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Read More »White Supremacist Groups Planned To Use Coronavirus As A Bioweapon
A weekly intelligence brief distributed in February showed white supremacist organizations have discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus through saliva and other methods. According to BET, federal investigators appeared to be monitoring white nationalists’ communications on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app that has become popular with neo-Nazis. The conversations pointed to …
Read More »Are We Obligated to Snitch on and Publicly Shame Coronavirus Deniers?
Screenshot: ABC News If you’re the type of person who believes, for instance, that AIDS can be cured with paprika, your belief is definitely dangerous, and you probably need some lotion. But because the Venn diagram of “people who think mailboxes cause diabetes” and “people living in their aunt’s basements …
Read More »DJ Beverly Bond Hosts Insta-Live Sunday Brunch Dance Party
After DJ D-Nice made us all break out our best living room dance moves on Saturday night, another music icon — DJ Beverly Bond — kept the IG Live party going on Sunday (March 22). Her brunch edition of the increasingly-popular social media gatherings was appropriately dubbed “Musical Soul Food.” …
Read More »Report: Coronavirus Is Putting The US Prison Population At Risk
(iStock/thawornnurak) The global spread of the coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, has left many communities in shambles; trying to their best to contain and combat the spread of the disease. For one group of Americans, the virus has left them both exposed and abandoned by their government—the prison population. …
Read More »Sabrina Elba Tests Positive for COVID-19, Explains Her Decision Not to Self-Isolate From Idris
Sabrina Dhowre Elba and Idris Elba attend The World Premiere of Cats on December 16, 2019, in New York City. Photo: Jamie McCarthy (Getty Images for Universal Pictures) If there’s anyone who is going to use the extra time that comes with social distancing in order to be more productive, …
Read More »DJ D-Nice Is Back For A Second Club Quarantine Party
It was so nice, he had to do it twice. After his very successful Instagram Live party on Saturday (March 21), which drew over 100,000 participants, DJ D-Nice returned to the social media platform on Sunday for another quarantine party. Changing the name of the party from “Club Quarantine” to …
Read More »Idris Elba's Wife Sabrine Dhowre Reveals She Has Coronavirus
Just one week after Idris Elba contracted coronavirus, his wife Sabrina has also tested positive. Sabrina broke the news during her husband’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. Despite government mandates for those who have coronavirus to stay completely isolated from those who don’t, Sabrina decided to stand by her man during …
Read More »The DOJ Appears to be Using Coronavirus to Get Around Our Constitutional Right to Due Process (Among Other Things)
Photo: Brendan Smialowski (Getty Images) As the coronavirus crisis continues to dominate mainstream media and the general public continues to be in frenzy mode, the Department of Justice has quietly asked something of Congress that would lend feelings of vindication to every amateur conspiracy theorist clogging our newsfeeds with their …
Read More »Gloria Govan And Derek Fisher Postpone Wedding
After waiting five years to walk down the aisle, Basketball Wives star Gloria Govan and NBA coach Derek Fisher have been forced to suspend their wedding plans thanks to the spread of novel coronavirus COVID-19. Like many couples who plan to wed this spring, Govan and Fisher have been affected …
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