When Richard Gere publicly criticized President Trump's USAID cuts, the White House communications director responded not with a policy defense but by recycling a baseless urban legend that has followed the actor for more than 35 years. On July 21, White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X: "Not going to listen to a […] The post White House invoked a decades-old, unsubstantiated rumor to dismiss Richard Gere — and revived a story that says more about America than about the actor appeared first on American Almanac .
When Richard Gere publicly criticized President Trump's USAID cuts, the White House communications director responded not with a policy defense but by recycling a baseless urban legend that has followed the actor for more than 35 years. On July 21, White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X: "Not going to listen to a guy who may have put a gerbil up his a**." The post came after Gere, 77, criticized what he called Trump's "ignorance" regarding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development at an event promoting an educational partnership on migration. Gere also remarked, "He has idiots around him." Cheung's response did not address USAID, migration policy, or any of Gere's specific claims. Instead, it reached for…Open
A Depression-era mural depicting colonial Massachusetts has reignited online time-travel conspiracy theories after viewers claimed an Indigenous man in the painting appears to hold a modern smartphone, though a historian identified the object as a European trade mirror years ago. The painting, Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, was completed in 1937 by Italian-born […] The post A 1937 painting went viral over a "smartphone" in the frame — historians say it's a mirror appeared first on American Almanac .
A Depression-era mural depicting colonial Massachusetts has reignited online time-travel conspiracy theories after viewers claimed an Indigenous man in the painting appears to hold a modern smartphone, though a historian identified the object as a European trade mirror years ago. The painting, Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, was completed in 1937 by Italian-born artist Umberto Romano, who grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is one of six New Deal-era murals depicting the city's history. The scene shows English colonist William Pynchon, Springfield's founder, trading with members of the Pocumtuc tribe in western Massachusetts during the 1630s. In the foreground, a Native man holds a small, flat, rectangular object and…Open
Nobody has ever proven what sits under the garden at Merivälja, so author Mart Sander wants to know why strangers offered the homeowner an amount of money so large it made her say no. Watch this full episode of "Reality Check": https://youtu.be/OQULI6QqIhY #ObjectM #Estonia #unexplained
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