5 h. ago All the times the internet has exploded over Donald Trump's feet from toe pads to heel lifts

The discourse surrounding Trump's feet dates well beyond this past week. A social media frenzy sparked in 2023 when he was spotted standing on two 'toe pads' as spoke at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

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3 d. ago The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that | Ash Sarkar

Instead of liberation, we’ve ended up with competitive grievance, weaponised victimhood, and a focus on ‘I’ not ‘us’There are many things to be grateful to the musician Sam Fender for: reviving socially conscious songwriting, highlighting the brutality of austerity and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza before it was politically convenient. But, selfishly, the most important thing he’s done is take my spot of being yelled at on the internet. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, Fender took aim at the prominence of identity politics compared to class.“We are very good at talking about privileges – white, male or straight privilege. We rarely talk about class, though,” he said. “And that’s a lot of the reason that all the young lads are seduced by demagogues and psychos like Andrew Tate People preach to some kid in a pit town in Durham who’s got f*** all and tell him he’s privileged? Then Tate tells him he’s worth something? It’s seductive.”Ash Sarkar is the author of Minority Ru...

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4 d. ago Is 'London becoming India'? British man shouting 'nariyal' has internet's attention

Is 'London becoming India'? British man shouting 'nariyal' has internet's attention  The Economic Times

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9 d. ago Donald Trump ‘kisses Elon Musk’s feet’ in fake AI video shown on hacked screens at federal building

HUD spokeswoman Kasey Lovett vowed ‘appropriate action’ over 19-second clip on the day WFH ended for government workers

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1 week ago Federal computers are hacked to show fake AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet

Hackers rolled out the 19-second video on the day that federal workers were ordered to return to the office

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1 week ago HUD computers are hacked to show AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet

Hackers rolled out the 19-second video on the day that federal workers were ordered to return to the office

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1 week ago Government TVs HACKED as video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet plays on repeat

Employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning were surprised by a strange video of President Donald Trump on the television screens.

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1 week ago ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ star says viral clip still haunts him 18 years later

'Charlie bit me' was the viral video that took the internet by storm and has been seen almost a billion times, but star Charlie Davies-Carr says he doesn't like to talk about it

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2 w. ago Too long, didn’t remember: NBA stars that time (and the internet) forgot

We look back at seven ex-NBA stars who contributed a great deal to the league, but whose stories also risk being lost to time thanks to vanishing modern attention spansHave you ever opened up a social media page with a clear intention of what you’re doing and then instantly become distracted? You end up fiddling around and then closing the page and realizing you didn’t even do what you’d originally logged on for? Yes, the internet is a place full of distractions. TikTok, Instagram, whatever Twitter (X) is? It’s hard to remember what you had for breakfast some days. The same, of course, goes for NBA history.If you go online today to read about basketball, it can seem like the league or the sport itself was created in the 21st century. That anything before Kobe Bryant never actually existed. As a result, fans sometimes need a history lesson. And that’s exactly what we wanted to do today. To examine the careers of seven former NBA stars who contributed a great deal to the league but wh...

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