The fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis has detonated a familiar right-wing script, complete with bad-faith comparisons, selective outrage, and Kyle Rittenhouse popping up online to center himself as the real victim—again. The killing of Pretti, who was legally carrying a firearm and never drew or aimed it according…
Source: Brian To / Getty Jemele Hill, Hakeem Jeffries, and several other notable figures are uniting in support of Don Lemon following his arrest, calling for his immediate release. On Jan. 30 Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that the independent journalist, along with three others, were arrested “in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities…
Source: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Don Lemon was arrested. A Black journalist now operating independently, Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in connection with a January protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was livestreaming opposition to federal immigration enforcement. He was arrested nearly two weeks later, far from the…
Chrissy Teigen knows how to turn a confession into a conversation, but this time the punchline hit differently. The 40-year-old tried to bring alcohol back “mindfully,” after celebrating four years sober last summer before her relapse. The former fashion model told her 40.7 million followers it had been 52 days since her last drink. Chrissy…
✕ Over the last year, there’s been more and more talk about domestic terrorism, whether it’s the Trump administration levying the term at Renee Good and Alex Pretti to justify their fatal shootings at the hands of federal agents, or the public describing ICE’s increasingly brutal immigration campaign. While Renee Good and Alex Pretti were…
(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Thousands of students are planning to walk out of schools across Georgia as part of the “National Shutdown” in protest of ICE. Students in Georgia are planning to walk out on Friday in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The walkout is part of a broader “National Shutdown,” urging Americans…
Melania Trump’s self-titled documentary is officially out, but the public response is less than stellar. Ahead of its U.S. rollout on Jan. 30, ticket sales for “Melania” were already struggling, despite President Donald Trump‘s last-minute efforts to save the first lady’s film from flopping. Donald Trump and Melania Trump attend the world premiere of Amazon…
(Photo: Getty Images) “This is censorship by an authoritarian government,” said U.S. Rep. Crockett after Lemon and Fort, both independent journalists, were taken into custody by federal agents. Top Democrats are speaking out after the unprecedented arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, ordered by President Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Don Lemon and Georgia…
Source: JOE LAMBERTI / Getty Earlier this week, when a man was arrested for allegedly punching Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost after shouting racial slurs at him and saying, “We are going to deport your kind,” I made the point that, while right-wingers need to perform all manner of mental gymnastics to mark violent extremists as…
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills. (Photo credit: Orlando Sentinel ) Tiffany Score and Steven Mills are suing IVF Life, Inc. in Orlando, Florida, after she was impregnated with the wrong embryo. A white couple is suing a fertility clinic in Orlando, Florida, after an IVF mix-up allegedly led to them giving birth to a baby…
