Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/23

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Karoline Leavitt Outs the White House Press Corps

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/22/karoline-leavitt-outs-the-white-house-press-corps-n4957544

Karoline Leavitt may go down as the best White House press secretary this country has ever had. Her exit last month stung, but now that she’s no longer behind the podium, she’s dishing about what happened behind the scenes, and what she revealed on Tuesday is a doozy.

Appearing on Sean Hannity's podcast, Leavitt pulled back the curtain on the briefing room and revealed how much of what happens during White House daily press briefings is just for show. According to Leavitt, reporters who hit her with loaded questions on camera would later come to her privately and apologize once the cameras stopped rolling.

“You name people that act one way when they're questioning you,” Hannity began. “They want their moment, right? They want their clip for the night so they get their time on the evening news.”

“Exactly,” Leavitt confirmed.

“And then off air they're totally different people. Do you find that a lot?”

“Yeah, that's true.”

“Would you say they're phony?” Hannity asked.

“Yeah, there's a performative aspect to the briefing room, in fairness, I think on both sides, right, but definitely with the press. And they have to do that because their bosses are demanding it. There's been times reporters have even said to me, ‘I'm sorry, I had to ask that today, you know, my bosses really wanted me to ask that.’ They know it's an unfair question, but they're not in control of their own livelihood. They are dictated by the editors and the execs at some of these companies.”

1. Much Hate-Trump crapola is at outlets' management orders.

2. "Reporters" operate within a deal-with-the-manglement-devil they don't/won't leave.

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CORRECT THE RECORD: DHS Debunks False Narratives About Shooting of Illegal Alien in Austin, Texas

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/09/22/correct-record-dhs-debunks-false-narratives-about-shooting-illegal-alien-austin

WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement debunking many lies spread by the mainstream media, far-left activists, and sanctuary politicians regarding the shooting of a criminal illegal alien, who entered under the Biden Administration, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Austin, Texas.
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CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the illegal alien’s body.

FACT: This is false. ICE does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure for an illegal alien at a hospital.

CLAIM: The illegal alien had a valid work permit.

FACT: This is false. The illegal alien’s work permit expired in 2025. Furthermore, a work permit does NOT grant legal status.

CLAIM: The illegal alien was ordered removed in absentia.

FACT: Yes. This is why aliens must show up to their removal proceedings. Legal obligations do not end because someone’s address changed.

CLAIM: This illegal alien is here legally.

FACT: This is false. This person is in the U.S. illegally. He entered illegally under the Biden Administration. The illegal alien had no valid work permit, had no protective status, and had a final order of removal from a Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge.

CLAIM: This illegal alien has received no pain medication.

FACT: This is false. This illegal alien is receiving medical care around the clock, including pain medication.

CLAIM: The illegal alien has been forced to sleep on the floor.

FACT: This is false. This alien was released from the hospital and arrived at the detention facility just a few hours later, where he slept on a bed. Aliens in ICE custody receive a higher standard of living than most prisons that hold U.S. citizens.

CLAIM: This illegal alien was indiscriminately targeted by ICE.

FACT: This is false. This illegal alien was the subject of a targeted vehicle stop. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S.

Resisting officers and evading arrest is dangerous for our officers, illegal aliens, and the public. We remind the public that resisting officers and evading arrest is a felony and a federal crime. Sanctuary politicians need to stop encouraging this dangerous behavior that puts our officers and the public at risk.

This dangerous attempt to evade arrest comes after sanctuary politicians held webinars and provided resources and tips for how to openly defy ICE:

One can pretty much assume that any claim from ICE-Haters is a lie, including the words "the" and "and".

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Shareholders Sue New York Times Over Egregious Anti-Israel Bias

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/23/shareholders-sue-new-york-times-for-egregious-anti-israel-bias-n4957563

Shareholders, finally realizing that the New York Times is little more than an antisemitic propaganda rag, are taking the outlet to court.

The National Center for Public Policy Research announced on September 23 that it, in conjunction with the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and on behalf of the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund (FRSTF), filed a lawsuit against The New York Times Company. The purpose of the suit is to obtain corporate records related to the media company’s “oversight of its journalistic standards and the systems it says are designed to ensure accurate and trustworthy reporting.” Because as any of us could have told them, the Times has no journalistic standards or trustworthy editing.

The shareholders in question have spent months trying to look at the records they asked for through a method other than a lawsuit, but have failed to do so. While the Times has been repeating Hamas propaganda for years (e.g., the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a supposedly starving Palestinian child that turned out to be a complete hoax), the particular trigger in this case was the infamous Nicholas Kristof piece that made extreme accusations against Israelis of sexually abusing Palestinians, while citing outright terrorist groups as sources.

As we all subsequently discovered, Israeli authorities had offered the Times their extensive report on Hamas and Palestinian sexual torture of October 7 victims and Israeli hostages not long before Kristof put up his “blood libel” piece. The Slimes — I mean, Times —  not only rejected the report on Hamas sexual atrocities, but also refused to publish Israel’s refutation of Kristof’s smears.

The National Center for Public Policy Research sees the Kristof scandal as part of a pattern, however, rather than an isolated incident.