Trump falsely says that Bill Gates admitted he was WRONG about climate change. What he actually said is that too many resources are going toward climate change instead of issues like welfare and poverty. He said “Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare”

Funny I was in Portland all last week and did a little too much (tax free) shopping. No plywood in sight.

Portland on Wednesday afternoon is drizzly and peaceful. There is no anarchy or rioting. Period. News outlets don’t need to hedge on this.

While cable news wildly exaggerates what is happening in Portland, here’s what’s going on in Portland today

Charlie Kirk made a name for himself by exercising his constitutional right to free speech, including speech that upset and deeply offended many other people. That’s America. Or, at least, it was.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Musk poured $20 million into what became the most expensive judicial race in US history, only to have the Wisconsin contest morph into a referendum on himself & his prominent role in reshaping the federal bureaucracy in Trump’s image assets.bwbx.io/images/users...

The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act — he did makeup for a Caracas news station before fleeing to the US. Trump claims he is a gang member because of his tattoos. Now he’s in an El Salvador prison www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... media.newyorker.com/photos/67eb2...

Frengel Reyes Mota, a 24-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker, enjoyed playing with his dog, Sacha. He was deported to El Salvador’s mega prison despite having no criminal record in Venezuela or the U.S., records show. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The scene outside court after Trump’s sentencing in his hush money criminal case.