'Sign language is woke now': Outrage over right wing's new culture war Add sign language to the growing list of right-wing culture attacks sprouting up among conservative voices as Donald Trump's inauguration fast approaches. Critics began to pounce after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk during his Wednesday podcast called for the elimination of sign language interpreters as emergency officials in California 01/10/2025 - 2:07 pm | View Link
Astrology's 'Big Three': What your sun, moon and rising sign say about you Beyond your primary Zodiac sign, there's a host of others within a person's birth chart. This guide focuses on the so-called "Big Three." 01/10/2025 - 2:19 am | View Link
Sorting fact from fiction on the LA fires: Looting, Biden visit, cause, Hollywood sign There is also no evidence that directed energy weapons started the wildfires in Los Angeles. The causes of the fires – Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia , Sunset and Kenneth – remained under investigation as of Jan. 9, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the state's firefighting agency. 01/10/2025 - 2:17 am | View Link
AI-Generated Posts Showed Hollywood Sign on Fire But the Landmark Is Safe After Sunset Fire Is Contained As another fire began to alight in the Los Angeles area on Wednesday, residents in the Hollywood Hills — as well as onlookers worldwide — feared for the safety of those involved, not to mention the iconic Hollywood Sign. 01/9/2025 - 9:53 am | View Link
The Hollywood Sign Is Still Standing, Despite What You May Have Heard Although fake, AI-generated images depicting the historic landmark ablaze have circulated online, the historic Hollywood sign has not been damaged in the California wildfires. 01/9/2025 - 6:06 am | View Link
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Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on social media that California is preventing insurance companies from being able to cancel or not renew the policies of Southern California wildfire victims on Friday. Via GVWire:
On Thursday, the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance cancellations and non-renewals for Southern California homeowners affected by wildfires.
The measure, stemming from Gov.
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Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, and the rocket company is poised for its most defining moment to date: sending a vehicle to orbit for the first time. Via CNN:
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is set to make its inaugural launch attempt as soon as 1 a.m.
The wildfires sweeping through LA are a heartbreaking reminder of our times. I spoke with one of my best friends Adam Roth, who lives in Pasadena, about what it’s been like on the ground. He and his family had to abandon their home, not knowing what they’d return to. Thankfully, as of now, his house is ok.
On this day in 1962 Chubby Checker's song "The Twist" (which is credited with starting the dance craze of the same name) went to #1 in the charts two years after first reaching number one spot.
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Here we go again. CNN's Jake Tapper allows another Republican senator to dance around his questions and lie to his face. This time it was Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. We all remember Britt from her infamous SOTU response which was trolled perfectly by Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live.
Britt was a guest on this Sunday's State of the Union, and was asked by Tapper about her support for corrupt Trump nominee to be Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Britt responded by ignoring Bondi's election denialism, pretending there's any reason to believe she won't politicize the department, and continuing to spreading the lie that the DOJ was politicized under Biden.
TAPPER: You're on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi will testify before your committee later this week.
Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said.
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Over the next three days, fires whipped by gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.