Comment on The GOP’s “Softened” Abortion Platform Is A Ruse

Former President Donald Trump has spent much of this week freaking out about Project 2025, the initiative that produced the 900-page extremist right-wing guidebook for the next conservative administration. This weekend, at a rally in Michigan, Trump derided Project 2025 as a product of “some on the severe right” and said unnamed proposals included in it as “seriously extreme.” On Wednesday, he wrote on Truth Social: “I have nothing to do with, and know nothing about, Project 25.

Celebrities, Taylor Swift fans, and politicians have slammed Republican vice presidential nominee J. D. Vance for comments he made in a 2021 interview that have recently resurfaced, when he said that the country is being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The controversy stems from a 2021 Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson, while Vance was running for the Ohio senate seat he later won.

When Jennifer Wexton rose Thursday to speak on the House floor, something she has done countless times before, the congresswoman used a voice she thought was gone forever. After a rare neurological disorder robbed her of her ability to speak clearly, Wexton has been given her voice back with the help of a powerful artificial intelligence program, allowing the Virginia Democrat to make a clone of her speaking voice using old recordings of speeches and appearances she made as a congresswoman.

Magnus Boee found himself unexpectedly featured on national television on Monday during a White House event honoring college championship athletes. Boee, a member of the championship ski team at the University of Colorado Boulder this year, stood behind Vice President Kamala Harris during a speech — on the day delegates and key party leaders rallied behind her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination — wearing a CU Buffs ski team shirt. Which one of you is standing behind Harris?

From running a business into the ground to doing the same with our country, Donald Trump does a lot of things wrong. But, if we’re being honest, his instincts in marketing are usually pretty darn good. In recent weeks, though, he’s made a colossal marketing mistake. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] On July 5, Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to declare that he “knows nothing” about Project 2025, a 920-page guidebook for a second Trump presidency, put together by right-wing think tank Heritage Foundation.

When Joe Biden announced his decision to end his reelection bid amid mounting concerns about his ability to beat Donald Trump, many Democrats were relieved. The prospect of Trump defeating Democrats in November, which for a time felt like a foregone conclusion, no longer seemed so certain. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Arab Americans, many (though not all) of whom have historically aligned themselves with the Democratic Party, were relieved for another reason.