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In January, Eric Fartwell promised that if he were elected governor, he would strip ICE officers of their California drivers licenses. I guess they're safe for now.

The first Star Wars movie to be released in nearly seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, is tracking for a low opening weekend. It's projected to take in a mere $71 million over the three-day Memorial Day weekend frame. (I learned the term "frame" from these stupid box office reports and wanted to use it so that I sound smart.)

Headcase Ruby Rose claims that Katy Perry sexually assaulted her years ago and I'm just rooting for injuries.

Katy Perry has denied Ruby Rose's accusations that the singer sexually assaulted her two decades ago.

The "Orange Is the New Black" actress, 40, claimed in a series of Threads posts on Sunday that the alleged incident occurred at a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia when she was in her 20s.

"Katy Perry sexual assaulted me at spice market nightclub in Melbourne. Who gives a s--t what she thinks," Rose wrote in response to Complex Music's post about Perry,

In her next Threads message, Rose said it's taken her "almost two decades" to make the accusation public.

"Though I am so grateful to have made it long enough to find my voice, it just shows how much of an impact trauma and sexual assault takes. Thank you for seeing me," she stated.

Perry's rep denied Rose's claim in a statement to Page Six.

"The allegations being circulated on social media by Ruby Rose about Katy Perry are not only categorically false, they are dangerous reckless lies," the rep said.

"Ms. Rose has a well-documented history of making serious public allegations on social media against various individuals, claims that have repeatedly been denied by those named," the statement continued.

Reps for Rose did not respond to Page Six's request for comment regarding Perry's denial.

On Threads, Rose gave more details about the alleged incident.

"She didn't kiss me. She saw me 'resting' on my best friend's lap to avoid her and bent down, pulled her underwear to the side and rubbed her disgusting vagina on my face until my eyes snapped open and I projectile vomited on her," she claimed about Perry.

Rose alleged, "After it I threw up on her, I told the story publicly but changed it to be a 'funny little drunk story' because I didn't know how else to handle it. Later she agreed to help me get my US visa. So I kept it a secret. But I DID tell yall she wasn't a good person. "

Brent Baker
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Don't want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. @TomFriedman of @NYTimes really wants "to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region," but on CNN's @Smerconish he fretted "the problem is I really don't want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are too awful human beings. They are both engaged in anti-democratic projects in their own countries. They're both alleged crooks. They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America's standing in the world and Israel's standing in the world."

Video here.

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke

5h

One of the most corrupt episodes in American public life, and that's a very crowded field, is the way legacy media, social media platforms, and Big Tech all colluded to prevent anyone from naming, let alone publishing, the Ukraine whistleblower's name.

Given this guy's history as an anti-Trump operative, that blackout robbed the public of hugely important information and directly fed into the false impeachment of a sitting president. But it goes even further than that. The same fake news outlets enforcing that silence had previously run stories defending him against reporting that later turned out to be eerily accurate.

Take for instance what @Cernovich was saying in 2017, specifically that Ciaramella wanted to sabotage Trump, that he was a leaker, and that he was strongly pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia. All of that later turned out to be exactly right, and there is little doubt that if the public had been told that people had warned in advance about Ciaramella and his role in targeting Trump, it would have collapsed the impeachment effort very quickly. That is why his name was kept hidden. It had nothing to do with privacy or any of that other nonsense.

Gee I wonder who this blind item from 2017 was about?

mrs.frazzled @ms_frazzled

Now that this is out of the bag, I want you all to see something from 2017.

That's from a CNN piece about sexual harassment by Congressmen. Obviously CNN didn't want to dig too deeply into this.

Another flashback: A propaganda media "journalist" claimed Elise Stafanik was a conspiracy theorist spreading the theory, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that Adam Schiff helped draft the repulsive Eric Ciaramella's complaint for him.

Amazing: Even though the propaganda media covered up for Eric Fartwell for a decade, and even though the story was only published due to Democrat-connected partisans organizing the hit on Fartwell for cynical political reasons, Brian Stelter actually claims the story represents a triumph of "investigative reporting" by the media that covered it up!

Flashback: Fartwell made a sarcastic joke about Ben Shapiro's statement that while he may wish to sleep with many women, he can exercise his free will and morality and control his behavior. "I'm sure it's very hard to restrain yourself," Fartwell said, implying that Shapiro couldn't get the hookers and Chinese spies that he can get.

I'm not sure I love this -- doesn't this mean that the oil shock other countries are experiencing acutely will wind up being felt harder in America?

Authoritarian scum:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:22 PM

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