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The Democratic National Convention kicks off on Monday night with a suite of high profile speakers — including the sitting president of the United States. The convention, which is being held at the United Center in Chicago and will see the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to run on the Democratic ticket and take on former President Donald Trump, kicks off with a suite of remarks from lawmakers, including Dick Durbin and Kathy Hochul, activists and even non-political figures like Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr.

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DETROIT (AP) — Members of the Teamsters will host Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable discussion in the near future, but union President Sean O’Brien has yet to get an invitation to speak at next week’s Democratic National Convention. Kara Deniz, a spokeswoman for the 1.3 million member union, said in an email Friday that the Teamsters are working with Harris’ campaign on dates for the roundtable. But O’Brien, who angered some Democrats by speaking at the GOP convention last month, has not received a reply to his request to speak at the Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday in Chicago, Deniz said Friday night. O’Brien made the request to the Democrats at the same time he asked Republicans, she said.

Harris to meet with Teamsters, but union president isn't invited to speak at Democratic convention

The New Republic

Conservatives are freaking out about Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter after she … did nothing but exist. As Harris’s husband and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff watched on at the first night of the Democratic National Convention, his children Cole and Ella Emhoff stood by his side. Ella, a 25-year-old fashion designer, rocked the Harris-Walz camo hat, campaign swag that was so popular it sold out in just 30 minutes. As the family shared a proud moment, Republicans zeroed in on Harris and Emhoff’s daughter and began critiquing her looks, her body language, and her love for her dad. “Totally not weird,” wrote...

MAGA Melts Down Over Kamala Harris’s Stepdaughter at DNC

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Only three of the deceased riders are confirmed to have been wearing helmets. That's one more death when compared to the 2023 rally. The Sturgis Rally finished on August 11th, and in the period just before, during, and after the event, 12 riders were left dead as a result of road traffic accidents. Of the riders killed, just three were confirmed to have been wearing helmets, while seven of the riders weren't wearing helmets. It's still under investigation whether or not two of the riders were wearing helmets.

Most of the Riders Who Died at Sturgis Weren’t Wearing Helmets, Leaving 12 Dead

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[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the commentary and quotes in this article are from the author's interview with those mentioned.]. Elizabeth Montgomery was one of the most popular actors from the 1950s to her unfortunate passing from cancer in 1995. Before, during, and after her benchmark Emmy-nominated role as twitch-witch Samantha Stephens on TV's Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972), Montgomery made over 200 additional appearances in other weekly shows, TV-movies, and feature films.

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Earlier this year, southern Arizona was staring down a crisis—“homelessness on steroids,” as Pima County’s top official described it. Federal funding for the state’s migrant shelters was about to run dry as near-record numbers of migrants were entering the state from Mexico. Diego Piña Lopez, then the executive director of one of the state’s largest shelter operators, was among the leading voices warning in local and national media about the dire local consequences of the budget fight in Washington.“I think that’s going to lead to a lot of chaos, and a lot more cost across the board for folks to...

A Shady Laundry Deal Scandalizes a Major Migrant Shelter in Arizona

J.D. Vance’s views on gender and parenting have come back to haunt him, again.In 2020, long before he entered politics, Vance appeared on a podcast where the host said that having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”Vance agreed—and that wasn’t all of what was discussed on the episode. The host also said that grandparents helping to raise children is a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman,” and Vance again agreed, recounting how his mother-in-law, a biology professor in California, took a sabbatical from her job to help look after his newborn son.“Painfully...

J.D. Vance’s Weird Thoughts on Older Women Exposed in New Audio

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Late Show presenter Stephen Colbert has been preparing for a week of shows from Chicago to celebrate the Democratic National Convention as he films segments and skits

Stephen Colbert's disgusting incident in restaurant parking lot revealed ahead of DNC

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As the world experiences what could be its hottest year on record, the right-wing groups behind the Project 2025 policy road map for a second Trump administration want to supercharge oil and gas drilling, claw back regulations and research funding, and “eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” according to one training video reported last week by ProPublica.Yet a senior staffer at one of the groups that’s contributed to Project 2025, the Center for Renewing America, or CRA, seems to have some doubts. In previously unreported private remarks, Micah Meadowcroft—who served in the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration,...

Project 2025 Operative: GOP Environmental Policy Is “Silly,” “Selfish”

Wednesday’s inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes it virtually certain that in mid-September the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Markets Committee will lower interest rates at its final meeting before Election Day. This news will unavoidably make Donald Trump very unhappy. “Quit whining,” Nikki Haley advised Trump this week on CNN, and, yes, Trump has an enlarged capacity for self-pity. But put yourself in the man’s bone-spur-widened shoes. It’s not yet five weeks since some whack job tried to kill you, enabling you to wave the bloody shirt (“Many people say it was a providential moment; probably was”)...

Why Donald Trump Can’t Stop Talking About
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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. On July 28, 2024, a TikTok video posted by Erica W., known as @tasteofmelanin on the platform, garnered significant attention after she exposed disturbing racist decorations in an Airbnb rental. The incident occurred in a rental property that Erica had booked, although the exact location remains unspecified. The video has since gone viral, prompting widespread concern and leading to the removal of the listing from Airbnb's platform.

Airbnb Listing Taken Down After Black Woman Finds Hanging Monkeys and Cotton Used As Decor

Michael Moore expects a debate between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to be everything he’s been hoping for for the past eight years. In an interview with The Guardian, Moore praised the success of Harris’s campaign, but also warned Democrats the election is far from won because “we have a history of blowing it.” The filmmaker also predicted Trump would be more triggered facing off against Harris in a debate than he was in past debates with President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Harris, Moore argued, gets under the former president’s skin more than others.

Michael Moore Predicts Trump Could ‘Explode’ And ‘Start Talking Like a 12 Year Old’ During Harris Debate

New York City, NY

Last Thursday, 63-year-old John Mark Rozendaal performed a Bach cello suite outside the Citibank headquarters in New York City, as part of the “Summer of Heat on Wall Street” climate protests. Citibank is the world’s largest investor in fossil fuel expansion since the 2015 Paris Agreement, and the protesters were calling on the bank to stop funding new oil, gas, and coal projects. Rozendaal’s cello bore the slogan, “This machine loves, serves, and protects life”—a more peaceful variation on the famous words on Woody Guthrie’s guitar in the 1940s: “This machine kills fascists.”Now, for bringing high culture for free to...

Seven Years in Prison for Playing the Cello in New York?

Twenty-two years ago, Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman wrote for The New York Times Magazine about the era in which he and I both grew up, when the top income tax rate on the morbidly rich ran between 74 and 90 percent. “The America I grew up in—the America of the 1950’s and 1960’s—was a middle-class society, both in reality and in feel,” he wrote. “The vast income and wealth inequalities of the Gilded Age had disappeared. Yes, of course, there was the poverty of the underclass—but the conventional wisdom of the time viewed that as a social rather than...

Can the Morbidly Rich Ever
Become Good Citizens Again?

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Donald Trump returned to X (formerly Twitter) ahead of a one-on-one interview with Elon Musk Monday. But rather than elevate that, or attack his current opponent’s policies, one of Trump’s first ads directed at his 88.1 million followers on the platform appeared to narrowly focus on President Joe Biden.The roughly two-minute video—captioned “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”—attempted to frame Trump as a candidate primed for election since 1987, when he was still a major New York City developer. “In the ads, he says there’s nothing wrong with American foreign policy that a little backbone won’t cure,” a dated broadcaster can...

Trump Appears to Have Forgotten Who He’s Running Against in New Ad

Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

'Beverly Hillbillies" Actor Buddy Ebsen Was "Bitter" about not playing the Tin Man in 'Wizard of Oz'

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It’s one of those moments that is tattooed on your brain forever—if your brain is the kind that is fully occupied by an encyclopedic memory of inane political moments that normal people forget: Donald Trump steps out onto the stage for the first debate of the 2016 Republican primary, fields the first question, and retorts, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” when debate moderator Megyn Kelly, then of Fox News, reminded him, “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals,’” et cetera.From the vantage of 2024, that Rosie O’Donnell jab is just one of thousands of ephemeral, pointless,...

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