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Despite the overwhelming diversity present at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, actor John Leguizamo is upset that not enough “Latinx” people were represented, seemingly displeased by the fact that Mexican directors (Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Guillermo Del Toro) took home multiple Oscars in the past decade alone. On Sunday, Leguizamo said “we were excluded again” when he shared a graphic from journalist Jorge Ramos lamenting the lack of “Latinx” representation at this year’s show. Later, Leguizamo congratulated the blacks and Asians who won the awards on Sunday night while still lamenting the lack of “Latinx” representation. He...

Some of you and are laughing saying, upchuck is so old he doesn't know what day it is. I know which day it is. But "Monday Tickles" just doesn't grab me. Here ya go: ------ A woman visited a psychic of some local repute. In a dark and gloomy room, gazing at the Tarot cards laid out before her, the Tarot reader delivered the bad news: "There is no easy way to say this so I'll just be blunt: Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent death this year." Visibly shaken, the woman stared at...

A student is in custody after shots were fired inside of Plymouth Middle School Monday morning. During a news conference mid-morning Monday, Plymouth Police Chief Erik Fadden said officers "heard what they recognized as gunshots within the building" at about 8:44 a.m. Police responded and took one person, identified as a student, into custody. Fadden said a weapon was recovered from the scene. Robbinsdale Area Schools Superintendent Dr. Stephanie Burrage said "multiple" shots were fired into the ceiling of a hallway outside of a bathroom. Burrage said a few students witnessed the incident. "Any child that has to witness that...

Destiny Brown, senior at Ohio State University, breathed a sigh of relief in her dorm room when the guilty verdict came down for Derek Chauvin. But minutes later, she learned that a 16-year-old Black girl, Ma’Khia Bryant, had been killed that afternoon by Columbus police. “I can’t even begin to process the fact we live in a world where people’s lives — guilty or not, innocent or not — their lives just do not matter,” Brown said. Overcome with a feeling of helplessness, Brown fired off a group message to her friends. Following the demonstration, the crowd marched to the...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki shut down a reporter asking about the leaked audio from the New York Times of John Kerry telling Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about Israel’s covert operations in Syria. So much for transparency! In a recently leaked audio, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said then-Secretary of State John Kerry informed him about Israel’s covert operations in Syria. John Kerry served as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State from 2013 – 2017 and currently serves as Biden’s special climate envoy. Zarif said he was shocked by John Kerry’s revelation that Israel had attacked Iranian...

Reports are that the new judge in the Democrats’ latest attempt to prevent the Senate’s audit of the 2020 results was assigned by former Democrat Governor Janet Napolitano. New hearing scheduled for tomorrow. The new judge in the Democrats Maricopa County case where they are again trying to stop any audit by the Senate of the County’s 2020 election results was appointed by Janet Napolitano, the former governor and Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security:

Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter watched a 20-second portion of body camera video with Brown’s family. Lassiter said Brown did not appear to be a threat to officers as he backed his vehicle out of his driveway and tried to drive away from deputies with guns drawn. When asked whether Brown was shot in the back, attorney Harry Daniels said, “Yes, back of the head.” An eyewitness account and emergency scanner traffic had previously indicated Brown was shot in the back as he tried to drive away. Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II has said that multiple deputies fired shots. Seven deputies...

SACRAMENTO — Propelled by growing voter frustration over California’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a Republican-led drive to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office collected enough voter signatures to qualify for the ballot, state officials reported Monday, triggering for only the second time in the state’s history a rapid-fire campaign to decide whether to oust a sitting governor. Recall backers submitted more than 1,495,709 verified voter signatures — equal to 12% of all ballots cast in the last gubernatorial election — meeting the minimum threshold to force a special recall election, according to a tally released by Secretary of State...

Good Evening,And WELCOME To The Constitutional Great One,Mark Levin!

Francis 2.0: Archbishop Reaches Ground LevelNaples Archbishop Domenico Battaglia, 58, presided over an April 19 vigil for vocations in the Madre del Buon Consiglio Basilica in Capodimonte, a church designed after the model of Saint Peter's.A chair was placed for him in front of the altar but a grey-haired Battaglia preferred to sit on the stairs leading up to the altar, his legs crossed. Likely, Battaglia considered this to be "cool," in reality it was embarrassing.The archbishop wants the webpage of his archdiocese to call him “Don Mimmo” (Father Mimmo) but if, indeed, he desired to remain a simple priest...

I lost my best friend... 15 years ago I was divorced. My friends and family sided with my ex. My two daughters haven't talked to me since. Shortly after the divorce, I adopted a 10-week-old labradoodle puppy, Bentley. Since that time, we have been inseparable, having crossed the country twice and spending every day together since that time. He became my best and at times only friend. Once during a hike in the back hills, he saved me from a wild cat attack. He froliced with me during the happy times and provided me comfort during the sad ones. He...

[Catholic Caucus] After mystical experience, priest announces Communion only on the tongue and kneelingh2 class="art-title"?Fr. Fredy Leonardo Herrera Fuentes in Bogotá, Colombia, told parishioners that 'from this moment in our parish, it’s only going to be possible to receive Holy Communion on the tongue and kneeling down.'April 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In February, a priest was caught on video having a mystical experience during Mass after which he went straight to the pulpit to announce that from that moment on, Holy Communion at that parish would only be given on the tongue and kneeling. The video, which has gone viral...

....The statement goes on to claim that it was Byrant who called the police for help, somehow trying to make that case that absolves her of trying to murder someone. But even that appears to be false, as the 911 call was made by someone fearful of being stabbed. Only Bryant was trying to stab people that day. Further, the claim that it was her that called the police originated from the family. That would be the same family that lied about the circumstances of the shooting early on. Regardless, it would not change the facts surrounding the shooting. To...

Everyone knew this was coming, given how pathetic the ratings were for the Golden Globes and the Grammys, but even so, the viewership numbers are a shocking disaster for the Academy Awards broadcast. After last year’s rock-bottom viewership hit 23.6 million and the top award went to a Korean film, Parasite, the average person hadn’t even heard of, this year’s Oscars went full woke. You never go full woke . . . Ratings crashed 58 percent off last year’s abysmal viewership, down to 9.85 million Americans. Let that sink in: In a nation of 330 million, not even ten million...

Cicero police detective John Savage..., who is HIV-positive, was summoned to work early and told he was being charged under an Illinois law that makes it a felony, punishable by up to seven years in prison, for a person carrying the virus to have unprotected sex without first disclosing his HIV status. ... The controversial Illinois law at the center of Savage’s ordeal is now under fire, with HIV advocates, who successfully pushed for changes in 2012, calling for a complete repeal. They cite wide-ranging negative effects of the law, which they say actually undermines HIV prevention by making those...

Shocking new video shows two Colorado cops under investigation for their violent arrest of an elderly women with dementia laughing and cheering - and giving each other a fist bump - as they watched body-camera footage of the altercation hours later. They were celebrating all while the 73-year-old woman was suffering in a jail cell, the photos reveal - disheveled and seeming to lose consciousness several times. Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali arrested Karen Garner on June 26, 2020, after she left Walmart without paying for a candy bar, a can of Pepsi and a t-shirt totaling...

Attention state legislators: The South Carolina legislature is considering SCR141, a resolution calling for a convention of states to discuss, debate, and decide on proposing a constitutional amendment to require the federal government to adhere to defined fiscal responsibilities.A number of respected Article V scholars believe that if this resolution is adopted, it will constitute the 34th such application and the U.S. Congress shall be obligated to call for a convention of states where the merits of such a proposed amendment can be determined.Senator Rex Rice is proposing an amendment to SCR141 that would name the other 33 specific states...

Four D.C. police officers are being investigated after they crashed two cruisers in a Northeast neighborhood Thursday, apparently while street racing, the Metropolitan Police Department said. The officers have also been ordered to not have contact with the public, according to the department. Sixth District sent an email to command staff, expressing frustration with the situation. “[Thursday], two 6D scout cars were totaled because officers decided instead of fighting crime, patrolling their beats, or engaging the community, they decided to drag race each other on Anacostia Avenue at 5 p.m. in the evening,” In her email, the commander said she...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday that there was no evidence that Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd last May was a hate crime. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges on Tuesday for Floyd's death, during which the former police officer kneeled on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison and is currently being held in solitary confinement. When interviewer Scott Pelley asked Ellison whether the murder was a hate crime, the prosecutor replied: "I wouldn't call it that because hate crimes...

New York is easing some of its capacity restrictions but is still not allowing certain businesses to operate at 100 percent capacity, despite red states such as Florida and Texas doing so and continually reporting fewer new cases of the Chinese coronavirus per capita than the Empire State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Monday.