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Sean Penn knows what you think of him.Several minutes into the two-time Oscar winner’s new film, Superpower, ostensibly a documentary about the battle-hardened president of Ukraine, Penn’s gravelly voice answers a question posed in interviews past: Who do you think you are, Walter Cronkite? You have a savior complex?“I’ve been lucky enough to be able to travel,” Penn answers in a voiceover, “and, weathered though it is, my famous face gets me access to places and people I may otherwise not have known. And sometimes I feel I can be helpful.”Thus the stage is set for a two-hour foray into...

KYIV — In a shocking move, Ukraine announced today that they have hired trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney as their official military spokesperson. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the decision at a press conference today, stating, "In these trying times, we need a professional like Dylan to come in and be the face of Ukraine. He's someone that people unanimously respect after seeing how he masterfully handled his role as a Bud Light brand ambassador. Speaking of which, Bud Light is now the official beer of the Ukrainian army." Mulvaney has committed to handling one of the most critical geopolitical crises...

The numbers of National Instant Background Checks (NICS) done by the FBI for August of 2023, and the estimated gun sales derived from those checks, are the fifth highest on record for August since records started being kept.The number of checks done by the FBI was about 2.14 million in August of 2023. The number of gun sales was estimated at 1.06 million, just .27% higher than the estimate for 2019. The gun sales in 2016 were higher, about 1.17 million.We are seeing a leveling off of gun sales at the new, higher base level of over a million a...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has banned absentee ballot drop boxes in the state, so they will not be able to use them no matter what happens with COVID. Justice Rebecca Bradley and the court’s conservative majority, including swing Justice Brian Hagedorn, ruled on the issue in 2022. “Nothing in the statutory language detailing the procedures by which absentee ballots may be cast mentions drop boxes or anything like them,” Bradley wrote in the ruling. Wisconsin Supreme Court BANS use of absentee ballot drop boxes in big election ruling https://t.co/80mpelrKXL pic.twitter.com/MWNMAzHyUm — ✟ Right Scoop ✟ (@trscoop) September 23, 2023 “WEC’s...

Canadian Jewish organizations and social media critics are slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving a man who fought for the Nazis a standing ovation during an event featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the country. "FSWC is appalled that Canada’s Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian veteran who served in a Nazi military unit during the Second World War implicated in the mass murder of Jews and others. An apology and explanation is owed," the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Canadian nonprofit dedicated to educating people on the Holocaust, wrote on X, previously known as Twitter....

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Clyde E. Lassen Info from here. CDR Clyde Everett Lassen(1942 - 1994)As the UH-2 Seasprite helicopter hovered over the water, its crew listened intently on their earphones for a message from the coastline. Somewhere beyond the pitch-dark horizon were two naval aviators whose plane had been shot down deep in North Vietnamese territory. Their exact position...

The Economist suggests that the Ukraine war may become a long-lasting conflict with little territorial change. It warns of a potential forever war of attrition, with Ukraine focusing on defense and the West increasing military assistance, which could lead to a dangerous and prolonged situation in Europe. https://twitter.com/battleforeurope/status/1705206986290147533 Americans do not care about Ukraine/Russia when they are Already Struggling with Inflation and Getting Food on the Table The US government propaganda machine bolsters up Ukraine and foreign affairs with Russia on a daily basis. It is a legalized brainwashing on the American people. Truly, the vast majority of Americans do...

oom At 12:37 a.m. EDT (10:37 a.m. MDT), a helicopter gently placed NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, attached to the end of a 100-foot cable, on the ground outside a hangar on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Two technicians on the ground helped guide the capsule down. Once the helicopter line was detached and the helicopter had departed, the clean room team removed the capsule from its metal transport cradle. They loaded the capsule onto a cart and wheeled it into the hangar where a temporary clean room had been set up. In the hangar, the capsule...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates. . . . . . A third requires families to show that they can and are willing to meet the needs of a child in foster care regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The congresswomen who make up the radical leftist “Squad” are known for railing against capitalism and paying lip service to populism. But the rhetoric stands in contrast to the behind-the-scenes way in which they have indirectly gotten rich through lucrative business deals given to their husbands. A report by the Washington Free Beacon examines the ways in which the spouses/fiancés of Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) have accumulated millions of dollars since their wives have been in the Capitol. Pressley’s husband, Conan Harris, is a convicted felon who served ten...

A chaotic scene unfolded in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Friday in which a woman was flung into the air after being struck by a car during a police chase. Video showed 57-year-old Juanita Gray being struck and going airborne. The incident came after police had been chasing Gray’s son, 38-year-old JaJuan Burley. Fort Wayne police said that the incident began at about 10 a.m. when police sought to pull over a vehicle that did not comply, according to WPTA-TV. According to U.K.’s Daily Mail, the chase continued for about 20 minutes until it reached the street where Gray lives. Police...

CHICAGO — At least four more DePaul University students were robbed on the school’s Lincoln Park campus last night. It’s the latest in a string of violent crimes on the campus. In the first incident, an 18-year-old woman, an 18-year-old man, and a 16-year-old girl were robbed while seated in the school’s quad on the 2300 block of North Seminary, according to Chicago police. Two men approached them around 10:10 p.m. Saturday and one robber demanded property from the older victims. Another robber battered and robbed the 16-year-old, CPD said.Both robbers fled in a silver sedan, a Chicago police spokesperson...

Russia’s defense knocked out a lot of German Marder and US Stryker infantry fighting vehicles, Ukrainian commander tells the Post Kiev has lost a substantial number of Western-supplied armored vehicles in attempts to breach well-fortified Russian defenses in the southern section of the front, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a military officer on the ground. In an interview with the newspaper, an unnamed Ukrainian air-assault-unit commander claimed that Kiev had gained some ground in Zaporozhye Region near the settlements of Robotino and Verbovoye, scenes of fierce fighting in recent weeks, although he admitted that the advance was “modest.”...

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There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads, beep, notifications, vibrations, blinking LEDs, background music and fluorescent titles. A web which boils down to Idiocracy in a Blade Runner landscape, a complete cyberpunk dystopia. Then there’s the tech-savvy web. People who install adblockers or alternative browsers. People who try alternative networks such as Mastodon or, God...

An online fundraiser has been launched to pay for security for Black Lives Matter activist Zyahna Bryant — whose partnership with Dove to promote “fat liberation” sparked controversy after she was accused of getting a white student expelled over “misheard” comments. The GoFundMe — which had raised nearly $10,000 by Sunday – was created last week by Erica Chapman, a Charlottesville, Virginia, woman who claims she is Bryant’s cousin. “Zyahna has been receiving hate mail and threats for YEARS, and recently they have become worse,” she wrote on the GoFundMe page. Chapman said that Bryant, a community organizer and student...

Hillary Clinton sounds alarm on Putin election meddling, warning ‘he’ll do it again’ Hillary Clinton ominously warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin could meddle in the upcoming 2024 elections. The former Democrat Party standard bearer reiterated her vexation that Putin interfered in the 2016 election, and fretted he’s being underestimated this time around. “The Russians have proved themselves to be quite adept at interfering and if he has a chance, he’ll do it again,” Clinton surmised on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” on Sunday. “I don’t think despite all of the deniers, there’s any doubt that he interfered in our...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin. “When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said. He said when...

Ukraine claims to have taken the village of Verbove on the Zaporizhia front and wants to keep fighting through winter, CNN reports, as Russia captured the village of Kleshcheyevka south of Bakhmut. The Washington Post reports that Ukraine has lost a large amount of equipment in its incremental advances, including German-made Marder armored vehicles and US-made Stryker armored personnel carriers.Sputnik News claimed Russian troops destroyed a Leopard 2 tank manned by German Bundeswehr soldiers, killing them all, in what would be a major escalation if true. However, there has been no independent confirmation of this report, which pro-Russian journalist Edvard...

An Atlanta art institution announced that it will be closing its doors.... Just a week before a new semester was supposed to start on Oct. 2, The Institute sent an email saying that on Sept. 30, it would be permanently closed. The Art Institute of Atlanta isn’t the only school shutting down. The entire institute system is closing. School officials state that although there have been many successful alumni, the academic operations will stop after current students complete their classes this term. A series of events over the past 10 years, both external and internal to the campus operations has...