After the New York Post dropped a bombshell story about Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s Ukrainian business dealings on Wednesday, social media giants Facebook and Twitter rushed to limit its spread, prompting accusations of censorship and in-kind aid to Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the New York Post threw gasoline onto the smoldering coals of the Ukraine affair that led to US President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in January, publishing a story titled “Hunter Biden emails show leveraging connections with his father to boost Burisma pay.” However, as the story gained traction on social media, Facebook and Twitter moved to […]
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A social-media video showing students dancing back-to-back with their partners spurred an avalanche of stunned responses on Twitter amid public weariness over absurd social-distancing rules in the era of Covid-19. The video showed formally dressed students locking arms with their partners from behind as they danced with their backs facing each other in waltz-like steps. While it is unclear where and when the clip was recorded, some alleged it was filmed during a classical dancing class, possibly in the Czech Republic as a joke to mock new Covid-19 restrictions imposed by the Czech government under new Health Minister Roman Prymula. I can’t make […]
Arsenal fans including TV personality Piers Morgan have reacted with outrage after beloved mascot Gunnersaurus was let go by the club as part of cost-cutting measures on Monday. The Athletic reported that Jerry Quy, who has played the role of Gunnersaurus for 27 years since the mascot was created in 1993, has been sacked by the club as they continue to streamline their operations as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic’s financial impact. On August 5, Arsenal announced their intent to make 55 staff members redundant across several departments, although Quy is not included among that figure as he worked part-time. […]
In the latest crime data presented by the National Crime Records, atrocities against Dalits — people from the lowest strata of India’s caste system — rose from 47,369 in 2016 to 50,325 in 2017, and over 25% in a decade. A 19-year-old Indian girl, reportedly gang-raped by four “upper-caste” men, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh this month, succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday morning. The victim was transferred to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital from another facility in the regional town of Aligarh. She was taken to the Aligarh hospital on 15 September, a day […]
Colleagues of George Washington University history professor Jessica Krug have called for her to resign after the prestigious school was forced to stop short of firing her for pretending to be black throughout her academic career. “The discipline of history is concerned with truth telling about the past,” members of GWU’s history faculty said Friday in a joint statement. “With her conduct, Dr. Krug has raised questions about the veracity of her own research and teaching.” The statement called for Krug to resign from her position as an associate professor or to be stripped of her tenure and fired if she […]
MSNBC host Joy Reid on Wednesday night said she should have been more “sensitive” two days earlier when she seemingly compared radicalized Trump supporters to “the way Muslims act,” remarks that sparked outrage among Muslim activists and organizations. More specifically, it was a non-apology. “For decades, America’s Muslim community has endured blanket portrayals that focus on one thing, not their families or individual achievements or even anything about Islam,” she said Wednesday. “Nope, just one thing: terrorism. Particularly after 9/11, profiling became a near American obsession for anybody Brown—god forbid with a beard or headscarf, whether they were Muslim or not, […]
The sister of a 31-year-old Black man killed by Lafayette, Louisiana, police in a hail of gunfire as he was walking away vowed this weekend to get “justice” for her loved one. “They did my brother wrong but i promise if its all i do i will get justice for you. brother i love you so so so much. and im so angry and sad that you are gone,” Treneca Trachelle Pellerin wrote on Facebook of Trayford Pellerin, who died Friday night outside a Shell gas station in Lafayette. Officers fired 11 bullets at Trayford Pellerin as he approached the door […]
Thousands thronged downtown Beirut on Saturday to voice their outrage over government corruption and negligence they blame for Tuesday’s deadly explosion that killed at least 158 people. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption toggle caption Bilal Hussein/AP Thousands thronged downtown Beirut on Saturday to voice their outrage over government corruption and negligence they blame for Tuesday’s deadly explosion that killed at least 158 people. Bilal Hussein/AP Thousands of protesters outraged over this week’s deadly explosion in Beirut amassed in the Lebanese capital on Saturday, as public anger gave way to clashes with police and the storming of the nation’s foreign ministry. Blame for […]
Grocery chain Trader Joe’s won’t be changing its supposedly “racist” product labels. In an era where suspect tweets can ruin careers, the decision is a reminder that online activism doesn’t always matter in real life. According to more than 5,000 signatories of an online petition, some of the chain’s branding – which sees its Italian range labeled ‘Trader Giotto’s’, its Mexican range called ‘Trader Jose’s’, and its Chinese food named ‘Trader Ming’s’ – is racist. The branding “exoticizes other cultures,” the petition states. Furthermore, the petition alleges that the company’s founder Joe Coulombe drew inspiration from a “racist” book about “traders […]
Evegeny Lebedev, the Russian-British owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard newspapers, has been nominated for peerage by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, setting off a round of hysteria on social media. Moscow-born Lebedev is the son of Alexander Lebedev, a former member of the KGB, who was stationed at the Soviet Union’s London embassy in the 1980s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the father made his fortune in banking and eventually moved to the UK permanently — and both he and his son are outspoken critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But ardent believers in the narrative of […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the US’ largest local news conglomerate, has canceled an interview with a coronavirus conspiracy theorist, after CNN whipped up an online outrage campaign against the conservative broadcaster. In a segment due to air this weekend, ‘America This Week’ host Eric Bolling sat down with Dr Judy Mikovits, a disgraced scientist who believes that the coronavirus pandemic was orchestrated by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates to push vaccines on the population – as she set out in the documentary film ‘Plandemic,’ which has been effectively censored off the internet. Also […]
A Covid-19 emergency order from Florida’s Broward County seemingly mandating face coverings even at home has some Americans up in arms, but authorities – perhaps doing damage control – now say it applies only to guests. The emergency order mandating masks in the home applies only to guests over the age of 10, Office of Public Communications media liaison Lori Shepard told prepper blog The Prepared on Monday. She explained that “if you’re in your own home and you’re with your family… the county is not asking you wear a mask.” “If somebody comes into your house and they’re not a […]
Kanye West kicked off his first campaign rally with an apparent attack on abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman, later explaining it was a dig at “white organizations” appropriating black icons. The context was lost on many, however. Tubman “didn’t free the slaves, she just had them go work for other white people,” West said Sunday at a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. Some audience members responded by walking out, while others jeered the candidate. Since the rapper was hopping from one topic to another, without providing any immediate explanation to his remark, Twitter users did not waste time tearing into the […]
Pennsylvania authorities have launched a probe after a video, showing an officer kneeling on a man’s neck in Allentown, went viral, further fueling the outrage and nationwide protests against police brutality. Captured outside St. Luke’s Hospital-Sacred Heart hospital and widely shared by Black Lives Matter activists and even George Floyd family attorney, Ben Crump, the disturbing clip shows two officers restraining a screaming black man, while another cop briefly puts his knee on the suspect’s neck. The incident, not fatal but painfully reminiscent of the shocking death of George Floyd in a botched arrest attempt, triggered calls for the immediate termination and […]
For a decade, Michael Krieger’s Liberty Blitzkrieg has been an essential alternative financial and cultural voice. As outrage culture ramps up, here’s why it’s ending. Our main conversation is with Liberty Blitzkrieg creator and editor Michael Krieger. Michael announced just before recording that he is done publishing on the LB site. He and NLW discuss: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Fast fashion e-tailer Shein is best recognized for its cheap summer dresses, prolific clothing drops, YouTube videos, and now, a certain swastika necklace. On Thursday, @HereForTheTea2, an Instagram account which dutifully chronicles influencer drama, posted a screenshot from the brand’s website. It appeared to show a “Metal Swastika Pendant Necklace” available for the small price of $2.50. After the public call-out drew criticism on Instagram and Twitter, it only took Shein a few hours to scrub the product from its site. A representative for Shein told The Daily Beast: “For the record, Shein was not selling a Nazi swastika pendant. The […]
Aussie animal lovers and politicians alike are in uproar after it emerged that a man hired as a conservationist was in fact a big-game hunter who had posed with numerous dead animals that he killed in South Africa. Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan ordered an investigation after media reports revealed the truth about conservationist Jewell Crossberg’s past, including an album on his now-deleted Facebook page which showed him posing with carcasses of hunted African animals including giraffes, elephants and zebras. “The photos were taken in 2010 in a place where it was legal, unfortunately, to shoot these majestic animals,” Environment Minister […]
People wait for COVID-19 tests at a hospital in Baghdad on June 4. Khalil Dawood /Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Khalil Dawood /Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images People wait for COVID-19 tests at a hospital in Baghdad on June 4. Khalil Dawood /Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Coronavirus cases are spiking sharply in Iraq amid a shortage of supplies that has resulted in protesters storming an oxygen cylinder factory and relatives of patients seizing oxygen canisters in hospitals. “This is a war against the coronavirus and we have lost the war,” says an Iraqi official who has been briefed on […]
Fox TV’s Black-oriented streaming service, Fox Soul, abruptly canceled a Fourth of July program featuring Minister Louis Farrakhan on Monday after the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, among other critics, slammed plans for a live broadcast of Farrakhan’s speech titled “Message to America.” “Louis Farrakhan, a notorious #antisemite & #homophobe, inexplicably continues to get airtime,” Greenblatt tweeted over a promotional Fox Soul graphic touting the Farrakhan broadcast scheduled for this Saturday at 11 a.m. ET. “THE CRITERION: THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN SPEAKS LIVE,” read the text over a smiling photograph of the bow-tied Nation of […]
Cambridge has proclaimed that it will defend the seemingly indefensible, after one of its professors stated that ‘white lives’ aren’t valuable. Is this the same uni that ‘canceled’ Dr Jordan Peterson, Twitter has asked? In a series of now-deleted tweets, Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a lecturer who specializes in postcolonial literature and “critical race studies” at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College, announced that “white lives don’t matter,” and that whiteness should be “abolished.” Unsurprisingly, she received mountains of criticism for her divisive utterances. In the current racially charged era, one might assume Cambridge would want to distance itself from her radical […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro spun President Donald Trump’s stunning admission that he wanted his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, saying on Sunday morning that the president’s comments were clearly “tongue in cheek” and a light moment. During Saturday night’s sparsely attended campaign rally in Tulsa, the president complained that his administration was looking bad because robust testing had picked up too many COVID-19 cases, calling it a “double-edged sword.” “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases,” Trump bellowed. “So I said to my people, ‘Slow the […]
Why didn’t we think of this? With the Harrods Food Hall closed, a nanny blocking up one of the two spare bedrooms in her expensive London home, and being forced to rely on pricey chess tutors to occupy her children, Shruti Advani, a wealthy writer for the Financial Times, says she was able to relieve at least some of the anguish of lockdown by one simple measure: tripling her weekly order of freshly cut flowers. Advani became an object of derision, outrage and disbelief on Wednesday after she penned an ill-advised column for the FT’s Wealth section in which she gloated […]
Google has claimed there is a perfectly benign reason for Winston Churchill’s photograph disappearing from its search engine – but many are unconvinced, as the iconic British PM is now in the eye of the protest storm. Eagle-eyed internet users raised hell after discovering that Churchill – who led the United Kingdom through World War II – was faceless when listed in Google’s knowledge panel, which provides general information about common search queries. In a list of UK prime ministers generated by the tech giant, Churchill lacked a photograph, while his predecessors and successors were all given portraits. “Utterly disturbing that […]
A video of two Atlanta police officers shooting an unarmed black man who later died is sparking massive outrage and accusations of police brutality and racism. Details of the case are still scarce. Atlanta officers responded to a call of a suspicious person on Friday night that led them to a Wendy’s drive-thru where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was allegedly asleep in his car. According to the George Bureau of Investigations (GBI), Brooks failed a field sobriety test and resisted when police tried to place him in custody. A stun gun was used by one of the officers, which Brooks tried to […]
Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory released a statement last Tuesday lashing out at President Donald Trump for visiting the John Paul II National Shrine. The DC Archbishop Gregory lectured President Trump on “defending the rights of all people even those with whom we might disagree” while at the same time attacking him for visiting a Catholic Shrine. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited the Catholic Shrine before signing an executive order promoting religious freedom.First Lady Melania Trump is a practicing Catholic. The media failed to report this important detail in their hit pieces on President Trump. TRENDING: Wow! Minneapolis […]
Photo Of Police Officer With Armed Men Prompts Outrage And Investigation By Sara Gentzler, The Olympian. June 8, 2020 Photo Of Police Officer With Armed Men Prompts Outrage And Investigation2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/olympian-police-officer-photographed-with-armed-med-from-the-olympian-e1591637002392.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Olympian police officer photographed with armed med, from The Olympian posted on Facebook by Braden Pauli. A photo circulating on social media Friday showing an Olympia Police officer posing with a group of armed men in front of Baskin Robbins on Olympia’s west side has prompted outrage from many, a response from Mayor Cheryl Selby, and an investigation by the police department. A Facebook post featuring the photo that […]
A blue-tick verified Egyptologist has offered “advice” to rioters in US cities on how to “safely” pull down obelisks for “anyone who might be interested,” drawing both abject disbelief and admiration on social media. Sarah Parcak, a well-known US archaeologist whose work involves “using satellites to uncover ancient Egyptian ruins” according to the Smithsonian Magazine, offered the tips on how to destroy monuments in a lengthy Twitter thread on Sunday. Parcak said she “never ever in a million years thought this advice might come in handy” before proceeding to explain how groups of people protesting the brutal police killing of George […]
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, software company Zoom Communications has had its video conferencing services tapped by various industries across the world that are trying to adjust to remote work, and now, thanks to officials in Singapore, the tech has been used to hand down a death sentence. Such was the case for Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian man who was sentenced Friday to death by hanging for masterminding a 2011 heroin transaction between two drug couriers in Singapore, a city-state known for having a zero tolerance policy for illicit drugs. A spokesperson for Singapore’s Supreme Court told Reuters for a Wednesday […]
Footage of Parisians crowded onto a Paris Metro train with no ability to implement social distancing rules left many French netizens fuming as the country began its ‘gradual’ reopening and easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. Passengers were packed like sardines onto a train running on Paris’ busy Line 13 on Monday morning, video from news channel BFM showed, as many people finally returned to work and the government urged public caution to avoid a second spike in virus cases after eight weeks of confinement. Social distancing seemed a thing of the past, however, as the metro was far too cramped to […]
LeBron James has been accused of using the death of a young black man in Georgia to “build a brand” and “sh*t stir,” after the NBA icon suggested African Americans were “being hunted” in a tweet about the tragedy. Footage appeared this week of the death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was killed on February 23 while out running just outside Brunswick, according to authorities in Georgia. Arbery had reportedly been chased down by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, who were reportedly armed and suspected Arbery of being the person behind a series of break-ins in the area. After […]