Rachel Maddow Just Made TIME’s 100 Most Influential People — But the Magazine’s Tribute Contained a Stunning Surprise In a media landscape dominated by noise, outrage, and manufactured spectacle, Rachel Maddow has always been something different — a sharp mind in a chaotic era, a storyteller in a world addicted to soundbites, a voice that millions trust even when the truth is heavy. And now, in a moment that feels both ... Read more
A Dramatized DOJ Meltdown Unfolds as Staffers Exit With Scathing Letters Blaming Trump and Bondi for “Lasting Harm”. NQ
Former Department of Justice staffers have signed off their farewells with notes slamming Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi for causing “irreversible damage” to the agency. Nearly 5,500 employees have left the DOJ since Trump took office in January, either by taking buyouts, quitting, or being fired, leading some to complain in their parting messages of a “toxic work environment.” The ... Read more
More U.S. Troops May Be Sent to Target Drug Networks as Hegseth Outlines New Strategy. NQ
SANTO DOMINGO, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday the United States is aiming to allow further deployments of troops and aircraft to tackle drug trafficking. Speaking in the Dominican Republic, which has authorized the temporary deployment of U.S. elements, Hegseth said he was hoping other countries would accept U.S. military presence on their soil. "A model that we hope to expand with ... Read more
AOC Raises the Green New Deal 2.0 — but in This Fictional Thriller, a Sudden Pirro Intervention Cuts the Room to Absolute Silence. NQ
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Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Other A-Listers Reportedly on the Radar for Wicked Casting. NQ
While Wicked: For Good—starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey and more—is finally out in theaters, there was almost a very different version made in the mid-1990s. As for that one? It would have more closely followed the original source material, a.k.a Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. In ... Read more