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CNN —President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump took big steps toward making their seemingly inevitable rematch official, as both notched huge Super Tuesday wins. Here are takeaways from Super Tuesday:Trump wins bigThe former president continued his run of dominance in the Republican nominating contest, despite losing one state, Vermont, to Nikki Haley. His approval ratings remain low, and the general election horse race polling is worrisome for Democrats. But on Super Tuesday, like every other primary day, he has dominated his few rivals – typically winning around 80% of the vote. “Tonight’s numbers showed that President Biden cannot earn back our votes with just rhetoric,” Vote Uncommitted MN spokesperson Asma Nizami said in a statement.

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☆ Trump attacked her as a 'co-judge;' now NY law clerk Allison Greenfield is on her way to becoming an actual judge
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Allison Greenfield, principal law clerk in Trump's NY fraud case, is hoping to be elected judge. AdvertisementDonald Trump has attacked her as a biased "co-judge—" claiming she secretly runs the show at his New York civil fraud trial — but now principal law clerk Allison Greenfield is well on her way to becoming a judge in her own right. Last week, Greenfield cleared the biggest hurdle to the Manhattan civil judgeship she seeks, when local Democratic party leaders rated her "most highly qualified." "The trial clerk in Trump's civil fraud trial, Allison Greenfield, has been viciously targeted by the MAGA crowd with vile rhetoric and death threats," Levine wrote. Advertisement"When the judge speaks, you have to stop speaking," Greenfield told Trump attorney Alina Habba early on, during a 2022 pretrial hearing.

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☆ Opinion: An anti-Muslim tirade inspires a beautiful response
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Opinion Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The former government official made vile anti-Muslim comments while jeering at the Egyptian food cart worker about the Israel-Hamas war with remarks such as, “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian children, you know what? Alarmingly, it appears one such horrific incident may have occurred on Saturday in Burlington, Vermont, when three Palestinian students were shot. Even before Seldowitiz was charged, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said on social media: “This Islamophobic bigotry is absolutely reprehensible. As CBS New York reported, “what happened at the food cart has seemingly only brought people together.” One of the food cart workers, Bahaa Hassan, told CBS: “We have mostly Jewish customer in this building. Unbeknownst to us at the time, we filmed this video last weekend in the very neighborhood where Seldowitz had been taunting the Arab food cart worker.

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☆ How a Political Insider Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Jackie Cooperman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tricia Shimamura spends her days crisscrossing the city as the director of community affairs for Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president. It’s a mission that resonates deeply with Ms. Shimamura, 34, who ran for City Council on the Upper East Side in 2021. She sits on the boards of several organizations that work with women to develop leadership skills and run for political office. On Sundays, Ms. Shimamura combines family time with community work, an exhausting and edifying balance. She lives with her husband, Dov Gibor, 44, who is a lawyer, and their two sons, Teddy, 4, and Oliver, 1.

Persons: Tricia Shimamura, Mark Levine, Shimamura, Carolyn Maloney —, Dov Gibor, Teddy, Oliver Organizations: City Council, Democratic, Columbia Locations: Manhattan, It’s, Puerto Rican, New York

☆ White House condemns Fox News for ‘standing up on behalf of hate’ after host attacks CNN anchors’ Jewish heritage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The White House denounced Fox News on Friday, blasting the right-wing network for “standing up on behalf of hate” after one of its hosts attacked the Jewish heritage of two CNN anchors over their coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. “Lying to insult the pain that families suffered in the Holocaust has absolutely no place in America. But Levin stood by his comments Thursday night while responding to CNN’s condemnation of his remarks. The White House in recent months has assumed an aggressive posture toward Fox News, calling out some of the extremist rhetoric that the network’s hosts have made. And earlier this week, the White House denounced the comments made by Watters, which Fox News has remained silent on.

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☆ New Yorkers Need To Quit Shopping Online - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Sonja Anderson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

For a while, the pandemic was a valid excuse for buying online. To avoid spreading the virus, housebound Americans inflamed their long-growing dependency on e-commerce, with online sales increasing by 43 percent in 2020. Now, New York, like everywhere else, has moved on from social distancing: Subway ridership is up and mostly unmasked, and tourism’s certainly back. The next big thing in New York delivery is the extra-large commercial cargo bike. If we want to do better for the environment, we shouldn’t be taking steps to enable more e-commerce, but instead considering how much we could help ourselves by not buying online.

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☆ NYC's famous Flatiron Building will be converted into luxury residences after sitting empty for years
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The iconic Flatiron Building will be converted from empty offices into luxury residences. The iconic Flatiron Building will be converted from empty offices into luxury residences, the owners announced this week. The Brodsky Organization, a residential real estate developer, bought a stake in the Flatiron building this month and will lead the conversion process, which will include moving the staircases and elevators. The Flatiron Building's redevelopment will be one of New York's most high-profile commercial-to-residential building conversion projects, something that's become a central part of the city's efforts to build more housing. The area — between 23rd and 40th streets and Fifth and Eighth Avenues — is just north of the Flatiron building.

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☆ Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club after 7 long, awkward years of trying to make it work
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club seven years after paying $1 billion for the brand. Unilever struggled to grow Dollar Shave Club, sources previously told. "Dollar Shave Club did not deliver as expected, and the economics of the DTC model changed," then-CEO Jope said during an earnings call in 2022. "Dollar Shave Club will also serve as a platform for additional brands with a similar DNA." Do you have a story idea about Dollar Shave Club or Unilever to share?

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☆ Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club, the quirky direct-to-consumer pioneer that never really fit in with the massive company
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Reaction in NYC: 'Everybody Knows Somebody Who Was Killed or Is Missing'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said so many ties bind Israel and New York City—which for decades has had a large Jewish population—that he and many other New Yorkers have been reeling since hearing of the surprise attack by Hamas. “The last two days, we’ve spent calling and messaging to find out if people are alive,” he said. “Everybody knows somebody who was killed or is missing, even if their immediate relations are OK.”

Persons: Mark Levine, “, we’ve, ” Organizations: Manhattan Locations: Israel, New York

NEW YORK (AP) — The curvy couch is making room for one more: Lawrence Jones will join the daily “Fox & Friends” morning show as a fourth host beginning on Monday. Fox News said Thursday that Jones will join Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade on the morning news and talk show, which airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern. Jones is losing the Saturday evening show he has hosted, making room for a new show with talk host Mark Levin. Jones, 30, has been with Fox News since 2018 and said “Fox & Friends” is where he made his first national television appearance. “It is truly a privilege to inform our audience every day and I can't wait to do so each morning,” he said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two cable news personalities from the complete opposite ends of the political spectrum — Mark Levin and Jen Psaki — are increasing their presence on television. Psaki, former press secretary to President Joe Biden and current MSNBC host, is moving into prime-time for one night a week. Since switching to media, her Sunday afternoon show “Inside with Jen Psaki” has proven to be successful for the network. Levin, the radio talk host whose TV show “Life, Liberty & Levin” airs Sunday nights on Fox News Channel, will have an additional weekend hour on Saturdays, Fox said. In addition to his Fox duty, Levin hosts a syndicated weekday radio show that is heard on some 300 stations.

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☆ Who Is David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney Elevated to Special Counsel?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Glenn Thrush | More About Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Hunter Biden case is an unexpected career turn for David C. Weiss, a tough, workmanlike prosecutor and commercial lawyer whose stubborn competitiveness earned him a reputation as a hard man to strike out in local softball leagues. Appointed by President Donald J. Trump, the low-key U.S. attorney for Delaware was held over in his job by the Biden administration to shield the Justice Department from accusations of political meddling. Mr. Weiss grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, attending Cheltenham High School, whose graduates include Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, the Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson and the conservative commentator Mark Levin. After completing law school at Widener University in Wilmington, Del., he worked two long stints as a prosecutor in the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office on an array of cases. Those included an investigation of a businessman who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations after illegally bundling contributions for President Biden’s failed 2008 bid for the White House.

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☆ Chris Christie knocks Tucker Carlson when asked if he would go on his Twitter show: 'I go to places that have real ratings and real listeners'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Chris Christie knocked Tucker Carlson when asked if he would appear on his new show. Christie said he prefers programs "that have real ratings and real listeners." Chris Christie said on Thursday that he's unlikely to appear on Tucker Carlson's new Twitter show anytime soon. "And so I go to places that have real ratings and real listeners like yours here. Hewitt said Levin is a respected voice among the conservative voters Christie would need to win the GOP presidential nomination.

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☆ Manhattan real estate is in 'crisis' as new construction flatlines, borough president says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New York City's pace of housing construction has slowed to a trickle, despite a severe affordability crisis. Manhattan's borough president has identified about 200 sites where he says the city could build housing. We have to fix this," Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said in a tweet. The city approved 2,525 new units citywide and 1,208 in Manhattan in July 2013. A big portion of the opposition to the legislation came from suburban areas around New York City that didn't want to see more density in their communities.

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☆ Fox News opinion hosts offered up, without hesitation, a full-throated, wall-to-wall defense of twice-indicted Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News' coverage of the historic federal indictment of Donald Trump leaned hard into his defense. On Fox News, hosts and guests questioned the documents found in Joe Biden's office and garage. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was indicted in relation to an investigation into mishandling documents. Trump's relationship with Fox News took a big blow when text messages sent by hosts, now-former hosts, and executives mocking Trump and pro-Trump conspiracy theories were uncovered in Dominion Voting System's defamation suit against the network. "Hannity" was initially going to host Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence, who just entered the 2024 race.

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☆ CNN CEO Chris Licht marks one year on the job with a network rebrand, upcoming ad campaign, and a Trump town hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The network is hoping its May 10 Trump town hall, to be anchored by Kaitlan Collins, delivers ratings. One year into his new role, CNN CEO Chris Licht is quietly working on a major brand refresh of the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned global news network. CNN is planning a new ad campaign, according to this person and a separate person familiar with conversations, once the changes are finalized and approved by Warners CEO David Zaslav. The town hall will mark the first time Trump has appeared on CNN in years. At least on the business side," they added, referencing the audiences and ad dollars a Trump campaign would bring.

☆ Opinion | The Tucker Realignment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The master key to understanding Tucker Carlson’s programming wasn’t ideology; it was suspicion. Then something changed — after the Iraq war, after Jon Stewart helped kill “Crossfire,” he gradually became disillusioned, radicalized. But Carlson wasn’t like the right-wing personalities — a Mark Levin, say — who surrendered to Trumpism reluctantly because that’s where their listeners wanted them to go. Which is why his show was the farthest right on cable news but also sometimes the farthest left. These forays were not in tension with his willingness to entertain the far right’s “Great Replacement” paranoia about immigration or fixate on a possible F.B.I.

☆ DeSantis saw Harvard and Yale degrees as 'scarlet letters' when running for office: book
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

DeSantis worried when running for Congress that his Ivy league degrees would work against him. He had been in the Navy after attending Yale and then Harvard Law School, and was concerned voters would be suspicious of his "elite" educational background, he wrote. "I viewed having earned degrees from Yale and Harvard Law School to be political scarlet letters as far as a GOP primary went," DeSantis wrote in the book. In his book, DeSantis credits his extensive door knocking with wife Casey DeSantis for helping him win in a crowded primary. "I am one of very few people who went through both Yale and Harvard Law School and came out more conservative than when I went in," DeSantis said.

☆ Trump targets the 'thug' special counsel investigating him and his 'Trump Hater' wife in new attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump attacked special counsel Jack Smith in recent days, calling him a "thug" and "terrorist." He claimed the Smith's wife, who worked on Michelle Obama's documentary, "a serial and open Trump Hater." Trump complained that the special counsel probing Biden's mishandling of classified documents was "a nice guy." ), is a Trump Hating THUG whose wife is a serial and open Trump Hater, whose friends & other family members are even worse," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. Trump claimed that Smith's "wife & family get a perfect "10" for spewing Trump HATE."

☆ Everything you need to know about Parler, the right-wing social media platform Kanye West is planning to buy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Allana Akhtar | Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Kanye West, now known as Ye, is in talks to buy right-wing social media platform Parler. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is entering a deal to buy right-wing social-media platform Parler, which launched in 2018. Meanwhile, Trump's platform Truth Social had 8,956,693 visitors, and Gab had 12,806,464 visitors, per Similarweb's analysis. What's on the Parler app? In February, Trump launched the Truth Social social media platform 13 months after being kicked off Facebook and Twitter after the January 6 Capitol riot.

☆ Why is Alex Jones getting sued — and why lawsuits are not enough
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Yunkang Yang | Dr. Yunkang Yang Is An Assistant Professor Of Communication At Texas A M University. An Expert In U.S. Right-Wing Media | Social Media | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

A Connecticut jury on Wednesday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion for defaming the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting victims. Misinformation purveyors often use a variety of rhetorical techniques to create misleading impressions without making demonstrably false statements. Indeed, misinformation purveyors often use a variety of rhetorical techniques to create misleading impressions without making demonstrably false statements. These different layers provide a multiplicity of points of resistance to the efforts to hold misinformation purveyors accountable. But they are not a solution to the lie machines built by incredibly savvy, incredibly cynical pundits like Alex Jones.

☆ Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Grace Panetta | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. Constitutional convention boosters include many of Trump's current and former allies, including conservative legal scholar John Eastman, Florida Gov. In 2012, the Republican National Committee went so far as to pass a resolution formally opposing the convention movement. A convention of states would be the first of its kind since the original Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

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