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- ‘Shut up Karen’: LA Times writer sweatpants-shames locked-down Americans during pandemic & gets roasted
Sniffing that Americans working from home should “dress like the adult you’re getting paid to be” rather than prioritize comfort over office dress code, a Los Angeles Times writer got a digital spanking for his skewed priorities. - Mysterious Covid-19 outbreak forces US Navy to quarantine 116 crew on HOSPITAL ship treating handful of non-coronavirus patientsThe US Navy has removed more than 100 sailors from a hospital ship docked in Los Angeles to aid the city’s fight against Covid-19 after seven crew members contracted the lethal virus – but exactly how remains a mystery.
- Trump gives $25bn in emergency cash to coronavirus-hit public transit systemsUS President Donald Trump is delivering $25 billion in emergency funding to transit systems in some of the hardest-hit coronavirus hotspots in the nation, including New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
- Los Angeles man tries to RAM train into ‘suspicious’ US Navy hospital ship ‘to wake people up’An engineer in Los Angeles was charged after attempting to ram a train at full speed into a Navy hospital ship sent to assist with the Covid-19 pandemic, in a bizarre effort to “wake up” Americans to a vague government conspiracy.
- Hits from the recent past that could NEVER survive in today’s PC culturePutting past art under the spotlight of today’s ever-changing woke standards can show us just how ridiculous political correctness has gotten in today’s digital age.
- Hollywood will now ‘spellcheck’ its scripts and advertising for lack of diversityThe US film and TV industry’s latest answer to its lack of diversity is ‘Spellcheck for Bias,’ a tool several Hollywood studios plan to use to help increase positive portrayals of Latinos on the big and small screen.
- ‘Rich sex pests of all shapes’: Gervais trolls Oscars ‘diversity’ without even showing upThe Academy Awards skipped having a host, but that didn’t stop comedian Ricky Gervais from getting in a few digs at the “narcissistic” Hollywood ceremony.
- ‘I’m part of the problem’: Joker star rants about ‘systemic racism’ at BAFTASWhile most eyeballs were on the Super Bowl Sunday night, celebrities continued the trend of virtue signaling at Hollywood award shows, this time at the BAFTAS.
- Union puts out ‘guidelines’ for sex scenes in response to #MeToo, but do these changes mean anything besides PR?The SAG actors’ union issued new guidelines for on-set “intimacy coordinators” working to battle potential sexual harassment in sexually explicit scenes in film and television.
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