupt your opponent while he's making a mistake. Governing: Another school shooting; another failure of gun policy. This installment by Batocchio.

Let’s pick up in Miami-Dade where we left off a couple months ago, when we saw an obvious legislative “flip opportunity” for the hard-pressed Democrats to pick up. Remember, Florida’s severely gerrymandered House has 84 Republicans and just 36 Democrats— a Democratic “Super-Minority”that has engendered Stockholm Syndrome in Tallahassee. HD-113 is a nice blue district in southern Miami-Dade that includes Key Biscayne, Dodge Island, Shenandoah, part of Little Havana and the part of Coconut Grove.

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Someone at ABC must accept responsibility and tell us how something like this could happen.