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- Podcasting reaches more than half of U.S. population (new Triton study)
In Triton Digital’s newly released U.S. Podcast Report 2025, a concise presentation of 14 slides give us key takeaways about audience composition, listening trends, and much more. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.13 mins ago - ‘Greed and Bigotry!’ Obama Goes OFF on Trump at Jesse Jackson’s Funeral
Former President Barack Obama sounded off on President Donald Trump and his administration in a series of thinly-veiled attacks at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s funeral on Friday. “We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common decency. Every day you wake up to… to things you just didn’t think were possible,” began Obama, who continued: Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all! Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength! We see science and expertise denigrated, while ignorance and dishonesty, and cruelty, and corruption ,are reaping untold rewards! every single day we see that and it’s hard to hope In those moments. So it may be tempting to give to get discouraged, to give in to cynicism. It may be tempting for some to compromise with power, and grab what you can, or even for good people to maybe just put your head down and wait for the storm to pass. But this man, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope, to step forward and say, “Send me!” wherever we have a chance to make an impact, whether it’s in our school, or our workplaces, or our neighborhoods, or our cities. Not for fame, not for glory, or because success is guaranteed, but because it gives our life purpose. Because it aligns with what our faith tells us God demands. And because if we don’t step up, no one else will. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him. May God bless Reverend Jackson. May he rest in eternal peace. God bless you. Watch above via CNN.The post ‘Greed and Bigotry!’ Obama Goes OFF on Trump at Jesse Jackson’s Funeral first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Teamsters Boss Who Nearly Came to Blows With Markwayne Mullin Endorses His DHS N...Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The Teamsters president who nearly came to blows with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) during a Senate hearing two-and-a-half years ago has thrown his support behind Mullin’s nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary. Sean O’Brien released a statement Thursday after President Donald Trump announced Mullin would replace Kristi Noem at the end of the month. “If anyone is willing to stand their butt up to protect America, it’s Markwayne Mullin,” O’Brien said in the statement. During the Nov. 2023 Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Mullin took issue with O’Brien’s salary compared to that of his union members. “You tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times,” Mullin said at the hearing, while holding up pages of computer printouts. “And let me read what the last one said. It said, ‘Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self-made.’ Sir, I wish you were in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing business and my wife was running the office, because I sure remember working pretty long and hard hours.” Mullin continued reading, “‘What a clown. A fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the Tough-guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me, any place, any time, cowboy.’ Sir, this is a time, this is a place,” Mullin addressed O’Brien. ” You want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, and we can finish it here.” O’BRIEN: Okay, that’s fine. Perfect. MULLIN: You wanna do it now? O’BRIEN: I’d love to do it now. MULLIN: Stand your butt up, then. O’BRIEN: You stand your butt up. As Mullin stood up and started to remove his wedding ring, then-Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) intervened. “Stop it, hold it, no, no, sit down,” Sanders said. “You’re a United States senator. Sit down!” “I don’t like thugs and bullies,” Mullin exclaimed over Sanders. “I don’t like you, cause you just described yourself!” O’Brien shot back before Sanders tried to get control of the situation, which lasted for several more minutes. Fox Digital reported that “tensions appeared to cool in 2024 after Trump helped broker a truce between the two men.” Mullin later recounted on Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla that Trump reached out to O’Brien as Teamsters members “increasingly leaned Republican.” O’Brien said that since many of his members were supporting Trump,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Fox Anchor Presses Trump Labor Secretary on Jobs Numbers: ‘It Doesn’t Look G...Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney asked Trump Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to comment on the February jobs numbers out on Friday, noting “it doesn’t look good for the Trump economy.” “Madam Secretary, 92,000 jobs out in February. Fewer jobs in healthcare, fewer jobs for information services because of AI, the weather hurt things, government employment down. If you add it all up, it doesn’t look good for the Trump economy,” began Varney. “Yeah, I couldn’t agree with you. I think we have to address the fact that this is not a good report in its raw numbers, but we have also talk about why this possibly has happened, this snapshot in time. It was mentioned, the weather. We saw health care numbers go down,” replied Chavez-DeRemer, adding: We saw a record strike in California, over 30,000 jobs lost there, but that has been resolved, so we’re hoping to see those numbers tick back up next month. But overall, we’ve gained 60,000 new jobs over the last two months, so this is important for us to recognize what the message is here, what the noise is, and how focused the Labor Department is in making sure that we can bring back those jobs in construction, manufacturing. We’re seeing the confidence go up. We’ve seen the investments that the president has made. I’ve said it over and over again. The president and I talk. We visit on this often. It’s important to him. We’re laser focused to make sure that we have that skilled workforce. And it’s just gonna take some time. So we’re recognizing what happened this month and we’re gonna stay laser focused to bring those jobs numbers up. But when you think about it, look at the real wages. That’s exciting for us that we’ve seen real wages go up as well. Watch above via Fox Business.The post Fox Anchor Presses Trump Labor Secretary on Jobs Numbers: ‘It Doesn’t Look Good’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Daryl Hannah Blasts JFK Jr Series Portrayal: ‘I Have Never Used Cocaine in My ...
Daryl Hannah in 2025. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) Revered actress Daryl Hannah blasted the new Love Story series for its portrayal of her and ex-boyfriend John F. Kennedy Jr. in a Friday New York Times column, writing, “I have never used cocaine in my life.” Love Story, the Ryan Murphy-led miniseries, follows the story of JFK Jr., Hannah, and Carolyn Bessette, Kennedy Jr.’s wife, who died alongside him in a famed 1999 plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard. In her column, Hannah wrote the following about her character in the “tragedy-exploiting” show: “The choice to portray her as irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate was no accident.” The Splash and Kill Bill actress argued the series deliberately casts her as a narrative antagonist in order to heighten the romance between Kennedy and Bessette, emphasizing that the character bearing her name engages in behavior she insists never happened in real life. “I have never used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled parties,” she wrote. “I have never pressured anyone into marriage. I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial.” “These are not creative embellishments of personality,” Hannah added. “They are assertions about conduct — and they are false.” Hannah also opened her column by recalling advice she once received from former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis about dealing with tabloid coverage: “She told me that while tabloids, magazines, and newspapers often sold ridiculous lies, they were nothing more than bird cage liner by the next day.” But, Hannah argued, the modern media landscape has changed that dynamic. “In the digital age, stories do not disappear,” she wrote. “A dramatized portrayal can become, for millions of viewers, the definitive version of a real person’s life.” The actress said the series’s portrayal has already had real-world consequences, revealing she has received “hostile and even threatening messages” from viewers who believe the depiction to be factual. Former President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, who’s currently running for Congress in New York, gave his two cents on the show during a CBS interview last weekend, ripping the series as “a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”The post Daryl Hannah Blasts JFK Jr Series Portrayal: ‘I Have Never Used Cocaine in My Life’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Econ Chief Confronted by CNBC Anchor Over Tanking Jobs Report — Insists ...Trump White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett insisted “the economy is really strong” after CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla asked him about a February jobs report that showed unexpected losses and a sharp drop in the workforce on Friday. Experts were expecting an increase of around 50,000 jobs ahead of the Employment Situation report for last month. But on Friday morning, the report showed 92,000 jobs lost and 69,000 more in downward revisions, and a workforce participation number that shocked CNBC anchor Rick Santelli. On Friday morning’s edition of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Quintanilla remarked to co-host Jim Cramer that the workforce number “unwinds, like, several years worth of gains” and Cramer exclaimed “My kingdom for an asterisk!” Several minutes later, Quintanilla asked Hassett about the report, and whether there are “enough asterisks, in Jim’s words, to make this number make more sense?”: CNBC ANCHOR CARL QUINTANILLA: Are there enough asterisks, in Jim’s words, to make this number make more sense? NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR KEVIN HASSETT: Well, I think Jim’s right that there have been so many strong indicators this month that it’s something of a surprise. But there’s some weather, there are strikes on the West Coast, and I think that we also have this birth-death model, the change in the procedure at the BLS. And so I think what we need to start doing with these jobs numbers, at least on the payroll side, is take the average over a few months, and if you take the average over a few months we had a surprisingly positive one last month and a surprisingly negative one this one. But on average. It’s about what we expect to be seeing because immigration has gone down by so much that break-even employment is probably in the sort of 30 or 40,000 jobs a month range. And so, yeah, I think it’s consistent with everything else we’re seeing, which is that the economy is really strong! With revisions, the average job growth for the past three months is 5,667 jobs created, with a total of 17,000 net jobs created. Watch above via CNBC’s Squawk on the Street.The post Trump Econ Chief Confronted by CNBC Anchor Over Tanking Jobs Report — Insists ‘The Economy Is Really Strong!’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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