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Schiff acknowledges his concern over Trump’s threats against him
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that grants Donald Trump immunity is scary from all sides, but perhaps especially so for those on the receiving end of his threats, such as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif). Schiff being a member of the Jan. 6 select committee doesn't win him any popularity points...
"Stupid is as stupid does": The Gumpification of America, 30 years later
You know, it’s funny how you can remember some things, and some things you can’t. Memory has reduced “Forrest Gump” to a few lines of dialogue and the ubiquitous meme of Tom Hanks “running like the wind” blows down the country road outside his home in Greenbo, Alabama.
Judge Aileen Cannon delays Trump’s classified documents case, yet again
Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that grants Trump partial immunity concerning his federal 2020 election interference case, Judge Aileen Cannon paused deadlines tied to his classified documents case, to allow for further briefing. Cannon's ruling, which was handed down on Saturday, reads as such:. Temporarily granting in part and...
Defying inflation? How Arizona Iced Tea (mostly) maintains Its 99-cent price tag
During times of sustained inflation — those periods when the price of a carton of eggs makes headlines — it doesn’t take much for a business executive to cast themselves as an enemy in the eyes of an overextended American public, but out-of-touch statements with a certain “let them eat cake” undercurrent are certainly a shortcut to achieving villainy.
Kamala Harris dodges talk of Biden during Essence Festival appearance in New Orleans
Kamala Harris attended the 30th annual Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans on Saturday, speaking about economic opportunity, threats to reproductive health, maternal mortality, and the dangers of a second Trump term. But there was one topic she didn't get into that much . . . Biden. “This is...
Today's dads help out more than previous generations. Is it actually enough?
An absent mother is often depicted as an unfathomable tragedy. An absent father though, is easily, and frequently, normalized. The difference in how the public views parental involvement based on gender contributes to headlines celebrating how today’s generation of dads are supposedly more involved than ever before. Over the last decade, multiple studies have stated that Millennial and Gen Z dads spend more time with their kids than previous generations. This is research worth highlighting, as studies continue to report that children benefit from more involved dads.
Democrats’ divine intervention: Biden says only God can make him back down
God got dragged back into the presidential race this week, but not the way you might think. After sitting down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Friday night, President Joe Biden made two things abundantly clear: He still believes he’s the best man to run the country, or as he described it – being the most powerful man in the world. He also is fearful of what Donald Trump would do with a second term in office. “I convinced myself of two things. I'm the most qualified person to beat him, and I know how to get things done,” Biden said in the interview.
Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distraction
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,” trumpeted Donald Trump on his Twitter knockoff site, in the wake of the passage of a widely-reported new law in Louisiana. Trump wasn’t exactly lying, for once, as he went on to explain: It was all about the branding. The commandments should be displayed, he wrote, “IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG???”
Trump encourages Biden to stay in the race while listing all the reasons he thinks he'll lose it
On Saturday, Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn) added herself to a growing list of Democrats calling upon President Joe Biden to drop out of his re-election campaign, saying, “There is only a small window left to make sure we have a candidate best equipped to make the case and win,” according to The Washington Post.
"These athletes should be more famous": "Sprint" shows how an "alpha personality" creates winners
"Sprint" executive producer Paul Martin likes speed. And sports. But when it comes to amalgamating the two, what he cares about most, as any seasoned storyteller would likely agree with, are the characters. Characters are the explicit focus of "Sprint," Netflix's new docuseries highlighting some of the biggest names in...
Laura Ozyilmaz on food waste, how "Top Chef" was affirming and her culinary-focused honeymoon
At points during this season of "Top Chef," it seemed as though Laura Ozyilmaz was unfairly being pigeonholed as something approximating a "villain," something the show has largely gone without for many seasons now. As the series itself matured, with Padma Lakshmi as its guiding force, it was softer, kinder and more professional, with memories of forced head shaving a long-ago occurrence that'd never occur in today's "Top Chef" landscape.
"Wrong about everything so far": Fired-up Biden blasts reporters for suggesting he can't win
President Joe Biden is unconvinced by media and top Democratic narratives that he’s no longer electable after his discouraging debate performance last Thursday. When asked on the campaign trail why he thought he was the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump, Biden touted his record, both as a candidate and as a president.
Biden tells Stephanopoulos, only the "Lord Almighty" could push him out
President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos demonstrated that he's still able to deliver answers, but it didn't move any mountains. Much of the interview centered around Biden’s highly-criticized performance in the first presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia last week, with Stephanopoulos opening the discussion on the matter.
MSNBC in disarray: Biden's debate crisis meets liberal self-delusion
The survival of American democracy currently seems to depend upon convincing a majority of voters that a man who could not speak in complete sentences and spent half the night staring blankly into the middle distance in front of the largest audience in CNN's history, is a trustworthy steward of the federal government and the world's most lethal military force.
Experts: If it isn't Joe, it has to be Kamala — here's why
In the wake of President Joe Biden's widely-panned debate showing last week, Vice President Kamala Harris has of course been mentioned on the list of preferred potential replacements as calls for Biden to drop out of the race mount. But commentators have cast the net widely, suggesting such other Democrats as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and various others.
Don't be fooled by Labour's big UK win: British politics is melting down
It’s too early to draw clear conclusions about the meaning of Thursday’s dramatic national election in the U.K., and still less about what lessons it might offer to America's feeble attempt to preserve democracy. But one thing is clear enough: Headlines around the world announcing that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has won a huge victory are factually accurate yet fail to convey the underlying complexity of the situation — especially the extent to which British politics has been thrown into complete disorder.
Astronomers spot seven stars that may sport alien megastructures — but many are skeptical of aliens
In the classic 1937 sci-fi novel "Star Maker," author Olaf Stapledon imagined a massive machine that could encompass an entire star, capturing its energy and harnessing it to provide near unlimited energy to space-faring civilizations. More than two decades later, Stapledon's creative thought experiment became a legitimate scientific concept when physicist Freeman Dyson published a 1960 paper in the journal Science. Dyson argued that, logically speaking, any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial civilization would develop such intense energy needs that they would need megastructures like those envisioned by Stapledon.
Biden, still very much running, jokes "whether Trump has it all together"
President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech at a Friday rally in Wisconsin, vowing to stay in the race, as an increasing number of Democratic lawmakers, donors, and advisors see him as a liability in defeating Donald Trump. Biden, who acknowledged that the first presidential debate wasn’t his “best performance,”...
"I was like, this sucks": Kevin Bacon tried living as a regular guy for a day
Kevin Bacon hasn't always been famous, but it's been quite a while since he could pass as an "average Joe." Curious to see what it would be like to spend a day as part of the general public, he recently disguised his appearance in an effort to walk amongst us undetected, but his attempt to fit in wasn’t as fun as he thought it would be.
Kansas Supreme Court strikes down second-trimester abortion ban, affirms right to abortion
Kansas’s Supreme Court has thrown out two restrictive abortion bans, reaffirming the right to an abortion in a 5-1 ruling. In a set of opinions penned by Democratic Governor-appointed justices Eric Rosen and Melissa Standridge, the court found that the Kansas constitution protected the right to an abortion, striking down the pair of laws.
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