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To mark Black History Month, PBS’s four-part docuseries Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, marking the 50th anniversary of the musical genre, was unapologetically leftist and political, produced and hosted by rapper Chuck D. of Public Enemy — “Fight the Power” was their song. The series has featured musicians from Snoop Dogg to
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Slack has permanently suspended Libs of TikTok, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon reported early Saturday morning. “@SlackHQ has permanently suspended @libsoftiktok,” Seth Dillon posted at 1:16 a.m. Saturday morning. “If your business is defending kids, Slack doesn’t want your money,” Babylon Bee’s CEO added, appending a screenshot of Slack’s notification of the suspension. u201c.@SlackHQ has
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Pixar’s chief creative officer Pete Docter attempted to explain why “Lightyear” flopped at the box office. However, the Pixar executive refused to address boycotts by conservatives surrounding Disney’s spinoff of the massively successful “Toy Story” franchise. Last June, “Lightyear” made nearly $20 million less in its opening weekend than Disney anticipated. Docter gave an interview
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MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle’s Friday The 11th Hour panel thinks they know why Republicans are passing “anti-LGBTQ” and pro-life laws: “to keep the heteronormative paradigm of this country intact” and “keep white men in power.” Addressing author George M. Johnson, Ruhle asked why Republicans care so much about drag shows, “It is only February and already state lawmakers across this country
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Scam artists, organized criminal gangs, and nations like North Korea all stole at least $191 billion in pandemic-era unemployment relief program funds, and they’re largely going to get away with it. It’s all about the statute of limitations and the fact that investigators and law enforcement are going through nearly two million suspected cases of
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A man is suing over an allegedly stolen $2.04 billion winning Powerball ticket, TMZ exclusively reported Thursday. “When it comes to the vetting process for big winners, California Lottery has the utmost confidence in its process for doing so,” a California Lottery spokesperson told TMZ in a statement. “California Lottery remains confident that Edwin Castro
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An elderly man was mauled to death in a “horrific” dog attack in San Antonio, Texas. Around 1:45 p.m. on Friday, firefighters were dispatched to a residential neighborhood in San Antonio after reports of an elderly man “being dragged by a dog.” When firefighters arrived at the scene, they could see the 81-year-old man “completely
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For Black History Month, CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller interviewed children’s book illustrator Vashti Harrison for a segment that was perfectly normal until the Miller’s addendum at the end, where she suggested some of Harrison’s work might be banned in Florida for simply having black characters. Miller’s segment focused on two books, one of
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A Georgia woman slammed her SUV into a Popeyes restaurant because her order was missing biscuits, according to police. Around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, a woman ordered food at the Popeyes restaurant in Augusta, Georgia. The woman claimed that her order at the fast food restaurant was missing biscuits. A Popeyes manager informed authorities that
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A missing 14-year-old girl was rescued from three men suspected of sex trafficking her over nearly two weeks in Gwinnett County in Georgia. Lawrenceville Police said they were alerted to the presence of a “distraught” child at the Walmart on Collins Hill Road on Wednesday evening, according to WSB-TV. Police said they discovered the girl
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I’m super-busy and don’t have time to write the usual cute intro to this week’s “Five O’Clock Somewhere.” And by “super-busy” I mean that I stepped out for lunch and am having a martini and lemon-pepper chicken wings and really can’t be bothered to be cute right now. But you are getting Megan Fox this
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A homeless woman is outraged that Los Angeles officials ordered workers to tear down her “tent mansion” that contained a hot tub and a working kitchen. Stephanie Arnold Williams calls herself the “governor” of skid row in the City of Angels and calls her large street tent the “White House.” The encampment at 5th and
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Far-left Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has suspended a prosecutor for “deadnaming” and “misgendering” a transgender person accused of murder. Prosecutor Shea Sanna is accused of referring to Hannah Tubbs, the infamous convicted child molester, by Tubbs’ birth name — James Tubbs — and the male pronouns that refer to Tubbs’ biological sex,
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Independent analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data concerning the fallout of the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, has revealed that, contrary to previous claims made by EPA officials, there continue to be abnormally high levels of airborne toxins that could jeopardize the long-term health of residents in the area. A team
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to want to expand the war in Ukraine by dragging little Moldova into the conflict. Putin accused Kyiv of planning a false flag operation against Russian peacekeeping soldiers in the breakaway pro-Russian Moldova province of Transdniestria, also known as Transnistria. Kyiv has rejected the Russian charge and called for calm.
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Model Ashley Morgan Smithline previously accused Marilyn Manson of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse while they were dating in 2010. However, Smithline now says that those accusations are “false.” In June 2021, Smithline filed a lawsuit against Manson – whose real name is Brian Warner. Smithline accused Manson of sexual assault, sexual battery, intentional infliction
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The Department of Justice is reportedly considering filing a third antitrust lawsuit against Google. This time, the DOJ allegedly seeks to determine whether Google forces app developers to use its map services rather than the options of competitors. The department has reportedly been interviewing individuals who could be key witnesses in a future lawsuit.  Politico
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On Tuesday’s The Lead show, CNN host Jake Tapper did his part to promote transgender surgery for underage teens as he devoted a segment to fretting over Idaho’s push for a state ban. Republicans only stood for “cruelty” and “meanness” that is somehow against God. Teenage transgender activist Eve Debitt and father Michael Debitt were
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The European Commission’s Corporate Management Board has made the decision to ban the video-streaming app TikTok from corporate devices. The announcement comes as authorities around the world unite to disavow the company’s sordid ties with the Chinese Communist Party. In a statement released Thursday, the Commission said the ban originates from concerns that user data
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Scientists say that images from the James Webb Space Telescope may change how they understand the origins of the universe after they discovered “the impossible.” The findings were published in the journal “Nature” on Wednesday. Astronomers expected to find “tiny, young, baby galaxies” from the cosmic history documented in the images, but they found something
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