On February 27, news broke that Hollywood legend and Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and his wife died inside their New Mexico home. The cause of death remains a mystery, but the news sent shockwaves through Hollywood. At 95 years old, Gene certainly lived a long and whole life. But the news of his sudden death impacted those who loved him, including several Hollywood legends. Clint Eastwood shared a statement about Gene Hackman’s death with People. She said, “There was no finer actor than Gene. Intense and instinctive. Never a false note.” Clint added, “He was also a dear friend whom I will miss very much.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Josh Brolin (@joshbrolin) Other Stars Shared Kind Words About Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman wrote on Instagram, “One of the personal highlights of my career was bringing the French Film Gardé a Vue (Under Suspicion) to life with the incredibly gifted Gene Hackman. And of course… Unforgiven. Rest in peace, my friend.” Frances Fisher agreed, sharing on Instagram, “He was amazing! Watching his work and working with him was a master class. And when he was waiting for shots to be set up, he’d go to his notebook and sketch. He gave me a drawing of me as Strawberry Alice that I have framed above my desk.” Josh Brolin also took to Instagram to share a tribute to Gene Hackman and his wife. “I am crushed by the sudden deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa (and their dog). Crushed. He was always one of my favorites. Not many who beat to their own drums like he did. Rest in Peace.” A fan commented, “Raw and honest acting. Never an ounce of artifice. What epic performances, a gift for all of us.” Gene Hackman was 95 years old at the time of his death. This story’s featured image is by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images. The post Clint Eastwood Shares Heartbreak After “Dear Friend” Gene Hackman’s Death appeared first on InspireMore.

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Grand Funk Railroad emerged from Flint, Michigan, in 1969, founded by Mark Farner (vocals, guitar), Don Brewer (drums, vocals), and Mel Schacher (bass). Farner and Brewer had previously played together in Terry Knight and the Pack, while Schacher came from ? and the Mysterians. The band’s name was a playful twist on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a line that ran through their hometown. Their debut album, On Time, was released in August 1969 under Capitol Records. Despite initial critical indifference, the album achieved gold certification, propelled by relentless touring and a growing fanbase. Later that year, they released a The post Complete List Of Grand Funk Railroad Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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MSNBC just canceled “The ReidOut,” the most vicious, nasty, anti-white and pathologically anti-Trump show on air. Host Joy Reid, for five years, unleashed one hateful, often irrational attack after another. It was only after President Donald Trump’s reelection and her ratings plummeting nearly 50% that MSNBC pulled the plug. Here are just some of her greatest hits: “(The courts) are stacked now to essentially suborn our democracy to their very particular version of right-wing evangelical Christ ... That’s no different than Talibanism.” “The goal of the Republican Party today, is it to seize control of every level of government, to lock out voices of color and LGBTQ voices except those who conform to their demand that history and education uplift white Christian dominion ...” “Fascism isn’t a game, y’all. It’s real. And it’s in America, sometimes dressed as a kooky personality cult or carrying a confederate flag ...” “That’s exactly what (Make America Great Again) means when I hear it. It’s George Wallace. (Trump is) just a Republican George Wallace ...” “Donald Trump has two kinds of visions of black people: one, celebrities and sports stars that he wants to be around. And two, every other black person that he thinks is beneath him.” “There’s evidence that Donald Trump has been red-pilled into a far-right movement that is inspired by white dispossession in Africa.” “I think for a lot of conservatives, they believe DEI just means black people getting jobs, and so when they see a black person in any job, they say, ‘Oh, that person’s a DEI hire.’” “Trump was returned to the presidency after staging a coup ...” “What Donald Trump is doing ... it’s kind of David Koresh. It’s kind of Jim Jones. Because those two men started by saying, ‘You need to come to Jesus.’ They started as Christian evangelizers. But eventually, their evangelism said, ‘No, I get to have your wife. ... This is (Charles) Manson stuff.” “... (R)ivers of blood will one day run deep enough ... Because their tolerance for blood and the NRA’s tolerance for slaughter are bottomless ...” “This is the end of democracy in America. This is the beginning of the South Africa strategy. ... It’s Jim Crow America.” “What is going on with Republicans that they seem to be bringing back the lynching vibe?” “There was a time when people had the double hashtags around their names because they were Jewish, and right-wingers were saying ‘get in the oven’ any time you made any benign comment on Twitter. ... Elon Musk ... misses the old South Africa in the ‘80s. He wants that back.” “You can’t even say slavery was bad now in the Republican Party. That’s how far it’s gone.” The real question is why MSNBC hired Reid. In the mid-2000s, she had a blog and wrote anti-gay comments. When she got her MSNBC show, those comments resurfaced. These included, “Most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing,” and “The nature of political correctness is that gay people are allowed to say straight sex is gross, but the reverse is considered to be patently homophobic.” She called conservative commentator Ann Coulter “a dude” and wrote “I like my drag queens fierce.” She suggested Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is gay, as well as then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. She even speculated that 9/11 was an inside job rather than a terror attack. She denied that she wrote these things and claimed she had been hacked. Her network hired a cybersecurity expert who found no such evidence. Her response? “Here’s what I know. I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me ...” Apparently, an alien entity entered and temporarily possessed her mind. It happens. She weathered that storm and kept her job. Until a salary cut last year, she reportedly earned $3 million per year. Who knew inventing different ways of calling Trump a fascist could be so lucrative?

The U.S. State Department confirmed Wednesday that the Trump administration is eliminating thousands of foreign assistance awards and grants at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Peter Marocco, brought in by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help run USAID, said in a statement to the federal district court presiding over two consolidated lawsuits brought against the administration by aid organizations that following a review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to cut roughly 92% of the agency's grants, reported NPR. According to a State Department memo reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the 92% figure reflects 5,800 grants valued at $54 billion at USAID that Trump administration officials are set to terminate. Auditors scrutinized over 9,100 more grants at the State Department, 4,100 of which — valued at $4.4 billion — are slated for elimination. 'Continuing this program is not in the national interest.' "USAID evaluated 6,200 multi-year awards with $58.2 billion in value remaining," a State Department spokesman said in a statement to Axios. "Nearly 5,800 awards with $54 billion in value remaining were identified for elimination as part of the America First agenda." In terms of awards that survived the cuts, roughly 500 at USAID and 2,700 at the State Department will remain. Contractors learned of the award and grant terminations in a memo from USAID's office of acquisition and assistance. A copy of the memo obtained by NPR stated that Rubio and Marocco "have determined your award is not aligned with Agency priorities and made a determination that continuing this program is not in the national interest." President Donald Trump noted in an aid-freezing executive order on his first day in office that the "foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values." He further indicated that it would be the "policy of United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States." In turn, the State Department ordered a freeze on new funding for virtually all U.S. foreign assistance on Jan. 24. Following a pair of lawsuits by aid organizations, a Biden judge issued a restraining order, requiring that the funding be released. The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali's restraining order Wednesday evening. In addition to eliminating awards and grants to wasteful programs — for instance, USAID previously blew $45 million on DEI scholarships in Burma, $2 million on sex-change activism in Guatemala, and $20 million for a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq — the Trump administration has placed all personnel at USAID "with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs" on administrative leave and is firing 1,600 positions at the agency that are presently occupied. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

CNN anchor Jake Tapper threw himself into the fire on Wednesday when he shared a post on X promoting his new book with national political correspondent Alex Thompson titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again."Online commenters were quick to torch Tapper for his flip-flop on former President Joe Biden's rapid health decline. 'They're all sellouts.'Mollie Hemingway, the editor in chief of the Federalist, held nothing back in her response to Tapper's post."The mother bleeping AUDACITY of you to do this after running 24-7 interference on behalf of him and mocking and attacking every single person who noticed Biden's decline. The MOTHER. BUH-LEEP-ING. AUDACITY. Have you no decency? Have you NO shame?" Hemingway wrote.Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) stated, "Huh ... the pot calling the kettle black."Some social media users posted a video of Tapper being pressed by Lara Trump in 2020 on Biden's health. During the exchange, Tapper outright rejected the claims and belittled Trump for even suggesting Biden's cognitive abilities were declining. "I think that you were mocking his stutter," Tapper fired back at Trump in the clip. "I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline."Trump responded to Tapper's recent book announcement. She told Fox News, "The audacity, truly, of some of these people. Not the least of which, of course, is Jake Tapper, who first insinuated in that clip ... that I was mocking Joe Biden's stutter.""I expect nothing less from some of these folks in the legacy media because they're all sellouts," she stated.Eric Trump stated that Tapper owes his wife, Lara Trump, “a formal apology.”Many in the comments criticized Tapper for failing to follow through with his journalist duties when the concerns about Biden's health began, only truly pressing the issue after the entire Democratic Party turned its back on the then-president. Tapper promoted his book during a Wednesday segment, calling it a "journalistic project." He claimed that he had been reporting on the former president's declining health for "years" and "literally asked him about it." Tapper was likely referencing a 2022 interview with Biden in which he inquired about how the president balances his age with the demands of the presidency, Fox News Digital reported. In 2023, Tapper presented public polling results indicating that Americans were worried about Biden's "mental sharpness." He also questioned then-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden's aging.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

BlazeTV’s Stu Burguiere has come under some fire for being a Philadelphia Eagles fan after rumors have sparked online that the team declined the White House’s invitation to celebrate the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory with President Trump. In the following segment, Stu addresses the hearsay surrounding the team and how he, being the die-hard fan that he is, will respond if the rumors prove true. The first outlet to report on the team’s alleged declining of the invitation was the U.S. Sun, a source Stu says isn’t the most sound given its sensational, “tabloidy” reporting. Further, the Sun’s report was predicated on “one anonymous source,” says Stu. Other outlets then picked up on the story, regurgitating the rumor and fueling the anger of conservatives across the country. However, Clay Travis, founder of sports news outlet OutKick, then posted the following, contradicting the gossip: CNN then corroborated Travis’ correction in a recent article claiming that the “Eagles would be honored to visit the White House.” Regardless of what proves true in the end, Stu’s opinion of the Eagles isn’t changing. “It makes no difference what they do. I just love them because they're the Philadelphia Eagles,” he says. To hear more about the conflicting rumors and Stu’s thoughts on the intersection of sports and politics, watch the clip above. Want more from Stu?To enjoy more of Stu's lethal wit, wisdom, and mockery, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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