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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Look: Stuck kitten rescued from truck tire in Massachusetts - UPI.com

Animal rescuers in Massachusetts came to the aid of a kitten that became spooked and got stuck in the tire of a resident's truck.
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Animal rescuers in Massachusetts came to the aid of a kitten that became spooked and got stuck in the tire of a resident's truck.

Lawrence Animal Control officers responded to a neighborhood to attempt to trap a family of 4-week-old stray kittens, but one of the felines fled from the officers and became stuck in the wheel of a truck.



"No one could find him until they heard him crying. It was just so heartbreaking," Meaghan O'Leary, director of operations at the MSPCA at Nevins Farm, told WCVB-TV.

The kitten was removed from the tire and taken to the MSPCA at Nevins Farm in Methuen. Officials said the kitten is doing well in foster care and will soon undergo surgery for a leg injury.
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Watch: Healthy baby hippo born at Dallas Zoo - UPI.com

The Dallas Zoo announced the birth of a healthy baby hippopotamus there.
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The Dallas Zoo announced the birth of a healthy baby hippopotamus there.

The zoo said mother hippo Boipelo went into labor Oct. 30 and soon gave birth to a baby in an off-exhibit area.


Officials said the baby began nursing within an hour of being born and is bonding with its mother.

The sex of the baby is not yet known. The zoo said a name will be chosen for the hippo once keepers get an idea of the newborn's personality.
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Some SNL writers aren't happy then Dave Chapelle will host SNL again.
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‘SNL’ Facing Backlash For Their Decision To Invite Dave Chappelle Back As Host

The 49-year-old has been under fire since the release of his 2021 special ‘The Closer,’ where he made insensitive remarks about the trans community.
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Dave Chappelle is set to host Saturday Night Live (SNL) on Nov. 12, but some people aren’t too happy with the popular comedy show for the decision.

The 49-year-old has been under fire since the release of his 2021 special The Closer, where he made insensitive remarks about the trans community.

“Having Dave Chappelle host SNL again is a slap in the face to trans people, including one of their own new cast members,” tweeted one angry social media user, while referencing comedian Molly Kearney. The comic made history back in September when they became the first nonbinary comic to join the cast.

“Wait I thought I canceled him,” former Netflix employee Terra Field tweeted in opposition to the news. “Is it possible cancel culture isn’t a real thing??”

When Closer premiered on the streaming platform last year, Field resigned after serving as Netflix’s co-vice president of the company’s transgender employee resource group, according to Newsweek. She also staged a walkout in protest of the special.
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Does Madonna ‘identify’ as young?​

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I’ve always preferred nasty women to nice girls. In the sexy-greedy 1980s, I was spoilt for choice. There was my main squeeze, Margaret Thatcher, and my sidepiece, Madonna Ciccone. Back when she came to public notice with her first single, ‘Holiday’, in 1983 when we were both 24, I wasn’t used to hearing women as ‘candid’, shall we say, as me speaking in public. I especially liked the thing she said when someone asked her what she thought of those women’s libbers, probably in the hope she would call them ugly man-haters: ‘Oh, yes, I believe in everything they do. But I was too impatient. I had to do it for myself.’ This was bra-strap feminism at its finest.

As her music got more mediocre, Madonna relied more on ‘reinvention’ – she became the Dr Who of pop, regenerating just enough to keep herself in the news, as the attention of strangers is the only thing this singularly self-disciplined woman has ever been addicted to. Her survival became the story itself. Just when we thought we had said everything we could possibly have to say about her, we would be having the Madonna convo all over again.

Is it okay to adopt Third World children? What’s the youngest a cougar should go? ‘Put it away!’, we cried in delighted affront when she acted like a girl gone wild, but we didn’t really mean it. We women who were young when she was young lived through and saw off all the other ages when women had to put it away – 30, 40, 50 – with Madonna as our marker of how long we could stay young. When we had to admit that she was no longer in her prime, we would have to take that onboard about ourselves. Lots of us feel young inside and find it hard to recognise the stranger in the mirror. How much more so must this be for Madonna, who had the whole world as her salad-days rumpus room?

But ever since she discovered TikTok, the clock has been ticking on quite how long even her staunchest supporters can keep squealing: ‘You go, girl!’ When she appeared there a few years back, it seemed a bit odd that one of the entertainment world’s richest women would want to mime to her own songs for the delectation of millions – but hey, I’m not averse to thumbing through my Diana book when I’m drunk.

However, when it became clear that her TikToking was something more than a diva’s downtime scenery-eating, things got a little weirder.
A couple of weeks back it all went tits up – metaphorically and literally, considering how many ‘tweaks’ Madge has had. What once seemed risqué now appeared as a downright desperate attempt to be down wit’ da kidz, as she posed on Instagram with her knockers out and a dildo in her mouth to promote luxury sex toys.

And in a lovely twist on a mum telling a teenage daughter that she’s not going out dressed like that, the 64-year-old boasted that she was the first megastar to strip off in public, referencing her ghastly 1992 book, SEX. ‘Now Cardi B can sing about her “WAP”. Kim Kardashian can grace the cover of any magazine with her naked ass… You’re welcome bitches’, she wrote on Instagram. It’s probably best not to challenge a 30-year-old rapper if you’re at an age when a nice sit down is preferable to sex. And predictably Cardi B bit back: ‘I literally payed [sic] this woman homage so many times… these icons really become disappointments.’

Undaunted, M had her bangers out again on Insta a few days later, with money-bag emojis covering her nips. Ostensibly, all this was about the re-merching of her SEX book and her Erotica album on their 30th anniversaries. But in reality, it’s all about magical thinking, the biggest and silliest craze of our age. Madonna imagined that she was just being herself, business as usual, when she mimed the words to a rap song on TikTok last week: ‘Have you ever been punched in your motherfucking face? What you say? Oh, you haven’t? Alright, wait.’ The fans had a different take: ‘What happened to the real Madonna, the one that you can actually look at and say wow you are beautiful and talented?’; ‘I used to love your music and creativity, please stop with these weird reels! It’s getting dark and concerning now’; and ‘I feel like everything I’ve ever known is just one big lie. This is soul crushing.’

So disturbing was the video that it led many onlookers to advocate an ‘intervention’ in response. Since then, far from retreating, she has twerked in lingerie, thrown a pair of pink knickers at a wastepaper basket while kind of claiming to be gay. She has also reignited an old feud with rapper 50 Cent, causing him to unchivalrously brand her ‘grandma’. As she approaches her dotage, she has come full circle from the rebellious, motherless girl in Detroit, dreaming of winning the love of the world – or at least its attention.

Everybody is now talking about her again – and a lot of it is quite silly. Those aghast fans on Twitter claiming ‘This is not the Madonna I know’ – are they mistaking her for Karen Carpenter, perhaps? She’s clearly still exactly the same Madonna, doing exactly the same things she did 30 years ago – exposing herself, expressing phoney ‘attitude’ and trying a bit too hard to keep up with all the latest trends. The only thing that has changed is she doesn’t look like that Madonna anymore – from Marilyn Monroe to Marilyn Manson – beauty being the get-out clause in exhibitionism. (No one’s ever going to complain about being flashed by Emily Ratajkowski.) Although it’s clearly magical thinking on Madge’s part to believe she can still act like a 24-year-old without mockery, you can’t blame her for thinking she might be able to get away with it in a world where women can have penises. Her antics on TikTok are indicative of a wider refusal of a sizeable minority of people and institutions in the West to face the truth about ourselves.

Trans is the biggest example of magical thinking, but there’s a lot of it about: men who identify as policemen stalking women; people who identify as doctors refusing to recognise the biology of women; men who identify as first responders leaving children to be vaporised; countries demanding trillion-dollar apologies for past crimes; television commercials that show betting as a joyous communal activity. It can have a comical side – a new energy drink, Prime, has become an internet sensation, leading to pre-teen children being mugged in playgrounds and a restaurant chain accepting unopened bottles in exchange for food. Carbonated water has become a currency – if that’s not magical thinking, I don’t know what is. Meghan Markle is the international figurehead of magical thinking – claiming to be an only child to the horror of her siblings, claiming to have had two weddings to Harry, and even claiming that South Africans celebrated her marriage in the streets as they did on the release of Nelson Mandela.

The opposite of magical thinking is stoicism, best summed up by the freed-slave philosopher Epictetus: ‘If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone”.’ To see ourselves as others see us – while taking into consideration that their observation may be clouded by envy or other impairments – is far more likely to bring long-term happiness than the desire to be validated by strangers. ‘We are all PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT’, repeat the young women in a current perfume ad. It’s hard not to believe that anyone brought up on this all-must-have-prizes mush is in for a very rude awakening.

Regrettably, at the moment, such idiocy is ascendant. If the little boy said the emperor had no clothes today, he would be arrested for hate speech. We might mock the material girl for being past it – but in the age of magical thinking, she is right up there at the forefront of fashion once more.

Julie Burchill is a spiked columnist. Her book, Welcome To The Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics, is published by Academica Press.
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...and with this...the Duckduckgo search engine has now destroyed what dwindling credibility it had left:

Google Lite: DuckDuckGo Announces Purge of Independent Media – “Only MSM Allowed” – FROM NEWSPUNCH! - CENTERMATTER

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has announced that the search engine will begin purging all independent media outlets from the platform and will replace them with “trusted” mainstream media outlets instead. “Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic...
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So, after getting started under the mission statement as being alternative to Google in terms of spying and censorship, it has now decided to join the monster that is Big Tech like Google did when it abandoned its "Don't be evil" slogan years ago.
 
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...and with this...the Duckduckgo search engine has now destroyed what dwindling credibility it had left:

Google Lite: DuckDuckGo Announces Purge of Independent Media – “Only MSM Allowed” – FROM NEWSPUNCH! - CENTERMATTER

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has announced that the search engine will begin purging all independent media outlets from the platform and will replace them with “trusted” mainstream media outlets instead. “Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic...
centermatter.com centermatter.com

So, after getting started under the mission statement as being alternative to Google in terms of spying and censorship, it has now decided to join the monster that is Big Tech like Google did when it abandoned its "Don't be evil" slogan years ago.
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I feel like this should be getting more attention than it is, no one in my circles who used to be all about Duckduckgo has even mentioned it.
 
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Hepativore said:
...and with this...the Duckduckgo search engine has now destroyed what dwindling credibility it had left:

Google Lite: DuckDuckGo Announces Purge of Independent Media – “Only MSM Allowed” – FROM NEWSPUNCH! - CENTERMATTER

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has announced that the search engine will begin purging all independent media outlets from the platform and will replace them with “trusted” mainstream media outlets instead. “Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic...
centermatter.com centermatter.com

So, after getting started under the mission statement as being alternative to Google in terms of spying and censorship, it has now decided to join the monster that is Big Tech like Google did when it abandoned its "Don't be evil" slogan years ago.
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This is from April 19, 2022.
 
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This is from April 19, 2022.
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I got it from another news site called Naked Capitalism which just reported it yesterday, so I am not sure what is going on. All I know is that I am not using Duckduckgo anymore. The only problem is that you cannot use Boolean search terms with Brave search and Yandex sucks now.
 
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Dave Chapelle hosted SNL and said then Kayne West was right. Both the Daily Stormer and ZeroHedge covered it.
It’s not clear what is going on here exactly, but Dave Chappelle went on Saturday Night Live last night and said that Ye is right about the Jews controlling Hollywood.

The infamous anti-tranny black comedian made several jokes about Jewish power, before doing some rather lame liberal jokes (apparently to gain the sympathy of the audience after these anti-Semitic statements), before closing by saying he hopes Jews don’t destroy his career for what he said.

Chappelle also mentioned the Kyrie Irving situation, and said that Jews are blaming black people for their problems.

What is not clear is why he was allowed to do this. The show is live, so it’s possible he just didn’t tell anyone what he was going to do, but it’s pretty obvious if you know who Chappelle is that he would do this. Furthermore, he’s lately been making various comments about Jews at his own shows.

The only explanation that maybe makes much sense to me is that some Jews – particularly Lauren Michaels, who has total control over SNL – feel like the Jews at the ADL are perhaps going too far, and feel like there needs to be a little bit of levity as regards this Jewish war against black people.
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At this rate, I wonder if Dave Chapelle should have his own thread on KF?
 
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Dave Chapelle hosted SNL and said then Kayne West was right. Both the Daily Stormer and ZeroHedge covered it.

At this rate, I wonder if Dave Chapelle should have his own thread on KF?
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Yeah in multimedia.
Unless he has another AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH A WHITE PERSON I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE moment it'll just be his lukewarm jokes and a the latest transoid he pissed off.
 
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African Swine Fever red zone extends to third Iloilo town

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Is it my imagination of this fever variant arrived at an eerie timing?

Meanwhile in Mexico, there's some protests and let's see if it'll turn as big as the Iranian ones.
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Massive Unrest in Mexico | Armstrong Economics

As our models indicated, November would be a time of great civil unrest throughout the world. The latest incident occurred in Mexico where at least 200,000 people took to the streets to protest President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to reform the electoral body and Congress. The...
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As our models indicated, November would be a time of great civil unrest throughout the world. The latest incident occurred in Mexico where at least 200,000 people took to the streets to protest President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to reform the electoral body and Congress. The photo above was taken at Mexico City and shows only a fraction of the protestors.

The National Electoral Institute (INE) that organizes Mexico’s elections is in jeopardy. AMLO accused the INE of fraud back in 2006 and 2012 during his failed elections. He would now like to reduce Congress from 500 to 300 people and slash the Senate from 128 to 96. People are accusing Lopez Obrador of attempting to turn Mexico into a socialistic state like Cuba or Venezuela.
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