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Kate Winslet is calling out Hollywood for its rampant homophobia that has allegedly forced some stars to stay in the closet. “I can think of at least four actors absolutely hiding their sexuality,” the actress, 45, told The Sunday Times. “It’s painful. Because they fear being found out. And that’s what they say. ‘I don’t want to be found out.'” Winslet explained that the discrimination oftentimes begins as soon as actors and actresses launch their careers.

A 60 Minutes story on Florida's vaccine rollout accused Ron DeSantis, the state's Republican governor, of making a corrupt deal with Publix to distribute the vaccine. CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi noted that the grocery chain donated $100,000 to DeSantis' election campaign and suggested the lucrative vaccination contract was a "pay-to-play" scheme. It's an accusation that doesn't really stand up to scrutiny: For one thing, Publix—like many large corporations—gives money to both Republicans and Democrats. But more importantly, the decision to have Publix coordinate vaccination was not even made by the governor's office. According to Jared Moskowitz, director of the Florida...

... The law signed by Putin limits any future president to two terms in office, but resets his term count. It prevents anyone who has held foreign citizenship from running for the Kremlin.The legislation was passed in the lower and upper houses of parliament last month.

"Rethinking Energy" is a report published by RethinkX, a San Francisco think-tank. The report has great pretensions but little competence. The authors are Tony Seba and Adam Dorr. They are extreme futurists with lots of exciting predictions about the future but no concept of economic realities. "Rethinking Energy" uses the jargon of accounting and engineering as a gloss for pure fantasy. Tony Seba is the money man. At least that is the image he cultivates. He modestly describes himself as a "world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur." Adam Dorr is apparently the helper. He...

ATLANTA, GA—Georgia has hung up signs at all entrances to the state reading "Welcome to Beijing," cleverly disguising the state as the capital of Communist China. The ploy was designed to trick liberal companies threatening to boycott into staying and doing business in the state. "It's a brilliant plan, if I do say so myself," said Georgia Governor Brian Kemp as he nailed another Beijing sign atop a "Welcome to Georgia" sign along the interstate. "When these Hollywood companies, airlines, and baseball leagues see that we're actually just the capital of a country that throws its citizens into concentration camps,...

The federal government may house unaccompanied migrant children on a California Army National Guard base in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. The Pentagon on Friday approved the use of Camp Roberts to temporarily house migrant children traveling alone, according to a defense official. It was not immediately clear if or how many children could be placed at the camp, which is located along the Salinas River in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.

Two girls, ages 13 and 15, who were charged with the murder and carjacking of a Mohammad Anwar, 66, in DC , have reportedly reached a plea deal On Monday, the teens are said to have reached the deal with prosecutors that would ensure they won't be held past age of 21 nor be placed in a prison facility Anwar died when police said the girls, armed with a taser, sped off in his car as he clung to the driver's side with the door open and crashed seconds later

Inmates in an Oklahoma City jail took a guard hostage, beating and stabbing him several times before one of the suspects was shot dead, graphic video shows. Harrowing footage of the March 27 hostage situation at the Oklahoma County Detention Center shows inmate Curtis Montrell Williams, 34, being gunned down while holding a makeshift knife to the neck of detention officer Daniel Misquez. Misquez, who was bound and held captive for about an hour, is seen in surveillance footage being hit on the head and stabbed several times in the leg by a second inmate.

Janet Yellen will use her first major address as Treasury secretary to argue for a global minimum corporate tax rate, Axios has learned, as she makes the case for President Biden’s plan to raise U.S. corporate taxes to fund his $2 trillion+ infrastructure plan. Why it matters: Convincing other countries to impose a global minimum tax would reduce the likelihood of companies relocating offshore, as Biden seeks to increase the corporate rate from 21% to 28%. “Competitiveness is about more than how U.S.-headquartered companies fare against other companies in global merger and acquisition bids,” Yellen will say today in a...

All across the country, millions of Americans are on the hunt for ammunition, either for self-defense, target practice, shooting sports or hunting. Sporting goods stores and small mom and pop businesses have had to severely limit how many rounds of ammo a person can buy at one time. Some have even gone so far as to limit ammo solely to those who are purchasing a new firearm because of the shortage. Rumors have swirled about various companies and their ammo production. Some believed Vista Outdoors, the parent company of Federal, Remington, CCI, and Speer Ammunition, ceased manufacturing all together while...

House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) slammed Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks’ (R-IN) memo Monday as Neo-Marxist. Banks wrote a letter to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in March, charging that House Republicans must embrace issues important to working-class voters if they wish to take back the House majority during the 2022 midterm elections.

Ukraine is preparing to hold joint military drills with NATO forces amid a renewed threat of escalation in the ongoing conflict with Russia. “On this path, we have everyone’s full and permanent support,” stated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “Support by Ukraine’s international partners, by Europe and United States in particular.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) condemned the “disinformation campaign” being pushed by Democrats in opposition to the newly-signed voting reform law in Georgia. Multiple corporations based out of Georgia, including Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola, have announced plans to boycott the Peach State in protest of the election law. McConnell said that these corporations have fallen for a “coordinated campaign” intended to mislead Americans. “We are witnessing a coordinated campaign by powerful and wealthy people to mislead and bully the American people. The President has claimed repeatedly that state-level debates over voting procedures are worse than Jim Crow or ‘Jim...

Church is essential. That’s what many of us have said in the face of ongoing COVID restrictions. But to a growing number of Americans, church is not essential — even among those who believe.Gallup surveys the religious attitudes and practices of Americans twice each year. They roll this data into three-year chunks for comparison over time. From 1998-2000, 69% of American adults were members of a church, synagogue, temple, or mosque. By 2008-2010, that figure had dropped to 62%. And by 2018-2020, just 49%. So over one decade, a drop of 7%. Then over the next decade, a drop of...

Where is Harry Caray when we really need him?Take Me Out to the Blame GameClick title to see full version.

In immigrant enclaves around the world, waves of new communities build upon the foundation left behind as the previous tenants move away. New cultures and businesses build on top of the old ones, stacking up like the layer cakes that Remo's in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood once made more than one hundred of each day. Those cakes, bought for weddings, birthdays, and graduations for generations, came out of the area once known as the Garlic Gulch, “We had several Italian grocery stores at Atlantic Street, Italian pharmacy, Italian barbershop. The residents were mainly east and west of Rainier Avenue, going...

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) has sent a letter to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday outlining its plan to resume cruise operations from U.S. ports in July that includes its multi-layered SailSAFE Health and Safety Program developed in conjunction with globally recognized experts, including the Healthy Sail Panel (HSP), according to a press release. The company, which operates the Norwegian, Regent and Oceania brands, has asked for permission to cruise starting on July 4 from U.S. ports with vessels at 60 percent capacity; all guests and crew will require to be vaccinated. The company...

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Satire, Dillon says, is “an incredibly effective way of communicating truth. You’re using falsity, you’re using these made-up exaggerations of reality, to communicate about something true.” He’s fond of reciting a quote from G. K. Chesterton that “humor can get in under the door, while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.” In addition to ridiculing bad ideas, Dillon says, it’s also important to be able to laugh at yourself. When he first bought the website, he was pleased to find out that it was run by Calvinists because “there were a bunch of Calvinist jokes on the website —...

Click here to read the full articleRepub­li­can law­mak­ers in Geor­gia are tak­ing the stand-off over their new­ly passed elec­tion laws to the board room. After Coca Cola decried the laws, the Geor­gia GOP has moved to boot Coke from state­house offices. Some Geor­gia Repub­li­can state leg­is­la­tors are remov­ing @CocaCola prod­ucts from their state­house offices after the Atlanta-based bev­er­age giant crit­i­cized the new elec­tions law. #gapol pic.twitter.com/leojXBGQAM— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) April 3, 2021