January 30, 2025 Britain, Pop Music
The Guardian reports: Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters, has died aged 78. A spokesperson said: “It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. …
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January 30, 2025 Fake News, State Television
“I want to start with something that the president said about his third or fourth paragraph. This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capital and in our nation’s history and a tragedy of terrible proportions. As one nation we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly and we are a country …
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January 30, 2025 Canada, Religion
The CBC reports: A former Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing children in Nunavut has been sentenced to six years in prison. Eric Dejaeger, 77, pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexually abusing children in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982. The children Dejaeger abused, who are now middle-aged, were between the ages of four and nine. Justice Faiyaz Alibhai read …
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January 30, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key …
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January 30, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
NPR reports: On his first day in office, President Donald Trump granted clemency to every person charged or convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, even those convicted of violently assaulting police officers. But Trump’s pardons and commutations for people he has called “patriots” did not wipe away certain defendants’ extensive criminal records …
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January 30, 2025 Covidiots, Crackpots
Bernie Sanders: “There have been, as I understand it, dozens of studies done all over the world that make it very clear that vaccines do not cause autism. Now, you just said, if I heard correctly, well, if the evidence is there. The evidence is there! That’s it. Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree with that?” Robert Kennedy: …
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January 30, 2025 Extremists
Mediaite reports: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) grilled Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, about some of his past associations with “extremist figures,” one of whom Patel claimed not to be familiar with despite eight different appearances on his podcast. “Mr. Patel, you frequently associated with and sometimes praised extremist figures with well-documented histories of racism, anti-Semitism, …
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January 30, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
NBC News reports: President Donald Trump on Thursday blasted former President Joe Biden and Democratic diversity measures after a midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter above Washington, D.C., the night before. Trump, speaking at the White House, claimed that DEI “could have been” to blame for the collision, the deadliest U.S. plane …
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January 30, 2025 Christianists, Extremists
Rolling Stone reports: The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute. In a statement released Wednesday, the leadership of the ACC wrote that “were made aware of a post made on X showing the end of a …
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January 30, 2025 Advertising, Pop Music
People Magazine reports: Cher isn’t as successful at turning back time as she would’ve hoped in a new ad. The Believe singer, 78, shows just how wrong things can get when she tries to take a step back in time — like the lyrics to her infamous 1989 hit song — in a new Uber Eats commercial that premiered in …
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