Above Photo: Photographs by Victor Basterra (Argentina) / collage by Daniela Ruggeri, Unknown victims and prisoners at the Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA), 1976-1983. At the US State Department’s Summit for Democracy (9–10 December), US President Joe Biden announced a range of initiatives to ‘bolster democracy and defend human rights globally’. These measures are to be funded by $424.4 million from the United States. This money will go towards the same institutions that have – for the past sixty years – intervened to undermine the sovereignty of democratic processes from Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) to Honduras (2009) and Bolivia (2019). The US focuses on […]
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Above Photo: Creative Commons Worker cooperatives offer an alternative to keeping power and profits in the hands of a few rich people. In the six years that Michael Ugwu has worked as an Uber driver in New York City, he’s seen a growing share of his earnings diverted into venture capitalists’ pockets. Uber and Lyft require workers to assume a myriad of expenses that can quickly trap drivers like Ugwu into debt and poverty. “Currently, they’re taking out between 35 to 40 percent, when you add up all the deductions,” Ugwu says. “You end up not having enough to pay rent, […]
Extinction Rebellion Brought Love, Police Brought Rage By Petrina Harley, Green Left. December 4, 2020 Extinction Rebellion Brought Love, Police Brought Rage2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/xraus-e1607092475184.jpg200px200px Above photo: XR grandparents mad hatter’s tea party outside Chevron’s headquarters before it was demolished by the WA Police. Petrina Harley. Western Australia – Extinction Rebellion WA (XR) hit the streets with a Festival of Love and Rage on November 28 with a message to the Western Australia Premier: act on the climate emergency like you dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor Premier Mark McGowan has ignored pressure to open WA’s borders, applying a strict quarantine policy. There have […]
Joe Biden’s Love Affair With Israel Will Pick Up Where It Left Off By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada. November 9, 2020 Joe Biden’s Love Affair With Israel Will Pick Up Where It Left Off2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/biden-e1604940618626.jpg200px200px Above photo: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has every reason to expect Joe Biden will deliver for Israel, just as the Obama administration did. US Embassy Jerusalem. With Donald Trump still disputing his loss of the US presidential election, there has been a lot of attention to which foreign leaders congratulated the winners after the race was called on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his […]
Cary Grant’s most prized possession was either his father’s pocket watch, or a gold chain that he wore around his neck that held one of Jennifer’s baby teeth in Lucite, and three charms that represented the three religions of his four ex-wives: a St. Christopher medal from the Catholic Virginia Cherrill, a small cross representing the Protestant religions of Barbara Hutton and Betsy Drake, and a Star of David for the Jewish Dyan Cannon. He continued to expound on the benefits of LSD to anyone who would listen, as well as anyone who was disinclined. He became known as the go-to […]
North Dakota authorities are still searching for a 47-year-old mother who went missing nearly two weeks ago after leaving a small gathering on foot—and family members believe her disappearance may be tied to a love triangle. Anne Fitzsimonds, 47, walked away from the party at a farmstead in rural Petersburg—at least 26 miles away from her Inkster home—around 1:30 a.m on Oct. 4. She was wearing only a leather jacket, jeans, and cowboy boots, despite the frigid temperature, which dipped as low as 29 degrees. “There was no reason for her to leave. Why she left nobody seems to be able […]
As Savannah Guthrie grilled Donald Trump on QAnon at Trump’s town hall event, he did his usual lying and dodging and then whined to Guthrie about Antifa and asked her: “Why aren’t you asking Joe Biden questions about, why doesn’t he condemn Antifa?” Let’s settle this. Joe Biden does not have to denounce Antifa. He’s done so, anyway, but even if he hadn’t, he has utterly no responsibility to do so, and since this appears to be an attack line Trump might amp up in these waning days, it’s important for people to understand why. It’s important because it probably sounds […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0f/1080779193_0:311:1201:986_1200x675_80_0_0_7e3e9614fb81a208cbfc9c93b0b7c124.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202010151080779053-anything-for-that-booty-horsey-tries-luck-with-his-lady-love/ Sometimes, when something that we want appears to be a bit too far off, we find ourselves trying a little extra to get to it. Evidently, horses do the same. In a video gone viral on Instagram, a horse is seen demonstrating extra effort to get a taste of his lady love – but there is a barrier standing in his way. While his caramel brown amour is standing in an open space, this lovesick horse is confined inside his stable, so all he could get is a rear view of his ravishing girlfriend. […]
President Donald Trump has returned to the campaign trail a week after being discharged from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre. Political analyst Thomas Sutton and body language expert Allan Pease have analysed the president’s latest performance in Florida, the first one since he contracted the coronavirus. On 12 October, the president held a rally in Sanford, Florida, while on Thursday, Trump will take part in an NBC News town hall event in Miami at the same time as Joe Biden has his own town hall gathering, which will be broadcast by ABC. Trump’s Body Language Signals He’s Confident & […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0c/1080744938_0:20:1281:740_1200x675_80_0_0_8e061efa86d2e4cfacf3fdb0aaca8d32.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Dhairya Maheshwari . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010121080744662-love-jihad–top-indian-jewellery-brand-faces-online-abuse-over-hindu-muslim-marriage-ad/ Tanishq, a leading Insian jewellery brand, owns 328 stores in 200 cities across the country. It was the highest-grossing brand in the sector during the last financial year. India’s leading jewellery brand Tanishq has been subjected to vicious trolling by social media users over a new advertisement featuring a Hindu bride married into a Muslim household. “She is married into a family that loves her like their own child. Only for her, they go out of their way to celebrate an occasion that they usually don’t. A beautiful confluence of two […]
Many relationships face the most passion and temper in the beginning, but for some people, things become most dramatic only after the love is gone and the couple splits up. A Northampton County man named Jason Muzzicato, suspected for launching a drone to drop bombs near the house of his ex-girlfriend, has received a five-year sentence on weapons charges, according to federal court documents. The series of small blasts that the community of Bangor, Maine, saw last year appeared to be a squabble between ex-lovebirds becoming way too passionate. After being arrested during an investigation into the blasts, Muzzicato was charged […]
As Sofia Coppola has gotten older, so too have her protagonists, which makes it easy to see them—and their plights—as reflections of the aspirations and anxieties currently preoccupying the auteur. That’s once again true with On the Rocks, the story of a 39-year-old writer struggling with insecurity, suspicions about her husband, and the long shadow cast by her larger-than-life father, here played by Coppola’s Lost in Translation headliner Bill Murray with more mega-watt vivacity than he’s shown in years. Premiering online at the New York Film Festival before debuting in theaters (on October 2) and on Apple TV+ (on October 23), […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/14/1080517764_0:0:1257:707_1200x675_80_0_0_480f79119aafff637de27a992549aa16.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009201080517102-sunday-energy-dewey-eyed-kangaroo-reminds-us-love-is-simple-and-comes-with-hugs/ They say the best thing to hold onto in life is each other and sometimes, even when humans forget this, nature has its own way of reminding us that love is always just a simple hug away. A video, which is sure to lighten up your pre-Monday blues, showing a kangaroo demonstrating simple acts of love has found its way on social media. Susanta Nanda, an officer in the Indian Forest Service (IFS), tweeted this snippet on Sunday, showing the kangaroo closely walking his human friend at what looks like a ranch. Later, when […]
In the history of love stories, few have been as strange and unlikely as the one depicted in My Octopus Teacher. Netflix’s first original South African feature documentary concerns the wholly unexpected, and ostensibly transformative, affair struck between Craig Foster, a South African filmmaker, and an amphibious mollusk that he discovered in the Atlantic Ocean near the small seaside bungalow he frequented as a kid. It’s a relationship that transcends all boundaries, and serves as a quietly profound (and crazy) portrait of the bonds we share with everything in our environment—even if its cinematic depiction is sometimes far from perfect. Debuting […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/04/1080368116_0:0:3073:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_dc8d2a40c5ccc876c86e3c40bd8659f7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009071080393510-trump-calls-bolton-jerk-for-discussing-love-letters-from-north-koreas-kim-with-press/ The publication of a tell-all book by the former Trump appointee came as a bombshell this summer, largely due to numerous claims made by its author, who repeatedly called his former boss unfit to be president. US President Donald Trump again blasted his former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, this time calling him a “jerk” over the latter’s comments about POTUS’s attitude toward North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. In an interview with NPR given as a part of a promotional tour for his explosive memoir “The Room Where It Happened”, Bolton alleged that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/02/1080038215_0:-1:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_0423deb8f16e2462e31320ed036123c9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009021080351459-cops-love-ice-us-employee-sacked-for-posting-blue-lives-matter-drink-on-tiktok—video/ An Indianapolis, Indiana, Target is down an employee after its corporate headquarters terminated an employee whose recent TikTok upload showed him whipping up a seemingly deadly “Blue Lives Matter” cocktail, complete with “bleach.” Though TikTok sale talks have grown quiet in the US, the Chinese video-sharing platform itself is continuing to rise in popularity and attract personalities, like one netizen who used his place of employment’s in-store coffee shop for the props and location of his controversial new video. “First, we’re going to start with bleach, all the way to the third line,” the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1f/1080331666_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_d6d38762d9cb8be2a7fa9eef5178a56b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202008311080331784-strange-love-husky-owl-friends-enjoy-snow/ Unlikely friendships sometimes occur between people. This is true for animals as well, as an unlikely duo recently demonstrated. Footage shared on Twitter captures a Siberian husky puppy and a snow owl outdoors, kissing and showing each other affection. The uncommon friends are visibly happy and at ease around one another. Such cute winter wonderland pals! Source link
What happens when you take 10 “sexy singles,” give them all COVID-19 tests, and make them share one tiny Las Vegas hotel room after months of isolation? Extreme horniness and a flagrant disregard for safety procedures ensue. So begins the second season of CBS’s Love Island, the US adaptation of the British reality dating show of the same name. When Love Island USA premiered last summer, it failed to pack the steamy, dramatic punch of its original iteration from across the pond. Cast members were forgettable and the canned voiceover narration turned out to be more cheesy than charming. This year, […]
Bloomberg It’s never a good sign when someone gives a speech and people’s reaction is to talk about something other than the words. And this is what happened Monday night to the president’s large adult son, who came to the speaker’s podium on night one of the Republican convention with very red shrunken eyes that did not escape the Internet’s notice. People wondered and wondered what was up with Junior’s eyes. In fact, after the speech, #cocaine started trending. As for the words, Junior accused the left of “trying to “cancel” all of those Founders.” He also said that this election […]
From left, on stage, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris,and Doug Emhoff , wave to supporters connected virtually after Biden spoke Thursday night. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP From left, on stage, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris,and Doug Emhoff , wave to supporters connected virtually after Biden spoke Thursday night. Andrew Harnik/AP It turns out going virtual has its virtues. Just ask the Democrats, grinning and basking after their first-ever online national convention this week. No one knew what to expect, and there were plenty of doubters looking for glitches, flubbed cues and dead air – not […]
Gregory Marcinski is 43 and incarcerated at a federal prison in Otisville, New York. He has never met or touched his partner Eva, who lives nearly 4,000 miles away in Bavaria, Germany. But when Eva opens his letters and fingers the stationery she knows he’s held, too, the sensation feels “a bit like holding hands.” Marcinski has been in prison for almost 20 years, serving two concurrent life sentences in Kentucky and New York for the charge of kidnapping resulting in death. Eva first reached out to him over a prison pen pal website in 2017. The two fell in love […]
As the Democratic National Convention came to a rousing close and the Republicans geared up to start their four-day affair next week, Vice President Mike Pence went on a whopping five morning shows on Friday to help make the case for another four years of Trump. On Fox & Friends, Pence fielded softball questions about Goodyear tires and Star Wars metaphors. And on CNN’s New Day, he was left squirming about Trump’s disturbing embrace of QAnon. The vice president dramatically shook his head as CNN’s John Berman reported the fact that the FBI has labeled that conspiracy-theory cult a domestic terror […]
Portland rioter Marquise “Keese” Love, who is currently on the run from police for attacking a driver who had attempted to help stop a mob from attacking a trans person, was involved in a sickening gang assault on another white man prior to the viral incident. In a shocking video of Love’s previous attack, a large group is seen running up to a man and brutally beating him before dragging him down the street and continuing the attack. Love is clearly visible in the surveillance footage of the violence released by police in June. Love was first identified on the anonymous […]
Called dawa and sold by street vendors, the concoctions have become so popular that they’ve driven up the price of lemons and limes. (Image credit: Eyder Peralta/ NPR) Source link
The anonymous message board 4Chan has once again proven to be one of the nations best intelligence services, as they have seemingly identified the man who dealt the final kick to a man who was savagely beaten by rioters in Portland on Sunday evening. The rioters appeared to be attempting to murder the man after beating a white woman who may or may not have been with him. As Gateway Pundit previously reported, the terrorist mob gathers round the man’s limp body as he bleeds from his head. Voices are heard saying “call 911. Another says a “medic” is there. While […]
American superstar The Rock says he has returned to his roots as a budding NFL pro by leading a bid to buy troubled American football league the XFL, which suspended operations with more than $50 million of debt earlier this year. Wrestling overlord Vince McMahon’s Xtreme Football League had planned to divide eight teams between two divisions in a winter and spring season before being halted during its debut campaign as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the US in April. Shortly afterwards, the league laid off the vast majority of its employees and declared bankruptcy in a financial disaster that listed more […]
By Nadia Bazuk for VT As is known, there are two Autocephalous Churches in Ukraine: the one recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Church of Greece and the Patrarchate of Alexandria, namely the Holy Church of Ukraine (HCU), and the so-called Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) lead by patriarch emeritus Filaret (Denisenko), who left the HCU six months after its was created. What these organizations have in common is their staffing approach. For example, former abbess Cleopatra of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church who defrauded the treasury of the St. Nicholas Convent and seized control over its website and […]
Written by Jon Erwin and William Doyle Book Review: Beyond Valor: A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrificial Love, and a Race against Time, Jon Erwin and William Doyle. Hard cover/August 18, 2020. Publisher Thomas Nelson On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, thereby forcing an unconditional surrender. Yet the mission did not go as planned. On board one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. […]
Senile Joe Biden made some headlines today after he smeared President Trump as the first racist president. Democrats hope if they call President Trump enough names they will win the White House with senile Joe. Trump Campaign Blasts Biden Over First ‘Racist’ President Smear Not only was Joe Biden’s remarks offensive they were inaccurate. There have been several racist Democrat Presidents throughout American history. TRENDING: Photo Appears to Show Black Lives Matter Supporters Holding Down and Kneeling on Neck of White Baby President Woodrow Wilson may have been the worst racist Democrat president in history — although there were others. A […]
Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen insisted that President Donald Trump’s continued embrace of Confederate memorials and bases named after Lost Cause generals has nothing to do with any “love” for the Confederacy but rather the desire to defend them from “cancel culture.” Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist who recently held court with Trump for an obsequious interview, appeared Friday on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom to discuss some of the revelations from his friendly chat with the president. Besides claiming Trump is apparently unconcerned about his plummeting poll numbers because the president “remains confident” due to his own internal polling, Thiessen weighed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/09/1079841154_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_c2356330869de8754bbc144bc5b89379.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007091079841205-newly-adopted-pup-gazes-lovingly-at-dad-/ Many pets are in need of a loving home, and recently, a sweet doggo demonstrated just how much animals really value that care and affection. Footage shared on Twitter captures a sweet pitbull pup being petted by her new owner at a pet store adoption event. Video shows the cute doggo’s new “dad” gently petting and comforting her as they embrace one another – with the adorable pup looking into her adopter’s eyes with the happiest expression in the world. They are lucky to have found each other. I’m not crying, you’re crying! Source […]
No one laughed harder at the 69 joke than Cristin Milioti. The actress, the mother from How I Met Your Mother and your favorite part of so many projects since, plays the lead in Palm Springs, the mind-melting existential romantic comedy co-starring Andy Samberg and produced by his Lonely Island crew. Manifesting all the energy from the gasps in the audience after a shocking out-of-the-gate plot twist, the film launched a competitive bidding war after its premiere screening in January at the Sundance Film Festival. The Daily Beast’s Obsessed Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in […]
In this audio interview, CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen and Blockade Games co-founder Marguerite deCourcelle talk about bitcoin’s impact on artistic careers. From collecting unique, interactive pieces to designing video games, Cuen and deCourcelle explore how crypto could redefine modern art. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS. Bitcoin is money but blockchain technology can also be used in a wide variety of art projects. Perhaps the best known variety of blockchain-based visual art is non-fungible tokens (NFTs). For example, Blockade Games co-founder Marguerite deCourcelle said her startup […]
Toledo Police Officer Anthony Dia was murdered on Independence Day morning while responding to a call in a Home Depot parking lot. Officer Dia was shot in the chest just after midnight on July 4th. Dia was dispatched to the area to make sure the man was OK. Officer Anthony leaves behind a wife and a two-year-old child. Before his death Dia spoke to the police dispatch. He said, “Tell my family I love them.” TRENDING: Nike Spokesman Colin Kaepernick’s Independence Day Message: “We Reject Your Celebration of White Supremacy” (Video) His final words were recorded on the police dispatch. Austin […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107978/57/1079785708_0:134:1201:809_1200x675_80_0_0_b87cef0e4b9419b3dc38764a0380f53e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007031079787285-i-think-i-love-you-kitten-smiles-looking-at-his-mom/ Cats are known to be highly social animals that spend most of their waking hours interacting with available animals or playing on their own. A kitten has been captured on video while looking at his mother with a broad smile. The adorable feline appears to be expressing all his love and affection for his mum in that look. The funny video was captured in New York, the US. According to veterinarians, most cats accept kittens that don’t belong to them, sometimes even from other species, loving them as much as they love their own kittens. More videos Last update: […]
Little is known about Hitler’s personal life. The leader of the Nazi party devoted his entire life to politics and only shortly before Nazi Germany surrendered did he marry his long-time companion Eva Braun. Adolf Hitler’s niece, Angela Maria “Geli” Raubal, was the one and only woman the Fuhrer ever loved, claims a new book titled “The Angel of Munich”, written by Fabiano Massimi. According to the author, the course of history could have been different and Hitler himself might have been a different person had the young woman not died in 1931. Massimi says that although his work is a novel, […]
On Canada Day in Ottawa a group of Trump lovers marched on the US Embassy chanting “We love Trump”. In an exclusive report at the Rair Foundation USA website, a group of Canadians showed their love for President Trump: Advertisement – story continues below Today on Canada Day, over 1,500 Canadians gathered in Ottawa on Parliament Hill to express their love of country and opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rule. The patriotic crowd waiving Canadian and Veteran flags marched from Parliament Hill to the U.S. Embassy. The crowd roared with chants of “Trudeau has got to go” and “I love […]
A white St. Louis lawyer who quickly rose to internet fame this week after he pulled an AR-15 on Black Lives Matter protesters marching near his house told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night he couldn’t possibly be racist because his Black clients love him. Earlier this week, images and video of McCloskey and his wife brandishing weapons at demonstrators from the porch of their mansion went viral. McCloskey has since told several local outlets that he pointed his firearm at the protesters—who were marching to the St. Louis mayor’s house—because he was worried they’d immediately set fire to his […]
Sir Keith Starmer …by Stuart Littlewood, Britain – First published … June 27, 2020 – Sir Keir Starmer, whose scalp has been dangling on the lodge-pole of the Board of Deputies since Day One of his leadership of the Labour Party, has sacked his rival Rebecca Long-Bailey from his front bench for – apparently – indulging in “antisemitic conspiracy theories”. According to The Independent the row began when Ms Long-Bailey praised an interview with the actress Maxine Peake in which she stated that US police responsible for the death of George Floyd had learned tactics from the Israeli security forces. Ms […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. ‘Netflix and Chill’ Is Now Actually Porn When you click on the film Love on Netflix, where it has spent the last week in the Top 10 of the service’s most-watched movies and shows, the very first thing you see is a woman dragging her nipple up and down a man’s erect penis as she masturbates him and he fingers her clitoris, which is pointed directly […]
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The Secret Reason Billionaires Love A Pandemic By Lee Camp, Consortium News. June 22, 2020 The Secret Reason Billionaires Love A Pandemic2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/the_wealth_of_the_nation_seymour_fogel-1-e1592854191581.jpg200px200px Above photo: WPA mural, Cohen Building, Washington, D.C.Seymour Fogel 1942, Architect: Charles Klauder. Built 1939- 1940. Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. You see, there has been a class war going on for years – perpetrated by the rich (who aren’t smarter or better) against everyone else. We live in a time when there are more billionaires walking around than ever before. (They don’t actually walk. They have someone do that for them.) And one can’t deny billionaires are billionaires because they’ve […]
It was billed as the Triggered Father’s Day Special and at 8 PM on Thursday, the president’s namesake adult fail son sat several feet away from his father, far enough to perhaps prevent the transmission of coronavirus though that was likely not intentional. As someone who has interviewed a parent before, I know that there are certain problems of familiarity that arise. None of these problems plagued this father and son because, clearly, familiarity is not a problem for the Trumps. Junior seemed alarmingly excited to “get” his dad. Senior seemed as if he was humoring his spawn, being a vaguely […]
In the summer of 2018, the president spent an immoderate amount of time fixating on delivering a Donald Trump-signed CD featuring Elton John’s 1972 hit “Rocket Man” to Kim Jong Un. But he wasn’t only trying to please the North Korean dictator with a disc that included a track with a song title of the nickname he’d given him. Trump also thought it would bring a smile to the face of his estranged friend—Sir Elton John himself. According to the new book by former national security adviser John Bolton, Trump made the delivery of the disc to the totalitarian North Korean […]
Corporations Now Love ‘Black Lives’—But What About Their Own Black Workers? By Toni Gilpin, Labor Notes. June 16, 2020 Corporations Now Love ‘Black Lives’—But What About Their Own Black Workers?2020-06-162020-06-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/mcdonalds-strike-over-covid-issues-e1592326862301.png200px200px Above photo: As they nimbly co-opted the language of the protests, corporate leaders offered up “solutions” to the structural racism that won’t diminish managerial control or redistribute power in the workplace. Fight for $15. Never underestimate US business community’s capacity for hypocrisy. That’s one of the lessons to be drawn from the explosive reaction to George Floyd’s murder. As demonstrators began flooding streets, corporate PR departments flew into rapid response mode, issuing […]
Donald Trump has been bleeding supporters among a variety of demographic groups since his election. Suburbanites have left him, evangelicals are showing signs of disillusionment, and working class whites are starting to jump ship. But even in times of distress, there is one group of Trump fans whose commitment seems absolute: boaters. Trump and the boat-owner class have a special relationship, forged through shared interests and a fair bit of TLC. His campaign has long been enamored with the visuals of Trump-adoring boaters flying their MAGA flags high as they make their way down various waterways. In just the past two […]
Serena Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, has hinted that the six-time champion could overcome not having her daughter at a heavily restricted US Open in order to target glory after an “extremely difficult” break from tennis. Women’s number one Ashleigh Barty, men’s number one Novak Djokovic and reigning champion Rafael Nadal have been among a succession of stars voicing doubts about whether they would play at the tournament under proposed new rules for players, while Mouratoglou has warned that veteran Williams would struggle to go a day without seeing her daughter. The Greek-Frenchman would be the obvious candidate as the sole allocated member […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107681/95/1076819534_0:160:3072:1888_1200x675_80_0_0_1854ecebbf5402244629f1723a2a628a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202006141079611955-we-love-you-very-much-donald-trump-gets-wished-a-happy-birthday-by-his-children/ As Eric and Ivanka Trump congratulated their father, their respective tweets quickly attracted the attention of the president’s proponents and detractors alike who also had something to say. As US President Donald Trump celebrates his 74th birthday, his children joined the ranks of those wishing him well. “Happy Birthday Dad! We love you very much!” Eric Trump wrote in a tweet that also featured several photos of himself together with his father. “Happy Birthday @realDonaldTrump! Love you!” echoed Ivanka Trump, with her tweet also containing a photo of her and Donald, though said picture […]
President Donald Trump says Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a largely police-free community space fashioned amid protests, is run by “domestic terrorists.” Seattle’s police department made (and walked back) a claim about anarchists “extorting” businesses in the area. But actual businesses around the zone say they’re watching Ava DuVernay films, handing out granola bars, and having a nice time. Following several nights of showdowns between police and protesters, in which cops made liberal use of tear gas and flash grenades, Seattle reached a detente with activists on June 9. The city would open up a few streets for Black Lives Matter […]
It was a milestone decades in the making. The entire history of film in the making, really. Love, Simon was the first gay teen romance ever released by a major studio. It had the budget of a major studio, the marketing arm of a major studio, and everyone was meant to see and swoon over it, not just the gay community. That was huge. It had an appealing protagonist, a fizzy cast of supporting characters, thrilling emotional highs, and an endearing, easy-to-root-for love story that culminated in one of those big, spectacular, only-in-the-movies grand romantic gestures: a fireworks-scored kiss at the […]
David North built the Doorway to Imagination in his backyard. David North hide caption toggle caption David North David North built the Doorway to Imagination in his backyard. David North OK America, we see your sourdough starters, and your Duolingo sessions and your new cross-stitch hobby, and we raise you a Doorway to Imagination. That’s the backyard branch and wood art piece that David North built with all his social distancing-created free time. His niece Kimberly Adams, a correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace, tweeted about it. Uncle: What are you doing during the lockdown?Me: I’m learning to play piano! […]
Europe 02:01 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107932/16/1079321649_0:0:3184:1791_1200x675_80_0_0_36de9c4e9aab563362aea7a97d3b397c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202005161079321641-serbian-orthodox-church-priests-released-in-montenegro-thank-people-for-love-and-support/ BELGRADE (Sputnik) – Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic and several other priests, who had been detained in Montenegro earlier this week, were released on Saturday and thanked people for their love and support. Bishop Joanikije and other priests were released at 0:30 a.m. (22:30 on Friday GMT) after three days of detention over leading a religious procession to celebrate St Vasilije’s Day despite the government ban on public gatherings because of the coronavirus. Their detention caused protests in Montenegro despite the restrictions linked to COVID-19, “First […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107921/70/1079217060_0:93:2977:1767_1200x675_80_0_0_24d13f1bb46f12a193846c38d5ba4bf9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202005141079300176-fight-for-your-love-fans-urges-yg-entertainment-to-show-some-respect-for-blackpink/ Blinks are not going to stop trying to attract attention to the lack of promotion for one of the most famous K-pop girl bands. The fandom of Blackpink named Blinks went wild on 14 May: they sent a truck to the YG Entertainment building with demands for information about the group’s comeback, that was announced without any specific details on 4 May. Almost two weeks have passed since the announcement that Blackpink are preparing for a comeback but fans have had zero teasers, nor any news, while debuting boy band “Treasure” under the same […]
Viral 07:34 GMT 07.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107922/56/1079225634_43:0:1312:714_1200x675_80_0_0_65d6a124a0390ed776f35fa6ab47dc07.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202005071079225300-mothers-love-in-the-rescue-of-a-baby-elephant–video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): It is said that there is nothing purer than a mother’s love and this goes for animals in the wild as well. A video of a mama elephant rescuing a baby jumbo from an uncovered water drain is going viral on social media. In the video, the mother can be seen successfully lifting her baby from a water drain after a bit of a struggle. Source link