Gavin Newsom Sipped Cabernet While Los Angeles Burned

As riots engulfed Los Angeles and mobs vandalized public buildings, incinerated vehicles, and assaulted law enforcement officers, California governor Gavin Newsom was enjoying a swanky wine-tasting party in Napa Valley.

The wine-tasting was held on the afternoon of June 7, 2025, at the Odette Estate Winery, which Newsom co-founded in 2011. Dubbed “Vineyard Vibes,” the event was a fundraiser for the PlumpJack Foundation, founded by Newsom’s sister, and featured “contemporary yet sophisticated” wines, live jazz music, and locally made pizza and smash burgers. “It’s the perfect kick-off to summer fun,” read promotional language. “The fete will take place on the Winery Crushpad, where we’ll gather for music, food, conversation, and delicious wine!”

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Iran’s supreme leader mocked mercilessly after bizarre social media posts resurface

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is being mocked mercilessly over a slew of bizarre social media posts that resurfaced as the Israel-Iran war broke out — including his musings about treating a woman right and even being “naughty & playful” as a school kid.

The odd posts — most of which are typed out in SMS-style abbreviations — date back at least a decade and are in stark contrast to the anti-Israel and war rhetoric that now fills the social media feed of the 86-year-old leader and most senior cleric in the extremist Islamic Republic.

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CHARLEBOIS: The fall of artificial colours in food

This week, General Mills announced it will remove all artificial colours from its U.S. products, just hours after Kraft Heinz made a similar commitment. Both companies are giving themselves two years to complete the transition — a realistic timeline, given that reformulating food products can be as complex as redesigning a vehicle. It typically takes two to three years to test, approve and scale up new ingredients.

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Foreign ministry criticizes CBC for changing Taiwan reference from country to ‘self-ruled island’

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday criticized CBC News for changing its description of Taiwan from a country to a “self-ruled island.”

On June 14, Canada’s largest news broadcaster posted an article on the alleged ties between Bliss and Wisdom, a Buddhist group with operations on Prince Edward Island, and the CCP. The piece originally described a high-ranking monk from Taiwan as traveling “between his home country, Prince Edward Island, and China” in 2023 at the invitation of a Buddhist group that reports to the United Front Work Department.

h/t HS

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The Cakes Of Oppression

The Cakes Of Oppression

Supermarket chain slammed for ‘unacceptable’ Juneteenth cakes that angered shoppers: ‘This is a mockery’

Kroger is being called out by shoppers for its “disrespectful” Juneteenth cake designs.

A Kroger location in Atlanta, Georgia, is going viral after a video posted to TikTok showed the cakes that “lack creativity” for the holiday in the bakery section of the supermarket.

WTF?

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Big Chief Ford Say White Man Speak With Forked Tongue!

Doug Ford apologizes over ‘hat in hand’ comment about First Nations

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has apologized for saying First Nations should not keep coming “hat in hand” to the government if they say no to mining projects, a comment many First Nation leaders called racist.

Ford delivered that apology in a meeting at Queen’s Park Thursday to several dozen chiefs who are part of the Anishinabek Nation.

h/t Auntie Polly

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It’s A Mystery! Kingston prison’s supervised drug site has had just 1 visitor

More than a year-and-a-half after it opened, a site at a Kingston, Ont., prison where inmates can consume smuggled drugs under medical supervision has only had one user.

The overdose prevention service (OPS) at the Collins Bay Institution was set up as a place where prisoners could inject, snort or swallow substances, all with a nurse on standby.

It opened on Nov. 28, 2023, becoming the first of its kind in Ontario and only the third in Canada.

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Privileged life of drunk and violent Southwest Airlines passenger who had meltdown over ‘fat’ seatmate

A woman who body-shamed, spat on, and pulled the hair of an innocent plane passenger during a drunken freak-out is a New York City artist who has worked with several high-end companies, Daily Mail can reveal.

Leanna Perry, 32, had an obnoxious meltdown onboard a Southwest Airlines plane at LaGuardia Airport in New York en route to Kansas City, Missouri, early Monday morning.

I must be old but dressing like a teenager at 32 is just embarrassing.

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Ontario school bus driver who wore schoolgirl’s uniform and had ‘Lolita’s Line’ sign removed from job

A school bus driver who wore a schoolgirl’s uniform while driving a vehicle with a “Lolita’s Line” sign in the window will no longer be working for the York Catholic District School Board, a spokesperson has told National Post.

The incident stems from a video that was posted to social media after being filmed outside St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Elementary School in Vaughan, Ont., just north of Toronto.

Depraved School Bus Driver
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The outbreak of violence at Kabaddi tournament that sparked cartel-style execution of DPD driver … in Derbyshire

Firing guns and hacking at each other with machetes, axes and bats in front of terrified families, it’s hard to imagine an outbreak of violence more brutal or brazen.

But just a day later this brawl would spark something far worse – the ‘cartel-style’ execution of a DPD driver as he went about his daily rounds.

The shocking fight at a Kabaddi tournament in Alvaston, Derby, on August 20, 2023 was compared to a ‘medieval’ battle by a judge, who jailed seven of the men responsible to nearly 40 years in jail.

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