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The Verge reports: Twitter CMO Leslie Berland sent employees an internal memo saying that their soon-to-be new boss, Elon Musk, is in the company’s San Francisco headquarters this week and that they will “hear from him directly on Friday.” Minutes later, Musk himself tweeted a video of him entering the building carrying a literal kitchen sink. He also changed his …

NBC News reports: On Sept. 22, a worker came to install internet in the Eau Claire apartment upstairs from Shannon Pearson. Pearson, 48, who admitted to drinking alcohol earlier that day, told officers he “was upset because the upstairs occupants were in the country illegally” and “should not be able to get cable.” The internet installer claimed Pearson “had come …

“Stacey Abrams, who of course, has no resumé. This is a woman who the only thing she is known for, besides for setting a record at the Golden Corral buffet is that she ran for governor last time, and then when she lost, she said that it was an illegitimate election. “Anyway, she’s running again. And here she is and …

Fox News reports: The “Dilbert” comic strip named after its title character struggling to make it up the corporate ladder and often pokes fun at office culture with satirical humor and social commentary has been canceled in nearly 80 markets, its author told Fox News. Scott Adams, who has written and illustrated the popular comic since 1989, said Lee Enterprises …

“DeSantis is under criminal investigation because he flew the sheriff’s waiters to the Vineyard. Who is this sheriff anyway? Well, Primetime did some digging. “The guy fired a prison guard because she supported Trump. He campaigned for Biden in Texas, even rode on Joe’s bus — not an electric bus, sorry, Kamala. “But since then, Joe has given Salazar the …

“The left doesn’t believe America is special, that American values are special or exceptional, whichever term you like. “You wonder what is special. If the United States is not exceptional, then is there any country that it has been? They would probably have no answer to that. “What is special is they – or them, if you prefer. They’re special, …

Media Matters has the transcript: GERALDO RIVERA (CO-HOST): I disagree with that about Mayor Adams. JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Why? Because you like him? Tell me — RIVERA: I not only like him, I respect his attempts to rein in violent crime. PIRRO: What attempt? What attempt, tell me. RIVERA: He’s gone to Governor Hochul, he’s gone to these other politicians. …

The San Antonio Report reports: A 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant told the San Antonio Report Thursday he was paid $200 in cash to recruit people from outside San Antonio’s migrant resource center to board a flight that landed at Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday. Emmanuel, who declined to give a reporter his last name, said a woman he knows as “Perla” told him …

“I believe in following the facts and the truth – and finding the principles – and there’s a principle here in what you’re talking about, right? “Which is that you’re never going to see the New York Times doing an article about the fact that Jill Biden is propping up her husband. “I mean, if you want to know something …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appeared to kick an unarmed demonstrator during a confrontation outside the Capitol on Thursday afternoon. Videos posted to Twitter by Greene and the Gen Z activist group Voters of Tomorrow show Greene leaving a news conference while being questioned by activists about gun violence. As Greene approaches a crosswalk, she appears …

Fox News reports: Two migrant buses from Del Rio, Texas, arrived near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning. Between 75 and 100 people who were picked up in Eagle Pass, Texas, were sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The group includes migrants from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia and Mexico. Multiple migrants, asked by …

“Also, by the way, with The Little Mermaid – can we also just mention that, from a scientific perspective, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean. “I mean, if anything, not only should the Little Mermaid be pale, she should, actually, be translucent. If you look at deep …

CNN reports: Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is claiming credit for sending two planes carrying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts Wednesday, according to a statement emailed to CNN by his office. “Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary …

TMZ reports: In one of the dumbest moves we’ve seen made by a person freaking out as they were kicked off a plane, a chemical engineer has now been fired from his job after announcing where he works to the entire flight. The incident, which happened on a flight from Philly to Dallas, included the man seen in the video …

“If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans, and can’t get a job, Joe Biden just gave you twenty grand. “Like, holy cow, that twenty grand, you know, maybe you weren’t gonna vote in November and suddenly, you just got twenty grand. “And you know, if you can get …

The Insider reports: Last Monday John Fetterman, Oz’s Democratic opponent, resurfaced a video Oz recorded in what he called a “Wegners” — a mishmash of the Redner’s and Wegmans grocery store chains — shopping for “crudité” and complaining about inflation. Fetterman’s comment: “in PA, we call this a veggie tray.” In an exclusive statement to Insider, the doctor’s campaign jabbed …

Newsweek reports: Governor Ron DeSantis has released a Top Gun-themed campaign ad taking aim at the “corporate media.” The viral video was uploaded on Twitter by his wife, Casey DeSantis, and has been watched more than 670,000 times. It cuts between clips of DeSantis giving a speech in a hangar and moving around an air base, at one point getting …

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson sounded just like his good pal and right-wing conspiracy nut Alex Jones on Monday, at one point commenting about chemicals in milk that “turn kids trans.” The Fox host expressed sympathy during his show for an Amish farmer named Amos Miller who has run into legal trouble over food safety issues identified by the …

“The administration is coming out and saying, ‘We need to pay teachers more.’ And, by the way, teachers gave $20 million to Democrats and Joe Biden in the 2020 campaign. So this is a payback for teachers. “Listen, I don’t mind paying the good teachers more, but they’re saying teachers make 20% less than people with similar degrees. “But they …

“In my judgment, President Biden has stepped on every rake in the yard. I don’t mean to be unfair, but it’s been cringeworthy. “He has mismanaged Congress, mismanaged COVID, mismanaged crime, mismanaged the border. mismanaged the Afghanistan, mismanaged the economy, mismanaged inflation, and forfeited America’s energy independence.”  “I don’t think most Americans are persuaded. I don’t think the American people …