the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread
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NBC's Ronna McDaniel meltdown: Falsehoods and debunked narratives MSNBC promoted on its 'sacred airwaves'
MSNBC stars pushed out Ronna McDaniel from their "sacred airwaves," which has featured such narratives as Trump-Russia collusion and Hunter Biden's laptop being disinformation.
www.foxnews.com
Well written. Frightening.
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First MLB Fight Of Season Involves Two Birds, A Shocking Slap & Nasty Shove
First MLB fan fight of the season comes to us from San Diego and includes a wild slap.
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Remember, this is baseball. It's a marathon, not a sprint. When you have fans beating the hell out of each other during football season, you need to bring your A-game every week, because you only get so many of them.
With baseball, you HAVE to pace yourselves. You have 162 games of this. You can't be out there wreaking havoc every night. That's just not sustainable.
Anyway, the slap here is pretty jarring. The two middle-fingers right before it are a nice touch. I appreciated that.
Again, though, the shove at the end is a bad move. You don't do that. Sorry, it's just not acceptable. And is that a Bud Light in his hand? If so, it explains a lot.
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FDNY firefighters forced to remove ‘Thin Red Line’ flag after Dem's office called it a political symbol
NYC firefighters were were ordered to remove a "Thin Red Line" flag after receiving a complaint from a Democratic councilwoman’s office that it was a "political symbol."
www.foxnews.com
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Disney-DeSantis settlement humiliates past pro-Disney headlines: Media 'as usual' were wrong
Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Central Florida tourism board reached a settlement on Wednesday that would end all Florida state’s pending litigation between the two.
www.foxnews.com
wader
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what could possibly go wrong?
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Ready or not, self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America’s highways
- - - Resending to correct typo in the year that Richard Gaskill became a truck driver in Texas from 1988 to 1998. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. - - - PALMER, Tex. - Perched in the cab of a 35,000-pound semi-truck...
wader
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WTF?!???!!??
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Dogs Cause $3,000 in Car Damage After Trying to Catch Cat
Shocking video shows two pit bulls taking apart an SUV. The dogs surrounded the vehicle from both sides as they ferociously ripped the car. The owner of the SUV, Christie Barr, couldn't believe it when she saw the damage the following morning, which came up to almost $3,000. Although it's...
wader
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Virginia Democrat slams proposal to name airport after Trump: ‘I’d suggest they find a federal prison’
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Tuesday criticized a recently-introduced GOP bill that would rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former President Trump. “Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges,” Connolly, whose district includes a portion of Dulles, said in a statement. “If...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Tuesday criticized a recently-introduced GOP bill that would rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former President Trump.
“Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges,” Connolly, whose district includes a portion of Dulles, said in a statement. “If Republicans want to name something after him, I’d suggest they find a federal prison.”
I wonder if they'll get on the parkways and hit overpasses - that happens all the time around here.what could possibly go wrong?
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Battleground Dem senator posted 23 times on George Floyd, silent on Laken Riley
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has tweeted about George Floyd at least 23 times but 0 times about Laken Riley following her murder, a review of his X accounts show.
www.foxnews.com
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China sends warplanes, boats around Taiwan following phone call between Xi and Biden
Following a phone call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, dozens of Chinese warplanes and naval vessels were reported making incursions into Taiwanese territory.
www.foxnews.com
Xi realized after the call how weak this administration has become. A great big F U to JB.
JackPrintMD
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Exactly … Biden was mumbling about trans Easter bunnies While Xi was making plans for taking every advantage over AmericaChina sends warplanes, boats around Taiwan following phone call between Xi and Biden
Following a phone call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, dozens of Chinese warplanes and naval vessels were reported making incursions into Taiwanese territory.
Xi realized after the call how weak this administration has become. A great big F U to JB.
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wader
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Good God. There's actually a market for this kind of thing?
"Torture King" Michael Macartney - pictured at his home in Virginia - is facing up to five years in prison on animal abuse charges [Joel Gunter/BBC]
A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors.
Michael Macartney, 50, who went by the alias "Torture King", was charged in Virginia with conspiracy to create and distribute animal-crushing videos.
Mr Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team during a year-long investigation into sadistic monkey torture groups.
Two women have also been charged in the UK following the investigation.
Mr Macartney, a former motorcycle gang member who previously spent time in prison, ran several chat groups for monkey torture enthusiasts from around the world on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
The groups were used to share ideas for custom-made torture videos, such as setting live monkeys on fire, injuring them with tools and even putting one in a blender.
The ideas were then sent, along with payments, to video-makers in Indonesia who carried them out, sometimes killing the baby long-tailed macaque monkeys in the process.
According to charging documents, Mr Macartney, who lives in the US state of Virginia, is accused by prosecutors of collecting funds from his chat groups and distributing videos depicting the "torture, murder, and sexually sadistic mutilation of animals, specifically juvenile and adult monkeys".
Mr Macartney has cooperated with investigators from the Department of Homeland Security and agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges. He will formally make a plea later this month and is facing up to five years in prison.
Speaking to the BBC Eye investigations team last year, Mr Macartney confessed to his role in the torture network, describing himself as the "king of this demented world".
"I was the man," he said. "You want to see monkeys get messed up? I could bring it to you."
Mr Macartney also described the moment he joined his first Telegram monkey group.
"They had a poll set up," he said. "Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?"
The resulting videos were "the most grotesque thing I have ever seen", Mr Macartney said, and yet he went on to become a key player in the monkey torture groups.
The BBC understands that more charges are expected to follow soon for other key players in the monkey torture network. At least 20 people were placed under investigation last year globally, following the BBC's investigation.
Three participants have already been charged in the US, including Mr Macartney. Two torturers were arrested and jailed in Indonesia, and three women have been arrested in the UK, two of whom have been charged.
Holly LeGresley, 37, of Kidderminster and Adriana Orme, 55, of Upton-upon Severn were charged last month with publishing an obscene article and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Ms LeGresley and Ms Orme were high-profile members of the online torture groups. Ms LeGresley, who went by the screen name "The Immolator", was a moderator in a group run by Mr Macartney and was involved in commissioning some of the most extreme videos.
In the US, two others have been charged with the same counts as Mr Macartney.
David Christopher Noble, 48, a former US Air Force officer who was previously court-martialed and dismissed from the military, and Nicole Devilbiss, 35. They are both facing up to five years in prison.
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Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged
"Torture King" Michael Macartney - pictured at his home in Virginia - is facing up to five years in prison on animal abuse charges [Joel Gunter/BBC]
A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors.
Michael Macartney, 50, who went by the alias "Torture King", was charged in Virginia with conspiracy to create and distribute animal-crushing videos.
Mr Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team during a year-long investigation into sadistic monkey torture groups.
Two women have also been charged in the UK following the investigation.
Mr Macartney, a former motorcycle gang member who previously spent time in prison, ran several chat groups for monkey torture enthusiasts from around the world on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
The groups were used to share ideas for custom-made torture videos, such as setting live monkeys on fire, injuring them with tools and even putting one in a blender.
The ideas were then sent, along with payments, to video-makers in Indonesia who carried them out, sometimes killing the baby long-tailed macaque monkeys in the process.
According to charging documents, Mr Macartney, who lives in the US state of Virginia, is accused by prosecutors of collecting funds from his chat groups and distributing videos depicting the "torture, murder, and sexually sadistic mutilation of animals, specifically juvenile and adult monkeys".
Mr Macartney has cooperated with investigators from the Department of Homeland Security and agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges. He will formally make a plea later this month and is facing up to five years in prison.
Speaking to the BBC Eye investigations team last year, Mr Macartney confessed to his role in the torture network, describing himself as the "king of this demented world".
"I was the man," he said. "You want to see monkeys get messed up? I could bring it to you."
Mr Macartney also described the moment he joined his first Telegram monkey group.
"They had a poll set up," he said. "Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?"
The resulting videos were "the most grotesque thing I have ever seen", Mr Macartney said, and yet he went on to become a key player in the monkey torture groups.
The BBC understands that more charges are expected to follow soon for other key players in the monkey torture network. At least 20 people were placed under investigation last year globally, following the BBC's investigation.
Three participants have already been charged in the US, including Mr Macartney. Two torturers were arrested and jailed in Indonesia, and three women have been arrested in the UK, two of whom have been charged.
Holly LeGresley, 37, of Kidderminster and Adriana Orme, 55, of Upton-upon Severn were charged last month with publishing an obscene article and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Ms LeGresley and Ms Orme were high-profile members of the online torture groups. Ms LeGresley, who went by the screen name "The Immolator", was a moderator in a group run by Mr Macartney and was involved in commissioning some of the most extreme videos.
In the US, two others have been charged with the same counts as Mr Macartney.
David Christopher Noble, 48, a former US Air Force officer who was previously court-martialed and dismissed from the military, and Nicole Devilbiss, 35. They are both facing up to five years in prison.
Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged
Michael Macartney, 50, confessed to the BBC his role in an extreme monkey torture network.
100,000 Live Salmon Spilled Off a Truck. Most Landed in a Creek and Lived.
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and “hit the water running,” a wildlife official said.On a recent morning in March, while dew was still on the road, there occurred the salmon smolt mishap of Northeast Oregon.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Tuesday that one of its tankers was in an accident on March 29, resulting in the escape of thousands of live salmon that were being moved as part of a federal and state program to replenish stocks depleted by dams.
The driver, who had minor injuries from the crash, had just left a local hatchery in Elgin, Ore., in the tanker, which weighed about 80,000 pounds when loaded with water and fish. It was about 10:30 a.m., early enough for there to be dew on the road. After navigating a sharp corner, the 53-foot tanker, which was carrying about 102,000 fish, rolled onto its passenger side, skidded, went down a rocky embankment and flipped onto its roof.
Tens of thousands of live fish were hurled out of the truck and swept into the Lookingglass Creek or onto its banks. The young salmon, or smolts, lucky enough to drop into the creek are expected to persevere in their migration from the Grande Ronde River to the ocean.
Employees from a local hatchery, members of the Nez Perce tribe and the Union County Sheriff’s Office came to help and to clean up the fish. They counted the losses.
About 25,525 smolts that were thrown onto the creek banks “were not able to flop down into the water,” Andrew Gibbs, the department’s fish hatchery coordinator for eastern Oregon, said in an interview on Wednesday.
“But the silver lining for me is 77,000 did make it into the creek and did not perish,” Mr. Gibbs said. “They hit the water running.”
In his 10 years on the job, Mr. Gibbs said, the accident appeared to be a rarity for the state and federal program, which moves smolt-stage salmon from Oregon’s hatchery to stock populations affected by dams built on the lower Snake River.
In northeastern Oregon, such efforts have been ongoing since 1982 at the Lookingglass Hatchery in Elgin, about 300 miles east of Portland. The hatchery was set up to spawn and incubate eggs. Smolts are transported between freshwater and saltwater using tankers and barges.
“It is kind of a fish taxi,” Mr. Gibbs said.
The state-run hatchery is one of 33 in Oregon that reinforces stocks of salmon, which are used for food and in sports fishing. The department said in its statement that the smolts that were lost made up about 20 percent of the total fish that state hatcheries planned to release into the Imnaha River this year.
The accident interrupted what is already a tortuous journey in the smolt life cycle, in which they encounter predators, fishing activity and habitat alterations that affect migrations, including the dams. As adults they die after spawning.
On the morning of March 29, the plan was for the smolts, which were about 18 months old, to be taken by tanker on a three-hour drive to a pool constructed at the Imnaha River. There, they were meant to acclimate for a few days before their 650-mile journey through the Snake and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific Ocean.
“They hitch a ride on the spring runoff, tail first, so there is less resistance,” Mr. Gibbs said. “That way, they can conserve energy until they get to the ocean.”
After up to three years of ocean foraging, the salmon will journey in reverse, using a kind of scent memory of the Imnaha River to guide them.
“They kind of smell their way back,” Mr. Gibbs said. “It’s an incredible life history.”
Avenger
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More clueless virtue signaling do-gooders causing problems for others:
So typical of those who supply the pavement on the road to you-know-where.
So typical of those who supply the pavement on the road to you-know-where.
Rick67
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What do you think they do to animals in scientific experimentation?Good God. There's actually a market for this kind of thing?
Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged
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"Torture King" Michael Macartney - pictured at his home in Virginia - is facing up to five years in prison on animal abuse charges [Joel Gunter/BBC]
A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors.
Michael Macartney, 50, who went by the alias "Torture King", was charged in Virginia with conspiracy to create and distribute animal-crushing videos.
Mr Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team during a year-long investigation into sadistic monkey torture groups.
Two women have also been charged in the UK following the investigation.
Mr Macartney, a former motorcycle gang member who previously spent time in prison, ran several chat groups for monkey torture enthusiasts from around the world on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
The groups were used to share ideas for custom-made torture videos, such as setting live monkeys on fire, injuring them with tools and even putting one in a blender.
The ideas were then sent, along with payments, to video-makers in Indonesia who carried them out, sometimes killing the baby long-tailed macaque monkeys in the process.
According to charging documents, Mr Macartney, who lives in the US state of Virginia, is accused by prosecutors of collecting funds from his chat groups and distributing videos depicting the "torture, murder, and sexually sadistic mutilation of animals, specifically juvenile and adult monkeys".
Mr Macartney has cooperated with investigators from the Department of Homeland Security and agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges. He will formally make a plea later this month and is facing up to five years in prison.
Speaking to the BBC Eye investigations team last year, Mr Macartney confessed to his role in the torture network, describing himself as the "king of this demented world".
"I was the man," he said. "You want to see monkeys get messed up? I could bring it to you."
Mr Macartney also described the moment he joined his first Telegram monkey group.
"They had a poll set up," he said. "Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?"
The resulting videos were "the most grotesque thing I have ever seen", Mr Macartney said, and yet he went on to become a key player in the monkey torture groups.
The BBC understands that more charges are expected to follow soon for other key players in the monkey torture network. At least 20 people were placed under investigation last year globally, following the BBC's investigation.
Three participants have already been charged in the US, including Mr Macartney. Two torturers were arrested and jailed in Indonesia, and three women have been arrested in the UK, two of whom have been charged.
Holly LeGresley, 37, of Kidderminster and Adriana Orme, 55, of Upton-upon Severn were charged last month with publishing an obscene article and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Ms LeGresley and Ms Orme were high-profile members of the online torture groups. Ms LeGresley, who went by the screen name "The Immolator", was a moderator in a group run by Mr Macartney and was involved in commissioning some of the most extreme videos.
In the US, two others have been charged with the same counts as Mr Macartney.
David Christopher Noble, 48, a former US Air Force officer who was previously court-martialed and dismissed from the military, and Nicole Devilbiss, 35. They are both facing up to five years in prison.
Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged
Michael Macartney, 50, confessed to the BBC his role in an extreme monkey torture network.
wader
Well-Known Angler
they don't stick live animals in blenders - film it & then sell it for profit - what the fuck is wrong with people who do this & for the people that get off watching it?
5 years in prison for those bastards is WAY too short.
Rick67
Well-Known Angler
Really? Think the blender would be more humane but what do I know. You should bring that question up to one who has experimented with them and then judge. Either way, either side will tell you it was for the science. They would be both right in saying it.they don't stick live animals in blenders - film it & then sell it for profit - what the fuck is wrong with people who do this & for the people that get off watching it?
5 years in prison for those bastards is WAY too short.
Avenger
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One would hope they don't gratuitously hurt them to satisfy some sociopathic depravity.
There should be a huge difference between unfortunately necessary advancement of science and sadism.
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