Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱

With production help from @alexchristy17 and @CurtisHouck

Heartening anecdote in Friday's @WashingtonPost obit by Matt Schudel for Concetta Franconero (Connie Francis) who died at age 87.

More Rosie O’Donnell on TikTok from Dublin: “Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Be brave. Be Stephen Colbert. Speak truth to power.”

Rosie O’Donnell unhinged by CBS’s decision to part with Stephen Colbert ten months from now. On TikTok from Dublin: “I think Americans should stand up and say no way. You’re not going to silence us. You don’t have the right to silence us....We the people have the right to speak…

2:30 AM ET. U.S. Senate passes amended rescission bill 51-48. Back to the House and then on to President Trump’s desk. @DefundPBSNPR

“As for PBS,” @SenTedCruz reported on the Senate floor, “its coverage of last year’s DNC was only 12% negative; the RNC: A staggering 72% negative.” @DefundPBSNPR That study by @claywaters44 is posted on @NewsBusters: newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-…

Laudatory words from @G_CURLEY today for @CurtisHouck (“so much information in a short amount of time”) and @NewsBusters (“It’s a really, really great source if you want to see how things are being covered by the lamestream media and what things are being left off the table.”)…

Katie Couric labels Trump’s MAGA ‘a sh** show’: Liberal Media Scream @BrentHBaker @theMRC Couric demonstrates how ingrained the disdain is for Trump in legacy media elite. It’s like muscle memory to them.' washingtonexaminer.com/news/washingto… via @dcexaminer

Rescission to PBS/NPR funding = death. CBS’s @MargBrennan with Senator @RandPaul, pivoting from Butler assassination attempt (“on the question of the forewarning but on a different topic”), she segued to: “Public broadcasters provide critical emergency warnings for the…

“The shit show that is the Trump administration.” On her Next Question with Katie Couric podcast today, that’s how Katie Couric, legacy media star of multiple broadcast networks, casually referred to the Trump administration.

Stephanopoulos blames downpour deaths on Trump: Liberal Media Scream @BrentHBaker 'In the most distasteful way, trying to score political points...for Stephanopoulos, it’s politics ahead of facts' washingtonexaminer.com/news/washingto… via @dcexaminer

John Dickerson: “Make the case for PBS.” BS from @KenBurns on @FaceTheNation: “It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world....It mainly serves rural areas in which the PBS signal may be the only signal they get. They have...homeland security, crop…

Some fun things at History Colorado Center. John Denver's guitar, Bill Clinton's saxophone, noting Avalanche as 1996 Stanley Cup champions, home of the 1990s with an Iran-Contra/Oliver North Time mag.

More from History Colorado Center. Illegal city of Denver, mock up of barracks housing for Japanese during WWII, radical leftists got statue of a Union, not Confederate, soldier removed from state Capitol grounds because North just as racist as South.

Sunday afternoon visit to History Colorado Center in Denver. Lots of focus on misdeeds and mistreated people, including native Americans, Mexicans, gays, Chinese and interned Japanese.

“The Yale Budget Lab estimates that it will kill, over ten years, 100,000 people. That is two thousand days of death like we’ve seen in Texas this weekend...In my 70 years, I've never been as embarrassed for my country on July 4th” – former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on…

Suddenly concerned about deficits. Where was ABC News on Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act”? @selinawangtv on @ThisWeekABC: “Economists described this to me as pouring gasoline on a house that’s already burning because the pile is already so large. So the question is, George, why…

George Stephanopoulos on @ThisWeekABC: “We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region.”

With Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA, some of the fireworks after the Rockies game in Denver Friday night July.