‘The Lincoln Project’ Depicts Vanity and Self-Regard Among the Anti-Trump Right: TV Review

Anastasia Karanikolaou leaves little to the imagination while heading out for a Halloween party hosted by her BFF Kylie Jenner.The 25-year-old model stepped out in a stunning and skimpy outfit for the bash, held at Delilah in West Hollywood on Monday.Other celebs such as Tana Mongeau and Wiz Khlalifa were also spotted at the bash.  Anastasia's look: Anastasia Karanikolaou leaves little to the imagination while heading out for a Halloween party hosted by her BFF Kylie JennerKaranikolaou stepped out in an skimpy emerald green bralette with a matching emerald green skirt with a slit up her left leg.She also wore an elaborate snake-themed headdress with matching emerald green eye shadow while holding a black handbag. She completed her look with nude strappy heels with fake gold snakes wrapped around her right arm and her left leg.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Mike Flanagan has, of late, distinguished himself as one of Netflix’s signature creators and as a generational figure in the horror genre; though his past series for the streamer, including “Midnight Mass” and “The Haunting of Hill House,” have been of various quality overall and from episode to episode, they’re consistently interesting. His willingness to engage ideas with his scares sets him apart, perhaps more than it should. So it is with “The Midnight Club,” which Flanagan and Leah Fong co-created based on the work of YA novelist Christopher Pike. Here, Iman Benson plays Ilonka, a college-bound high school salutatorian who receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Ilonka is both a star student and an idealist; she researches Brightcliffe, a facility to which her foster father can take her to be placed into hospice, and holds in reserve a secret hope that there will, there, be a miracle cure for her. What she finds, first, is a circle of ill teens who gather when the clock strikes twelve to share scary stories; it’s a mordant nihilism they share, and a sense of indulgent pleasure in the knowledge that things could be worse: They could be fighting against cosmic forces of evil.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Once again, the great cycle of culture has come back around to vampires. This year, TV has seen a new season of FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” as well as the debuts of AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire,” Peacock’s “Vampire Academy,” and Netflix’s “First Kill” — all of which were based on existing intellectual property. It follows, then, that the latest entry into the genre would be drawn from a story that was big during the last great vampire craze. “Let the Right One In,” a 2004 Swedish novel that became a Swedish film in 2008, just in time for “Twilight”-mania — and followed by an American adaptation called “Let Me In” in 2010 — now inspires a Showtime series executive produced by Andrew Hinderaker of “Away” and “Penny Dreadful.” In its early going, the show is intriguing: Its central story, of the tremulous, growing bond between a young vampire (Madison Taylor Baez) and her socially isolated peer (Ian Foreman) is sweetly drawn. But the show falters in illustrating the world around its characters. Though the kids are at the heart of the show, their interactions tend to lack stakes.

A Nebraska man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for online threats he made against Colorado’s top elections official, in one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers nationwide from rising threats. Travis Ford was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, where he lives, after pleading guilty earlier this year to sending threats to Secretary of State Jena Griswold on social media.

The New York Times.In the book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, Haberman details Trump’s behavior and actions throughout his presidency. In one excerpt from the book, obtained by Newsweek, Haberman describes an exchange Trump had with conservative donor and philanthropist Paul Singer, who has a gay son.According to the excerpt, while Trump, Pence, and their aides prepared for a press conference, Trump chatted up Singer, asking him: “How conservative are you?”Singer replied that he was quite conservative on economic issues but more moderate on other issues, such as gay rights, noting that he had been involved in efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in individual states.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are spending some family bonding time in Miami. The couple was photographed with their son, Theo, who is playing baseball in the little league.Ivanka Trump enjoys the last days of summer in Miami with the perfect outfit: See PicsIvanka Trump in Miami: Check out 5 great fashion momentsThe three were photographed arriving at the baseball park, with Kushner wearing sunglasses, a white t-shirt, grey shorts, sneakers, and a baseball hat.

Elon Musk’s plans to buy Twitter are reactivated, many of its 450 million users are expressing concern that with the SpaceX boss in being charge, the social networking site will be “over”.There’s widespread speculation that one of Musk’s first acts as Twitter boss will be to invite former US president Donald Trump back onto the platform.Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter in January 2021, following the violent disturbances in Washington DC on January 6, which he was considered to have encouraged. READ MORE: Elon Musk to reportedly offer new £40bn deal to buy Twitter after Ukraine peace proposalIn an interview with the Financial Times in May, Musk said he would "reverse [Trump’s] permanent ban".Trump responded by saying that he would still not consider going back to the platform, even if his account is reinstated.But Twitter users are still worried.One Twitter user, Gary Croft, mused: “My first thought when I read that Elon Musk wants to proceed with the Twitter acquisition was that given the timing right before the midterms Trump and all of his lying allies will be flooding Twitter with conspiracy theories and misinformation.He added: “What a revolting thought”Another, using the name Truth Blooms, wrote “If Elon Musk buys Twitter and Trump is back on, I’m GONE !”Alida Antonia added that if Trump would get his account back that “Twitter, as we know it, is over.”Elad Nehorai added that under Musk, Twitter “could well be like [controversial messageboard] 4chan, but with Twitter’s vast audience”.Trump had been banned for encouraging political violence.On January 8, 2021, outgoing President Trump tweeted to his 88 million followers: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk looks ready to get his hands on Twitter: The world’s richest person has agreed to his original $44 billion acquisition of his favorite social network, after a three-month legal fight trying to nix the deal. And that has renewed worries among some that he’s going to make drastic changes to Twitter’s content-moderation policies — and unleash a flood of right-wing misinformation and harassment. Musk informed Twitter on Oct. 3 that he will go forward with the takeover at $54.20 per share. The deal could close as soon as Friday, CNBC reported. When he announced his $44 billion deal for Twitter, Musk said he was primarily interested in protecting “free speech” on the platform, and he has criticized the company for allegedly having a left-leaning political bias.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contain details about Maggie Haberman’s Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, which was published today. 

Donald Trump is suing CNN!

Maggie Haberman has faced a lot of criticism for her new book about Donald Trump — but it wasn’t for not getting the goods!

Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued CNN, seeking $475 million in damages, saying the network had defamed him in an effort to short-circuit any future political campaign.

Donald Trump fired off his latest defamation lawsuit against a news outlet Monday, this time seeking $475 million in punitive damages from CNN over what his lawyers say was an effort to “defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically.”

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight” is the single best film about journalism of our era. So while it comes as no surprise that the writer-director’s take on life at a daily paper for ABC is substantially better than the average 2020s network drama, it’s certainly good news. On the McCarthy-created “Alaska Daily,” Hilary Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, a high-powered newspaper reporter whose reporting comes into question in the pilot’s early going; her losing her job is as much about the claims against her work as it is about the fact that her sudden vulnerability opens up a conversation about her habit of talking down to colleagues. Suddenly, she’s spinning her wheels, endlessly reporting a book that may never see daylight; the conditions are perfect for her to accept the offer of a former mentor (“Scandal’s” Jeff Perry, excellent) to take a job in Anchorage.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The first two seasons of “The Mole” came at a remarkable moment for the genre of reality TV. Premiering in 2001, the series was made during that brief and delicate time when competitors on mainstream broadcast unscripted series hadn’t yet figured out how to slip into the roles with which we’re familiar. Tasked with determining who among their number was sabotaging group challenges, the show’s cast members allowed themselves to be, well, themselves — ragged and un-telegenic and embarrassingly earnest and real. Eventually retooled into an all-celebrities format, the show lost what made it special and went away, but fans remember both the intrigue of the show’s gameplay and the rawness of its players.

With a smorgasbord of greatest hits past and perhaps present, Saturday Night Live went successfully mega-meta tonight in the sometime bubbling over cold open of its Season 48 debut.

A devastating natural disaster hit the USA this week, killing several and doing billions of dollars in damage. So many Floridians lost their homes…

Russell Brand has quit YouTube amid claims he's been "censored" by the platform. The outspoken comedian has relocated to Rumble - a rival online video platform - after one of his posts was "censored", with YouTube alleging that it featured COVID-19 disinformation. Russell explained to his audience: "We have been officially censored by YouTube.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “East New York” fits neatly into CBS’ battery of dramas about law enforcement, from “The Equalizer” to the “CSI” revival. But credit it with this much: In its roundabout way, it has more on its mind than one might expect at first blush. Set in a Brooklyn neighborhood where the beginnings of gentrification rub up uncomfortably against families who’ve lived there for generations, “East New York” is relatively careful in its presentation of cops and policing as flawed tools in need of rethinking, and boasts a charismatic lead who can make you believe, for an hour of primetime, that such change might be possible. We meet Regina Haywood (Amanda Warren of “The Leftovers” and “Dickinson”) as she’s getting a manicure; the robbery of a dollar van outside gets her attention, and draws her out to the street. She’s very early in her tenure as precinct chief, and this comes as a wake-up call of sorts; Regina is, soon enough, working to reduce quotas for arrests on petty crime and chicanery in the interrogation room, all with a single-minded focus on addressing major crime’s root causes. Her long-term goal is for the cops she oversees to live in the neighborhood they defend; she’s willing to start with placing an eager underling, Officer Brandy Quinlan (Olivia Luccardi), in an apartment procured by city housing.