[NYP] A BuzzFeed feature story from 2018 about a journalist who told a group of schoolchildren that he was gay was taken down just a day after it was announced that he had been brought up on child pornography charges.
Slade Sohmer, 44, the former editor-in-chief of the left-leaning video-driven news site The Recount, was freed on $100,000 bail on Monday after he was charged in Massachusetts court with possessing and disseminating "hundreds of child pornography images and videos."
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of dissemination of child pornography.
In May 2018, BuzzFeed News wrote up an item based on a viral social media thread that Sohmer posted to X, the platform that was then known as Twitter.
Sohmer’s X account has since been deactivated.
The story, which is still available on the Wayback Machine internet archive, was titled "People Are Touched By This Writer’s Conversation With A Bunch of Fourth Graders."
[Daily Caller] The recently-arrested owner of a California biolab allegedly has ties to the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and a program related to its military, the House Select Committee on the CCP announced Wednesday.
Jia Bei Zhu, 62, allegedly served as a "corporate officer" within Chinese "military-civil fusion organizations," according to materials shared by the Select Committee on the CCP. Zhu was arrested in October for "manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." (RELATED: Biden To Lift Sanctions On Chinese Human Rights Abuser In Exchange For Xi’s Latest Promise To Combat Fentanyl: REPORT)
"Zhu is a PRC citizen who served as a corporate officer on military-civil fusion organizations within the PRC and private organizations affiliated with or partially controlled by the PRC government," the committee’s film stated.
Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) is a CCP "strategy to develop the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into a ’world class military’ by 2049," according to the State Department. "The CCP’s MCF strategy allows a growing number of civilian enterprises and entities to undertake classified military R&D and weapons production."
Zhu also served as an executive at several "PRC government-controlled and directed companies," according to the committee’s report.
Between April and June 2023, officials in Fresno, California, discovered at least 20 potentially infectious agents, such as HIV and Malaria, as well as mice genetically engineered to carry COVID-19, at an "unlicensed" laboratory in Reedley, California, operated by Prestige Biotech Inc. (PBI), the successor of defunct Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), Fresno County court records state.
Zhu allegedly admitted that he operated his many companies in order to "further PRC policy and to meet the city demands of a PRC premier," according to the committee.
While living in the U.S., Zhu "operated under the false alias David He ," according to the committee’s findings, and received "large unexplained money transfers from PRC bank accounts" amounting to over $2 million.
[MAIL] Changing the way you poop could lower your risk of contracting a range of health problems, from anal fissures to urinary issues and even colorectal cancer.
A kidney doctor from Singapore took to TikTok to demonstrate a guaranteed way to ease constipation, by pooping in a specific position.
It involves crossing one leg over your lap, resting your foot on the opposite thigh and rotating your torso to face the back of the toilet. You put your one foot in
You put your one foot out
You put your one foot in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
Dr Daria Sadovskaya, who hails from Singapore, posted her video in the spring and since then it has garnered more than 26 million views, with many saying the revised sitting position has been extremely effective at helping ease their constipation.
The 29-year-old nephrologist told millions the revised position ’will help you to poop fast.’
Constipation is more than just uncomfortable and sometimes painful. Some studies have shown links between the common condition that affects around four million Americans, and an increased likelihood of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
[NYPOST] Prince Harry is said to be "fed up" with missing so many royal milestones — such as Christmas — with his estranged family, according to a report.
The Duke of Sussex this week decided that enough was enough and sensationally picked up the phone to call his father to wish him a happy birthday.
And it seems as though Harry hopes the phone call serves as a stepping stone for the pair’s long-overdue reconciliation.
"Harry always enjoyed large family Christmases. It’s a shame that his children will miss out on the fun," a source told OK! magazine.
"He used to say that nobody could celebrate Christmas like the Windsors. He experienced that festive togetherness for his entire life until his move to America and he really misses it."
"The Christmas plans are causing a bit of tension because he’s fed up with being away from everyone during key milestones," the insider added.
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sensationally picked up the phone to call his father
trying to envision that
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So, boys and girls, when you sit down to your personal "family milestone" this Thanksgiving, remember to give thanks that you are not a member of some messed-up royal fambly.
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I can't help but wonder if the sensational dimension was that he called or could operate the phone by himself.
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I wonder if there isn't a mercentary motive at the bottom of all this? Absent the Royal connection and ongoing drama, Harry has very little left to sell, and his value to Meghan is increasingly marginal. If she dumps him on the other hand, she has a whole new round of tell-all and talk-show circuit money/fame coming in.
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In a day and age when the Vatican encourages, nearly requires, that its faithful be understanding of all kinds of moral depravity, why would it suddenly re-assert a 200 year old ban against Masonry? Inquiring minds want to know.
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#7, at a time when the Vatican is accused of being open to all sorts of changes in doctrine and praxis, it seems like a harmless way of saying "hey, we aren't really trying to change things."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] The recently-arrested owner of a California biolab allegedly has ties to the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and a program related to its military, the House Select Committee on the CCP announced Wednesday.
