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12+ min ago (192+ words) Donald Trump was able to win two presidential elections by keeping his support nearly universal among Republican voters and cobbling together enough swing voters to be victorious. Trump's governing has always been based on having a unified Republican Party with him. It has been nearly a decade of pundits and attention seekers everywhere proclaiming that they were sure that THIS was the moment that Republicans would abandon Trump. The moment never came. No matter what Trump did or said, Republicans stayed unified with him in the high ninety percent range. Donald Trump thought that he was politically bulletproof, and there was nothing that he could do that would cause his supporters to leave him. Trump bungled a pandemic, lost an election, tried to overthrow the government, was impeached twice, and was federally investigated and charged twice. Republicans stuck with Trump…...

16+ min ago (429+ words) Jenna Anderson is the host of the Go Read Some Comics YouTube channel, as well as one of the hosts of the Phase Hero podcast. She has been writing professionally since 2017, but has been loving pop culture (and especially superhero comics) for her entire life. You can usually find her drinking a large iced coffee from Dunkin and talking about comics, female characters, and Taylor Swift at any given opportunity. I have been excited for HBO's The Chair Company since the millisecond that it was first announced. After delivering countless laughs and literally rewriting my vocabulary with I Think You Should Leave, I would follow creators Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin to the ends of the Earth, at this point. As of Sunday, The Chair Company's first season has officially come to a close, in ways that the viewing audience…...

17+ min ago (359+ words) The project from "Ghosts" creators Joe Port and Joe Wiseman has not yet landed a series order Ed Weeks will star in CBS Studios" upcoming comedy pilot "Eternally Yours" from "Ghosts" creators Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. "The Mindy Project" star will play Charles, one half of a vampire couple that have been together for 500 years. Charles and his wife Liz (who has yet to be cast) struggle to accept the fact that their daughter is dating a human. Though the couple were nobility back in the Middle Ages, Charles is now a pencil pusher. He has to move his family every few years to avoid attracting attention to the fact that they never age. Charles is cynical and "disdains modernity and the weak-minded humans who inhabit it," according to the official logline, which only makes matters worse when his…...

17+ min ago (226+ words) Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Shelby Harris on Sunday said he understood why San Francisco 49ers receiver Jauan Jennings was punched in the groin last week after interacting with him. Last Monday, Jennings was punched by Carolina Panthers safety Tre'von Moehrig on the very last play of the game. When the benches emptied on the field for post-game handshakes, Jennings retaliated by striking him the in facemask. Jennings was not punished for his role in the altercation, but Moehrig was fined more than $12,000 by the NFL. He was not suspended. The following weekend, the Niners beat the Browns 26-8 in Cleveland. After the game, Harris revealed that he shared some words with Jennings during an injury timeout for Browns defensive tackle Maliek Collins. That interaction, Harris claimed, spoke volumes about Jennings. When Maliek Collins went down with injury, there were words exchanged between…...

18+ min ago (1188+ words) Hong Kong's national security police arrest three, as Beijing issues warning to "anti-China and pro-chaos elements'. Chinese authorities have arrested several activists and issued a stern warning to "anti-China and pro-chaos elements" amid criticism of the government's response to Hong Kong's deadliest fire in a generation. Hong Kong's national security police arrested three people over the weekend, state-backed and commercial media reported, as calls mounted for accountability following the city's worst fire in nearly eight decades. Authorities arrested ex-district Councillor Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung and an unidentified volunteer who managed supplies for survivors on Sunday, according to multiple reports, a day after the arrest of a university student on suspicion of sedition. Cheung was arrested on suspicion of "attempting to incite discord", The Standard newspaper reported. On Saturday, authorities arrested Miles Kwan, a 24-year-old student at the Chinese University of Hong…...

18+ min ago (248+ words) Sanchari Ghosh is a political writer for The Mary Sue who enjoys keeping up with what's going on in the world and sometimes reminding everyone what they should be talking about. She's been around for a few years, but still gets excited whenever she disentangles a complicated story. When she's not writing, she's likely sleeping, eating, daydreaming, or just hanging out with friends. Politics is her passion, but so is an amazing nap. Over the past few months, several film and television personalities have publicly criticised United States President Donald Trump Among these critics are notable figures like Robert De Niro and Mark Ruffalo Now, another "celebrity" who has previously spoken out against Trump is coming forward with their criticism This individual is none other than comedian and television host David Letterman David Letterman may not have been as consistent…...

19+ min ago (364+ words) Attempting to meet Donald Trump's July 2026 deadline to refashion government websites where private information is shared, the National Design Studio is creating websites that have all the appearances of leaving gaping security holes, experts warned Monday. According to a report from NOTUS, the president demanded in an executive order for the websites to be "usable and beautiful," but the early results are raising alarms among security experts. "The sites coming out of the National Design Studio might look slick at first glance " if not to everyone's taste " but if the office's early projects are a tell, pushing this aesthetic at a large scale could risk breaking federal disability laws and compromising the security of Americans' personal data," the experts said, with one raising a red flag about the coding and an over-reliance on AI. Noting that one of the founders…...

20+ min ago (202+ words) Donald Trump is once again demonstrating that he operates not from compassion but from extreme narcissism. You would think someone who so deeply condemned the National Guard members" shootings in Washington, DC, which resulted in one death and left another critically injured, would show some compassion for the deceased, but that is far from the case. During a recent interaction with a member of the press, United States President Donald Trump stated that if he were to attend the funeral of Sarah Beckstrom (the National Guard member who lost her life in the shooting), it would be because he performed well in West Virginia during the last elections. Trump"s comments about Sarah Beckstrom have sparked significant criticism on social media, where many are unhappy with how he talked about her. One person on X (formerly Twitter) commented: "He has…...

23+ min ago (868+ words) Some right-wingers are, predictably, not happy. New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed Abby Stein, a trans woman and Rabbi, to his expansive transition team. The choice " in line with many of Mamdani's promises " has upset some folks on the right. Before being appointed to the transition team, Stein supported his mayoral bid, appearing in his "Jews for Zohran" campaign. "We know Zohran will fight to make our city affordable and safe for our families," Stein said in an ad. "As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people deserve to thrive. Zohran agrees." Mamdani, who won the NYC mayoral election at the start of November, beating out former Governor Andrew Cuomo, will be sworn in on January 1, 2026. Ahead of that, he is setting up a wealth of transition committees, which will help prepare his administration…...

34+ min ago (215+ words) Kim Kardashian is still struggling with co-parenting with ex Kanye West. The mom of four opened up about this challenging dynamic, and which part is most "frustrating" in a recent episode of The Kardashians. The SKIMS founder chatted with Scott Disick, her sister Kourtney Kardashian's ex, about co-parenting. Disick, who shares three kids with Kourtney, told her that things with West look "stressful." "I mean, I see some stuff [online], and it's like, "F'k,he said, per Page Six. Related story Serena Williams Shares the Sweetest Snuggly Pictures With Daughters Olympia & Adira Kardashian admitted that it is "hard," pin-pointing the worst part of it for her: when he questions her "character as a mom." "Sometimes I just feel like snapping, but I can't. I just can't," Kim vulnerably admitted. She added that her estranged ex "never once called," despite her…...