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- This week on “Sunday Morning” (Oct. 18)
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley. [TheTopNews] Read More.47 mins ago - Feds probing suspicious letters to election officials, lawmakersFederal investigators said they are looking into suspicious letters containing unknown substances that were mailed to state election officials and congressional offices. [TheTopNews] Read More.48 mins ago
- The irony of Marsha Blackburn’s problematic campaign ad seems to have gone ove...
At almost every turn, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican running for governor of her state, has voted against Black people’s interests. In 2021 she joined two other Republican senators and introduced a measure to rid classrooms of critical race theory, because she claimed it promotes “division by seeking to dismantle American society.” She voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the George Floyd Act. And in April, after the Supreme Court’s disastrous ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the gubernatorial candidate, referring to the state’s largest Black city, wrote on X: “I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It’s essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America.” Despite all her documented hostility toward the Black voters of her state and their interests, on Tuesday, Blackburn posted an artificial intelligence video of herself in the place of the Black hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar performing his hit “Not Like Us” during the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans. It would be impossible to name everyone who falls under the Compton rapper’s “they,” but we know it includes MAGA Republicans like Blackburn. Blackburn’s hypocrisy is galling. Kendrick Lamar’s catalog is mostly made of songs about Black people being locked outside of mainstream America. “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at Drake, has the mantra “They not like us, they not like us,” and it’s a line in the sand about who Black people should accept and support. It would be impossible to name everyone who falls under the Compton, California, rapper’s “they,” but we know it includes MAGA Republicans like Blackburn. Even so, her X account released the short AI-generated video showing her mimicking Lamar’s halftime show moves. The other AI-generated people with her are backup dancers: Rep. Tim Burchett, Sen. Bill Hagerty and state Sen. Brent Taylor, along with WWE wrestler Kane, whose real name is Glenn Thomas Jacobs, former mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Blackburn captioned the post “Tomorrow. Ready to roll.” “You’ve taken my Blues and gone,” Langston Hughes writes in the first line of his 1940 poem “Notes on Commercial Theater.” The poem accuses white entertainment moguls of taking Black art forms, changing them “So they don’t sound like me” and making them more palatable for and marketable to white audiences. Using an AI program 86 years later, Blackburn does the same thing to… [TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago - Musk donates over $150 million to Senate GOP group, assisting PaxtonBillionaire Elon Musk is offering a nine-figure assist to Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, a decisive return to large-scale political giving for the world's richest man. [TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago
- From the archives: Lena Dunham on “Girls”HBO has announced it is reviving (with its original cast) Lena Dunham's raw, brash and controversial series "Girls," which from 2012 to 2017 documented the lives of twenty-something friends trying to make it in New York City. In this March 10, 2013 "Sunday Morning" story, Tracy Smith went behind the scenes of shooting, and talked with Dunham, and co-stars Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet and Jemima Kirke, about what made the show's characters both intriguing and alienating. [TheTopNews] Read More.56 mins ago
- Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms
Forest clearance lowest since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-offDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen its lowest level since records began, new government data shows.But whether this globally important success is maintained or reversed is on a knife edge ahead of a presidential election run-off on 25 October between two candidates with sharply different visions for the future of the rainforest and how that affects relations with the US under Donald Trump. Continue reading... [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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