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There’s apparently still plenty of money to be made in crypto because The Black Keys have signed on to play the final show of “The America Loves Crypto Tour,” which is a not-at-all ridiculously named concert series hosted by the (we kid you not) Stand with Crypto Alliance political action committee.

The “intimate show” goes down next Friday, October 25th at the Akron Civic Theatre in The Black Keys’ hometown of Akron, Ohio. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are just the latest musicians to play in support of the Pac. Previous shows featured performances from Black Pumas, 070 Shake, Big Sean, Jessie Murph, Lauv, and of course, The Chainsmokers.

So while the music industry’s Nft boom is long gone, it appears crypto’s big bet on the 2024 elections has offered a new set of opportunities.

Stand with Crypto Alliance’s endorsements in the upcoming election include notorious Republicans like Ted Cruz,...

Willie Nelson and Margo Price encouraged their fans in Texas and Tennessee to register to vote and cast a ballot in favor of the states’ respective Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate. In Texas, Colin Allred is trying to unseat Republican Ted Cruz, while Gloria Johnson — one of the Tennessee Three — is challenging Republican Marsha Blackburn.

In a video filmed around a table on Nelson’s tour bus, the country songwriters endorse Allred and Johnson in a short speech. “I know we’re all talking about the presidential race, and that’s important,...

Taylor Swift uses her platform and influence to support Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for the upcoming US election. The singer previously expressed this on a social media post that went viral a few days ago.

Credits: Taylor Swift via CBS News

In a resurfaced clip from her Netflix documentary film Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, she voices her political opinions that not even her family, who fear for her safety, could stop her from endorsing her chosen political candidates.

Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana Documentary Proved Her Silence On Political Issues Is Now Over

From a country pop singer to one of the most influential music icons in the world, Taylor Swift has proven her success in the industry, and with millions of fans across the globe, it is safe to assume that many also support her advocacies.

The music diva has been firm in her...

In his delusional mind, former President Donald Trump has seemed to believe that Taylor Swift might endorse his presidency, claiming that he’s “made her so much money” and thinking that because she once made country music, she’d have to vote Republican.

But no, since 2018, the Eras Tour pop star has been adamant in supporting Democratic causes. And most recently, she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz in their run for president and VP in the 2024 election following Trump’s failed debate against Harris.

“I’m...

Fourteen-time Grammy award-winning recording artist and international pop icon Taylor Swift made a rare political statement on Monday night, which was a big one. Deploying her Instagram account, which has over 283 million followers, she came out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the presidency, and against former President Donald Trump. She used a pointed image—a glamor shot, originally taken for her Time magazine “Person of the Year” spread, including one of her pet cats, Benjamin Button.

The fact that Swift is a cat owner and also does not have children places her in a group that has been tarnished by J.D. Vance, the opposing vice presidential candidate, who has mocked “childless cat ladies.” Indeed, Swift’s lengthy caption concludes with “Childless Cat Lady.”

Swift, whose concert appearances have had demonstrative effects on local economies, is rare to go off-book with a political statement like this.

The arrival of artificial intelligence hit Hollywood like an earthquake.

It was 2022. Layoffs, cost-cutting and what appeared to be an inevitable strike from writers was looming and the industry was in flux. That fall, OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT in what became the first momentous moment of the tech entering the public consciousness. Everything changed, starting with “Heart on my Sleeve,” a song that used AI versions of voices from Drake and the Weeknd.

SAG-AFTRA mobilized its fleet of lobbyists in Washington D.C, as did the Recording Industry Association of America, according to people familiar with the situation. They found receptive ears in Senators Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn, Amy Klobuchar and Thom Tillis, who later unveiled a discussion draft of the legislation providing protections from unauthorized uses of their appearance and voice in generative AI tools. On July 31, an updated version of the bill was introduced — a...

A bipartisan group of US Senators has formally introduced the No Fakes Act, a long overdue bill aiming to protect individuals’ voices and visual likenesses from being exploited by AI companies.

Senators Chris Coons (D-de), Marsha Blackburn (R-tn), Amy Klobuchar (D-mn), and Thom Tillis (R-nc) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act on Wednesday (July 31st) after first releasing a discussion draft this past October.

According to a press release, the No Fakes Act would “hold individuals or companies liable for damages for producing, hosting, or sharing a digital replica of an individual performing in an audiovisual work, image, or sound recording that the individual never actually appeared in or otherwise approved.”

“Americans from all walks of life are increasingly seeing AI being used to create deepfakes in ads, images, music, and videos without their consent,” said Senator Klobuchar in a statement. “We need our laws...

A bipartisan group of US Senators has formally introduced the No Fakes Act, a long overdue bill aiming to protect individuals’ voices and visual likenesses from being exploited by AI companies.

Senators Chris Coons (D-de), Marsha Blackburn (R-tn), Amy Klobuchar (D-mn), and Thom Tillis (R-nc) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act on Wednesday (July 31st) after first releasing a discussion draft this past October.

According to a press release, the No Fakes Act would “hold individuals or companies liable for damages for producing, hosting, or sharing a digital replica of an individual performing in an audiovisual work, image, or sound recording that the individual never actually appeared in or otherwise approved.”

“Americans from all walks of life are increasingly seeing AI being used to create deepfakes in ads, images, music, and videos without their consent,” said Senator Klobuchar in a statement. “We need our laws...

A bipartisan group of senators officially introduced a long-anticipated bill on Wednesday designed to protect peoples’ voices and visual likenesses from being exploited with artificial intelligence re-creations without their permission.

Senators Chris Coons (D-de), Marsha Blackburn (R-tn), Amy Klobuchar (D-mn) and Thom Tillis introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (No Fakes) Act on Wednesday, about eight months after first introducing a discussion draft of that bill last October.

No Fakes is similar to the No AI Fraud Act introduced in Congress earlier this year and establishes...

As SAG-AFTRA been pushing for protections against AI, the studios have been reluctant to support any legislation that might crack down on its uses too broadly. But now, it appears that the parties are on the same page as they’ve both thrown their support behind a newly introduced bipartisan Senate bill.

The No Fakes Act (read it here) finally received support from the studios via the Motion Picture Association on Wednesday, after the group had warned of potential First Amendment violations earlier this year.

The bill is sponsored by Sens. Chris Coons (D-de), Marsha Blackburn (R-tn), Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn) and Thom Tillis (R-nc).

“We support protecting performers from generative AI abuse – and this bill thoughtfully establishes federal protections against harmful uses of digital replicas, while respecting First Amendment rights and creative freedoms,” a statement from MPA CEO Charles Rivkin read. “We particularly appreciate the sponsors’ inclusion of safeguards...

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle sat for a tense, heated testimony before the House Oversight Committee, where she was grilled over the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

In her opening statement, Cheatle called the shooting “the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades.” Cheatle also said she takes “full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency.”

The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Matthew Crooks, was able to gain access to a...

Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump detailed the recent attempt made on his life, for those on hand for the closing night of the Republican National Convention.

Trump’s remarks on Thursday night came just five days after said assassination attempt at a Butler, Pa., campaign rally.

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In his first official act since being asked to run as Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick in the 2024 election, Sen. Jd Vance told an audience at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday: “Tonight is a night of hope — a celebration of what America once was, and with God’s grace, what it will soon be again.”

Vance formally accepted the nomination to be Trump’s running mate and laid out his vision for the country in a speech to the crowd at Fiserv Forum and Wisconsin Center District in Milwaukee, Wis. “My fellow Americans, this moment is not about me.

In his first official act since being asked to run as Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick in the 2024 election, Sen. J.D. Vance told an audience at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday: “Tonight is a night of hope — a celebration of what America once was, and with God’s grace, what it will soon be again.”

Vance formally accepted the nomination to be Trump’s running mate and laid out his vision for the country in a speech to the crowd at Fiserv Forum and Wisconsin Center District in Milwaukee, Wis. “My fellow Americans, this moment is not about me.

As the world’s wealthiest people were lining up behind former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party served up hours of programming at its convention designed to woo the working class with (mostly) fake populism.

During the first day of the Republican National Convention, the theme was “Make America Wealthy Again.” The evening’s program was a calibrated pitch to the working class — with speakers and video messages repeatedly slamming President Joe Biden over inflation, higher gas prices and grocery bills, and credit card debt.

Consistent with Trump...

The Republican National Convention opened Monday afternoon, with a boosted security presence following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

That has given the proceedings a different tenor of coverage, with Trump expected to appear on the floor Monday night to a rousing reception of delegates and supporters.

Before the Trump rally shooting, correspondents already were looking to a convention that would be more than just a coronation of the Republican nominee, as he has yet to announce his vice presidential running mate. The former president has signaled that will come today.

Now, with the assassination attempt and concerns over the escalation of political violence, media focus will be on the speakers and the extent to which they display messages of unity versus red meat rhetoric.

“The reality is, this whole convention now is going to be really colored by what happened the other, and just the images of him pumping first and saying,...

Tucker Carlson is among the celebrity names slated to speak at next week’s Republican National Convention, reportedly in a plum spot on Thursday night before Donald Trump himself accepts the party nomination.

In addition to a long list of elected officials who are backing Trump, the speaker lineup also includes celebrities like Amber Rose, the model, rapper and former stripper; Dana White, the CEO of UFC; and Savannah Chrisley, the TV personality whose parents are serving prison time for fraud and tax evasion. Also on the bill: Lee Greenwood and Chris Janson.

Notably missing from the lineup: Former First Lady Melania Trump and the former president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump. They each spoke at the 2016 and 2020 conventions.

House GOP leaders like Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer are on the list, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Whip John Thune and Republican...

Donald Trump is in his “Reputation” era.

The former president muses about pop princess Taylor Swift in a new book about his years as a reality star, “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass,” written by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh.

When Setoodeh asked Trump his thoughts on the musical mastermind in November 2023, he was effusive in his praise — of her appearance, that is.

“I think she’s beautiful — very beautiful! I find her very beautiful. I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very talented,” he said. “I think she’s very beautiful, actually — unusually beautiful!”

Swift had been rumored to be a secret Republican during the 2016 election cycle, before she publicly endorsed Tennessee Democratic candidates Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives in 2018.

“In the past I’ve been reluctant...

SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland urged lawmakers to move forward with an AI bill which seeks to provide historic protection against generative artificial intelligence.

“AI technology, left unregulated, poses an existential threat not only to SAG-AFTRA’s members, but to civil discourse, student health & welfare, democracy and national security,” he said during his testimony to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property about the No Fakes Act (read it here).

In addition to requiring informed consent for digital replicas, the bipartisan No Fakes Act — or the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act — offers historic federal IP protections against the misappropriation of voice and likeness performance in sound recordings and audiovisual works.

Artificial intelligence was a cornerstone of SAG-AFTRA’s negotiations with the Hollywood studios last year and one of the sticking points that prompted the actors union to go on strike for 148 days. As a result,...

FKA twigs has proactively taken AI into her own hands to develop a deepfake version of herself to handle fan interactions while she focuses on music, Rolling Stone reports.

“In the past year, I have developed my own deepfake version of myself that is not only trained in my personality but also can use my exact tone of voice to speak many languages,” FKA twigs shared in written testimony ahead of her appearance before Senate on Tuesday (April 30th).

Praising the technology as a “highly valuable” tool “when under the control of the artist,” the British musician continued, “I will be engaging my AI twigs later this year to extend my reach and handle my online social media interactions, whilst I continue to focus on my art from the comfort and solace of my studio.”

FKA twigs will be giving testimony about “AI twigs” during a hearing before the Senate...

More than 250 artists, including Billie Eilish, Green Day, Sia and Cyndi Lauper, signed a letter Thursday urging the Senate Commerce Committee to support a bill that would reform the ticketing system for live events.

The Fans First Act, which was initially introduced in December by Sens. John Cornyn, Amy Klobuchar, Marsha Blackburn, Peter Welch, Roger Wicker and Ben Ray Lujan, aims to address flaws in the current live event ticketing system. The bill hopes to increase transparency in ticket sales, protect consumers from fake or overpriced tickets, and hold those who engage in illegal ticket sale practices accountable.

“As artists and members of the music community, we rely on touring for our livelihood, and we value music fans above all else,” the letter said in part. “We are joining together to say that the current system is broken: predatory resellers and secondary platforms engage in deceptive ticketing practices to inflate...

President Joe Biden urged Israel not to launch a counter-strike against Iran, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in one. Iran on Saturday launched drones and missiles to attack Israel — most of which were intercepted by forces from the U.S., Israel, and other countries in the region.

In a phone call with Netanyahu late Saturday, Biden told Netanyahu, “You got a win. Take the win,” according to a senior U.S. official who spoke with Axios. Biden further told Netanyahu that the U.

When a bunch of all-stars get together to record a song for a cause, the result can often be cringey. But “Tennessee Rise,” featuring the pulpit-ready voices of Brittany Howard, Allison Russell, Katie Pruitt, Amanda Shires, Fancy Hagood, Emmylou Harris, and more, hits all the marks.

The heavenly choir anthem was recorded to encourage Tennesseans to register and vote for Gloria Johnson, who is challenging Republican incumbent U.S. senator — and the state’s Darth Vader — Marsha Blackburn in the November election. Johnson is one of the lawmakers known as “The Tennessee Three,...

Lady Gaga unleashed a righteous invective against the ugly responses to her International Women’s Day post with trans actor/influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “I feel very protective in this moment, not only of Dylan, but of the trans community who continues to lead the way with their endless grace and inspiration in the face of constant degradation, intolerance, and physical, verbal, and mental violence,” Gaga said on Instagram. “I certainly do not speak for this community, but I have something to say.”

On Sunday, Mulvaney shared a photo of herself...

Sinbad is thanking “fans and friends” for their enduring support following his first major appearance in more than three years.

The beloved comedian, now 67, suffered a stroke in November 2020 — and with the exception of a still image shared to his Instagram in 2022, had not been seen in public until last month.

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Even U.S. President Joe Biden is talking about pop star Taylor Swift. Frankly speaking, who isn’t. Biden made light of the conspiracy theory that he and Swift are working together. During an appearance on a late-night show, the President had a readily available answer to the question of whether or not the Blank Space singer will endorse him in 2024.

There have been conspiracies that Taylor Swift may endorse the current U.S. President Joe Biden in the upcoming elections. When asked about it during an interview, Biden did not hesitate once before answering.

Taylor Swift in the music video for Bejeweled

U.S. President Joe Biden On Whether or Not He and Taylor Swift Are Working Together

There is no doubt regarding the fact that Taylor Swift has a significant influence on millions of people, young and older people alike. So, if she were to actually endorse someone for the elections,...

After the news of Toby Keith’s death broke overnight, reactions from the stars of the country music world and beyond followed, as some legendary figures and admirers of the late Nashville star began to share tributes online.

Keith “passed peacefully last night on Feb. 5, surrounded by his family,” read his official website’s announcement of his death; he was 62. The news came two years after the singer posted about his stomach cancer diagnosis on his official Instagram page.

His Instagram page is where many are directing their reactions and condolences following the news. “God Bless you and Family,” singer Randy Houser commented. “Hard to imagine an America without Toby Keith in it.”

Actor Stephen Baldwin commented, “Wow this announcement has totally taken my breath away. I’ve been praying for Toby and it is truly wonderful to know he is finally home praise Jesus” and Georgia-based singer-songwriter Channing Wilson wrote,...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino and other tech industry leaders faced a grilling from lawmakers today as they appeared for a landmark Senate hearing on the online exploitation of children.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-il) blamed the tech platforms at the outset for allowing the exploitation to proliferate, while dismissing the latest efforts the companies have taken to boost safety.

“They are responsible for many of the dangers our children face online,” Durbin said, calling it a “crisis in America.”

“Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. You have a product that is killing people,” said the top Republican on the committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Sc), told Zuckerberg, as he sat at the witness table.

He called for the repeal of Section 230, the provision of a...

Update: There’s a reason that attacks on Taylor Swift continued throughout the day today: She’s a celebrity guaranteed to drive web traffic, particularly to right-wing media figures advancing ever more outlandish conspiracy theories. For much of today, social media focused on figures like Jack Posobiec and Benny Johnson, who benefit from the attention even if it’s to try to discredit them.

While a Swift endorsement of Joe Biden may very well hold enough sway to be of concern to Donald Trump’s campaign, the fixation on cooking up conspiracy theories about her has more to do with what draws attention in a hyper-competitive universe of voices on the right.

Erick Erickson, the conservative commentator, wrote on X/Twitter, “Let me explain what is actually going on with these hucksters, charlatans, and grifters on the right. They don’t believe it. They hope you might believe it. They...

When notorious pedophile and wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein died in a jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors, he left conspiracy theorists with a tangled web of lurid mysteries that would keep them busy for years to come. Suspicions that Epstein hadn’t really hanged himself soon gave way to claims of a vast coverup — the man supposedly murdered to prevent him from revealing the worst secrets of the global elite.

Now, four years later, far-right politicians and commentators are again fixated on Epstein’s personal connections,...

Even as the issue of protecting performers from the misuse of artificial intelligence continues to vex the labor negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a second front has just opened.

On Oct. 12, four U.S. Senators presented a bipartisan “discussion draft” of legislation intended to protect actors, singers and others from having AI programs generate their likenesses and voices without their informed written consent. The “Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe” (No Fakes) Act would allow people, companies and platforms to be sued for producing or hosting so-called “digital replicas.”

The No Fakes Act is being sponsored by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-tn), Chris Coons (D-de), Amy Klobuchar (D-mn) and Thom Tillis (R-nc). It represents the federal government’s first attempt to prevent the misappropriation of voice and likeness performances in audiovisual works and sound recordings. The rights created under this prospective legislation...

This is Day 92 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

At the first actors to picket after Wednesday night’s breakdown of their talks with the studios and streamers, SAG-AFTRA members in New York City said that they were disappointed by the setback but “holding strong” to their demands.

Striking actors who gathered Thursday outside Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery offices also cheered the announcement of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate to protect them from artificial intelligence.

Writers joining them on the picket line after ratifying their own contract this week urged the actors to stay strong.

“It’s tactics,” The Wire creator David Simon told Deadline, speaking of the studios’ decision to suspend the talks and criticize SAG-AFTRA for demanding a share of studio profits. “They say you can’t have something and you’ll never get something, and ‘DGA settled for this and you don’t understand our industry.

ByteDance is buying up more real estate for TikTok employees in the United States. The Beijing-based parent company — which is currently the subject of a U.S. Senate inquiry — has purchased 143,000 square feet of real estate to add to its footprint in Culver City.

TikTok has already established a presence in Culver City. In 2020, the video app moved into five-floor office in the Los Angeles suburb.

Initially, that complex included 120,000 square feet of space, but it’s about to get a massive upgrade. As first reported by the brokerage Savills, ByteDance is adding 53,202 square feet to its existing lease. It’s also acquiring another 90,049 square feet of space at a separate Culver City address. That deal is a sublease agreement.

According to Savills, the deal was the fourth-largest office deal in Los Angeles during the third quarter. TikTok also operates out of several other U.S. offices, including spaces in Chicago,...

President Taylor Swift drove a record-smashing amount of traffic to Vote.org Tuesday (September 19th) on National Voter Registration Day. After she shared an Instagram story urging fans to participate in this fall’s off-year elections, the website saw more than 35,000 new voters register in one day, Axios reports.

“I’ve been so lucky to see so many of you guys at my US shows recently,” Swift wrote in a text post on her Instagram story. “I’ve heard you raise your voices, and I know how powerful they are. Make sure you’re ready to use them in our elections this year!”

To be exact, Vote.org says that 35,252 people newly registered to vote on Tuesday, marking a 23% jump from last year’s National Voter Registration Day and the largest annual increase since the 2020 general election year. There was also a 115% increase in 18-year-olds registering compared to last year.

For the second time in less than two months, YouTube is responding to a critical inquiry into its advertising practices. Senators Ed Markey (D-ma) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tn) have written a letter to the FTC asking for an investigation into YouTube’s ad placements on videos intended for children.

The latest to-do over children’s online safety started with a report from Adalytics. The ad data platform — which previously argued that the Google Video Partners program “misled” buyers — raised questions about the data collection that could be happening on kid-friendly content.

According to an Adalytics report, spots from major “adult” brands have run as pre-roll ads next to videos from CoComelon, Kids Diana Show, and other major family channels. When viewers clicked on those ads, cookies were added to their devices “for the purposes of ad targeting and tracking on the browsers of consumers watching YouTube videos that are clearly labeled as ‘for kids.

Republicans are flip-flopping on who they want to investigate Hunter Biden.

Last September, Sen. Ted Cruz along with several other Republicans authored a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting that U.S. Attorney David Weiss be given “special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the Hunter Biden investigation.” But now that Garland has appointed Weiss as special counsel in the investigation, Cruz is claiming that Weiss is a “wildly inappropriate” choice.

Cruz alleged that Weiss “was a U.S. Attorney hand-picked to lead this investigation who spent the last...

Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to two federal misdemeanor charges related to failing to pay his taxes, the Justice Department announced in a court filing on Tuesday.

The president’s son has reached an agreement to plead guilty on two counts of “willful failure to pay federal income tax.” Biden has also been charged with “possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.” He reached a pretrial diversion for the firearms charged, and it is likely to be dismissed if he meets certain conditions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told lawmakers on Tuesday that the “right thing to do” is to make sure that content owners “get significant upside benefit” from artificial intelligence technology that has raised new concerns over copyright and compensation.

At a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Altman was questioned by some lawmakers over the use of copyrighted material to train OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate new works. The use of AI is an issue in the Writers Guild of America strike against the studios, but content creators in general have raised concerns over what the technology means for protection of their intellectual property.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tn) said that the music artists in her state “should be able to decide if their copyrighted songs and images are going to be used to train these models.” She cited OpenAI’s Jukebox, which generates music in “a variety of genres and artist styles.

Republicans in the Tennessee state house who voted Thursday to expel from the legislature two Black Democrats (while narrowly failing to do the same to a white colleague) were in the wrong, former Republican senator Scott Brown said Sunday on CNN State of the Union.

Brown, who represented Massachusetts from 2010 to 2013 and went on to serve as Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during the Trump administration, urged the two sides to find “common ground” because “this is a very, very serious issue–what’s going on with gun violence around this country.

Joy Behar has no time for U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s thoughts and prayers after the shooting at Covenant School on Monday that killed three children, considering how much money the Tennessee lawmaker has taken from the NRA.

Monday’s shooting marked the 129th mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year, and on Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” the women were once again furious. As always, they advocated for stricter gun control measures, including deeper background checks and age restrictions.

Setting up the discussion, the hosts played a video of Maxwell Frost addressing his fellow congressmen, angrily telling them “It is likely that at this moment, the next mass shooter is planning their shooting. What will this chamber do about it?”

“Nothing. They’ll do nothing. They do nothing. It’s all about the money,” Behar said bluntly.

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As host of the national country-music morning program The Bobby Bones Show, DJ Bobby Bones knows firsthand the deep-rooted connection between country music and gun culture. But that didn’t stop him from speaking out in favor of gun regulation after a school shooting in Nashville on Monday that left three 9-year-old students and three adult school staff members dead.

In an Instagram Story post on Monday, Bones wrote about the lack of nuance in the gun control debate and blamed politicians for dividing their constituents. “I am a proud gun owner,...

The GOP has a well-established playbook for the aftermath of a school shooting: thoughts, prayers, and protecting the guns.

On Monday morning, authorities say a woman entered the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, and shot and killed three students and three school staff members. The suspect, identified by officials as a 28-year-old former student of the school, was armed with two assault rifles and a handgun.

Republican lawmakers from both Tennessee and around the country offered their condolences for the victims and their families, but many of these same lawmakers...

Rosanne Cash, Jason Isbell, Sheryl Crow, and Margo Price were just some members of the Nashville music community calling out Tennessee politicians over the state’s gun laws following a mass shooting at a private Christian school on Monday morning that left seven dead, including the shooter.

Cash and Crow along with Nashville singer-songwriter Will Hoge, all responded to Republican state senator Marsha Blackburn’s tweet saying she and her husband Chuck were “heartbroken” over the tragedy.

Don’t even. You vote against every common sense gun control bill that comes across your desk,...

The Maga movement still had Big Tech in its sights at Cpac 2023 — but they aren’t sure how or when to pull the trigger, or if the gun is even loaded.

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Update: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-mn) told reporters that she that she believes that the three-hour Senate hearing focusing on Ticketmaster’s business practices helped educate some members “so we can move forward on some consumer legislation when it comes to ticket prices.”

The criticism of Ticketmaster and parent Live Nation Entertainment came from both sides of the aisle, as lawmakers blasted the company not just for the Taylor Swift ticket debacle but for its market power in three sectors of live entertainment: ticketing, promotion and venues.

“You wouldn’t know sometimes who was speaking, a Democrat or Republican. They want to help consumers. There are concert fans that are in red states and blue states.” She said that by making the hearing public, “I think you are going to see some changes immediately — small changes, but some changes, it sounds like.” She also pointed to reports that the Justice Department is investigating the company.

A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against Ticketmaster and Live Nation following Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” ticketing debacle. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges that the ticketing company violated federal antitrust laws and unfair competition laws, and that they misled consumers in the sale of tickets for Swift’s tour.

“Ticketmaster intentionally and purposefully misled millions of fans into believing it would prevent bots and scalpers from participating in the presales,” that lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, claims. “However, millions of fans were unable to purchase tickets during...

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After a brief hiatus, Saturday Night Live returned on Dec. 3 and dove right into the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff race between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock.

The cold open featured Kenan Thompson’s Herschel Walker, Mikey Day’s John Cornyn, Cecily Strong’s Marsha Blackburn and James Austin Johnson’s Mitch McConnell.

“Well, Herschel, the midterms wasn’t the red wave we hoped for, but we think you can win this Tuesday,” Day’s Cornyn said. “Yes. The priority now is to get out the vote because he got this big runoff coming up,” Strong’s Blackburn added.

“Oh, well, I’m good at those,” Thompson’s Walker replied. “My ex-wife said all I do is run off.”

Strong and Day explained to Thompson that they were talking about the Senate race, which is polling very close, with Warnock polling at 50.9 percent and Walker at 49.1 percent.

Saturday Night Live‘s last episode before the Georgia Senate runoff began with concerned Republicans in Congress figuring out what to do with candidate Herschel Walker in order to boost their chances of capturing the Democratic-held seat.

The trio of James Austin Johnson as Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Mikey Day as Sen. John Cornyn and Cecily Strong as Sen. Marsha Blackburn met for a discussion with Walker, played by Kenan Thompson, who promptly addressed the Kentucky senator as “Mitch McDonalds.”

“I’m sorry I’m late,” Thompson began. “I...

“Saturday Night Live” opened the first new show in three weeks with a look at how the GOP is responding to Herschel Walker’s tight runoff Senate race in Georgia, with Kenan Thompson memorably reprising his role as the former NFL running back who keeps going from gaffe to gaffe.

The “SNL” cold open began with Mitch McConnell (James Austin Johnson), Marsha Blackburn (Cecily Strong) and John Cornyn (Mikey Day) sitting in a room at the Capitol, where Walker was summoned to discuss strategy. “Hey there Mr. McDonald’s, sorry I was late I was having too much fun in that free merry-go-round,” Thompson’s Walker said to Johnson’s McConnell, mistaking a revolving door for a ride.

The sketch then played out with Walker responding incorrectly to pretty much everything McConnell, Blackburn and Cornyn had to say.

When vote-by-mail was mentioned, Walker responded, “You gotta remember, they still gotta count votes by female.