Kanye West booted off Illinois ballot amid thousands of invalid signatures
Kanye West won’t be appearing on the presidential ballot for his home state after election officials in Illinois found that 1,900 of the 3,128 signatures West submitted are invalid.
That leaves the rapper short of the 2,500 needed to be included on the state’s Presidential ballot.
While no reason was given, issues could be fake names or undresses, voters who were not eligible in Illinois, illegible signatures or something else entirely, TMZ notes.
The signatures were brought to the attention of the Illinois State Board of Elections after three people filed objections citing dodgy signatures, the site reported.
West reportedly dropped $30,000 to be included on the ballot.
Meanwhile Wisconsin is looking into West’s presidential bid in that state after Democratic party members found signatures for “Mickey Mouse” and Bernie Sanders on that state’s ballot.
“If the affidavits are true … crimes were committed by the West campaign,” attorney Michael Maistelman, who gathered the affidavits for the state Democratic Party, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
CNN reported this week Republican operatives are helping West get on state ballots to dilute the Democratic vote.
West is currently on Colorado’s ballot.
“Colorado’s bar is lower than most — candidates must pay a $1,000 fee, submit notarized statements and obtain backing from nine electors who are registered voters in the state,” The Denver Post notes.
We’re assuming none of them are Mickey Mouse.
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Trolls doll pulled after complaints it promotes pedophilia because the doll giggles when you press the sound button that is between it’s legs
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — A Trolls doll is being pulled off store shelves amid complaints it promotes child abuse.
Toymaker Hasbro said Wednesday that it’s in the process of removing the “Trolls World Tour Giggle and Sing Poppy” from the market and will be offering customers a replacement doll of the popular female character.
The doll had been designed to giggle when placed in a sitting position, but some parents complain the sound activation button is inappropriately placed under the doll’s skirt and between her legs.
An online petition suggests the doll is “conditioning our children to think pedophilia is OK.”
“This is not okay for a child’s toy! This toy needs to be removed from our stores,” the petition by Jessica McManis reads in part. “What will this toy make our innocent, impressionable children think? That it’s fun when someone touches your private area?”
The petition is addressed to major retailers including Target, Walmart and Amazon.
Hasbro spokeswoman Julie Duffy told The Providence Journal that the Rhode Island-based company recognizes the sensor’s placement “may be perceived as inappropriate.”
“This was not intentional and we are happy to provide consumers with a replacement Poppy doll of similar value through our consumer care team,” she told the newspaper. “We are in the process of removing the item for purchase.”
Hasbro is the maker of Transformers, G.I. Joe, Monopoly and other beloved children’s toys and games.
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Epstein allegedly liked pink sheets because it reminded him of ‘p—y’
Jeffrey Epstein liked pink bedsheets because the color reminded him of a woman’s private parts, according to longtime accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
The convicted sex offender’s preference was revealed in Giuffre’s manuscript “The Billionaire Playboy’s Club” about her time serving as Epstein’s “sex slave” and being pimped out to his powerful pals.
Giuffre, now 36, recounted a time when Epstein’s lawyer, emeritus Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, allegedly walked in on her and Epstein after sex.
“After an explicit session of Jeffrey’s vulgar pilgrimage into my body, we were interrupted by a knock at the door by Jeffrey’s good friend Alan,” Giuffre wrote, according to the Daily Mail.
“I wrapped myself in Jeffrey’s pink bed sheets, which is the color preference he chose to sleep in because it reminded him of the same color of his own words ‘P**sy’, and covered my face from the unexpected intrusion.”
The sordid book proposal also includes alleged details of Prince Andrew’s fetishes, including toe licking.
Giuffre claims she had sex with the royal three times when she was a teen — which he has vehemently denied.
She is one of dozens of women who’ve accused Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell of sexual abuse of young women and girls.
Epstein died by suicide while locked up on federal sex-trafficking charges. Maxwell remains in custody on charges she groomed the girls for sexual abuse and partook in some of the abuse herself.
Giuffre has said the manuscript — released hours before Epstein’s death — is “99 percent true,” though her lawyers have acknowledged at least some of it was “fictionalized,” Britain’s The Sun reported.
The mom of three, who now resides in Australia, has also claimed she’s slept with Dershowitz, who helped Epstein cop his infamous 2008 plea deal that ended a federal investigation into Epstein’s alleged sex ring.
The prominent, 81-year-old attorney has vigorously denied the allegations, accusing Giuffre of having a “long history of lying for money” and frequently changing her story.
He also said he’s never met Giuffre and has never been in “private” areas of Epstein’s home.
“This is a woman who doesn’t know the difference between truth and fantasy,” Dershowitz told The Post on Wednesday. “About me, she just made it up.”
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Amazon delivery worker caught defecating in woman’s garden
An Amazon delivery worker who really “needed to go” was reportedly caught defecating in a woman’s garden before delivering a package to her neighbor.
Sharon Smith, 53, a counselor for England’s National Health Service, told The Sun that she spotted the worker going to the bathroom on her property in the village of Nuthall on July 26.
“I cannot express how shocked I was, I could not believe what I was seeing in this day and age,” Smith told the outlet.
Smith said she followed the man into her yard because she believed he was trying to steal wood.
Despite asking what the man was doing, Smith said, “he remained pooing whilst asking me what my problem was.”
Disgusted and infuriated by his actions, Smith called police and told the man “if he moved, he’d regret it.”
“I even asked him — well, screamed at him — if he thought that was acceptable and he just said that he needed to go,” she said.
The man remained there until Smith’s husband and police showed up — and even dropped off a package at a neighbor’s house.
The driver told police he was unaware he was on private property when he relieved himself.
No charges were brought against him, but he did lose his job.
“This does not reflect the high standards we have for our delivery partners,” an Amazon spokesperson told the outlet.
“The driver will no longer be delivering on behalf of Amazon.”
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‘Drunk’ Lyft rider puts driver in chokehold over COVID-19 barrier
A drunken man attacked a Lyft driver in Florida over his plastic partition to protect himself from COVID-19, putting the man in a chokehold from the backseat, wild video shows.
The footage released by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office shows Travis S. Smith, 36, chatting it up with a Lyft driver just after midnight Sunday as he traveled with a friend and his friend’s 7-year-old son.
The ride appears to be unremarkable at first, but Smith then asks the driver about the plastic partition, saying he “really liked” how well it sealed up the vehicle. The driver, in turn, says he bought it on eBay, the clip shows.
“Right, right, so, like, how’d you seal that up?” Smith stammers. “Like, you did that yourself?”
“Yeah, I did it myself,” the driver replies before explaining he needed it for protection amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Smith then asks the driver again if he installed the barrier he got “off Amazon,” seemingly unaware that the conversation is going in circles, video shows.
Smith then accuses the driver of being a “liar” after saying he had seen the same partition in other ride-shares he had taken.
“So, I think you’re a liar,” Smith says. “How’d you get this?”
The car’s interior light then turns on as Smith accuses the driver of putting it on, video shows.
“Did you open the door, man?” the driver asks, to which Smith mutters he had not.
Smith then puts his hand on the interior light while appearing to talk to his friend. He then tears down the plastic partition and attacks the driver, putting him in a chokehold from the backseat, the footage shows.
Smith’s friend yells “get that motherf–ker” as he gets out of the car with his young son, who is crying by that time. Smith then hops out of the car as the driver yells for someone to call police, according to the clip.
Smith later told responding deputies the fight broke out after the Lyft employee started driving erratically, claiming he attacked the man to protect himself, his friend and the man’s young son.
“This drunk attacked an innocent driver and put numerous lives in danger,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement. “These rider-share services can quickly become dangerous and drivers should be cautious of who they let in their vehicle.”
The driver had minor injuries after the attack, including a hematoma to his forehead, deputies said.
Smith was charged with battery and child abuse for putting the child’s life in danger in a moving car. He was released after posting $7,500 bond, deputies said.
Smith’s friend and his son, meanwhile, got a courtesy ride to their hotel following the incident, sheriff’s officials said.
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Meet Kanye West’s presidential running mate, Michelle Tidball
The world may be long familiar with rap superstar Kanye West, but not many know his vice presidential running mate, Michelle Tidball.
Tidball is a 57-year-old spiritual coach who, like West, lives on a ranch in Cody, Wyoming, and has a deep religious background.
Since she was tapped as the billionaire sneaker mogul’s VP pick, multiple pages from Tidball’s website for her nonprofit Bible study program, called Abundant Ministries, have been taken down.
Those pages included her biography, in which she says she has pursued God since she was 6 months old, when she says she was “slipping away into a crib death” before a higher power visited her “in a hospital tent” and saved her life.
Tidball says she aims to help “people get ‘unstuck’ in their lives using biblical principles and wisdom.”
The website also says Tidball served as an executive director of Bright Futures Mentoring Program, a Cody-based student mentorship program.
“My Heart has always been to walk in maturity and to bring other’s maturity to be about His business and see the completion of things He mandated before the foundations of the world.
“I look forward to bringing the word with experience and practical counsel on walking as mature adopted sons manifested upon this earth,” her now-removed biography closed.
Tidball touted on the now-deleted page that she has “various degrees in mental health and criminal justice.”
The only known degree she has, however, is a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Wyoming in 2003, according to TMZ. Her biography stated that she worked as a mental health therapist for 10 years before shifting to life coaching.
In a now-deleted Bible teleconference from June 2017, also obtained by the outlet, Tidball suggested that one’s mental illness could be handled by completing domestic chores.
“If you would get up every day and make your bed and do your dishes — you would be better,” she said, adding that in her 10 years of working with people with mental illness, none did the dishes or made their beds.
In that same teleconference, she said she doesn’t “watch news.”
Tidball has not publicly discussed having any other careers, though The New Yorker reports that she also works in a dental office.
Mary L. Keller, a religious studies scholar at the University of Wyoming and a high school classmate of Tidball, told the magazine, “Michelle was the bubbly, charismatic cheerleader.”
Keller also called the vice presidential candidate smart, adding, “I think she knows Hebrew pretty well.” Her website for Abundant Ministries is filled with Hebrew, including the website name: Yarash.
Yarash means “to seize, to take possession” or “inherit” in Hebrew.
In 2016, Keller and Tidball ran a youth group together, where Tidball described herself as an “online prophet.”
“We went out for drinks, and she told me about this international group of people who are in touch with the divine and discuss it with each other,” Keller said.
Tidball also allegedly told her that she had predicted Donald Trump’s victory.
“To her, his election was evidence,” she said.
Tidball has an active, albeit unpopular Twitter page. She has retweeted 18 campaign announcements to her 369 followers since her page became active, though she has not personally tweeted anything.
When West made headlines in mid-July after his controversial South Carolina rally, Tidball made a rare personal statement to the Daily Mail, assuring the outlet that the rapper was “just fine.”
It is not clear if the spiritual life coach will be taking on a more public role with the campaign at any point.
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Kraft mac and cheese is now a breakfast food, apparently
More Americans are eating at home as the pandemic spreads across the United States, and household routines are changing. So Kraft Heinz announced Tuesday that it will rebrand its Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner along with its iconic blue box.
It’s not getting a full redesign: The company is just adding the word “breakfast” — instead of dinner — to encourage Americans to start their day with neon orange cheesy noodles.
The company hopes the new “breakfast” label could take away some of the shame that’s associated with parents serving their kids easy-to-make non-breakfast foods in the morning.
Americans are eating at home more during the pandemic, and that’s been good news for Kraft Heinz. The company’s stock is up 9% this year. Breakfast in particular has been a boon for the prepared foods business — and a struggle for restaurants like Starbucks and McDonald’s, which have invested huge amounts of money and resources into luring commuters with coffee and quick-serve food. Fewer people are commuting, and breakfast has become a home meal once again.
“These last few months have not been easy, and the struggle is real for parents with kids who are picky eaters,” the company said in a press release, adding that “56% of parents have served their kids Mac & Cheese for breakfast more often during Covid-19 related state lockdowns than previous months.”
The company launched a giveaway to promote the new look for the noodles. To promote its new campaign, Kraft will give away a limited-edition “Breakfast Box” this week. The boxes will include a mug, “a placemat for kids to color while the mac & cheese is being prepared,” and “a magnet with breakfast topping suggestions, like crumbled sausage, bacon or scrambled eggs,” according to the press release.
So Kraft wants parents to add foods they would normally serve their kids as breakfast foods as toppings to their mac and cheese.
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Gang member carries out three shootings after being freed without bail
He was set free and allegedly went right back to shooting.
A Brooklyn gang member, released without bail in May on an attempted murder charge, participated in at least three drive-by shootings after he was freed, federal prosecutors allege.
Darrius Sutton, 23, was initially arrested in connection with a May 16 shooting in the courtyard of an East New York building that left a man seriously injured.
Despite the attempted murder rap, Sutton was set free without bail the same day of his May 20 arrest. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said the lone witness in the case recanted.
“At the time of arraignment, the sole eyewitness had recanted so we did not have sufficient evidence to keep the defendant in custody,” a spokesman for the DA said in a statement. “The investigation is continuing and we hope other witnesses come forward.”
Less than two months after being sprung, the purported Bloods gang member allegedly joined others in three drive-by shootings this summer.
The gunplay took place between July 13 and 14 and the attacks were just a few of the six shootings in which Sutton participated over the past year, federal prosecutors allege.
Sutton was seen on surveillance camera footage in one of the attacks, on April 20, when he snuck up behind a rival gang member and shot him three times in broad daylight, prosecutors allege.
The victim narrowly escaped death.
“The defendant’s violent spree over the last year has left at least seven individuals with gunshot wounds,” federal prosecutors wrote. “That these events did not lead to seven deaths is entirely fortuitous — the videos described above make clear that the defendant shoots to kill.”
Sutton is now being held in federal custody pending his trial after being arrested again last week, days after law enforcement officials executed a warrant at his East New York apartment. He faces up to 10 years in prison on federal charges for criminal possession of a weapon by a felon.
Shortly after he was released in May, the suspect appeared in a hip-hop music video, uploaded to YouTube, for the song “Crime Rate” by Brooklyn Rapper BK Eaz, prosecutors said.
The video is an homage to rising crime in New York City in 2020. At one point, the rapper Billy DntShootEm refers to Sutton by his alleged alias, “Blizz Meecho,” as he makes a gun-like hand gesture.
“Meecho say get him, I got him,” he raps.
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Oprah labeled a ‘fraud’ for calling out ‘white privilege’ since she’s so rich
Twitter critics have a billion-dollar bone to pick with Oprah Winfrey.
The 66-year-old media mogul has been labeled a hypocritical “fraud” following the latest installment of her Apple TV+ series, “The Oprah Conversation,” featuring former NFL star and race activist Emmanuel Acho.
Acho, 29, who also hosts the web series “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man,” joined Winfrey for a two-part episode, which included a segment inviting non-black viewers to ask difficult questions about racism and white privilege.
“Not all white people have power,” said one guest. “There’s plenty of poor, working-class white people. But I think that when we group all of white people together and we don’t recognize the fact that there’s a lot of white people that struggle, and it’s a different struggle as you mentioned because they’re not streaming upstream let’s call it …”
They continued, “I think that if we’re gonna come together and really attack racism and the inequities that are in this country and are in this world, that it’s important not to group all white people.”
Winfrey responded, “There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people — the caste system that’s been put in place. But they still, no matter where they are on the rung or ladder of success, they still have their whiteness.”
The veteran broadcaster also said white people have a “leg up.”
“You still have your whiteness. That’s what the term ‘white privilege’ is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter,” she said.
Winfrey’s current net worth stands at $2.6 billion, according to Forbes, and conservative pundits were quick to weaponize that fact on Twitter following her show.
“And now why is Oprah, maybe the richest black woman in the world, trying to shame white people as privileged? Miss Winfrey, you are the personification of WHITE PRIVILEGE!,” said Irene Armendariz-Jackson, a Republican congressional candidate from Texas.
Said columnist Wayne Depree, “Billionaire Oprah is now shaming white people for all their ‘easy success’ in life.”
Conservative media head Todd Starnes said, “I pray for the day that America becomes a nation where someone like Oprah will be able to become a billionaire.”
Sen. Ted Cruz called the discussion “utter, racist BS.”
2A activist JT Lewis asked, “How did Oprah make 2.6 billion dollars if America is so racist?”
Representatives for Winfrey have not returned The Post’s request for comment.
Despite her billions, it was announced in July that the monthly print edition of “O” Magazine would come to an end after a 20-year run on newsstands, as a result of poor sales following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Kelis pregnant with third child
The “Milkshake” singer announced on Instagram Wednesday that she is expecting her second child with husband Mike Mora in a sponsored post.
“Chef Kelis – table for 5 please,” she captioned a picture of herself holding up a positive pregnancy test. “We’re adding one more! ”
Kelis, 40, and Mora, 41, already share 4-year-old son Shepherd. The pair have been married since 2014.
The R&B singer also has a an 11-year-old son, Knight, from her first marriage to rapper Nas.
In a message to fellow black mothers the singer wrote, “There are so many things to consider during this time in your life, especially during the crazy times that we live in — from what we eat, to how we live and love. This is the time we must take for ourselves without apologies, especially when we still live in a country where Black women historically have had the highest maternal mortality rates.”
She added, “Black mamas have the rights, respect, resources to thrive before, during, and after pregnancy. Together we can change these statistics, one woman at a time.”
Kelis’ celebrity pals congratulated the proud mom, including Natasha Bedingfield, who wrote, “Yay! U are such a great mama . So happy for you and for the this blessed little child to have you as it’s mum.”
Jill Scott added, “Awwwwww how sweet. Congratulations
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