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In another blow to civil rights under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice’s civil rights division has reassigned all managers working in the department’s voting section and suspended all active investigations being handled by the unit.

According to a Monday report from The Guardian, last week Tamar Hagler, chief of the DOJ’s voting rights section, and five other senior officials were reassigned to the department’s complaint adjudication office. The section was also ordered to dismiss active cases with no explanation. Those reassigned were nonpolitical career...

Prominent right-wing influencers including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson are claiming to be the victims of a fraudulent Russian political disinformation scheme exposed by the Justice Department on Wednesday.

In an unsealed indictment, the DOJ charged two Russian citizens, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyev, with acting as unregistered foreign agents and of “conspiracy to commit money laundering.” Both individuals are employees of the state-controlled Russian media outfit Rt.

“The Justice Department has charged two employees of Rt, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, in a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.

Elon Musk‘s X Corp., the remains of what used to be Twitter Inc., has filed yet another dubious lawsuit in an effort to stem the financial damage wrought by its impetuous owner. This time, the company is going after a cohort of advertisers, whom he famously told to “Go fuck yourself” in an unhinged interview at a business conference less than a year ago, because they continue to want nothing to do with his rotted social platform.

In an unusual move, X CEO Linda Yaccarino shared an open letter...

Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 campaign and the rise of Vice President Kamala Harris as the leading contender for the Democratic ticket has provoked a nuclear-level meltdown from the right — especially from Donald Trump.

“It’s not over! Tomorrow Crooked Joe Biden’s going to wake up and forget that he dropped out of the race today!” the former president wrote on Truth Social late Sunday night, hours after Biden announced he would be suspending his campaign in an open letter on social media.

In a series of Truth Social posts,...

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican National Committee is going about as expected. In the week since Michael Whatley, an election denier, and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, were elected as chair and co-chair, the RNC has slashed 60 staffers while hiring Christina Bobb, a former Trump lawyer who literally wrote a book about the false idea that the 2020 election was rigged, as its new election integrity counsel.

There’s plenty more where that came from, apparently. Lara Trump said in an interview on Thursday that she wants to hire Scott Presler,...

Donald Trump cannot be removed from state ballots in the 2024 election, despite a clause in the Constitution that restricts those who have engaged in an insurrection from holding office, the Supreme Court ruled today.

In a 9-0 decision, the justices ruled that it was up to Congress, and not the states, to make such a determination.

Read the Supreme Court opinion on Trump ballot access.

The decision had been expected, after justices were skeptical of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that removed the former president from the ballot. Other states, however, had reached alternate conclusions that kept Trump on their ballots.

Some legal scholars had held that Trump could be removed from the ballot following his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and his conduct on January 6, 2021, when he urged his supporters to march to the Capitol. There, rioters stormed House and Senate chambers as lawmakers were...

Tucker Carlson, who was fired by Fox News in April for sending racist texts, says he “wasn’t mad” about his dismissal but was “surprised.”

“This is not the first time I’ve been fired. And I think in our business, when you work for a big company in media and you know, you say what you think, there’s an expectation that you could get fired,” Carlson told Russell Brand on his podcast. “I’ve always had that, and I’ve always tried to take the long view, not just on media, but on life. All graves go unvisited in the end. I always think that. So I was surprised; I didn’t expect to get fired that morning at all in April. So I was shocked, but I wasn’t really shocked and I wasn’t mad.”

Since his firing, Carlson has used his Twitter platform to recreate his show.

Fox News has handed Tucker Carlson a cease-and-desist letter for allegedly breaching his contract by launching a Twitter show, titled Tucker on Twitter, which debuted last week on June 6. Fox News general counsel Bernard Gugar stated that Carlson had signed a contract in November 2019 that restricts his ability to appear on competing media outlets.

Bryan Freedman, an attorney for Carlson, said that Fox News was attempting to violate the former anchor’s First Amendment rights.

Fox’s ratings for the 8 p.m. time slot that once belonged to Carlson’s show have dropped significantly since his firing from the network. Fox is currently competing with new right-wing news sources like Newsmax and One America News Network.

In his show’s first episode, a 10-minute video, Carlson asserted that Ukraine carried out an attack on a dam in Russian territory and referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a way that the Anti-Defamation League considered antisemitic.

The battle between Tucker Carlson and Fox News is heating up.

The cable news network, which announced on April 24 that it had “agreed to part ways” with its star anchor, sent Carlson a cease-and-desist letter on June 7 over his newly launched Twitter show, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.

The letter arrived hours after Carlson’s first show posted on the social media platform on June 6. The episode, clocked at 10 minutes and 27 seconds, was taped in Carlson’s home studio in Maine and took swipes at everyone from Senator Lindsey Graham to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the mainstream media. It has notched 114.8 million views so far. A second episode, which posted on June 7 and runs slightly longer at 12 minutes and 38 seconds, boasts 54.9 million views to date, according to Twitter’s own measures.

Fox is believed to be...

Fox News has sent Tucker Carlson a cease and desist letter, days after the second installment of Tucker on Twitter (do we italicize Twitter “show” titles?) hit the social media app.

Fox News, since it continues to pay Carlson after removing him from the airwaves, claims exclusive dibs on his content. Carlson’s lawyers, meanwhile, have asserted his First Amendment right to free speech.

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Fox News is escalating its effort to prevent Tucker Carlson from hosting a new show on Twitter, with Axios reporting on Monday that the network has sent its former star host a cease-and-desist letter.

The letter comes a week after Fox sent Carlson a letter informing him that his new show, Tucker on Twitter, violates his contract with the network. The two parted ways in April, but Carlson is still collecting checks, with his contract running through the end of 2024. “In connection with such breach and pursuant to the Agreement,...

Fox News turned up on the heat on Tucker Carlson, sending the ousted host a cease-and-desist letter a day before he was expected to address the indictment of Donald Trump in his third episode, according to a Monday report by Axios.

Fox did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Carlson lawyer Harmeet Dhillon corroborated the action, tweeting: “My friend and client Tucker Carlson will not be silenced – by the far left or by Fox News,” and told Axios that Fox is “now demanding that Tucker Carlson be silent until after the 2024 election.”

Carlson is under contract and is still being paid through 2025 by Fox News, which believes Carlson’s DIY Twitter show falls under its noncompete. The erstwhile “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host and his lawyers say Twitter is not a Fox News competitor, and that he has a fundamental First Amendment right to give his opinions on social media.

Fox News has sent a cease and desist letter to Tucker Carlson over his Twitter show that launched last week.

The network recently pulled Carlson’s show from their lineup and announced that they had parted ways with the star personality, but he is still under contract through the end of next year. Axios first reported on the letter sent to Carlson from Fox attorneys.

Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney representing Carlson, said in a statement, “Fox News continues to ignore the interests of its viewers, not to mention its shareholder obligations. Doubling down on the most catastrophic programming decision in the history of the cable news industry, Fox is now demanding that Tucker Carlson be silent until after the 2024 election. Tucker will not be silenced by anyone — whether it be Media Matters, the Adl or Fox News.”

A Fox News spokesperson did not comment. Talent contracts typically include exclusivity provisions...

“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert took aim at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell during Monday night’s monologue after he failed to defeat incumbent chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in the Republican National Committee election over the weekend.

“In the run-up to Friday’s vote, Lindell claimed that he called every member of the RNC and bragged sometimes I talked for three to four hours to one person,” Colbert said before going into an impression of Lindell. “I do most of the talking. Occasionally, they’ll ask a question like 9-1-1 what’s your emergency?”

McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term, winning 111 of the total 167 votes cast.

“I would say congratulations, but its a horrible job and I do not like you,” Colbert quipped.

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The Republican National Committee is considering whether to blame Donald Trump for the party’s midterm losses as it creates a report examining why the predicted “red wave” never came to fruition.

“Looking at President Trump, what has he gotten right? And what has he gotten wrong? And how do we learn from that to win elections going forward?” Henry Barbour, an RNC committeeman from Mississippi told NBC News in an interview. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel has charged Barbour, along with Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump attorney and RNC committeewoman from California,...

Republicans — the party that decided it was pretty much fine that a violent mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss — are clutching all of their pearls over the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that overturns Roe v. Wade.

Indeed, in a delicious bit of projection, they’re claiming that the leak amounts to… wait for it… an “insurrection” against the judicial body.

Although the leaker’s identity is unknown — and although there is not yet one iota of evidence about the leaker...

Movie theaters have been banking on a grand end-of-summer reopening to begin recovering from the closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic. The plan has been to remind consumers about what they missed about the theatrical experience by luring them back to cinemas with the promise of watching Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi adventure “Tenet” or Disney’s action epic “Mulan.”

But that can’t happen if major markets such as New York City remain closed, and it’s become increasingly difficult for exhibitors to game out their next steps without having more clarity on when certain states will allow theaters to welcome back customers. On Tuesday, the National Association of Theatre Owners, the exhibition industry’s main lobbying arm, and major chains such as AMC and Regal targeted a critical part of the Tri-state area, suing New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy for allowing churches to reopen, but not movie theaters.

The choice of venues was strategic.

A reality TV executive filed a discrimination suit against CBS on Monday, alleging he was fired as part of a systemic pattern of mistreatment of non-white executives.

Ghen Maynard, who is of Japanese ancestry, was a senior executive VP for alternative programs. He alleges that although CBS has said publicly that it is taking steps to address diversity, at the top levels it is still run exclusively by white men.

Maynard was hired by former CEO Les Moonves to develop shows at CBS Studios in 2016. He had served two previous stints at the network, and had developed and launched several reality TV hits, including “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race.” More recently, he was involved in “BH90210,” the reboot of the 90’s series which aired on Fox, and “Kids Say the Darnedest Things” with Tiffany Haddish, among other shows.

Maynard states that at meetings it became obvious he was the only non-white executive at his level.

Ozy Media, the digital magazine and lifestyle outlet launched in 2013, has raised $35 million in a new round of financing to support the expansion of its TV production, live events and podcasting operations.

Marc Lasry, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, led the series C funding round with participation from Interlock Partners, LionTree, Atinum Investment, iHeart Media and Tom Franco, Don Gogel and Roberto Quarta, partners in the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Lasry has joined the board of Mountain View, Calif.-based Ozy Media, co-founded by former CNN host Carlos Watson and Samir Rao.

The latest investment brings the total financing raised to date by Ozy Media to more than $70 million. All of Ozy Media’s existing investors — including Gsv Capital, Axel Springer and Emerson Collective — returned for the new round.

“We are really proud that top-tier investors want to join us,” Watson told Variety.

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There’s a folksy saying that grandparents of all stripes like to dispense: If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then you shouldn’t be surprised when it starts quacking. Another, perhaps less folksy version of this idiom is Occam’s Razor, the theory that the simplest explanation for an event or phenomenon is usually the most likely.

Nowhere was this demonstrated more quickly than in the case of the meteoric rise and equally rapid fall of Andy Ngo, the provocateur and social media personality who garnered nationwide sympathy last June,...

While most media cheered the White House’s decision to back down from their challenge to CNN and restore Jim Acosta’s press credentials on Monday, one man was not having it — Fox Business host Lou Dobbs.

On his show later that night, Dobbs expressed outrage over the whole affair and floated the idea that President Trump might have just been better off ignoring Judge Timothy Kelly’s injunction that temporarily restored Acosta’s press pass.

“Let’s be honest here,” said Dobbs. “Isn’t there a time where you have to just tell a district court judge to go to hell?”

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The question prompted a laugh from Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett as Dobbs wondered whether Trump could legally have just flouted the order.

“The idea that you have to follow the diktat...