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Watch: Mama bear tries to get uncooperative baby over a fence in silly video

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” July 3rd 2023 at 19:11

A mama bear gives a half-assed attempt to hoist her baby bear over a fence in the city of Monrovia, California. As if thinking of a million things she'd rather be doing, the bear looks like she's had it as she deals with her uncooperative fuzzy toddler โ€” who does nothing to help her out. โ€” Read the rest

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Horrific Anime Expo crowd looks like disaster waiting to happen: "If there is a fire โ€ฆ we are all dying" (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” July 3rd 2023 at 18:15

This year's Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center looks like a catastrophe waiting to happen, with "a line to find a line" to get inside, and a room so packed with people, the indoor convention crowd is at a standstill. โ€” Read the rest

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Rep. Ted Lieu mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene for her "stupid" demand to erase Trump impeachments (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” July 3rd 2023 at 17:16

A delusional Marjorie Taylor Greene insisted over the weekend that the GOP "erase from history" Donald Trump's two impeachments that he accrued during his one-term presidency.

"President Trump's political impeachments led by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and the Democrats were so egregious that they must be erased from history," the Georgia Congressquack shrieked at a Trump rally in South Carolina as her hot, bored MAGA fans looked away and chatted with others in the crowd. โ€” Read the rest

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Watch two playful pups greet a pack of icy wolves (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” April 7th 2023 at 23:56

Two friendly doggos were out to make some friends, wagging their tails as they greeted a pack of wolves. But the frozen wolves did not reciprocate, giving their uninvited guests long cold stares. The playful pups did not seem to take the hint, however, even after the wolves warned them with a chase down a hill to stay the hell away. โ€” Read the rest

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Candace Owens uses space laser logic to paint George Soros as a Nazi sympathizer

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” April 7th 2023 at 22:55

GQP troll Candace Owens joined the long line of malicious conservatives who have tried to accuse George Soros of being a Nazi collaborator, asking on her Daily Wire show today, "Is it plausible that he was actually sympathetic to the Nazis?" โ€” Read the rest

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Pilot makes emergency landing after he finds a slithering cobra under his shirt

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” April 7th 2023 at 18:49

A pilot flying a small plane in South Africa with four passengers aboard felt a "cold sensation โ€ฆ underneath my shirt at my hip area," and thought it was a leaky water bottle. Until he glanced to his left and saw a venomous cobra head making its way underneath his seat. โ€” Read the rest

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Rep. explains why two lawmakers were expelled from Tennessee House: "They are 2 young Black men"

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” April 7th 2023 at 18:01

After yesterdays's expulsion of two Tennessee state lawmakers โ€” Rep. Justin Jones (D) and Rep. Justin Pearson (D) โ€” for leading gun control rallies following the Nashville shooting, a third lawmaker involved in the demonstrations explains why she was spared the axe. โ€” Read the rest

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Tesla workers reportedly passed around private video from customers' cars

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” April 7th 2023 at 16:12

Just because a company โ€” like, say, Tesla โ€” promises that your privacy "is and will always be enormously important to us," doesn't mean your privacy is important to them. Nor does it mean your privacy will be protected. Where there's a camera, there's a way โ€” to invade your privacy, that is. โ€” Read the rest

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Manhattan DA receives death threat along with white powder in mail

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 24th 2023 at 21:31

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg received a threatening letter that said, ""ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!" along with white powder today, according to NBC News. The death threat comes on the same day Donald Trump warns on Truth Social about "potential death and destruction" if he's indicted. โ€” Read the rest

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Daily Wire host laughs at Uganda's anti-LGBTQ bill that includes death penalty (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 24th 2023 at 19:30

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles got a real chuckle over Uganda's recent anti-LGBTQ bill that makes it illegal to identify as LGBTQ and imposes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality."

"Now as far as I'm concerned, the death penalty is a little harsh," the conservative said, bursting into laughter to let his MAGA listeners know he doesn't really mean it. โ€” Read the rest

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Rudy Giuliani tells his listeners they're better off uneducated (audio)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 24th 2023 at 17:51

"I love the poorly educated," Donald Trump said in 2016 after polls showed that most of his support came from people who did not attend college. And so does Rudy Giuliani, or so he says on his Common (non)Sense podcast, desperately hoping to charm that same faction of Trump's MAGA base. โ€” Read the rest

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Southwest passenger pummels man on flight for allegedly bumping into his wife (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 9th 2023 at 15:12

The latest display of good air-travel behavior occurred on a Southwest Airlines flight in Dallas on Monday before the plane even took off. A gentleman felt slighted when a fellow gent allegedly bumped into his wife, so naturally he held the rude passenger in a headlock and repeatedly punched him inside the cabin until other passengers and flight crew members intervened. โ€” Read the rest

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Amazing pet skunk hangs out with dogs and even does tricks for treats (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 7th 2023 at 19:05

A 26-year-old dog trainer in Florida has welcomed a pet skunk into her family by teaching it all the same tricks (and more!) that her dogs know how to do โ€“ heel, stand up on two legs, spin around, close its own crate door, and even pull off her socks. โ€” Read the rest

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Check out how leafcutter ants work in spectacular close-up video

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 3rd 2023 at 22:36

I had no idea how leafcutter ants did their job, but this "Ant Lab" clip (below) explains it well in just 41 seconds, and the close-up photography is outstanding. The Ant Lab YouTube channel, which has a bunch of great science and insect videos produced by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, won me over โ€” I just subscribed. โ€” Read the rest

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Marjorie Taylor Greene kindly toots Biden's horn in this new political ad (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 2nd 2023 at 22:03

Qongress troll Marjorie Taylor Greene finally came around, stepping across the aisle to boast about President Biden's impressive record on fentanyl seizures. The stable genius even pointed out how much safer we are with Biden than we ever were Donald Trump. โ€” Read the rest

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Couple abandoned in waters off Lanai when snorkeling tour group forgets about them

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 2nd 2023 at 21:32

A California couple is suing a snorkeling company in Maui after their tour group left them high and dry โ€” or in this case, behind and wet.

The experienced snorkelers were on their honeymoon when they booked a day trip with Sail Maui from Lahaina to Lanai. โ€” Read the rest

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Severe turbulence on Lufthansa flight from Texas sends 7 passengers to the hospital

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 2nd 2023 at 19:26

Stormy weather in Tennessee last night caused such severe turbulence on a Lufthansa flight, seven passengers were sent to the hospital.

The flight, headed to Frankfurt from Austin, Texas, was at an altitude of 37,000ft when it was hit with what the flight crew described as "significant turbulence," according to The Guardian. โ€” Read the rest

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A hunter kills and skins two German shepherds in CT, thinking they were coyotes

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 2nd 2023 at 18:24

A gentleman out hunting for deer in Connecticut killed two German shepherds with a crossbow instead, mistaking the dogs for coyotes. (As if killing coyotes is okay.)

The inept hunter โ€“ 61-year-old Michael Konschak โ€“ then texted photos of the dead dogs to a taxidermist in hopes of tanning their hides, according to the Miami Herald. โ€” Read the rest

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Poor Marjorie Taylor Greene cries about "insane woman" who "attacked" her โ€” and Parkland survivor really gets it

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” March 2nd 2023 at 16:24

A mean lady yelled at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) in a restaurant on Monday, and the GOP boss aired her grievances on social media.

"I was attacked in a restaurant tonight by an insane woman and screamed at by her adult son," Marge tweeted. โ€” Read the rest

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Sweet golden retriever is so happy, she seems to be crying (video)

By: Carla Sinclair โ€” February 25th 2023 at 00:16

The phrase "tears of joy" is usually reserved for humans, but not for this golden retriever, who flew into jubilant overdrive with squinted eyes and happy cries. According to TikToker @naomiblk1, the pooch was overjoyed upon seeing her human, who had only been gone for about five minutes โ€” and no doubt, her elated mood was enhanced by the gigantic toy in her mouth. โ€” Read the rest

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