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For the uninitiated, the top fashion label came under fire after running a problematic campaign featuring young children modeling with what appear to be teddy bears wearing bondage gear. The ads were met with criticisms and allegations of normalizing sexual fetishization and abuse of children, and eagle-eyed social media watchdogs pointed out that another ad showed what appeared to be legal documents from a Supreme Court case that ruled on federal laws regarding child pornography. However, according to Baigent’s TikTok, these adverts also included something else that was equally sinister: “Five things spotted in one of the Balenciaga campaign photos,”...

MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Tuesday on her show “The ReidOut” that there was a “very small degree of difference” between Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the Republican Party. While discussing the dinner at Mar-a-Lago attended by former President Donald Trump, rapper Kayne West and Nick Fuentes, Reid said, “You know, some people come out and say, well, that’s horrible, you know, and say he’s a terrible person. They don’t want to talk about Trump. They say, but Trump’s not an antisemite. They carve out of that. Trump is not a bad guy. He shouldn’t have had him at the...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the Biden administration’s authority to prioritize which non-citizens to deport when hearing a challenge brought by two GOP state attorneys general who say the Department of Homeland Security is skirting federal immigration law. The justices were considering three distinct issues in the case, which opens the door to shifting majorities. After arguments, it wasn’t clear if there was a clear majority in any one area. The case was brought by Texas and Louisiana. “At the heart of the dispute is a September 2021 memo from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that laid out priorities...

The fruits of the new agreement between the U.S. men’s and women’s soccer teams is about to pay off. Under the equal pay agreement signed this year, both teams are splitting the prize money for the World Cup. That means that both teams get $6.5 million for the men’s team beating Iran to advance to the round of 16 and will continue to split the prize money down the middle. The terms, agreed to in May and formally signed in September, put both teams on the same payment model through 2028.

A self-described “socially awkward” third-year law student at the University of Idaho has denied rumors that he's the at-large culprit responsible for the murder of four students inside an off-campus home earlier this month. Police are still investigating the quadruple murders that occurred on Nov. 13, with officials confirming they still have not identified a suspect or found a murder weapon. Third-year student Jeremy Reagan responded to rumors that he may be the one behind the murders during an interview with CourtTV on Tuesday, telling reporters he has “nothing to hide.” “I’m willing to give DNA, fingerprints, whatever they need,”...

[H/T ymani cricket]The Sparks Family Hospital, Northern Nevada Medical center, doctors and individuals are named in the complaintBy Megan Barth, November 25, 2022 4:56 pmReno Attorney Joey Gilbert and Las Vegas Attorney Sigal Chattah have filed the first Remdesivir wrongful death lawsuit (see below) in Nevada on behalf of the heir of a man who allegedly died from Remdesivir treatment for his COVID-19 diagnosis. The Sparks Family Hospital, Northern Nevada Medical center, doctors and individuals are named in the complaint. The plaintiff, in part, alleges the following:Patient (now deceased) was prescribed Ivermectin and HCQ. Hospital staff were instructed that under...

Here's a wholesome break for your Wednesday afternoon: Photographer uses a gyroscopic camera to capture a video of the earth’s rotation.. 🌎 🎥 IG: brummelphoto VIDEO AT LINK...................

Man accused in Covington burned bodies case has violent criminal history WDSUUpdated: 7:24 AM CST Nov 30, 2022 Aubry Killion COVINGTON, La. — A man arrested and accused in a double homicide in Covington where two bodies were found burned beyond recognition has a violent criminal history. The bodies were found Monday morning in the 500 block of East Gibson Street. Antonio Tyson was arrested shortly after. One of the victims has been identified as Father Otis Young, 71, according to James Hartman, St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office spokesman. It has been reported that Father Young died from blunt and...

The Supreme Court today, 11/30/22, has set a conference date of January 6 2023 to decide on certiorari for a case that's remedy is to remove from office now and forever 388 congresscritters plus biden, harris and pence that voted against the 10-day investigatory period of voter/election fraud on January 6 2021. I find it simply AMAZING that for a conference date, the day of 1/6 was used. There can be NO coincidences!

Argonne National Lab has recently revealed that 1.3 million battery electric vehicles were bought in the US between 2010 and 2021. Although this appears to be a large figure, it represents only a small percentage of the country’s 275+ million cars and truck fleet. Despite the plug-ins, gasoline usage nationwide dropped by just 0.54 percent in 2021. For the last decade, US plug-in vehicle miles have been nearly 70 billion, using 22 TWh of energy. This has eliminated the need for almost 2.5 billion gallons of gasoline and 19 million tons of greenhouse gases. For comparison, the US used roughly...

Vice President Kamala Harris is seemingly contradicting public health officials this week, asserting that “most” people will only need a coronavirus shot once a year, despite the fact that they are pushing the updated shot on individuals — even those who got their last jab as recently as two months ago. “One shot, once a year—that’s all most people will need to stay protected from COVID year-long,” Harris said this week, urging people to make a plan: One shot, once a year—that’s all most people will need to stay protected from COVID year-long. Make a plan to get your shot...

A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after all of its holy men failed drug tests and were defrocked, a local official said Tuesday. Four monks, including an abbot, at a temple in Phetchabun province's Bung Sam Phan district tested positive for methamphetamine on Monday, district official Boonlert Thintapthai told AFP. The monks have been sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehabilitation, the official said. "The temple is now empty of monks and nearby villagers are concerned they cannot do any merit-making," he said. Merit-making involves worshippers donating food to monks as a good...

President Joe Biden joked Wednesday during a White House speech with tribal nations he was worried his wife would leave him for an Indian reservation. The president recalled his wife First Lady Jill Biden traveled to a Cherokee school in Oklahoma and other Native American reservations since he became president. “She’s spent a lot of time at other reservations as well, I’m worried she’s not going to come home one of these days when she goes,” Biden said as the audience laughed. “You think I’m joking, I’m telling you,” he added. “If I hear more about the Navajos than I...

A missing Tennessee woman was found dead in the trunk of a car driven by her girlfriend — who killed herself after exchanging gunfire with cops in suburban Detroit. Eleni Kassa, 31, of Murfreesboro, was reported missing on Nov. 18 by her family after she failed to pick up her daughter from school, police in the Tennessee city said in a statement. A probe “revealed a possible domestic violence incident occurred with Kassa’s and her girlfriend, Dominique Hardwick, 36, following an argument at Kassa’s Murfreesboro apartment,” cops said.

On this date in 1557, the handless Mapuche cacique Galvarino was executed by the Spanish during the Arauco War. The Mapuche people, still extant today, inhabited present-day Chile and Argentina; Spanish explorers pushing south from the wreck of the Inca Empire encountered them, and naturally antagonized them. Rebellion broke out among the Mapuche in 1553, led by Caupolican and his able commander Lautaro; they won some signal victories but the conflict was never decisively finished by either side. The Arauco War — encompassing many distinct rebellions and campaigns punctuated by relative calm — ran until the early 19th century....

World leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, have been in serious discussions regarding the next pandemic. The 17th Group of 20 (G20) Heads of State and Government Summit, which convened under the theme ‘Recover Together, Recover Stronger’, took place in November in Bali, Indonesia this year and concluded with the adoption of the G20 Bali Leaders Declaration. The declaration, which consists of 52 paragraphs, highlights the “unparalleled multidimensional crises” such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change and sets out the commitments and undertakings made by all G20 countries in respect of the global economy, health and climate. South Africa is...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will have an opportunity on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for where the central bank is headed when policy makers meet next month—and he’ll likely use it to make the case for slower but steady interest rate hikes. In a speech Wednesday afternoon at the Brookings Institution, Powell is expected to reinforce the dual message central bank officials have been making for weeks: that the Fed is on track to ease up slightly on its pace of monetary policy tightening, likely slowing to a 50 basis point increase next month after four straight 75 basis...

Corruption in the Canadian medical establishment. Ontario is telling doctors to consider psychiatric drugs for those who won’t take the vaccine. ☆ We no longer can trust our mainstream media, which is why independent journalists such as myself are the new way to receive accurate information about our world.

Joe Biden made a big deal of promising to fight for human rights as a critical part of his Presidential campaign: The United States is committed to a world in which human rights are protected, their defenders are celebrated, and those who commit human rights abuses are held accountable. Promoting respect for human rights is not something we can do alone, but is best accomplished working with our allies and partners across the globe. President Biden is committed to a foreign policy that unites our democratic values with our diplomatic leadership, and one that is centered on the defense of...

Brazilian football legend Pele was taken into hospital on Tuesday in Sao Paulo, in a visit that was not scheduled. Pele was taken into the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil by his wife Marcia Aoki and a caregiver on Tuesday, according to ESPN Brazil. They state that he arrived unscheduled as a result of swelling all over his body, unlike previous, scheduled visits. The 82-year-old has been in and out of hospital with increasing regularity in recent years. He underwent surgery to remove a tumour on his colon in September 2021 and spent a period in intensive care,...