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Michael Lewis and the Tuohy family refuse to acknowledge what’s so clear to Black folks — that white people used Oher for their own benefit. The most frustrating thing about racism isn’t that it still exists, it’s that so many white people refuse to undeniably admit when it happens. Because if your first instinct was to think that Michael Oher was lying or making something out of nothing, you’re the reason why racism is still thriving. “What we’re watching is a change of behavior,” Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side, told The Guardian. “This is what happens to football...

A Florida man recently released from jail is back behind bars after surveillance footage from a gas station allegedly showed him carjacking a woman pumping fuel into her vehicle. Andrew McClellan, 31, was booked into the Volusia County Jail Thursday on multiple charges, including vehicle grand theft and battery on a law enforcement officer. The charges stem from a incident in Orange County, where McClellan stole an SUV from a woman pumping gas at a Mobil station in Apopka. ... By the time she noticed what was happening, he was inside the car and attempting to drive off. ... the...

Pad : ARIANE LAUNCH AREA 1 Location : KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA Rocket : VEGA Who is Arianespace? Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America. What Is Vega? Vega is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Engines P80 The P80 used on the European Space Agency Vega rocket. IT is the largest and most powerful...

The elementary students at Oliver Springs Elementary School in Van Buren, Arkansas spent two years raising funds for, producing, shooting and editing together a twenty-minute long Indiana Jones minute and y'all must see this. Here's the link on YouTube. This will certainly brighten your evening if nothing else will :-)

A winery advertisement that ran in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat is raising eyebrows for its insensitive interpretation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

The Salvation Army has been facilitating the rampant migration of refugees into New York City, funding their efforts using FEMA emergency cash, and adding to the Big Apple's crisis. Reports emerged this week the charity has been helping migrants fly into New York City despite the asylum seekers already being inside the United States. Assistance documentation printed by the organization was shared to X on Wednesday, showing TSA airport staff are handed a note saying the migrants 'must cross the country,' where they will await ICE check-ins. The facilitation of the mass migration comes as over 120,000 asylum seekers have...

Donald Trump on Friday won an appeals court postponement of a New York ruling that had the potential to cripple his business operations in the state. In a brief written order signed by Justice Peter H. Moulton, a state appeals court temporarily halted the cancellation of Trump’s business certificates that have allowed him to operate in New York.

Satellite images have shown how Vladimir Putin is running scared from Ukraine's assault on Crimea, revealing that the bulk of his Black Sea Fleet has performed a major retreat. Russian warships were evacuated from Sevastopol some 237 miles to Novorossiysk on Russia's southern coast, in what British Defence Minister James Heappey called 'the functional defeat of the Black Sea Fleet'. The exodus of around ten vessels came after Ukraine destroyed the Sevastopol headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in a missile strike on September 22.

Ray Epps, a onetime Donald Trump supporter who was the target of a conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for his role in the riot FILE - Insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Ray Epps, an Arizona man who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged with a misdemeanor offense in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot, according to court papers filed Tuesday. Epps is charged with a single count of a disorderly...

Believe it or not, there are some foreigners the Biden administration wants to deport. The government has served notice to a foreign family that they need to leave the United States by October 11. In less than a week, they need to be out of this country. They have applied for asylum, but the government rejected their claim. The Romeike family has resided here for 15 years and has both citizen and non-citizen members, but it doesn’t matter. The non-citizens of the family – the majority – have to get out. It’s quite a contrast with what’s going on at...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Tank Convoy Ambushed | Ukraine gained the Ground on the South https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaFDf4oDUE The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 4th October 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-588-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

A case of malaria has been confirmed in Arkansas and is the first locally acquired case in the state in at least 40 years. The patient, who was not named, lives in Saline County and had not recently traveled out of the country. The case makes Arkansas the fourth state to report a locally acquired case of the disease this year, in another sign the disease may be gaining a foothold in the US for the first time in two decades. The patient was also the tenth to be infected on US soil this year, after seven locally-acquired infections were...

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Members of Donald Trump’s team are quietly preparing to go on offense against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as internal campaign polling suggests his expected third party bid could draw more votes from Trump than President Joe Biden in a general election. Semafor has not independently reviewed the polling. One person close to Trump’s campaign said it showed that Kennedy took more votes from Trump than left-wing independent Cornel West drew from Biden when both were tested. “It’s single digits, but it’s enough where it counts to make a difference,” the person said. A second person familiar with the polling confirmed...

2023 Congressional Pig Book https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition. Earmarks continue to provide the most benefit to those with spots on prime congressional committees. In FY 2023, the 89 members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, making up only...

Russian patriotic bloggers on Friday poured scorn on President Vladimir Putin's intimation that mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane was blown up with hand grenades while those on board were high on cocaine and alcohol. The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board on Aug. 23, including Dmitry Utkin, co-founder of the mercenary Wagner group, four bodyguards and a crew of three. Putin said on Thursday fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the dead and that investigators had ruled out any external impact...

Ghana - once touted as a trailblazing African economic success story - is facing an unprecedented financial crisis.This week, hundreds of protestors took to the streets in the capital Accra, calling on the governor of the Bank of Ghana and his two deputies to resign over the loss of about 60bn Ghanaian cedis ($5.2bn; £4.3bn) in the 2022 financial year. The demonstration, dubbed #OccupyBoG, was led by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party. The protesters, dressed in red shirts, scarves and berets, chanted songs and held banners - some reading "stop the looting, we are suffering". The opposition claims...

After numerous complaints of mischief in the city of Aurora, a 400lb (181kg) culprit has finally been caught loitering outside a shopping centre.Officials say Fred, who dodged them for several days, is "always hungry" and "loves his belly scratches". Aurora Animal Services knew they were looking for a pig, they were surprised at just how big he was. It took about eight people and five hours to capture him. They now hope to find his forever home. "He's almost like a dog in behaviour, so we want to maintain his life of being a happy, social pig," said Augusta Allen,...

That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get for lovin' me Every thing you had is gone As you can see That's what you get for lovin' me I ain't the kind to hang around With any new love that I found 'Cause movin' is my stock in trade I'm movin' on I won't think of you when I'm gone So don't you shed a tear for me B'cause I ain't the love you thought I'd be I got a hundred more like you So don't be blue I'll have a thousand 'fore I'm through Now there...

In September of 2020, just weeks after Ibram X. Kendi launched the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, the school approved a $600,000 mortgage to an unnamed professor. The university won’t say which professor that loan went to, but it was doled out to a trust controlled by Ibram X. Kendi’s brother-in-law, Macharia Edmonds. The mortgage helped to cover the down payment for a $4.56 million luxury penthouse triplex that boasts the "best of sophisticated Boston living." Public real estate records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the trust is controlled by Edmonds, a former Obama campaign official...