Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

Today we discuss:

• Jewish militants are increasingly attacking Christians—particularly clergy and pilgrims—in Israel. Six suspects are arrested after throwing rocks and spitting at the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem's Old City. Five of the suspects are minors, and one was an adult. Suspects threw rocks at the window of an Armenian woman filming the event, while shouting "Get back inside, you daughter of a whore!”

• Trump is now almost the most unpopular second-term president at this stage of their tenure in the history of polling going back to the 1940s. Only Nixon had less but at that point he was days away from resigning. He has just 34% ...