Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[Dauphin]

I'm googling pics and I dont see faces painted white, albeit I only see 3-4 guys with torsos and faces painted black.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6625071/Black-basketball-player-jeered-Covington-fans-blackface-says-wasnt-race.html

But the black basketball player in the pic said it wasn't racist

Don’t trust the Daily Fail. It may be true, it may just be a pile of right wing bull****.

https://mashable.com/article/newsguard-microsoft-edge-fake-news/?europe=true

[Berzerker]

I didn't know they were a rag

[Dauphin]

A good send up of the paper.

https://youtu.be/k7nU2a23m9o

[JohnT]

[Elok]

Don’t trust the Daily Fail. It may be true, it may just be a pile of right wing bull****.

https://mashable.com/article/newsgua...s/?europe=true

It's good that they're including it in Microsoft Edge, which is used primarily by old people who don't know what Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. are. Presumably the same audience for whatever "fake news" is--it appears to be a hybrid of "people are believing lies" and "there are lies on the internet." All very troubling, since in previous ages our Republic's media were invariably paragons of honesty and dignity.

[Broken_Erika]

Norfolk police 'shocked' at car driven without front tyre

Police said they were "shocked" to find a car being driven erratically on a major road was missing a front tyre.

The driver was stopped on the A11 near Wymondham, Norfolk, by officers in the Norfolk and Suffolk Roads and Armed Policing Team (NSRAPT) on Saturday.

The vehicle was missing its front right-hand tyre.

After giving a breathalyser reading of more than three times the drink-drive limit, the driver was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-47019387

[BeBMan]

If we had them flying cars that were promised ages ago this would not be an issue

[pchang]

Trump has lifted sanctions against Deripaska’s companies.

[Ming]

If we had them flying cars that were promised ages ago this would not be an issue

[pchang]

You’d have to be a real dummy to sit in that thing.

[pchang]

Right after the Trump administration lifts sanctions against EN+ (majority holder of Rusal), EN+ names Christopher Bancroft Burnham (previously a member of Trump’s State Dept. transition team) as a director.

[Proteus_MST]

Collusion ... goes swimmingly

[pchang]

The US is imposing sanctions on PDVSA. If Maduro wants those sanctions to be lifted, all he has to do is name a Trump associate to a director position.

[Proteus_MST]

Even the russian Twitterbots are leaving Donnnie in droves

https://twitter.com/KladviaY/status/1090134321577553921

[spambot]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-47019387

I never realized British people spelled "tire" differently.

[Dauphin]

Or as a Brit would say:’I realised Americans spelt “tyre” differently’

[spambot]

It's good that they're including it in Microsoft Edge, which is used primarily by old people who don't know what Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. are. Presumably the same audience for whatever "fake news" is--it appears to be a hybrid of "people are believing lies" and "there are lies on the internet." All very troubling, since in previous ages our Republic's media were invariably paragons of honesty and dignity.

They will just dismiss "NewsGuard" as having a liberal agenda. They want to believe fake news.

[ZEE]

I bet Gribbler is a cutie.

[BeBMan]

Maduro has no chance to survive long-term with this moustache.

But I missed John Bercow having another field day yesterday. I bet there was a lot of fun "reign in them heckling MPs" stuff