7. The Kansas City Star, once a highly respected newspaper, hosted a call for the Kansas City Chiefs to “fire” kicker Harrison Butker over his Catholic-based commencement address at the Catholic Benedictine College and to replace him with a female kicker for “poetic justice.” The headline embarrassingly read, “The KC Chiefs should fire Harrison Butker and hire someone who kicks like a girl” ignoring Butker’s kicking is one reason the Chiefs have won multiple Super Bowls and the women they mention are not going to be competitive in the NFL for obvious reasons.
6. The absurdly trashy fight during a U.S. House committee hearing that heard female members of Congress referencing each other’s fake eyelashes and “bleach blonde bad built butch body” has gotten worse. That trashiness was surpassed in the days that follow when U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) tried to cash in on it selling a t-shirt with the quote on it as part of the “Crockett Clapback Collection” but she misspelled her own name.
5. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead after the helicopter carrying Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday in the country’s mountainous northwest region, search efforts yielded no results hours later. There are a lot of questions about who his replacement could be and what it means for the region and the tumultuous politics in Iran.
4. Crowds of pro-Hamas protestors took to the streets of Mobile chanting genocidal slogans, their stenographers were there, but the tweets covering their tantrums left out the more inflammatory rhetoric by the marchers. This latest protest trend seems to be slowing down on college campuses for commencements and elsewhere as TV stations in Washington had to change their headlines after they promoted a march of thousands and ended up with 400 people on the National Mall.
3. U.S. Sens. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and 14 others are sponsoring the Israel Security Assistant Support Act which would force the Biden administration to stop threatening aid to Israel and deliver the aid that was approved by Congress. Britt, slams President Joe Biden in her press release, “President Biden has undermined Israel and empowered Hamas. We must stand unequivocally with Israel as she fights to end Hamas’ reign of terror and ensure there is never another October 7.”
2. President Joe Biden has some new bad polls to go with the bad day he had at Morehouse College over the weekend. It started as he was captured looking forlorn about the fact that no one cared that he was there and almost no one showed up for his motorcade and then the terrible person and notorious liar that is currently president decided to lie repeatedly to the graduates, some of whom turned their backs on him. Biden told the graduates that Republicans hate them, white men are hunting blacks for sports, books are being banned, that they require that they “be 10 times better than anybody else just to get a fair shot,” foolishly added, “They don’t see you in the future of America. But they’re wrong,” lied about voting in Georgia, and even clapped as a graduate declared that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict must happen right now.
1. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union faced a significant defeat in their high-profile unionization vote at the Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facility in Vance, Ala. The final tally, certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), showed 2,642 votes against unionization and 2,045 in favor. This loss is a major setback for the UAW’s strategy to expand into Southern states, despite a recent victory at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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