Could someone please, for the love of God, teach J.K. Rowling how to read the room? Over the weekend, as protests calling for the protection of black lives spread across the world, the Harry Potter author took a moment to fire off a transphobic tweetstorm mocking the use of non-gendered language and insisting that “erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully […]
Daily Archives: June 10, 2020
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks with demonstrators calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to be defunded on June 6, 2020. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks with demonstrators calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to be defunded on June 6, 2020. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, officials on the […]
For the first time since the U.S. went on lockdown three months ago, lawmakers will convene Thursday to discuss digital currencies and other novel technologies. The House Financial Services Committee (FSC) Task Force on Financial Technology will be evaluating how FedAccounts and other digital tools might help the federal government distribute stimulus payments to help Americans suffering the economic fallout of COVID-19. The virtual hearing kicks […]
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe announced Wednesday afternoon that he will be exposing where Antifa money is coming from. The footage exposing Antifa money will be released Thursday. “They name names,” O’Keefe said. Tomorrow @Project_Veritas will expose where the ANTIFA/RefuseFa money is coming from…in their own words… THEY NAME NAMES. Stay tuned…#DarkMoneyExposed pic.twitter.com/SD0Qype2FN — James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 10, 2020 TRENDING: Antifa Releases List of Demands […]
American real estate mogul, Palestinian-born Mohammed Hadid posted a photograph of himself standing outside his family’s home in the city of Safad in Palestine from which the family was evicted in 1948 by Jewish immigrants. In the caption accompanying the picture on Instagram Hadid wrote: “When we lived in Tunisia .. I asked my Father,, [sic] But why father you took a Jewish family from a […]
If confirmed by the Senate, Tata would take over the Pentagon’s policy shop at a turbulent time for Pentagon. The military has been wracked by both the coronavirus pandemic and is also grappling with racial issues amid nationwide protests. Defense Secretary Mark Esper also clashed with Trump over whether to deploy active-duty troops to intervene in the protests. Tata, meanwhile, is a major Trump defender and […]
PASO ROBLES, Calif. (AP) — A central California sheriffs deputy was shot in the head early Wednesday in an “ambush” attack by a gunman intent on harming or killing police, authorities said. It follows two recent deadly shootings targeting officers in California. The shooter on Wednesday, who has not been captured, opened fire around 3:45 a.m. on a police station in Paso Robles, said San Luis […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Gordon Klein, an accounting professor in the Anderson School of Business has taught at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) for almost 40 years. He is now suspended and under police protection in his home. The reason? Klein refused to exempt black students from his final exam and sent a pointed rebuttal to students asking for the “no harm” exam. Parts of […]
Tech giants question whether face detecting technologies should be used by law enforcement agencies, as protests against police brutality continue in the United States following the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Amazon announced on Wednesday it has banned using Rekognition by police for at least one year. “We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is moving forward with his annexation plans, which would allow Israel to claim nearly a third of the overall size of the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Although the illegal annexation of Palestinian land is supposed to represent only one provision of the Donald Trump Administration’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’, Netanyahu has made it clear that he is not interested in […]
Among the 11 Confederate statues on display in the hall are the president and vice president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, both of whom Pelosi noted had been charged with treason against the United States for their roles in the Civil War. Blunt and Lofgren, Pelosi wrote, should instruct the Architect of the Capitol to “immediately take steps” to remove the Confederate statues […]
Mass looting throughout the nation. Police precincts burned to the ground. Murdered cops. An historic church in Lafayette Park set on fire. Video after horrifying video of innocent Americans being beaten senseless by gangs of thugs, as one political party demands: “DEFUND THE POLICE!” Everyone is saying it: I no longer recognize my country. You don’t recognize your country because it’s not the same country. What you’re […]
WASHINGTON — The US Navy could face a three-year delay in testing of the MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tanking drone if it doesn’t get its designated test ships through the required modernizations on time, a possibility the Navy said was “remote.” Two carriers — Carl Vinson and George H.W. Bush — have limited windows to complete the installation of unmanned aircraft control stations, and if operational commitments […]
The anarcho-communist “autonomous zone” near Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington has reportedly embraced the anarcho-capitalist dream of creating a private vigilante police force to patrol the streets of the commune. In the autonomous zone, the streets are apparently currently controlled by a hip hop artist-turned-warlord by the name of Raz Simone, who has established an armed private police force that does not hesitate to dole out […]
A Minneapolis manufacturing company will be relocating after law enforcement and firefighters were unable to prevent rioters from setting fire to the building, according to the owner of 7-Sigma Inc., Kris Wyrobek. “They just don’t care about my business,” said Wyrobek, who’s been operating in south Minneapolis since 1987 according to the StarTribune. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.” The move […]
Living proof that white supremacy is not only a myth, it is a sick joke They say a picture speaks a thousands words…. This one is screaming about the fallacy of white ‘supremacy’… I wonder which of these five disgraces to the human race is the spelling champ? Ian Greenhalgh is a photographer and historian with a particular interest in military history and the real […]
At least one rocket was fired into the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in the Iraqi capital, with a loud blast reported in the area. The attack reportedly resulted in no casualties and only minor damage. A Katyusha rocket landed within the Green Zone in the early hours of Thursday morning, setting off sirens at the US Embassy, Reuters reported, citing a witness. Nobody was killed […]
(Natural News) Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, has been arrested and federally charged with aiding and abetting the arson attack on Minneapolis’ 3rd precinct on the night of May 28, the first night of the engineered riots in the city. Wolfe was arrested on June 3 in neighboring St. Paul, where he lives, after a 911 caller alerted law enforcement to a person wearing body armor attempting to […]
Over A Thousand Cyclists Take Over City Streets On Solidarity Protest Ride By Elizabeth Kim, Caroline Lewis, Ben Yakas, JB Nicholas, Jake Offenhartz and Karen Yi, Gothamist. June 10, 2020 Over A Thousand Cyclists Take Over City Streets On Solidarity Protest Ride2020-06-102020-06-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/cyclists-crossing-the-williamsburg-bridge-during-a-black-lives-matter-ride-on-june-8th-2020.-by-jake-offenhartz-for-the-gothamist.-e1591807917645.jpg200px200px Above photo: Cyclists crossing the Williamsburg Bridge during a Black Lives Matter ride on June 8th, 2020. By Jake Offenhartz for the Gothamist. Over A Thousand Cyclists Travel From Brooklyn To Manhattan […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107957/96/1079579645_0:26:3396:1936_1200x675_80_0_0_957730b335a14dad24e8bcfda3b30d3b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006101079579724-us-carriers-reagan-nimitz-sail-into-pacific-after-monthslong-absence-of-american-warships/ The US Navy has come roaring back from the COVID-19 lockdowns of months past, now having three aircraft carriers underway in the Pacific Ocean. On Monday, two carrier strike groups put to sea in the Pacific: the USS Nimitz departed from San Diego, California, and the USS Ronald Reagan set sail from Yokosuka, Japan. The Reagan had been in […]
As an 11-year-old chosen to train under legendary swim coach Andrew King, Debra Grodensky believed she was destined to become an Olympic star. However, by 15, she had quit the sport out of fear following years of disturbing alleged sexual assault by King that culminated in her coach, then 37, asking her to marry him. “My sexual abuse was 100 percent preventable,” Grodensky, 51, said on […]
United Airlines will now require passengers to review a health assessment before boarding. United Airlines hide caption toggle caption United Airlines United Airlines will now require passengers to review a health assessment before boarding. United Airlines United Airlines will now require passengers to complete a “health self-assessment” as part of its check-in process. It’s the latest effort by a U.S. airline to assure passengers that it’s […]
Hut 8 Mining is looking to raise at least $7.5 million to upgrade its fleet of BlockBox bitcoin miners. The firm, the biggest cryptocurrency miner in Canada and one of the largest publicly traded miners in the world, seeks to raise the funds through an overnight marketed public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It’s eyeing a common share asking price of $1.45, substantially above the […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday called for the removal of Confederate statues from the halls of Congress. The radical left wants to erase our history. There is also a campaign to rename the military bases as radical leftists toppled statues in their push for a Marxist revolution. Now Pelosi is pushing to remove nearly a half a dozen Confederate statues to be removed from […]
Iraq on Wednesday confirmed 34 fatalities from the novel coronavirus pandemic, bringing the death toll to 426, which is the highest daily fatalities in the country since February, Anadolu reports. The Health Ministry said 1,146 more cases have been recorded, taking the total infections to 15,414, while the number of recoveries reached 6,214. Last May, the Iraqi government re-imposed a nationwide curfew to be valid until […]
“We heard from the senator from New York and not a word of the resolution itself,” Cotton (R-Ark.) said. “What we’re seeing here is the Democratic leader apparently objecting on behalf of the Democratic party in defense of the radical idea that we should defund the police.” Schumer, however, said Cotton’s resolution amounted to nothing more than rhetoric. “The great worry so many Americans have is […]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told The Root on Tuesday that she supports “the spirit” of defunding police departments, before she clarified to say she didn’t. “What is your response to the defunding the police campaigns?” reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr asked Whitmer. “The spirit is really about reprioritizing, rebuilding communities,” she said, “not just policing.” The governor lamented budgets being “overwhelmingly focused on policing and corrections systems […]
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee today expressed “profound frustration” with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper over a “unacceptable” lack of response to a request that Esper appear before the committee. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., also indicated that the White House may be directing Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, not to respond to the […]
Here we go again — another round in which a mob of mostly white Antifa young people take it upon themselves to “purge” any and all historical statues and monuments they deem “offensive” to their extremist ideology. The Hill reports Wednesday morning: “Statues of Christopher Columbus were targeted by protesters in Massachusetts and Virginia on Tuesday night in an act of solidarity with indigenous peoples.” Local media reports […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107957/91/1079579144_0:17:3133:1779_1200x675_80_0_0_f9f838ed2ae15f8afd556e502ddaeae8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006101079579133-spains-andalusia-fines-belgian-prince-for-breaking-coronavirus-rules—reports/ MADRID (Sputnik) – Belgian Prince Joachim has been fined for breaking a mandatory quarantine shortly after arriving in Spain last month, Spanish media said Wednesday. In late May, the 28-year-old prince, the nephew of Belgian King Philippe, went to two parties in the southern Spanish city of Cordoba and tested positive for the new coronavirus two days later. The […]
Turkey on Wednesday dismissed Egypt’s proposal for a ceasefire in Libya, saying the plan aimed to save Khalifa Haftar after the collapse of his offensive to control the capital Tripoli, Hurriyet newspaper reported, Reuters reports. Turkey supports Fayez al Serraj’s internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), whose forces have in recent weeks repelled a 14-month assault on Tripoli by Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), backed […]
“What we saw in Minnesota — the slow, tortuous murder of George Floyd by a uniformed officer — was an outrage and a tragedy. What we have seen since then — millions of Americans marching in the streets to demand justice and call for reforms — it has been an inspiration,” Bass said. The House will return to Washington to vote on the bill June 25, […]
Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the Republican Party of being “afraid of the vote.” Thus, she argued Republicans were attempting to limit voting by mail. Host Brooke Baldwin asked, “Do you any concern how things will go in November just from what they experienced in Georgia late last night.” Pelosi said, “I agree with the distinguished mayor had to say, and she has […]