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Glamorous escort accused of planting trash can bomb that killed Ukrainian defector: reports

Yesterday - A glamorous Russian escort has been charged with the assassination of a high-ranking Ukrainian defector who was blown up by a bomb in a trash can, according to reports. Margarita Reut, 32, was arrested in Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea after Thursday’s blast killed Robert Shageev — an officer in the Kremlin’s Black Sea Fleet who was wanted for high treason, according to the Telegraph. The blast, allegedly carried out on Kyiv’s orders, killed the 49-year-old commander on the spot. Reut was quickly arrested and confessed, according to reports. She was remanded on a charge of terrorism leading to death, according...

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SCOFF LIMITS: Trump-trashing 'South Park' somehow skipped Biden

Yesterday - The conga line of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” guest hosts has us thinking the unthinkable: Do we miss the real deal?Make no mistake, Kimmel’s Trump derangement long ago gave the comic osteoporosis of the funny bone. But a quick sample of this week’s guest host reminds us there are even worse options than the former “Man Show” star.It appears that the creative team used AI to help design the Lobo character played by Jason Momoa.Take “Black-ish” alum Anthony Anderson. To the actor’s credit, he hasn’t cried like a widdle baby like Kimmel sometimes does. Still, one of his recent monologues proved painful.A sample?Apparently, after the NATO summit last month, Trump hid inside a catering cart to sneak out of Turkey due to security threats. And let’s give it up. Let’s give it up to the Secret Service. Do you know how hard it is to sneak a pig out of Turkey? That’s the same way he used to get onto Epstein’s plane.Comedy needs a kernel of truth to be funny. And as we’ve known for some time, Trump wasn’t a presence on Epstein Air, regular or otherwise.Someone else was though. Remember when all the late-night shows piled on former President Bill Clinton for taking the Lolita Express a reported 26 times?Somehow, Kimmel and co. forgot that news AI/DCThere’s a morbidly funny “Simpsons” meme that captures the “piling on” of anyone who has already suffered enough.“Stop! He’s already dead!”Now, it’s "Supergirl’s" turn. The Warner Bros. bust flamed out this year with critics and moviegoers. It stalled the DC Comics franchise and put overseer James Gunn in the hot seat.The clunker is facing new problems this week. A featurette sharing some behind-the-scenes magic from the movie revealed the production used AI to enhance the movie.In particular, it appears that the creative team used AI to help design the Lobo character played by Jason Momoa.That’s a no-no in Hollywood these days (even if more and more artists are copping to using the technology). Team Warner Bros. yanked the video off of YouTube, but the news went viral all the same. Turns out Kryptonite isn’t the only thing Supergirl fears …Presidential pardonThere’s a reason the legacy media is suddenly in love with all things “South Park.” It has nothing to do with Cartman, Butters, or the show’s no-holds-barred approach to comedy.Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone pounced on President Donald Trump all last season. Hard. Relentlessly. Now, suddenly, the show has fawning articles across the media landscape.Imagine that!Deadline did the honors this week, recalling how the show has tackled American presidents over its 30-year run. Yet one leader got very little attention. Hmmm. As the trade rag writes:"Curiously, Joseph Robinette Biden — 47th President of the United States — has never appeared in a significant role in South Park, having had his animated cameo cut from [season 12 episode] About Last Night … There were fewer seasons during his presidency, so that may be why."Fewer seasons. Yeah, that’s the ticket. It has nothing to do with the creators ignoring a leader with obvious cognitive decline or a vice president known for her word salad spinning …With cancellations like these Blacklists ain’t what they used to be.Once upon a time, a communist sympathizer would be hounded out of Hollywood. Or worse.In recent times, all it took to get blacklisted was suggesting you voted for President Donald Trump. James Woods hasn’t had a major starring role in a decade, meaning La La Land would rather ignore his two Oscar nominations to make sure a free thinker didn’t grace the movie set.And of course, he’s far from alone. Cheryl Hines’ bustling career dried up the moment her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joined team Trump.Now, ex-“Scream” actress Melissa Barrera is complaining about her blacklisting for her anti-Israel musings.“There are a lot of people that got fired for basically saying Palestinians deserve human rights and they shouldn’t be getting bombed and attacked in this way.”“Basically” does a ton of heavy lifting in that quote. Except that’s not why a microscopically small group of stars, including Barrera, suffered professional punishment. Nor does it explain why she’s so busy all of a sudden.Her recent credits include “Your Monster” (2024), “Abigail” (2024), “The Copenhagen Test” (2025), and the upcoming “Black Tides” and “The Collaboration.” Plus, she just made her Broadway debut earlier this year.Worst. Blacklisting. Ever....

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Here Comes the Completely Unfair General Election Coverage

4 days ago - With about three months remaining in the midterm campaign, it’s become time for the most desperate partisan gamesmanship, as our socialist-friendly media engage in helping the Democrats win. Do not recognize the “independent media” and the “independent fact-checkers” as the referees of this campaign. These elitists should be identified as uniformed players for the Democrat team, since the following are their apparent rules of campaign communication: 1. Republicans can’t call Democrats “communists.” This applies even if you make campaign appearances with someone like Hasan Piker, who thinks mass-murdering communist Mao Zedong is “one of the great leaders of this world." It applies even if you’re talking about New York's Darializa Chevalier, who published tweets about how great The Communist Manifesto is. That apparently proves nothing. 2. But Democrats can call Republicans fascists and Nazis. CNN and MS NOW seem like they’re on an endless loop of comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler amassing his tyrannical powers in the 1930s. Try looking for an article where PolitiFact throws a flag at a liberal calling a conservative a fascist or a Nazi. It doesn’t exist. 3. Republicans can’t call Democrats Islamists, jihadists, or pro-terrorist. Again, who are you if you campaign with Hasan Piker, who stated “America deserved 9/11”? Piker has hailed the mass-murdering terrorists of Hamas as "a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state" of Israel? The entire DSA contingent of candidates has a platform supporting "Palestinian resistance" while rejecting calls to condemn Hamas, framing the October 7, 2023 slaughter of innocents as an “inevitable” response to Israeli occupation. Screenshot/YouTube, Pacifica Radio 4. But Democrats can accuse Republicans of Christian nationalist theocracy. Abdul el-Sayed can make speeches at a 2022 CAIR event comparing conservatives in Oklahoma preemptively banning Sharia law to the 19th century murder of Indians, the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, and even the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995. That, to our media elites, is considered fair commentary. PolitiFact used that fact-mangling to defend el-Sayed as reasonable. But when Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction suggested putting the Bible in the classroom in 2024, CNN anchor Pamela Brown pushed back with a cartoonish brushback pitch: “Are you okay with all teachings of the Bible? If you want to bring it back into the classroom: rape, incest, beheading. Are you — Is that acceptable to you?” 5. Republicans can’t call Democrats extremists. The media consider it beneath their dignity when you recall their candidates denouncing Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and the “toxic masculinity” of football. They giggle at the ancient strains of “Woke One” in 2020, like those tweets were written on an IBM super-computer in 1971. The journalists all rush forward to say these Democrats didn’t seriously mean “defund the police,” they just wanted reform or something. 6. But Democrats can describe anyone to the right of the left-wing extremists as “moderates.” If you support Hamas and oppose Thanksgiving, the media’s choice of adjective is “progressive.” If you don’t support eradicating the state of Israel or beloved American holidays, you get to be a “moderate.” In Minnesota, Rep. Angie Craig is a “moderate” because she voted for the Laken Riley Act. “Progressive” Peggy Flanagan trashes Craig for that vote, meaning she is staunchly opposed to detaining illegal aliens who are charged with crimes, including rape and murder. These rules are not in any way fair and balanced. They are stacked to favor Democrats over Republicans. One party is considered to be constantly punching below the belt. The apparently fascist party deserves to be punched there....

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