Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, a significant escalation in media prosecution in the once freewheeling city.
. Buy me a coffee here: https://buymeacoffee.com/MarkDice A supposedly racist meme depicting the Obamas as apes sent the liberal media into a five-alarm meltdown, with every network leading with it as their top story. But here's what actually happened: Trump posted a video about 2020 election irregularities on Truth Social, and at the very end, for maybe two seconds, a meme appeared because whoever screen-recorded the video didn't edit out the autoplay from what looks like an Instagram reel. The meme itself is a Lion King parody showing various Democrats as different animals - Gavin Newsom, AOC, Pencilneck Schiff as a giraffe, JD Pritzker as an elephant, Biden as a monkey, Kamala as a turtle. But Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries went…
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent.
The skating pair delivered when the U.S. needed it most, keeping the Americans ahead of Japan with two events left in team figure skating at the Winter Olympics.