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On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “All In,” author Stacey Abrams said the Supreme Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana was their attempt to create a “democracy-proof Duma.” Abrams said, “This is about power, and this is about what authoritarianism looks like in America. The reason the Supreme Court dismantled the Voting Rights Act is because they want to be able to create the kind of Viktor Orban, democracy-proof Duma that, you know, Russia has, that Venezuela had, that Hungary has. And you do that by getting rid of anyone who can disagree with you. In a multiracial democracy, that…
Cole Tomas Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump The US Department of Justice has released new high-quality CCTV footage showing Cole Tomas Allen, who has been charged with attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump, allegedly rushing past security and opening fire.The incident took place on Saturday at the Washington Hilton, which hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by the president, First Lady Melania Trump, White House officials, and journalists.The footage, which has no sound, shows the suspect walking down a hallway before dashing past a metal detector screening area.At one point, he…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy is marking the one‑year anniversary of President Trump’s executive order on trucking reform by touting sweeping federal actions that have reshaped the industry. The department’s efforts led to kicking more than 20,000 non‑English‑proficient drivers out of service, revoking over 28,000 illegally issued foreign CDLs, shutting down thousands of fraudulent training schools, and forcing noncompliant states like California and New York into line through massive funding penalties. “The Trump Administration has hit major milestones in our efforts to rein in the trucking industry, which has been allowed to operate like the Wild, Wild West for…
Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth were in total agreement that they should have “absolute power.” Smith said, “The logic problem here is Pete thinks he can just say Iran having a nuclear weapon is bad. Therefore, whatever we do is good. There’s actually quite a few steps between those two things that he keeps wanting to paper over. And mostly he wants to talk about the past, you know, and what he didn’t like about Joe Biden.” He continued, “The Trump administration doesn’t seem to know…
Evangeline Lilly, who played The Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, denounced Disney for laying off visual effects artists as it integrates AI. The actress shared her thoughts about the recent layoffs at the studio in a post on Instagram Thursday. Lilly took particular issue with Disney laying off Marvel’s director of visual development Andy Park, a member of the Marvel Studios family for 16 years. “I reached out to my good friend Andy Park, who was the genius behind creating the original Wasp super-suit and concept drawings, and I said, ‘Is this true? Is this really what’s happening?’” Lilly said. “He said, ‘Yeah, it’s…
Spain’s National Court denied citizenship to a Moroccan woman on grounds that members of her family have engaged in jihadist activities, some of whom had also unsuccessfully attempted to become Spanish nationals in recent years. The court determined that the woman’s ties to individuals with a history of engaging in radical Islamism make her a potential threat to Spain’s national security and found granting citizenship would jeopardize public order and national interests. The ruling came in response to a court proceeding started by the woman, who claimed that she complied with all of the requirements to obtain Spanish citizenship by naturalization,…
On Wednesday, on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said he didn’t like the Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana’s second majority-black congressional district. Host Brianna Keilar said, “What is your reaction to the court’s decision today?” Warnock said, “It is an awful decision. And, today is a devastating day in the history of our fight for a democracy that looks like America. The decision of, this Supreme Court, is deeply disappointing. But we will not lose hope. We will continue to fight. But let me be really clear, as the pastor of the church that Martin Luther King Jr.…
“Time to say goodbye,” the message by the late US convicted sex offender allegedly concluded, according to the paper’s source Late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s purported suicide note has remained locked up at a courthouse for years, out of reach of investigators, the New York Times has reported.The message was allegedly discovered by Epstein’s cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, in July 2019 after the disgraced US financier had been found unresponsive with a strip of cloth around his neck at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, the paper said in an article on Thursday.Epstein survived that incident, but was…
Russia is set to increase its military presence in Nicaragua after its parliamentary upper house, the Federation Council, ratified its cooperation agreement with the communist Ortega regime on Wednesday — a deal that Nicaraguan dissidents denounced turns their country into a “Russian military base.” Over the past years, the communist regime led by dictatorial husband-and-wife couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has received a significant amount of support from Russia that has allowed the regime to expand and reinvigorate its brutally repressive apparatus and to silence dissent in the country — including the establishment of a Russian-operated “police training” center in…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) said Democrats have to win the battle on redistricting “because it’s about making sure that the Republicans don’t steal the next election. And that’s exactly what they’re doing.” Sewell said, “I personally think that we, as Democrats, can’t sit back. We have to fight back. So, if blue states — I mean, red states are going to redraw their maps, I think that Democrats need to think about redrawing their maps. I know it’s a race to the bottom, but it’s a — it’s to the bottom, and you’re…