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Homeless Repeat Offender Allegedly Slashes Teen’s Neck Days After Release
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Homeless Repeat Offender Allegedly Slashes Teen’s Neck Days After Release

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NASCAR Driver Tyler Reddick Breaks Silence On Michael Jordan’s Physical Interaction With His Young Son
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NASCAR Driver Tyler Reddick Breaks Silence On Michael Jordan’s Physical Interaction With His Young Son

'I don’t see what other people see when it comes to this.'
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Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks 8-Year Drought, Wins Gold In Whopping Fashion
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Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks 8-Year Drought, Wins Gold In Whopping Fashion

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Hero Stranger Rescues Mom and 3 Kids After Car Flips into Canal Waters: ‘Nobody was around’
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A Good Samaritan said he thanked the Good Lord that he was close at hand when a mother, driving with her kids, suffered a seizure and hurtled off the road into a canal. What started as a calm Sunday drive turned into anything but when a glance into his review mirror left Casey Curtis shocked: […] The post Hero Stranger Rescues Mom and 3 Kids After Car Flips into Canal Waters: ‘Nobody was around’ appeared first on Good News Network.
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction

News awards Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction Congratulations to the authors! By Molly Templeton | Published on February 18, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share The finalists for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been announced—including the award for science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. As chosen by judges Maurice Broaddus, S. B. Divya, and Maryelizabeth Yturralde, the finalists are: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press)The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella (Lethe Press)Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow)Esperance by Adam Oyebanji (DAW Books)Luminous by Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster) Stephen Graham Jones is actually a finalist twice over for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which also appears in the fiction category. This year’s Innovator’s Award goes to We Need Diverse Books, about which the prize administrators note: The 2025 Innovator’s Award winner is We Need Diverse Books (WNDB), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in publishing. What began in 2014 as a trending hashtag on social media has expanded into organized mentorships, workshops, grants and professional development programs. WNDB supports writers, illustrators and publishing professionals to ensure better representation on the bookshelves, and also works closely with educators and libraries to drive systemic change across the publishing ecosystem. This work continues to foster a more equitable literary landscape for all readers. The winners will be announced April 17, during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Congratulations to all the finalists![end-mark] The post Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction appeared first on Reactor.
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Letters That Eat Through the Paper: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 1)
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Letters That Eat Through the Paper: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 1)

Books Reading the Weird Letters That Eat Through the Paper: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 1) In 1912, a stranger comes to a Montana church to confess his crimes… By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth | Published on February 18, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we begin our new longread with Chapters 1-2 of Stephen Graham Jones’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. The book was first published in 2025. Spoilers ahead! 16 July 2012: Etsy Beaucarne is single, white, forty-two years old, and lives in a second floor apartment with her cat Taz. She teaches Communication and Journalism at the University of Wyoming, where she’s struggling towards tenure. Basically, it’s “get a book under contract, Etsy, and then we’ll talk.” Then a construction worker reaches into the wall of a Montana parsonage under renovation and pulls out a buckskin-wrapped “piece of history,” a journal written by her great-great-great grandfather, Arthur Beaucarne. Montana State in Bozeman has acquired the journal, which is in too fragile a condition to leave the conservators’ care. Its ink, homemade in the late 19th century, has aged into acid that eats away its brittle pages, causing the written letters to crumble at the least disturbance. Etsy has viewed it in person only once. Now she struggles to make out the faded script on digitized pages and printouts, but the labor could lead to that book contract and tenure. Her “greatest grandfather” was a fine writer, with “a documentarian’s eye” and “a playwright’s ear” that allowed him to “cut right to the center” of his era. Etsy illustrates the vivid on-scene history Arthur recorded by contrasting it with a contemporary newspaper account from March 26, 1912, the year Pastor Beaucarne disappeared from his Miles City, Montana, church. A mutilated corpse has melted out of the winter snows. Its semi-flayed condition recalls a streak of similar killings that occurred nearly four decades before. Can the Indians be “turning hostile again,” even though the government generously provides them with beef rations and land they leave fallow? Arthur Beaucarne’s journal entry is rich in personal detail and local color, with only a sprinkling of racism. Etsy hears a creak behind her and wonders if he has stepped from its pages to pray for her. But she doesn’t look around. Once you start looking every time you think you’re not alone, you never stop. March 31, 1912: Arthur writes that “the Indian gentleman” attended Sunday services once again. As before, he sits in an isolated pew at the back. He may be thirty or forty or much older, though there’s no silver in his black hair. That hair is too long to have been the product of a Jesuit school; nevertheless he wears a floor-length black clerical robe. He stands straight, shoulders back, attentive to Arthur’s every word, though Arthur speaks the German of his Lutheran parishioners. For some reason, Arthur feels as if the man is there to judge him. The first Sunday, the Indian left before Arthur could approach him, donning dark-lensed spectacles and scattering the stray dogs who beg on the church steps. The second Sunday, he remains in his pew after the congregation departs. When Arthur finally finds the courage to approach him, the Indian calls him “Three-Persons.” Father, Son, Creator, he explains. Arthur doesn’t correct his conception of the Holy Trinity as applying to its priest, himself. He learns that the Indian has an ocular illness that makes him hypersensitive to light; when he’s reduced the chapel candles to one, the man can remove his dark spectacles. Viewed up close, his eyes mesmerize Arthur—the irises and pupils merge in a solid inky black, and there is an “engorgement” in the “middlemost parts” that he’s only seen before in “the dead and eternally resting.” He has come to make his confession, the Indian says. After approximating the privacy of a Catholic confessional booth by sitting sideways on the pew in front of him, Arthur asks, “What do I call you?” As a youth, the Indian was called Weasel Plume. As a man, Good Stab. He was a member of the Small Robe band of the Amskapi Pikuni. Blackfeet. His people now call him Takes No Scalps or The Fullblood, but those aren’t so much names as what he does and is. He fasts every month, “in hopes Sun Chief will take [him] back. In hopes of walking among the Small Robes again, what of them are left.” Yet he walks alone. He doesn’t expect Arthur to believe his story at first, but he’ll return every Sunday until his confession’s told in full and his great crime revealed. “Such is the burden of the clergy,” Arthur thinks. “The burden and the gift.” Having known Montana since it was a territory, he has “comported with Indians” enough to know what to say next: “in ceremonial fashion, to invite [Good Stab] to begin with his story.” That is, “I listen with a good heart.” Good Stab looks up with “a joyful shine to his eyes,” and at Arthur’s nod, he commences. What’s Cyclopean: Arthur Beaucarne fills his journal with “phrenic peregrinations.” The Degenerate Dutch: There is much fear and dismissal of Native Americans in the early 20th century sections. Their hostility is so irrational given that we provide them with beef and crappy land, which they don’t even farm like civilized people. Libronomicon: My rare books friends tell me that you are not supposed to wear gloves while working with delicate material—the protection from skin oils isn’t worth the reduction in dexterity. Madness Takes Its Toll: Etsy’s father, she says, is in a “facility” in Denver and “not exactly compos mentis.” Ruthanna’s Commentary The Buffalo Hunter Hunter comes to me as a recommendation from Anne, and also much of the rest of the world. I pick it up expecting vampires and Native Americans and Stephen Graham Jones levels of gore, and knowing very little else. In the opening chapters, so far, I’m finding layers—worthy of peeling—that I’m all-too-tempted to metaphorize with the skinned corpse that also gets found. The top layer is Etsy Beaucarne. She’s a communications professor with an extension on her tenure clock—the lack of tenure due to the lack of publication, the extension presumably due to the difficulty of finding a replacement for her absurd teaching load. Her career is a disappointment to her scientist father, or was before he went senile. Her failure to publish seems also to be a failure to write; her great-etc-grandfather’s journal piques her passion in a way her own discipline doesn’t. Normally someone at this stage would at least be shopping around a ramped-up version of her dissertation—so what happened there? Like a lot of white people, Etsy’s disconnected from any more specific ethnic history. She imagines a French background based on her surname, but the journal provides a “lineage” that she’s previously lacked. Her father’s disapproval has left her with a shallow and unsatisfying foundation; her etc-grandfather gives her at least a “tradition” of journaling. Beaucarne means “beautiful meat.” Next layer: Pastor Arthur Beaucarne, Etsy’s ancestor and author of the journal. He’s a recovering-ish alcoholic, with past sins that involve skinned bodies and American Indians. He feels guilty; he thinks carefully and consciously about his social interactions; he’s casually racist in a way unfortunately typical of his culture. He loves huckleberry preserves. That last is probably not going to be plot-relevant, but you never know. The period racism is telling. Arthur’s guilt is prodded by Good Stab’s appearance in his church, but he’s also… paternalistic may be the best word. He can imagine Good Stab as a symbol because he imagine him as entirely a person. “The Indian gentleman” can be glossed as uneducated, running on instinctive skills, and a representative of a dying people. His tribe is a relic of the past, barely trickling into the 20th century. Arthur makes no mention of a wife, lover, or children, though any or all of those might lurk in his largely-unspoken past. Final layer so far: Good Stab, confessing to the pastor in the tradition of Interview With the Vampire. At least, I assume that he’s the vampire. He doesn’t seem pleased with the condition, and wishes to return to the favor of the sun so that he can walk with his people again. He takes no scalps, presumably in the same way that Dracula does not drink vine. And he must have a reason for coming to this particular pastor in this particular way, and not to one of his own people’s spiritual leaders. Still to come: the full story of the men who skinned the baby buffalos, and—if that even counts as hunting buffalo—the one who hunts the hunters in turn. Anne’s Commentary I knew I had to read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter because: One, VAMPIRES, my favorite monsters. Two, STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES, one of my favorite writers. Three, SGJ writing about VAMPIRES. Four, SGJ writing about VAMPIRES in the American West of the 19th through the early 20th century, with a 21st century frame, which sounded like some tasty time-hopping. The three narrators also sounded like a toothsome combo: our link to the present day, stalled academic, Etsy Beaucarne; Lutheran pastor Arthur Beaucarne, our first link to the past; and many-named Amskapi Pikuni vampire, Good Stab. I figured I couldn’t lose with this one. Then I read the first paragraph, and it was no longer a question of winning or losing on a normal scale. This opening struck me with the force of a “Call me Ishmael,” a “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream,” a “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” It reads: “A day worker reaches into the wall of a parsonage his crew’s revamping and pulls a piece of history up, the edges of its pages crumbling under the fingers of his glove, and I have to think that, if his supervisor isn’t walking by at just that moment, then this construction grunt stuffs that journal into his tool belt to pawn, or trade for beer, and the world never knows about it.” If you want to hook me, cast out a first sentence or paragraph (in this case, both) that describes finding a book or other artifact (but especially a book, double especially an aged manuscript.) Graham Jones adds an extra barb to his hook, and a horrifying one. What happens happens, absolute reality as Shirley Jackson puts it, but the history of what happened is fragile, mutable, liable to accidental loss or deliberate eradication. What if the construction grunt had shown Arthur Beaucarne’s journal to a pawnbroker who turned it down or tossed it with the other dubiously valuable secondhand books in a soggy, moldy box infested with book lice and silverfish? What if the grunt had traded it for beer to a beer trader who then spilled a whole can of Bud Light on it, no big loss to the spiller’s mind, except for the beer. Or what if the supervisor hadn’t seen the find as valuable enough to pass on, I suppose, to whoever owned the parsonage, and what if the owner didn’t appreciate it enough to set it on whatever fortunate path that brought it to Montana State University and proper curation? What if librarian Lydia hadn’t puzzled out the name of the journal-keeper and thought to search for other Beaucarnes, it being not an impossibly common surname? Etsy Beaucarne writes that she may owe the construction grunt her career. Actually, she owes her career to a whole chain of people stretching back to the grunt and beyond him, to Arthur Beaucarne, who hid his journal in a dry enough wallspace to keep it from total ruin. And to Good Stab himself, without whom Arthur might have had nothing more compelling to write about than Mrs. Grandlin’s German bread and chunky huckleberry jam. Not that Arthur didn’t make that bread and jam sound delicious. In another time and place, he would have made a fine food writer. I can’t help but think Arthur would have been a happier man if he’d had nothing to chronicle but the pantry contributions of his parishioners, the heckling and porch gossip of the tragicomic lodging house boarders, and his mea culpas concerning the communion wine and other furtive libations. On the other hand, such scanty comforts can offer still scantier intellectual stimulation, and scantiest of all, any chance of redemption. At the least, Good Stab’s out-of-nowhere church attendance offers up a seemingly benign mystery for Arthur to ponder. What could the Indian gentleman want from a Lutheran service, particularly one delivered in a white-man’s language even less comprehensible than English? If he hoped for a meal, the communion wafer was all Arthur could offer before he left the church. But Arthur doesn’t really think the Indian gentleman was after a handout. And why, by the way, does Arthur think of this Indian as a “gentleman”? He himself writes that his journal entry is probably “the first time one of [Good Stab’s] race has been referred to as such in ink.” His flock view this “relic” of bad times with nervousness and antipathy. There is the physical dignity of Good Stab’s squared shoulders and straight spine. There is his command of English, much greater than the expected crude ability to “accomplish simple commerce.” There is Arthur’s disquieting sense that Good Stab is “there to judge him.” Yet Good Stab says he has come to the church to confess, which implies that he’s seeking formal forgiveness for his sins. Yet the title of this entry in Arthur’s journal is “The Absolution of Three-Persons.” I doubt that Arthur gave the entry this title. I’d attribute it to his eventual transcriber, Etsy, or extra-narratively, to Graham Jones. In any case, the reader is faced with the question of why Arthur, whom Good Stab calls Three-Persons, is the one being absolved when it’s Good Stab who is making the confession. The answer may lie in Arthur’s observation-to-self that hearing a confession, however protracted, is “the burden of the clergy.” No, wait. “The burden and the gift.” The “gift” part could refer to the confessor’s professional ability to forgive sins. Or, as implied in the Lord’s Prayer, in forgiving the trespasses of others, one is also worthy of forgiveness. Etsy has had her first turn at narration. So has Arthur. Next time, we’ll get Good Stab’s. I anticipate a twisted, probably heartbreaking ride. Next week, join us for a mysterious disappearance and flat-pack furniture in David Erik Nelson’s “The Nölmyna”.[end-mark] The post Letters That Eat Through the Paper: Stephen Graham Jones’ <i>The Buffalo Hunter Hunter</i> (Part 1) appeared first on Reactor.
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Mamdani’s Homelessness Crisis: Urgent Course Correction Needed
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Allowing the homeless to languish on the streets is bad policy. Allowing the homeless to languish on the streets in severe winter weather can be a deadly policy. It took a tragic loss of life among New York City’s homeless during weeks of brutal cold for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to figure that out. But finally, the mayor has said he will reinstate homeless encampment sweeps. During the recent spate of arctic temperatures, 18 people died on New York City streets. By the beginning of February, New York City’s death toll from cold exposure had already outpaced previous totals for nearly every year between 2010 and 2019. In January, the city opened extra shelters and warming stations and began providing outreach and transportation to the shelters. Yet for weeks, Mamdani refused to make people get off the streets and go to the shelters, even as the death toll climbed.    Prior to being sworn in as mayor in January, Mamdani pledged to stop removing homeless encampments, a reversal of his predecessor Eric Adams’ policy. Mamdani apparently believes that removing people from public property is unjust. Finally, the mayor has budged though and is reinstating the sweeps. His ideology that people should be allowed to camp on public property, even in brutal weather, overlooked the reality that many people on the street have mental illnesses, are dealing with drug addictions, or both. Many are not in a state of mind to do what’s in their best interest (like going into a shelter when temperatures are life-threatening). People living on the streets are at high risk of crime and violence too, and as we’ve seen, harm from severe weather. The democratic socialist mayor apparently sees homelessness as a matter of the wrong government policies, which seems to mean simply not enough government low-income housing. He fails to understand that homelessness is often driven by deeper human needs. With that approach, Mamdani’s big plan is to build more government housing. His administration will double down on failed ”housing first” policies, which provide permanent supportive housing without any requirements on the part of the recipient (such as requirements to abstain from drug use, or participate in addiction recovery, mental health treatment, or job training). New York City has focused on “housing first” policies for decades now, and the federal government has indulged in prioritizing housing first for two decades. But housing first has failed to reduce homelessness, and researchers also repeatedly find that it fails to improve outcomes like mental health and drug and alcohol abuse. The number of homeless in the U.S. has soared, even as housing first programs have climbed. For example, researchers find that federal spending on homelessness—with the bulk of it going toward housing first—isn’t associated with a decline in homelessness. California increased its supply of permanent supportive housing units by 25,000 during 2010 and 2019, while the number of people living on California’s streets increased by 50%. Why doesn’t housing first reduce homelessness? Probably because it keeps people in housing longer than they would otherwise be, so units remain occupied that could be available for others. Housing first may also incentivize people to remain homeless longer if they expect they will get permanent housing. And communities that focus on housing first may also attract more homeless people to them. These reasons are likely why it takes an estimated 10 units of permanent supportive housing to reduce homelessness by just one person, a wildly inefficient ratio. Housing first can increase housing retention, but putting people in housing to languish with mental illness and substance abuse isn’t a good strategy. Yes, shelter is an important part of the equation, but the goal should be for people to get back on their feet and increase self-reliance, rather than simply putting them in permanent housing.   Mamdani needs to reverse course on housing first, like he did on encampment sweeps. He should also work with law enforcement to address illegal immigration. New York City shelter numbers jumped drastically in 2023 and 2024, primarily driven by an influx of illegal aliens. Shelter numbers remain high in 2026. Shelters should be available for New Yorkers, not overrun because leaders are unwilling to enforce immigration laws.   New York policymakers should also see that involuntary commitment laws are appropriately drafted so that those with severe mental illness can be placed in long-term psychiatric care. As it stands, New York’s involuntary commitment law gets just an average grade. The law fails to concretely define what a “grave disability is” or to specifically define “psychiatric deterioration.” More psychiatric beds should be made available too if necessary (which is likely, given the severe lack of such beds in the U.S. today). Instead of doubling down on failed housing first policies, Mamdani’s administration should focus primarily on transitional housing and “treatment first” programs that couple short-term shelter with requirements to participate in work training, drug treatment, and mental health programs. Treatment-first programs are more effective at helping people improve their lives, because they focus on addressing the causes of homelessness. People can’t always escape the consequences of what mother nature inflicts, such as a brutally cold winter. But policymakers shouldn’t exacerbate the problem of homelessness with misguided policies. Fortunately, Mamdani is taking one step in the right direction. Let’s hope it won’t be the last one on this matter. The post Mamdani’s Homelessness Crisis: Urgent Course Correction Needed appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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Spanish Court Orders NordVPN and Proton VPN to Block Piracy Streams
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If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Spain’s soccer league has found a new target in its fight against pirate streams: the VPNs people use to protect their privacy online. A court in Córdoba has ordered NordVPN and Proton VPN to block specific IP addresses broadcasting illegal LaLiga matches, requiring both companies to alter their “internal systems” to make those addresses “inaccessible from Spain.” The ruling was issued without notifying either provider. Neither could challenge it before it took effect. The court says it cannot be appealed at all. LaLiga and Telefónica Audiovisual Digital brought the case to Commercial Court No. 1 of Córdoba, framing the measures as “precautionary” and taken in “defense of [LaLiga] clubs’ audiovisual rights.” The court’s theory of liability is that VPNs are “contributing” to piracy simply by doing what VPNs do, letting users change their IP address and location. The order also notes that VPNs “acknowledge and advertise” their effectiveness at evading internet restrictions. Offering a privacy tool that works, in other words, is now evidence of wrongdoing. Both companies found out about the ruling the same way everyone else did. NordVPN and Proton have said that they have received no notice of this. Proton VPN reports no disruption to its services in Spain. Whether either company can actually comply with the order in any meaningful way is an open question. Blocking IP addresses is technically possible. Doing it while maintaining the privacy guarantees that define both products is not. LaLiga has been building this blocking regime for years, and the collateral damage along the way tells you everything about where it was always heading. The scheme has previously worked through a partnership with Telefónica, giving LaLiga the power to instruct major Spanish ISPs, including Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, and DIGI, to block IP addresses it flags as hosting unauthorized streams. The problem is that LaLiga doesn’t target specific infringing content. It flags entire IP ranges shared by thousands of unrelated domains. One accused site brings down everyone else on the same address. The digital dragnet has ensnared Amazon, GitHub, Twitch, Google Fonts, and Cloudflare, among others. Catalonia’s own .cat domain registry reported service disruptions. The open-source storage project TrueNAS, after its CDN IPs were repeatedly blocked and critical security updates became unreachable for Spanish users, was driven to distribute its software via BitTorrent. A football league’s anti-piracy operation pushed a legitimate software team onto the same networks it was supposedly trying to shut down. The most dramatic moment came in October 2025, when LaLiga’s orders led ISPs to block a broad range of Cloudflare IP addresses. The blackout lasted from October 18 to October 20. Millions of Spanish users lost access to legitimate websites, gaming platforms, and streaming services. Those trying to play Blue Protocol: Star Resonance found the game’s start button had simply disappeared. According to Proton VPN, free signups from Spain surged 200% over those three days as people scrambled for any way back onto the open internet. The Córdoba court’s VPN order is LaLiga’s most aggressive move yet, but the pattern is clear enough by now. Each time the blocking regime overshoots and takes down legitimate services, the response isn’t to narrow the approach. It’s to expand it. ISPs, then infrastructure providers, then VPNs. Each escalation is framed as targeted enforcement. Each one produces wider collateral damage than the last. Meanwhile, piracy continues. The streams migrate. The 89% of flagged content that stayed online last year will stay online this year too. What changes is how much of the ordinary internet Spanish users lose access to while the league hunts for it. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Spanish Court Orders NordVPN and Proton VPN to Block Piracy Streams appeared first on Reclaim The Net.
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Toxic Lead In Bananas After "Worst Environmental Disaster" In Brazil's History Could Risk Kids' Health
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Toxic Lead In Bananas After "Worst Environmental Disaster" In Brazil's History Could Risk Kids' Health

The concentrations of lead and other toxic elements exceed FAO limits for children and could pose long term health issues.
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Crockett hits back, says CBS and Colbert are full of it: 'They just didn't want to air it'
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Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas is taking aim at late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert for pulling an interview with her opponent. Colbert lashed out at President Donald Trump after CBS pulled an interview with James Talarico, another Democratic candidate running for Senate against Crockett, citing new FCC guidelines. While Colbert pointed the finger at the government, Crockett was quick to push back on the narrative, insisting that the federal government had nothing to do with the decision to pull Talarico's interview. 'This was because of a fear that the FCC may say something to them.'"We did receive information suggesting that the federal government did not shut down the segment, number one," Crockett said. "That is my understanding that the federal government did not shut this down, and we will do an official statement once we get another official statement that we anticipate is going to be coming from Paramount," Crockett added. "So we will read what they say, and then we'll go from there."RELATED: Stephen Colbert melts down after CBS pulls interview with Democrat just months before his show ends Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty ImagesCrockett's assessment was counter to CBS' official statement, which claimed that Colbert's show was "provided legal guidance" by the FCC. "The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled," the statement read. "THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options."FCC Chairman Brendan Carr reiterated these guidelines in late January, reminding networks of their "obligation" to provide candidates equal airtime. "For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as 'bona fide news' programs — even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes," Carr said in a post on X. "Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities."RELATED: Trump says Colbert is to blame for his show's cancellation — but adds Kimmel and Fallon are next Bob Daemmrich/The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAs CBS' statement said, Colbert opted to post the interview on social media rather than broadcasting it live on the program in order to work around the FCC's new guidance requiring shows to provide competing candidates equal time on air. Although Crockett has been on Colbert's show multiple times, she noted that she "did not get a request" to appear on his show."It is our understanding that Colbert, either Mr. Colbert or CBS, decided that they just didn't want to air it," Crockett said of the Talarico interview. "And this was because of a fear that the FCC may say something to them and that there may have been advice to just have me on and then they could clear the issue.""It was my understanding that someone somewhere decided we just don't want to do that and instead, we're going to just do it this way."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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