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BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors is quietly dumped from Warner Bros after her multi-platform TV deal to create original shows telling black stories produced ZERO content after two years
Daily Mail | 5/26/23 | Alyssa Guzman, Harriet Alexander

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has been quietly let go from her Warner Bros TV deal after producing no content.

Cullors, 39, signed the deal with the media giant in 2020 to much fanfare but it ended in secret in October 2022, it emerged on Friday.

‘The deal, unfortunately, did not result in any produced shows,’ a source told the New York Post.

You keep using that word, “unfortunately.” I do not think it means what you think it means.

Windfall Profits! Manufacturers of Trophies Now Only Have To Make Male Versions for Men’s and Women’s Sports

Sort of like an Oscar

On the Light Side: Has “Budlight” Become a Verb Yet?

“Dude, not cool to budlight a guy when he’s talking to a chick.”

“I studied my ass off, but I still budlighted the exam.”

“Diversity hire. She’ll budlight this company before the year is out.”

“Target execs just budlighted — I mean, greenlighted — the new campaign.”

Target loses a staggering $8.2b in market value in the week since backlash over trans-friendly swimwear began
Daily Mail UK | May 25, 2023 | Keith Griffith

Target’s market capitalization has shed more than $8 billion in the past week as investors weigh the impact of conservative backlash to the retailer’s LGBT collection for Pride Month.

On May 17, before the controversy exploded, Target shares closed at $160.96, giving the retailer a market valuation of roughly $74.3 billion.

On Wednesday the stock closed at $143.10, down 11.1 percent from a week earlier, for a market cap of $66.1 billion, down $8.2 billion from a week earlier. The shares dropped a further 2 percent in early trading on Thursday and sat near a 52-week low.

Today’s OTHER Dose of Gloom and Doom

Uh-oh:

I can’t imagine we’d be too lenient after Washington D.C. and the White House were targeted.

Drone Attacks Hit Moscow, Stirring Fury at the Kremlin
Al Jazeera | 30 May 2023

 Drones struck Moscow on Tuesday but were neutralised, Russia said, in what one politician called the worst attack on the capital since World War II…

Since Russia invaded its neighbour in February last year, the war has largely been fought inside Ukraine, though Moscow has reported some attacks on its territory and blamed them on Ukraine, including an alleged assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two people were injured, but not seriously, while some residents in two lightly damaged apartment blocks were briefly evacuated.

Russia’s defence ministry said eight drones sent by Kyiv were shot down or diverted, though Baza, a Telegram channel with links to the security services, said more than 25 were involved.

Residents in southwestern Moscow said they heard loud bangs followed by the smell of petrol at about 5am to 6am local time [02:00 to 03:00 GMT]. Some filmed a drone being shot down and a plume of smoke rising over the Moscow skyline.

Politician Maxim Ivanov termed it the most serious assault on Moscow since the Nazis, saying no citizen could now avoid “the new reality”.

“You will either defeat the enemy as a single fist with our Motherland, or the indelible shame of cowardice, collaboration and betrayal will engulf your family,” he said.

Two weeks ago, two drones exploded over the Kremlin in an attack Russia also blamed on Kyiv and said was aimed at Putin.

And (by the way) say goodbye to this guy:

‘You scum” — The Moment Wagner chief EXPLODES with fury at Putin’s minions over Moscow drone attacks
FOR MAILONLINE | 30 May 2023 | Arthur Parashar

Vladimir Putin claimed that Moscow’s air defence worked ‘satisfactorily’

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin unleashed a torrent of abuse on Putin’s cronies

The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has unleashed an explosive tirade of abuse at Vladimir Putin’s cronies after Moscow was attacked this morning by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones.

In a furious 70-second rant, a ruthless Yevgeny Prigozhin screamed vulgar insults at Russia’s defence whom he described as ‘smelly scumbags’ and ‘b*******’.

The Wagner boss said he was ‘deeply outraged’ by Putin’s troops doing ‘f*** all’ to prevent explosive drones raining down on the Russian capital this morning. Shortly after, Putin claimed that Moscow’s air defence system worked ‘satisfactorily’.

Known for his foul-mouthed rants, Prigozhin, who handed Bakhmut over to Russia’s army last week, was translated as shouting: ‘Smelly scumbags! What are you doing? Get your a**** up from the offices you’ve been put in to protect this country.’

‘You are the Ministry of Defence. You’ve done f*** all in order to advance. Why the f*** are you allowing these drones to fly to Moscow? Who gives a s*** that they are flying to your homes on Rublyovka! Let your houses burn.

‘But I have already warned about this many times, but no one wants to listen. Because I’m angry and I upset bureaucrats who have a great life.’

His astonishing meltdown comes after several buildings in the wealthy suburbs of Moscow were damaged by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones.

Today’s Dose of Gloom and Doom

Why Kari Lake Couldn’t Close the Deal
American Thinker | 25 May, 2023 | Jay Valentine

Our team did the expert witness report on Kari Lake election data showing elected officials jacked with voter rolls days before the election — as in 22,000 new voters and 107,000 changes to the rolls, and thousands of address changes. We suspect that those voter roll manipulations were not to help Kari.

This is the reality of important elections in America today.

Ballot-harvesting is not the problem. Signature verification is not the problem. Jacking with the voter database days before the vote is not the problem. Phantom voters — by the tens of thousands — are not the problem. Election commissions allowing third parties real-time visibility to the voter cast ballot list to vote the recalcitrants is not the problem. U.S. Postal Service employees gathering loose ballots for leftist groups is not the problem.

The problem is that leftists control the entire election apparatus in every swing state, and they have innumerable tools — like those just noted — to steal any election. The Kari Lake election showed that the leftists will use all of them when needed.

The Kari Lake election is equally a template for 2024 because Lake’s reaction is to take Arizona back by “chasing ballots.”

That is the same strategy President Trump is employing — he calls it ballot-harvesting, being a bit looser with vocabulary.

Leftists are jumping for joy as Lake and Trump take the bait — outperform the pros at ballot-harvesting, when they have a dozen other ways to steal an election. None of those ways is addressed by Lake or Trump. They do not even understand them.

Straight Line of the Day: Just Curious: Has Kamala Solved Any A.I. Problems Yet?

Or the border ones?

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