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Via Fox News, icky Leonard Leo complains that the proposed SCOTUS reforms would "politicize the institution." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Conservative activist Leonard Leo says President Biden's efforts to overhaul the Supreme Court may be an effective way to energize his political base, but he should also watch out for less progressive voters being reminded of what's at stake in November.
"It's a good political ploy. It certainly will help to energize a Democrat base that's reeling from a lot of disorder and uncertainty lately," Leo told Fox News Digital. "But ultimately, these are the kinds of proposals that, I think, not likely to be adopted, but if ever adopted, they would really politicize the institution.".
He knows what he did, and he knows how he did it. It's just that he's used to Dems politely looking the other way instead of taking action, and he can't believe things have changed.
Go away, Leonard Leo. You're a weird little man who's obsessed with imposing your religious beliefs on this secular nation.
As failed EV startup Fisker winds its way through bankruptcy, a persistent and tricky question has become a flashpoint of the proceedings: does its lone secured lender Heights Capital Management deserve to be at the front of the line to reap the proceeds of a liquidation? Heights has maintained an unequivocal “yes.” But new information […]
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Disgraced former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy turned to Fox News blowhard Mark Levin to criticize Kamala Harris. He came up short, just like his entire Speakership.
After being ousted by MAGA's great forehead, Matt Gaetz, McCarthy quit instead of fighting to regain his reputation. Lucky for him, he doesn't need a reputation to be on Fox News.
"Let me tell you this. When she got elected to the US Senate, I was the Majority Leader," McCarthy said. "I reached out to meet with her. Not once would she meet with me."
Poor baby. How long were you the fearless leader of the MAGA cult? McCarthy's speakership lasted only 269 days; it was the shortest Speaker reign in more than 140 years.
"If I talked to the Democrats inside the California delegation, they didn’t care for her because she would not meet," McCarthy whined. .
Ouch. What an attack.
Dumpy Levin wants the press to interview Harris' former staffers for some dirt.
Oh sure, THAT will undermine her candidacy.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rebuffed Fox News host Shannon Bream on Sunday after she suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris was unqualified to lead the country.
During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream noted that one conservative New York Times columnist had called Harris's candidacy "anti-democratic."
"That's the playbook of ruling parties in autocratic states," the Times column charged.
"You know the optics of this, that it was donors who pulled the plug on President Biden and they're the ones calling the shots about how this proceeds," Bream said.
"Well, it's true that the Democratic Party is not famous for falling in line," Buttigieg replied. "That's part of why it's so remarkable that in a matter of days, Kamala Harris has consolidated our big tent party."
"And this is something that is coming from the ground up. You can feel it," he continued. "And it's a level of energy that, frankly, I haven't seen on the campaign trail in a long time."
Bream argued that Harris had not received any Democratic delegates during primary voting.
"The idea that somebody hasn't been tested or vetted when they have been the vice president of the United States for nearly four years just doesn't make any sense," Buttigieg disagreed. "She is in obviously one of the most visible leadership roles in the country."
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People who donated to Biden also donated to Harris. They were the Democratic ticket until Biden stepped down for the sake of democracy.
Fox News' Harris Faulkner made believe she's standing up for the Democratic donor that gave to the Biden campaign instead of Harris.
Fox News and the MAGAts are spinning their wheels trying to attack VP Harris and sow discontent within the Democratic Party. Hashtag fail, Faulkner.
Trump calls democratic voters Communist, Marxist, and Socialist, people who murder babies after they are born, and want to surrender all their money to migrants while helping to "destroy the country."
But the VP is hating on half the country when Kamala Harris supports the Teacher's Union, according to co-host Emily Compagno on the Outnumbered.
EMILY COMPAGNO: And Harris, she calls half the country extremists as she's talking to the teachers' union. The AFT thanks them for being the first union to support her. But just because you're in a union doesn't mean you're not Republican.
So she's alienating out of the gate so many people while she herself, as Larry points out, is the extremist position holder. We have a list we can scroll of progressive policies that are frankly extremist: reparations, Medicare for all. The list goes on, Harris.
70% of the country supports Medicare for all and abortion rights. Deporting 15 million people and overthrowing a duly elected government is "extreme."
The second-quarter economic growth numbers beat expectations, coming in at 2.8 percent, fueling a mini-freak out as the numbers broke during Fox Business Network's Morning with Maria.
To say Bartiromo was nonplussed about the figures is an understatement.
All right, let's get the breaking news right now.
First read of second quarter GDP out.
Cheryl, start with the numbers.
Cheryl.
So it came in stronger than economists were thinking.
2.8% is the first read for the second quarter.
The estimate was 2%.
And remember, we only had a 1.4% read in Q1.
So better than expected.
Durable goods, though.
The month over month number, negative 6.6%.
Wow, that's a big number.
That's a big number because we were looking for a gain of .3%.
Now, if you strip out transports, it's up 0.5%, which is a little bit better than expected.
Core cap goods orders up 1%.
Street was only looking for a gain of 0.2%.
So that's better than expected.
Claims, about the same, guys. 235,000 on initial and 1.85 million on continuing, which is basically in line with what we're expecting, Maria.
All right, and 235,000 on jobless claims compared to the estimate, which was 237,000.
Jan, your reaction to these numbers?
I mean, on the jobless claims, I think that this is very close to consensus.
Probably not really much to discuss.
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I usually don't put much stock in polls, even the reputable ones, as they're just snapshots in time. But this one caught my eye and has a lot of encouraging signs for the Democrats in Michigan after things looked bleak earlier this year.
Source: WDIV
A new WDIV/Detroit News survey asked Michigan voters where they stand on the probable race for president between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Harris hasn’t officially been nominated by the Democratic Party, but has the support of most major players, and is the presumed nominee after President Joe Biden pulled out of the race last weekend.
The WDIV/Detroit News survey was conducted between Monday and Wednesday, following Biden’s decision.
The WDIV/Detroit News survey found the presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is dead even at 41%-41%.
Ok, that's nice but so what? Well, in their last poll for the Detroit News, Trump led Biden by 8%, 47-39.
Other key findings:
The California Department of Motor Vehicles this week granted Nuro approval to test its third-generation R3 autonomous delivery vehicle in four Bay Area cities, giving the AV startup a positive boost after facing some setbacks and financial struggles. The approval gives Nuro the ability to test its driverless delivery vehicle in Mountain View, Palo Alto, […]
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It looks like Donald Trump is running scared...his campaign put out a statement all but declaring that he is too terrified to debate Kamala Harris and because the candidate changed and he has no debate skills at all other than yelling about other people being OLD and flinging feces, he cannot under any circumstances debate a young, smart, successful, former PROSECUTOR...who is also a female.
All of those traits scare him.
Earlier today:
Here is the whiny statement from Thursday night:
Kamala's response (chef's kiss):
Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a self-proclaimed “merchant of record,” Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital products, handling legal processing and fees in every country. It primarily serves SaaS and software businesses. In […]
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A decade-old drama involving VC David Sacks and Rippling founder Parker Conrad has blown up on X with many among the Silicon Valley elite taking sides.
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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]
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OpenAI may have designs to get into the search game — challenging not only upstarts like Perplexity, but Google and Bing, too. The company on Thursday unveiled SearchGPT, a search feature designed to give “timely answers” to questions, drawing from web sources. UI-wise, SearchGPT isn’t too far off from OpenAI’s chatbot platform ChatGPT. You type […]
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Microsoft this afternoon previewed its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. Available only for a “small percentage” of users at the moment, Bing generative search, underpinned by a combo of large and small generative AI models (mum’s the word on which models exactly), aggregates info from around the web and generates a […]
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Fox News' Steve Hilton claimed that a regurgitated twice impeached convicted felon is the true change candidate over a progressive Black woman Vice president.
Fox News played some of Kamala Harris' speech earlier today, but broke away to let bring on this segment attack dog, Hilton.
Co-host John Roberts looking like he just used Trump's make-up artist began the Q&A.
ROBERTS: Milton, what do you make of what you heard so far, Steve?
HILTON: So John, I was making some notes there about what she was saying.
And I have to tell you what I wrote down here, blah, blah, blah.
That's what I wrote down.
(Fox News cut away from the speech so their viewers didn't hear it completely)
HILTON: I mean, the media, you watch the other media, they are completely behind the Harris campaign as it now is. And that's going to continue right through election day. And the central question, though, is this.
We know from the polling, and we all see it in our lives and all the evidence, people want change in this country.
This is a change election. People want to see change.
And the question is, will they now see Kamala Harris as being the change, because she's different from Joe Biden, or will the Trump campaign successfully be able to show that, actually, she's not change at all.
She's more of the same.
If you really want change, you have to vote for Trump.
That's gonna be the central argument in this election.
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UPDATE: Vice President Kamala Harris just finished her first campaign rally with a packed house and a fired-up crowd. Some of her key moments (and ones we'll hear in every stump speech) were her tribute to Joe Biden and her indictment of Donald Trump.
There is definitely an intensity and joy in the crowd that I haven't seen since 2008. People are fired up, ready to go.
The campaign embed wasn't playing all of the warmup stuff, but CSPAN has the live feed and the music is awesome. Beyonce's "Freedom", the O'Jays' "Love Train," and more.
The crowd was all in for Tammy Baldwin and now it looks like she's about to take the stage.
Watch now as VP Kamala Harris holds her first rally in West Allis, WI.
Tesla was not the first company to begin working on a humanoid form factor, but while being the first to market does carry weight in this high-tech space, we’re at the very beginning of the humanoid robot story.
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While the Felon is panicking over on Truth Social as if he's the victim after Handsome Old Joe Biden suspended his campaign, Stephen Miller, who used to feast on the tears of migrant children during Trump's time in office, had a meltdown on Laura Ingraham's show over Kamala Harris stepping into the race.
Miller looked like he was about to have a brain aneurysm on Fox News Sunday, accusing Democrats of acting undemocratically as if MAGA ever cared about democracy.
"They held a primary," Miller said. "People, they had ballots, they filled out circles, they went to the voting booths. They spent money on advertisements."
"And as President Trump said, the Republican Party spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden," he added. Now they just woke up one morning and said, nevermind, we're canceling the entire primary. We're getting rid of our candidate, and we're pretending the election has never even happened."
Miller must have read Lumpy's post on Truth Social:
So, we are forced to spend time and money on fighting Crooked Joe Biden, he polls badly after having a terrible debate, and quits the race. Now we have to start all over again. Shouldn't the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President? Just askin’?
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President Joe Biden announced this Sunday he's withdrawing from the presidential race, and endorsing his Vice President Kamala Harris. We're in uncharted territory here. We'll see shortly if all of the dump-Biden folks line up behind Harris, or decide to cause chaos:
Biden just quit the race and endorsed Kamala Harris. What happens now?
After weeks of pressure, conjecture, and handwringing at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, President Joe Biden has decided to step aside from the 2024 presidential race.
The president issued a written statement Sunday afternoon, saying he will address the nation later in the week about his decision and that he believes it is in the country's best interest for him to step down from the ticket. Biden’s decision comes after weeks of public and private entreaties from Democrats who have concluded that he is unlikely to defeat former President Donald Trump.
Moments later, Biden released another statement endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to take his spot atop the ticket."My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made," the statement said.
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During the 2024 RNC convention in Milwaukee, Senator Ron Johnson (Q- Moscow) was part of an anti-education panel hosted by Moms for Taking Liberties.
Per a report from Chris Walker at Truthout, M4TL cofounder Tiffany Justice* started out by throwing red meat to the attendees to get them riled up enough to take in RoJo's wild conspiracy theory:
“Do you think the violence against our former president comes from years of labeling anyone who stands for freedom, like President Trump does, like we do, as a threat to democracy?” Justice asked. (Notably, the former president has openly stated a desire to become a dictator if he’s elected, and has said that he wants to use the executive branch to target people he perceives as his political enemies.)
All of the panelists responded affirmatively to Justice’s insinuation. Johnson then tied the assassination attempt to large public schools.
“This was a loner, in probably a large school, being bullied all the time,” Johnson said.
The Republican senator added that he was hopeful Moms for Liberty could jumpstart a push for smaller schools that are less regulated by state and federal governments.
“I’m hoping if there’s one result, from Moms for Liberty, is we start moving away from these massive, large schools,” he said.
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On Monday night, Teamsters president Sean O'Brien spoke at the RNC convention in Milwaukee. During his address, he promptly dropped to his knees to kiss Trump's oversized, orange ass.
In rather short order, O'Brien was notified by many people that this was not cool with them. The Biden/Harris campaign quickly responded with a tweet showing a video of O'Brien, shortly after his speech, admitting that President Biden had done a lot for the Teamsters and for the other unions and for all American workers. O'Brien then said that Biden was indeed one of the most pro-labor presidents in recent history.
What should be even more disturbing to O'Brien is that there was some open rebellion from his own members:
O’Brien’s turn at the RNC was not appreciated by everyone at the Teamsters. The union’s official Twitter account bashed him on Tuesday after he shared a piece about his speech by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). The piece, titled “The Promise of Pro-Labor Conservatism,” begins by suggesting that American workers are getting screwed because companies are using profits to “push diversity, equity, and inclusion and the religion of the trans flag.”
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This week saw one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years linked to a faulty software update from popular cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Businesses across the world reported IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, impacting airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies and railway networks. OpenAI released GPT-4o […]
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The media is breathlessly reporting on calls for President Joe Biden to step down. They have to, though, you guys. The media does this for profit. Biden has a stellar record of achievements during his nearly four years in office. And he has surrounded himself with a more than capable team, including Vice President Kamala Harris.
Despite media speculation (hi, New York Times!), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries confirmed that he's all-in for Joe Biden to win another term. And Biden has earned a second term. Still, the media will continue to mind-fuck us.
"Biden, as I've said repeatedly, is our nominee," Jeffries told reporters. "He has a tremendous track record of success."
"He's one of the most accomplished American presidents in our history," he added. "And he has the vision, I believe, the ability, the capacity, and the track record to make a case to the American people that will result in us being successful in November."
Speaking of the New York Times:
In a letter to colleagues on Friday that notably did not endorse Mr. Biden’s decision to stay in the race, Mr. Jeffries did not reveal what he had told the President, but said he had passed along what he had been hearing from Democrats — many of whom have told him over the past week that the President must step aside.
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Prior to the ban, Trump's team used his channel to broadcast some of his campaigns. With the ban now lifted, his channel can resume doing so.
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CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos, in the endpoint security market.
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As the media coalesces around Biden's age and health status, the 78-year-old Trump, who sustained an injury during an assassination attempt on Saturday, has given no word on his physical and mental status, and the Beltway media hasn't even bothered to inquire about it.
It's absurd and another abdication of journalistic standards by the press when it comes to Republicans.
Donald Trump is set to give his Republican National Convention speech tonight so why hasn't his campaign sent out a medical report on his condition?
Shouldn't the American public know? How is his mental makeup?
Since Trump only hurt his ear, he's been able to have a presence at the convention, and you can bet that however he performs or what he says tonight, it will be hailed by the MSM.
Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne paid $28.2 million for HeadSpin, a mobile app testing startup whose founder has been sentenced for fraud earlier this year, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. The fire sale was reported by TechCrunch last week. HeadSpin’s 2023 revenue was $21 million and its Q1 2024 revenue stood at $5 million, […]
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Slope's founders both have a background in AI, so large language models power the company’s underwriting infrastructure.
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Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, issued a warning on Wednesday against choosing a candidate purely based on whether they claim to be “pro-crypto.” In a blog post, Buterin said it’s more important to scrutinize a candidate’s broader policies to ensure they support cryptocurrency’s underlying goals, including internationalism and protection for private communications. “If a […]
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Adtech startup InMobi is eyeing a valuation of about $10 billion in an initial public offering it is planning for next year.
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Fisker has been given the green light by a bankruptcy judge to sell more than 3,000 of its Ocean SUVs to a vehicle leasing company, a deal that will net the defunct EV startup a maximum of $46.25 million. The approval of the sale clears the way for the rest of Fisker’s bankruptcy process to […]
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Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an “AI native” education platform. In tech speak, that usually means built from the ground up with AI at its core. And while Eureka Labs’s AI ambitions are lofty, the company is starting with a more traditional approach to […]
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It's been upside-down land from right wingers since the attempted assassination of Trump, who've been desperate to try to toss this back on Joe Biden and liberals and basically tell everyone to sit down and shut up and quit talking about the fact that Trump is dangerous and wants to destroy democracy in the United States.
During yet another one of those segments on Fox this Sunday, guest and Fox regular Jessica Tarlov managed to do one very good thing, which was allow the viewers to know about the fact that Trump and Trump Jr. mocked the fact that someone tried to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband. I guarantee you that the majority of their audience has never seen this clip, because they don't want them reminded or made aware of what a monster he is:
Payments giant Stripe has delayed going public for so long that its major investor Sequoia Capital is getting creative to offer returns to its limited partners. The venture firm emailed LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011 with an offer to buy up to $861 million worth of shares in Stripe, Axios reported. Sequoia […]
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Fox News contributor Juan Williams reminded his colleagues that the man who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a Republican.
"I mean, it's not only when you think about the president, former President Trump, but also the people in the audience, the people who died, and you understand the danger," Williams explained during a panel discussion on Fox News Sunday. "It just makes you feel like the country is, the level of political polarization in the country is at a danger point."
"It's, I think, a reflection of the divisions within the United States today, not only liberal, conservative, but also on the extremes," he continued. "This young man, they say he's a Republican."
Williams said he found the scenario puzzling.
"The whole thing is just like, especially with the Internet, I think the Internet feeds a lot of the extremism that we're experiencing in the country, drives people," he explained. "The politics of grievance, anger, all the conspiracy theories."
"We're talking about the investigations about the agencies that were guarding former President Trump," he added. "Now it's becoming politicized because of the Republican-controlled House seems to take the lead and going after this."
Williams expected the Republican National Convention to "become a more zealous affirmation of President Trump as a martyr for having been shot at, and I think it's going to change the whole tone."
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OnlyFans creator Amber Rose, a former girlfriend of Kanye West, will speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention. She offers her reasons for backing the felon in the 2024 Presidential race, and they will make you throat-punchy.
"And I, like, for me, Donald Trump is the epitome of an alpha male," she said of the thin-skinned former President who has never missed an opportunity to suck up to dictators after they've intentionally massaged his enormous ego.
"Right?" she continued. "He's there to protect, provide, make sure the citizens of the U.S. are, you know, in a good economy, protecting us. You know, I feel protected by Donald Trump."
"That's why I wanted to come out and publicly endorse him: because I just feel safe," the millionaire said.
She is an idiot.
Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile self-amputating a limb, or ants building bridges by temporarily fusing their bodies. In one demo video, we see a soft quadruped robot crawling […]
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This week, AT&T confirmed it will begin notifying around 110 million AT&T customers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers. The stolen data contains phone numbers and AT&T records of calls and text messages during a six-month period in 2022, the company says. If […]
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In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally.
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Meta announced former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will no longer be subject to heightened suspension penalties, according to an updated blog post on Friday. The company says it made the decision to ensure all Presidential nominees were on equal footing on their platform ahead of the 2024 Presidential election. When Meta reinstated […]
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Russia is running a social media operation to attempt to elect Donald Trump as president in 2024.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Russia had already launched a "whole-of-government" campaign to help elect Trump.
The outlet confirmed the Russian op story with senior U.S. intelligence officials and sources in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Wall Street Journal disclosed an intelligence official's quote: "We haven't observed a shift in Russia's preferences for the presidential race from past elections."
According to Defense One, "ODNI officials said Russian spin doctors plan to covertly use social media to amplify narratives that could sway public opinion in election swing states and diminish U.S. support for Ukraine. Pro-Russian messaging and influence attempts have also been made through encrypted direct messaging channels."
ABC News: Joe Biden Attacked by Russia
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Despite Felon Trump's denial that he has ever heard of the Heritage Foundation or of Project 2025, the evidence is clear as the giant banner hung up by the Heritage Foundation welcoming convention goers to the Trumplican National Convention:
In fact, Heritage Foundation has their name plastered all over:
As former President Donald Trump distances himself from a conservative group’s blueprint for a future Republican governing agenda, he will have at least one unavoidable connection to it: the Republican National Convention.
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Stephen Colbert highlights Project 2025, the radical right-wing plan to take power if Trump wins the 2024 election.
On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the late-night host mocked Donald Trump for claiming to "know nothing about Project 2025 but the truth is that over 200 of his former staffers are laying plans for a far-right takeover." Watch Colbert's short video to learn more about Project 2025.
Project 2025 Resource Page - A rolling list of links, articles and videos about the plan Trump and Republicans created. https://bit.ly/45N0L67
Kudos founder says her company makes a disposable diaper lined with 100% cotton, unlike the major competitors.
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After taking nearly two weeks off, the felon delivered his usual fact-free speech at his campaign event in Florida on Tuesday night. Donald held the event at his Doral golf course, where he listed his air of grievances during his 75-minute rambling, incoherent speech. That's something the raging narcissist has done since he first ran for President, and it hasn't stopped ever since.
President Biden, he falsely claimed, raised the price of bacon four-fold. "We don't eat bacon anymore," Trump insisted.
Donald has previously claimed that the price of "bacon is up five times" under Biden. Both of those claims are blatant lies.
As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: ex-military officials.
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Dark patterns refer to a range of design techniques that can subtly encourage users to take some sort of action or put their privacy at risk.
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Elon Musk faces several lawsuits for firing more than 6,000 Twitter employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal, following Musk’s 2022 takeover of the social media platform. On Tuesday, Musk defeated one of those lawsuits, as a federal judge ruled X Corp. doesn’t owe the ex-employees any more severance. The lawsuit, filed by Twitter’s former head of […]
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Fast-food chain Whataburger’s app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas without power. Hundreds of thousands of those people may remain without power for days as Houston anticipates a heat wave, with temperatures climbing into the mid-90s. Amid frustrations with the local utility […]
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The concept of Airchat is fun, especially if you're someone who loves to send voice memos instead of typing out long paragraphs on your phone keyboard.
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As the gentle reader already knows, Thursday was the Fourth of July, Independence Day. It's the day the country sets aside to celebrate the birth of our country with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
However, in Wisconsin, the party started a little earlier.
On Wednesday, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost ordered that Wisconsin workers are once again free and independent, when he found that Act 10, Scott Walker's attack on public sector workers and their unions, was unconstitutional, which is something that we had been saying all along:
The lawsuit argues the 2011 law violates equal protection guarantees in the Wisconsin Constitution by dividing public employees into two classes: "general" and "public safety" employees. Public safety employees are exempt from the collective bargaining limitations imposed on "general" public employees.
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VPN makers report having received a notification from Apple that their apps have been removed from the App Store in Russia.
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A viral video on Telegram a couple of weeks ago of a Russian soldier coldly dispatching a fellow soldier after he'd been hit by a drone has proven to be a problem that just won't go away. Although unconcerned with their soldiers' morale at the front, such videos pose a problem for recruitment so the powers that be thought it necessary to lie about the event and claim it was Ukrainian soldiers instead.
Small problems with that claim include: they were wearing Russian uniforms with Russian insignia, the FPV video and the FPV drone that exploded were Ukrainian-made, and the geolocation of the event was behind the frontline on the Russian side near Robotyne. But aside from that...As the saying goes (paraphrased), never let facts get in the way of a preposterous bald-faced lie.
Source: Business Insider
Drone footage showing a Russian soldier shooting a comrade hurt in combat highlights the "brutal culture" of "callous" behavior in the Russian armed forces, war experts say.
"The attempted or deliberate killing of a fellow soldier is unprofessional," experts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War reported in a June 23 assessment.
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A police officer pulled over a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Phoenix after it ran a red light and pulled into a lane of oncoming traffic, according to dispatch records. The incident took place on June 19, but local media including Arizona Republic released bodycam footage of the traffic stop this week, showing the vehicle weaving […]
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blamed "communist sympathizers" in a tirade after a Manhattan appeals court ruled that he should be immediately disbarred.
During his America's Mayor Live show, Giuliani responded to his disbarment after the court said he "undermined the integrity of this country's electoral process."
"You know what's not democracy?" Giuliani ranted. "Taking [former President Donald Trump] off the ballot. Because you say he was involved in an insurrection, but you haven't charged or proven it anywhere."
The former mayor directed his ire at "crooked" Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel Jack Smith.
"Smith is a guy who should be disbarred, not me!" Giuliani exclaimed. "He ruined a man's political career. He was selected by crooked Garland to do the same thing to Trump."
"Given the fact that the Democrat-Fascist Bar Association, otherwise known as Democrats, but probably what a good many communists sympathize with, since they have decided to disbar me today after three or four years of thinking about my case, three or four years, I mean, they don't act fast," he continued.
"Since they decided to disbar me today, I think maybe it is really important for me to tell all of you about the city that I know better than all of them."
Giuliani complained that Manhattan judges were appointed instead of being elected.
"That's a complete sham," he insisted, pointing to two judges who tried cases against Trump.
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Donald Trump lied about Project 2025 and his media sycophants immediately backed him up.
Whenever Trump backpedals, he gets amnesia, like he's never heard of a policy or person. On July 5, the former president posted on social media, "I know nothing about Project 2025," the horrible Christian Nationalist plan to crush American democracy. Minutes after Trump lied about Project 2025, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei shared Trump's lie, tweeting "Trump Torches Heritage Foundation's 2025."
But Trump's latest lie with Jim VandeHei's assist was immediately called out! Journalist David Corn was not having it, and tweeted:
After 14 long years, the UK Conservative Party was crushed in its worst electoral defeat in 200 years.
When the polls closed and Sky News were able to release the results of the exit poll (usually a strikingly accurate indicator of how the election will go), election coverage took an X-rated turn.
Source: BBC
Sir Keir Starmer is the UK's new prime minister, after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide general election victory.
The Conservative Party suffered a huge collapse after a tumultuous 14 years in power, which saw five different prime ministers run the country.
Rishi Sunak - the outgoing PM - accepted responsibility for the result and apologised to defeated colleagues during a brief statement outside a rainy 10 Downing Street. He said he would resign as party leader in the coming weeks.
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The result marks a stunning reversal from the 2019 election when Labour, led by the veteran left-wing politician Jeremy Corbyn, suffered its worst electoral defeat in almost a century.On the other side, Robert Buckland, a former Conservative minister who lost his seat, described it as "electoral Armageddon" for the Tories.
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Quantum Rise, a Chicago-based startup which does AI-driven automation for companies like dunnhumby (a retail analytics platform for the the grocery industry), has raised a $15 million seed round from Erie Street Growth Partners. Its approach is somewhat akin to UIPath’s, a company famous for bringing robotic process automation to the enterprise, but with a […]
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On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without affecting any other audio such as dialogues or sound effects. YouTube chief Neal Mohan posted about the tool on X and said, “Good news, creators: our updated Erase Song tool helps you […]
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Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, on Friday denied any breach of its systems following reports of an alleged security lapse that has caused concern among its customers. The telecom group, which also sells productivity and security solutions to businesses, said it had conducted a “thorough investigation” and found that there has been no breach whatsoever […]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend and the former Right Side Broadcasting host Brian Glenn shared with guest host Terrence Bates that he had a special, special moment thinking about Steve Bannon's incarceration.
GLENN: If you think they're gonna let up on the gas right now, then we're mistaken.
And we saw what happened yesterday with Steve Bannon turning himself in into that Danbury prison.
And, you know, Terrence, I shared a thought with you in the break.
This morning when I was sitting down to have breakfast, I had just a special moment for a second, and I thought, wow, Steve Bannon's waking up in prison, I wonder what he's having for breakfast.
I hope Bannon is eating sh*t on a shingle.
GLENN: And I wonder what his life is like right now for the next four months.
I hope Bannon is suffering every second in Danbury.
GLENN: And it really made me think what a sacrifice that man has done to love his country and to expose the underbelly, the corruption of what's going on with the J6 trial.
The MAGA/Trump-led attack on the US Capitol on January 6th is corruption (and maybe sedition) of the worst kind when it's incited by a sitting president.
The MAGA cult is the underbelly of human decency.
They should all be tried as traitors, including Bannon.
We're witnessing the most corrupt Supreme Court in our lives, and it's unsurprising that they can now accept gratuities. Clarence Thomas might need a new RV soon, so pay up if you need a favor. If you want democracy demolished and the presidency turned into a monarchy, they are there for you. And, of course, it's not surprising that Justices like Brett Kavanaugh lied during his confirmation. Either that, or he's been having lunch with the likes of Nick Fuentes and did an about-face.
Look how principled he was just a few years ago:
No one's above the law in the United States of America.
Secondly, the president serves a term in office, not an unlimited term in office, again specified in Federalist 69.
The president is subject to the law.
No one's above the law in the United States, including the president of the United States.
And that's something that is made clear in Federalist 69.
Even in the national security context, where the Constitution gives the commander-in-chief power to the president, the president remains subject to the law.
A president is not above the law with respect to the criminal process.
No one is above the law in our constitutional system.
Federalist 69, Hamilton, makes clear all the ways that the executive branch, as designed by the framers of the Constitution, was different from the monarchy.
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Fox News host Janine Pirro said what most of the country was thinking after the Supreme Court handed down its presidential immunity ruling.
Box-O-Wine Pirro said the important part out loud as it pertains to Trump's upcoming criminal trials.
JEANNE PIRRO: You know, first of all, Dana, what is so important about this is there is nothing about immunity in the Constitution or in federal statutes.
So we've had to rely for a couple of centuries on how the courts interpret this. So this is, in a sense, as Gorsuch said, a decision for the ages.
But obviously, the immediate impact of this is clearly to slow down Jack Smith. Not that that was their intent, but the effect is that.
Hijacked courts and handpicked judges during Trump's presidency are blocking and delaying as best they can all forms of prosecutions he faces.
Their goal was to push these trials till after the election, then hoping Trump would win and he could attempt to pardon himself.
We can bet, this Supreme Court will grant him that privilege.
