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Charlamagne Says ‘Politicians Sound Like Hypocrites’ For Backlash To Trump’s Iran Strike
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Charlamagne Says ‘Politicians Sound Like Hypocrites’ For Backlash To Trump’s Iran Strike

'Joe Biden ordered strikes'
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The Punisher and Spider-Man Will Hang Out in the Next Spider-Film
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The Punisher and Spider-Man Will Hang Out in the Next Spider-Film

News Spider-Man: Brand New Day The Punisher and Spider-Man Will Hang Out in the Next Spider-Film A new problematic dad figure arises for Peter Parker… By Molly Templeton | Published on June 23, 2025 Credit: Marvel Studios / Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Marvel Studios / Disney+ It’s been a few months since the last bit of Spider-news, which saw the next Tom Holland-starring movie finally get a title: Spider-Man: Brand New Day. (It will also have a new redhead in the form of Sadie Sink, though it’s still not clear who she’ll be playing.) But now there’s a new adult in Peter Parker’s life. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Bernthal has signed on to play Frank Castle/The Punisher in the film. Bernthal’s Punisher has been a large part of a different corner of the Marvel universe, cropping up on the original Netflix Daredevil, starring in his own Netflix series, and then reappearing in Daredevil: Born Again (pictured above). Brand New Day will be this Punisher’s big-screen debut (though of course there have been other big-screen Punishers in the past). THR notes that Bernthal had “one nonnegotiable” detail for his appearance in the new Daredevil: “maintaining the character’s violent, R-rated feel.” How exactly that will play out against the PG-13, family-friendly antics of the Spider-Man films is certainly a question. Bernthal and Holland have c0-starred together before this, in 2017’s Pilgrimage; earlier this year, Bernthal told Jimmy Kimmel Live that while filming that movie, they “made each other’s audition tapes” for their Marvel roles. Spider-times aside, they’ll also reunite in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton directs Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is set to swing into theaters on July 31st, 2026.[end-mark] The post The Punisher and Spider-Man Will Hang Out in the Next Spider-Film appeared first on Reactor.
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The Other Half of the Story: Keiko, the Star of Free Willy
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The Other Half of the Story: Keiko, the Star of Free Willy

Column SFF Bestiary The Other Half of the Story: Keiko, the Star of Free Willy Keiko’s story may be more harrowing than his movie counterpart, but it still offers hope… By Judith Tarr | Published on June 23, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share When Free Willy was filmed, it presented a serious moral dilemma. Its star, an orca named Keiko, was a captive himself. Whereas the fictional Willy got to go free, Keiko remained in captivity. Viewers recognized this. Schoolchildren wrote letters. Their objections were loud enough and prolonged enough that the studio actually paid attention. There were practical considerations in any case. Keiko’s story—documented in Keiko: The Untold Story of the Star of Free Willy—is if anything more harrowing than his movie counterpart. He was captured in Iceland around 1978, when he was about two years old. Normally orca hunters aim for the four-year-olds, young and small but weaned from their mothers. Keiko at half that age would still have been a nursing infant. Mostly likely he was swept up in the net and kept, and shipped off to a marine park in Japan. The park already had a pod of orcas, and Keiko as a stranger did not do well. He was bumped around for a while until he ended up as a solo orca in a park in Mexico City. His tank was small but so initially was he; the climate was much too warm, which caused problems as he grew, including a case of papillomavirus—that’s the weird crusty growth we can see in the film. Warner Brothers had been looking unsuccessfully for an orca to star in its story of a whale who was rescued from a park and freed into the wild. Most parks were not in favor of such a message; their orca shows were major sources of income. But the park in Mexico was willing, probably because they could see that Keiko was not doing well. By the time he became a movie star, Keiko was fast outgrowing his tank. He had occasional dolphin company, but nothing consistent. His health was deteriorating and so was his energy and his attitude. When filming ended, the studio knew it had to do something, even without the public outcry. To its credit, it developed a plan, and the Keiko Project was born. The first priority was to get Keiko out of the park and into a purpose-built facility in Oregon. This took a while. The tank that was built was deep and large and filled with fresh, cold sea water. For the first time since he was captured, Keiko would be able to dive deep and swim relatively freely, while being fed high-quality herring—his natural diet back in Iceland. Within six weeks of being shipped from Mexico to Oregon, Keiko was a changed whale. His color had deepened, his skin had cleared up, and he was building muscle and stamina. His whole attitude had changed. He was bright, curious, and engaged with the humans who cared for him. By the time the documentary gets to this point, we’ve learned a lot about orcas in the wild. Orcas are the largest of the dolphins, and they live quite a long time. Females can live ninety years or more, males fifty to sixty years. They live in large families, or pods, led by a senior female. Her offspring will stay with her all their lives; she nurses her calves for two years. Orcas are very, very intelligent. They have language and culture, and different pods have their own dialects and ways of doing things. Young orcas learn social skills from their families. The males, the fathers and uncles, teach them to hunt. Their eyesight is very good, but not much use down in the depths where they do much of their swimming and hunting. They have a highly developed sense of hearing, and the ability to use sonar to build pictures of, for example, schools of herring herded into a ball to be picked off by hunting orcas. When a male reaches the age of twelve or so, he has a growth spurt. That’s when he develops the distinctive long, upright fin. A male in captivity, confined to a small tank without the opportunity to build strength and stamina, doesn’t do this. That’s why captive males’ dorsal fins flop over. (Which answers the question Jess asks in Free Willy.) All of this makes clear just how tragic the life of a captive orca is. Males in captivity seldom make it past age twenty. (Females live a lot longer, as witness the Free Corky campaign, which has been trying for decades now to free a female orca captured in 1969 and still alive at Sea World.) By the time Keiko reached Oregon, he was around sixteen years old, and his clock was ticking. The Keiko Project’s goal was to rehabilitate him in Oregon, then when he was ready, ship him back to his home waters in Iceland. A team of orca experts, veterinarians, and trainers got together to get him healthy and fit—and they succeeded. They learned a great deal in the process, and demonstrated just how smart an orca is. Not just in how he responded to his trainers and to the people who came to see the world-famous whale, but in how he learned—watching television at night, including his own movie, and viewing documentaries about orcas. During the day he trained his trainers, especially a young woman who could not get him to perform as such, but if she did crazy silly things, he rewarded her with his own goofy tricks. When the vets cleared him for travel, he flew by Air Force troop transport to Himaey in the Westman Islands of southern Island, near where he was captured. The whole world followed his journey, and the people of Iceland were enthralled. The upshot of that was his greatest legacy: the end of the captive orca industry in Iceland. Gradually the Keiko Project team acclimated Keiko to the ocean, first in the bay and then out in the open sea. There at last he met wild orcas, swam with them, foraged with them, lived among them. It seemed the project had succeeded. Keiko had returned to the wild. But he hadn’t found his mother or his birth pod. That part of the dream didn’t happen. The team tracked him from Iceland down to Norway, extrapolating from his route that he was hunting and foraging for himself. Then one day he turned up beside a fishing boat outside of Skelvik Fjord, and followed it in. Keiko had tried life in the wild, and he opted to return to humans. They were, in the end, his pod—or as close as anything could come. The Keiko Project moved him to a relatively isolated fjord near Taknes. He lived the rest of his life there, with occasional brief forays back out to sea. He was free to come and go, and for the most part he chose to stay. He lived in between worlds, unable to rejoin his family but seemingly content with his human friends and caretakers. In December of 2003, ten years after the release of Free Willy and some twenty-five years after he was trapped in a net off the coast of Iceland, Keiko declined rapidly and died of renal failure. He had made it past the age of twenty-five, which was exceptional for a male orca in captivity. As Naomi Rose of Humane Society International said, he might have lived that long in the tank in Oregon, but no one in the project regrets their decision to offer him the open ocean. “We gave him five years of home.” The project still hopes to set other captive orcas free, but so far none of the parks has been willing to cooperate. Even now, with what we know of orcas and the horrors of captive life, orca shows are big business. Free Willy’s sleazy park owner and his adamant refusal to let the whale go, no matter how much he suffers, is pretty much how it is. There’s no practical way to ship the orcas out of the parks, rehabilitate them, and send them home. All anyone can really do is try to stop the industry at the source, put an end once and for all to the capture of wild orcas. That at least seems to be happening, though the larger parks have produced their own micro-pods, breeding orcas in captivity—with distinctly mixed results. Ultimately, there needs to be a ban on orca shows, period. As long as that’s not happening, the same stories will be told over and over, and the same tragedies occur and recur. Keiko’s story offers hope, if anyone will take it.[end-mark] The post The Other Half of the Story: Keiko, the Star of <i>Free Willy</i> appeared first on Reactor.
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‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in Danger Due to AI Deregulation
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‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in Danger Due to AI Deregulation

The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a massive ten-year fiscal framework which would fulfill many of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises—is in jeopardy due to disagreements over states’ rights to regulate artificial intelligence. On Sunday night, Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee announced that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough (the chamber’s rule keeper) had given the thumbs up to a provision which discourages states from regulating artificial intelligence. The parliamentarian decides whether or not provisions are allowed to be included in budget reconciliation bills such as the “big, beautiful bill.” This power comes from the Senate’s “Byrd rule,” which weeds out extraneous provisions from the ten-year fiscal plans. “I sincerely hope the Senate takes out the POISON PILL in the One Big Beautiful Bill that puts a 10 year moratorium on states ability to regulate and make their own laws on AI!” wrote Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in response to the news Monday. I sincerely hope the Senate takes out the POISON PILL in the One Big Beautiful Bill that puts a 10 year moratorium on states ability to regulate and make their own laws on AI!If this dirty trick is not taken out then those who snuck it in will be responsible for failure.The…— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) June 23, 2025 Greene has previously promised to vote against any bill which includes the moratorium but had held some hope it would be thrown out by the parliamentarian. The provision passed Senate muster after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, worked with the Senate Commerce Committee to amend it. Specifically, Republicans amended the ten-year block on state regulations by making it a requirement for receiving federal broadband funding—a crafty maneuver which made it sufficiently budgetary for the parliamentarian to approve it. “If this dirty trick is not taken out then those who snuck it in will be responsible for failure,” added Greene. “The [One Big Beautiful Bill] is supposed to be President Trump’s campaign promises on taxes, energy, and border security & immigration NOT AI.” If the previous margins hold and the provision is not amended before its Senate passage, then this disagreement could threaten the bill in the House. House Republicans passed the bill by a 215-214 margin in May, with one Republican voting “present.” House GOP leadership probably cannot afford to lose Greene’s vote. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., will likely defend the provision. In May, he told The Daily Signal he would not change it for Greene. .?@SpeakerJohnson? tells me he doesn’t want to throw out a provision ?@RepMTG? has criticized in the one big beautiful bill which blocks state regulation of AI?@RepMTG? has said she won’t vote for the bill with these provisions in it ?@DailySignal? pic.twitter.com/CbkggN8E6F— George Caldwell (@GCaldwell_news) June 4, 2025 “If some of the deep blue states smother it with regulation, as they’re prone to do, then it might hamper our development, and it could put us in a compromised position against our enemies, China and others,” he explained. Asked then if he would tweak the disputed provision instead of throwing it out, Johnson said, “I like it in its current form. I mean, I know the president supports it in its current form, so we’ll see where that goes.” The post ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in Danger Due to AI Deregulation appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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Germany’s War on Jokes
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Germany’s War on Jokes

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. It was supposed to be just another meme. A simple digital jab aimed at a high-ranking government official, a repost of something snarky about politician Robert Habeck’s intelligence. And yet, in the era of Germany’s tightening digital censorship laws, it became the spark that lit a firestorm of legal persecution. This is the world of Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old retiree from the quiet Bavarian village of Burgpreppach. You’d think he was the leader of a neo-fascist cabal, or perhaps the owner of a viral media empire. But no. He’s just a guy who likes to post a few political memes and repost some opinions. His crime is posting things the German state doesn’t like. His punishment was a full-scale police raid. As we’ve reported, the absurdity started in late 2024 when Niehoff made the mistake of reposting a meme that humorously questioned Habeck’s intelligence. This was a punchline; nothing more. But in a country where humor and free speech are quickly becoming endangered species, the authorities responded with sheer, unrelenting force. That’s right, folks, the police showed up at Niehoff’s house, ready to unearth the dark underbelly of his political dissent. Ursula Redler, the prosecutor in charge of the case, claimed she had always dreamed of “fighting for good, like a Jedi knight.” That’s the kind of person you want overseeing a trial that’s largely about sarcastic memes, right? It’s like she was cast in a low-budget sci-fi thriller where she’s the lone protector of the galaxy against the evil empire of internet trolls. But rather than advocating for justice, Redler seemed more interested in rooting out “digital heresy,” as though defending the public from people who question the government on X was some noble crusade. When news of Niehoff’s situation broke, Germany’s increasingly heavy-handed crackdown on free speech online caught the attention of international audiences, with 60 Minutes even picking up the story. Yet, rather than quieting the controversy, the authorities doubled down. The prosecutors were nowhere to be found after the backlash, but this was far from a retreat. No, they simply bided their time. Post-election, they launched a fresh investigation, digging deeper into Niehoff’s online activity. They weren’t going to let this retiree’s laughable little meme escape without making a statement. With a move that looked less like law enforcement and more like a vindictive power play, they kept searching for a reason, any reason, to throw the book at him. Sure, they could have let it go, but that would have been admitting defeat. No, they had to restore their authority, because nothing says, “We’re in control” like prosecuting a pensioner for being cheeky on social media. By May, Niehoff had found himself facing a summary judgment, one of those legal processes where they just wrap things up without bothering with much of a trial. But, of course, Niehoff wasn’t one to go down quietly. He chose to fight the charges, dragging the case into a courtroom where transparency was apparently as endangered as a good political debate. One of the memes Niehoff reposted, showing Green politician Katharina Schulze doing a Nazi salute and referring to “the Green Reich.” The District Court issued a bizarre array of restrictions: no interviews, no filming, and no “casual” conversations in the courthouse. It’s as if the court wanted to turn an innocuous meme case into a tightly controlled spectacle as if the very air in the courtroom could somehow be contaminated by outside opinions. But here’s the bigger issue. The charges. Niehoff was being hauled into court for five reposted images and one reply, all allegedly referencing National Socialist themes in “unacceptable” ways. The court pushed forward with the remaining charges, and in the end, they slapped Niehoff with an €825 fine, proving once again that in Germany, humor comes with a price tag. The trial concluded, but the gag order stayed in place. No one was allowed to discuss the case openly until the final gavel fell. Niehoff, to his credit, didn’t take it lying down. He vowed to appeal the verdict, a decision that at least offers a glimmer of hope for those who think that free speech should still mean something in Germany. When you find yourself prosecuting a retiree for posting a meme, it’s clear the real target is anyone who dares to question the government. So, as Niehoff prepares for his appeal, the real question is this: How much further will Germany go down this rabbit hole before the public wakes up to the fact that freedom of speech is, well, not so free anymore? Because if a 64-year-old retiree can’t post a meme without being raided by police, we might be in more trouble than we think. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Germany’s War on Jokes appeared first on Reclaim The Net.
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Mamdani Edging Out Cuomo in NY Mayor's Race
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Mamdani Edging Out Cuomo in NY Mayor's Race

Mamdani Edging Out Cuomo in NY Mayor's Race
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IAEA: Yeah, Trump Probably Took Out Fordow
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IAEA: Yeah, Trump Probably Took Out Fordow
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Amazing First Images From World’s Largest Digital Camera Revealed
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Amazing First Images From World’s Largest Digital Camera Revealed

The first few images from the Rubin Observatory have dropped, and there are more coming later today.
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"Jigsaw"-Like Fresco Made Of Thousands Of Fragments Reveals Artistic Traits Not Seen In Roman Britain Before
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"Jigsaw"-Like Fresco Made Of Thousands Of Fragments Reveals Artistic Traits Not Seen In Roman Britain Before

The fresco has been painstakingly reconstructed by a diligent and patient team.
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Frequent Nightmares Are A Worrying Sign Of Early Death And Accelerated Aging, Says New Study
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Frequent Nightmares Are A Worrying Sign Of Early Death And Accelerated Aging, Says New Study

Bad dreams don’t just vanish with the morning light.
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