Month: June 2021

Progressive clerics Rev. Jesse Jackson and Bishop William Barber II were among more than 20 people arrested during a Poor People’s Campaign demonstration at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, according to police. The campaign announced that they’d be holding the demonstration under the banner “A National Call for Moral Revival” this week. The mission of …

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A dangerous and disturbing incident caught on camera shows a vehicle doing donuts in the middle of a Silver Spring intersection while a crowd of onlookers blocks traffic. The video was taken Saturday night around 11:30 p.m. and shows the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. In the video, the crowd blocks all vehicles from entering …

Car does donuts in downtown Silver Spring dangerously close to crowds blocking traffic, video shows Read More »

Both lanes of Interstate-295 in Northeast D.C. have reopened to traffic Thursday morning after crews worked through the night clearing debris from the roadway following the collapse of a pedestrian bridge. Bridge 66, that spanned the highway just prior to Polk Street, collapsed around 12 p.m. Wednesday. Officials say six people were assessed at the scene and four …

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A Chesapeake Bay scientist said Tuesday that the climate is now changing so fast, that restoring the Chesapeake to what it used to be is not a realistic possibility. Instead, Dr. Bill Dennison, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences said the bay will “absolutely not” be the same …

Future of Chesapeake Bay should be ‘reimagined’ with climate change in mind, scientist reports Read More »

A group of business and community leaders are preparing to launch a recall petition drive for Baltimore’s top elected officials. “It’s not the answer, but it’s a knock on the door,” said Pastor Shannon Wright, who helped organize the recall petition. In a letter to City Councilman Mark Conway, the group is asking that the …

Local group wants a recall of Baltimore’s elected officials Read More »

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis beat former President Donald Trump in a presidential preference straw poll conducted by the Western Conservative Summit. In the survey conducted by the Centennial Institute at the event, participants were asked to select each potential candidate they would approve for president in 2024. DeSantis edged out Trump, who came in second. The other …

DeSantis Tops Trump in Western Conservative Summit Straw Poll Read More »

The beauty of being a Democrat in a country where the national media is more interested in owning the Trumptards than holding incompetent liars like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accountable is that she can get away with saying shit like this… “The reality is June over June, we’re seeing a downward trend in both homicides and shootings. …

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claims Shootings Down with Year-over-Year Murders Up Read More »

The Stonewall Inn is banning Anheuser-Busch products from the bar associated with the beginning of the gay rights movement during New York City’s Pride weekend because of the company’s donations to lawmakers behind bills that it says target transgender youth. “You can’t turn your logo rainbow on social media, call yourself an ally, and then turn around …

New York’s Stonewall Inn banning Bud products during Pride weekend Read More »

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had a factually suspect response to a reporter questioning the Biden administration about “safeguards” for “preferential treatment” in regards to hiring children and relatives for staff positions. One might quibble with the claim that propping up a dysfunctional president with a round-the-clock team of ‘handlers’ lest he should ‘get …

Psaki Unveils a Real Whopper: “We Have the Highest Ethical Standards of Any Administration in History” Read More »

He might have brought us Amazon, but he also owns the Washington Post and became one of the most annoying billionaires on the planet. This is likely the reason why almost 100,000 people have signed petitions requesting that Jeff Bezos NOT be allowed to return to Earth after he takes a trip to space. By …

Almost 100k sign petitions demanding billionaire Jeff Bezos NOT return to Earth after Space Trip Read More »