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(AP Photo/Fars News Agency/Ebrahim Noroozi) Iran threatened the United Arab Emirates with retaliation on Thursday, with its semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting “signs of a hostile action” by the UAE. The Times of Israel previously reported that Iranian state news said “several sounds resembling explosions are heard near the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, adding that the origin and the location of these sounds are unknown. The Mehr news agency, meanwhile, reports sounds of explosions in Qeshm, an island in the Strait of Hormuz.” The Tasnim report added that Iranian officials vowed Abu Dhabi “will pay the price” if they did indeed carry out airstrikes. This is a developing story and will be updated.The post ‘Will Pay a Price’: Iran Threatens UAE Amid Report of ‘Signs of a Hostile Action’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Mark Hamill Deletes Trump Death Post: Prefer He ‘Be Held Accountable For His C...
(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) Star Wars icon Mark Hamill deleted an image that appeared to show President Donald Trump lying atop a grave, replacing it with a new post saying he prefers Trump “be held accountable for his… crimes.” On May 6, the actor who played Luke Skywalker posted a now-deleted AI-generated image to Bluesky of Trump lying on a grave surrounded by floors with a headstone that reads, “Donald J. Trump, 1964-2024” and the words “If Only” underneath. “If Only – He should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted & humiliated for his countless crimes,” Hamill, a long-time Trump critic, wrote in his caption. “Long enough to realize he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore. #don_TheCON.” Hamill took down the BlueSky post hours after the Trump administration shared his post and slammed the “sick” actor via the Rapid Response account on X. “.@MarkHamill is one sick individual,” the administration wrote. “These Radical Left lunatics just can’t help themselves. This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President.” In his new Bluesky post Thursday to replace the previous one, Hamill doubled down on his criticism — but with a new image of an alive Trump with his hair flailing in the wind. “Accurate Edit for Clarity: ‘He should live long enough to… be held accountable for his… crimes.’ Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate,” he said, abbreviating his first post with ellipses to form part of the new caption. Hamill was a big supporter of former President Joe Biden, calling Biden, whom he also once referred to as “Joe-bi-Wan Kenobi,” the “most legislatively successful president in my lifetime” while speaking to the White House press corps in 2024. The post Mark Hamill Deletes Trump Death Post: Prefer He ‘Be Held Accountable For His Crimes’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - A Strong Reminder to Embrace the Visual
As you know, I’m a fan of the work that Quu has done into how radio stations are displayed in the infotainment systems of top-selling cars in the United States. The company in April published its third annual report, drawing conclusions from what a Quu representative experienced when he actually sat in all of those car models this past winter. Quu’s business is to sell technology that helps stations display ads and program messages, and this research is intended to support what it does. But the findings go beyond Quu’s self-interest. Any responsible radio manager should be digging down to look at the photos of these dashboards to understand how drivers and passengers experience stations visually. And now our industry has three years of data sets and can identify trends. A key finding is that screens are everywhere in the vehicle now. They’re not just in the center stack of the dashboard but directly in front of the driver and passenger and in the back seat. In fact 68% of the 100 top new models sold in America now display information on not one but multiple screens. “The days of radio thinking we’re an audio medium? We’ve got to get over that,” said Quu CEO Steve Newberry, who owns stations himself. “People are used to visual interactions, and now that screens are so prevalent in the automobile, we’re just kidding ourselves if we don’t recognize that radio must embrace the visual.” Another finding is that infotainment systems have become more familiar and intuitive. Carmakers have learned from the success of devices like iPhones that they need to make it easier for people of all ages and tech knowledge to navigate. That said, while AM and FM reception remains available in all of the 100 top-selling cars (a pleasant surprise in itself), radio increasingly is harder to find amid all the options and menu layers. “The challenge isn’t availability,” said Newberry. “It’s discoverability.” While this argues for good visuals, he continued: “Just my opinion but this is less a technical issue, it’s really a content issue. We’ve got to have content that makes people want to find us.” The study also found that earning the “last touch” matters more than ever. This echoes a finding last year that stations should aim to be the source the driver is listening to when they turn the car off so it’s the one… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Only Way to Do It’: John Bolton Urges Trump to Abandon Peace Talks and Fini...
John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and national security advisor to President Donald Trump, urged his old boss to abandon the idea of reaching an accord with the Iranian government and pursue regime change instead during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. After being asked what it would mean to “finish the job,” Bolton said he was unsure what Trump’s objectives are, and then argued that “there is no route to peace and security in the Middle East on any lasting basis until the regime in Tehran is removed.” “Over the long term, even if the nuclear issue is the center of attention for Trump, and that’s understandable, there’s simply no secure guaranteed way to accomplish the objective that he says he wants until you get a regime in Tehran that flatly disavows any nuclear intentions,” he continued. Eponymous host Piers Morgan went on to drill down on Bolton’s views: MORGAN: Right, so what you’re talking about, this job finishing can only come if there’s a change of regime and they agree to hand over the enriched uranium or destroy it? Is that how you see it? BOLTON: Well, I think that’s the only certain way to do it. And it’s not just on the nuclear side. It’s on the support for international terrorism and on closing the Strait of Hormuz. Right now I think the ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guard think they’re in a position to open and close the strait like turning a light switch on and off. And that’s simply unacceptable, not just to the United States, but certainly to the Gulf Arabs- MORGAN: How do you stop them? I mean, how do you actually stop them? I mean I think that’s true, and I think there’s been this asymmetric war where you have a military war where America and Israel’s been pounding the military capability of Iran, and I’m sure massively damaging it. But they very quickly realized, the Iranians, that if they control the Strait of Hormuz, they can cause enormous global damage to the global economic market, particularly in relation to energy, and fertilizer, and so on. And they’ve been whacking their neighboring Gulf states in a way has been very damaging to their business models going forward. So if you’re Iran, and you think that the United States wants to get rid of the regime and decapitate your nuclear… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - BREAKING: Tennessee Governor Signs New All-GOP Gerrymander Into Law
(AP Photo/George Walker IV) Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has signed into law a new GOP gerrymander that favors Republicans in all nine of the state’s districts. Lee signed the bill shortly after state lawmakers voted in favor of the new map that carves up the majority-Black district that includes the city of Memphis. The move could ensure Tennessee sends only Republicans to Congress after the midterms. In 2022, Tennessee Republicans eliminated a Democrat-held House seat in the Nashville area by carving the metro area up in a similar fashion. State Rep. Todd Warner (R) arrived to the House chamber wearing a Trump flag for the special session of the state legislature. He was met by hundreds of protesters who packed the Tennessee statehouse, leading to multiple arrests. Gov. Lee and lawmakers “were pressured by President Donald Trump to draw a new map as the president faces the prospect of an unfavorable 2026 midterm election result,” reported The Tennessee Lookout. “Traditionally, the party in the White House loses seats in midterm elections, and Trump’s approval rating of around 40% is the same as in 2018, when Republicans lost 41 seats and control of the U.S. House.” The Tennessee law was made possible by last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act that required states with a history of racial discrimination to ensure minority representation in Congress. It’s now legal for maps to be drawn along partisan lines without racial concerns.The post BREAKING: Tennessee Governor Signs New All-GOP Gerrymander Into Law first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - AOC Says It’s Not Possible to Legitimately ‘Earn’ $1 Billion: ‘You Have ... Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined comedian Ilana Glazer this week on her It’s Open podcast. During the lengthy conversation, Ocasio-Cortez sounded off on what she sees as the cause for the demonization of illegal immigrants in the U.S. – the cost of living and other economic struggles. “I also feel this way about Jim Crow and racism and all of this stuff, which is that when there is so much economic insecurity, I don’t want to say it’s a driver, right? I want to be very clear about that. But I want to say that in the mix of deep racism and all of this, in the mix of that, when you feel like you could be next, when you feel like you are one accident away from losing your house and losing everything, you kind of, there is the lesser impulse of us is to subjugate or to feel like there is another class of people that is below you,” Ocasio-Cortez argued, adding: That I’m not bad, right? Our systems require us. Capitalism and our, you know, what have you, our society requires us to internalize the failures of our systems, to your point, right? It’s not the school that failed the kids. It’s that you’re the dropout. It’s not, it’s not that my, you know, it’s not that Walmart pays less than a living wage. It’s that I’m poor and I didn’t work hard enough so I didn’t earn a better station in my life. “It’s, you know, clean out your yogurt containers to recycle them rather than tax fossil fuel companies,” Glazer replied. “That’s right. And so what happens is like, when you have these systems, when you have corporations, when you have an economic elite, they have not, there’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right?” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “You can’t earn a billion dollars,” insisted the New York Democrat. “That’s right,” Glazer agreed. “You just can’t earn that,” Ocasio-Cortez continued as Glazer agreed again, “That’s exactly correct.” “You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws,” Ocasio-Cortez continued as Glazer said, “Yup.” “You can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that, right?” Ocasio-Cortez continued, adding: And so you have to create a myth that — since you didn’t earn that, you have to create… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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