CNN commentator Van Jones made a dire prediction on Thursday regarding President Joe Biden if he does not perform well in the debate next week. Biden facing off against former President Donald Trump in their first debate of the 2024 cycle will be the “entire election,” Jones opined during a CNN panel. The “entire world will be watching,” Jones told CNN host Jim Acosta, and “if Biden goes out there and messes up, it’s game over.” 6.20.24 1115 am ET CNN Newsroom Anchor, Jim Acosta @acosta w/ In Alphabetical Order: CNN Senior Political Commentator, Van Jones @VanJones68 CNN Legal Commentator, Jim Schultz, @jim_schultz What to expect at Debate 1 ? EXCELLENT Back and Forth pic.twitter.com/Clho2Ya4DW — Jeff Storobinsky (@jeffstorobinsky) June 20, 2024 Expanding on his warning, Jones continued, “If he walks out there and a week later he’s lower in the polls, it’s panic in the party.” Heading into the debate, which CNN is holding next Thursday evening, polls show a competitive race between Biden and Trump. Jones, who served as an environmental adviser to former President Barack Obama, also shared his view on what happens if Biden excels in his debate appearance. “If he goes in there and he can handle himself against Donald Trump, a runaway train, a locomotive, a raging bull, then this guy deserves another shot to be president, because that is tough,” he said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “You couldn’t do it. I couldn’t do it,” he added. “If you can stand toe-to-toe with a runaway train like Donald Trump for an hour-and-a-half, you are fit to be president, period, point blank.” Jones concluded, “This is the whole presidency in a bottle in a week.” CNN commentator and former Trump White House lawyer Jim Schultz then gave his take on what a bad performance by Trump could mean for the former president. Trump “needs to have a good night. He has to have a good night on the policy issues,” Schultz said. “He needs, to the extent he can, stay out of the gutter as much as he can, because, look, the issues are on his side,” Schultz went on. “He has the momentum now.” The race is Trump’s “to lose at this point in many ways,” Schultz said, adding that Jones “just about admitted that here, that the momentum is in his favor.” “President Biden is going to have to do something dramatic to convince people that he has the mental acuity to last four more years in that office and lead this country,” he concluded.

“Star Wars” actress Amandla Stenberg released a video of herself singing about being oppressed. On Wednesday, the 25-year-old star of the new spinoff series “The Acolyte” posted the song to her 2.3 million followers on Instagram, calling it a response to the “discourse.” Stenberg wrote in the caption, “Happy Juneteenth and to those who are flooding me with intolerable racism — since it took me 72 hours on my laptop to make this song and video, u got 72 hours to respond. and I expect choreo!!” The song opens with the actress dancing as the word “discourse” is flashed on the screen.    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by @amandlastenberg “I’m going viral on Twitter again. Open up the news to find some interesting things. 20 million views. Interview from 2018 with Trevor the King when I was thirteen,” the lyrics say. This seems to refer to a clip that went viral from an interview she did with Trevor Noah when she was 20 years old.  Stenberg sings, “I was running from city to city to speak on a story, you know the one, police murdering a black boy. My people cried in the theaters finding release. White people cried. They could see us as human beings. Trevor ask what I want the people to know. I say white people crying was the goal. If they could take one thing what would it be? I say empathy. Ooooo that’s why they mad at me?” The song goes on, “They splice lines, make hate they recognize, make it look like the same propaganda they spew ’cause they conflate our pain with violence and try to weaponize everything that we do. The desperation of oppressors is rising and now they holding onto any ole thing they can use. If you rely upon misinformation then that tells me you afraid of the truth.” Then the line “We so bored, don’t f*** with your discourse” is repeated over and over. Stenberg’s song dishes up more anger in the next lines. “And now you listening imma tell you something fascinating. They spinning woke. Bastardize it and appropriate it. Last I recall woke was something we created. Speak truth to power. Keep an eye out for you silly racists. And now they use it to describe anything they threatened by. Remember when Gambino put it in the zeitgeist? It was all about the people recognizing bigotry. The power of community not fodder for your clickbait.” She adds, “Speaking of which, journalists I’m looking at you. Did you forget it’s your job to provide the truth? Spreading divisiveness, mining the metrics and data, seems you gave up all your ethics for money and views. And I can tell that the people are tired and the kids don’t trust anything that they view. We can learn something from their discernment. The future’s coming and it’s always the youth,” the actress sings. Stenberg concludes, “My sis said don’t let it get to my spirit, but I’m sick and f***ing tired of suppressing my rage. 400 years of taking their bulls**t to compartmentalize like my ancestors had to encaged? If you don’t confront the pain that you live with, it’ll manifest as addiction diseases and hate. I’ve seen the infection repression can give ya. I’m not gonna be the next one sent to an early grave.”

A staffer for a Democratic congresswoman crowed on social media on Thursday about getting his student loans forgiven by the Biden administration, saying “elections matter,” but it turns out his boss previously opposed cancelling student loans. Representative Marcy Kaptur’s (D-OH) communications director Ben Kamens posted a photo of the letter informing him that his student debt had been forgiven. “Just got a call to let me know my student debt has been canceled,” Kamens wrote. “This is why elections matter. Thanks @JoeBiden,” he added. The letter showed a total of $8,250 in student loans from 2010 were forgiven Kamens. “Congratulations! The Biden-Harris Administration has forgiven your federal student loan(s),” read the letter from Nelnet, the country’s largest servicer of student loans. Back in 2022, Kaptur, an Ohio Democrat, criticized the Biden administration’s plan to erase billions of dollars in student loan debt. “What about the people who paid off their loans?” Kaptur said. “What about the people who didn’t rack up that level of debt? What about people who put college on hold? What about the systemic problems we have in the student loan program, where you walk into an admissions office at a college and they give you a credit card, and you get the money, and you can spend the money on a car or a vacation or whatever, and then the student doesn’t graduate. There’s a lot of issues.” Kaptur also questioned whether the president has the legal authority to push forward with the massive loan forgiveness plan, saying President Biden likely “overreached his authority.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “There was no consultation with Congress,” she said. “The last time I checked the Constitution, you can’t impact the bottom line of the federal treasury without some bill moving through Congress. I think the president probably overreached his authority on this one. My expectation is it will go to the courts. I’m not sure how that will happen.” However, Kaptur later voted twice against House measures criticizing the administration’s student loan cancellation. Meanwhile, the criticism online was swift on Thursday. One X user noted that Kamens makes over $90,000 a year, according to Legistorm, but still apparently expected taxpayers to pay his debt. Others pointed out that Kamens had previously posted about holding Philadelphia Eagles season tickets and that the address on his loan forgiveness letter was for a house valued at over half a million dollars. “You are jubilant at having foisted your student debt on other taxpayers. Meanwhile, a cursory spin through your profile in just recent times show multiple examples of extraneous expenditures that could have gone toward your years long debt. Nice,” one X user wrote. Kamens switched his X account to private mode after his post garnered attention. Last summer, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s $430 billion student debt relief policy that would have forgiven the student debt of about 40 million people. The high court ruled 6-3 that the HEROES Act of 2003 does not give Biden the authority to cancel billions in student loan debt. Just weeks later, however, Biden announced the Education Department’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan, which is expected to cost taxpayers about $475 billion over the next decade.

Here’s a little ancient history that’s suddenly become relevant again. 39 years ago this month, just ahead of the summer solstice, the Battle of the Beanfield took place in Wiltshire, England. This wasn’t a “battle” in the traditional military sense. It was a violent confrontation between a convoy of around 600 New Age hippies, and roughly a thousand police officers. The police officers were there to enforce an injunction preventing the hippies from holding a festival at Stonehenge. That injunction was necessary because, just one year earlier, around 100,000 hippies had — as hippies tend to do — caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage to trees, fences and several archeological artifacts in the area, including Stonehenge itself. So, in 1985, the authorities understandably wanted to prevent any more hippie carnage from being inflicted on Stonehenge. They set up a roadblock several miles away to turn the “New Age travelers” away. That’s when, according to the BBC, “Police said they came under attack, being pelted with lumps of wood, stones and even petrol bombs.” Of course, to this day, the hippies maintain the police were the aggressors. That’s probably not true, but it certainly appears that the police officers used significant force once mayhem broke out. At one point, the police reportedly threw fire extinguishers and stones at the hippies to keep them from fleeing. In any event, ultimately, two dozen people were hospitalized, and more than 500 hippies were arrested. By most accounts, the Battle of the Beanfield marked the single largest mass arrest in the history of England, at least since World War II. I mention the Battle of the Beanfield because it illustrates a couple of things. First of all, it demonstrates an obvious point, which is that the use of force by police officers does indeed deter lawlessness. You don’t have to endorse all of the tactics the police used that day in order to see that. In the years after the Battle of the Beanfield, there were still some hippies who tried to throw a festival at Stonehenge for the summer solstice, but it was nothing like what happened in 1985. For the most part, the hippies got the message loud and clear. The other important takeaway is that, for whatever reason, Stonehenge has long been an object of fixation for antisocial, anti-civilization, anti-human weirdos. Most likely, the interest stems from the mystique of the whole construction. Stonehenge was constructed more than 5,000 years ago without the benefit of the wheel, and it’s still unclear to archaeologists exactly how the builders pulled that off — or even who exactly the builders were. It’s one of the most impressive monuments ever built in human history, so it kind of makes sense that listless, uninteresting people would latch onto Stonehenge in a desperate attempt to imbue their own lives with more meaning. That brings us to the events that took place at Stonehenge yesterday. A couple of vandals associated with the group “Just Stop Oil” — one aged 73 and the other aged 21 — charged towards Stonehenge and began blanketing it with some kind of orange powder paint. Watch:   As you can see, it fell to a tourist to stop these two people from defacing Stonehenge. There were no police officers nearby to immediately detain them, so a random guy on vacation had to step up to preserve one of the most famous structures in the entire world. We’ve seen this again and again. When vandals dumped pink powder on the case containing the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives Rotunda in February, no security guards lifted a finger to stop them. Late last year, activists with Just Stop Oil were able to throw soup on a Van Gogh painting, then glue themselves to the wall, all without anyone intervening. And of course, on too many occasions to count, these kinds of activists have obstructed traffic with impunity. They get away with it so consistently because, at some level, they have the tacit endorsement of the state. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show I’ve covered these brats extensively before, but even with all those other incidents in mind, this latest attack on Stonehenge is especially egregious to me. Defacing a monument as ancient as Stonehenge is really an attack on humanity. The fact that Stonehenge is still standing is a testament to human ingenuity and resourcefulness that’s hard to comprehend even to this day, thousands of years later. The only people who would want to deface or destroy Stonehenge and erase the evidence of humanity’s accomplishments are people who despise humanity itself. It’s the same reason why climate activists want everyone to stop having children. It’s the same reason they want to “end fossil fuels” and crash the global economy. They’re not really concerned about global temperatures rising by a degree or two. They want humanity to go extinct. In comments to the media, Just Stop Oil has denied all of this. They’ve claimed that this orange cornflour paint is going to wash away in the rain, so it’s not really vandalism. Of course, Just Stop Oil has made that same claim before when they vandalized several other monuments, and it’s turned out to be false. Additionally, there are apparently 80 species of lichen on Stonehenge that might be dead now, including rare species that scientists wanted to preserve. They’re still trying to figure out the precise extent of the damage. And even if it does all wash away, they still have no right to use an ancient monument as a platform for their delusional political statement. So even if the paint ultimately does come off, the point remains the same: these activists are fundamentally anti-human — and they’re becoming increasingly emboldened. In a video message, the 21-year-old Stonehenge attacker — who apparently identifies as nonbinary — explained why they/them/zim/zir decided to deface the monument. Watch: A few things to note here. First of all, there’s something physicians refer to as the “gestalt.” That includes a person’s general appearance, tone of voice, and the like. And the gestalt is a little concerning here. For starters, this person is whispering for some reason, which comes off as a little unsettling. On top of that, this nonbinary activist is also wearing a Patagonia shirt, even though Patagonia admits on its website that its vast array of suppliers — by necessity — relies on fossil fuels to conduct operations. They emit something like 200,000 metric tons of CO2 every year. So I guess we’re meant to conclude that ending fossil fuels is important, except when nonbinary University of Oxford students need a nice sweater vest or t-shirt. Then fossil fuels are okay.  Of course, every accusation is really an admission with these people. When these activists warn of death and destruction and devastation on an “immeasurable scale,” they’re actually revealing precisely what groups like Just Stop Oil want to happen. It’s what they know will happen if Western nations stop producing fossil fuels, which supply an overwhelming majority of the world’s energy. We’ll be taken over by China in about a week. Civilization as we know it will come to an end. For some reason, that appears to be what a significant number of young people now want to see happen. They’ve been indoctrinated into a nihilistic death cult. And on social media, many of these young people are now celebrating what just happened at Stonehenge. On Twitter, Oli London posted an image of a blue-haired British archeologist with “she/they” pronouns who wrote that the attack was “well done.” More than 10,000 people liked that particular tweet, which gives you some indication of how popular the sentiment is. It’s not hard to see why this is becoming a trend. For one thing, there’s a lot of money in it. As Fox News reported late last year, the Beverly Hills, California-based, Climate Emergency Fund, or CEF, sent roughly $4 million in grants overseas in 2022 alone: “The most sizable slice [of these grants was] wired to U.K. climate activists. The largest beneficiary of CEF’s funds appeared to be Just Stop Oil, a British activist group that has repeatedly made headlines for stopping traffic and disrupting public places across the UK.” And this is just one dark money group based in the United States. So that amateur quality, creepy video you just saw from the nonbinary activist may have been amateurish on purpose. In reality, Just Stop Oil is an extremely well-funded operation. They could’ve sprung for better production quality if they wanted to. So-called “environmental activism” is now a very big business, and a lot of people are making a lot of money on it from sources we can’t identify. That could be one reason the whole movement is attractive to young people, many of whom are now looking for jobs. On top of that, of course, government officials all over the world have become propagandists who indoctrinate young people as a matter of course. Here for example is New York governor Kathy Hochul warning of an impending heat emergency in the city:   The central claim that Kathy Hochul is making — that New York has never before seen temperatures that feel like 100° — is completely false. It’s so obviously false that you can disprove it with about five seconds of Googling. According to the National Weather Service, the highest temperature ever recorded in New York City’s Central Park was 106° Fahrenheit, all the way back in July of 1936. And that’s the actual temperature, not the heat index. Before that, there was a heat wave in 1896 that killed more than 1,000 people, as temperatures exceeded 90°. The National Weather Service reports that the warmest month on record in New York was all the way back in July of 1999. And in several years since, New York has hit 100° on several occasions. So what Kathy Hochul is saying is wrong for about a million reasons. But she said it anyway because she knows it’s effective. People hear what she’s saying — especially young people — and they believe it. They become activists and loyal voters for the Democrats. And unless they’re met with force, as they were at the Battle of the Beanfield, some of those activists will continue to deface priceless historical artifacts to attract attention to their nihilistic death cult. They will continue to block roadways, preventing people from going to work and ambulances from transporting patients. Appeasing these cultists simply does not work. That much is now very clear. If we want to have any monuments or any history left at all, we need to take the threat as seriously as the British did in 1985, and shut them down.

Louisiana is poised to become the first state in the nation to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, sparking heated debate over the separation of church and state. The bill, introduced by Republican State Representative Dodie Horton, has cleared both legislative chambers and now awaits final approval from the House due to recent amendments before heading to Governor Jeff Landry’s desk. The legislation requires that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in every public K-12 classroom and higher education institution. Proponents argue that the Ten Commandments are a historical document essential to the foundation of the U.S. legal system and can provide moral guidance to students. GOP state Sen. Jay Morris emphasized its historical significance rather than a purely religious context​​. BREAKING NEWS: Louisiana just became the 1st U.S. state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms. pic.twitter.com/aGtfEehxsj — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) June 19, 2024 However, opponents warn that this move blatantly violates the First Amendment's establishment clause, which prohibits laws respecting the establishment of religion. This concern harks back to a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law in Kentucky, deeming it unconstitutional​​. Critics argue that the bill, despite claims of promoting historical awareness, implicitly endorses a particular religious viewpoint. Democratic state Sen. Royce Duplessis highlighted that teaching moral values and religious principles should be the domain of families and religious institutions, not public schools. He stressed the need to focus on improving literacy and educational outcomes rather than engaging in potentially divisive legislative battles​​. Louisiana’s 10 Commandments law is great, and to be clear, is completely constitutional. For one thing, contrary to the wrongly decided Everson, states can have establishments under our constitution. For another thing, posting religious symbols like the 10 commandments, a… pic.twitter.com/pIhrDxAYez — Joshua Abbotoy (@Byzness) June 20, 2024 The bill also permits, though does not require, the display of other historical documents such as the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence in classrooms. Yet, the focus remains sharply on the Ten Commandments, leading to concerns about the precedence of religious over secular education​​. Legal challenges are anticipated if the bill becomes law. This potential for court battles has not deterred the bill’s supporters, who are emboldened by a 2022 Supreme Court decision favoring a high school coach fired for praying on the field, which they interpret as a broader acceptance of religious expressions in public institutions​​. The legislative effort comes amidst broader cultural and political conflicts over the role of religion in public life and education. Louisiana, situated in the deeply religious Bible Belt, often sees such measures gaining significant support among its predominantly conservative population. The debate encapsulates a broader national conversation on religious freedom and state endorsement of religious symbols​. As the bill heads back to the House for final approval, both supporters and critics prepare for what could be a landmark legal showdown, potentially setting a precedent for similar measures in other states. If Governor Landry signs the bill, Louisiana will not only set a historic precedent but also ignite a nationwide debate on the intersection of faith and public education​​. The post Louisiana Moves Forward with Controversial Bill to Display Ten Commandments in Classrooms appeared first on The Conservative Brief.

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News Soulm8te Blumhouse Greenlights Soulm8te, an Erotic Thriller Set in M3GAN Universe Can erotic thrillers make a comeback in our current era? By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 20, 2024 Credit: Universal Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Universal Pictures After the breakout success of M3GAN, a film about an uncanny android doll who becomes murderously protective of its child friend, Blumhouse and James Wan’s production studio, Atomic Monster, have been eager and ready to give us more AI-related horror projects. First up is the direct sequel M3GAN 2.0, which will star Ahsoka actor Ivanna Sakhno and, presumably, the killer AI doll. That film is set to come out in January 2025. And the following year, we’ll get another M3GAN-related installment in the form of Soulm8te, which is described as an erotic thriller. According to Variety, the movie centers on a man who “acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.” The movie, which is also described as being inspired by  “’90s domestic thrillers but with a modern, technological twist,” has Kate Dolan (Kin, The Tourist, You Are Not My Mother) on board to direct. She also rewrote a draft from Rafael Jordan on a story from James Wan, Ingrid Bisu, and Jordan. “Fundamentally, I view this film as an exploration of relationships and loneliness,” Dolan said in a statement via Variety. “Despite technological advances, there are enduring human truths we cannot escape, and I am looking forward to delving into those depths.” No news on casting yet, but Soulm8te is set to titillate us in theaters starting on January 2, 2026. [end-mark] The post Blumhouse Greenlights <i>Soulm8te</i>, an Erotic Thriller Set in M3GAN Universe appeared first on Reactor.