Sacramento proposes city’s highest-ever police budget, bucks ‘defund’ trend

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan presented the new annual budget, which is set to start with the next fiscal year July 1. The city established the Department of Community Response in July 2020 in response to calls for police reform following the death of George […]

Hawley slams Twitter response to Tim Scott ‘Uncle Tim’ trending topic: ‘Glaring double standard’

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Scott, who is Black, during his GOP response, declared the United States is not a racist country while saying he had encountered racism in his life. Some of it, he said, came from the left in the form of being called an “Uncle Tom,” a […]

Black Lives Matter, NAACP silent in wake of ‘Uncle Tim’ Twitter trend

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Some prominent liberal groups, including Black Lives Matter and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , haven’t weighed in on the “Uncle Tim” Twitter insults lobbed at Sen. “I’ve also experienced a different kind of intolerance,” Scott also said. “Intolerance so […]

‘Uncle Tim’ slur against Tim Scott trends on Twitter after his Biden rebuttal

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Scott, who is Black, declared the United States is not a racist country while noting he had encountered racism in his life. His rhetoric infuriated some progressives, and Twitter placed “Uncle Tim” on its trending topics as more tweets relayed the insulting, racially charged […]

‘Short shorts’ for men gets applauded on social media as the trend makes a comeback

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Ventimiglia, 43, was photographed wearing black shorts while he walked through a parking lot in West Hollywood. Athletic shorts were noticeably short between the 1940s and 1980s before trends shifted towards above- or at-the-knee shorts or longer. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by […]

Scientific American joins trend, refers to climate change as ‘climate emergency’

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Failure to slash the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will make the extraordinary heat, storms, wildfires and ice melt of 2020 routine and could ‘render a significant portion of the Earth uninhabitable,’” warned the January Scientific American article. Climate change is also being blamed by outlets […]