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Can I trust you? Wait … can I really trust you? What if you’d given me your word that you’d never betray me, but then you discovered that betraying me could make you really rich, or really successful, or even just a bit happier? A lot of us discover—sometimes too late—that verbal contracts aren’t worth the paper they are printed on. But, what about social contracts? What about the warp and weft of what keeps humans making moral sense to one another? This always matters. But, it matters especially at the moment, when we are all deciding how we should...

More than 17% of U.S. adults reported having ever experienced symptoms of long COVID as of February, according to the Household Pulse Survey. Much has changed since the World Health Organization first called COVID-19 a pandemic four years ago today. As the U.S. enters its fifth year with the coronavirus, vaccines are available and have been updated to more closely match the spreading variants. Treatments and tests for the coronavirus are accessible. The U.S. government relaxed its coronavirus guidance and officially ended its national emergency declarations in perhaps the largest symbolic step away from the pandemic.

A Ryanair passenger has been caught on camera delivering a profanity-laced tirade in the direction of fellow travelers and cabin crew, before storming off the aircraft in the middle of the boarding process. Video of the disturbing incident was shared to X on Thursday, where it quickly took off, clocking 450,000 views, with many left stunned by the brunette’s brutish behavior. “– you and – off,” the troubled traveler screams at a passenger, before appearing to redirect her anger toward several flight attendants. A separate video posted on the same thread shows the bothered brunette blasting the cabin crew as...

In the 30-second spot, "Endorsement," DeSantis's campaign touted the popular governor's support. "We need someone who puts this country first and not himself," Reynolds says in footage from a recent rally. the television spot is only DeSantis's second ad of the cycle. It's unclear how large of an effect Reynolds's endorsement will have, if any. However, she is expected to put her political might and resources behind the Florida governor and join him on the campaign trail.

"Slit your wrists," strangers texted me. "If anyone deserves prison rape, it's you," people I had never met called me to say. "The noble thing to do is to remove yourself from society...so please kill yourself." I'm Amy Cooper, but you probably know me as "Central Park Karen." You may not know my name, but you probably know my story—or at least the two-minute version of the story that was broadcast all over the world without key facts or context. Everyone believed and amplified one story: That a white "Central Park Karen" called the police on an innocent Black man,...

Today’s Republicans, as well as Christian nationalism, are a greater threat to the United States than the Hamas terrorist organization, which is responsible for scores of terror attacks including the most recent massacre of over 1,000 civilians — according to a recent Salon piece that is drawing fierce backlash for the “gross” assertion.Following the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust, Salon magazine published an essay declaring MAGA Republicans and Christian supporters a “bigger threat” to America than the Hamas terrorist perpetrators.The Thursday essay, titled “MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be,”...

Mayor Bass has remained eerily silent on remarks by Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizations and chapters expressing support for the horrifying attacks on Israelis and Americans She wasted no time: One day AFTER Hamas massacred over a thousand Jewish civilians, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement expressing solidarity with the people of Israel and condemning the horrifying attack. But while she was quick to make the statement, Mayor Bass has remained eerily silent on remarks by Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizations and chapters expressing support for the horrifying attacks on Israelis and Americans.

As a new Covid variant emerges, pandemic-era guidelines including social distancing and mask mandates are popping back up in some places Morris Brown College is a private liberal arts school in Atlanta, Georgia where both students and employees are now being required to wear masks in crowded areas such as hallways and classrooms for at least two weeks. Reports of positive cases among the student body have driven concerns that the new variant is going to cause a renewed boom in Covid cases not just within the college but around the country. This also means that there will be no...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, along with LA County Sheriff Robert Luna and others, announces a the formation of a retail theft task force on August 17, 2023. CREDIT: Screenshot/LA Mayor YouTube The morning after holding a press conference vowing to get tough with organized retail theft rings that are essentially terrorizing business owners in Los Angeles (and its surrounding areas), Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass hit the NPR airwaves (where she knew nobody would be listening) to blame "the press and especially the conservative press that wants to paint...Democratic-run cities as though we are in a crisis of...

Social media platforms have become breeding grounds for both connection and division, allowing opinions and controversies to spread like wildfire. One Twitter video in particular, shared by @FadeHubb, has grabbed the attention of netizens online. The video reveals unsettling footage of an obese woman being subjected to public mockery and judgment simply for requesting extra cheese on her snacks. Here's the video: This Twitter video has sparked heated discussions, highlighting the internet's division on the issue. The controversy revolves around a video clip where a woman, referred to as 'Karen', is seen requesting extra cheese on her snacks. While some...

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis snapped back Thursday at left-wing critics who have dubbed her “America’s Karen,” “Walmart Melania” and other disparaging monikers. “One thing that the corporate media did get right about me, I do shop at Walmart,” Casey joked alongside her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, during an interview on “Fox & Friends.” “When they come after you and they’re just calling you names — that means they don’t want to litigate the merits of their case,” she added. “They don’t want to have that conversation. They want to call you names.”

Behind bars, his most famous accomplice – and the only one that has faced any repercussions – is so afraid to be targeted, she can’t even brave taking showers. Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is constantly in hot water with FCI Tallahassee prison administration, ever since she used the prison’s video visit system to give an interview claiming that the infamous photograph of Prince Andrew with Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was a fake. After lodging over 400 complaints, she has earned the nickname ‘prison Karen’ in the low-security federal prison where she’s serving a 20-year sentence. In her lastest episode, Maxwell...

You may have been singing along to them for years, but have you ever really thought about their lyrics? If not, it's definitely time. “Brown Sugar” by The Rolling Stones Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s precisely what Mick Jagger did in The Rolling Stones’ 1971 smash “Brown Sugar.” The title was offensive enough, but in the first verse, Jagger travels back to the plantation to peek in on the slave owners who used to make...

Toby Addison, 21, recalled the mortifying moment years prior when he was kicked out of the gym for “creepily” staring at a woman — despite the fact he cannot see — while on the “Happy Hour Podcast” earlier in June. Addison, who shares his life as a blind person on his TikTok account, @blindtobes, said he was “minding his own business” during a workout when he heard a woman say: “Oh, do you like the view?” “Obviously I don’t really know where I’m looking a lot of the time,” the content creator shared on the podcast. “I was just staring...

Karen Gilbert, a Justice Department prosecutor who is leading the government’s case against former President Donald Trump related to his handling of allegedly classified documents, has a history of corruption and was once reprimanded by a federal judge for secretly recording a defense lawyer and his investigator. Gilbert, who is Special Counsel Jack Smith’s deputy and a federal prosecutor, is “one of the most corrupt prosecutors to ever come out of the Southern District of Miami,” according to Kash Patel, a former top Trump administration official and also a former prosecutor. “The lead prosecutor Karen Gilbert, who is likely to...

Washington State's first equity director has been fired after an investigation found she made racist comments towards Hispanic colleagues and even fat-shamed one employee. Karen Johnson, the first director of the state's Office of Equity, was terminated from her position on May 17 after an independent investigation revealed several of her employees had complained about her 'biased and insensitive conduct.' One Mexican employee told investigators how Johnson once said she had a 'distrust of Mexican people,' while another said the director attacked her for her weight. Johnson has denied these allegations, and is said to be considering bringing a wrongful...

Video at https://twitter.com/itsNTBmedia/status/1666176081404080129When it comes to woke fanaticism, the British are right there with us. That’s why an incredibly funny video has been circulating. The driver of an idling car films a very angry woman who is berating him because she cannot understand why he hasn’t turned his car off but is, instead, sitting with it running while it spews pollutants into the air. Did I mention that his car is a Tesla? The driver apparently realized instantly that he had struck comedy gold because he very peacefully let her play out her idiocy. Once she starts talking about the...

It is probably a surprise to Donald Trump that so many people have reacted negatively to his recent very personal attack on Kayleigh McEnany. The most loyal of Trump supporters aren’t bothered but many regular voters are disgusted with his attack on a woman that is viewed by a lot of conservatives as America’s sweetheart. Kayleigh got on the wrong side of Trump’s ego. He decided to try to make her pay for that on social media. Trump thinks Kayleigh got his poll number wrong in a recent poll, not reflecting a large enough lead for his ego, so he...

Uber has put its chief diversity and inclusion officer on leave after she moderated a pair of “Don’t Call Me Karen” events that workers at the San Francisco-based firm said were insensitive to people of color, according to a report from the New York Times. Lee billed the first event, in April, as a time to focus on “the ‘Karen’ persona” and hear from white women who work at Uber, the report said. “Karen” is a pejorative often used to refer to white women who feel the need to police people of color and/or demand special treatment in everyday encounters....

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