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Gotta take my lumps on this. TPM Reader SM was flagging the North Carolina anti-LGBT bill to us all day yesterday via email, and I was too busy on other things to give it a close look. So let me yield the floor to SM: Not to beat a dead horse here (kinda surprised there’s been no TPM coverage of…
Photo: Getty Islamophobia and terror-angst have gotten so bad in Europe that the classroom doodles of a 4-year-old are now potential red flags for jihadi radicalization. The BBC reports that a very young student in Luton, England was referred to local police after his teachers saw the above drawing of a stick figure cutting up…
This is an ad that appeared in the august pages of Christianity Today: It is no longer there, because Christianity Today has taken the bold stand that it’s really gross for daddies to sell their unfucked daughters in the want ads. OR, to be more specific, it’s really gross for daddies to put ads in the…
The Last Shadow Puppets are exhausted. Splayed on a couch in the lobby of Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel, Alex Turner and Miles Kane resemble a couple of loopy 2-year-olds being rounded up for bedtime. But you wouldn’t know how wrecked they are at first glance — both are styled to the nines in various patterns, textures, and…
Canadian couple David and Collet Stephan have pleaded not guilty to charges that they “failed to provide the necessities for life” to their 19-month-old Ezekiel, who died of untreated meningitis four years ago. According to the CBC, prosecutors have claimed that the couple attempted to treat their son with home remedies rather than take him…
Photo via InvictusForSenate.com Blood-drinking pagan and Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Augustus Sol Invictus was denied entry to Canada this weekend, FloridaPolitics.com reports. In a press release, Invictus, who is running to replace Marco Rubio, said that he was barred over ties to neo-Nazis. http://gawker.com/yes-i-drank-th… “Yes, I Drank the Goat’s Blood,” Says Florida’s Pagan, Libertarian,…
While he otherwise exhibits many of the traits of a stand-up comedian, laying into his rivals like an insult comic at a roast, Donald Trump’s inability to tolerate heckling, or even silent protest, has made the spectacle of critics being forcibly removed from his rallies a routine feature of his campaign. On Monday, though, the preemptive removal…
Milo Yiannopoulos.Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Kmeron/LeWeb/Flickr CC. This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed. In a packed auditorium Wednesday, several students at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, interrupted ultradivisive conservative writer and speaker Milo Yiannopoulos with blaring air horns. Outside, more student protesters held signs reading “End rape culture”…
LONDON — Remember that picture that did the rounds recently, of a mother with her two daughters where you just couldn’t figure out which was which? The one featuring Kaylan Mahomes with her mom and her twin that had everyone flummoxed for a while? Mom, twin & me.❤️ pic.twitter.com/2l5QEfYX1f — Kaylan Mahomes (@kaylan_17) January 28,…