Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, the comedic sketch shows Spitting Image brought politics to a general audience through its often crass and pull-no-punches style of humour. The celebrated British satirical show ‘Spitting Image’ known for its mimicking of politicians and celebrities using distorted puppets returns to screens on Saturday after a more than 20-year break, this time taking aim at modern pop figures such as Donald […]
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For years, executives at British retailer Fred Perry have tried to distance themselves from the Neo-fascists who love their clothes. Now, the brand has pulled one of the most recognizable Proud Boys uniforms from American stores. The same week that hundreds of Proud Boys marched in Portland, Fred Perry released a statement on its website announcing that the black and yellow-tipped polo shirt appropriated by members […]
An audacious piece of fielding by Nicholas Pooran has left the cricketing world in awe after a breathtaking save during an Indian Premier League game in Sharjah. The Kings XI Punjab player showed stunning reflexes to deny Rajasthan Royals batsman Sanju Samson six runs, diving full length over the boundary rope before catching the ball. Pooran showed sublime presence of mind, knowing he was over the […]
The Trump administration’s white supremacist propaganda machine removed a video on Saturday that it had posted earlier in the week. The removal came hours after this story, which has been updated, reported on its use of false migrant crime statistics and a fictionalized story about a dark-skinned migrant murdering a man with a knife. The video had been uploaded to YouTube on Thursday by Border Patrol, […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to cease using tax dollars for “anti-racism” training for government officials, which the White House slammed as inflammatory “propaganda” meant to smear the US as “evil.” “It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda,” Russell Vought, the Director of […]
27 Aug, 2020 01:32 Follow RT on The former top-ranked women’s tennis player, Naomi Osaka, has said she is withdrawing from the Western & Southern Open ahead of the semifinals to trigger discussion about the “genocide of Black people at the hands of police.” Osaka has announced her decision to not play in the semi-final match on Thursday, where she was scheduled to meet Elise Mertens […]
The slogan gained momentum late last week as radio host Rush Limbaugh brought up Kamala Harris’ short-lived relationship with San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown 25 years ago. Amazon has taken down t-shirts from their website featuring the slogan “Joe and the H*e” following an online blacklash from users referring to them as racist, and “totally unacceptable”. Amazon removed the “Joe and the h*e” items. Story updated. […]
Portland rioters learned a valuable lesson about how motorcycles cannot stop trucks while attacking a motorist on Tuesday evening. Late in the evening, rioters were attempting to block off a street when a man driving a truck pulled up and attempted to navigate his way through. Instead of letting him pass, they attacked him and his vehicle, slashing his tires, breaking his window, and throwing a […]
Democrat Joe Biden will not travel to the DNC Convention this year in Milwaukee. His handlers say its because of the coronavirus.We all know the REAL truth. Joe Biden is too feeble to travel across country.This is who the Democrat-Marxists want to hoist on the American public! Who wants to bet his speech will be pre-taped!! TRENDING: “Why the Hell Would I Take a Test?… Are […]
In an interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO, US President Donald Trump made several false claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic as he scrambled to appeal to his base, Max Blumenthal, a bestselling author and journalist whose latest film is “Killing Gaza,” told Sputnik on Tuesday. At one point in the interview with Jonathan Swan, Trump pulled out his own printouts of COVID-19 data […]
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 […]
Shortly after Mayor Lori Lightfoot conceded to allow the federal government to deploy their agents to Chicago, the city has removed the bronze Columbus statue which has been vandalized amid massive Black Lives Matter rallies. The removal operation started at Chicago’s Grant Park in the middle of the night on Friday. Workers used two heavy-duty cranes to attach metal ropes to the Christopher Columbus monument, which […]
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 […]
The Washington Redskins’ lead sponsor, FedEx, has apparently caved to corporate pressure, asking the football team to change its name after a group of investment firms and shareholders urged major funders to sever ties. FedEx, which holds rights to the team’s stadium, formally requested the Redskins to ditch their name on Thursday, days after a group of 87 investment firms and shareholders, collectively worth some $620 […]
It may be his greatest prank since Borat sang “Throw the Jew Down the Well” in an Arizona country and western bar more than 15 years ago. On Saturday, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen apparently infiltrated the “March for Our Rights 3” rally in downtown Olympia, Washington, getting at least some of the right-wing militia attendees to sing racist lyrics along with him about Barack Obama, Dr. […]
Twitter has removed a satirical video shared by US President Donald Trump – a parody CNN clip it flagged as “manipulated media” after the broadcaster saw red over the tweet and following complaints from the footage’s owner. The meme clip, which featured mock CNN chyron and was meant as a dig at what Trump and his supporters see as biased media coverage of his presidency, was […]
People attend the procession of a horse-drawn carriage bringing the body of George Floyd for burial at the Houston Memorial Gardens cemetery in Pearland, Texas, on Tuesday. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images People attend the procession of a horse-drawn carriage bringing the body of George Floyd for burial at the Houston Memorial Gardens cemetery in Pearland, Texas, […]
Netflix has removed comedy series ‘The Mighty Boosh’ and ‘The League of Gentlemen’ from its platform, citing their use of blackface. Critics have labeled the move an “arbitrary gesture” that does little to address actual racism. ‘The Mighty Boosh’ features several characters that are supposed to be black in the show, but are played by white actors. This fact has for a long time been seen […]
HBO Max has abruptly deleted ‘Gone With the Wind,’ widely considered a classic in American cinema, after screenwriter John Ridley called for its immediate removal, arguing the film “romanticizes” slavery. The 1939 film, set on a southern plantation in the aftermath of the Civil War, was removed from the HBO Max platform on Tuesday, with the company explaining that it depicts “ethnic and racial prejudices” which were “wrong then and […]