There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where something happens for decades. This week was one of those weeks. But you wouldn’t know that if you watched Sunday cable news shows. Interview with actor Daniel Craig And Donald Trump ruled the airwaves. It cannot be called a fiber-rich media diet.
With all eyes on President Trump, America’s highest-paid newscasters missed out on some of the week’s most impactful stories. From Virginia’s historic victory for the Democratic House of Delegates to the Trump administration’s increasingly unstable Cabinet of Fox News anchors, we take a deep dive into the news you missed while tuning in to cable news this weekend.
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Donald Trump loves Fox News so much that he nominated the next president for it. More than a dozen current or former Fox News contributors to senior government positions. Millions of Americans are now familiar with Secretary of Defense candidate Pete Hegseth, but his own mother shamed him as an abuser and a drunk. But that’s just the tip of the really rotten iceberg.
On Wednesday, Trump Fox News anchor Monica Crowley tapped He will serve as assistant secretary of state and chief of protocol, roles for which Crowley is not qualified. Not just Crowley. Registered foreign agent To Ukraine’s oligarchs, she is also a serial plagiarist. I copied a large portion of her Ph.D. paper.
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“Doctor” Crowley would fit right in with the faux academics, including “Doctor” Sebastian Gorka, who holds a Ph.D. The paper is Widely considered incoherent and fraudulentand future Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. A long history of stealing jobs From sources as diverse as the Associated Press and…Bill Clinton? Don’t be surprised to learn that most Americans aren’t excited about the idea of letting Fox News run the government: recent YouGov poll reveals majority of voters are against President Trump is trying to overlay cable news coverage on his administration.
Virginia Democrats swing for the fences
Virginia Democrats currently hold a razor-thin one-seat majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but they are not letting that small majority prevent them from passing transformative legislation.
House Democrats this week Passed three groundbreaking constitutional amendments Through the House, it would enact abortion rights into law, codify protections for same-sex marriage, and automatically restore voting rights to felons who have served time. If passed, these amendments would put an end to three political issues that have roiled the former dominion for more than 20 years. Recent polls show a majority of Virginians support passage of all three.
virginia state constitution formally ban same-sex marriagewhich was the subject of debate in 2014 when the Supreme Court legalized gay unions across the United States. But if Trump’s handpicked conservative SCOTUS majority decided to reconsider the issue… some legal experts That’s what they fear will happen to Virginia’s roughly 20,000 same-sex couples, whose rights could be immediately stripped away. Democrats are now in a race against time to bring all three amendments forward in time to get them before voters on the 2026 midterm ballot.
Let this be a lesson to national Democrats who say they need a supermajority to get anything done. That’s how great a little political courage (and political courage) can be. A statewide coalition of more than a dozen activist groups)can!
Tick-tock, TikTok
Corporate media is one of the largest institutional investors in the popular social media platform TikTok, which may be why we didn’t see a single word about America’s impending ban on TikTok on Sunday’s show. After this week, that silence became even more pronounced. federal court ruling This paved the way for the ban, which was signed in April and goes into effect on January 19th.
That doesn’t mean TikTok will suddenly go dark on the last day of President Joe Biden’s term. The company could sell itself to a U.S. buyer, but the Chinese Communist Party has said it will block any efforts to sell the company. Then, of course, Trump factor.
Donald Trump was once one of the biggest proponents of banning TikTok — back when kids were understandably using the platform to make fun of him. But after receiving significant campaign contributions from TikTok investor and tech billionaire Jeffrey Yass, Trump is now Support TikTok. It’s interesting how it works! Still, it’s unclear what Mr. Trump can actually do to block the law, given that it was already in effect when he took office on January 20. Knowing Trump, any plan to save TikTok will almost certainly involve bending the law to get his way.
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Until next week, keep your eyes peeled and stay curious.
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