This is what Roseanne Barr looks like in real life.
The last program Roseanne Barr ever did was a lame comedy act on the far right platform Fox Nation. As far as her television appearances or movie appearances, she pretty much absent. She is doing lame podcasts on YouTube.
Since her infamous remarks about former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, Barr was fired from her reboot sitcom, the network ABC scrubbed her entire catalog and all her former castmates distanced themselves from her.
Now I though she was going to retire and live her life harvesting macadamian nuts.
Nope.
She been on Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) doubling down on conspiracies, racism, homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia. All of this bullshit is the reason for Barr being blacklisted and banned.
Now Barr being a supporter of Washed Up 45, she does not hold back her political views.
She gets into it with Bill Mitchell, a former supporter of Washed Up 45 turned Ron DeSantis supporter.
Mitchell takes a poll about the looming indictments that the former president is facing.
Barr decided to troll.
Mitchell eventually took notice of Barr's responses and joked that she "used to be famous," adding that her original show was canceled in 1997. Barr then responded by saying that her show was "rebooted to 24 million," referencing the reboot her show received in 2018 before it was canceled after one season.
Barr's 2018 reboot was canceled after she mocked former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, writing on social media that, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” Her social media post was condemned by ABC, with the network saying her comment was “abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values.”
Mitchell joked that Barr had turned down his offer for a live debate by saying that she "chickened out," adding that he was "unsurprised" by the outcome.
Unrest In Republic Of The Niger! Russian Propaganda May Have Sparked It!
The African Union, the European Union, the United States, Great Britain and United Nations do not recognize the new government of the Republic of the Niger.
The Americans who are staying or vacationing in Niger are in told to stay inside.
The military shutdown the border and airports. They are curfews in effect and martial law.
The African Union warns of military action if they don't restore order.
Niger is a former French colony that gained independence in 1969. The country is a majority religious Muslim country. It is one of the poorest countries in the AUN. There are fears that al Qaeda and the Islamic State (Daesh/Da'ish) will foster growth. Also the Russian Federation and its former ally the Wagner Group are pleased that Nigeriens are total anti-West.
It seems like Russian propaganda managed to soak into the country and it led to an armed coup d'etat. The president, Mohamed Bazoum was deposed by the military and is being held at the Presidential Palace in the capital of Niamey, Niger.
Deposed president Mohamed Bazoum and military commander Abdourahame Tchiani.
The presidential guard commander general Abdourahamane Tchiani proclaimed himself as the leader of a new military junta. Presidential guard forces closed the country's borders, suspended state institutions, and declared a curfew.
A pro-coup demonstration took place on July 27 with about 1,000 supporters of the junta flying Russian flags, voicing support for the Wagner Group, and throwing rocks at a passing politician's vehicle. The demonstrators also denounced the French presence and that of other foreign bases. Other demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of Bazoum's PNDS-Tarayya party, with footage showing them stoning and setting fire to vehicles. They then subsequently ransacked and burned the premises, forcing police to disperse them with tear gas. Demonstrations also occurred in front of the National Assembly. This prompted the Interior Ministry in the evening to ban on all demonstrations with immediate effect. Civil servants were also told to stay home.
The junk food media goes into the personal life of Hunter Biden to appease Republicans.
Friday, the president and first lady acknowledged their son had a child.
The junk food media confirms that President Joe Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden have a granddaughter named Navy Joan Roberts. Okay, Hunter Biden and a woman from Arkansas named Lunden Roberts conceived a child. The state determined that he is the legitimate biological father.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," the president said. "This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
Thus, the story is over!
Nope.
Friday's statement comes as Republican presidential hopefuls have increasingly taken jabs at the president for not counting Navy among his grandchildren in public remarks.
The far right and some media agitators are obsessed with this.
“Why don’t you spend some time with your granddaughter in Arkansas, or at least recognize her existence before you start worrying about our kids?” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during remarks on parental rights to voters in Tennessee this month.
"Would be nice if @JoeBiden finally steps up and acknowledges his own granddaughter," tweeted biotech multimillionaire Vivek Ramaswamy in early July.
Hunter is required to provide child support and he is legally mandated to pay for the court costs.
When Biden spoke in June at an event, the far right seized on the mentioning of six grandchildren. Navy is the seventh grandchild.
Hunter Biden has three with his ex-wife, one with his current wife and one with his former girlfriend.
The economy is improving and the country is back on the right path to growth. Going into 2022, the Republicans capitalized on high inflation, crime, and gas prices, and gained a substantial lead in the election climate towards 2022 results similar to the red wave of 2010.
The red wave never materialized. The Republicans managed to gain a five seat majority in the House of Representatives. They have squandered their new founded majority to conspiracy theories, partisan politics and a looming government shutdown due to failures to compromise on spending appropriation bills.
But yes, let's talk about Biden's granddaughter.
Lunden Roberts and her daughter Navy.
Hunter Biden is not a government official. The Republicans are dangling impeachment on claims that the son used his father's name in a bribery scheme. They believe that the president took bribes during his time as vice president. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter or the president.
Hunter is currently awaiting sentencing in his tax fraud and falsifying gun permit charges. The plea deal is undetermined due to Republicans protesting the sentence.
Biden was supposed to plead guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges for failing to pay taxes. But U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Delaware put the brakes on the guilty plea after raising concerns during an hourslong hearing about the structure and terms of the agreement and another deal that would allow him to avoid prosecution on a gun charge if he meets certain conditions.
Plea deals are carefully negotiated between defense lawyers and prosecutors over the course of weeks or months and it’s unusual — especially in high-profile cases — for judges to not sign off on them. But Wednesday’s hearing revealed that the two sides apparently did not see eye to eye on the scope of the agreement around a non-prosecution clause for crimes outside of the gun charge.
Last month, shortly after Hunter Biden reached an agreement with the government, Comer joined forces with two chairmen of powerful committees to launch a larger investigation into claims by two IRS agents who claimed the Justice Department improperly interfered in the yearslong case.
IRS supervisory special agent Greg Shapley and a second agent, Joe Ziegler, testified before Congress last week that there was a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” into Hunter Biden, including during the Washed Up 45 administration in the months before the 2020 election that Biden won.
One of the most detailed claims was that U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware, the federal prosecutor who led the investigation, asked for special counsel status in order to bring the tax cases against Hunter Biden in jurisdictions outside Delaware, including the District of Columbia and California, but was denied.
Weiss and the Justice Department have denied that, saying he had “full authority” and never sought to bring charges in other states. Despite the denials, Republicans are moving forward with their probes, asking Weiss to come in and testify about the case directly. The Justice Department has offered to have the prosecutor come before lawmakers after the August recess.
You would think she showed remorse. It appears she has none.
The Jefferson County, Alabama prosecutor has indicted Black woman for staging a fake abduction to throw off her misdeeds.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Carlee Russell has set Black women back 12 steps because of her Jussie Smollett style of story. Now the junk food media and far right extremists will question every incident involving Black women going missing, being a victim of a racial attack or being a victim of sexual assault.
The Hoover Police Department said Russell turned herself in to the city jail and was charged with one count of false reporting to law enforcement authorities and one count of falsely reporting an incident.
Her story captured the nation’s attention, but as it turns out, she did not see a toddler on the side of the road, wasn’t kidnapped, did not leave the Hoover area and acted alone, Emory Anthony, Russell’s attorney, said in a statement Monday.
Both charges are Class A misdemeanors and each carries up to a year in jail, and up to a $6,000 fine, if convicted. Russell was given a $1,000 bond for each charge.
Russell went missing after she claimed that a white toddler was walking on Interstate 459, a bypass through Birmingham. The woman went missing for 48 hours.
Russell was the only person who reported a toddler walking down the highway, despite many vehicles passing through the area. The chief said video from highway cameras, which only show someone getting out of the driver’s side door of Russell’s car, has been sent to the FBI for enhancement analysis.
Pretty stupid.
She turned up to family's home days later and the law interviewed her but got no concrete proof her life was in danger. She later confessed to staging it.
The police revealed that she had searched for how to steal from employers, how to go missing and how to get support from the community.
An app on Russell’s phone showed her car traveling 600 yards down the interstate when she said she made the call about the child on the roadside, Derzis said. He said it was hard for him to understand how a child, who Russell said was 3 or 4 years old, could walk very far in bare feet without crying or getting off the road.
Russell’s disappearance has drawn attention to the many unsolved cases of missing Black Americans. According to 2021 FBI data, Black people make up 31% of missing person reports but only 14% of the US population. White people, meanwhile, make up 54% of missing person reports and 76% of the US population.
Derrica Wilson, co-founder of Black and Missing Foundation, previously told CNN she currently has nearly 6,000 cases of missing Black people in her database, most of them unsolved.
False reports like Russell’s are rare, she said.
When asked if Russell’s case could affect searches for missing young women of color in the future, police chief Derzis said, “We investigate every crime to the fullest, just like we have this one.”
Will Hurd thought he was at a Republican gathering. Turns out he walked into a Klan meeting.
Black Republicans are too woke.
The Republicans are turning on Black Republicans. Some Black conservatives are being booted out because they spoken out of place.
Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Armstrong Williams, Jesee Lee Peterson, Kevin Jackson, Ice Cube and Kanye West will keep enjoying the master's table scraps and the nice bedrooms.
The rest of them are back in the fields.
I love how Republicans (especially Black conservatives) used a tired troupe about the Democratic Party keeping Blacks stuck on the plantation. They ignore the fact that Democratic presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden did more for Black America than any modern day Republican.
Ronald Reagan and Washed Up 45 never acted like Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower. I am wondering why Blacks seem motivated to side with these god awful white nationalists?
Former Republican lawmaker and MSNBC contributor Will Hurd was booed at the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner. He was warning Republicans that electing Washed Up 45 will lead to the reelection of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
The former Texas Republican who served in the House from 2015 until 2021. As one of the many Black Republicans who are running for president, Hurd is running as anti-Washed Up 45.
While other Republican candidates have deferred to or even defended Washed Up 45, Hurd went right for the jugular after news broke Thursday afternoon that Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed three additional charges against the former president.
Hurd continued that posture in a speech Friday night at the 2023 Lincoln Dinner hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa Des Moines, where many other candidates including the former president were on the bill.
"And the reason Donald Trump lost the election in 2020 is he failed to grow the GOP brand in areas like women with a college degree in the suburbs, Black and brown communities and people under the age of 35. We need leaders who did like your governor Reynolds, who went to places that people didn’t expect. And that’s how y’all turned red. If we. One of the things we need in our elected leaders for them to tell the truth, even if it’s unpopular. Donald Trump is not running for president to Make America Great Again. Donald Trump is not running for president to represent the people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020. Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison."
Hurd was heckled and told to go home. He continued on.
"And if we elect ..... I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. Listen, I know the truth. The truth is hard. But if we elect Donald Trump, we are willingly giving Joe Biden four more years in the White House. And America can’t handle that. God bless you and God bless America."
Tim Scott knows slavery was bad. The lone Black Republican senator and the four Black Republicans House members are angry the Republicans want to say slavery was a benefit.
The Republicans are turning on their tokens over slavery. Black Republican lawmakers are pissed at the Republican Party's revisionist history. They're being called "woke" because they dare speak out against the conservative push to block Black history.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Rep. John James (R-MI), Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) all came out and condemn Florida's governor Ron DeSantis and the state education board after it redefined slavery as a benefit for Blacks.
Scott running for president.
DeSantis is running for president.
Donalds, James, Hunt and Owens endorses Washed Up 45 for president.
Controversy surrounding Florida’s education policies has been building since DeSantis signed the Stop “WOKE” Act into law last year. The legislation prohibits teachers from teaching anything that could make someone feel “personal responsibility” for historic wrongdoings because of their race, sex or national origin.
James and Hunt are two of the five Black Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate, and they are both backing Washed Up 45 in the 2024 presidential race.
Insufferable lawmaker Byron Donalds feuds with Ron DeSantis.
"As the direct descendent of a slave, I have a hard time understanding Governor DeSantis’ position that transferrable skills learned in bondage are somehow a net benefit," tweeted Hunt.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate, also rebuked DeSantis on Thursday.
"As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery. There is no silver lining … in slavery," Scott — like DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate — said here in response to a reporter's question after a forum with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.
"What slavery was really about was separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating," Scott said. "So I would hope that every person in our country — and certainly running for president — would appreciate that. People have bad days. Sometimes they regret what they say. And we should ask them again to clarify their positions."
Donalds earlier this week called on the state Education Department to “correct” the new standards. He is the most vocal and one of 12 Florida Republicans backing the former president over the governor.
DeSantis decided to respond to the Black Republicans by calling them Kamalah, as an insult to Vice President Kamala Harris. The Republicans intentionally mispronounced her name.
Wesley Hunt none too happy DeSantis called him a "DC Republican" because he criticized Florida's revisionist history.
Harris said that the state is replacing history with lies.
“Standing up for the truth if somebody is siding with Kamala Harris to launder a lie about work that these Black history scholars did in Florida for our state Department of Education, just to try to score political points against me — that’s not standing for the truth,” DeSantis said. “That’s not doing what’s right.”
“I would also note some of those congressmen are putting out information that’s totally false in terms of what they’re quoting,” he added. “They haven’t read any of this stuff. They’re being told to do those talking points, and they’re making a decision they’re going to side with Kamala, they’re gonna side with people who are lying in the media and they’re going to try to attack the state of Florida.”
Members of the Florida work group that helped develop the new Black history standards told NBC News that most of the 13 individuals in the group did not want the controversial language added; it was pushed for by just two members.
Speaking earlier with reporters on Friday, DeSantis responded to Scott's comments by criticizing "D.C. Republicans" for promoting a similar argument as Harris.
"I think part of the reason our country has struggled is because D.C. Republicans all too often accept false narratives, accept lies that are perpetrated by the left and accept the lie that Kamala Harris has been perpetrating, even when that has been debunked," he said.
John James, a twice failed U.S. Senate candidate won a spot in the House in 2022.
DeSantis has deflected blame to the state education board, which he appoints, while also defending the changes and trying to reframe them as a political fight between him and Harris.
"At the end of the day, you got to choose: Are you going to side with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets, or are you going to side with the state of Florida?" DeSantis told reporters at an earlier stop in Iowa. "I think it’s very clear that these guys did a good job on those standards. It wasn’t anything politically motivated."
Other Republicans have been critical, too. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another GOP presidential contender, has mocked DeSantis for deflecting blame.
DeSantis staffers lashed out at Donalds on Wednesday. Christina Pushaw, the campaign’s rapid response director, wrote in reply to a Donalds tweet: “Did Kamala Harris write this tweet?”
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards include language asserting that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to a 216-page document posted by the state.
Washed Up 45 got more charges thrown on him. Two other men face criminal charges as well. The Special Counsel working this has added additional criminal charges in the classified documents scandal.
The federal indictment, filed in the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Washed Up 45 was part of a scheme to delete security video and that a newly charged defendant — who was identified as a property manager at the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence — told another employee that "the boss" wanted the server deleted.
That employee, Carlos De Oliveira, who was a maintenance supervisor at Mar-a-Lago, was charged Thursday. His lawyer, John Irving, declined to comment.
Court documents say De Oliveira denied that he was involved in moving boxes. "Never saw anything," he told the FBI, according to documents. "Never saw anything," he repeated.
The indictment lays out what federal authorities say was a scheme to obstruct the ongoing investigation. Washed Up 45 was very focused on not allowing officials to get their hands on his boxes, it indicates.
“I don’t want anybody looking, I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t,” The former president told his lawyer in May 2022, according to the indictment. “What happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them? Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?”
Washed Up 45's lawyer said the former president later made a "plucking motion" to suggest that he should take anything that was "really bad" out. Afterward, prosecutors suggest, Washed Up 45 was involved in an effort to delete security camera video that would show how his employees had moved boxes of documents before the FBI search.
The superseding indictment claims that Walt Nauta and De Oliveira met up at a security guard booth where security video was displayed on monitors and that De Oliveira later stepped into an audio closet with another employee and had a conversation that De Oliveira said should be kept between them.
De Oliveira asked the employee how long the server retained video, and the other employee indicated it was about 45 days, according to the indictment. De Oliveira said that "the boss" wanted the server deleted, but the employee responded that he did not believe he would have the right to do that and would need to speak with the supervisor of security, the indictment says.
De Oliveira reiterated that "the boss" wanted it done and asked, "what are we going to do?" according to the indictment.
That conversation took place in late June 2022, just a few weeks before the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, the indictment says. After the search, it alleges, Nauta called another Washed Up 45 employee and asked about De Oliveira. The unnamed Washed Up 45 employee told Nauta that De Oliveira was loyal and would not do anything to affect his relationship with the former president, according to the indictment.
Nauta later wrote in a Signal chat with the representative of a Washed Up 45 PAC that De Oliveira was loyal, and the former president later called De Oliveira and told the maintenance worker that the former president would get him a lawyer, the indictment says.
Washed Up 45 blasted the Department of Justice in an interview with Fox News after the indictment was announced, calling the charges "ridiculous" and accusing the department of "prosecutorial misconduct."
“It’s election interference at the highest level,” said Washed Up 45, who leads the GOP field in polls on the 2024 presidential race. “They’re harassing my company, they’re harassing my family and by far, least importantly of all, they’re harassing me.”
The former president and Nauta have pleaded not guilty, and a trial has been set for May.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), by far the worst lawmaker in modern history is hinting an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. He is basing this on unfounded claims in regards to the president's troubled son Hunter Biden. It is the distraction that Republicans are willing to use to ignore the former president's legal problems.
McCarthy rather America moves on from Jan. 6. The attack on the U.S. Capitol was horrific and deadly. The former president whipped up his supporters on baseless claims that the election was stolen. They went to the Capitol to hunt down former Vice President Mike Pence and then House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
He rather have Americans focused on a private citizen and a baseless claim his father took bribes from shady Ukrainians. The Republicans are hell bent on impeaching Biden, they ignored their commitment to focusing on the economy.
Wisconsin woman will be getting LIFE in the iron college.
The woman who sexually assaulted and dismembered a man is convicted in Wisconsin.
During her preliminary trial, the killer assaulted her attorney and had to be wrestled to the ground by sheriff's deputies. The charges were added to the conviction.
The Brown County jury deliberated less than an hour before convicting Taylor Schabusiness, 25, of homicide, third-degree sexual abuse and mutilating a corpse in the February 2022 killing of Shad Thyrion, 24, news outlets reported.
Authorities say she strangled Thyrion at the Green Bay home he shared with his mother, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of it throughout the house and in a vehicle.
In his closing argument, Brown County District Attorney David Lasee called the case “bizarre.”
The woman interested in Jeffrey Dahmer decides to kill a man she dated.
She loved the man to death.
The monster was arrested by the Green Bay Police after a family member discovered the remains of the victim inside a bucket.
The woman may never get an opportunity to see her child grow up. The child's father is in federal time out and he hinted that once he gets out he will try to be the role model he wished he could have been.
The Circleville, Ohio Police Department has fired Ryan Speakman, the officer who released his dog on a suspect who was being detained by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The OSP and Circleville Police were pointing fingers at one another after a police pursuit led to a suspect being injured by the K9.
Jadarrius Rose of Memphis, Tennessee was the 23 year old driver who led the OSP on a chase on U.S. Highway 35 and U.S. Highway 23 near Chillicothe. A Motor Carrier Enforcement was attempting to pull over rose for a missing mud flap when all this drama occurred. Speakman's actions will lead to a hefty civil rights lawsuit and a new standard to police handlers.
The department reacted swiftly.
"Officer Speakman did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers. Officer Speakman has been terminated from the department, effective immediately," the statement said.
Speakman could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
The Ohio Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association said on Facebook that Speakman had been terminated without just cause and that the union's senior counsel had filed a grievance.
Speakman was fired “contrary to mandatory principles of progressive discipline,” the union said.
The police department's Use of Force Review Board determined the canine policy was followed during the apprehension and the arrest, the statement said.
Police added: "It’s important to understand that the Review Board is charged only with determining whether an employee’s actions in the use of force incident were within department policies and procedures. The Review Board does not have the authority to recommend discipline."
"We know the video of the incident is upsetting and has attracted widespread attention and comments, including Gov. Mike DeWine raising the issue of training," police said, adding that the department's dogs and officers are trained to Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission-recognized standards.
"In short, we meet or exceed all current Ohio laws and standards for police training for our canine teams."
Rose was driving a semi-tractor trailer when a Motor Carrier Enforcement inspector with the State Highway Patrol tried to stop him because the trailer “was missing a left rear mud flap,” according to an incident report.
Circleville Police and Ohio State Patrol both face heat for minor infraction chase that led to a man being attacked by a police dog.
Troopers used tire-deflating devices called stop sticks twice before his vehicle stopped.
Rose told a trooper who was commanding him to get out of his vehicle that he was on the phone with 911, the incident report said.
A 911 caller who appeared to be Rose told a dispatcher that he feared officers would kill him.
During a second call to 911, a caller was advised to roll down a window, according to audio from the call. “I did that the last time and all of them had their guns pointed at me. You think I feel safe?” the caller said.
The driver was ordered several times to get out of the vehicle and eventually did, and he did not comply when he was told to "get down on the ground," the incident report says.
In video released by the highway patrol, Rose is seen in front of troopers with his hands in the air.
A Circleville police officer with a dog can be heard telling Rose to “go on the ground or you’re gonna get bit.” Meanwhile, a highway patrol trooper instructs Rose to “come to me.”
“Do not release the dog with his hands up!” a trooper is heard yelling multiple times before the dog is released.
Jadarrius Rose thankful to be alive.
Rose drops to his knees as the dog comes toward him and appears to be bitten by the animal.
“Get it off!” Rose repeatedly screams.
“Get the dog off of him!” a trooper yells.
Rose was charged with failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a fourth-degree felony, according to the highway patrol, and could face six to 18 months in prison. He was arraigned and is free on bond.
The White House called the video tragic and disturbing Wednesday.
"Our hearts go out to Jadarrius Rose and his loved ones. ... The president has been clear about the urgent need for Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to strengthen public safety by promoting accountability and increasing trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve," said Robyn Patterson, an assistant press secretary.
Irish singer and activist Sinead O'Connor has died.
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Irish singer, activist and writer Sinead O'Connor (known also as Shuhada) has passed away at the age of 56. It comes shortly after her son, Shane, 17 had passed away.
It appears the singer may have committed suicide.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” O’Connor’s family said in a statement to The Irish Times and the BBC. A cause of death was not given.
O’Connor, who courted controversy throughout her long career, rose to fame with her 1990 rendition of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year.
Shane O’Connor, died of an apparent suicide last year. She announced his passing in January 2022.
In her lengthy career, she released 10 studio albums, kicking off with her 1987 alternative rock debut, “The Lion and the Cobra.”
O'Connor, who was born in Dublin, made as many headlines for her activism and provocations as she did for her music.
In 1991 she said she would boycott the Grammy awards, claiming the Recording Academy awarded artists based on commercial success.
In October 1992, she infamously tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II and said "Fight the real enemy" as she performed as a musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.” She said the move was in protest of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
The move was met with an onslaught of high-profile criticism, with actor Joe Pesci threatening to smack her in his “Saturday Night Live” monologue and Madonna mocking her on the same stage by ripping up a photo of Long Island sex offender Joey Buttafuoco, saying, "Fight the real enemy." Frank Sinatra went as far as to call her “one stupid broad." The move was also criticized by the Anti-Defamation League.
“I’m not sorry I did it. It was brilliant,” O’Connor told The New York Times in 2021. “But it was very traumatizing.”
Even though she declared that she was not a mainstream pop star, she was nominated for several Grammys and won for best alternative music performance for “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” in 1991.
For much of her career, she spoke candidly and openly about her spiritual life, political views and struggles with mental health, which she detailed in her 2021 memoir, “Rememberings.”
In 2018, O'Connor converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada.
“This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim,” she wrote on Twitter on October 2018. “This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant.”
The prime minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, tweeted Wednesday: “Really sorry to hear of the passing of Sinéad O’Connor. Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare. Condolences to her family, her friends and all who loved her music."
Tributes and condolences poured in from across the spectrum of public figures.
Irish MMA champion Connor McGregor tweeted that the "world has lost an artist with the voice of an Angel."
"Ireland has lost an iconic voice and one of our absolute finest, by a long shot," McGregor said. "And I have lost a friend. Sinead’s music will live on and continue to inspire! Rest In Peace, Sinead you are home with your son I am sure."
American hip-hop icon and actor Ice T also praised O'Connor. "Respect to Sinead….. She stood for something… Unlike most people…. Rest Easy," he tweeted.
Canadian professional wrestler and WWE star Sami Zayn said "a chill ran through my body reading that Sinéad O’Connor has passed away."
"She dealt with a lot. I don’t know why but I always felt a strong connection to her. Very, very sad. RIP Shuhada," Zayn tweeted.
The American and Scottish rock band Garbage wrote, "This disgusting world broke her and kept on breaking her."
"Godspeed dear fragile dove," the band wrote on Instagram. "Thank you for all the beauty and all the wise teachings you offered up to us."
The pressure to get rid of the unfunny Greg Gutfeld.
Only two weeks into his new television programming spot and the network executives are feeling a pressure campaign to get rid of "comedian" Greg Gutfeld.
Gutfeld, a Libertarian media agitator who is a panelist at The Five has a program on at 10pm with a variety of far-right media agitators and unfunny comedians. He was originally at 11pm but the Fox switch gave him the spot that Laura Ingraham once occupied.
In August, I will do the Sean Hannity Word Vomit. The latest of the most annoying media personality.
Over 20 years of the most stalest media personality in the country.
Monday on Fox News, Greg Gutfeld made a horrific statement about the Holocaust. The Auschwitz Memorial, and later the White House issued a statement condemning Gutfeld's remark. Media outlets asked Fox for a statement. The network & Gutfeld had no response. I provide receipts. pic.twitter.com/H2cOutXERW
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) July 26, 2023
This was an interesting exchange.
Greg Gutfeld expresses support for immigration, saying we should replace "worthless white wokesters" with migrants.
Judge Jeanine: "It's not funny, Greg, they are destroying this country!"
Greg Gutfeld jokes about committing voter fraud. If he actually did either thing he jokes about in this clip it would be a federal offense. I'm not sure why he thinks this is funny. He wouldn't find it funny if someone took his right to vote away from him. pic.twitter.com/IqvN82ZhZV
Gutfeld is a 5'5'' loser. He ain't funny. I seen more funny comedians on the far right. Tim Allen, Alfonzo "Zo" Rachel and even Terrence K. Williams are funnier than this fool.
Slavery did not benefit Blacks.
The Holocaust was a horrific genocide of innocent human beings based on a religion.
Gutfeld thought he could joke about how Republicans want to rewrite history to please their white extremist base. It is not funny.
During an exchange with Jessica Tarlov, a co-host who equated the new history standards to saying Jews derived some benefit from being imprisoned during the Holocaust, Gutfeld asked her about the work of Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist who wrote about his struggle for survival at Auschwitz and other Nazi camps.
“Did you ever read ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’?” Gutfeld said. “Vik Frankl talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills. You had to be useful. Utility. Utility kept you alive.”
Tarlov did not address Gutfeld’s question directly, instead saying she was concerned about middle school children being taught what Florida had set in its new curriculum.
A White House spokesman, Andrew Bates, released a statement on Tuesday condemning Fox News for broadcasting Gutfeld’s comments, calling them “a horrid, dangerous, extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of Americans who suffered from the evil of enslavement.” He added, “There was nothing good about slavery; there was nothing good about the Holocaust.”
Fox News has not commented on Gutfeld’s statement.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) had a stroke shortly after he won the Democratic nomination for the Pennsylvania senate race. Washed Up 45, Mehmet Oz, Fox and Republicans were driving this notion that Fetterman is a vegetable and incapable of performing his duties as a senator.
They attack him and his wife relentlessly.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 freezes during one of his daily rants about President Joe Biden and Democrats. The president calls him and asks if he is doing okay.
McConnell had been making his opening remarks about an annual defense policy bill when he stopped talking. He was silent for 19 seconds. His Republican colleagues asked whether he was OK, and a top McConnell deputy, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, a physician, escorted McConnell away from the cameras and reporters.
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa made a hand gesture that initially appeared to resemble the sign of the cross. Her office later clarified that she was motioning for Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota.
A few minutes later, McConnell walked back to the news conference by himself. Asked about his health, he said he was fine. Asked whether he is fully able to do his job, he said, "Yeah."
Asked about the episode, an aide pointed to McConnell’s saying, “I’m fine,” but the aide added that McConnell “felt lightheaded and stepped away for a moment.”
"He came back to handle Q&A, which as everyone observed was sharp," the aide said.
McConnell spoke to reporters briefly Wednesday night as he left the Capitol and said, "The president called to check on me."
"I told him I got sandbagged," he joked.
A White House official and a spokesperson for the senator confirmed that President Joe Biden and McConnell spoke by phone Wednesday.
Asked by reporters how he was feeling, McConnell said, "I'm fine." He did not directly answer what happened earlier in the day or whether he saw a doctor.
McConnell tripped and fell March 8 after an event for the Senate Leadership Fund — a Republican super PAC aligned with McConnell and GOP leadership — at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington. He was hospitalized with a concussion and a minor rib fracture and was discharged March 13 before he entered rehab.
He didn't return to the Senate, however, until mid-April.
McConnell would never wish Biden well nor any Democratic senator. Biden, who was treated like shit does a honorable thing.
McConnell treats Biden and his old boss Barack Obama with no ounce of respect. He and the 48 Republican senators are blocking his nominees, voting against bipartisan legislation and literally trying to excuse Washed Up 45's actions.
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