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Amid calls from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and others to step aside, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo held a news conference on Wednesday, marking his first such event in roughly a week. Late last month, Gov. Cuomo asked Attorney General Letitia James and Janet DiFiore—chief judge of the Court of Appeals—to jointly appoint an […]
Capitol police are boosting security at the Capitol building this week due to what’s described as “concerning intelligence” in connection with a far-right conspiracy theory centered on the erroneous belief that single-term POTUS Donald J. Trump will resume his presidency. More specifically, the conspiracy theory asserts that March 4—a date which held inaugurations for many years […]
Researchers are pouring water on the belief that microdosing LSD actually does anything (at least, anything positive) for those who do it. According to The Guardian, the practice became a Silicon Valley trend and then spread outwards from there. The belief was that it boosted mood, sharpened cognitive abilities, and made people more creative. Let us note […]
On Tuesday, Justice League’s Ray Fisher (Cyborg) took to his Twitter account to call out what he deemed “racially discriminatory conversations” that were “had or entertained” by Warner Bros. execs. on the set of the blockbuster film during reshoots in 2017. Fisher has previously raised issues he had during the shooting of the film, including […]
Big Sean has been remarkably open about his battle with depression throughout his career. That hasn’t changed with the release of Detroit 2 and the rapper has spent significant amount of time in recent interviews explaining his struggles with suicidal ideation. In a recent talk with Michael Eric Dyson for a new Facebook Watch series One […]
A Tulsa woman was arrested after she was linked to a bag of Cheetos left at the scene of an attempted burglary. The New York Daily News reports that Sharon Carr is now facing first-degree burglary charges. She found herself in jail over the weekend after “residue” from the chips was discovered on her teeth, allowing police to […]
Noname, whose first new song of 2021 arrived last Friday, is servicing the community with the construction of the official headquarters for the Noname Book Club. This week, photos were shared to the @Nonamehiding Instagram account showing the space in progress. The photos were also accompanied by an outlining of the plans for the space from […]
On Monday, several Democrats, headlined by Senators Elizabeth Warren, as well as reps Pramila Jayapal (Washington) and Brendan Boyle (Pennsylvania), and co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders, proposed a new tax that would take 3 percent annually on wealth that surpasses $1 billion, in addition to a 2 percent tax of households and trusts with wealth valued between $50 million and […]
A rooster equipped with a three-inch blade tied to its leg slashed open the groin of its owners during the staging of an illegal cockfight in southern India last week, according to authorities. The bird was reported to have been fluttering out of panic when it accidentally gashed 45-year-old Thangulla Satish. Police inspector B. Jeevan says that Satish […]
Jay-Z launched his cannabis line Monogram not too long ago, and now the brand is challenging national drug policy with a new awareness campaign. On Monday, Monogram launched the campaign, which is heavily critical of the war on drugs, specifically when it comes to Black Americans. The campaign highlights the hypocrisy inherent in current cannabis […]
