News Omni Loop Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri Try to Solve Time Travel in Omni Loop Have you ever seen a more iconic duo? By Molly Templeton | Published on August 13, 2024 Image: Magnolia Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Magnolia Pictures Even the most time loop-exhausted among us (me, I mean me) may find their weary hearts warmed by the trailer for Omni Loop, which finds a quantum physicist named Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) enlisting the help of Paula (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri) in order to do something about the black hole that is growing in Zoya’s heart. Literally! A literal black hole. Yes, sure, maybe it’s a metaphor, but it’s also really there—or at least a doctor says so. But there is a slight sense of the surreal throughout this whole trailer, which makes me really hope it’s not all a dream. Omni Loop comes from writer-director Bernardo Britto (Los Espookys), who said in a statement, “A lot of this movie came out of the fact that I just plain struggle with the concept of death. … I wanted to write a movie about death that felt life affirming, that made you want to live. It seemed too easy, as I had done in the past, to hide behind some existential snark.” No existential snark here—but plenty of Parker’s trademark dryness mixed with messy, relatable feelings (RIP Weeds, you were a great show for a while). The rest of the cast includes Hannah Pearl Utt (Ingrid Goes West), Chris Witaske (also from The Bear), and Carlos Jacott—and yes, I’m really sorry, fellow Buffy obsessives, but that IS Ken, from Buffy’s fourth-season premiere, in bed with Mary-Louise Parker. (Sorry also to Carlos Jacott, who I can never not think of as Ken.) Get in the time loop in theaters and on digital September 20th.[end-mark] The post Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri Try to Solve Time Travel in <i>Omni Loop</i> appeared first on Reactor.

News Go On Go On Movie Snaps Mad Men & Shameless Actors Vincent Kartheiser & Laura Slade Wiggins Also, the writer-director has a PhD in astrophysics. Yes, you read that right. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on August 13, 2024 Screenshot: AMC Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: AMC Landon Ashworth, whose credits include a PhD in astrophysics as well as acting in the sketch show Comedy Sketch TV Time, Okay? and an episode of Space Force, is making his feature directorial debut with the fantasy drama, Go On. Ashworth also wrote the script, and according to Deadline, “the film follows two strangers on a remote mountain, scorched by forest fires, as they help each other process baggage from their previous lives so they can transition to the afterlife.” Today, Deadline also broke the news that the film had found its stars with actors Vincent Kartheiser (pictured above as Pete Campbell in Mad Men) and Laura Slade Wiggins (Shameless). “Having my feature film directorial debut be my own screenplay which addresses real, meaningful, and relatable issues is an honor,” Ashworth told Deadline. “Also, having the opportunity to work with Vincent is beyond a dream come true. I’ve followed his career for over a decade and knew he needed to play the co-lead of this movie. His roles after Mad Men have just solidified my opinion that he’s one of the best dramatic actors of our generation and worthy of this role.” Ashworth added, “The added bonus of having Laura Slade sign on is humbling to say the least. Most directors I know didn’t have such amazing talent available for their first features. After a decade of directing TV commercials and sketch comedy I’m absolutely ready to bring this feature film to a worldwide audience.” Go On is set to start filming in New Mexico in September. No news yet on when the movie will make its way to a screen near you. [end-mark] The post <i>Go On</i> Movie Snaps <i>Mad Men</i> & <i>Shameless</i> Actors Vincent Kartheiser & Laura Slade Wiggins appeared first on Reactor.

The family unit, social interaction, and politics are a few of the many variables that impact a developing adolescent. When a child’s family unit is broken, social life is in shambles, or the political public square becomes unavoidable, it can have consequences on who they become as their worldview takes shape. As evidenced by previous reports, as well as one published last month, mental health concerns are exploding in the younger generation. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration conducted a July survey that analyzed the amount of counseling, medication, or other forms of mental health therapy minors underwent in 2023. According to the results, 8.3 million youth ages 12 to 17 received mental health care, which The Epoch Times noted “is equivalent to nearly one-third of the adolescents in the U.S. undergoing treatment for mental health issues.” The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which is the title of SAMHSA’s annual survey, found that the results were in line with the trend it’s seen since 2009, namely, that “the percentage of teenagers who receive treatment for mental health has climbed practically every year.” And as The Epoch Times highlighted, “Authorities from SAMHSA said that they considered the increase to be a positive development, highlighting efforts to mainstream and remove the stigma associated with getting treatment for mental health issues.” The survey included statistics concerning the underage and their use of alcohol and drugs, as well as the rates of suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts among adolescents. To accompany those statistics in greater detail are countless other studies accentuating what causes children to engage in such harmful behaviors and acts—all of which often lead to mental health issues. For instance, The Washington Stand highlighted a report from last year “that compared dozens of studies conducted between 1987 and 2022,” emphasizing the way fatherlessness impacts children. In analyzing the results, the America First Policy Institute noted there were “clear correlations between children raised in fatherless homes and developmental challenges ranging from bad grades, anxiety, and suicide to violent behavior, drug use, and criminality.” Additionally, the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study from 2022 examined 7,111 children “who did not identify as anything other than their biological sex, as well as 58 transgender-identifying children between the ages of 9 and 10.” As the report emphasized, “Children who identified as transgender at this young age were more likely to experience depression … anxiety … conduct problems … and suicidality.” The study also pointed out that trans-identifying children were more likely to have endured “significant psychological trauma” such as “exposure to domestic violence, mental illness, alcohol or drug use in the home, physical or emotional abuse or neglect, sexual abuse, and parental divorce.” As a final piece of evidence for what goes into the worsening mental health crisis among youth, Common Sense Media’s study from February urged that “the negative effects of social media on young people’s mental health is a top concern” in this discussion. And there are mounds of studies, as well as warnings from the U.S. surgeon general, all putting a spotlight on the way social media hurts adolescents. Needless to say, there are many factors involved in the “recipe” of “despair, hopelessness, nihilism, [and] disaffection,” as Marlo Slayback, national director of student programs at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, previously shared with The College Fix. According to Slayback, Generation Z is surrounded by a “decaying culture,” which inevitably affects them as they try to navigate through it. But to further break down how this all relates to the most recent findings, Joseph Backholm, Family Research Council’s senior fellow for biblical worldview and strategic engagement, shared his insight with The Washington Stand. “It’s beyond dispute at this point that social media is harming the mental health of young people,” he said. Especially among the youth, the technological realm is “creating constant comparison, which leads to a lack of contentment.” Not to mention, he added, it’s replacing real-life relationships with the appearance of virtual relationships.” But beyond social media, Backholm urged that our analysis should consider that “the way we talk and think about mental health may explain some of this as well.” He continued, “We have destigmatized mental health in ways that are good, but we have almost glamorized certain mental health ways that make young people want a diagnosis.” There are numerous instances that prove “adults are rushing children into mental health treatments in ways that have never happened before.” As Backholm noted, “Abigail Shrier does a good job documenting this in her recent book ‘Bad Therapy,’” where she “argues that the problem isn’t the kids—it’s the mental health experts.” It appears, Backholm stated, that “in an attempt to make sure we don’t ignore a child’s struggles, adults may inadvertently be encouraging children to fixate on them, which could make things worse.” In addition to that, “if children receive special attention for having a mental health challenge, we inadvertently encourage children to have them, or at least claim to.” According to Backholm, “Mental health challenges are real, but they are also invisible, which makes diagnosing them more difficult and more susceptible to cultural and personal factors rather than scientific ones.”  From a biblical worldview, Backholm explained how “a sinful world is full of challenges,” and really, “Christians understand why.” Ultimately, “When we live and think the way God intended, in relationship with Him and others, our minds will be better for it.” But the truth is, Backholm contended, “We live in a broken world, and no one escapes the consequences fully.” As a result, we are incapable of living completely as God intended us to live. But “we should never surrender to the idea that we are defined by our problems,” Backholm concluded. “God defines who we are. It’s also true that the more time we spend thinking about who He is and who He has made us to be, the smaller our problems are in comparison, which is good for our mental health.” Originally published by The Washington Stand We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post 8.3 Million Minors Received Mental Care in 2023, Highlighting a ‘Decaying Culture’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In 1066, English history was about to change forever as William the Conqueror and his fleet set off across the Channel from the coast of Normandy. The conquest would turn this duke into a king, but who were William and his band of rugged warriors? In Meet the Normans, a new two-part series on History Hit, Dr Eleanor Janega sets out across Normandy to discover who the Normans really were. Here are just three things we learned from the series. 1. The Seine was essentially a Viking highway Through the 8th century, the Vikings increasingly came into contact with northern Europeans through trading and raiding. Eventually, the rich lands, cities and rivers of northern France became a magnet for Vikings. “The Vikings had already been raiding up and down the coast of the North Sea,” explains Eleanor. “But by 790 they set their sights on the Seine because this is an incredibly fertile and wealthy part of the world. “From 790 the locals have to essentially put up with summer being the ‘Viking season’. Yes, you’ve got a great farm, but at any moment a band of warriors might come burn it down and enslave you.” From longboats, with their distinctive shallow hulls and flexible, overlapped planks, Vikings laid waste to and sought treasures from monasteries such as Fontenelle Abbey. By the mid-9th century, Viking incursions had become a fact of life in the lower Seine valley. But the rewards of living in this region meant it was arguably worth putting up with this kind of terror. 2. Legend surrounds the origins of one of the most important Normans who ever lived Weakened by internal divisions, the Carolingian rulers of northern France struggled to manage the Viking incursions. One Viking leader, Rollo, seized on this fragility, leading to an exceptional event in Rouen in 912 where he was baptised as a Christian alongside hundreds of his Viking retainers. In a powerful demonstration of Rollo’s intention to establish himself and his family in the area, Franks and Vikings would have mixed in the medieval cathedral with pagan warriors queuing up to join the Christian community. Not only did he embrace the Christian church and cultivate local nobility, Rollo adopted the name Robert. In doing so he became the first leader of Normandy. But his life prior to his violent arrival and later ascendance in Normandy is masked in mystery. “Rollo is arguably one of the most important Normans to ever live,” says Eleanor, “but paradoxically we don’t actually know that much about him until he comes here to Normandy.” In the 11th century, it was claimed he was a Danish nobleman whose brother had got in trouble with the king. A century later, Rollo was cast as a dignified nobleman with Norwegian ancestry. By the 13th century, the Icelandic saga writer Snorri Sturluson called him Rolf the Walker, a man so large that he couldn’t ride a horse. “These are all light on actual facts, but what it shows us is that Rollo was an important enough person in the Middle Ages that if they didn’t have facts, they were willing to make them up.” 3. Tutoring the young William the Conqueror was incredibly dangerous When the later Duke Robert of Normandy died on pilgrimage in the Holy Land around 1043, he left the duchy in a disastrous state with his seven-year-old heir, the future William the Conqueror, in grave danger from jealous rivals. In this state of affairs being a tutor to the young duke was dangerous. Three of the duke’s tutors were killed while looking after him. Such was the peril that myths emerged portraying late-night escapes from castles, dressing up as a commoner and William waking to discover his tutor slain beside him. “For a young child, seven [or] eight, to see that his own tutors had been killed before him would have traumatic effects on his psyche and it probably made him grow up much faster than he would have,” says historian Mathias Dilys, Educational Officer at Falaise castle. “It sort of desensitised him, in a way. But he also had a keen sense of recapturing things that had been taken away from him, because he spent his childhood basically seeing other people taking things that belonged to him.” William survived murder attempts and revolt, but they left scars on his personality. Before he mustered the strength to go overseas, he spent years hunting down rebels and securing his borders. Both episodes of Meet the Normans are available to watch now on History Hit. Sign up to stream now

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Modern science is persistently searching for an answer to the mystery of consciousness, suggesting that it is hidden somewhere in the electromagnetic interactions of the brain. But exactly how this happens remains a mystery. A group of scientists from China suggested that there was quantum entanglement involved. In their paper, they explain how entangled photons in nerve cells are able to synchronize brain activity. The paper, authored by physicists Zefei Liu and Yong-Cong Chen and bioengineer Ping Ao from Shanghai University, comes a few months after an international team of scientists identified another quantum phenomenon in biological organisms: superradiance. The discovery has brought new attention to the controversial Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR (Orchestrated Objective Reduction) theory of consciousness, which posits that networks of protein microtubules act as a kind of quantum computer for consciousness. The work of Chinese scientists talks about myelin, a sheath of glial cells that covers the processes of neurons. The cylindrical myelin cavities are suitable for amplifying the infrared photons that neurons generate. As a result, pairs of entangled photons are periodically produced from carbon-hydrogen bonds. Their movement through ionic waves of brain biochemistry can cause correlations between processes that play a central role in the brain’s ability to synchronize activity. However, this is just a hypothesis, which so far has little confirmation. Evidence for the influence of entangled photons on large-scale biological processes is limited to photosynthesis. Today, official science is very far from providing evidence of any other processes in the brain outside of classical chemistry. And we are even further away from recognizing the brain as a quantum computer. But perhaps, it’s time to tone down skepticism and at least consider the possibility of quantum phenomena in some basic brain functions. The post Quantum entanglement may explain the phenomenon of consciousness appeared first on Anomalien.com.

CNN was just handed a slew of legal defeats in the $1 billion defamation case against them. On Monday, Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Circuit Court sided with Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young on multiple motions against CNN, including compelling them to turn over their journalistic conduct guidelines, compelling them to comply with turning over documents necessary for financial discovery, and - much to the chagrin of CNN’s counsel - a deposition of anchor Jake Tapper. As NewsBusters previously reported, CNN had filed a motion for a protective order to block Tapper from being deposed. Compelling that deposition during financial discovery was the first issue on the hearing docket. CNN counsel Allison Lovelady insisted that the Plaintiff only wanted a deposition so they could use it to “harass CNN and Mr. Tapper.”     In recounting Tapper’s declaration to the court in their motion for a protective order, CNN counsel Allison Lovelady quoted Tapper as saying “I have no knowledge about CNN's net worth. I don't have any knowledge regarding what the Tapper show may or may not generate that may go toward CNN's net worth." Judge Henry came down hard on CNN’s effort to keep Tapper from being deposed. When issuing his ruling, the Judge seemingly suggested Tapper was being untruthful. “I kind of have a hard time believing what Mr. Tapper put in that declaration,” he said, referencing Tapper's stated lack of knowledge.  "I have a feeling that is the basis of what time slot he gets and how much his contract is and everything else with CNN." The ruling also stipulated that the deposition would be limited to only questions about CNN’s finances and potential internal penalties in relation to getting reporting wrong. This was seemingly done because CNN was also concerned that a deposition of Tapper was a way to “backdoor a fact witness” since facts discovery was closed, according to Lovelady. Tapper’s deposition was also allowed to proceed because Judge Henry also ruled that CNN must now comply with their previous agreement on when financial discovery would begin. As NewsBusters reported last week, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals denied the CNN’s motion for a rehearing; their hope was that the court would overturn its decision that Young could seek punitive damages at trial. NewsBusters also reported that CNN was refusing to comply until the Court of Appeals issued their ruling on a rehearing, that’s after the appeals court had already ruled in Young’s favor in June. But in the Monday hearing, CNN’s lead counsel Deanna K. Shullman attempted to move the goalpost again; wanting to tie financial discovery to a case going before the Florida Supreme Court (Perlmutter v. Federal Insurance Company) because it dealt with a question about punitive damages. The ruling was far from being issued but Shullman predicted that it would be decided in a way that would be beneficial to CNN, but the appeals court had already shot down CNN's attempt to tie the two together. Judge Henry overruled CNN’s objection to Young’s motion to comply and gave them 45 days to turn over the documents. The concern expressed by Vel Freedman, lead counsel for Young, was that they would lose the January 6, 2025 start date for the trial. “CNN is trying to make us lose it again,” he said. Shullman didn’t see what the big deal was since they had a back up start, which was two months later. Finally, CNN was given 14 days to turn over their written journalistic conduct and social media guidelines, which they had been refusing to do, arguing that fact discovery was already closed. Young’s counsel told the court they had only learned about the existence of the written guidelines from a deposition of CNN’s corporate representative in June, which was ordered to take place after discovery had closed because CNN had delayed the process for months. In the hearing, Lovelady admitted that CNN was asked about the existence of the guidelines early in the case but also admitted that they were playing coy about what Young’s counsel was asking about: Mr. Freedman likes to play as if they were trying to be efficient with discovery and that there was some sort of game playing with the corporate rep. deposition. Just to revisit the timeline briefly. I your honor recalls, they had a list of, I think it was 22 topics, some of them were vague. Even in the case management conference before we got to our motion for a protective order about the topics, you even flagged in December, 2023, you yourself your Honor pointed out topic 11, which was formal or informal guidelines regarding bias or agenda in journalism. And we said, 'we’re not really sure what that means.' And you said, 'I don’t either.' Addressing what Lovelady described as “formal and informal guidelines” (alluding that certain guidelines were not written down), Freedman noted that CNN’s representation was referencing the guidelines in the deposition. “I don’t know how you review unwritten guidelines,” he quipped. “All CNN has to do is say they don’t exist and our fight is over.” Nevertheless, CNN persisted and the Judge ruled against them. Of the five motions being discussed during the Monday hearing, CNN did prevail on two of them. For the first motion, CNN was successful in compelling Young to travel from his home in Austria to Florida so they could beg for a settlement. As NewsBusters previously reported, this was a likely outcome since they successfully argued for it once before. But what was shocking were the comments Shullman made during her argument on the issue. Young argued that travel was difficult for him because of an injury he sustained while in the Navy. Shullman complained that the other side “cried ‘injury’ without declaration.” When it was brought up that Young experienced pain during long periods of sitting, she protested: “So do I, your Honor!” “I have to leave Florida to get to Bay County. CNN has to travel from the state of Georgia,” she huffed.  CNN’s other win was a very minor victory in the form of an extension on the time allotted for them to respond to accusations from Young’s counsel that they were allegedly destroying evidence critical to the case. Seeing as Young's team has already signaled that they are not open to a settlement, the only hope CNN had left was their motion for summary judgement where they were resting most of their defense on citing Taliban Sharia law.

It was textbook case of contrasts during Monday’s White House press briefing as, on the one hand, one of The Washington Post’s lead Kamala Harris bootlickers called for the federal government — the Biden-Harris regime — to directly interfere in the 2024 election and censor Donald Trump and X’s Elon Musk and a softball from USA Today about Biden being wistful ahead of the Democratic National Convention. On the other, there were reporters like Fox’s Peter Doocy, Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann, and Fox Business’s Edward Lawrence who pressed the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre on the border crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris’s role in the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Harris stealing Trump’s policy idea on ending taxes on tips, respectively. Starting with The Post, reporter Cleve T. Wootson Jr. had the gall to kvetch that Trump’s interview with X’s Musk was an example of how “misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue,” but “I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue.” He then actually wondered what the White House would do to thwart “the spread of that” or even “intervene”: The Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson: “One more, @ElonMusk is slated to interview [@realDonaldTrump] tomorrow — tonight on — on @X. I don't know if the president is going to — feel free to say if he is or not — but I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign… pic.twitter.com/zKxJNF1zbf — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024 Also on the side of the stupid ledger was this from USA Today’s David Jackson: “I’m just curious if you could talk a little bit about what it’s gonna be like for the President to be giving this speech knowing that, if things have gone a little bit differently, he would be giving an accepted speech for a second term?” Poor, poor, Joe. Thankfully, a few reporters in the room actually still do their jobs on a consistent basis when a liberal administration is in power. Doocy Time kicked off with a back-and-forth about whether President Biden is “mad” at former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for playing a lead role in shoving him out: DOOCY TIME: “How mad is President Biden at Nancy Pelosi?” KJP: “You guys keep asking me this question. I think I've answered this question multiple times.” Doocy: “Well, he —” KJP: “I’m not —” Doocy: “— has admitted —” KJP: “[Inaudible]” Doocy: “— for the first time in this… pic.twitter.com/821pE6rnAc — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024 Doocy then pivoted to a question that Jean-Pierre pretended to not understand, forcing him to restate it three times: [H]ow long have you guys known that Vice President Harris does not think President Biden is doing a good job at the border?...Well, she’s now promising to hire thousands more border agents than there are bow under President Biden....How long have you guys known that Vice President Harris does not think that President Biden is effective with his border policy? Jean-Pierre bemoaned Doocy “making a huge jump” in “assuming” “something” that doesn’t exist. “She has a campaign ad where she is saying they need more Border Patrol agents. If President Biden is doing such a good job, why do they need any more [agents],” he added. Of course, she punted by blaming Republicans for not taking President Biden’s border deal. Doocy also worked in a third topic. This time? The mysterious Las Vegas Police radio conversations on July 17 when Biden fell ill. Wegmann immediately followed with a crucial exchange about whether Harris is just as responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal as Biden: .@PhilipWegmann: “[T]his is a bit of a throwback, but the — the Vice President has said that she was the last person in the room with President Biden ahead of his decision to order U.S. troops to pull out of Afghanistan. Was the Vice President in full support of his decision to… pic.twitter.com/JO6noc68bB — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024 In a hilarious exchange, Wegmann later asked Jean-Pierre to name what Biden views “as the Vice President’s biggest achievement during their time in office together.” Of course, Jean-Pierre talked in an esoteric manner about how “they’ve been partners” on all topics since day one. Wegmann dutifully then observed: “So, there’s not a specific policy achievement. It’s a comprehensive whole?” Jean-Pierre couldn’t even rebut it, mumbling and bumbling her way through a restating of her previous answer. As for Lawrence, he first borrowed some of Wegmann’s approach. This time, he applied it to the economy: FBN’s @EdwardLawrence: “I want to follow up, first, on what you told Phil. So, you said the Vice President owns the successes of this President over the past three and a half years. Does she also own the struggles that this President see, like the prices up 19 percent since the… pic.twitter.com/dDAvoLgwH7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024 This led right into a back-and-forth on the taxing tips hubbub, first wondering why hasn’t the administration proposed this over the last three and a half years. Jean-Pierre stuck to her initial answers from earlier in the briefing (see the embedded tweets below), arguing Harris is genuine and insinuating Trump isn’t.  Lawrence had a key question none of the other tip questions below brought up (which Jean-Pierre ducked): “So, the IRS last month released their report saying, hey, this — this is how if you have an extension for taxes, you can file taxes on your tips. The President’s budget relies on the taxes from tips. So, when did this idea come about?” And, in one comical exchange, the Washington Examiner’s Haisten Willis wondered when Harris would be speaking to reporters; .@DCExaminer’s Haisten Willis: “[A]s a member of the administration, can we expect the Vice President to come out here and speak to the American people in the briefing room at some point?” KJP: “The President and the Vice President speaks [sic] to the American people regularly,… pic.twitter.com/RFyBnTth3I — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024 In between the above characters, there were middling questions about the tax tips issue. The Associated Press’s Zeke Miller, ABC’s Selina Wang, and CBS’s Weijia Jiang only gently went down that road: AP’s @ZekeJMiller: “Over the weekend, Vice President said she would — she followed former President Donald Trump in saying she would support a proposal that would not tax hit wages. If such a — if a similar bill made its way to the President of the United States — President Biden… pic.twitter.com/y20VDyU8a6 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024   KJP kicks dirt on @realDonaldTrump's proposal to not tax tips, arguing he's disinegnous about it and not TRULY for it because he's anti-worker.... ABC’s @SelinaWangTV: “Trump was the first to endorse eliminating taxes on tips. He's accusing Vice President Harris of stealing his… pic.twitter.com/ahHidCvWft — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024   CBS’s @Weijia Jiang: “So, following up on eliminating taxes on tips, is that an idea that the Biden administration considered at any point in the past three and a half years?” KJP: “What I can say is the president supports it — uh — and — uh — what I can say is — um — obviously… pic.twitter.com/NHXRBYDjyf — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024 To see the relevant transcript from the August 12 briefing, click here.

CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta played T-ball with Democratic Rep. Jake Auchincloss on Tuesday. Instead of grilling Auchincloss about Tim Walz’s problematic portrayal of aspects of his military service, Acosta wondered if it was “healthy” for JD Vance to even talk about it. Additionally, Acosta, who usually claims to be a stickler for the truth, did not correct Auchincloss when he repeated Walz’s incorrect rank. At the end of the interview, Acosta declared, “I did want to get your reaction to some of these comments by JD Vance going after Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, Tim Walz, in his 24 years of service in the National Guard. You served in the Marine Corps.”     He then asked, “Is that healthy to see that sort of thing going back and forth? Obviously, we saw this launched by JD Vance after Tim Walz was named as Kamala Harris' running mate.” The closest Acosta got to any details was an on screen graphic that acknowledged the campaign claiming Walz "misspoke" about carrying certain weapons "in war" during a pitch for gun control, but if you just had the TV on as background noise, you would've missed it. As for Auchincloss, he replied, “No, it's despicable and desperate. JD Vance started off his campaign attacking women. Then he attacked the police, saying he hates the police. Now, he's attacking veterans. It just seems like he can't help himself but alienate broad swaths of the American electorate and take politics to a gutter, and it's not who we are as a country.” Auchincloss also asserted, “Tim Walz served honorably for 24 years. He deployed multiple times to disaster areas. He made a decision about running for Congress before his battalion received notice that it was going to deploy to Iraq. When he realized that they were deploying to Iraq, he struggled with that decision, decided he could do more good in Congress for veterans, and he did. He became the top Democrat on the Veterans Affairs Committee, went on to expand access to the G.I. Bill and mental health services for our veterans.” Finally, he added, “And to go after a former command sergeant major who gave back to his country for a quarter of a century out of political expedience is despicable, and it says a lot more about JD Vance than it does about Tim Walz.” Acosta did not correct the record by pointing out Walz did not retire at that rank, nor did he point out that Walz’s former superior claimed, on CNN of all places, that Walz broke military procedure in filing for retirement because Walz knew that he might have rejected it. Here is a transcript for the August 13 show: CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta 8/13/2024 10:24 AM ET JIM ACOSTA: And, Congressman, just finally, I did want to get your reaction to some of these comments by JD Vance going after Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, Tim Walz, in his 24 years of service in the National Guard. You served in the Marine Corps. Is that healthy to see that sort of thing going back and forth? Obviously, we saw this launched by JD Vance after Tim Walz was named as Kamala Harris's running mate. JAKE AUCHINCLOSS: No, it's despicable and desperate. JD Vance started off his campaign attacking women. Then he attacked the police, saying he hates the police. Now, he's attacking veterans. It just seems like he can't help himself but alienate broad swaths of the American electorate and take politics to a gutter, and it's not who we are as a country. Tim Walz served honorably for 24 years. He deployed multiple times to disaster areas. He made a decision about running for Congress before his battalion received notice that it was going to deploy to Iraq. When he realized that they were deploying to Iraq, he struggled with that decision, decided he could do more good in Congress for veterans, and he did. He became the top Democrat on the Veterans Affairs Committee, went on to expand access to the G.I. Bill and mental health services for our veterans. And to go after a former command sergeant major who gave back to his country for a quarter of a century out of political expedience is despicable, and it says a lot more about JD Vance than it does about Tim Walz. ACOSTA: All right. Congressman Jake Auchincloss, thank you very much for your time this morning. We appreciate it.