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STEPHANIE WINSTON WOLKOFF, MONSTER:

CNN today featured former Melania Trump aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff airing a secret recording of the First Lady making a profane remark about Christmas decorations, and complaining about the way the media were treating her about migrant children at the border. I’m not going to link to the clip, because it is repulsive. I’m not talking about what Melania Trump said — though that is certainly obnoxious — but about the fact that this Wolkoff cretin has betrayed a friend so horribly. That, and the fact that CNN is party to this betrayal.

What is the point of this? What national security issue was at stake, such that violating someone’s privacy and expectation of confidentiality is rewarded? If you’re mad at Melania Trump for what she said, okay, but you ought to be furious that someone betrays the confidence of a friend and employer (and for such a trivial reason!), and that a major news network went along with it.

You don’t like Melania Trump? Okay. But humiliating her with this kind of betrayal makes the world a more vicious, and dare I say totalitarian, place. I spent a year talking with people in the Soviet bloc, reporting Live Not By Lies, about what their lives were like. Imagine a world in which you could not trust anybody. In which even your best friend might betray you to the secret police out of fear, or for the purpose of personal gain. This happened all the time. After communism fell in East Germany, and people’s Stasi files were made public, many former East Germans were staggered by the discovery that people they trusted the most — even their spouses — informed on them.

Related: Attention unhinged rage-harpies still parroting lies about the #MelaniaTapes, this thread of what she actually said is just for you.

FROM ELLIE FERGUSON: A Magical Portent.

Storm clouds gather. An unknown danger nears, one that may spell the end of Mossy Creek, TX, and all those who live there.

Dr. Jax Powell and her best friends, her sisters from other misters, are determined to do whatever it takes to protect their town and loved ones. Each of them, once considered the town’s wayward children, have returned home. All but one: Magdalena “Maddy” Reyes. She’s not refused to return to Mossy Creek, but she appears to have dropped off the face of the Earth—or at least from the streets of Dublin.

Can they find Maddy and save their town or is it already too late?

A Magical Portent is novella-length story that follows Rogue’s Magic.

AND SPEAKING OF THE BEE, FRANK J. FLEMING WROTE A POST FOR MY BLOG. THE FAN GIRL IN ME HAS JUST ABOUT STOPPED SQUEEING.  MAYBE:  How to Generate Fake News.

IT’S TIME FOR RED BILLY TO START LOOKING AFTER THE CITY AND ITS CITIZENS, INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING SOME BIZARRE MARXIST PIED PIPER:  Who you gonna call?

AND THAT’S WHY THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO WIN:  The Grifters of the Left.

I HAVE AN IDEA. HOW ABOUT NO?  Former FBI Official Proposes ‘Bipartisan Commission’ to Vet Presidential Candidates Like Trump.

Dear would-be-komissars, keep that up, and you’ll get much, much worse than Trump. Trump is not the enemy you should be afraid of. He still tries to be nice. If you keep pretending that the American people are children and fools, we’ll find someone who really hits you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. Because you’ve earned it.

YEAH, PASTE EATING POLIS THINKS IF ALLOWS US TO GO WITHOUT FACE DIAPER SEVENTY THOUSAND COLORADANS WILL DIE:  Inside Minnesota’s COVID Morgue.

And for the inevitable idiocy in the comments: no, the fact that Trump got infected proves nothing about the efficacy of the idiotic masks.  Living in fire country and being asthmatic, I’ve been told every time there’s massive fires that tying a bandana over my face doesn’t help keep the smoke particles out. But it’s supposed to keep out several times smaller viruses? Give me a break.

I DON’T KNOW.  MARCH WAS AT LEAST 10 YEARS AGO. I’M REALLY SICK AND TIRED OF THE IDIOCY TOO. I MEAN THE LEAST THE LEFT COULD DO IS STOP DIGGING THE IDIOCY WELL. IT’S STARTING TO GIVE OFF FORMS OF IDIOCY I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: Is It Still October?

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “‘Fact-checkers’ assume your point, then fact-check their assumption of your point. That is the most generous way to see what they do. The least generous (and at least as often true) is that they purposely misrepresent your point, and fact-check their misrepresentation.”

OPEN THREAD: Was there any news today?