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- ‘This Is Unbelievable:’ CNN Data Guru Says ‘Working Class Have Turned Agai...
Working class voters have had it with President Donald Trump‘s handling of the economy, according to CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten. Speaking Friday morning on CNN News Central, Enten went over the staggering change in the president’s poll numbers on the subject with host Kate Bolduan, citing surveys that show 66% of Americans now feel groceries are unaffordable. Enten then dug into polling from The Washington Post and Ipsos showing a stunning 82% of working-class Americans with incomes under $50,000 feel the same: KATE BOLDUAN: Which segment of the American people are getting hit the hardest? HARRY ENTEN: Yeah, OK, which segment of the American people are getting hit the hardest. Great question Kate Bolduan. And, you know, if we talk about this when we’re talking about the Donald Trump’s base, we’re talking about working class voters, right? So take a look here. OK, income under $50,000 on grocery affordability. And keep in mind that, this Donald Trump won this group one, this group back in 2024 put up a historically strong performance for Republican candidate. But look at these numbers now, just 16% of those with household incomes under $50,000 think that groceries are affordable. The lion’s share, 82%. You rarely ever see 82% of any group agreeing on anything. But what you see here is that those working class folks, those who have incomes, household incomes, under $50,000, the lion’s share, more than 4 in 5 say that groceries are unaffordable at this point. BOLDUAN: How much have, has this flipped? How much has this changed in terms of how they believe Donald Trump is doing on the economy? ENTEN: Yeah. OK. So we’re talking about a group that Donald Trump carried back in 2024, put up a historically strong performance this century with those making under $50,000. And look at these numbers. Look how these numbers have changed. OK, income again, household incomes under $50,000. On Trump and the economy back in October of 2024 versus Kamala Harris. He was more trust than the economy by 16 points. Look how this it’s a whole different world, a switcheroo. The net approval now 39 points underwater under the Hudson River. We’re talking about a flip flop here of greater than 50 points. The working class have turned against Donald Trump. They simply put, don’t believe things are affordable, are taking their anger out on him.… [TheTopNews] Read More.19 mins ago - Wheatstone to Showcase VMX Virtual Mixing Platform at IBC 2026
Wheatstone’s Layers software-based broadcast suite. Click to enlarge. Wheatstone has announced its plans for IBC, and the new VMX virtual mixing platform will be the centerpiece of its exhibits. IBC 2026 is held Sept. 11–14 at the RAI in Amsterdam. VMX can be installed on an existing server or appliance and then accessed from a browser on a variety of devices, Wheatstone said. It offers a selection of tiles, including basic utility mixers, a virtual mixing interface as well as virtual broadcast consoles, including for a radio on-air studio. The platform is AES67-compliant. It is part of Wheatstone’s Layers software-based broadcast suite for virtualizing studio functions as an extension of its WheatNet IP audio network. The company will demonstrate what it calls the “total mixing experience,” along with virtual and fixed consoles, talent stations and I/O access units at its IBC 2026 show booth. IBC 2026 booth: 8.A51 [Related: “In Amsterdam This September, IBC 2026 Centers on Conversation”] The post Wheatstone to Showcase VMX Virtual Mixing Platform at IBC 2026 appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.27 mins ago - Head Ref for World Cup Final Was Once Arrested at ‘Sex Party’ — But Releas...
AP Images The head referee for Sunday’s FIFA World Cup final was once arrested at a “sex party,” but insisted he was there by accident and was not involved. A Thursday report from Daily Mail took a closer look at a May 2020 case involving Slovenian ref Slavko Vincic, who’s been tapped as the head ref in Sunday’s match between Spain and Argentina. That year, Vincic was arrested as part of a prostitution raid in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The “leader” of the prostitution ring was also arrested and pleaded guilty to international enticement to prostitution. Vincic, on the other hand, was eventually released after telling police he was there for a business meeting. The report read: He told Slovenian outlet Vecer that he had nothing to do with the group. ‘I found myself on this ranch by chance. I have my own company, I was in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a business meeting,’ he said. ‘I accepted an invitation to lunch, which turned out to be my biggest mistake. I regret it. I was sitting at a table with my company, all of a sudden the police came and what happened, happened. ‘I have nothing to do with the group that was arrested and detained, nor do my business partners. Yes, they really took us to the police, asked [us] as witnesses, when it turned out that we didn’t even know them, we were able to go.’ The president of Slovenia’s Association of Football Referees also came to Vincic’s defense, saying the referee simply “found himself in this place at the wrong time.”The post Head Ref for World Cup Final Was Once Arrested at ‘Sex Party’ — But Released After Telling Cops He Was There by Mistake first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago - Wired Stands By Its Story on MSG ‘Risk Score’ as James Dolan Sues Outlet
Ryan Murphy/AP Madison Square Garden’s ownership insisted it’s a “fervent” supporter of the LGBTQIA community, and accused Wired of “cherry-picking” stolen information for the outlet’s explosive report on the arena’s database of celebrity guests — which allegedly includes a “risk score” on the bold-faced names who show up at The World’s Most Famous Arena. MSG sued Wired, along with reporters Noah Shachtman, Maddy Varner, and Katie Drummond, for defamation Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming in the legal papers that their July 9 report was framed “through a narrative of paranoia, surveillance, and discrimination.” “This was not reporting — it was a personal attack on MSG and its leadership carried out under the guise of journalism,” according to the lawsuit. Wired quickly fired back, posting a response on social media that said the outlet stood by its reporting: A statement from WIRED leadership. pic.twitter.com/06d9qTD9dy — WIRED (@WIRED) July 17, 2026 Shachtman and Drummond also responded on social media, slamming MSG for the legal maneuver. “Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database,” Shachtman wrote on X and Bluesky. Drummond reposted the outlet’s statement and added: “From me, and the WIRED leadership team. Proud of WIRED today and every day, and we’re not slowing down on our reporting about MSG or anything else.” The Wired report claimed MSG keeps a database of celebrity guests, some of whom were given a “risk score” and some of whom had entries noting the sexual orientation of the VIPs: A source with knowledge of the matter tells WIRED that Garden security has performed social media sweeps for prominent people looking for complimentary tickets to games. If you’re a celebrity and you’re marked with a risk score — even as a low risk — it means “you’ve done something in the publicity world, the social media world, that has caught the attention of the wrong people,” the source continues. The talent database, which has entries dating back to December 2020 and includes updates as recent as early June of this year, makes repeated reference to “SM concerns.” Physical security threats — potential harms to people or property — are documented in a separate database, the source says. (The source adds that these sorts of databases are common at arenas.)… [TheTopNews] Read More.56 mins ago - Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Speech ‘Does the Work of Our Adversaries,’ Former ...A former intelligence official slammed President Donald Trump‘s speech on election fraud allegations as “dangerous” — and said the commander in chief’s insistence that American elections are rigged “does the work of our adversaries.” Speaking on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon threw cold water on Trump’s claims of foreign interference in American elections: I think this was a dangerous speech, about an incredibly important topic with some really questionable remedies in mind. So let me go through that. Number one is we treat in since 2016, the intelligence community has been saying that foreign actors intended to influence our election for the purpose of undermining democracy — not undermining a president — for undermining democracy. If you recall, the whole 2016 to 2021 first Trump term turned on us trying to say that in him interpreting it as it was our misinformation when we tried to share that information. So this is not new that foreign actors try to influence our election. They do. And with the advent of the digital era, there are lots of things available to them. So this is not a new threat. It is one he certainly knew of. He had an entire term to deal with it, and I don’t know how you can believe that the same community that told him about it, who was excoriated for it, then somehow didn’t tell him about further attempts. I think that’s hard. But the other thing I want to say is I think he treats intelligence as though it’s a verdict, and it’s not. It is the beginning of a process. It is the way you start to ask questions. So even if there are new data that are going to be released, that doesn’t prove anything. Intent is not activity. Activity is not impact and impact is not outcome. And so to try and make a leap, even if there are new intelligence data that are worthy of being assessed, because most of the things that he will release has been assessed, you have to go through a process of asking ever tougher questions before you ever get to the notion of whether intent and attempts become outcome. And I remind for 2016, 2020, and 24, we as a collective assess that they did not have impact on the outcome. So to… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Reason Magazine Comes Out Swinging Against Confirming Todd Blanche as AG: ‘Bra...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images Reason, the nation’s leading libertarian magazine, was exercising its writers’ First Amendment rights at full volume this week, voicing their opposition to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche‘s confirmation to lead the Department of Justice in multiple columns featured on its website. Blanche previously served as Deputy Attorney General during Pam Bondi’s tenure, and President Donald Trump appointed him to interim Attorney General after her ouster. Keeping the gig on a permanent basis, however, requires Senate confirmation, and Blanche has drawn notably vocal criticism, if not outright hostility, from thousands of former DOJ employees, former judges, attorneys, bar associations, and other legal advocacy groups. Blanche’s critics have cited his past work as Trump’s personal lawyer, vindictive prosecutions of Trump’s political opponents, his role in shepherding the pardons for the January 6 Capitol rioters, the handling of the Epstein files, and his controversial interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell — not to mention her transfer shortly thereafter to Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas, a minimum-security facility that is not commonly used to house inmates convicted of crimes as serious as Maxwell’s. The move to this “cushy prison camp” was sharply criticized by several of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims. It was Blanche’s role in the purported “settlement” of a complaint Trump and his family filed against the IRS that was the focus of much of the opprobrium found on Reason’s website, however. In that lawsuit, Trump made the outlandish and baseless claim that the illegal disclosure of their tax returns by an IRS contractor had caused “at least” $10 billion in damages. As interim AG, Blanche — who, again, was appointed by Trump and owes his continued federal employment to the president — approved a settlement that would shield the Trumps from any liability for tax violations and created a $1.776 billion “weaponization fund” that was swiftly denounced as a “slush fund.” On Monday, Judge Kathleen Williams with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, an Obama appointee, nullified the settlement, finding it was a “collusive” lawsuit and not a true controversy between opposing parties, since both sides were controlled by the president. The purported “settlement,” wrote Williams, was an“attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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