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 

 A tiny town in Saskatchewan dealing with a QAnon cult living in an abandoned school is asking for additional help.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kx7q9/death-threats-closed-playgrounds-qanon-queen-wreaks-havoc-in-small-town-canada
#RomanaDidulo #News #Canada #qanon #QAnonqueen #rightwingextremism #TheExtremismDesk 

 President Joe Biden has determined that conditions in Venezuela have improved enough to send migrants from there home.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5bnx/the-us-government-is-sending-migrants-back-to-a-narco-state
#venezuela #News #Drugs #narcostate #Maduro 

 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 

 After clinging to his gavel with feckless concession for just 9 months, McCarthy is struck down by the MAGA nihilists who held his strings all along.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wqem/kevin-mccarthy-h
#News #DonaldTrump #KevinMcCarthy #MikeLindell #FaniWillis #joebiden #rudygiuliani #mattgaetz 

 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 

 Police and NATO officials tell VICE News that the Serbia-linked gunmen who staged a deadly attack in Kosovo were part of “something bigger” – but what?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamxy/kosovo-serbia-war-mitrovica-banjska-monastery-siege
#Kosovo #Serbia #northkosovo #Mitrovica #AleksandarVucic #AlbinKurti 

 The study, which looks at states that have decriminalized drugs, comes amid public backlash to progressive drug laws.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7eqq8/decriminalizing-drugs-doesnt-increase-fatal-overdoses-study
#News #Drugs 

 Lawyers representing the influencer’s alleged victims in Romania and the UK say their clients have been subjected to sustained online harassment intended to silence them.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y883/andrew-tate-accusers-romania-the-real-world
#AndrewTate #therealworld #Romania #humantrafficking #manosphere 

 Lefty SM was executed by three unknown gunmen one month ago. Some 10,000 people took to the streets recently to mourn him.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kzn7/unsolved-murder-lefty-sm-mexico-rapper
#News #mexico #Lefty #Rap #Crime 

 Almost a dozen school or school districts contacted by VICE News reported a surge in bomb threats and harassment following the posts.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvj5dq/schools-report-bomb-threats-following-libs-of-tiktok-anti-lgbtq-posts
#News #libsoftiktok #LGBTQ #bombthreats #schools 

 Armita Geravand is being treated in hospital following an incident on the Tehran Metro. Iran’s authorities denied any assault took place by the morality police.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvm5p/armita-geravand-iran-tehran-metro-morality-police
#Iran #Iranprotests #MahsaAmini #Tehran 

 It would be totally unprecedented and he’s claimed not to be interested in the past. But, theoretically, it’s possible.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj4pn/trump-speaker-of-the-house
#News #DonaldTrump #SpeakeroftheHouse #KevinMcCarthy #GOP #MarjorieTaylorGreene 

 Sexual misconduct allegations against Andrés Roemer in Mexico have drawn comparisons to the case of movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7b53n/mexicos-worst-alleged-metoo-offender-was-just-arrested
#AndresRoemer #News 

 QAnon influencer Romana Didulo and her followers moved themselves into an abandoned school in small town Saskatchewan. Now the local children are too scared to play in the town's park.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamam/qanon-queen-saskatchewan
#News #RomanaDidulo #qanon #Canada #Saskatchewan 

 “Bottom line, is that they don’t belong here,” one woman said at the latest protest against the temporary housing of asylum seekers in the red-voting borough.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bpb3/staten-island-immigrants-protest
#News #StatenIsland #asylumseekers #johnnytabacco #immigration #Farright #NewYork 

 This week Biden test drove a new message for voters: No matter how you feel about the economy, or me, or my age, put preserving the Constitution first.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw5wd/biden-trump-democracy-maga
#News #joebiden #BreakingtheVote #DonaldTrump #trumporganization #cassidyhutchinson #markmilley #GOP #markmeadows #tanyachutkan #JackSmith 

 By day Kenny Bollwerk works at a pizza shop, but by night he turns watchdog and gives rat tours exposing the city’s worst infestations.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5bpy/new-york-rat-tours-kenny-bollwerk-rat-daddy
#rats #NewYork #NEWYORKCITY #TikTok #ratdaddy 

 An attorney representing employees and contractors of Operation Underground Railroad has issued a statement about what they say the “Sound of Freedom” hero did.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zpbz/women-accuse-tim-ballard-of-spiritual-manipulation-grooming-and-sexual-misconduct
#timballard #operationundergroundrailroad #sexualmisconduct #spearfund #LDSchurch #anti-trafficking 

 Priscilla Grim is among dozens of protesters now facing the same RICO "mob boss" charges as Donald Trump.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7b5vn/cop-city-protesters-jailed-rico
#copcity #ATLANTA #rico #CivilRights 

 Pain is a common yet complex part of life for HIV/AIDS patients, particularly women. A recent crackdown on opioids will likely make it harder to treat.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mwv8/black-women-hiv-aids-pain
#News #hiv/aids #black-women #AIDSrelatedpain #Opioids #opioidepidemic #nopainact 

 Political journalist Ava Evans said she felt “physically sick” after watching Laurence Fox say “who’d want to shag that?” while host Dan Wootton laughed along.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamy7/dan-wootton-laurence-fox-ava-evans-gb-news
#GBNews #danwootton #laurencefox #misogyny 

 Whistleblowers told investigators, and tried to raise concerns internally, about “cowboy” behavior and misappropriation of donor funds.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y8pm/operation-underground-railroad-investigation-misled-donors-lied
#operationundergroundrailroad #timballard #fundraising #Utah #nonprofits #JonLines #DavidLopez #Trafficking #anti-trafficking #SexTrafficking 

 Tensions are rising in Kosovo after gunmen killed a cop in an attack blamed on an infamous Serbian politician and gangster with links to Belgrade. “Russia is thrilled,” a NATO intelligence official in the region told VICE News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjve4p/kosovo-monastery-siege-serbia
#Serbia #Pristina #ΝΑΤΟ #Kosovo #northkosovo