Seattle has now become the first major city in the United States to ban certain single-use plastics.
Seattle’s ban on plastics began on July 1st and targets restaurants using items such as plastic utensils, plastic straws, and plastic cocktail picks.
Dune Ives, the Executive Director of environmentalism group the Lonely Whale Foundation, refers to these as “gateway plastics” and points out that…
The New York Times started a new “satire” miniseries called “Trump Bites” where President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are portrayed as a hyper-sexualized cartoon gay couple.
The video series’ creator is Bill Plympton, a two-time Oscar-nominated animator and is meant to “riff on Mr. Trump’s absurd utterances to illustrate the president’s tumultuous inner life of paranoia,…
Vegans are attacking French butchers for propagating “meat-eating culture,” which is apparently a thing now.
According to the BBC, French butchers have been writing to their government to request protection from “militant vegans” -- which may be the least intimidating description, but it’s actually a problem.
Meat shops have been stoned, defaced, and 15 shops were even splattered with fake…
A Facebook post from Replay Lincoln Park, a bar in Chicago, announced the bars new dress code policy. They’re prohibiting face tattoos and no specific hats. The text is followed by images to reflect specifically what the owner is referring to.
Replay Lincoln Park
It's interesting that the example of a face tattoo is a man with a huge ‘666’ across his forehead. But I am sure he definitely…
That Congressional intern who yelled “Mr. President, f**k you!’ to President Trump in the Capitol last week has been identified and the punishment isn’t shocking in the least.
In case you missed it, President Trump was on his way to a meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss legislation to resolve the issue of child separation at the border when he was heckled by a then unidentified…
Sunday afternoon, the Broward County Sheriff's Department tweeted a picture of their new -- and what looks like expensive -- Dodge Charger.
Our new #dodge #charger. Do you like the paint job? pic.twitter.com/l6EfKxuaru
— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) June 24, 2018
This is the county that was home to the infamous Parkland school shooting earlier this year and where the March for Our…
On Saturday, the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) voted to change the name of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award to the "Children’s Literature Legacy Award."
The AP reported that the name was changed due to “concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans” in her book. The ALSC was concerned about the “expressions of stereotypical…
Blue Bell ice cream has a flavor called "The Great Divide" which is half chocolate and half vanilla split evenly down the middle. Apparently the ice cream is racist according to blogger and mother of a "mixed-race family" Traci Schmidley.
On her blog, the mother of six and foster parent from rural Louisiana retells a story where she and her family were indulging in some Blue Bell ice cream at…
Over the weekend, the Red Cross tweeted about its desire to help immigrant children separated from their families at the border but how it hasn't been given permission to access facilities where they are being held.
The humanitarian organization added that there are several "trusted organizations providing assistance" and even attached a link to a list of them.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough twisted…
Thursday afternoon, Stormy Daniels announced via a tweet that she is flying down to the southern U.S. border next week to try and figure out her “best course of action to maximize my resources.”
I am headed down in a week. Don't worry. Just figuring out my best course of action to maximize my resources. https://t.co/kT64pWZ4QN
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) June 21, 2018
Her resources…
