A post shared on Facebook claims U.S. Marines purportedly stopped illegal immigrants from voting early in three Virginia counties. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Sept. 23 article published on the satire website “Real Raw News.” Fact Check: Early voting began in Virginia on Sept. 20 and continues through Nov. […]

A post shared on social media purportedly shows an image of an iPhone that exploded in Lebanon recently. iPhones exploding in Lebanon blowing up random people. ??? pic.twitter.com/brJXVMXGh3 — MEHMET VEFA DAG (@AFRICANDEMOC) September 18, 2024 Verdict: False The claim is inaccurate. Fact Check: Mossad agents planted explosives in 5,000 pagers in order to carry out attacks […]

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Our top 10 list of The Gaslight Anthem songs highlights ten standout tracks from this New Jersey band, formed in the mid-2000s. With deep roots in the East Coast sound, their music carries heavy influences from New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen. The Gaslight Anthem isn’t a punk band; instead, they expertly blend Jersey Shore rock with the spirit of classic Boston Irish pub bands. You can almost hear the clinking of Guinness glasses in the background. Since their debut in 2006, the band has released five studio albums, four of which have secured spots on the Billboard 200. After forming The post Top 10 Gaslight Anthem Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A North Carolina high school athlete recently rescued a man and woman from being drowned after their truck slid into deep floodwaters. First reported by Columbus County News, Kenji “Flash” Bowen, a standout baseball and football player, was driving home last week with his girlfriend and their baby near Wilmington in the midst of a […] The post N. Carolina High Schooler Pulls Couple and Dog from Pickup Truck Sinking in Floodwaters appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Short Fiction Spotlight Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2024 These ten stories have a little bit of everything, from cats in space to immigrant dryads. By Alex Brown | Published on September 25, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share My short fiction spotlight for August is no themes, just vibes. These ten science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories are funny, sad, charming, mournful, vicious, stoic, thoughtful, and distressing. We’ve got a little bit of everything, from cats in space to immigrant dryads. If anything, this spotlight is as all over the place as I feel in that strange period where summer draws to a close and a new school year begins. “12 Foolproof Ways to Solve the Grandfather Paradox” by Kurt Pankau A demi-god becomes a “Timeline Curator” now that Cronus has made time travel possible in all universes. This demi-god is then given a list of 12 ways to prevent the grandfather paradox from destroying their universe. If you don’t know what the grandfather paradox is, basically it’s the great time travel conundrum of what happens if you go back in time and kill your own grandfather. (If you really want to get into it, check out the hilarious Futurama episode.) What better way to kick off this new spotlight than with a funny, engaging little treat. (Small Wonders—August 2024; issue 14) “Baobab Lover” by Kwame Sound Daniels Truthfully, I read this story last year. However, the second issue of Tales & Feathers dropped last month and it collects all their short fiction from last year, so I read it again and now I’m counting it. It’s my list, I’ll do what I want. Besides, this story is too good not to include over some silly little technicality like “time.” A dryad leaves their baobab tree, not by choice, and immigrates to the US. Here, they meet other displaced supernatural creatures and eventually meet a woman worth building a life with. A lovely meditation on diaspora and immigration. (Tales & Feathers—August 2024; issue 2) “Endymion” by Sylvie Althoff Mac and Selene are alone together in a forest. Or are they? I won’t give away the twist of this brilliant, visceral story, but it’s the kind that twists and twists and twists again. Sylvie Althoff doesn’t go the expected route with Mac. This isn’t about what we deserve or what’s right, yet neither is it cruel or callous. Reality is what we make of it, even if it’s fake. The more I sit with this story, the more it compels me. (Escape Pod—August 22, 2024; #955) “Happiness Is_____________” by Rodrigo Culagovski Sometimes you just want a little story that is the literary equivalent of a hug. Aliens offer Earthlings the opportunity of a lifetime, and Gertru takes a chance and applies for it. She longs to see the universe…as long as she can do it with her cat JamJam. This short story will leave you smiling. (Worlds of Possibility—August 2024) “Harvest House” by Sara Omer I adored this story! It’s like a fairy tale but from the perspective of the fairies. A family of wee folk set up home in a plant as “orange as egg yolks with warty skin, swelling to fullness under ruffled leaves,” and go about their tiny lives. They’re beset by crows and foxes, but keep on keeping on until their home eventually rots and the winter comes. If you like cozy fantasy, drop everything and read this. (PodCastle—August 27, 2024; #854) “I Met My Wife in the Woods” by Ash Vale “I met my wife in the woods. No, that’s not right, I don’t—I don’t know why I said that.” Our narrator describes how they met their wife, but it’s full of contrasts and contradictions. What they remember changes, but what they feel for her does not. This was short but so beautiful. I didn’t know this when I first read this story, but this is Ash Vale’s first published piece. An impressive debut! (Heartlines Spec—Summer 2024; issue 5) “Joanie from Rupture to Rapture (Once Again Under the Spotlight)” by Carlos Norcia I had no idea what to expect from this story, but it kept me on my toes the whole way through. A couple hundred years in the future, a music journalist interviews a once-famous singer. Joanie talks about her life and relationships before the great Exodus when people got on spaceships to flee a dying Earth. If you want to get jargon-y, this is a bit climate fiction and a bit hopepunk, but it’s also grounded with a streak of bittersweet nostalgia and the stress of paths not taken. (Interzone—August 2024; issue 300) “Kill Switch” by A.D. Sui In the near-future, the “deviants”—mostly women, but sometimes queer men—are controlled with a kill switch implant. This device triggers automatically anytime an infraction is detected. Of course, while the victim is incapacitated, the technicians supposed to take care of them instead take advantage. A.D. Sui delves into a version of the patriarchy that doesn’t seem that far off, given the tenor of the current election cycle. Resistance can be something as small as reclaiming your name and rejecting the box society wants to put you in. Eventually, “Mad-girl” refuses to accept she’s mad and instead gets mad.  (Fusion Fragment—August 2024; issue 22) “Mnemonic” by Lyndsie Manusos Ellie, a high school student, gets caught up in the fraught relationship between twins June and Derek. When the three of them sneak into a movie theater to watch a forbidden film, things get weird. I don’t know what Lyndie Manusos’ target audience was, but “Mnemonic” felt like a dynamite young adult short story. The writing style, the plot, the way the characters interact with each other, it all felt like an honest and harsh look at being a teenager. Given how much YA I read, that’s high praise indeed. (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet—issue 48) “Way Up in de Middle of de Air” by Jamie Roballo “I musta been thirteen, the night the stars fell.” Papa Ezekiel, an elderly man who grew up enslaved, tells his granddaughter the story of the night the stars fell. In 1833, there was a massive meteor shower – this is true, not just part of the story. Across the South, thousands thought the end of the world was nigh and many slaveholders vowed to free their slaves. Of course, when Jesus didn’t make his triumphant second coming, all those promises were revoked. Ezekiel was out stealing apples that fateful night and what he saw in the stars forever altered his perception of the world. (FIYAH Literary Magazine—Summer 2024; issue 31) [end-mark] The post Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2024 appeared first on Reactor.

A little over eight weeks ago, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, despite being the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee and only true primary vote recipient. He was forced out by the party elite, who watched his debate with former President Donald Trump and saw what most of America already knew: that Biden is senile. Biden was promptly replaced by Kamala Harris, his vice president, who has since solidified Democratic turnout and is running neck-and-neck with Trump. But something strange has happened since Biden’s ouster: The country went back to ignoring Biden’s senility. Photographs and footage of Biden asleep at the beach in Delaware have filled X feeds for weeks since he dropped out of the race. Just last week, Biden turned over a full Cabinet meeting to his wife, Jill, who sat herself at the head of the table and proceeded to lecture constitutional appointees on women’s health issues. Within 48 hours, Biden completely forgot the world leader he was supposed to introduce at a Quad summit, snarling at his aides, “Thank you all for being here and now, uhh, who am I introducing next? Who’s next?” The leader, as it turns out, was Narendra Modi, prime minister of the most populous country on earth, India. So, why isn’t it something of an issue that the most powerful seat on the planet—the presidency of the United States—is being currently held as a sort of emeritus position by a doddering old fool? Why has an office once held by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln been treated as a sort of throwaway gift to a career corrupt politician, like a gold-plated watch or a set of steak knives handed to a past-his-prime salesman at a Motel 6 retirement reception? The answer is simple: The person tasked with invoking the 25th Amendment so as to protect the presidency is Kamala Harris. And Harris cannot oust Biden. Were she to do so, that would lead to a pitched battle with Biden himself—and Biden is already fighting mad, during his waking hours, at his defenestration at her hands. But more importantly, Harris cannot oust Biden because were she to do so, she would make explicit that which has remained implicit: She is the sitting vice president of the United States and thus responsible for the actions of the Biden-Harris administration. The entire Democratic Party gambit—its sleight-of-hand shell game—relies on Biden as the red herring. Were the American people to tie Harris to Biden’s record, she would lose the presidency. She has been, instead, proclaiming that she “isn’t Joe Biden” while at the same time dissociating from zero of his policies. It’s quite the trick. And it could only work with a compliant media and with Biden still retaining the title of acting president. The minute she takes over, she becomes responsible for all of it. And Biden’s record is the shoddiest of any president of our lifetimes. And so the presidency will be sacrificed in order to advance the ambitions of Harris and the Democratic Party. The world will continue to spiral into chaos thanks to the leadership vacuum at the helm of the United States. And the Democrat-media human centipede will continue to ignore the absolute scandal that takes place every day at the White House, where a clearly befuddled octogenarian staggers from his living quarters to make unintelligible sounds before the cameras as the world burns. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Greatest Scandal in Modern American History That No One Cares About appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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