🙄 The Washington Post published a piece arguing that food should no longer be described as "exotic."

🗣"The second, more crucial problem is that its use, particularly as applied to food, indirectly lengthens the metaphysical distance between one group of humans and another, and, in so doing, reinforces xenophobia and racism."

📖 Someone please give her a Latin dictionary and show her the word exōticus, meaning foreign

It seems that the issue of racial discrimination in how farm loans are awarded is beginning to be addressed.

👨‍⚖️ U.S. District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson of the Western District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Agriculture Department from delivering race-based loan payments under Section 1005 of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

#BREAKING | Haiti gov't asks US to send troops to protect key infrastructure - reports

🏘 A home belonging to Sofia Vergara was reportedly the scene of significant damage after a vandal wreaked havoc.

A man was still there when police arrived at the house, which has been under construction, and allegedly took responsibility for the damage.

🧐 The Los Angeles crime wave is growing, the question is should celebrities be afraid?

President Biden‘s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, is facing renewed accusations that she misled Congress about being investigated for her role in a 1989 ecoterrorism plot.

📝 Ms. Stone-Manning handwrote that she had “never been arrested or charged and to my knowledge, I have never been the target of such an investigation.”

🌳 Nevertheless, lawmakers believe that Mrs. Stone-Manning failed to inform them that she was investigated by the Justice Department for her role in an Idaho tree-spiking case in the 1980s.

The White House said GOP governors who rejected Biden’s door-to-door vaccine effort are fueling attitudes that are “literally killing people.”

Well, then the WH is literally turning the US into an Orwellian nightmare

☀️ The US mainland recorded its hottest June ever in 2021 after blowing past the previously recorded high by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit, a new climate report released by NOAA on Friday has revealed.

The newly released findings placed the average June temperature in 2021 for the contiguous US at 72.6 degrees Fahrenheit, a reading that effectively marked the hottest high in 127 years of consistent record keeping by the agency.

🌎 Global warming is closer than you think

🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden has fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul who was nominated to the position by former US President Donald Trump in 2018 and whose term was supposed to last until January 2025, Axios reports.

Saul says the White House lacks legality to oust him and has reportedly promised to show up to work on Monday.

A group of revellers at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan, US were given a real scare on 8 July when the Magic Carpet ride almost tipped over.

A video shows people on the ground desperately trying to keep it upright as it continues to rotate wildly. Fortunately, it eventually stopped and no injuries were reported – those onboard were just a little shaken up.

The authorities in Charlottesville, Virginia have taken down bronze statues of famous Confederate generals Robert Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

Speaking about America’s corporate competition laws, Biden gave an example of an unnamed 26-year-old employee who couldn’t leave her company for another one offering a higher wage because of a non-compete clause.

"You can’t leave Burger King to go to McDonald’s. Come on. Is there a trade secret about what’s inside that patty? ” the president asked.

Last year, McDonald’s called out Biden for incorrectly claiming that McDonald’s hourly workers were required to sign non-compete agreements 😐

🗯️Russian Embassy in the US: West's attempts to test Black Sea borders 'doomed to failure'

🤔 White House ‘has no plans’ to send troops to Haiti, possibly ‘confused’ by Port-au-Prince’s request

Details: https://sptnkne.ws/GJTp

🏫 According to a new policy, which the CPS Board of Education signed in December, schools must “maintain a condom availability program” for grades 5 and up.

The following is text from the Chicago Public Schools Policy Manual:

📝 B. Condom Availability Program: Schools that teach grade 5th and up must maintain a condom availability program. CPS provides guidance regarding the notification to parents and access to condoms by approved school representatives.

Are they literally encouraging 11 year old children to have sex?

Bill Stevenson, former husband of the current FLOTUS Jill Biden, allegedly once enjoyed a relationship with Kathie Durst, the first wife of suspected American serial killer Robert Durst.

According to the media outlet, Stevenson decided to share this story for the first time due to Durst’s declining health, and also due to the murder charges he's currently facing in California.

A criminal spirit seems to surround this family...

🧑‍🚀 Jeff Bezos may not become the world’s first billionaire to fly into space but he's hellbent on making sure his flight is the only one that counts, technically speaking.

Bezos’ Blue Origin company tweeted a new infographic suggesting that Virgin Galactic's Unity space plane – that will take Richard Branson and five other passengers beyond Earth's atmosphere on 11 July – should not be considered a “space” flight because it won't cross the so-called Kármán line.

😄 The jealousy!

#BREAKING | US Forces come under rocket attack in Deir ez-Zor, Syria - reports

❗️ US defense official confirms to Sputnik that American forces came under indirect attack in Koniko, Syria , no casualties reported

Parents groups formed to combat critical race theory in K-12 schools vowed not to back down after teachers’ unions said this week that they would go to court to allow the concept to be taught in the nation’s classrooms.

The leaders of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have vowed to use their deep pockets and extensive political and lobbying muscle to defend teachers who support curriculums infused with critical race theory, which teaches that American laws and systems are inherently racist, and to employ opposition research teams to go after the groups hostile to that teaching.

😒 Nobody is going to be hurt but they are preparing to get their revenge...