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Hope you amerimutts have woodstoves and warm blankets . Reminder to get prepped because your grid is trash everywhere .
Law
Racial equity activist must pay at least $38,000 after judge dismisses her lawsuit alleging harm from Awake Illinois leader
Abolition Coalition of Skokie co-founder Angela Sangha Gadsen argued the case is about intimidation and “creating an exclusive education that touts misinformation.”
Sounds like nigger behavior to me
More than a dozen states are seeking to upend the decision-making process by grabbing the power to supersede local restrictions and allow state authorities to approve or disapprove locations for utility-scale projects.
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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party, which Nelson Mandela once led, voted in favor of a motion in Parliament last month to close the Israeli Embassy in South Africa and cut diplomatic ties because of the war in Gaza.
In her memoir, “More,” Molly Roden Winter recounts the highs and lows of juggling an open marriage with work and child care.
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Tianeptine, found at convenience stores, at smoke shops and online, can mimic an opioid. It is among a growing class of substances that are difficult to control.
style oracle, New York darling and charmer for the ages?
Opinion
What’s wrong with pro-Russian blogger Gonzalo Lira, whom Carlson and Musk stood up for. Explained by the Centre for Strategic Communication
9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind said AI will lead to less hiring. Only 6% were confident they'd get another job with the same pay.
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Crime
Texas Woman Accused of Stealing $100 Million From Army Youth Program and Spending It on 31 Homes and Aston Martins
Janet Yamanaka Mello allegedly defrauded a grant program involving the 4-H youth development organization for nearly seven years
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At a campaign event for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the woman I was interviewing was lying to me.
Like mainstream Republicans blocking military aid, American rightwing extremists are disavowing a war they once admired
The dismissal of a beloved editor and Pulitzer-winning journalist raises questions about the future of the well-funded Houston Landing, and nonprofit news in general.
A German government spokesperson said the allegation against Israel 'lacks any basis'
"In the battle over how reality is presented, the media is disadvantaged in multiple ways."
UK
British children commit 18 rapes a DAY: Shock official figures reveal 15,000 rapes and sex attacks by under-18s in 2022
with access to violent online porn blamed for 'normalising' criminal behaviour In excess of half of all child sexual offences are committed by other youngsters
Disaster
Open source manga reader Tachiyomi ceases development following pressure from Kakao Entertainment Corp
The SEC confirmed to WIRED that the financial regulator has launched an investigation involving Rumble, a “free speech” video platform. The nature of the probe remains unknown.
Crime
LGBTQ activist owner of queer Washington State bagel shop murdered while vacationing in New Orleans
Jacob Carter, 32, was gunned down near the intersection of Bourbon Street and Kerlerec Street
Good news everyone!
Science
Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds
Original Study Mentioned In Article & Associated Commentary Also Included
A plan to impose a fee of $900 to $1,500 on every excess ton of methane emissions would be the first federal price on greenhouse gas pollution.
Many of the most common e-scooter complaints are actually indictments of bad street design. And for all the annoyance the scooters inspire, cities would be far worse without them.
The conflict that ripped the country apart 160 years has resurfaced as a campaign issue
The death might have been just a local tragedy. But some of the suspects were from an immigrant community, turning the case into a cause célèbre for the far right.
Crime
Investigators found stacked bodies and maggots at a neglected Colorado funeral home, FBI agent says
The remains included adults, infants and fetuses.
Fun is forbidden!
UK
Julian Assange's lawyer warns his life is 'at risk' if final UK appeal against extradition to US fails
Assange spent almost seven years living in the Ecuadorian embassy in central London before it forced him to leave. He has been held in Belmarsh Prison since 2019.
Explain yourself Jose
Somaliland hoped to be recognised as a country after port deal with landlocked Ethiopia - but move has sparked fury in Somalia
Hundreds of people are buried in numbered graves in a pauper's graveyard near the Hinds County Detention Center and Hinds County Penal Farm. Families say their loved ones were buried there without notice.
A new program in Maine will provide asylum seekers with free housing for up to two years as cities across the country continue grappling with an influx of migrants.
Black Woman Kills Baby
Thom Hartmann spergs out against white privilege
Culture
Greta Gerwig Responds to Jo Koy’s Golden Globes Joke About Barbie’s ‘Big Boobies’ After It Was Slammed as Sexist: ‘Well, He’s Not Wrong’
ACTUALLY, living in the pod and riding the bus is better
“Because this is what you do. You bang people’s heads against walls."
US
Chinese migrants lured to Oklahoma marijuana farms victims of sex, labor trafficking, Drummond says
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond testified that foreign nationals most often involved in illegal marijuana operations come from China and Mexico.
But the regulations that could rein it in would benefit all of AI
"Some depicted "penetrative sexual activity with infants only weeks old". A total of 318 extreme pornographic images, "involving males and females engaged in penetrative sexual activity with dogs", were also found on the tablet computer."
The Iranian navy’s “seizure of the oil tanker does not constitute hijacking; rather, it is a lawful undertaking sanctioned by a court order and corresponds to the theft of Iran’s very own oil,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations says.
Defence Secretary calls for greater female representation in the military amid a collapse in the flow of new recruits
Marian Hudak was convicted Thursday on federal hate crime charges after a jury found he attacked his Hispanic neighbor and shouted racial slurs at a Black driver in separate confrontations about a year apart.
My takedown of a ridiculous parenting op-ed.
US
Court papers say ex-Virginia election official on trial 'altered election results' in 2020 election
“an election official at the time allegedly "altered election results" in the state's reporting system, leading to three grand jury indictments last year.” “[it] didn’t impact any election outcomes“
Georgia-born Stalin, who infamously suppressed religion in the Soviet Union, was featured on an icon in the country’s main cathedral.
Freddie deBoer sucks tranny dick once again and unironically goes "that never happens"
The region is on fire, and Washington is to blame.
UK
Police launch murder probe after boy, seven, is found dead at home in Haverfordwest - as woman is arrested
"Alaskans are forking over a beefy 23.93% above the national average for a trip to McDonald’s," "Wyoming [pays] 17.61% below the median" "Massachusetts (21.99%) and Vermont (19.41%) residents were paying near-luxury prices"
Science
Fauci admits Covid lab leak theory is 'not a conspiracy theory' during Congressional grilling
Fauci also testified that "he’s still not convinced that there was learning loss — that in his view, that’s still really open for discussion."
The Texas Library Association has since apologized and re-extended its invitation.
Culture
Peterborough store clerk charged with aggravated assault after would-be robber beaten with baseball bat
Police chief says while case is 'unusual,' clerk's arrest was 'about the law'
Allahu Snackbar
Another anarcho-tyranny bill to be used only against those who defy The Cathedral
The ADL released a report Wednesday listing more than 3,000 antisemitic incidents committed in the three months since Oct. 7, a stunning figure that tops full-year tallies every year except 2022.
Opinion
How Palpatine’s “Good Is A Point Of View” Fooled Not Only Anakin Skywalker But Also A Generation Of Star Wars Fans
Crime
AI startup CEO Suchana Seth arrested for murder of 4-year-old son after child’s remains found inside her luggage: reports
How did the cross-dressing artist get away with flashing a prosthetic penis at a children’s charity fundraiser?
Medics measured the body temperatures of the victims with a device that reached up to 106 degrees and both victims exceeded that reading, according to The Messenger.
" “Unions of persons of the same sex are contrary to the will of God and therefore cannot receive the blessing of the Church,” wrote Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, Congo"
1800 jobs
Crime
Bengaluru CEO Accused of Son's Murder: 'Domestic Violence', 'Sexual Abuse', 'Bloody Towel' Deepen Mystery
Sean Gravells faces sexual interference, exploitation and child pornography charges: B.C. Prosecution Service
Business
Bitcoin ETFs from Grayscale, BlackRock, and others approved by SEC and could start trading this week
The move is seen as an endorsement of crypto by the country’s primary securities regulator, although the agency may not have had much choice.
SNP outlines proposal to ban 'conversion therapy' after its self-ID law was blocked by UK Government
Trump’s right that Lincoln could have compromised. The results would have been unthinkable.
Opinion
The U.S. is facing the biggest COVID wave since Omicron. Why are we still playing make-believe?
"What is the exit strategy that could get us to “return to normal”? It certainly can’t happen with the current complacency and false belief that the virus will burn out and go away."
The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the U.S. and Europe.
A passenger opened a cabin door on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Dubai on Monday, injuring themselves and causing delays.
“Happy New Year,” the man greeted the crew – who then began arguing with him, then one of the attackers whipped out “an unknown sharp object” and stabbed the victim multiple times all over his body, cops said.
A Portrait of Degeneracy
The Panama Canal Authority is weighing potential fixes that include an artificial lake to pump water into the canal and cloud seeding to boost rainfall, but both options would take years to implement, if they’re even feasible.
Crime
Registered Sex Offender Charged With Murder Of Ohio Woman After Stalking Her 12-Year-Old Niece
A sex offender is in custody after being charged in the murder of his 12-year-old victim’s aunt. Nicholas Cunningham, also known as “Sapphire” was arrested in November in connection to the death of 44-year-old Gena Wade of Smith Township, Ohio.
Many of the most common e-scooter complaints are actually indictments of bad street design. And for all the annoyance the scooters inspire, cities would be far worse without them.
A groundbreaking study reveals that sex chromosomes, especially through genes ZFX and ZFY, play a critical role in regulating gene expression across the human body, challenging traditional views of their function.
Culture
Remote classes for students at James Madison High School after thousands of asylum seekers relocated due to storm
500 migrant families would be transferred to the high school auditorium to sleep overnight
Crime
Mo. Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing Teen After Police See Pictures of Scratches on Him; Student’s Father Also Arrested
Hundreds of far-right activists were seen giving a fascist salute at a ceremony in Rome on Sunday to commemorate the deaths of three teenagers nearly 50 years ago.
Caught on hot mic admitting that Haley will "get smoked"
He promises to transform barges into high-security floating jails on the Pacific to reduce homicides
Ethiopia said it held talks Monday on military cooperation with Somaliland, just a week after a deal with the breakaway Somali region on sea access stoked tensions in the Horn of Africa.
Glowies on suicide watch
Spermy goon pods in desperate need of cultural enrichment.
Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.
Crime
Nude man nabbed by police after ‘cannonball’ plunge into giant aquarium at Bass Pro Shop in Alabama
The 42-year-old Alabama man did a “cannonball” leap into the aquarium and then stood under a waterfall.
The National Park Service Is Also Proposing to Remove William Penn’s ‘Slate Roof House’ From the Park
Whites demand whites leave America
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, along with Democrats Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced a 2024 budget deal of nearly $1.66 trillion on Sunday.
Windy Island Heat
The votes comes after House Republicans released a report recommending Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to sit for a closed-door deposition and offering to testify publicly instead.
“I’m on my period! Do you know what a uterus is?”
What is it with democrat runs states and being bankrupt?
"You can’t just make up sh*t about somebody in a public forum."
Prominent Substack users waged a pressure campaign that preceded the decision.
US
AP: Defense Secretary Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1, but Pentagon kept the news quiet
Update: In ICU for four days and the White House, Congress, and most of the Pentagon had no idea.
"Evidence for racial bias in the US criminal justice system has been consistently weak, and... scholarly narratives have too often ignored this."
UN
Ecuador under state of emergency after drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias escapes maximum security jail
President Daniel Noboa said he would mobilise troops on the streets and in prisons for 60 days after gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, aka "Fito", disappeared.
Army Recruiting Command is investigating the matter.
A video of the young MEP receiving rock star treatment at a food market by a crowd of adoring fans requesting selfies at the end of November got alarm bells ringing in Macron's camp
Neri Oxman, a former M.I.T. professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, William Ackman, vowed to check the work of the entire M.I.T. faculty.
ACTUALLY, expensive food prices are good for wagies.
"Polish officials have resisted cooperating with an international probe into the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural-gas pipelines and failed to disclose potentially crucial evidence" "[they] withheld key evidence"
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Man, 25, caught having sex with a COW after farmers grew suspicious their animals were being abused and installed alarms
The police were called to the homes of Judge Tanya S. Chutkan and the special counsel, Jack Smith, in separate incidents after false reports of shootings there.
Local Jewish groups say antisemitic behavior on rise
Sounds like we need more H-1B visas because there are too many tech jobs and too few Americans with the skills to do them!
An American intelligence assessment found that it would be difficult for Israel to succeed in a war against Hezbollah amid ongoing fighting in Gaza
Disaster
Narco-terrorists armed with rifles and grenades entered a live television station in Ecuador
Kill all narcos
Crime
Ray Epps, a target of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, gets a year of probation for his Capitol riot role
He received no jail time, and there were no restrictions placed on his travel during his probation, but he will have to serve 100 hours of community service.
Netanyahu has publicly and privately said he won't allow the Palestinian Authority, which currently governs the occupied West Bank, to have any role in Gaza after the war and he has rejected the idea of a Palestinian state.
A Longmont man who built a large online following with his YouTube channel called Colorado Ped Patrol is facing a rash of his own troubles, legal and otherwise.
Business
Younger baby boomers are facing a homelessness crisis as rents skyrocket and outpace Social Security
suffer ... also they should import another 3 milion people
The judges also questioned the attorneys about whether they should even render a decision on his claim of immunity and instead allow the case to move forward in the trial court.
Hassan Nasrallah said he had to look up the tiny African island nation
Howard Stern has COVID
Have you tried being more like the girls?
The crash occurred just before 6 p.m. ET, a spokesman for the Secret Service wrote on X.
The “Peregrine” lander, developed by a Pittsburgh-based company called Astrobotic, is scheduled to launch into space on Monday.
As if it hadn't already been totally captured
