The ancient Greeks had a thirst for mythological monsters. This obsession spread throughout the world and continues to the present day. However, many of the creatures were inspired not by the imagination but by science and nature. It has been discovered that the sites of the ancient myths were often places where large numbers of […]
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Kyle Shideler, who calls himself in his Twitter bio a “purveyor of radical Islam,” added some more detail to that story about a New Mexico compound made of garbage where five people were arrested for child abuse after 11 children were found living in Third World conditions. Court documents said one of the men was training children to commit school shootings.
According to The New York Post, one of the men arrested, Siraj Wahhaj, is the son of Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, 68, who heads the Masjid At-Taqwa mosque…
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Many people do not believe in cults. Despite the fact that very real cults have existed throughout history, many ordinary folks like to cast them aside as just a “conspiracy theory.” The problem is that, in many cases, such thinking is akin to an ostrich voluntarily dunking its head in the sand. Cults exist, and […]
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As Twitchy reported earlier Thursday, we’re to the point where a New York Times features writer had to apologize for a tweet in which she suggested new hire Sarah “#CancelWhitePeople” Jeong had yet to prove she deserved the warm welcome that columnist Bret Stephens had offered her.
For those who still haven’t been convinced that Jeong’s many tweets about hating “dumbass f**king white people” weren’t racist, here’s Vox’s Ezra Klein with an explainer:
Twitter is not your friend…
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As someone said in a tweet the other day, don’t make us defend Alex Jones. We don’t pay attention to Alex Jones, we rarely post about him (unless we’re ridiculing him for appearing shirtless on horseback or something), and we don’t consider him a conservative by any stretch.
But is it just us or is there some activist journalism going on over at CNN with the singular goal of purging Alex Jones and Infowars — and only Alex Jones and Infowars — from online existence? CNN first caught our eye with this:
Important to note that tech platforms did not enforce their own rules and take action against Alex Jones / InfoWars on their own accord…
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Keeping up with the news is hard. So hard, in fact, that we’ve decided to save you the hassle by rounding up the most significant, unusual, or just plain old mind-blowing stories each week. This week was marked by a real political nail-biter. Ohio’s 12th Congressional district special election went right down to the wire […]
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We at Twitchy love tweets about amazingly woke kids and the crazy things we say, but this one appears to be true. The Daily Beast’s Gideon Resnick was given the unenviable task of covering Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s town hall Thursday night, and one of the most poignant questions was raised by a 10-year-old.
A ten-year-old boy just asked how she's going to protect the Mueller investigation
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) August 9, 2018
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