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There were already accusations of fraudulent behavior shadowing Kay LeClaire when they showed off their intricate bead- and basket-work on Etsy and social media over the last two years. The posts described the “visions” and dreams that led the Wisconsin artist — who identifies as non-binary and Native American — to create the elaborate pieces of art.

But more than once, the real creators of the work had come forward to take ownership of pieces that LeClaire, 28, tried to appropriate, said a Native American administrator who has known LeClaire since 2020.

“[LeClaire] passed off people’s crafts as their own, and made up stories about the visions,” said Jon Greendeer, the Health and Wellness Coordinator at the Ho-Chunk Nation, in Black River Falls, Wis. “In this way, they did more damage than any European colonizers did in the old days.”

This gal raised the bar on crazy race faking.

A former funeral home owner has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for dissecting hundreds of bodies and selling the parts.

Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty in July to defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. Hess had operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building in Montrose, Colorado.

A labour arbitrator has upheld the firing of a community college employee who leaked details of the school’s anti-racism training to a far-right news site, saying he had betrayed the loyalty that workers legally owe their employers.

A transgender man dipped his prosthetic penis into a pub drinker’s pint, a court has heard.

Jesse Hawthorne, 30, was asked to leave the pub after fellow drinkers took offence over the prank, but he subsequently smashed a bottle by throwing it at a one-armed bandit machine.

Hawthorne was later arrested for criminal damage over the incident at the Cwtch bar in Caerphilly, south Wales.

Ottawa child predator got law license despite guilty plea to child-sex assault

J.D. Coon, the disgraced Ottawa child-protection lawyer who went on to molest a six-year-old client, was granted a licence to practice even though the law society knew about his child-sex crimes history.

Woke white person goes on bizarre racist rant against white people- calls them immoral narcissists pic.twitter.com/aUr73umpDO

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 4, 2023

Friend of Satan: how Lucien Greaves and his Satanic Temple are fighting the religious right

They have protested against a homophobic church and opposed prayer in classrooms. Now this minority religion is defending the right to abortion

A statue of Baphomet – a pagan idol used in popular culture as a representation of the devil, with the head, horns and feet of a goat, the torso of a man and the wings of an angel – is the centrepiece of the Satanic Temple’s headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.

More than 8ft (2.4 metres) tall, jet black and altogether unnerving, Baphomet serves as a reminder of what brought the Satanic Temple to fame. In 2013, the group, which is acknowledged as a religion by the US government, responded to the installation of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol building – seemingly a flagrant abuse of the US constitution’s separation of church and state – by demanding that its own Baphomet statue also be positioned in the grounds. According to the first amendment, which protects freedom of religion, public spaces should be open to all religions or none, it argued.

One of the bigger mysteries to show up during the holiday season was the series of attacks on electrical substations in Washington state on Christmas day. Thousands of people were left without power just as their festivities were beginning, and the cost of repairs to the facilities is estimated to be in excess of three million dollars. We immediately began speculating on the motive for such attacks. Was this a group of domestic terrorists? Were anarchists trying to shut down society during a holiday period? Might foreign adversaries be involved?

A studio for rent in China has gone viral after photographs advertising the six-square-metre property showed a man cooking while sitting on a toilet.

The listing, shared by property agents on Douyin, China’s TikTok shows off the micro-rental which is located under stairs and is being listed for 380 yuan (£45) per month.

The post put a renewed focus on the living standards of migrant and low-paid workers.