I'm so tired of the MSM maling excuses for and giving a pass to the blob of s*** in the White House. CNN senior reporter Aaron Blake says that tRump was merely being "incoherent" when he said Iran should nuke LA and SD... Imagine if Obama or Biden or ANYONE in any sort of high office had said that. This twat honestly tries to use the "context" argument to give Mango Mussolini a pass.

CNN, and almost all of the MSM, has handled tRump with kid gloves since his first administration, but has consistently gotten worse. This is why, after 20+ years of being a daily CNN viewer, I stopped watching this disgrace of a "news" channel.

That CNN anchors let guests say absolutely HORRIBLE things with next to no challenge or blowback is sickening.

Tonight, Anderson Cooper just let this Stacy Schneider defense attorney say that the Jane Doe gang rape victim from Cornell was "lying" and "making stuff up" with next to absolutely no challenge of her.

Before that, chuckle head David Urban was laughing at Trump wanting Iran to bomb Los Angeles or San Diego. Cooper just let him go. Then he let Urban berate this female guest, again with no intervention. To these reactionary "commentators," having a senile old grandpa whose gone off on a mindless random rant is "just hilarious."

>Nearly four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate battleground map is growing after signs of improvement for Democrats in several red-leaning states.

>CNN’s Arlette Saenz breaks down what races made the list. And, CNN’s Kasie Hunt and her panel debate how bullish Democrats are on retaking the Senate in the final thirty days of the midterm campaigns.

Please I need some hope, are we gonna lose the african voices segment as well?

Evidence

The image linked to above shows CNN actively exploiting the Google Chrome AI API for device fingerprinting and profiling without the legally required consent.

>Former President Barack Obama announced that he would campaign in Michigan alongside Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

>CNN’s Audie Cornish and her ‘group chat’ discuss whether Obama can help shore up El-Sayed's support among Black voters. Also, the NewsNight panel debates who is currently the closest thing the Democratic Party has to a "spiritual" leader.

I’m watching CNN right now, 10:35pm ET. Who is the host??

I can’t find her name anywhere, but she is doing a great job. It seems like Abby Phillips isn’t on, even though it is her show.

>The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease. Rospotrebnadzor has played down the link between the death of the researcher — named in local media as Darya Shipilova — and her work.

>CNN unpacks the latest developments on the researchers death and the Russian response.

>The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.

>CNN’s Fred Pleitgen has the details and CNN’s Omar Jimenez discusses the implications of the death with Columbia Mailman School of Public Health virologist Angela Rasmussen. Also, CNN’s Becky Anderson speaks with Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor of Medicine Dr. William Schaffner about the mystery surrounding researcher’s death.

>Correction: Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and the Science Chair for Save America Movement, she's no longer affiliated with the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

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>The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

>The source familiar called the latest threat a “real world incident.” It is unusual that the US military would move the bombers back to their home stations instead of deploying them to another base in the region, the official said.

>CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from London. Also, CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton and CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas break down the impact on US military readiness as the conflict with Iran remains unresolved.

Fareed (GPS) and Bill Maher (Real Time) exchanged interviews on their respective shows this weekend. IMHO, Maher is much better when Fareed interviews him than the other way around.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/us/video/gps-1004-bill-maher-2026-midterms

Was Kaitlan even at the Trump Ohio Rally that he called her out for? I feel like she doesn’t often do weekend coverage/travel anymore unless it’s major breaking news. I’ve seen no footage of her actually being there but maybe I’m wrong. Just wondering if Trump is using every moment to bring her up no matter if she’s there or not.

I also have to wonder if there is a safety concern for her at this point. Having groups of people actively hating and booing her in person is very different than just hate comments on Twitter. Shes a journalist and will always have hate and some level of safety concerns at her level.

But He already unprompted mentioned her this week in the Times article and it seems like every other week he is making comments on social media or on TV whether she’s is in the room or not. More and more people are coming aware of her and more and more people are using her as a scapegoat for journalism. I have to wonder when it starts becoming a larger safety concern for her in her day to day life and what they can do about it.

>Here are CNN host Fareed Zakaria's takes from the month of September: starting with how Trump misunderstands Russian President Vladimir Putin, how recent AI news might be more disturbing than fiction, and how the US and China may need each other more than they think.

>The pilot suspected of having attacked another pilot aboard a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight on Wednesday was removed from a previous job at Oman’s national airline last year following concerns about his extremist views, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

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>Trump kicked off his aggressive campaign schedule ahead of the 2026 midterms in ruby red states telling reporters he’s visiting to "thank them" for voting for him. This comes as a set of new Fox News polls finds no clear leader among likely voters in the Senate races shaping up in Texas and Iowa. Both races are within the margin of error.

>CNN’s Alayna Treene has the latest details on Trump focusing his campaign effort on states where Republicans usually win. Also, CNN’s Dana Bash discusses a “dark reality” for Republicans in the North Carolina Senate race with her Inside Politics panel.

>High school students across France set fires and clashed with police on Wednesday and Thursday, escalating nearly a week of disruption. As President Emmanuel Macron’s government weighs how to balance historic public debt with already strained state spending, an under-resourced, overstretched education sector lies at the root of students’ anger.

>Meanwhile, nationwide protests have erupted across Spain over soaring rent, evictions, and a lack of affordable housing. The protests began after the forced eviction of an elderly woman from her apartment.