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Sacramento dildo saleswoman exposed as Neo-Nazi mass shooting propagandist

A Neo-Nazi online propagandist known for encouraging acts of far-right terror and celebrating the killers was exposed as Dallas Erin Humber, a 33-year-old dildo saleswoman from Sacramento.

Evidence compiled by a coalition of anonymous antifascist researchers โ€” including from SoCal Research Club, @WizardAFA, @SunlightAFA and @FashFreeNW โ€” and published this week on Left Coast Right Watch, an investigative news outlet, reveals that one of the Terrorgram Collective's main propagandists is Dallas Erin Humber, a 33-year-old woman living in Sacramento, California.

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Whiskey fungus is a real-life Lovecraftian nightmare, only drunker

"Whiskey Fungus" sounds like a great name for the absolute worst jam band I can imagine. But apparently it's a real thing that plagues the counties surrounding the Jack Daniels distillery. From The New York Times:

The ethanol-fueled fungus known as whiskey fungus has thrived for centuries around distilleries and bakeries.

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WHO โ€œdeeply frustratedโ€ by lack of US transparency on COVID origin data

WHO's COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on December 14, 2022.

Enlarge / WHO's COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on December 14, 2022. (credit: Getty | FABRICE COFFRINI)

While the World Health Organization says it's continuing to urge China to share data and cooperate with investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the United Nations' health agency is calling out another country for lack of transparencyโ€”the United States.

WHO officials on Friday said that the US has not shared reports or data from federal agencies that have assessed how the COVID-19 pandemic began. That includes the latest report by the Department of Energy, which determined with "low confidence" that the pandemic likely began due to a laboratory accident.

"As of right now, we don't have access to those reports or the data that is underlying how those reports were generated," Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, said in a press briefing Friday. "Again, we reiterate, that any agency that has information on this, it remains vital that that information is shared so that scientific debate, that this discussion, can move forward. Without that, we are not able to move forward in our understanding."

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Sex and the State

Paisley Currahโ€™s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.

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