The 79-year-old specialist, who brought to fame figure skating legends Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plushenko, compared Tuktamysheva’s beauty to an ancient piece of art, saying that her recent photo session would have attracted even “primitive men.” “Tuktamysheva’s body would have attracted the attention even of primitive men. View this post …
Read More »‘Like vacation, sex and arts – it’s a work-life balance thing’: Columbia professor defends heroin habit, sparking drug debate
Carl Hart, who chairs the psychology department at the prestigious Ivy League university, provided some remarkable personal anecdotes about recreational drug use in his new book, ‘Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear’. The 54-year-old father of three revealed that he regularly snorts small amounts of …
Read More »Star Wars defends new hire Arielle, accused of bias against white people. Why were you silent about Gina Carano, Twitter asks
Actress and geek media personality Krystina Arielle was picked by Lucasfilm to be the face of ‘The High Republic Show’, a bi-monthly behind-the-scenes video series exploring the new Star Wars sub-franchise. ‘The High Republic’, launched last year, is the latest attempt to branch out from fan-favorite characters and stories of …
Read More »‘I do not celebrate or feel pride’: Twitter CEO defends Trump’s permaban, but admits speech crackdown can ‘destroy’ open internet
“I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter,” Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday, adding that the decision to boot the president off the platform was still “the right” one. He cited the “extraordinary and untenable circumstances” the social media giant had to consider when it …
Read More »‘He’s not a psychopath’: Martin Shkreli’s ex-girlfriend defends ‘Pharma Bro’ after he breaks up with her in magazine article
On Sunday, Elle magazine detailed how Smythe – a former reporter for Bloomberg News – gradually fell in love with Shkreli while covering his legal issues as a journalist, and eventually left her job and husband for the convicted felon who is often described as “one of the most hated …
Read More »Merkel defends Germany’s coronavirus response, says it’s not ‘dictatorship’-styled as in other countries
Speaking at theBundestag on Wednesday, the chancellor lauded her flexible approach to the coronavirus crisis. Facing the second wave of the pandemic, the country has rolled out the so-called “lockdown lite” avoiding a complete shutdown. “Our political action is different from what they do in countries that are more like …
Read More »US Navy defends entering Russian waters by blasting Moscow’s ‘EXCESSIVE’ maritime claims
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated on Tuesday that the USS McCain sailed more than two kilometers into Russian waters off the coast of the Russian Far Eastern capital, Vladivostok, that morning. According to Moscow, the USS McCain was warned away by the Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov, whose crew warned …
Read More »‘Manipulative BULLS**T’: Glenn Greenwald defends calling NBC a CIA mouthpiece, mocks accusation of ‘endangering journalists’
“Profoundly sorry for endangering the lives of NBC executives and TV personalities by spilling the extremely well-kept secret of their close working relationship with the CIA,” Greenwald tweeted sarcastically on Saturday. His message showed a picture of a headline about NBC’s 2018 hiring of ex-CIA chief John Brennan as an …
Read More »‘These patriots did nothing wrong’: Trump defends MAGA caravan that ‘surrounded & harassed’ Biden bus in Texas amid FBI probe
“In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong,” Trump said in a tweet on Sunday night, tripling down on his praise for pickup-driving supporters who surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus as it passed through central Texas on Friday. In a brief statement, FBI San Antonio confirmed it was “aware of …
Read More »Trans activist praised for ‘shutting down’ woke critic on air, as she defends JK Rowling’s upcoming ‘transvestite-killer’ book
Rose of Dawn, a prominent YouTuber and a trans person herself, was hosted by Piers Morgan, when she had to refute quite a few positions expresses by another guest, journalist Benjamin Butterworth. Butterworth claimed that the mere imagery of a man dressing like a woman to commit murders is inherently …
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