EARLY EDITION: Five Fast News Stories For The Water Cooler (Wed. Mar 15)
TODAY'S STORIES: BLM database; drag show threatenes liquor license; FakeNews slander incites riot; Buzzfeed fail; school sued for religious discrimination; Narco sub
TODAY’S STORIES: BLM database; drag show threatenes liquor license; FakeNews slander incites riot; Buzzfeed fail; school sued for religious discrimination; Narco sub
1. BLM database tracks $82 Billion sunk into BLM-related projects by corporate America
Claremont’s American Way of Life project has developed a new database showing all the money that was thrown at BLM issues and groups in recent years, including more than $123 Million poured into the parent company by the same name.
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
But since there were so very many groups claiming to represent that cause, the real number is probably much higher than that.
You can do a lot of good with $82 Billion dollars… or you can make a comparatively few people very, very rich. People who supported those causes might want to ask which of these two answers best matches the reality on the ground. Was this movement a charity, a shakedown, a grift, or some combination of the three?
2. Florida targets liquor license of bar allowing minors to attend explicit drag show
Hyatt Regency Miami hosted a drag show involving sexually explicit themes, including Christmas songs rewritten to include references to fellatio, as well as a variety of explicit content.
They included performers who exposed their buttocks as well as prosthetic female breasts and genitalia to the audience; simulated masturbation; rubbing their prosthetic female breasts against the “faces or oral cavities of audience members,” and “graphic depictions of childbirth and/or abortion.” –Washington Times
Minors were confirmed to be on premises where alcohol was being served and content inappropriate for minors was being shown.
The license has not yet been officially revoked, but the administrative review process is underway.
3. SacBee publishes lie about Charlie Kirk and ‘lynchings’, Antifa attacks event
Andy Ngo brings the receipts with a screen cap of the tweet (and the deleted tweet) of what Hannah Holzer of the Sacramento Bee scandalously wrote about Charlie Kirk.
An opinion assistant editor for @sacbee_news, who is far-left herself, helped incite a violent #Antifa riot at @ucdavis with a fake news piece that falsely said @charliekirk11 called for “lynchings of trans people.” One of the tactics of the far-left is to spread lies about a target they hope someone will read, become more radicalized, & take violent action. I’m speaking as a victim on the receiving end of that by far-left disinfo peddlers in Portland assisted by the local biased press. — AndyNgo (Twitter March 15)
At the event itself, footage was filmed of leftists attacking the building. Kirk posted a clip on Twitter (March 14) with the following description:
Violent leftwing agitators just smashed through windows outside of the event venue here at UC Davis. Reports are that some of this group made their way into the building before police successfully removed them. Pray for peace and safety for all involved. 🙏
4. Buzzfeed loses $106.2M in last quarter
Buzzfeed — the company that brought the discredited Steele Dossier to the public, giving plausible justification for the endless witchhunt that followed — just took a big quarterly operating loss. As in $106.2M big.
They took their losses in ad revenue, content, and time spent by users. They are hoping to ride the short video wave (think: TikTok), but it remains to be seen how that plays out. And they are going to use AI to generate those trivial quizzes they like so much.
Of course, the fact that they are among the many companies that had money tied up in Silicon Valley Bank should surprise exactly none of us.
5. Christian school sues Providence school board over discrimination
Child Evangelism Fellowship is taking Providence to court after being blocked from after-school programs because of its Christian focus. Other groups (Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, and Girls on the Run) are given use of the school at no charge, but CEF is denied use of the school at all.
Mathew Staver, the lead lawyer for Liberty Council reminds the court that, “equal access means equal treatment in terms of use of the facilities, including fee waivers, time of meetings, and announcements.” Groups cannot be discriminated against based on a viewpoint — including a religious one.
Prior to COVID, CEF made use of school buildings, but after schools reopened, requests sent to Public School Superintendent Javier Montañez (also named in the suit) were not replied to, despite approval being given to other groups at the same time.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Narco sub found with 2 bodies and 3 tons of coke inside
Four drug-runners ran into mechanical trouble while smuggling three tons of cocaine in a submarine. Two of the crew didn’t make it. The other two were picked up by the Columbian Navy, also needing medical treatment. Toxic gases from the fuel were thought to be responsible.
This bust diverted some 6 million doses of cocaine from the streets. The sub is one of three the Columbian Navy has captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist guerilla group that spent decades trying to overthrow the government. Drugs and kidnappings are used in financing their operations.
