Today marks the 59th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Here are a few articles that dive deeper into the conspiracies and details surrounding the #JFKassassination :
JFK wasn’t the only person to die on November 22, 1963. Three other towering figures of the 20th century died that day. #JFKassassination trib.al/xKktTQa
Though these documents may not reconfigure the assassination in the American imagination, here are some of the juiciest bits from the once-hidden cables. #JFKassassination trib.al/lqPkBdp
On Nov. 15, 1963, the staff of legendary CIA counterintelligence master James Angleton learned that Oswald was ensconced in Dallas. President Kennedy had seven days to live. #JFKassassination trib.al/GS4PGpf
The death of Mary Pinchot Meyer is linked forever to that of President John F. Kennedy, for whom she was one lover among many, but not like the others. #JFKassassination trib.al/R9FHpEX
The world loves conspiracy theories. Here are 12 experts’ favorite conspiracy theories about who killed JFK and why #JFKassassination : trib.al/7vmpcja
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Trump “will return to Twitter at some point,” predicts Fever Dreams’ podcast co-host @willsommer on this week’s episode: “He [Trump] obviously has this kind of psychodrama going on with Elon.” bit.ly/3AGSJ06
If Trump and Elon are both on Twitter, there is one question the hosts try to suss out: “Who’s going to be the big daddy and who’s the little fish?” bit.ly/3AGSJ06
Also on the episode, @HeidiBeedle, a reporter for the Colorado Times Recorder, tells Sommer and co-host @KELLYWEILL that anti-LGBT hate from Colorado Springs community leaders began peaking before this weekend’s shooting at queer venue Club Q. bit.ly/3AGSJ06
Merrick Garland is wasting our time and helping Trump at this point according to @andylevy and The New Abnormal podcast’s brand-new permanent co-host @DeeTwoCents, who rips into Garland this episode bit.ly/3tTJtCi
“I am just beyond disappointed in Merrick Garland. Like, first of all, you’ve had 22 months. Do you know what can get done in 22 months?” @DeeTwoCents says bit.ly/3tTJtCi
The two also talk Garland’s new appointment and their frustrations with the lack of action on gun control on the heels of another shooting, this time against more LGBTQ people in Colorado. bit.ly/3tTJtCi
EXCLUSIVE: ABC News staffers at all levels were just as surprised as everyone else to learn that Bob Iger is returning to run The Walt Disney Company. trib.al/3jLDpyo
News boss Kim Godwin addressed the shock development during ABC’s 9 a.m. editorial call, telling staffers there was “no warning” and imploring them to focus on their work, according to people who were on the call. trib.al/3jLDpyo
Speculation within ABC News has turned to who else could return now that Bob Iger is once again running the show. A Confider spy-witness recently saw Iger dining in L.A. with Peter Rice, the former Disney TV exec who was fired by Bob Chapek months ago. trib.al/3jLDpyo
Trump’s 2024 announcement, right after Election Day and before the Georgia runoff, was anything but a coincidence. bit.ly/3u00nPL
Beast political investigations reporter @jose_pagliery told @andylevy on this week’s episode of The New Abnormal podcast that Trump’s announcement may have felt like a flop, but there was an interesting upside to it for him. bit.ly/3u00nPL
Pagliery explains that for the last two months Trump has been covered by the DOJ’s “60-day rule,” an unofficial practice that may have played a role in the timing. bit.ly/3u00nPL
He champ came out of retirement—reportedly wrecking his marriage to Gisele Bündchen—to play a rocky season. And the player and his ex-wife could now lose their sizable investment in collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Public records for Brady’s charity reviewed by The Daily Beast reveal that his sports therapy and wellness company TB12, Inc. was in the red as recently as 2020, with a negative balance of $7 million in net assets. thedailybeast.com/tom-bradys-tb1…
Meanwhile, his TB12 Foundation—lately in the news for installing his “TB12 Method” for injury recovery and prevention in select Florida schools—has doubled its revenues in recent years with donations from just a handful of supporters
In the races where Republicans spent the most money, they usually lost—in both the House and Senate. Daily Beast reporter @SollenbergerRC explains in this week’s Pay Dirt newsletter bit.ly/3hV4zgw
While Republicans are now projected to win a slim majority in the House—far below their expectations—Democrats took all five of the most expensive races bit.ly/3hV4zgw
Republicans also came up short in outside spending bit.ly/3hV4zgw