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☆ Fact Check-Fabricated Ocasio-Cortez tweet on Titanic submersible from parody account
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A tweet by a parody account impersonating U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the suggestion of pumping oxygen into the ocean to save passengers of a submersible vessel that went missing during a journey to the wreckage of the Titanic, is being taken seriously by users online. The account, which uses the handle @AOCpressTwo and the username Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody), has a bio that reads: “I'm the boss - you mad bro? The authentic Twitter account for Ocasio-Cortez is @AOC (www.twitter.com/AOC). Reuters reported that a five-person submersible vessel went missing on June 18 while taking tourists to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The tweet was posted by an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez parody Twitter account.

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CNN —Welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House this week for a state visit – the most elevated form of American diplomacy – will require President Joe Biden to make certain trade-offs. Yet Modi and India, the world’s largest democracy, also represent a lynchpin in Biden’s strategy in Asia. That, according to officials, was the rationale behind inviting Modi for a state visit, only the third of Biden’s presidency so far. The two leaders will hold a joint news conference – something virtually every state visit over the past two decades has featured – but that was only agreed upon after lengthy, delicate negotiations between the two sides. “We’re just grateful that Prime Minister Modi is going to be participating in a press event at the end of the visit.

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☆ AOC says progressive lawmakers will not take the Supreme Court's student-loan forgiveness decision 'lying down': 'We are prepared in the event of any outcome in this ruling'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Supreme Court decision on student-loan forgiveness could come as soon as Thursday. The Supreme Court is expected to decide on the legality of the relief in the coming days. Ocasio-Cortez has been among some other Democratic lawmakers who have urged Biden to prepare a backup plan should the Supreme Court rule against his debt-relief plan. Amid the push to ensure relief for borrowers, though, Republican lawmakers have been pursuing different routes to block student-loan forgiveness without waiting for the Supreme Court ruling. For now, all eyes are on the Supreme Court to see how it decides Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan for millions of borrowers is legal.

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☆ The GOP push to censure Adam Schiff may only help his Senate campaign in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But with Schiff running for Senate as a #Resistance hero, the censure is only likely to help him. His Senate campaign fundraised heavily on it, and he thanked his GOP colleagues in a floor speech. In a floor speech earlier on Wednesday, Schiff thanked his Republican colleagues for bringing the censure resolution, saying he stood "proudly" before them. The censure resolution alleges that Schiff "misled the American people and brought disrepute upon the House of Representatives" for his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. Schiff has also led Porter in recent fundraising, though the congresswoman has amassed a large war chest from her House campaign account.

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☆ Ocasio-Cortez’s Unusual Place in N.Y. City Council Races: The Sidelines
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two years ago, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set out to put her imprint on New York City government, using her personal clout and a leadership PAC to boost dozens of left-leaning candidates. Yet as New Yorkers prepare to go back to the polls next week to begin electing a new City Council, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been practically invisible. Courage to Change, her political action committee that backed 60 candidates in 2021, has gone dormant. And while she has offered to quietly help left-leaning incumbents who dissented from last year’s city budget, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has yet to issue any actual endorsements — and may not, as early voting began Saturday. “But in the meantime, please do not use Courage to Change PAC or A.O.C.

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☆ Ticketmaster issued more than 1 million queue numbers for Coldplay's Singapore concert. Rumbles of fury at the platform are rolling through Twitter as people say they got frozen out of purchases.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Amanda Goh | Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ticketmaster issued more than 1 million virtual queue numbers for Coldplay's "Music of the Spheres" concert in Singapore. This is not the first time Ticketmaster has fumbled the ticketing experience for a big concert. Pre-sales for the concert started on Monday at 10 a.m. SGT, per a tweet from the concert organizer, Live Nation Singapore. About 1 million virtual Ticketmaster queue numbers were issued in total, local newspaper The Straits Times reported. Coldplay and Ticketmaster Singapore did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

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☆ U.S. House votes down Republican motion to censure Democrat Adam Schiff
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a Republican effort to censure Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat who played a leading role in the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019. The Republican-controlled chamber defeated the motion by a vote of 225 to 196, with 20 Republicans joining 205 Democrats in opposition. Schiff is running for California's Senate seat in 2024 and sent a fundraising email based on Wednesday's censure move. Republican Representative Paul Gosar was censured in 2021 after he posted a cartoon video that showed him killing Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the first time the censure had been used in a decade. In a letter to Democratic colleagues, Schiff called the motion "not only a terrible misuse of House precedent and resources, but a clear attack on our constitutional system of checks and balances."

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☆ Brittney Griner faced 'excessive harassment' by a right-wing social-media personality at Dallas airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A right-wing 'provocateur' appeared to harass Brittney Griner at a Dallas airport on Saturday. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyWNBA player Brittney Griner was confronted by a right-wing social-media personality at a Dallas airport on Saturday. In the video, Stein shouts, "Do you still want to boycott America, Brittney?" Stein also shouts that Griner "hates America" and "What about the merchant of death Brit?" The Phoenix Mercury had been in Texas for a game against the Dallas Wings, which they lost 90-77.

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☆ $1 Billion Federal Agency Seeks a Boss Who Will Show Up for Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Recent inspector general reports document waste, absenteeism, contracting irregularities, workplace misconduct and sexual harassment at an agency with an annual budget of $1.3 billion. Some 17 agency employees knew about Mr. Blanton’s misconduct but did not report it. Failures of the Capitol Police Board (the architect is one of three voting members) and Mr. Blanton’s failed response contributed to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, according to a Senate report. “The report is filled with errors, omissions, mischaracterizations, misstatements and conclusory statements lacking evidence,” he said. “Problem after problem after problem,” Thomas J. Carroll III, a former acting architect of the Capitol, told investigators.

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☆ Some Democrats don't like Biden and McCarthy's debt-ceiling bill — but they'll vote for it because 'the macro alternative is absolutely indigestible'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Many Democratic lawmakers are unhappy with the debt-ceiling bill that just passed the House. But some of them will vote for the bill anyway because they say a default would be far worse. "The macro alternative is absolutely indigestible," Rep. Jamie Raskin told Politico. On Wednesday night, the House easily passed Biden and McCarthy's Fiscal Responsibility Act with a bipartisan vote of 314-117. Other Democrats feel the same — but fear a default on the nation's debt would be worse than signing the bipartisan debt-ceiling bill into law.

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☆ Fact Check-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t tweet that ‘printing money is the only way out of inflation’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A tweet stemming from a parody account impersonating U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being taken seriously by users online. The May 28 tweet “printing money is the only way out of inflation” (here) appears to originate from an account describing itself as parody (twitter.com/AOCpress). The real Twitter account for Ocasio-Cortez is @AOC (twitter.com/AOC). A search for the tweet, filtering for tweets by the real Ocasio-Cortez Twitter account @AOC, does not return any results (archive.ph/FoI6Q). The tweet about inflation attributed to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stems from a parody account.

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☆ AOC said Elon Musk put his 'finger on the scale' during Turkey's presidential election and is 'concerned' it will set a precedent for the 2024 US election
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Elon Musk is setting a precedent for the 2024 election. "All of it is precedent-setting and testing waters ahead of '24," Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "I am concerned about next year's election given Musk putting his finger on the scale in Turkey, etc. There is a line where the harm of unchecked disinfo exceeds the benefits of direct, authentic communication," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on BlueSky. Q is how to respond when gov overall won't, or may not in time," Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

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☆ AOC slams Elon Musk for promoting parody account after it joked she had a ‘crush’ on him — and he flirted back
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AOC says she's assessing next steps after Elon Musk promoted a parody account, impersonating her. Musk responded with a fire emoji when the fake account tweeted that she had a crush on him. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's assessing next steps after Twitter owner Elon Musk promoted a parody account that has been impersonating her. The parody account responded by copying and pasting the tweet and retweeting Ocasio-Cortez and writing, "I can't believe someone would do that to us." The account also wrote, "Parody should be illegal," and "If @elonmusk wants to have a chance with me, he'll immediately ban the parody account of me.

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☆ An Influencer With a Mission: Supporting New York Restaurants
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Joshua Needelman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

‘Tastes like home’“Do you smell that?” Mr. Cho asked as he walked through his old neighborhood, about a half-mile from Renee’s. The air carried an aroma that even the most daring fusion restaurant couldn’t dream of achieving: a mix of Thai, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and other cuisines. “Our audience tends to be very diverse, though 10 out of 10 times they’re English fluent, or culturally New York fluent,” Mr. Cho said. (The team recently added Helen Cho, a former producer for “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” to lead that charge.) Mr. Cho and Mr. Lee’s grandest vision is to create an incubator for small restaurant owners looking to scale.

☆ The White House does not 'have a plan B' if lawmakers fail to raise the debt ceiling — and Biden will not solve the crisis without Congress, the Deputy Treasury Secretary says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The White House doesn't have a backup plan if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said. He added that Biden will not consider using the 14th Amendment to address the crisis. Still, Democrats want Biden to prepare to go that route with a default possible in as soon as six days. "The 14th Amendment can't solve our challenges," Adeyemo said on CNN on Friday morning. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently told Politico that the 14th Amendment is an option where "the president should absolutely have this on the table."

☆ Fox News joked about DeSantis' glitchy campaign launch to his face
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement didn't go as planned — and Fox News joked about it moments later. DeSantis joined Trey Gowdy on Fox News for an interview after the glitchy announcement. "I can't promise you that I won't crash, but Fox News will not crash in this interview," Gowdy told the Florida governor. Ron DeSantis appeared on Fox News Wednesday night — only to be teased by host Trey Gowdy. While DeSantis was attempting to speak on Twitter, FoxNews.com included a banner with a "programming note" on their site that read: "Want to actually see and hear Ron DeSantis?

☆ A GOP lawmaker says debt ceiling negotiations are on 'pause' because of 'unreasonable' requests from the White House — even with a catastrophic default as soon as 2 weeks away
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Rep. Garret Graves told reporters that debt ceiling negotiations are on "pause." He said the White House is bringing "unreasonable" requests. Still, there's a major time crunch for Congress to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling before a default. But it's unclear where the negotiations will go from here — when asked if talks will resume today, White House negotiators told reporters that they're "playing [it] by ear." It is past time for the White House to get serious.

☆ AOC says Biden should 'absolutely' consider bypassing the GOP to solve the debt ceiling crisis: 'It's a question of saving our economy from potential disaster'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Politico Biden should be considering the 14th Amendment to address the debt ceiling. The 14th Amendment could declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional and allow Biden to bypass Congress. That's why a growing number of Democratic lawmakers are urging Biden to invoke a clause in the 14th Amendment which experts have said would declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional, getting rid of the problem forever. Ocasio-Cortez told Politico that "the president should absolutely have this on the table." Invoking that clause would mean that a default caused by the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, and it would allow Biden to bypass congressional debate on the issue.

☆ AOC dunks on McCarthy over debt ceiling negotiations as Democrats consider forcing a vote on increasing the debt limit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Republicans and the White House are in talks to raise the US debt limit as the clock runs out. House Democrats moved to force a vote to increase the debt limit, which requires 218 signatures. AOC said Rep. Kevin McCarthy is in no position to try to negotiate the debt ceiling. She also likened the situation to McCarthy's Speaker vote debacle in January, when Congress members went through 15 rounds of voting before they finally settled on the Republican leader for the Speaker title. "We got a preview of this during McCarthy's disaster of Speaker vote in January.

☆ Video shows AOC breaking up a shouting match between a Squad member and Marjorie Taylor Greene outside the Capitol: 'She ain't worth it, bro'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a shouting match outside the Capitol. The video shows Bowman blaming the current situation on the legacy of former President Donald Trump, with Greene's responses repeatedly mentioning "missing" migrant children. Before turning away from Bowman, the video shows Greene saying: "Let me tell you something Jamaal, you're not very smart, you should pay attention." At this point, Bowman, who was still shouting, was tapped on the shoulder by Ocasio-Cortez, the video shows. Insider contacted Bowman, Greene, and Ocasio-Cortez for comments but did not immediately receive responses.

☆ Montana to become first US state to ban TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File PhotoWASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok from operating in the state, making it the first U.S. state to ban the popular short video app. Montana will make it unlawful for Google and Apple's app stores to offer the TikTok app within its borders. TikTok, which has over 150 million American users, is facing growing calls from U.S. lawmakers and state officials to ban the app nationwide over concerns about potential Chinese government influence over the platform. TikTok, owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, said in a statement the bill "infringes on the First Amendment rights of the people of Montana by unlawfully banning TikTok," adding that they "will defend the rights of our users inside and outside of Montana." Montana, which has a population of just over 1 million people, said TikTok could face fines for each violation and additional fines $10,000 per day if they violate the ban.

On top of the GOP gubernatorial primary in Kentucky, there are other contests taking place on Tuesday that could provide some clues about 2024 — even though it’s hard to draw too many lessons from individual races. Voters are also heading to the polls in Pennsylvania, which is hosting a crowded Democratic primary for Philadelphia mayor. Two races will also provide some insight into voter attitudes in two key counties in two crucial battlegrounds. In other Pence news, he will attend Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst’s “Roast and Ride” event next month, per Fox News (former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is also attending). Jumping in: Former state Rep. Leslie Love jumped into the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan on Monday.

☆ AOC says Biden choosing to compromise with the GOP on a debt ceiling deal would be 'profoundly destructive,' and the White House should 'expect pushback on nearly any significant concession'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Biden is set to meet with top lawmakers on Tuesday to discuss a potential debt ceiling agreement. McCarthy passed a bill in the House that would raise the debt ceiling through March of next year, and it was accompanied by over $4.5 trillion in spending cuts. Even so, some progressive lawmakers have warned the president that he should not bend on Democratic priorities to raise the debt ceiling. Multiple reports have suggested that the White House was considering compromising on rescinding unspent pandemic funding and energy permitting reform in a debt ceiling deal. Democrats – including President Biden – have been clear: these dangerous proposals are not going anywhere.

☆ Dianne Feinstein claimed she hasn't 'been gone' when asked about her lengthy absence from the Senate: 'No, I've been here. I've been voting'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Feinstein insisted to reporters on Tuesday that she hasn't been absent from the Senate. I've been voting," she told LA Times' Ben Oreskes at the Capitol on Tuesday. The 89-year-old senator returned to Washington last week after a nearly 3-month-long absence. "No, I haven't been gone," she told the Times' Ben Oreskes on Tuesday when asked how her Senate colleagues have responded to her return. Feinstein then reportedly deflected a question about lawmakers calling for her to resign before an aide wheeled her away.

☆ One awkward photo sums up how the debt ceiling negotiations are going
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

McCarthy seemed stony-faced during discussionsSpeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy sits in the Oval Office on Tuesday, May 16. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"Lot of work to do in a short amount of time," McCarthy told reporters following the meeting. Sen. Chuck Schumer offered a slightly more positive spinSen. Chuck Schumer sits in the Oval Office on Tuesday, May 16. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"We also agreed we have to pass a bipartisan bill with bipartisan support in both chambers," Schumer said. Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA White House readout on the Tuesday debt ceiling talks offered little concrete evidence as to how close the administration is to reaching a deal.

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