Trump’s personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, was permanently suspended on Friday, while Trump’s attempts to tweet from the goverment’s @POTUS account and his campaign account, @TeamTrump, also resulted in the messages being deleted. And, with Trump, plus his legal advisor Sydney Powell and recently-pardoned General Michael Flynn all being banned from …
Read More »Magical Messi hits ANOTHER milestone as double strike against Granada sets La Liga record
Messi’s double-strike meant that the Argentine ace became the first player in La Liga history to hit double figures in 15 consecutive seasons. The record was spotted and shared online by football stats specialists Opta, who hailed Messi’s achievement as “extraterrestrial.” Barcelona ran out comfortable winners at the Los Carmenes …
Read More »New movie Pieces of a Woman is a story of forgiveness… so why is Netflix so keen to cancel its star, Shia LaBeouf?
Pieces of a Woman, the new arthouse film starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf that is garnering some Oscar buzz, premiered on Netflix on January 7. The film, written by Kata Wéber and directed by Kornél Mundruczó tells the story of a Boston couple who suffer a traumatic home birth …
Read More »Parler CEO denounces ‘coordinated attack’ by Big Tech as Amazon prepares to pull plug on its servers
While the conservative-friendly social media company hopes to move to a new hosting provider soon, it acknowledged that its options are “limited” due to a “coordinated effort” designed and timed to “inflict the most damage,” according Matze. Earlier on Saturday, Apple followed Google’s steps to purge Parler from its App …
Read More »Was that 1992 or ‘1984’? Trump haters call on Hollywood to DIGITALLY REMOVE president’s cameo appearance from Home Alone 2
“Breaking news: Donald Trump to be digitally replaced in ‘Home Alone 2’ with actor Christopher Plummer,” producer and writer Dan Slott quipped Friday night on Twitter. Podcast host and author John Rain said Disney Plus had announced the Plummer-for-Trump swap. Of course no such announcement was made, and Plummer, by …
Read More »‘Witch hunt’? Police officers & firefighters probed, employees losing jobs for partaking in US Capitol protest-turned-riot
“The department fully supports all lawful expressions of First Amendment freedom of speech, but the violent mob and events that unfolded at the US Capitol were unlawful and resulted in the death of another police officer,” Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said Friday night in a statement. The two officers …
Read More »Apple suspends Parler from App Store after unrealistic 24-hour deadline to introduce content-policing expires
While the Alphabet-owned tech behemoth suspended Parler from its main app platform right away, Apple Inc. issued a symbolic ultimatum on Friday, giving the company 24 hours to impose content-policing. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler …
Read More »BLM supporters melt down after Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse spotted LEGALLY drinking beer at a Wisconsin bar
Photos of Rittenhouse’s outing earlier this week at Pudgy’s Pub in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, began circulating on social media on Friday, spurring outraged responses and an investigation by local police. It turns out that it’s legal in Wisconsin for an 18-year-old to drink beer at a tavern in the company …
Read More »Trump’s blanket ban from social media proves the information war is over. If you’re reading this, you’ve lost.
Twitter permanently banned the president from its platform on Friday, following in the footsteps of Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch, and other platforms that used Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol as an excuse to do what much of Silicon Valley has wanted to do for years. But it wasn’t Trump’s on-platform conduct …
Read More »One-China policy ‘null & void’? Trump creates diplomatic hot potato for Biden as Pompeo ends all restrictions on Taiwan relations
“Our two democracies share common values of individual freedom, the rule of law and a respect for human dignity,” Pompeo said Saturday in a statement. China doesn’t acknowledge Taiwan’s sovereignty, and the US has operated under a geopolitical compromise with Beijing in its dealing with the island. Neither the US …
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