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Elon Musk gets dealt blow by Biden-appointed judge days after becoming trillionaire

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A judge dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI accusing a rival of trying to steal trading secrets — three days after Musk became […]

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'Hypocrite': JD Vance gets more than he bargained for in testy appearance on ‘The View’

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'Hypocrite': JD Vance gets more than he bargained for in testy appearance on ‘The View’

The internet erupted on Tuesday after "The View" co-hosts put Vice President JD Vance in the hot seat and dropped tough questions. Vance was pressed about the Trump administration's policies by Whoopi Goldberg and called out by Joy Behar over his responses while he tried to promote his new book: "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith."Media and political experts on social media reacted to Vance's interaction with the daytime talk show hosts."Imagine if reporters asked questions as hard as the hosts of The View," Emmy-nominated writer and comedian Mike Drucker wrote on X."The makeup artist not filling in his eyebrows is masterful work," Nikki McCann Ramírez, politics reporter at Rolling Stone, wrote on X."He doesn't respect women, so he went in thinking he would be able to manipulate them and boy was he wrong," progressive political commentator Sarah Ironside wrote on X."How do you know this administration is racist? Every single time someone ask them about the quality of life for Black Americans they bring up CRIME STATISTICS (or WAREHOUSE JOBS) as a MEASURE of BLACK SUCCESS in the United States. That's all we are to them," Swipa, analyst for Mile High Sports and social media commentator, wrote on X."He danced around answering the question because Vance knows there is no way to defend it. SMH," writer and editor Keith Murphy wrote on X."JD Vance has criticized The View for years claiming it’s an out of touch liberal media show with political hacks. But that doesn’t stop him from crawling up on their stage to beg The View’s audience to buy his book," Canadian liberal political commentator Marlene Robertson wrote on X.".@JDVance complains endlessly about The View... until it comes time to make money for his book. Hypocrite," anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project wrote on X."Really disturbing how comfortable he is fabricating information out of thin air," Julian Andreone, Washington reporter for Drop Site News, wrote on X.Really disturbing how comfortable he is fabricating information out of thin air https://t.co/D6HrWC9YFJ— Julian Andreone (@JulianAndreone) June 16, 2026

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Vance admits more work needs to be done to get prices down

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Vance admits more work needs to be done to get prices down

Vice President JD Vance said there is “a lot more work to do” on the economy under President Donald Trump, noting that the Trump administration is making progress ahead of the midterm elections. During the “Hot Topics” segment on The View, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin questioned Vance about persistent economic concerns and whether voters who supported […]

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Disgraced Federal Judge in Georgia Recuses Herself From DOJ’s Voter Roll Lawsuit

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Disgraced Federal Judge in Georgia Recuses Herself From DOJ’s Voter Roll Lawsuit

A federal judge presiding over an election integrity lawsuit in Georgia has recused herself over "perceived support of [District Attorney Fani] Willis's position on election integrity" and the doubt created regarding the judge's impartiality. The post Disgraced Federal Judge in Georgia Recuses Herself From DOJ’s Voter Roll Lawsuit appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Major Antiracist Rally Held in Belfast to Condemn Anti-Immigrant Riots Egged On by Elon Musk

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Major Antiracist Rally Held in Belfast to Condemn Anti-Immigrant Riots Egged On by Elon Musk

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is in Belfast, where several days of racist riots have targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities with violence, threats and property destruction. It is the third consecutive summer of organized mob violence against immigrants in Northern Ireland, with roots in the extant paramilitary structures that remain there after decades of sectarian warfare. Our broadcast from the Northern Ireland capital features guests Sinéad Marmion, an immigration lawyer, and Patrick Corrigan, the Northern Ireland director of Amnesty International UK. Both were among the tens of thousands who attended a recent rally in Belfast condemning racism and standing in solidarity with immigrants. “The vast majority of people in Belfast, as across Northern Ireland, are antiracist and very welcoming to the people who have come here to make their lives from around the world,” says Corrigan. “We wanted to send, most importantly, a message to them, to say, 'You are welcome. This is your city. This is your home, just as much as it is ours.'” As mob violence drives residents from their homes and leaves many fearing for their lives, “it’s the community that has picked up the pieces. It’s women in the community, it’s migrant women in the community, that have organized and mobilized the response. And our authorities have been left wanting,” says Marmion. “We have political parties that are stoking the flames and encouraging what they call a 'legitimate concern on immigration,' … and the conversation, resultingly, is always toxic.”

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Economist warns Musk's trillionaire fortune is a 'grave threat' to democracy worldwide

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Economist warns Musk's trillionaire fortune is a 'grave threat' to democracy worldwide

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week, and now a prominent economist is warning that his unprecedented wealth poses a grave threat to human freedom in the US and across the globe.In a column published by The Guardian on Tuesday, Paris School of Economics professor Gabriel Zucman argued that Musk’s enormous fortune is fundamentally at odds with a democratic system of governance because it gives him “the power to stifle competition, the power to shape public discourse, the power to influence policymaking, the power to buy elections, the power to stall social progress,” and much else.Zucman noted that wealth concentration is even greater now than it was during the original Gilded Age, as the top 0.00001% now have fortunes large enough to “buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in the US.”The economist added that while Musk—whose infamous destruction of the US Agency for International Development is projected to kill millions of people in the coming years—makes a particularly compelling villain, trillionaires would be a major problem for democracy even if they were of a more benevolent variety.“No one should want to live in a society where one single individual can be worth $1 trillion, no matter their personal virtues,” Zucman emphasized. “Such levels invariably skew power, distort markets, and sap our democratic ideals.”The best solution to this crisis, Zucman said, is to “create an unavoidable minimum tax on their wealth” that will “make it impossible for the super-rich to pay less tax than middle-class workers—a matter of basic equality before the law.”“It is time to break decisively with the perverse logic in which retirees, the poor, or immigrants are expected to balance the budget,” Zucman concluded, “while the rich are to be allowed to live tax-free in their own parallel society. There cannot be a law more lenient for the rich and powerful than for the rest of us. If ever there was a time to act, it is now.”Zucman’s thoughts on extreme wealth and democracy were echoed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who on Tuesday published an essay on his Substack page where he likened President Donald Trump’s White House cage-fighting matches to the kinds of spectacles put on by Roman emperors before noting ominous similarities between the US today and the Roman Empire.“While the causes of the decline of republican government and Rome’s eventual transition to one-man rule were doubtless complex,” Krugman wrote, “there is broad consensus among historians that a key factor was the emergence of extreme inequality. A handful of men became incredibly wealthy from the spoils of Rome’s eastern conquests, and their wealth and power eventually became too great for the rules of constitutional, republican government to contain. Sound uncomfortably familiar?”Gautam Mukunda, a professor at the Yale School of Management, similarly warned that Musk’s newly minted trillionaire status was bad news for American self-governance.In a Monday column published by Bloomberg, Mukunda pointed to the vast sums of money being spent by billionaires in US elections, which he noted “dwarf what candidates can raise themselves.”And like Krugman, Mukunda saw disturbing parallels between the US today and Ancient Rome.“Marcus Crassus was the richest man in ancient Rome,” he explained. “So rich that, by Plutarch’s account, he thought no man truly wealthy unless he could pay an army from his own purse. He spent that fortune bankrolling Julius Caesar and building the triumvirate that sidelined the Senate and, in fact if not in name, overthrew the republic.”

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Is Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ priming us for real disclosure? Glenn Beck drops his chilling take after opening night

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Is Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ priming us for real disclosure? Glenn Beck drops his chilling take after opening night

Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated alien movie “Disclosure Day” hit theaters last Friday. In the weeks leading up to its premiere, a circulating theory — fueled by the government’s ongoing UFO file declassifications — suggested Spielberg collaborated with the government to prepare the public for real alien disclosure.Glenn Beck saw it on opening night, and he says it’s definitely “worth seeing.”But could it actually be predictive programming?On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn shares his raw thoughts on what “Disclosure Day” really means. Glenn isn’t ready to dismiss the theory that “Disclosure Day” is predictive programming — entertainment designed to plant ideas so that future real-world events feel familiar and less shocking.“The Department of War and the CIA have had an official entertainment liaison office for decades,” he says.“They are brought in to help shape stories, and it's not a shadowy conspiracy ... [Hollywood is] given jets and bases and technical advisers for their movies, and in exchange, they shape the stories for the government, and this is documented policy.”However, there’s another framework worth considering: George Gerbner’s cultivation theory.Gerbner’s theory argues that long-term, heavy exposure to media gradually "cultivates" or shapes people's perceptions of reality, making them believe the world is more like what they see on screen than it actually is.Glenn points out that heavy media consumption is one of the modern era’s defining characteristics, as people are “scrolling and staring and consuming media” essentially “eight hours every day.”“[Gerbner’s] research shows that heavy viewers develop mean world syndrome where everything is a danger. They overestimate the danger, crime, threats. They become more fearful, more dependent, and more open to strong-man measures,” he explains.What if “Disclosure Day” isn’t preparing us for real aliens but rather attempting to scare people into submitting to future government mandates?The most critical question, Glenn insists, is: “Who profits from the fear?”“We've been seeing a steady drum beat of disclosure that is happening. I don't know what's real and what's not,” Glenn confesses.But he does know one thing: “A government who has been denying [aliens] for decades suddenly decides to open the door?”“Why? And who profits from fear?” he asks.To hear more, watch the video above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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Vance gets in fiery exchange with Whoopi Goldberg over race: 'I didn't say that!

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Vance gets in fiery exchange with Whoopi Goldberg over race: 'I didn't say that!

Vice President JD Vance got in a heated conversation about race on Tuesday with Whoopi Goldberg, longtime co-host of "The View."Vance appeared as a guest on the talk show to discuss his new book "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith." The co-hosts pressed him on multiple topics, including the Epstein files and the Trump administration's immigration policies and detainment of families. Goldberg turned the conversation to the administration's handling of racial discrimination."What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?" Goldberg asked. "And you know how hard it is, you have family. So when you see the Emmett Till stuff coming down or doing all kinds of removal of information of Black heroes, how does that sit with you?""What exactly are you talking about, Whoopi?" Vance asked.The live audience groaned at Vance's response. Goldberg referred to the Trump administration's anti-DEI stance and efforts to censor and roll back diversity efforts and cultural or historical references to slavery and the Black community's history."It seems that it has been very easy for this administration to remove it and also to denigrate Black folks who have worked their behinds off to get this American dream. How do you — I mean — you know better!" Goldberg said.Vance turned to co-host Sunny Hostin, who called out recent moves by the administration after the vice president called some of the concerns allegations."No, I'm talking about a host of things," Hostin said. "I'm talking about Black history getting erased from public spaces, Black voter districts are being dismantled, Black leaders are being sidelined from our ranks. Where do Americans of color fit in this vision? Because it doesn't seem like we fit.""You say we're anti-minority or anti-Black," Vance said.Goldberg interjected and corrected Vance's comment, clarifying what she said."No, I didn't say that. I asked — see? Don't start any stuff with me," Goldberg said.WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?JD VANCE: What exactly are you talking about?AUDIENCE: *groans* pic.twitter.com/xFozfFCohk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2026

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FanDuel Predicts promo code: Make any trade and get a $25 Bonus for Tuesday’s World Cup matches

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FanDuel Predicts promo code: Make any trade and get a $25 Bonus for Tuesday’s World Cup matches

Use the FanDuel Predicts promo code for a $25 bonus to use on the World Cup.

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