Taylor Greene had met her two lovers while working at a gym in Alpharetta, Georgia in 2012 [...] On Instagram, Ivey calls himself The Tantric Warrior, describing himself as 'Living a warrior lifestyle while finding tantric love'. He also participates in reenactments of medieval battles and teaches sword fighting.

The difference between this sentiment and mine, however, is that Nazarayan clearly thinks that the White House press corps did their job well under Trump, and is urging them to continue to do so under Biden. To those of us who saw the press corps’ endless palace intrigue stories as lurid window-dressing for actual fascism for four years, however, this essay is a continued reminder that the people tasked with covering the president treat it all like a game, and have to be tricked or reminded by a monster of Lovecraftian proportions that their job isn’t to sit in the briefing room trying to out-Sorkin the press secretary.

Seriously, this is why you never open locked closets.

Twitter confirmed Thursday that the far-right group Project Veritas was permanently suspended from their social media site after repeated violations of the terms of service. The founder of the group, James O'Keefe, must delete his latest tweet before he can continue with the website. Twitter's spokesperson told New York Times tech reporter Davey Alba: "The account, @Project_Veritas, was permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter's private information policy. The account, @JamesOKeefeIII, was temporarily locked for violating our private information policy. The account owner is required to delete the violated Tweet to regain access to their account."

A coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups urged the Biden administration on Monday to drop efforts to extradite the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Britain and prosecute him, calling the Trump-era case against him “a grave threat to press freedom.” The coalition sent a letter urging a change in course before a Friday deadline for the Justice Department to file a brief in a London court. American prosecutors are due to explain in detail their decision — formally lodged on Jan. 19, the last full day of the Trump administration — to appeal a ruling blocking their request to extradite Mr. Assange. The litigation deadline may force the new administration to confront a decision: whether to press on with the Trump-era approach to Mr. Assange, or to instead drop the matter. Democrats like the new Biden team are no fan of Mr. Assange, whose publication in 2016 of Democratic emails stolen by Russia aided Donald J. Trump’s narrow victory over Hillary Clinton. But the charges center instead on his 2010 publication of American military and diplomatic documents leaked by Chelsea Manning, and they raise profound First Amendment issues. “The indictment of Mr. Assange threatens press freedom because much of the conduct described in the indictment is conduct that journalists engage in routinely — and that they must engage in in order to do the work the public needs them to do,” the letter said, adding: “News organizations frequently and necessarily publish classified information in order to inform the public of matters of profound public significance.” The Freedom of the Press Foundation organized the letter. Other signers — about two dozen groups — included the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Project on Government Oversight and Reporters Without Borders.

A Florida musician says turning his dead uncle's skeleton into a sick guitar was "the best way to honour" the man who first introduced him to heavy metal.

U.S. prosecutors alleged that five people worked with Proud Boys from Kansas City and other unnamed individuals to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, unsealing charges Thursday in one of the largest co-defendant cases yet brought in an investigation that has charged more than 200. The defendants, wearing helmets, vests and tactical gear marked with fluorescent orange tape, “appeared to gesture and communicate to one another” to coordinate efforts during and after forcing entry to the Capitol, the FBI alleged. Surveillance footage showed at least four taking actions to prevent police from deploying descending metal barriers to seal off underground access to the Capitol, allowing the invading crowd to surge forward, the FBI said in a 28-page affidavit dated Wednesday.

Four pigs were trained to use joysticks to play a simple video game, and some excelled, revealing the impressive intelligence of pigs.

“There were some who were quick and hot to say that what we did was unpatriotic. Others told us that our action was unwise, still others that it was unfair. One woman said that she had belonged to a church for forty years and what it had done for her in all that time she could write on the back of a postage stamp,” Campbell said. “I answered every letter, rightly or wrongly feeling it the obligation of my ministry to do so. I said in effect to each person who criticized, ‘The one thing you haven’t shown us is that what we have done is unlike Christ.’”

After leaving L.A., and making only one public appearance since — on a widely condemned mental illness episode of 'Dr. Phil' — the complicated actress sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter about her legacy and the trauma of the Stanley Kubrick film: "To wake and realize that you had to cry all day, I don’t know how I did it."

Around 500 Houston-area Kroger workers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since Christmas, according to their union.

If you make your living as an influencer on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, or any other social media platform, you will soon have union protection. SAG-AFTRA has announced a new influencer agreement, which allows anyone who is paid to advertise products via their individual social media platforms to be covered by the union. “The Influencer Agreement was created in response to the unique nature of Influencer-generated branded content and offers a new way for influencers to work under a SAG-AFTRA agreement. We want to be able to support both current and future SAG-AFTRA members in this space and for them to be able to access the benefits of union coverage,” said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris in a statement to Backstage.

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In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine and August von Platen, which amused and disgusted the German literary world in 1829. Two outsiders—a Jew and a homosexual—resorted to crude stereotypes as they attempted to eject each other from an establishment that might rather have dispensed with both of them. More remarkably, this intersectional trainwreck took place long before homosexuality emerged as a coherent identity. George Prochnik, in the vibrant new biography “Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution,” delivers a rollicking account of the episode, calling it “a game of blind-man’s buff played in explosive suits,” with Heine providing the climactic detonation.

As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year mark in the United States, millions of people are still unable to make their monthly rent payments. In Oregon, an estimated 11.7 percent of the leased households did not pay rent in January, and recent US Census data find that an estimated 89,000 Oregonians currently owe some amount of unpaid rent from the past year. Oregon's statewide eviction moratorium currently allows tenants whose income has been financially pummeled by COVID-19 to delay missed rent payments until the end of June, which has kept many would-be evicted tenants in their homes during the pandemic. Yet the state has done little to chip away at the growing sum of past-due rent these tenants will owe come July 1. According to a study commissioned by the National Council of State Housing Finance Agencies, Oregonian tenants collectively owed between $249 million and $378 million in unpaid rent as of January 2021.

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