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Black-owned businesses trapped in the Minneapolis no-go zone where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer are pleading for, among other things, help from police, reports the New York Post: Black merchants near the once-thriving corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue said police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and business evaporate. “The city left me in danger,” the owner of Smoke In The Pit restaurant told The Post Thursday. “They locked us up on here and left us behind,” said the merchant, who asked to be identified only...

VIDEO Michael Avenatti really cut Beto O'Rourke down to size in his recent article. Although Avenatti took himself out of the running last year after his drastic fall in fortunes, he still sounds like he wants to take on Trump as the Democrat nominee. And a YUUUUUUUGE thank you out to all you viewers out there who have made the recent YUUUUUUUUGE surge in the DUmmie FUnnies channel stats possible as I noted in this video.

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Most of us never considered eating the mud pies we made as kids, but for many people all over the world, dining on dirt is nothing out of the ordinary. Now an extensive meta-analysis forthcoming in the June issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology helps explain why. According to the research, the most probable explanation for human geophagy—the eating of earth—is that it protects the stomach against toxins, parasites, and pathogens. The first written account of human geophagy comes from Hippocrates more than 2,000 years ago, says Sera Young, a researcher at Cornell University and the study's lead author....