Kid Rock shoots cases of Bud Light in response to transgender activist’s post
After transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney shared a sponsored post promoting Bud Light, some Anheuser-Busch customers threw away their beer.
Jury foreperson talks about reaching guilty verdict against ex-L.A. Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas
Inside the deliberations that led jurors to convict Ridley-Thomas on 7 of 19 federal charges in the corruption case.
Yes, he performed as a robot, but ex-Daft Punk member says AI has him ‘terrified’
Thomas Bangalter says fans misinterpreted the Daft Punk duo’s act as an uncritical embrace of tech and digital culture.
Angel Reese won’t commit to White House visit after Jill Biden’s Iowa invite
Angel Reese is unsure if she will join her LSU teammates at the White House after defeating Iowa in the national championship game.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/lsus-angel-reese-wont-commit-to-white-house-visit/
LIV Golf stars nowhere to be found in Masters’ ‘featured groups’
If you were hoping for some sexy, potentially provocative pairings for the first two rounds of the Masters this week, grouping PGA Tour stars with the LIV Golf stars, forget about it.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/liv-golf-stars-not-to-be-found-in-masters-featured-groups/
JESSE WATTERS: Trump probe is such a hit job
Fox News host Jesse Watters calls former President Donald Trump’s indictment a “sham” on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
JESSE WATTERS: This entire case is a sham. The only people more clueless than Bragg are his supporters…
It’s pretty obvious. This is such a hit job. Democrats, they crossed the line, they know it and now the White House is in hiding.
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Binder has got to know what happens next. We’re out for revenge now and they’re not going to get away with this. Paul Sperry wrote a great piece in the Post today. It’s open season on Democrats. Republican DAs and prosecutors now have the green light to take down top Democrats. Here’s the difference: We don’t have to trump up charges. Their crimes are clear.
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Biden’s brother, Jimmy the Chin, he’s been accused of defrauding health care companies in Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alabama. It’s a crime spree. Sounds like it’s time for four grand juries. It’s time for Republican AGs and Republican prosecutors in these states to open up investigations. How has Jimmy the Chin not already been indicted? He’s a hot mess. And then you have the Clintons in Arkansas. That’s the motherload. The Clinton Foundation has offices in Little Rock. That thing is one big grift machine.
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Can a Republican DA in Arkansas look into Crooked’s books? The foundation’s an international conspiracy, money-laundering op. Why can’t the Clintons get fingerprinted? Are all their ledgers clean? That’s just local. Once Republicans take back the White House, are you ready? The president can sic the FCC on Nancy. Pelosi has been insider trading for decades right in our face.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jesse-watters-trump-probe-such-hit-job
Where The Mighty Have Fallen
Where The Mighty Have Fallen
When news of Donald Trump’s indictment broke last Thursday, the former president went on social media to vent his anger at the decision.
“The USA is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline,” he wrote in all caps, suggesting that the indictment was a politically-motivated “attack” on the country and its “once free and fair elections”.
While the question of whether or not the charges brought forward against Trump are justified is up for the courts to decide; Statista’s Felix Richter notes that the United States is by no means the first country to prosecute a former president, even if Trump’s indictment is a first in the nation’s long history.
As Richter shows in the following chart, former leaders from all over the world, including wealthy democracies such as France and South Korea, have been charged or jailed after their time in office.
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According to research conducted by Axios, leaders who left office since 2000 have been jailed or prosecuted in at least 78 countries, the vast majority of these cases being related to corruption and/or illegal campaign financing.
Investigations into former leaders have been in the news around the world lately.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial has fueled some of the outrage over his judicial overhaul plan, while Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to the presidency in January after his corruption conviction was thrown out
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s home was surrounded this month in a botched attempt to arrest him, while former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak remains in jail after a judge this week threw out a challenge to his corruption conviction in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scheme.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s current vice president and former president, was convicted of fraud but remains in office and out of prison because her position carries immunity and because she’s launched what’s expected to be a lengthy appeal.
Brazil’s Lula and Italy’s Berlusconi have both managed to prove a trial, or even conviction, was not career-ending.
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Tue, 04/04/2023 – 20:25
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/where-mighty-have-fallen
Charles Barkley calls the Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese controversy ‘unfortunate’
The LSU Tigers captured the first national championship in the history of the women’s basketball program in front of a record-breaking amount of viewers.
Sunday’s title game drew an average of 9.9 million viewers and peaked at approximately 12.6 million viewers, ESPN said Monday. Those numbers shattered the previous record of 5.7 million viewers for an NCAA women’s tournament game.
But much of the talk has not been about the Tigers’ dominating win over the Iowa Hawkeyes. The focus instead has been on the interaction between two of college basketball’s brightest stars.
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LSU forward Angel Reese sparked reactions from every corner of the sports world when she made gestures toward Iowa guard Caitlin Clark in the final minutes of the championship game.
Reese approached Clark before moving her open hand in front of her face. The motion, which symbolizes “you can’t see me,” was popularized by WWE star John Cena.
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Reese, a first-team all-American, later pointed to her finger in reference to where her championship ring would go.
Cena recently approved of Caitlin Clark’s use of the “you can’t see me” taunt when she used it during a game against Louisville in the Elite Eight.
Some fans and sports pundits spoke out against Reese’s gestures while others came to her defense. Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA analyst Charles Barkley, who was a part of the coverage of the NCAA’s men’s tournament, shared his thoughts about the controversy.
“Well, I thought it took away from the game,” Barkley said Monday. “In fairness, Caitlin did that in a game before. I just thought it brought too much attention away from a great performance because she’s amazing.
“And you got all these fools on the internet and on television, who, well, first they gonna make it about race, which is part of it. They deserve to celebrate. I thought it was unfortunate because people are talking more about that than they are about a great performance.”
When Clark was asked about Reese’s actions, the Hawkeyes guard said she did not see the gesture in the moment. On Tuesday, during an appearance on ESPN, Clark said she did not take issue with Reese.
Clark, who won the Wooden Award as National Player of the Year Tuesday, also hinted at a double standard between men and women as it relates to trash talking.
“I think men have always had trash talk. That’s what it’s been, and I think more and more people, as they turn on the game, they’re appreciating it for what it is,” Clark said Tuesday.
“I’m just lucky enough that I get to play this game and have emotion and wear it on my sleeves, and so does everybody else. So that should never be torn down, that should never be criticized, because I believe that’s what makes this game so fun. That’s what draws people to this game. That’s what draws it to the pro level, to college level, to the high school level. Either way, it doesn’t matter.”
During a postgame media session, Reese defended her actions.
“I don’t fit in the box that y’all want me to be in,” Reese said. “I’m too hood, I’m too ghetto. Y’all told me that all year. But when other people do it, y’all don’t say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me.”
Reese said the negative reactions she received over the course of the season helped fuel her outstanding season. She finished the season averaging 23.0 points and 15.4 rebounds and was named the most outstanding player of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
“Twitter can say what they want to say,” Reese noted. “I love reading those comments. I have all the screenshots of what everybody has said about me all season. What are you going to say now?”
UConn legend Ray Allen explains why Huskies have built a ‘basketball kingdom’
The University of Connecticut won their fifth national championship in 24 years on Monday night with their 76-59 victory over San Diego State University.
Not only did they win it all, but they dominated along the way — the Huskies became the first team to win each of their tournament games by at least 13 points.
Entering this season, UConn wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar, but they made the tournament look extremely easy.
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Well, one Huskies legend has a fairly good reason why the school has become a “basketball kingdom.”
Speaking to reporters after the championship game, Ray Allen said the lowkey surrounding environment of the school has led to its on-court success.
“I want to be focused on this right here because I’m trying to get somewhere with this. That is the environment that promotes higher learning and better basketball,” he said. “I can walk down the street and get in the gym and shoot without any distractions along the way. That’s what I implore every child to think about when they’re picking their school: make sure you pick somewhere that doesn’t provide excess that keeps you distracted.”
Storrs, Conn. isn’t exactly a big city, short of the typical college nightlife. Its closest “major” city is Hartford, which certainly is no New York, which is about two-and-a-half hours away.
The title run for the Huskies just missed Allen’s tenure there — Allen joined the NBA in 1996, three years before the Huskies’ first title.
That logic hasn’t exactly taken to the gridiron — the football team hasn’t finished above .500 since 2010.
But who’s going to complain about that right now?
President of largest teacher union declares racial, social justice a ‘pillar’ of educators’ efforts
The president of the largest teacher union in the country said on a panel last week that racial and social justice are a “pillar” of the union’s efforts.
“Here we are. In the aftermath of Jan 6. Here we are. Looking at rights being taken away from union members, educators, workers, students. The right to learn; the freedom to teach. Right here in our country–in Florida and Texas” Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association said at the “Summit for Democracy” event on March 28th.
The summit was co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The summit was intended to “elevate the role of labor movements as drivers of democracy and essential components of democratic societies.”
Pringle was prompted to address teachers being at the center of a heated debate about COVID response policies and curriculum in public schools.
“For us at the NEA, education justice must be about racial justice, it must be about social justice, it must be about climate justice. It must be about all of those things,” Pringle said. “For our students to be able to come to school ready to learn every day–We can never think of education as an isolated system because everything connects to our students’ ability to learn. So, we have to necessarily talk about housing justice, food inequality, and the reality that we all just went through a global pandemic together and of course it was the most marginalized communities that were already suffering from the inequities in every single social system in this country and every country.”
Pringle’s comments come amid a raging debate about what education should look like in schools. Across the country school board meetings have become battlegrounds between parents and school board officials, with parents protesting controversial curriculum like critical race theory as well as pushing to ban certain books in school libraries.
She explained further that the NEA operates through “three pillars” including “advocating for education professionals” in the conventional sense of backing workers and “elevating” the teaching profession due to the current teacher shortage in the U.S.
The third pillar, she claimed, is “racial and social justice.”
“We have to be as a union–we have to be the ones that are standing up and demanding those rights for all of our students. Our Black, Brown, API students, our indigenous students, our students with disabilities, our LGBTQ+ students–all of them deserve the right to a high-quality public education.”
Pringle added that union members are trained to run for political office, and they had “hundreds” of NEA members elected to offices ranging from school boards to Congress.
According to the NEA website, the NEA launched an activism initiative called NEA EdJustice which “engages and mobilizes educators, allies, and activists in the fight for racial, social, and economic justice in public education.”
The COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on the learning of kids across the U.S. was revealed through the most recent results of the national test scores that show sharp declines in math and reading.
Math scores saw their largest decreases ever, while reading scores dropped to levels not seen since 1992 for fourth and eighth graders across the country, according to the Nation’s Report Card. The average mathematics score for fourth-grade students fell five points from 2019 to 2022. The score for eight-graders dropped eight points. Reading for both grades fell three points since 2019.”
Math scores were worst among eighth graders, with 38% earning scores deemed “below basic” — a cutoff that measures, for example, whether students can find the third angle of a triangle if they’re given the other two. That’s worse than 2019, when 31% of eighth graders scored below that level.
Reacting to the national test scores, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the statistics are a sign that schools need to redouble their efforts, using billions of dollars that Congress gave schools in response to the pandemic to help students recover.
“Let me be very clear: these results are not acceptable,” Cardona said.