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Layton Carr died in the blaze at Fairfield Industrial Park in Gateshead, with eleven boys and three girls arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
Fourteen children have been arrested over the death of a 14-year-old boy in a fire at an industrial unit in Gateshead.
The blaze broke out at Fairfield Industrial Park on Friday evening and was extinguished by the fire brigade, but the body of 14-year-old Layton Carr was later discovered, Northumbria police said. His family have been informed.
Former first lady Michelle Obama got heavily trolled as a clip from her podcast, where she was seen complaining about the cost of living in the White House, went viral. In ‘The Diary of a CEO’ podcast, Michelle said though you don’t have to pay for living in the White House, every bit of the food is on you — prompting backlash from social media users on how out-of-touch she could be.
Poor Michelle Obama! How did she manage to live under such oppression? And now she only has a $10 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion! Who can function like that?
At least she didn’t have to suffer as much as Meghan Markle whose castle was too small.
pic.twitter.com/duJT98ZTBx— Tricia Flanagan (R-NJ) (@NewDayForNJ) May 2, 2025
h/t DM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday dared border czar Tom Homan to arrest her for what she claimed was legal advice she gave to migrants on how to avoid being deported.
Homan responded to the congresswoman’s taunt by saying he was already exploring her arrest with the U.S. Justice Department.
Africa's smallest cat is also the world's deadliest! pic.twitter.com/P0GRZKkECK
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 3, 2025
HL Mencken, the prominent journalist and critic, once called it the “greatest story since the Resurrection”. Though it has been 93 years since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case merged crime, fame and mass media together, the enduring mystery of the crime still holds fascination for many in the US.
The case was shocking. The transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh suffered the kidnapping and murder of their 20-month-old baby son on 1 March 1932. Now a new lawsuit filed in New Jersey – where the crime played out – seeks to force the state police to allow mitochondrial DNA testing on envelopes used to send a series of ransom notes.
Sometimes, Trump is just playin’ around.
And when he does, the left has a cow — and then he kicks back and enjoys it.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! @fancypants_s https://t.co/YppklDfsZH
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) May 3, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Beginning in 2001, the Austrian anthropologist Bernd Brabec de Mori spent six years living in the western Amazon. He first arrived as a backpacker, returned to do a master’s thesis on ayahuasca songs, and eventually did a PhD on the music of eight Indigenous peoples in the region. Along the way, he married a woman of the local Shipibo tribe and settled down.
“I did not have a lot of money,” he told me, “so I had to make my living there.” He became a teacher. He built a house. He and his wife had children. That rare experience of joining the community, he said, forced him to realise that many of the assumptions he had picked up as an anthropologist were wrong.
Like most outsiders, Brabec de Mori arrived in Peru thinking that ayahuasca had been used in the western Amazon for thousands of years. This is the standard narrative; look up resources on ayahuasca, and you’re bound to run into it. “Ayahuasca has been used in the Peruvian Amazon for millennia, long before the Spanish came to Peru, before the Incan empire was formed, before history,” states the website of the Ayahuasca Foundation, an organisation founded by a US citizen that offers ayahuasca retreats.
CULTURE ROT
Jackson, Mississippi- Here’s all 3 videos of the big mess last night compiled into one video! Folks can’t even go out to a Mexican restaurant with their family and friends to enjoy dinner without having to worry about a restaurant full of adults breaking out into… pic.twitter.com/T3sH4sJs5x— Clay Edwards (@SaveJxn) May 3, 2025
People in the 80’s had more energy. What is that? pic.twitter.com/tJ6WFZC3s8
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 3, 2025
I immediately thought of Jasmine Crockett and how this would elevate her whole vibe. pic.twitter.com/eBMCVzW0BX
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 3, 2025
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid recently delivered a peculiar history lesson to her social media audience. In her mind a reproach to Donald Trump, Reid warned that the Roman Empire “died because it wasn’t diverse enough,” implying that sticking with “just white folks” leads to inevitable civilizational decline. If history were written by cable news soundbites, we might soon learn that Napoleon lost Waterloo because he lacked a DEI department.
In reality, Rome didn’t fall because of a lack of diversity. Nor is Europe today crumbling because of too many white people. Societies fail for many reasons, but skin color has never been one of them. If anything, Europe’s slow-motion collapse is a story not of racial homogeneity, but of something far less fashionable to discuss: falling birthrates, loss of communal purpose and the gradual abandonment of shared civilizational values.
Radical Democrats aren’t weakened by defeat; they’re unbound by it
A lonely caravan, ambushed on the open frontier, circles the wagons. The settlers bring out their long rifles to fight for survival. They endure the first onslaught, but dusk is falling – and the battle has only begun.
It’s a familiar scene in Hollywood westerns. In recent weeks, on Washington’s political prairies, the mainstream Democratic establishment has been living it, too.
Ahead of next week’s papal conclave, Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News was caught in a tough situation. On one hand, being the diversity-conscious liberal show that it is, Africa correspondent Debora Patta lamented Africans are not reflected in the Vatican’s halls of power despite Catholicism growing in the area. On the other, Patta warned that an African pope would not be the pro-LGBTQ reformer liberals would want him to be.
Delivery driver from Brampton charged after allegedly sexually assaulting customer at their home in Hamilton
I spent a few moments this morning feeling a little burst of renewed optimism that things were going to be okay.
That, economically, we were settling down and strong enough to ride this tariff and trade roller coaster out.
