The owner of an Iowa bar named the Pour Bastards Pub pub has been charged for not following the state-issued guidelines for social distancing, New York Post reports. On Sept. 4, Newton police returned to the pub after a previous warning in August, officers found there was no social distancing at the bar and no […]
A coalition of civil rights groups including the NAACP and Anti-Defamation League is hosting a “week of action” on Instagram to demand Facebook “address racism, hate and disinformation on its platform,” according to a press release. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign which led a boycott that saw some of the world’s biggest companies pull […]
Vote the a**holes out” is Patagonia’s latest explicit message to its customers, found on the tags in its newest line of shorts, CNN reports. The California based outdoor clothing company known for its social activism is calling on customers to vote against candidates who deny the existence of climate change: ‘Vote the a–holes out” is […]
J.K. Rowling raised controversy and allegations of transphobia on social media upon the release of her new novel’s serial-killer character, a man who dresses as a woman to stalk his victims, The Hill reported. The criticism follows the “Harry Potter” author’s earlier remarks about the transgender community. “Troubled Blood,” is to be published Tuesday as […]
A federal Judge on Monday ruled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) coronavirus restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down are unconstitutional, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV ruled in favor of several local counties and businesses that included […]
President Donald Trump in a tweet Monday lambasted Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has been the advocate of mail-in-voting, for casting his vote at a polling station, according to Fox News. “Did you see where Joe Biden — as Weak, Tired, and Sleepy as he is, went to a Polling Place today in Delaware […]
San Francisco could allow teenagers as young as 16 to vote in local elections, NBC News reported Saturday. Residents will vote on the measure in November. If it passes, San Francisco will become the first major American city to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections. Advocates in the city say […]
The President of the Springfield, Massachusetts chapter of the NAACP tweeted Sunday that there is “no such thing” as blue lives following the ambush-style shooting of two sheriff’s deputies in Los Angeles on Saturday, Fox News reports. Talbert Swan who is also a Pentecostal preacher and radio host tweeted: “There’s no such thing as BLUE […]
Fox News reports “Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday called for gun control less than 24 hours after two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who were critically wounded in Compton after a gunman opened fire on their squad car in an apparent ambush.” The two LA County deputies were shot in the head and […]
Miami Dolphins announced that they will remain in the team’s locker room for both national anthems this Sunday ahead of their regular-season opener against the New England Patriots, Fox News reports. There will be no kneeling for the Dolphins on the sidelines this season. The players shared their thoughts in a video Thursday and read […]
Ahead of the U.S. presidential election Google said that it will now remove any autocomplete predictions that seem to endorse or oppose a candidate or a political party and claims about voting or the electoral process, according to a CNN report. Google executives outlined these changes at an online press event Thursday, as well as […]
Facing a huge budget shortfall due to the coronavirus crisis, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened Thursday to increase the burden on New York’s heavily taxed residents, The New York Post reports. “This will be a hole in the financial plan so large that it will be impossible to fill,” the governor said during a […]
More than a dozen companies, including Zillow and M.M.LaFleur, have pledged to add at least one black director to their boards within the next year, according to ABC News. Zillow, RealSelf, Nextdoor and others are among the 17 companies that have signed the initial pledge launched Wednesday and dubbed the “Board Challenge.” The 14 other […]
The University of Michigan has apologized after setting up segregated online ‘cafes’ – one for white people and other for people of color – in a ‘bid to promote discussions about race and diversity,’ The Washington Free Beacon reports. The University of Michigan satellite campus in Dearborn created two virtual online events that were held […]
The Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during a campaign stop in Warren, Michigan on Wednesday grossly misstated the number of military members killed by Covid-19 was 6,000 when in reality it is only seven. The Biden campaign told Fox News that the former vice president confused the number of Covid deaths in the military with […]
The Georgia Secretary of State announced Tuesday that about 1,000 Georgians face investigation for voting twice in the state’s June 9 primary, and 58 percent of them were cast for Democrats. A Georgia voter must request a specific party ballot in the primary election “While the investigation is still ongoing, initial results show that of […]
Amid calls by rioters to defund the police, the Portland Police Bureau spent $6.9 million on overtime over the span of just two months as a result of the ongoing often destructive and violent riots in the city, Breitbart reported. According to Portland’s KATU News overtime spending in June and July skyrocketed 200% compared to […]
An academic study has found that Hollywood cast more light-skinned actors in starring roles to appeal to Chinese audiences, according to a report on Tuesday by Axios. Since 2012, US filmmakers were made aware of the aesthetic preferences of Chinese movie-goers — who place a higher premium on light skin — a practice known as […]
Four-tour Iraq War veteran and comedian Bobby Henline slammed people using his image to accuse President Donald Trump of calling military service members “losers,” and is refusing to be associated with their “agenda.” Within a day of a report from The Atlantic claiming that President Donald Trump had called wounded veterans veterans “losers” and saying […]
A poll conducted by Spry Strategies and the Women’s Liberation Front (WOLF) revealed what Idaho and California voters think about Idaho’s new law that protects female athletes from competing against biological male athletes who “identify” as a woman. WOLF issued a press release about the findings: While radical feminists and conservative Christians have together been […]