WASHINGTON (TND) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., early Friday morning took to Instagram to dispel what she described as media “craziness” surrounding studies President Joe Biden may quickly drop out of the presidential election.

Stories by a number of main shops say outstanding Democratic leaders in latest weeks have instructed Biden to think about dropping out in favor of nominating a stronger candidate to rival former president Donald Trump. Some now speculate Biden’s announcement may come as early as this weekend.

AOC admitted throughout a stay video on Instagram she doesn’t know what is going to occur within the coming days. Nonetheless, she mentioned the notion that Democrats aren’t behind Biden largely originates from a category of highly effective people exterior of Congress who aren’t performing within the curiosity of the voting lots.

If individuals needed to have this dialog six months in the past, a 12 months in the past, it’s a really totally different panorama of logistics,” she mentioned. “I feel individuals want to grasp the fact and the gravity of what these persons are proposing.”

Republicans, she added, are already getting ready authorized challenges within the occasion a brand new candidate tries to take Biden’s place atop the Democratic ticket. This, she mentioned, may result in the result of the election being determined by the Supreme Court docket.

The consultant continued, calling out her Democratic colleagues for failing to take possession of their feedback made to the press throughout such a tumultuous time for the social gathering, referring to it as “craziness” within the media.

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“Over the past a number of weeks, there’s been a lot of Democrats who’ve been giving little nameless quotes to the press, to some journalist to print — and I’m not right here to knock the press on it, I’m right here to knock my colleagues on it,” she mentioned.

That’s bulls—,” she added. “If in case you have an opinion, say it along with your chest and say it in public. The thought that you’re an elected official and you’re speculated to be answerable for a group and also you’re simply going to, like, textual content some journalist on the low and say ‘that is what I feel, however don’t put my title subsequent to it’ — what are you right here to do?”

Persevering with, she famous selecting one other nominee throughout the Democratic Celebration may show to be a prolonged course of, impacting some state deadlines for poll entries. Such a situation, she mentioned, may result in “monumental peril.”

Her remarks come as fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Thursday additionally lamented a scarcity of accountability amongst Democratic leaders.

“I can’t inform you all how shameful it feels to listen to all these leaks about what Democratic leaders are staying [sic] and to not have a single one in every of them out right here confirming or denying it,” Rep. Omar wrote on X. “It’s a scarcity of management and it’s making all Democrats look dangerous.”

No matter this mess results in is not going to undo the injury that has already been inflicted. Might God assist us all,” she concluded.

Biden’s household is now discussing a doable exit plan from the presidential race, NBC Information reported Friday.

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My crush on Harry Connick Jr. began once I was in highschool. He created the soundtrack to one in all my favourite motion pictures of all time, “When Harry Met Sally.” A yr later, he made his movie debut in “Memphis Belle,” and he’s been recording music and appearing ever since. 

I’ve liked following his profession as each a musician and an actor, so I used to be to see him within the new Netflix movie, “Discover Me Falling,” by author and director Stelana Kliris. 

When John (Connick Jr.) finds that his newest album has had poor reception from each followers and critics, he decides to go to Cypress to attempt to escape. When he settles in, he realizes that his home is on a cliff that folks repeatedly journey to to leap to their deaths. In attempting to arrange a fence to forestall this, he goes into city and meets Melina (Ali Fumiko Whitney), a younger singer who guarantees to ship groceries and different objects to him. She invitations him to listen to her carry out, and whereas he’s there, he runs into Sia (Agni Scott), who he had an affair with years earlier than, and about whom he wrote his hottest music. The 2 should decide if their previous flame might be rekindled. 

This film has numerous potential for some actually attention-grabbing and beautiful storylines, however it simply squanders all of them on empty, drained tropes. Each time there felt like a possibility for the story to do one thing distinctive with what was arrange, it as a substitute pivoted to one thing we have now seen tons of of occasions with out even a compelling twist. 

The performances are all nice. Connick Jr. does sing on this, which is at all times a deal with, and he’s a wonderfully serviceable actor in a romantic main position. Whitney additionally has a stunning voice and is showcased a number of occasions all through the movie in that manner, however sadly, past that, there may be little supplied. There’s little chemistry between Scott and Connick Jr. of their scenes, leaving the romance underwhelming. 

The movie has a number of situations the place the subject of demise comes up. In fact it’s a part of the story with the cliff that John lives on, however there may be additionally an older character who complains that she will be able to’t die, despite the fact that she has executed every thing that she desires to do. These may make for one thing considerate or creative with the romantic aspect, however sadly, they’re handled in probably the most trite methods. Suicide will not be a joke, however it’s handled merely as an apart on this film in a manner that doesn’t work. 

There are some elements of “Discover Me Falling” that work, however solely on probably the most floor degree. Sadly, that is primarily a film that offers in numerous missed alternatives. You will discover me watching one thing else.  

Alise Chaffins is a Morgantown author who loves motion pictures and sharing her opinions. She critiques a film from a streaming service each Saturday and one newly in theaters each Sunday. Discover extra at MacGuffin or Which means on Substack. 

Traces, delays, and cancellations piled up at La Guardia, Newark, and JFK. New York 1 struggled to get Pat Kiernan’s morning present on the air. The prison courthouse in Manhattan couldn’t course of arraignments. The DMV couldn’t do the one factor it’s alleged to do: push paperwork. Amid the largest technological debacle in latest reminiscence, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority got here by way of. Its fleet of hundreds of subway automobiles, commuter trains, and buses stored rolling — getting roughly 5 million New Yorkers to their jobs and appointments.

The sprawling transportation behemoth, usually criticized for being too sluggish to adapt to the occasions, was the one factor that mainly labored Friday morning. On the web site previously generally known as Twitter, customers (okay, me) jokingly posted, “MTA this AM: Can’t crash computer systems you don’t have!” together with an image of the Battlestar Galactica, the interplanetary plane provider that survived a riot led by sentient robots as a result of it was the one vessel that, missing a pc community, couldn’t be hacked.

The one parts of the MTA’s huge infrastructure that have been apparently affected have been its knowledge feeds permitting the general public to see in actual time the placement of buses, commuter trains, and subways on the lettered strains. The shows for the numbered strains stored on trucking. Housing-policy professional Alex Armlovich joked that “the MTA’s deeply fragmented IT programs are so mutually incompatible that no less than solely half the system crashes at one time.”

It’s an astute remark that will get to a core reality in regards to the MTA and the way it works: The company has been very sluggish to push itself into the longer term, and it’s gun-shy partly as a result of nobody desires to interrupt the railroad. (The MTA has 4 railroads, actually, relying on the way you depend.)

The system that enables areas to be displayed on the No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 trains — the one which didn’t break — dates to the late Nineties and early aughts. It took 11 years and an estimated $230 million to develop and set up. It’s a classy and highly effective community that linked the MTA’s historic stop-light-style indicators with the switches that management practice actions and permit dispatchers within the central Rail Management Middle to see the place these trains are in actual time and redirect them as wanted. Referred to as ATS-A, it feeds the green-and-red countdown clocks above the platforms and cues up the automated practice bulletins on the PA. Officers repeatedly promised the system would finally come to the lettered strains, however that by no means occurred for a wide range of causes.

The countdown clocks that did break are a lot newer, and right here we run into the iron fist of Andrew Cuomo. Throughout his governorship, Cuomo demanded that the MTA get countdown clocks on the lettered strains after years of rider complaints about their absence. In a race to get it performed, the MTA knocked collectively a system that was comparatively half-baked. It isn’t wired into the mechanical indicators, nor does it management the switches or hyperlink as much as the PA. As an alternative, every practice operating on the lettered strains was outfitted with a Bluetooth beacon (sure, the identical expertise that powers your wi-fi mouse) that journeys a receiver because the subway nears a station, which then triggers the LCD display screen over the platform to replace. The system makes use of the Bluetooth community to guesstimate the place a practice is on the route and the period of time it would take it to reach at its subsequent cease.

Maybe the largest shiny spot for the MTA throughout at this time’s meltdown was the efficiency of a 3rd system. Pc-based practice management, because it’s known as, is the latest and most refined method of operating subway strains, with all of the options described above that the numbered strains have in addition to two extra and highly effective ones: It is aware of the precise location of the trains within the system, eradicating the necessity for the outdated bodily indicators that break down, and it permits dispatchers to run trains on distant management. That mixture means trains can transfer extra rapidly and nearer collectively. Nevertheless it requires in depth rewiring of the tunnels and alternative of switches, which is expensive and labor-intensive. The L and the No. 7 have been solely flipped over to the brand new system, and it’s no coincidence that each have on-time rankings of greater than 90 p.c and may run trains each two minutes through the rush hour. The underway summer time G-train shutdown will add CBTC to a different complete line. Officers are additionally within the midst of changing the Eighth Avenue subway, which carries the A and C. Kathy Hochul’s “indefinite pause” of congestion pricing has left plans to put in it on the delay-prone Fulton Road line (A/C) and the Sixth Avenue line (B/D/F/M) in limbo.