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Another totally natural death of a Russian citizen! It's definitely not suspicious or anything! Nope, nothing to see here, move along!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-ballet-star-vladimir-shklyarov-found-dead-falling-apartment-ba-rcna180626

Investigators in Russia are looking into the death of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, after he fell from an apartment block balcony and died at the age of 39.

Police in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second city, say initial information suggests his fall, which was discovered early on Saturday morning, was the result of an accident, state media have reported.

The Mariinsky said in a statement on Monday it would host a farewell ceremony for him on Thursday ahead of his funeral later that day and that members of the public were welcome to pay their respects to someone who was widely respected for his flair in executing the classical Russian ballet repertoire.

“He has forever inscribed his name in the history of world ballet,” the Mariinsky said, noting he had been the recipient in 2020 of a top state award for his artistry and taken leading roles in numerous productions.

Shklyarov was famous outside Russia too, having danced at the Royal Ballet in London and at the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich.

Irina Bartnovskaya, who runs a Telegram channel focused on ballet called “The Devil in Ballet Shoes,” was one of the first to publicize the death — part of which was captured on CCTV — on Saturday morning.

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https://abc7ny.com/post/food-insecurity-study-finds-1-3-new-yorkers-uses-pantry-amid-affordability-crisis/15556743/
In NYC, which has a democrat mayor, eric adams, and before that had a democrat mayor de Blasio, a democrat governor Hochul and before that democrat Cuomo. a Democrat president, biden with a democrat senate lead by ny senator chuck schumer,
1 in 3 NYC residents cannot afford food and needs to go to a food bank. that is 2 times as many as before the pandemic.
bernie sanders must be proud. this is a socialist ideal, to have people so fucking poor they are starving and need food banks. Great job biden and the dems for causing this inflation

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https://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/argentina-il-prezzo-sociale-dellausterity-di-milei-190306
Despite some positive signs on the inflationary and public accounts front, the ultra-liberal policy of the leader of Buenos Aires is having heavy repercussions on the weakest sections of the population. Is it too strong a cure to save the country?
Economic Situation and Austerity Measures

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https://www.localmemphis.com/video/news/local/memphis-gun-safety-referendums-fallout-abc24-this-week/522-948f9e20-3a6c-4dbf-87bc-264f233cc469
tl;dr 80% of memphis is an evil piece of shit. all 3 unconstitutional ballot measures passed by 80%. all 3 measures are dickless and unenforceable because the state of Tennessee doesn't grant cities the power to create gun laws and cities are a creature of the state and only have powers granted by the state or the state constitution
democrats are pieces of shit and we should take their gay marriage and abortion away to punish them

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the Trump Dance is spreading like a wildfire
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-dance-full-list-us-athletes-1988047
Full List of US Athletes Who Have Done the 'Trump Dance'
Since Donald Trump won the election, various U.S. athletes have been adopting the "Trump Dance" to celebrate major plays in their relevant sports.

Trump has been dancing at rallies and other various events for years, which consists of shaking his hips from side to side with his arms in a similar rhythm. In February, Trump's deputy director of communications shared a video of him dancing with cheerleaders and a high school marching band as part of the Super Bowl LVIII celebrations.

In October, the Republican decided to stop taking questions from the audience at a Trump town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, and instead played music for 39 minutes. According to The Washington Post, "some in the crowd began to leave" after Trump said he wouldn't be taking any more questions at the town hall and instead told his team to play a succession of nine songs as he at times danced on stage.

Now several sports stars busted out the move to celebrate big plays and here, Newsweek has rounded them up.

Christian Pulisic
Soccer player Christian Pulisic, who is a star of the United States men's national team, is the latest professional athlete to celebrate on the field by performing the Donald Trump dance. On Monday night, he and some of his teammates moved their arms and hips like the president-elect after Pulisic scored the opening goal in the United States' 4-2 victory over Jamaica.

"Well obviously that's the Trump dance," Pulisic said when asked about the viral moves, per The Athletic. "It was just a dance that everyone's doing. He's the one who created it. I just thought it was funny."

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-defense-pick-pete-hegseth-denies-sexual-assault-allegation-rcna180535

Apparently, being a moral person is no longer a value for the GOP. In a statement, Hegseth’s attorney said the former Fox News host paid a woman in 2023 who had previously accused him of sexual assault but maintained that the woman lied.

Nov. 18, 2024, 4:54 AM GMT+10
By Alexandra Marquez
Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s attorney on Sunday confirmed to NBC News that Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has named as his candidate for defense secretary, paid a woman an undisclosed amount after she accused him of sexual assault.

“In 2023, Hegseth paid the complainant as part of a civil confidential settlement agreement and maintains his innocence,” Timothy Parlatore, Hegseth’s attorney, said in a statement.

He also denied that the encounter between Hegseth and an unnamed woman, which she alleges happened in 2017, was sexual assault.

Parlatore’s statement comes after The Washington Post on Saturday reported that a friend of Hegseth’s accuser sent a memo to the Trump transition team detailing the allegations.

NBC News has not independently reviewed the memo, but Parlatore confirmed that it is related to an encounter Hegseth and the unnamed woman had in Monterey, California, during a conference of the California Federation of Republican Women.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/johnson-county-neighbors-seek-answers-as-roads-crumble-in-their-development/

A group of Johnson County neighbors built their dream homes in a new development, only to watch the roads begin to crumble within a few years. They say the issue is further compounded because no one is taking responsibility for the repairs.

"It's just really frustrating because everyone's just pointing fingers instead of someone taking responsibility," said Sarah Birchmeier. She and her husband built their home for their growing family in March 2022. "The goal is for this to be a forever home," she said.

Just down the street is the country sanctuary of Paula Woods' dreams.

"It's supposed to be my retirement home," Woods said. "But unfortunately for me, every time it rains, pieces of the road actually go into my yard."

The streets in their neighborhood are falling apart. Massive potholes mark the main intersection at Rock Dove Road and Scissor Tail Drive.

"It's continuously getting worse and worse, and as you can see, it is actually undrivable at this point," said Woods.

The neighbors keep hitting dead ends with every attempt to get the roads fixed. Each municipality in Texas has its own rules and standards when it comes to the construction and maintenance of public roads. This neighborhood is outside both Godley and Joshua city limits, so they're not responsible for servicing the streets. As it turns out, neither is Johnson County.

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Israel is targetting Iranian Nuclear programme facilties.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0l1ep34pro

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Bidens gift to America for losing the election: world war 3 before Thanksgiving comes. Him and the other shithawk Dems are doing literally everything in their power to make things as shit as possible for everyone before trump takes over and has to clean up democrats mess.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/world-news/biden-allows-ukraine-to-use-us-arms-to-strike-inside-russia/
Biden lets Ukraine use US long-range missiles to hit deep inside Russia just weeks before Trump takes office

President Biden has reportedly given Ukraine permission to deploy US-supplied longe-range missiles to attack targets in Russian territory just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Ukraine said it plans to take advantage of the policy change within days.

The dramatic shift in policy comes as Ukraine has faced setbacks on the battlefield and after months of requests by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to allow Ukraine’s military to use US weapons to hit Russian military targets far from its border.

Trump had pledged that he will end the war once he takes office in January.

“As President Trump has said on the campaign trail, he is the only person who can bring both sides together in order to negotiate peace, and work towards ending the war and stopping the killing,” Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung told The Post.

“Only official statements on this matter will come directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople.”

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https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-people-divided-passengers-complain-9721511

PlymouthLive readers have been discussing the news that in Plympton residents are claiming that a new bus shelter fails to shield them from the elements. The new shelter, located on Glen Road close to Edwards Drive and Bellingham Crescent, is said to provide inadequate cover from wind and rain.

Passengers complain that the brief canopy and minimal side panels offer very little protection, particularly when spray from passing lorries hits them. A regular at the Glen Road bus stops, Jillian Oxley expressed her dissatisfaction, stating: "Myself and others were happy with the previous shelters, and now the new shelters barely keep us dry."

In support of local concerns, Plympton Chaddlewood Councillor Ian Poyser of the Green Party declared: "Our community deserves functional and comfortable bus shelters, especially in high-traffic areas like Glen Road where we have high volumes of HGV traffic."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/kamala-harris-campaign-spent-12-million-on-private-jets-despite-climate-stance-7039651

Ice Cream, Luxury Hotels, Jets: How Kamala Harris' Campaign Cost $12 Million
The Kamala Harris campaign also funnelled $5.6 million to various left-leaning advocacy groups, including Voto Latino, Make the Road Action Fund, and Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

US Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign spent $12 million on private jet travel, with $2.6 million shelled out in the final days of her campaign alone, Federal Election Commission (FEC) data revealed. The campaign, between October 1 and October 17, reportedly paid nearly $2.2 million to Private Jet Services Group, a South Florida-based company, and an extra $430,000 to Advanced Aviation Team, a Virginia-based charter flight broker.

Critics were quick to point out the disconnect between Harris' use of private jets – up to 14 times more polluting than commercial flights – and her past statements labelling global warming as an “existential threat.”

“Kamala Harris and a lot of pro-climate leaders have a lot of hypocrisy with the words that they state and the realities they must think are real,” Benji Backer, founder of the American Conservation Coalition told the NY Post. “We need sensible solutions on environment and climate issues, but we're not going to get them when there's so much hypocrisy coming from the elitists.”

The Kamala Harris campaign, along with the Democratic Party, is now navigating the financial demands of sustaining political operations post-election.

Persistent appeals to donors have continued, though the requests focus more on broader Democratic initiatives than directly addressing campaign debts.

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Left wing folk over in America are claiming that Elon Musk used satellites to hijack the election.
In unrelated news, this board has seen a 40% downturn in traffic shortly after the Harris campaignbux dried up.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-starlink-election-fraud-claims-blue-anon/
The Conspiracy Theory That Elon Musk Stole the Election Using Starlink Is Everywhere Now

On November 9, a TikTok user called Etheria77 posted a nine-minute long video in which she outlined a conspiracy theory suggesting that Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellite system was used as part of a sophisticated effort to steal the election on behalf of president-elect Donald Trump.

“California and other swing states were able to use Starlink in order to tally up and to count voting ballots in their state,” said Etheria77. “The numbers don’t make sense, and the reason I’m going to tell you that is, you had guaranteed states that were going to turn blue and didn’t. Then you had millions of [votes] that are missing. This right here is bullshit.”

The account was not the first to suggest the conspiracy theory, but the video was one of the main reasons it has taken off in recent days. While TikTok has since removed the video, that has not stopped it from being shared on other social media platforms, including X, Reddit, Threads, Facebook, and Instagram, where it has racked up millions of views.

This was just one of dozens of TikTok videos, many of them with hundreds of thousands of views, that shared the conspiracy theory. On other platforms, accounts with large followings also boosted the Starlink conspiracy theory and an assortment of others about Trump’s win.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/shadow-cabinet-us-150606117.html

>Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnaUjQ7zCzs

With Donald Trump taking back the White House, a Democratic congressman is calling for America to borrow from the British and appoint a shadow cabinet to "fight back" against Trump’s agenda.

Rep. Wiley Nickel, D-North Carolina, first shared his thoughts on a shadow cabinet in an op-ed published in The Washington Post. In an interview with LiveNow from FOX, Nickel pitched a shadow cabinet as an effective tool for Democrats to publicly challenge the incoming administration.

"We need new ideas," Nickel told LiveNow from FOX. "Democrats have to stop playing defense and start going on offense. It’s not enough to say we’re against Trump and his Project 2025 agenda. We have to say what we’re for, and that’s what’s really behind this idea, to get folks there to counter every cabinet agency, every position that Trump appoints."

A shadow cabinet is a team from the opposition party that mirrors the ruling party’s cabinet members. The shadow cabinet has a point person for every cabinet position to challenge their counterpart in the ruling Cabinet.

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Normal people are revolting against the Democrat party of freak shows and circus acts
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/centrist-democrats-chair-dnc-00189933
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’

Centrist Democrats are revolting.

As they begin to dissect their collapse in the presidential election, some Democratic National Committee members are concluding that the party is too “woke,” too focused on identity politics and too out of touch with broad stretches of America.

Those existential concerns, according to interviews with more than two dozen DNC members, are shaping the earliest stages of the race for DNC chair and, in the absence of a formal party autopsy, blame-casting among members about the causes of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat.

“The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle,” said Joseph Paolino Jr., DNC committeeman for Rhode Island. “I’m going to look for a chair who’s going to be talking to the center and who’s going to be for the guy who drives a truck back home at the end of the day.”

Or as one DNC member from Florida put it: “I don’t want to be the freak show party, like they have branded us. You know, when you’re a mom with three kids, and you live in middle America and you’re just not really into politics, and you see these ads that scare the bejesus out of you, you’re like, ‘I know Trump’s weird or whatever, but I would rather his weirdness that doesn’t affect my kids.’"

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Tom Homan vows to clean up the shit show left by Democrats. He is promising to "take out" foreign gangs that the Democrats have been supporting who have been funneling drugs into the country.
https://www.newsweek.com/tom-homan-going-take-you-out-immigration-border-1986690
Trump's New 'Border Czar' Issues Warning to Gangs: 'Going to Take You Out'

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming "border czar" issued a stark warning to criminal gangs on Friday.

"As far as Tren de Aragua and MS-13 ... my gang's bigger than your gang, and we're going to take you out, too," said Tom Homan, who led U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first term and will now serve as U.S. border enforcer.

Homan made the comments during an interview on Donald Trump Jr.'s Triggered podcast.

"I can't wait to get started," Homan added. "I am excited about coming back, serving this country again."

Earlier in the interview, Trump Jr. asked Homan what his "overarching message" is to Americans "who are eager for major border action on minute one. Like, Inauguration Day, one second in, how much will you be able to improve the life of everyday Americans?"

"I got three words for them: shock and awe," Homan responded. "Shock and awe. You're going to see us take this country back."

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