I have very nice hair. Coveted hair sometimes! Hair that people make a “big deal” about. Once, when my hair was down my back, all black and very long, a woman stopped her car mid-traffic in downtown Washington, D.C. to ask me what products I used. I told her whatever my stylist uses because I’m too lazy to do my own…
For the second consecutive month, Joe Biden raised more money than Donald Trump.
The Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee late Wednesday reported that they together raised $141 million in June, for a total cash haul of $282.1 million for the quarter.
Both figures bested Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, which reported $131 million in June and $266 million during the second fundraising quarter of the year.
The Trump campaign, however, reports it still has plenty sitting in the bank, with $295 million cash on hand. Democrats did not disclose that figure on Wednesday.
“It’s clear that voters are looking for steady leadership, experience, empathy, compassion, and character — and they’ll find all of these qualities in Vice President Joe Biden. This has been our argument since day one of this campaign, and it will be our winning argument in November,” Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in an email to supporters.
O'Malley Dillon wrote that 68 percent of last month’s donors were new to the campaign, that the overall average online donation was $34 and that more than 2.6 million also signed up to join the campaign.
The money has flowed to Democrats as Trump's poll numbers have taken a tumble, particularly in the last two weeks, amid a deadly Covid-19 pandemic and as protests of police brutality swept across the country.
Still, the Trump campaign touted its ability to consistently raise money from small dollar donors, including a record $14 million on a single day on Trump's birthday.
Paris Jackson claims the King of Pop caught on ‘pretty quickly’ to her sexuality when she was a child as young as 8-years-old.
The daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe is opening up her relationship with Soundflowers bandmate Gabriel Glenn for a new Facebook Watch docuseries, Extra reports.
In the premiere episode of Unfiltered: Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn, the 22-year-old admits she “never thought I’d end up with a dude.” Adding, “[I] thought I’d end up marrying a chick. I’ve dated more women than men,” Jackson said of her sexual orientation.
“The public only knows about three long-term relationships that I’ve been in and they’ve been with men. The public doesn’t know about most of the relationships I’ve been in,” she continued.
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After the death of her her father, Paris went to live with her grandmother Katherine Jackson, who is a Jehovah’s Witness.
“Homosexuality in general is very taboo in the Black community,” she said. “That, on top of the religious aspect — it was something that I did feel like I needed to withhold for a while.”
On Monday, Facebook Watch gave viewers a first look into the first season of her new series. In the clip, Jackson’s famous father makes an appearance.
The touching home videos show the pop icon interacting with a much younger Paris and when he asks what she wants to be when she grows up she quickly responds, “I do what you do,” adding, “dance and sing!”
When it comes to her sexuality, Jackson claims her dad “caught on pretty quick.”
“I think he just felt the energy and he would, like, kind of tease me the same way that he would tease my brothers, like ‘Oh, you got yourself a girlfriend,'” she said.
“I’m very lucky to have that, especially so young — I think I was like 8 or 9. Not many children have that experience.”
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Jackson doesn’t consider herself bisexual because “I’ve dated more than just men and women, I’ve dated a man that had a vagina. It has nothing to do with what’s in your pants, it’s literally like, ‘What are you like as a person?'”
In the preview for her docuseries, she admits that “Gabe understands the pain that I’ve gone through in my life.”
Of their relationship, Jackson also noted: “It is nice to finally have a home base, which is something that I’ve never really had before,” she explained. “The only home I’ve ever had before was my dad and now I have Gabe, so… I’m very lucky.”
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An appeals judge has partially lifted a temporary restraining order that barred publication of a book in which President Donald Trump’s niece offers a scathing portrait of the Trump family.
In a ruling Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Alan Scheinkman said another judge erred Tuesday by issuing a broad restraining order that prohibited publisher Simon & Schuster from printing or distributing copies of the book.
“S&S is not a party to the settlement agreement [and] this Court perceives no basis for S&S to be specifically enjoined,” Scheinkman wrote in a six-page order in the suit, filed by President Trump’s brother Robert. “Unlike Ms. Trump, S&S has not agreed to surrender or relinquish any of its First Amendment rights.”
The appeals judge left the order in place against Mary Trump and “any agent” of hers, leaving some uncertainty about whether Simon & Schuster is still covered by the order or would be risking contempt of court by moving forward with plans to release the book, which is due to come out July 28 under the title: “‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
A spokesman for Simon & Schuster did not directly address the company’s plans, but suggested the firm was waiting to see how the original judge on the case, Poughkeepsie-based Justice Hal Greenwald, rules on a preliminary injunction barring the memoir.
“We support Mary L. Trump’s right to tell her story in ‘Too Much and Never Enough,‘ a work of great interest and importance to the national discourse that fully deserves to be published for the benefit of the American public,” the spokesman, Adam Rothberg, said in a statement. “As all know, there are well-established precedents against prior restraint and pre-publication injunctions, and we remain confident that the preliminary injunction will be denied.”
The suit filed last week seeks to enforce confidentiality provisions in a settlement agreement several members of the Trump family entered into in 2001 to resolve litigation over the estate of President Trump’s father, Fred Jr., who died in 1999.
Scheinkman said the earlier ruling from Greenwald failed to take into account the fact that the public interest in matters relating to the Trump family is quite different today than it was two decades ago.
“The legitimate interest in preserving family secrets may be one thing for the family of a real estate developer, no matter how successful; it is another matter for the family of the President of the United States,” the judge wrote.
Scheinkman also noted that the non-disclosure agreement in the settlement seems to be open-ended, but precedent requires that courts issuing injunctions take account of whether the restraint is “temporally and geographically reasonable.”
“The passage of time and changes in circumstances may have rendered at least some of the restrained information less significant than it was at the time and, conversely, whatever legitimate public interest there may have been in the family disputes of a real estate developer and his relatives may be considerably heightened by that real estate developer now being President of the United States and a current candidate for re-election,” the judge said.
President Trump is listed in the settlement as one of the family members Mary Trump promises not to discuss her relationship with. While the president has endorsed the legal effort to scuttle publication of the book, he is not a party to the suit, which is captioned: “Trump v. Trump.”
Charles Harder, an attorney who is representing Robert Trump and regularly represents President Trump and the Trump campaign in similar cases seeking to enforce confidentiality agreements, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest developments in the suit.
The top antitrust official at the Justice Department has pushed back on eyebrow-raising testimony his former chief of staff delivered to Congress last week –– and, in the process, alluded to how flummoxed department attorneys were with an unusually thorny legal issue: marijuana mergers.
The pushback comes in a letter that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, sent on Wednesday to the top Republican and Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. In the letter, Delrahim said John Elias’s testimony was “misleading and lacks critical facts.”
Elias testified that Attorney General William Barr called Antitrust Division leaders to his office for a meeting and then ordered them to scrutinize mergers of marijuana companies because he himself held personal animus toward the industry. Delrahim wrote in his letter, meanwhile, that the division asked for the meeting “for the purpose of resolving significant policy questions at this complex intersection of criminal and civil law enforcement.”
“Notably, the federal antitrust agencies had no prior experience — let alone subject matter expertise — in the cannabis industry,” he wrote.
The letter also addressed Elias’s testimony about the Antitrust Division’s review of an arrangement among auto manufacturers regarding compliance with California’s emissions standards. Elias said the Division leadership directed staff there to start an investigation into the arrangement the day after President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that he thought it was terrible. Delrahim’s letter, meanwhile, said he first asked staff to analyze the arrangement several weeks before Trump tweeted about it.
