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ABC suspends ‘The View’ host Whoopi Goldberg for saying Holocaust ‘not about race’
Goldberg made the comments Monday during a discussion on “The View” about a Tennessee school board’s banning of “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Nazi death camps. ABC News suspended “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg for MORE
News
Banned: Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record numbers
Why are we sexualizing our precious children?” a Katy parent said at a November school board meeting after she suggested that books about LGBTQ relationships are causing children to improperly question their gender identities and sexual orientations. MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Monday AGAIN? Didn’t we just have one of these? What is life? Life is a series of Mondays which follow each other.S ome are better than others, but they’re still all Mondays. . . . MORE
Police
9 Officers fatally shoot 1 man on Tennessee I-65; traffic stopped, multiple witnesses
One of nine officers who opened fire on a man on a Tennessee interstate Thursday has been stripped of his police powers pending a review of the incident, Nashville police said Friday. Authorities released body MORE
Sedition
A Police Officer Died By Suicide After Jan. 6. Newly released bodycam footage shows what he experienced.
Bodycam footage shows what Officer Jeffrey Smith experienced at the Capitol on what his widow described as “the worst day of his life.” About six months after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Erin Smith MORE
January 6 Subcommittee
The Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 14 people in fake electors scheme tied to Trump
“The Select Committee is seeking information about attempts in multiple states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the planning and coordination of efforts to send false slates of electors to the National MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 4
Happy Friday News Viewers, hope all is well in your neck of the woods. This is Free Chat, our Friday open forum to talk about the days, weeks, months and years we’re living through. We MORE
Business
Backlash grows against Spotify over decision to support Joe Rogan over Neil Young
‘We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon,’ said a Spotify spokesperson Spotify is in the process of removing Neil Young’s music from its library. The decision follows MORE
Economy
Where is the Dystopian Hellscape? Signs indicate Resilient US Economy
From the Washington Post: The U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021, the fastest full-year clip since 1984, roaring back in the pandemic’s second year despite two new virus variants that rocked the United States. MORE
Gun Violence
San Jose City Council passes new gun insurance ordinance
San Jose is on the verge of becoming the first city in the nation to require gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee aimed at reducing gun violence. More than two years MORE
Coronavirus
Way to thank the fans! Rodgers and Clapton use fame to spread misinfo about Covid
Clapton was unflatteringly compared to fellow musician Neil Young who recently took a strong stance against vaccine misinformation Eric Clapton has sparked outrage online after claiming people who have had the Covid vaccine are victims of MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
🎶Monday, Monday. Can’t trust that day. . . . 🎶 (On Monday morning you gave me no warning of what was to be!) Unless it’s Monday’s Free Chat on NV, Free Range, the anything-goes-within-or-without-reason, so MORE
Education
A Texas teacher was placed on leave after calling students ‘complete and utter morons’
A Texas teacher was placed on administrative leave amid an investigation after she was caught in a viral social media video stating that her junior high school students “utter morons.” In the audio of the video MORE
Local
Experts unsure what kind of animal Pennsylvania woman rescued
A Pennsylvania woman thought she brought in a dog wandering in the cold, but now, wildlife experts are working to figure out what type of animal it is. Christina Eyth thought the animal was her MORE
Congress
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans Hearing
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee took Wednesday as an opportunity to hold a virtual hearing on how toxic chemicals are killing U.S. soldiers. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took the hearing as an opportunity to clean MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 3
Howdy News Viewers on this third Friday of 2022–this is Free Chat AKA open forum, open thread, all topics all the time as long as they’re civil, interesting and funny in that irreverent NV way. MORE
Coronavirus
Omicron: Surprising Symptoms and Long Covid
The ZOE Covid Study continues to update its list of COVID-19 symptoms, especially among those who are infected by the Omicron Variant. The second most common symptom is one that’s easy to miss — headaches. “One early MORE
2022 Election
Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state
From CNN Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year’s elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups. But Wednesday’s vote by the Lincoln MORE
SCOTUS
Supreme Court’s Gorsuch refused to wear mask despite request over Sotomayor’s Covid concerns, report says
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has refused to wear a mask during in-person proceedings, despite a request from Chief Justice John Roberts for all members of the high court to accommodate Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s concern MORE
Pandemic Morons
Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s glee at general’s Covid diagnosis sparks outrage
Rightwing presenter called a ‘merchant of death’ after mockingly applauding as she revealed Gen Mark Milley’s positive test The rightwing Fox News host Laura Ingraham has stoked outrage by announcing that the chairman of the US joint MORE
Breaking News
Malik Faisal Akram, Colleyville Synagogue Hostage Taker: Terrorist? or Something Else?
Malik Faisal Akram was the suspect who took hostages at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. The 44-year-old British man was killed in the January 15, 2022, incident at Congregation Beth Israel. The FBI and local authorities MORE
Crime
Update: Colleyville synagogue hostages aided by FBI HRT formed after ’72 Munich Olympics
Law enforcement officials said the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team was used in the operation to free hostages from a Colleyville synagogue after an 11-hour standoff. Late Saturday, the hostages were released and the hostage-taker was MORE
Crime
At least 4 hostages are being held at Texas synagogue, official says
What we know so far: The FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety are assisting a hostage situation at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, according to police. FBI negotiators made contact with the person in the building, MORE
The Press
Should the Press Be Interviewing Trump at All?
Serious question: How do you cover a candidate (if he ends up running in 2024) who’s running within the system but also trying to destroy it? Politics is usually seen as a party-on-party fight, with MORE