5 d. ago Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Epstein files are failing | Sidney Blumenthal

The president has tried to distract from the Epstein story – but his ill-conceived Mar-a-Lago tale has undermined himOne of Trump’s preternatural abilities is his apparent animal instinct to lie on the spot whenever he senses he might be cornered. His initial Pavlovian training by his mob lawyer Roy Cohn and subsequent experience in more than 4,000 lawsuits and countless scandals seem to have ingrained in him that lying, the more outrageous the better, buys him time, plays to his credulous followers as insouciant defiance, and wears down his accusers.When Trump’s distractions failed to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files, he offered a story without missing a beat to distance himself from any taint. In his tale, he was traduced by Epstein. Trump was taken advantage of, violated, despoiled. There could be no guilt by association; Trump was a victim, too. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The WNBA’s sex toy epidemic is Skibidi brainrot writ large. Trolling has replaced meaning with noise | Lee Escobedo

The trolling of WNBA games isn’t just juvenile spectacle. It’s the logical endpoint of a culture fluent in irony, addicted to attention and hollowed out by meaninglessnessThe first dildo dropped from the sky like a glitch in the matrix. For anyone tuned in to the 29 July game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries, the initial reaction was disbelief. In a world where feeds are increasingly AI-generated and algorithmically tuned for confusion, the boundaries between real and unreal have softened into clay. Our senses, once reliable, now compete with simulation. What does it mean when dildos become airborne at WNBA games? Not once, not twice, but repeatedly? Protest? Performance art? Or just another malformed blip in the automated dreamscape we scroll through daily?Two men have been arrested thus far in these grotesque affronts. One was 18, the other 23, part of Gen Z, the prime consumer of debased meme culture. Authorities have not identified suspects in the most recent...

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7 d. ago WNBA dildo pandemic continues as star is hit by flying erotic projectile

Another dildo was lobbed from the stands onto the court during a WNBA match in Los Angeles just days after a luminous green sex toy bounced across the court

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7 d. ago WNBA star Sophie Cunningham is latest player targeted by ‘dumb’ sex toy trend

The incident is the latest in a series of similar events at recent WNBA matches

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8 d. ago WNBA's sex toy epidemic continues as latest victim Sophie Cunningham is hit by erotic item during Fever game

The WNBA was rocked by yet another shocking sex toy incident when another was launched from the stands onto the court during the second quarter of the Fever's 100-91 defeat to the Sparks.

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4 w. ago Influencer 'gutted' after star horse suffers injury which may bring premature end to campaign

Basher Watts's rollercoaster experience with Shes Perfect, victim of a controversial stewards’ decision which cost her Classic success, continued with news she won’t be in action again until at least the autumn

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