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Politico Rigged a Focus Group to Slam the President, and The Athletic Is Busy Baiting Tennis Players

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24.01.2026

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Border-line Obsession – VARIOUS OUTLETS

This makes it the second time they have used this "bait" canard.

The news networks have been awash with the story of ICE agents "detaining" a 5-year-old boy. From the second we saw the first headline, we were sure this was complete fable-crafting, and we were dead-on correct.

The ACTUAL story was that an illegal alien was pulled over, and he got out of his vehicle and fled, abandoning his son. As agents pursued the target, one stayed back to supervise the child.

As one account has adroitly noted, this means ICE has cared for more children than Somali daycare centers.

DHS put out a notification of the realities of this episode, but it has not deterred the media from running with their fanciful version of events.

🧵THREAD🧵

There’s another media hoax from Minnesota. Legacy outlets churned out headlines about a 5-year-old child used as “bait” by ICE.

The reality? The kid’s father, an illegal immigrant, abandoned him when he saw the agents. As even these outlets later concede.

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Gilded Reframe – MS NOW

"They are not the worst of the worst; they are simply very bad, so let them go!"

On Morning Joe, they had a field report........

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