Stavros Halkias on the Riyadh Comedy Festival: “I know it was fucking wrong to do that, I don’t care what those counterarguments are. We’re evil and yeah our foreign policy since WW2 has been ruining the world. There’s no way to look at it any other way in my opinion. We intervene everywhere. This new Iran war. I see their point that you perform in America, but I’m not performing for fucking Donald Trump and his kids. It would be like doing an ICE benefit”
Stavros Halkias: I don't wanna do the both sides bullshit because it's just not true. One side is worse than the other, objectively speaking. One side is disappearing people and one side wants children to have healthcare, I don't think that's equivalent. A lot of stand up comics happened to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth
I setup a lemonade stand to teach my daughter about capitalism.
At the end of the day she made $54.
I charged her $20 to use my lawn and rent my table, and $12 in supplies. Then I took my cut of $20.
"But daddy, that means I didn't make any money today"
I explained that since I am the investor who took the biggest risk, I’m entitled to the most money.
💢 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on U.S. support for Israel:
“Not a single taxpayer dollar should be spent on arming and defending a country that commits a genocide.
I would absolutely support Senator Sanders' bill to restrict military aid, but I'll be entirely honest, looking down the road, this is a nation that right now is exterminating people.
It is going to be very difficult for me to ever be able to look at them again and see someone that we should be working with closely…
What I am witnessing now is the height of horror. And the fact that it is being done by bombs that are built in this country and paid for with our tax dollars is utterly unconscionable. And it needs to end.”
Clip via @MarcoFoster_
Fact check:
The total for meals was actually $801,000, not $1 million.
That total is for all home games over three years, AND includes money spent for meals outside of Ravens games, including office parties, events and even funerals.
The money was spent only at local restaurants.
Mayor Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 60%.
Give the man his damn crab legs and stop lying on him.
🚨 Wayne Rooney on racism:
“I had it in DC with one of my players who got racially abused and he was crying on my chest. I was holding him as he was crying on my chest. I don't think people realise - they say it as a throwaway line, but it hurts.
You have to hit the Clubs by taking off points and money from them, otherwise it will keep on going. Hopefully the right people sit down with the right organisations to try and get something serious in place.”
A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.
He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.
His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.