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Content warning: This story contains references to violence, suicide, child abuse and self-harm. A suicide attempt, depression, substance abuse, insomnia, surveillance, threats. These are just some of the experiences reported by the low-paid moderators tasked with sifting through Facebook and Instagram’s most disturbing images. The tech giant Meta, which owns both platforms, has kept the whereabouts of this operation a closely guarded secret since moving it from Kenya, where the company is facing lawsuits over working conditions and human rights. For months, it has also refused to name the company that won the lucrative contract to provide the content moderators...

Pro-Bass forces argue that she is under attack from “wealthy oligarchs,” including Rick Caruso and Elon Musk.The rallying cry from the mayor’s allies follows the toughest two months of her political career.Proponents of the recall say Bass has mishandled the wildfire, public safety and other issues. For more than two months, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has faced lacerating criticism over her handling of the Palisades fire — her absence from the country when it erupted, her wobbly public appearances once she returned, even her failure to preserve her text messages.In recent days, pro-Bass forces have been pushing back hard,...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is deleting her text messages, thus defeating efforts by media organizations to obtain them as government communications subject to public records requests, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times reported that it had been unable to obtain Bass’s text messages concerning her overseas trip to Ghana, during which the L.A. fires broke out, because they were automatically deleted and the city had not retained them.

LA Mayor Karen Bass has offered an astonishing excuse for her infamous trip to Ghana as her city erupted in wildfires, saying she went because 'no one told her not to.' Bass explained that the Biden administration asked her to go to the African country to represent the then-president. Bizarrely, the Democrat lawmaker also revealed that she is now opening an investigation into why no one stopped her 'It was going to be a very short trip - over a weekend and two business days,' she said on Fox 11. 'We need to look at everything about the preparation and...

Collin Rugg✓@CollinRugg NEW: LA Mayor Karen Bass says she’s investigating why she was allowed to go on a trip to Ghana days before the LA fires. Investigating someone else for something you did is wild. Bass: That level of preparation really didn't happen. So it didn't reach that level to me. No one said you shouldn't have gone on a trip. Reporter: Why didn't it happen? Bass: I don’t know. That’s what we are investigating.

House Republicans brought the receipts to this week's "USAID Betrayal" hearing exposing the U.S. international aid agency's widespread waste and abuse of American tax dollars. Amid intense examination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s spending spree, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a majority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, listed off more ways USAID has wasted taxpayer money. [snip] According to the congressional committee's findings, USAID spent: $11.75 million on measuring the effectiveness of DEI promotion efforts in Nepal (Award ID #AID367C1500001); $750,000 on Princeton University's DEI survey in the Middle East (Award ID #7200AA21C00087); $859,000 on hiring...

The City Council of South Fulton, Atlanta, has voted to audit South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau’s expenditures after making over $26,000 worth of purchases, including a trip to Africa. The Mayor, who plans to legally change his name to Kobi, was previously arrested while serving as Mayor in 2023 on charges of first-degree burglary and criminal trespassing. Kamau reportedly entered somebody’s lake house before 7 am one morning and got into a heated confrontation with the owner of the house before police arrived. Upon being arrested for trespassing and attempted burglary, he told a reporter, “I just wanted to see...

BLM and other black mayors go on huge spending sprees using tax payer dollars, including Vegas trips and trips to Africa. One black mayor even went on a nice little burglary adventure and got caught and arrested. Chuckle. Why do black people usually vote for the most corrupt people they can find? Worth watching. Its a huge laugh. Only 15 minutes.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing criticism over the timing of her recent overseas trip to Ghana, and budget cuts that hampered the city's fire department from doing its job amid the ongoing citywide blaze. The mayor’s poorly timed foreign travel has raised questions about her priorities and similar past trips. One of the most interesting chapters of Bass’ political career and international travel involves her past excursions to communist Cuba. The former U.S. congresswoman turned metropolitan mayor played a significant role with the Venceremos Brigade —a group linked to Cuba's communist regime.

Fox 11 News covering Pacific Palisades Fire in Los Angeles are talking live to Rick Caruso, a major developer in LA. He stated there is no water coming from fire hydrants because of neglect and firemen cannot spray water on the fires. LA mayor Karen Bass is not even in the country, she’s in Ghana. Caruso said reservoirs that provide fire hydrant water were not re-filled. Caruso also slammed CA and LA for not clearing brush for decades.

As I drive towards Pacific Palisades, the heart of the LA wildfires, ash falls like snow. The air is sulphurous and my throat burns. Up ahead in the distance, the sky glows an angry red. On the opposite side of the road, traffic is backed up. Everyone else is trying to get out. An American friend with me struggles to take it all in. ‘This is f***ing unbelievable, man,’ he repeats softly to himself. Even by LA standards these fires are unprecedented. They are the worst not only in the history of California but the history of the United States....

We have multiple reports Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass knew of the grave fire risk to her city before she abandoned it for a taxpayer-funded “diplomatic” trip to Ghana in Western Africa. Here’s the timeline of what we know so far courtesy of Lee Fang’s Substack page: Thursday, January 2: The “National Weather Service explicitly warned Los Angeles about “extreme fire conditions” over the next week Thursday, January 2: “Jonathan O’Brien, a meteorologist with the U.S. Forest Service, spoke to officials and posted openly about the incoming threat.” Thursday, January 2: “O’Brien noted that weather models for Southern California showed...

Bass was in Accra this week as part of a delegation to celebrate the inauguration of Ghana President John Mahama.

Ghana's Supreme Court has rejected two legal bids to block a controversial bill that punishes the country's LGBTQ+ community for engaging in sexual acts. Parliament approved the bill known as the Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill in February. The bill calls for jail terms of six months to three years for sexual minorities who are intimate with each other. There was widespread public support for the bill in Ghana, however, it was condemned internationally for curtailing the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. The court ruled that as outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo has not yet signed the bill into law,...

"EXCLUSIVE: Emergency Response Says Department of Defense Has Taken Over Vaccine Shipment Crash That Shuttered Airspace UPDATE: HHS said in a statement to Timcast that all of the vaccines are accounted for. Read the full update here. The West Virginia Center for Threat Preparedness has confirmed to Timcast that the Department of Defense has taken over the case of a truck carrying Moderna vaccines that crashed near a waterway off Interstate-79. The Center for Threat Preparedness was in charge of trying to recover the vaccines, but are no longer permitted to speak to the press about the incident. Instead, they...

Dozens of workers from around the world may have been trafficked into the UK to work for a small family-owned Scottish fishing firm, a BBC investigation has revealed. Thirty-five men from the Philippines, Ghana, India and Sri Lanka were recognised as victims of modern slavery by the Home Office after being referred to it between 2012 and 2020. The workers were employed by TN Trawlers and its sister companies, owned by the Nicholson family, based in the small town of Annan on the southern coast of Scotland. The TN Group denied any allegation of modern slavery or human trafficking and...

Claim: Gold miners discovered the largest gold deposits in Ghana (X video)

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo granted Ghanaian citizenship to the iconic American musician Stevie Wonder on Monday at a ceremony in Accra. Mr Wonder had indicated in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, another prominent African American talk show host, that he intended to live indefinitely in Ghana to protect his grandchildren and great-grandchildren from racial discrimination in the United States of America.

Ghana’s parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that will see people jailed simply for ‘identifying’ as LGBTQ+ or campaigning for queer rights. Being gay has been illegal in the West African nation since the 19th century in a law originating from colonial times. But lawmakers introduced the bill in 2021 to toughen the anti-LGBTQ+ laws already in the books. The legislation, known as the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghananian Family Values Bill 2021, is among the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ measures on the African continent, according to Amnesty International. If signed into law by President Nana Akufo-Addo, being LGBTQ+...

In a historic move, Ghana has secured a 6-year loan of gold treasures looted from the Ashanti Kingdom during colonial wars. Some 32 items from British museums will return home, 150 years after being stolen. In a historic development, Ghana has successfully secured a six-year loan agreement for the return of gold and silver treasures looted from the Ashanti Kingdom during colonial wars, chief negotiator Ivor Agyeman-Duah told The Africa Report. The deal is the result of nine months of negotiations to reunite the Asante royal court’s precious regalia with the people of Ghana as the Asantehene (Asante king), Otumfuo...