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1776 All-Stars: Why Thomas Jefferson Is the Most Fascinating Founder
The author of the Declaration of Independence may have written "the greatest sentence ever."
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Children's YouTube Star Ms. Rachel Sings With Kids for Illegal Aliens Outside Newark ICE Facility
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White House's Ghislaine Maxwell proposal leaves MS NOW host 'blown away'
Reacting to the bombshell reporting in the New York Times about the Jeffrey Epstein “war room” that was convened in the White House Situation Room, MS NOW’s Sam Stein singled out a proposal about Ghislaine Maxwell that he found beyond the pale.Speaking with Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire about the report from the Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Stein noted, “There's one anecdote in there where they talk about whether they should give a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, and the response inside the room has nothing to do with the morality, ethics or legality of it. It's ‘Oh no, that would create a real PR problem for us if we were to do that.’”“And I was blown away by how cynical that was,” he admitted. “But really, I think the most interesting and most troubling element of this, well, there's a lot of troubling elements of this, is Todd Blanche,” he said of the current acting attorney general. “Todd Blanche, at the time, is the deputy AG, okay? He is ostensibly part of the Justice Department and therefore should have some sort of separation from the White House. And yet he's sitting in the Situation Room throughout this, plotting ways to shield the president of the United States from public scrutiny and legal scrutiny.”“He is not acting as a part of the Justice Department. He's acting as Trump's defense lawyer, and he's intimately involved in all the decision-making,” he observed. - YouTube youtu.be
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"Keep the Game Beautiful": Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup
“People are really, really afraid … that ICE will go and raid communities where people are watching and gathering together” to watch the FIFA World Cup, says Nelini Stamp. She is an organizer with the Our Copa campaign, a grassroots initiative that aims to protect immigrant fans, center the sport’s working-class roots, and host accessible local watch parties during the World Cup. “We will keep each other safe as much as possible during these games,” says Stamp.
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Truthout
Scared of ICE, Angry at Trump, and Facing Red Tape, Many Are Skipping World Cup
Hotel bookings lag in all US host cities, and in several a majority of hotel owners say the tournament is a “non-event.”
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Raw Story
Trump 'completely isolated' in White House as he loses control: MS NOW
Based upon his own reporting and excerpts from a bombshell new book penned by the New York Times ' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, MS NOW host Jonathan Lemire claimed on Thursday morning that Donald Trump has become a man alone inside his own White House.Noting that Vice President JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles retreated to the Situation Room with the rest of the Trump inner circle — with the president left on the outside — Lemire pointed out that it is nearly impossible to deliver bad news to the increasingly embattled president.Lemire cited Trump’s blurting “I love the inflation” before reporters on Wednesday as evidence that the president has lost touch with even his own people, who would have made sure he was better prepared when questioned by reporters.“I wrote a few months ago about the bubble he's in,” Lemire told the “Morning Joe” panel. “All presidents exist in some sort of bubble, but this one in particular, it's an echo chamber. He only talks to people who agree with him. He does no domestic travel anymore. None. And to [conservative journalist] David Drucker’s point, that is where he would go out on the road. He'd go to these rallies, he'd see what lines would work or what not. And that would give him a sense as to what the American people, or at least his voters cared about.”“That stopped. Instead, he's being fed AI slop on Truth Social,” he observed. “That's the only feedback he's getting from, quote, real people. And he is completely out of touch. I mean, yesterday him blurting out, ‘I love the inflation.’ It's like Brick and ‘Anchorman ‘ yelling, ‘I love lamps’ because he didn't know what else to say. I mean, it was just it was that nonsensical. And it will be featured in every possible campaign ad this fall.”“I think the point here is, right, that it's not just disconnected from voters, it's also disconnect from what Republicans need him to be,” Lemire elaborated. “They need him to be talking about the economy. They need him to at least pretend to care what people are thinking and feeling about. And instead, he's consumed with foreign adventures. And he's consumed with his legacy and remaking Washington in his own image. He cares about what, what, how he'll be remembered forever, and he's losing sight of what got him back to the office in the first place.”Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough drove the same point home, telling viewers Trump appears to be cut off even from those closest to him. "Nobody could talk to the president about what could be the biggest crisis in his presidency," Scarborough said, referencing the Haberman and Swan reporting. "He's completely isolated even inside the White House according to this report." - YouTube youtu.be
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Raw Story
'What are we doing?' MS NOW jumps all over Trump's 'incredible' admission
The entire panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” burst into laughter after watching a clip of Donald Trump blithely telling reporters, “I love the inflation” on Wednesday — a phrase that may come back to haunt Republicans in the November midterms, they pointed out.Thursday’s show began with the clip, where the president made the admission, followed by comments about the war in Iran, leading co-host Mika Brzezinski to state, “President Trump, uhhhh, not fazed by the latest economic data, telling reporters ‘I love the inflation. It comes as the —.”“I love the inflation!” co-host Joe Scarborough loudly repeated as Willie Geist asked, “What are we doing here?” which caused all three to start laughing.“That would be like [Rolling Stones guitarist] Keith Richards in a police station just blurting out, ‘I love the cocaine, man. I love the cocaine,’” Scarborough added. “I mean, ‘I love the inflation,’ Willie. I mean, like what? Just what's he doing here? I mean, we've had, you know, he calls affordability ‘BS.’ He's like: ‘I love inflation, man.‘ I mean what's going on here?”“Incredible,” Geist agreed as they all continued to laugh. “I mean this comes a couple of weeks after, ‘I don't care about people's financial situation,’” Geist continued. There's this entire catalog of lines where he's just saying the worst possible thing he could say if you were trying to, let's say, keep your party in power."“Yeah, you’ve got to wonder why you don't care about that,” Brzezinski contributed. - YouTube youtu.be
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New York Post
Melania Trump unveils ‘Fostering the Future Accounts’ to help foster children
The accounts will assist children in foster care to own their own “dedicated savings account and investment vehicle" that they can tap as adults.
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NewsNation
Spike Lee: ICE 'not welcome' at celebrations if Knicks win NBA Finals
“If the Knicks, when we win, whether it's home or away, there’s going to be such — it's going to be bananas, it's going to be craziness,” the filmmaker said
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