Two questions immediately occur to anyone watching the trailer for Cocaine Bear: Is this real? and Why? The first is easy enough to answer. The film, about a black bear who gobbles bricks of cocaine and then butchers a series of humans in rapid succession, is loosely based on a real-life black bear who, in 1985, gobbled at least part of a single brick of cocaine and then died.The true story had no murderous rampage.
This is an edition of The Great Game, a newsletter about the 2022 World Cup—and how soccer explains the world. Sign up here.Japan beat two World Cup champions, Germany and Spain, on its way to the knockout stage. But the Samurai Blue will go no further, defeated on penalties by the 2018 finalists Croatia after more than 120 minutes of play, including the first shootout of this year’s tournament.
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Donald Trump’s call over the weekend for terminating the Constitution was, though appalling, also a long time coming.Trump, the once and aspirationally future Republican president, has long praised the Constitution and touted his own defense of it in heroic terms.
Residents of New York’s Chinatown are speaking out against the construction of a new megajail in the neighborhood that would be a third as high as the Empire State Building, which would likely make it the tallest jail in the world, if finished.
A group of current and former Yale students is suing the Ivy League university over what they say is “systemic discrimination” against students struggling with mental health issues. In a lawsuit filed last week, they say school administrators routinely pressure students to withdraw from Yale rather than accommodating their mental health needs, a practice that disproportionately hurts students of color, those from poor or rural backgrounds and international students.
Many GOP lawmakers who sailed to victory in states with anti-abortion laws are planning to use their expanded power.
With new infections down, health officials will wind down emergency and let it expire by end of next month.
Health officials may allow the declaration to expire, even as they keep their mpox response in place.
The latest round of Medicaid expansion negotiations comes as states prepare for the eventual end of the Covid-19 public health emergency, and as nearly a third of rural hospitals are at risk of closure.
He also criticized China’s Covid-19 response as “shutdowns without a seeming purpose.
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
According to an NBC News poll released Sunday, 70 percent of registered voters expressed interest in the upcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a 10-point scale.
When high school students in Rockland County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over protests that she was “too radical.” But the students persevered, and Angela Davis addressed a packed church Thursday night.
More than six months since the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while reporting in the occupied West Bank, “there is still no accountability in what happened,” says journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous. He is the correspondent on a new Al Jazeera documentary for the program “Fault Lines” that investigates Abu Akleh’s May killing.
New York Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that police and emergency medical workers will start hospitalizing people with mental illness against their will, even if they pose no threat to others. Rights groups and community organizations have slammed the move as inhumane and are demanding better access to housing and other support for people struggling with mental illness and homelessness. “That does require funding. That does require investment.
With a new Congress being sworn in next month, Democratic lawmakers have a busy lame-duck session during which they will try to pass as many bills as possible before losing their majority in the House of Representatives.
“That’s not cool,” Musk said on a Twitter roundtable.
“We’ve been engaged repeatedly, in any way that we can, to try to advance it,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday.
Trump’s failure to condemn antisemitism and to distance himself from antisemites like Kanye West is “just wrong,” Israel’s returning prime minister said.
“You can’t just get rid of it when it no longer suits your purposes,” Alice Stewart said after the thrice-married president suggested ending the Constitution.
Trump “says a lot of things,” noted Ohio Rep. David Joyce, who insisted he “can’t be chasing every one of these crazy statements.
Assuming they survive the new year with their razor-thin House majority intact, Republicans have promised to shut down the bipartisan investigation into the deadly insurrection incited by Donald Trump and enabled by several of their own colleagues at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Has Ukraine established a bridgehead over Dnipro, as the ISW and media are telling right now? The short answer is technically yes, but in practice no. Ukrainian forces indeed made a visit there, but it was a small special operations detachment. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/8YWdJ7b0AT— Emil Kastehelmi (@emilkastehelmi) December 4, 2022
Yeah, not a liberation.
*Daily Kos is re-running the below story in honor of Cleve Jones, AIDS activist and founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, who was awarded a Lifetime of Commitment Award received on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 2022.
The National AIDS Memorial marked the annual day of hope, healing, and remembrance, with observances at the 10-acre Memorial Grove and displaying the Quilt in nearly 100 communities throughout the U.S.
Last we heard from right-wing huckster racists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, they were pleading guilty to 14 counts of fraud in an Ohio courtroom for their parts in orchestrating and carrying out a racist, voter-suppressing robocalling plan in Black communities in Michigan, New York, and Ohio.
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Earlier this week, Merriam-Webster announced its 2022 word of the year: gaslighting. The dictionary’s selection of the term—defined as “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one’s own advantage”—was in part a response to public demand: Searches for gaslighting rose by 1,740 percent over the past 12 months. That interest might reflect the fact that gaslighting describes so much, so efficiently.