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MSNBC president Rashida Jones is considering leaving the network after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in to a second term in the White House as the left-leaning channel’s ratings crash, according to a report. Jones – who took the helm in 2021 and became the first black woman to lead a major national news network – is mulling an exit from the job early next year, according to a report by Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter. The move would only come after Trump is sworn in to serve a second term as president on Jan. 20, Darcy reported, citing...

The Onion’s winning bid for Alex Jones ’ Infowars platform is under review by a federal bankruptcy judge after Jones and his lawyers complained about how an auction was conducted. The satirical news outlet was announced as the winning bidder on Thursday in an auction that is part of Jones’ personal bankruptcy. Hours later, Infowars headquarters in Austin, Texas and its websites were shut down and Jones was broadcasting from a new studio he had set up before the bankruptcy auction. By Friday morning, Infowars and its websites were back up and running for reasons that were not entirely clear....

The judge overseeing Alex Jones's Infowars case just ordered a hearing into how the Onion won the bidding after Alex's lawyers alleged that the trustee overseeing the auction rigged it at the last minute to allow the Onion to win.. What they're doing to Jones is unthinkable. Everyone makes mistakes, but none of the people who made up a lie about the Trump-Russian collusion have suffered this much for it. FREE ALEX JONES. FREE INFOWARS.

The satirical news publication The Onion said Thursday it purchased conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars website at a bankruptcy auction. “All told, the decision to acquire InfoWars was an easy one for the Global Tetrahedron executive board,” a satirical CEO Bryce P. Tetraeder said in a joking statement about the acquisition. Jones’s Infowars business went to auction after the trustee in charge of his bankruptcy proceedings moved to shut down the site and liquidate his assets. Jones is a far-right conspiracy theorist who spread baseless lies about the victims and families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary...

On Wednesday, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris unnecessarily dodged some questions during her town hall with the network that night and “the word salad stuff gets on my nerves.” Jones said, “[T]here were flashes of the Kamala that I know, who is really a true public servant. She really does work for real people. In the back of her mind, she is trying to figure out, how do I solve the problem? She sometimes skips — even in person, she’ll sometimes skip the human part and get...

Did you know that there’s actually a “Christians for Kamala” conference? Yes, you read that right. In the ever-bizarre world of progressive Christianity, this event is being billed as a gathering of believers united in support of Kamala Harris. I couldn’t believe it either when I first heard about it. I mean, Christians, really? Casting their votes to expand abortion, hand kids over to drag queens, and mutilate them without telling their parents? Like, what biblical principle is that? Oh, wait. These aren’t Christians. I should have known better. Silly me. Organized by the notorious John Pavlovitz—who, by the way,...

Video Player is loading. Advertisement: 0:11 Democratic strategist Van Jones said Monday that former President Trump is “freaked out” that he’s not getting as much press attention as Vice President Harris and is responding by sharpening his rhetoric about the threat he says his political opponents would pose on the country. “He‘s failing and flailing. Listen, they‘re saying that these are the worst three weeks of his campaign,” Jones, a CNN contributor, said Monday in an interview with Anderson Cooper. “That‘s what the press is saying.” “This is the year in which he got indicted, convicted, and shot at —...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN Senior Political Commentator Van Jones reacted to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate by saying that there are “young people who are concerned about Gaza. You have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others, they have not felt seen by the Biden administration. You started hearing that Genocide Joe, that was building, that was building and so those folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with. This helps them in that regard.” Jones began by...

CNN contributor Van Jones said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that if the Republican Party attacks Vice President Kamala Harris on race, people will “crawl through broken glass to vote against” them. Jones said, “Here’s reality the Republican Party is going to have to resist its worst impulses to make this a racial, gender trash truck of insult and innuendo against this candidate. I don’t want to hear it. She checked a box by winning at the local level. I voted for her the local level in San Francisco when she was my district attorney, voted for her when she...

CNN commentator Van Jones said Vice President Harris went from “cringe to cool” in 24 hours, as videos of her continue to go viral on TikTok. “There’s something happening that’s hard to quantify, because what’s happening on TikTok right now, is extraordinary,” Jones said Monday on CNN. “All the things that were cringey about Kamala, her laugh, the coconut tree comment, being unburdened by what — all those weird things she’s said.” She’s gone from cringe to cool in 24 hours as a whole generation has taken all that content and remixed it in all these incredible TikTok videos,” he...

CNN commentator Van Jones lost it on Monday following Donald Trump‘s announcement that Ohio Senator J.D. Vance will serve as his running mate. Jones described Vance’s ideology as a “dangerous virus” that risks infecting America.

CNN political commentator Van Jones on Sunday suggested Democrats are preparing to run Vice President Harris for president, regardless of President Biden’s official standing in the race. Jones, speaking on CNN’s “State of The Union,” emphasized the significance of the divide within the Democratic Party following Biden’s lackluster debate performance against former President Trump last month, saying it has turned things “in a negative direction” for the party. “[Biden’s] still in the race and he’s doing what he’s supposed to do. I’m glad to see him out there. I’m glad he’s doing interviews. I’m glad he’s doing all those things....

Former Obama administration official Van Jones said Wednesday that Democrats, behind closed doors, are discussing “how” to replace President Biden at the top of the ticket, “not whether.” The CNN commentator said the Democrats who defend Biden on TV have “completely different” conversations in private, amid growing concern in the party about Biden’s standing as the presumptive nominee. “I understand people want to, you know, defend him and protect him and give him the space and the dignity to make his own choice,” Jones told CNN’s Jim Sciutto Wednesday, referring to Biden. “But there is a big conversation happening right...

Prominent progressive Van Jones has openly declared himself a 'bedwetter' - an apparent reference to what Joe Biden's campaign has called the 'bedwetting brigade' for panicking over his first debate performance. **SNIP** 'I'll tell you this: people are talking about bedwetters,' he said, quoting part of the biting phrase first used by Deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty in a campaign blast to supporters. 'I'm sitting here where I'm in Pampers, Huggies, and Depends, okay,' Jones went on to joke. 'Call me a bedwetter.' The political commenter proceeded to grow more serious, while appearing remotely from Los Angeles minutes before Biden...

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said that Republican claims that Vice President Kamala Harris is really on the ballot are accurate and “it’s hard to imagine” the Joe Biden that “you saw yesterday” on the debate stage “making it four-and-a-half more years. And so, you do have to acknowledge, there is a high likelihood that a Joe Biden victory ultimately means Kamala Harris will be president.” Host Abby Phillip said, “This has been something that they have described as a conservative talking point, a hitjob, that she’s really the one...

A US bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to “conduct an orderly wind-down” of the operations of Infowars’ parent company and “liquidate its inventory.” Murray, who was appointed by a federal judge to oversee the assets in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, did not give...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones discussed President Joe Biden’s upcoming commencement speech at Morehouse College and stated that the people he’ll be speaking to think “their issues when it comes to police reform, when it comes to violence in the streets, have not been given the force they expected.”

CNN analyst Van Jones suggested Monday that President Biden push back against concerns around his age in this week’s State of The Union address by emphasizing that a “good grandpa” is better than “a bad grandpa.” “Unfortunately he cannot get any younger, so there’s not much they can do about it. He has a chance this week though, to remind people sometimes having a good grandpa on the case is better than having a bad grandpa on the case,” Jones said of the president during an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. “And that’s really … he’s got to lean...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that while it’s untrue that “the black community only cares about a black kid getting killed if a white cop does it or a white supremacist does it,” it is true that “The media only cares” about black children being killed if a white police officer or a racist white person is the killer. Host Bill Maher began the discussion by stating, “We do know that, for young black men, gun homicides are the leading cause of death. And…that leading cause outstrips...