David Waldman is back, atoned, rested and ready to take on another big news week with us.

Greg Dworkin tells us to take a deep breath as the horses enter the back stretch, as the smell will only get worse from now on. Experts do agree, the presidential race outlook is… hazy. Check back with them as long as your cash holds out. Face it, if the corporate media had told you that it was a blowout earlier, you’d be reading the sports page this month, and millions of dollars would have just slipped through their fingers. Internal polling is maybe a different story, but could be just as wrong.

Mass media’s efforts to continually relevel the playing field does create a fertile environment for more news stories, such as armed militia gathering to challenge FEMA forces. Some of that is Elon’s doing, of course, but Greg is determined to quote them until their last post.

MAGA will not like hearing who discovered America. Their cognitive dissonance is assimilated into rationalizations, conspiracy theories, or simply repressed. Donald Trump needs to act crazier each day to keep anyone’s attention... Except, he’s not acting. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, could solve all of the world’s problems, but if that widened rather than tightened the horse race, why would the news be interested?

Therefore, the news is Trump’s latest assassin. Although he isn’t. Boy, If only Donald had an A-10 Warthog at Coachella, those things wouldn’t keep happening. At least this time Trump wasn’t embarrassed by people leaving his rally early.

Nationalism is still an increasing threat in America, but the latest good news is the impact a Nazi recently made back in Germany.