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2024-02-21 16:59:18 UTC

The death of the 16-year-old Oklahoman is raising new fears about the connection between anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies and deadly real-world violence.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bn99/nex-benedict-oklahoma-lgbt-attacks?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#LGBTQ #nexbenedict #owasso #nonbinary #chayaraichik #News

2024-02-20 15:10:49 UTC

Maxim Kuzminov, a target of Russia's seceret servic was found murdered near his home near Alicante six months after defecting to Ukraine with a helicopter.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jnz/maxim-kuzminov-russian-pilot-defected-ukraine-shot-spain?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #russia #Ukraine #defector #Spain #OrganizedCrime

2024-02-20 11:59:12 UTC

The network, known as 764, has been responsible for horrific abuse and blackmail across the globe. Authorities and tech companies are just starting to take action.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxjnz/the-vile-sextortion-and-torture-ring-where-kids-target-kids?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#investigations #OrderofNineAngles #News #TheExtremismDesk #Features #Sextortion #terrorism #ChildAbuse #pedophilia #Crime

2024-02-16 15:30:41 UTC

Alexei Navalny died on Friday in one of Russia's toughest prisons. His wife Yulia called for justice for Russia and her family.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9avq/alexei-navalny-dead-russia-prison-putin-critic-activist?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #russia #Putin #AlexeiNavalny #prison

2024-02-15 18:19:22 UTC

Weinstein repeated discredited, homophobic theories to Rogan about HIV not being the cause of AIDS, alarming and infuriating public health experts.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg543y/joe-rogan-and-bret-weinstein-promote-aids-denialism-to-an-audience-of-millions?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#JOEROGAN #BretWeinstein #AIDS #HIV #AIDSDenialism #conspiracytheories #Podcasts #Spotify #News

2024-02-12 16:08:31 UTC

A family who tried to have a cute photoshoot to show off the gender of their unborn baby accidentally started a wildfire that cost a firefighter his life.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pka8w7/man-whose-gender-reveal-party-cost-firefighter-his-life-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #GenderReveal #Wildfire #Manslaughter #California #Crime

2024-02-09 12:12:21 UTC

Blanco came up from the bottom in 1940s Colombia, and according to historians was involved in crime basically from the time she could walk.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bnqa/griselda-blanco-netflix-series-ignores-drug-trafficker-history?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #griselda #Netflix #griseldablanco #Drugs #Trafficking #SofiaVergara

2024-02-09 12:12:20 UTC

A cartel has killed at least six cops in Tijuana after local police officers stole a large cocaine cargo from a stash house.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4ey/mexican-drug-cartel-killed-tijuana-police-stolen-cocaine?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #Tijuana #Cocaine #police #Corruption #CARTELS #Drugs

2024-02-09 11:08:02 UTC

Trump’s legal team has gotten into a testy back-and-forth with the judge now solely responsible for setting Trump’s punishment in a sweeping fraud civil suit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvamp/trump-fraud-trial-judge?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #NewYork #fraudtrial #arthurengoron #AllenWeisselberg #DonaldTrump #LetitiaJames

2024-02-09 11:08:01 UTC

The NHS Rainbow Badge scheme has been adopted by hundreds of hospitals and hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak38ak/uk-government-shuts-down-nhs-lgbtq-diversity-program-rainbow-badge-scheme?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #NHS #ukgovernment #healthcare #LGBTQ #Anti-trans #right-wing

2024-02-08 11:55:59 UTC

Video giant has admitted making money from films promoting the controversial influencer’s “cult-like” project, despite claiming to have banned Tate from the platform.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a385g/youtube-profited-from-andrew-tate-recruitment-videos-despite-banning-them?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#AndrewTate #therealworld #YouTube #manosphere #News

2024-02-08 11:08:15 UTC

Police in Canada charged a man alleged to have handed casino goers business cards with small baggies of cocaine stapled to them.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jkw/dealer-accused-of-giving-out-free-cocaine-samples-attached-to-business-cards?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #Canada #Calgary #drug-dealing #businesscards #casino

2024-02-07 19:37:02 UTC

The late wrestler Ashley Massaro said WWE management was aware of and covered up her claim to have been raped in Kuwait; WWE denied it. Now a former top executive says he knew.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x7ex/ashley-massaro-vince-mcmahon-john-laurinaitis-rape-cover-up-wwe?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #AshleyMassaro #VinceMcMahon #Johnlaurinaitis #Trafficking #SexTrafficking #WWE #ProWrestling #WRESTLING

2024-02-07 15:14:48 UTC

The deal proposes prisoner swaps for the nearly 80 Israelis still being held by Hamas but features a number of elements that will almost certainly be rejected by Israel.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pka8x7/hamas-ceasefire-israel-proposal?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #hamas #israel #Politics

2024-02-07 14:58:21 UTC

The ad, which features AI images of pristine beaches and laughing children, has prompted backlash, including a planned protest outside Hulu’s headquarters.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4xy/hulu-airs-ad-gaza-hamas-war-generative-ai?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #gaza #israel #hamas #Hulu #disney

2024-02-07 12:12:35 UTC

The timeline of Trump’s D.C. trial could create a wildly suspenseful legal showdown right before election day.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z5x9/trump-criminal-case-verdict-election?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#DonaldTrump #News #washingtondc #supremecourt #2024election #Criminaltrial

2024-02-06 17:42:36 UTC

The grievances and conspiracy theories that motivated the man’s violent plot are the same ones that brought the “God’s Amy” convoy to the southern border last week.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3j5w/tennessee-man-arrested-plotting-attack-southern-border-fbi?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#extremism #paulfaye #Tennessee #Border #FBI #News

2024-02-05 22:40:52 UTC

London, Ontario Police Chief Thai Truong made the comments while discussing the alleged gang sex assault by five current or former NHLers. Police had previously dismissed the complaint.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a38bg/london-hockey-canada-nhl-charges?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #Ontario #Crime #Hockey #NHL

2024-02-05 14:42:23 UTC

Johan Floderus, who was working with Afghan refugees, has been accused of spying for Israel. Western officials call it a case of “hostage diplomacy.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjy4b/johan-floderus-diplomat-iran-death-sentence?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #Iran #JUSTICE #Sweden

2024-02-05 12:01:16 UTC

What is greenwashing, how can you spot it in the wild, and is it ever a good thing?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxjb4/everything-you-need-to-know-about-greenwashing?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #climatechange #Greenwashing #greenenergy #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #recycling #Consumerism

2024-02-02 15:31:47 UTC

Coach's new subbrand is redefining what it means to be circular.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5n7p/finally-a-brand-is-tackling-fashions-big-waste-problem?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Fashion #sustainability #handbags #climatechange #upcycling #circularity

2024-02-02 10:45:54 UTC

It sure looks like Trump's business empire is about to get hammered.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5yn8x/trump-is-inching-closer-to-the-worst-legal-defeat-of-his-life?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #Crime #JUSTICE

2024-02-01 20:46:00 UTC

“The truth will come out,” John Laurinaitis' attorney told VICE News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv757/co-defendant-in-vince-mcmahon-sex-trafficking-lawsuit-says-he-was-a-victim-too?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #VinceMcMahon #Johnlaurinaitis #WWE #Janelgrant #SexTrafficking #Trafficking

2024-01-31 16:35:42 UTC

Married drug barons were sentenced to 33 years each after exporting seven tons of cocaine to Australia and laundering the profits in a car wash. The couple also stand accused of adopting a boy so they could kill him for the insurance.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bw94/exporting-cocaine-to-australia-uk-couple-jailed?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #Trafficking #Cocaine #uk #Australia #India #murder

2024-01-19 16:59:03 UTC

Rep. Paul Gosar blamed the drop in white recruits on the army’s supposed “woke Marxist ideologies.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7embg/far-right-republican-paul-gosar-white-military-recruit-decline-wokeness?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #PaulGosar #GOP #Farright #extremism #USmilitary #recruitment #WhiteNationalism

2023-10-25 18:22:59 UTC

Customs and Border Protection says they have received “no indication” that Hamas-directed foreign fighters are plotting to infiltrate the United States via its southern border.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvxz3/cbp-hamas-southern-border?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News

2023-10-06 13:47:04 UTC

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who briefly rebelled against the Russian leader, is just the latest Putin foe to die under "mysterious" circumstances.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9kqa/putin-hints-grenades-and-cocaine-to-blame-for-wagner-chiefs-plane-crash-death
#News #Putin #russia #Drugs #Wagnergroup

2023-10-06 12:12:14 UTC

One smuggler told VICE News that moving people through the U.S-Mexico border into into the United States is now more profitable than moving cocaine.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw573/mexican-cartels-get-the-blame-for-human-smuggling-but-americans-are-heavily-involved
#immigration #News #mexico #CARTEL

2023-09-18 18:08:16 UTC

“O.U.R. is dedicated to combatting sexual abuse, and does not tolerate sexual harassment or discrimination by anyone in its organization,” the organization tells VICE News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaqvn/tim-ballards-departure-from-operation-underground-railroad-followed-sexual-misconduct-investigation
#operationundergroundrailroad #timballard #Utah #anti-trafficking #humantrafficking #TheChurchofJesusChristofLatter-DaySaints #LDSchurch #soundoffreedom

2023-05-16 11:59:27 UTC

When an influencer announced she was terminally ill, and then popped back up online, she lit a touchpaper of fury. VICE News goes inside the rise of “Munchausens by Internet.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkagyb/tiktok-sickness-ehlers-danlos-syndrome-munchausens
#TikTok #Ehlers-Danlossyndrome #Stiff-PersonSyndrome

2023-05-16 11:37:37 UTC

Exclusive: Users were directed to “crisis pregnancy centres” affiliated with anti-abortion networks for antenatal, carer and mental health support.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjnqx/nhs-website-crisis-pregnancy-centres
#reproductiverights #abortion #CrisisPregnancyCentre #UnitedKingdom #england #NHS

2023-05-12 14:50:47 UTC

Hundreds of American and Canadian right-wingers want to move to Russia to live in a new purpose-built settlement, according to a Moscow-based lawyer who provided no evidence for his claims.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony
#russia #maga #Conservatives #VladimirPutin #right-wing #TuckerCarlson

2023-05-11 13:08:33 UTC

Disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn loves a conspiracy theory—except when it’s about him.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3pmv/michael-flynn-qanon-conspiracy-lawsuit
#qanon #MichaelFlynn #JimStewartson #russia #conspiracytheory #thebiglie #2020election #News

2023-04-26 16:14:10 UTC

There’s no indication that any dogs are upset about it.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvx47/republicans-worried-police-dogs-legal-weed
#News #Drugs #Cannabis #Weed #Republicans #GOP #Legalization #K-9 #JUSTICE #policedogs