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Brigid Pfeifer

There were a number of celebrities who passed away within the past week, including two notable actresses: Shelley Duvall and Shannen Doherty. Shelley Duvall passed away on Thursday July 11th at her home in Blanco, Texas. The cause of death was complications from diabetes and news of her death was confirmed by her partner Dan Gilroy.

Two Beloved Hollywood Actresses Have Passed Away This Week

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

David Frum says JD Vance used to write for him on a publication called FrumForum under a pseudonym. Frum talks about how Vance’s views have changed on policy and what he could do to the Republican party.

Hear what JD Vance’s ex-boss thinks about him now

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TheDailyBeast

During J.D. Vance’s arrival at the Republican National Convention on Monday as Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, a moment came when he and his wife, Usha, looked at each other amidst the cheering delegates.And as their eyes met, it was clear that although J.D. Vance has sold his soul by sucking up to Trump, his heart still belongs to her.It was equally clear that Usha’s heart was his. She looked completely happy to be there because he had arrived where he so desperately wanted to be.But then the smile faded and at other moments she appeared fatigued and had...

Opinion: Why J.D. Vance’s Wife Usha Isn’t ‘Raring’ to Become Second Lady

The New Republic

Charlie Peters, my original mentor in the magazine world, used to say that the hardest talent to find among aspiring writers was a true, light, instinctive comic touch. Lots of people could work hard, write fast, and stay up late. Lots of people were politics nuts or history buffs. Many people were willing to ask questions and do research and go through the repeated self-education that is the reporter’s life.But somebody who had an innate sense of the one-liner, of the observation that would crack up a too-serious gathering, of the set-up joke that didn’t seem set up at all—and...

The Reporter Who Made Us Love Politics—or Tried

Donald Trump promised a massive deportation plan Thursday night, even larger than the biggest mass deportation in U.S. history: President Dwight Eisenhower’s racist-named “Operation Wetback.” The former president was doing his typical fearmongering, blaming immigrants for any and all of the country’s ills, when he decided to name-drop the thirty-fourth U.S. president. “And bad things are gonna happen, and you’re gonna see it happen all the time,” said Trump. “And that’s why the Republican platform promises to launch the biggest deportation operation in the history of our country. Even larger than that of Dwight D. Eisenhower, from many years ago.”Under...

Trump Is Planning the Most Inhumane Immigration Policy in U.S. History

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(Reuters) -Usha Vance, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s newly-selected running mate J.D. Vance, is a corporate lawyer with ties to two sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices. She said in a statement late Monday that she is resigning from her law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olson, to support her family.

Wife of Trump running mate J.D. Vance is lawyer with Supreme Court ties

The internet is boring. There is a reason so much online activity has converged on scrolling. Channel surfing, we used to call it, when TV, online’s primitive passive precursor, exploded into hundreds of options, few of them any good. The internet accelerated the trend. We move through tiny bits of text, images, video, occasionally alighting on something that catches our attention for longer than 10 seconds. The pause, the post, the like, the retweet—these illusions of interactivity are all recorded as data in a statistical model; the algorithm automatically delivers more text, images, and video whose constituent parts, converted to...

Confessions of a Hacktivist

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The Independent

 Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has defended himself against allegations of sexual assault by a former babysitter saying, “I am not a church boy.”Kennedy spoke on the Breaking Points podcast after former babysitter Eliza Cooney alleged he assaulted her at his home in 1998, according to a Vanity Fair article. “The article is a lot of garbage,” Kennedy said. “Listen, I have said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that,” he added. “I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have...

‘I am not a church boy,’ RFK Jr says after ex-nanny claims he assaulted her in 1998

Donald Trump unleashed so many falsehoods during his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that it seemed to overwhelm CNN’s on-air fact checker. After Trump’s appearance Thursday night, CNN’s Daniel Dale ran through a lengthy list of Trump’s lies, having to brush past several on his list because he was running out of time to dispute each baseless claim. During his speech, Trump had claimed that his opponents inherited a world “at peace.”“Trump did not achieve world peace when he was president; certainly wasn’t at peace when he left office,” Dale explained. “There were active wars or armed conflicts in...

Here’s How Many Times Trump Lied During His Weird RNC Speech

Business Insider

Usha Vance has long kept her political cards close to her chest, but seems steadfast in her support for her husband.

What we know about Usha Vance's politics

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Horoscope for Tuesday, July 23rd

Politicians are like superheroes: it’s all about the origin story.For JD Vance, Donald Trump’s newly minted pick for vice president, the interrelation between the man and his story is everything. Not since a young lawyer called Barack Obama – with ambitions for reaching the Illinois state senate – published Dreams from My Father in 1995, has a memoir served to propel a political career quite like Vance’s 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy.With its tale of multi-generational, cyclical poverty – stretching from Middletown, Ohio back into the hills of Appalachia – it was an overnight success. Vance was praised on the right for his unflinching...

What ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ can tell us about JD Vance and his right-wing beliefs

It is tempting, when you look back at the raucous, joyous scenes from last week’s Republican National Convention, to assume that Donald Trump is stronger than ever. This is not the case. The last insane, chaotic, stupid month in American politics has obscured a simple, basic truth: Trump is a deeply unpopular, eminently beatable politician. He is a man that most Americans do not like and do not want to vote for. And he is just as unpopular now as he was six months ago, or four years ago, or eight years ago. If you run a reasonably competent person...

Donald Trump Is Now the Weaker Candidate

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Sen. JD Vance, who went from Trump critic to VP pick, said a dinner with CEOs in 2018 had him rethinking his politics.

JD Vance said a dinner with elite CEOs made him realize he might end up hating what he'd become

To someone who has not spent a significant amount of time on social media, Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s tweet on Sunday implicitly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris would be as comprehensible as ancient hieroglyphics. Polis posted three emojis to X, formerly known as Twitter: “🥥🌴🇺🇲.” He then ended a subsequent post providing explicit written support for Harris with the same three emojis.Many Harris fans have added the coconut and palm tree emojis to their social media handles, a shorthand for support. Her online supporters self-describe as “coconut-pilled,” much like people who fall down right-wing internet rabbit holes became known as...

What Coconut Memes Say About Kamala Harris’s Appeal to Young Voters

Larry weighs in on Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race. He’s then joined by professor, author, and entrepreneur Scott Galloway; they begin their conversation by discussing the art of doing interviews, the state of mainstream TV as a viable information source, and the schism between left and right political ideologies (16:47). They then shine a light on the importance of proper mentorships for young men in today’s culture, and how this lack of guardrails has negatively impacted our society in the last century (47:53). Larry and Scott end the pod by examining Galloway’s most recent book The Algebra of Wealth, and break down the philosophy of finding what you’re good at, rather than following your passion as means for stabilizing your finances for the future (58:23).

Scott Galloway on ‘The Algebra of Wealth’

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The scenes between General Hospital cast members Eden McCoy (Joss Jacks) and Evan Hofer ( Dex Heller) are filled with so much chemistry that some fans believed the couple was dating offscreen.

General Hospital's Eden McCoy is dating actor Jonathan Heit and not her onscreen love Evan Hofer

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Bucks County Beacon

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

Usha Vance, the wife of firebrand Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, used her primetime speech at this week’s Republican National Convention not to play up her husband’s MAGA credentials—but to highlight how her own personal background differed from many of the people cheering on Trump and his movement.Vance famously portrayed his own childhood growing up in the Midwest with a family originally from rural Kentucky in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Vance’s book was a bestseller that received rave reviews from liberal publications and was eventually adapted into a film starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams...

J.D. Vance’s Wife Shares Her Very Non-MAGA Origin Story

It was October 27, 1994, and a day earlier, Israel and Jordan had signed a peace treaty in the desert expanse that straddled the once-warring nations. It was just a year after the Oslo Accords. Bill Clinton and his press corps were on the road to Damascus, where he would be the first president to meet strongman Hafez Al Assad in Syria in almost 20 years. When our charter flight touched down at Damascus International Airport, amid propaganda posters of Assad and plenty of menacing Syrian security forces, my friend Walter Shapiro asked me to snap a few photos. One...

The Irrepressible Walter Shapiro

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