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Watch: Man Arrested In UK For Saying “We Love Bacon”

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Watch: Man Arrested In UK For Saying “We Love Bacon”

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A British man has been arrested for saying “we love bacon” while protesting the building of a proposed giant mosque.

The Telegraph reports that the protest occurred at the site of planned super mosque in the Lake District, which is populated by an almost 100% white population.

The report further notes that the 23-year-old man, was not otherwise being disruptive, causing any damage or being in any way violent.

The arresting police officer claims that the grounds for the detainment were “racial abuse.”

Telegraph writer Isabel Oakeshott notes:

Of course Muslims don’t eat pork. As a result, they cannot share this particular delight with the rest of us. However, despite a steady rise in our own Muslim population, the UK remains a Christian country. Supposedly, we also enjoy free speech. Why then did the unfortunate father find himself frogmarched away from the protest by two police officers?

Saying ‘We love bacon’ is simply a truism. We British do love it, and there is nothing wrong with saying so.

As for remarks about bacon near a religious site or in the company of Muslims, they hardly constitute public disorder, still less ‘racial abuse,’ as the officer who arrested him can be heard suggesting.

The South Lakes Islamic Centre, often referred to as the Kendal mosque due to its proximity to the town of Kendal in Cumbria, is a £2.5 million facility under construction in Dalton-in-Furness on the edge of the Lake District.

Construction began in March 2025, with reports indicating that the structure is now nearing completion despite challenges like suppliers refusing to provide materials amid public backlash.

Opposition to the project has been vocal, with groups staging protests at the site since last month. Critics cite concerns over increased noise, traffic, and cultural impact in a rural area, but a core argument revolves around the region’s demographics: the Lake District and surrounding Cumbria have a Muslim population of approximately 0.4%, or around 2,000 people across the county, raising questions about the necessity of what some dub a “mega mosque” in such a sparsely populated Muslim area.

Detractors suggest it’s disproportionate, especially with nearby facilities like mosques in Carlisle, Penrith, and Whitehaven, and speculate it could signal plans for larger-scale housing or migration to the area.

As we’ve previously highlighted, the Lake District is just one sleepy area of the UK where the government has decided to drop hundreds of illegal immigrants into small villages without notifying or warning residents.

Many who shared the video of the man’s arrest on social media suggested it is yet another example of the ‘two tier’ society that has emerged in the UK.

Others took an opportunity to express their right to… like bacon.

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/21/2025 – 03:30

While MSM Screamed “Climate Crisis”, Arctic Ice Loss Actually Slowed 

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While MSM Screamed “Climate Crisis”, Arctic Ice Loss Actually Slowed 

What the globalist corporate media once smeared as “conspiracy theory” and branded “misinformation” has turned out to be true: the climate crisis was merely an imaginary problem and an informational war on the minds of the taxpayer.

Why all the propaganda? Give Democrats cover for a massive heist of the U.S. Treasury, laundering taxpayer dollars through mysterious NGOs via the Green New Deal Inflation Reduction Act into radical leftist NGOs and politically connected green companies. It was never about saving the planet, as it turns out. 

Between 2019, when socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Green New Deal (which ultimately failed), and President Biden’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, the globalists, their corporate media outlets, and dark-money-funded NGOs unleashed a propaganda blitz by flooding the airwaves with record levels of “climate crisis” stories and left millions of folks with climate anxieties.

As soon as the heist was over … those climate crisis headlines, according to Bloomberg data this month, quite literally evaporated. 

Meanwhile, as Earth is supposedly imploding in a climate crisis, new findings show that Arctic sea ice decline stalled over the past two decades, with no significant loss in September extent since 2005…

This new research, titled “Minimal Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Last 20 Years, Consistent With Internal Climate Variability,” was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and showed three key points:

  • The loss of Arctic sea ice cover has undergone a pronounced slowdown over the past two decades, across all months of the year

  • Rather than being an unexpected rare event, comprehensive climate models from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulate such pauses relatively frequently

  • According to these climate model simulations, this pause in the loss of Arctic sea ice could plausibly continue for the next 5–10 years

What’s remarkable is that multiple generations of Democrats have had their worldview shaped by climate crisis headlines pushed by DEI-driven journalists. And the only solution Democrats ever offer for the so-called crisis is more taxes and degrowth policies that sabotage the West. In reality, this is climate Marxism and has handed China a leap ahead.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/21/2025 – 02:45

Tusk Ridiculously Blamed Putin For A Bandera Flag Scandal In Poland’s Largest Stadium

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Tusk Ridiculously Blamed Putin For A Bandera Flag Scandal In Poland’s Largest Stadium

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Many military-aged Ukrainian men in Poland are anti-Polish extremists who pose a latent security threat…

Poles were furious after the flag of Stepan Bandera’s “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” was recently flown in a Warsaw stadium, the country’s largest, during a Belarusian rapper’s concert. After all, it was in his name and under this flag that Ukrainians genocided over 100,000 Poles during WWII, whose remains have yet to be exhumed and properly buried even though Kiev already did this for over 100,000 Wehrmacht soldiers. Several dozen Ukrainians and a handful Belarusians were detained and will now be deported.

This follows the scandal earlier in the month when a parliamentarian shouted “Slava Ukraini” in the Sejm and comes amidst Poles already getting fed up with Ukrainian refugees and the proxy war. Anti-Ukrainian sentiment is therefore expected to surge in the aftermath of this latest incident, and it was likely with a view to desperately redirect Poles’ fury away from the around one million of them that flooded into the country since 2022 that Prime Minister Donald Tusk ridiculously blamed Putin for what just happened.

He tweeted that “The resolution of the Ukrainian war is approaching, so Russia is doing everything to sow discord between Kyiv and Warsaw. Anti-Polish gestures by Ukrainians and fueling anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland are Putin’s scenario, orchestrated by foreign agents and local idiots. Always the same ones.”

Many Poles rejected his kooky conspiracy theory in their comments under his post, taking offense at how he insulted their intelligence and reminding him of how much Ukrainians glorify Bandera.

This proves what was earlier written about how fed up Poles are getting with Ukrainian refugees, the hyperlinked analysis of which relied on survey data from a reputable pollster to reach that conclusion, thus confirming the expected surge of anti-Ukrainian sentiment in the aftermath of this latest incident. What just happened was particularly offensive since many Poles opened up their homes for Ukrainian refugees early on the special operation, volunteered to help them, and donated to associated charities.

This was done out of solidarity with Ukraine against Russia, Poland’s historical rival, yet Poles are now realizing how naïve they were. Far from overcoming their historical hatred for Poland, Ukrainians still glorify the man in whose name their ancestors genocided Poles, and military-aged men who dodged their country’s draft by being in Poland have no qualms about doing this in their host’s capital. This isn’t just ingratitude, it’s blatant disrespect, and it’s due to Ukrainians nowadays feeling privileged in Poland.

Poles finally understand this and that’s why many now want Ukrainians’ benefits to be revoked, not to mention the growing number of them that want military-aged Ukrainian men to be deported for security reasons too, which is sensible considering that many are anti-Polish extremists. The inevitable end of the Ukrainian Conflict will likely lead to an influx of veterans into Poland who, given their battlefield experience and ideological indoctrination, might carry out acts of terrorism against society and the state.

As explained here last fall, Ukrainian ultra-nationalists lay claim to parts of southeastern Poland so they might very well try to advance this expansionist agenda in the future, especially if the narrative circulates that Poland “stabbed Ukraine in the back” and thus “helped Russia win” by curtailing military aid. What just happened in Warsaw is a harbinger of what’s to come if Poland doesn’t coerce or outright force military-aged Ukrainian men into leave and lets veterans flood into the country after the conflict ends.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/21/2025 – 02:00

“First True Taste Of Fall”: Might Need A Jacket Next Week

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“First True Taste Of Fall”: Might Need A Jacket Next Week

Hurricane Erin dominates today’s weather headlines, bringing rough surf and tropical conditions from the Outer Banks to the Mid-Atlantic. Looking ahead, fall may arrive earlier -or at least the first taste – than expected as August winds down and kids head back to school.

“Abnormally strong trough expected to move through the Great Lakes as we go into next week… first time we have seen those bright anomaly colors show up on @SynopticWX in a minute!” private weather forecaster BAM Weather wrote on X, adding, “A true taste of fall on the way!” 

For those residing in Washington, D.C. next week, average temperatures are forecast to fall well below the 30-year seasonal norm of around 75F. Models show average temps could dip into the low 60s by late next week.

Low temps are forecasted to be in the low 50s next week around the Capital Beltway. 

Related:

Where did all the global warming go?

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 22:10

Meta Freezes Hiring In AI Division

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Meta Freezes Hiring In AI Division

Weeks after reports that Meta was offering $100 million signing bonuses to poach OpenAI talent, it turns out the social media giant’s chatbot ambitions aren’t panning out so well – as the company has frozen hiring in its artificial intelligence division, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

The freeze, which began last week, is part of a broader restructuring within the AI group – and prohibits current AI division employees from moving across teams withing the division. Any exceptions to the freeze will have to go through the company’s chief AI officer, Alexander Wang, according to people familiar with the matter. 

Meta confirmed the freeze, telling the Journal that this is nothing more than “basic organizational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.”

The recent restructuring inside Meta divides its AI efforts into four teams: one working on superintelligence, called TBD Lab, that houses many of the new hires; a second working on AI products; a third working on infrastructure; and a fourth dedicated to projects with a longer time horizon and more exploration, the people said. The latter, called Fundamental AI Research, remains largely untouched in the reorganization.

The four groups sit within the umbrella of Meta Superintelligence Labs, a name that reflects Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s recent emphasis on building computer systems that can outperform the smartest humans on cognitive tasks. The Information previously reported some details of Meta’s AI reorganization. -WSJ

Meanwhile the company’s auto-AI within Facebook posts seems to be dead wrong every time, and in fact the opposite of super intelligent. 

Seems like those nine-figure signing bonuses might have been a mistake… as several analysts have voiced concerns about aggressive investments in AI from leading tech firms – with some specifically pointing to Meta’s ‘fast-rising stock-based compensation costs’ as something that could impact shareholder returns. 

Mounting concern from investors over the costs of the tech giants’ AI buildout has played a role in this week’s selloff of technology stocks. In an Aug. 18 research note, analysts at Morgan Stanley warned that the fast-rising stock-based compensation offered by Meta and Google to lure AI talent could threaten their ability to return capital to shareholders via buybacks. Lavish spending on talent, the analysts wrote, “has the potential to drive AI breakthroughs with massive value creation or could dilute shareholder value without any clear innovation gains.” -WSJ

Andy Stone, Meta’s head of communications, accused the WSJ of not printing their full statement – which apparently renders the report a nothingburger and totally not damage control. 

Stone is of course, super credible after punishing vaccine skeptics and censoring the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Meta ramped up internal focus on AI in April, after its large language models, known as Llama, were a giant disappointment vs. their competitors. As a result, the team responsible has been let go (or ‘reorganized’) as part of the latest move. Following this massive fail, CEO Mark Zuckerberg became personally involved in recruiting AI researchers – approaching several employees from OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other laps. He allegedly offered Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch as much as $1.5 billion, which Tulloch declined. 

Wang, mentioned above, was offered a $14 billion stake, while former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross were also brought on. 

As of last week, Meta has successfully hired more than 20 researchers and engineers from OpenAI, at least 13 from Google, three from Apple, and three from Elon Musk’s xAI. In total, they’ve hired more than 50 new employees. 

In short…

 

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 21:45

Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists Ahead Of Gaza City Takeover

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Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists Ahead Of Gaza City Takeover

Israeli media is reporting that around 60,000 Israeli reservists are set to receive call-up orders on Wednesday as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gear up for a major assault on Gaza City.

A report in Times of Israel notes that reservists will have up to two weeks before going to their duty stations, but not all will be directly involved in the Gaza City offensive, as some are needed replace Israeli forces currently stationed in other parts of Gaza.

Anadolu Agency

The controversial Netanyahu-ordered expanded offensive which aims to achieve total control of Gaza City is expected to displace over a million Palestinian civilians.

The IDF is prepared to use artillery to forcibly remove them, and a ramped-up air campaign has already been underway. Arab media sources, including Al Jazeera, have said that areas with a lot of tent shelters for refugees have at times been directly struck.

Israel’s military has issued evacuation orders, and is framing this as simply a mass transfer, while the Palestinian side along with international human rights monitors have decried an ethnic cleansing and land grab in progress.

Reports in Israeli media have further described that after capturing the city, the IDF plans to spend over a year systematically demolishing it, which is precisely what previously happened in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, and Jabalia.

The ostensible justification is for removal of “Hamas infrastructure” – but critics have said it is ultimately to pave the way for Jewish settlement of the Gaza Strip.

The question remains, where will these Gazans go? Israel has been seeking to pressure some regional and even north African countries to take them in. 

To be expected, these conversations have gone nowhere especially as regional Arab states have already historically absorbed hundreds of thousands. For example, the majority of the population of Jordan actually has Palestinian roots.

Just life Rafah…

The Trump administration has meanwhile appeared to greenlight the takeover plans, in a break from Europe – which has grown much more critical of Israeli policy and loud over the last months.

Some EU states like Denmark are even mulling sanctions on Israel, and several major US allies are set to recognize the state of Palestine at the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting in September.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 21:20

​​​​​​​Rogue Leftist Group Creates Target List Of Trump-Linked Billionaires For Its Foot Soldiers   ​​​​​​​

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​​​​​​​Rogue Leftist Group Creates Target List Of Trump-Linked Billionaires For Its Foot Soldiers   ​​​​​​​

Submitted by Forward Observer, 

The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the U.S. Their stated goal is not financial transparency, but political warfare: to document billionaire ties to President Trump, and then equip activists with the tools to, in their words, “defeat them.”

The group recently published its first five audits, each featuring a high-profile billionaire with direct or indirect links to the Trump agenda. The names include some of the wealthiest and most influential figures in American business: Elon Musk, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) official Antonio Gracias, Silicon Valley “supervillain” Peter Thiel, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

Each billionaire’s profile is accompanied by a stylized “wanted poster,” underscoring the group’s framing of billionaires as political enemies.

Example of Elon Musk’s …

On its website, the Department of Class Solidarity describes itself as a kind of revolutionary intelligence hub for activists:

“The Department of Class Solidarity arms organizers, activists, and everyday people with the tools to expose the billionaires ransacking our democracy. Welcome to the war room of the working class.”

Another section of the site highlights the scale of the project:

“There are nearly 1,000 billionaires in our United States. We’re auditing every single one to arm the working class with the knowledge we need to defeat them.”

The campaign is already building toward action. Organizers are promoting a “People vs. Billionaires Week of Action” scheduled for 21–27 August, leading into a Labor Day National Day of Action on Monday, 01 September.

While only 15 events are currently scheduled, the group is clearly attempting to establish a long-term campaign that will target wealthy elites, tie them to the Trump agenda, and generate social pressure against their businesses and political activities.

Why It Matters

This effort is not occurring in isolation. It fits into the broader strategy of the anti-Trump resistance movement, which has adopted an escalation model that runs from Protest → Resistance → Revolution. The goal is to erode Trump’s legitimacy and disrupt his ability to govern by attacking the pillars of his support.

According to this framework, there are six key pillars that sustain political authority: business, labor, faith, education, civil service, and military/police. One of the most critical of these is the business class.

By targeting billionaires who are viewed as sympathetic to, or supportive of, the Trump administration, activists are seeking to coerce defections from the business elite. The idea is simple: if billionaires fear reputational damage, sustained protests, boycotts, and disruption of their business operations, they will withdraw financial or political support for Trump and his policies.

Examples of this strategy are already visible. Activists point to the “Tesla Takedown” protests as proof of concept. At their height, those protests were credited with wiping out roughly $100 billion of Elon Musk’s net worth. Tesla’s board even cited activist pressure as a major factor in revenue declines, which in turn constrained Musk’s political maneuvering and discouraged his direct involvement at the White House. That outcome has become a model for future campaigns.

In practice, these pressure campaigns should manifest in several ways:

  • Social pressure campaigns to brand billionaires as enemies of democracy

  • Boycotts of consumer-facing companies tied to Trump-friendly executives, or business with the administration

  • Disruption of business operations through protests, shareholder activism, and media campaigns

While the Department of Class Solidarity, Indivisible (No Kings / May Day Strong), 505051, and other organizations publicly encourage nonviolent tactics, the imagery associated with its campaign — particularly the “wanted poster” format — could incite harassment or violence against targeted individuals or their families.

One such example was Indivisible’s use of an image depicting a Tesla Cybertruck on fire during their “Takedown Tesla” protest campaign. The use of the image coincided, if not contributed to, numerous arson attacks and vandalism against Tesla vehicles and showrooms. Indivisible eventually removed those images from its website.

For now, the Department of Class Solidarity is a small player — their “week of action” has just 16 protests scheduled — but their tactics highlight a vulnerability for companies that do business with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any number of departments or agencies left wing activists consider the “enemy of democracy.”

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Mike Shelby is a former Intelligence NCO and contractor with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2016, he founded Forward Observer, a private intelligence firm that focuses on domestic and international conflict. His team writes a daily Early Warning intelligence briefing, which is available through https://forwardobserver.com.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 20:55

Court Upholds Nearly $1 Million Fine Against Restaurant That Ignored Pandemic Indoor Dining Ban

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Court Upholds Nearly $1 Million Fine Against Restaurant That Ignored Pandemic Indoor Dining Ban

A Washington state restaurant that ignored a 2020 state COVID-19 pandemic order must pay a fine of $936,000 – $18,000 per day, for each day it remained in operation while the state’s emergency order banning indoor dining was in place, an appeals court has ruled.

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to reporters in Seattle on March 16, 2020. Elaine Thompson/Pool/Getty Images

The ban, imposed in late 2020 by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), went into effect following a jump in cases and hospitalizations (unaudited!). In response, the owners of Stuffy’s II restaurant, Bud and Glenda Duling, ignored the order – resulting in the financial punishment. 

The fine was levied by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries – which the Dulings say they cannot pay. Meanwhile, the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals did not have their back, refusing to weigh in after saying they don’t have the authority to deal with constitutional matters. A superior court judge upheld the decision.

Despite providing tax returns showing that it operated at a loss in 2020 and received a PPP loan, the court ruled that the Dulings have not provided evidence that their company cannot pay the fines.

“Duling has not demonstrated that it is unable to pay the fine or that the fine is excessive,” Judge Rebecca Glasgow wrote for the unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the State of Washington judges that considered the case. “There is nothing in the record about what savings or assets Duling had,” Glasow continued, adding “Duling had ample opportunities to provide additional documentation and deposition testimony to support its contention that it was unable to pay the fine, and it did not do so.”

In a Dec. 5, 2020 Facebook post, the Dulings said they had made the decision to resume indoor dining. 

“It has come down to the point where we shut our doors after today and call it quits after 32 years of proudly serving the community, or we fight,” they wrote. “We have made the decision over closing that we are fighting. If we go down, at least our employees will be able to have a better chance at having a better holiday season! This is not just about us as the owners struggling; this is about our Stuffy’s family.”

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 20:30

Sen. Klobuchar Denies Saying Sydney Sweeney Has ‘Perfect Titties’

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Sen. Klobuchar Denies Saying Sydney Sweeney Has ‘Perfect Titties’

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has taken to the NY Times to slam “deepfakes” – after a video emerged in which she appears to declare that Sydney Sweeney has ‘perfect titties.’ (also, definitely don’t go on X and search for “perfect titties”)… 

“The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect t-tties’ and lamenting that Democrats were “too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside,” Klobuchar wrote. “Though I could immediately tell that someone used footage from the hearing to make a deepfake, there was no getting around the fact that it looked and sounded very real.” (that only a complete retard would be fooled by).

“If Republicans are gonna have beautiful girls with perfect t-tties in their ads, we want ads for Democrats too, you know?” she ‘says’ in the deepfake. 

“We want ugly, fat bitches wearing pink wigs and long-ass fake nails being loud and twerking on top of a cop car at a Waffle House because they didn’t get extra ketchup, you know?

“Just because we’re the party of ugly people doesn’t mean we can’t be featured in ads, OK? And I know most of us are too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside, but we want representation.”

Meanwhile, here are the results of some serious journalism to determine if in fact Sweeney has perfect titties…

Wait, what? Should probably click on this to investigate… 

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 19:15

Texas Dem Has ‘Oh Sh*t’ Moment After ‘Felony’ Bathroom Call

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Texas Dem Has ‘Oh Sh*t’ Moment After ‘Felony’ Bathroom Call

A Texas Democratic lawmaker who fled the state earlier this month abruptly hung up on a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other top party leaders on Wednesday, after she says she was warned that she was committing a felony.

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on July 29, 2021. Rod Lamkey / CNP / Sipa USA via Reuters file

“Sorry, I have to leave,” state Rep. Nicole Collier (D) said during the call – interrupting Martin. “They said it’s a felony for me to do this. Apparently I can’t be on the floor or in a bathroom.”

“You told me I was only allowed to be here in the bathroom,” she told someone off camera. “No, hold on — bye everybody, I’ve got to go.”

Collier snuck off to the Texas Capitol’s bathroom to participate in the call as the state House moved forward with a vote on a GOP-friendly House map (that the Dems fled the state to try and block, only to return after their their paychecks were changed to in-person pickup). 

Democrats who wanted to leave and come back to the Capitol in between House meetings could only do so after “agreeing to be released into the custody of a designated DPS officer appointment under the rules of the House,” according to Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R). They also have to sign a form saying they will come back to the state Legislature.

Collier declined to agree to the terms and instead has slept inside the state House in protest. –The Hill

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called the incident “outrageous,” adding “Rep. Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office.”

“That is outrageous. What they’re trying to do right there, is silence an American leader, silence a Black woman and that is outrageous.”

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/20/2025 – 18:50

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