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Friday on CNN’s “The Source,” actress Jane Fonda said President Donald Trump is making the United States into a banana republic by taking away constitutional rights. Fonda said, “The attacks on the arts writ large. Writers, painters, museums, National endowment of the Arts, state arts councils. These are all being defunded. People who Trump doesn’t agree with are being fired. Networks who report on the war, for example, in ways that Trump doesn’t like, are told that they may lose their license. I mean, this is what happens in banana republics and in totalitarian countries. She added, “You can’t have art…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher quipped that California gubernatorial candidates Republicans Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Democrats Tom Steyer, Rep. Eric Swalwell, former Rep. Katie Porter, and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan are all “different types of people I don’t want.” During his “New Rules” segment at the end of the show, Maher said, “New Rule: Woke ain’t dead. Here in California this week they canceled the governor’s debate because some people were outraged that the top six candidates were all white, even though this is what the people voted for,…
The tech giant has blamed the incident on a “fake edit” on its mapping platform The White House was briefly renamed ‘Epstein Island’ for some Google Pixel phone users, the Washington Post has reported.The term is used to refer to the Caribbean island of Little St. James, which had been owned by the late convicted pedophile Jeffry Epstein. According to the prosecutors, it served as the venue for sex trafficking and other abuses involving some high-profile figures in business and politics.WaPo said in an article on Saturday that when its journalist tried calling the White House switchboard earlier this week,…
Israeli police officers sparked a diplomatic and religious row on Sunday after they stopped two top clergymen from going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, who serves as the Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and Custos of the Holy Land Father Francesco Ielpo, were “compelled” by Israeli police to turn back from their procession towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest site in Christianity. The two Catholic clergymen were on their way towards the site of the…
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that it has become toxic to support Israel among Democrats and Democrats who are starting to refuse AIPAC money are saying that “Israel is a monster country and it’s a dirty country and this is dirty money, and that gives permission to a lot of people who are actually antisemitic to say, well, you know what, if a Democratic senator won’t take their money, this must be a dirty country.” Maher read a viewer question on Democrats distancing themselves from AIPAC that asked, “Has…
Starting on July 1, Idaho will become the only state in the union that uses a firing squad as its primary option to fulfill its death penalty obligations. Idaho will also become one of only three states that include child rape as a death penalty crime. Currently, the firing squad option is Idaho’s second option after lethal injection. Five states currently offer firing squads as a death penalty option. Last March, South Carolina executed 67-year-old Brad Sigmon by firing squad. Sigmon had been on death row for nearly a quarter century for beating his ex-girlfriend’s parents to death with a…
Rescuers are pulling bodies from the rubble as more are believed trapped underneath, RT’s bureau chief Hami Hamedi reports from the scene At least three people have been killed after a residential building was destroyed during US-Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian capital overnight, RT’s Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi has reported from the scene.The death toll from the attack on Friday morning remains unclear as several more people are believed to still be trapped under the rubble. Hamedi, who visited the site, witnessed rescuers combing through the debris in the hope of finding survivors. The overnight airstrikes on Tehran were…
An Indian national has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly ploughing a car into pedestrians in Derby city centre on Saturday evening. The English cathedral city of Derby was struck with horrific scenes as at least seven people were injured in the Friar Gate downtown area at around 9:30 pm when a black Suzuki Swift was driven into a crowd of people. Fortunately, all seven people did not suffer life-threatening injuries. According to the local police, a 36-year-old man from India, who is said to have lived in the area for a “number of years”, has been…
Actress Christina Applegate reflected on the abortion of her child in the 1990s in her new memoir You with the Sad Eyes. Applegate, the star of the ’90s hit Married…with Children, revealed in her New York Times Bestseller that she considered the abortion of her baby “murder” and even called it “killing my child,” and detailed her struggle with grief in the aftermath of her decision, NewBusters reported. Her memoir delves into her traumatic childhood experiences, including sexual abuse, as well as her current debilitating struggle with MS. In the audio version of her memoir, she says she “fell pregnant” in April of…
Karol Nawrocki has criticized the union’s energy and migration policies that “go against common sense” as well as “ideological projects” Polish President Karol Nawrocki has said the EU “needs urgent repair” and criticized self-defeating energy and migration policies imposed on member states by unelected bureaucrats as well as a growing ideological slant within the bloc.A poll by Eurobazooka late last year indicated that 25% of Polish respondents favored a ‘Polexit,’ with another 6% unsure, making the country a major hotspot of Euroscepticism. National daily Gazeta Wyborcza noted at the time that as recently as 2022, around 92% of Poles favored…