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“The Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal is having a big week — expressing support for his trans sister on Instagram, the announcement of a new TV role and some Twitter drama in light of his colleague Gina Carano’s firing. On Twitter, some pulled Pascal’s name into the controversy surrounding former MMA fighter Carano’s recent firing from “The Mandalorian,” following a social media post in which the 38-year-old actress compared being a Republican to being Jewish in Nazi Germany. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson...

This pillow fight has gotten even more serious. Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has stepped down from his gun control advocacy group in the wake of his public spat with conservative MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Hogg, 20, announced on Twitter on Thursday that he is taking a leave of absence from his position as board member for MarchForOurLives. “I’m going to take the time to focus on school, my passions, and my overall well being,” he said in a separate tweet. Hogg went on to allude to his public confrontation with Lindell last week, when he said he’ll take the...

"Last night I was on the phone with for two straight hours with Xi Jinping," Biden told reporters in the Oval Office. "It was a good conversation, I know him well, we spent a lot of time together over the years I was vice president, but if we don't get moving, they're going to eat our lunch. They have major, major new initiatives on rail, they already have rail that goes 325 miles per hour with ease. They are working very hard to do what I think we're gonna have to do." "The auto industry is already there. So is...

Disney was “looking for a reason to fire [Gina Carano] for two months, and today was the final straw,” The Hollywood Reporter noted this week. “The Mandalorian” star might as well have been drop-kicked to the bottom of the ocean on the planet Maldo Kreis after she annoyed Hollywood libs by joking about two points of Holy Liberal Orthodoxy. SNIP What Gina Carano said was stupid, but a lot less stupid than what Pedro Pascal said. If we’re going to cancel everybody in Hollywood for stupidity, then we’d be deprived of the talents of Mark Ruffalo (9/11 truther), Kylie Jenner...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

Shoppers visiting Pavilion Kuala Lumpur this festive season, watch out. If you're standing at the perfect spot (somewhere near the Crystal Fountain), you'll get to see a spectacular sight on the mall's gigantic LED displays. In the 3D animation, a bull gets a coat of gold spray from robotic arms before it charges at a Covid-19 sign on its glass container, smashing the coronavirus into pieces. With the world battered by the pandemic over the past year, the display also alludes to hopes that the new year would bring better days for all. Video clips of the display soon surfaced...

At best, people publicly compete to pretend they love strangers living ways of life incompatible with their own, the better to appear virtuous or at least to avoid punishment. At worst, policies that command love between strangers and across incompatible lifeways degenerate quickly into violence and persecution. Pride parades and calendars of ritual appreciation are undergirded by campaigns to eliminate political dissent, ranging from physical assault and property destruction to cancelling and doxxing. The new project shows the extent of the ruin that awaits down this path. As its proponents claim, even those who denounce hate and personally reject it...

Total Doses Delivered: 68,285,575 Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 34,723,964 Number of People Receiving 2 Doses: 11,188,782

We call them "attacks;" bears see them as defense. Either way, human-grizzly interactions are on the rise MISSOULA, MONTANAKyler Alm froze. A branch snapped. Something was in the forest behind him. Alm, a 19-year-old hunter with a permit for a bull elk, nocked an arrow in his bow and waited. The tawny fur of a moving animal appeared through the trees, but something wasn’t right. Alm, who’d come alone into the woods, didn’t see antlers. A moment later, the young hunter, two miles from his truck in the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana, came face to face...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was prepared to plead guilty to third-degree murder in George Floyd’s death before then-Attorney General William Barr personally blocked the plea deal last year, officials said. The deal would have averted any potential federal charges, including a civil rights offense, as part of an effort to quickly resolve the case to avoid more protests after protests and riots damaged a swath of south Minneapolis, according to two law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the talks. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized...

The scheme would most importantly take local housing costs and employer & employee status into account. The basic housing cost factor would be the square root of the pre-Covid 2019 HUD fair market rent of a one-bedroom apartment in the zip code area of the employee's most common work site divided by 10, rounded. Typical HUD fair market rents might be around $1,200/month in much of America, $2,000/month in some big cities and $3,000/month in prime SF Bay areas. The basic housing cost factors for those amounts would be $10.95, $14.14 and $17.32, respectively. To compute the base minimum wage,...

The scandals plaguing the insufferable anti-Trump Lincoln Project have become too potent to ignore for the liberal Associated Press. AP slammed the group in a story headlined, “How a leading anti-Trump group ignored a crisis in its ranks.” The outlet reported that “[i]n June 2020, members of the organization’s leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against co-founder John Weaver, including two involving Lincoln Project employees.” AP said this revelation undercut the super PAC’s “statement last month that it was ‘shocked’ when accusations surfaced publicly this year. It’s also...

I'm sure they now will finally condemn the democrat resistance and occupy movements, their anti-police movements, their violent antifa and BLM organizations and demand an end to the leftist rioting, looting and arson that's been destroying our cities for years. And with their newfound love for our Founders and original intent of the Constitution they'll finally stop trying to deprive us of our God-given and constitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech, freedom of religion, right to keep and bear arms, etc.? And now that they love our country and are concerned about national security, I'm guessing they'll keep our borders...

A California state park concessionaire is accusing the contactless payment operator Square of abruptly deactivating their account without warning. The shop believes the misunderstanding involves the sale of non-firing replica firearms. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Square, Inc. The company began as a portable credit card reader geared toward small businesses. Columbia Booksellers and Variety Store is contracted with Columbia Historic State Park in Tuolumne County, which is a preserved 1850s gold rush town. “The building was built in 1854,” owner Michael Sharp said. “Columbia became a boomtown overnight and there were thousands of miners and prospectors...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge on Thursday refused prosecutors’ request to issue a new arrest warrant for an 18-year-old from Illinois who is accused of killing two people during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer. Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder also rejected prosecutors’ request for a $200,000 bail increase for Kyle Rittenhouse, who came to Kenosha in August as hundreds were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said in court filings that prosecutors realized Rittenhouse was no longer living at his apartment in Antioch, Illinois, when a...

A new study published on Thursday faults former President Donald Trump for failing to properly address the COVID-19 crisis in the United States and says his response to the pandemic was followed by thousands of deaths that were likely preventable. The 49-page analysis from the Lancet Commission on public policy and health in the Trump era says the former president's response was followed by "tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths," and the pandemic exposed decades of health inequity driven by racial disparities in the United States.

As the nation continues to grapple with the fallout from the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, prominent members of the media are calling for the erasure of right-wing media outlets like Fox News, One America News Network (OANN), and Newsmax, which they say contributed to the riots. Max Boot, a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a piece titled, “Sadly, Fox News Can’t Be Impeached” in which he called these television networks “collaborators” in inciting a violent insurrection. Boot went on to ask, “Where is the accountability for right-wing propagandists like [Tucker Carlson] who recklessly splashed around the...

"Juan goes LOW and starts slandering his co-hosts live on the air."

BBC World News has been banned from airing in China in an apparent act of retaliation after the UK withdrew the licence of the country’s state broadcaster. China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) today said it was pulling the service off air due to “serious content violations”, CGTN reported. The regulator claimed the BBC had “seriously violated” the requirement for news reporting to be true and impartial, adding that its China-related coverage had “undermined China’s national interests and ethnic solidarity”. “As the channel fails to meet the requirements to broadcast in China as an overseas channel, BBC World News...

Twitter comes to Facebook’s defense once again. Twitter just locked down James O’Keefe’s and the Project Veritas account for reporting on Facebook VP Guy Rosen’s statements. Guy Rosen has stated that Facebook “freezes” comments in places that algorithms think there “may be” hate speech. This post supposedly violated Twitters “rules”. Project Veritas has been releasing leaked recordings of Facebook employees revealing what is really going on behind the scenes. This was just the latest in Project Veritas reporting on Facebook and the censorship going on. Yesterday they posted a video on Twitter confronting another Facebook executive over his comment that...