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When Chris Licht took over CNN last year, he told employees he sought to make CNN “an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics in journalism,” pillaring values like “fearlessly speaking truth to power” and “educating viewers and readers with straightforward facts and insightful commentary.” Seeming to forget all of that, CNN will now be hosting Bill Maher’s late night HBO segment, Overtime, every Friday night, beginning this week. Falling short of some of these pillars, Maher comes with a spanning history of issues. Читать дальше...

Joe Manchin last week introduced a bill—the American Vehicle Security Act—to delay the rollout of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for electric vehicles. He cited the need to “grow domestic manufacturing and reduce our reliance on foreign supply chains for the critical minerals needed to produce EV batteries.”

A white officer present during Tyre Nichols’s brutal beating at the hands of Memphis police was put on administrative leave, Memphis police confirmed Monday.

After reelecting Ronna McDaniel as its leader, the Republican National Committee has passed an anti-choice resolution instructing the party to “go on offense” against abortion rights and pass legislation including six-week bans.

Every bit as disturbing as the savagery displayed by the Memphis police officers who beat Tyre Nichols within an inch of his life was the utter nonchalance they displayed as they went about it. In the fourth video, the one from the mounted police cam, four or five officers engage in kicking, punching, and beating Nichols for four or five minutes. He lies on the street corner, seemingly near lifelessness (he died three days later in the hospital). But after the violence ends, the police officers just … stand around. Читать дальше...

“Donald Trump has to go,” conservative evangelical Everett Piper wrote for The Washington Times in November. “If he’s our nominee in 2024, we will get destroyed.” Some of her peers evidently agree. An unnamed evangelical leader told Vanity Fair last month that if Trump wins the GOP nomination, Republicans will “get crushed in the general.” Speaking with The Washington Post, Baptists for Biblical Values founder Brad Cranston disparaged the former president and said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis... Читать дальше...

The world wide web is in a swivet about nepo babies. “Nepo” is short for “nepotism,” and nepo babies are the celebrity children of celebrity parents. New York magazine last month declared 2022 to be “the year of the nepo baby” and furnished a “(nearly) exhaustive” list.

The biggest 2024 candidate news this January featured three arresting announcement videos by charismatic figures with compelling life stories and national followings. The only thing strange was that Katie Porter, Adam Schiff, and Ruben Gallego are merely running for the Senate. Normally, the January of the year after a midterm election would instead mark the start of presidential hat-in-the-ring season.