Director Francis Ford Coppola promised that his new film, “Megalopolis,” won’t be filled with leftist propaganda like so many other Hollywood films. “What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” the director told Rolling Stone in a new interview.  “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another,” he continued. “There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. That star-studded roster includes Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, who is vocally conservative and supports Donald Trump. His role in the film is said to be loosely based on Trump.  Coppola also cast Shia LeBeouf, a former Disney Channel star who was accused of sexual assault in 2021.  “Shia really took to it,” Coppola said. “I had no experience working with him prior to this, but he deliberately sets up a tension between himself and the director to an extreme degree. He reminds me of Dennis Hopper, who would do something similar, and then you’d say, ‘Just go do anything,’ and then they go off and do something brilliant.” “Megalopolis” stars Adam Driver as architect Cesar Catilina, who has dreams of building a utopian city after a catastrophic incident destroys a large city resembling New York. His plans receive pushback from various characters and support from others. Other big-name stars in the production include Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D. B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman. The film received mixed reviews after it premiered at Cannes earlier this year.  Deadline reviewer Damon Wise called the movie a “mad modern masterwork that reinvents the possibilities of cinema.” He said “Megalopolis” is “something of a mess; unruly, exaggerated and drawn to pretension like a moth to a flame” but is also “a pretty stunning achievement.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Indiewire writer David Ehrlich said the spectacle was the point. “The silliness is a feature, not a bug!” he wrote of the movie on X. “A garish, epic, & utterly singular $120 million self-portrait that’s also a fable about the fall of ancient Rome & a plea to save our civilization (and its cinema) from itself. big fan.” Meanwhile, the reviewer from The Guardian gave it two stars, describing the project as “megabloated and megaboring.” A trailer for the film was taken down last week after it was discovered that it contained fake and misattributed critic quotes, as The Daily Wire previously reported. 

The Trump campaign is pushing back against media claims that Vice President Kamala Harris has changed her position on a border wall. Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday in a statement that the Harris campaign is attempting to obscure the vice president’s record on immigration, calling Harris “pro-open border.” “How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump’s border wall – this is a preposterous and false claim,” Leavitt said. “Kamala’s RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall ‘un-American,’ a ‘waste of taxpayer money,’ ‘medieval,’ and said it isn’t going to ‘stop’ illegal immigration. As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall. As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall,” Leavitt said. “Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. ?Trump Campaign Statement on Open Border Kamala Harris How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President… pic.twitter.com/IzMfNVPtQ9 — Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) August 27, 2024   Her statement came after Axios published a story headlined, “Harris flip-flops on building the border wall.” The story characterizes Harris’ support for a bipartisan border bill as a flip in favor of supporting a wall along the southern border. The bill, which died in Congress earlier this year, was negotiated by a team of lawmakers including Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. “It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI The proposed legislation would cut down border wall spending to a fraction of what Trump requested during his term and would allocate $650 million toward the border wall, far below Trump’s request of $18 billion. In addition to restricting the funds needed to complete the border wall, the legislation would codify a number of rules that border experts have said would lead to the crisis at the border growing worse. The bill would only force the Department of Homeland Security to take emergency action on the border if encounters rise to an average of 5,000 a day for seven consecutive days or 8,500 encounters in one day. The bill would also codify and continue the “catch and release” of illegal immigrants. “If passed into law, families and children would be released without supervision,” according to The Heritage Foundation. It would also allow the Department of Homeland Security to expand parole authority to provide legal pathways for immigrants to take advantage of to enter the U.S. — a tool that the Biden-Harris administration has already taken advantage of to increase immigration.

A recent Columbia Law School graduate whom the school praised for exemplifying its “spirit” attempted to bully The Daily Wire into censoring an article on the school’s partisan behavior with an email that seemed to threaten a reporter’s children and dog. Luke Cronin emailed The Daily Wire earlier this month to complain about a year-old article from this reporter on campus extremism. Cronin, a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, advised The Daily Wire to “take down Mr. Rosniak’s [sic] writing.” He did not claim that the article was inaccurate, instead saying it referenced remarks he made on social media that have since been hidden from the public. Cronin, writing from his Columbia email address, concluded his missive with an ominous postscript containing specific details about this reporter’s place of residence, family members, and pet, expressing his wish that they have “gotten what they deserve.” In March 2023, The Daily Wire reported that Columbia’s law school had a collective meltdown because its official Instagram page posted a picture of some students meeting with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Virtually all of the law school’s race-based student clubs, such as the Black Law Students Association, said they would no longer help Columbia recruit minorities in retaliation for the photo op. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The Daily Wire noted that students who objected to the meeting accused Kavanaugh of raping Christine Blasey Ford, even though such accusations against the justice have never been proven. Cronin, then a “Leadership Fellow” at Columbia, was one of the students who made a baseless accusation against Kavanaugh. “Kavanaugh sexually violated Dr. Ford,” he wrote on the school’s Instagram post. This summer, Cronin graduated and entered the job market. Shortly thereafter, he petitioned The Daily Wire to scrub his comments from its factually-accurate article. The timing suggests Cronin may have been looking to shield his partisan comments from potential future employers as he pursues a career in big law. Cronin spent last summer as a summer associate at Quinn Emanuel,  where he worked on the case of a homeless person whose cat plummeted out a window. Summer associates at big law firms like Quinn Emanuel virtually always receive permanent job offers after passing the bar exam. But a spokesman for the firm told The Daily Wire Cronin “does not have an offer to return to the firm.” Thirteen judges have said they will not hire Columbia law grads as law clerks due to an “explosion of student disruptions, anti-Semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints” at the school, saying it has become an “incubator of bigotry.” At the time he commented on the Kavanaugh photo, Cronin was a Davis Polk Leadership Fellow. The fellowship page said he “hopes to use the Davis Polk Leadership Fellowship to build an outreach organization which directly serves unhoused folks in Morningside Heights and in Harlem” and “connect unhoused individuals with legal issues to legal service providers. “As someone who has experienced housing insecurity, Luke hopes to build a bridges [sic] between his peers at Columbia and with unhoused folks,” a university website reads. In April 2024, Columbia gave Cronin its “Campbell Award, which is presented to a graduating student at each School who shows exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit.” The award said Cronin uses “he/him/his” pronouns and “helped represent asylum-seeking clients.” It said he “was selected to join the Clerkship Diversity Initiative, the Academic Scholars program, as well as the Tony Patiño Fellow-elect.” The Academic Scholars program is a scholarship that pays half of tuition for students who Columbia faculty believe would make good law professors. The Tony Patiño Fellowship pays an additional $17,500 a year for students who Columbia faculty believe show “good citizenship.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned earlier this month amid criticism of how the school has handled anti-Semitic protests since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, including the student takeover of an academic building. The school has adopted a color-coded security system in light of the frequent disruptions on its campus. Columbia is currently at an “Orange Level,” meaning people seeking to enter campus must go through a checkpoint and show ID. Columbia University did not return a request for comment. Cronin’s response to the Kavanaugh photo and The Daily Wire’s story was not out of place on campus. The Center for Engaged Pedagogy at Columbia University’s sister school, Barnard College, used its official Instagram account to comment “WTF is wrong with you” on the Kavanaugh photo. When The Daily Wire asked the Center’s director, Melissa Wright, for comment last year, the comment request — which included the reporter’s phone number and email — was used to doxx the reporter. In a juvenile prank, his contact information was entered into dozens of spam websites, cult and far-left mailing lists, and dating sites. Wright has since been promoted from interim director to executive director. Related: Northwestern Law School Pays For ‘Gay Dance Party’ To Quell Uproar Following Diversity Office’s Promotion Of ‘Civility’

Jason and Travis Kelce just inked a major deal for their podcast rumored to be worth more than $100 million, according to an unnamed source. According to a report from Variety, the NFL brothers have a three-year deal with Wondery, an Amazon company that will have exclusive rights to their popular “New Heights” podcast. Travis currently plays tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, and Jason retired earlier this year after playing 13 seasons with the Philadephia Eagles. The outlet noted that going forward, starting Wednesday, Wondery will have global distribution rights to all audio and video episodes of “New Heights,” including an extensive back catalog of all previous content. The company will also have rights to international audio adaptations of the podcast and will hold exclusive rights to monetize and distribute episodes, the outlet noted. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Wondery+ subscribers will be able to access the podcast ad-free.  “We couldn’t be more excited to team up with Wondery for the next phase of ‘New Heights,’” the Kelce brothers said in a statement. “We love this show, and the fanbase that has grown with us over the last two seasons. Wondery understands the shared vision and will offer a wealth of experience and resources to take us to ‘New Heights’! We are going to create some groundbreaking moments together through this partnership. We are thrilled to start Season 3 — see you soon, 92%ers!” Wondery CEO Jen Sargent also spoke of the partnership, saying its appeal extended well beyond just sports fans. “‘New Heights’ on the surface is a sports podcast, and sports is such a well-listened-to category,” she said. “But it’s become a cultural phenomenon — they’re in that cultural zeitgeist.” Besides just talking football, the brothers use their podcast to discuss a variety of timely topics and interview celebrity guests.  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Travis has been making headlines recently for his high-profile relationship with singer Taylor Swift. Rumors of their relationship began last summer when Travis mentioned on an episode of “New Heights” that he wanted to give the Grammy winner a friendship bracelet with his phone number when “The Eras Tour” came to Kansas City.  “This all started when Travis [Kelce] very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift said later of the beginnings of their romance. “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.” Swift attended many Chiefs games during the 2023-2024 season, leading to an uptick in television viewers and media coverage. 

Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must remain on Michigan’s general election ballot despite his push to remove it from ballots in battleground states, according to Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. After endorsing Trump last week, Kennedy said he would remain on the ballot in “red” and “blue” states but remove himself from “10 battleground states” where he could potentially act as a “spoiler.” Axios reported on Tuesday that Michigan Secretary of State Benson’s office said in a statement, “Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election.” In April, Kennedy qualified for the Michigan general election ballot through the Natural Law Party, which had already filed the necessary paperwork to have its candidate on the ballot. Cheri Hardmon, senior press secretary for the Michigan Secretary of State, said, “The Natural Law Party held their convention to select electors for [RFK Jr.]. They cannot meet at this point to select new electors since it’s past the primary.” Michigan has played a crucial role in the past two presidential elections, swinging from Donald Trump in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020. Vice President Kamala Harris currently leads in the Michigan polls by two points, according to the RealClearPolitics average. Six recent polls cited by The Washington Post showed Harris performing better against Trump nationally if Kennedy remained on the ballot. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Before Kennedy had even made it on the Michigan ballot, the Democratic Party launched a billboard campaign in Grand Rapids, claiming Kennedy was “bankrolled by the same extreme MAGA donor as Donald Trump.” The Democrat-turned-independent candidate blasted the Democratic Party in his speech last week when he announced he was suspending his campaign and backing Trump. “In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself,” he said. “Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI

Thousands of non-citizens and felons were removed from the Texas voter rolls since the implementation of a 2021 law that has been celebrated as a way to safeguard the state’s elections. More than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the Lone Star State’s voter rolls, Governor Greg Abbott announced yesterday. The cleanup of the voter rolls, which was made possible by Senate Bill 1, resulted in over 6,500 non-citizens and more than 6,000 felons being removed. “Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott stated. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state.” “We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting,” Abbott went on to state. The announcement from Abbott also noted that the process is ongoing. In addition to the thousands of non-citizens and felons, the cleanup also resulted in the removal of more than 457,000 deceased people and over 134,000 people who had moved from the voter rolls. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The voter roll cleanup comes as Texas has become an increasingly competitive state in some recent elections, with Republicans sometimes only winning by slim margins. In the 2018 midterms, for example, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz beat his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by just over 200,000 votes. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin also recently removed 6,300 non-citizens from his state’s voter rolls after signing an executive order telling the Department of Elections to remove “non-citizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote.” Gov. Abbott and Gov. Youngkin’s efforts to remove non-citizens from their states’ voter rolls come amid growing concerns that mass illegal immigration could harm the integrity of American elections. Elon Musk has accused the Democratic Party of leveraging illegal immigration to grow their political power, in part by allowing illegal immigrants to be counted in the Congressional district apportionment process.

Senator JD Vance (R-OH) jabbed at Vice President Kamala Harris from the campaign trail on Tuesday, mocking her supposed dramatic shift from being the most liberal sitting U.S. senator to voicing support for Trump policies like no taxes on tips and a secure border. Vance, who is campaigning to be vice president alongside former President Donald Trump, joked with a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about Harris’ apparent tendency to wait and see how a Trump policy is received and then announce her own “new” policy that mirrors it. WATCH: .@JDVance: “Kamala’s advisers are considering adopting all of Donald Trump’s policies… I’ve heard that for her debate in a few weeks, she’s going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie and adopt the slogan Make America Great Again.” pic.twitter.com/fFMcOybiLR — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 27, 2024 “I read a story this morning that her advisers are considering just copying all of Donald Trump’s policies,” Vance joked, prompting laughs from the crowd. “They’re more popular. In fact, I’ve heard that for her debate in just a couple of weeks, she’s going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie, and adopt the slogan,’Make America Great Again.'” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The former president also alluded to Harris’ tendency to copy him during a speech on the economy in mid-August. WATCH: Trump ‘DESTROYED’ Harris when he expressed his concerns about her approach to addressing the economic crisis. Trump says: “She is waiting for me to announce my plan so she can copy it” He has a point; she does like the copy his great ideas cause she has none of her own! pic.twitter.com/LGk76rrch8 — ?? Larry ?? (@LarryDJonesJr) August 15, 2024 “Kamala Harris won’t end the economic crisis, she will only make it worse,” Trump told voters in North Carolina. “And why hasn’t she done it? She talks about it, she’s doing a plan, you know, she’s going to announce it this week maybe.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “She’s waiting for me to announce it so she can copy it,” he concluded, and the crowd roared with laughter.

Former President Donald Trump recently suggested that while he would consider Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for a position in his administration if he wins the 2024 presidential election, the tech mogul may be too busy to serve in a formal Cabinet role. During a recent interview, Trump acknowledged Musk's brilliance and the value he could bring to the administration but pointed out that Musk's extensive responsibilities might limit his ability to take on such a position. Trump indicated that instead of a Cabinet position, Musk could serve as a consultant or advisor, particularly in areas where his expertise is unparalleled, such as artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. This consideration comes as Musk has become increasingly involved in political discourse, even publicly endorsing Trump for the presidency after a series of high-profile interactions between the two, including an interview on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk owns. Trump + Musk + RFK seems like a good vibes pic.twitter.com/6GjWnD4KlC — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) August 24, 2024 Musk, known for his hands-on approach in managing his various enterprises, including Tesla, SpaceX, and X, has expressed a willingness to serve in some capacity under a Trump administration. However, the feasibility of him taking on a Cabinet role remains in question due to his significant commitments across his multiple businesses. Trump's comments suggest that he recognizes these challenges and is more likely to seek Musk's input on an advisory basis rather than requiring him to manage a federal department​. In the interview, Trump also touched on his broader economic plans, which include potentially rolling back certain tax incentives that were put in place during the Biden administration, such as the $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle purchases—a move that could directly impact Tesla. This proposal underscores the complexity of Musk's potential involvement in a future Trump administration, as his business interests could be at odds with some of the policy directions Trump has hinted at​. BREAKING: Here are the results of Elon Musk's recent "unscientific" poll on ?. Over 5.8 million people voted. 73% in favor of Donald Trump. I trust this poll over anything legacy media does. Don't you? pic.twitter.com/KkO1apYdXi — Queen Katerina (@QueenDarbyy) August 21, 2024 Musk's growing political involvement has sparked both interest and controversy. His endorsement of Trump, coming after a tumultuous period marked by Musk's acquisition of Twitter and his subsequent overhaul of the platform, has further solidified his status as a key figure in the intersection of technology and politics. Despite his apparent willingness to serve, Musk's unpredictable nature and the demands of his business empire make his role in a potential Trump administration a topic of ongoing speculation. As the 2024 election approaches, Trump's relationship with Musk could prove to be a significant factor in his campaign. The two share a mutual understanding as disruptors in their respective fields, and Musk's endorsement might help Trump appeal to a broader base of voters who admire innovation and technological progress. However, whether this partnership will translate into a formal role for Musk in the federal government remains to be seen Trump's comments reflect a strategic approach to incorporating high-profile figures like Musk into his campaign while recognizing the practical limitations such a partnership entails. As the election draws nearer, it will be interesting to see how this relationship evolves and whether Musk's influence will extend beyond the campaign trail into the policymaking sphere. The post Trump Considers Musk for Advisory Role, But Cabinet Position Unlikely appeared first on The Conservative Brief.

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