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In his Netflix special "Sticks and Stones," Dave Chappelle claimed that the MeToo movement was causing a backlash against abortion rights. Less than three years later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Was Chappelle right? David Wood discusses the issue. Video is 30 minutes long

The headlines grow more disgusting -- and, frankly, more unbelievable -- with each passing day. Jeffrey Toobin, a columnist for The New Yorker, was suspended earlier this week (and placed on leave from his gig as chief legal analyst for CNN) after he was allegedly observed masturbating during a Zoom call with some of his colleagues from the magazine and from WYNC radio. Unsurprisingly, Toobin has become an object of derision and the butt of countless jokes. (Other parts of his unseemly backstory are getting more publicity. This is not, as they say, his first rodeo.) Not everyone has piled...

The New England Patriots were reportedly unaware that Antonio Brown was facing sexual assault and rape accusations when the team signed him last week, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. With Brown’s signing announced and the star wideout scheduled to begin practice with the team on Wednesday, the Patriots are now deciding how to proceed. The team released a statement late Tuesday night confirming it is aware of the lawsuit and that the NFL will be investigating the matter.

FBI's long-buried allegations of MLK misconduct met with skepticism. Andrew Young spent hundreds of nights with Martin Luther King Jr. traveling and living out of hotel rooms .... said, did he see, hear or witness the salacious accounts... of King's alleged sexual activities ~snip~ Garrow sifted through more than 19,000 documents in JFK assassination files unsealed 2018.... based on the FBI documents, King had sexual relations with at least 40 women....The most damning allegation was that [he] ... was present during the rape of a woman by a fellow minister in a Washington, D.C., hotel room on Jan. 5, 1964....

A blending of bits and pieces from Standpoint magazine and Newspunch - both British sources as the USA media has been eerily silent. Martin Luther King Jr. was the ‘Harvey Weinstein of the civil rights movement’ who had ’40 affairs,' Michael Mosbacher, the acting editor of Standpoint magazine, which is publishing Mr Garrow’s article about the files, says the tapes reveal MLK as “the Harvey Weinstein of the civil rights movement”. [Newspunch Mag 9-28-19] Mosbacher continues, “If public figures are now all – rightly – subject to scrutiny, there should be no exception for Martin Luther King, however worthy his...

the cover story in the current issue of New York magazine is by former NY Times editor Jill Abramson and presents their case for impeaching Thomas. A search didn't find anything on this here. Appears he is the next target.