wtf
Hopefully, America’s spies are a little more stealthy.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was roundly mocked on social media Thursday for using an image on the cover of its annual diversity report that was obviously Photoshopped.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sat down with Breitbart News and warned that Democrat policy-pushing pop star Taylor Swift would be the “first victim” of a top-down “Marxism” government. The video went viral, prompting far-left journalists, artists, and pundits to quickly circle the wagons around Swift, throw tantrums, and hurl personal attacks at Sen. Blackburn.
Thursday July 8, 2021 7:26pm pic.twitter.com/LoGy2PPALV
— Venice Beach Boardwalk (@BoardwalkVenice) July 9, 2021
Ticket-holders to the 2017 Fyre Festival fiasco have seen their proposed payout slashed.
They are set to receive just $281 (£204) each, according to court papers filed in New York last week.
That amount falls short of the April settlement reached in a US federal court, which concluded they could have had up to $7,220 returned each.
Lawyers have struggled to recoup money from acts and models who promoted the festival that fell apart.
I never heard of this one – “Bull Island”
“… Andreescu and Auger-Aliassime chose Monaco as their tax haven. The sovereign city-state levies no income tax, no wealth tax, no local tax, no property tax, and no capital gains tax on investments. Just deposit 500,000 euros in a local bank, and show proof of local accommodation (purchase or rental) and voilà — a marginal tax rate on income of 53.31 per cent in Ontario or Quebec is replaced with zero per cent in Monaco. This could be worth millions of dollars for the players.
Canada is a certain medalist in the Joke Country Olympics.
A group of activists has claimed responsibility for draping a sign reading “God Bless Abortions” on a 60-plus-foot Jesus Christ statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, saying the act was a message on abortion legislation.
This year’s first murder hornet nest was already spotted in Washington state but those are nothing to worry about. Folks over in Fukushima, Japan, on the other hand, have “a new mutant species of radioactive boar-pig” to cope with. Maybe they can turn them into Godzilla chow. It’s been rumored he eats radiation.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will be opening the doors of their buildings for the first time since the start of the pandemic. To get school supplies ready and accessible for students, they have started a new program that will stock schools with masks, hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, air purifiers, forehead thermometers, menstrual products, AND – last but not least – condoms.
I made mistakes. But my departure wasn’t the solution to the CBC’s problem with racism
“… The CBC did not offer me any public support. And I did not defend myself because I just wanted to return to work. In the midst of last year’s racial reckoning, I also felt it would have been wrong for me to play the victim card.
But my silence backfired as players on all sides used me as a cudgel to advance political interests. While some journalists offered public support, my most vocal defenders were free-speech warriors who wanted to make me a cautionary tale about the dangers of cancel culture. That distinction horrified me, because I’ve fought to cancel injustice my whole life. I resented being made a poster child of a movement I wasn’t part of.”
Just say no to the Kool-Aid kids – Go incognito
More here – Wendy Mesley writes her CBC departure won’t solve corporation’s “problem with racism”
The Government’s new Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament and will recognise animals as sentient beings, currently only covers vertebrates.
Within 10 years eating meat will be illegal.
H/T Marvin
Several members of the ‘Rise of the Moors’ sovereign citizen militia have appeared in court for arraignment, where they refused to cooperate and rejected the court’s authority, claiming they are not subject to U.S. laws.
The arraignment on Tuesday in Medford, Massachusetts came after the 11 militiamen were arrested in an armed standoff with police over the weekend, which was resolved without casualties.
They face several charges, including unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and the use of body armor in commission of a crime, in connection with the standoff that started early Saturday morning on Interstate 95 in Wakefield.
Federal investigators seized an unusual piece of evidence from a Pennsylvania man indicted last month for his role in the Capitol riot—a Lego replica of the building he allegedly stormed. Robert Morss, 27, is accused of leading fellow rioters in what prosecutors say was “one of the most intense and prolonged clashes” with officers on Jan. 6.
PIERS MORGAN: I know who killed Capitol Hill rioter Ashli Babbitt but you don’t, and neither does her family – and whether you think she’s a traitor or a patriot, that is a shameful failure of public transparency and justice.
Chicago police arrested 61 people Sunday night after the group took over the street, danced on cop cars and set off fireworks, among other raucous behavior, according to multiple reports.
More than 100 people took to the streets and sidewalks in the Chicago area known as the Loop late Sunday, according to Fox 32.
#Chicago wildings caught on camera.
Youths throw fireworks at police. pic.twitter.com/orkcfEqYGQ— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) July 5, 2021
As CNN’s Brian Stelter flounders in the ratings next to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, he’s brought out the serious accusations against the Fox host: that Carlson is working “in cahoots” with notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
