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Despite its obvious fakeness, an Instagram post including copied-and-pasted text stating “Instagram does not have my permission to share photos or messages” has gone viral, effectively ensuring the Facebook-ization of all we hold dear. Scooter Braun, Waka Flocka, Judd Apatow, Julia Roberts, Taraji P. Henson, Josh Brolin, Rob Lowe, El-P, T.I., and Rick Perry are among the […]
Donald Trump alleged that American Jews who voted for Democrats were being “disloyal” to the country of Israel. Seemingly too stupid to realize the idea that Jewish people should be loyal to the country of Israel is anti-Semitic, Trump urged Jewish Americans to support the party that serves as a home for many racists and […]
People around the world are using the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia as fires continue to ravage Brazil’s rainforest. EuroNews reports that these blazes—which have been burning the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso for weeks—became so severe that the state of Amazonas was forced to declare a state of emergency earlier this month. Smoke produced by the fires […]
Holley Gerelds, 18, said that there was talk leading up to her graduation this year from Springville High in Alabama that her senior portrait was going to be cut from the school yearbook. Prior to taking her photo towards the end of her junior year, Gerelds asked if she could wear a tuxedo, instead of the V-neck, black-velvet drape traditionally worn […]
Cop Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, has been fired. The move comes five years after Garner’s death and will be announced Monday by New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill, per The Daily Beast. The termination, per the report, is the result of the department determining Pantaleo had violated policy by using […]
A would-be shipment of jalapeños and savory weed, underwhelmingly described by authorities as a “significant marijuana load,” was seized last week at the Otay Mesa border in California. That’s one of the takeaways from what U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency officials decided to speak on via press release earlier this month, with the interception […]
Art Spiegelman, the creator of the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, says that he withdrew an essay that he put together for a Marvel comics collection after the publisher asked him to pull a line which referenced Donald Trump as “Orange Skull.” It’s an obvious to A-list Marvel villain the Red Skull, as well as the […]
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Kabul, CNN reports. The organization told news outlets that a Pakistani fighter detonated his vest inside a Shia wedding on Saturday. The blast killed 63 people and injured 182 more. The attack comes ahead of Afghan Independence Day on Monday, and occurred in the same area as the […]
Jeffrey Epstein‘s camp is not buying the official line that the sex offender and hedge fund manager committed suicide in his jail cell. TMZ reports that sources close to Epstein are peeved that the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center isn’t being forthcoming with information about Epstein’s death. The website claims their sources are reaching out to […]
Jerri Kelly, the wife of a (now former) Arkansas jail administrator, has been arrested and charged after allegedly holding four black high schoolers at gunpoint on her lawn. The boys, who are reportedly all either 15 or 16 years old, had been going door to door in an effort to fundraise for their high school […]
