Monthly Archives: June 2024

CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Talk about a mood booster. Disney and Pixar‘s emotion-laden “Inside Out 2” is the first film of the year to hit $1 billion at the global box office. After 19 days of release, the animated sequel has grossed $469.3 million in North America and $545.5 million internationally for a worldwide tally of $1.015 billion. It’s one of 11 …

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Fetterman Blasts Dem Calls For Biden To Drop Out: “Dumbest Shit I’ve Ever Heard, You’re Helping Trump”

Politico reports: “That whole abandoned Biden thing — that’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard,” Sen. John Fetterman said Sunday morning in an interview with Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.” “I mean, if you are more inclined to vote for a Democrat or be a Democrat, if you’re willing to walk away from Joe Biden — you’re by defecting …

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DeSantis Axes Bill On Housing For Farmworkers, Says Bill “Paves The Way For Housing Illegal Alien Workers”

Gainesville’s NPR affiliate reports: Pointing to concerns that it could provide housing for illegal foreign workers, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday vetoed an agriculture industry-backed bill that would have made it easier to build housing for farmworkers. “The bill’s terms apply to legal migrant farm workers, but the bill does not include the means to enforce this limitation and could …

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French Far-Right Wins First Round In Election [VIDEO]

Reuters reports: Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party won the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the final result will depend on days of horsetrading before next week’s run-off. The RN was seen winning around 34% of the vote, exit polls from showed. That was ahead of leftist and centrist rivals, including …

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Burgum Defends Trump’s Debate Lies As Nothing New

The Hill reports: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), rumored to be on former President Trump’s vice-presidential shortlist, defended the presumptive GOP nominee against criticism over the numerous falsehoods he told on the debate stage Thursday. In an interview Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Burgum called the story “manufactured,” noting Trump has said publicly in the past everything …

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Pelosi: Some Think It’s Trump That Has Dementia

“I want you to know I came home to California, south and north, and the people are for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They have some judgment about a person who stood on that stage and lied, lied, lied, if you’re just talking about the debate. “I am respectful of some of the opinions that people have, but it is also …

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Vance Is “Confident” Trump Will Get “Broad Immunity”

“We know that the President has to have immunity to do his job. Should Barack Obama be prosecuted for droning American citizens in Yemen? There are so many examples of presidents Democrats and Republicans who would not be able to discharge their duties, if the Supreme Court does not recognize some broad element of presidential discretion. I’m very confident that …

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LIVE VIDEO: New York City 2024 Pride Parade

New York City’s CBS affiliate reports: The Pride March steps off at noon on Sunday, June 30. This year marks 55 years since the Stonewall Uprising and 40 years since Heritage of Pride became the official march organizers. Also happening Sunday, Heritage of Pride is hosting a PrideFest LGBTQIA+ street fair at 11 a.m. in Greenwich Village. There is no …

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New GA Law Allows Cultists To Help Purge Voter Rolls

The Associated Press reports:  Conservative activists in Georgia and some other states are quietly pushing a way to remove names from the voting rolls without filing a formal legal challenge. They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy …

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Bannon: My Endgame Remains “Victory Or Death”

NBC News reports: In an interview with NBC News, Steve Bannon continued to assert that the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas “don’t mean anything” and reiterated arguments about executive privilege that have been rejected in courts. The vocal ally of former President Donald Trump is set to report to prison by Monday to serve a four-month sentence for defying subpoenas to …

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Lindsey Graham: I Look Forward To Trump’s Retribution

“I warned that the Pandora’s box opened by the Democrats is going to be applied here. There should be an investigation of Mayorkas and Biden for abusing the parole statute that led to the murder of Laken Riley. They let the accused killer out because of lack of capacity, they paroled him illegally. “I think the criminality of the Biden …

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Trump Team Plans To Overhaul Official GOP Platform

ABC News reports: Donald Trump’s top advisers are planning to overhaul and shorten the Republican Party’s platform so that it will be “in line” with the former president’s “vision for America’s future,” according to a memo sent to the party’s platform committee that was obtained by ABC News. The memo comes as some more socially conservative RNC members — along …

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Atlanta Paper Joins Call For Biden To Step Aside

From the editorial board of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: In an impassioned campaign rally on Friday, President Joe Biden tried to convince American voters that his alarming performance on a debate stage here in Atlanta the night before was an aberration. But the unfortunate truth is that Biden should withdraw from the race, for the good of the nation he has …

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TOMORROW: Viktor Orban Assumes Presidency Of EU

The Associated Press reports: When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on July 1, many politicians in Brussels will have the same thing on their minds: whether populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will use the role to further his reputation as the bloc’s main spoiler. Orbán in recent years has seemed to relish opportunities to block, water …

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Hurricane Beryl Now “Very Dangerous” Category 3

CNN reports: Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, intensified into a “very dangerous” Category 3 storm on Sunday morning as it churned toward Barbados and the Windward Islands, promising destructive hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center. The National Hurricane Center says Beryl is expected to be an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 …

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NBC: Biden To Discuss Campaign’s Future With Family

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter. Biden’s trip was planned before Thursday’s …

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Philly Paper: “Raw Sewage” Trump Should Drop Out

From the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer: President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race. But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline Hollywood reports: Alec Baldwin will still face a New Mexico jury next month for his involuntary manslaughter trial in the 2021 death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Keeping her promise of earlier this week to issue a ruling by today, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected the latest attempt by the Emmy winning actor’s Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP …

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Trump: Nobody Is Talking About How Great I Was At Debate, Which Was CNN’s Highest Rated Show Ever

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: As I walked off the stage on Thursday night, at the end of the highly anticipated “Debate,” anchors, political reporters and all screamed that I had had the greatest debate performance in the long and storied history of Presidential Debates. They all said, effectively, “Trump was fantastic!” This theme was universal, even at …

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Conway: Debate Showed How Biden Team “Gaslit” Us

The Hill reports: Kellyanne Conway slammed President Biden and his allies for his underperformance at Thursday’s presidential debate, calling it a “disgrace.” “There is no breaking news in what we saw last night,” she said on Fox’s Hannity on Friday night. “It is an unforgivable, inexcusable disgrace that we as a nation have been gaslit.” “For all the talk today …

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