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- Axelrod Sounds the Alarm After Latest Trump Move: ‘All the Signals are Flashin...
President Donald Trump gestures as he steps off Air Force One, early Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Democratic strategist David Axelrod painted a dark picture of America’s upcoming midterm elections Friday, posting on X that “all the signals are flashing red” after President Donald Trump fired the three remaining members of a bipartisan federal election commission. The Election Assistance Commission helps states and municipalities hold their elections. On Thursday night, Trump fired two of the remaining Democrats serving on the commission — Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland. A third official, Republican Christy McCormick, resigned. Axelrod, who served as a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama, sounded the alarm and predicted the courts “would be busy” in the fall: All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS’s summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members. Put that together with political hack Pulte’s odious appt as DNI; election deniers in the most sensitive oversight positions; Trump’s exec order on mail-in voting, and potential use of the Postal Service as a weapon of subversion; his pathological prioritization of the SAVE act, which would be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations; and his persistent, unfounded claims of election fraud, which he uses to justify extraordinary federal interventions. On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump’s unpopularity.So he’s setting up Plan B–do whatever you need to do to win. Anything. Anyone who says “Well, he wouldn’t do THAT” hasn’t paid attention. He’s already proven he will! So the period AFTER the Midterms may be even more turbulent than the run up to them. The courts are going to be very busy this fall. The four members of the independent Election Assistance Commission, which was created in 2002 under the Help America Vote Act, are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. No political party is allowed to dominate the commission, with only two members of the same party serving in the group.The post Axelrod Sounds the Alarm After Latest Trump Move: ‘All the Signals are Flashing Red’ for Election Interference first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.59 mins ago - Mamdani Confirms Taylor Swift Paid $160K To Cover Wedding Permit and Police Resp...
Screenshot via @taylorswift on Instagram. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) confirmed during a Friday presser that pop star Taylor Swift did, in fact, pay a whopping $160,000 to the city for the permit and police response to her Madison Square Garden wedding. Last Friday, Swift and her NFL tight end, now-husband Travis Kelce, in front of 1,000 guests, were married at the famous Garden. 135 NYPD members were deployed to secure the area around the stadium, with several nearby streets closed to nonessential traffic. Actor Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony, with stars like Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon, and Selena Gomez making the guest list. After the festivities, many called on Swift to pick up the bill for the police support required, which, according to TMZ, totaled $158,200, including the couple’s special access permit and police overtime costs. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) even joined the chorus, writing on X, “Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce should reimburse NYPD… Our officers are already working overtime for 4th of July festivities & NYC taxpayers should NOT be on the hook.” During Friday’s press conference, Mamdani put all the rumors to bed, telling reporters, “Taylor Swift will be paying — has paid already — the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000, for that event and for the response to that event.” .@NYCMayor Mamdani on Taylor Swift paying New York City back for police overtime during her wedding: "Taylor Swift will be paying… has paid already the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000 for that event and for the response to that event." pic.twitter.com/rlYhUmi9AS — CSPAN (@cspan) July 10, 2026 Malliotakis’ tweet has since been hit with a “Readers added context they thought people might want to know” disclaimer on the X platform, emphasizing the couple did indeed pay the city back. On the day of the nuptials, despite the scorching temps in New York City, at least one NYPD officer was spotted enjoying himself, quoting the singer’s lyrics over his megaphone as he carried out his duties. The NYPD even shared a video of the ‘Swiftie’ on its social media, writing, “Chief [Timothy] Beaudette is outside MSG again. Something big must be happening.”The post Mamdani Confirms Taylor Swift Paid $160K To Cover Wedding Permit and Police Response first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Incredibly Lucky!’ Passenger Survives After Being Partially Sucked Out of R...
Screenshot via YouTube A passenger onboard a Ryanair Boeing 737 was partially sucked out of a dislodged window as the plane took off from Thessaloniki, Greece, on Friday. ABC News’s Tom Soufi Burridge called the 61-year-old man “incredibly lucky” to have survived the ordeal. “This was a crazy mid-air scare,” Burridge began, continuing: ABC News' Tom Soufi Buurridge reports on the midair scare confirmed by Ryanair involving a Boeing aircraft in which a man was nearly sucked out of a window that broke during a flight. https://t.co/jAEl2gBq9K pic.twitter.com/Aeq50W2XPf — ABC News (@ABC) July 10, 2026 Thousands of feet up shortly after take off a window on that Ryan airplane was blown out, and we know from a doctor that was treating the man who was sitting in the window seat who was effectively sucked towards that window because of the air pressure difference and partially sucked out of the aircraft. It was only because of his wife sitting next to him who grabbed onto his feet for about five minutes and stopped him from being completely sucked out of that aircraft. Now, we know from a senior Greek aviation official that they believe the engine on the right-hand side of the plane, there was a major rupture inside debris from inside the engine flew out and hit the fuselage and smashed the window out. Effectively that passenger is incredibly lucky. It’s similar to an incident back in 2018 when one passenger was killed on a Southwest Airlines flight. Air accident investigators will now examine the Boeing plane to work out exactly what happened. In a statement to ABC News, Ryanair confirmed, “Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen on Friday morning (10 July) returned to Thessaloniki shortly after takeoff when a passenger window dislodged inflight. The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal.” “One passenger requested and received medical assistance on the ground in Thessaloniki. In order to minimize any delay, a replacement aircraft was arranged to bring passengers to Memmingen, which departed Thessaloniki at 9:53 local this morning,” the statement said. Boeing told ABC News that it was aware of the incident. In addition, The National Transportation Safety Board said it was notified that the plane turned back after a “cabin decompression.” The injured passenger is currently in the hospital, but there’s no word on his condition.The post ‘Incredibly Lucky!’ Passenger Survives After Being… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Licenses Are Not Sacred Cows’: Brendan Carr Says It’s a ‘Long Putt’ f...
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told CNBC on Friday that it’s a “long putt” for Disney to keep its broadcast license if he deems the company isn’t operating “in the public interest,” adding, “broadcast licenses are not sacred cows.” In late April, the FCC requested early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations — assessments that weren’t supposed to occur until October 2028. Additionally, the network’s daytime talk show The View has been under attack by the agency over alleged violations of “equal-time” election laws. In a Monday court filing, ABC stressed, “The Commission should decide this proceeding the way it would want the rule applied under any administration: by reaffirming that The View is a bona fide news interview program.” On Friday, CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla presented Carr with prediction markets on the question, “Will the FCC pull a big four TV station license by April 1, ’27?” Twenty-two percent of bettors said yes. The early license reviews are “pending before the FCC,” said Carr. “There have been petitions to deny the renewal of those station licenses.” Here, Carr is referring to petitions filed last week by a group of conservative organizations accusing the network of supporting the Chinese Communist Party and of racial, political, and sexual bias. While promising to “look” at Disney’s arguments, Carr continued, “Ultimately, if Disney has not been operating its ABC TV stations in the public interest over the last several years, then that’s a pretty long putt for them, but ultimately, we have not made our decision yet. We’ll be guided based on the record before us.” The FCC chair concluded, “Of course, we’re open-minded to that type of outcome, whether it’s from Disney or others. As I said before, broadcast licenses are not sacred cows. You have to comply with certain public interest obligations to get them and to maintain them and to renew them.” Importantly, President Donald Trump has been a frequent attacker of the network, especially of late-night star Jimmy Kimmel. In an April Truth Social post, the president wrote, “When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television? People are angry. It better be soon!!! President DJT.” Watch the clip above via CNBC.The post ‘Licenses Are Not Sacred Cows’: Brendan Carr Says It’s a ‘Long Putt’ for Disney if Not ‘In the Public Interest’ first appeared on… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Malignant Narcissist’: MAGA Influencers Come For Candace Owens As Charlie K...
Controversial podcast host Candace Owens received an avalanche of criticism this week from her fellow MAGA influencers as evidence against Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was made public during a preliminary hearing, evidence which rebutted many of Owens’s outlandish claims regarding the shooting. Owens has long held that Tyler Robinson, who is charged with Kirk’s killing, is not the actual perpetrator and she has pointed the finger in the direction of everyone from Israel to Egypt to the U.S. military to Turning Point USA – the organization Kirk founded. In her many videos on the subject, Owens has gone so far as to claim outright that Robinson wasn’t near the site of the shooting and that his former partner Lance “Luna” Twiggs was “never questioned by the police.” During the hearing, video of Robinson moving around on the campus before Kirk was killed and recordings of Twiggs being questioned were shown to the public. Twiggs was also questioned by the FBI the morning after the shooting. Owens’s critics also slammed her for her repeated attacks on Erika Kirk, which led to Kirk directly asking Owens to “stop” during a Fox News interview in December of 2025. “Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my Charlie Kirk show family, when you go after the people that I love, and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love, because, somehow, they’re in on this? No,” Kirk said at the time. MAGA appeared to finally have enough of Owens this week, with everyone from Dinesh D’Souza to Ben Shapiro to even Catturd savagely calling her out and accusing her of both harming the credibility of alternative media and profiting off of the Charlie Kirk tragedy. Tucker Carlson, who shared many of Owens’s conspiracies, and Megyn Kelly also received a fair share of criticism online for standing by Owens. D’Souza, who himself pushed and had to retract election conspiracy theories, slammed Owens as a “malignant narcissist” in a clip released on Thursday night. He concluded of Owens’s behavior, “And all of this sounds to you and me a little crazy, a little unhinged, but it is not unhinged inside of the perverted world of malignant narcissism. So, without trying to diagnose Candace Owens, I do think that this phenomenon… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN’s John King Reports Maine Voters Wish Graham Platner Would Just ‘Shut Up...John King, CNN’s chief national correspondent, joined anchor Dana Bash on Friday to discuss the latest dynamics on the ground in Maine following Graham Platner’s vow to drop out as the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidate. “Let’s talk about Maine, even though you’re in Michigan. You have been spending a lot of time — first of all, you were in Maine last month — and then since then you have been staying in touch, I know, with the voters, particularly the female voters who were already kind of on the fence about Platner. What are you hearing from them now that Platner has imploded?” Bash asked King. “First and foremost, they wish he would shut up. Forgive my language, but they wish he would just shut up. They didn’t like his exit video where he portrayed himself as the victim. They think he’s the problem, and they think the people around him — again, the Bernie Sanders supporters, the consultants, and the unions that recruited Graham Platner — are still trying to play an active role in that race,” King replied, adding: And that might be important to some of the progressives who supported Platner, but it is annoying to those who did not, or to those who supported Platner reluctantly and now want to move on from the whole episode — not just him, but them, if you will, all the people around him. So as this plays out, now we have to go through this two-week process to pick a successor, and it has a lot of Maine Democrats nervous. As you noted, this was the number one opportunity for Democrats — a Republican-held Senate seat coming into the cycle. It was opportunity number one: get Maine, take Maine from Republican Susan Collins. Now Democrats are worried this fractured family will cost them the race again. To go back in time: you know, Kamala Harris won Maine by nine points. So you say, “Oh, we can win by six points.” I’m sorry — we say we can’t win this state? Why can’t Democrats win the state? Go back further: Joe Biden won it by nine. So Maine is there for the taking for the Democrats. But you know this as well as I do — I just want to remind people, Susan Collins was also on the ballot in 2020, when Joe Biden won the state by… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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