Yesterday as I’m sure you know, the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband were shot dead in what’s being described as a “politically motivated assassination” and Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot by, they’re saying, the same person. This is a dreadful thing which ought to horrify even human beings who oppose Democrats. Ordinarily, we don’t bother with fact-checks of posts on “X” but there was an instant flurry of them trying to pin this on Governor Tim Walz and Politifact is telling us why that’s insane.
The New York Times — which doesn’t do fact-checks as often as The New York Times should — goes through some of the nonsense the guy in the White House is spewing about the protests in Los Angeles.
And Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) has been accusing the Congressional Budget Office of being wrong all the time and he cites bad predictions they made in the 1930s and the 1960s. Steve Benen points out how wrong Scott is when he cites what he claims are correct numbers. He also notes that the Congressional Budget Office can’t have been wrong with projections in the thirties and sixties since it was founded in 1974. The Washington Post has more on this amazing feat of time travel.
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