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The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon frivolously spent most of the $1 billion given to it by Congress on jet engine parts and body armor, even though the money was meant to address the need for medical supplies in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Defense Department was supplied with the large sum of taxpayer money through […]
Sen. Mitt Romney has announced that he supports voting on a Trump nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy before the election. In a statement shared early Tuesday that was met with immediate push back from the left, Romney alleged that his decision had been made “based on the immutable fairness of following the law, […]
Despite the fact that the U.S. will soon surpass 200,000 CDC-confirmed deaths from COVID-19, Trump would like his supporters to believe that it “affects virtually nobody.” The latest example of Trump intentionally sowing confusion amid the still-in-progress pandemic went down at another one of his health guidelines-ignoring campaign events, footage from which—as always—makes for a truly […]
A Chicago man known by the nickname of “Dreadhead Cowboy” was arrested on Monday after riding his horse on the Dan Ryan Expressway. As explained in a local NBC News report, the Dreadhead Cowboy—a.k.a. Adam Hollingsworth—pulled the stunt as part of an effort to amplify the “kids lives matter” message. In a Facebook post, Hollingsworth told fans […]
Minutes before leading authorities on a high-speed chase, an Oklahoma woman told police that she had to “poop so bad.” That embarrassing admission/excuse was captured in newly released body cam footage, some of which can be seen as part of a news report in a video at the bottom of this post. 28-year-old Emily Sindt […]
The Louisville Metro Police Department announced a state of emergency, effective immediately, in preparation for the announcement from Attorney General Daniel Cameron in regards to Breonna Taylor’s case. “To ensure we have the appropriate level of staffing to provide for public safety services and our policing functions, effective immediately the LMPD will operate under the emergency staffing and […]
A new theory being proposed by those looking to get the iceberg off the hook (at least partially) for sinking the Titanic has been put forth by researchers who have instead decided to pin some of that disaster on the sun. On a related note, let this be the part where we say that alternative […]
On Monday, an officer for the New York Police Department was charged for allegedly spying on Tibetan New Yorkers on behalf of the Chinese government. A criminal complaint spells out the accusations against 33-year-old Baimadajie Angwang, with that complaint saying that Angwang served as an illegal agent who was at the “direction and control” of Chinese government officials […]
Americans broke into stores and took whatever they could in response to George Floyd’s gruesome murder and rampant police brutality. Many saw it as looting. Some saw it as protesting. Others viewed it as disrupters co-opting the peaceful demonstrations. But Ariel Atkins, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago, saw it as something more justifiable: reparations. […]
Foot Locker is turning all of its U.S. stores into temporary voter registration sites in order to boost youth voter turnout this November. Beginning Sept. 22, all of the company’s more than 2,000 stores will have registration kiosks with a website where visitors can check on their voter status, register to vote, or sign up for […]
