D.C. liberals were furious that President Donald Trump banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House Press Pool last week, so we wanted to see if they could name a single reporter from any of those outlets.
“Can you name one CNN reporter?” PolitiBrawl editor Matt Miller asked.
It’s clear that the mainstream media has never been less relevant…
Watch to see their answers:
Jon Ossoff pulls ahead of AOC for 2028 Democrat presidential nominee
Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff has pulled ahead of socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Kalshi’s trading market predicting the Democrat Party’s 2028 presidential nominee, now with 17% odds to AOC’s 15%. California Governor Gavin Newsom trails closely behind at 14% odds.
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Ivey League students sing “from the river to the sea” at AOC town hall event
Cornell Young Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led about 2,000 attendees in chanting “from the river to the sea” and “long live the student intifada” while warming up Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Students vs. Billionaires” event in Ithaca, part of her push to boost Democratic turnout ahead of November.
Petrova said: “Cornell is fundamentally a capitalist institution that prioritizes billionaires and profit over students and community and is controlled by CEO trustees that are profiting off of genocide and war.”
Ocasio-Cortez, touring upstate New York amid speculation about a 2028 presidential or Senate bid, accused Cornell of cracking down on student protesters: “Whether it’s the issue about Palestine or many others. Whether it’s about people trying to fire those who are forming a union in their workplace, whether it’s people trying to speak up about a number of different issues, we have to respond to that first crackdown,” she said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul backed out of a planned joint appearance with Ocasio-Cortez that day. Her office cited the nor’easter hitting New York City, though Hochul had no public events scheduled Sunday.
Pope Leo XIV urges Europe to embrace Christian heritage in France finale
Speaking in Metz on the last day of his four-day France visit, Pope Leo XIV said Europe cannot be discussed without Christianity, while praising European integration as a “social and political necessity” and urging EU leaders to give real substance to ideals like freedom, democracy, and unity.
Leo told an interfaith audience that Europe thrives by reinventing its past through encounters with others. The day before, at Lourdes, he condemned France’s new assisted-dying law as “false compassion” and called the sick the “beating heart of our humanity.”
Crowds have been massive, including 800,000 at a Paris Mass, and adult and teen baptisms in France are up 20% over last year. Leo closes the trip with Mass at Metz’s Gothic cathedral, known for its Chagall-designed stained glass.
ICE reportedly halts arrests of non-criminals; DHS disputes it
ICE officers nationwide were told over the weekend to arrest only illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges beyond illegal entry, sources told The Daily Wire. People with final deportation orders but no criminal record would be spared, and “collateral arrests” of others found near a target would end.
DHS called the claims “false,” saying “no one is off the table” and pointing to a new enforcement surge in sanctuary cities focused on violent offenders. Sources suggested the shift could be aimed at calming tensions before the midterms, as Trump’s immigration approval has slipped to 43% from 48%.
The report follows an ICE shooting in Austin last weekend involving an officer not wearing a body camera, and leadership comolications after the White House pulled Mullin’s pick to lead ICE. Sources also cited a similar July pause on traffic stops that Trump reversed.
SpaceX Starship reaches orbit for first time despite engine loss
SpaceX’s Starship lifted off from Texas Monday on its 14th test flight, its first attempt to reach orbit. The rocket lost an engine minutes after launch, but controllers cleared it to continue, and a single Raptor engine completed the orbital burn about 26 minutes in.
The roughly 10-hour uncrewed mission aims to circle Earth six times and deploy 26 Starlink satellites before splashing down in the Pacific west of Chile. Its booster completed a simulated landing burn and splashed down off the Texas coast.
Earlier flights were suborbital and ended in splashdowns about an hour after liftoff. NASA plans to use a future Starship as a crewed lunar lander, while SpaceX’s longer-term goal is a fleet carrying humans to Mars.