Let’s be crystal clear about what’s really happening: Without strong unions, bringing manufacturing back to America will simply create more sweatshop opportunities where desperate workers earn between $7.25 and $15 an hour with zero benefits and zero security. https://hartmannreport.com/
And yet, here we are, months into a second Trump term. We wanted to hear, in his own words, how he’d pulled off one of the most remarkable comebacks in political history, and what lessons, if any, he’d internalized along the way.
Trump agreed to see us. We were tentatively promised a meeting and a photo shoot—likely in the Oval Office, though possibly the Lincoln Bedroom. But then, as is so often the case with this White House, everything went sideways.
The week our interview was supposed to occur, Trump posted a vituperative message on Truth Social, attacking us by name. “Ashley Parker is not capable of doing a fair and unbiased interview. She is a Radical Left Lunatic, and has been as terrible as is possible for as long as I have known her,” he wrote. “To this date, she doesn’t even know that I won the Presidency THREE times.” (That last sentence is true—Ashley Parker does not know that Trump won the presidency three times.) “Likewise, Michael Scherer has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/ trump-second-term-comeback/ 682573/
Donald Trump has been accused of mocking the election of a new leader of the Catholic church after posting an artificial intelligence-generated picture of himself as the pope on social media.
The image, shared on Friday night on Trump’s Truth Social site and the White House’s official X account, raised eyebrows at the Vatican, which is still in the period of nine days of official mourning after Pope Francis’s funeral on 26 April
It’s official — the cringiest Democratic phrase of 2025 is “dark woke.”
Brat Summer, indeed, is over. No need to hear aging pundits contemplating the nature of Brat and what it all might mean for a British pop star to casually endorse Kamala Harris. Brat, with its bright, irreverent greens, is last year’s aesthetic. Now it’s all about dark woke, which is, if the media coverage is to be believed, all about Democrats cursing.
“It’s an attempt to step outside the bounds of the political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing,” the New York Timesrecently reported. “And it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point.” https://nymag.com/
The world’s oceans and coral reefs are undergoing their worst bleaching event on record. Scientists say this event has lasted about 48 months (and counting), and has affected more than 80% of earth’s coral reefs.
Peat bogs are burning at a Polish nature reserve, but authorities say the wildfire is under control. The U.S EPA has taken offline a map of dangerous chemical facility locations; now find such sites in your area, you must now submit a FOIA request. Meanwhile, a 6.3 earthquake in Ecuador killed at least 20 and damaged infrastructure. The UK’s first few months of 2025 have been their driest in 40+ years; Türkiye’s start to the year was their driest in 35+ years... Flash flooding in Nairobi killed 7. https://lastweekincollapse.
So why has he never once gone to the border and bragged about this? And why are his immigration policies — his strongest issue — now slightly underwater in the polls? https://andrewsullivan.
It’s not funny, of course – livelihoods if not actual lives depend on reaching a workable accord. But the news that President Trump has probably stiffed the UK into a second- or third-tier boarding group for trade talks, behind South Korea and Japan, triggers at least a snort of recognition for anyone who has experienced versions of that dynamic. The phrase “British negotiators are hopeful” followed almost immediately by use of the word “disappointed” in heavy rotation takes you, with grim amusement, back to every toxic relationship in which you have played Britain to someone else’s America.
If President Trump invited you to the White House, would you go? This is the question US hacks and other media personalities have been asking themselves since the inauguration, an American version of that self-flattering British perennial: when Buckingham Palace calls, will you be buying a fascinator to accept the OBE? In both cases, no matter how pluckily anti-establishment an individual may have been to that point, the answer is often a resounding: you bet!
In my next life I am definitely coming back as an affluent American. Whatever the risk of being murdered in a White Lotus hotel complex or a beachfront property by Nicole Kidman, the benefits far outweigh it.
We’ve all been overwhelmed by streaming TV choices, only to give up and watch something we’ve already seen. But this curated list of the best shows on Netflix is here to narrow down your decision-making and help you figure out exactly which titles you want to sample next. https://www.vanityfair.com/
As for “The Diamond Heist”… It’s so new that it doesn’t have a RottenTomatoes rating yet. But there’s a lot of buzz, and it was in the Netflix Top Ten and…
Maybe you’re aware of it.
What we’ve got here is a documentary. But it plays like a movie, as in are these really the people? They’ve got the re-enactments of network news magazine shows, but…
You’re still riveted.
Three sisters age 92, 94 and 96 live in a house together.
One night the 96 year old draws a bath, puts her foot in and pauses. She yells down the stairs, "Was I getting in or out of the bath?"
The 94 year old yells back, "I don't know, I'll come up and see." She starts up the stairs and pauses, then she yells, "Was I going up the stairs or coming down?"
The 92 year old was sitting at the kitchen table having tea listening to her sisters. She shakes her head and says, "I sure hope I never get that forgetful." She knocks on wood for good measure.
She then yells, "I'll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who's at the door."
