Politics
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Biden Appoints ATTN: CEO Matthew Segal to Holocaust Memorial Council Board of Trustees | Exclusive
“The promise to ‘never forget’ the horrors of the Holocaust is more urgent than ever,” the 39-year-old media entrepreneur says
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TikTok in Limbo: What Happens to Creators – and Can Trump Save Them?
If Trump signs an executive order overturning the TikTok ban, it would give the app “more leeway” to find a buyer as it works its way through the courts, one legal expert tells TheWrap
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Chris Hayes Mocks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg as ‘Desperately Thin-Skinned, Thirsty Weirdos’ Who ‘Bow and Scrape’ for Trump | Video
“Be your own man,” the MSNBC host advises the “psychologically damaged, very powerful men”
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Adam McKay Says ‘Don’t Look Up’ Popularity Proves Viewers Know They’re Being ‘Gaslit’ by Media and Political Leaders
The filmmaker also weighs in on the Los Angeles wildfires, telling NME, “It’s hard for people to comprehend the scale and scope of the disaster we’re in”
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Rachel Maddow Says Biden’s Farewell Warning of Looming Oligarchy ‘Put a Chill Down My Spine’ Because ‘He’s Correct’ | Video
“I’m glad he took this time to say it,” the MSNBC host says
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Biden Will Leave TikTok Ban to Trump Administration
The president will let the next administration enforce TikTok’s looming ban, rather than force the app to adhere to it on Sunday
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Trump Names Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone as Hollywood Ambassadors
The president-elect promises a return to “The Golden Age of Hollywood” ahead of his country star-studded inauguration
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Outgoing FCC Chair Warns Agency Should Not Be ‘President’s Free Speech Police’ or ‘Journalism’s Censor in Chief’
Jessica Rosenworcel dismissed four complaints against local TV stations that “seek to weaponize” the agency and are “at odds” with the First Amendment
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Will Trump’s Attacks on Comedians — and Their Bosses — Send a Chill Through Late Night? | Analysis
NBC’s Seth Meyers and Comcast are the latest targets of the president-elect’s criticism
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Sean Hannity Takes Biden’s Farewell to the Woodshed: ‘Mumbling, Uninspiring, Riddled With Visions of Grandeur’ | Video
“A pathetic farewell address from a frankly pathetic career politician filled with delusions of success and petty political attacks,” Hannity says
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Biden Warns of ‘Oligarchy’ and a ‘Dangerous Concentration of Power’ in Farewell Address | Video
The president also spoke of Trump 2.0 and the influence of runaway AI in a speech that otherwise aimed to unite around a love for his country
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‘Morning Joe’ Attacks ‘Outrageous Lie’ That US Military Is ‘Weak and Woke’ at Pete Hegseth Hearing | Video
“There’s so much that was said yesterday it would literally take us four hours just to get through the misinformation,” Scarborough says
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Former Trump Defense Secretary Cushions Military Duty to Obey the President: ‘As Long as It’s a Legal Order’ | Video
“It’s the duty of [Trump’s] cabinet, his advisors to inform the president if a duty, if an order is considered illegal,” Mark Esper tells CNN
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Rachel Maddow Admits Mike Pence’s Wife Refusing to Stand for Trump at President Carter Funeral Is ‘Marriage Goals’
“I bet that was really hard to do and that was a really human thing,” the MSNBC host says of Karen Pence
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Lawrence O’Donnell Drags Trump for Lowering the Standards of American Politics Since Running for President in 2016 | Video
The latest example, the MSNBC host says, is Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense