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  • Richard Gere’s Next Great Role? Helping Billionaires Hatch Sea Turtles in Mexico

    04/23/2025 1:18:25 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | April 22, 2025 | Kathryn Romeyn
    The 75-year-old star has teamed up with a group of ecologically minded real estate moguls to develop a remote stretch of the Mexican shoreline in a way that doesn't make the locals hate them.Costalegre, a 200-mile ribbon of Pacific coastline stretching between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, is one of the last truly wild corners of Mexico. There are no mega-resorts here. No spring-break beach clubs or 20-story condos. Just sandpipers skimming the surf, green sea turtles digging moonlit nests — and, every so often, Richard Gere strolling on the beach. This is Xala, a 3,000-acre development so “low-density,” it’s practically...
  • Thai Woman Struggles to Evacuate During Earthquake While Her Dog Sleeps Unfazed

    04/23/2025 11:33:48 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    AsiaOne ^ | Koh Xing Ying
    During the recent earthquake in Thailand, one woman found herself struggling to evacuate, not because of the disaster, but because her dog, blissfully unaware of the mayhem around it, was determined to sleep through it. An 18-second clip of the viral incident was posted to TikTok on Saturday (March 29), showing a woman desperately trying to wake her dog while pulling on its front paw. Despite the chaos, the samoyed, named Echo, refuses to budge, completely unbothered by its owner's desperate pleas. At one point, the woman even tried pulling both of Echo's paws but didn't get anywhere. Shortly after,...
  • Far-left lawmaker breaks silence after unearthed social media post ignites firestorm (Frost, RAT Florida)

    04/23/2025 2:32:16 AM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/22/25 | Peter Pinedo
    Far-left Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., broke his silence on Tuesday after an unearthed social media post of rap lyrics set off a firestorm of controversy. Frost, who recently made headlines for flying to El Salvador to visit deported illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was heavily criticized on social media after a seemingly cryptic tweet from 2016 resurfaced reading "f----- wit my gang gon get u spilled." The post was in response to tweets including one by an account named "Hits LeBlunt." The line is from the song "Gang" by rapper "Max P." The post generated...
  • Trump admin files first racketeering charges against massive migrant terrorist group present in U.S.

    04/23/2025 1:15:43 AM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/22/25 | Peter Pinedo
    The first RICO racketeering charges against members and associates of the migrant terrorist group Tren de Aragua were filed this week in New York. A statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said that the case is part of "Operation Take Back America," which it said is a "nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Justice Department to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime." According to the statement, the charges filed...
  • Canton (Ma) Police Chief Helena Rafferty announces June 30 retirement

    04/22/2025 7:34:27 PM PDT · by massmike · 8 replies
    www.wcvb.com ^ | 04/22/2025 | Imani Clement
    CANTON, Mass. — The police chief of the Canton Police Department, Helena Rafferty, announced that she would retire when her contract expires on June 30. Rafferty's tenure partially aligned with the murder trials of Karen Read, who is accused of hitting her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her vehicle outside of a Canton home during a snowstorm in January 2022, following a night of drinking.
  • Hochul Tosses President Trump's Congestion Pricing Letter

    04/22/2025 6:21:16 AM PDT · by AbolishCSEU · 11 replies
    Hochul is seen defiantly tossing the letter from President Trump's Sean Duffy to end congestion pricing.
  • 'Drag Race' stars melt down over UK Supreme Court's landmark ruling on legal definition of woman

    04/22/2025 1:23:36 AM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/21/25 | Taylor Penley
    The UK Supreme Court's landmark ruling limiting the definition of a woman to biological sex stirred outrage among the stars of BBC’s "RuPaul’s Drag Race UK," who pledged to "fight back" against the decision they say will "marginalize" the transgender community. "The fight back starts today," season one runner-up Divina De Campo wrote in an X post last Wednesday, adding, "We will not go back into the shadows to make you comfortable. F--- all the way off." LGBTQ+ news outlet PinkNews reported on season two finalist Tayce's rage expressed through Instagram with posts calling the UK Supreme Court a "POS...
  • Texas Republican county official stabbed, husband killed in home attack (grandson)

    04/22/2025 1:32:06 AM PDT · by Libloather · 33 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/21/25 | Adam Sabes
    A Texas politician was stabbed and her husband was killed after their grandson allegedly attacked them at their Lewisville home early Monday morning. Republican Denton County Commissioner Bobbie Mitchell, 76, and her husband were stabbed early Monday morning by their grandson, according to police. Fred Mitchell, Bobbie Mitchell's husband, was pronounced dead just after 5 a.m. Bobbie Mitchell was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive her injuries. The Lewisville Police Department said on Facebook that the double stabbing happened on Monday at 3:53 a.m. Mitchell Blake Reinacher, the couple's 23-year-old grandson, was arrested at the house...
  • Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany

    04/22/2025 2:18:49 AM PDT · by RandFan · 77 replies
    politico ^ | April 22 | By Debra Kahn
    SAN FRANCISCO — Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday compared President Donald Trump’s administration to Nazi Germany and issued a dire warning about Trump’s use of power in a speech devoted to climate change. Speaking at an event at the start of San Francisco’s Climate Week, Gore said the Trump administration was “trying to create their own preferred version of reality” to achieve their sweeping objectives similar to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in the 1930s and ‘40s. “I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” Gore said to an...
  • Nancy Mace Confronted by a Tranny at a Townhall Meeting. That deep voice came out of nowhere! 🤣

    04/21/2025 8:51:52 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    x.com/RepNancyMace ^ | April 21, 2025 | Rep. Nancy Mace
    That deep voice came out of nowhere. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/63xy2mIYvm— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) April 22, 2025Listen to the voice change when Nancy calls him a TRANNY!...................
  • Illinois Refuses to Comply With Key Trump Order.

    04/21/2025 7:49:23 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 18 replies
    The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) says it will continue to ignore a federal directive barring the participation of biological male athletes in high school girls’ sports. Previously, the State of Maine announced it would not comply with the directive, issued as an Executive Order by President Donald J. Trump in February, and now faces a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). ISHA’s president, Dan Tully, claims that state law preempts the federal restriction and requires Illinois high schools to accommodate so-called transgender athletes, who are biological males, by allowing their participation in girls’ sporting events....
  • Archaeologists in Egypt Uncover Ancient Town Likely Built by King Tut’s Father

    04/21/2025 1:36:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    ARTnews ^ | April 16, 2025 | Harrison Jacobs
    Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Egyptian town dating back 3,400 years near the city of Alexandria, according to a recent study published in Antiquity. The researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research have theorized that the mud-brick settlement was likely founded during Egypt‘s 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550 BCE–1292 BCE), due to the presence of items bearing an amphora stamp with the name Merytaton. Merytaton was the daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti and the sibling of Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut. Related Articles The tomb of an ancient Egyptian military commander....
  • A serious car crash occurs every 7 minutes on Long Island — and NY rep is demanding action: ‘National crisis’

    04/21/2025 12:35:57 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/20/2025 | Brandon Cruz
    Long Island Rep. Laura Gillen is urging the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to hold an emergency hearing on the nationwide “surge” in deadly traffic accidents — after an unsettling investigation revealed that a serious car crash occurs every seven minutes on Long Island. “The failure to secure our roads has led to thousands of lives being cut short, families being ripped apart, and a terrible void being left in too many communities,” Gillen wrote in her letter compelling the committee to take action. The Democratic lawmaker’s campaign comes after an investigation by Newsday revealed that Long Island drivers get...
  • Meet NYC’s weed-loving over-60s — as seniors are using marijuana more than ever

    04/21/2025 7:08:02 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/19/2025 | Tracy Swartz
    Not to be blunt, but Gail Zanchelli hated marijuana as a teen growing up on Long Island. “Tried it, never liked it,” Zanchelli, 64, told The Post. Now it’s part of her nightly routine. The Deer Park resident takes 60 milligrams of gummies infused with THC — the main active ingredient in marijuana — before bed to relieve chronic throbbing in her tailbone. She’s part of a budding group of seniors who use cannabis to relax, ease pain, sleep better or manage their mental health.
  • The local delicacy being blamed for a TENTH of this village's population getting motor neurone disease [Lou Gehrig's Disease]

    04/19/2025 6:54:02 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 38 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 19, 2025 | FRED KELLY
    The inhabitants of Montchavin in the French Alps knew something was killing them. They just didn't know what. Some wondered whether lead from a disused mine in the village had leaked into the water supply. Others thought mobile phone masts were to blame. One woman believed the area was cursed. Between 1991 and 2019, 16 people – almost a tenth of the area's 200-strong population – were diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal condition more commonly known as motor neurone disease (MND). In other words, if you lived in Montchavin, you were 20 times more likely to contract MND...
  • Alpaca on the Loose Rounded Up in New York

    04/19/2025 5:09:47 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    UPI ^ | April 18, 2025 | Ben Hooper
    Police in New York said a report of llama drama in Westchester County turned out to be alpaca-chaos when the loose animal was correctly identified. The Westchester County Police Department said on social media that officers responded about 10:09 a.m. Thursday to a report of a "llama on the loose" on Kisco Avenue. "Turns out it was an actually an alpaca that was on the lam, but still a pretty good initial description compared to some we get," the post said. The officers were able to corral the alpaca, and soon learned the animal had escaped from a trailer near...
  • Alleged FSU gunman Phoenix Ikner’s biological mom had been ‘concerned’ for son before deadly shooting

    04/19/2025 1:49:21 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/19/2025 | Nicholas McEntyre
    Eriksen, lives in Tallahassee and is a Norwegian-American dual citizen, revealed she lost contact with Ikner following the bitter custody battle she had with her son’s father, Christopher Ikner. The messy legal struggle culminated when Eriksen kidnapped Phoenix Ikner, who was born Christian Gunnar Eriksen, and flew him to Europe in March 2015. Eriksen claimed she was taking her son to South Florida for spring break, but instead, the mother-son duo travelled to Norway Phoenix Ikner is accused of using a handgun that belonged to his stepmother during the shooting. Hours after the shooting, before Ikner was identified as the...
  • Dem senator's El Salvador trip might violate law liberals used as pretext for Michael Flynn probe: critics

    04/19/2025 8:15:55 AM PDT · by Libloather · 19 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/19/25 | Charles Creitz
    Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s, D-Md., sudden trip to El Salvador to try to free deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia is getting the attention of critics who believe the Maryland Democrat may have violated a 1799 law prohibiting unauthorized diplomacy. The Logan Act – named for former Pennsylvania Sen. George Logan – stipulates a fine and/or imprisonment for Americans corresponding with foreign officials "with intent to influence the[ir] measures … in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States." Logan met with French diplomat Charles de Talleyrand after Paris rebuffed President...
  • Chris Plante has PG Co. (MD) Police Gang Unit founder to discuss history/slogans of MS-13 (Kilmar's county)

    04/19/2025 7:26:11 AM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 7 replies
    During the Chris Plante Radio Show yesterday (Friday, April 18, 2024), out of WMAL in Washington, DC, Chris had on a caller, Sgt. George (since retired), who founded the Prince George's County Police (MD) Gang Unit in the 1980s. He discussed the history, slogans, chronology and idiosyncrasies of MS-13 (La Mara Salvatrucha), one of the most violent gangs in the Western Hemisphere. He also gave an account of what Kilmar Abrego Garcia would have gone through via surveillance, detention/arrest and informant information. It was a brilliant call. LISTEN HERE: Audio linked starts from approximately Minute 20:00 to Minute 33:00: https://megaphone.link/WWO9943614974
  • 11-year-old hit by car in Roy (Utah) still in coma, driver picked up by ICE on unrelated charges

    04/19/2025 5:53:25 AM PDT · by LiberalismDestroys · 6 replies
    KUTV ^ | 4/18/25 | David Ochoa
    The driver of the car that hit 11-year-old Jayson Strong was picked up by ICE for unrelated charges. Police said prosecutors aren't ready to charge him with anything until the toxicology report comes back. Meanwhile, Jayson is still in a medically induced coma as doctors try to learn more about his condition and recovery. The family has been at Primary Children's Hospital since the crash happened on Tuesday night. They're all hoping for the very best, but it's still unclear if Jayson will pull through or what his recovery will look like.