In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-podcast Shahid Buttar , a constitutional lawyer and 2020 challenger of Nancy Pelosi. For this week’s “Republicans Suck,” Matt and Katie take a look at a Tennessee GOP push to prohibit kneeling during the national anthem at college sports games. “This is the Republicans we grew up to love, the Dixie Chicks-hating Republicans. And this is frankly one of the reasons why they’re not getting as much sympathy as you might guess on the free speech front, because they’ll turn around and do stuff like this that undermines their entire argument against speech prohibitions,” says Matt. Related Stories Ava DuVernay Announces Spotify Podcast Series on Police Accountability Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen Team Up for Spotify Podcast Related Stories Food, Family and Psycho Turkeys: 12 Off-the-Wall Thanksgiving Movies … [Read more...] about ‘Useful Idiots’: The Democrats Try to Cancel Fox News
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Eliza Dushku Accuses ‘True Lies’ Stunt Coordinator Of Sexual Assault; Mother, Brother Support – Update
UPDATE with statements from Dushku’s mother, brother Actress Eliza Dushku has accused famed stunt coordinator Joel Kramer of sexually molesting her when she was 12 years old during filming of True Lies . Dushku, the former Buffy The Vampire and Dollhouse actress, starred as the daughter of the characters played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kramer, who has long been Schwarzenegger personal stunt double, was the film’s stunt coordinator. She also claims that after Kramer was confronted by an adult she’d confided in, he intentionally injured her, breaking her ribs, in a stunt that went wrong during filming of the film’s Harrier Jet scene. “Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser,” the Bull actress wrote in a lengthy Facebook posting. Related Story 'Buffy' Alum Eliza Dushku Praises "Powerful, Painful" Claims By Charisma Carpenter Of Abuse By Joss Whedon “These are outlandish, manipulated lies,” Kramer told … [Read more...] about Eliza Dushku Accuses ‘True Lies’ Stunt Coordinator Of Sexual Assault; Mother, Brother Support – Update
Latest WandaVision Theory Believes Wanda Was a Mutant Long Before Strucker’s Experiments
The latest WandaVision episode cleared a lot of questions we all had regarding the Hex, the sitcom-styled events, Vision's resurrection, and of course, the origin of Agatha Harkness. But there was one thing special about the episode, which put Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch among the prominent super-beings within the MCU. And that was the experiences of her past. Be warned, there are BIG SPOILERS ahead. Previously On , the allegorical title to the episode in context with its plot, takes us back on a recap of Wanda's life since the very day when Stark Industries' missile changed her and Sokovia's fate. And in one of those scenarios, the episode may have left us a hint to the origin of her powers. And no, it wasn't the Mind Stone. RELATED: Does Latest WandaVision Episode Reveal Yo-Magic Shark's Identity? Hint At Wanda's Powers In the episode, Agatha forces Wanda to revisit the day her parents were killed by a missile that struck her house. It starts as a happy moment … [Read more...] about Latest WandaVision Theory Believes Wanda Was a Mutant Long Before Strucker’s Experiments
The QAnon Community Is in Crisis — But On Telegram, It’s Also Growing
Now that the Biden administration is officially underway, the QAnon community is in crisis. Adherents to the conspiracy theory, which postulates the existence of a cabal of media and left-wing political figures engaged in a child trafficking ring, believed that Inauguration Day would serve as the Great Awakening, and that President Trump would swoop in and arrest and execute all of his enemies. Yet after Inauguration Day came and went without incident, many were left confused, disappointed, and disillusioned with the promises of Q . As a result of the failed promise of an Inauguration Day reckoning, some extremism experts predicted that the community would be in turmoil, or that believers would undergo a crisis of faith and possibly turn away from the movement. On the encrypted messaging app Telegram, however, which is currently serving as a bastion of far-right extremism, the QAnon community is not just thriving, but growing, according to data from the Center for Hate and … [Read more...] about The QAnon Community Is in Crisis — But On Telegram, It’s Also Growing