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Three girls from a conservative village in Garut, Indonesia.
In 2014 they were 14. They found System of a Down on a school computer. A teacher said start a band. They did.
Then the village answered.
Stones. Death threats. Smashed windows. Cars trying to run them down. Power cut mid-gig. “Devil’s music.” Haram. All because three hijab-wearing kids dared to play metal.
They named the band Voice of Baceprot. It means “noisy.”
This is them in France covering “Enter Sandman.” Leather jackets. Headscarves. Barefoot on the drums. No click track. No extra help. Just a trio that learned how to survive first, and play second.
Most covers try to honor Metallica.
This one feels like they earned the right to touch the song.
From hated noise in a small village… to a stage in Rennes, then Glastonbury, then the world.
That’s not a gimmick.
That’s defiance with a riff.
I walked into the liquor store today like a man who had just remembered he lives in Alberta and not a daycare with a liquor license. There it was. Sitting on the shelves like it had been waiting for me personally: AMERICAN BOOZE. Jack Daniel’s looking at me like, “You still allowed to talk to us?” Jim Beam standing there with the quiet dignity of a man who’s been through some things. A lonely bottle of Maker’s Mark that had clearly been through a trade war and lived to tell the tale. I froze. For a second I almost felt the ghost of Ontario tapping me on the shoulder going, “Put that down, citizen. Think of the tariffs. Think of the feelings. ”Then I remembered something important. I live in Alberta. We are adult enough to make our own damn decisions. We don’t need a premier, a liquor board, or a strongly worded press release to tell us whether we’re allowed to drink Kentucky’s finest or not. If I want to support a country that keeps threatening to annex us while simultaneously making excellent bourbon, that’s between me, my liver, and the cashier. So I did what any reasonable, freedom-loving Albertan would do.I bought a bunch. Not “a few bottles.” Not “enough for the weekend.” I bought American booze like I was personally trying to fix the trade deficit with my bare hands. Jack. Jim. Maker’s. Some random Tennessee whiskey I’d never heard of that was probably distilled in a barn next to a lifted truck. I cleaned out half an aisle. The cart started looking like a red-state funeral. The cashier looked at my haul, then at me, then back at the haul. “You… having a party?” I looked her dead in the eye.“ No. I’m having a principle. ”She nodded slowly, like she’d seen this before. Alberta liquor stores have that energy now. Half the customers are buying Canadian craft gin like they’re saving the nation. The other half are quietly loading American whiskey into their trucks like they’re smuggling contraband across the 49th parallel in reverse. I paid. I loaded the truck. I drove home with the windows down and “Sweet Home Alabama” playing even though I was in Edmonton and it made no geographic sense. Tonight I will sit on my deck, pour a glass of something that was born in a red state, and toast to the most Albertan value of all: We will drink what we want.
We will judge what we want.
And if the rest of the country wants to keep their shelves empty as a protest, that’s their business. We’ll be over here. Making our own decisions.
One ridiculously American bottle at a time. 😁🇨🇦🇺🇸
This high-resolution video shows a complete rotation of the Moon, assembled from thousands of images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Every crater, mare and mountain range across the entire surface comes into view as the Moon turns.
Because the Moon is tidally locked with Earth, it rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits our planet. That is why we always see the same face from the ground. This compilation finally lets us explore the far side that remains permanently hidden from terrestrial observers.
The result is one of the most detailed and scientifically accurate full-sphere views of our nearest neighbor ever created.
𝐉𝐔𝐃𝐆𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒 𝐑𝐔𝐁𝐈𝐎’𝐒 𝟕𝟓-𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐀 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐙𝐄—𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐙𝐄𝐒 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃𝐖𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐃
A federal judge in Manhattan thought she had the last word. She didn’t.
U.S. District Judge 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐬, a Biden appointee, struck down the State Department’s policy suspending immigrant visas from 75 countries deemed at high risk of relying on public assistance. Vargas called the policy 𝘖𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 and 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘧𝘶𝘭, ruling that Secretary of State 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐨 exceeded his authority under federal immigration law.
Rubio’s answer arrived within days. Instead of narrowing the policy back down to a shorter list, the State Department paused 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 — every country, every applicant, effective immediately. The official reason: a new global training program for consular officers, meant to make public-charge screening more 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 from one embassy to the next.
A policy a judge just branded an illegal 75-country ban has, in practice, become a review of every visa applicant on Earth. Anyone with an interview already on the books got an email: appointment canceled, new date pending, no timeline given.
Vargas wanted Washington’s vetting rules shrunk. Instead, they just got broader — and Iran, along with every other name on that original 75-country list, is still very much part of the review.
𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝.
Over 85% of the world’s refugees are Muslims. But for some reason they do not even seek asylum in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, or in any of the other 50 Muslim-majority countries.
They only want to go to non-Muslim Western countries. Why do you think that is?