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☆ Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' is the messiest, horniest, and funniest album she's ever made
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Final Grade: 8.4/10"The Tortured Poets Department" includes 16 standard-edition tracks. We don't listen to Swift's music because it necessarily is true. Corny as some moments may be, this is a marvelously deranged pop album. On "Poets," Swift doesn't exactly break with her well-established, commercial-friendly conventions — but she does toy with her audience in interesting ways. "The Tortured Poets Department" won't be everyone's cup of tea.

Persons: Beth Garrabrant, I'm, Swift, she's, we've, hecklers, Clara, Post Malone Organizations: Department, Press Locations: It's, London, Florida, Florence

☆ Opinion | Dark Brandon in the House
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Michelle Cottle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Enough already: It is time to unleash Dark Brandon on this soul-sucking downer of a presidential race. And the most obvious place to begin is to invite him to the State of the Union address. This is a big moment for Mr. Biden. When he steps behind the lectern, the president needs to slap on those aviators and start throwing some strategic punches. No one wants the man to start a fistfight on the House floor wearing sunglasses.

Persons: Brandon, downer, Biden, Donald Trump, Mr, —, MAGA, Andy Ogles, Marjorie Taylor Greene belched, Greene Organizations: Republican, Union Locations: America

So when Taft accused Truman — not long after his “special” train had stopped in Crestline — of going around the country on this campaign train tour “blackguarding (attacking) Congress at every whistle-stop,” Truman embraced the opportunity. Altogether, Segal has cataloged about 180 campaign train trips throughout U.S. history — from William Henry Harrison to Joe Biden, with dozens of presidents, vice presidents, first ladies, representatives, senators and governors in between. The project was inspired by Segal's personal experience organizing a whistle-stop campaign tour for Republican U.S. Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, for whom he was serving as press secretary in 1984. Sometimes campaign trains were used in creative ways, too, as when comedian Gracie Allen pretended to run for president in 1940, as the nation was recovering from the Great Depression. In 1972, Winnie the Pooh launched a bid for the White House from Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., then went on a two-week whistle-stop tour with his trusted advisers, Tigger and Eeyore.

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☆ Relatives of Gaza Hostages Storm Israeli Parliament Panel as Protests Mount
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

The action by about 20 people signalled growing domestic dissent in the fourth month of the Gaza war. One woman held up pictures of three family members who were among the 253 people seized in the cross-border Hamas rampage of Oct. 7 that triggered the worst fighting in decades. Parliamentary ushers, often quick to eject hecklers or protesters, stood by during the ruckus in the Knesset Finance Committee. On Sunday, Netanyahu rejected conditions presented by Hamas to end the war and release hostages that would includeIsrael's complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza. (Writing by Dan Williams and Steven Scheer, Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Persons: Steven Scheer, Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Moshe Gafni, Netanyahu, Israel's, Dan Williams, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Parliamentary, Jewish, Forum Locations: Jerusalem, Gaza, Netanyahu's

☆ The Girlies Know: ‘Oppenheimer’ Was Actually About Us
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Iva Dixit | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Here the girlhood parallels move beyond the facetious to acquire a darker quality, as shame begins to erode Oppenheimer’s sense of self. The great Oppenheimer realizes that no amount of personal brilliance can counter the force of the state. Near the film’s end, Oppenheimer silently reckons with visions of what his brilliance has wrought: unimaginable suffering and fire as the invention he fathered wipes out civilization itself. For a Great Man like him, it took the twin shames of the bomb’s destruction and public disgrace to have this life-altering yet basic realization about his own powerlessness. This is a rule and a warning that life has drilled into girls from age 13, if not sooner.

Persons: callow, Murray Kempton, Oppenheimer, discontents, Lewis Strauss, he’s, Annie Ernaux’s “, Barbie ”, Iva Dixit, Sean Paul Organizations: Communist, U.S .

☆ Tim Scott’s Optimism and Faith Charm Iowa Fairgoers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Anjali Huynh | More About Anjali Huynh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina enjoyed on Tuesday what other candidates had missed: having the Iowa State Fair largely to himself. He shook hands, tried barbecue and threw footballs with fairgoers — all a natural part of the retail politics of a presidential candidate seeking to gain standing in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. Kim Reynolds of Iowa and was repeatedly recognized — and praised — by fairgoers. Still, he faces an uphill battle as he seeks to propel himself from a distant third place, at best. Polls from The New York Times and Siena College this month found that he had support from 9 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers and just 3 percent of likely voters for Republican primaries nationally.

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☆ Trump seizes the spotlight at Iowa State Fair
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump seized the spotlight at the Iowa State Fair this weekend, swooping overhead in his private plane just as his chief Republican rival, Florida Gov. The 2024 Republican presidential race played out in close quarters as Trump and DeSantis joined the crowd of thousands. Trump had traveled to Iowa with an entourage largely designed to troll DeSantis. “Iowa pork is delicious & provides nearly 1 in 10 working Iowans a job, but Ron DeSantis would be an utter catastrophe for Iowa,” the flyer said. The former president made his way to the famous “pork chop on a stick” stand while onlookers chanted “USA.”Unlike DeSantis, Trump did not grill pork chops himself.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Trump, Gus Bilirakis, Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, Cory Mills, Anna Paulina Luna, Greg Steube, Mike Waltz, MAGA, “ Donald J, “ We’re, ”, ” DeSantis, Biden Organizations: CNN, Republican, Florida Gov, Trump, Fair, Democratic Party, Republicans, GOP, Flyers, ”, DeSantis Locations: Iowa, Des Moines, Florida

☆ Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +26 min

Three academics who reviewed the cases say they add to growing evidence that America is grappling with the biggest and most sustained increase in political violence since the 1970s. Political violence surged for nearly a decade starting in the late-1960s – 1970 alone saw more than 450 cases, LaFree said. In contrast, much of today’s political violence is aimed at people – and most of the deadly outbursts tracked by Reuters have come from the right. “Political warfare”There’s no official tally of how many Americans die each year from political violence. Most of the fatal political violence identified by Reuters was carried out by people who embraced far-right views.

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☆ Iowa Republicans pass a new 6-week abortion ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Adam Edelman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Reynolds, in a statement issued moments after the bill was passed, said she would sign the bill on Friday. As it currently stands, abortion remains legal in Iowa until the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill passed by Republicans, who control the Legislature, would ban abortions at the sixth week of pregnancy — or when, in some cases, a fetal pulse can first be heard via ultrasound. Republicans have often struggled to talk to voters about abortion rights in the year since the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. The latest bill is nearly identical to a six-week ban that remains permanently blocked following an Iowa Supreme Court ruling last month.

Persons: Kim Reynolds, Reynolds, —, Holmes, Zach Boyden, Connie Ryan, Amy Bingaman, Bingaman, Iowans, Vicki Miller, Court's Dobbs, Roe, people's, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Sen, Tim Scott of, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ramaswamy, Ruth Richardson, Dana Oxley, Oxley Organizations: Capitol, U.S . Iowa Republicans, Republican Gov, Republicans, Protesters, Iowa, Iowa Interfaith Alliance, Democratic, Republican, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, Democrats, Central, Iowa Supreme Locations: Iowa, Des Moines , Iowa, U.S, Des Moines, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Central States

☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene compared New York to Gotham City and said it 'smells bad' after she had to wade through a crowd of hecklers in Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bashed New York City on Wednesday, calling it 'filthy' and 'terrible.' The Georgia lawmaker was heckled on Tuesday at a pro-Trump rally in Manhattan. Greene was in New York to hold a mini protest for Trump, who was arrested and charged in court on Tuesday afternoon. Before the protest, New York Mayor Eric Adams singled out Greene by name when he called for calm in the run-up to Trump's surrender in New York. "People like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech.

☆ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates Marjorie Taylor Greene getting heckled in New York City at a pro-Trump rally
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was in Manhattan to speak at a pro-Donald Trump rally. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrated a report that the Georgia congresswoman was heckled. "Welcome to NYC!," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted with a Statue of Liberty emoji. The New York Times reported that Greene delivered brief remarks calling Democrats "communists" and rattling off GOP policy positions. "Do your freakin' job, Marjorie Taylor Greene," he said in a video he tweeted.

☆ Biden's State of the Union may not help potential 2024 election bid against Trump, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

President Joe Biden's second State of the Union address played well with viewers, and may have helped him tee up a bid for reelection in 2024 — but it might not make a lasting impact on his hopes for a second term, experts said. And the latest poll showed that fewer respondents had a "very positive" reaction to this year's address when compared with a survey taken right after Biden's previous State of the Union speech. "He delivered his speech forcefully if not flawlessly, adding no new fuel to questions about his fitness to serve a second term," Galston said. His opponent from the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump, has technically been on the 2024 campaign trail for months, though he has done little in-person campaigning. Former President Barack Obama, under whom Biden served as vice president, had launched his own reelection bid in April 2011, less than three months after his second State of the Union address.

☆ Primetime Fight Over Social Security and Medicare Energizes Debt Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Lindsay Wise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—A heated exchange between President Biden and House Republican hecklers in Tuesday’s State of the Union speech shows how talk of cutting or changing Social Security and Medicare remains politically explosive even as both programs face funding cliffs in coming years. In recent weeks, Republicans agreed to take the programs off the table as they seek federal spending cuts in exchange for raising the nation’s borrowing limit by this summer to avoid default. But Mr. Biden and Democrats have continued to use the issue as a political cudgel, accusing GOP lawmakers of planning to gut the programs and rip off seniors, charges Republicans call unfair.

[1/2] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attends the 55th National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg. REUTERS/Sumaya HishamJOHANNESBURG, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Party allies, and even some rivals, of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday condemned opponents who disrupted his opening speech with chants and shouting at a conference of the ruling ANC on Friday. Ramaphosa, who was speaking at a five-day gathering of the African National Congress (ANC) to elect candidates for 2024 national elections, is seeking a second term and is widely seen as the party's strongest candidate. We are all interested to emerge here with a very solid, strong leadership," ANC deputy presidential hopeful and Eastern Cape ANC Chairperson Oscar Mabuyane told reporters. What they did yesterday soiled (their) campaign," Zamani Saul, Northern Cape ANC chairperson told SABC news.

The family of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died hours after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, refused to shake hands with the two top Republican members of Congress at a Tuesday ceremony. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell holds out his hand for a handshake with Charles Sicknick, the father of fallen U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, during a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 6, 2022. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images“We got together and said we’re not going to shake their hands,” Gladys Sicknick, mother of the late officer, told NBC News. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. Khater admitted that he sprayed two officers in the face with chemical irritant: Sicknick and Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards.

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Comedian Ariel Elias got more than she bargained for when she was heckled while performing in New Jersey. But Elias got the last laugh, after the incident - and her reaction - went viral on social media, leading to a guest spot on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterShortly afterwards a beer can was thrown at Elias onstage. Elias then picks up the beer can and drinks it while the audience cheers. Elias declined to press charges or sign a criminal complaint, according to a statement by Point Pleasant Beach police.

☆ I give Salem witch trial tours at Halloween. It's definitely 18+ content, but I try to humanize the victims.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Ann Matica | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She gives historically accurate Salem Witch Trial walking tours that are two hours long. I first got a job doing tours at the Witch House, which is the only remaining structure you can visit in Salem with any ties to the Salem witch trials. I've been studying the Salem witch trials on my own since I was 15, and I came to Salem for the first time at that age. I picked up a book by Marilynne K. Roach, which is like the definitive book on the Salem witch trials, and I got into learning about it from there. I have 12 stops on my tour, including the Salem Witch Trial Memorial, which is where we end our tours.

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