“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart revealed on Monday that Apple blocked him from interviewing Lina Kahn, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, for his podcast “The Problem With Jon Stewart” — an accompaniment to his 2021-2023 AppleTV show of the same name. “I wanted to have you on a podcast …
Read More »RFK Jr. Keeps Insisting Biden Is a Bigger Threat to Democracy Than Trump
Independent presidential candidate Rober F. Kennedy Jr. has little chance of winning the 2024 election, but that isn’t stopping him from weighing in on the de facto Republican and Democratic nominees: former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. On Monday, Kennedy told CNN that — in his view — …
Read More »Trump Lawyers Push Judge to Recuse Over Daughter's Consulting Work
Donald Trump’s lawyers are once again demanding the recusal of the judge in his historic New York criminal trial, after the judge moved to block the former president from continuing to attack his daughter. As Rolling Stone reported Monday, one source who has recently spoken to Trump about the upcoming …
Read More »Florida's Six-Week Abortion Ban Will Go Into Effect Next Month
The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for a ban on abortions at six weeks gestation — before many women realize they are pregnant — to go into effect. At the same time, the justices on Monday approved a measure to be placed on the ballot this November that, …
Read More »Will Trump Be Punished for Attacking Judge's Daughter? He Doesn't Think So
Some of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers have been urging him to show a dose of restraint in the courtroom when his hush-money trial finally begins in New York City. But ahead of the historic criminal trial, scheduled to start in two weeks, the former president has relentlessly attacked the judge …
Read More »Trump Allies Plan to Reinterpret Civil Rights Laws to Protect White People: Report
Allies of Donald Trump and powerful conservative organizations are preparing to launch an offensive against “anti-white racism” should the former president retake the White House in November. According to a report from Axios, those in Trump’s orbit are gearing up for a widespread re-interpretation of civil rights laws to combat …
Read More »To Fight Corporate Crime, the DOJ Should Give People a Reason to Snitch
Gregory Nolan is a former federal prosecutor and current white-collar defense attorney at Brown White & Osborn. The headlines suggest prosecutors are kicking ass and taking names in the fight against white-collar crime. In only the past few weeks, federal prosecutors indicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on even more corruption …
Read More »Truth Social Lost More Than $100 Million in Two Years
Donald Trump’s social media company Truth Social reported losses of $58 million in 2023 just days after making its debut on the stock market. According to filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Truth Social reported a net loss of $58,189,200 in 2023, alongside a more than $50 …
Read More »Hope Hicks Will Reportedly Testify in Trump's Hush Money Trial
Former Donald Trump adviser and White House Communications Director Hope Hicks will reportedly testify in the New York criminal hush money trial of her ex-employer. According to MSNBC, Hicks has been tapped to testify in the trial, which is slated to begin April 15. Last March, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin …
Read More »House Republicans Use a Big Lie to Stand Up for Big Pharma
A majority of House Republican lawmakers recently released a budget plan that proposed once again banning Medicare from negotiating prescription drug prices — a move it justified with theatrical language and highly misleading data. The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which represents roughly 80 percent of House Republican lawmakers, accused President …
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