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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Ryan Gosling returned to “SNL” this week in a cold open with “Barbie” co-star Kate McKinnon, reviving one of their most famous sketches, “Close Encounter,” in which they recount being abducted by aliens and their vastly different experiences aboard the spaceship. The original sketch debuted eight years ago and featured Gosling and McKinnon, alongside Cecily Strong (it currently …

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Atlantic: Traffic To Cultist Sites Has Cratered Since 2020

The Atlantic reports: The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry; it’s utterly collapsing. The Daily Caller lost 57 percent of its audience; Drudge Report was down 81 percent; and The Federalist lost a staggering 91 percent. What’s going on? The obvious culprit is Facebook. For years, …

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Appeals Court: Ex-Dominion Worker’s Defamation Suit Against Trump Campaign And Cultists Will Go To Trial

Law & Crime reports: A Colorado appeals court has handed a former Dominion employee a significant win, allowing his 2020 election-related defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims to proceed to trial against former President Donald Trump’s campaign and “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell, among other individuals and entities. In late December 2020, Dr. Eric Coomer, formerly the director of …

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Graham: Biden’s “Pathetic Weakness” Spurred Iran

“To our friends in Israel, do what you must to defend yourselves against Iranian aggression. I, along with many others in the United States, will do our best to support you. “My concern is that the Biden Administration’s pathetic weakness throughout the world — not Israel’s strong response to being attacked — is the source of catastrophic conflicts. “Unlike President …

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Sununu: Trump Being Convicted Won’t Be Disqualifying

ABC News reports: In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” Sununu, a Republican who campaigned against Trump in the GOP primary before becoming a Trump defender, was repeatedly pressed by anchor George Stephanopoulos about his previous views. Sununu said he stood by a 2021 denunciation of Trump over Jan. 6 but said he no longer believes that Trump should …

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Manhattan’s Vessel To Reopen After Rash Of Suicides

The New York Times reports: Nearly three years after a series of suicides shut down the Vessel, the 150-foot-tall centerpiece of the Hudson Yards complex in Manhattan, the project’s developer said on Friday that it would reopen this year with new safety measures. The beehive-shaped sculpture, with a labyrinth of about 2,500 steps and 80 landings, opened in 2019, along …

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Johnson: Trump Is “100% With Me” Against MTG

Fox News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says former President Donald Trump is “100% with” him as he faces a barrage of attacks from members of his own party, most notably Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to oust him from his leadership position. “I spent hours with the president on Friday. He and I talked frequently…. He’s 100% …

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TSA: 93% Of 1503 Guns Found In Q1 Were Loaded

Via press release from the TSA: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted 1,503 firearms at airport security checkpoints during the first quarter of 2024, which ended March 31. This total represents an average of 16.5 firearms per day detected at TSA checkpoints, comparable to firearm detections during the same time period in 2023, when TSA officers intercepted 1,508 firearms at airport …

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Simpson Estate: The Goldmans Will Get “Zero, Nothing”

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: O.J. Simpson’s longtime lawyer and executor of his estate said Friday that he will fight to prevent the payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Attorney Malcolm LaVergne, who had represented Simpson since 2009, told the Review-Journal in a phone interview …

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