UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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Let me tell you something about WEB Dubois: this is why we have jazz. We have it to fill the nodes of time. You have to use your material as if you're reading an EKG. White folks don't know jazz and subsequently, it reveals they don't know comedy either.
She spent the day behaving that way because Power controls the press and their headlines. Most Americans don't read because they haven't observed anyone in power demonstrating the act.
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True leadership. We were so lucky to have the Obamas! So inspiring. Miss them so much.
Obama will be my forever president 
Not a good mindset IMO. There will always be opportunities and it doesn't have to be vulturistic.
Tax cut for the rich?
HOGWASh! The Dow is over 50K!!
Capitalism is vulturistic.
How much “value” has the dollar lost? It's all by design, baby. They're forcing all of us into sharecropping. If the dollar loses its value and tariffs raise the prices of everything, what does that really mean?
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11m ·BREAKING: Epstein Files Include Hidden Camera Views Inside His Florida Home
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Late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein appeared to have a hidden camera in his Florida home, videos from the newly-released files on Epstein show.
The grainy videos, first discovered by Channel 4, show Epstein's home office in Florida. The hidden camera captured Epstein hanging out around his desk, and one video apparently shows a woman kneeling by Epstein as he has his feet on his desk, The New York Times also reported. The video appeared to have been taken down when HuffPost tried to access it Thursday morning.
Survivors of Epstein have previously said they believe he had hidden cameras at his homes in Florida and New York.
Has it hit you that the Arabs of Michigan weren't wrong?
"You're a piece of shit, and your wife is too!"
Trump and the people who voted for him are whole ass clowns
Numbers don’t lie.
Still waiting to hear BGOL MAGAs reasoning as to why he still a good president. I’m sure they are still rallying behind their guy
The problem is that no one is telling the truth about Trump and his supporters.
Its trolling.... listening to vibes vs listening to expertise....action without thought leading to failure.
CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its viewership since 2016 amid growing fears network is circling the drain
By ALEX HAMMER, US MEDIA CORRESPONDENTPublished: 12:09 EST, 11 February 2026 | Updated: 22:37 EST, 11 February 2026
CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its primetime viewers over the past decade, figures show.
The decrease, from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to 553,000 now, is fueling rumors of a possible network sale - something CNN's up-for-grabs parent company has vehemently denied.
The results recorded this month by Nielsen are actually an improvement from January, when stars like Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett, and Kaitlan Collins only secured 488,000 sets of eyes.
The network's daytime lineup has seen a similar decline as hosts such as Wolf Blitzer failed to move the needle, dropping from 752,000 to 433,000.
When compared to the same part of the year in 2021, the drops were even more pronounced - 71 percent for primetime and 73 percent during the day.
Several network executives told the Daily Mail that the results were worrisome, even amid broader industry trends.
A CNN source, meanwhile, blamed the poor showing on audiences consuming news through alternative means.
'The reality is that people just consume news differently now than they did ten years ago, and we’re adapting to address that, reaching large audiences all over the world,' the source said.
However, a rival executive pushed back on that theory.
'While linear ratings are mostly in decline, there are still a few bright spots in the industry where that is not the case. That said, if streaming numbers are not picking up the slack, I'd be worried,' they said.
CNN rolled out All Access - billed as 'a new way' to stream the network's shows - back in October, nearly four years on from the spectacular flameout that was CNN+.
The network carried out a round of layoffs at the start of 2025, meant to herald in its long-promised move to digital.
CEO Mark Thompson touted the plan to his old employer, The New York Times, following the more than 200 firings from CNN's once-seminal TV division in January of last year.
'You can use your thumb to flick from a CNN news story to a CNN anchor to a reporter,' he said of a then-planned shift to vertical videos, which has since slowly been implemented over the course of a year.
The long-in-the-works restructuring plan followed a failed leadership stint from then-CEO Chris Licht, which lasted barely 12 months.
Licht, a former showrunner for Stephen Colbert, replaced longtime lead Jeff Zucker. The latter masterminded the network's shift to more opinionated content in the 2010s, right around the time of Donald Trump's first presidency.
Trump's rise ramped up interest in previously languishing cable channels, CNN included.
The network went from 711,000 primetime viewers in 2015 to 1.3 million the following year. The spike continued until 2017, led by anti-Trump anchors including Jim Acosta, Don Lemon and Brianna Keilar.
Several CEOs and lineup changes later, CNN's lack of success during Trump's second presidency is noticeable, sources said.
‘It’s not surprising that CNN’s constant leadership void, which has largely rendered the cable network irrelevant with historic ratings declines, is leading ownership to explore yet another sale,' one said.
‘Ownership at CNN is once again looking to jump ship just like the network’s viewers have for the last decade after seeing its 2025 ratings slump to historic lows.
‘Mark Thompson should have stayed in retirement as nothing can right the sinking ship that is CNN.'
The Daily Mail has approached CNN for comment. The network's website still attracts 120 million monthly users.
As of writing, Netflix has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Warner Bros Discovery minus its cable assets, in which case CNN will be cast off to a completely separate publicly traded company.
Paramount - the owner of CBS - has placed an offer as well. The company ramped up a hostile bid this week in hopes of preventing the Netflix transaction.
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No. I don’t know where this shit is going to end. If the Democrats take over everything during the midterms, then I may have a different outlook, but for now I will be sitting on the sidelines waiting.
BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, blocked the Pentagon from penalizing Sen. Mark Kelly over his call for the military to disobey illegal orders, ruling the effort to cut his retirement benefits is likely unconstitutional:“This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms… To say the least, our retired veterans deserve more respect from their Government, and our Constitution demands they receive it”
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