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U-Haul plows into massive crowd at Iran protest in LA — as demonstrators attack driver

A U-Haul driver allegedly plowed into a massive crowd of protesters at an anti-Iran regime rally in Los Angeles on Sunday — injuring at least two people in a chaotic scene caught on video.

Authorities responded after the U-Haul truck drove into a sea of an estimated 3,000 people at the large demonstration in Westwood around 3:40 p.m. local time, an LAPD spokesperson told The Post.

The rental truck, which had the words “NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH” emblazoned on one side, was swarmed by protesters as tensions quickly escalated, according to harrowing footage obtained by KABC.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA, WTF?

Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating O-1 visa requests: ‘This is the American dream now’

Content creators and influencers in the US are now increasingly dominating requests for O-1 work visas. Astoundingly, the number of O-1 visas granted each year increased by 50% between 2014 and 2024, as noted by recent reporting in the Financial Times.

These visas allow non-immigrants to work temporarily in the US. The O-1 category includes the O-1A, which is designated for individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business or athletics and the O-1B, reserved for those with “extraordinary ability or achievement”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Germany planning ‘Arctic Sentry’ Nato mission to protect Greenland

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Germany is planning to set up a joint Nato operation in the Arctic in an effort to dissuade Donald Trump from annexing Greenland.

The “Arctic Sentry” mission to monitor threats in the region could be modelled on Nato’s “Baltic Sentry” operation, which started last year to monitor threats and protect infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, sources told Bloomberg.

Mr Trump has threatened to forcibly take control of the mineral-rich island that is a territory of Denmark, a Nato member.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Greenland, USA, WTF?

Does Sweden really prefer rapists to a retired married couple?

SWEDEN has long been regarded by the liberal elite as a socialist utopia. The truth is that, behind the facade, the Swedish deep state is as unpleasant and brutal as some other Western countries.

My Swedish wife and I discovered this to our cost when we tried to secure residency for me, her retired British husband. What followed has shocked even the most patriotic of Swedes and has given the lie to any kind of notion that modern ‘liberal democracies’ have either heart or moral conscience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden, WTF?

Suddenly, the Democrats figure out that Hamas is bad

Yesterday, with remarkable, robotic unanimity, the Democrats discovered that Hamas is a bad organization. Considering that, beginning with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, genocidal attack against Israel, so many in the Democrat party were loath to condemn Hamas, while the party’s foot soldiers openly embraced it, the sudden turnaround is suspect. None of the possible explanations reflects well on the Democrats.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

I’ll have two babies with the same dad but I don’t know what he looks like

“Growing up, this isn’t the life I expected at all,” says 41-year-old Lucy who had always imagined motherhood arriving in a more traditional order – a partner, a wedding, then children.

Instead, her journey to becoming a mother began with IVF and donor sperm, a choice she made during the pandemic after she realised how much she missed seeing her sister’s and friend’s children.

She jokingly told her parents that she could have a child on her own and recalls: “I expected them to laugh it off but they said I should and got excited about it.

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‘The answer cannot be nothing’: The battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease

Five hundred people in a small Canadian province were diagnosed with a mystery brain disease. What would it mean for the patients if the disease was never real?

In early 2019, officials at a hospital in the small Canadian province of New Brunswick noticed that two patients had contracted an extremely rare brain condition known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.

CJD is both fatal and potentially contagious, so a group of experts was quickly assembled to investigate. Fortunately for New Brunswick, the disease didn’t spread. But the story didn’t end there. In fact, it was just beginning.

Among the experts was Alier Marrero, a soft-spoken, Cuban-born neurologist who had been working in the province for about six years. Marrero would share some worrying information with the other members of the group. He had been seeing patients with unexplained CJD-like symptoms for several years, he said, including young people who showed signs of a rapidly progressing dementia. The number of cases was already more than 20, Marrero said, and several patients had already died.

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