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For lovers of pancakes, omelets, hash browns, grilled cheese, etc., etc., etc. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 02:49 PM by nocash | |
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A $4 billion federal fund meant to confront how racial injustice has shaped American farming has angered white farmers who say they are being unfairly excluded. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 02:15 PM by Xiphias | |
Emily Wilder has released a public statement regarding her unceremonious firing by the Associated Press. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 01:55 PM by nocash | |
Los Angeles, like other cities across the nation, is facing a rise in gun violence. And the police budget is growing. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 02:14 PM by Xiphias | |
After voting to impeach former President Trump and getting ousted as head of the GOP Conference Chair, Rep. Liz Cheney now has to fend off a slew of Wyomingites with their sights set on her House seat. One of them is Anthony Bouchard, a conservative Republican and a member of the Wyoming Senate. But Bouchard is juggling a controversy of his own: On Thursday, he revealed that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, comparing their whirlwind romance to Romeo and Juliet. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:48 PM by nocash | |
From the Vietnam War to the present, how aggrieved men cast themselves as a discriminated-against minority | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:31 PM by nocash | |
A Stanford professor is calling for John Steinbeck's early novel Murder At Full Moon, a violent werewolf mystery novel, to finally be published. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:48 PM by nocash | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:33 PM by nocash | |
In 1993, I attended an extremely curious Easter Sunday “church service”—I use that term loosely—along with a motley crew of congregants assembled in downtown Los Angeles. Dr. Gene Scott, the mad minister of America’s low watt TV stations, presided over this occasion. I convinced a British friend of mine—who had never heard of him or seen his show—to go with me because I thought that it would be totally hi-larious, a veritable laff riot... but we’ll get to what really happened soon enough. Dr. Gene Scott was the utterly unhinged UHF television evangelist who grew in fame (and apparently fortune) during the Reagan era with his berserk, conspiratorial lunatic rantings that occasionally—only very occasionally—mentioned Jesus or had some sort of what most people could agree was “religious” content. Mostly he talked about UFOs, gambling on horses and his much-hated ex-wife. I first became aware of him on WPGH, a Pittsburgh... | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:32 PM by nocash | |
America is struggling to reform and reimagine the agencies that have been licensed to kill us. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:28 PM by nocash | |
Since I didn’t belong in the room, I could see this place for what it was. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 12:27 PM by nocash | |
CNN is cutting ties with former Republican senator and current TV analyst Rick Santorum over disparaging comments he made about Native American culture.
He sparked controversy in an April 23 speech before the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth organization. Santorum said immigrants created a nation based on the Judeo-Christian ethic from a blank slate.
“We birthed a nation from nothing,” he said. “Yes, there were Native Americans, but there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 06:45 AM by Grief Bacon | |
Shooting in Southwark, London came after numerous death threats, says her Taking the Initiative party | |
Submitted at 05-24-2021, 03:25 AM by Dreaded Candiru | |
A Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania has been diverted to Belarus, with the country's opposition figures saying it was done so a dissident journalist on board could be arrested.
The Nexta media network said its ex-editor Roman Protasevich was detained.
Belarus state media said the plane was diverted to Minsk because of a bomb scare but no explosives were found.
European nations have reacted with outrage, accusing Belarus of "state terrorism" and demanding punishment.
Political figures across Europe have already called for the EU and Nato to intervene.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned the "outlandish action" would have "serious implications". | |
Submitted at 05-23-2021, 06:26 PM by Simian | |
U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2021, 03:33 PM by katheudo | |
Chipotle says it is raising its starting wage to $11 an hour. It’s not enough for many workers who say the company’s business model relies on understaffing and overwork, leaving them stressed and with little choice but to cut corners on food safety. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2021, 03:23 PM by Xiphias | |
Every day was the same for Khalil Abu Rayyan, 21, a depressed pizza delivery man from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Working for a pizzeria in Detroit, he'd drive late nights on desolate inner city streets, smoking pot hoping to keep boredom at bay. He carried a pistol to protect himself from robbers. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2021, 02:12 PM by Xiphias | |
Colion Noir has said the Parkland teens are pawns of a larger effort to destroy Second Amendment rights. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2021, 06:30 AM by Forensic | |
President Biden has a very narrow path to get his big legislative plans through Congress. Democrats can lose only a few votes in the House and none at all in the Senate, and only then if they go through the budget reconciliation process or decide to reform the filibuster. But the greatest threat to his agenda is only now beginning to stir — the reactionary Supreme Court majority.
The court recently further eroded habeas corpus rights for criminal defendants, and has accepted new cases that may basically allow abortion bans at the state level and may invent a constitutional right to carry a concealed weapon in every state. Should Biden get his programs passed, there is a strong possibility they will be struck down or weakened by the court.
Worse, all too many liberals are in deep denial about the nature of this threat. One of them is on the Supreme Court himself: Justice Stephen Breyer, who is 82 years old yet thus far refuses to retire — as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg refused to in 2013, which ended up handing her seat to to the right-wing ideologue Amy Coney Barrett.
Breyer is reportedly worried that retiring so he will be replaced by a liberal would introduce politics (heaven forfend!) into the court, and that would threaten its power and legitimacy. In a recent speech at Harvard Law School, he argued: "My experience of more than 30 years as a judge has shown me that, once men and women take the judicial oath, they take the oath to heart … They are loyal to the rule of law, not to the political party that helped to secure their appointment." | |
Submitted at 05-23-2021, 05:45 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 05-22-2021, 09:43 PM by sleeppoor | |

For lovers of pancakes, omelets, hash browns, grilled cheese, etc., etc., etc.
A $4 billion federal fund meant to confront how racial injustice has shaped American farming has angered white farmers who say they are being unfairly excluded.
Emily Wilder has released a public statement regarding her unceremonious firing by the Associated Press.
Los Angeles, like other cities across the nation, is facing a rise in gun violence. And the police budget is growing.
After voting to impeach former President Trump and getting ousted as head of the GOP Conference Chair, Rep. Liz Cheney now has to fend off a slew of Wyomingites with their sights set on her House seat. One of them is Anthony Bouchard, a conservative Republican and a member of the Wyoming Senate. But Bouchard is juggling a controversy of his own: On Thursday, he revealed that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, comparing their whirlwind romance to Romeo and Juliet.
From the Vietnam War to the present, how aggrieved men cast themselves as a discriminated-against minority
A Stanford professor is calling for John Steinbeck's early novel Murder At Full Moon, a violent werewolf mystery novel, to finally be published.
In 1993, I attended an extremely curious Easter Sunday “church service”—I use that term loosely—along with a motley crew of congregants assembled in downtown Los Angeles. Dr. Gene Scott, the mad minister of America’s low watt TV stations, presided over this occasion. I convinced a British friend of mine—who had never heard of him or seen his show—to go with me because I thought that it would be totally hi-larious, a veritable laff riot... but we’ll get to what really happened soon enough. Dr. Gene Scott was the utterly unhinged UHF television evangelist who grew in fame (and apparently fortune) during the Reagan era with his berserk, conspiratorial lunatic rantings that occasionally—only very occasionally—mentioned Jesus or had some sort of what most people could agree was “religious” content. Mostly he talked about UFOs, gambling on horses and his much-hated ex-wife. I first became aware of him on WPGH, a Pittsburgh...
America is struggling to reform and reimagine the agencies that have been licensed to kill us.
Since I didn’t belong in the room, I could see this place for what it was.
CNN is cutting ties with former Republican senator and current TV analyst Rick Santorum over disparaging comments he made about Native American culture.
He sparked controversy in an April 23 speech before the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth organization. Santorum said immigrants created a nation based on the Judeo-Christian ethic from a blank slate.
“We birthed a nation from nothing,” he said. “Yes, there were Native Americans, but there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”
Shooting in Southwark, London came after numerous death threats, says her Taking the Initiative party
A Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania has been diverted to Belarus, with the country's opposition figures saying it was done so a dissident journalist on board could be arrested.
The Nexta media network said its ex-editor Roman Protasevich was detained.
Belarus state media said the plane was diverted to Minsk because of a bomb scare but no explosives were found.
European nations have reacted with outrage, accusing Belarus of "state terrorism" and demanding punishment.
Political figures across Europe have already called for the EU and Nato to intervene.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned the "outlandish action" would have "serious implications".
U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.
Chipotle says it is raising its starting wage to $11 an hour. It’s not enough for many workers who say the company’s business model relies on understaffing and overwork, leaving them stressed and with little choice but to cut corners on food safety.
Every day was the same for Khalil Abu Rayyan, 21, a depressed pizza delivery man from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Working for a pizzeria in Detroit, he'd drive late nights on desolate inner city streets, smoking pot hoping to keep boredom at bay. He carried a pistol to protect himself from robbers.
Colion Noir has said the Parkland teens are pawns of a larger effort to destroy Second Amendment rights.
President Biden has a very narrow path to get his big legislative plans through Congress. Democrats can lose only a few votes in the House and none at all in the Senate, and only then if they go through the budget reconciliation process or decide to reform the filibuster. But the greatest threat to his agenda is only now beginning to stir — the reactionary Supreme Court majority.
The court recently further eroded habeas corpus rights for criminal defendants, and has accepted new cases that may basically allow abortion bans at the state level and may invent a constitutional right to carry a concealed weapon in every state. Should Biden get his programs passed, there is a strong possibility they will be struck down or weakened by the court.
Worse, all too many liberals are in deep denial about the nature of this threat. One of them is on the Supreme Court himself: Justice Stephen Breyer, who is 82 years old yet thus far refuses to retire — as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg refused to in 2013, which ended up handing her seat to to the right-wing ideologue Amy Coney Barrett.
Breyer is reportedly worried that retiring so he will be replaced by a liberal would introduce politics (heaven forfend!) into the court, and that would threaten its power and legitimacy. In a recent speech at Harvard Law School, he argued: "My experience of more than 30 years as a judge has shown me that, once men and women take the judicial oath, they take the oath to heart … They are loyal to the rule of law, not to the political party that helped to secure their appointment."