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Transforming the party: Democrats have failed us — it's time to rebuild from the ground up

Salon

Would it not be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another? — Bertolt Brecht It took just over three weeks for top aides on the Kamala Harris campaign to appear on "Pod Save America" and, as a HuffPost writer put it, suggest they'd been doomed all along by a fossilized sense “that there just wasn’t much …

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‘All We Imagine As Light’ leads Barack Obama’s 2024 recommended movies list

The Hindu

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light has topped former US president Barack Obama's list of recommended films for the year 2024. All We Imagine As Light, a Malayalam-Hindi film that marks Kapadia’s feature directorial debut, was listed on the top, followed by Ralph Fiennes-starrer Conclave; The Piano Lesson by Denzel Washington’s son Malcolm Washington; Mads Mikkelsen’s Danish film …

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'All We Imagine As Light' leads Barack Obama's 2024 recommended movies list

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Los Angeles: Filmmaker Payal Kapadia's "All We Imagine As Light" has topped former US president Barack Obama's list of recommended films for the year 2024. "All We Imagine As Light", a Malayalam-Hindi film that marks Kapadia's feature directorial debut, was listed on the top, followed by Ralph Fiennes-starrer "Conclave"; "The Piano Lesson" by Denzel Washington's son Malcolm Washington; Mads Mikkelsen's …

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Barack Obama's Top Films Of 2024 Includes Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light

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Former US President Barack Obama is quite fond of movies. Taking to X, Obama shared his favourite films list and Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine As Light' tops his list. The post he shared read, "Barack Obama's favourite movies of 2024--All We Imagine as Light, Conclave, The Piano Lesson, The Promised Land, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Dune: Part …

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MAGA hated Michelle Obama's healthy food agenda — here's why they changed their tune under RFK Jr.

Salon

Let's get one thing out of the way: Robert F. Kennedy's claim that he wants to "make America healthy again" is, like most things he says, a flat-out lie. Donald Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services is a conspiracy theorist who opposes not just vaccines but science-based medicine generally, promoting a bunch of "alternatives" that are often actively …

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Why Democrats can't get over the grief of losing to Donald Trump

Salon

Following their trouncing by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the 2024 election, Democrats continue to plod through the stages of grief, vacillating between denial, anger and bargaining. The big lie Donald Trump told after the 2024 election was that he’d won a “powerful mandate” from the American people. During a speech earlier this month in Chicago at his …

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How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'

Daily Mail

Tis the season for revenge! Between organizing this year's White House Christmas decorations, staff holiday parties and a string of final goodbyes, the president and his First Lady Jill Biden have been quietly sharpening the metaphorical carving knives, with their sights set firmly on the one-time allies they perceive as having wronged them. One Democratic mega-donor, Floridian attorney John Morgan, …

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Democrats’ failure to punish CEOs for 2008 crash contributed to Trump’s rise, says Obama aide

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Democrats’ failure to punish “greedy” CEOs for the 2008 …

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Global elites – wanted or not – have a lot in common

Al Jazeera

Sure, al-Assads did live in ‘quiet luxury’ amid hungry masses, but so do enlightened leaders of ‘liberal democracies’. The world’s most wanted, for the moment, fugitive briefly emerged from his safe house – somewhere in Russia near a store still selling luxury brands that his picky wife, Asma, covets – to clarify the circumstances which led to the sudden flight …

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Some parts of Trump’s deportation plan may be ‘Obama-esque.’ There’s a reason for that

CNN

Washington CNN — President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates. Trump’s plans also include bringing back family detention, which has been widely criticized by …

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‘Death was everywhere’: Syria’s chemical weapon victims share their trauma

Al Jazeera

Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s chemical weapon victims have recounted their trauma without fear of reprisal. The regime of Bashar al-Assad had just fired rockets filled with sarin gas at Zamalka, and people were shouting: “Chemical weapon attack! “Just the name ‘Bashar al-Assad’ would instil fear in all of us.” As the al-Assad regime committed a growing …

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Emu egg art gallery in St George showcases unique family tradition

ABC

Panorea Margaritis fondly remembers the countless hours her dad Stavros would spend carving layers from the shell of an emu egg. A unique gallery Stavros Margaritis owns an art gallery and hunting shop, The Unique Egg, which has been an institution for decades in St George, about 500 kilometres west of Brisbane. Many of the carved emu eggs on display …

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3 suspects convicted in 2015 terror plot during Barack Obama's India visit

India Today

A special NIA court in Bengaluru has convicted three suspected terrorists in connection with a conspiracy to carry out a terror attack during then US President Barack Obama's visit to India in 2015. The court found that the three convicts - Syed Ismail Afak, Abdul Saboor and Saddam Hussein - were planning to carry out blasts on Republic Day during …

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Biden's overtime rule was struck down. Now some workers are losing pay raises

NPR

Biden's overtime rule was struck down. That's what's happening to 306 employees at The Ohio State University now that a federal court has struck down the Biden administration's overtime rule. Finalized in April, the rule would have made some 4.3 million salaried workers nationwide newly eligible to earn 1.5 times their regular pay when they work more than 40 hours …

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Jim Leach, former US representative from Iowa, dies at 82

Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Wednesday. Earlier this year, Leach joined with Loebsack to pen a Jan. 6 op-ed in The Des Moines Register, three years after former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in …

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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda

CNN

CNN — Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness. Hegseth criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military Pete Hegseth, the nominee to become Secretary …

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Trump news: Biden cracked a very revealing joke about why Democrats lost.

Slate

This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. In short, Biden is referring to Trump’s name appearing on COVID-era stimulus checks—aka “stimmies”—that were sent to Americans across the country, while Biden’s did not. The Trump administration made sure during that first round that …

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Joe Biden Calls Himself 'Stupid' For Not Doing 1 Trump Thing

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he was “stupid” not to have added his name to coronavirus pandemic relief checks, which his predecessor-turned-imminent-successor, President-elect Donald Trump, did in 2020. “I signed the American Rescue Plan, the most significant economic recovery package in our history, and also learned something from Donald Trump,” Biden told the Brookings Institution during …

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Democratic rep says he’s open to ‘bipartisan cooperation’ with Elon Musk’s DOGE

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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna has signaled that he is open …

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Democrats Have a Pod Save America Problem

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. That was made clearest in an uproar-raising episode of Pod Save America, which featured 90 minutes of Kamala Harris’ four most senior campaign directors talking about what went wrong to contribute to Harris’ defeat. The very long conversation was …

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Trump's border czar is in the White House, not an agency. Here's why that matters

NPR

Trump's border czar is in the White House, not an agency. Here's why that matters toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tom Homan, a veteran of immigration law enforcement, is set to come back from retirement in January to serve in one of the incoming Trump administration's newest roles: a so-called "border czar." "The appointment certainly signifies that the president is …

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A Top Syria Expert Explains Washington’s Next Move

Politico

What brought on the sudden collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian president? They couldn’t give them up before because they were denying them, theoretically, to ISIS, but also to Russia and Iran, which are enemies of the United States. But if Jolani doesn’t declare war on Washington and says that he’s trying to build a government …

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Biden adds to the nation’s list of national monuments during his term. There’s an appetite for more

Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt did in 1906 what Congress was unwilling to do through legislation: He used his new authority under the Antiquities Act to designate Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first national monument. Biden called Bears Ears — the first national monument to be established at the request of federally recognized tribes — a “place …

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Trump hits out at Obama as he says U.S. should not get involved in Syria conflict: ‘Not our fight’

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump criticized former President Barack Obama while wading into …

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Transforming the party: Democrats have failed us — it's time to rebuild from the ground up

‘All We Imagine As Light’ leads Barack Obama’s 2024 recommended movies list

'All We Imagine As Light' leads Barack Obama's 2024 recommended movies list

Barack Obama's Top Films Of 2024 Includes Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light

MAGA hated Michelle Obama's healthy food agenda — here's why they changed their tune under RFK Jr.

Why Democrats can't get over the grief of losing to Donald Trump

How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'

Democrats’ failure to punish CEOs for 2008 crash contributed to Trump’s rise, says Obama aide

Global elites – wanted or not – have a lot in common

Some parts of Trump’s deportation plan may be ‘Obama-esque.’ There’s a reason for that

‘Death was everywhere’: Syria’s chemical weapon victims share their trauma

Emu egg art gallery in St George showcases unique family tradition

3 suspects convicted in 2015 terror plot during Barack Obama's India visit

Biden's overtime rule was struck down. Now some workers are losing pay raises

Jim Leach, former US representative from Iowa, dies at 82

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda

Trump news: Biden cracked a very revealing joke about why Democrats lost.

Joe Biden Calls Himself 'Stupid' For Not Doing 1 Trump Thing

Democratic rep says he’s open to ‘bipartisan cooperation’ with Elon Musk’s DOGE

Democrats Have a Pod Save America Problem

Trump's border czar is in the White House, not an agency. Here's why that matters

A Top Syria Expert Explains Washington’s Next Move

Biden adds to the nation’s list of national monuments during his term. There’s an appetite for more

Trump hits out at Obama as he says U.S. should not get involved in Syria conflict: ‘Not our fight’