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Trump announced Alcatraz reopening just hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on a South Florida PBS station
Incidentally, the president’s sudden push for the tourist destination of Alcatraz to once again become a maximum-security prison complex came just hours after a South Florida PBS station aired the 1979 classic film Escape from Alcatraz.
“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump blared on Truth Social just before 6 p.m. local time on Sunday.
( AP )The biographical drama recounts the 1962 escape attempt from the island fortress, which is located in San Francisco Bay.
While it is still a mystery whether the daring escape attempt was successful, Alcatraz closed less than a year later in 1963.
open image in gallery Hours before the president demanded that the notorious prison Alcatraz be reopened, a local PBS station aired the critically acclaimed film about the 1962 escape attempt. 🖊️️🤖
Posted by fossilesque
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Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once
Tori Randall has become so trans that she can enter every single bathroom in the continental United States simultaneously, sources confirmed Tuesday. Cincinnati city officials in a statement echoed by officials in thousands of other towns and cities across the nation. “This is what happens when there’s not enough legislation to keep transgender people out of our bathrooms,” said Cincinnati officials. 🖋️🤖
Posted by seahorse
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Elon Boasts of Huge Starship Improvements Immediately Before It Blows Up Spectacularly
SpaceX experienced yet another failure during its ninth test launch of its Starship vehicle Tuesday evening. The rocket spun out of control as it tumbled through space, causing it to make an uncontrolled descent in the Indian Ocean that ended in an all-too-familiar blast. The prototype, dubbed Ship 35, never even got close to a controlled reentry. 🖋️🤖
Posted by oleorun
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Man died of ‘blunt force injuries’ at US zoo after suspected kangaroo fight
Officials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a man who was believed to have been killed while fighting a kangaroo. Eric Slate, 52, died of “multiple blunt [force] injuries”, according to Tamara Willard, the chief deputy coroner of Horry county. Local officials said Slate, brother of 5 Star Farm’s owner, Robert Slate, liked to enter the enclosure containing kangaroos and wallabies. 🖋️🤖
Posted by TheWaterGod
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Woman arrested after raccoon named Chewy found with meth pipe in driver's seat during police stop
Woman arrested after raccoon named Chewy found with meth pipe in driver's seat during police stopA woman has been arrested after a raccoon named “Chewy” was found holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol” in Ohio.
A woman has been arrested after a raccoon named “Chewy” was found holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol” in Ohio.
A woman has been arrested after a raccoon named “Chewy” was found holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol” in Ohio.
A woman has been arrested after a raccoon named “Chewy” was found holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol” in Ohio.
A woman has been arrested after a raccoon named Chewy was found holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol” in Ohio. 🖊️️🤖
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Kevin Spacey to be honoured for ‘artistic brilliance’ at Cannes Gala
The fund told the publication that Spacey will be honoured for his “artistic brilliance” and “impact on cinema and the arts” throughout his career.
“We are truly privileged to welcome Kevin Spacey as our Guest of Honour and Honoree at the Better World Fund Gala,” Manuel Collas De La Roche, the president and founder of the Better World Fund said in a statement.
Matt Routledge is directing the film, which is produced by Camelot Films, who also financed the movie along with Tinto.
Kevin Spacey will be awarded the prize for ‘Excellence in Film and Television’ at a forthcoming Cannes Gala ( Copyright 2023 The Associated Press.
Spacey has since faced several more allegations of sexual misconduct over the years, all of which he has either denied or insisted were consensual. 🖊️️🤖
Posted by jeffw
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📰 Colombia Faces a New Problem: Too Much Cocaine (direct link), posted in Strange Times (👍81 👎4)
Colombia Faces a New Problem: Too Much Cocaine
For decades, one industry has sustained the small, remote Colombian village of Caño Cabra: cocaine.
Later, they mix the leaves with gasoline and other chemicals to make chalky white bricks of coca paste.
But two years ago, the villagers said, something alarming happened: The drug traffickers who buy the coca paste and turn it into cocaine stopped showing up.
The same pattern was repeated again and again in communities across the country where coca is the only source of income.
Colombia, the global nexus of the cocaine industry, where Pablo Escobar became the world’s best-known criminal, and which still produces more of the drug than any other nation, is facing tectonic shifts as a result of domestic and global forces that are reshaping the drug industry. 🖊️️🤖
Posted by Midnight
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