#Fox News Sunday

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Hollywood/Fox News/BBC: “It is morally ambiguous?”

Soldiers ran over screaming, living civilians with bulldozers. They brag about it about to CNN and on social media. There is a tremendous amount of evidence.

Isreali TikTok is practically a True Crime scene these days.

What is morally ambiguous about that?

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Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Vice President-elect JD Vance promoted a debunked conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, while trying to prove to Trump supporters that he is in agreement with those sympathetic to the attack. The problem began after Vance appeared on Fox News Sunday and said that Trump would not apply a blanket pardon to everyone involved in the riot.

“If you protested peacefully on January the 6th, and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member? You should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned,” Vance said. This prompted a reaction from conservative commenters who are upset that Vance seemed to be backing away from Trump’s earlier promises.   A typical response in this vein came from the account of conservative podcasters The Hodge Twins, who wrote, “Video gets released of cops shooting innocent J6 protesters and @JDVance goes on Fox News and tells the world that only non violent protesters should get pardoned. Better rethink what you just said JD.” Vance responded and noted, “I donated to the to the J6 political prisoner fund and got ROASTED for it during my senate race. I've been defending these guys for years.” The incoming vice president then asserted, “There were federal informants in the crowd. Do they get a pardon? I don't think so. The president saying he'll look at each case (and me saying the same) is not some walkback.”

This is false: A December report released by the independent Justice Department inspector general’s office examined the agency’s response to Jan. 6 and determined that there were no FBI employees on the scene nor were any FBI informants authorized to participate in the attack. Conservatives—almost since the day of the attack, have sought to push the narrative that the people who attacked the Capitol were not Trump supporters, or that the so-called “deep state” was involved in provoking the attack. In fact, Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has pushed similar conspiracies.

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HuffPost: JD Vance Leaves 'Gray Area' For How Trump Will Pardon Jan. 6 Prisoners

VP-elect J.D. Vance ticked off January 6th Insurrectionists over his comments made on Fox News Sunday opposing pardons for violent people.

From the 01.12.2025 edition of Fox's Fox News Sunday:

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Tim Walz se aventura en la guarida del león con una entrevista de Fox News

Tim Walz se sentará con la presentadora de Fox News, Shannon Bream, para una entrevista el domingo por la mañana, la primera conversación al aire en solitario del candidato demócrata a la vicepresidencia desde que se convirtió en compañera de fórmula de Kamala Harris. La cadena anunció la próxima aparición de Walz en una publicación en las redes sociales el sábado. Según Fox News, la entrevista…

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wait wait WAIT. WHO is THAT i need him 👀

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BOB'S BURGERS 14x06 "Escape from Which Island?" airs tonight at 9pm on FOX

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Seven(ish) Sentence Sunday!

Thanks for the tag @milowren29 🥰

Well, since reserved for me is complete, i’m currently (loosely) working on my next fic that’s going to be a childhood friends to lovers au! here’s a VERY short snippet bc well i’m still outlining! 🫣

Alex is pouting. Alex has been pouting for almost a week now.

June sighs and goes to sit next to her eight year old brother who pretends to be not paying attention to the affection he is about to be given. “You miss him don’t you?”

Alex’s eyes widen for a fraction of a second, almost glad that someone noticed. Then, very adorably, a pink blush covers his rounded cheeks. “Your English, blond haired friend.”

Alex grumpily says, “his name is Henry. And yes, I miss him.” He huffs and crosses his arms.

*squeals* i don’t know where this is going! but we’re going anyway 🤩

no pressure tags 💌: @henryspearl @kj-bee @thesleepyskipper @remuscariad @regulusrules @anincompletelist @inexplicablymine @theprinceandagcd @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @caterpills @wordsofhoneydew

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Some Sentences Sunday

Thanks to @priincebutt @onthewaytosomewhere @dragonflylady77 and @piratefalls for the tags! I've actually been doing quite a bit of scribbling this week on two different projects, and I was torn on which one to share. So I decided to say "fuck it" and share snippets from both! Below the cut are snippets from A Tournament for His Heart and living in a new normal! THH is quite angsty, so I figured I'd add some sweet from LNN to temper that. Enjoy!

A Tournament for His Heart

“Roland told me about Bea’s outburst last night,” Henry said, picking at the grass. “I should have been here.”

Phillip sighed. “Minari advised me against it. She was so gone last night, Hen, there was nothing you could have done.”

“You don’t know that,” Henry snapped. “I’ve seen her at her worst. You don’t have to treat me like a child!”

“That isn’t fair,” Phillip replied. Henry looked at him and saw frustration in his eyes. Phillip pointed in the direction that Bea disappeared. “She was my priority in that moment. I know you don’t like it, feel excluded when we don’t call on you, but I can handle her in those moments better than you can. She is your twin. I know you feel her absence more acutely than I ever could.

His previous irritation melted away as Phillip’s words hit right at the heart of him. It was a hard adjustment at first, to be so disconnected from the person with whom he once shared everything, even a womb. She was his other half. Now, he was a friendly stranger in her eyes. A foolish part of him hoped Minari would find something that would bring Bea back to them. She sent messages to fellow healers from different parts of Lerasea and beyond, only to continue to come up empty-handed. She once told him, “Magick can only do so much, Henry. Wounds of the mind are tricky and not so easily healed.”

“I feel so lost without her, Pip,” Henry whispered, his vision swimming. “Giving up Alex was hard enough, but I told myself then I could survive it as long as I had Bea with me.”

He sucked in a breath and felt Phillip’s hand on his back.

“But without her?” Henry continued. “Having to publicly fight with you, be looked down upon by the court and Mary’s counsel…at times, it feels unbearable.”

living in a new normal

(Alex is in italics, and Henry is not. Based on their texting styles, I figured it would be obvious, but I added the italics just in case.)

whats ur go-to comfort meal?

Yes, hello, love. How are you? I’m fine, thanks. Was there a conversation started I missed somewhere?

adhd, baby. im always in the middle of a conversation.

go-to comfort meal, go!

In England, a full English, with the Welsh variation of laverbread instead of beans on toast.

just googled what that is. wtf???

Don’t know it until you’ve tried it, love.

In America, grilled cheese and tomato soup. When I moved here, I was determined to start cooking for myself and that was one of the first recipes I learned.

my dad would make us tomatillo soup when we were sick

ill send u the recipe

oh! or we can make it together when u come to austin

i got a badass kitchen set-up

So, is that your go-to comfort meal? I can’t wait to try it.

probably

that or my mom’s king ranch chicken casserole

ur turn to ask a question

What five movie when you show someone as a snapshot of who you are and why?

fuck, that’s a tough one!

A/N- Have a great week!

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Subscribed to Disney plus (because they had a good offer going on) this morning and watched 5 animated movies since then (only including one rewatch).

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Haha silly detective that sounds like Will Arnett but in reality it’s Jon Hamm :3

ALSO HEAR ME OUT-

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it’s stunning sunday and the boys are indeed stunning. I hope everyone has a good day 🖤

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Julian Edelman with Rob Gronkowski on the Fox NFL Sunday set // via Instagram // Monday, December 11th, 2023

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Stephen Robinson at Public Notice (05.10.2024):

Not so long ago, the Sunday morning news shows were a vital part of the political ecosphere. Politicians and government officials clamored for the mainstream platform provided by ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, and to a lesser extent, CNN’s State of the Union and Fox News Sunday. This is where presidential campaigns were launched and political agendas defined. Regular viewers have probably noticed, however, that elected Republicans increasingly don’t perform that well outside the safe spaces of Fox and Newsmax. There’s a simple reason for that.

Last Sunday was a case in point. Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls fanned across the Sunday shows and made fools of themselves. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum spent the evening prior at a Mar-a-Lago donor event where Trump ranted about special prosecutor Jack Smith, spread his usual lies about the 2020 election, and compared President Biden’s administration to the Gestapo. On CNN, State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked Burgum if he was comfortable with this rhetoric, and the governor simply changed the topic. ”Yesterday, we had an opportunity to listen to the president talk for 90 minutes without a teleprompter, covering a wide range of topics, and largely very upbeat, because, if the election was held today, Trump would be winning,” he said.

Burgum downplayed the criminal charges Trump faces and insisted it would be a “travesty of justice” if he was convicted at the end of his New York trial. When Tapper asked him about the recent Time magazine interview where Trump seemingly supported political violence if he lost the election, Burgum could only ramble nonsensically about the 2000 and 2016 elections, neither of which ended in violent coup attempts. Yet Burgum condemned the January 6 attack on the Capitol as it happened, so he should understand the difference. Even worse was Sen. Tim Scott’s appearance on Meet the Press. On January 6, Scott voted to certify Biden’s win. But when host Kristin Welker asked him if he’d commit to accepting the 2024 election results, Scott wouldn’t say “yes.” Instead, he kept reiterating that “at the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump.”

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These shameless displays generated bad press for Burgum and Scott, which helps explain why some elected Republicans are choosing to stay away from mainstream interviews entirely. Notably, on April 28, not a single elected Republican appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This came weeks after GOP Rep. Nancy Mace called for a boycott of the show over Stephanopoulos’s grilling of her. But there’s something deeper going on — Republicans simply can’t defend their ongoing support of Trump.

Mace’s This Week interview on March 10 was a complete disaster. She’s spoken publicly about her own experience as a rape victim, and Stephanopoulos asked how she squares that with her current support for Trump, who has been found liable for defaming a woman he sexually abused. Mace had no real defense, so she lashed out at Stephanopoulos. She argued that Trump wasn’t found guilty in a criminal court (neither was Mace’s rapist). She later accused Stephanopoulos of “mansplaining” rape and shaming her on national TV, when in reality she shamed herself.

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There’s no escaping January 6

Republicans who condemned Trump in 2016 mostly did so on character grounds. He was vulgar and sexist, hardly a “role model” for Americans. Haley said Trump was "everything we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten.” Rep. Elise Stefanik called out Trump’s “inappropriate, offensive comments” on the Access Hollywood tape. Then-GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte said she couldn’t bring herself to vote for Trump because he’d talked “about assault of women.” Now, after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, Ayotte says “there's no question [Trump’s] the right choice for the White House.”

It was much easier to walk back expressed reservations about Trump and simply focus on right-wing policy wins when he was in the office. Republicans could just pretend they never read his tweets. However, the last traces of plausible deniability went up in smoke on January 6. We all lived through Trump’s coup attempt. We witnessed his refusal to disavow the violence and his continued promise to pardon the convicted insurrectionists, who he calls “January 6 hostages.” Republicans who stuck with Trump after January 6 either minimize the Capitol attack or outright embrace it. When Sununu called out Trump’s election lies and his starring role in January 6, he sounded like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, but his shameless attempt to remain in MAGA’s good graces tars him as the worst kind of phony. Chris Christie and even Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, understand that rejecting Trump’s anti-democratic actions requires withdrawing even tacit support for his current candidacy. Of course, Cheney and Kinzinger are no longer in Congress and neither Christie nor Pence have realistic political aspirations.

Former AG Bill Barr has roundly repudiated Trump. He said Trump “will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest, there’s no question about it.” Nonetheless, he recently told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins that he’ll vote for him anyway because “I think Trump would do less damage than Biden, and I think all this stuff about a threat to democracy — I think the real threat to democracy is the progressive movement and the Biden administration.”

[...] These train wreck interviews make for entertaining clips on social media, but you’d think Republicans would like to avoid starring in a comic farce. Republicans with an agenda other than slavish devotion to Trump would prefer to hammer Biden and Democrats about the border or campus protests, but their presidential nominee is a criminal defendant charged with serious felonies who actively promotes political violence. They can’t escape their support for someone so unfit for office.

Trump has turned the search for his next top running mate into its own reality show, and the contenders like Vance, Cotton, Burgum, Scott, and confessed puppy killer Kristi Noem (who had her own Sunday show disaster on Face the Nation last weekend) will probably keep coming back for more. They have their “audience of one” to please. It’s unclear if Trump watches anything but Fox News and Newsmax, but it’s obvious from his social media feed that he’s aware if any Republican dares speak heresy against him. The mainstream TV interviews are humiliating for Republicans — but maybe that’s the point. Right-wing media outlets are less likely to challenge Republicans about January 6 or accepting the 2024 election results, so the true loyalty test is on the major network shows. Unfortunately, there’s no limit to the moral depths that elected Republicans will sink to remain in good standing with their orange king.

Republicans’ appearances on Sunday morning talk shows (and any outlet outside the right-wing echo chamber) have been nothing short of disasters.

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Michael J. Fox to appear for an interview on CBS Sunday Morning on April 30th. There’s a short video preview at the link above. Be warned, he is very symptomatic/diskynetic in the video. Transcript below-

MICHAEL J. FOX: My life is set up so I can pack Parkinson's along with me if I have to.

JANE PAULEY: You've not squandered any of your capacity. But at some point, Parkinson's gonna make the call for you, isn't it?

FOX: Yeah, it's, it's banging on the door. Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna lie. It's gettin' hard, it's gettin' harder. It's gettin' tougher. Every day it's tougher. But, but, that's, that's the way it is. I mean, you know, who do I see about that?...I had spinal surgery. I had a tumor on my spine. And – and – and it was benign, but it messed up my walking. … And then, started to break stuff. Bro, broke this arm, and I broke this arm, I broke this elbow. I broke my face. I broke my hand.

PAULEY: Falling on things?

FOX:  Which is a big killer with Parkinson's. It's falling … and aspirating food and getting pneumonia. All these subtle ways that gets ya'. … You don't die from Parkinson's. You die with Parkinson's. So – so I've been – I've been thinking about the mortality of it. … I'm not gonna be 80. I'm not gonna be 80.

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27/08/23-Ibsley Common in the New Forest

Photos taken in this set: 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8. Views on a lovely walk here, it was wonderful to take in the landscape painted yellow and green by the ripe heather and bracken. It was so good to enjoy immersive purple scenes which were spectacular to take in again. 2. A macro shot of some of that heather right at the end of the walk with a hoverfly coming to the flowering in shot too. 4. One of a fair few mushrooms I enjoyed seeing today, this is a great spot for them. 5. One of two or three Fox moth caterpillars I enjoyed seeing on the walk at varying stages. 9. Tormentil, a key New Forest species kissed well by the sun this afternoon. 10. A Dor beetle it was nice to see, though facing some difficulty.

It was nice to hear for a while the atmospheric call of a Buzzard on a second Sunday running and see the bird, with Stonechat and Meadow Pipit seen very well in this purple landscape. Fallow Deers and New Forest Ponies were beautiful mammals to see at a distance during the time here this afternoon. Ichneumon wasp which was thrilling to see, a yellow quartet of gorse mixing well with the heather, lesser spearwort in water, buttercup and ragwort, milkwort, sheep's sorrel, possible bog asphodel and I believe the shaggy scalycap mushrooms clinging to the base of a tree were other highlights on the walk. Species I saw at Old Winchester Hill earlier today which my last post details and here as well were Gatekeeper, Small Heath, devil's-bit scabious a flower I love looking for in the forest as we go into September and bramble flower. I enjoyed fantastic time in two national park spots in the South Downs and here today. It was nice to see borage on a roundabout on the way home with Goldfinch, Brown House moth and fly seen at home.

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