Author: Freedom Watch

Oscars Announce New Inclusion Requirements for Best Picture Eligibility By Clayton Davis Variety September 9, 2020 The diversity and inclusion initiative has been a heavy focus for the Oscars the past few years, shown by the expansive membership initiative. As part of the Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday new representation and inclusion standards in order to be eligible in the best picture category. For the 94th and 95th Oscars ceremonies, scheduled for 2022 and 2023, a film will submit a confidential Academy Inclusion Standards form to be considered for…

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By Lloyd Grove, Maxwell Tani The Daily Beast September 8, 2020 President Donald Trump’s most influential supporters in the media—Fox News star Sean Hannity, his boss Roger Ailes, and National Enquirer executive David Pecker—were so desperate for Trump’s approval that they frequently humiliated themselves to win it, according to the just-released memoir by the president’s disgruntled former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. In Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, Cohen—who was disbarred last year and is currently serving a three-year sentence under house arrest in Manhattan after pleading…

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Biden’s ‘mental acuity’ has diminished in the last 4 years, ex-WH stenographer says: ‘He’s lost a step’ Fox News September 8, 2020 Joe Biden’s former White House stenographer said the vice president’s public speaking ability has deteriorated significantly since leaving office to the point where he’s “not the same Joe Biden.” “It is a complete difference from what he was in 2017,” Mike McCormick, who worked as a White House stenographer for 15 years and with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview. “He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to…

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Naomi Osaka wears mask bearing Trayvon Martin’s name at US Open, advances to quarterfinals By Aris Folley TheHill September 8, 2020 Professional tennis player Naomi Osaka donned a mask bearing the name of Trayvon Martin ahead of her U.S. Open match against Anett Kontaveit on Sunday. The recent round, which Osaka won, was the fourth in which she wore a mask bearing the name of a Black person whose death sparked nationwide outrage. Martin is the unarmed Black teenager who was killed by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012. Osaka has worn similar masks with the names of…

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The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day By Sam Stein The Daily Beast September 8, 2020 Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered on Zoom to begin organizing for what they envision as the post-Election Day political apocalypse scenario. Put together by the Fight Back Table—an initiative launched after the 2016 election to get a constellation of lefty organizations to work more closely together—the meeting dealt with the operational demands expected if the November election ends without a clear outcome or with a Joe Biden win that Donald Trump refuses to recognize. Sources…

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Juan Williams: Swamp creature at the White House By Juan Williams, opinion contributor TheHill September 7, 2020 For all my criticism of President Trump, I’ve got to be honest — I loved the fireworks. Fireworks swirled around the Washington Monument after Trump accepted the GOP nomination on the White House lawn on Aug. 27. They spelled “TRUMP” in the night sky. If you are reading this column years from now, you might think this is a parody. You can’t believe that any president got away with turning the White House into a gaudy stage for partisan politics. Did…

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Judge orders resumption of diversity visas By Justin Wise TheHill September 7, 2020 A federal judge in Washington has reportedly ordered the Trump administration to temporarily resume issuing diversity visas to immigrants through a lottery system. “To be clear, there is no statutory requirement that every available diversity visa be issued each year, ” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, wrote in in his decision on Friday, The Associated Press reported. “But that does not mean that the State Department could effectively extinguish the diversity program for a given year by simply sitting on its hands…

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