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It went from “restaurant of the summer” to “not woke enough” in just 24 hours. One day after celebrated Brooklyn rooftop restaurant Outerspace received a glowing review in the New York Times, the chefs and general manager all walked out. One chef issued a scathing denunciation of the eatery’s fashion-world owners, accusing them of misogyny, a “colonial” attitude toward the food and their employees, and “skimming” bar proceeds. SNIP Under her Instagram handle Kreung, the name of her Cambodian food business, Un denounced “culture vultures dressed in normcore” who practiced “dated power dynamics” and “internalized misogyny.”

U.S.—Popular plumbing and bath products manufacturer Kohler Co. has introduced a new shower tap that gets the water hot enough to literally melt the flesh from your bones. Known as the "wife" setting, the shower gets up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to make men literally melt where they stand, since they are pansy babies who can't take a little pain. Wives who have tested the product so far, however, say they "can't get enough" of the heat level and aren't sure what their husbands are complaining about. "Honestly, it's still a little too cold," said Destiny Hombre of San...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she welcomes federal help in addressing gun violence in the city, but she pushed back Monday against the idea of having the National Guard come into the picture in a law enforcement capacity. Lightfoot, speaking at a press availability, says that she supports a variety of federal responses to the problem of gun violence, including additional “strike force” teams offered by President Joe Biden, along with resources from the FBI and other agencies. “We’ve been in conversation with them about our sense of urgency around getting these resources up and activated,” she said. “I think...

Awoman who worked for the Loomis armored car company is on the run after disappearing with nearly $10 million in cash. Yasemin Gundogan of Bremen, Germany worked as a currency-packaging assistant. She fled in late May, police say, with stacks of money she stole from the company. After failing to locate the woman for several weeks, police issued an arrest warrant this month and filed a notice with Interpol. Gundogan's job was to pack stacks of paper money into cases for delivery to Loomis customers including banks, cash-counting companies and betting parlors. She allegedly put the stolen loot in locked...

Democratic lawmakers in Texas fled the state on Monday, potentially torpedoing an ongoing special session called by Republicans to take up new voting restrictions and other GOP priorities. At least 50 House Democrats landed in Washington late on Monday. The exodus denies Republicans the required two-thirds attendance level to conduct business, calling into doubt whether plans to take up voting legislation this week could proceed. In the statement, Democratic leaders said they planned to pressure Congress to pass new federal voting legislation. “Today, Texas House Democrats stand united in our decision to break quorum and refuse to let the Republican-led...

Conor McGregor underwent successful surgery on his leg on Sunday and shared an update on his status a day after suffering the gruesome injury at UFC 264 against Dustin Poirier. McGregor and his agent Audie A. Attar, of Paradigm Sports, released statements on Twitter. "Just out of the surgery room guys! Surgery went excellent! Feeling tremendous! 6 weeks on crutch and we build back! Let’s go! God bless," McGregor tweeted.

“Check on your grandparents, there’s a killer on the loose,” tweeted actor James Woods, in reaction to NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announcing that he will combat “gun violence” in the same way he attempted to take on the Chinese coronavirus. Cuomo recently announced, “We want to do with gun violence what we just did with COVID.” “Check on your grandparents, there’s a killer on the loose,” Woods reacted, referring to how Cuomo’s administration handled the state’s nursing homes during the Wuhan virus pandemic. A directive Cuomo made forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive patients in order to free up hospital...

A rising number of economist have warned Joe Biden’s policies could turn the U.S. into a Latin American type of economy. On Monday, Former International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Desmond Lachman said Biden’s inflation, money printing and high government spending posed a problem for the U.S. economy. Lachman said Biden’s policies could push the U.S. budget deficit up to 15 percent per year. He warned this was not a sustainable level of deficit spending, which may bankrupt the U.S. Lachman went on to point out such policies lead to devaluation of the national currency and fuel poverty, as seen in...

A London library has apologised for holding an event to encourage children to read during which an actor dressed in a bare-bottomed monkey costume with a fake penis. Footage shared on social media on Saturday showed members of the Mandiga Arts Group at Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge event at Goodmayes Library in east London. Three performers were filmed outside the event, with one dressed in an ‘inappropriate’ rainbow monkey costume, raising concern from residents. Writer Janice Turner wrote: “I would really love a detailed breakdown of the commissioning process whereby Redbridge council commissioned the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey as...

The search continues for Philip Kreycik, a man who went missing while he was running in the Pleasanton Hills Saturday morning. His car, with his wallet and phone inside, was found in the parking lot. Kreycik came out for what was supposed to be a 6-8 mile-run, somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour. Police found his planned route on an app on his phone – that phone was in his parked car in the parking lot. So far, they’ve searched that route multiple times and haven’t found him or anything that might lead them to him. Pleasanton police are...

Yesterday we were uncertain if it was US Attorney William M McSwain who notified President trump of Bill Barr’s corruption and blocking of election investigations. {Go Deep} Today President Trump released the letter confirming it was McSwain. [pdf HERE] In previous comments attributed to AG Bill Barr, he claimed to have seen no evidence of election fraud. The Atlantic Article cites Bill Barr stating to an AP journalist December 1st 2020: ” To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” and then the article covers the fallout with...

LOS ANGELES -- Conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder entered California's Sept. 14 recall election on Monday, bringing a well-known voice on the political right to a muddled Republican field trying to oust first-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Elder, whose show is nationally syndicated, is a regular guest on Fox News. He's dubbed the "sage from South Central" on his website, a reference to the area of Los Angeles where he grew up.

A World Health Organization (WHO) official said that the organization is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine “digital wallet” and is also seeking to “increase the distribution” of an international certificate for those who’ve been vaccinated. Dr. Michael Ryan, an Irish epidemiologist who is head of the WHO health emergencies program dealing with COVID-19, made the remarks during a daily news briefing on July 12 in Geneva. “We have encouraged countries that want to, they may use the international certificate for vaccination and prophylaxis … that requires other countries to recognize that certificate of vaccination,” Ryan said, adding that WHO...

Israel's coronavirus czar Nachman Ash admitted Monday that the coronavirus data released by the Health Ministry in recent weeks was incorrect, and added that the number of negative COVID-19 tests conducted at Ben-Gurion International Airport had been mistakenly counted twice. Ash said that the Health Ministry intends to correct the data in the upcoming weeks, and stressed that "the rate of positive COVID tests isn’t surging. There has been a gradual increase in recent days."

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira---The Miraculous Story of the Patroness of ColumbiaLarry Peterson | 09/09/2018Last September, Pope Francis visited Columbia, South America. Before leaving on his trip, he asked that the miraculous painting of the Patroness of Columbia, Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira, accompany him on his journey. The Pope planned to spend time in front of the painting which had received a Canonical Coronation from Pope St. Pius X on January 9, 1910. The story behind this magnificent painting is quite remarkable. If you are an artist in the 21st century and you need paints...

A disturbing report by the Justice Department Inspector General has revealed that incarcerated terrorists associated with international jihadist groups like al-Qaida, ISIS, and al-Shabaab have been allowed to lead religious services in Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) chapels. "We found that some institutions permitted inmates with a known nexus to international or domestic terrorism to lead religious services," said the report, which was issued earlier this month. The Inspector General investigated the BOP's overall Chaplaincy Services Program (CSP), and how it balances inmates' rights to faith-based activity with security risks. Not only did prison administrators allow terrorists to run religious services,...

At least 50 people have died after a fire tore through the Covid isolation ward at a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The death toll is expected to rise, as search operations at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital continued after the fire was brought under control. Sixteen people were rescued from the burning building. Initial police reports suggested that an oxygen tank explosion inside the hospital’s Covid-19 ward was the likely cause of the fire, a policeman at the scene of the fire said. The blaze at the hospital is the second such tragedy this year. In April, a...

The combination of tipping-based compensation structures with demands for overexaggerated friendliness lead customers to feel they have power over service workers.Anywhere between 70% and 90% of restaurant servers and bartenders have likely been subjected to sexual harassment—from unwanted comments and looks, requests for dates, to physical touching—by customers. There are also many anecdotal indications that the behavior has heightened during the pandemic, with wait staff reporting what’s come to be known as “maskual harassment”: servers being asked to remove their masks and show their faces for the gratification of customers. A new study aims to get to the reason behind...

A passenger prevented from boarding a Southwest Airlines flight has filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking a preliminary injunction against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over its mandate requiring travelers to wear face coverings. “This is an authoritarian policy that has no basis in law and has to come to an end,” Washington resident Lucas Wall told The Epoch Times in an interview. Wall is fully vaccinated, but says he refuses to wear a face covering because doing so precipitates a feeling of panic and claustrophobia. “I’ve been stranded at my mother’s in Florida...

A lecturer at Catholic University discovered the rare costume wrapped in a trash bag in a drama department office Four people, a scarecrow, Tin Man, Dorothy and a lion, walk arm in arm down a yellow brick road A publicity still from The Wizard of Oz. A lecturer at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. recently stumbled onto one of the costumes worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film. (Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images) By Nora McGreevy SMITHSONIANMAG.COM JULY 12, 2021 9:58AM 45 For decades, members of the Catholic University of America (CUA) drama department traded...