When U2 came calling for British recording engineer Mark 'Flood' Ellis, he assumed it was an April Fool's joke

An attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison left 129 people dead, which includes some who were shot and others who died in a stampede at the overcrowded facility, authorities said Tuesday. 

According to the NYPD, speaking with the New York Post, migrant crime is so bad that out of all arrests for crimes like assault, robbery, and domestic violence, 75% of them are from illegal immigrants. That number is above 60% in Queens. These are the people Democrats want to give citizenship to, diluting US citizenship. […] The post Gangs of NYC: 75% of Arrests for Many Crimes Are Migrants appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Tennessee Star on Tuesday published the nearly 100-page journal of the 28-year-old woman who killed three adults and three children at the Covenant Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. The journal offers a glimpse into the mind of a self-proclaimed autistic person prone to depression and obsession. The shooter’s two most animating obsessions were left-wing ideas about transgenderism — including the idea that children will kill themselves if they cannot get gender surgery — and white privilege. The two themes converged in the overall format of the journal, which often takes the form of diary entries addressed to a “brown girl” with whom the shooter was in love. The shooter reportedly played basketball with the girl in eighth grade and had not remained in contact, but created a race-based idea of the girl in her mind. The diary entries detailed how the shooter’s “autistic brain” struggled with different ideas, like “white privilege”: WHITE NOTHINGNESS Poor people resent this shit My parents aren’t rich. They work hard for their money so I didn’t end up homeless. Yet I still feel bad. Cursed to be looked down upon On February 7, 2023, a month before the shooting, the shooter drew a diagram that said “brain -> white privilege -> embarrassment of self.” The shooter wrote poems about her longing for interracial sex, including couplets like: “No brown girls, no love / I am nothing / Brown love is the most beautiful” “Brown girls have the nicest skin, especially yours / To touch it, I’d die” “Can’t buttsex a beautiful young brown girl w/ a big ass… too bad I am a sad boy born w/ a puny vagina.” Nothing in the nearly 100-page journal appears to justify the FBI’s claim that it was withholding it in the name of public safety. Nashville City Council member Courtney Johnson told The New York Post that the FBI said the manifesto couldn’t be released because it “was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned… That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous.” A police inventory says that there were two journals on the shooter’s desk, one under her desk, and seven under her bed, so it is possible that such information was in another journal. But this journal, which appears to be the most recent, does not include any detailed information about penetrating a school or carrying out a shooting. The shooter wrote angrily about American politics, appearing to echo left-wing talking points about gender. “’Land of the Free’ means, whatever f—er is taking away human rights is not of a human at all,” she wrote. “I wish death upon myself cause of the pure hatred of my female gender. With no rights, anyone’s country is a shitty dictatorship.” She made a chart using the critical race theory buzzword of “deconstruction,” pairing it with “reconstruction.” She wrote: Racism | civil rights gay killings | LGBTQ rights Asylums | Disabilities Act Autistic people are especially susceptible to adopting ideas that they are born in the wrong body. “Male brain -> my autism?” the shooter wrote. “Mom just says I’m young and young people make mistakes. but with me, it’s painfully more than that. with being autistic and waste time all the time,” the shooter writes. “The torchure [sic] of being raised a girl, and actually believed I just had to deal with it, and tried to be feminine. But that didn’t last long after high school ended + no longer had to fear of being called a dyke or a faggot. I twas only until my early 20s I finally found the answer-that changing one’s gender is possible. But oh f—ing no, not w/ my mother. What she believes, how she grew up conservatively and that LGBTQ-especially transgender in her era was an enigma, nearly non-existent,” she wrote. The shooter also echoed the claim that children will commit suicide if their parents deny them the opportunity to change their gender. “How could they not ever think of their own child suffering, and that they hate their gender so bad they cut + want to kill themselves first, and their preference of conservative religion-gay sh– makes them believe that their child they’re given should stay that way.” Minutes before the shooting, the perpetrator messaged the person typically referred to as P.A.P. or “brown girl” in the journal, the woman —radio host Paige Patton — told ABC News after the incident. “I’m planning to die today. This is not a joke. You will probably hear about me on the news after I die,” the message said. Patton called the police, who said they would send someone to review the screenshots. Police did not arrive until after the shooting occurred. Related: Covenant Shooter Cited Transgender ‘Rights’ In Shooting Spree Manifesto, Contradicting Official Claims

Football season has officially begun! With the start of each season, football players can expect to take new team headshots. While it’s true that everyone wants to look their best, most teams don’t share the same vision for their photos as those at the Colorado School of Mines. Why? Because these Colorado football players refuse to give up a longtime tradition involving these yearly headshots. Tim Flynn, the assistant athletic director for communications at the college, is more than happy to share details on this fun tradition. It’s believe to have started in 2016 or 2017. At first, it was pretty simple. Rather than putting on a simple smile or a stoic look, the footballers would make all sorts of funny faces. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SportsCenter (@sportscenter) But this quickly transformed into brightly dyed hair and odd beard trims — anything to make their photos stand out in a humorous way. So, although it’s been about eight years since the tradition began, this year’s roster is proof that it won’t be stopping anytime soon. As usual, these silly guys went all out to showcase their personalities, something a few of them did with the clever use of blue hair dye. You can check out some from last year (as seen above) as well as those from this year (as seen below). Colorado Football Players Showcase Their Silly Sides Through These Clever Headshots YouTube Any sports fan can tell you that every team has their own traditions. There are those rooted in something meaningful or emotional, of course. But it’s also valuable to have those that exist simply because they bring the players and their fans joy. Speaking of which, Tim says that there doesn’t seem to be any solid reason behind the start of this tradition, noting that it was “Just the guys having fun with it.” We love it! For a full view of this year’s headshots, check out the college’s website. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Colorado Football Team Continues Tradition Of Silly Team Headshots appeared first on InspireMore.