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The people of Liberland love Bitcoin and hate political correctness. There will be no taxes and very few women or people of color. But with some luck, the unrecognized three-square-mile territory on the Western bank of the Danube might one day become the Libertarian utopia for disaffected white men. The women of Liberland may be…
“You are going to bleed and be tortured,” the caller said, according to police.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Gwynne Hogan EAST WILLIAMSBURG — A worker at the popular pizza joint Roberta’s received death threats after rumors spread on YouTube and Twitter that it was connected to Pizzagate — the fake-news conspiracy theory claiming Hillary Clinton was running a child abuse ring out…
Photo: Adrian Ramirez/Getty Images/EyeEm It would be almost rude to close out the year without another flare-up regarding the exchange of human remains on Tumblr, the premier social network and microblogging service for the discussion and exchange of human remains. Last year, it was “Boneghazi,” in which a self-styled witch admitted to, apparently, collecting bone…
New Balance shoe-owners shared images of themselves disposing of the brand in protest after the company’s vice president of public affairs said Donald Trump’s trade policies were a “move in the right direction.” (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) Last week, not even a full 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump earned that title, a senior official…
Patient burned by mid-surgery explosion when laser ignites fart: An accident at Tokyo Medical University Hospital… https://t.co/lj29bWjF3M pic.twitter.com/dVfqX7N8m3 — NewYork (@NewYorkLoving) October 31, 2016 Ninety-nine percent of the colorless, but certainly not odorless, gas released when one “passes gas” is a combination of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and methane. The last 1 percent is made by…
It’s been a year dominated by strong women, whose voices have rung throughout our halls of power, been heard louder than ever in our entertainment, and, of course, echoed madly off the canted walls within the Kafkaesque gauntlet that is our presidential election. Yes, 2016 was a watershed moment for women, who have entered what…
New Iberia, La. For an illustration of how cruel the country’s latest wave of nativism has grown, look to Louisiana. Here, a little-noticed new state law has effectively made it illegal for thousands of refugees to get married. It all started last year. Having lost the fight over gay marriage, the state’s religious right decided…
Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they’re trying to do something about it. At least two of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is…
post content The Pledge Drive continues! If you enjoy this blog, and can afford it, please click on the “donate” button below! Thanks! Note to aspiring douchebag filmmakers: Filming a group of dudes walking down the street does not make you Quentin Tarantino. Note to groups of dudes walking down the street: walking down the street in…
Normani Kordei, a member of the girl group on the rise Fifth Harmony, sat for a lighthearted Facebook Live interview earlier this month. Within a week, she had been chased off Twitter by a mob spewing racist insults. “I’ve not just been cyber bullied, I’ve been racially cyber bullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially…