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August 1, 2021

DaBaby booted from Lollapalooza after homophobic comments

Rapper DaBaby was cut Sunday from Lollapalooza’s closing lineup following crude and homophobic remarks he made last week at a Miami-area music festival.

The Grammy-nominated artist, whose name is Jonathan Kirk, had been scheduled as a closing act on the final night of the four-day music festival in downtown Chicago. Lollapalooza organizers tweeted Sunday that rapper Young Thug would perform at 9 p.m. instead.

“Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love,” organizers wrote. “With that in mind, DaBaby will no longer be performing at Grant Park tonight.”

Festival organizers didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.

In recent days, artists including Madonna, Questlove and Elton John have denounced remarks DaBaby made during a performance last Sunday at Miami’s Rolling Loud Festival.

While on stage, the rapper called out members of the LGBTQ community and people with HIV and AIDS. Using crude language, he asked attendees who weren’t gay men or people affected by HIV or AIDS to raise their cellphone flashlights, and he incorrectly said the disease would “make you die in two or three weeks.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-08-01/dababy-booted-from-lollapalooza-homophobic-comments
August 1, 2021

State TV: Russians Are Using Prosthetic Arms to Dodge COVID Jabs

Kremlin loyalists are lamenting the insane measures some Russians are taking to avoid vaccine mandates. But it’s a mess of their own making.

remlin-controlled media is deep in a massive vaccine disinfo campaign, and has been ever since COVID jabs were first introduced. The goal, from the beginning, was simple: to undermine foreign-made inoculations, and promote Russia’s COVID jabs as the very best.

But now, it seems that the fearmongering is backfiring and impeding the Kremlin’s push to vaccinate its own people. The sale of counterfeit vaccination certificates is currently the most widespread type of online fraud in Russia, and some are so desperate to dodge the jab that they’re allegedly ordering prosthetic arms to fool medical personnel.

“So far, the most f’d up story about anti-vaxxers was brought to me by a makeup effects artist who made us costumes for our last shoot. She has a workshop, where they make props and prosthetics,” Russian film producer Rosya Skrypnik tweeted last month. “Every week someone tries to order a silicone pad that could be applied to the arm, so that the vaccine would be injected into a ‘fake shoulder.’”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-tv-russians-are-using-prosthetic-arms-to-dodge-covid-vaccines


* The rest is behind a paywall. Here is an interesting tidbit, though:

Video of a woman violently twitching—allegedly after receiving the Pfizer jab—was played on loop across Russian airwaves & racked up millions of views.

It may soon be coming to Fox News, having been recently mentioned in a clip with Senator Ron Johnson.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1421778141266259970

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